Parliament Matters

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Join two of the UK's leading parliamentary experts, Mark D'Arcy and Ruth Fox, as they guide you through the often mysterious ways our politicians do business and explore the running controversies about the way Parliament works. Each week they will analyse how laws are made and ministers held accountable by the people we send to Westminster. They will be debating the topical issues of the day, looking back at key historical events and discussing the latest research on democracy and Parliament. Why? Because whether it's the taxes you pay, or the laws you've got to obey... Parliament matters!Mark D'Arcy was the BBC's parliamentary correspondent for two decades. Ruth Fox is the Director of the parliamentary think-tank the Hansard Society.❓ Submit your questions on all things Parliament to Mark and Ruth via our website here: hansardsociety.org.uk/pm#qs📱 Follow us across social media @HansardSociety and...✅ Subscribe to our newsletter for all the latest updates related to the Parliament Matters podcast and the wider work of the Hansard Society: hansardsociety.org.uk/nl.Parliament Matters is a Hansard Society production supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust • Founding producer Luke Boga Mitchell; episode producer Richard Townsend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
Should Parliament, rather than Ministers, oversee public inquiries?
Jan 17, 2025
The ‘Musk Factor’: Is the world's richest man driving Parliament's agenda?
Jan 10, 2025
Whipping yarns: A rebel whip’s tale
Jan 06, 2025
Whipping yarns: An SNP Whip’s tale
Jan 03, 2025
Whipping Yarns: A Liberal Democrat whip’s tale
Dec 30, 2024
Parliament’s role in a failed state
Dec 23, 2024
Will Parliament pay a price for promises to WASPI women?
Dec 20, 2024
Licence to scrutinise: Spooks, hereditary peers and assisted dying
Dec 13, 2024
Football governance, fair elections, and fantasy reforms Parliament Matters goes live!
Dec 06, 2024
How a British student has schooled the US Congress
Dec 03, 2024
Assisted Dying Bill passes Second Reading: What next?
Nov 29, 2024
What's the point of petitioning Parliament?
Nov 22, 2024
The Assisted Dying Bill: Is More Parliamentary Time Needed?
Nov 15, 2024
The Official Opposition: How to be effective in Parliament
Nov 12, 2024
How will Donald Trump’s return reverberate in the UK Parliament?
Nov 08, 2024
Urgent Questions: Answering your questions about how Parliament works
Nov 06, 2024
The Budget: Why aren’t MPs told first?
Nov 01, 2024
Budget rules explained and parliamentary etiquette tips
Oct 25, 2024
The end of hereditary peers in the House of Lords?
Oct 18, 2024
Electing party leaders: who should decide?
Oct 11, 2024
Select Committee chair elections: who won and can they work together?
Sep 13, 2024
Inside the Private Members’ Bill ballot: 20 MPs win the legislative lottery
Sep 06, 2024
Inside the hidden world of law-making.
Aug 16, 2024
£22 billion financial 'black hole': What is Parliament's role?
Aug 02, 2024
Labour tightens its grip on Parliament
Jul 27, 2024
What has Keir Starmer got in common with Robert Redford?
Jul 19, 2024
New arrivals, absent friends and time-honoured ceremonies
Jul 12, 2024
Who will be the stars of the new Parliament?
Jul 07, 2024
Supermajority vs. micro-opposition: Parliament after the general election?
Jun 28, 2024
Will the parties reform Westminster?
Jun 21, 2024
Democratic decision-making in health emergencies: Learning the lessons of the Covid pandemic
May 31, 2024
General election called: What now for Parliament?
May 24, 2024
Democracy is in danger, warns Theresa May
May 17, 2024
Is the Conservative Party falling apart?
May 10, 2024
Post Office Horizon scandal: what is Parliament doing about it?
May 03, 2024
Is AI set to destroy trust in elections? Tackling misinformation in politics & Parliament
Apr 30, 2024
Rwanda Bill becomes law: but what was really going on behind the scenes in Parliament?
Apr 26, 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill: free vote blows smoke in Rishi Sunak's eyes
Apr 18, 2024
William Wragg's honeytrap crisis and is Speaker Hoyle under threat?
Apr 12, 2024
Defending free speech from SLAPPs
Mar 29, 2024
Another Rwanda roadblock
Mar 22, 2024
Unheard: the parliamentary snubbing of Diane Abbott
Mar 15, 2024
The Budget: is the democratic deficit as bad as the financial deficit?
Mar 08, 2024
The Foreign Affairs Committee: commentator or influencer?
Mar 04, 2024
The Commons Speaker survives (for now), Liz Truss takes on the ‘Deep State’, plus how do we detoxify politics?
Mar 01, 2024
The decline and fall of the political interview
Feb 27, 2024
Commons chaos: Can the Speaker survive a monumental misjudgement?
Feb 23, 2024
Urgent Questions: PMQs, whipping, Sinn Fein MPs, access to security passes, hospitality facilities in Parliament and much more!
Feb 16, 2024
Gaffes and grace at PMQs
Feb 09, 2024
A potty-mouthed Parliament?
Feb 02, 2024
What if they gave a coup and nobody came? The Tory leadership soap opera continued
Jan 26, 2024
War powers, Rwanda ‘mayhem’ and Ian Dunt on the state of Westminster
Jan 19, 2024
The inside story: Parliament and the Post Office Horizon scandal
Jan 12, 2024
Election alert and the year ahead in Parliament: Why are so many election rules being changed?
Jan 05, 2024
Parliament Matters Explains: How does Parliament make laws?
Jan 02, 2024
Michael Crick & Tomorrow’s MPs: The latest news on parliamentary candidate selections
Dec 29, 2023
Parliament Matters Explains: What do MPs actually do?
Dec 27, 2023
Is Parliament a decaying organism? Lord Lisvane on our crumbling constitution
Dec 22, 2023
‘These guys like to be written about’: The art of parliamentary sketchwriting, with Rob Hutton
Dec 18, 2023
High drama or damp squib?… And what’s happening with pairing?
Dec 15, 2023
Westenders: The battle for the heart and soul of the Conservative Party
Dec 08, 2023
Special feature: The genesis of PARLY, with Tony Grew
Dec 04, 2023
Legislative bodging: No way to run a chip shop!
Dec 01, 2023
Parliament’s ‘Wastefinder General’ on the ‘Big Nasties’
Nov 24, 2023
Total reshuffle, emergency legislation and Parliament’s ‘Golden Ticket’
Nov 17, 2023
Urgent Questions #1
Nov 13, 2023
All change on the Committee corridor and regulating the conduct and standards of MPs
Nov 12, 2023
The King’s Speech, State Opening and the 1922 Committee
Nov 10, 2023
Introducing: Parliament Matters - The Hansard Society's new podcast about the institution at the heart of our democracy
Nov 01, 2023