At Lunch With...

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At Lunch With... episodes

September 23, 2016 Ken Loach
The film director Ken Loach won this years Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He met Becky Milligan to discuss why he supports Jeremy Corbyn, getting a third at university and the death of his son.
15 min
July 18, 2016 Patrick McLoughlin
The latest in Becky Milligan's series of political conversations over a meal has her At Lunch With... the now Conservative former Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin.
They dined when the political storm was at its height, David Cameron had resigned and Theresa May had just started at Prime Minister.
He was waiting for the call that would see him become the Conservative Party Chairman.
9 min
July 07, 2016 Lord David Owen
Lord David Owen split from the Labour party when he was an MP in 1981 and set up an alternative party called the Social Democratic Party.
As he told Becky Milligan, over tea and biscuits, he sympathizes with the current MPs agonising over whether or not to leave the Labour Party.
14 min
June 20, 2016 Jon Lansman
The founder of the pro-Corbyn movement Momentum has lunch with Becky Milligan and discusses anti-Semitism, Ken Livingstone and his own memories of growing up in a Jewish household in the 1960s.
18 min
May 31, 2016 Lord Heseltine
The former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Heseltine, has lunch with Becky Milligan and discusses the EU, Boris Johnson, trees and tits, and his legacy.
19 min
May 23, 2016 Mike Penning
He calls himself the most working class geezer you'll ever find. Mike Penning, Minister of State, Home office and the Ministry of Justice, has lunch with Becky Milligan and talks about his former life as a spin doctor, how Iain Duncan Smith got his pet name, IDS, the EU referendum, and why he beleives in apologising.
9 min
May 18, 2016 Natalie Bennett
The leader of the Green Party Natalie Bennett, who's to stand down, had lunch with Becky Milligan last year. She talks about losing her mother, being leader, and moving on.
8 min
May 09, 2016 Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson - now leading the Labour In Campaign - has lunch with Becky Milligan. The former cabinet minister and once leadership favourite, talks politics, plotting and penning his books. This interview is from December 2014.
10 min
April 27, 2016 Naz Shah MP
Bradford West MP Naz Shah - currently suspended from the Labour party - has lunch with Becky Milligan. This interview is from July 2015.
7 min
April 25, 2016 Lord Fellowes
Lord Fellowes, Conservative peer and creator of Downton Abbey, talks to Becky Milligan over lunch about choosing love over politics.
12 min