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Who is being wooed this election and who is being ditched? Young people? Diane Abbott? Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Labour’s Meg Hillier, Tory peer Jo Johnson and Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper.

Why did Rishi Sunak really call a snap general election? And can he defy the polls? Krishnan Guru-Murthy quizzes the Conservative’s Dehenna Davison, Labour’s Ben Bradshaw and pollster Luke Tryl.

A pledge card or a culture war? Krishnan Guru-Murthy discusses election strategies with Conservative Equalities Committee Chair Caroline Nokes and former Labour Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw.

As another Tory MP defects to Labour, former Conservative cabinet minister Justine Greening and the SNP’s Mhairi Black join Matt Frei and Gary Gibbon for the inside take on political break-ups.

As another scandal engulfs parliament, the SNP’s Mhairi Black and former Education Secretary Justine Greening join Matt Frei and Paul McNamara to discuss Westminster’s toxic culture.

In this episode of The Political Fourcast, Nicky Morgan and Charlie Falconer join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss how the war in Gaza could change the political fortunes of UK parties.

In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.

Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…

Samuel Kasumu, Former Special Advisor to Boris Johnson, talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the reasons why he first joined the Tory party aged 19, the role of special advisors in No 10 and why culture wars inside Downing Street made the downfall of Boris Johnson ‘inevitable’, in this episode of Ways To Change the World.

While the future of the rail project designed to speed up links to their city is being discussed inside the conference hall, our North of England correspondent, Clare Fallon has been talking to people here in Manchester about their reaction to reports it’s been shelved.

Universal Credit was meant to simplify and streamline the existing benefits system but it has been running into trouble for several years. Some claimants have even been forced into destitution. Today the Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd decided to dramatically scale back the next stage of the roll out: from 3 million benefit claimants…

Theresa May is showing no sign of changing her position on Brexit despite warnings from both the opposition and her party that her deal lacks support.

“Pipe down” and “Put a sock in it” – the playground insults from senior Tories were flying on Twitter today in response to arch-Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg’s warning that the Prime Minister must deliver the Brexit she promised or risk the collapse of her government. It feels as though an out-and-out civil war is in full…