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• Why Kemi Badenoch embraces being the leader of the ‘nasty party’

  October 5, 2026 · 24 min

  Kemi Badenoch is kicking off Conservative party conference with a little bounce in her step and her personal poll ratings improved. But critics will say that as she embraces the nasty party accusations she is at risk of alienating some…

• 'There’s no such thing as democracy': Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

  October 3, 2026 · 53 min

  Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis…

• Burnham’s triple lock gamble

  September 29, 2026 · 14 min

  Andy Burnham has delivered a powerful and emotional speech to the Labour conference. He announced policies on pensions, social care and electoral reform. He said he was willing to talk about the things politicians usually avoided. But…

• ‘They will bow’: energy secretary challenges Reform and Tories

  September 28, 2026 · 28 min

  Speaking to Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, said a mark of her success or failure would be whether she could get bills down and said she would do so. She…

• Andy Burnham shows his emotional side

  September 28, 2026 · 27 min

  Andy Burnham will make his first speech at Labour conference as prime minister on Tuesday. Ahead of that, he has been talking to Pippa Crerar about why he is in the job and what changes he wants to make. Pippa and Kiran Stacey discuss his…

• What really happened in the room with Burnham and Trump

  September 24, 2026 · 27 min

  Pippa Crerar had a front row seat for the PM’s first meeting with Donald Trump. What really happened during that 12-minute press conference? And as the Labour conference kicks off this weekend, she and Kiran Stacey discuss the ethics of…

• Can Andy Burnham pull off the ‘Mamdani effect’ on Donald Trump?

  September 21, 2026 · 26 min

  The UK prime minister will meet the US president for the first time in New York on Tuesday. With Trump at his weakest in the polls, could this be a perfect moment for Burnham to charm the president and avoid a very public political spat?…

• Tax the middle earners! Will the PM do it?

  September 17, 2026 · 31 min

  Former Bank of England economist Andy Haldane said the markets regarded this government as ‘a pretty traditional tax and spend socialist government with better TikTok videos’. Harsh criticism or truth? As pressure mounts on the chancellor…