The Lockdown Files: Episode 6, The Forgotten Victims
In January 2021, the first Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccines made their way into people’s arms. By mid-march, 11 million people had received the j...
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The Lockdown Files: Episode 5, The Fallout
In the face of major disasters, it is perhaps inevitable that there will be missteps. And when the dust settles, people are asked to account...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 4, Project Fear
Is it ever ok to scare the public? In this episode, the reporters dig into leaked messages which show a discussion between Matt Hancock and...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 3, The Case on Care Homes
Tens of thousands of care home residents died during the pandemic. Many people see it as the government’s biggest failure. Matt Hancock’s Wh...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 2, The Road to Lockdown
The Investigations team looks back on the early days of the pandemic. How prepared was the government? Was lockdown inevitable? But they hit...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 1, The Leak
In January 2023, reporters at the Telegraph are called into a meeting. The newspaper has got something big. Matt Hancock’s Whatsapps from wh...
BONUS: Richard Sharp's Exclusive Exit Interview from the BBC
In this bonus episode of Chopper's politics, former BBC chairman Richard Sharp joins Chris for his 'exit interview' to discuss the controver...
Cheerio... with Gove, Rees Mogg, Forde and Cox
Over 360 episodes, 8.2 million listens and one Red Lion Pub, welcome to the last edition of Choppers Politics Podcast. Joining the Telegraph...
School children identifying as Lions & Tigers & Bears, oh my!
It’s been a week when the economic picture has worsened for millions of us and to discuss the government wrestling with the problem - and ho...
Banks, Boris and the "blob"
Treasury minister Andrew Griffith MP hot-foots it across the road to the Red Lion pub to tell Christopher Hope that he thinks banks should h...
Boris blames kangaroo court: has Johnson gone "full Trump"?
On the day the former PM faces having his parliamentary pass removed after being found to have “deliberately” misled MPs over partygate, Chr...
"Disinformation" with David Davis
Finally the Covid inquiry starts next week - and the Government is in a right old tangle over what to do about it. Veteran Conservative MP a...
Back to work, back to Boris, and the Taxing Tories
With the advent of AI and concerns over 8 million 'economically inactive' people in Britain, we thought it was high time we asked Mel Stride...
Borders, bonking and Liam Byrne
Immigration. The issue which drove so many people to vote to leave the EU before the 2016 EU referendum is back in the news and rising as an...
Hope, charity and "lying bastards"
Olympian James Cracknell joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion to explain why he hopes become a Tory MP, appropriately in Henley on Thames,...
"We are slipping into authoritarianism"
Sir Charles Walker MP joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion this week to express his fears that we are descending into authoritarianism, af...
Local Elections: Tories take a battering but can Labour claim victory?
Sir Keir Starmer claims that Labour is on course to win a majority at the next general election, after the party made gains and the Tories s...
Bring back campaigner Boris says Greg Hands
Christopher Hope gets a field trip this week, leaving the Red Lion behind for Lewes in Sussex. Chopper is joined by Conservative Party Chair...
Could the Conservatives claw back into the election race?
Tory grandee Sir Robert Syms makes a startling prediction to Christopher Hope in the Red Lion this week - he thinks his party can win the ne...
A deep dive into Britain's newest trade deal - the CPTPP
Chopper is off frolicking in the sun so this week Dia Chakravarty is in the podcast hotseat for an in-depth look at a subject that saw Conse...