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Blair To The Future
Keir Starmer has met with his brand new shadow cabinet for the first time, but does his top team now have more Blairites than Tony Blair ever did? Ma…
2 years, 10 months ago
What's Worrying Rishi Sunak?
With MPs back after the summer recess, Matt and Times Radio Political Editor Kate McCann bring you their guide to the five things Rishi Sunak should …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Rest is Dominic Sandbrook
Brand new Times columnist and Rest is History star Dominic Sandbrook tells Matt why the King's first year on the throne has been a surprising success…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Political Editors: How Reporting Changed
From sending stories by mail to sacking ministers by tweet, 'The Political Editors' series showed how the news, and the creators of news, changed ove…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Political Editors: Steven Swinford
The Times' current Political Editor Steven Swinford has been in the job for a turbulent three years, straddling three prime ministers and at least 42…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Political Editors: Francis Elliott
Francis Elliott became The Times' Political Editor in 2013, covering an extraordinary period that saw the end of the coalition, the slow downfall of …
2 years, 10 months ago
How To Write A Great Political Speech
Sixty years ago Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which went onto shape modern America. Hugo Rifkind asks a panel of former…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Political Editors: Roland Watson
After covering the US for the Times in the aftermath of 9/11 - and interviewing President Bush in the White House - Roland Watson returned to the "go…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Political Editors: Philip Webster
Philip Webster was political editor at the Times for 18 years, a colossus of the Blair and Brown eras who survived nine editors at the paper. He tell…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Political Editors: Sir Peter Riddell
Westminster veteran Sir Peter Riddell tells Matt about his time charting the dramatic end to the Thatcher era, underestimating John Major, Labour com…
2 years, 10 months ago