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33m
Mark Menzies: is UK politics full of scandal?
As another scandal engulfs parliament, the SNP’s Mhairi Black and former Education Secretary Justine Greening join Matt Frei and Paul McNamara to discuss Westminster’s toxic culture.
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34m
What impact will war in Gaza have on UK political parties?
In this episode of The Political Fourcast, Nicky Morgan and Charlie Falconer join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss how the war in Gaza could change the political fortunes of UK parties.
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32m
Will immigration determine the election and Sunak’s future?
In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.
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25m
Bernie Sanders on Gaza, genocide and Trump
US Senator Bernie Sanders tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why the US should stop its funding for Netanyahu’s “horrific war against the Palestinian people”, why a second Trump victory could foment right-wing movements across the world with disastrous consequences, and why taking on the ruling class is a necessary but “long, long process”, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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44m
Samuel Kasumu, Former Special Advisor to Boris Johnson, on culture wars in government and being a Tory
Samuel Kasumu, Former Special Advisor to Boris Johnson, talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the reasons why he first joined the Tory party aged 19, the role of special advisors in No 10 and why culture wars inside Downing Street made the downfall of Boris Johnson ‘inevitable’, in this episode of Ways To Change the World.
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5m
Tory polling failure: Blame ‘the captain of the ship’, says former MP Dorries
Earlier we spoke to her and began by asking what proof she had that Rishi Sunak was at the heart of it all.
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4m
US House Speaker ousted for first time in history
There’s a vacancy in one of the top jobs in US politics after the ousting the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Third in the presidential line of succession, the person who’d have to take charge if the President and Vice President were both indisposed, Republican Kevin McCarthy was voted out by his own party.
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2m
Trump accused of repeated fraud as trial starts in New York
Donald Trump is a busy man. He’s facing a succession of court appearances all while campaigning for the Republican party’s presidential nomination.
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4m
‘There is still space for negotiations’: Austrian MEP on possibility of new Brexit deal
We spoke to Austrian MEP, Andreas Schieder, who is a member of the UK Contact Group in the European Parliament.
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2m
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron meetings ‘very constructive and positive’
The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has ended his series of international meetings in Paris with what he called “very constructive and positive” talks with the French president Emmanuel Macron.
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1m
Republicans to open Biden impeachment inquiry
The US House speaker Kevin McCarthy has called for a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden, claiming a committee has uncovered a “culture of corruption” around Mr Biden’s family, with allegations of abuse of power and obstruction.
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Would new North Sea oil and gas make Britain more energy independent?
The government will grant hundreds of new licences to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The initial decision was announced last year, but Mr Sunak reiterated the plan this week alongside “millions of pounds” for so-called “carbon capture and storage” technology — which the government says would help reduce…
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5m
“Not convinced by the evidence for a windfall tax on the banks”, says shadow chancellor
Labour wants banks to be compelled to follow a new set of rules – rather than just leaving it up to them.
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4m
Farage bank row: ‘This is not the first case like this’, says David Davis MP
Earlier Matt spoke to the former Brexit secretary, David Davis, who’s described the decision to close Nigel Farage’s account as “thinly veiled political discrimination”.
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5m
NatWest chief exec resigns for breaching customer confidentiality over Nigel Farage’s account
The boss of NatWest, Dame Alison Rose, has resigned after admitting she gave information to the BBC about Nigel Farage’s relationship with the bank, and had made a “serious error of judgement”.