After a major tragedy, public inquiries look at what happened, why it happened, and who is to blame, and what could be done to prevent this happening again. One of the most notorious is the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry, where many innocent people were falsely...
The UK signed the European Convention on Human Rights, which covers both human rights and civil liberties, and it is part of our law. But how are they different? Alma-Constance and Lucinda talk to Shami Chakrabarti CBE, PC who sits in the House of Lords and is a human...
In May 2023, King Charles III was crowned as the new monarch for the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Part of his role, every year, the monarch is invited to open the new parliamentary session – and, this November, King Charles III is opening Parliament for...
What does an MP do when they are in government and in opposition and what is the role of law in politics.? In this episode Lucinda and Alma-Constance talk to Alma’s local MP, Karen Buck, a member of the Labour Party who has been a politician for over 25 years and was...
02 June 2023 Who gives the government legal advice about its laws? Alma-Constance and Lucinda ask Susanna McGibbon, the government’s most senior legal official in the civil service and permanent secretary of the Government Legal Department, which provides the...
