Show 390. David Miliband - Live
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Oh boy, are you in for a treat.
Political colossus David Miliband is in the UK and is on blistering form.
This is impassioned, urgent and absolutely electrifying.
An absolute classic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 0:12.2 | Today's guest is David Miliband, and this is a stone cold classic. |
| 0:16.0 | It was worth the wait. |
| 0:17.7 | The old catchphrase on this show used to be. |
| 0:20.7 | Someone I've wanted to interview for a very long time. |
| 0:22.8 | I mean, it's always true. And I've really had to wait for David to come on. And it is absolutely |
| 0:28.2 | worth the way. And this why I love doing it is there's something uniquely stimulating about |
| 0:34.8 | sitting opposite, a really intelligent person who communicates |
| 0:38.0 | that urgency and that energy that is just absolutely invigorating. And I don't think it's |
| 0:44.3 | necessarily that you have to agree with him or not. Just hearing someone talk about politics |
| 0:47.7 | in that way, because it's beyond politics. It's about life. It's about sociology. It's about |
| 0:51.7 | people. It was just absolutely phenomenal. So I'm sure |
| 0:56.7 | you will enjoy it. More guests coming up live on the stage. The next show at the Duchess on |
| 1:02.6 | Monday. The 9th of March is with Zach Polanski, the new man on the block on the left. And that'll |
| 1:10.8 | be interesting. We're just a couple of months away from the left. And that'll be interesting. |
| 1:11.5 | We're just a couple of months away from the local elections at that point. |
| 1:14.8 | Lisa Nandi, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. |
| 1:17.2 | Obviously, someone who has stood for the Labour leadership before |
| 1:19.4 | and give a really interesting interview about the State Labor's in the other week. |
| 1:24.0 | Monday the 30th of March. |
| 1:25.3 | Monday the 20th of April, my guest is Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary who many people see as a future leader, potentially a future Prime Minister. So, I just, I mean, I love every guest that comes on because I just think it's so cool picking someone's brains, you know, someone who's had a different life to you, who sees things in a different way. Even when it's someone that you broadly agree with, you know, they've still got a different perspective or they don't always accept the sort of framing of a particular issue, whatever it is. |
| 1:53.1 | It's just, this episode is, it's just class. |
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