Margaret McDonagh

<p>Baroness McDonagh, Labour's first female general secretary, was a key figure in the paty and was instrumental in Tony Blair's election victories in 1997 and 2001</p><br><p>Following her recent death, Matt revisits an interview she gave in 2017 when she talked about designing the pledge card to keep politicians on message, her trip to the cinema with John Prescott, and what happened when she realised the party had won a landslide.</p><br><p>Plus Columnists Patrick Maguire and Matthew Parris discuss&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rwanda-uk-court-of-appeal-ruling-migrants-0m0q00rmq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">whether the government's Rwanda plan is finished</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-privileges-committee-report-partygate-cx9t7krqn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">claims that Boris Johnson's allies waged war on the Privileges Committee</a>, and whether&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-may-reshuffle-angela-rayner-and-lisa-nandy-next-month-x2fd765f6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Angela Rayner and Lisa Nandy will keep their current shadow cabinet jobs.</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>