Politics Uncensored

Reunited and it felt so good! Ali and Zoe are both back in the studio today! Opening the show they discuss Ali’s time in New York with Zohran Mamdani, the BBC resignations and why the right were so weird about Youth Parliament.

Keir Starmer’s position as PM is looking more and more unstable as he wishes to “investigate” briefings against Wes Streeting and other would be challengers.

And to end the show, Zoe and Ali discuss the 23,000 released emails from Jeffrey Epstein, that shine new light in his relationship with president Donald Trump

Ali is busy hanging out with Zohran Mamdani in New York, so Zoe is riding solo! once again! Bethany Dawson from Politico joins for the week unwrapped to discuss Rachel Reeves' pre-budget speech, escaped prisoners and the Hillingdon train attack.

After this, Sam Atwell from the Health Foundation joins to discuss the Mayfield Report's findings that 800,000 more people are out of work sick then in 2019.

Finally, Green Party co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali joins the show to discuss what lessons his party will learn from Zohran Mamdani's victory, why Wes Streeting is nothing like the soon to be New York Mayor and his message to Labour MPs tempted to join the Greens

No Ali this week so joining Zoe for the show is Harry Clarke Ezzidio, the New Statesman's Policy Correspondent. The two discuss Rachel Reeves landlord problems, the Renters Rights Bill and possible plans to house asylum seekers in military barracks.

Then Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South joins to break down the "embarrassing" Keir Starmer political project and why he would "consider" joining the Green Party.

On this weeks episode Ali and Laura Beveridge from Politics Joe discuss Prince Andrew’s titles, election results in Caerphilly and the Your Party debacle… Zarah Sultana if you’re there, we’d love to know what’s happening?

Next, Ali and Professor Ellis Cashmore have an extremely heated debate over the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporter’s ban… and whether they trust the police reports.

Finally.. Ali and Tom Allingham from Save the Student discuss the government’s plan to increase university fees- will this wipe out the last of our students or make universities great again?

On this weeks episode Ali and Zoe are joined by the New Statesman's US Correspondent Freddie Hayward to ask the question: Did Keir Starmer get us a Ceasefire in Gaza? No.

But before that in the Week Unwrapped they break down Nigel Farage's connections to extreme anti abortion activists in the US, Zack Polanski's Green Party reaching 115k members and London reaching the lowest Murder rate since monthly records began.

Then Ali and Zoe celebrate the 0.1% increase in forecasted growth! But UK inflation rate is still at 3.8%, food costs continue to rise steeply, job openings are dropping and unemployment is rising. But don’t worry! Thanks to the triple lock, pensions will grow by 4.8%.