03/07/2011
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
Carolyn Quinn talks to the Chief Political Commentator of the New Statesman, Rafael Behr, about the week ahead at Westminster. They discuss the Dilnot report into long term care, the report by Labour MP Graham Allen into intervening in the lives of socially deprived children and the plan by Labour leader Ed Miliband to scrap elections to the Shadow Cabinet.
The Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George comments on the proposals likely to be made by the Dilnot commission into care. He also explains his party's attitude to the reforms of Housing Benefit and responds to concerns about the Liberal Democrat performance in the Inverclyde by election.
The Conservative MP Matthew Hancock and the Labour MP Liz Kendall debate the big political stories including long term care, Housing Benefit, Prime Minister's Questions and reforms to public sector pensions.
Political commentator James Macintyre discusses his biography of the Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Programme Editor: Terry Dignan.
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