| Monday 4 October 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Jeremy Paxman Tonight Jeremy will be presenting the programme from the Conservative conference in Birmingham, where Chancellor George Osborne has kicked off the expected process of benefits and spending cuts with a cap on welfare payments to jobless families and the scrapping of child benefits for higher earners. Jeremy will discuss the financial and political impact of the plans - particularly the decision to slaughter the sacred cow of universal benefits - with a gathered audience of conference delegates and newspaper columnists. We hope to be joined by current Transport Secretary and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Philip Hammond. Jeremy has also managed to pin down Boris Johnson long enough to secure the only interview with the London mayor this conference. Johnson spoke about his proposal that the government should consider a law insisting on a minimum 50% participation in a strike ballot, a proposal which he said he had "of course" discussed with Prime Minister David Cameron. Watch a preview clip of Jeremy's interview with Boris here. Our Political editor Michael Crick will have the latest on the behind the scenes negotiations over which government departments will get hit the hardest in the upcoming spending review. David Grossman will be delving into why the Conservative party failed to win the last election outright, asking if, as Michael Portillo suggested in the FT yesterday, the country still finds the Tory brand "toxic". And Tory MP and author Nicholas Boles joins us live. All that with Jeremy at 10.30pm on BBC Two. | 
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