Cross-party action is needed to ease the pain of funding health services – and it’s time to take ideas from everyone’s manifesto, says Sarah Wollaston. The Conservative MP talks to Sebastian Whale about her bid to be re-appointed as Health Select Committee chair 

At the age of 74, Vince Cable is on the verge of securing the Liberal Democrat leadership. But the former business secretary insists he is signing up to be far more than a ‘caretaker’. He talks to Mark Leftly. 

The hung parliament means party discipline – and those who enforce it – have never been more important, writes Kevin Maguire

Apprenticeships are finally getting the political attention they deserve, but now real action on policy must follow, writes the IPPR’s Joe Dromey

Agnes Chambre sits down with parliamentarians to find out more about the human side of politics. This week, former education secretary Nicky Morgan on the worst piece of advice she’s ever been given.

If Northern Ireland is to make the most of its talent pool, a quality apprenticeship system is paramount, writes David Simpson

The SNP’s new leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, says his first job is to scrutinise Brexit plans and oppose Tory austerity. But, he tells James Millar, his party is not giving up on the ultimate goal of independence

James Graham’s latest outing – on the birth of the Sun newspaper and the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire – is guaranteed to win headlines, writes John Ashmore

Barry’s Gardiner’s no-nonsense TV appearances made him one of the stars of the election – and left interviewers speechless. What next for Labour’s new cult hero? He talks to Kevin Schofield

Cold-shouldered by EU leaders, under pressure from Westminster and her cabinet – Theresa May’s task of delivering Brexit just got tougher, writes George Parker

On 8 June Labour’s Preet Gill became the first woman Sikh MP. She talks to Sebastian Whale about making history, her hero bus-driver father and defying expectations

The backlash against the Conservatives over public sector pay has been years in the making. The prime minister and the chancellor must respond quickly or pay the price, argues Anushka Asthana