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Asylum reform: is Labour bold enough?
Danny Shaw and Tim Shipman join Lucy Dunn for today's Coffee House Shots to talk about the government's reforms to the asylum system. Having worked with Yvette Cooper before, Danny argues that the re…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Labour's transfer deadline day
The summer transfer window comes to a close today but, as Parliament also returns from summer recess today, the only team Keir Starmer is focused on is his own in Number Ten. The Prime Minister has d…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
How have the 2024 intake found frontline politics?
As Parliament returns from summer recess tomorrow, three rising stars of the 2024 intake join Coffee House Shots to provide their reflections on frontline politics so far. Labour's Rosie Wrighting, t…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Angela Rayner is so iconic
The Daily Telegraph have run a story this week that Angela Rayner may have dodged stamp duty on her second home. But beyond the story, its the photos of the Deputy Prime Minister on the beach at Hove…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Bell Hotel latest: 'two tier justice'?
Human rights barrister Dr Anna Loutfi and deputy political editor James Heale join Michael Simmons to unpack the latest court ruling over the migrants housed at the Bell Hotel. The government has won…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Revenge of the left
James Heale writes in The Spectator this week that Keir Starmer is facing a three-pronged attack from the left: the Greens, the Gaza independents and this new – as yet untitled – Corbyn party. It was…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Labour goes on the Farage offensive
As James Heale writes online for the Spectator today, 'two issues continue to plague the government': how best to attack Nigel Farage. and how to frame an incrementalist approach to policy 'when the …
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Farage finally unveils his deportation plan
Today James Heale has been on quite the magical mystery tour. Bundled into a bus at 7.45 a.m. along with a group of other hacks, he was sent off to an aircraft hangar in Oxfordshire where Nigel Farag…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Can the Lib Dems emulate Reform's Scottish surge?
Jamie Greene, an MSP for the West of Scotland region, defected earlier this year from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats. Most defections in Scotland – indeed across the UK – seem to be from …
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Is Britain becoming more sectarian?
Immigration returned to the headlines this week after the High Court granted an injunction forcing the removal of migrants from a hotel in Essex – a ruling that could have wider implications for simi…
Published on 4 months ago