Podcast Episodes
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Season 1 Episode 328
Pat McFadden – the minister for the Cabinet Office – is making a plea for an army of disruptors to sign up to the Civil Service and make Whitehall th…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Plans they are A-Changing
Season 1 Episode 327
Is that sound the heavy thud of a gauntlet been thrown down? The podcast team are joined by Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Keir Starmer – when he w…
1 year, 5 months ago
The new cabinet secretary: Can Sir Chris Wormald rewire the British state?
Season 1 Episode 326
After weeks of speculation, and many rounds of interviews, Sir Chris Wormald has been confirmed as the UK’s new cabinet secretary. But who is Chris W…
1 year, 5 months ago
Cabi-not yet Secretary
Season 1 Episode 325
It’s a competition that has gripped the nation. The candidates have been whittled down. The country is on tenterhooks. Strictly? Of course not. We’re…
1 year, 5 months ago
Starmer’s Farmer Drama
Season 1 Episode 324
Keir Starmer has been on his travels again, but it has been a tricky week at home for the government. Tim Ross and Rachel Wearmouth, the authors of n…
1 year, 5 months ago
Donald Trump's Team Calls
Season 1 Episode 323
We are living in a different world. Donald Trump’s world.
Kim Darroch, the UK's former ambassador to the US, joins the podcast team to make sense of w…
1 year, 5 months ago
In Conversation with Michael Gove
Season 1 Episode 322
Michael Gove spent more than a decade as a senior government minister, including as secretary of state for education, justice and levelling up. He w…
1 year, 5 months ago
Is the world ready for Donald Trump?
Season 1 Episode 321
Buckle up everyone.
Donald Trump has won the US presidential election and will return to the White House after an extraordinary campaign featuring cr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Rachel Reeves' Halloween budget: trick or treat?
Season 1 Episode 320
Budget day is over and Halloween is here - and Rachel Reeves certainly came up with some pretty scary numbers.
Stewart Wood, a former adviser to Gord…
1 year, 6 months ago
What did Rachel Reeves’ budget reveal about the government’s priorities?
Season 1 Episode 319
Rachel Reeves’ first budget might well be one of the most consequential in years – and is the biggest tax-rising budget in over 30 decades. Spending …
1 year, 6 months ago