240 Episodes

  1. EMQs: Is the political centre dead?

    Published: 27/10/2025

  2. Why blaming Brexit won’t save Rachel Reeves

    Published: 23/10/2025

  3. EMQs: Would you serve in your political rival’s cabinet?

    Published: 20/10/2025

  4. Inside the China spy crisis shaking Starmer’s government

    Published: 16/10/2025

  5. EMQs: Could George Osborne still be a Tory MP?

    Published: 13/10/2025

  6. Has Kemi Badenoch saved herself?

    Published: 9/10/2025

  7. EMQs: The return of the TBGBs?

    Published: 6/10/2025

  8. Will Starmer's attack on Farage pay off?

    Published: 2/10/2025

  9. What REALLY goes on at party conference?

    Published: 29/09/2025

  10. Is Andy Burnham coming for Keir Starmer’s job?

    Published: 25/09/2025

  11. EMQs: Is there room for optimism in politics?

    Published: 22/09/2025

  12. A looming coup for Starmer?

    Published: 18/09/2025

  13. EMQs: Lasagna plots and Shakespearean AI bots

    Published: 15/09/2025

  14. Peter Mandelson OUT. George Osborne… IN?

    Published: 11/09/2025

  15. EMQs: Car doors, pole dancers and Diary columns

    Published: 8/09/2025

  16. Could sacking Rayner make her a ‘backbench martyr’?

    Published: 4/09/2025

  17. EMQs: Could David Miliband have defeated the Tories in 2015?

    Published: 1/09/2025

  18. Emily Thornberry on the Corbyn era, being left out of government and Starmer’s first year

    Published: 28/08/2025

  19. EMQs Political Craft Special: Speeches, diaries and the art of politics

    Published: 25/08/2025

  20. Wes Streeting on battling the Treasury, his plan for the NHS, and the reality of power

    Published: 21/08/2025

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