Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,31 Oct 2015,28 mins

Available for over a year

Helen Lewis of the New Statesman reflects on a setback for George Osborne. Is the House of Lords getting too uppity? And how a Tory MP heard about the 'tampon tax'. The editor is Peter Mulligan.

Programme Website
More episodes