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Political Currency — 301 episodes

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EMQs: The reality of reshuffles

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Will Burnham’s radical reshuffle work?

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EMQs: Why don’t politicians apologise?

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How Ann Widdecombe’s killing has reshaped British politics

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EMQs: Why no one will end the triple lock

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Is Reform unravelling?

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EMQs: Are holiday taxes a threat to tourism?

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The two major challenges facing Andy Burnham

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EMQs: The reshuffle dilemma facing Andy Burnham

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The Andy Burnham we know

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HOT TAKE: Starmer resigns, what comes next?

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EMQs: Keir Starmer’s problem with ministers

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How’s Britain and George Osborne, 10 years on from Brexit?

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EMQs: Will new laws protect children online?

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Is it the final blow for Starmer as Healey resigns?

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EMQs: The best place to be an MP if you're a lover of rhubarb

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Did Farage go too far or score political points this week?

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EMQs: Is Makerfield the UK’s presidential election?

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Is Tony Blair the Logan Roy of Britain?

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EMQs: Should retired politicians go on Question Time?

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Burnham, Streeting, and Rayner’s race to No. 10

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EMQs: Should we vote on weekends?

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Who should be the next prime minister?

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HOT TAKE: Is it over for Starmer?

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EMQs: Is politics like snooker?

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Why are Labour so aggressive on the Greens?

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EMQs: Should MPs drink in parliament?

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Why no one can 'land a glove' on Farage

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EMQs: What do the public think of Ed and George?

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Is the clock ticking for Keir Starmer?

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EMQs: Should PMs be youthful or experienced?

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Is it risky for the Chancellor to attack Trump?

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What If: George was PM during Covid?

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Inside The Room - The Libya Conflict: The Aftermath (Part Three)

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Inside The Room - The Libya Conflict: The Campaign (Part Two)

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Inside The Room - The Libya Conflict: The Build Up (Part One)

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EMQs: Is Wes Streeting a good health secretary?

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What on earth happened to Morgan McSweeney’s phone?

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EMQs: Are robotaxis coming for London?

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Has the race to succeed Starmer kicked off?

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EMQs: From Beatlemania to... K-pop?

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Is there an inflation crisis coming?

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EMQs: Are betting markets more reliable than polling?

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Trump’s Iran Strike and Britain’s Dilemma

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EMQs: Will the AI bubble burst?

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The existential threats facing Keir Starmer

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EMQs: Is it time for another referendum?

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How bad could the by-election be for Labour?

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EMQs: Are we influencers now?

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Starmer’s worst week yet (after last week)

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EMQs: What if a PM is incapacitated?

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Could the Mandelson Scandal bring Starmer down?

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EMQs: Do defections make the Tories electable?

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Has Keir Starmer missed an opportunity on his visit to China?

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EMQs: Nick Clegg as Chancellor?

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Inside Trump’s Davos Moment

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EMQs: Who can solve the business rates debacle?

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Is Robert Jenrick’s defection a threat to Nigel Farage’s leadership?

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EMQs: What’s your snakiest political move?

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Will pubs be the next big Labour U-turn?

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What if: Obama versus Trump 2028?

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Bridget Phillipson on the two-child cap, Reform, and the deputy leadership

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Christmas EMQs: Who is the ultimate political traitor?

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Sir Ed Davey on his plan to take the fight to the far right

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EMQs: What's your most embarrassing moment as a politician?

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Which party will dominate 2026?

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EMQs: What’s the hardest question you’ve had to answer?

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Is the US turning its back on Europe?

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EMQs: Is it time to abolish the state pension triple lock?

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When will Labour’s communication catastrophe end?

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EMQs: How much power do chancellors have?

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Has Chancellor Rachel Reeves abandoned growth?

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Budget Hot Take: Has Chancellor Rachel Reeves saved herself? | LIVE reaction

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EMQs: Is it time for a Tory/Labour truce?

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Is Shabana Mahmood the heir to Blair?

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EMQs: Is PMQs just 'political theatre'?

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Starmer v Streeting: Is it curtains for Keir?

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EMQs: What does 'fairness' actually mean in politics?

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Is this Rachel Reeves’ last throw of the dice?

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EMQs: TikTok, Strictly, and foreign aid

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Can Starmer hold on as PM?

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EMQs: Is the political centre dead?

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Why blaming Brexit won’t save Rachel Reeves

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EMQs: Would you serve in your political rival’s cabinet?

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Inside the China spy crisis shaking Starmer’s government

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EMQs: Could George Osborne still be a Tory MP?

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Has Kemi Badenoch saved herself?

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EMQs: The return of the TBGBs?

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Will Starmer's attack on Farage pay off?

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What REALLY goes on at party conference?

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Is Andy Burnham coming for Keir Starmer’s job?

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EMQs: Is there room for optimism in politics?

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A looming coup for Starmer?

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EMQs: Lasagna plots and Shakespearean AI bots

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Peter Mandelson OUT. George Osborne… IN?

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EMQs: Car doors, pole dancers and Diary columns

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Could sacking Rayner make her a ‘backbench martyr’?

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EMQs: Could David Miliband have defeated the Tories in 2015?

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Emily Thornberry on the Corbyn era, being left out of government and Starmer’s first year

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EMQs Political Craft Special: Speeches, diaries and the art of politics

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Wes Streeting on battling the Treasury, his plan for the NHS, and the reality of power

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EMQs Young People Special: Why won’t politicians listen to the next generation?

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Sarah Vine on Michael Gove, the Camerons, and why she's done with "toxic" politics

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EMQs Books Special: Do politicians make good writers?

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Kwasi Kwarteng on the Liz Truss meltdown, getting sacked and Kemi Badenoch’s future

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EMQs: Is a two-state solution still possible?

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Could the UK spiral into a ‘debt doom loop’?

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EMQs: Was HS2 a complete waste of money?

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Is Labour reaching a breaking point on Palestine?

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EMQs: Can we really fund everything in the NHS?

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Could the Epstein files cost Trump his MAGA base?

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EMQs: Is Labour the new party of the monarchy?

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Can the UK-France deal solve the migrant crisis?

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EMQs: Our Keir Year, modern Machiavellis and fairness in politics

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Week from Hell for Reeves and Starmer

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EMQs: Can the G20 still keep the peace?

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Will the welfare rebellion be the end of Starmer?

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EMQs: Is politics worth the family sacrifice?

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How far will Trump go on Iran and what could it mean for Britain?

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EMQs: Could PMQs save America?

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Reeves's Spending Review ‘gamble’: continuity or change for Labour?

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EMQs: The art of political sacking

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Welfare vs Warfare: Can Labour Afford NATO’s Demands?

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EMQs: Can Britain capitalise on Trump’s student crackdown?

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Labour’s looming spending review chaos

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EMQs: Can Kemi Badenoch cheer up the Conservatives?

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Is winter fuel U-turn a leadership 'fiasco' for Labour?

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EMQs: Is Trump accidentally going green?

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Is Labour’s immigration blitz worth the price?

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EMQs: Can Reform UK fix broken councils?

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Starmer's Trump Bump? The UK-US trade deal

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EMQs: A Brit for Governor of California?

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Trump’s tumultuous first 100 days, UK local elections and the end of two party politics?

134

Inside The Room: The Election That Never Was (Part 3)

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Inside The Room: The Election That Never Was (Part 2)

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Inside The Room: The Election That Never Was (Part 1)

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EMQs Easter special: Does anyone want to pay more taxes?

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EMQs: How should PMs behave after they leave No 10?

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Trump Vs the Bond Market: Inside the President’s tariffs U-turn

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EMQs: Is toxic masculinity a government problem?

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Trump’s tariffs: Is Starmer right to ‘keep calm and carry on’?

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EMQs: Who’s to blame for the state of the economy?

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Could Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ gamble pay off?

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EMQs: Should frozen Russian assets fund Ukraine?

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Is Rachel Reeves risking her reset moment?

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EMQs: Political Golf Buddies

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Will welfare cuts be Labour’s undoing?

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EMQs: A post politics survival guide

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Will Rachel Reeves be forced into an emergency budget?

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EMQs: The art of parliamentary heckling

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Europe’s security wake-up call

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EMQs: How to survive a cabinet reshuffle

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Could Keir Starmer send British Troops to Ukraine?

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EMQs: Are personal insults fair in politics?

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Can Kemi Badenoch get free of Nigel Farage?

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EMQs: Can we get young people back to work?

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Will the Tories fall for Keir Starmers EU trap?

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EMQs: Should we want Donald Trump to succeed?

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Can extremism amongst young men be stopped?

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EMQs: Should David Beckham be knighted?

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Trump's tech supremacy era begins?

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EMQs: Could Ed Davey’s EU plan actually work?

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Should Starmer replace Reeves?

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EMQs: Time to take Trump seriously?

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Reeves’ bond market headache

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Inside No 10: David Cameron - The First Six Months (Part 3: The World Stage)

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Inside No 10: David Cameron - The First Six Months (Part 2: The Austerity Budget)

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Inside No 10: David Cameron - The First Six Months (Part 1: Prime Minister at last)

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EMQs: 2025, The Comeback Year?

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EMQs: Christmas crises and cracker etiquette

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A lump of coal for Waspi women?

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EMQs: Political Mishearings

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Starmer’s blame game

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EMQs: Can one person flip an election?

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Why Starmer shouldn’t underestimate Elon Musk

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Inside The Room: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 3: The result)

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Inside The Room: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 2: The unanswerable question)

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Trump the peacemaker?

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Inside The Room: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 1: The vote is granted)

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John Prescott: The punchy political powerhouse we knew

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EMQs: Will the government support British farmers?

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Who should be the UK’s ambassador to Trumpworld?

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EMQs: Is there a silver lining in Trump?

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Trump 2.0: The economic fallout

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HOT TAKE: Donald Trump is President

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EMQs: Can you revamp a political image?

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What did Rachel Reeves’ Budget miss?

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Budget Hot Take: Rachel Reeves’ Tax Raid

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EMQs: Budget traditions, Briefings and Brits for Trump

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Who is George Osborne backing for Tory leader?

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EMQs: Can you have friends in politics?

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How to plug a £40bn black hole

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EMQs: Can HS2 be revived from the dead?

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Cleverly: What went wrong?!

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EMQs: Political regrets? We have a few

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How Labour made a political scandal worse

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HOT TAKE: James Cleverly: Next Tory leader?

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EMQs: What’s your unpopular opinion?

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Which Tory will get the Boris blessing?

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CONFERENCE HOT TAKE: Protestors disrupt Rachel Reeves’ speech

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EMQs: How to give a GREAT conference speech

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Starmer’s big Sue Gray problem

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EMQs: Media spin, middle classes and memories of conferences past

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Can Starmer really fix the NHS?

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EMQs: Should you pay if you miss an NHS appointment?

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Will Rachel Reeves be forced to U-turn on winter fuel payments?

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Summer EMQs: Where are all the great parliamentary orators?

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Osbornomics, Oasis, and Opposition

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Summer EMQs: Who really runs the country?

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Are the Democrats celebrating too soon?

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Summer EMQs: Was Austerity a Mistake?

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The secret to launching a political career

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Summer EMQs: The Political Currency constituency

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Should the Tories stop chasing Reform voters?

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EMQs: Summer Recess Buddies

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Rachel Reeves: The next austerity chancellor?

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EMQs: Celebs go politicking

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Starmer, Strictly and Summer of Brat

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EMQs: Are you ready for ID cards?

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Meet JD Vance, Trump’s VP and George Osborne’s friend

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EMQs: Political Football

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Inside the race to lead the Tory party

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Will Starmer’s 'GOAT' cabinet succeed?

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Inside Starmer’s No. 10

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What REALLY happens on polling day?

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Can Starmer work with Trump and Le Pen?

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EMQs: Is Rishi California Dreamin’?

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Is Labour's honeymoon already over?

229

ELECTION EXTRA: Farage’s Russian gambit

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EMQs: Political porkies and party people

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Will Starmer be a one-term wonder?

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ELECTION EXTRA: Should Sunak fight dirty?

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EMQs: How an ex-PM leaves No. 10

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Labour’s Straitjacket Manifesto

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ELECTION EXTRA: Manifestos, Macron and Money Problems

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EMQs: Punches, Paxman, and Parachuted Candidates

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Tax, Lies and Leaders on Tour

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Election Hot Take: Can Sunak save his campaign?

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EMQs: Paddleboards, power stances and private schools

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Is Rishi Sunak's election gamble paying off?

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EMQs: Election Questions Special

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Things Can Only Get Worse: Sunak’s Snap Election

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EMQs: Truss, treasury officials and techxit?

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Protests, Presidents and Politics like it's 97!

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EMQs: Political Book Club

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Defections, coalitions and China-UK relations

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Will local elections bring down Sunak?

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EMQs: Ed Balls Day

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Planes, Trains and Nationalism

250

EMQs: Blunders, Bag Carriers and Biden’s Stammer

251

Liz Truss for PM?

252

EMQs: The Brexit Plots special

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Sexts, Tax and Mar-a-Lago

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Inside The Room: The Brexit Plots (Part 3)

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Inside The Room: The Brexit Plots (Part 2)

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Inside The Room: The Brexit Plots (Part 1)

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Ballots, the BBC and Buying British

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EMQs: Tactical voting, Tradition, and Taylor Swift

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Can Sunak save himself?

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EMQs: Should cannabis be legalised?

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Dodgy donors, Diane Abbott and digital currency

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EMQs: Why does Trump keep winning?

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A May election?

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HOT TAKE: Is this an election winning budget?

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EMQs: Secrets of the Budget speech and the EdStone mystery

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Islamophobia, Truss conspiracies and budget friction

267

EMQS: Boris' book, private planes and positive discrimination

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Chaos in the Commons

269

EMQs: Private school fees and public sackings

270

'Rishession' and Starmer’s anti-semitism problem

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EMQs: Our next female PM & tea with Dr Dre

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What do Sunak and Starmer actually stand for?

273

EMQs: Social media screw-ups and has Matt Hancock been misunderstood?

274

Brexit Means Bankers' Bonuses!

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EMQs: Political nicknames, a radical NHS & snorting in Parliament

276

How (not) to take down a prime minister

277

EMQs: Preparing for PMQs, crisis management & setting the royal budget

278

Rishi Sunak's next nightmare

279

EMQs: Special Advisers, tuition fees and is the Barnett formula fair?

280

George reveals the election date!

281

Inside The Room: The Coalition Talks (Part 2)

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Inside The Room: The Coalition Talks (Part 1)

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Christmas Questions Special: Jeremy Hunt, Rachel Reeves & Stephen Fry

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Do They Know It's Election Time?

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Keir Starmer’s popularity problem

286

Tory shambles: Rwanda resignation and Boris at the Covid inquiry

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Sunak's Greek Tragedy

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Losing control of migration?

289

HOT TAKE: The pre-election Autumn Statement?

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Tories at war and a Labour rebellion

291

HOT TAKE: The Return of David Cameron

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How do you solve a problem like Suella?

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The price of Johnson's toxic Downing Street culture

294

Disgusting Covid WhatsApps, Starmer’s Gaza dilemma and Sunak’s AI adviser

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Starmer’s Israel mis-step, by-elections and Covid angst

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Israel-Gaza: What are Sunak and Starmer privately thinking?

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Is Sunak tearing the Tories apart?

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Suella, conference mayhem and a mystery turd...

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Sunak cuts the ‘green crap’

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HS2 in doubt, China spies and the triple lock

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