222: Lockdown Brass, With John McDonnell MP
from Commons People
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell joins Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth to discuss the rebellions brewing in Westminster as efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic by the government lurch from crisis to crisis. Is the time of constructive opposition from Keir Starmer’s Labour over? And is it time to impose a national lockdown? While fighting the government’s response, Starmer also has to keep an eye on his own MPs, who defied the whip this week on controversial new spy powers. Meanwhile, McDonnell reveals his lockdown hobby. Make sense of politics. Sign up to the Waugh Zone and get the political day in a nutshell every weekday evening.
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