The Downtown Den Politics Podcast | EP. 28 | 22nd April 2024
22/04/2024
Why are so many of our parliamentarians being caught up in bizarre scandals these days?
Why are so many of our parliamentarians being caught up in bizarre scandals these days?
999 indictments against him, an insurrection that he arguably led back in 2020 and a fear that he is closer to Putin than NATO, yet it is the issue of abortion that may, just may derail Donald Trumps presidential candidacy- what is the state of the Biden/Trump race at the moment?
Kevin Johnson from Urban Comms joins Frank McKenna for the latest podcast, discussing Birmingham, Andy Street, William Wragg and Angela Rayner.
Could the most successful election winning machine in Western Europe really be heading towards oblivion?
This week we revisit a previous podcast episode, where Frank McKenna chats with Lord Michael Heseltine.
Labours shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the Mis Lecture this week. Did she lay out a progressive programme of economic reform, or has her pragmatism taken her to a place where she is simply promising to be Continuity Jeremy Hunt?
Can Sunak really survive in downing street until the autumn – or is a summer election now inevitable.
Last week Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, tried to restart, reset, reshape the government with his budget. Did it work?
George Galloway stormed to victory in the Rochdale by-election last week. We’ll be asking if Gorgeous George’s return to Parliament is a threat to democracy, to Keir Starmer, or simply a fluke result in the strangest of polls.
Has British politics sunk to an all-time low? Shameful scenes in the commons this week, followed by Islamophobic comments from a senior Conservative MP, and a shambolic by election campaign now in its final ten days in Rochdale- how has it come to this?
Whose ‘double whammy’ was worse? It hasn’t been a great 7 days for either the prime minister or the Keir Starmer. Frank, Jim and guest Kevin Johnson discuss the latest from the world of politics.
The past seven days have not been great for the prime minister nor the leader of the opposition. Rishi Sunak followed up his ill advised bet with Piers Morgan with a truly cringeworthy performance at PMQs