Dame Caroline Dineage is an entrepreneur and the Conservative MP for Gosport.

Dame Caroline has served in a a variety of departments since being elected in 2010 including the DWP, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Social Care and Deptarment of Education.

She currently is the chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and last year, found herself at the centre of the row between US President Donald Trump and the BBC over an edited clip of Trump from 2021.

As chair, Dame Caroline was tasked with scrutinising the actions of the BBC and delivering the committee's findings in which she recognised the need for the BBC to change after a series of high-profile scandals cost the Director General his job.

In this episode, Dame Caroline reflects on the pressure of finding yourself at the centre of a global story, her fears for online safety and the use of AI to produce sexually explicit images of women and children as well as the importance of business experience in government.

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Calvin Bailey MBE is the Labour Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead, first elected in July 2024.

Born in Zambia and raised in London, he served 24 years in the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Wing Commander and received an MBE for distinguished service.

His mixed heritage meant that racism was prevalent in his formative years and he discusses the effect of seeing his Mum confront far-right thugs and the impact of the death of Steven Lawrence.

Despite the racism of his early year, Bailey stands as the embodiment of what hard work and dedication to serving others can achieve, representing his constituency as its first black MP.

Like his Mother, Bailey is unafraid to call out the racism that has become increasingly common in modern day politics.

Bailey sits on the Defence Select Committee and chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces community. He is forthright in his belief that the public need to grasp the enormity of the security challenges faced by the country and the requirement for politicians to properly communicate the threat, which in his mind, includes Russia committing acts of “grey zone” warfare on the streets of Britain today.

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"Persistent knobheadery" is a term few people had heard of until Labour's welfare rebellion led to an embarrassing climbdown. Today's guest, Brian Leishman, was one of four MPs suspended for so-called "persistent knobheadery" over his role in fighting against his government's planned reforms.

Inspired into politics by Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party, Conor discusses the Chancellor's budget, the removal of the two-child benefit cap, how a wealth tax would work in reality and why he chose to challenge the government's attempts to reform the welfare system earlier this year.

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