Politics: Where Next?

Politics: Where Next?

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Politics: Where Next? episodes

  • What happens after a Brexit election?

    This week Gary speaks to Stephen Bush, the Political Editor of the New Statesman and Tory Peer Danny Finkelstein.

    They talk to Gary about the party manifestos, who is ahead of the race and what comes after the election.

    36 min
  • Who's most likely to win the UK general election?
    Veteran political analyst Professor John Curtice and Professor Matthew Goodwin of the University of Kent tell Gary Gibbon their predictions for this general election.

    Curtice is also a senior fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe research unit, where we sit down to record this week's podcast.

    38 min
  • Brexit: Tearing the Tories Apart?
    Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith, two of the most senior, long standing members of the Tory Party, discuss the state of the Conservatives. 

    Clarke had the whip withdrawn in September after he voted against the government.    A passionate opponent of Brexit and a life-long Europhile Clarke discusses how Brexit and Europe is eating away at his party with his long-standing colleague and former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith - a vocal proponent of leaving the EU. 
    38 min
  • A Christmas Election?
    This week we reassembled our regular duo - Labour MP Jess Phillips and the Independent MP, formerly a Conservative minister, Nick Boles.   We spoke on Thursday as cabinet members were gathering in Number 10 to discuss strategy, they hadn't yet announced their offer to Labour - agree to a new timetable for the Brexit bill but also agree to a general election on December 12th. 
    36 min
  • What can we expect from a Brexit general election?
    This week we speak to two people who have worked closely on previous elections as we look to the general election looming in front of us.   We're joined by Patrick Heneghan, former Head of Campaigns for the Labour Party, who worked on five general elections and James Johnson, who for three years was Theresa May's polling strategist inside Number 10. 
    35 min
  • What does history tell us about Brexit?

    This week we’re joined by Charles Moore, biographer of Margaret Thatcher - his third and final volume - Herself Alone -  is just published. And Professor David Edgerton from Kings college London, author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation.

    31 min
  • Will Boris Johnson's Brexit plan fly?
    Boris Johnson has unveiled his proposal for a deal, but how has it gone down in the EU?   In conversation with Gary this week are Peter Foster, Europe Editor of the Daily Telegraph - the man who first brought you a leak of the deal - and James Kirkup, director for the Social Market Foundation, but before that writing about politics at The Telegraph.   Subscribe to Politics: Where Next? for more in-depth discussion every Friday.   Recorded: Thursday 3rd October.
    36 min
  • How likely is a Brexit deal?
    Deal or No Deal? Boris Johnson's search for a Brexit deal has intensified. Government insiders say parliament blocking the early election and passing a bill that tries to stop a no-deal Brexit has forced the government to throw itself into pursuing a last-minute compromise.   This week we talk to Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform - one of the best connected experts on all matters EU -  and to Denis Staunton, the London Editor of the Irish Times.
    37 min

About Politics: Where Next?

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In these tumultuous political times, does anyone know where it's all heading? Join Channel 4 News' Political Editor Gary Gibbon and guests as they thrash out the possibilities.

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