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How To Be PM In A Global Crisis
With Keir Starmer focused on diplomacy over Ukraine, the political masterminds ask if the domestic agenda always has to suffer during major world eve…
1 year, 7 months ago
How To Tell Jokes, Deal With Trump, And Welcome Sally
We're welcoming a new political mastermind to the podcast this week - Sally Morgan has been a Labour insider since the days of Neil Kinnock and went …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Labour Peer Who Inspired JD Vance
How To Win An Election is moving to every Thursday, starting this Thursday, February 27th - when we'll be announcing a new political mastermind.
In th…
1 year, 7 months ago
How To Survive As A Political Adviser
What's the role of an adviser at the top level of politics, and does it always involve swearing?
John McTernan, who has worked for prime ministers in …
1 year, 7 months ago
How To Be A Disrupter
Nigel Farage's former adviser Gawain Towler joins the political masterminds to discuss how to be an insurgent force in politics. They look back at ho…
1 year, 7 months ago
How To Tell Who's Really In Charge
This week the political masterminds (and Hugo) are joined by Theo Bertram, who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
After a new b…
1 year, 8 months ago
How To Hang Out Your Political Washing
How much time in Number 10 is devoted to getting on with the business of government, and how much to thinking about winning the next election?
Sally M…
1 year, 8 months ago
How To Respond To Trump
Keir Starmer is on a charm offensive with Donald Trump - does it give Labour's opponents an electoral advantage?
The political masterminds (and Hugo) …
1 year, 8 months ago
How To Stop Your Missions Becoming Impossible
With Reform closing in on Labour in the polls and questions being asked about the chancellor's political survival, how can the government get on with…
1 year, 8 months ago
How To Say Goodbye To Peter
The political masterminds (and Hugo) say farewell to Peter before he heads to Washington as the UK's ambassador to the United States. Has he packed h…
1 year, 9 months ago