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Political Fix

Financial Times

The Financial Times takes you into the corridors of power to unwrap, analyse and debate British politics with a regular lineup of FT correspondents and informed commentators. New episodes available every Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Political Fix

Burnham: straight-talker or loose cannon?

Has Polanski blown it for the Greens?

Labour Party conference: Hope again?

Will Burnham call a snap election?

Budget blues

AI: Is Britain prepared?

Reform in hot water … again

Burnham vs Badenoch: Commons showdown

What Burnham told the FT

Burnham: To drill or not to drill?

Farage wins… and donation probe resumes

Will Farage’s gamble pay off?

Burnham’s policy bonanza

Burnham’s economic vision

Andy Burnham’s cabinet: who’s in, who’s out?

The Burnham era begins: Mahmood set for chancellor?

Farage in a fix; Burnham unbeatable

Nigel Farage tries to ‘take back control’

Power to the North: Burnham’s big idea

Live special: Ten years after Brexit

Can anyone challenge Andy Burnham for PM?

Exit Starmer, enter Burnham

Unseating Starmer: Burnham’s next move

Makerfield or bust: Burnham goes for broke

The Nowak murder: when tragedy meets politics

Should Labour heed Tony Blair?

Game on: All eyes on Makerfield by-election

Burnham eyes Labour crown as Starmer clings on

Ask Political Fix: Starmer’s fightback, election turmoil and defence

Election special: snap analysis

Labour braces for ballot box bloodbath

The Mandelson-Starmer saga stumbles on

Labour lambasted over defence

Squeezed Britain: student loans, salaries and strikes

Trump taunts drive Starmer into EU’s arms

The case for keeping Starmer

Angela’s ambitions

Mandelson mess and Middle East U-turns

Iran shock for Starmer

Green grief for Starmer: by-election special

Farage against the machine

Mandarin mayhem

Mandelson, money - and the risk to the prime minister

Chinese whispers — at home and abroad

When the ‘special relationship’ isn’t so special

Disloyalty and defection: the Tory-Reform psychodrama

Trump trouble: Starmer's tricky start to 2026

Swamp Notes: Is the US economy really K-shaped?

Quizmas special: Political Fix’s 2025 nerd-out!

Political Fix Live: Labour’s year in review

Deals, donations and damage limitation

Bonus: What does the 2025 Budget mean for your money?

Budget bonanza: tax highs and growth lows

Boats and the Budget: the battlelines are drawn

Is Starmer’s leadership on the line?

To tax, but who to tax, that is the question

Reeves’ £30bn treasure hunt

Budget, boats and a by-election

Britain: a beacon of economic stability?

Has Kemi Badenoch silenced the critics?

Labour’s conference comeback?

Does Starmer have a northern problem?

Trumpery, pageantry and the ‘special relationship’

Starmer in a spin as the ‘Dark Lord’ bites the dust

Bonus ep: How the UK is navigating the Trump era

Rayner, Reeves and Reform

Farage, flags and the ghosts of Labour’s past

The mess in the NHS

Starmer's superpower: soft power?

Introducing Swamp Notes: The real cost of gutting USAID

Why Starmer changed his mind about Palestinian statehood

One year in opposition

The Afghan files: the inside story on the catastrophic leak

Resetting Franco-British relations: the cross-channel contract

A year of Keir

Starmer’s welfare woes

Starmer on standby

Reeves sets Labour’s course – but what will it deliver?

Facing down a fiscal firestorm