Who won the Makerfield Question Time?
Last night, candidates from the five main parties in Makerfield came together for a special episode of Question Time. With four non-politicians taking on Andy Burnham, who came out on top?Tim Shipman,...
5 Juni 14min
Darren Jones & the missing Mandelson messages
The second tranche of messages related to the vetting of Peter Mandelson to be UK ambassador to the US were released on Monday – the gift that keeps on giving. Tim Shipman joins Patrick Gibbons to dis...
4 Juni 16min
Henry Nowak: which leader has struck the right tone
In PMQs today, Kemi Badenoch strategically chose not to talk about the Henry Nowak case given the sensitivity surrounding the subject. Instead she opted for welfare – asking the PM why spending has gr...
3 Juni 13min
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's Desert Island Discs revealed
Canvassing in Makerfield continues at pace ahead of the by-election in two weeks time, so we dispatched Megan McElroy and James Heale to the north to report from the ground. They discuss each party’s ...
2 Juni 8min
How Mandelson continues to haunt Labour
As Parliament returns from recess, the latest files related to Peter Mandelson's appointment as UK ambassador to the US are due to be released today. How bad could they be for Labour? Tim Shipman join...
1 Juni 20min
Why politics hasn’t recovered from 2008 | with Lord Wood
There have been a number of critiques of Tony Blair’s 5,000-word intervention on Labour and the country this week, but none more astute than Lord Wood’s. One of Labour’s foremost thinkers, Lord Wood j...
29 Maj 17min
Who has a winning vision for Labour – Blair, Burnham or Starmer?
When it comes to political vision, Keir Starmer’s premiership has been something of a vacuum – and power abhors a vacuum. So cue Tony Blair, who this week has rushed in with a 5,000-word essay on what...
29 Maj 15min
Is it too late for Britain's 'lost generation'?
More than 600,000 16 to 24-year-olds are neither in work nor looking for a job. Youth worklessness is now costing Britain £125 billion a year – almost double the country’s entire defence budget.Those ...
28 Maj 13min
