Why is Labour risking a row over migration?
As home secretary Shabana Mahmood announces her controversial migration plans, Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the political context t...
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The Guardian's political editors Anushka Asthana and Heather Stewart are joined every week by commentators, experts and politicians to unpack the biggest stories in politics.
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20 of 367 episodesWhy politicians chasing economic growth is a lie | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
What if someone told you the truth about the economy? For years, governments have tried spending more, spending less, cutting red tape, Brex...
Will Healey’s budget tackle the cost of living?
John Healey has delivered a ‘steady as she goes’ budget, with help for the cost of living a big theme. The chancellor promised a £100 energy...
What makes Andy Burnham think Britain can rejoin the EU?
Andy Burnham claims revising Brexit would ‘bring people together’. The PM wants to look again at issues such as free movement but rules out...
“Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck” – playwright James Graham | Radical Thinking
Are we doomscrolling our way into a democratic crisis? That’s what the playwright James Graham fears may be happening, as he suggests that o...
Rosebank row: will Labour block the oilfield?
The government has given the go-ahead for the Jackdaw gasfield, but that was the easy part. The next big headache is the Rosebank oilfield....
Who is Alan Milburn and will he get young people back to work?
As young people take to the streets across the world to protest over living standards, Andy Burnham is hoping the former health secretary Al...
‘Austerity is inevitably painful’: How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
For more than three decades, Michael Gove has been a leading figure in British Conservatism. As a journalist, government minister and now ed...
Is Andy Burnham in hot water over Manchester City?
Andy Burnham is being accused of a serious misjudgment over his comments about meetings with Manchester City’s owners. Kiran Stacey discusse...
Was Burnham right to talk about Russian interference in Brexit?
Andy Burnham has started an almighty row by claiming that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. He also says he wants the UK to h...
‘Gaza is a moral tear in the universe’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
Are we really living through ‘end times fascism’? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so. In a new series from the Guardian, the pair speak t...
Did the Zionism row lose it for Zack Polanski?
Zack Polanski has lost the Holborn and St Pancras byelection to Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali. Despite the Greens increasing their vote share fro...
M&S Kemi: can the Tory leader win over core vote?
Kemi Badenoch has promised to ditch inheritance tax on family homes if elected as prime minister, leading to criticism that she is prioritis...
Why Kemi Badenoch embraces being the leader of the ‘nasty party’
Kemi Badenoch is kicking off Conservative party conference with a little bounce in her step and her personal poll ratings improved. But crit...
'There’s no such thing as democracy': Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior econom...
Burnham’s triple lock gamble
Andy Burnham has delivered a powerful and emotional speech to the Labour conference. He announced policies on pensions, social care and elec...
‘They will bow’: energy secretary challenges Reform and Tories
Speaking to Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, said a mark...
Andy Burnham shows his emotional side
Andy Burnham will make his first speech at Labour conference as prime minister on Tuesday. Ahead of that, he has been talking to Pippa Crera...
What really happened in the room with Burnham and Trump
Pippa Crerar had a front row seat for the PM’s first meeting with Donald Trump. What really happened during that 12-minute press conference?...
Can Andy Burnham pull off the ‘Mamdani effect’ on Donald Trump?
The UK prime minister will meet the US president for the first time in New York on Tuesday. With Trump at his weakest in the polls, could th...