A mysterious arrest
As usual on Fridays, I shall leave you in the more than capable hands of my co-presenter Anita Anand. 
High drama at Westminster today after last night's revelations that the and counter terrorism officers. We believe the boys in blue were investigating a series of leaks from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Office. Scotland Yard has since issued a statement saying a 52-year-old man had been arrested "on suspicion of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office and aiding and abetting counselling or procuring misconduct in public office".
Mr Green has been released on unconditional bail but will face further questioning in February and has said "he's astonished to have spent more than nine hours under arrest for doing his job". In a statement at midnight last nght he said "I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret ... information that the public has a right to know". 
The Tories argue the Government must have had prior knowledge of the arrest. Downing Street has spent the morning denying this.
So what's going on? And how important is it for politicans to be able to leak things? We'll be talking to former Tory ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Office spokesman David Davis and the Chairman of Labour's Parliamentary Party Tony Lloyd.
Also, did you notice a death at the very heart of British political life this week? I'm talking about the sad demise of New Labour. The Brown/Darling decision to introduce a new 45p top rate of tax for those on incomes of £150,000 in ...certainly looked like a return to OLD Labour. It certainly sounded like that old "Tax the Rich" mantra they've tried so heard to relearn.
Lord Mandelson has since argued it's not New Labour that's changed but times. Has the party now trashed its sacred New Labour foundations ? And is the New Labour project dead?
We're joined throughout today's programme by a heady mix of up and coming political minds - Jessica Asato from the left leaning think tank Progress and right winger Douglas Murray from the think tank Social Cohesion. And as ever it's Friday so it's top of the political pops ... we'll have the weekly run down of who's up and who's down and who's in and who's out.
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