Parliament

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.

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. 

Wes Streeting MP joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about his journey from a Stepney council estate to the Labour frontbench in Westminster, his optimism that poverty is a trap we can escape and his vision for an NHS ‘fit for the future’ on the eve of the 2024 UK general election, on this week’s Ways to Change the World podcast.

With time running out, Parliament’s half term break has been cancelled. Meanwhile, Labour MPs who say they will back Theresa May’s deal have been branded “cowards and facilitators” by another MP from their own party.

The government suffered a defeat on NHS pay in the House of Commons this afternoon, a defeat that seems to have significantly changed Parliamentary convention. It came amid a row over claims that the Prime Minister made about police pay during Prime Minister’s Questions.

The next round of Brexit negotiations in Brussels has been pushed back by a week “to allow more time for consultation”. The talks now won’t start until the last week of September, after a major speech on Brexit that Theresa May is expected to make next week.