This week on Sunday Live, Adam will be speaking to Gordon Brown's key lieutenant, Cabinet Minister Ed Miliband.

Last year he was charged with drawing up the party's manifesto for a snap election - given the current state of the polls, should Gordon have gone for it?

The papers will be reviewed by Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin and former Number 10 adviser to Tony Blair, David Hill.

You can also see an exclusive interview with the President of the Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko. And the former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf speaks about the state of the criminal justice system and ethics at BAE.

One of the original 'Angry Young Men' - Alan Sillitoe - discusses turning 80 and the enduring popularity of works like 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' and 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'.

Plenty to talk about with the FA Cup and Champions' League Final in the pipeline, and showbiz is provided by Graham Goulden of 10cc, and the singer who broke out of the internet and into the mainstream Sandi Thom:

That's Sunday Live at 1000 this Sunday.

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees fame may have let the cat of the bag over the Prime Minister's taste in music.

Although Gordon has previously admitted to listening to The Arctic Monkeys regularly, today the 70s disco legend told The Times: "He listens to our music every day. Gordon likes our music and I like Gordon."

Apparently the Prime Minister likes the Bee Gees' music "because it talks about human relationships and experience rather than specific events and reaches out across the decades".

However Downing Street has kept almost silent on the issue.

"The Prime Minister listens to a wide range of music," was all his spokesman would say when asked at Lobby about the revelations.

Does this mean Labour will be changing its anthem from D:Ream's 'Things Can Only Get Better' to 'Staying Alive'?

Which Bee Gees classic do think is the Prime Minister's favourite?

Don't say the members of the Member's Estimate Committee, chaired by Michael Martin, weren't warned that there was little prospect of their appeal over MPs' expenses succeeding in the High Court.

Apparently a succession of legal advisers to the committee were far from optimistic. And they were right....

The Commons Authorities, fighting to protect the expenses details of 14 high profile MPs (and ex-MPs), have been ruled against by the Information Commissioner, the Information Tribunal and the High Court.

Surely now they have run out of road.

Many MPs are frustrated by all this. They know that it sends out all the wrong noises for the Speaker to be constantly trying to fight off the inevitable  - especially at the very time parliament is supposed to be setting its house in order, and bringing in a credible and transparent expenses system.

...interview leggy supermodels...but from the tone of his blog you'd think Jon Craig had taken this afternoon's encounter with Naomi Campbell in his stride.

Perhaps it was the fact that she was able to stand face-to-face with our statuesque Chief Political Correspondent that threw him... because the video of his interview suggests he didn't find it quite so easy to adapt...

My favourite bit? When Ms Campbell suggests to an unusually tongue-tied Jon that he's good under pressure...

Amazing who you meet in Downing Street. I've just conducted an impromptu, unexpected live interview outside No 10 with supermodel Naomi Campbell.

She had been meeting Sarah Brown to discuss their involvement in a charity campaigning to reduce the number of mothers dying in childbirth.

I was midway through a live "two-way", as we call it in the trade, with Kay Burley on Gordon Brown's Downing Street news conference, when Naomi emerged from the door behind me.

Our Sky News cameraman, lens legend Paul "Tricky" Dickie, immediately signalled to me and I turned and asked her to come and talk to me. And, slowly, she came over.

Despite her fierce reputation, Naomi was charming to me. I was, I confess, woefully ignorant about the charity, the White Ribbon Alliance, which Naomi and Sarah are both involved in.

It's the same charity involved in the glittering lunch at Lancaster House addressed by Carla Bruni and Sarah Brown during President Sarkozy's visit to London in March.

During our chat, Naomi told me she also met Gordon Brown during her No 10. She described him as "jolly", which was not how he appeared at his news conference earlier.

On Monday Sky News' website will host a live online debate between the main parties' candidates for the Crewe and Nantwich by-election.

Tamsin Dunwoody (Labour), Elizabeth Shenton (Lib Dem) and Edward Timpson (Conservative) will join host Martin Stanford at 9am and you can watch the blog, as it happens, in real time.

We want this debate to be as interactive as possible so we've teamed up with the Crewe blog and are asking their readers, and Boulton & Co's readers, to submit questions.

We can't promise that every question will be put to the candidates - we'll only have them with us for half an hour or so - but we want all the questions to be generated by you.

Please let us know your questions and watch the debate live on the website from 9am on Monday.

Our spy sent us this report from last night's embarassing uncle's concert MP4's gig...

Have just been to the Royal Albert Hall (err, a little room off the side) to watch MP4 (the MP's band) strut their stuff... Adam was compere for the night and brought the house down by saying what a funny job he had at Sky News - an hour ago he was interviewing the President of the Ukraine and now he's introducing MP4 to Royal Albert Hall - and all with a broken fly!

Other highlights of the night was learning that this really was a highlight to the MPs' calendar, indeed one MP was even celebrating her hen night there (Lyn Brown).

Ed Balls and a few other Labour ministers looked a little emotional when the band played a rousing 'Things Can Only Get Better' - by the end of the song the clearly very Labour room was belting it all out.

And an encore from the band brought the Culture Secretary, no less, on to stage to play guitar! I would love to tell you what song it was but it was a bit before my time.

Political journalists like me love nothing more than a bit of banter with Cabinet Ministers and other senior politicians.

But I confess that Harriet Harman won our contest during Gordon Brown's visit to the Beormund Community Centre, Bermondsey, to spell out his agenda for the next parliamentary year.

"Is this another relaunch, Prime Minister?" I called out to Gordon, in that helpful way that we TV journalists do, as he and Harriet arrived.

Gordon ignored me, but Harriet burst out laughing and said: "You've had more relaunches, Jon, than I've had hot dinners!"

A fine riposte. (I assume she had in mind nothing more than my long and varied career as a political journalist for four different national newspapers and two broadcasting organisations.)

A few hours later, on our PMQs programme on Sky News, I was interviewing my old Southampton University mate John Denham about the draft legislative programme. (John was student union president in 1976-77 and I was president in 1978-79.)

I couldn't resist teasing him about a video clip on a website that shows John standing speechless with a fixed grin of pure terror while a journalist asks Labour's Crewe and Nantwich by-election candidate Tamsin Dunwoody if Gordon Brown is an asset or a liability.

Time after time she refused to answer. Why didn't John, the experienced politician, intervene and help out the relatively inexperienced candidate?

Of course Gordon is an asset, John assured me in our Sky News interview.

And so, on the evidence of her quick wit in Bermondsey, is Harriet Harman, if she can silence impertinent journalists like me with such aplomb!

Nick Clegg has finally made good on his promise to Guido to release his expenses.

Published on the Lib Dem website, they reveal he has spent more than £7,000 of taxpayers' money renovating his constituency home last year.

The Lib Dem leader used his Parliamentary expenses to fund new carpets, flooring, blinds and curtains, as well as light fittings and plastering work.

He also received £12,254 to cover mortgage interest payments for the property in Sheffield.

The note reveals: "The property was bought in early 2006 and was in a neglected condition where the kitchen, living room and garden were in need of one-off repair work to make the house fit for normal use."

Click here to see the full breakdown of his expenses.

It hardly sounded sexy when it was announced that publishing "the draft legislative programme for 2008/2009" would be the centrepiece of Labour's fightback. 

But that's the way Gordon Brown does business: relentless, considered and grinding on with scarcely an acknowledgment of the casualty strewn political battlefield.

In the Commons today it soon became clear that both Cameron and Brown regarded PMQs as a mere appetizer to their main exchange on the draft Queen's speech.

Brown's plans are a development of his insistence that he "gets it", feels the pain of ordinary people now struggling in difficult economic circumstances.

That's why he gave 22 million of them back £120 of their tax payments yesterday.

Today he promised a "more prosperous" and "fairer" Britain. There was little new in his plans.

Click here to continue reading Adam Boulton's thoughts on the draft Queen's speech.

Prime Minister's Questions has come around again following another bad week for Gordon Brown. Will he come out on top in the chamber?

How will Opposition leaders David Cameron and Nick Clegg fare?

Vote on the leader you feel performed the best on our Politics section poll.

And watch our live PMQs programme at 8.30pm, this week with Chief Political Correspondent Jon Craig.

Tonight's political pundits are Anne Treneman of The Times and Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror.

UPDATE: Who did you feel faired the best? Post your comments here and see some of the best on tonight's PMQs programme.

Click here to read Political Correspondent Glen Oglaza's digest of PMQs.

There was an angry Tory frontbench during the PM's statement on pending legislation.

David Cameron accused the PM's people of distributing copies of his speech to the press before giving to the House - despite the hacks being heavily briefed in advance on its contents.

I received my copy at 12:31. Nick Clegg received his prior to PMQs.

It's common for opposition spokesmen to get an advance look at ministerial statements, although there are clearly occasions on which this is impossible.

Yesterday the Opposition received no advance notice of the Chancellor's statement on 10p tax.

Today some did (Lib Dems and hacks), but some didn't get at least a preview of the PM's statement.

The Speaker told the House he was looking into the situation - we await his findings.

UPDATE: More on the conventions surrounding release of ministerial statements. As number 10 understand it, the text is sent to the offices of opposition spokesmen forty five minutes before the statement; the press gallery receives their copy at the moment the minister takes to his feet; the Vote Office of the House release copies of the text to MPs and others when the minister completes his statement. If so, my source asks, why would Mr Cameron be so annoyed at prior release to the press gallery? Or is Mr Cameron complaining that he didn't receive his copy - which Downing Street say he did??

The Speaker may well be breathing a sigh of relief ahead of PMQs today.

The Standards Commissioner has decided to dismiss a complaint about the taxpayer-funded taxi journeys taken by Michael Martin's wife.

The Standards Commissioner John Lyon thinks the £4,139.17 Mrs Martin spent was "reasonable" and within the rules.

"The journeys taken met the necessary requirements of Mr Speaker to assist him in carrying out his official duties," he said.

"Taking account of the requirements and the cost of alternative provision, the costs were not excessive."

Mr Johnson must agree with Lord Snape who asked if the Speaker's wife should be expected to "queue for the No 12 bus when she does her shopping?"

But what will taxpayers think?

UPDATE

Here's one group of taxpayers who certainly aren't happy...The TaxPayers' Alliance, who submitted the complaint, said today's decision proved that the rules needed an overhaul.

"The Speaker earns over £130,000, enjoys two taxpayer-funded residences and has the Parliamentary Refreshment Department at his disposal.

"Taxpayers are already very generous to him without paying for taxis. I am glad the Parliamentary officials treated the complaint with the seriousness it deserves - the question of how our money is spent is extremely important.

"I hope Mr and Mrs Martin will be more careful with our money in future."

Why it's Gordon Brown of course!

The results are in for the Madame Tussauds vote on whether our current Prime Minister should be immortalised in wax.

And the answer is... NO.

A whopping 83.8% voted against Gordon Brown entering the World Leaders Zone in the waxwork museum, making him the first Prime Minister in 150 years NOT to have his doppleganger in Madame Tussauds.

To add insult to injury who is that I spy at the forefront of the World Leaders Zone?

Why it's no other than Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.

And that's got to hurt.

Click here to see a picture gallery of those who HAVE made it into the museum.

Before David Cameron headed for the Commons to listen to Alistair Darling's emergency mini-Budget, he revealed a talent as an after-dinner speaker to rival the former Tory leader William Hague.

He was guest speaker at a Parliamentary Press Gallery lunch. And though the serious message he wanted to convey was one of "no complacency" despite the Tories' local election wins and good opinion polls, the lasting impression was of his flair for one-liners and jokes.

On Lord Laidlaw, the Tory donor exposed by the News of the World as a sex addict: "I took away the whip... but I should have taken away the suspenders and the handcuffs as well."

On Ed Balls, the Prime Minister's attack dog and chief crony: "Ed Balls is the man with the most appropriate surname since Thomas Crapper invented the lavatory."

And on journalist Colin Brown's John Prescott biography, written before his affair with Tracey Temple and his bulimia confession: "Apart from no mention of the puking, bonking and shagging, it's a great read."

But Brown, Deputy Political Editor of The Independent and Press Gallery chairman, got his own back: "Dave is so successfsul they've named a TV channel after him. They mainly run repeats, but then Dave is a great supporter of recycling."

Ah well, if "Dave" does as badly at the next general election as William Hague did leading the Conservatives in the 2001 election, he can always join him on the after-dinner speaking circuit.

Delighted Labour backbenches may not be too bothered, but there is nothing that exercises the Treasury more than maintaining the two fiscal rules - the golden rule and the sustainable investment rule.

So has Alistair Darling done it? Well those good people at the Institute of Fiscal Studies have explained the detail to me, and frankly, it leaves the Chancellor on a knife edge.

The Treasury's latest projections were that in 2011 debt would be running at 39.8% of GDP. That is 0.2%  below the 40% ceiling.

So compare these two figures - 0.2% of GDP is £2.8 billion. And how much has Alistair Darling borrowed to fund 10p tax compensation? £2.7 billion.

So that leaves the Government with wiggle room of a mere 100 million pounds. And that ONLY if this is a one-off, and from next year the whole lot is clawed back from someone (you can bet your bottom dollar it won't be people on low incomes!)

In a move which shows just how desperate the Government is to reverse its plunging popularity, the Chancellor has cancelled out the impact of Gordon Brown's abolition of the 10p income tax band.

From this September Alistair Darling has raised the bottom of the individual tax allowance before income tax is paid by £600.

As a result he says 4.2 million households who lost out on the 10p, will be at least fully compensated.

The remaining 1.1 million will have their losses halved. (4.2m + 1.1m makes 5.3 million - funny that the Prime Minister has repeatedly denied estimates by the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies that he'd made 5.3m poorer households lose out.)

In a further sweetner on top of that, the Chancellor has given an average £120 boost to a further 17 million middle to low income homes. They'll be no net change for the rest because the 40p income tax threshold will be lowered.

Could he possibly be trying to buy back voters?

The £2.7bn cost of the giveaway will be funded from government borrowing, further denting the battered national finances.

Labour MPs are relieved and any rebellion is off. Chief protester Frank Field grovelled in the Commons and apologized for making personal attacks on the Prime Minister.

The Government will hope that this move will restore its fortunes with its core constituency - especially ahead of next week's tricky by-election in Crewe and Nantwich.

On the other hand this is a massive and costly U turn - on a par with Brown and Blair's reversal on old age pensions.

Brown and Darling have had to climb down on the key features of their last two budgets - income tax, capital gains tax and taxation for non-doms, not to mention nationalizing Northern Rock and risking £50 billion bailing out banks.

As inflation rises and house prices drop - will the voters still trust them to run the economy?

David Cameron seems to have absorbed the advice I gave the party leaders last week and given an interview to the Crewe blog.

This excellent blog has joined my morning trawl through my favourite sites on the internet.

I look forward to seeing Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg follow the Tory leader's example.

Chancellor Alistair Darling will make an "interim" statement to the Commons on compensation for people affected by the scrapping of the 10p rate of tax.

Full details will be revealed in the pre-Budget report in the autumn.

Plus Adam Boulton will conduct a one on one interview with the Chancellor after 1630.

Watch it all on Sky News and here on the website.

It seems concern about the state of the housing market has finally reached the Cabinet Room of Number 10.

I've seen the briefing from this morning's Cabinet meeting and it will worry all home owners, particularly because it seems the Government itself has no idea of the scale of the problem.

"We can't tell how bad it will get", the document reads.

"We need to plan now to put in place effective measures against the risk that it does get worse" - which raises the question: what, then is the current strategy?

The document further states that repossessions are rising, that housebuilding is stalling with builders predicting further stalls - despite the fact that underlying demand remains high.

This all paints a very bleak picture indeed. More woe for Mr Brown at the worst possible time.

And plenty of questions, no doubt, about the Government's confidence in the UK economy's ability to weather the downturn.

UPDATE: Here's the full text of the document as seen:

Leading house prices (text covered) falls for the first time in recent years. Given present trends they will clearly show sizeable falls in prices later this year - at best down 5-10 percent year on year.

House building is also stalling. New starts are already down 10 percent from a year ago. Housebuilders qare predicting further falls. Having seen net additions reach roughly 200,000 in each of the last two years the figure for 2008-09 is almost certain to be well down on that.

Underlying demand for housing rermains high and the fundamentals of the economy remain sound. But the market is being affected by the global credit crunch which is making it difficult for many who would lke to buy to do so.

We can't know how bad it will get. But we need to plan now to put in place effective measures against the risk that it does get worse and to prepare for the up turn.

We are continuing to monitor the situation and take appropriate (text covered)

The chancellor and I met some of the largest mortgage lenders recently to continue discussions on what more the govt and the industry could be doing. I have subsequently met a number of the smaller lenders.

We are playing our part to get the market moving with the Bank of England's 50 billion liquidity scheme. We have also put in place new measures to ensure the small minority of buyers facing repossession receive the support and advice they need. And I will tomorrow announce a pkg of measures to assist first time buyers.

But it is vital that we show that at this time of uncertainty we show we are on people's side. (on people's side in bold and underlined).