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The split on the right - how long will it last?

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Brexit - Which senior Labour figures agree with Andy Burnham?

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Immigration – Can Britain ever have a reasoned debate?

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What are the obstacles to an early election?

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Is the cautious budget a prelude to radical change?

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Will John Healey rise to the titanic Budget challenges?

7

How Wars End – Part Two

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How do wars end?

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Did Liz Truss have a point?

10

Why is it time to talk about Brexit again?

11

What next for Zack Polanski?

12

Is Kemi Badenoch the leader returning to the past?

13

Rock & Roll Politics Live: What has Andy Burnham unleashed?

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Will the media allow Andy Burnham to generate hope?

15

How Can Burnham Deliver the Biggest Change in 40 Years?

16

What’s the most effective slogan in modern politics?

17

The UK economic crisis - Does anyone know what they’re talking about?

18

Should Reform be allowed to spend the crypto-billionaires’ money?

19

Is Ed Miliband a rare example of a foreign secretary changing foreign policy?

20

How bold will John Healey be?

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Will the media ever allow an honest ‘tax and spend’ debate?

22

Are there worrying signs in Burnham’s honeymoon?

23

Can Burnham revive Labour in Scotland and Wales?

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Will Andy Burnham call an early election?

25

What to read on our summer holidays?

26

The right is split three ways. What are the consequences?

27

Can Andy Burnham deliver a National Care Service?

28

Are we going back to the 1970s?

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Will Andy Burnham’s new cabinet deliver the biggest change in 40 years?

30

Was Keir Starmer more of a change-maker than he seemed?

31

What are the lessons in the fall and rise of Louise Haigh?

32

Will a contest against Binface make Farage more prime-ministerial?

33

How much trouble is Nigel Farage in?

34

Eve of the Burnham era: Where does power really lie?

35

Will Andy Burnham’s big idea work?

36

Who should be Andy Burnham’s Chancellor?

37

What does Andy Burnham really think?

38

Andy Burnham wins - what follows?

39

What if Keir Starmer is right on defence?

40

What is the significance of John Healey’s resignation?

41

Does it matter any more if a by-election candidate is out of their depth?

42

Is Farage as formidable as he appears to be?

43

Labour’s battle of ideas - much needed or dangerous?

44

What does Tony Blair mean by the ‘radical centre’?

45

Do the fashionable assumptions about Andy Burnham make sense?

46

Is this the strangest leadership crisis in modern times?

47

Why is the phrase ‘Brexit Wars’ dangerous for Britain?

48

Can Andy Burnham win the by-election?

49

Who can lead the ‘people’s revolt’?

50

Election Special - Who can meet the voters’ hunger for ‘change’?

51

How will Reform and the Greens respond to electoral success?

52

Can or should a King change Trump’s view of ’the special relationship'?

53

Is Britain ungovernable?

54

How vulnerable is Keir Starmer?

55

Starmer/Mandelson - Does the plot ever really change?

56

Is there a danger the government will spend too much on defence?

57

The fall of Orban - How vulnerable is the populist right?

58

Are we seeing the return of Cabinet Government?

59

What next for the BBC?

60

Alan Johnson on Wilson, Blair and Starmer

61

The never-ending debate special

62

What is the ‘centre ground’?

63

Why are the right obsessed with Ed Miliband?

64

Why is the ‘cost of living’ almost impossible for the government to control?

65

Why did Starmer ignore the evidence against Mandelson?

66

Is Britain trapped by the "special relationship"?

67

Why we should welcome Stamer’s caution on Iran

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Trump and Iran – Has Britain learned the lessons of Iraq?

69

The Greens win - What will be the consequences?

70

What will we learn from the Gorton and Denton by-election?

71

Will the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor undermine the Royal family?

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Can the media cope with a government moving slightly to the left?

73

Rock & Roll Politics Live - How long will Starmer rule?

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How will the government change in the post-McSweeney era?

75

Why did Mandelson wield so much influence over Starmer’s leadership?

76

Will tactical voting block Reform?

77

Has Kemi Badenoch taken a fatal wrong turn?

78

Burnham is blocked - What are the consequences?

79

Where does the never-ending Trump show leave Britain and its ‘special relationship’?

80

What are the differences between Reform and the Tories?

81

How big is the schism on the right?

82

What do U-turns tell us about a government?

83

Is Starmer’s focus on the cost of living more risky than it seems?

84

How long can Starmer claim he has no view on Trump and Venezuela?

85

The Defectors Part 3: A Festive Series - Carswell and Reckless (Tory to UKIP)

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The Defectors Part 2: A Festive Series - Shaun Woodward (Tories to Labour)

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The Defectors Part 1: A Festive Series - Reg Prentice (Labour to Tories)

88

What have we learnt at the end of 2025?

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Why does a 'narrative' matter so much?

90

Rock & Roll Politics Live - How fragile is Keir Starmer?

91

What next as Trump turns away from Europe?

92

Brexit- is this the beginning of the end?

93

Why are newspapers still powerful?

94

Could The Conservatives Recover?

95

Has Rachel Reeves calmed the mood of restive Labour MPs… and disillusioned voters?

96

Rachel Reeves - and consequences

97

Nick Thomas-Symonds on Labour prime ministers, leadership threats and Europe

98

Will Mahmood’s asylum policies stop the boats… and the rise of Reform?

99

Is Starmer the biggest victim of the 'toxic culture'?

100

Why is the BBC so scared of the right wing media?