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Talking Politics

By: ITV News
  • Summary

  • Tom Bradby, Robert Peston and Anushka Asthana discuss the week's biggest political issues every Wednesday in a massive election year.
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Episodes
  • A post-election shock defection, and is there really any chance of a hung parliament?
    May 8 2024
    Anushka Asthana and Robert Peston join Tom Bradby to discuss the shock defection by Conservative MP for Dover, Natalie Elphicke, to Labour after she crossed the floor at the beginning of PMQs.

    How damaging is this for the Prime Minister?

    And how will Labour MPs feel about an MP usually more associated with the right of the Tory party joining their ranks?

    Plus - is Sunak's warning of a hung parliament really a possibility?

    All that and more in this week's episode of Talking Politics.

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    30 mins
  • Local elections: A 'seismic' shift or a Sunak sigh of relief?
    May 3 2024
    In a local elections special, ITV News analysts Professor Jane Green and Professor Colin Rallings join Julie Etchingham as the results roll in and the Conservatives lose hundreds of council seats.

    Plus, Robert Peston and Anushka Asthana discuss a bruising by-election, the 'Reform factor' and what the future looks like for Rishi Sunak.

    All that and more in this week's episode of Talking Politics.
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    31 mins
  • Can the Rwanda scheme save Rishi Sunak?
    May 1 2024
    Political Correspondents Shehab Khan and Carl Dinnen join Tom Bradby as the first failed asylum seeker heads to Rwanda. Can the first deportations to Rwanda save Rishi Sunak's election chances?

    And how does the prime minister plan to pay for what Labour calls the unfunded £46bn plan to scrap National Insurance?

    All that and more in this week's episode of Talking Politics.

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    29 mins

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