Robert and Steph sit down with Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride to hear which taxes he would reform, his fears that young people aren’t entrepreneurial enough, how the Conservative Party is repositioning itself in opposition, and how he blagged his way to create his first business.

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Fresh off the back of the Spring Statement, the Chancellor sits down with Robert and Steph to talk growth, jobs, welfare and why the government will not cave to pressure from the US on tech taxes.

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Robert is joined by serial entrepreneur and president of the British Chambers of Commerce Martha Lane Fox. They discuss why it is so hard for all-female businesses to attract funding, why she struggled to acknowledge her disability after a devastating accident, how work helped her recovery and the continued pernicious impact of Brexit on smaller companies

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Robert and Steph discuss the welfare conundrum - how do you get more people into work when many businesses are not equipped or incentivised to provide the jobs? And is part of the problem an over-medicalisation of life’s ups and downs? Plus, how can we better prepare the next generation for the world of work?

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Robert is back with Andy Haldane, looking ahead to the Spring Statement, and discussing proposed welfare reform. But are these changes really about helping people back into work, or brutal cost saving measures? Will they come with a sufficient skills package? And how can the government best help to lift people out of precarious, low-skilled jobs to give them, and the economy, the best chance of thriving?

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Robert is joined by Andy Haldane, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former chief economist at the Bank of England, to evaluate whether Trump will push the US and global economy to the bring of crisis, whether European and UK leaders will rise to the challenge and revitalise our continent, and whether re-armament is a compelling industrial strategy.

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This week Steph and Robert speak to Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and an early investor in tech giants like Facebook and OpenAI. Reid gives us his take on Musk’s government efficiency drive, and considers whether a country can be run like a business. How can governments balance innovation and regulation? And, how can AI give us superpowers to tackle things like climate change and job market instability?

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Robert and Steph catch up after another gruelling week of Trump’s “America-first” agenda. They question the thinking behind his tariffs, and predict who will really pay the price for them. With cautious optimism, the pair also consider whether or not the UK and Europe could pull together to regenerate their economies and their militaries. Is Trump the shock that could reverse decades of European decline?

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Robert returns from his trip to the US with the PM, to the mayhem of the collapse of relations between Trump And Zelenskyy. He and Steph assess the significance of Trump withdrawing support from Kiev. They also look at whether US/UK trade deals are on the cards, whether Starmer’s decision to slash aid to fund defence makes sense, and whether King Charles has just proved he is value for our money.

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Despite being called a dictator by Trump, President Zelensky has agreed a deal that would see the US make billions from Ukraine’s minerals. Steph catches up with The Rest Is Politics’ Alastair Campbell as they ponder how the deal might play out. Plus the impact of Musk’s meddling on geopolitics and what Starmer needs to be doing and saying to Trump in their pivotal meeting this week.

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