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Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Ventnor's Winter Gardens on the Isle of Wight with a panel including the Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont, the Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson Layla Moran MP, and the businessman Jon Platt who went to the Supreme Court last year over the right to take his child out of school in term time. Together they discussed the US trade tariffs, whether the DUP's position on Brexit and abortion reform makes a united Ireland more inevitable?, the rise in childhood obesity, whether parents should be allowed to take children out of school in term-time. Producer: Lisa Jenkinson.
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