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Westminster Insider — 186 episodes

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Why the Conservatives are so cheery: inside the Tory reboot

2

How to replace a Prime Minister and get away with it

3

Starmer’s week from hell: Inside the Number 10 bunker

4

Defense deals and Thomas Tuchel's chances: inside the new Anglo-German bromance

5

Nick Thomas-Symonds: Don't panic, my EU reset plan will work

6

How to fix British politics — with help from around the world

7

ChatG-MP: Inside Westminster's AI revolution

8

The Battle for Labour's oldest stronghold:  Wales

9

Inside the fight to fix Parliament

10

Gorton and Denton by-election: Labour vs everyone else

11

The strange death of the long-term prime minister

12

Is Starmer really "Never Here Keir"?

13

A handy guide to Labour regicide

14

2026: The year ahead in 40 minutes

15

Spin, half-truth or deceit? How political lies really work

16

Russia raises the stakes: how can Starmer shape Ukraine’s endgame?

17

“Lawless” Britain: Rhetoric and reality

18

How to raise taxes and get away with it

19

Inside No. 10: The creaky house that runs Britain

20

Who really cares about Britain's farmers?

21

How (not) to start a political party

22

What Liz Truss wants Britain to learn from Trump

23

Starmer ally: Come clean on relations with China after spy row

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Inside Party Conference: Where next for the Tories?

25

Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism over already?

26

What do Gen Z want?

27

Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel

28

Secrets of a state visit

29

Can Britain have a proper Green Party?

30

How to reset your government

31

Commons people: when politics and music collide

32

Can Tory defections take Reform UK toward power?

33

Can Keir Starmer survive the next 6 months?

34

Westminster's half-term score card

35

An SW1 pub crawl: What makes the perfect political pub?

36

What's the point of political satire?

37

Inside Westminster's Musk-inspired DOGE wars

38

A boozy lunch with Jo Coburn

39

How to run your Cabinet: Lessons for Starmer

40

Can Labour still own the North?

41

How to survive the morning broadcast round

42

War and Peace in Europe

43

How to launch a backbench rebellion

44

When politicians fight the law and the law wins

45

Inside COBRA

46

How to survive No 11 Downing Street

47

When MPs defect: The art of changing party

48

How Westminster goes viral (without Elon Musk)

49

How to be a UK Ambassador to the US

50

The year ahead in 45 minutes

51

Westminster's class war over private schools

52

What really happened in the 2024 general election?

53

What really happens when MPs vote with their conscience?

54

Inside the Downing Street spin room

55

What's the secret to a great political lunch?

56

One crazy night in Washington

57

How to deliver a great budget

58

Does Westminster do God?

59

A boozy lunch with Sir Graham Brady

60

How to choose a Tory leader

61

Inside Labour Together: the project behind Keir Starmer

62

What's it like to cover a US election?

63

SPONSORED CONTENT: Homes for all: A strategy to end homelessness in Britain

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Can Labour make the trains run on time?

65

Back to school briefing: A whirlwind guide to British politics in autumn 2024

66

Meet the new MPs taking on Westminster

67

From the archive: What ex-prime ministers do next

68

14 hours that changed Britain

69

The last 10 days of an election campaign

70

Westminster's photographers: a politician's best friend or worst enemy?

71

Inside Nigel Farage's Reform party

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What's the point of a manifesto?

73

The art of the TV debate

74

The media and the UK election: Can Fleet Street still win it?

75

Is the Bank of England really a secret political player?

76

How to prepare a secret Tory leadership campaign

77

Inside the Westminster honey trap scandal

78

The secrets of the pollsters

79

Leak inquiry: what happens when Westminster's secrets are spilled

80

How Westminster fell in love with Australian politics

81

How to prepare for opposition

82

How a small town in England opened its arms to Ukraine

83

Diary of a by-election

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A boozy lunch with Tim Shipman

85

Inside GB News

86

The year ahead in 54 minutes

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How did Britain's prisons go so wrong?

88

The art of the political apology

89

How to get ready for government

90

Is Westminster ready for the return of Donald Trump?

91

How to get sacked from government

92

Revenge of The Blob

93

Meet Alf Dubs: The child refugee who became a UK parliament grandee

94

Is the Labour left finished in Britain?

95

How did free-market think tanks take over Westminster?

96

What's the point of party conferences?

97

The Battle for Scotland

98

Meet Robert Peston — ITV's political editor on friendship, loss and being the face of a crisis

99

What ex-prime ministers do next

100

Back to school briefing: A whirlwind guide to UK politics this autumn

101

I know what MPs did last summer

102

Westminster Insider trailer

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The dark arts of politics

104

The real Keir Starmer: Part II

105

The real Keir Starmer: Part I

106

Harassment and bullying: What is wrong with British politics?

107

Can Rishi Sunak ‘Stop the Boats’?

108

Westminster WAGs: Who'd marry an MP?

109

The art of the political interview

110

Why the hell would you work for an MP?

111

Inside the room: The Good Friday Agreement 25 years on

112

How to become an MP

113

Meet Rachel Reeves — Britain's next chancellor?

114

How to U-turn and get away with it

115

Meet Fiona Hill: Inside the collapse of Theresa May’s government

116

The secrets of TV news

117

What's the point of the House of Lords?

118

49 days of Liz Truss: The inside story

119

The year ahead in 49 minutes

120

Who really cares what the pundits say?

121

A very British energy crisis

122

Life in the whips' office

123

A boozy dinner with Labour MP Wes Streeting

124

Did austerity work?

125

Great political comebacks

126

Who is Rishi Sunak?

127

SPONSORED CONTENT: Can Britain become an energy exporter?

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Trussonomics and the 1972 ‘Dash for Growth’

129

Diary of a Tory conference meltdown

130

Meet Laura Kuenssberg: the most famous face in British political journalism

131

Why we secretly love party conferences

132

The Queen: The ultimate Westminster Insider

133

After Boris: What now for the Tories?

134

What's the point of Prime Minister's Questions?

135

Through the lens of Twitter: Watching a government collapse in real time

136

Labour's Tom Watson on political plots, weight loss and living with ADHD

137

Why Britain always hates its leaders in the end

138

A boozy dinner with David Davis MP

139

Casinos, coups and life on the breadline with Labour’s Jon Ashworth

140

Victims of The Troubles: A year of turmoil in Northern Ireland

141

Inside the Lobby: Westminster's political journalists

142

Westminster Insider Trailer

143

Coming soon: Westminster Insider returns

144

The road to Brexit — 30 years since the Maastricht Treaty

145

How to avoid a nuclear war

146

Bar room talk with Labour’s Andy Burnham

147

Russia and Britain — A brief history, from Navarino to Ukraine

148

Cold water swimming with Johnny Mercer MP

149

How to topple a prime minister

150

Why there's nothing new about Leveling Up

151

Notes on a scandal

152

The year ahead in 53 minutes

153

From opium wars to cyberattacks: 200 years of UK-China friction

154

Two years on: What the hell happened in the 2019 general election?

155

Meet Mayor Sadiq Khan: Boxing, knives and curryhouses on the streets of south London

156

The next pandemic

157

How British towns got left behind

158

The government vs the BBC: A Hundred Year War

159

The history of climate change — from the Great Ice Age to COP26 and beyond

160

How do you write a great political speech?

161

Meet Lee Cain: Three chaotic years as Boris Johnson's closest aide

162

From Bismarck to Merkel: Why German chancellors always matter more than we expect

163

Why doesn't Britain ever build enough homes?

164

'Every phone started ringing' — Remembering 9/11

165

Why do politicians tell so many lies?

166

MPs' postbags: How we're failing the kids who need us most

167

Postcards from Afghanistan

168

How to spin a referendum: The inside story of the Brexit campaign

169

What's the point of the G7 summit?

170

One year on — Owen Paterson on life after his wife's suicide

171

How special advisers took over Westminster

172

The art of political drinking

173

Meet Angela Rayner — Labour's deputy leader on winning back the North

174

Why by-elections matter

175

A short history of Scottish separatism

176

Coming soon: POLITICO's Westminster Insider season 2

177

A year of lockdowns — How the pandemic changed Westminster

178

Meet: Chancellor Rishi Sunak — beyond the Budget

179

Cabinet secretaries ... and why Sir Humphrey always wins

180

When Budgets go wrong

181

MPs’ postbags: The hidden costs of lockdown

182

Meet: Prof Neil Ferguson — life after the coronavirus pandemic

183

How to charm a US president

184

Westminster's morning newsletter revolution

185

Pilot: The history of pandemics — and how politicians always react the same way

186

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