With Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership on the brink, the revolving door of Number 10 feels like it has never been more pronounced. But is this true? Why is Britain burning through leaders at record speed? And has the country become fundamentally ungovernable?

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Guest: Josh Glancy, associate editor, The Sunday Times

Host: Luke Jones

Producer: Sophie McNulty, Colette Fountain

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Read more: Seven PMs in ten years? How British politics got into this mess

Further listening: Labour’s Brexit conundrum

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A new Ebola outbreak, driven by a rare strain of the virus, has struck the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The rapid rise in cases and deaths suggests that the virus had been circulating for some time before the alarm was raised. So why wasn’t it detected sooner? And have recent international aid cuts made us more vulnerable to outbreaks of infectious diseases?

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Guest: Paul Hunter, professor in medicine, University of East Anglia.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Micaela Arneson, Julia Webster.

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Read more: ‘There are bodies everywhere’: ghost of ebola returns to haunt Congo

Further listening: How the hantavirus cruise ship nightmare unfolded - The Saturday Story

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Andy Burnham, a potential leadership challenger to Sir Keir Starmer as PM, has said that re-running Brexit arguments is "the last thing we should do right now" after Wes Streeting put the EU back on the agenda. Ahead of one of the most significant by-elections in recent political history, could the Brexit debate define the future of the Labour party, as well as the country at large?

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Guest:

• Max Kendix, political correspondent for The Times
• Joe Twyman, founder and director of Deltapoll

Host: Manveen Rana

Producers: Julia Webster and Harry Stott

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Read more: Keir Starmer latest: Wes Streeting’s EU stance ‘an attempt to derail Andy Burnham’

Further listening: Labour at war

Clips: BBC, Manchester Evening News, The Guardian

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