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How To Raise Taxes
Rachel Reeves is thinking about increasing taxes - perhaps even breaking Labour's manifesto commitment not to raise income tax.
The political mastermi…
11 months, 1 week ago
How To Lose An Election, Really Badly
As well as knowing how to win an election, the team have plenty of experience of losing them too. For this episode, recorded in front of an audience …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
How To Escape Political Oblivion (With A Tax Promise)
Has Kemi Badenoch done enough to see off her Tory critics, for now? Does her promise to abolish stamp duty remind the team of George Osborne's inheri…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
How To Avoid (Tory) Irrelevance
As the Tories prepare for their annual conference, can the UK's oldest political party avoid sliding into irrelevance? And how has Nigel Farage becom…
1 year ago
Starmer's Speech: How To Attack Nigel Farage
The political masterminds are at Labour conference in Liverpool for Keir Starmer's speech, and this special episode recorded in front of a live audie…
1 year ago
How To Prevent Party Conference Chaos
The political masterminds are discussing party conferences - from how to deal with a leadership challenge while you're there, to how to write a speec…
1 year ago
How (And When) To Topple A Leader - With Jeremy Hunt
After a series of sackings, missteps and with Reform ahead in the polls, Labour MPs are seriously thinking about trying to change leader.
But would re…
1 year ago
How To Win The Deputy Leadership - And Mandelson Sacked
The political masterminds discuss the deputy Labour leadership contest - and then the breaking news as we record the episode that Peter Mandelson has…
1 year ago
How To Survive A Scandal
Angela Rayner is under fire after admitting she failed to pay enough tax on her second home. Keir Starmer has vowed to do "everything he can" to save…
1 year, 1 month ago
How To Holiday With JD Vance
Is Chevening, the foreign secretary's country house, more Maga than you might think? After news that US vice president JD Vance will stay with the fo…
1 year, 1 month ago