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  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
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    The Boris Johnson WhatsApp psychodrama

    Why is the UK government at loggerheads with the Covid inquiry it commissioned?

  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
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    Rishi Sunak’s immigration conundrum

    Plus, trouble in Teesside: a new investigation is ordered into a flagship levelling up scheme

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    27 min listen
    Does Rishi Sunak have an industrial strategy?

    Plus, what Labour’s Keir Starmer shows about conservative Britain

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    30 min listen
    Inflation and migration: Sunak’s problematic pledges

    Plus, the human and financial costs of an NHS infected-blood scandal

  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    24 min listen
    Local elections: How bad was it for the Conservatives?

    Labour claims it’s on course to win the next general election — can it?

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    25 min listen
    Wooing business: will it work?

    Plus, the mood on the doorsteps ahead of England’s local elections

  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    50 min listen
    Is a Labour win over the Conservatives inevitable in 2024?

    Our panel discusses factors that will shape the outcome of next year’s general election

  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    26 min listen
    Biden in Belfast: did the US president snub Sunak?

    Plus, what will it take to fix the UK’s sewage problem?

  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    28 min listen
    Is ‘Fortress UK‘ a vote-winner?

    Travellers queuing at Dover, barges to house refugees, and Nigel Lawson’s legacy

  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    26 min listen
    Have the UK’s green plans hit a red light?

    The UK net zero plan that isn’t net zero. Plus, local electioneering kicks off

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    24 min listen
    Rishi Sunak and the rout of Tory Eurosceptics

    It’s been a good week for the prime minister, less so for Boris Johnson

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    29 min listen
    Are Jeremy Hunt’s plans really a ‘Budget for growth’?

    The chancellor was upbeat but voters are still feeling the squeeze

  • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
    25 min listen
    Rishi Sunak tackles the small-boat crossings

    The UK’s illegal migration bill generates heat

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    26 min listen
    Has Rishi Sunak’s NI deal silenced Tory Eurosceptics?

    Some formerly staunch Conservative eurosceptics are now on the PM’s side

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    23 min listen
    Northern Ireland: Rishi Sunak’s big test

    Prime minister battles Unionists and Tory Eurosceptics over a deal on the protocol with the EU

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
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    What Nicola Sturgeon’s exit means for UK politics

    Scotland’s first minister steps down with no clear successor

  • Saturday, 11 February, 2023
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    Sunak and the backseat former PMs

    How much of a threat are Liz Truss and Boris Johnson to the current Tory leader?

  • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
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    Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days

    PM’s job has been complicated by strikes and legacies of economic mess and sleaze

  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
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    Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer attacked Rishi Sunak as ‘weak’ as calls escalated for the …

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

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

  • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
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    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
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    Sunak’s short honeymoon

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

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