Politics Unpacked

The Spectator's economics correspondent Kate Andrews and Red Box writer John Kampfner pick over the day's news, then Matt Chorley and Sunday Times Political Editor Tim Shipman pause the action at Prime Minister's Questions to explain the Commons exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you noticed a change in the prime minister? Less prone to starting fights? The over-optimism dialled down? Matt Chorley speaks to Steven Swinford, the Times political editor, about a change in tone in No10, plus Charles Walker, the vice-chairman of the 1992 committee of Tory MPs, and Baroness Jenkin, on why the reboot should involve more women.PLUS: Finkelvitch - Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch on Keir Starmer's "Infamy" moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former No10 pollster James Johnson chairs a group of swing voters to get their views on Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer and the economy.Plus: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on who is in tune with the national mood on tax. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Red Box reporter, Esther Webber, and Times' columnist Robert Crampton pick over the day's news; Matt Chorley is joined by Suzanne Heywood on her book about her husband and former cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood and the competition she's launched in his name asking for your big ideas to change the country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Times columnist Alice Thomson and Red Box writer John Kampfner pick over the day's news, then Matt Chorley and Sunday Times Political Editor Tim Shipman pause the action at Prime Minister's Questions to explain the Commons exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With a month until the budget, Matt Chorley asks a panel of economic experts if it is time to tighten our belts or splash the cash. Guests include  Robert Chote, former head of the Budget Responsibility, Morgan Schondelmaier, from the free market think tank the Adam Smith Institute, and Costas Lapavitsas, an economist from SOAS University.Plus columnists Daniel Finkelstein and Tom McTague ask: does it matter if dissidents aren't perfect? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dame Sara Thornton, the Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner, tells Matt Chorley how lockdown has affected the thousands trapped in servitude in Britain.PLUS columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on vaccine volunteering and tackling online racists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Times columnist Robert Crampton and Red Box reporter Esther Webber pick over the day's news, then Matt Chorley speaks to former British Ambassador to the US Peter Westmacott about what Ambassadors do all day, and it isn't eating Ferrero Rochers... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Times columnist Alice Thomson and Red Box writer John Kampfner pick over the day's news, then Matt Chorley and Sunday Times Political Editor Tim Shipman pause the action at Prime Minister's Questions to explain the Commons exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Chorley speaks to Janine Webber, who was born in the Polish town of Lwów in 1932, and from the age of nine, when the Germans arrived, she spent the rest of her childhood on the run. She told her story to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.