Should the suffragettes be pardoned? Is the centenary of some women getting the vote really worth celebrating? And what is the problem with that Telegraph front page? Stephanie Lloyd and Conor Pope respond to listeners’ comments.

Further reading:

*Jane Merrick on #MeToo 

*Henna Shah interviews Jacqui Smith

*Jessica Asato on why domestic violence should be treated as a public health epidemic 

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Jess Phillips talks to Alison McGovern, Stephanie Lloyd and Conor Pope about how changes to the way women’s refuges are funded is putting their future at risk, whether the government is serious about keeping them open, and if there has been a shift in the way society thinks about abuse.

Further reading:

*Harriet Harman on how much work there is to be done for women’s rights 

*Jess Phillips on how budget cuts disproportionately affect women 

*The After Eight game, in pictures 

Charities and projects to support:

*Refuge 

*Women’s Aid 

*Galop, the LGBT+ anti-violence charity 

*Karen Ingala Smith's Counting Dead Women project 

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Richard Angell and Conor Pope discuss the latest in local government, baby leave for MPs and dish out prizes to listeners.

Further reading:

*Sarah Hayward on Claire Kober's resignation in Haringey

*MPs back efforts to overturn '18th Century' baby leave by allowing proxy votes for new parents

*Harriet Harman: It's 35 years too late for me, but MPs must get baby leave

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With how to run a council hitting the news and the LGA Labour conference coming up, Southwark council leader Peter John and former Camden council leader Sarah Hayward talk to Richard Angell and Conor Pope about Haringey, the ‘Preston model’ and cuts to local services.

Further reading:

*Labour council leaders hit back at NEC effort to change Haringey council policy 

*Estelle Hart on the Nuala O’Loan’s private member's bill

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New Zealand’s Labour prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she will be having a baby in the summer. So how easy is it to juggle parenting with politics?

Labour MP Darren Jones recently brought his newborn daughter into the UK parliament for a three-line whip on Brexit – he speaks to to Alison McGovern, Richard Angell and Conor Pope about that, as well as the Boris bridge to France.

Further reading:

*Sign the petition for extended maternity leave for mothers of premature babies 

*Yvette Cooper on rewriting the rules for having a baby in office 

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Can Labour sharpen up to make its Brexit stance clearer? Will Emmanuel Macron be the man to help the party do it? And what was the big deal with the Labour NEC this week? Richard Angell and Conor Pope respond to listeners on the back of the week’s events.

Further reading:

*The Left Foot Forward Polling on Labour's Brexit position

*Labour MPs defy Corbyn to vote on the single market

*More details on Ann Black's replacement on the NEC disputes committee

*Will Macron bring Britain back into the EU?

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More people in the UK say they share the values of the Labour party than the Tories. What does that mean for the kind of platform Labour should stand on, what should it mean for our electoral expectations and, most importantly, what does that mean for the country? Plus: is Mrs Brown’s Boys tearing the nation apart? Conor Pope discusses all that with Alison McGovern, Richard Angell and Fabian Society deputy general secretary Olivia Bailey.

Further reading:

• Mrs Brown’s Britain 

• Olivia Bailey and Andrew Harrop on the next electoral mountain for Labour 

• Labour is winning the battle of ideas 

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Richard Angell and Conor Pope discuss the latest crisis in the NHS, the shambolic Tory reshuffle and the single market – as well as responding to listeners’ comments and revealing which unpopular Conservative minister used to be a Labour party member…

Further reading:

*Five ways to get a face-to-face meeting with your MP on Brexit

*After this reshuffle, it’s clear Theresa May can’t detoxify the Tories 

*Why talk of a ‘winter crisis’ in the NHS is misleading http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2018/01/11/a-perpetual-crisis/

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