thornberry, the telegraph's camilla tom lee, the guardian's anoushka asta na, tom lee, the guardian's anoushka astanaand the bbc‘s laura collins boat. one viewer thought it was a heavyweight panel. others were scathing about complaints that this was a stunt, with bernadette tweeting. to discuss all that, i'm joined by rob burleigh, the bbc‘s editor of live political programmes. was it a stu nt? political programmes. was it a stunt? i started to think, who would we like our first show. amber rudd had not done much media since she home office. i started to think you would be a good labour counterpart andi would be a good labour counterpart and i thought emily thornberry, who is one of the rising stars of the labour party. the point was reached where i looked at the panel we had andi where i looked at the panel we had and i thought, that's a great panel. and we discussed the fact that it was an all woman panel. i said, am a co mforta ble was an all woman panel. i said, am a comfortable and we were. it was the best panel we could hope. it wasn't a stunt, it was a genuine process by whereby it clearly end