Interview: Tim Yeo, green champion and businessman

Tim Yeo: "I think some people are keen to seize on any inconsistencies in the position that I and others have set out."

Twenty-four hours after leading a rebellion against the government which reduced the coalition's majority to 23, Conservative MP Tim Yeo is still in fighting mode.

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Interview: Jacqui Oatley - the saviour of women's football?

Jacqui Oatley on sexism, money and what it's like to be first woman to commentate for Match of the Day

The host of the BBC's new Women's Football Show talks about sexism, money and what it's like to be the first woman to commentate on Match of the Day.

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Interview: Europe minister David Lidington

Europe minister David Lidington: "It's never dull"

"It's never dull," Europe minister David Lidington says. As the Conservative in charge of a divisive and controversial area, the question of an EU referendum is never far away.

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Interview: Professor Emeritus Eric Evans on Margaret Thatcher's legacy

'Greed and grab' in the City - followed by the crash of 2008

Now the Iron Lady has finally been laid to rest such debates will fade away, making her legacy more and more the focus of historians. Evans, whose book Thatcher and Thatcherism has re-examined the impact of her collected policies through the 1970s to the current coalition, thinks that, like the French Revolution, it's too soon to really tell quite what effect Thatcherism will have on Britain.

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Interview: BNP 'smasher' Margaret Hodge

Margaret Hodge, chair of the PAC, has been fighting extremism for years

Margaret Hodge has won plaudits for her work as parliament's penny-counter in chief - but it's her time fighting far-right extremism which underlies her work defending taxpayers' money.

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Interview: Parliament's most liberated MP, Douglas Carswell

Douglas Carswell: Pleased as Punch

This is awkward for both of us. Radicals like Carswell are not accustomed to receiving accolades from the system.

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Interview: Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson: "The kind of behaviour you saw in parliament would not be tolerated for 30 seconds in a professional theatre."

Politicians and actors have a noble calling of pursuing truth, but the realities of both career choices often involve getting one's hands a little grubby - as Glenda Jackson, parliament's only Oscar winner, knows all too well.

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Interview: Tim Pat Coogan

Coogan is an eminent Irish historian

Parallels between Ireland's troubled past and its current pain are closer than you might think.

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Interview: Jason Biggs and Stephen Syllenhaal

A still from Grassroots, out November 9th in the UK

The star and director of Grassroots talk to politics.co.uk about idealism, US politics and what David Cameron looks like when he goes for a curry.

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Interview: Professor Roger Griffin

Griffin has written a lot about extremism

Getting inside the minds of Britain's extremists isn't a pleasant job. But someone's got to do it.

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Interview: Nadine Dorries

Dorries has been vocal from the backbenches

Controversial Tory MP Nadine Dorries talks frankly about abortion, Cameron's leadership and her Christian faith.

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Interview: Pensions minister Steve Webb

Steve Webb is the longest serving pensions minister in recent years

In the grand sweep of things pensions is under the radar at the moment in political terms. This is partly because of the approach of the coalition's pensions minister, Steve Webb, who spends his days pursuing agreement away from the headlines.

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Interview: Football and politics

Clive Betts:' The FA is still opaque. Hardly anyone in the FA knows what's going on.'

Clive Betts talks about the politics of the FA and the Premier League, with a little mumble about Roy Hodgson for good measure.

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Interview: Ben Page

Ben Page is chief executive of Ipsos Mori

Getting inside voters' minds is not always a straightforward business, as Ben Page knows all too well.

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Interview: Peter Facey and the long game of Lords reform

Peter Facey is director of Unlock Democracy

A century of failure on Lords reform isn't putting off Peter Facey, the director of campaigning group Unlock Democracy.

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Interview: Ken Livingstone

Ken on dirty campaigning, the outer boroughs and personality politics

politics.co.uk spends a morning with London mayoral hopeful Ken Livingstone on the campaign trail.

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Interview: Boris Johnson

Four more years for Boris Johnson?

Boris takes on hairdressers, a crepe suzette and a college full of student voters as he seeks re-election to City Hall.

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Interview: Eleanor Laing

Eleanor Laing: 'If I offend a bullying father who beats his daughter for her perfectly reasonable behaviour then I will offend him.'

The sex equality chair talks about breast feeding, multiculturalism and whether you're allowed to say 'calm down, dear'.

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Interview: Mark Harper's Lords reform challenge

Mark Harper, the Conservative minister for political and constitutional reform, is tasked with achieving the hardest reform of them all

It is, perhaps, the hardest reform of them all. Can Mark Harper succeed where so many before him have failed?

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