Committee Corridor

On today’s episode of Committee Corridor we continue our look at the cost-of-living crisis and turn to jobs and workforce concerns. There are hundreds of thousands of job vacancies in some of the UK’s most critical sectors. Health, education and transport all face challenges in recruiting and retaining key staff. To examine the situation further, we spoke to Christina McAnea , the head of UNISON, ...

Energy bills are a major concern for households and businesses across the UK. Committee Corridor explores concerns about vulnerable customers and how we future proof the UK’s energy supply. Host Darren Jones MP speaks to the Chief Executive of Energy UK, the trade association for the energy industry, Emma Pinchbeck, about home insulation, fuel poverty and the role of new technologies in relieving...

In our first episode of series 2, our host and BEIS chair Darren Jones MP is joined Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, to talk about the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. The pair set the scene for the podcast series and highlight key topics, including inequality and wage stagnation. In the second half of the episode, fellow committee parliamentarians Sir Stephen Timms MP and...

Welcome back to series 2 of Committee Corridor, the podcast where Members of Parliament come together to unpack the issues that affect millions of lives in the UK and abroad. The latest series will be hosted by Darren Jones,  the Member of Parliament for Bristol North West and the chair of the House of Commons’ Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee. This Autumn, we’ll look at the very...

Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained by the Iranian authorities for six years, joins host Tom Tugendhat MP to discuss his campaign to free his wife, and whether the family’s case ‘moved the dial fundamentally’ for state hostages. In the second part of the episode, fellow parliamentarians Tulip Siddiq, the family’s local Labour MP Labour for Hampstead and Kilburn, an...

NATO needs to come up with a solution which deals with the current threat from Russia and has the potential to defend and reinforce its Eastern flank, urge committee chairs from Latvia and Estonia. Rihards Kols, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Latvian Parliament, and Marko Mihkelson, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament, join host Tom Tugendhat MP to disc...

Author and investigative journalist Oliver Bullough joins host Tom Tugendhat MP to discuss ‘dirty money’, the illicit wealth stolen by kleptocrats and criminals which is then laundered and invested in the UK. They consider whether the UK Government has done enough to tackle money laundering, illicit finance and the organised crime which the money enables. In the second part of the episode, fellow...

In the third episode of Committee Corridor, host and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Tom Tugendhat ( @TomTugendhat ) speaks with Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Taiwan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, about the dangers to democracy in Taiwan, how the situation has changed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the potential global economic impacts of a Chinese attack on Taiwan. In the secon...

On this episode of Committee Corridor host and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Tom Tugendhat (@TomTugendhat) examines the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, and will be discussing how the Government engages with the country now and going forward. How has the situation changed since the withdrawal of British and American forces in the summer of 2021? How should we respond to the Talib...

In the first episode, Tom Tugendhat MP, Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, speaks with Fiona Hill, the former Senior Director for Europe & Russia at the United States National Security Council and fellow committee members SNP’s Stewart Malcolm McDonald MP and Conservative Alicia Kearns MP. Together, they consider the impact of the war in Ukraine, ranging from the complex...

Brought to you by the House of Commons,  Committee Corridor  is a brand new podcast featuring Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum speaking with experts on the most pressing political, social and economic matters facing the UK today. Tune in from the 12th of May for the first episode and gain deeper knowledge of the issues that the cross-party select committees are co...