Politics: Where Next?

Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable and godfather of New Labour Lord Mandelson discuss the new Independent Group - and whether it can possibly be a success.

From Continental Europe to the USA - Gary Gibbon and his guests discuss the international view of Brexit - and what our imminent departure from the EU could mean for how the world sees Britain for years to come.

This week Gary is joined by two experts in foreign policy: Hans Kundnani, a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House - and Jeremy Shapiro, a Research Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a former State Department aide to Barack Obama.

Two former Number 10 advisers chat to Gary Gibbon about the likelihood of a new centrist party, what Brexit tells us about voter behaviour and where that will take our politics. Pollster Andrew Cooper worked on two referendums with varying success - for Remain in 2016 and more successfully for the NO campaign in Scotland's referendum in 2014. Gavin Kelly worked for Gordon Brown at the Treasury and at Number 10 - he's now Chief Executive of the Resolution Trust.

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After Theresa May's change of direction on the withdrawal agreement, Gary takes Labour MP Caroline Flint up a winding staircase in Parliament to find the hidden away office of former Brexit Secretary David Davis. 

Union leaders headed into Number 10 this week as Theresa May's cross-party Brexit talks continued. Gary grabbed half an hour with the man of the moment Len McCluskey and picked his brains over Labour's Brexit strategy and what a Corbyn government could look like.

Extraordinary times. Two votes this week, one question remains: where next for Brexit? Gary talks to former Tory minister George Bridges in his first long-form interview since standing down at the snap election, and is expecting former Brexit secretary David Davis to pop in for a chat, if he can wriggle free from the Prime Minister's office.

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Labour MP Liz Kendall and former Conservative Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey talk to Gary for this week's episode about whether cross-party unity will influence how Brexit unfolds after next week's vote.

We apologise for slight technical issue with Gary's microphone in this episode.

With Parliament descending to farce this week, the Christmas period is a welcome chance to reflect and assess where Theresa May's Brexit project is heading. For this week's episode Gary Gibbon talks to former Tory minister David Willetts and Stewart Wood, who was an adviser and shadow minister under Ed Miliband.

Producer: Sarah Gough.

We speak to Jess Philips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley - who thinks a second referendum is the way ahead and Nick Boles - Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford in Lincolnshire. He thinks the answer to the Brexit conundrum is Norway Plus - where we stay in the single market and the customs union.

Debates on the Brexit withdrawal agreement have begun and with the meaningful vote on Theresa May's deal on the horizon, Gary talks to pro-Leave professor Robert Tombs about where the future of our party politics could be heading.