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Harald Clark
 Oct 28, 2018
Pub commentary, waffling, it's not that long fortunately.

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Each week, the HuffPost UK Politics team unpack the biggest stories from Westminster and beyond.

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Episode Date
Baroness Angela Smith...On Tory Tax Bombshells And Labour's Future
Sep 10, 2021
Yvette Cooper On The Art Of Govt And Opposition
Jul 23, 2021
Sunak's Overseas Aid Ambush: With Andrew Mitchell
Jul 16, 2021
Trading places: Will Liz Truss’s ‘Donut’ Strategy Leave Us With Brexit Indigestion?
Jul 09, 2021
Return Of The Saj
Jul 01, 2021
Brexit Birthday Special
Jun 24, 2021
Is The Tory Culture War Backfiring In Its Traditional Heartlands?
Jun 17, 2021
Joe Biden Jets In Amid An Almighty Brexit ‘Mess’
Jun 10, 2021
Why Cummings Showed The UK Must Ditch ‘Glorious Amateurism’
May 28, 2021
Why Labour Should Be Braver To Win Back The Red Wall
May 20, 2021
What Is ‘Levelling Up’ And Can Boris Johnson Deliver?
May 13, 2021
Local Elections Special: What Went Wrong For Labour
May 07, 2021
Will Voters Care About The Boris Johnson Flat Saga?
Apr 29, 2021
Labour Think They’ve Found Tories’ Weak Spot, But Is It Enough To Win? With Lord Mandelson
Apr 22, 2021
Could The EU Vaccine War Give Boris Johnson An Election Boost?
Mar 25, 2021
Is Boris Johnson The Right Man To Help Women?
Mar 18, 2021
Britain’s Equality Flaws
Mar 11, 2021
Does Rishi Sunak’s Budget Change The Fight For Labour?
Mar 04, 2021
The Route Out Of Lockdown Is Revealed But The Road To Recovery Looks Less Certain
Feb 25, 2021
Is Britain’s Gambling Problem Finally Going To Be Met With Action?
Feb 11, 2021
Are ‘Incompetent’ Ministers Trapping People In Unsafe, Unsellable Homes?
Feb 04, 2021
The Candidates Set Out Scottish Labour's Future
Jan 28, 2021
Boris Johnson Walks Into Another ‘Elephant Trap’
Jan 21, 2021
Will The Red Wall Be Left Behind In The Fight Against Climate Change?
Jan 14, 2021
American Carnage, With Rosie Duffield MP And Anand Menon
Jan 07, 2021
As 2020 Comes To A Close, Do We Dare Ask What 2021 Brings?
Dec 17, 2020
Brexit Special: More Deadlines Than Hot Dinners
Dec 10, 2020
Should Labour Back A Tory Brexit Deal? With Lucy Powell MP
Dec 03, 2020
Rishi Sunak Delays The Pain Ahead Of Covid Christmas (With Andrew Mitchell MP)isode
Nov 26, 2020
Johnson And Starmer Struggle To Break Free From Their Recent Past (With Ian Lavery MP)
Nov 19, 2020
Cummings And Goings At No.10 (With Tom Tugendhat MP)
Nov 12, 2020
226: Will Donald Trump Go Gently Into The Political Night?
Nov 05, 2020
225: Westminster Needs To Face The Music Over Diversity, With Jamie Njoku-Goodwin
Oct 29, 2020
224: Has The King Of The North Stolen Boris Johnson’s Crown?
Oct 22, 2020
223: Is A Circuit Breaker Coronavirus Lockdown Inevitable?
Oct 15, 2020
222: Lockdown Brass, With John McDonnell MP
Oct 08, 2020
221: Priti Patel’s Wave Machine
Oct 01, 2020
220: Is Now The Winter Of Our Discontent? With Steve Reed MP
Sep 25, 2020
219: Do Voters Still Want To Push Cummings Off A Cliff? With Tory MP Paul Howell
Sep 17, 2020
218: Is History Repeating With Brexit And Coronavirus?
Sep 10, 2020
217: A Summer To Forget For Boris Johnson, But Will He Be Marked Down For It? With Emma Hardy MP
Sep 03, 2020
216: Black Ballad Takeover: The Health Inequalities For Black British People
Aug 13, 2020
215: Why Did MI5 And The Government Fail To Act On Russia? With Tom Tugendhat MP
Jul 23, 2020
214: Grayling Fails As Russia Threat Looms Large, With Lisa Nandy MP
Jul 16, 2020
213: Should Labour Back A Wealth Tax? With Stewart Wood
Jul 09, 2020
212: Will Boris Johnson’s Big Reset Work? With George Freeman MP
Jul 02, 2020
211: Why Is Boris Johnson Hanging On To Robert Jenrick? With Jo Stevens MP
Jun 25, 2020
210: Has The Government Taken Its Eye Off The Ball? With Robert Halfon MP
Jun 18, 2020
209: A Week Of Lessons Learned? With Layla Moran MP
Jun 11, 2020
208: America’s Racial Injustice Highlights Britain’s Own, with Bim Afolami
Jun 04, 2020
207: Is Dominic Cummings Worth This Much To Boris Johnson?
May 28, 2020
206: Is Nicola Sturgeon’s Response To The Pandemic As Good As Everyone Says?
May 21, 2020
205: Is This China’s ‘Skripal Poisoning Moment’? With Bob Seely MP
May 14, 2020
204: Could Lockdown Rob The UK Of 'The Next Stormzy'? With Tracy Brabin MP
May 07, 2020
203: Boris Johnson’s Back, But Is He A Hawk Or A Dove?
Apr 30, 2020
202: Do The Lockdown’s Hidden Victims Need An Exit Plan? With Jess Phillips
Apr 23, 2020
201: Keir Starmer Begins His Rebuild Of Labour
Apr 09, 2020
200: Testing Times For The Government’s Response To The Coronavirus Pandemic
Apr 02, 2020
199: Is Lockdown Going To 'Send Coronavirus Packing'? With Jon Ashworth MP
Mar 26, 2020
198: The First Brexit-Free Podcast In Four Years, Featuring Andrew Griffith MP
Mar 19, 2020
197: Coronavirus Hides The Budget In Plain Sight, With Rosena Allin-Khan MP
Mar 12, 2020
196: Coronavirus Can’t Mask Priti Patel’s ‘Bullying’ Crisis, Feat. David Lammy MP
Mar 05, 2020
195: Dominic Cummings Is Going Nowhere
Feb 27, 2020
194: What Sajid Javid's Resignation Reveals About Boris Johnson's Government
Feb 13, 2020
193: Boris Johnson Dodges Scrutiny After Brexit, with Professor Anand Menon
Feb 06, 2020
192: Boris Johnson's Huawei To Hell? (With Tom Tugendhat MP)
Jan 30, 2020
191: Big Decisions For Boris Johnson As Labour’s Leadership Battle Narrows
Jan 23, 2020
190: While Labour Work Out Who To Follow, Boris Johnson Defines Himself
Jan 16, 2020
189: Who Can Take On Boris Johnson?
Jan 09, 2020
188: With The Red Wall Smashed Will Boris Johnson Get Brexit Done?
Dec 18, 2019
187: Will Keeping Donald Trump At Arms Length Help Boris Johnson To Victory In The Election?
Dec 05, 2019
186: Weak Leadership. Inexperienced Strategists. Poor Policy - A Chastening Week For The Election Campaigns
Nov 27, 2019
185: Are Boris Johnson Or Jeremy Corbyn Doing Enough To Win Over The Public?
Nov 20, 2019
184: Should Remainers Unite To Defeat Nigel Farage And Boris Johnson’s ‘Leave Alliance’? We Ask Chuka Umunna
Nov 13, 2019
183: Is This The End For Labour Moderates?
Nov 07, 2019
182: Snap Election Special: Can The Brexit Party Help The Tories?
Oct 31, 2019
181: Will An Election Before Brexit Help Labour, The Tories, Or Neither?
Oct 24, 2019
180: Boris Johnson Gets An ‘Impossible’ Brexit Deal - But Will MPs Accept It?
Oct 17, 2019
179: Boris Johnson Walks A Brexit Tightrope
Oct 10, 2019
178: Are The Conservatives Winning Friends In Manchester?
Oct 01, 2019
177: Waugh Zone Live At Conservatives Conference With Matt Hancock
Sep 30, 2019
176: The Brexit Debate Plumbs New Depths As Boris Johnson Sparks Fury
Sep 26, 2019
175: Waugh Zone Live At Labour Conference 2019 With Emily Thornberry
Sep 24, 2019
174: Boris Johnson Takes The Hits On Campaign Trail
Sep 19, 2019
173: Boris Johnson's Brexit Battle Is Dragged Into Court
Sep 12, 2019
172: The Rebel Alliance (And Everyone Else) Takes On Boris
Sep 05, 2019
171: Discussing Big Tent Ideas With Labour's Peter Kyle MP
Aug 13, 2019
170: Discussing Big Tent Ideas With Transport Minister George Freeman
Aug 09, 2019
169: Boris Johnson's Reign Begins (With Anand Menon)
Jul 25, 2019
168: As One Party Leadership Battle Ends, Does Another Begin?
Jul 18, 2019
167: #167 - Showing Some Leadership (With Jo Swinson)
Jul 11, 2019
#166 - Fox In A Hole (With Paul Goodman & Katy Balls)
Jul 04, 2019
#165 - What's Left Unsaid (With Liam Byrne MP)
Jun 27, 2019
#164 - Losing The Tie (With Anand Menon)
Jun 20, 2019
#163 - The Votes Are In, Part One (with Andrew Mitchell MP)
Jun 13, 2019
#162 - The Trump Bump? (With Tom Tugendhat MP)
Jun 06, 2019
#161 - The End Of May
May 23, 2019
#160 - A Question Of Leadership (With Sir Ed Davey MP)
May 16, 2019
#159 - Deep Into Injury Time (With Will Tanner)
May 09, 2019
#158 Hua-dunnit? (With Lord Peter Ricketts and Henry Newman)
May 02, 2019
#157 - The (Long) Brussels Hangover?
Apr 11, 2019
#156 - Friends In Unlikely Places (With Lucy Powell MP)
Apr 04, 2019
#155 - The Long Goodbye (With Nicky Morgan MP And Maddy Thimont Jack)
Mar 28, 2019
#154 - So Near Yet So Very, Very Far (With Rob Halfon MP & Nikki da Costa)
Mar 21, 2019
#153 - Chaos Reigns (Especially With Our Guest Appearances)
Mar 14, 2019
#152 - Cox's Codpiece (With Rachel Reeves MP)
Mar 07, 2019
#151 - Too Late To Apologise (With Anand Menon)
Feb 28, 2019
#150 - That Independent Spirit (With Gavin Shuker MP)
Feb 21, 2019
#149 - A Shore Thing (with Caroline Flint MP)
Feb 14, 2019
#148 - Would No Deal Be "Hell"? (With Anand Menon)
Feb 07, 2019
#147 - Pork Barrel Politics (With Alistair Carmichael & Maddy Thimont Jack)
Jan 31, 2019
#146 - A Stalking Horse (With James Cleverly MP)
Jan 24, 2019
#145 - The Biggest Defeat In History (With Sarah Wollaston MP)
Jan 17, 2019
#144 - Everyone Chooses Their Corner For Brexit
Jan 10, 2019
#143 - The 12 Days Of Austerity (With Anand Menon & Maddy Thimont Jack)
Dec 20, 2018
#142 - Confidence In Theresa May (With George Freeman MP)
Dec 13, 2018
#141 - Brigid Fowler Guides Us Through The Amendments
Dec 06, 2018
#140 - Party Leaders Set For Brexit TV Debate (With Alan Wager)
Nov 29, 2018
#139 - May's Brexit Declaration (With Anand Menon)
Nov 22, 2018
#138 - Ministers Resign And Rees-Mogg's "Coup" (With Anand Menon)
Nov 15, 2018
#137 - The Brexit Twixes
Nov 07, 2018
#136 - We Talk Fish With Brexit Expert Anand Menon
Nov 01, 2018
#135 - Preparing For No Deal
Oct 25, 2018
#134 - 'The Body Language Was More Positive' With Guest Professor Anand Menon
Oct 18, 2018
#133 - 'B*****ds Then, B*****ds Now'
Oct 11, 2018
#132 - The Waugh Zone Live With Greg Clark MP At The Conservative Conference
Oct 05, 2018
#131 - The Waugh Zone Live With Jon Ashworth MP At Labour Conference
Sep 27, 2018
#130 - The Exotic Spresm
Sep 20, 2018
#129 - Tories Are Better At Killing Their Leaders
Sep 13, 2018
#128 - Writing Off Jeremy Corbyn
Sep 06, 2018
#127 - MPs And Their Games
Jul 19, 2018
#126 - The White Paper
Jul 12, 2018
#125 - Waughzone Live In Birmingham With Mayor Andy Street
Jul 06, 2018
#124 - Run Away From the Runway
Jun 28, 2018
#123 - Cause Without A Rebel
Jun 21, 2018
#122 - Bercow At Full Capacity
Jun 14, 2018
#121 - All Aboard For Destination Unknown
Jun 07, 2018
#120 - A New Party In The Center?
May 24, 2018
#119 - Gammon And Coke
May 17, 2018
#118 - Peace In Korea, War With Iran
May 10, 2018
#117 - Bercow A Bully?
May 03, 2018
#116 - The Windrush Saga
Apr 26, 2018
#115 - Syria Scepticism
Apr 19, 2018
#114 - Are There Any Spies In Switzerland?
Mar 29, 2018
#113 - Analytica And Other Pollocks
Mar 22, 2018
#112 - We'll See You In North Carolina
Mar 15, 2018
#111 - The Cheaper Country To Live In
Mar 08, 2018
#110 - Lib Dems... Hello
Mar 01, 2018
#109 - Czech Mate
Feb 22, 2018
#108 - A Great 'V' Sign From The Cliffs Of Dover
Feb 15, 2018
#107 - Fudge Is A Great Brussels Product
Feb 08, 2018
#106 - Carrot Cake Is Classy
Feb 01, 2018
#105 - David Davis On A Desert Island With Discs
Jan 25, 2018
Matt Forde Interview
Jan 23, 2018
#104 - The Collapse of Carillion
Jan 18, 2018
#103 - Shufflin'
Jan 11, 2018
#102 - Porn, Lies And Mince Pies
Dec 21, 2017
#101 - The Art Of The Deal
Dec 15, 2017
#100 - Our 100th Episode!
Dec 07, 2017
Ed Miliband - Full Interview For Episode 100
Dec 07, 2017
#99 - A Sad State of Affairs
Nov 30, 2017
#98 - Budget 2017 Special
Nov 23, 2017
#97 - Mutiny!
Nov 16, 2017
#96 - Penny Did Replace Priti
Nov 09, 2017
#95 - The Culture Has Changed
Nov 02, 2017
#94 - UCAS or UCAN'T
Oct 26, 2017
#93 - An Ego Pummeling
Oct 19, 2017
#92 - A Cat Called Order
Oct 12, 2017
#91 - Conservative Conference Special
Oct 05, 2017
#90 - Commons People From The Conservative Conference: James Cleverly
Oct 02, 2017
#89 - The Labour Conference In Brighton
Sep 28, 2017
#88 - BoJo or NoJo
Sep 21, 2017
#87 - Ringo Starr's Had An Opinion
Sep 15, 2017
#86 - I've Spent Ten Years Detoxifying This Party!
Sep 07, 2017
#85 - Brexit Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Aug 31, 2017
#84 - Jacob Rees-Moggle
Aug 24, 2017
#83 - The Special Relationship In Need Of Care
Jul 27, 2017
#82 - A Long, Hot Summer For Theresa May
Jul 20, 2017
#80 - Summer Days Drifting Away Oh Oh To Brexit
Jul 13, 2017
#81 - Chuka Umunna Commons People Special
Jul 13, 2017
#79 - The House Of Corbyn Is In Effect Y'all
Jul 06, 2017
#78 - Commons People Special: Nicky Morgan Interview
Jun 29, 2017
#77 - The Art Of The Deal(s)
Jun 29, 2017
#76 - Humbled And Mumbled Leadership
Jun 22, 2017
#75 - Tom Watson Interview Special
Jun 15, 2017
#74 - A Lot Changes In A Week
Jun 15, 2017
#73 - The Maybot Doesn't Retreat
Jun 09, 2017
#72 - I'm Too Busy To Try Win The Election
Jun 01, 2017
#71 - And Then Everything Stopped
May 25, 2017
#70 - Manifesto Mayhem
May 19, 2017
#69 - Corbileaks
May 11, 2017
#68 - If You Haven't Got Anyone To Fight, Find Someone
May 04, 2017
#67 - a strong and stable podcast for a strong and stable election
Apr 27, 2017
#66 - It's Been A Really Long Time Since We Had To Vote On Something
Apr 20, 2017
#65 - EU Go That Way, We'll go This Way
Mar 30, 2017
#64 - A Dark Day For Westminster
Mar 23, 2017
#63 - IndyRef 2: This Time It's Personal
Mar 16, 2017
#62 - The Budget Ain't A Budging
Mar 09, 2017
Commons People Live: Jess Phillips
Mar 09, 2017
#61 - It's All Gone Peer-shaped
Mar 02, 2017
#60 - If you tolerate this, then your NHS will be next
Feb 23, 2017
#59 - It's The Cover-up That Gets You
Feb 16, 2017
#58 - Protest Votes Are So Passe
Feb 09, 2017
#57 - The "White Paper" Isn't Their Greatest Album
Feb 02, 2017
#56 - Theresa May's Torturous Adventure
Jan 26, 2017
#55 The Hard Reality laid out
Jan 19, 2017
#54 New Year, New Corbyn, Same Brexit
Jan 12, 2017
#53 - Do They Know It's Brexit Time At All
Dec 15, 2016
#52 Time Magazine's Person of the Year Is...
Dec 08, 2016
#51 A Collective "Meh"
Dec 01, 2016
#50 Stop! Hammond Time
Dec 01, 2016
#49 You're Spoiling Us, Mr Ambassador!
Nov 17, 2016
#48 Top Trumps
Nov 10, 2016
#47 C'mon Sheeple
Nov 03, 2016
#46 The Heath Row
Oct 27, 2016
#45 Having Your Cake and Eating It Is Tough Going
Oct 21, 2016
#44 Sound As-A-Quickly-Devalued Pound
Oct 13, 2016
#43 Pubcast: Conservative Conference 2016
Oct 03, 2016
#42 Pubcast: Labour Conference 2016
Sep 27, 2016
#41 The Time for Olive Branches
Sep 22, 2016
#40 Cameron Resigns Again and Corbyn Wins at PMQs
Sep 16, 2016
#39 Brexit Means Brexit Means Brexit...
Sep 08, 2016
#38 All Change Please
Jul 21, 2016
#37 Whatever May Come
Jul 14, 2016
#36 Where the Trust Lies
Jul 07, 2016
#35 Leaders of the Field
Jun 30, 2016
#34 Brexit Special: The Fall of the 'Remain' Campaign and David Cameron
Jun 24, 2016
#33 EU're Nearly There
Jun 22, 2016
#32 Bringing the Fight to the High Seas
Jun 16, 2016
#31 Holding Back the Tears of More EU Debate
Jun 09, 2016
#30 Keep Your Friends Close, Your Enemies Closer
Jun 02, 2016
#29 If I'm Going Down, I'm Taking All the Institutions With Me
May 26, 2016
#28 Dictating Who Would Like Brexit
May 19, 2016
#27 Make Pasties, Not War
May 12, 2016
#26 Being Able to Read Between the Lines is the Thing
May 05, 2016
#25 The One Where Ken Did All the TV and Radio
Apr 28, 2016
#24 It's All About Asking the Right Questions
Apr 21, 2016
#23 I'll Stand With You, But Not Beside You
Apr 14, 2016
#22 Steel Searching Options
Mar 31, 2016
#21 Why Fight Each Other When We Can Fight Ourselves?
Mar 24, 2016
#20 The Sweet Talk of George Osborne
Mar 17, 2016
#19 Follow the Leader
Mar 09, 2016
#18 Problems Beginning with 'P'
Mar 03, 2016
#16 EU Focus: Pick Your Side
Feb 25, 2016
#17 The Boundaries of Plausability
Feb 25, 2016
#15 The Continuing Adventures of Dave in Europe
Feb 18, 2016
#14 On the Hunt for the Right Prescription
Feb 11, 2016
#13 EU In or Out?
Feb 04, 2016
#12 Burying Bad News with Bad News
Jan 28, 2016
#11 Vive le Croissant Munchers
Jan 21, 2016
#10 You Wait for One Rebellion and Three Come Along at Once
Jan 14, 2016
#9 Shuffling Through the Shadows
Jan 07, 2016
#8 An Agreeable Climate
Dec 17, 2015
#7 If You're Old Enough for a Sunbed, You're Old Enough to Vote
Dec 10, 2015
#6 A War On Many Fronts
Dec 03, 2015
#5 The Conservatives Are for Turning
Nov 26, 2015
#4 I Meant What I Said, Unless I Didn't
Nov 19, 2015
#3 Dave vs Dave vs Gordon vs Everyone
Nov 12, 2015
#2 They Are Coming for Your History
Nov 05, 2015
#1 The 'T' Word
Oct 29, 2015