Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWill the UK ever rejoin the EU?
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey speak to the minister for EU relations, Nick Thomas-Symonds, about the fallout from Brexit and our relationship with th…
1 year ago
Starmer’s Mandelson mess and deputy leadership damage
As the race to replace Angela Rayner as Labour’s deputy leader exposes tensions within the party, John Harris speaks to the former transport secretar…
1 year, 1 month ago
Reshuffle, Rayner resignation and rift with the unions
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the fallout from Angela Rayner’s resignation and Keir Starmer’s subsequent cabinet reshuffle. Why has Rayner’s …
1 year, 1 month ago
What’s feeding the rise of Reform? On the road in Birmingham
John Harris is at the Reform UK conference, asking how this once insurgent party came to dominate the political mainstream. And he speaks to people i…
1 year, 1 month ago
Flags, flats and Labour in trouble (again)
It’s the first week back after summer recess and Labour is already in trouble, with the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, referring herself to th…
1 year, 1 month ago
Starmer’s back-to-school headaches
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey are back, talking through all of the challenges the government faces as MPs return to Westminster. Plus, they discuss t…
1 year, 1 month ago
No going back: Nigel Farage’s immigration plan
In a major speech this week, Reform UK set out how it would lower immigration. With controversial plans to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants a…
1 year, 1 month ago
A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right – from The Audio Long Read
Working for Hope Not Hate, I infiltrated an extremist organisation, befriended its members and got to work investigating their political connections …
1 year, 1 month ago
Revisited: A day on the frontline of England’s social care crisis
An ageing population, a funding squeeze and a recruitment crisis have taken England’s adult social care system to breaking point. In this episode, re…
1 year, 1 month ago
How does woke start winning again? – from The Audio Long Read
British progressives have suffered major setbacks in recent years, in both public opinion and court rulings. Was a backlash inevitable, and are new t…
1 year, 1 month ago