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Inspired by the UK’s most famous voter, Brenda from Bristol, four close watchers of politics agree - and freely disagree - about the twists and turns of the General Election 2024 - and beyond.
With Steve Richards, broadcaster and author, Tim Montgomerie, founder of Conservative Home and a serial political entrepreneur, Iain Martin, Times columnist and Miranda Green of the Financial Times. We hope you agree with us, rather than with Brenda, that it’s a useful addition to the debate.
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Will Andy Burnham make it to Downing Street?
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May 16, 2026 |
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Why do British prime ministers have such a short shelf-life?
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May 13, 2026 |
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What is behind the UK's transformed electoral landscape?
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May 04, 2026 |
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Are prime ministers too dependent on their top advisers?
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Will the Mandelson saga do for Starmer's premiership?
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Is Britain in peril because of Starmer’s complacency on defence spending?’
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Has UK politics become too tribal?
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Will May's elections spell the end for the two main parties?
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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How will the UK handle the energy crisis?
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Is the Iran war a disaster?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Is there a good outcome in Iran?
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Will war in the Middle East drive the US and Britain apart?
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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By-election special - will the Green earthquake break the party system?
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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The Mandelson Files - are we going to learn too much?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Is the Royal Family under threat?
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Will Farage’s top team boost or reduce his chances of reaching Number 10?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Is chaos permanent at the top of UK politics?
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Can Keir Starmer change?
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Can Keir Starmer survive?
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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What does the Mandelson downfall mean?
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Will Reform destroy the Tories?
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Does Labour's leadership kerfuffle ignore global challenges?
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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How should Britain deal with Trump?
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Jenrick defection: what does the split on the Right mean?
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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What is Wes Streeting Up To?
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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What happens if the Iranian regime is toppled?
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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What on earth just happened?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Politics in 2026: what lies ahead?
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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A festive special: listeners' questions.
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Can no government reform Whitehall?
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Not Another One Live
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Are big donors a boon or a burden to political parties?
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Post-Budget storm: A media frenzy or fatal for Starmer and Reeves?
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Have Reeves and Starmer saved themselves with their Budget?
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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What can Rachel Reeves learn from recent Chancellors?
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Does Shabana Mahmood have the right answers on asylum?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Where has Labour's chaotic week left the PM?
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Is this the end for the BBC?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Can either Labour or Reform afford to break their tax promises?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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What makes a very British scandal?
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Is Whitehall broken and how might it be repaired?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Caerphilly by-election: Is this the death of the Labour Party?
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Red alerts! Prince Andrew, government borrowing and UK-China ties
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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What can we learn from the rise of the Greens?
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Will President Trump’s Gaza peace plan work?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Are Badenoch and Starmer safe for now from leadership challenges?
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Can Kemi Badenoch survive her make or break conference?
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Are the country’s real challenges being ignored in party conference season?
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Has Keir Starmer found his voice?
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Is Reform getting enough scrutiny?
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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How do the Liberal Democrats become more relevant in a landslide parliament?
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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To what extent do defections to Reform deepen the crisis facing Kemi Badenoch?
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Who would succeed Keir Starmer?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Will Farage take Tim's advice on reforming Reform?
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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A reshuffle and a vacancy: A new start or big trouble ahead?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Who is wrapping themselves in the flag and why?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Is Keir Starmer’s reset a threat to Rachel Reeves?
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Has Farage got a credible plan to stop the boats?
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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What would you do if you became Prime Minister?
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Why is Starmer's government so unpopular?
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Question Time: the rematch
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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What does Lammy's friendship with JD Vance tell us?
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Question time: Is there too much doom and gloom?
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Has any party got a policy to stop the boats?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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What is the role of uncertainty in politics?
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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How will Starmer navigate his difficult summer?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Who are the winners and losers at the end of the parliamentary year?
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Do reshuffles make any difference?
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Is Donald Trump's policy agenda winning?
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Is UK politics moving left?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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How much trouble is this government really in?
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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How are Britain’s opposition parties doing?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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A year after Labour’s landslide - what have we learnt?
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Is Starmer squandering his landslide?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Is Trump right on Iran?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Is Reform UK on course for a breakthrough in all the nations?
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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What's at the root of the grooming gangs scandal?
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Question Time special - have we got what we voted for?
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Is Rachel Reeves spending too little or too much?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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What should be on Downing Street's disaster list one year on?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Will Labour prioritise defence at the expense of public services and welfare?
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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What if Remain had won the Brexit referendum?
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May 30, 2025 |
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Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government?
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May 28, 2025 |
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Is Labour and Tory rebellion stirring?
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May 23, 2025 |
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Is Boris Johnson planning a comeback?
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May 21, 2025 |
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Why Do Leaders’ Soundbites Come To Define Them?
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May 16, 2025 |
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Has Starmer got it right on immigration?
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May 14, 2025 |
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Will Reform destroy the Conservative party?
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May 11, 2025 |
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Can Labour Recover?
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May 07, 2025 |
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Listener question time special edition
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May 02, 2025 |
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Is Nigel Farage on the edge of a historic breakthrough?
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Do religion and politics mix?
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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What is the biggest challenge facing Starmer's government?
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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How is the political year going so far?
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Is the UK government right to take control of British Steel?
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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What’s at stake in the May local elections?
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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How will Trump tariffs and market chaos change the US and the world?
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Does any party care for the poor?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Has Starmer mishandled Trump?
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Trump’s never ending running commentary- genius communication or dangerously reckless?
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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What would we do if we were Rachel Reeves?
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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How should leaders manage divided parties?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Starmer’s Welfare reform - bold radicalism or chaotic and shallow?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Will Trump make the UK fall out of love with America?
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Is it all over for Reform?
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Can political journalism keep up with events?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Trump crisis: Is Keir Starmer playing a blinder?
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Is Trumpism contagious?
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Is Trump running Starmer’s defence policy?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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What are the domestic consequences of the international crisis?
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Trump’s initiative: Peace in Ukraine or war in Europe?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Is Morgan McSweeney too powerful?
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Are politicians catastrophically at odds with voters?
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Fifty Years of Thatcher: What is her legacy?
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Fifty years of Thatcher: What did she do with power?
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Can Starmer get close to Trump and the EU?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Fifty years of Thatcher: how did she win?
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Can Rachel Reeves boost economic growth?
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Is Kemi Badenoch failing as leader of the opposition?
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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What did Trump's inauguration tell us?
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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How do we survive Trump?
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Is UK politics fragmenting?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Is Elon Musk destroying our politics?
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Will Rachel Reeves still be Chancellor at the next election?
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Episode 3 Question Time Special
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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What To Look Out For in 2025
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Our Review of 2024
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Can Keir Starmer secure ‘a better Brexit’?
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Does Rachel Reeves have a coherent economic policy ?
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Do Prime Ministerial resets and relaunches work?
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Can Reform smash the old parties and win?
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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How long will the age of the populist outsider last?
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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What will be the impact of record migration figures?
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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What’s the point of a Deputy Prime Minister?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Assisted Dying Bill - Yes or No?
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Trump the sequel: what will he do?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Will Kemi Badenoch make a good Tory leader?
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Is Trump as Right-wing as he appears to be?
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Who are our favourite American presidents?
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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An historic budget - for good or bad?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Who are the stars of this new parliament?
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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How should Starmer respond to a Trump victory?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Is Kamala Harris losing?
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Will the budget boost the government or cause more crises?
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Does the Tory leadership contest benefit Keir Starmer?
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Have the Tories totally lost the plot?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Is Keir Starmer Making the Right Calls on Israel?
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Who will win the Tory leadership?
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Will the Tories pick the right leader?
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Has Keir Starmer turned it around?
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Is Labour's victory going sour?
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Can Labour fix the NHS?
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Is Britain really broken?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Does Keir Starmer need a reset already?
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Is there a Prime Minister in waiting among the Tory leadership candidates?
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Has the media changed for the better?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Will this summer's riots change the UK?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Has Rachel Reeves Made A Big Mistake?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Are We Too Obsessed with the US?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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What’s missing in Keir Starmer’s government of ‘service?’
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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How good was Starmer’s first week as PM?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Is Labour's victory secure for a decade?
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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What did we learn from the 2024 campaign?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Can voters handle the truth?
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Is Britain a right-wing country electing a left-wing government?
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Is the UK on the edge of a revolution?
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Can the Conservative party survive?
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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How good is Keir Starmer?
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May 31, 2024 |