Miscellaneous
On this week’s episode – As the Syria ceasefire hangs in the balance we hear from the former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, now President of the International Rescue Committee. With Mr Miliband’s old party’s leadership contest coming to a close next weekend, we also hear from Labour’s Owen Smith, the self-professed ‘unity candidate’ attempting to unseat Jeremy Corbyn. Momentum, the pro-Corbyn campaign group, has once again been accused of pushing a ‘hard-left’ agenda and threatening to deselect Labour MPs. James Schneider is the group’s leading organiser and came on the show to defend his organisation. And with a new book out – aptly named “Politics – between the extremes” – Dermot speaks to the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, about the tensions and compromises of the Coalition government and the task ahead for his much beleaguered party. Finally, as ever, a team of top political pundits mull over this week’s news – Ayesha Hazarika, former Labour adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband; Jo Tanner, director at iNHouse Communications and Conservative party press adviser; and Camilla Tominey, Deputy Political Editor at the Sunday Express. All on this week's Murnaghan podcast