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Acting Prime Minister — 56 episodes

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LGBT+ campaigner Jayne Ozanne on surviving conversion therapy and getting it banned

2

Labour is 'turning around the tanker', says frontbencher Rachel Reeves

3

Pimlico Plumbers boss Charlie Mullins on vaccine passports, sacking half the cabinet and marrying Margaret Thatcher

4

Who is Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds?

5

'I'd fire all the men': Amber Rudd on why she'd have an all female Cabinet

6

It's A Sin's Jill Nalder on what losing friends to AIDS in the 80s was really like

7

Bim Afolami on why taking the knee is 'virtue signalling'

8

MP Tracey Crouch on battling cancer during Covid pandemic and why she’s coming off Twitter

9

Lisa Nandy on Brexit regrets and Labour’s red wall woes

10

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross on keeping Scotland in the UK and his love for Atomic Kitten

11

Rory Stewart: 'Covid could spell the end of Boris Johnson's premiership'

12

Louise Haigh on Jeremy Corbyn’s 'appalling' behaviour and uniting the union

13

Laurence Fox has started a political party - here's what he'd do if he became PM

14

Get to know Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: His thoughts on Covid, care and fixing the party

15

Tory MP Caroline Nokes on Boris Johnson's potential 'regret' and how it felt being sacked

16

Tory MP Steve Baker attacks lockdown and admits Brexit divided Britain

17

Prue Leith on coronavirus, politics, death, and filming Bake Off in lockdown

18

Who is Anneliese Dodds? Shadow chancellor on coronavirus, Starmer and house music

19

Mark Drakeford on dealing with Boris Johnson's government during coronavirus crisis

20

Diane Abbott speaks candidly about 'frightening' abuse she receives

21

Jeremy Hunt critiques government's coronavirus response and offers solution to pandemic

22

MP reveals what it's like to self-isolate with coronavirus symptoms

23

Stab victim turned champion boxer on how the government can stop knife crime

24

Nadia Whittome on being Britain's youngest MP

25

Labour deputy leadership candidate Angela Rayner on her 'traumatic' childhood

26

Ken Clarke says Dominic Cummings should 'vanish' and warns BBC needs protecting

27

'I'd invite everyone to Downing Street for a drink': What comedian Andy Parsons would do as PM

28

Layla Moran brands Jo Swinson's election campaign 'arrogant' as she considers Lib Dem leadership bid

29

Sir Keir Starmer on Brexit, his job, and the rare illness that left his mum unable to walk, talk or eat

30

Tory MP Michael Fabricant on Donald Trump, the Royals and having famous hair

31

The 26-year-old new Tory MP on making Farage a lord and why she'd put Taylor Swift in the Cabinet

32

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan on her crowdfunding mum, a 'Ministry of Fabulosity', and dissecting Labour's election defeat

33

Naz Shah on her 'pain' at suing Labour, visiting her mum in prison and how police saved her from a forced marriage

34

David Mundell on coming out, being sacked by PM and meeting 'orange' Donald Trump

35

Rosie Duffield overwhelmed by 'heartbreaking' responses to domestic abuse speech

36

Caroline Lucas on updating Parliament, Britain's nuclear 'shame' and what stops her going vegan

37

Emma Lewell-Buck on accents, dyspraxia and siding with the Brexit Party over the Lib Dems

38

Chuka Umunna on his election bid, the reason Change UK failed and why he now feels 'liberated'

39

Mark Francois on losing his dad, his pre-Brexit epiphany and his controversial cut-throat gesture

40

Anna Soubry opens up on pain of Chuka Umunna's split and why Boris Johnson 'isn't fit to clean the loos'

41

Tory MP Nicky Morgan on Boris Johnson, the UK ambassador to the US and her surprising Cabinet addition

42

Labour's Stella Creasy overhauls 'Hogwarts gone wrong' Parliament and ditches manifestos

43

Labour's Angela Eagle fears things are getting worse for LGBT people

44

Andrea Leadsom: I'm absolutely sure I've got enough MPs to get through to first round of Tory leadership race

45

Prime ministerial hopeful Dominic Raab on why he is not a feminist and how he was 'undermined' as Brexit secretary

46

'I wake up to death threats': TOWIE's Bobby Norris reveals abuse as he campaigns to make online homophobia a crime

47

Pastor Lorraine Jones, who lost her son to knife crime, on what she'd do to save other lives if she was PM

48

Labour's Jess Phillips says party will get 'drubbing' at European elections if they don't offer second referendum

49

David Lammy justifies comparing Tory Brexiters to Nazis and defends Comic Relief 'white saviours' criticism

50

Special live episode: Justine Greening on whether she'd run for PM and why Cabinet are 'woeful' over Brexit

51

Jacob Rees-Mogg backs Boris Johnson while outlining his own vision for the nation

52

Hannah Deacon on how her campaign to get medicinal cannabis for her son would define what she'd do as PM

53

Why Ben Fogle would scrap exams and reintroduce national service if he was prime minister

54

Independent Group MP Heidi Allen: I'd want Nick Clegg in my fantasy cabinet but I'm too emotional to be prime minister

55

Ben Bradley on ending the obsession with exam success, getting kicked out of school and forgiving his digital past

56

Labour's Sarah Champion on what she would make illegal, dating as an MP and the pet she would take to Downing Street