Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Preparing for Power – Ep.1: Access Talks
Season 1 Episode 268
Whoever forms the next government will need to be prepared. The job begins almost as soon as the votes have been counted. So what is it like to go f…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Gathering Stormont
Season 1 Episode 267
A deal to restore government in Northern Ireland has finally been struck and Stormont is set to return. So what was the decisive factor? Who are the …
2 years, 3 months ago
Has Sunak lost the plot?
Season 1 Episode 265
Simon Clarke has called for Rishi Sunak to go. A former No10 special adviser has said the Conservatives won’t win the election with Sunak at the helm…
2 years, 3 months ago
Rishi vs. The Rebels
Season 1 Episode 264
Rishi Sunak’s controversial Rwanda legislation has made its way through the House of Commons, but at what cost to his authority? Peter Ricketts, the …
2 years, 3 months ago
The Post Office scandal: Trouble on the horizon
Season 1 Episode 263
The Post Office scandal has been described by Rishi Sunak as one of greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history – so who is responsible, and is th…
2 years, 3 months ago
2024 Preview Special: Let election battles commence
Season 1 Episode 262
2024 is going to be quite some year for politics. A general election is no more than a year away. The Conservatives are still a long way behind in th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Christmas Special: The IfG Fantasy Cabinet
Season 1 Episode 261
Have you opened all your presents and need something to lift your flagging festive spirits? Perhaps those in-laws are staying a little longer than yo…
2 years, 4 months ago
The IfG Review of 2023: Posturing and panicking, poison and paranoia
Season 1 Episode 260
So that was the year that was. Just the one prime minister this time, but plenty of political drama and intrigue, twists and turns, and high and lows…
2 years, 4 months ago
Rishi Sunak’s unhappy Five Families
Season 1 Episode 259
While five groups of right wing Conservative MPs – the so-called “Five Families” – have not been making life easy for the prime minister, Rishi Sunak…
2 years, 4 months ago
Was this Rishi Sunak's worst week yet?
Season 1 Episode 258
Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister, former home secretary Suella Braverman says the Rwanda Bill will lose the Conservatives the next…
2 years, 5 months ago