Will The Local Elections Spell The End For Starmer?
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20 of 268 episodesIs the UK's "special relationship" with the US officially over?
Welcome back to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. In this week's episode, we discuss the origin of the "special relation...
Why Is Starmer So Vulnerable After The Mandelson Scandal?
Welcome back to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. In this week's episode, we discuss the latest developments in the head...
Why Has The Brexit Debate Returned (Again)?
Welcome back to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. This week, Kevin and Kate discuss why Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves a...
Will The Two-Week Ceasefire Between Iran and The US Work?
Welcome back to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. This week, Kevin and Kate are back together to ask whether Donald Trum...
Are Politicians Taking Misogyny Seriously Enough?
Welcome back to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. In this week's episode, Kate is joined by special guest Millie Cooke –...
Who's Up And Who’s Down Ahead Of May Elections?
Welcome back to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. In this week's episode, we're discussing the May local elections and w...
Why The Iran War Matters For Everyone – Not Just Trump
Welcome back to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. For our returning episode, and our first in four and half years, we're...
Baroness Angela Smith...On Tory Tax Bombshells And Labour's Future
Boris Johnson has taken the biggest gamble of his premiership with a National Insurance hike to fund the NHS and social care. Labour's leade...
Yvette Cooper On The Art Of Govt And Opposition
As MPs head off to their constituencies, rising Covid cases and Channel crossings of asylum seekers are ensuring Boris Johnson cannot put hi...
Sunak's Overseas Aid Ambush: With Andrew Mitchell
The chancellor's late, late move to outflank Tory rebels on international aid cuts won the day, despite MPs voting against the three line wh...
Trading places: Will Liz Truss’s ‘Donut’ Strategy Leave Us With Brexit Indigestion?
Football may or may not be coming home, but Boris Johnson and Liz Truss want British firms to export more abroad. Can the UK’s tricky relati...
Return Of The Saj
Sajid Javid made a phoenix-like return to the Cabinet this week, replacing Matt Hancock after the former health secretary was sensationally...
Brexit Birthday Special
It’s the fifth anniversary of the vote to leave the EU and Brexit is still having a profound impact on British politics. Tory former spad Sa...
Is The Tory Culture War Backfiring In Its Traditional Heartlands?
Boris Johnson this week delayed so-called “freedom day” from Covid restrictions in a bid to get more vaccines into more arms and protect the...
Joe Biden Jets In Amid An Almighty Brexit ‘Mess’
It’s a huge week for Boris Johnson as Joe Biden and leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries arrive in Cornwall for the G7 summit...
Why Cummings Showed The UK Must Ditch ‘Glorious Amateurism’
Dominic Cummings took no prisoners this week when laying out claims of a series of “disastrous” government failures that meant tens of thous...
Why Labour Should Be Braver To Win Back The Red Wall
Weeks of optimism and cheer as Covid restrictions were eased gave way to another bout of nationwide nervousness amid localised spikes in inf...
What Is ‘Levelling Up’ And Can Boris Johnson Deliver?
The government’s legislative agenda for the next year or so was unveiled in this week’s Queen’s Speech. But it was perhaps more notable for...
Local Elections Special: What Went Wrong For Labour
Labour suffered a disastrous series of results in the “super Thursday” local elections, capped by a huge and humiliating defeat to the Torie...