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Top advisers to our significant political leaders analyse the successes and failures of today's politics, sharing their experiences of working in Whitehall. Jo Tanner is a political adviser and strategist who's worked with politicians from all parties - she's Managing Partner at Rud Pedersen UK. James Nation was Deputy Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, Special Adviser to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and is now Managing Director at Forefront Advisers. Journalist and broadcaster Calum Macdonald manages their in-tray of talking points, U-turns and crises. From parties in Westminster to the tactics of SpAds, this is your exclusive insight into how politics is done and how politicians work. We welcome insiders and analysts to join the conversation each week.
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Golders Green Attacks & UK Politics: Lord Stuart Polak on the Rise of Antisemitism
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May 01, 2026 |
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Keir Starmer's Week from Hell and London Decides 2026
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Another Mandelson Scandal plus Defence and Welfare Spending
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Can Starmer’s Gulf Visit Save the UK Economy?
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Is an Emergency Budget Coming?
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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"Bacon Sandwich" to Most Powerful Man in Government? The Ed Miliband Evolution
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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From "Bacon Sandwich" to Most Powerful Man in Whitehall? The Ed Miliband Evolution
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Trump, Iran, and Your Energy Bills: Is a UK Recession Inevitable?
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Inside the Mandelson Files: Secret Vetting, Political Risks & Keir Starmer’s Apology
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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War in Iran, Britain's Defence & The Spring Statement Explained
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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The Most Unpredictable By-election in Years? and Student Loan 'Debt Traps'
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The UK’s NEET Crisis: How One School Reached ZERO Youth Unemployment
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Labour Chaos Explained: Resignations, Mandelson Files & Starmer Under Fire
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Inside the Mandelson Scandal: Is Keir Starmer Losing Control of No.10?
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Ian Williams: UK–China Relations Explained and Further By-election Controversy
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Trump, NATO & Greenland: Inside the Crisis That Shook the Alliance
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Robert Jenrick Defects to Reform UK: Kemi Badenoch’s Power Play & the Future of the Right
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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UK Elections 2026 Preview: Reform UK, Labour, SNP & Plaid Cymru
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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2025: The Year UK Politics Fragmented - Reform, Greens & Labour’s Collapse
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Christmas Special: Political Chaos, Trump, Ukraine & 2026 Predictions
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Keir Starmer Reset? Labour Rebellion, Jury Trials Backlash & Interest Rate Cuts
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Anatomy of a Leak... and ECHR reform
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Is Starmer Secretly Planning a New Brexit Deal?
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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UK Budget 2025 Fallout: “Chaos, Tax Pain & Political Survival”
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Behind the scenes on Budget Day
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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A Survival Budget: The Preview
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Chaos inside Number 10 and the BBC
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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PMQs Chaos, Migrant Sex Offender Release & Labour Budget Secrets
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Home Office Chaos & Labour’s Tax Trouble
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Can the Grooming Gangs Inquiry Survive? Plus Green Party Surge
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Protests, Extremism and the China Spy Case — Lord Walney
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Keep Kemi and Carry On? Conservative Party Conference
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Starmer vs Farage, Racism, Labour Party Conference
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Starmer’s Digital ID Gamble, Reform Majority? & Burnham’s Leadership Move
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Inside Trump’s UK State Visit
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Starmer Under Pressure: NATO Tensions, Israel Row, and the Mandelson Scandal
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Labour Shake-Up: Rayner Out, Starmer Tested
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Angela Rayner Under Pressure: Can Starmer Save His Deputy?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Farage’s Immigration Plan: Labour on the Back Foot
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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UK Inflation Crisis, Rachel Reeves’ Budget of Doom & Trump-Putin Talks
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Trump/Putin in Alaska: Why Putin’s Already Winning
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Can Reeves Survive the Budget Black Hole?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Chris Curtis MP on Fixing Broken Britain
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Louise Haigh on NDAs, Labour's First Year, and What's Next
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Badenoch’s Power Play and Starmer’s Warning on Riots
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The Afghan Data Breach
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Migration: Can Starmer and Macron solve it?
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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One Year of Sir Keir
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Trump Bombs Iran; Labour's Welfare Rebellion
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Israel-Iran Tensions and Abortion Legislation
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Spending Review leaves a credibility gap
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Get Ready for War
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Can Farage capitalise on Labour's struggles
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May 28, 2025 |
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Can a Government ever get credit for a U-Turn?
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May 21, 2025 |
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What could make or break UK/EU talks next week?
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May 15, 2025 |
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What's Next? The Impact of the Local Elections
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May 08, 2025 |
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100 Days of Trump... with Amy Koch and Chris D Jackson
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Politicians and Women... plus Local Elections
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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What is a woman?
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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How the UK can cope with Trump's tariffs
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Trump's Tariffs and the Assisted Dying Bill
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Sonia Khan | Campaigning for Change
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Rachel Reeves' Economic Gamble: Will It Pay Off?
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Is the Government wrong on benefits cuts?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Live from Parliament: CoppaFeel
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The Road to Peace? With Mike Martin MP
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Donald Trump: The Ultimate Pied Piper
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Banning Phones for Kids | This Week In Parliament
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Is the 'special relationship' over?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Kemi Badenoch: Fighter or Engineer?
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Trump Turns up the Volume
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Growth... (and a Podcast relaunch)
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Southport - the politicians respond... plus President Trump
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Labour's Rishi Sunak
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The Post Office Scandal...with Lord Arbuthnot
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Syria
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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The Prime Minister's not-reset-reset
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Unpacking the Assisted Dying Bill
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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John Prescott... with Adam Boulton
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Can Wes Streeting fix the NHS?
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Trump Elected, Starmer and Badenoch
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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The Budget
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Labour in the USA, Prisoners Released, The Budget
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Salmond, Budget previews, UK & US Polling
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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BE MORE NORMAL! Tory Leadership Contest latest
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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The Four Tories
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Political Forecast: What Lies Ahead for Labour?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The PM in the Oval Office... with Lord Darroch
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The Phoney War? No Pain No Gain
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Labour's Growth Minefield
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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The Riots: Who Do We Point To?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Life in the Lords, Rachel Reeves' Strategy and Tory Leadership... with Ayesha Hazarika
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The King's Speech
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Election Eve
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Polling, Kids' Takes and Energy... with Adam Bell
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Economy Pledges... with Giles Wilkes
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Housing... with Sir Brandon Lewis
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The Ming Vase Strategy and lack of policy
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May 30, 2024 |
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The Election is On
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May 23, 2024 |
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Analysing Sir Keir Starmer's Six Pledges
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May 16, 2024 |
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The Month of Own Goals
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May 09, 2024 |
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The Local Elections wash up
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May 04, 2024 |
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Local Elections and the £3000 trip to Rwanda
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May 01, 2024 |
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Westminster Gossip, The Bute House Agreement and Rail
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Another Tory Scandal, Drunk dogs, ping pong and Liz Truss's book
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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UK Weapons Supplies to Israel and Four Years of Keir Starmer
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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How hard is it to be Prime Minister? And Privatisation
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Psychodrama, Rwanda, Potholes
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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How To Fix Government
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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A Missed Opportunity? The Budget
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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All Eyes On The Speaker
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Kemi Badenoch vs The Post Office and Ceasefire Vote
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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By Elections, Scottish Labour Conference
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Rishi Sunak, Piers Morgan, Wes Streeting, Liz Truss
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Anatomy of a U-Turn
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Whipping Votes... with Anne Milton
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The Post Office Scandal...with Kevan Jones MP
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Humza Yousaf in conversation
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The Security Election...and other 2023 bits
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Baubles of Policy... Rwanda and Cop28
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Boris at The Covid Inquiry; Rishi's Rwanda deal
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Alistair Darling... and Matt Hancock
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Autumn Statement and Migration
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Suella, Inflation, Rwanda, Ceasefire
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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🚨RESHUFFLE feat. David Cameron
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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'Hate' Marches, the King's Speech and the Rise of the Sunakians
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Sir Keir on the Middle East
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The Covid Inquiry
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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One Year of Rishi Sunak (and of this podcast)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Diplomacy in the Middle East... with Sir Simon Fraser
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Glittering Keir & The Middle East
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Rishi for Change?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Conference Season
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Net Zero, KamiKwaze and the Contaminated Blood Scandal
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Why can't PMs deliver their vision?
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Concrete comms; One Year Since Liz Truss
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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🚨RESHUFFLE (A mini one, anyway)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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(not) Education week
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Will we all feel better off next year?
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Stop the Boats week
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Connectivity of Politicians
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Yet More Foot-Shooty
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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A Standard Dangle Trick
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Can the NHS survive to 100 as we know it?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Lame duck?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Johnson Misleads Parliament
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Secret Foreign Trips
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Pestminster, WhatsApp and a PM Abroad (and Kirsty's Mugs)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Messiah or a Naughty Boy?
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May 25, 2023 |
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Manifesto Destiny
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Art of Coalition
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May 11, 2023 |
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Local Elections: Kirsty and Frankie on Frothy Politics
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May 05, 2023 |
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Suella, Dominic and the Coalition
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Inside the Good Friday Agreement
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Liz Truss's Speechwriter & Ed Miliband's 2015 Election
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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How to fix everything that's broken
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Leisure Centre Local Election
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Momentum (not that one)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Boris & Brexit... again
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Behind the scenes on Budget Day
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Immigration: Virtue Signalling & Value Signalling
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Kebabs Akimbo, Lockdown Files & Windsor Wins For Rishi
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Keir's on a Mission
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Calum was right: Nicola Sturgeon Resigns
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Nicola Sturgeon, Lee Anderson & Bill Clinton
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Stop it and Roll it: Sunak's 100 Days
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Zahawi, Marshmallows and Team (un)Bonding
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Handling shock resignations & cliquey MPs
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Welcome to The Tunnel
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Biggest Hits of 2022
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Whitehall's Christmas Parties
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Jaw-dropping Moments of 2022
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Strikes, Immigration - and a new co-host
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The Government's Advent Calendar
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Hellish Honeymoon
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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IndyRef2 and Britzerland
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Not-Mini Budget* (*autumn statement)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Gav the Enforcer, Hancock's in slurry and why isn't Oscar a Lord?
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Test Balloons & Attack Strategies
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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A BraverMan than I
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Stop it and Roll it: Sunak's First Speech
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Rishi Ready?
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Resignation of Liz Truss
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Shuffling the Shambles
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Will the Tories keep swiping left?
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Writing Off the Car
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Welcome to Whitehall Sources
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Oct 10, 2022 |