24/05/2020
Jo Coburn discusses the Cummings controversy with Conservative MP Huw Merriman; Labour peer Angela Smith; expert on government, Jill Rutter; plus Politico's Jack Blanchard.
Jo Coburn's guests are the Conservative chair of the Transport Select Committee, Huw Merriman; Labour's leader in the Lords, Angela Smith; and Jill Rutter, of the Institute for Government. They discuss the controversy over Dominic Cummings, moves to get more children back to school, and the progress of UK/EU trade talks - with additional analysis from Jack Blanchard of Politico's London Playbook.. Plus - on the 25th anniversary of Harold Wilson's death - reporter Gary Connor explores his life and legacy with the journalist Anne Perkins and Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Shadow 蜜芽传媒 Secretary, who's writing a biography of the former Labour Prime Minister.
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