The New Statesman Podcast
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SPONSORED: How can we ensure our pension funds make a difference?
This podcast is sponsored by Rio AI As the world faces a climate emergency, what power do ordinary people have to try and shape the way big companies behave. One of the biggest areas of investment is our pension funds – but do w… -
How workers‘ pay tripped up Liz Truss and Keir Starmer
The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent, the highest increase in 27 years, and predicts that the UK will enter a deep recession within months. As the cost-of-living crisis worsens and with strikes planned thr… -
Sunak, Truss and Starmer’s visions for the economy
With the Conservative leadership hopefuls offering competing promises of tax cuts, the New Statesman podcast looks at whether either has anything to say about Britain’s cost-of-living crisis.Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Rach… -
From the Forde report to strikes, is Labour still divided?
Two years after it was commissioned, the Forde report into infighting in the Labour Party during the years of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has finally been published. Such tensions have never fully gone away. Keir Starmer -
Are conspiracy theories getting worse, with Jonn Elledge
After Boris Johnson talked of a "deep state" undermining his ability to govern, have we entered an era of conspiracy theories? Jonn Elledge, one of the authors of a new book, Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories and How… -
Who will be Britain’s next prime minister? With Andrew Marr
With Penny Mordaunt having been eliminated from the contest on Wednesday 20 July, either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister. Anoosh Chakelian and Rachel Cunliffe speak to the New St… -
Who’s winning the Tory leadership race?
This evening one of the remaining five candidates to be the next prime minister will be eliminated in a vote of MPs. Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, Ben Walker and Rachel Wearmouth, our new deputy political editor, to discuss who ca… -
BONUS: Rory Stewart on what it’s like to run for prime minister
Rory Stewart, the former international development secretary and Conservative leadership candidate, speaks to Rachel Cunliffe about the lessons he learned from running for leader in 2019. They talk about whether this year’s candidates s… -
Will Penny Mordaunt be the next Tory leader?
Nadhim Zahawi, Jeremy Hunt and Suella Braverman have been eliminated from the Conservative leadership election, with Penny Mordaunt -
Tory leadership election: who's running?
At the time of recording, 11 Conservative MPs had launched official bids to replace Bor…