Reporting from the eye of a political storm – podcast

Anushka Asthana follows the Guardian’s political correspondents in Westminster as they attempt to make sense of another seismic week in British politics, with Boris Johnson losing his fragile majority and calling for MPs to allow him an election. Plus Lily Kuo on a huge moment in Hong Kong as protesters forced the withdrawal of the extradition bill

It has been another extraordinary week in parliament. As Boris Johnson tried in vain to defeat an opposition bill that would force him back to Brussels to ask for an extension to the Brexit deadline, he watched his majority slip away. Later, after calling for a general election, he punished Tory rebels by booting them out of the party and further reducing his numbers in the Commons.

Joining Anushka Asthana behind the scenes in Westminster are the Guardian’s political editor, Heather Stewart, and chief political correspondent, Jessica Elgot. She also hears from the furious former Tory MP Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill, who had the party whip removed after his rebellion in Tuesday’s vote; and from Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, as her party weighs up its desire for an election against its priority of stopping a no-deal Brexit.

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