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Onto our first political guest now, Grant Shapps.

In her opening question, Kuenssberg ask Shapps about the government’s five promises on inflation, NHS waiting lists, stopping small boats, growing the economy and getting the debt down.

She asks him if the pledges are proving tricker than first thought.

Shapps admits they they are "difficult pledges", but says the government is committed achieving them. He says the government would half inflation, as promised.

But he says the Bank of England has forecast that economic growth would be slower than anticipated.

He says the economy is growing, albeit slowly.

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Let's hear from the panel first.

A poor showing at the local elections across much of England for the Conservative Party means there has been "anxiety" on the party's future, says the Guardian’s political editor Pippa Crerar.

She highlights "eruptions" such as when the government massively scaled back its plan for around 4,800 EU-era laws to expire at the end of 2023. Instead just 600 will now be replaced and many in the party were deeply unhappy about this.

Crerar also highlights the meeting this weekend of the Conserative Democratic Organisation - a grassroots group of Boris Johnson supporters - who blamed the poor showing at the election on the party's leadership.

It’s 09:00 which can only mean its time for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

Follow along with us as we bring you all the breaking lines, and watch by clicking Play at the top of this page.

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It's been another busy week in politics, dominated by a number of bruising episodes for the government. So what happened? Let's recap:

A key argument for Brexit was about taking back control of the UK's law from the EU. The government's plan was for around 4,800 EU-era laws to expire at the end of 2023, but that's now been scaled back and instead will be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to replace. There had been suggestions that there was just too much for civil servants to do before January and critics were concerned that it could lead to important legislation falling away by accident.

Another blow for the government came when the Archbishop of Canterbury said the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda risked "great damage" to the UK's reputation. Speaking in a House of Lords debate, Justin Welby said the Illegal Migration Bill would not stop small boat crossings, and it failed in "our moral responsibility" towards refugees.

Also this week Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer refused to rule out a coalition with the Lib Dems, if his party fails to win a majority at the next general election. Despite huge gains for the opposition at the local elections, when this data is used in general election modelling it indicates that no party would have an overall majority and this could be where a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats could end the Conservatives' time in power.

And finally, interest rates have hit their highest level for almost 15 years in a battle to slow inflation - caused by the soaring cost of living - with the Bank of England hiking them to 4.5% from 4.25%. By raising rates, the Bank expects people to have less money to spend and buy fewer things, which it says should help stop prices rising as quickly.

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The shadow secretary of state for business and industrial strategy has been MP for Stalybridge and Hyde since 2010.

• Under Ed Miliband he served as the Labour leader's parliamentary private secretary and Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change
• He filled the transport, treasury and City minister briefs before becoming shadow secretary of state for work and pensions from 2020 to 2021
• Reynolds has been an advocate for a change to a propotional represention election system
• He is vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism

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More than a week after the local elections, many in the Conservative Party are still upset by the results.

The Tories lost 48 councils and more than 1,000 councillors as millions across England went to the polls.

Former home secretary Priti Patel has pointed the finger of blame squarely at the party's leadership.

Speaking at the Conservative Democratic Organisation, a new grassroots pro-Boris Johnson group, the Witham MP suggested that if government leaders spent more time with the party's grassroots they would be more in touch with their values.

The attacks didn't stop there though: "Some parts of Westminster and our colleagues have done a better job of damaging our party than the opposition, the left-wing campaign groups, the civil service, which we all struggle with day in day out and even I'm afraid, some of those in the media that want to distort and make life difficult for us," she said.

In response, the Conservative Party said it had no comment.

Read more about Patel's speech yesterday and what the group wants to achieve here.

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The energy and net zero secretary has been a fixture around the upper reaches of the Conservative Party for more than a decade. Here’s what else you need to know about him:

• He became the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield in Hertfordshire, in 2005 - a seat he has represented ever since
• Made Conservative vice-chairman shortly after entering Parliament, he continued to rise quickly and was made housing minister after the 2010 general election
• In 2012 he was accused of breaching the code of conduct for ministers and MPs, after it was revealed he worked as a web marketing expert using the pseudonym "Michael Green"
• Resigned as international development minister in 2015 amid claims he failed to act on allegations of bullying within the party during his time as party co-chairman
• Served for six days as home secretary under Liz Truss’s short premiership, before moving to business and then energy under Rishi Sunak

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Later in the programme we’ll be hearing from US former diplomat Cindy McCain, who now heads the United Nations’ World Food Programme.

Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, McCain said the internationally brokered deal which has allowed Ukraine to export shipments of grain from its Black Sea ports which is due to expire on 18 May must be renewed.

The export agreement has allowed Ukraine to transport millions of tonnes of food despite the ongoing conflict with Russia.It was agreed to help tackle a global food crisis after access to Ukraine's ports were blocked by Russian warships following the invasion in February 2022.

Ukraine is a major global exporter of sunflower, maize, wheat and barley, and more than half of the wheat grain procured by the WFP last year came from there.

At the same time, the UN also agreed to help Moscow facilitate its own agricultural shipments.

"They must renew the deal. We can't possibly be able to feed the region let alone the world unless they do," Ms McCain said.

• You can read the full story here

No one story dominates Sunday's front pages but one picture does: the Princess of Wales playing the piano in a surprise video appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest, with The Sunday Times giving her "douze points".

Away from Eurovision, The Sunday Telegraph reports that Labour plans to give millions of EU citizens the vote if it wins the next election. Sixteen and 17-year-olds are also thought to be included in the plans, which could form part of it's next manifesto.

Turmoil within the Tory Party is the Observer's focus. The paper claims Rishi Sunak is "losing control". It says the Conservatives look "increasingly anarchic" - with former cabinet ministers openly criticising the direction of Mr Sunak's leadership, and "dozens" of backbenchers planning a new rebellion over Brexit.

In stark contrast, the Sunday Express insists the prime minister has "faced down" a "simmering Tory revolt" by vowing to "stay the course" and "deliver for Britain".

Meanwhile, the Sunday Times says allies of Boris Johnson have told the paper that they expect the former prime minister to "cut a deal" with the committee investigating whether he misled Parliament about lockdown parties in Downing Street.

Read the paper review in full here.

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“Humans are a bit boring - it will be like, goodbye!” That's the personal prediction - that artificial intelligence (AI) will supplant humans in many roles - from one of the most important people you've probably never heard of.

Emad Mostaque is the British founder of the tech firm, Stability AI. It created Stable Diffusion, a tool that uses AI to make images from text instructions by analysing images found online.

Mostaque questions what will happen "if we have agents more capable than us that we cannot control?"

"The worst case scenario is that it proliferates and basically it controls humanity," he says.

Despite his concerns, Mostaque says that the potential benefits of AI could be huge. Yet he concedes that the effect on jobs could be painful, at least at the start. Some jobs will undoubtedly disappear, with estimates of up to 300m roles lost or diminished by advancing technology.

However, he hopes that better jobs could be created and humans can concentrate on the things that make us human, and let machines do more of the rest. The entrepreneur is convinced that the scale of what's coming is enormous.

He reckons that in 10 years, his company and fellow AI leaders will even be bigger than Google and Facebook. With a conversation about the risks and realities of AI underway, we might be on the cusp of sweeping changes too big for any one company, country or politician to manage.

You can read more of the tech expert's predictions here.

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As ever, there is also a panel of guests to help Laura Kuenssberg pick apart this week’s interviews and look more broadly at the issues raised.

This weekend we’ll hear from the Guardian’s political editor Pippa Crerar, the boss of Octopus Energy Greg Jackson and the restaurateur, chef and writer Thomasina Miers.

Pippa Crerar became the Guardian newspaper’s political editor last summer, having previously held the same position at the Daily Mirror. While at the tabloid she broke numerous stories about lockdown parties at No 10 Downing Street during Boris Johnson’s tenure - eventually leading to the prime minister and others being issued with fixed penalty notices by the police.

Greg Jackson founded Octopus Energy in 2016 which has 3.5 million customers worldwide and operates in 14 countries. He has recently accused the UK of“going backwards” on developing renewable energy sources and in the past week made headlines for saying that artificial intelligence is“better than people”.

Thomasina Miers came to prominence in the food industry after winning TV’s Masterchef in 2005 having returned to the UK from Mexico where she fell in love with the country’s food. Following her success on TV she co-founded the Wahaca chain of Mexican restaurants. Miers has gone on to write about food, including several cookbooks, as well as presenting TV programmes.

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On this week’s programme Energy Secretary Grant Shapps will be asked about the impact of energy prices on households and businesses and what the government is doing about it.

Putting Labour’s case will be shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds. One of his party’s pledges is to grow the economy - but how do you make that happen?

The programme will also return to one of its topics from a few weeks back, when we hear from the boss of tech firm Stability AI, Emad Mostaque.

There are still a lot of question about where the AI revolution is going to take us - so he should have an idea of what the future holds.

And speaking about the need to keep grain flowing from war-torn Ukraine - one of the world’s biggest producers of the food staple - will be the head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme, Cindy McCain.

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Welcome to this week’s live coverage of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

After the pomp and ceremony of last weekend’s Coronation, and the brief hiatus in politics, it was all back to normality in the week just gone.

With interest rates up again, and the UK reporting weak economic growth for the first three months of this year, the state of the economy and the cost of living is back at the forefront of people’s minds.

Stay with us as the programme goes on air at 9am, when we’ll bring you live text coverage of the main interviews.