The Rundown by PoliticsHome

Conservative MP Matt Warman joins PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Caitlin Doherty to discuss a tricky first week back in Parliament after summer recess for Rishi Sunak with the RAAC crisis and and a ruthless Keir Starmer reshuffle.

Jeremy Corbyn’s former director of strategic communications James Schneider talks about how Labour’s hope in 2017 turned to despair in 2019, and tells PoliticsHome’s Alain Tolhurst why he’s sceptical that Keir Starmer will be more radical in office than he is now, and that his strategy can win one, but not a second, term in office.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Former Labour MP Luciana Berger explains why she sensationally quit the party over anti-semitism in 2019, what made her return earlier this year under Keir Starmer’s leadership, and discusses with PoliticsHome’s Alain Tolhurst how even now there is “limited understanding” of the scale of abuse politicians face.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Labour MP, former minister and chair of the Committee on Standards Chris Bryant, speaks to PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst about why the House of Commons has become such a disreputable place, and his plan to fix it.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Former public health minister Lord Bethell discusses how he joined the upper chamber through the little-known hereditary peer by-election system, his previous life running the Ministry of Sound nightclub, and his crusade to improve the nation’s wellbeing.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, edited by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Daisy Powell Chandler, elections strategist and consult at Public First, and Cameron Smith from the Conservative Environment Network join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Caitlin Doherty to discuss the fallout on climate and net zero policy after the ULEZ row in the Uxbridge by-election.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Labour frontbencher Abena Oppong-Asare, research director at the Resolution Foundation James Smith and deputy director at centre right think tank Onward Adam Hawksbee join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst to discuss the 'mortgage time bomb' ticking under the British economy.

Former government special adviser Salma Shah and Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester Robert Ford join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst to look ahead to next week’s triple by-election, and what it means for the political parties fortunes as we head into Parliament’s summer break.

Former Cabinet minister Stephen Crabb and ex-trade minister Mark Garnier join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Adam Payne to take stock of where the Conservative Party is a year on from Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister, and why Rishi Sunak still can't seem to keep a lid on the chaos.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Justine Greening, former Conservative Cabinet minister, Tory MP for Don Valley Nick Fletcher, and Oxford University academic and expert on class in Parliament Albert Ward, join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst to discuss the ‘class ceiling’ in Parliament and how social mobility in politics can be improved.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver

Conservative MP for Stroud Siobhan Baillie, and founder of the liberal conservative think tank Bright Blue Ryan Shorthouse, join PoliticsHome’s Alain Tolhurst and Caitlin Doherty to discuss how the Tories can finally move on from the tumultuous Boris Johnson era as they desperately try to cling to power. 

Amy Leversidge, Assistant General Secretary of civil servants’ union the FDA, Institute for Government senior fellow and former Department for Education advisor Sam Freedman, and Civil Service World deputy editor Beckie Smith join PoliticsHome’s Alain Tolhurst to discuss the latest flare-up of the government’s ongoing war with its own officials in the civil service.

Veteran political journalist Michael Crick, who runs the @tomorrowsmps twitter account, Luke Akehurst, a member of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, and Jackson Ng, a former Conservative parliamentary candidate in 2015 and 2017, join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst to discuss the secretive process political parties use to select their candidates who will run to be MPs at the next general election.

Bob Seely, Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight, John Myers, co-founder of the London YIMBY housing campaign, Dan Tomlinson, Labour’s parliamentary candidate in Chipping Barnet, PoliticsHome’s Alain Tolhurst discuss the housebuilding crisis that looks set to define debate in the next election.

Conservative MP James Sunderland and deputy editor of ConservativeHome, Henry Hill, join Alain Tolhurst and Caitlin Doherty from PoliticsHome to discuss the fallout from the local elections where the Tories lost over 1,000 councillors and whether Rishi Sunak can turn his party’s fortunes around before next year’s general election.

Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver