UK General Election 2017

Remember coalition politics? Today the Lib Dem leader Tim Farron categorically ruled out any deals with any party. And with Brexit looming large, former PM Tony Blair appeared to urge Labour voters to vote tactically if their Labour candidate supported Leave.

Joining us: Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth and the Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman, Norman Lamb. We did ask to speak to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt or any his junior ministers, no-one was available. However, I am joined by Chris Philp, the Conservative MP for South Croydon, who has constituents who access the threatened…

The election follows one of the toughest winters ever experienced by the NHS – with the funding shortfall and  concerns over staff shortages and social care all playing a part. And then there are the local campaigns to keep neighbourhood health services open.

Many Labour MPs who are seeking to defend their seats in the forthcoming election are famously less than enthusiastic about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. But some of them – particularly in traditional Labour strongholds in the north of England – have a second problem: they campaigned in favour of Britain remaining in the EU, while the majority of their constituents voted to leave.

Joining us are Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, Barry Gardiner, and the co-leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas.

Jeremy Corbyn has come out fighting on Day Three of the pre-election campaign, with a fiercely anti-Establishment speech, promising to put power and wealth back into the hands of the people. He told a roomful of enthusiastic supporters that Labour would overturn the “rigged system”, which he said was set up to favour the “ruling elite”.

Well here in Scotland this is something of a seismic moment. The vote here won’t be so much about Brexit as independence and another chance to determine the future of the United Kingdom itself. Nicola Sturgeon called Mrs May’s announcement a “huge political miscalculation” and she will be banking on Scottish voters rejecting not just…

With me now are Kezia Dugdale, leader of the Scottish Labour party and the SNP’s Derek Mackay who is Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution.

Now this will be the first electoral test for both party leaders and a Herculean challenge for Jeremy Corbyn who says he wants the campaign to be about issues like health, the minimum wage and “social justice for all”. In fact in his initial statements about the snap election, he didn’t even mention the issue…

Well even before the snap election call, Labour’s heartlands were already under attack from the Conservatives campaigning in next month’s local and mayoral elections, hoping to establish their hold on urban areas like the Midlands. Symeon Brown has been to Newcastle under Lyme in Staffordshire, where Labour hung on last time with the narrowest of…

Interview with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.

The Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbot.

Theresa May has called for an early general election on June 8th in the biggest political gamble of her career. She said divisions in Westminster would cause “damaging uncertainty and instability” and put the Brexit negotiations at risk. Labour said they would offer voters a credible alternative while the Lib Dems called it a chance…