How To Win An Election
Hosted by Danny and Sally and Hugo and Polly · Times Radio Politics
4.3from 228 ratings
- 153
- Episodes
- 149
- Transcribed
- 228
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About How To Win An Election
The Times brings together some of the most experienced strategists in British politics to discuss what's really going on behind the big stories, and elections taking place here and around the world. Daniel Finkelstein, Sally Morgan and Polly Mackenzie join Hugo Rifkind for an intelligent, adversarial and witty conversation every week. Follow the podcast now to never miss an episode. Send questions, comments and voicenotes to: howtowin@thetimes.co.uk Executive Producer: Andrew Alexander Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Times Radio Politics
- Category
- government · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
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[…] And I put it no stronger than that because they've also got the opponents matter and how the vote splits between the parties matters. So it's not the only thing that matters, but it will be hard. Sally, how will they be thinking about this win in Downing Street? […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.0 / 5
- 12 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.3 / 5
- 216 ratings
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 97
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Danny and Sally and Hugo and Polly host the show. Published by Times Radio Politics.
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