Gordon Brown is back….with a raft of ideas for scrapping the Lords and giving a lot more power to the North. But Jim asks what priority will it have in a Labour government?He also previews the latest North West by election, this time in Stretford and Urmston.
DIB was joined in the Downtown Den by Lord Andrew Adonis discussing party-gate, HS2, Brexit and more.
In his latest blog Frank McKenna suggests that it is time for the government to call in the support of Tony Blair and other former Prime Ministers if they are serious about casting aside party politics in the current crisis.
In the very first episode of the Downtown Podcast we chat to Simon Danczuk who is the former MP for Rochdale and has recently been appointed the chairman of Downtown in Business, London.
