The Daily Politics - 08/03/2010

Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn are here with the top political stories of the day. Comentator and author Andrew Rawnsley, whose latest book has caused a stir at Westminster, guests. Political hack Danny Finklestein looks at the relationship between the political class and the public. Plus, more than 250,000 civil servants begin a two-day strike in a dispute over redundancy pay. The Public and Commercial Services Union expects long queues at airports and disruption to courts, job centres and tax offices. There's growing unease in the public sector over cuts, and the day's papers make uneasy reading for a lot of public sector workers. Both the CBI and the IOD say the future of the economy is in jeopardy unless public spending cuts begining within months, and they're calling for immediate cuts and caution against what they call 'damaging' tax rises. The PCSU's Nick McCarthy and the former Employment Minister Tony McNulty join the programme.