How to win an election
As the parties prepare to do battle at the polls in 2024, we bring together three of the most experienced political strategists of the past four decades.
Legendary architect of New Labour Peter Mandelson can draw on his vast experience as a spin doctor, election supremo, cabinet minister and adviser to Labour leaders on how to win elections, and what might stand in their way.
Nobody knows the highs and lows of the Conservative party better than Daniel Finkelstein, who has worked alongside Tory leaders and prime ministers from John Major onwards as they fought to modernise the party.
And Polly Mackenzie is one of the smartest thinkers in Westminster, a policy expert who helped negotiate the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition and spent five years working alongside deputy prime minister Nick Clegg in Downing Street.
They will join award-winning podcaster, journalist and stand-up comedian Matt Chorley for an intelligent, adversarial and witty political conversation every week.
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