Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter

We spoke to Lord Deben, perhaps better known as John Gummer, who was a cabinet minister and former Conservative Party Chairman. He has been a vocal critic of the Rwanda policy and we began by asking him what happens now after MPs turned down all 10 of the House of Lords’ amendments.

We spoke to Boaz Bismuth MK of the Likud Party.

We spoke to the Lithuanian MEP, Petras Auštrevičius, a former diplomat who’s on the Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence Committees in the European Parliament.

We spoke to Professor Nicola Rollock, author of ‘The Racial Code’, and Martin Forde KC, who Sir Keir Starmer commissioned to investigate allegations of racism, sexism and bullying in the Labour party.

We spoke to barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman, who frequently works in the family courts.

Official figures out today reveal the number of people in England waiting for an autism assessment has risen 47 per cent in the past year. 

We spoke to the Labour MP Dawn Butler before Downing Street accepted that the comments are racist.

Later this week the government will unveil its new official definition of what constitutes extremism which is intended to crackdown on Islamist and far-right extremism. Three former Tory home secretaries, Dame Priti Patel, Sir Sajid Javed and Amber Rudd, have signed a joint statement with others warning about the risks of failing to get cross-party…

We spoke to former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and asked him whether this defection calls into question the judgement of the prime minister.

We’re joined by Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Conservative MP Alicia Kearns.

We spoke to Claudia Vince who was at Fishmongers’ Hall during the terrorist attack in 2019 – and was a close friend of Jack Merrit who was killed there alongside his colleague, Saskia Jones.

We spoke to Juliette Touma from UNRWA, the largest UN agency responsible for bringing aid into Gaza and which has had its funding frozen by many of its donors.

We spoke to comedian and author David Baddiel and the peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi – not an MP as we mistakenly called her earlier – about the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests, as well as their new podcast ‘A Muslim and A Jew Go There’ – in which they discuss Muslim and Jewish identity.

Desperately needed aid is being loaded onto a ship in Cyprus bound for Gaza, but how it will actually reach the people inside the territory is not clear.

We spoke to Chief Superintendent Matthew Longman from Devon and Cornwall Police, and is the lead on Fox Hunting Crime for the National Police Chiefs Council.