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How To Win An Election

How To Win An Election

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How To Win An Election is a news podcast hosted by Times Radio. It has 122 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

The Times brings together some of the most experienced strategists in British politics to discuss what's really going on behind the big stories, and elections taking place here and around the world.Daniel Finkelstein, Sally Morgan and Polly Mackenzie join Hugo Rifkind for an intelligent, adversarial and witty conversation every week.Follow the podcast now to never miss an episode.Send questions, comments and voicenotes to: [email protected] Producer: Andrew Alexander Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How To Sell Starmer The Statesman

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How The Energy Shock Helps Starmer Survive

3

How To Shut Down A Political Conspiracy

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How To Run A Shadow Leadership Campaign

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How Starmer Became The Passive Prime Minister

6

How The Mandelson Files Weigh On The PM

7

How Trump's War Is Upending British Politics

8

How Labour's By-Election Hammering Damages Starmer

9

How Government Responds To Andrew's Arrest

10

How To Survive In The Number 10 Bunker

11

Emergency Episode: McSweeney Resigns

12

How Mandelson's Downfall Threatens Starmer

13

How To Go To The Polls - If Labour Ditches Starmer

14

How To Reshape The Right

15

How To Sack Robert Jenrick

16

How To Get Some Swagger (Like Donald Trump)

17

How To Predict Whether Starmer Will Survive 2026

18

How... The Elections Were Won And Lost: Nick Clegg

19

How Labour Could Reverse Brexit

20

How To Survive A Tax-Raising Budget

21

How To Make Your MPs Like You

22

How To Plot Against A Prime Minister

23

How Rachel Reeves Will Have To Resign

24

How...The Elections Were Won And Lost: Hague & The Tories in 2001

25

How To Raise Taxes

26

How To Lose An Election, Really Badly

27

How To Escape Political Oblivion (With A Tax Promise)

28

How To Avoid (Tory) Irrelevance

29

Starmer's Speech: How To Attack Nigel Farage

30

How To Prevent Party Conference Chaos

31

How (And When) To Topple A Leader - With Jeremy Hunt

32

How To Win The Deputy Leadership - And Mandelson Sacked

33

How To Survive A Scandal

34

How To Holiday With JD Vance

35

How To Win The Summer

36

How To Punish The Labour Rebels

37

How The Populists Are Coming (From Left And Right)

38

How To Respond To A Tearful PMQs

39

How To Learn From Former PMs

40

How To Call A Cobra Emergency Meeting

41

How Reform Plans Another Election Upset

42

How To Stop A Spending Review Revolt

43

How To Bring In An Outsider, Tsar, Or GOAT

44

How To Perform A Giant U-Turn

45

How… The Elections Were Won And Lost: Labour in 1992

46

How To Save A Legacy Party

47

How To Win A Canadian Election

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How To (Prepare To) Lose An Election

49

How To Turn The Red Wall... Turquoise?

50

How To Take On The Flabby State (With Michael Gove)

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