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The Politics Show
Helping you make sense of politics – every week.
Anoosh Chakelian and the New Statesman team bring you sharp reporting, clear analysis and thoughtful conversations to help you understand what’s really going on in Westminster and beyond.
The New Statesman is Britain’s leading source of news and commentary on politics and culture with a progressive perspective. On The Politics Show, our journalists and expert guests cut through the noise of the headlines to explain the forces shaping our world…
Episodes
The Politics ShowHow to fix the NHS, with Phil Whitaker
With the crisis in the health service growing, the New Statesman’s medical editor Phil Whitaker speaks to Rachel Cunliffe about his prescription for fixing it…
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SPOTLIGHT: Are we there yet?: The EV story - with Wejo
A special podcast from Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement - The New Statesman podcast will return tomorrow. In 2020, the UK announced the end of…
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From Scotland to Stormont, is Rishi Sunak losing the Union?
Rishi Sunak’s government has decided to block legislation to simplify gender recognition passed by the Scottish Parliament using a mechanism that’s being…
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Why Britain’s economy has never been worse, with Duncan Weldon
Will Dunn, the New Statesman’s business editor, is joined by the journalist and former political adviser Duncan Weldon to discuss how Britain is facing a…
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Is Rishi Sunak's anti-strike law a trap for Labour?
After the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition met across the despatch box for the first time in 2023, Anoosh Chakelian is joined by the New…
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How do the SNP and Welsh Labour compare with the Tories in England?
In a devolution special for the New Statesman Podcast, we take a look at how the NHS crisis - and other political problems - are playing out in Scotland and…
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Sunak vs Starmer: The battle of the New Year’s speeches
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer welcomed in 2023 with speeches setting out their priorities for the year and beyond. Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Rachel…
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Will Labour change the voting system?
Half of Britain (51 per cent) wants the voting system to change, according to the British Social Attitudes survey, while only 44 per cent want to retain the…
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From partygate to Trussonomics, 2022 in review
In a special episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Harry Lambert joins Anoosh Chakelian to look back at the year in politics. They cast their minds back to the…
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SPOTLIGHT: How connected vehicle data is going to change the world - with Wejo
In the very near future, your car will use data from your mobile device to help you navigate and stay safe. But vehicles already generate useful data. In the…
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The best of culture in 2022
A special Boxing Day episode hosted by Rachel Cunliffe, looking back at the best (and worst) of the year in culture. She is joined by Tom Gatti, the New…
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Rishi Sunak could face more NHS strikes next year
It’s been an unprecedented week of strike action involving both nurses and ambulance workers – and the government still refuses to negotiate with NHS unions…
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Why Love Actually has ruined politics, with Jonn Elledge
In a special festive edition of the New Statesman Podcast, NS columnist Jonn Elledge speaks to Rachel Cunliffe about the highs and lows of the year, how Love…
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Are strike politics trickier for Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer?
Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland went on strike today for the first time in their history. With the UK facing “winter lockdown” following the…
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What politicians get wrong about immigration, with Sunder Katwala
After figures showed record net migration to the UK in 2022, is immigration still a toxic political issue? Freddie Hayward talks to Sunder Katwala, director of…
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Are British prime ministers too powerful? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined
The writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our third series of Westminster Reimagined. In six…
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Is Rishi Sunak’s authority starting to crumble? With Andrew Marr
Keir Starmer dubbed Rishi Sunak the “blancmange prime minister” – comparing him to a particularly weak and wobbly dessert – after he U-turned on new onshore…
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Can Labour end “trickle-down” education?
Keir Starmer has used Winchester, the elite independent school Rishi Sunak attended, to attack the Tory party over tax benefits for private schools, saying it…
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Can Britain make Brexit work? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined
The writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our third series of Westminster Reimagined. In six…
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Redrawing the UK’s electoral map: who’s set to win and lose?
For the first time since 2010, constituency boundaries are set to be redrawn. The Boundary Commission for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has…
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Why are so many Conservative MPs standing down? With Charlotte Ivers
As the Conservative Party deadline approaches for MPs to say whether they want to run in the next election, many young Tory MPs have already announced that…
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Can politics survive a post-truth world? with Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined
The writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our third series of Westminster Reimagined. In six…
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Why is Brexit back to haunt the Tory party?
Rishi Sunak has denied reports that the government is preparing to seek a “Swiss-style” deal with the EU over the next decade to rebuild economic ties with the…
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Bonus: Anti-microbial resistance: the crisis that could spell the end of medicine - with Pfizer
In 2014, the then prime minister David Cameron commissioned a review into a worrying global phenomenon: an increase in drug-resistant infections. “If we fail…
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Rishi Sunak four weeks on
In a special episode of the New Statesman podcast, recorded live at the Cambridge Literary Festival, Rachel Wearmouth, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker look back…
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Is Britain falling apart? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined
The writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our third series of Westminster Reimagined. In six…
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Jeremy Hunt’s doom-filled Autumn Statement
Rachel Cunliffe, Freddie Hayward and Rachel Wearmouth dissect the Autumn Statement, which will leave Britain with highest tax burden since the Second World…
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Is the Conservative Party doomed? With John Oxley
As Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt prepare for a Budget that will likely mean years of austerity, Rachel Cunliffe talks to the Conservative commentator John Oxley…
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Jon Stewart & Armando Iannucci: has the special relationship become a kiss of death? | Westminster Reimagined
The legendary writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our third series of Westminster Reimagined…
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The Gavs and Gav-nots: how the Tories are still divided
Gavin Williamson has resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio after a string of bullying allegations, including expletive-laden texts to a…
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Why Rishi Sunak flip-flopped on Cop
As Cop27, the UN climate conference, starts in Egypt, Anoosh Chakelian is joined by India Bourke, our environment correspondent, to discuss why Rishi Sunak…
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“It’s inequality, stupid.” With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined
The writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci, returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our third series of Westminster Reimagined. In six…
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Rishi Sunak’s first ten days – with Andrew Marr
Anoosh Chakelian, the New Statesman’s Britain editor, is joined by Andrew Marr, political editor, and Rachel Wearmouth, deputy political editor, to assess…
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How to get better leaders – with Brian Klaas
With the Conservatives on to their fifth prime minister in just six years, we talk to the political scientist and author Brian Klaas about the leadership…
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Which version of Rishi Sunak will Britain get?
Rishi Sunak attended his first PMQs on Wednesday 26 October, and seemed to buoy up his divided party with Johnsonite attack lines on Labour – but can he hold…
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Rishi Sunak wins – what now?
The UK is to have a new prime minister whose policies are unknown and no one but Tory MPs voted for. Public appetite for a general election is high. What will…
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BONUS: How the lettuce became Liz Truss’s nemesis, with Jon Livesey
In this bonus episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Rachel Cunliffe interviews the Daily Star deputy editor-in-chief Jon Livesey about how a lettuce livestream…
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Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 44 days in office
Liz Truss has announced she will stand down as prime minister after her government was plunged into chaos yesterday. The Home Secretary was forced to resign…
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Will Liz Truss last the week?
In a desperate attempt to stabilise the financial markets Jeremy Hunt, the newly appointed Chancellor, has reversed “almost all” of the tax cuts announced in…
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Horror in the City at the Tories' mini-Budget, with the economist and former trader Gary Stevenson
Emma Haslett, The New Statesman’s associate business editor, speaks to Gary Stevenson, an economist and former trader for Citibank, a job he initially won in a…
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Will Liz Truss sack Kwasi Kwarteng to save herself?
What was left of Liz Truss’s authority visibly dissipated in Prime Minister’s Questions this week. As Freddie Hayward reports, the atmosphere was “funereal”…
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How Liz Truss is fuelling the energy crisis, with Dale Vince
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Dale Vince, a green energy industrialist and founder of Ecotricity, a renewable energy company. Vince’s book Manifesto: How a…
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Are the Conservatives preparing for opposition? With Andrew Marr
As conference season ends, our Political Editor, Andrew Marr, discusses the Conservative and Labour conferences with Freddie Hayward and Anoosh Chakelian. They…
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Rebellious Tory MPs look for Liz Truss’s successor
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Freddie Hayward, Rachel Wearmouth and Harry Lambert, who are reporting from the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. They…
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Labour is in an anti-London "Tory trap": Sadiq Khan vs Andy Burnham
This is a special episode recorded live at the New Statesman’s fringe event at this year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Anoosh Chakelian sits down…
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Inside Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s economic meltdown, with David Gauke and Duncan Weldon
With the cost of debt rising and the pound still falling, just how much damage has the Conservatives’ mini-Budget done to the economy? To unpick what’s going…
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Is Keir Starmer’s vision enough? With Ed Miliband
Anoosh Chakelian and Freddie Hayward are joined by Ed Miliband, the shadow climate change and net zero secretary and former Labour leader, to discuss Keir…
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Is Labour finally a government in waiting?
Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Rachel Wearmouth report from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. They discuss the remarkably upbeat mood among the…
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The Tories’ plan to make the rich richer
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor, presented a mini-Budget today (23 September) whose centrepiece was the biggest tax cuts in decades in an attempt to stimulate…
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Inside Britain’s housing crisis
The UK has a housing crisis: in the past decade, decent and stable living arrangements have become an impossible dream for many. The New Statesman’s senior…
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Trussonomics: Is Trickling Down the new Levelling Up?
The newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, is facing criticism after he sacked Tom Scholar, permanent secretary at the Treasury since…
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How the death of the Queen affects government
The ceremonies following the death of the Queen continue this week. Freddie Hayward speaks to Anoosh Chakelian about what the mood has been like at the public…
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The Queen dies and an era ends
A special podcast from the New Statesman to reflect on the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of Charles III. Andrew Marr, political editor, Megan Gibson…
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Liz Truss's first days, with Andrew Marr
The Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has announced her plans to help with the energy crisis. Anoosh Chakelian is joined by the New Statesman’s political editor…
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Liz Truss wins. But can she deliver, deliver, deliver?
As predicted, Liz Truss has beaten Rishi Sunak in the race to become the next prime minister of the UK. She won the Tory leadership contest by a comfortable…
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Will the next PM be another Boris Johnson? In conversation with Adam Fleming
With just days until we find out who Britain’s next prime minister will be, we take a look back at the outgoing Conservative leader: what shaped Boris Johnson?…
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How big is the economic crisis the UK is facing? With Duncan Weldon
As the cost-of-living crisis and rapidly rising energy prices look set to push the UK into recession, how bad is the situation and what could be done about it?…
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Tory cuts catch up with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak
The Conservative leadership contest limps towards its conclusion with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak attending the final hustings this week. And as the country…
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What can Keir Starmer learn from Joe Biden? With Matthew McGregor
As the US president Joe Biden starts to turn around his poor polling figures ahead of the midterm elections later this year, are there lessons that the Labour…
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Are the Tories in trouble over the economy?
UK inflation has risen above 10 per cent for the first time in 40 years, driving the fastest fall in real pay on record. The defining challenge for the next…