Parliament and Government: Talitha Rowland on developing the legislative programme
Talitha Rowland is the Cabinet Office Deputy Director who runs the secretariat for the Cabinet's Parliamentary Business and Legislation Comm...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Government & Organizations
Why Parliament Works
In conversation with academics and Westminster insiders, Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg MP explores some of the less understood aspects of the UK’s parliamentary democracy an...
Episodes
20 of 30 episodesCivil Service Live: Jacob Rees-Mogg on why Parliament matters to civil servants
Fast-streamer Mohammed Hasan interviewed Jacob Rees-Mogg as part of 2021's Civil Service Live, giving the Leader of the House a chance to se...
S2 E14: Daniel Hannan interviews Jacob Rees-Mogg on Brexit
Jacob Rees-Mogg hands over the reins to Lord Hannan of Kingsclere for a special episode to conclude the second series of 'Why Parliament Wor...
S2 E13: Eleanor Laing on Commons rhetoric
Dame Eleanor Laing is the House of Commons' senior deputy speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means. In this episode she discusses with Jacob...
S2 E12: Victoria Atkins on the Domestic Abuse Act 2021
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 is a landmark piece of legislation and the result of extensive scrutiny by Parliament. In this special episode o...
S2 E11: Caroline Shenton on the Palace of Westminster
Dr Caroline Shenton, historian, archivist and author of 'The Day Parliament Burned Down' and 'Mr Barry's War', discusses the disastrous 1834...
S2 E10: Natalie Evans on leading the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Natalie Evans of Bowes Park, discusses with the Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg M...
S2 E9: Catherine McKinnell on 21st century petitioning
Catherine McKinnell is the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North and chairman of the Commons' petitions committee, which has been giving members...
S2 E8: Carolyn Harris on campaigning for constituents
Carolyn Harris is the Member of Parliament for Swansea East and a regular contributor to business questions, where she often praises individ...
S2 E7: Gwilym Dodd on medieval petitioning
The development of petitioning during the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries is an important chapter in the UK Parliament's history. This period...
S2 E6: William Hague on parliamentary handling
In his long and distinguished parliamentary career Lord Hague of Richmond has seen the Commons - and more recently, the Lords - from every c...
S2 E5: Vernon Bogdanor on parliamentary sovereignty
Following the UK's exit from the European Union the three principles of parliamentary of sovereignty as defined by A.V. Dicey, that great co...
S2 E4: Hannes Kleineke on Sir John Fortescue's dominium politicum et regale
Sir John Fortescue is underappreciated today despite being the leading political thinker in England in the 15th century. His concept of a do...
S2 E3: George Young on the usual channels
The 'How Parliament Works' textbook, co-authored by Lord Lisvane (see S1 E6), defines the usual channels as "the informal and private contac...
S2 E2: Sophie Ambler on Magna Carta, Simon de Montfort and the Statute Concerning Tallage
The United Kingdom’s 21st century constitution can directly trace its commitment to the concept of consent from the people back to the 1297...
S2 E1: Jacob Rees-Mogg on democracy's dark matter
The second series of 'Why Parliament Works' explores elements of Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg's Wheeler-Booth Memorial Lec...
Bonus episode 3: Jacob Rees-Mogg reads Erskine May
With kind permission of the Erskine May Memorial Trust, Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg reads from chapter 20 of the 25th edi...
S1 E10: Erskine May
Mark Hutton, co-editor (with Sir David Natzler) of the 25th edition of 'Erskine May' , discusses his work helping shape one of the UK Parlia...
Bonus episode 2: Jacob Rees-Mogg meets the Scouts
Scouts CEO Matt Hyde reflects on UK Parliament Week, before Jacob Rees-Mogg takes questions from Scouts in south London about the UK's parli...
S1 E9: MR SPEAKER - Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP
In what might just be a ministerial first, Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle is interviewed by Leader of the House of Common...