{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/f5ef4d7c-1ca4-4c5e-98d6-c4ff11971d6a/f4b351ab-41eb-46b2-b8b4-460492079d7e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Johnson And Starmer Struggle To Break Free From Their Recent Past (With Ian Lavery MP)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9fed21a8cbefa353cf074/61b9ff139d214800136272b3.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Factional infighting ruled Westminster this week as two of its most divisive figures returned to the front pages. For Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings leaving the No.10 team offered a chance to reset his government, only for another bout of isolation after coming into contact with an MP infected with coronavirus thwarting him.</p><p><br></p><p>But in Labour, the reinstatement of former leader Jeremy Corbyn after his comments on the anti-Semitism report presented Keir Starmer with a dilemma in trying to unify the Labour Party, but has his decision to remove the whip from his predecessor just ended up just solidifying division?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Corbyn-backing Labour MP Ian Lavery joins Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth to give his opinion on the week in Westminster.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Make sense of politics. Sign up to the </em><a href=\"https://news.huffingtonpost.com/h/t/1925256938B41841\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Waugh Zone</em></a><em> and get the political day in a nutshell every weekday evening.&nbsp;</em></p>","author_name":"HuffPost UK"}