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Westminster Insider — 193 episodes
Football and politics: How to play the game
Does being a good mayor make you a good prime minister?
Robert Jenrick's plan to take on 'Reform Slayer' Andy Burnham
Burnham wins: Inside the Makerfield by-election
Andy Burnham: the man who wants to be PM
What's the point of political protests?
The Brexit Referendum: Ten years on
Why the Conservatives are so cheery: inside the Tory reboot
How to replace a Prime Minister and get away with it
Starmer’s week from hell: Inside the Number 10 bunker
Defense deals and Thomas Tuchel's chances: inside the new Anglo-German bromance
Nick Thomas-Symonds: Don't panic, my EU reset plan will work
How to fix British politics — with help from around the world
ChatG-MP: Inside Westminster's AI revolution
The Battle for Labour's oldest stronghold: Wales
Inside the fight to fix Parliament
Gorton and Denton by-election: Labour vs everyone else
The strange death of the long-term prime minister
Is Starmer really "Never Here Keir"?
A handy guide to Labour regicide
2026: The year ahead in 40 minutes
Spin, half-truth or deceit? How political lies really work
Russia raises the stakes: how can Starmer shape Ukraine’s endgame?
“Lawless” Britain: Rhetoric and reality
How to raise taxes and get away with it
Inside No. 10: The creaky house that runs Britain
Who really cares about Britain's farmers?
How (not) to start a political party
What Liz Truss wants Britain to learn from Trump
Starmer ally: Come clean on relations with China after spy row
Inside Party Conference: Where next for the Tories?
Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism over already?
What do Gen Z want?
Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel
Secrets of a state visit
Can Britain have a proper Green Party?
How to reset your government
Commons people: when politics and music collide
Can Tory defections take Reform UK toward power?
Can Keir Starmer survive the next 6 months?
Westminster's half-term score card
An SW1 pub crawl: What makes the perfect political pub?
What's the point of political satire?
Inside Westminster's Musk-inspired DOGE wars
A boozy lunch with Jo Coburn
How to run your Cabinet: Lessons for Starmer
Can Labour still own the North?
How to survive the morning broadcast round
War and Peace in Europe
How to launch a backbench rebellion
When politicians fight the law and the law wins
Inside COBRA
How to survive No 11 Downing Street
When MPs defect: The art of changing party
How Westminster goes viral (without Elon Musk)
How to be a UK Ambassador to the US
The year ahead in 45 minutes
Westminster's class war over private schools
What really happened in the 2024 general election?
What really happens when MPs vote with their conscience?
Inside the Downing Street spin room
What's the secret to a great political lunch?
One crazy night in Washington
How to deliver a great budget
Does Westminster do God?
A boozy lunch with Sir Graham Brady
How to choose a Tory leader
Inside Labour Together: the project behind Keir Starmer
What's it like to cover a US election?
SPONSORED CONTENT: Homes for all: A strategy to end homelessness in Britain
Can Labour make the trains run on time?
Back to school briefing: A whirlwind guide to British politics in autumn 2024
Meet the new MPs taking on Westminster
From the archive: What ex-prime ministers do next
14 hours that changed Britain
The last 10 days of an election campaign
Westminster's photographers: a politician's best friend or worst enemy?
Inside Nigel Farage's Reform party
What's the point of a manifesto?
The art of the TV debate
The media and the UK election: Can Fleet Street still win it?
Is the Bank of England really a secret political player?
How to prepare a secret Tory leadership campaign
Inside the Westminster honey trap scandal
The secrets of the pollsters
Leak inquiry: what happens when Westminster's secrets are spilled
How Westminster fell in love with Australian politics
How to prepare for opposition
How a small town in England opened its arms to Ukraine
Diary of a by-election
A boozy lunch with Tim Shipman
Inside GB News
The year ahead in 54 minutes
How did Britain's prisons go so wrong?
The art of the political apology
How to get ready for government
Is Westminster ready for the return of Donald Trump?
How to get sacked from government
Revenge of The Blob
Meet Alf Dubs: The child refugee who became a UK parliament grandee
Is the Labour left finished in Britain?
How did free-market think tanks take over Westminster?
What's the point of party conferences?
The Battle for Scotland
Meet Robert Peston — ITV's political editor on friendship, loss and being the face of a crisis
What ex-prime ministers do next
Back to school briefing: A whirlwind guide to UK politics this autumn
I know what MPs did last summer
Westminster Insider trailer
The dark arts of politics
The real Keir Starmer: Part II
The real Keir Starmer: Part I
Harassment and bullying: What is wrong with British politics?
Can Rishi Sunak ‘Stop the Boats’?
Westminster WAGs: Who'd marry an MP?
The art of the political interview
Why the hell would you work for an MP?
Inside the room: The Good Friday Agreement 25 years on
How to become an MP
Meet Rachel Reeves — Britain's next chancellor?
How to U-turn and get away with it
Meet Fiona Hill: Inside the collapse of Theresa May’s government
The secrets of TV news
What's the point of the House of Lords?
49 days of Liz Truss: The inside story
The year ahead in 49 minutes
Who really cares what the pundits say?
A very British energy crisis
Life in the whips' office
A boozy dinner with Labour MP Wes Streeting
Did austerity work?
Great political comebacks
Who is Rishi Sunak?
SPONSORED CONTENT: Can Britain become an energy exporter?
Trussonomics and the 1972 ‘Dash for Growth’
Diary of a Tory conference meltdown
Meet Laura Kuenssberg: the most famous face in British political journalism
Why we secretly love party conferences
The Queen: The ultimate Westminster Insider
After Boris: What now for the Tories?
What's the point of Prime Minister's Questions?
Through the lens of Twitter: Watching a government collapse in real time
Labour's Tom Watson on political plots, weight loss and living with ADHD
Why Britain always hates its leaders in the end
A boozy dinner with David Davis MP
Casinos, coups and life on the breadline with Labour’s Jon Ashworth
Victims of The Troubles: A year of turmoil in Northern Ireland
Inside the Lobby: Westminster's political journalists
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The road to Brexit — 30 years since the Maastricht Treaty
How to avoid a nuclear war
Bar room talk with Labour’s Andy Burnham
Russia and Britain — A brief history, from Navarino to Ukraine
Cold water swimming with Johnny Mercer MP
How to topple a prime minister
Why there's nothing new about Leveling Up
Notes on a scandal
The year ahead in 53 minutes
From opium wars to cyberattacks: 200 years of UK-China friction
Two years on: What the hell happened in the 2019 general election?
Meet Mayor Sadiq Khan: Boxing, knives and curryhouses on the streets of south London
The next pandemic
How British towns got left behind
The government vs the BBC: A Hundred Year War
The history of climate change — from the Great Ice Age to COP26 and beyond
How do you write a great political speech?
Meet Lee Cain: Three chaotic years as Boris Johnson's closest aide
From Bismarck to Merkel: Why German chancellors always matter more than we expect
Why doesn't Britain ever build enough homes?
'Every phone started ringing' — Remembering 9/11
Why do politicians tell so many lies?
MPs' postbags: How we're failing the kids who need us most
Postcards from Afghanistan
How to spin a referendum: The inside story of the Brexit campaign
What's the point of the G7 summit?
One year on — Owen Paterson on life after his wife's suicide
How special advisers took over Westminster
The art of political drinking
Meet Angela Rayner — Labour's deputy leader on winning back the North
Why by-elections matter
A short history of Scottish separatism
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A year of lockdowns — How the pandemic changed Westminster
Meet: Chancellor Rishi Sunak — beyond the Budget
Cabinet secretaries ... and why Sir Humphrey always wins
When Budgets go wrong
MPs’ postbags: The hidden costs of lockdown
Meet: Prof Neil Ferguson — life after the coronavirus pandemic
How to charm a US president
Westminster's morning newsletter revolution
Pilot: The history of pandemics — and how politicians always react the same way
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