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How To Win An Election — 122 episodes

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1

How To Sell Starmer The Statesman

2

How The Energy Shock Helps Starmer Survive

3

How To Shut Down A Political Conspiracy

4

How To Run A Shadow Leadership Campaign

5

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

48

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)

51

How To Run Number 10

52

How To Sell Austerity 2.0

53

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

54

How To Learn From Farage's Feud

55

How To Be PM In A Global Crisis

56

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

57

The Labour Peer Who Inspired JD Vance

58

How To Survive As A Political Adviser

59

How To Be A Disrupter

60

How To Tell Who's Really In Charge

61

How To Hang Out Your Political Washing

62

How To Respond To Trump

63

How To Stop Your Missions Becoming Impossible

64

How To Say Goodbye To Peter

65

How To Stop Political Chaos Ruining Christmas

66

How To See Off An Insurgent Party

67

How To Keep Blaming Your Predecessors

68

How To Prepare For PMQs

69

How to Handle Elon Musk (And The Farmers)

70

How To Work Out Why You Lost

71

How To Win A US Election, Part II

72

How To Avoid A Budget Blunder

73

How To Manage The News Cycle

74

How To Win A US Election

75

How To Shake Up Downing Street

76

How To Make Starmer A One-Term PM

77

How To Deal With JD Vance

78

How To Whip Your New MPs

79

EMERGENCY EPISODE: How To Win The NEXT Election

80

How To Stay Up For Truss

81

Q&A: How To Replace Joe Biden

82

How Not To Talk About Brexit

83

Q&A: How Not To Bet On Politics

84

How To Oppose A Supermajority

85

Q&A: How Starmer Is Measuring The Curtains

86

How Trump Will Win

87

Q&A: How To Get D-Day Wrong

88

How To Fight Farage

89

How To Dodge A Dodgy Candidate

90

EMERGENCY EPISODE: How To Call An Election!

91

How To Pull Off A Political Stunt

92

How To Tell When The Game's Up

93

How To Leave A Legacy

94

LIVE: How To Spin Defeat

95

How To Defy Political Gravity

96

How To Pitch For The Leadership

97

How To Learn From Liz Truss

98

How To Do A TV Debate

99

How To Win PMQs And The Papers

100

How To Write A Manifesto

101

How To Win With Taylor Swift (And Other Celebrities)

102

How To Defect

103

How To Do The Budget (And The Dishwasher)

104

How To Deal With Truss

105

How To Win In A Recession

106

How To Survive The Campaign

107

How To Follow A Focus Group

108

How To Form A Coalition

109

How Not To Split The Vote

110

How To Win A By-Election

111

How To Destroy Ed Davey

112

How To New Year Relaunch

113

How To Answer Your Questions

114

How To Tell A Political Joke, And Not Become One

115

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

116

How To Bury Boris Johnson (And Other Political Ghosts)

117

How To Crush (Or Cuddle) Your Rebels

118

How To Make Slogans Great Again

119

How To Make A Shock Comeback

120

How To Win At Policy

121

How To Decide When To Call An Election

122

Introducing: How To Win An Election