05/06/2011
Carolyn Quinn previews the week ahead in Parliament. With Lord Steel, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Gregg McClymont MP, and political advisers Maurice Glasman and Patrick Diamond.
Carolyn Quinn previews the week ahead in Parliament with a leading political journalist.
She talks to the former Liberal leader David Steel. Lord Steel has proposed a bill to change the way members of the upper house are appointed. He explains why he believes a properly independent appointments commission is needed along with a means of allowing peers to retire. He also wants the Lords to be rid - over time - of hereditary peers.
This week's MPs panel is made up of the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Labour MP Gregg McClymont. They discuss some of the big political stories.
Maurice Glasman, a Labour peer and adviser to Ed Miliband, debates the meaning of 'Blue Labour' with Patrick Diamond, who advised the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They discuss Labour's record on the economy, the role of markets and the state and the direction Ed Miliband is taking Labour.
Programme editor: Terry Dignan.
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