This week - Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has identified immigration, economic insecurity and time spent online as key causes of unrest and rioting in the UK following last year's Southport attacks. Also, Can Rachel Reeves avoid another fiscal crisis?

Rachel Cunliffe is joined by Andrew Marr and George Eaton to discuss.

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Can Rachel Reeves avoid a new fiscal crisis - George Eaton

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She was the Tory saviour. Now, by November, she could be gone.

Where did it all go wrong for Kemi Badenoch?

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For this week's New Statesman magazine, Will Lloyd has written a powerful and revealing profile of the Nigerian immigrant who rose to lead the Conservative Party.

Will joins Tom McTague to discuss what he discovered in the course of his reporting, including why Conservative grandees first celebrated, then turned against, Kemi Badenoch.

They explore whether racism plays a role in the way Badenoch has been treated, and whether the woman who some cast as a new Thatcher was ever as able as the Conservatives wanted to believe.

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Read Will Lloyd's profile of Kemi Badenoch in the New Statesman magazine, or online: Kemi Badenoch isn't working

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Could Donald Trump’s plea to his support base to “not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein” finally drive a wedge between the US president and his MAGA faithful? And what are Trump and Vice President JD Vance doing in the UK this summer?

Katie Stallard is joined by the New Statesman’s US correspondent Freddie Hayward to discuss.

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A conspiracy theory that Donald Trump can't control - Freddie Hayward

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