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Executive Producer, Hugo Rifkind, @TimesRadio 10am-1pm Mon-Thurs & How To Win An Election
London
Joined April 2008
This is a really nice surprise and mostly a reflection on the brilliance of Peter, @pollymackenzie @Dannythefink @hugorifkind & @MattChorley - all of them making me & the listeners laugh and think about things differently.
Our Producer of the Year finalists are:. Andrew Alexander: How to Win An Election (The Times).The Channel 4 News Team: Political Fourcast.Laura Fitzpatrick: Electoral Dysfunction (Sky News)
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RT @TimesRadio: “Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had. the self-confidence to never feel like they should suspend Jeremy Corbyn.”. Sally Morgan….
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RT @TimesRadio: “It’s Reform who will be punching the air…It’s anyone but the Labour Party.”. The How to Win team react to the government’s….
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RT @thetimes: 🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Our defence editor, @larisamlbrown, recounts how she informed the government that she knew thousands of lives we….
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Our defence editor recounts how she informed the government that she knew thousands of lives were at risk. Its response was to silence her
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RT @TimesRadio: “The fault line in the Labour Party runs right through Keir Starmer.”. As the government deals with the crisis in the Middl….
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How does Keir Starmer prepare for PMQs? His PPS @chriswardmp joined @hugorifkind on PMQs Unpacked and it was full of great insight into the prep, how it works in the chamber, and 'two folders Rayner'
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It's deputy PMQs this week while the prime minister is away, and we're joined by a special guest. Chris Ward is Keir Starmer's close aide and parliamentary private secretary, known in Westminster a...
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RT @TimesRadio: “We all have a role in society to call people out.” . @RobertJenrick rejects the suggestion his vigilante fare dodger campa….
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*NEW SERIES* for the podcast looking at how the biggest elections were won, and lost. 1992 had soapboxes, shadow budgets and Sheffield rallies - has any campaign ever been so mythologised?
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We're kicking off a new series on the podcast, looking at how the biggest elections in recent history were won - and lost.We start with the Labour campaign in 1992, an election that has been mythol...
“That's it, I've just wasted the best years of my bloody life.”. Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock reveals why he avoids reflecting on losing the 1992 election "like plague". 🗳️ How To Win An Election.🎧 @HugoRifkind | @Dannythefink | @PollyMackenzie
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RT @TimesRadio: “The rat thing is pretty indisputably antisemitic. I don't think Lineker would have posted it thinking that, but I don't th….
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RT @TimesRadio: “He said, hey, who are these two good looking guys? No one else has ever said that whenever I’ve entered any other room!”….
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This week's How To Win An Election, in which Polly advocates moving the government out of London to a new political capital like Washington DC, or Canberra. We should have asked her where.
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10 Downing Street is a rabbit warren of offices in a Georgian townhouse, and the centre of power in Britain. But how much control does it really exert over the rest of government, does it matter wh...
“The only way to recalibrate our completely dysfunctional country…is to just break it.”. Move government out of Downing Street and maybe turn it into a museum, pleads @PollyMackenzie. 🗳️ How To Win An Election.🎧 🎙️ @HugoRifkind
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RT @TimesRadio: “[He’s] made it impossible for Keir Starmer to return to the bosom of the EU.” . @yanisvaroufakis says Trump has created a….
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RT @Steven_Swinford: EXCLUSIVE from @Fhamiltontimes. Police sent six uniformed officers to arrest two parents who complained about their sc….
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RT @TimesRadio: “The left has never acquired a political spokesman as articulate as Nigel Farage…Owen Jones could have been a figure of tha….
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This week's How To Win An Election is up! I learned a lot, including: Polly confirms once again that Lib Dems aren't always nice to dogs, and Danny has the credit/blame for the phrase 'sofa government'
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Rachel Reeves doesn't want to use the word 'austerity', but has she found a narrative to help explain her cuts to welfare and government spending? Why was 'fixing the roof when the sun is shining' ...
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RT @TimesRadio: “It was a proper cold shower, wasn’t it?”. Steve Witkoff’s interview with Tucker Carlson “underlined how great the gaps are….
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RT @TimesRadio: “If Reform falls short, it's more serious for them than for either of the other parties.”. @Dannythefink says he would be “….
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As everyone who's worked with her knows, @Jo_Coburn is a brilliant broadcaster - clever, fair, funny, tough when needed. and a lovely human being.
📢After an incredible 28-year career at the BBC, Jo Coburn has decided to step down as presenter of Politics Live. "I’ve loved it all,” says Jo, “especially the people I’ve worked with and the hundreds of guests who’ve kept me company in the studio every day.”. A new presenter
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RT @TimesRadio: “Hooray Brexit?”. The UK’s ability to play a key role in Ukraine is "somewhat because of Brexit", notes @Dannythefink. 🗳️….
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RT @TimesRadio: “Professor Appleby is against the view of the experts.". “Anybody's an expert that agrees with you. But if they don't agree….
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RT @PodcastinToday: The How To Win An Election podcast, produced by @thetimes, has added Sally Morgan to the line-up.
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The How To Win An Election podcast, produced by The Times and The Sunday Times, has added Sally Morgan to the line-up.
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