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🗓️ 23 May 2025
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Keir Starmer is changing course on the winter fuel allowance - where does it sit in the league table of political U-turns, and will it please anybody?
The political masterminds also discuss the Conservative Party's existential polling spiral, why Starmer's approval ratings have fallen so far in the year since the General Election was called, and why Hugo agrees with Polly that babies should get the vote.
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
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0:37.9 | Hi, it's Manveen. |
0:41.7 | This weekend, we thought you'd want to hear one of our sister podcasts, |
0:45.3 | just to get a sense of what the Times is producing across the board. |
0:47.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
0:49.2 | We'll be back, as usual, on Monday. We'll be back, as usual, on Monday. |
1:09.7 | Yeah. Something, something nonsense, a bit like voting for babies. Lord Mandelson. In a rooftop party. |
1:12.6 | They got Greggs in America? No. I worked in Woolworths. I've just wasted the best years of my bloody life. |
1:19.5 | Welcome, welcome. Welcome one and all. Welcome to How to Win an election. I'm Hugo Rifkind. And I'm joined as ever by former Labour Insider, former Woolworths Insider 2, Sally. |
1:28.3 | Hello, Sally. Good morning, and it's not raining, unlike a year ago. |
1:32.1 | Well, that's a plus. We'll certainly get on to that. Policy Queen Polly McKenzie, |
1:35.7 | she still thinks Baby should get the vote. Of course they should. |
1:38.6 | You know what? Someone was explaining this to me this morning, and I don't think it's mental. Well that's because it's not. It's |
1:44.8 | extremely sensible wise public policy like everything I proposed, Hugo. Yeah, I mean I'm sort of |
1:50.0 | going off the idea because of the even you look a bit incredulous when I said that. |
1:53.6 | It's one of those things where you can't talk, I haven't introduced you yet. No one knows who you are. |
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