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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: The Next Lettuce?

41 mins; January 29, 2025

Extremism, Protest and Ed Miliband's Photographer

32 mins; January 28, 2025

Trump Calls Starmer

31 mins; January 27, 2025

Farage Demands An Apology

38 mins; January 24, 2025

Matthew Parris: Liberals Should Take On Trump

35 mins; January 23, 2025

PMQs: Did Kemi School Keir?

41 mins; January 22, 2025

Did Farage Have A Point About Southport?

28 mins; January 21, 2025

Trump! Part Deux

30 mins; January 20, 2025

Ed Davey: No More Mr Nice Guy?

34 mins; January 17, 2025

Trump Takes The Credit

32 mins; January 16, 2025

PMQs: Economic Vandals and Fantasists

42 mins; January 15, 2025

Is Rachel Reeves Really In Trouble?

32 mins; January 14, 2025

Can Labour Be 'Ruthless' Over Spending?

34 mins; January 13, 2025

The Chancellor Goes To China

29 mins; January 10, 2025

Has Reeves Done A Truss?

32 mins; January 09, 2025

PMQs: A Leader Not A Lawyer

44 mins; January 08, 2025

Should Starmer Investigate Grooming Gangs?

34 mins; January 07, 2025

Starmer Hits Back At Musk

30 mins; January 06, 2025

Is Musk Flirting With Fascism?

38 mins; January 03, 2025

Gang Smashing & Queue Jumping

28 mins; January 02, 2025

Making the Honours List

33 mins; December 31, 2024

Are Badenoch's Attacks On Farage Backfiring?

30 mins; December 30, 2024

Slumps, Scandals And Christmas Sweaters

30 mins; December 23, 2024

Can Mandelson Charm Donald Trump?

21 mins; December 20, 2024

Can Kemi Look Like A PM In Waiting?

33 mins; December 19, 2024

PMQs: One-Trick Phony

43 mins; December 18, 2024

Why Is Starmer Polling So Badly?

32 mins; December 17, 2024

Naming Spies

31 mins; December 16, 2024

Streeting Goes For Miliband

27 mins; December 13, 2024

Kemi's War on Sandwiches

27 mins; December 12, 2024

PMQs: Tip Of The Iceberg

41 mins; December 11, 2024

Lammy Hams It Up Over Syria

31 mins; December 10, 2024

Would You Buy Shares In The Tories?

32 mins; December 09, 2024

'Don't Bet Against Farage'

29 mins; December 06, 2024

Starmer's Six Milestones

22 mins; December 05, 2024

PMQs: Conviction Politicians, Not Politicians With Convictions

41 mins; December 04, 2024

Too Many Targets?

31 mins; December 03, 2024

The Sickness Benefits Trap

40 mins; December 02, 2024

Starmer Loses His First Cabinet Minister

26 mins; November 29, 2024

Have The Tories Got It Wrong On Immigration?

29 mins; November 28, 2024

PMQs: Taking The Biscuit

42 mins; November 27, 2024

Have We Reached 'Peak Woke'

31 mins; November 26, 2024

Petitions, Missions, And Ed Davey's TikTok

32 mins; November 25, 2024

Keir Starmer's Education Revolution

28 mins; November 22, 2024

Tim Shipman: Brexit, Boris & Bust-Ups

21 mins; November 21, 2024

PMQs: Rayner vs... Who?

42 mins; November 20, 2024

Where Does Musk Find The Time?

33 mins; November 19, 2024

Is Reeves Haunted By Her CV?

34 mins; November 18, 2024

Criminalising The Culture Wars

32 mins; November 15, 2024

Is Europe Delusional About Trump?

32 mins; November 14, 2024

PMQs: The Magic Money Tree Is Back

40 mins; November 13, 2024

Has Pop Culture Shifted Right?

31 mins; November 12, 2024

Why Labour Isn't More Radical

33 mins; November 11, 2024

Harris's Lessons For Labour

29 mins; November 08, 2024

Trump's Hard Truth For Liberals

32 mins; November 07, 2024

PMQs: Badenoch Plays Her Trump Card

42 mins; November 06, 2024

Has Starmer U-Turned on Fees?

33 mins; November 05, 2024

Like British Politics, But Bigger

34 mins; November 04, 2024

PTSD From Truss's Mini-Budget

33 mins; November 01, 2024

The Real Problem With The USA

29 mins; October 31, 2024

Reeves' Budget & Sunak's Swan Song

36 mins; October 30, 2024

Is Kemi Too Outrageous?

31 mins; October 29, 2024

A Joke Too Far For Trump

35 mins; October 28, 2024

Musk's Talks With Putin

30 mins; October 25, 2024

Starmer's Squabble In Samoa

34 mins; October 24, 2024

PMQs: The Battle Of The Gingers

42 mins; October 23, 2024

Can Ministers Make Prison Work?

30 mins; October 22, 2024

Trump, Badenoch & McDonald's

35 mins; October 21, 2024

Badenoch Broke The Clap-O-Meter

32 mins; October 18, 2024

Taylor Swift, Slick Jenrick

32 mins; October 17, 2024

PMQs: Political Point Scoring?

41 mins; October 16, 2024

Will Labour Break Its Tax Promise?

35 mins; October 15, 2024

Was The Transport Secretary Thrown Under The Bus?

28 mins; October 14, 2024

Where's Sue Gray?

35 mins; October 11, 2024

The Tory Identity Crisis

34 mins; October 10, 2024

PMQs: It's Like She's Voldemort

38 mins; October 09, 2024

Crackdown On Cronyism?

35 mins; October 08, 2024

Gray Matter

34 mins; October 07, 2024

Boris Johnson, Chagos and 'Cash For Croissants'

28 mins; October 04, 2024

Starmer's Freebie-Geebies

34 mins; October 03, 2024

Tory Leadership: Who Has The Momentum?

29 mins; October 02, 2024

Who Is Listening To Liz Truss?

34 mins; October 01, 2024

Who Is Winning The Tory Leadership Contest

30 mins; September 30, 2024

Will Boris Overshadow Tory Conference?

28 mins; September 27, 2024

Why Can't Starmer Shake The Donors Story?

32 mins; September 26, 2024

Is Streeting Talking Down The NHS?

34 mins; September 25, 2024

Is Angela Rayner Being Frozen Out?

28 mins; September 24, 2024

Focus Group: Has The Gifts Row Cut Through?

24 mins; September 23, 2024

Is English Identity Under Threat?

30 mins; September 20, 2024

Perks, Or Part Of The Job?

30 mins; September 19, 2024

Is Working From Home Working?

32 mins; September 18, 2024

Has Britain Lost Its Regional Identity?

31 mins; September 17, 2024

Should The Starmers Buy Their Own Clothes?

35 mins; September 16, 2024

PFI 2.0, Salmond vs Sturgeon, and Gove's Return?

32 mins; September 13, 2024

Does Starmer Have It In For Pensioners?

27 mins; September 12, 2024

PMQs: Starmer Sticks To The Script

42 mins; September 11, 2024

Is Britain In A Sickness Crisis?

33 mins; September 10, 2024

Is Labour Really Risking A Brain Drain?

34 mins; September 09, 2024

What Makes A Maiden Speech

46 mins; September 06, 2024

Philby, Fleming and Putin: A History of Spies

43 mins; September 05, 2024

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