The prime minister has told his party’s conference that there is ‘light at the end of this tunnel’. But after weeks of bad press about his top adviser’s pay and freebies - are Labour in danger of becoming a one-term government? And what’s going on in Downing Street - has dysfunction led to this series of own-goals?

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Guest: Aubrey Allegretti, Chief Political Correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Clips: Times Radio, BBC News, Sky News, ITV News.

Episode artwork: Times Photographer Jack Hill. 

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