Politics Inside Out lifts the lid on how Westminster really works by talking to the people who work there. It is presented by Gloria De Piero and Jonathan Ashworth, lifelong friends who became Labour insiders and senior MPs. They reflect on what they learned in politics and talk to a different guest each week about what it is really like to hold high office, deal with a media scandal or break the whip.
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Politics Inside Out lifts the lid on how Westminster really works by talking to the people who work there. It is presented by Gloria De Piero and Jonathan Ashworth, lifelong friends who became Labour insiders and senior MPs. They reflect on what they learned in politics and talk to a different guest each week about what it is really like to hold high office, deal with a media scandal or break the whip.
Brought to you in association with Woburn Partners, the strategic communications agency.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Caroline Dineage, chair of the DCMS select committee explains how select committees choose their subjects for inquiry, what makes a good witness and how members should construct a good question. She talks about the perils of young people working in the tv industry and explains how to make a decision on whether to accept one of the many free tickets offers that come her way.
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Production support and Mixing by Adrian Bradley
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Former Mirror editor Lloyd Embley discusses how tabloids and politicians co-exist. He discusses breaking the Partygate story, the changing attitudes to politicians personal lives over his 30 years and his advice to misbehaving politicians who get THAT phone call. He talks about the repercussions and recriminations from his decision to use the front page of the Mirror to call for Jeremy Corbyn to step down as Labour leader and whether newspapers have a long term future.
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Bridget Phillipson discusses why she decided to stand for deputy leader, her competitive streak, why child poverty is what gets her out of bed everyday and what she thinks about karaoke - spoiler- she isn’t a fan.
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Lord Hart, Chief Whip in Rishi Sunak’s Government, shares some eye watering tales of the misbehaviour by politicians and staffers, describes how a Whip tries to get an MP to vote for legislation they don’t like and why being a politician takes an emotional toll on many who are elected.
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Anti sewage campaigner and musician Feargal Sharkey says that you don’t need to be famous to get results but finding the right language to use can put put rocket boosters under your campaign, plus he tells Gloria and Jonathan why his prostate cancer diagnosis might lead to his next campaign.
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Rob Burley, Political producer, editor extraordinaire and author of Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to me, produced interviews with the likes of Jeremy Paxman, Emily Maitlis, Andrew Marr, Beth Rigby and Andrew Neil. In this episode he discusses which politicians do it well and which don’t and calls for politicians to be more authentic to connect with the public.
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Lee Anderson discusses his left wing youth, shares his memories of the miners strike, talks about why he left Labour and joined the Tories - and why he feels he has finally found his political home
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Britains first woman metro mayor, Tracy Brabin, joins Gloria and Jonathan to discuss living her best life, why the new deputy leader must be a northern woman and why she left Coronation Street for politics
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Luke Sullivan, a former political adviser to Keir Starmer and two labour chief whips, explains how politicians get promoted and why some lose their jobs while Jonathan and Gloria reflect on their own experiences of their appointments to the shadow cabinet
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Maurice Glasman on how Labour can stop the boats, on working class anger with Labour and how the working class vote always determines who wins General Elections
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On this special episode we bring you a compilation of the best bits of season one of Politics Inside Out.
Gloria and Jonathan will be back next week with more great guests lifting the lid on Westminster.
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In this special recess episode Gloria and Jonathan ask our guests what politicians get up to on their holidays. We'll hear from Patrick Maguire, Gillian Keegan, Wes Streeting, Michael Gove, Mel Stride and Lucy Powell.
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Former cabinet minister turned Spectator editor Michael Gove joins Gloria and Jonathan to talk about whether journalists make good politicians. They discuss how the Tories are doing under Badenoch, who he thinks is the most impressive Labour Cabinet minister, his thoughts on ReformUK, and his advice for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting joins Gloria and Jonathan and talks about why Health Secretary is such an important job in a Labour government, why anti-obesity jabs could be a game changer but come with risks and his battles with striking doctors.
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Patrick Maguire - the times chief political commentator talks about why politicians give him information, explains what ‘off the record’ and ‘on background’ mean to journalists, how politicians should do a journalists lunch, and who his favourite is to be next Labour leader
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In this episode, Mel Stride talks to Gloria and Jonathan about how to be shadow chancellor, his relationship with Rachel Reeves and standing in for Kemi Badenock at PMQS
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In this episode, Gloria and Jonathan speak to former Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and our question of the week is whether there is life after politics. She discusses the night she lost her seat, being caught saying the F word, introducing Sir Nicholas Soames to chips and gravy, and her perspective on why MPs rather than party members should choose party leaders.
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Leader of the House Lucy Powell joins Gloria De Piero and Jonathan Ashworth to reflect on Labour’s first anniversary, her plans to modernise Parliament and her monthly meetings with the King
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Britain’s most senior civil servant, who served the last four British Prime Ministers, opens up about Westminster group think, why he stopped voting in General Elections and whether Whitehall officials have a duty to meet Nigel Farage ahead of the next election.
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Gloria De Piero and Jonathan Ashworth talk to Natalie Fleet, Labour MP for Bolsover, as she approaches a year in Parliament.
She talks about her campaign to stop the perpetrators of rape having access to those children conceived of the rape, why the Government has to reform welfare and having to wait to be given formal permission to remove her jacket in parliament in a heatwave.
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