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

"He would probably know how much a pint of milk and a loaf of bread is. I think the other lot wouldn't have a clue.” These voters explain why the appeal of @Nigel_Farage is making them consider voting Reform. 📢Times Radio Focus Group 📻11am on Times Radio @JLPartnersPolls

🔴 Tune to https://t.co/xhUnEXLqj5 to hear from the Times Radio Focus Group. @JLPartners | @GuyMiscampbell | @HugoRifkind

The @TimesRadio @jlpartnerspolls focus group returns! Listen to https://t.co/ge9VGQwupj at 11am with our Director @guymiscampbell — he talked to 8 new Reform voters from across the political spectrum ⬇️

“Of course, there would have to be land swaps, and there would be a shared capital of Jerusalem." Business minister Gareth Thomas defends Keir Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestinian statehood. @CalumAM | #TimesRadio

🔊616,000 people are listening to @TimesRadio every week according to the latest #RAJAR figures. 🚨That's up 29% on the year🚨 Listen to the UK's fastest growing speech radio station: https://t.co/2RNT4onSqb

“Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had...the self-confidence to never feel like they should suspend Jeremy Corbyn.” Sally Morgan says she “never spoke” to Corbyn while running Labour’s political operation. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 https://t.co/YrrI5MDx0D @patrickkmaguire

“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 plans to lower the voting age to 16. @Dannythefink @pollymackenzie @patrickkmaguire 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 https://t.co/YrrI5MCZb5

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Our defence editor, @larisamlbrown, recounts how she informed the government that she knew thousands of lives were at risk. Its response was to silence her

“The fault line in the Labour Party runs right through Keir Starmer.” As the government deals with the crisis in the Middle East, @Dannythefink explains why it's a particularly difficult issue for the PM. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 https://t.co/hcgrJjIdp4 🎙️ @HugoRifkind

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'

“We all have a role in society to call people out.” @RobertJenrick rejects the suggestion his vigilante fare dodger campaign is irresponsible on #TimesRadio. @HugoRifkind

*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?

“The rat thing is pretty indisputably antisemitic. I don't think Lineker would have posted it thinking that, but I don't think he cares either.” Gary Lineker "seems remarkably unbothered" about appearing to endorse a post with antisemitic connotations, says @JoshGlancy.

“He said, hey, who are these two good looking guys? No one else has ever said that whenever I’ve entered any other room!” @MichaelGove reveals everything he learnt when he interviewed Trump in his "man-cave". 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 https://t.co/pdu2iVy6Gz 🎙️ @HugoRifkind

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.

“[He’s] made it impossible for Keir Starmer to return to the bosom of the EU.” @yanisvaroufakis says Trump has created a “wedge” between Keir Starmer and the EU with his tariffs. @HugoRifkind

EXCLUSIVE from @Fhamiltontimes Police sent six uniformed officers to arrest two parents who complained about their school on a WhatsApp group Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were put in a cell for eight hours by Hertfordshire police after sending emails to their primary school

“The left has never acquired a political spokesman as articulate as Nigel Farage…Owen Jones could have been a figure of that kind.” Could Owen Jones be the left’s Nigel Farage? 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 https://t.co/81oGvjAkgZ @HugoRifkind @Dannythefink @PollyMackenzie

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'

“It was a proper cold shower, wasn’t it?” Steve Witkoff’s interview with Tucker Carlson “underlined how great the gaps are” between the US and Europe on Russia, says @MarkUrban01.