Labour had a bad set of results in last week's elections, losing to the Conservatives particularly badly in the once safe-seat of Hartlepool.

Matthew Goodwin, politics and international relations professor at the University of Kent tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing this is a crisis of identity for the Labour Party, with them losing the support of the sort of people the party was founded to represent.

The same elections saw the SNP back in power, with a workable majority, with Green support, for a new independence referendum. David Phillips, associate director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies joins to discuss the financial viability of an independent Scotland.

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