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  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
    26 min listen
    Zahawi £5mn tax scandal tests Sunak

    Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer attacked Rishi Sunak as ‘weak’ as calls escalated for the …

  • Saturday, 21 January, 2023
    24 min listen
    What Keir Starmer did at Davos

    Rishi Sunak stayed home as Labour’s leader went to woo the global elite

  • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
    27 min listen
    A rumbustious start to 2023

    Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clashed at the beginning of a year that could shape the outcome of the general election

  • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
    70 min listen
    2022 year in review

    A turbulent political year in Westminster with scandals, three PMs, economic turmoil and geopolitics to grapple with

  • Saturday, 10 December, 2022
    36 min listen
    Sunak versus the strikes

    The PM confronted a growing wave of industrial unrest facing the UK with tough new proposals for anti-strike laws, but will they work?

  • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
    33 min listen
    Winter of discontent

    Britain is seeing a swelling wave of industrial action this winter, from nurses to rail workers — will it face a de facto general strike?

  • Saturday, 26 November, 2022
    35 min listen
    Sunak’s short honeymoon

    Rishi Sunak's authority with Tory MPs is waning and he is facing policy battles on almost every front

  • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
    39 min listen
    Jeremy Hunt’s sombre Autumn Statement

    The chancellor unveiled a £55bn plan for fiscal tightening this week, with the bigge…

  • Saturday, 12 November, 2022
    33 min listen
    Farewell Sir Gavin, for the third time

    What does it say about Rishi Sunak's judgment that he hired the controversial former chief whip in the first place?

  • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
    35 min listen
    Pressure grows on the home secretary?

    Suella Braverman was under increasing fire this week for her personal conduct with government information and the crisis in handling asylum seekers

  • Saturday, 29 October, 2022
    40 min listen
    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

    After another turbulent week and the potential return of Boris Johnson, Britain has its first non-white leader and the youngest in modern history

  • Friday, 21 October, 2022
    38 min listen
    How the stopwatch began on Truss’ time in Downing Street

    Liz Truss’ catastrophic 44 days as prime minister came to a sharp end this week as the Conservative party embarked on yet another leadership contest

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    33 min listen
    A new chancellor and another U-turn for Truss

    The PM is forced to sack Kwasi Kwarteng and reverse tax cuts again

  • Saturday, 8 October, 2022
    38 min listen
    Truss vs the ‘anti-growth’ coalition

    The new prime minister endured one of the most traumatic Conservative party conferences in living memory. Can she survive?

  • Friday, 30 September, 2022
    39 min listen
    Kwasi Kwarteng’s market meltdown

    Liz Truss struggled to defend her government’s economic strategy as she insisted her dash for growth would pay off

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    38 min listen
    The gamble for growth

    How the chancellor took a gigantic political gamble this week when he announced a £45bn tax-cutting package

  • Saturday, 17 September, 2022
    38 min listen
    King Charles III begins his reign

    The new UK monarch addressed parliament and pledged to follow in his mother’s apolitical footsteps

  • Friday, 9 September, 2022
    30 min listen
    In memory of Queen Elizabeth II

    The FTs platinum jubilee Tribute from June 2022

  • Saturday, 3 September, 2022
    26 min listen
    Truss’s glide path to Number 10

    The Tory leadership race finished this week, with foreign secretary Liz Truss widely expected to be the next PM

  • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
    28 min listen
    Struggling with the energy crisis

    With energy bills set to soar from October, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak faced mounting questions about how they would help struggling families

  • Saturday, 20 August, 2022
    27 min listen
    Liz Truss pulls even further ahead

    Rishi Sunak is battling on but is the contest to be next PM over for him?

  • 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 

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