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The Rundown by PoliticsHome — 234 episodes

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Can the Green Party get past its growing pains?

2

Parliament returns and party conference preview

3

Has Samantha Niblett created a 'summer of sex'?

4

Tom Kerridge on saving the hospitality industry

5

David Lidington: why Tories shouldn’t work with Reform

6

Jess Phillips on trying to make the internet safer

7

Baroness Carmen Smith: Youngest Peer On Trying To Abolish The Lords

8

Andy Burnham's first week in power

9

What will Andy Burnham's first few hours in Downing Street be like?

10

What happens inside No10 after a PM resigns?

11

What's the mood of the nation as Burnham takes over?

12

Why do we keep ditching PMs?

13

A Burnham landslide - what next? Plus: Brexit 10 years on

14

Can local news stop social media misinformation?

15

Does rugby league hold key to Andy Burnham's success?

16

Does a Burnham PM mean PR's time has come?

17

Could the UK rejoin the EU?

18

Starmer on the brink after May 7 mauling

19

What to look out for at the local elections

20

A Tory revival or one final nail on May 7?

21

Mandelson crisis exposes No10's civil service rift

22

Is this Andy Burnham's moment?

23

How do ministers reform public services?

24

The big May elections preview pod

25

New towns on the horizon

26

Sajid Javid on racism, Britishness and social cohesion

27

Can ministers prevent an energy bill crisis?

28

What did we learn from the Spring Statement?

29

Reform's revolt on the right

30

Is this the Green Party's moment?

31

Editors assemble: can Starmer survive?

32

Solving the student loan 'scam'

33

The second referendum campaign revisited

34

Too late to re-wire the state?

35

'Our democracy is being attacked'

36

Will government finally quit X?

37

What does 2026 have in store? Predicting this year's big political storylines

38

The Great Big Christmas Quiz Of 2025!

39

Simon Hart on lifting the lid on the Whips Office

40

How to protect a Prime Minister

41

It's 'Your Party' now, but for how long?

42

Budget 2025: Reeves and Starmer buy some time

43

Can Farage convert Reform-curious voters?

44

Why won't anyone reform council tax?

45

Are universities about to collapse?

46

Does the OBR really run Britain?

47

Is the NHS sleepwalking into another winter crisis?

48

Can the government solve its China problem?

49

Despatch from Manchester and Conservative Party Conference

50

The inside story from Labour Party conference

51

Lib Dem conference lowdown

52

Unmasking the 'dark arts' of political whipping

53

Is Keir committed to cleaning up politics?

54

Labour's Autumn of discontent

55

Helen Miller on Labour's economic record

56

Paul Nowak on Labour's workers' rights record

57

Labour's bill of health one year in

58

Chris Skidmore on Labour's green record

59

Sarah Owen on Labour's equalities record

60

Justine Greening on Labour's social mobility record

61

What Can Starmer Learn From May?

62

Macron and Starmer Revive ‘Entente Cordiale'

63

Nightmare end to Keir's first year

64

Sarah Vine on political spouses

65

Green Party At A Crossroads

66

Can this Government deliver?

67

How do Spending Reviews work?

68

Inside Labour's New Tribes

69

What can we learn from the Coalition?

70

The Social Care Crunch

71

Fixing The Broken Rental Market

72

How To Defuse The Pension Time Bomb

73

What Can We Learn From These Local Elections?

74

Last orders for Britain's pubs?

75

Can Starmer navigate Trump's tariff turmoil?

76

Mark Field on the end of the Tory era

77

Rachel Reeves turns into the 'concrete Chancellor'

78

Can Starmer re-wire the state?

79

Are the wheels coming off Reform?

80

Can Starmer lead the West?

81

Will the 'special relationship' stay special?

82

Will Parliament finally get modernised?

83

Is the UK finally ready for ID cards?

84

The political mood of 2025

85

Michael Heseltine: "Parties have got to take on Farage"

86

Will Starmer clean up politics?

87

Rachel Reeves' fiscal trilemma gets even tougher

88

Steve Baker: "We risk riots, we risk murders"

89

Big in 2025: This year's political storylines

90

2024's Maddest Political Moments

91

Will anyone grip the homelessness crisis?

92

Our politics is broken, can PR fix it?

93

Starmer's big reset (that's not a reset)

94

Can Starmer navigate an increasingly dangerous world?

95

Should backbench MPs make laws?

96

Should Westminster quit Twitter?

97

Tories embrace new dawn

98

Can this Budget grow the economy?

99

Nothing so ex as an ex-MP

100

Will Assisted Dying Become Legal?

101

Labour's First 100 Days

102

Live From Conservative Party Conference

103

Chris Bryant Live At Labour Conference

104

The Lib Dem Victory Lap

105

How to make a maiden speech

106

Fixing Sue Gray’s S*** List

107

What Will The New Lib Dems Do?

108

The Tory next generation

109

Meet The Man Who Ousted Liz Truss

110

How can we stop the riots?

111

Who can put the Tories back together?

112

Labour’s EU ‘reset’ underway

113

Labour's first 100 days in power

114

Beginner's Guide To Being An MP

115

Emergency election special - Labour landslide unpicked

116

Sunak goes down swinging

117

Two weeks to total Tory wipeout?

118

Three weeks left to go

119

Farage and a taxing debate

120

Whips' secrets || On the campaign trail

121

MPs bid farewell

122

Why be an MP?

123

Local wipeout

124

Why can’t Prime Ministers get things done?

125

Will Rwanda work?

126

Liz Truss Interview: She'd do it again

127

Can the Tories survive?

128

Why vote?

129

Mood of the nation

130

Fixing Parliament’s ethics crisis

131

Brewing scandals

132

Women in Westminster

133

Bills, bills, bills

134

Are MPs safe?

135

Pubs on the brink

136

Local cash crisis

137

Conversion therapy ban in the long grass

138

Football’s financial crisis

139

Reform want to "obliterate" Tories

140

Democracy in crisis?

141

What's in store for 2024?

142

2023 in politics

143

Rishi Sunak's torrid year

144

Back room power players

145

Justice in crisis

146

Tories bet the house(ing)

147

Hunt's fiscal "fiction"

148

Behind David Cameron’s shock return to Cabinet

149

Labour’s path to power

150

Covid chaos in No.10

151

Can AI be saved from itself?

152

Do bishops belong in the Lords?

153

Live At Labour Conference: MPs eye a decade in power

154

Live at Conservative Conference: Rishi's final push

155

The future of money

156

Never-ending prison sentences

157

How many education secretaries?

158

Tory hope crumbles

159

Dawn Butler: Politics of purpose

160

James Schneider: “The centre doesn’t really exist”

161

Luciana Berger: “I feel that our democracy is diminished”

162

Chris Bryant: Is this the worst Parliament ever?

163

Lord Bethell: Ministry of Sound to ministry of health

164

Could government ditch green pledges?

165

What happens when the mortgage bomb goes off?

166

Rishi Sunak’s triple by-election blues

167

Will Westminster ever calm down?

168

Parliament's "class ceiling"

169

UK stuttering on road to Net Zero

170

Boris Johnson's gone, Tories are moving on

171

Government turns on its own officials

172

The race is on to be chosen to run as an MP

173

Liz Truss's knotty legacy

174

Housing crisis comes to a head

175

Too late for the Tories?

176

A tale of two palaces

177

Six months of Sunak

178

Tories want prevention to cure the NHS

179

Will anyone stop Parliament from falling down?

180

Energy bills are soaring again

181

The dial has moved in Scotland

182

The beginning of the end for Boris Johnson?

183

Will Hunt's Budget boost growth?

184

Northern Ireland needs its government back

185

Is the UK out of step on China?

186

Last orders for pubs without Budget boost

187

Can the internet be governed?

188

Westminster needs cleaning up, is Sunak up to it?

189

Strikes, scandal, and a shaky start for Sunak

190

Dash to scrap EU law will create “horrible mess”

191

Striking unions hold firm on pay

192

Can Tories fix their young voter problem?

193

What political drama might 2023 bring?

194

Year in chaos: moments that defined politics in 2022

195

Three prime ministers in one year

196

Can government find “middle way” on nurse pay?

197

What do MPs do after they quit?

198

Private schools are giving Rishi Sunak a headache

199

Brexit hardliners are coming for Rishi Sunak

200

Economic squeeze threatens dire human consequences

201

Gavin Williamson tests Rishi Sunak's ethics

202

Home Office failures risk "whipping up vigilantes"

203

Rishi Sunak has a political mountain to climb

204

Liz Truss gone, what happens next?

205

What is it like to be Black in Britain in 2022?

206

Live at Conservative Conference: Liz Truss loses control

207

Live at Labour Conference: Keir Starmer scents power

208

Liz Truss's great growth gamble

209

How Westminster Works: How to become an MP

210

How Westminster Works: The brutal secrets of Parliament's ancient hall

211

How Westminster Works: What do MPs actually do for you?

212

How Westminster Works: Everything that's ever been said in Parliament

213

Energy crisis reckoning awaits new prime minister

214

Final two to replace Boris Johnson are clashing already

215

Rehman Chishti has no regrets about failed Tory leadership bid

216

Boris Johnson is stepping down, what now?

217

Roe Vs Wade exposes UK abortion law's fragility

218

Rail strikes signal summer of discontent

219

By-election races tighten despite Tories’ tough week

220

Rebels give wounded Boris Johnson space to reset

221

Tory MP warns "you ain't seen nothing yet" on cost of living crisis

222

Ed Davey Interview: Lib Dems are ready to take on "indecent" Tories

223

The government's war with the civil service

224

Protocol and power struggle: What's next for Northern Ireland?

225

Making sense of the local election results

226

MPs are tired of Westminster's misogyny problem

227

Senior Tory puts Boris Johnson on notice

228

Keir Starmer interview: "I have nothing in common with Boris Johnson"

229

How damaged is Boris Johnson’s reputation?

230

Where is Boris Johnson's lawyer?

231

Is Rishi Sunak "playing games" with the cost of living crisis?

232

Will Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement prove he's a tax-cutting Tory?

233

Priti Patel loses grip on the Ukrainian refugee crisis

234

How is Westminster responding to the crisis in Ukraine?