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Focus Group: The Last One of 2022
The Times Radio focus group meets for the last time this year. Matt Chorley is joined by James Johnson from J.L. Partners to see what floating voters…
3 years, 2 months ago
PMQs Unpacked: Nightmare before Christmas?
Matt Chorley and Tim Shipman pause the action and analyse the exchanges at the last Prime Minister's Questions of 2022, with Keir Starmer accusing Ri…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ed Balls All at Sea
Finding themselves on a week-long Times cruise from New York to Southampton, Matt Chorley talks to former cabinet minister Ed Balls about the chances…
3 years, 3 months ago
Joe Lycett MP?
After giving evidence to the House of Lords, taking on David Beckham over human rights and becoming an unlikely cheerleader for Liz Truss, Joe Lycett…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dear Diary
As Matt Hancock releases his 'Pandemic Diaries', Patrick Maguire asks what makes a great political diary? He speaks to Sir Alan Duncan, who published…
3 years, 3 months ago
Afghanistan: The Forgotten Crisis
In Summer 2021 the eyes of the world were on Afghanistan as the West's 20-year mission came to an end. This winter the situation for ordinary Afghans…
3 years, 3 months ago
PMQs Unpacked: Strikes and Blancmange
Patrick Maguire and Tim Shipman pause the action and analyse the exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions, as Rishi Sunak promises action to stop "unr…
3 years, 3 months ago
Lessons from the Winter of Discontent
Patrick Maguire travels back to the late 1970s and the Winter of Discontent with author Phil Tinline. What caused this prolonged period of industrial…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sport, Schmoozing and Geopolitics
How much politics is taking place on the sidelines of the World Cup? Patrick Maguire looks at the wheeling and dealing in Qatar with Sunday Times spe…
3 years, 3 months ago
How to be an Ex-Prime Minister
The UK has seven living ex-prime ministers for the first time in modern history. But how should a former leader behave when they've left the top job?…
3 years, 3 months ago