Commons People

By HuffPost UK

Each week, the HuffPost UK Politics team unpack the biggest stories from Westminster and beyond.

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July 11, 2019 167: #167 - Showing Some Leadership (With Jo Swinson)
Lib Dem Leadship candidate Jo Swinson joins HuffPost UK's Arj Singh and Paul Waugh to discuss the past week in Westminster, where leadership from both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn was sorely tested. For Johnson, he's refusal to say whether he backed the embattled UK ambassador in a diplomatic row with Donald Trump drew criticism, while for Corbyn a Panorama documentary raised questions of Labour's handling of an anti-Semitism within the party.

#Corbyn #Boris #Labour #Conservatives #JoSwinson #LibDems #Brexit #anti-Semitism
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42min
July 04, 2019 #166 - Fox In A Hole (With Paul Goodman & Katy Balls)
ConservativeHome's Paul Goodman and The Spectator's Katy Balls join Paul and Arj to talk through the final two candidates in the Tory selection process for their new leader. While Boris Johnson remains schtum, Jeremy Hunt opens the debate on fox hunting, a debate no one was asking for.

#conservatives #boris johnson #jeremy hunt #jeremy corbyn #tories #leadership #conservatives
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June 27, 2019 #165 - What's Left Unsaid (With Liam Byrne MP)
While the Tory leadership challenge continues to dominate Westminster, Labour MP Liam Byrne tells HuffPost UK about the "moral emergency" emerging across the country and his own experience of mental health issues following his upbringing with an alcoholic father and how talking about it is helping him bring children's mental health to the foreground.
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41min
June 20, 2019 #164 - Losing The Tie (With Anand Menon)
Anand Menon joins the HuffPost UK politics team as the Conservative candidates are whittled down to replace Theresa May. From 10 to three, who's coming out on top? Rory Stewart definitely won't be, losing his tie in the debate and then ultimately losing the tie to be leader. Yeah, we know that's laboured. But speaking of Labour, is Jeremy Corbyn about to back a second referendum?
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June 13, 2019 #163 - The Votes Are In, Part One (with Andrew Mitchell MP)
MP Andrew Mitchell belatedly joins the team as they take in the news from the first round of votes in the Tory leadership contest. Does frontrunner Boris Johnson need to do more though?
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June 06, 2019 #162 - The Trump Bump? (With Tom Tugendhat MP)
As Donald Trump rolled into town and Theresa May prepared to mosey on out of Westminster, her list of successors salivated at the thought of some time with Leader of the Free World. But would the praise of Trump prove help or hindrance at the ballot box?

Tom Tugendhat MP joins the HuffPost UK politics team in looking through the impact of Trump's state visit and what the candidates have to do to win the party favour.

#trump #donald trump #theresa may #Britain #brexit #state visit
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42min
May 23, 2019 #161 - The End Of May
This week the HuffPost UK politics team sit down with Institute for Government Brexit expert, Maddy Thimont Jack and director of the UK In A Changing Europe think-tank, Anand Menon to discuss if the writing is on the wall for Theresa May's run as prime minister. They discuss what's next for the ill-fated withdrawal agreement, what Remainers could do next and who will be gunning for the leadership of the Tory party.
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May 16, 2019 #160 - A Question Of Leadership (With Sir Ed Davey MP)
The HuffPost UK politics team sat down with Lib Dem MP Sir Ed Davey as Westminster salivates over leadership campaigns. Theresa May has been compelled to set out her departure date by the 1922 Committee, while Nigel Farage barrels across the country to prove that he can lead a party with ideas for all of Britain's interests.
Meanwhile, after a successful Local Election campaign, Sir Vince Cable turns the air blue with a message for the European elections as he looks to leave the Lib Dems in a much healthier state than when he took over as leader.
#ed davey #lib dem #leadership #vince cable #theresa may #brexit #politics #Britain

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May 09, 2019 #159 - Deep Into Injury Time (With Will Tanner)
The HuffPost UK politics team take a look at another breathtaking week for Britain staying in Europe. Nope, we're not talking the football, it's Theresa May trying to stay on the field deep into injury time as she seeks Labour's support on the wings for her beleaguered Brexit deal.
Will Tanner, Director of Tory think-tank Onward joins the team to see what's next, who's on the subs bench and how many more laboured football puns we can shoo into this week's talks.
#politics #europe #brexit #theresa may #local elections #jeremy corbyn #football #jurgen klopp

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May 02, 2019 #158 Hua-dunnit? (With Lord Peter Ricketts and Henry Newman)
Arj Singh hosts this week's Commons People joined by Paul Waugh, former Downing Street National Security Adviser, Lord Peter Ricketts and director of the Open Europe think-tank, Henry Newman. After a brief respite from political machinations over the Easter break, Theresa May sacked old ally Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, blaming him for the leak of highly confidential National Security Council information about the prime minister’s approval of Chinese firm Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s 5G infrastructure.
#brexit #britain #eu #europe #gavinwilliamson #theresa may #Huawei #politics

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28min

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