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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: Keir Starmer's 'Bag Carrier' Lifts The Lid

44 mins; June 18, 2025

Trump The Interventionist

33 mins; June 17, 2025

Starmer's Grooming Gangs U-Turn

33 mins; June 16, 2025

Israel Strikes Iran

29 mins; June 13, 2025

Tax Speculation Haunts Reeves

27 mins; June 12, 2025

PMQs: Kemi Tries Panto

26 mins; June 11, 2025

Iron Chancellor...Or Not?

34 mins; June 10, 2025

Could Farage Open The Coal Mines?

30 mins; June 09, 2025

A Trump-Musk Divorce

32 mins; June 06, 2025

Will The Winter Fuel U-Turn Work?

35 mins; June 05, 2025

PMQs: Shipman Bows Out

43 mins; June 04, 2025

The Cost Of Preparing For War

32 mins; June 03, 2025

Starmer, Badenoch And Farage Take Aim

26 mins; May 30, 2025

Is Farage 'Liz Truss All Over Again'?

31 mins; May 29, 2025

Reeves' Spending Squeeze

32 mins; May 28, 2025

Farage Attacks 'Unpatriotic' Starmer

31 mins; May 27, 2025

Labour vs Reform on Welfare

34 mins; May 26, 2025

Labour's Tricky Week

34 mins; May 23, 2025

Trump's Oval Office Takedowns

34 mins; May 22, 2025

PMQs: Starmer U-Turns On Winter Fuel

43 mins; May 21, 2025

Tories Sink In The Polls

34 mins; May 20, 2025

Has Starmer Surrendered?

28 mins; May 19, 2025

The Price Of Starmer's EU Reset

33 mins; May 16, 2025

How Big Is The Space To The Left Of Starmer?

32 mins; May 15, 2025

PMQs: Dead Party Walking

44 mins; May 14, 2025

Did Starmer Echo Enoch Powell?

31 mins; May 13, 2025

Starmer's Stark Language On Immigration

27 mins; May 12, 2025

The Deification Of Trump

29 mins; May 09, 2025

A 'Very Big And Exciting' Trade Deal

31 mins; May 08, 2025

PMQs Unpacked: What Trade Deal?

40 mins; May 07, 2025

The Winter Fuel Cut Backlash

31 mins; May 06, 2025

The EU Plays Hardball On Migration

31 mins; May 05, 2025

Local Elections: Reform On The March

33 mins; May 02, 2025

Golf Diplomacy

33 mins; May 01, 2025

PMQs: The Last One Before The Elections

39 mins; April 30, 2025

100 Days Of Trump

31 mins; April 29, 2025

Who Would Win From A Tory-Reform Pact?

30 mins; April 28, 2025

Douglas Murray

24 mins; April 26, 2025

Washington, War and WhatsApp Etiquette

30 mins; April 25, 2025

Trump 'In Cahoots' With Putin?

31 mins; April 24, 2025

PMQs: He Doesn't Have The Balls

41 mins; April 23, 2025

Starmer Breaks Silence On Trans Ruling

35 mins; April 22, 2025

A Modernising Pope

27 mins; April 21, 2025

Farage, Oak Trees, And The Problem With LinkedIn

32 mins; April 18, 2025

Starmer Risks Trade Stand-Off With Trump

31 mins; April 17, 2025

Defining A Woman

34 mins; April 16, 2025

Too Cosy With China?

28 mins; April 15, 2025

Save British Steel

32 mins; April 14, 2025

Tit-For-Tat Trade War

32 mins; April 11, 2025

Trump Dumps Tariffs

35 mins; April 10, 2025

Boys Will Be Boys

33 mins; April 09, 2025

Will Trump's Cheerleaders Lose Faith?

30 mins; April 08, 2025

Starmer's Plan To Protect The Economy

28 mins; April 07, 2025

Trump Tariff Turmoil

34 mins; April 04, 2025

Trump Stokes A Trade War

33 mins; April 03, 2025

Carping From The Sidelines

38 mins; April 02, 2025

No Free Trade Without Free Speech?

33 mins; April 01, 2025

Statecraft or Spineless

34 mins; March 31, 2025

Trump Demands More From Ukraine

24 mins; March 28, 2025

The Mother Of All Rebellions

32 mins; March 27, 2025

PMQs: Kemi and Keir Phone It In

27 mins; March 26, 2025

When Group Chats Go Wrong

31 mins; March 25, 2025

Freebies, Austerity & Trump Tourism

33 mins; March 24, 2025

Reeves' Unappealing Options

28 mins; March 21, 2025

Coalition Of The Not-So-Willing?

33 mins; March 20, 2025

PMQs: Glazed Expressions And Waffle

42 mins; March 19, 2025

The Government Shakes Up Welfare

35 mins; March 18, 2025

Does Badenoch Have The Luxury Of Time?

32 mins; March 17, 2025

Where Do Peace Talks Go From Here?

29 mins; March 14, 2025

Is Starmer Wielding The Chainsaw?

27 mins; March 13, 2025

PMQs: Talking Trash At The Despatch Box

43 mins; March 12, 2025

Starmer Prepares To Cut Welfare

34 mins; March 11, 2025

Elon Musk, Reform and Barbour Jackets

31 mins; March 10, 2025

Does Trump's 'Madman Theory' Work?

31 mins; March 07, 2025

Who's In Charge Of Our Nuclear Deterrent?

33 mins; March 06, 2025

PMQs: JD Vance Looms Large

43 mins; March 05, 2025

Trump Halts Aid To Ukraine

33 mins; March 04, 2025

Starmer's Coalition Of The Willing

32 mins; March 03, 2025

What Did Starmer Get From Trump?

27 mins; February 28, 2025

Trump's Love/Hate Relationship With Europe

29 mins; February 27, 2025

PMQs: Desperate Search For Relevance

44 mins; February 26, 2025

Starmer Gets Ready For Trump

34 mins; February 25, 2025

Lessons From The German Election

31 mins; February 24, 2025

Stuff's Got Real

35 mins; February 21, 2025

Starmer's "Love Actually" Moment?

33 mins; February 20, 2025

President Musk

31 mins; February 19, 2025

Rachel Reeves' Inflated CV

34 mins; February 18, 2025

Trump, The Right & Starmer's Favourite Pub

32 mins; February 17, 2025

Is Keir Starmer Just a Pawn?

23 mins; February 14, 2025

Trump Accused Of Betraying Ukraine

33 mins; February 13, 2025

PMQs: Open Borders & Lefty Lawyers

41 mins; February 12, 2025

Can The UK Avoid A Trade War?

27 mins; February 11, 2025

Is Labour The Disrupter - Or The Disrupted?

32 mins; February 10, 2025

Build Baby Build

27 mins; February 07, 2025

Are Labour And The Tories Panicking Over Reform?

29 mins; February 06, 2025

PMQs: The Kemi Pivot

35 mins; February 05, 2025

The President Who Cried Tariff

32 mins; February 04, 2025

Keir's Not Driving The Train

32 mins; February 03, 2025

Brexit, Boomers & Centrist Dads

31 mins; January 31, 2025

Focus Group: Rabbit In The Headlights

25 mins; January 30, 2025

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