Tuesday’s ITV Debate between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer was their first head-to-head clash of this General Election. The broadcaster will no doubt be pleased it saw off the opposition and got on air first. They will also be pleased with the figures. The broadcast got a peak audience of […]
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On today’s episode of House of Comments, the politics podcast I co-present with Emma Burnell, we focus on the Diane Abbott situation and other selection sagas within the Labour Party. What does it all say about factionalism and the party leadership? We also head Stateside to discuss Donald Trump becoming a convicted felon. (I hope you
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The UK has just had two more by-elections on Thursday – votes in a constituency held when the MP can no longer keep the seat for reasons including bad behaviour, resignation over disagreements with party policy, ill health or… death. Labour overturned huge Conservative majorities in both Wellingborough (MP wrongdoing) and Kingswood (MP not agreeing
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As some people will know, I co-host the “House of Comments” podcast with Emma Burnell. Every Friday, we discuss British politics and sometimes politics from the US and elsewhere. You can listen on AudioBoom or wherever you usually get your podcasts. In the hours before we recorded the latest episode, US and UK forces hit
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