Politics Unpacked

The Political Editors: Steven Swinford

The Times' current Political Editor Steven Swinford has been in the job for a turbulent three years, straddling three prime ministers and at least 42 ministerial resignations. He tells Matt about covering partygate, Tories squaring up to each other, a serene Liz Truss as her premiership exploded, and sacking the chancellor via tweet. The Political Editors is half a century of politics told by the people who wrote the first draft of history for the Times. Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton on whether <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/church-of-england-christianity-survey-gay-marriage-sex-female-archbishop-70ck07sj6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Britain is still a Christian country</a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britains-strictest-teacher-has-won-me-over-6t6h6r8wm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alice changing her mind about Britain's strictest headteacher</a>, and <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/surely-its-way-too-soon-for-royals-to-wheel-andrew-out-in-public-tgxjr62vr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">building the perfect shed.</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hugo Rifkind unpacks the the politics of the day - and the stuff that's even more important - with the brightest brains from the Times and Sunday Times. You can listen to Hugo on DAB, smart speaker or app 10am-1pm Monday to Friday. If you like what you hear, then read more at <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.thetimes.com/</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.