Podcast Episodes

Is Labour turning blue?

While we wait for the findings of the Covid Inquiry into the decision-making during the pandemic, Shabana Mahmood has given a statement in the Commons outlining further details of Labour’s migration …

Published on 1 month ago

Labour's 'dog whistle politics'

Neither Kemi Badenoch nor Keir Starmer performed very well at Prime Minister’s Questions: both fluffed their lines early on. Badenoch managed to suggest the Budget had already happened, while Starmer…

Published on 1 month ago

Mahmood's right turn, as migration figures revised – again

Economics editor Michael Simmons and Yvette Cooper's former adviser Danny Shaw join Patrick Gibbons to react to the Home Secretary's plans for asylum reform. Shabana Mahmood's direct communication st…

Published on 1 month ago

Shabana Mahmood vs the asylum system

This afternoon, the Home Secretary will set out in the House of Commons her proposed reforms to the asylum system. The headline changes proposed by Shabana Mahmood have been well briefed in the weeke…

Published on 1 month ago

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/11/2025

Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.

Labour are set to announce a raft of new measures to fix an asylum system the home secretary says is 'broken'. But do they go …

Published on 1 month ago

Why are so many prisoners accidentally released? With H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons

Britain’s prisons are a legislative problem that has beset successive governments. New revelations show 91 accidental early releases in just six months, the latest in a growing pattern of administrat…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

What is going on in the Treasury!?

With less than a fortnight to go until the Budget, it seems Rachel Reeves has performed an almighty U-turn. At the beginning of the week, the established consensus in Westminster was that the base ra…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Politics vs economics: which is Labour worst at?

It’s been another bruising week for the British economy. New GDP figures reveal that growth has almost flatlined, inching up by just 0.1 per cent between July and August – a sign, many fear, that the…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Wes for PM?

Conspiracy or cock-up? Westminster is abuzz after what appears to be a plan to decapitate Wes Streeting has spectacularly backfired. A flurry of late-night briefings designed to shore up Keir Starmer…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Labour's vibes are all wrong

With two weeks until her Budget, Rachel Reeves has received more bad news: unemployment is now at its highest level since the pandemic. With the Chancellor hinting at income tax rises, could this be …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago