With just days to go before election day, the Liberal party’s campaign has been defined by major shifts on policies and candidate scandals. It has left some supporters and MPs scratching their heads. While the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, began the campaign attempting to recast his hard-man image, he now appears to be leaning back into the culture wars. ... Show More
Jun 2024
ELECTION EXTRA: Manifestos, Macron and Money Problems
Have the wheels well and truly fallen off the Conservative election campaign? After a dismal D-Day debacle and news that social media campaigning is suspended, Ed Balls and George Osborne question whether Rishi Sunak is just giving up.
Regardless, it’s manifesto launch week for t ... Show More
31m 17s
Jul 2024
After the ‘revenge’ election, what’s politics going to be like now?
Thursday’s election results have transformed Parliament. Not only do Labour have a huge majority but also the smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats, Reform and the Greens made big gains.
There is also now a record number of women MPs, and first time MPs, many of them much ... Show More
28m 53s
Jun 2024
Will Reform throw a brick in the Tories' red wall?
In 2019, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives upended decades’ of traditional voting behaviour, as lifelong Labour seats in the north and midlands fell to the Tories. But with Brexit delivered and Johnson gone, the Tories are being challenged from the right by a resurgent Reform, as Luk ... Show More
25m 54s
Oct 2024
Why is Trump talking about a dead golfer’s penis?
With less than two weeks until Americans vote, Donald Trump’s campaign keeps getting stranger. From playing music instead of taking questions from supporters, to commenting on the genitalia of a dead golfer, and suggesting he’d deploy the military against his ‘enemy within’ the U ... Show More
14m 35s
Jul 2024
The Campaign Moment: Trump's convention, Biden's crisis
Democrats flipped the typical convention script this week, dominating the news during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Following the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at a rally Saturday, the GOP aimed to send a message of unity to the party ... Show More
26m 25s
Nov 2023
How is one man dismantling Zimbabwe’s opposition party?
It’s an astonishing story of political intrigue: a man called Sengezo Tshabangu, who claims to be the Secretary General of Zimbabwe’s opposition party – the Citizens Coalition for Change, or the CCC, has been issuing recall letters, which say they are no longer members of the par ... Show More
23m 30s
Sep 2024
Is democracy under threat in Tanzania?
When president Samia Suluhu Hassan came into power in 2021 she lifted a ban on political rallies imposed by her predecessor the late John Magufuli, and promised the 4 Rs: reconciliation, resilience, reforms and rebuilding.But now, as the country heads towards elections - this yea ... Show More
19m 47s