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“We're actually decent. We're not unpleasant. We’re not vile.” There’s “something mean and unpleasant and nasty” about the government’s immigration raid videos, says Farage’s former adviser Gawain Gawain Towler. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 pod.fo/e/2ab5e7 🎙️ @HugoRifkind

“Those ideas of free speech, are they more important to the world than being free from Russian invasion?” “Yes.” “If you do not have free speech, you are invading yourself”, says US podcaster, comedian and political commentator Dave Rubin. Dave Rubin | @HugoRifkind

“Trump is one of the great liars of modern political life, possibly one of the greatest liars ever to hold the office of president.” Daniel Finkelstein says Badenoch’s comments on Trump were “jarring”. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 pod.fo/e/2ae64a @HugoRifkind @JohnMcTernan

The How To Win An Election podcast, produced by The Times and The Sunday Times, has added Sally Morgan to the line-up podcastingtoday.co.uk/sally-morgan-j…

Sally joins the podcast... and is immediately thrown in at the deep end (by which I mean discussing Blair & Bush, Liz Truss, tent jokes and wall insulation)

“Professor Appleby is against the view of the experts." “Anybody's an expert that agrees with you. But if they don't agree with you they're not an expert!” @AFNeil and Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) clash over a review claiming puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise.

“Hooray Brexit?” The UK’s ability to play a key role in Ukraine is "somewhat because of Brexit", notes Daniel Finkelstein. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 pod.fo/e/2b7f13 @PollyMackenzie | @HugoRifkind

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

“If Reform falls short, it's more serious for them than for either of the other parties.” Daniel Finkelstein says he would be “quite surprised” if Reform don’t win the upcoming by-election in Runcorn. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 pod.fo/e/2bb7fa 🎙️ @HugoRifkind

“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 Mark Urban.

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' pod.fo/e/2bf09f

“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 🎧 pod.fo/e/2bf09f @HugoRifkind Daniel Finkelstein @PollyMackenzie

EXCLUSIVE from Fiona Hamilton 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

“[He’s] made it impossible for Keir Starmer to return to the bosom of the EU.” Yanis Varoufakis says Trump has created a “wedge” between Keir Starmer and the EU with his tariffs. @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. pod.fo/e/2c239b

“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 🎧 pod.fo/e/2c6089 🎙️ @HugoRifkind

“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.

*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? pod.fo/e/2d5d35

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

How does Keir Starmer prepare for PMQs? His PPS Chris Ward MP joined Hugo Rifkind on PMQs Unpacked and it was full of great insight into the prep, how it works in the chamber, and 'two folders Rayner' pod.fo/e/2e7d70