19/03/2022

Ben Wright is joined by former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt MP to assess the Ukraine war and the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The plight of the Ukrainian refugees is discussed by the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey MP who visited the Ukraine-Poland border this week and the Conservative peer, Baroness Arminka Helic who came to the the UK in the 1990s as a refugee from the Bosnian war. Labour peer, Lord David Blunkett and Merryn Somerset Webb, editor-in-chief of Moneyweek debate whether Britain is heading back to the sort of economic turmoil last seen in the 1970s. And the chairman of the Association of Conservative peers, Lord Michael Forsyth and Director of the Constitution Unit at UCL, Professor Meg Russell look at House of Lords appointments.

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