Guernsey Press Politics Podcast

Deputy Garry Collins joins Tony Curr and Matt Fallaize to review this week’s one-day meeting, which saw the cannabis requete withdrawn and a move to scrap new legislation for dog walkers fail.

Matt Fallaize and Peter Roffey join Tony Curr to preview this week’s meeting, with Deputy Marc Leadbeater now poised to withdraw his cannabis requete following the code of conduct complaint against him.

Sacc president Deputy Sarah Hansmann Rouxel joins Matt Fallaize to talk about island-wide voting and the States’ code of conduct, as well as the work of the other committees she sits on - Education and the Development & Planning Authority.

With GST back on the States’ agenda this week, Tony Curr and Matt Fallaize hear from a deputy who wants to see it taken off the table entirely as they preview this week’s meeting.

Former deputies Michelle Le Clerc and Heidi Soulsby digest the latest developments in the island’s great tax and spending debate, plus look ahead to next week’s States meeting and a move to have GST taken off the table for now.

In the second part of his interview with Matt Fallaize, Home Affairs president Marc Leadbeater talks about the recent challenges facing the island’s prison and a move he is leading which could see cannabis legalised in Guernsey.

In the first of a two-part interview, Home Affairs president Marc Leadbeater joins Matt Fallaize to talk about changes to the police complaints regime, the recent review of the fire service, and sentencing for sexual offences.

Ahead of a debate this month about whether food should be included if the States approve a GST-plus later this year, Matt Fallaize speaks to P&R treasury lead Deputy Gavin St Pier about that issue — and where things stand with its tax review.