As new, looser lockdown measures come into effect Dan asks if it's enough and if the government was right to follow the science after new SAGE documents have been published. Labour MP Barry Gardiner says the loosening is a political decision while former controller of BBC Radio 4 Mark Damazer gives a nuanced response to the Emily Maitlis Newsnight furore.

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As the Dominic Cummings row enters a new phase Dan asks if the Tory MPs asking for him to resign are being disloyal to the party. Columnists Rod Liddle and Paul Connew debate the Emily Maitlis BBC furore whilst Dr Sarah Jarvis exchanges strong words with Mail Columnist Dan Hodges about the government's new track and trace scheme.

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Boris Johnson faces the liaison committee over his handling of Coronavirus and Dominic Cummings, Tom Harwood and Dawn Foster analyse. James Mills and Emily Carver dissect the daily briefing and Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine talks through the decisions Dominic Cummings made.

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As the fallout from the Dominic Cummings revelations continues to reverberate, Dan asks if this is just a witch hunt by the liberal media. Lord Michael Howard speaks in defence of Cummings and Ian Murray Labour's Shadow Scotland Secretary tells us why he has to go.

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Dan turns his attention to Nicola Sturgeon and her handling of the Coronavirus, Conservative Miles Briggs voices further concerns about the SNP and Heathrow Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye talks us through what is needed to get the struggling aviation industry moving again.

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Dan tells us why implementing a 14 day quarantine into the UK may not be a good idea. Peter Blackman and Sam Packer debate whether reinstating BBC3 onto screens may be too little too late for the broadcaster and MP Mark Francois gives us his thoughts on the current Brexit negotiations.

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Dan continues to ratchet up the heat on the need for an Independent Inquiry into the Chinese Government, Damian Green MP is quizzed over whether there ever will be an inquiry and after President Trump's surprise announcement that he is taking Hydroxychloroquine,Congressman Bob McEwan and Dr. Sarah Jarvis debate whether taking the controversial drug is a good thing for the 73 year old leader.

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Debate continues around the safety of reopening schools on June 1st, Dan sets out the case in favour of it whilst two established educators discuss the idea's merits and Conservative MP Neil O'Brien tells us why we need to investigate China.

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Dan is keen to get out of lockdown and thinks social bubbles might be the way to do it. Professors Sian Griffiths and Paul Hunter debate the merits of such an idea and SNP MP Ronnie Cowan debates with Dan the idea of a universal basic income.

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Should the government introduce a new surcharge tax to pay for the NHS and social care as the cost of the coronavirus crisis spirals? That's Dan's question of the day. To delve deeper into the financial implication of the pandemic former chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke is on hand and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Dawn Butler debates whether No.10 might be doing better if more women were in the cabinet.

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