The Week in Westminster

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The Week in Westminster: 25/09/2021

25/09/2021

BBC Radio 4 - The Week in Westminster, 25/09/2021

Discussions on UK-US relationships, universal credit uplift and the Labour conference.

Pippa Crerar presents this weekend, with discussions on UK-US relationships, universal credit uplift, the Labour conference and renaming Whitehall departments.

Former UK Ambassador to the US Lord Kim Darroch and the former US Ambassador to the UK Matthew Barzun reflect on the Prime Minister's trip to America and UK-US relations.
Conservative peer and co-architect of Universal Credit, Baroness Philippa Stroud, discusses why the increase given to recipients during the pandemic needs to remain. 
Ahead of the Labour Party conference, Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett and Simon Fletcher, former adviser to both Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer, discuss the challenges facing the Labour leader.
Former permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union Philip Rycroft and Seb Payne, Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times, discuss the new Levelling Up Department.

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