Anywhere but Westminster
As two-party politics crumbles and the UK continues to fracture, John Harris and John Domokos go in search of the country's real politics, far away from the chatter of the Westminster village
So what does the future look like now? | Anywhere but Westminster - video
On a non-stop road and rail trip, John Harris and John Domokos go from Rishi Sunak's well to-do seat in Yorkshire via County Durham and Lanarkshire to arrive amidst the new-town community spirit of Milton Keynes on election day. Everywhere people are holding places together: will a victorious Labour party soak up those vibes?
Here's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents - video
In the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and local cuts – and, amid deep social problems, lots of people who think the election hardly matters. Here, it seems, is the reality that all those opinion polls get nowhere near
Why are the Tories collapsing? These true-blue towns know the answers - video
In the latest episode of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos go to Woking, Guildford and Aldershot. Most of England's south-east used to be loyally Conservative - now, however, people in the "blue wall" are struggling, cuts are biting, and Toryism today is leaving younger voters behind.
This Labour city backed Brexit and went Tory: what did it get in return? - video
In the first video of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos revisit Stoke-on-Trent, the once-loyal Labour city that went totally Tory in 2019. Has 'levelling up' money made up for swingeing local cuts? Will Labour win again? And what do people working hard to turn the place around think about the future?
How deep in crisis is Britain? This Tory heartland knows the answer - video
As Westminster politics is gripped by the drama that led to Rishi Sunak's arrival in Downing Street, John Harris and John Domokos go back on the road. They spend three weeks experiencing the rising unease eating away at Basingstoke - a seemingly safe Tory seat in the south of England where they find empty offices, businesses fit by Brexit, rising hunger and an impossible housing situation
‘I care, but I don't care’: What people in the UK really think about life after the Queen - video
Far away from pomp and ritual, John Harris and John Domokos spend time in three places where the themes of the Elizabethan age played out: Milton Keynes, inner-city Birmingham, and a former Yorkshire pit village. What emerges is a much more complicated, contradictory story than the one being told elsewhere
Hands, face and empty space: where Covid has left politics - video
Among vacant shops and 15% unemployment, John Harris and John Domokos get immersed in Birmingham as it emerges from the pandemic. Amid despair, they discover hope - focused not on a Tory/Labour race for mayor, but communities brilliantly helping themselves
Life in lockdown: how to keep a city alive – video
Six weeks into Britain's Covid-19 crisis, Anywhere but Westminster asks how a city keeps going when everything has ground to a halt. The team virtually visits Plymouth, population 250,000, to see how the services that are vital to a place and its citizens are scrabbling to stay afloat
Life in Lockdown: from birth to death in a time of danger - video
With mortality suddenly confronting all of us, Anywhere But Westminster looks at how the coronavirus crisis is hitting those most vulnerable to the disease. While the government stands accused of failing to protect them, people in at-risk categories are taking matters into their own hands
