Is Reform now part of the ‘orthodoxy’?
It is Robert Jenrick’s big day out today. The newly-minted Reform ‘shadow chancellor’ made his first speech this morning, where he had the chance to show what kind of chancellor he would be and – spor...
18 Feb 11min
Nigel Farage unveils his shadow cabinet
Reform UK is no longer a one-man band. Nigel Farage has unveiled Reform's four spokesmen for the “great offices of state” at a press conference in Westminster. Recent Tory defector Robert Jenrick has ...
17 Feb 12min
Can Starmer protect the country (and himself)?
Following a weekend at the Munich Security Conference, there have been reports that the Prime Minister is set to sign off on a huge increase in defence spending. While this comes at a time of increasi...
16 Feb 22min
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/02/2026
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.European allies say Russia is responsible for Alexei Navalny's death. And the government's Palestine Action ban is ruled unlawf...
15 Feb 15min
Starmer, Mandelson & HMT: why Gordon Brown has never been more relevant
James Macintyre joins James Heale to discuss his new biography of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Power With Purpose. While the book has been years in the making, little did James know that it wou...
14 Feb 16min
Can Starmer escape his problems in Munich?
Keir Starmer has headed to Germany for the Munich Security Conference to meet allies and discuss defence, NATO and the war in Ukraine. He is expected to meet Chancellor Merz and President Macron later...
13 Feb 10min
Is Antonia Romeo what the civil service needs?
When a PM is in crisis, what do they do? Sack the head of the civil service. Having lost both his Chief of Staff and Director of Communications at the beginning of the week, Keir Starmer resolved to m...
12 Feb 12min
Keir Starmer gets angry
PMQs today and – as predicted – Keir Starmer came out worst in a pretty unpleasant session. Kemi Badenoch pinned the Prime Minister on the continued Mandelson fallout and now the scandal over Matthew ...
11 Feb 14min
