In the opening session, the panel discusses the 2019 winter general election that broke Labour's long-held red wall and delivered the largest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher. The central focus was the issue of political realignment and whether this represented a permanent change in British politics.

Tom Bewick - Education & training policy expert.

Sherelle Jacobs - Columnist, Daily Telegraph

Kevin Yuill - Academic & Historian, University of Sunderland

Graham Stringer MP - Member for Blackley and Broughton

Mo Lovatt (Chair) - Writer, researcher, lecturer