It’s back-to-school, back-to-politics, and back to your feeds with Season Two of Craft Politics — now with a brand new format and a new co-host.

We’re thrilled to welcome Holly Mumby-Croft, former UK Member of Parliament, to the pod. She’ll join Percy and I each week for our Tuesday Issue Scan episode, adding deep political insight and a healthy counter-weight to Percy...

In this episode:

• 🇬🇧 Labour’s economic mess: Starmer sidelines Reeves, reshuffles advisors, and still can’t land the message

• 📉 Reform UK leads the polls—now ahead of Labour and the Conservatives combined

• 🏴 National flag protests, economic confusion, and the risk of a populist summer boil-over

• 🇨🇦 Canada’s Trump problem continues: no deal, no clarity, and no end in sight

• 📊 Carney’s super honeymoon: how long can he ride high on sky-high approval ratings?

• 🇫🇷 Why France’s looming debt crisis could become everyone’s problem

• 💸 What happens when both the left and the right promise unsustainable spending?

• 🚨 A special new segment: “Lipstick on a Gerbil” — where we rate the worst political comms moments of the week. This week we look at Angela Rayner’s stamp duty dodge and Stephen Kinnock’s weasel-worded defence

And of course:

• 🍺 Joseph and Percy drink one of BC’s finest Pilsners

• 🍷 Holly sips Ribena