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    Explore "uk_elections" with insightful episodes like "Daily briefing Sunday 5th May", "Evening Briefing Friday 3rd May", "Morning briefing Monday 29th April", "How To Defect" and "Eight years hard Labour: episode 6 - Do you really want to go out on a knight like this?" from podcasts like ""Times news briefing", "Times news briefing", "Times news briefing", "How To Win An Election" and "The Slow Newscast"" and more!

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    How To Defect

    How To Defect

    Can Rishi Sunak hold his party together, or is former deputy chairman Lee Anderson's departure a sign of even more Tory unrest ahead?


    The political masterminds Peter Mandelson, Polly Mackenzie and Daniel Finkelstein join Matt Chorley to look at what happens when politicians defect, from the Gang of Four to Change UK. And how did Keir Starmer react to Peter's diet advice?


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    Eight years hard Labour: episode 6 - Do you really want to go out on a knight like this?

    Eight years hard Labour: episode 6 - Do you really want to go out on a knight like this?

    Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader is up. The party faces an uphill battle to mount a credible challenge to the Conservative majority at the next election. So who will the party turn to in its hour of need? And what will that person do with all the supporters of Jeremy Corbyn left in the party? 


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    39. Theresa May: Donald Trump, David Cameron, and ‘Brexit means Brexit’ (Part 2)

    39. Theresa May: Donald Trump, David Cameron, and ‘Brexit means Brexit’ (Part 2)
    Why did Theresa May prefer Gordon Brown to Tony Blair as a Prime Minister? Does the former PM have any regrets over Brexit? How did things unfold behind the scenes after the Salisbury poisoning of a former Russian spy? In the second of two episodes, Rory and Alastair are joined once again by former Conservative Prime Minister, Theresa May. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Will the Tories move even further to the right?

    Will the Tories move even further to the right?

    Forget those apocalyptic predictions of a thousand lost Conservative council seats. In the end the losses totalled 1,063.

    Every Conservative strategist thinks ‘something must be done’. But what is that something? More house building? More tax cuts? More ‘true Conservative’ values? More Boris?

    We talk to former Brexit minister David Davis about his party and what it does next.