Commons People

By HuffPost UK

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

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November 12, 2020 Cummings And Goings At No.10 (With Tom Tugendhat MP)
Downing Street splits burst open this week with the resignation of Dominic Cummings ally and longstanding Boris Johnson aide Lee Cain as director of communications. Cummings didn’t follow through on threats to follow Cain out of the door but what may seem like a Westminster bubble story does really matter.

Senior Tory MP Tom Tugendhat joins Arj Singh and Paul Waugh to discuss what’s going on in No.10, whether Covid vaccines could be made compulsory and how whether the new relationship between Johnson and Joe Biden will be a special one.

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34min
November 05, 2020 226: Will Donald Trump Go Gently Into The Political Night?
Lockdown life returns to the UK but for the moment the country is gripped with the fiercely contested US presidential election. Joe Biden looks on course for victory and if he wins, will Donald Trump go quietly? And which outcome works in Britain’s favour?
With attention elsewhere, the chancellor has performed another U-turn, this time on the furlough scheme, as England’s second lockdown begins. Has it come too late though for workers?
Joining Arj Singh and Paul Waugh, senior Labour MP Angela Eagle and HuffPost UK’s man in New York, Graeme Demianyk, talk through a potentially seismic week.
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41min
October 29, 2020 225: Westminster Needs To Face The Music Over Diversity, With Jamie Njoku-Goodwin
In a parliamentary recess special, Matt Hancock’s former special adviser Jamie Njoku-Goodwin joins Arj Singh for Commons People to discuss his new role as chief executive of UK Music and their new study which looks at representation in the music industry.
While the report shows encouraging news about representation of minorities, it has warned that it is concentrated in younger, more junior levels with diversity stalling at senior and mid-management, mirroring in many ways what’s seen in Westminster.
As well as discussing what lessons can be learned in parliament, government and political parties, Jamie speaks about the response of his former boss, the health secretary, and the government to the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in spring.
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41min
October 22, 2020 224: Has The King Of The North Stolen Boris Johnson’s Crown?
Boris Johnson moved Greater Manchester area into the highest tier of local lockdown, setting in motion a war of words and press conferences with mayor Andy Burnham. Tensions spilled over as an extraordinary series of negotiations over a lack of financial support for businesses and workers spilled over in public, with Burnham was branded the “king of the north” as he attempted to defend Manchester from Westminster’s “punishment”.
Jennifer Williams of the Manchester Evening News and Manchester university politics professor Rob Ford join Arj Singh and Paul Waugh to unpack a week in which the PM also decided to pick a fight with England forward Marcus Rashford, and hold a somewhat phoney war with the EU.
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46min
October 15, 2020 223: Is A Circuit Breaker Coronavirus Lockdown Inevitable?
Boris Johnson’s tiered local lockdown rules for England were meant to simplify the government’s response to the coronavirus second wave. But the plans immediately ran into trouble after Sage papers revealed scientific advisers had called for a national ‘circuit breaker’ around a month ago. Keir Starmer dramatically took up the call as leaders from the Greater Manchester area hit back at plans to place the city into the toughest lockdown. It has left many in Westminster wondering if a circuit breaker is now inevitable.
Joining Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth, former cabinet minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan discusses the plans, how to get people to keep complying with Covid rules, and whether Brexit needs more attention as Boris Johnson’s October deadline for a deal passes.
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48min
October 08, 2020 222: Lockdown Brass, With John McDonnell MP
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell joins Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth to discuss the rebellions brewing in Westminster as efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic by the government lurch from crisis to crisis. Is the time of constructive opposition from Keir Starmer’s Labour over? And is it time to impose a national lockdown?
While fighting the government’s response, Starmer also has to keep an eye on his own MPs, who defied the whip this week on controversial new spy powers.
Meanwhile, McDonnell reveals his lockdown hobby.
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52min
October 01, 2020 221: Priti Patel’s Wave Machine
Boris Johnson can’t remember his own coronavirus rules, Priti Patel considered deterring asylum seekers with a wave machine, and the EU is taking the UK to court - it’s been another one of those weeks.
Joining Arj Singh and Rachel Wearmouth, Tory former special adviser Salma Shah and Labour ex-adviser Matthew McGregor try to pick their way through the headlines and consider why the PM is faring so badly, and whether government asylum plans could pose a threat to Labour .
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46min
September 25, 2020 220: Is Now The Winter Of Our Discontent? With Steve Reed MP
As curfews and other restrictions are brought in to try and stem the rise in coronavirus infections, Rishi Sunak took to the dispatch box with another rescue plan for the economy. But do his emergency schemes go far enough?
Joining Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth, Labour’s shadow communities secretary Steve Reed reacts to Sunak’s statement, tries to unpack the problems with test and trace, and discusses what Labour’s virtual conference revealed about the party’s new leadership.
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45min
September 17, 2020 219: Do Voters Still Want To Push Cummings Off A Cliff? With Tory MP Paul Howell
Boris Johnson’s ‘moonshot’ coronavirus ambition began to look divorced from the reality of worrying testing shortages as more areas were put into local lockdowns. The prime minister also had to contend with a Tory Brexit rebellion and more resignations from his government. Is Johnson losing control of the two biggest issues of our times?
Tory MP Paul Howell joined Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth to make sense of the week in Westminster, and look ahead to the imminent Budget and what it could mean for left behind communities.
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27min
September 10, 2020 218: Is History Repeating With Brexit And Coronavirus?
As Britain saw a worrying resurgence of coronavirus cases, Boris Johnson returned to the country’s living room with a briefing with new restrictions.
Also returning is Brexit, with the government admitting that they’re planning on breaking international law. Are we witnessing the prime minister repeat his mistakes with both Brexit and the pandemic?
Joining Arj Singh and Paul Waugh, Anand Menon from UK In A Changing Europe and Tory MP Andy Carter take a look at the week in Westminster.
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41min

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The podcast currently has 328 episodes available.