A return to 'nasty' politics: Politics Weekly podcast
by Presented by Heather Stewart, with Peter Walker, S from on (#5D2QS)
Heather Stewart and Peter Walker discuss the latest on the vaccine rollout and universal credit. Severin Carrell examines the upcoming Scottish Labour leadership contest. Plus, Miatta Fahnbulleh and Will Tanner discuss levelling up'
On Monday night, six Tory MPs defied calls from the prime minister to abstain from a Labour opposition day debate on the planned removal of a 20-a-week increase in universal credit for millions of people.
Boris Johnson called the vote a stunt", and then through his new press secretary asked for people in political debate to be nicer to each other, with some calling him a hypocrite.