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Friday, 13 September, 2024

36 min listen
A terminal diagnosis for the NHS?
Plus, the battles ahead in party conference season
Friday, 6 September, 2024

38 min listen
Labour and business: friends or foes?
Plus, the latest in the Tory leadership race and a UK policy shift on Israel
Friday, 30 August, 2024

35 min listen
Labour’s descent into ‘miserabilism’
Plus, who’s up and who’s down in the Tory leadership race
Friday, 23 August, 2024

19 min listen
Swamp Notes: Democrats find a feeling at the DNC
Political Fix is on a break. Introducing Swamp Notes, the FT's US elections podcast
Friday, 16 August, 2024

35 min listen
How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?
Plus, why politicians should not cancel their holidays
Friday, 9 August, 2024

33 min listen
‘A fractious and divided country’
What’s the political fallout from the riots?
Friday, 2 August, 2024

36 min listen
Is Labour facing a summer of unrest?
Plus, the truth about Rachel Reeves’s fiscal inheritance
Friday, 26 July, 2024

35 min listen
Labour confronts £20bn black hole
Plus, the FT’s Gill Plimmer on the HS2 debacle
Tuesday, 23 July, 2024

34 min listen
The ‘bin fires’ setting Labour’s in-tray alight
Plus, will Labour’s ‘devolution revolution’ actually drive growth?
Friday, 19 July, 2024

34 min listen
Labour's growth fixation
Plus, is Keir Starmer driving Britain back into the arms of Europe?
Tuesday, 16 July, 2024

36 min listen
Labour builds bridges with Trump
Plus, UK government launches major defence review
Friday, 12 July, 2024

41 min listen
Keir Starmer’s debut on the global stage
Plus, the FT’s William Wallis on the state of the UK’s dangerously overcrowded prisons
Tuesday, 9 July, 2024

35 min listen
Keir Starmer enters his imperial phase
What we’ve learned from the new prime minister’s first five days in office
Friday, 5 July, 2024

59 min listen
Election special: Starmer moves into Number 10
The FT’s top political commentators answer listeners’ questions about the general election result
Wednesday, 3 July, 2024

37 min listen
Campaign catch-up: election-eve predictions and verdicts
The panel casts ahead to the election results, and reviews the six-week campaigns
Friday, 28 June, 2024

37 min listen
Could the election results still surprise us?
Plus, where have all the ‘good chaps’ of British politics gone?
Tuesday, 25 June, 2024

29 min listen
Campaign catch-up: Why this UK election result could be the most distorted ever
Plus, how the seeds of Tory collapse were sown in 2019
Friday, 21 June, 2024

41 min listen
Is this the Tory death spiral?
Plus, how Reform is reshaping politics
Tuesday, 18 June, 2024

32 min listen
Campaign catch-up: Labour’s dash for growth
Plus, what Rachel Reeves told the FT
Friday, 14 June, 2024

33 min listen
Labour’s manifesto: where will the money come from?
Plus, what might a Labour government mean for your personal finances?
Tuesday, 11 June, 2024

33 min listen
Campaign catch-up: the Tories’ ‘kitchen sink’ manifesto
Plus, the Lib Dems mix pledges and photo-ops
Friday, 7 June, 2024

31 min listen
Tory morale plunges
Plus, the UK’s place in the wider world
Tuesday, 4 June, 2024

23 min listen
Campaign catch-up: Farage is back!
Plus, the Lib Dems’ care policy and a look ahead to the Sunak-Starmer TV debate
Monday, 3 June, 2024

2 min listen
Introducing Untold: Power for Sale
Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times.
Friday, 31 May, 2024

36 min listen
Labour’s messy campaign week
UK election: can the Green party split the leftwing vote?