The last of the Hope family's Christmas cake joins the guests in the Red Lion this week, and Wes Streeting is the first to take Christopher Hope up on the offer of having a slice. The Shadow Health Secretary insists that Labour wouldn't be the "fun police" to ban cakes in offices following comments this week from the chair of the Food Standards Agency, explains why he won't "wag his finger" at people who use private healthcare and proclaims that he's up for a debate about his proposed NHS reforms.

Also on the podcast, Conservative MP Lee Anderson discusses levelling up, slimming down, and challenges campaigner Steve "Stop Brexit" Bray to a charity boxing battle (no, really).

Plus Baroness Stowell, Tina Stowell, on why politicians need to take the creative industries more seriously.

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