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Hello and welcome to this edition of The Westminster Hour with me, Ben Wright, and my guests.

Coming up, Labour won the election, promising to change the country and rebuild public services.

Can Rachel Reeves match that ambition with cash?

Ahead of the Chancellor's spending review, we'll discuss

her options, which departments will be the winners and which will see real terms cuts. We'll consider

the argument around digital ID cards and ask, is the government about to adopt them? And Margaret

Thatcher's latest biographer tells us why she still casts such a long shadow over British politics.

First, let's meet my panel.

Shami Chakrabati is a lawyer and labour peer.

She served under Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Attorney General.

Before getting into politics, she was a human rights campaigner and director of the Sybil Liberties organisation, Liberty.

Hello, Shammie.

Good evening.

Andrew Bowie is the Conservative MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincauddin.

He also sits around Kemi Badenox's top table as Shadow Scotland Secretary and Acting Shadow Secretary for Energy and Net Zero.

And before entering Parliament, he was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Andrew joins us down the line from Aberdeen. Good evening, Andrew.

Hello.

Sam Friedman is a specialist in education policy.

He worked as an advisor to Michael Gove back in the Coalition days.

He's now a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, and he's the author of a recent book called Failed State, Why Nothing Works and How to Fix It. Welcome back, Sam. Good evening. And Rowena Mason is the Guardian's Whitehall editor, our insider guide to the week ahead. Hi Rowena.

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