Reform UK gains at Labour’s expense in local elections
It has been a crushing set of local and devolved elections for Labour, with Reform UK making huge gains across the country and the Greens wi...
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20 of 302 episodesCan the Greens and Reform win big in London? podcast
This week Politics Weekly is on the road with the Greens in Hackney and Reform UK in Bromley ahead of the local elections to see why people...
Will Reform dominate the local and devolved elections?
Pippa Crerar is joined by the election analyst Prof Rob Ford to look at the upcoming local and devolved elections. Will Reform dominate acro...
Will this be another nightmare week for Keir Starmer?
Keir Starmer is facing another tumultuous week. His former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney will be grilled in front of MPs on Tuesday over t...
Has Starmer’s sacking of Olly Robbins backfired?
After Keir Starmer’s statement to the Commons and gripping evidence from the sacked top civil servant Olly Robbins, Pippa Crerar and Kiran S...
Judgment day for Starmer?
Keir Starmer has updated the House of Commons on what he knew, and when, in regard to Peter Mandelson’s vetting for the post of UK ambassado...
Is Keir Starmer ‘complacent’ on defence?
Keir Starmer has hit back at Labour peer George Robertson’s criticisms about defence funding. Why has the government been slow to prioritise...
Hormuz, Hungary and the UK shifting closer to the EU
After 16 years in power in Hungary, Viktor Orbán has been defeated, marking a huge shift in the European Union. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer has...
Trump and the Middle East: can Starmer do anything?
Keir Starmer and the UK government are scrabbling to keep up with Trump’s fast-changing position on Iran and the Middle East. While a two-we...
The Greens, Reform and the end of two-party politics?
In part two of our interview, Kiran Stacey speaks to the political scientist Prof Rob Ford about the voters Labour and the Conservatives are...
Labour’s mistakes: is it too late to turn things around?
In part one of a special two-part interview, Kiran Stacey talks to the political scientist Prof Robert Ford about Labour’s so-called ‘landsl...
How will the Iran war play at the ballot box in May?
Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot look at how the continuing and deepening conflict in the Middle East will hit people in the UK, and how it co...
Wes Streeting: ‘I don’t want to see Keir challenged in May’
Wes Streeting gave a speech outlining his performance on the NHS and plans for the future. Was this his unofficial leadership pitch? Pippa C...
Trump rows back on strait of Hormuz threat – what next?
The US president has extended by five days his deadline to ‘hit and obliterate’ Iran’s power stations and energy infrastructure if Tehran do...
Off Duty: The Crime
On the evening of 29 December 2011, Officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in....
Do the Conservatives have a problem with Muslims?
At the launch of the Conservative local elections campaign on Thursday, Peter Walker asked Kemi Badenoch about her shadow justice secretary’...
Can Starmer avoid being drawn into the US-Iran war?
The PM says the UK will not be dragged into wider war in the Middle East and pledges support for households struggling to pay for heating oi...
How damaging are the Mandelson files for Starmer?
As the first tranche of documents relating to the hiring of Peter Mandelson are released, how bad will the fallout be for Keir Starmer and t...
Is the UK government prepared for oil price hikes?
Oil prices have already shot up thanks to the US-Israeli war in Iran. But what is the economic fallout likely to be? Will interest rates ris...
Has Starmer been too weak on Iran?
The UK prime minister has defended his stance on the war in the Middle East amid growing pressure from Cyprus, Bahrain and the UAE. John Har...
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