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Marcellus Baz is a former gang member and drug dealer who now runs the charity Switch Up which works with young people in Nottingham to steer them away from gangs. 

We are at the site of that first landing – Pegasus Bridge, over the River Orne.  

Kathy Burk, Emeritus Professor of History at University College London, Rear Admiral Alex Burton, formerly of the Royal Navy, and Anne Applebaum, a columnist at the Washington Post, discuss the D-Day anniversary.

Along with Theresa May, the Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt was also in Portsmouth, and we spoke to her earlier about some of the tensions of our time.

The veterans of the Normandy landings who were able to be in Portsmouth today are the ever-shrinking band of servicemen with first-hand memories of the invasion.

Team Boris is widely thought to be worried that Team Raab might beat them in the first round and dangerously damage the former Foreign Secretary’s standing as the frontrunner.

We spoke to Baroness Arminka Helic, who arrived in the UK as a refugee from the Bosnian war more than a quarter of a century ago.

Thousands of EU citizens who live in the UK say they were unable to vote in last week’s European elections, claiming when they arrived at polling stations they found their names had been crossed off the ballot.

Mike Katz chairs the Jewish Labour Movement and referred the Labour party to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Karl Sabbagh is the author of The Anti-Semitism Wars.

Labour has promised to “fully co-operate” with an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into allegations of anti-Semitism, saying it would help the party “build trust with the Jewish community”.

One of the contenders for the Tory leadership, Rory Stewart, is pitching himself as the candidate for the “radical centre”, talking to voters in Leave and Remain areas with his appeal for a managed Brexit deal.

We’re joined by Conservative MP Mark Francois, who opposed Theresa May’s deal in every vote, and Labour’s International Trade spokesman, Barry Gardiner.

Parties with clear, bold ideas on left, right and even centre captured the imagination. But the traditional beasts of the EU are feeling diminished. 

Nigel Farage, the Brexit Party leader, discusses the EU election results and the future of Brexit. 

Caroline Slocock has written about the final days of Mrs Thatcher’s premiership, which she witnessed as her private secretary, in her book ‘People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me’. Ayesha Hazarika is a Labour party adviser turned comedian, and Fraser Nelson is the editor of the Spectator.