25/02/2023
As the Prime Minister searches for a new deal with the EU over post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, BBC Political Correspondent Ben Wright speaks to Conservative MP and former Northern Ireland minister, Conor Burns, and Theresa May's former Chief of Staff Lord Barwell. The SNP MP Joanna Cherry discusses the current state of the race to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister and what her departure means for the independence movement. Following news that the Royal College of Nursing has paused next week's planned strike and agreed to talk to the Government, Ben brings together two members of the Health Select Committee: Labour MP, and former nurse, Paulette Hamilton, and Conservative chairman Steve Brine. And Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson and author of a new book called 'Follow the Money', joins Kitty Ussher, former Treasury minister and now Chief Economist of the Institute of Directors, to look ahead to next month's Budget and analyse the state of our public finances.