Can you 'take the politics out' of the grooming gangs scandal?
Yesterday Yvette Cooper announced a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal after the Casey Review found that a disproportionate number of Asian men were responsible and that governments and ...
17 Jun 202512min
Grooming gangs: will this inquiry be different?
Following Keir Starmer's decision to call for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper spoke in the Commons today about the 'collective failure' to address questions ab...
16 Jun 202511min
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/06/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's politics shows.The conflict in the Middle-East has entered a dangerous new phase, with Israel and Iran engaging in open warfare. We hear from C...
15 Jun 202512min
Why is Britain's economy so unhealthy?
The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons is joined by the outgoing boss of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson and the CEO of the Resolution Foundation Ruth Curtice to understand why...
14 Jun 202519min
Israel strikes Iran – how will Iran retaliate?
Israel struck military and nuclear targets in Iran overnight in a major escalation of hostilities in the Middle East has begun further strikes on Friday. Iran has vowed retaliation though President Tr...
13 Jun 202513min
Is Rachel Reeves’s headroom shrinking?
There were clear winners and losers in Rachel Reeves’s spending review yesterday but some of her announcements around capital spending and investment saw her dubbed the ‘Klarna Chancellor’ by LBC’s Ni...
12 Jun 202513min
Spending review: smoke, mirrors and no strategy
There were few surprises in Rachel Reeves’s spending review today. Health was the big winner, with a £29bn increase in day-to-day spending and £39bn was announced to build social and affordable housin...
11 Jun 202510min
Labour goes nuclear while Reform turns to coal
Rachel Reeves has pledged a ‘new era of nuclear power’ as the government confirms a £14.2 billion investment in the Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk. This comes on the eve of Labour’s spending revi...
10 Jun 202516min
