Labour's Tom Watson on political plots, weight loss and living with ADHD

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Gorton and Denton by-election: Labour vs everyone else

The Green Party have won their very first by-election. Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan goes inside the Greens’ effort to win the seat, and finds out how the battle for this seat will inform the three-way fights between the Greens, Labour and Reform UK. She speaks to Ha ...  Show more

The strange death of the long-term prime minister

Keir Starmer may have survived a political near-death experience last week. But with a perilous by-election looming and punishing May elections on the horizon, few in Westminster think the prime minister is truly in the clear. With fresh jeopardy ahead, could Starmer become the f ...  Show more

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