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Tuesday, 18 June, 2024

32 min listen
Campaign catch-up: Labour’s dash for growth
Plus, what Rachel Reeves told the FT
Friday, 14 June, 2024

33 min listen
Labour’s manifesto: where will the money come from?
Plus, what might a Labour government mean for your personal finances?
Tuesday, 11 June, 2024

33 min listen
Campaign catch-up: the Tories’ ‘kitchen sink’ manifesto
Plus, the Lib Dems mix pledges and photo-ops
Friday, 7 June, 2024

31 min listen
Tory morale plunges
Plus, the UK’s place in the wider world
Tuesday, 4 June, 2024

23 min listen
Campaign catch-up: Farage is back!
Plus, the Lib Dems’ care policy and a look ahead to the Sunak-Starmer TV debate
Monday, 3 June, 2024

2 min listen
Introducing Untold: Power for Sale
Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times.
Friday, 31 May, 2024

36 min listen
Labour’s messy campaign week
UK election: can the Green party split the leftwing vote?
Friday, 24 May, 2024

41 min listen
Bring it on! Election 2024 kicks off
What to watch out for in the campaign
Friday, 17 May, 2024

42 min listen
Election battle lines drawn up
Plus, a row over graduate visas could leave UK universities fighting for their future
Thursday, 9 May, 2024

48 min listen
Live special: Who will win the UK general election?
Top FT political commentators answer listeners’ questions
Friday, 3 May, 2024

36 min listen
Election special — local poll results roll in
Tories in trouble after election losses
Friday, 26 April, 2024

35 min listen
Chinese spying claims in the UK – and beyond
Plus, the PM’s big move on defence and Labour’s rail renationalisation plans
Friday, 19 April, 2024

41 min listen
Prime ministers’ legacies: Sunak, Truss and Brown
Plus, is it right to allow MPs to vote freely on public health measures?
Friday, 12 April, 2024

32 min listen
The great stink of England’s sewage crisis
Plus, are Angela Rayner’s tax affairs a big problem for Labour or a smear story?
Wednesday, 3 April, 2024

34 min listen
Tory ‘red wall’ seats under threat
Conservatives look set to pay a high electoral price for the failure of ‘levelling up’
Thursday, 28 March, 2024

34 min listen
Britain’s China conundrum
Plus, two more ministers quit in a blow to Sunak
Friday, 22 March, 2024

35 min listen
Will the economy save Sunak?
Plus, what can Labour’s Wes Streeting deliver for the NHS?
Friday, 15 March, 2024

37 min listen
Who’s an extremist in the UK?
Plus, why is it so hard for prime ministers to get things done?
Friday, 8 March, 2024

27 min listen
Jeremy Hunt: tax-cutting wizard or fiscal drag queen?
Will the Tories’ spring Budget shift the political dial?
Friday, 1 March, 2024

29 min listen
Labour’s worst nightmare?
George Galloway returns. Plus, how can the Tories fund tax cuts in the Budget?
Friday, 23 February, 2024

39 min listen
Why would anyone want to become an MP?
Who have the Tories and Labour selected as new candidates at the election? Michael Crick explains the changing face of tomorrow’s MPs
Saturday, 17 February, 2024

34 min listen
Tories reel from by-election blows
Elections guru Sir John Curtice dissects the by-election numbers
Friday, 9 February, 2024

31 min listen
Will Labour’s green U-turn weaken Starmer?
Plus, how popular are the Liz Truss Popular Conservatives?
Friday, 2 February, 2024

37 min listen
Who still votes Conservative?
Gender, age, religion: the new faultlines in how the UK votes
Friday, 26 January, 2024

31 min listen
Who’s behind the Tory plots?
Plus, the dire state of local authority finances