The net tightens for Boris Johnson

Andy Burnham has been crowned Labour leader and will become PM on Monday. His first speech to the party faithful on Friday offered new clues about his plans for government, as speculation reaches fever pitch over his cabinet picks amid the FT’s scoop that the current home secreta ...  Show more

Is Nigel Farage regretting his move to trigger a by-election now that his main rival is the novelty candidate Count Binface? What do Reform’s supporters think, and has he blown his chances of broadening support for the party? Host Lucy Fisher is joined by political correspondent ...  Show more

Rachel Wolf, the woman who wrote the 2019 Conservative manifesto, tells Matt Chorley the secret of Johnsonism. Plus the PM's biographer Andrew Gimson, Johnson's former researcher Rachel Wolf, the Spectator's Kate Andrews and Professor Tim Bale on whether he will fight the next el ...  Show more

David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive, and even if he does, can his brand ever recover? Is this a scandal, is it a crisis, or is it something else entirely? Does history offer any gui ...  Show more

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer battle it out over migration, inflation and apprenticeships. 

Matt, Tim Shipman and Lara Spirit pause and unpack the exchanges, and Tim makes a bet on Boris Johnson's name cropping up. 

Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson a ...

Daniel Finkelstein and Henry Zeffman are back to discuss the battle over Boris Johnson's honours list,</ ...