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How To Win An Election — 133 episodes

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1

How The By-Election Result Changes Everything

2

How Will The Days After The By-Election Play Out?

3

How Burnham Is (Or Isn't) Defining Himself

4

How... The Elections Were Won And Lost: Michael Heseltine

5

How The By-Election Will Be Seismic

6

How The Labour Leadership Challenge Could Play Out

7

Emergency Episode: How Long Can Starmer Cling On?

8

How Labour Suffered An Historic Defeat

9

How The Elections Could Be Existential for Labour

10

How To Decide When (And If) The PM Will Be Challenged

11

How To Defeat The Populists

12

How To Sell Starmer The Statesman

13

How The Energy Shock Helps Starmer Survive

14

How To Shut Down A Political Conspiracy

15

How To Run A Shadow Leadership Campaign

16

How Starmer Became The Passive Prime Minister

17

How The Mandelson Files Weigh On The PM

18

How Trump's War Is Upending British Politics

19

How Labour's By-Election Hammering Damages Starmer

20

How Government Responds To Andrew's Arrest

21

How To Survive In The Number 10 Bunker

22

Emergency Episode: McSweeney Resigns

23

How Mandelson's Downfall Threatens Starmer

24

How To Go To The Polls - If Labour Ditches Starmer

25

How To Reshape The Right

26

How To Sack Robert Jenrick

27

How To Get Some Swagger (Like Donald Trump)

28

How To Predict Whether Starmer Will Survive 2026

29

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

30

How Labour Could Reverse Brexit

31

How To Survive A Tax-Raising Budget

32

How To Make Your MPs Like You

33

How To Plot Against A Prime Minister

34

How Rachel Reeves Will Have To Resign

35

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

36

How To Raise Taxes

37

How To Lose An Election, Really Badly

38

How To Escape Political Oblivion (With A Tax Promise)

39

How To Avoid (Tory) Irrelevance

40

Starmer's Speech: How To Attack Nigel Farage

41

How To Prevent Party Conference Chaos

42

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

43

How To Win The Deputy Leadership - And Mandelson Sacked

44

How To Survive A Scandal

45

How To Holiday With JD Vance

46

How To Win The Summer

47

How To Punish The Labour Rebels

48

How The Populists Are Coming (From Left And Right)

49

How To Respond To A Tearful PMQs

50

How To Learn From Former PMs

51

How To Call A Cobra Emergency Meeting

52

How Reform Plans Another Election Upset

53

How To Stop A Spending Review Revolt

54

How To Bring In An Outsider, Tsar, Or GOAT

55

How To Perform A Giant U-Turn

56

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

57

How To Save A Legacy Party

58

How To Win A Canadian Election

59

How To (Prepare To) Lose An Election

60

How To Turn The Red Wall... Turquoise?

61

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

62

How To Run Number 10

63

How To Sell Austerity 2.0

64

How To Lose A By-Election (And Sell Your Tesla)

65

How To Learn From Farage's Feud

66

How To Be PM In A Global Crisis

67

How To Tell Jokes, Deal With Trump, And Welcome Sally

68

The Labour Peer Who Inspired JD Vance

69

How To Survive As A Political Adviser

70

How To Be A Disrupter

71

How To Tell Who's Really In Charge

72

How To Hang Out Your Political Washing

73

How To Respond To Trump

74

How To Stop Your Missions Becoming Impossible

75

How To Say Goodbye To Peter

76

How To Stop Political Chaos Ruining Christmas

77

How To See Off An Insurgent Party

78

How To Keep Blaming Your Predecessors

79

How To Prepare For PMQs

80

How to Handle Elon Musk (And The Farmers)

81

How To Work Out Why You Lost

82

How To Win A US Election, Part II

83

How To Avoid A Budget Blunder

84

How To Manage The News Cycle

85

How To Win A US Election

86

How To Shake Up Downing Street

87

How To Make Starmer A One-Term PM

88

How To Deal With JD Vance

89

How To Whip Your New MPs

90

EMERGENCY EPISODE: How To Win The NEXT Election

91

How To Stay Up For Truss

92

Q&A: How To Replace Joe Biden

93

How Not To Talk About Brexit

94

Q&A: How Not To Bet On Politics

95

How To Oppose A Supermajority

96

Q&A: How Starmer Is Measuring The Curtains

97

How Trump Will Win

98

Q&A: How To Get D-Day Wrong

99

How To Fight Farage

100

How To Dodge A Dodgy Candidate

101

EMERGENCY EPISODE: How To Call An Election!

102

How To Pull Off A Political Stunt

103

How To Tell When The Game's Up

104

How To Leave A Legacy

105

LIVE: How To Spin Defeat

106

How To Defy Political Gravity

107

How To Pitch For The Leadership

108

How To Learn From Liz Truss

109

How To Do A TV Debate

110

How To Win PMQs And The Papers

111

How To Write A Manifesto

112

How To Win With Taylor Swift (And Other Celebrities)

113

How To Defect

114

How To Do The Budget (And The Dishwasher)

115

How To Deal With Truss

116

How To Win In A Recession

117

How To Survive The Campaign

118

How To Follow A Focus Group

119

How To Form A Coalition

120

How Not To Split The Vote

121

How To Win A By-Election

122

How To Destroy Ed Davey

123

How To New Year Relaunch

124

How To Answer Your Questions

125

How To Tell A Political Joke, And Not Become One

126

How To Raise A War Chest - And How To Waste It

127

How To Bury Boris Johnson (And Other Political Ghosts)

128

How To Crush (Or Cuddle) Your Rebels

129

How To Make Slogans Great Again

130

How To Make A Shock Comeback

131

How To Win At Policy

132

How To Decide When To Call An Election

133

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