How To Win An Election
How To Sell Starmer The Statesman
Published: 9 April 2026 at 14:15 Europe/London
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Episode notes
The prime minister is trying to appeal to voters ahead of May's elections by talking about conflict overseas - can branding him as a global statesman rescue his premiership in the same way Gordon Brown tried to survive to after the financial crash?
With Danny away, we turn to the next generation - Simon Finkelstein, former adviser to Jeremy Hunt and Dominic Raab (and Danny's nephew) joins Sally, Polly and Hugo.
We also discuss whether MPs know enough about the real world - would we be better off with a House Of Commons full of Ed Milibands or Angela Rayners?
And, we answer a listener who worries we're too flippant about the remarkable rise of Zack Polanski's Green Party.
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