Bonus ep: How the UK is navigating the Trump era
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump is coming to the UK next week. What can we expect from his visit? And where do things stand between the US and the UK? In this special bonus episode, our two FT political chat shows, Political Fix and Swamp Notes, team up to unpack relations between the two longtime allies. Marc Filippino, host of the Swamp Notes podcast, and US managing editor Brooke Masters are joined by Political Fix’s George Parker and Lucy Fisher to discuss. This episode was recorded on September 6 in front of a live audience at the FT Weekend Festival in London.
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Swamp Notes is produced by Henry Larson. The executive producer for Political Fix is Flo Phillips. This episode was mixed by Breen Turner. The FT’s acting co-heads of audio are Topher Forhecz and Manuela Saragosa. Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson.
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| 0:00.0 | If people have any form of cash savings, your bank is, it's highly likely that's the worst place on earth. |
| 0:10.1 | You could leave your money in your bank's current account. |
| 0:13.7 | If you're looking for a straight talking podcast about money and pensions, you've just found it. |
| 0:18.9 | On the Pension Confident podcast, we get into the personal |
| 0:21.9 | finance questions that really matter. Join me, Philippa Lam for the Pension Confident podcast. Find us |
| 0:27.9 | wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, political fixed listeners. George Parker here, the |
| 0:35.5 | FT's political editor, with a bit of political podcasting |
| 0:39.2 | extravaganza for you. We at Political Fix teamed up with our sister podcast, Swamp Loads, |
| 0:45.6 | at the FT Weekend Festival on September the 6th to discuss the transatlantic relationship in front of a live audience. |
| 0:53.9 | The big question was, how is the UK |
| 0:56.3 | navigating the Trump era? The discussion was hosted by my colleague Mark Filipino, host to both the |
| 1:02.4 | FD News Briefing and Swamp Notes. And also there were Brookmasters, US managing editor, and Lucy Fisher, |
| 1:10.1 | our Wightall editor. |
| 1:11.7 | We covered a lot of ground and we got a recording of the live event here. |
| 1:16.2 | So just sit back and enjoy. |
| 1:20.8 | Hi, everyone. I'm Mark Filipino. I host the FT News Briefing podcast. |
| 1:24.7 | It's our flagship daily news show goes out Monday through Friday. |
| 1:28.6 | It's a show about general news, the economy, geopolitics and everything in between. |
| 1:34.3 | I also host our SwampNotes podcast, which is a newish show about everything that is going on in |
| 1:40.7 | the Trump administration right now. And I decided to take a little break to see what calm politics are going on here in the UK. |
| 1:49.8 | Okay, that joke didn't land. |
| 1:52.7 | They take themselves seriously here, Mark. |
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