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How Westminster Works: Everything that's ever been said in Parliament

📖 PoliticsHome explores how everything politicians say in Parliament is recorded for posterity in something known as Hansard. ✍ We ask historians, MPs and Hansard staff what it's like live transcribing history. …

Energy crisis reckoning awaits new prime minister

Supporters of the two Tory party leadership contenders, MPs Richard Holden and Alec Shelbrooke, join Alain Tolhurst and Caitlin Doherty from PoliticsHome to talk about radical energy plans, blue-on-blue attacks and the upcoming hustings faci…

Final two to replace Boris Johnson are clashing already

As the Tory party leadership contest comes down to the final two candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, supporters of the rivals Simon Hart and Greg Smith join Alain Tolhurst and Eleanor Langford from PoliticsHome to look ahead to where the s…

Rehman Chishti has no regrets about failed Tory leadership bid

Conservative Party leadership underdog Rehman Chishti joins PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Adam Payne to explain why has no regrets about launching his short-lived bid to be the next Prime Minister and hopes his campaign will be remembere…

Boris Johnson is stepping down, what now?

In a special emergency episode of the podcast PoliticsHome reporters Eleanor Langford, Adam Payne and Alain Tolhurst discuss the dramatic resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The team have been at the heart of the action in Westminst…

Roe Vs Wade exposes UK abortion law's fragility

BPAS' Katherine O'Brien and Baroness Hayter join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Adam Payne to discuss the reverberations of the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe Vs Wade, meaning abortion is now banned or severely restricted in a numb…

Rail strikes signal summer of discontent

Transport select committee chair Huw Merriman joins PoliticsHome reporters Alain Tolhurst, Eleanor Langford and Noa Hoffman to discuss this week’s national rail strikes, public sector pay, RMT union boss Mick Lynch’s cult hero status and wha…

By-election races tighten despite Tories’ tough week

Labour shadow minister Stephanie Peacock and Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Adam Payne to look ahead to the double by-election next Thursday and reflect on another hectic week in Westminster.&…

Rebels give wounded Boris Johnson space to reset

Former government anti-corruption chief, John Penrose, who dramatically resigned over partygate this week, and Onward director Will Tanner join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Eleanor Langford to assess the aftermath of Boris Johnson's wou…

Tory MP warns "you ain't seen nothing yet" on cost of living crisis

Chair of the Northern Research Group of Tory MPs Jake Berry critiques Rishi Sunak's plan to tackle the cost of living crisis and challenges Boris Johnson to "rip up the civil service rule book" and save the “Levelling Up” agenda. …