Starmer’s farmer drama

Keir Starmer has been on his travels again, but it has been a tricky week at home for the government. Tim Ross and Rachel Wearmouth, the authors of a new book on the 2024 general election, join the podcast team to discuss how Labour returned to power – and how Starmer and his team are now faring.

The budget has gone down very badly with Britain’s farm owners. How much worse could things get?

And from bruising encounters to a political bruiser, the former deputy prime minister John Prescott, a key figure in the last Labour government, has died. The pod team look back on Prescott’s legacy.

PLUS: Labour is promising to set up a lot –  17 and counting – of new public bodies. A new IfG report has been tracking their progress – and reveals how to succeed, or not, when setting these bodies up.