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The Rundown by PoliticsHome — 216 episodes

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1

What to look out for at the local elections

2

A Tory revival or one final nail on May 7?

3

Mandelson crisis exposes No10's civil service rift

4

Is this Andy Burnham's moment?

5

How do ministers reform public services?

6

The big May elections preview pod

7

New towns on the horizon

8

Sajid Javid on racism, Britishness and social cohesion

9

Can ministers prevent an energy bill crisis?

10

What did we learn from the Spring Statement?

11

Reform's revolt on the right

12

Is this the Green Party's moment?

13

Editors assemble: can Starmer survive?

14

Solving the student loan 'scam'

15

The second referendum campaign revisited

16

Too late to re-wire the state?

17

'Our democracy is being attacked'

18

Will government finally quit X?

19

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

20

The Great Big Christmas Quiz Of 2025!

21

Simon Hart on lifting the lid on the Whips Office

22

How to protect a Prime Minister

23

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

24

Budget 2025: Reeves and Starmer buy some time

25

Can Farage convert Reform-curious voters?

26

Why won't anyone reform council tax?

27

Are universities about to collapse?

28

Does the OBR really run Britain?

29

Is the NHS sleepwalking into another winter crisis?

30

Can the government solve its China problem?

31

Despatch from Manchester and Conservative Party Conference

32

The inside story from Labour Party conference

33

Lib Dem conference lowdown

34

Unmasking the 'dark arts' of political whipping

35

Is Keir committed to cleaning up politics?

36

Labour's Autumn of discontent

37

Helen Miller on Labour's economic record

38

Paul Nowak on Labour's workers' rights record

39

Labour's bill of health one year in

40

Chris Skidmore on Labour's green record

41

Sarah Owen on Labour's equalities record

42

Justine Greening on Labour's social mobility record

43

What Can Starmer Learn From May?

44

Macron and Starmer Revive ‘Entente Cordiale'

45

Nightmare end to Keir's first year

46

Sarah Vine on political spouses

47

Green Party At A Crossroads

48

Can this Government deliver?

49

How do Spending Reviews work?

50

Inside Labour's New Tribes

51

What can we learn from the Coalition?

52

The Social Care Crunch

53

Fixing The Broken Rental Market

54

How To Defuse The Pension Time Bomb

55

What Can We Learn From These Local Elections?

56

Last orders for Britain's pubs?

57

Can Starmer navigate Trump's tariff turmoil?

58

Mark Field on the end of the Tory era

59

Rachel Reeves turns into the 'concrete Chancellor'

60

Can Starmer re-wire the state?

61

Are the wheels coming off Reform?

62

Can Starmer lead the West?

63

Will the 'special relationship' stay special?

64

Will Parliament finally get modernised?

65

Is the UK finally ready for ID cards?

66

The political mood of 2025

67

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

68

Will Starmer clean up politics?

69

Rachel Reeves' fiscal trilemma gets even tougher

70

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

71

Big in 2025: This year's political storylines

72

2024's Maddest Political Moments

73

Will anyone grip the homelessness crisis?

74

Our politics is broken, can PR fix it?

75

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

76

Can Starmer navigate an increasingly dangerous world?

77

Should backbench MPs make laws?

78

Should Westminster quit Twitter?

79

Tories embrace new dawn

80

Can this Budget grow the economy?

81

Nothing so ex as an ex-MP

82

Will Assisted Dying Become Legal?

83

Labour's First 100 Days

84

Live From Conservative Party Conference

85

Chris Bryant Live At Labour Conference

86

The Lib Dem Victory Lap

87

How to make a maiden speech

88

Fixing Sue Gray’s S*** List

89

What Will The New Lib Dems Do?

90

The Tory next generation

91

Meet The Man Who Ousted Liz Truss

92

How can we stop the riots?

93

Who can put the Tories back together?

94

Labour’s EU ‘reset’ underway

95

Labour's first 100 days in power

96

Beginner's Guide To Being An MP

97

Emergency election special - Labour landslide unpicked

98

Sunak goes down swinging

99

Two weeks to total Tory wipeout?

100

Three weeks left to go

101

Farage and a taxing debate

102

Whips' secrets || On the campaign trail

103

MPs bid farewell

104

Why be an MP?

105

Local wipeout

106

Why can’t Prime Ministers get things done?

107

Will Rwanda work?

108

Liz Truss Interview: She'd do it again

109

Can the Tories survive?

110

Why vote?

111

Mood of the nation

112

Fixing Parliament’s ethics crisis

113

Brewing scandals

114

Women in Westminster

115

Bills, bills, bills

116

Are MPs safe?

117

Pubs on the brink

118

Local cash crisis

119

Conversion therapy ban in the long grass

120

Football’s financial crisis

121

Reform want to "obliterate" Tories

122

Democracy in crisis?

123

What's in store for 2024?

124

2023 in politics

125

Rishi Sunak's torrid year

126

Back room power players

127

Justice in crisis

128

Tories bet the house(ing)

129

Hunt's fiscal "fiction"

130

Behind David Cameron’s shock return to Cabinet

131

Labour’s path to power

132

Covid chaos in No.10

133

Can AI be saved from itself?

134

Do bishops belong in the Lords?

135

Live At Labour Conference: MPs eye a decade in power

136

Live at Conservative Conference: Rishi's final push

137

The future of money

138

Never-ending prison sentences

139

How many education secretaries?

140

Tory hope crumbles

141

Dawn Butler: Politics of purpose

142

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

143

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

144

Chris Bryant: Is this the worst Parliament ever?

145

Lord Bethell: Ministry of Sound to ministry of health

146

Could government ditch green pledges?

147

What happens when the mortgage bomb goes off?

148

Rishi Sunak’s triple by-election blues

149

Will Westminster ever calm down?

150

Parliament's "class ceiling"

151

UK stuttering on road to Net Zero

152

Boris Johnson's gone, Tories are moving on

153

Government turns on its own officials

154

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

155

Liz Truss's knotty legacy

156

Housing crisis comes to a head

157

Too late for the Tories?

158

A tale of two palaces

159

Six months of Sunak

160

Tories want prevention to cure the NHS

161

Will anyone stop Parliament from falling down?

162

Energy bills are soaring again

163

The dial has moved in Scotland

164

The beginning of the end for Boris Johnson?

165

Will Hunt's Budget boost growth?

166

Northern Ireland needs its government back

167

Is the UK out of step on China?

168

Last orders for pubs without Budget boost

169

Can the internet be governed?

170

Westminster needs cleaning up, is Sunak up to it?

171

Strikes, scandal, and a shaky start for Sunak

172

Dash to scrap EU law will create “horrible mess”

173

Striking unions hold firm on pay

174

Can Tories fix their young voter problem?

175

What political drama might 2023 bring?

176

Year in chaos: moments that defined politics in 2022

177

Three prime ministers in one year

178

Can government find “middle way” on nurse pay?

179

What do MPs do after they quit?

180

Private schools are giving Rishi Sunak a headache

181

Brexit hardliners are coming for Rishi Sunak

182

Economic squeeze threatens dire human consequences

183

Gavin Williamson tests Rishi Sunak's ethics

184

Home Office failures risk "whipping up vigilantes"

185

Rishi Sunak has a political mountain to climb

186

Liz Truss gone, what happens next?

187

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

188

Live at Conservative Conference: Liz Truss loses control

189

Live at Labour Conference: Keir Starmer scents power

190

Liz Truss's great growth gamble

191

How Westminster Works: How to become an MP

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

Energy crisis reckoning awaits new prime minister

196

Final two to replace Boris Johnson are clashing already

197

Rehman Chishti has no regrets about failed Tory leadership bid

198

Boris Johnson is stepping down, what now?

199

Roe Vs Wade exposes UK abortion law's fragility

200

Rail strikes signal summer of discontent

201

By-election races tighten despite Tories’ tough week

202

Rebels give wounded Boris Johnson space to reset

203

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

204

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

205

The government's war with the civil service

206

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

207

Making sense of the local election results

208

MPs are tired of Westminster's misogyny problem

209

Senior Tory puts Boris Johnson on notice

210

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

211

How damaged is Boris Johnson’s reputation?

212

Where is Boris Johnson's lawyer?

213

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

214

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

215

Priti Patel loses grip on the Ukrainian refugee crisis

216

How is Westminster responding to the crisis in Ukraine?