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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.

PMQs: Lammy Rattled Over Second Manhunt

36 mins; November 05, 2025

Reeves Drops A "Waffle Bomb"?

31 mins; November 04, 2025

Farage Appeals To "Alarm Clock Britain"

30 mins; November 03, 2025

Mr Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

30 mins; October 31, 2025

Reeves' Rental Blunder

30 mins; October 30, 2025

PMQs Unpacked: "Always Someone Else's Fault"

41 mins; October 29, 2025

Migrants in Military Barracks

30 mins; October 28, 2025

Where Are The Grown Ups?

31 mins; October 27, 2025

Labour's Caerphilly Collapse

31 mins; October 24, 2025

Why Is The Home Office Still Not Fit For Purpose?

29 mins; October 23, 2025

PMQs: Grooming Gangs Inquiry In Chaos

42 mins; October 22, 2025

What Did Andrew Witness?

30 mins; October 21, 2025

Is China A Top-Tier Threat?

29 mins; October 20, 2025

Football Ban Tests Starmer

37 mins; October 17, 2025

The China Spy Blame Game

33 mins; October 16, 2025

PMQs: Lawyer, Not A Leader?

56 mins; October 15, 2025

Trump Leaves Starmer Hanging

32 mins; October 14, 2025

Farage Ditches Tax Cut Plans

33 mins; October 13, 2025

Trump's Peace Prize Snub

35 mins; October 10, 2025

Trump Takes Credit For Gaza Deal

33 mins; October 09, 2025

Badenoch's Tax-Cutting Promises

16 mins; October 08, 2025

Jenrick Moves Centre Stage

28 mins; October 07, 2025

Kemi Badenoch: "Absolutely Invisible"

28 mins; October 06, 2025

Fundamentally Un-British

29 mins; October 03, 2025

The End Of The Asylum 'Golden Ticket'?

27 mins; October 02, 2025

Playing The Ball And Not The Man?

32 mins; October 02, 2025

Keir Starmer's Survival

32 mins; September 30, 2025

The Chancellor's Hard Choices To Come

21 mins; September 29, 2025

Why Have Labour Voters Lost Faith?

23 mins; September 29, 2025

Starmer Takes On Populism

25 mins; September 26, 2025

The Burnham Show

32 mins; September 25, 2025

Why is Ed Davey "Obsessed" With Nigel Farage?

32 mins; September 24, 2025

Trump's Dubious Claims

31 mins; September 23, 2025

Ed Davey's Battle For Attention

30 mins; September 22, 2025

Your Party Or 'No More' Party?

31 mins; September 19, 2025

Is MAGA Right About Free Speech In The UK?

34 mins; September 18, 2025

One In, None Out

28 mins; September 17, 2025

Is Religion On The Rise In Politics?

26 mins; September 16, 2025

The Tory Party Is Over, Says Kruger

29 mins; September 15, 2025

Starmer's Damage Control

32 mins; September 12, 2025

Peter Mandelson Sacked (Again)

31 mins; September 11, 2025

PMQs: Starmer's Mandelson Headache

42 mins; September 10, 2025

Will The Deputy Leader Race Split Labour?

29 mins; September 09, 2025

Labour's 'Reforming Right'

31 mins; September 08, 2025

Angela Rayner's Resignation

27 mins; September 05, 2025

Focus Group: "Put The Great Back Into Britain"

48 mins; September 04, 2025

PMQs: 'Why Is She Still In Office?'

43 mins; September 03, 2025

Labour: Phase Two

32 mins; September 02, 2025

Starmer's Surprise Shake-Up

35 mins; September 01, 2025

The Anti-Western Alliance

30 mins; August 29, 2025

Flip-Flop Farage

36 mins; August 28, 2025

Trouble In Paris Threatens Small Boats Plan

33 mins; August 27, 2025

Farage's Bold Asylum Seeker Plan

30 mins; August 26, 2025

Can Starmer Solve The Asylum Crisis?

35 mins; August 25, 2025

Pressure Grows Over Immigration

32 mins; August 22, 2025

Why Are There So Many Asylum Seekers In Hotels?

37 mins; August 21, 2025

Asylum Policy In Crisis

34 mins; August 20, 2025

Oval Office Round Two

31 mins; August 18, 2025

The Trump-Putin Summit

32 mins; August 15, 2025

Trump's Plan For Peace

32 mins; August 14, 2025

JD Vance's Unlikely BBQ

34 mins; August 13, 2025

Is Political Language Too Loose?

35 mins; August 12, 2025

Is Labour Trying To Create A Hostile Environment?

33 mins; August 11, 2025

Trump Goes from 'Taco to Waco'

32 mins; August 08, 2025

Kemi The 'Snitch'

33 mins; August 07, 2025

The Chancellor’s ‘Impossible Trilemma’

33 mins; August 06, 2025

Will The UK-France Migrant Deal Cut Through?

31 mins; August 05, 2025

Farage's Growing Entourage

35 mins; August 04, 2025

Not So Silly Season

32 mins; August 01, 2025

PM's "Knee-Jerk Reaction" On Palestine

33 mins; July 31, 2025

Starmer's Palestine Plan

31 mins; July 30, 2025

Trump's Advice To Starmer

32 mins; July 29, 2025

A MAGA British Summer

35 mins; July 28, 2025

Battle With The BMA

30 mins; July 25, 2025

Badenoch's Chainsaw Conservatives

29 mins; July 24, 2025

Is Britain "Fraying"?

32 mins; July 23, 2025

Reshuffles, Reform & JD Vance's Holiday

32 mins; July 22, 2025

Farage's Summer Of Crime

32 mins; July 21, 2025

Afghan Data Leak: "Cock-up Or Conspiracy"?

32 mins; July 18, 2025

Persistent Knobheadery

31 mins; July 17, 2025

PMQs: Don't Mention The Data Leak

42 mins; July 16, 2025

Melania, Billionaires And The Power Of Pessimism

29 mins; July 15, 2025

Tax Rises: The Question Of The Summer

35 mins; July 14, 2025

Sick Note Britain?

29 mins; July 11, 2025

"Washed-up Tories" Defecting to Reform

31 mins; July 10, 2025

PMQs: 'Flirting' With A Wealth Tax

39 mins; July 09, 2025

Can Starmer and Macron Stop the Boats?

26 mins; July 08, 2025

Another Labour Rebellion Looms

31 mins; July 07, 2025

Can A New Left-Wing Party Succeed

34 mins; July 04, 2025

Can Reeves Move On From 'Tough Day'?

31 mins; July 03, 2025

PMQs: "She Looks Traumatised"

44 mins; July 02, 2025

Labour's Welfare Problem

31 mins; July 01, 2025

Starmer Faces Fresh Welfare Rebellion

31 mins; June 30, 2025

Starmer's Hat-Trick Of U-Turns

26 mins; June 27, 2025

Welfare Bill in Crisis

29 mins; June 26, 2025

PMQs: Rayner's Rough Ride Over Welfare

39 mins; June 25, 2025

Why Was Starmer Out Of The Loop?

28 mins; June 24, 2025

Is The UK Internationally Irrelevant?

31 mins; June 23, 2025

Is There A "Window" For Iran Diplomacy?

30 mins; June 20, 2025

How Will The UK Respond If Trump Attacks?

32 mins; June 19, 2025

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