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Parliament Matters — 154 episodes
How do we protect politicians in a dangerous age?
Nigel Farage leaves Parliament: What now happens to the standards investigation?
New PM, new Clerk of the House of Commons: A new chapter at Westminster?
The Burnham question: A new approach to whipping Westminster?
Andy Burnham’s March on Westminster: How Could He Become Prime Minister?
Brexit, 10 years on: Parliament and the democratic crisis
The Cabinet Manual: Why Britain's constitutional "highway code" needs updating
The £5m question: Who funds our politicians?
Is the Government censoring the Mandelson Papers?
Labour’s leadership tangle: What does it mean for Parliament?
What now? The local election fallout hits Westminster
Keir Starmer’s week of parliamentary torture over Mandelson appointment
Dynamic alignment and Henry VIII powers: What will the Government’s EU reset mean for Parliament?
Will key Government bills pass by the end of the parliamentary Session?
Who really decides Immigration Rules: Parliament or the Home Secretary?
Jury trials under threat? The Courts and Tribunals Bill explained
Is the assisted dying bill being filibustered?
Starmer, Iran, and Parliament’s role in war powers
Mandelson, Andrew and Epstein: Should there be parliamentary committee of inquiry?
The forgotten pioneer: Who was Margaret Bondfield, Britain’s first female Cabinet Minister?
What happens when you lose the party whip?
A Humble Address: How MPs confronted the Mandelson scandal
Why MPs can’t just quit: The curious case of the Chiltern Hundreds
Assisted dying bill: How could the Parliament Act be used?
Should MPs Who Switch Parties Be Forced to Face a By-Election?
Who really sets MPs’ pay – And why you might be wrong about it
Kemi’s pre-emptive strike on Robert Jenrick
Growing the Greens: Parliament, polling and Zack Polanski
Are UK elections under threat?
The King and Parliament: The relationship between politics and the royals
Is being Prime Minister an impossible job?
What's coming up over the Christmas/New Year recess
Choosing a new Lord Speaker
Where are the Reform UK peers?
2024: The year our party system finally broke?
101 resolutions and a Finance Bill. How the Budget becomes law
Is the House of Lords going slow on the assisted dying bill?
The assisted dying bill: A conversation with its sponsor, Lord Falconer of Thoroton
Do petitions work? Inside the Commons Committee that actually decides
Parliament, the Monarch & the birth of party politics — How did it happen?
Why did Nigel Farage’s Ten Minute Rule Bill fail?
Parliament vs. Prince Andrew
Parliament’s spying scandal: Why was the China case dropped?
Former Prime Ministers: The role of Parliament in life after No 10
What are the Usual Channels? A short history of Westminster whipping
Assisted dying bill: Peers give the bill a Second Reading, but progress is paused for committee evidence
Assisted dying bill: The bill makes its debut in the House of Lords
Is Parliament at the root of the country’s problems?
Prime Minister’s Questions: Westminster’s weekly gladiatorial combat
Assisted dying bill: Understanding the legislative process in the House of Lords
The day the King marched on Parliament: King Charles I, five MPs and the road to civil war
Parliament gagged by super-injunction?
One year on: How is Parliament performing?
Labour’s welfare meltdown
What Westminster gets wrong about the NHS
MPs back assisted dying bill in historic vote
Assisted dying bill: What happened at Report Stage - Day two
Indefensible? How Government told Parliament about the Strategic Defence Review
Will Parliament get its teeth into Keir Starmer's trade deals?
Assisted dying bill: What happened at Report Stage - Day one
Spooks, the Ombudsman and the Royal Albert Hall
Assisted dying bill – special series #11: A conversation with Kim Leadbeater MP
Meet Parliament's human rights watchdog
Assisted dying bill - special series #10: Understanding Report Stage
Should Parliament roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump?
Whipping Yarns: A Chief Whip's tale
The sentencing guidelines row: A product of poor law-making?
Assisted dying bill - special series #9: Inside the Public Bill Committee
Spring Statement: House of Commons tensions grow over the economy
Assisted dying bill - special series #8: Inside the Public Bill Committee
Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement: The fallout at Westminster
Assisted dying bill - special series #7: Inside the Public Bill Committee
Planning and infrastructure: Should Parliament take more control?
Assisted dying bill - special series #6: Lessons from New Zealand
Net Zero and National Security: How can Parliament hold the Government to account?
Assisted dying bill - special series #5: Inside the Public Bill Committee
International aid cuts: What is Parliament's role?
Why is it so difficult to reform parliaments?
Assisted dying bill - special series #4: Inside the Public Bill Committee
A WhatsApp purge in Parliament?
Assisted dying bill - special series #3: Understanding the amendment process
Assisted dying bill - special series #2: How the Bill was drafted
Welfare cap breached by £8.6 billion: Do MPs care?
A withering select committee takedown
Assisted Dying Bill: Special Series #1
Should Parliament, rather than Ministers, oversee public inquiries?
The ‘Musk Factor’: Is the world's richest man driving Parliament's agenda?
Whipping yarns: A rebel whip’s tale
Whipping yarns: An SNP Whip’s tale
Whipping Yarns: A Liberal Democrat whip’s tale
Parliament’s role in a failed state
Will Parliament pay a price for promises to WASPI women?
Licence to scrutinise: Spooks, hereditary peers and assisted dying
Football governance, fair elections, and fantasy reforms Parliament Matters goes live!
How a British student has schooled the US Congress
Assisted Dying Bill passes Second Reading: What next?
What's the point of petitioning Parliament?
The Assisted Dying Bill: Is More Parliamentary Time Needed?
The Official Opposition: How to be effective in Parliament
How will Donald Trump’s return reverberate in the UK Parliament?
Urgent Questions: Answering your questions about how Parliament works
The Budget: Why aren’t MPs told first?
Budget rules explained and parliamentary etiquette tips
The end of hereditary peers in the House of Lords?
Electing party leaders: who should decide?
Select Committee chair elections: who won and can they work together?
Inside the Private Members’ Bill ballot: 20 MPs win the legislative lottery
Inside the hidden world of law-making.
£22 billion financial 'black hole': What is Parliament's role?
Labour tightens its grip on Parliament
What has Keir Starmer got in common with Robert Redford?
New arrivals, absent friends and time-honoured ceremonies
Who will be the stars of the new Parliament?
Supermajority vs. micro-opposition: Parliament after the general election?
Will the parties reform Westminster?
Democratic decision-making in health emergencies: Learning the lessons of the Covid pandemic
General election called: What now for Parliament?
Democracy is in danger, warns Theresa May
Is the Conservative Party falling apart?
Post Office Horizon scandal: what is Parliament doing about it?
Is AI set to destroy trust in elections? Tackling misinformation in politics & Parliament
Rwanda Bill becomes law: but what was really going on behind the scenes in Parliament?
Tobacco and Vapes Bill: free vote blows smoke in Rishi Sunak's eyes
William Wragg's honeytrap crisis and is Speaker Hoyle under threat?
Defending free speech from SLAPPs
Another Rwanda roadblock
Unheard: the parliamentary snubbing of Diane Abbott
The Budget: is the democratic deficit as bad as the financial deficit?
The Foreign Affairs Committee: commentator or influencer?
The Commons Speaker survives (for now), Liz Truss takes on the ‘Deep State’, plus how do we detoxify politics?
The decline and fall of the political interview
Commons chaos: Can the Speaker survive a monumental misjudgement?
Urgent Questions: PMQs, whipping, Sinn Fein MPs, access to security passes, hospitality facilities in Parliament and much more!
Gaffes and grace at PMQs
A potty-mouthed Parliament?
What if they gave a coup and nobody came? The Tory leadership soap opera continued
War powers, Rwanda ‘mayhem’ and Ian Dunt on the state of Westminster
The inside story: Parliament and the Post Office Horizon scandal
Election alert and the year ahead in Parliament: Why are so many election rules being changed?
Parliament Matters Explains: How does Parliament make laws?
Michael Crick & Tomorrow’s MPs: The latest news on parliamentary candidate selections
Parliament Matters Explains: What do MPs actually do?
Is Parliament a decaying organism? Lord Lisvane on our crumbling constitution
‘These guys like to be written about’: The art of parliamentary sketchwriting, with Rob Hutton
High drama or damp squib?… And what’s happening with pairing?
Westenders: The battle for the heart and soul of the Conservative Party
Special feature: The genesis of PARLY, with Tony Grew
Legislative bodging: No way to run a chip shop!
Parliament’s ‘Wastefinder General’ on the ‘Big Nasties’
Total reshuffle, emergency legislation and Parliament’s ‘Golden Ticket’
Urgent Questions #1
All change on the Committee corridor and regulating the conduct and standards of MPs
The King’s Speech, State Opening and the 1922 Committee
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