This week Boris Johnson has apologised again for breaking his own Covid lockdown rules while his home secretary, Priti Patel, has been heavily criticised over the legality of her plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff stands in for John Harris, and asks what happens when ministers no longer seem afraid to push the boundaries of the law? Gaby is joined by Guardian parliamentary sketch writer John Crace and Dr Hannah White, deputy director of the Institute for Government and author of Held in Contempt

Join Politics Weekly on Tuesday 3 May for a livestreamed discussion about Partygate, the upcoming local elections, the cost of living crisis and more with John Harris, presenter of Politics Weekly UK, Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff and Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan.

More details and tickets can be found here.

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