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Dec 15, 2023

From 2019 to 2021, Samuel Kasumu was the most senior Black advisor in Downing Street, and was widely referred to as Boris Johnson’s racism advisor, working alongside the former Prime Minister during the first half of the Covid pandemic.

Kasumu left Downing Street in April 2021, amid the fallout from a UK government...


Jul 7, 2023

Brought up on a council estate in the East End of London, the son of a single mother whose own father was a bank robber and whose mother once shared a prison cell with Christine Keeler, Wes Streeting MP owes his life to a fry up.

 

His working class background and the challenges he experienced growing up in poverty now...


Feb 24, 2023

Sebastian Payne is an author and the Director of centre-right think tank Onward, where he explores the bigger problems and challenges facing Britain today. 

He recently left his post as Whitehall Editor of the Financial Times, where he spent years navigating the corridors of Parliament, detangling the latest scandals...


Jul 16, 2021

Andy Burnham has held many senior cabinet positions and stood for the Labour leadership twice, before leaving Westminster and becoming Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017.

Now serving his second term as Mayor, his profile grew over the past year as he fought for his position and challenged the government on imposing...


Feb 5, 2021

LaTosha Brown is an American community organiser and activist. She is the co-founder of 'Black Voters Matter'.
 
She was one of the key campaigners who helped deliver the state of Georgia for the Democrats and Joe Biden and helped in turning the Senate into the control of the Democratic Party.
 
She talks to Krishnan...