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Can the Green Party get past its growing pains? (opens the original)
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This week The Rundown takes a look at another political party as it heads into its annual conference, this time the Greens, looking at whether after a huge surge in membership and popularity under new leader Zack Polanski their support might be plateauing after Andy Burnham took over as Prime Minister and it suffers the growing pains associated with all insurgent movements trying to break out into the mainstream. So to discuss where the party goes from here, as well as Polanski’s chances of maki
Parliament returns and party conference preview (opens the original)
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This week, as Parliament returned form its summer break, The Rundown takes a look at Andy Burnham’s performances as he got his first chance to speak to the House of Commons as Prime Minister. But after the long hot summer a cold autumn approaches for the new government, with the same knotty problems that faced his predecessor Keir Starmer staring at Burnham from his in-tray, and Westminster is also heading on tour for party conference season, starting with this weekend’s trip to Birmingham for R
Has Samantha Niblett created a 'summer of sex'? (opens the original)
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Has any backbencher caused more of a stir this Parliament than Samantha Niblett , the Labour member for South Derbyshire, although now more commonly known as the ‘sex MP’? She announced back in April in an interview with PolHome that she wanted to kick off a so-called ‘summer of sex’ with her “Yes Sex Please, We’re British!” campaign - a call for lifelong education around healthy relationships, consent and preventing abuse. But it was her comments about pleasure, pornography and sex toys that ca
Tom Kerridge on saving the hospitality industry (opens the original)
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Award-winning chef, TV star and now campaigner for the hospitality sector, Tom Kerridge joins The Rundown this week to talk about why his industry needs help from Andy Burnham's government. He is leading the charge to convince the government to reduce VAT in his sector, as it faces pressures from all sides which are sending hundreds of businesses to the wall, and taking with them thousands of jobs and having a huge knock-on effect across the economy. He spoke to Alain Tolhurst about the importan
David Lidington: why Tories shouldn’t work with Reform (opens the original)
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Next in our series of summer interviews is former Tory cabinet minister, David Lidington , who speaks to Adam Payne about the state of the Conservative Party. He tells the podcast that leader Kemi Badenoch is “absolutely right” to rule out an electoral pact with Reform UK, saying it’d be “deeply, deeply damaging” for the Conservatives to do a deal with Nigel Farage’s party, adding that it was "contemptible" for Reform's Zia Yusuf to call his former Tory colleague Ben Wallace a "traitor". The for
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