Politics

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has confirmed he will resign if Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister.

Labour has said it will seek to end much of the outsourcing of council services to private companies, if it comes into power.  

Listen and subscribe to Politics: Where Next? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other good apps. This week, to talk about the new government about to start and about Labour’s contortions on Brexit, Isabel Hardman of The Spectator and Rafael Behr of The Guardian. Our chat started with the big substance of that hustings held by The Sun…

We spoke to Boris Johnson supporter and former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, and asked asked him how big a national humiliation he thought this whole business has been for us.

We spoke to the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, and put it to her that the treatment of Sir Kim Darroch was becoming a national humiliation.

One of Sir Kim Darroch’s leaked dispatches warned that Donald Trump was thin-skinned.

A leaked audio recording published by a news website allegedly reveals that Matteo Salvini’s Italian right-wing Lega Party sought to funnel millions of euros in Russian oil money into its campaign coffers.

In this week’s podcast we bring together two brothers – Charles Powell and Jonathan Powell.

Speaking at a hustings in Darlington, he said the reports were simply “not true”.

We’re joined by Helene von Bismarck – a German who specialises in the history of the UK’s relationship with Europe.

We speak to the Conservative MP Priti Patel who’s a former Secretary of State for International Development and a supporter of Boris Johnson.

He says his high point was organising the international condemnation of Russia after the Salisbury poisoning.

Channel 4 News has learnt only a few hundred people have applied since Windrush compensation was launched three months ago.

Jeremy Hunt was forced to rein in an apparent pledge made yesterday to reverse the ban on fox hunting.

Boris Johnson is promising to recruit another twenty thousand police officers if he becomes Prime Minister.