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Politics Unpacked

Hugo Rifkind unpacks the the politics of the day - and the stuff that's even more important - with the brightest brains from the Times and Sunday Times.You can listen to Hugo on DAB, smart speaker or app 10am-1pm Monday to Friday. If you like what you hear, then read more at http://www.thetimes.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump Mocks Starmer (Again)

30 mins; April 03, 2026

Trump's 'Stone Age' Threat

32 mins; April 02, 2026

How Is Britain Handling Trump's Taunts?

33 mins; April 01, 2026

The Battle For Big Ideas

35 mins; March 31, 2026

Energy Shock Leaves Starmer Powerless

34 mins; March 30, 2026

Has Trump Run Out Of Options?

29 mins; March 27, 2026

Starmer's Fuel Fiction

31 mins; March 26, 2026

PMQs: It's Ed Miliband's Decision

42 mins; March 25, 2026

Is Ed Miliband In The Driving Seat?

29 mins; March 24, 2026

Trump, The Cost Of Living And Corbyn In Cuba

36 mins; March 23, 2026

The Global Energy Crisis

32 mins; March 19, 2026

PMQs: Starmer Swerves Mandelson Questions

41 mins; March 18, 2026

Can Farage Out-Stunt Ed Davey?

31 mins; March 17, 2026

Starmer To The Rescue?

31 mins; March 16, 2026

Iran, Mandelson, and Farage Fighting The Polls

34 mins; March 13, 2026

Did Starmer Mislead MPs Over Mandelson?

30 mins; March 12, 2026

PMQs: The Mother of All U-Turns

44 mins; March 11, 2026

Trump's Words Of War

32 mins; March 10, 2026

Will Ministers Have To Act On Energy Bills?

37 mins; March 09, 2026

What Is Trump Trying To Achieve In Iran?

33 mins; March 06, 2026

Starmer Playing Catch-Up Over Iran

33 mins; March 05, 2026

PMQs: "A Sea Of Orcs And Goons"

50 mins; March 04, 2026

The Not-So-Special Relationship

32 mins; March 03, 2026

Starmer's Iran Response Angers Trump

34 mins; March 02, 2026

Labour's 'Existential Crisis'

33 mins; February 27, 2026

Immigration, Student Loans, and Reform's Blue Box

29 mins; February 26, 2026

PMQs: The Last One Before The By-Election

40 mins; February 25, 2026

MPs Debate Former Prince Andrew

32 mins; February 24, 2026

Will SEND be Labour's Next Rebellion?

36 mins; February 23, 2026

What Andrew's Arrest Means For The Monarchy

28 mins; February 20, 2026

Former Prince Andrew Arrested By Police

18 mins; February 19, 2026

Reform Without Farage's Fireworks

29 mins; February 18, 2026

Reform Team, Assemble

30 mins; February 17, 2026

Starmer's Stay Of Execution

32 mins; February 16, 2026

Starmer Seeks Relief On The World Stage

33 mins; February 13, 2026

The Cabinet Chaos Continues

35 mins; February 12, 2026

PMQs: 'Hypocrites and Paedophile Apologists'

46 mins; February 11, 2026

The Drama Keir, I Love It

32 mins; February 10, 2026

Starmer's Terminal Phase

32 mins; February 09, 2026

A Matter Of When, Not If?

31 mins; February 06, 2026

Is Starmer’s Apology Enough?

23 mins; February 05, 2026

PMQs: Starmer Knew About Mandelson & Epstein

40 mins; February 04, 2026

The Mandelson-Epstein Scandal Explodes

31 mins; February 03, 2026

Has Peter Mandelson Damaged Starmer?

31 mins; February 02, 2026

Will Labour Lose The By-Election?

42 mins; January 30, 2026

Reheated Centrism Or One-Nation Opportunity?

33 mins; January 29, 2026

DPMQs: The Last Time He'll Get This Gig?

48 mins; January 28, 2026

Is Burnham 'Done and Dusted'?

31 mins; January 27, 2026

The Burnham Backlash

31 mins; January 26, 2026

Trump Unites All Sides (In Outrage)

30 mins; January 23, 2026

Trump's Bewildering Week

35 mins; January 22, 2026

PMQs: Starmer’s Best Yet?

42 mins; January 21, 2026

Trump Turns On Starmer

28 mins; January 20, 2026

Did Starmer Pull His Punches?

31 mins; January 19, 2026

The Jenrick Shockwave

28 mins; January 16, 2026

The Tory Psychodrama Is Back!

30 mins; January 15, 2026

PMQs: The Starmer Sutra

45 mins; January 14, 2026

Can We Stand Up To Big Tech?

35 mins; January 13, 2026

Zahawi Defects To Reform

30 mins; January 12, 2026

Yet Another U-Turn

32 mins; January 09, 2026

Do We Really Want Honest Leaders?

32 mins; January 08, 2026

PMQs: Nigel Farage

52 mins; January 07, 2026

With Friends Like Trump, Who Needs Enemies?

32 mins; January 06, 2026

Starmer's Survival Strategy

30 mins; January 05, 2026

The Weirdness Of Whitehall

31 mins; January 02, 2026

Starmer's New Year's Resolutions

35 mins; December 31, 2025

Who Should Get An Honour?

32 mins; December 30, 2025

Should Starmer Strip Activist's Citizenship?

30 mins; December 29, 2025

Keir Starmer's Christmas Carol

13 mins; December 22, 2025

Are Ministers Running Scared Of The Voters?

32 mins; December 19, 2025

Trump Derangement Syndrome

33 mins; December 18, 2025

PMQs: Does Starmer Have the Baubles?

45 mins; December 17, 2025

Donald Trump vs The BBC

34 mins; December 16, 2025

Burnham, Reform & Clarkson Bans MPs

32 mins; December 15, 2025

Starmer's Shuttle Diplomacy

29 mins; December 12, 2025

Are Labour's Peerages Hypocritical?

34 mins; December 11, 2025

PMQs: A Caretaker Prime Minister

44 mins; December 10, 2025

Does Rayner Have A Plan For Power?

34 mins; December 09, 2025

Are Starmer Loyalists Losing Faith?

31 mins; December 08, 2025

Britain’s Move On Frozen Russian Assets

30 mins; December 05, 2025

Can Farage Lure Jenrick?

34 mins; December 04, 2025

PMQs: She's Completely Losing The Plot

43 mins; December 03, 2025

Why Is Starmer Bringing Up Brexit?

31 mins; December 02, 2025

Did The Chancellor Lie To Cabinet?

30 mins; December 01, 2025

Labour's Grown-Up Politics

30 mins; November 28, 2025

Is The Budget The Chancellor's Obituary?

29 mins; November 27, 2025

PMQs: Most Chaotic Budget Yet?

23 mins; November 26, 2025

Another 'Omnishambles' Budget?

32 mins; November 25, 2025

Is the Chancellor Still In Control?

30 mins; November 24, 2025

Ministers 'Dragging Heels' Over Single-sex Spaces

30 mins; November 20, 2025

PMQs: A Labour Budget With Labour Values?

41 mins; November 19, 2025

Is Labour 'Appeasing The Electorate'?

30 mins; November 18, 2025

Is Migration Labour's Next Big Rebellion?

36 mins; November 17, 2025

Reeves U-turns On Tax... Again

31 mins; November 14, 2025

Labour's Blame Game Continues

28 mins; November 13, 2025

PMQs: Labour's 'Civil War'

40 mins; November 12, 2025

Trump Eyes A Billion From The BBC

31 mins; November 11, 2025

Heads Roll Over BBC Bias Claims

29 mins; November 10, 2025

Is There Any Way Out For Rachel Reeves?

31 mins; November 07, 2025

Have Politicians Stopped Lying?

31 mins; November 06, 2025

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