This week Vince Cable, the business secretary, gave a speech at the GMB conference in Brighton warning unions that the Conservatives could answer mass strikes with an assault on their rights. We ask how real that threat is.
In the studio we have three Guardian columnists: Larry Elliott, Anne Perkins and Julian Glover.
Also on the podcast this week, we look at archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' criticisms of the coalition in New Statesman magazine. And could a U-turn on the economy follow David Cameron's changes on health and sentencing?
