Louise Haigh says Keir Starmer can learn lessons from the way Margaret Thatcher embraced conflict - as he sets about recovering from the local election defeats. In an exclusive interview with GB News, Haigh, admitted to feeling alarm over her party's response to last week's polling performance and that action was needed to avoid an "existential crisis" at the next General Election. Speaking to Gloria De Piero, Haigh also admitted she came to quitting politics altogether after she was axed as Tra...
May 11, 2025•21 min
Trailblazing Labour MP Marie Tidball has revealed how her parents taught her to cope with pain after heartbreakingly telling them she wanted to die when she was a very young child. Marie, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, was born with a congenital disability that affected all four limbs and missed three years of school due to surgery she needed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 04, 2025•26 min
James Clverly has weighed in on the debate over whether multiculturalism has succeeded or failed in the UK. Speaking to Gloria de Piero he said: "My worry about the idea of multiculturalism is that we have multiple cultures. And I don't buy that because my view is, is the British culture is by definition multifaceted. "There's always been multiple elements to it. And if we recognize that, we can actually say, you can be British and proudly British and you should be proudly British, and your reli...
Apr 27, 2025•30 min
Mike Amesbury has revealed that he now has to wear an "alcohol tag for 120 days" in an exclusive sit-down with GB News, hours before his official departure from the House of Commons. Amesbury officially steps down as an MP today after he was handed a 10-week jail sentence for punching a constituent. The former Labour MP’s sentence was suspended for two years, meaning he will not serve time behind bars but he has revealed that he will be forced to where an "alcohol tag" for 120 days and will be m...
Mar 17, 2025•23 min•Ep. 18
The Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, says the former Chief Whip Simon Hart has broken “an unwritten code” by releasing a book about his time in Government. Stuart Andrew, who previously served as an Opposition Chief Whip, said he’d take secrets he’d been told by colleagues to his grave. In an interview with Gloria De Piero, Mr Andrew, the Tory MP for Daventry, was pressed as to what he thought about Hart’s decision to publish the bombshell new memoir Ungovernable. Speaking...
Mar 01, 2025•20 min•Ep. 17
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Andrew Gwynne to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove him to become an MP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 29, 2022•21 min•Ep. 16
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Matt Vickers to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove him to become an MP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 22, 2022•21 min•Ep. 15
Gloria de Piero sits down with Labour MP Anna McMorrin to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove her to become an MP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 15, 2022•17 min•Ep. 14
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Mike Penning to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove him to become an MP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 08, 2022•19 min•Ep. 13
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Scott Benton to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove him to become an MP. After studying theology for both his undergraduate and master's degree, faith became a huge part of Scott's life, installing a set of values that helps him navigate his politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 01, 2022•20 min•Ep. 12
Gloria de Piero sits down with Labour MP Carolyn Harris to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove her to become an MP. She opens up about her career journey from leaving school aged 16 and at the DVLA, then working as a barmaid, to eventually becoming an MP for Swansea East in 2015. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 25, 2022•24 min•Ep. 11
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Bob Stewart to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove him to become an MP. The two discuss the lessons learnt from his career in the military, where he served as a commanding officer for a period in Northern Ireland, and then also Bosnia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 18, 2022•18 min•Ep. 10
Gloria de Piero sits down with Labour MP Wes Streeting to get to know the person behind the politics; growing up in poverty, his kidney cancer diagnosis and recovery, his experience coming out and his relationship with God. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 11, 2022•16 min•Ep. 9
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Miriam Cates to get to know the person behind the politics; her earliest political memory, converting to the Conservative Party as an adult, her faith and how this steers her decision-making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 04, 2022•18 min•Ep. 8
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Michael Fabricant to get to know the person behind the politics; his surprise at the difference between the Conservative Party he knew in Brighton and that he discovered at the House of Commons, and witnessing the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 27, 2022•16 min•Ep. 7
Gloria de Piero sits down with Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth to get to know the person behind the politics; joining the Labour Party as a very young man, being special advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in a Labour Government in his twenties, his father's difficulty with alcoholism and now being the longest serving Shadow Health Secretary in history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 20, 2022•22 min•Ep. 6
Gloria de Piero sits down with Labour MP Rosie Duffield to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove her to become an MP. The two discuss her career before politics, a love of children and teaching, her experience living with an abusive partner and the controversy surrounding her thoughts on trans women in women-only spaces. Is this transphobia or are these women's rights? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 06, 2022•19 min•Ep. 5
Gloria de Piero sits down with Labour MP Tan Dhesi - Labour MP of Slough, Shadow Minister for Railways and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group. We learn about the man behind the politics and what drove him to become an MP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 30, 2022•19 min•Ep. 4
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Dehenna Davison to get to know the person behind the politics: childhood, losing a parent as a teenager, processing emotions and finding resilience. Also discussed is the stigma attached to mental health issues, Dehenna's election experience and navigating dating apps as a politician. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 23, 2022•21 min•Ep. 3
Gloria de Piero sits down with Conservative MP Johnny Mercer to get to know the person behind the politics: why he was sacked from the government, his relentless desire to find different ways of doing things to arrive at new outcomes, and his public fall out with Boris Johnson for what he saw as political cowardice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 16, 2022•19 min•Ep. 2
Gloria de Piero sits down with Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft to get to know the person behind the politics, and what drove her to become an MP. Gloria had no idea how emotional the interview would turn out to be, Vicky bravely opening up about her experience with domestic abuse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 09, 2022•26 min•Ep. 1
