# David Lidington

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Should military action require parliamentary approval?

The UK’s recent air strikes on the Houthis in Yemen have renewed discussion about parliament’s role in approving military action. The government is not constitutionally required to consult parliament on military deployments, and can choose whether and when to seek MPs’ approval. So what is parliame…

Ep. 49 – British politics updates with Sir David Lidington

In this episode of People Talk...Politics, our Policy Fellow Matthew Brooker interviewed Rt Hon Sir David Lidington CBE, UK's longest serving Minister for European Affairs, Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and M…

RUSI In Context Episode 15: Sir David Lidington on his Life in British Politics

Originally published 8 January 2021 In this episode, Karin talks to the new Chair of the Institute, the Rt. Hon Sir David Lidington, KCB, CBE. Sir David discusses his career from the early days as a special adviser to eventually becoming Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy, as Minister fo…

Starmer and Macron: Le Spécial Relationship?

The Prime Minister has racked up the visits, tours and summits over the last year, but this week he turned host and invited President Macron for a state visit. Former Europe minister David Lidington joins the podcast team to assess the state of UK-French relations.   This week has brought us a ma…

PMQs: Don't Mention The Data Leak

Keir Starmer said Conservative ex-ministers have serious questions to answer over the Afghanistan data leak at the start of Prime Minister's Questions. But after that, no one seemed to want to mention it. Patrick Maguire unpacks the action with Sunday Times Whitehall Editor Gabriel Pogrund and form…

Sunday Interviews Roundup 09/07/17

All of the best of Sunday's political interviews condensed into a ten minute podcast. Interviewees this week include Sir Vince Cable, Owen Paterson, Debbie Abrahams, Angela Rayner and David Lidington. This podcast is presented by Isabel Hardman and produced by Matthew Taylor. Become a Spectator su…

Northern Soul: Burnham's Manchester No10 plan

The King of the North says he will remain - for some of the time - in his kingdom, but how will Andy Burnham's vision for a devolution circuit breaker - powered by a new Number 10 in Manchester - really work? Former de facto deputy prime minister David Lidington joins the podcast to discuss the wou…

Can the Tories Win Back the Right?

Can the Conservatives win back the political right? With Reform UK facing internal turmoil and Kemi Badenoch pushing to reshape her party, is this the moment for the Conservatives to reclaim right-wing voters, or has British politics changed for good? Former Conservative Cabinet minister Sir David …

David Lidington: why Tories shouldn’t work with Reform

Next in our series of summer interviews is former Tory cabinet minister, David Lidington, who speaks to Adam Payne about the state of the Conservative Party.   He tells the podcast that leader Kemi Badenoch is “absolutely right” to rule out an electoral pact with Reform UK, saying it’d be “deeply, …