Whitehall Sources
Hosted by Calum Macdonald and James Nation and Jo Tanner · Shortbread Media
4.1from 48 ratings
- 214
- Episodes
- 64
- Transcribed
- 48
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 41K
- YouTube views
About Whitehall Sources
Top advisers to our significant political leaders analyse the successes and failures of today's politics, sharing their experiences of working in Whitehall. Jo Tanner is a political adviser and strategist who's worked with politicians from all parties - she's Managing Partner at Rud Pedersen UK. James Nation was Deputy Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, Special Adviser to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and is now Managing Director at Forefront Advisers. Journalist and broadcaster Calum Macdonald manages their in-tray of talking points, U-turns and crises. From parties in Westminster to the tactics of SpAds, this is your exclusive insight into how politics is done and how politicians work. We welcome insiders and analysts to join the conversation each week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Shortbread Media
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Oct 2022
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
64 of 214 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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How to Work with Trump on Issues like Ukraine... with Mike Martin MP
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And Ukraine should be understood under that umbrella. And, you know, we've got stuff to do in, you know, with China in the Pacific. And this really starts under Obama with the pivot to Asia. And what that means is that the Europeans have got to provide the conventional defence of Europe. And we need to work out if the Americans are not providing the supreme allied commander. Who is it? Maybe it should be a Brit. And then I think whilst we've hived that often, we're going to do that with with the Europeans. We being the British. I think we want to then lean into those things that we do do with the Americans and in which. […]
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- Mike Martin
- Megan McElroy
- Louis O'Geran
- Jonathan Hinder
- Wes Streeting
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- YouTube views
- 40,929
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.1 / 5
- 47 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100
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- Quality
- 80
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 89
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Who hosts Whitehall Sources?
Calum Macdonald and James Nation and Jo Tanner host the show. Published by Shortbread Media.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
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