
Commons People
Hosted by Kevin · HuffPost UK
4.7from 22 ratings
- 291
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 22
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Commons People
Welcome to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. Every week, our resident politics writers and Westminster regulars – Kevin Schofield and Kate Nicholson – unpack the week's biggest story in a way that even the most politically dense can understand. Join us for straightforward, up-to-date and in-depth commentary on British politics from people in the know! From HuffPost UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- HuffPost UK
- Category
- government · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Oct 2015
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 291 episodes have a transcript.

22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Trump Is Officially In Bed With Putin, But How Did We Get Here?

15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Where exactly IS Andy Burnham on Brexit?

8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Crunch Time For Polanski As The Greens Descend Into Chaos
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Trump Is Officially In Bed With Putin, But How Did We Get Here?
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Precise predictions, so we'll see whether that comes true or not. And for the Senate, which is the other part of Congress, he says that he's not convinced that the Democrats will be able to flip the four seats they need. to win the Senate. So that remains to be seen. That would be quite a big achievement for them. So obviously Trump isn't actually on the ballot paper himself. Do you want to explain to people why it actually matters what the outcome is of these midterm elections, if the Republicans end up losing a lot of seats? Yeah, yeah. So every four years in America, they also have the presidential election, which, as the name suggests, elects the president. […]
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- 4.3 / 5
- 8 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 14 ratings
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