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.
Earlier we spoke to her and began by asking what proof she had that Rishi Sunak was at the heart of it all.
Joining Cathy in Leeds, the Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin and the Chief Exec of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Henri Murison.
Let’s have a look at the ditched HS2 plans. What’s being shelved, what will remain and how much has it cost?
Now the second leg has been cancelled many will be asking whether they’ll be compensated for the years of disruption and uncertainty.
Krishnan spoke to the rail minister, Huw Merriman. He put it to him that, given the government used to say it would deliver on HS2, these new transport pledges might face a credibility problem
The cancellation of the West Midlands to Manchester leg of HS2 has been the worst kept secret in politics.
“Talking the talk is all very well, but you also need to walk the walk” – the parting shot of the Chairman of the government’s Social Mobility Commission. Alan Milburn said he didn’t doubt the Prime Minister’s personal commitment to the issue, but he’d reluctantly concluded that Brexit is occupying much of her attention, to…
Gary Gibbon
You might have thought that today’s Cabinet would see fireworks, not least as it was preceded by a meeting of Political Cabinet with Boris Johnson turning up. But Mr Johnson had nothing to say.
David Cameron will return to Cornwall later after interrupting his holiday over events in Iraq. Who is in charge while he is away from Downing Street?
MPs have quizzed key figures from the police over the plebgate affair, which engulfed politician Andrew Mitchell last year.
Gary Gibbon
If anyone knows the workings of Boris Johnson’s mind, it’s Jo Johnson, new head of No.10’s policy unit. But Johnson Minor’s instincts on Europe are not quite the same as his brother’s.
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron’s personal assurances to the man at the centre of the north Wales abuse allegations are a signal of the government’s intention to clear up what happened, Gary Gibbon writes.
Gary Gibbon
No. 10 is saying the chief whip reckons the EU vote is lost, yet David Cameron is still meeting backbenchers. Is this dark arts stuff from No. 10 using the media to secure a victory?
Jon Snow
The wisteria in full bloom, the grass mown, and the Downing Street garden – for so long a neglected and unpretty place – seemed to have been left much improved by its departing tenants. Only a dark parched patch in the middle of a lawn stood testament to the little wendyhouse Fraser and John Brown…