Podcast Episodes

Assisted dying bill: What happened at Report Stage - Day two

Season 1 Episode 96

In this episode, we return to the Commons Chamber for day two of the Report Stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — the Private Member’s Bill proposing to legalise assisted dying in E…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Indefensible? How Government told Parliament about the Strategic Defence Review

Season 1 Episode 95

Another big Government announcement – and another row in the Commons row about why it wasn’t made to MPs first. We look at why ministers keep breaking their own Ministerial Code by choosing to make i…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Will Parliament get its teeth into Keir Starmer's trade deals?

Season 1 Episode 94

You wait ages for a post-Brexit trade deal – and then three show up at once. With the Government unveiling new agreements with India, the US and the EU, we explore why Parliament has so little influe…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Assisted dying bill: What happened at Report Stage - Day one

Season 1 Episode 93

Is Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Dying Bill now "over the hump?" The Bill's supporters got it though its first day of Report Stage consideration in the House of Commons unscathed, with comfortable majori…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Spooks, the Ombudsman and the Royal Albert Hall

Season 1 Episode 92

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Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) – not a select committee, but a group of senior MPs and Peers…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Assisted dying bill – special series #11: A conversation with Kim Leadbeater MP

Season 1 Episode 91

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In this latest episode of our special mini-podcast series, we sit down with Kim Leadbeater MP, sponsor of the Termin…

Published on 4 months ago

Meet Parliament's human rights watchdog

Season 1 Episode 90

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As calls grow louder for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, we talk with Parliament’s i…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Assisted dying bill - special series #10: Understanding Report Stage

Season 1 Episode 89

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Having cleared detailed scrutiny in a Public Bill Committee, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill faces its n…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Should Parliament roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump?

Season 1 Episode 88

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After an extraordinary Saturday recall of Parliament to rush through emergency legislation aimed at saving the steel …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Whipping Yarns: A Chief Whip's tale

Season 1 Episode 87

In our latest ‘Whipping Yarn’, we talk with Simon Hart, former Conservative Chief Whip during Rishi Sunak’s Premiership. Hart opens up about his time in one of Westminster’s most demanding and discre…

Published on 5 months ago