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How To Win An Election — 140 episodes

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How To Promise Everything And Pay For It Later

2

How To Launch Your Premiership In Downing Street

3

How Burnham Risks Being All Things To All People

4

How Farage Triggered A By-Election

5

How To Read Burnham's Blueprint For Government

6

How To Pick Your Chancellor And Cabinet

7

How Keir Went, And Andy Arrived

8

How The By-Election Result Changes Everything

9

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

10

How Burnham Is (Or Isn't) Defining Himself

11

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

12

How The By-Election Will Be Seismic

13

How The Labour Leadership Challenge Could Play Out

14

Emergency Episode: How Long Can Starmer Cling On?

15

How Labour Suffered An Historic Defeat

16

How The Elections Could Be Existential for Labour

17

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

18

How To Defeat The Populists

19

How To Sell Starmer The Statesman

20

How The Energy Shock Helps Starmer Survive

21

How To Shut Down A Political Conspiracy

22

How To Run A Shadow Leadership Campaign

23

How Starmer Became The Passive Prime Minister

24

How The Mandelson Files Weigh On The PM

25

How Trump's War Is Upending British Politics

26

How Labour's By-Election Hammering Damages Starmer

27

How Government Responds To Andrew's Arrest

28

How To Survive In The Number 10 Bunker

29

Emergency Episode: McSweeney Resigns

30

How Mandelson's Downfall Threatens Starmer

31

How To Go To The Polls - If Labour Ditches Starmer

32

How To Reshape The Right

33

How To Sack Robert Jenrick

34

How To Get Some Swagger (Like Donald Trump)

35

How To Predict Whether Starmer Will Survive 2026

36

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

37

How Labour Could Reverse Brexit

38

How To Survive A Tax-Raising Budget

39

How To Make Your MPs Like You

40

How To Plot Against A Prime Minister

41

How Rachel Reeves Will Have To Resign

42

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

43

How To Raise Taxes

44

How To Lose An Election, Really Badly

45

How To Escape Political Oblivion (With A Tax Promise)

46

How To Avoid (Tory) Irrelevance

47

Starmer's Speech: How To Attack Nigel Farage

48

How To Prevent Party Conference Chaos

49

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

50

How To Win The Deputy Leadership - And Mandelson Sacked

51

How To Survive A Scandal

52

How To Holiday With JD Vance

53

How To Win The Summer

54

How To Punish The Labour Rebels

55

How The Populists Are Coming (From Left And Right)

56

How To Respond To A Tearful PMQs

57

How To Learn From Former PMs

58

How To Call A Cobra Emergency Meeting

59

How Reform Plans Another Election Upset

60

How To Stop A Spending Review Revolt

61

How To Bring In An Outsider, Tsar, Or GOAT

62

How To Perform A Giant U-Turn

63

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

64

How To Save A Legacy Party

65

How To Win A Canadian Election

66

How To (Prepare To) Lose An Election

67

How To Turn The Red Wall... Turquoise?

68

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

69

How To Run Number 10

70

How To Sell Austerity 2.0

71

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

72

How To Learn From Farage's Feud

73

How To Be PM In A Global Crisis

74

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

75

The Labour Peer Who Inspired JD Vance

76

How To Survive As A Political Adviser

77

How To Be A Disrupter

78

How To Tell Who's Really In Charge

79

How To Hang Out Your Political Washing

80

How To Respond To Trump

81

How To Stop Your Missions Becoming Impossible

82

How To Say Goodbye To Peter

83

How To Stop Political Chaos Ruining Christmas

84

How To See Off An Insurgent Party

85

How To Keep Blaming Your Predecessors

86

How To Prepare For PMQs

87

How to Handle Elon Musk (And The Farmers)

88

How To Work Out Why You Lost

89

How To Win A US Election, Part II

90

How To Avoid A Budget Blunder

91

How To Manage The News Cycle

92

How To Win A US Election

93

How To Shake Up Downing Street

94

How To Make Starmer A One-Term PM

95

How To Deal With JD Vance

96

How To Whip Your New MPs

97

EMERGENCY EPISODE: How To Win The NEXT Election

98

How To Stay Up For Truss

99

Q&A: How To Replace Joe Biden

100

How Not To Talk About Brexit

101

Q&A: How Not To Bet On Politics

102

How To Oppose A Supermajority

103

Q&A: How Starmer Is Measuring The Curtains

104

How Trump Will Win

105

Q&A: How To Get D-Day Wrong

106

How To Fight Farage

107

How To Dodge A Dodgy Candidate

108

EMERGENCY EPISODE: How To Call An Election!

109

How To Pull Off A Political Stunt

110

How To Tell When The Game's Up

111

How To Leave A Legacy

112

LIVE: How To Spin Defeat

113

How To Defy Political Gravity

114

How To Pitch For The Leadership

115

How To Learn From Liz Truss

116

How To Do A TV Debate

117

How To Win PMQs And The Papers

118

How To Write A Manifesto

119

How To Win With Taylor Swift (And Other Celebrities)

120

How To Defect

121

How To Do The Budget (And The Dishwasher)

122

How To Deal With Truss

123

How To Win In A Recession

124

How To Survive The Campaign

125

How To Follow A Focus Group

126

How To Form A Coalition

127

How Not To Split The Vote

128

How To Win A By-Election

129

How To Destroy Ed Davey

130

How To New Year Relaunch

131

How To Answer Your Questions

132

How To Tell A Political Joke, And Not Become One

133

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

134

How To Bury Boris Johnson (And Other Political Ghosts)

135

How To Crush (Or Cuddle) Your Rebels

136

How To Make Slogans Great Again

137

How To Make A Shock Comeback

138

How To Win At Policy

139

How To Decide When To Call An Election

140

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