Political Backstabbing, Prying Embassy and a Party for Pooh
This week on Mark and Pete, we take a hard look at a British political landscape that feels increasingly unstable, unserious, and oddly theatrical. The episode opens with the defection of Robert Jenrick from the Conservatives to Reform UK, using the moment as a springboard to assess the wider collapse of trust, loyalty, and coherence in UK politics. We explore what this says about principle versus ambition, and why voters are left feeling like spectators at a knife-fight conducted behind closed doors.
We then turn to one of the most controversial proposals currently causing uproar in…
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