Donald Trump's planned summit with Vladimir Putin is cancelled. Here's why.

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Less than a week after Donald Trump offered to meet Vladimir Putin in Budapest, the proposed summit has already fallen apart.

Officially, "there's no need" for the two presidents to meet, since their respective foreign ministers are conducting conversations.

But what's really behind the cancellation?

And what on earth is Donald Trump up to in Venezuela? Seven extra-judicial attacks on civilian boats, dozens dead without trial, and now massing troops and weaponry in the Caribbean.

Is this really about "narco-terrorism", or is something more sinister afoot?

Katie Stallard and Freddie Hayward discuss Trump's foreign policy on the New Statesman podcast.

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James Schneider, the former director of strategic communications for Jeremy Corbyn, was involved in the founding of Your Party earlier this year. He has since stepped back from the project.

In this episode he joins Anoosh Chakelian to discuss the growing gap on the left of UK politics and who could fill it.

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Andrew had already stepped down as a working royal, after that disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019, but he’s now gone a step further and agreed to relinquish the “title or the honours which have been conferred upon” him.

Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Will Lloyd and Rachel Cunliffe to discuss what these latest decisions, announced on the eve of the publication of Virginia Roberts Guiffre's posthumous memoir, mean for the Royal Family.

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A century on from the her birth, Tanjil Rashid sits down with the Iron Lady's official biographer, Charles Moore.

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For over 30 years, John Gray has written for the New Statesman on everything from Artificial Intelligence to Friedrich Nietzsche. He joins deputy editor Will Lloyd to discuss the state of the nation.

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Andrew Marr joins Rachel Cunliffe to discuss his column in this week's magazine, Tax the old.

They also discuss the latest developments in the China spy case.

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"All I've done all my life is deals. The greatest deals just sort of happen…” President Trump announced at a celebratory peace-deal signing attended by dozens of nations in Sharm el-Sheikh earlier this week.

But who were the powers behind Trump? Behind this deal?

Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Freddie Hayward who has written this week’s cover story The Emperor: How Trump and his British Courtiers secured the Gaza deal

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Did Keir Starmer's government quash an espionage case to curry favour with China?

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There's fury in Westminster over the case of two alleged China spies which collapsed last month. Kemi Badenoch has accused the Labour government of deliberately quashing the prosecution to appease China, blaming National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell. The government denies this, and Keir Starmer has said Powell has his "full support".

So what really happened? And why does China matter so much to the UK government?

Oli Dugmore is joined by George Eaton and Katie Stallard.

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All 20 remaining, living hostages have returned to Israel after 2 years in captivity, following the October the 7th Hamas attacks. The remains of the 28 deceased hostages are yet to be returned.

Meanwhile, Israel is expected to release 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 detainees from Gaza today.

To discuss this historic day in the Middle East and how it came to be, Oli Dugmore is joined by Katie Stallard and Freddie Hayward. Later in the episode Ethan Croft and Rachel Cunliffe look at the question of the UK’s involvement in this peace process.

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Is Labour reading from the Reform handbook? And what is the government doing to address rising child poverty?

Oli Dugmore is joined by Rachel Cunliffe to answer listener questions.

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