On The House

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What's On The House about?

What’s really going on in Parliament? What’s happening in politics that the mainstream media always misses? Join MPs Sam Gyimah and Dr Phillip Lee plus friends, colleagues and friendly rivals for candid, irreverent political chat about what really matters, over that great leveller – a drink after work.

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On The House episodes:

11.29.2019
ON THE HOUSE: ON THE ROAD with ALASTAIR CAMPBELL and guest host CLIVE TYLDESLEY
“Hello! Hello! Here we go…” In an On the House first, Dr Phillip Lee is in the hot seat along with returning guest Alastair Campbell - asking the questions this week is one of the most recognisable voices in Britain, veteran...
11.22.2019
RISKY BUSINESS with guest David Henig
On The House is back in Westminster this week after a trip up the Westway to Kensington. Dr Philip Lee is away, so Sam takes the wheel. After Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson’s ITV debate, are we any closer to knowing...
11.15.2019
THROUGH THE CAMPAIGN BARRIER with guest Vince Cable
As Election 2019 gets more intense and even more unpleasant, Phillip Lee and Sam Gyimah head into West London for a drink with a true heavyweight of the Lib Dems – Sir Vince Cable, former leader of the party, Secretary of...
11.08.2019
SCIENCE FRICTION with guest Mike Galsworthy
It’s a one-to-one pint after Parliament this week. Mike Galsworthy – Final Say vote champion, founder of Scientists For EU and rock star of Remain – joins Phillip Lee for a drink, a political head-to-head on what a Brexit election means for...
11.01.2019
ELECTION 2019: INTO BATTLE plus guest Dominic Grieve MP
As the Election Battle is finally joined, MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee are joined for a pre-poll pint by their former Conservative colleague Dominic Grieve - the Parliamentary giant who put his career on the line to hold back...
10.25.2019
DIRTY DEALS DONE DIRT CHEAP with guest Ian Dunt
As Boris Johnson edges his Brexit Deal a bit further than Theresa May did – but not much – MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee lift the lid on the tatty trade-offs that had to happen in Parliament for Johnson to claim...
10.18.2019
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH with guest Alastair Campbell
Boris Johnson prepares to put his Deal to the Commons. Hundreds of thousands of people get ready to descend on London to march for a Final Say vote. As Britain braces itself for Brexit’s moment of truth, MPs Sam Gyimah...
10.12.2019
EXTINCTION REBELLION: Panic or practical politics? With guest Sarah Lunnon
There’s much more happening in politics this week than can be contained within the walls of the Houses of Parliament. As the radical climate change movement Extinction Rebellion stages disruptive protests all over the world, MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip...
10.04.2019
JOHNSON TRIGGERS THE BLAME GAME with The Observer's Will Hutton
The pint after Parliament podcast returns with special guest WILL HUTTON – Observer columnist, Principal of Hertford College at Oxford and tribune of Keynesianism – joining MPs Phillip Lee and Sam Gyimah to gaze in amazement at the latest week in...
09.27.2019
PROROGUE’S GALLERY with special guest Stephen Doughty MP
“UTTERLY EXTRAORDINARY AND DEEPLY SHAMEFUL”: Parliament is back but the Prime Minister and his lieutenants’ vicious opening performance left the country completely aghast. On their latest pints-after-politics podcast, MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee plus special guest Stephen Doughty (Labour/Co-Op...
09.20.2019
COLLATERAL DAMAGE with guest Owen Bennett of the Daily Telegraph
The Telegraph’s Whitehall Editor OWEN BENNETT joins stereo MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee for this week’s edition of the candid pints-after-politics podcast. On the agenda: What happens when the people running the system want to smash the system? Will the...
09.13.2019
DEEPER INTO DARKNESS with guest Marie le Conte
This week on the candid pint-after-Parliament podcast, MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee are joined by special guest MARIE LE CONTE, political commentator and writer for the Guardian, New Statesman and more. Is the Boris Johnson-Dominic Cummings government digging itself into...
09.06.2019
A ROUND WITH THE REBELS: MPs Phillip Lee and Sam Gyimah plus special guest Guto Bebb
ON THE HOUSE, the candid pint-after-Parliament podcast with MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee, returns for a full series — and we’ve certainly picked the right week for it. Phillip crossed the floor to join the Lib Dem right in...
07.28.2019
Into the Age of Boris and beyond
In ON THE HOUSE, MPs Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee join friends, fellow MPs and friendly rivals for a drink after the House rises, for free and frank talk about what really mattered in politics this week – and what to...