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Can the next Conservative leader haul the party back from brink – and who should that be? Cathy Newman asks former Deputy PM Therese Coffey and former Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.

Could this election kill the independence cause in Scotland or actually bring it back to life? Krishnan Guru-Murthy discusses manifestos and independence with the SNP’s former Deputy Westminster Leader Mhairi Black, Scottish Labour’s Pam Duncan-Glancy, and Scottish Conservative’s Craig Hoy.

Labour’s election manifesto has one word on the cover: Change. What does that mean and where’s the money to make it happen? Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Labour’s Stella Creasy and the Green’s Sian Berry.

US Presidential candidate, Dr Cornel West tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why he thinks US foreign policy on Israel is enabling destruction in Gaza, how both Biden and Trump are problematic for oppressed groups, and why it’s difficult to have hope to change the world without also being in despair at the suffering we see, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and Labour’s Lords leader Baroness Smith join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss whether it’s sink or survive for Rishi Sunak after election losses across the country.

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.

US Senator Bernie Sanders tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why the US should stop its funding for Netanyahu’s “horrific war against the Palestinian people”, why a second Trump victory could foment right-wing movements across the world with disastrous consequences, and why taking on the ruling class is a necessary but “long, long process”, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

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.

There’s a vacancy in one of the top jobs in US politics after the ousting the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  Third in the presidential line of succession, the person who’d have to take charge if the President and Vice President were both indisposed, Republican Kevin McCarthy was voted out by his own party. 

Donald Trump is a busy man. He’s facing a succession of court appearances all while campaigning for the Republican party’s presidential nomination.

We spoke to Austrian MEP, Andreas Schieder, who is a member of the UK Contact Group in the European Parliament.

The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has ended his series of international meetings in Paris with what he called “very constructive and positive” talks with the French president Emmanuel Macron.