08/05/2011
Preview of the week's politics with politicians, pundits and experts.
Carolyn Quinn interviews the Liberal Democrat MP and adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister, Norman Lamb. She asks him how relationships between his party and the Conservatives within the coalition will change?
The political editor of the Spectator, James Forsyth, and the Chief Political Correspondent of the Guardian, Nick Watt, discuss the big political stories at Westminster. The topics include planned reforms of the health service in England, the prospect of elections to the House of Lords and Labour's performance in the local elections.
The MPs' panel is made up of Charles Walker, vice chairman of the backbench Conservative 1922 Committee, and Kevin Brennan, Labour shadow education minister.
David Torrance, a Scottish political commentator and biographer of the SNP leader Alex Salmond, explains what he believes Mr Salmond's strategy will be following his victory in the elections to the Scottish Parliament. He says he does not believe there will be an early referendum on Scottish independence.
Programme editor: Terry Dignan.
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