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  • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
    22 min listen
    Tory Leadership race: And the heat goes on

    Conservative party leadership rivals argue about how to help the UK's poorest

  • Saturday, 6 August, 2022
    19 min listen
    Liz Truss targets the Treasury

    Rishi Sunak falls further behind in the polls. Will the delay to voting help him gain ground? 

  • Saturday, 30 July, 2022
    28 min listen
    Truss pulls ahead

    The Tory leadership debate rumbled on this week, with three more clashes between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak covering pretty familiar ground

  • Saturday, 23 July, 2022
    34 min listen
    Head-to-head - Sunak and Truss fight it out to be Tory leader and PM

    Conservative party members will have until September 2 to vote in the final round of the contest 

  • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
    38 min listen
    The race for next Tory leader and PM

    The race to replace Boris Johnson is well under way, with Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss the top three candidates ahead of the weekend’s televised debates

  • Friday, 8 July, 2022
    41 min listen
    The fall of Boris Johnson

    Boris Johnson is forced out of office and the Conservative party has begun selecting its new leader and the next UK prime minister

  • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
    36 min listen
    Boris Johnson lands back to earth

    The prime minister arrived back in the UK after a globetrotting tour of international summits to be greeted with yet another Pestminster scandal

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
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    The FT just launched a new podcast on porn, power and profit.

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    35 min listen
    Boris Johnson’s double by-election defeat

    The PM’s leadership is in question after the Conservatives lost two crucial by-elections

  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    33 min listen
    Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland plan - is it just a bluff?

    Boris Johnson’s government unveiled plans this week to override the Brexit trade deal to address that contentious Northern Ireland protocol

  • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
    34 min listen
    Boris survives, but for how long?

    Exploring the prime minister’s near miss with his own MPs and where his premiership goes next

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    30 min listen
    The Queen's Jubilee: How Britain has changed since 1952

    Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her platinum jubilee this weekend, marking 70 years since she ascended to the throne

  • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
    28 min listen
    It’s definitely not a windfall tax!

    Rishi Sunak rushed forward a £15bn package of support for households with their energy bills, while jacking up taxes on business again

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    1 min listen
    Behind the Money is back!

    Behind the Money is back with all-new episodes!

  • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
    40 min listen
    Examining the fallout from the end of the police investigation

    Boris Johnson’s allies breathed a big sigh of relief as the Met Police closed their investigation into the partygate scandal with no more fines for the PM

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    35 min listen
    Double crisis: cost of living and Northern Ireland

    The state opening of the UK parliament took place this week, with the Prince of Wales delivering a Queen’s Speech aimed at resetting Boris Johnson’s government

  • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
    40 min listen
    Voters cast their opinions on the state of politics

    The Labour party scored some big London victories in this year’s local elections but only modest gains elsewhere in England

  • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
    35 min listen
    Too many rising prices, too much sleaze

    Boris Johnson seeks ways to fix the growing cost of living crisis ahead of next week’s local elections

  • Saturday, 23 April, 2022
    33 min listen
    Boris Johnson says sorry, sorry, sorry

    Prime minister apologises in the House of Commons but now faces a third probe into his conduct

  • Saturday, 16 April, 2022
    32 min listen
    Can Johnson and Sunak survive Partygate fines?

    Boris Johnson becomes the first prime minister to have been found to have committed a criminal offence while in office, after police issue a fine

  • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
    34 min listen
    Sunak's non-dom saga

    The chancellor faced harsh criticism this week for the non-dom tax status of his wife, as the UK’s cost of living crunch hit home

  • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
    39 min listen
    Partygate returns, but no energy strategy

    The first fines in the Partygate scandal have been issued by the Met police, but Boris Johnson dodged questions about whether his position was still at risk

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    40 min listen
    Spring Statement: Sunak misfires

    Measures to protect Britons from the cost of living crisis were criticised for not going anywhere near far enough

  • Saturday, 19 March, 2022
    35 min listen
    Nazanin returns and Spring Statement preview

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe returned to the UK, bringing a spot of good news in an otherwise turbulent political week

  • Saturday, 12 March, 2022
    31 min listen
    The war in Ukraine: is the UK doing enough?

    MPs this week applauded Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, who urged the UK to do more to help his country, in an historic address to the House of Commons

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