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Brexit, Theresa May's fragile hold on power, the return of the Labour left under Jeremy Corbyn, and Donald Trump as President make this a fascinating time in politics. But the reality for many people in the UK is a rise in the cost of living, cuts to public services and uncertainty over the future. The Mirror Politics team analyse the goings on in Westminster and beyond, and let you know how the plans made by people in power will really affect you. We speak to the key players and give you our perspective on the political scene. Subscribing will automatically get you all the upcoming episodes and don't forget to follow Mirror Politics on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mirrorpolitics) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mirrorpolitics) for the latest politics news.
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The Climate Crisis Panel - Part 2 from 2019-11-14T00:02
Welcome to a two part special edition of our podcast: The Climate Crisis Panel.Campaigner and TV presenter Chris Packham chairs a special panel of scientists and activists to discuss the climate cr...
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The Climate Crisis Panel - Part 1 from 2019-11-14T00:01
Welcome to a two part special edition of our podcast: The Climate Crisis Panel.In part 1, campaigner and TV presenter Chris Packham chairs a special panel of scientists and activists to discuss the...
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Mirror Next Gen: Teenagers take control of the Daily Mirror from 2019-05-21T16:25:04
MirrorNextGen is a ground-breaking project by the Mirror which has seen us hand over control of our print and online coverage for one day. It is a chance for a group of British teenagers to put the...
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A review of the year when politics lost leave of it senses from 2018-12-21T13:17:36
In this final podcast of 2018 we look back at a tumultuous, gripping and febrile year in politics.There were resignations and rebellions.There were moments of madness and moments of goodness. There...
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Budget treat or trickery? from 2018-10-30T16:36:17
Philip Hammond claimed his Budget meant austerity was coming to an end.There was more money for the NHS, defence and to help ease the roll out of the universal credit.And sprinkled on top of the sp...
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Careers, confidences and conferences from 2018-10-04T15:21:17
There were rows, rallies, parties and career-ending speeches.This year’s conference season saw Labour leave Liverpool on a high, the Conservatives suffer the blues in Birmingham and the Lib Dems st...
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Corbyn builds a powerful case for change from 2018-09-26T15:02:41
Jeremy Corbyn used his conference speech to sell his radical agenda to voters.The Labour leader made a persuasive case that his plans for renationalisation, handing power to workers and reshaping t...
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Vince Cable's long goodbye from 2018-09-18T18:04
Vince Cable failed to rally the troops in a gaffe-prone and muted conference speech.The Lib Dem leader looked like someone on the way out as he addressed the faithful in Brighton.The only remarkabl...
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Big Issue founder Lord Bird on Corbyn, "failure" politicians and the homelessness crisis from 2018-09-13T17:03:39
Lord John Bird says he got into the House of Lords by “lying, cheating and stealing”.In this week’s Ayes To The Left podcast, the Big Issue founder revealed how he learned the skills to build his h...
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Where the hell are we with Brexit now? from 2018-07-10T16:14:49
It has been an extraordinary few days of high drama, plotting and political turmoil.Theresa May was left fighting to save her career after the double resignation of Boris Johnson and David Davis.He...
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How to save the high street from 2018-07-04T16:31:58
In the last year an estimated 50,000 retail jobs have gone. Major stores have closed while others such as House of Fraser and Marks&Spencer are slashing branches.Unless the decline can be reversed ...
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The collapse of the centre left from 2018-06-28T13:55:57
Across Europe the centre left is in trouble. Of the 28 EU states only six have a left-wing government and most of those are minority administrations.In the last elections the workers party in Holla...
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UKIP's king of dark arts lifts the lid on 14 years with Nigel Farage from 2018-06-22T12:05:30
David Cameron once branded them "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists".Now UKIP face being something much worse - irrelevant.Where next for Nigel Farage's flailing anti-EU party just three years ...
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Inequality is bad for your mental health from 2018-06-07T16:54:39
After the 2008 financial crash Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published one of the defining books on austerity.The Spirit Level showed how countries with the greatest inequality have higher rat...
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A model citizen from 2018-06-01T15:51:53
Few will have heard of Neil Jameson but he is one of the most influential people in British.Neil is the founder and executive director of the community-based organisation Citizens UKAnd its campaig...
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The march of the robots from 2018-05-25T09:21:08
Advances in AI and robotics will dramatically change our lives over the next few decades.Greater automation will affect not just how we work but if we work at all.And the use of artificial intellig...
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Talk of the towns: the key battleground of the next election from 2018-05-16T17:48:36
Towns used to be great places to live with a strong sense of community, thriving high streets, lots of green spaces and good local amenities.But while our cities are booming, the towns have become ...
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Are workers getting a fair deal? from 2018-05-09T16:04:54
This Saturday will see tens of thousands of people march through London to demand a new deal for workers.The TUC rally has been organised to highlight how millions of people are stuck in low-paid, ...
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The new working class from 2018-05-02T14:57:33
There are millions of voters out there who have been ignored, abandoned and misunderstood.But they could hold the key to winning the next general election. They are, according to Claire Ainsley, th...
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14: Theresa May pays the price for the Windrush fiasco from 2018-04-18T16:43:05
We have seen the best and worst of politics this week. There has been the Home Office shambles on Windrush and the searing debate in the Commons on anti-Semitism. The issues may be cause to despair...
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13: A political thriller from 2018-03-28T13:36:03
In a special Ayes to the Left podcast the Mirror's Head of Politics, Jason Beattie, talks to Matthew Parkhill.Matthew is the writer, co-director and executive producer of the new TV series the Deep...
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12: The dark side of the Deep State from 2018-03-21T16:40:57
Who really runs the country? Our politicians? Big business? The civil service?In this week's Ayes to the Left we look at the influence corporations, the military and the Establishment have on publi...
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11: Now we've all been short changed from 2018-03-13T16:27:45
Philip Hammond delivered his Spring Statement and it lasted a measly 26 minutes.The Chancellor claimed the economy had turned a corner and growth was back on track.But do his claims stand up to scr...
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10: We are ready to take on the Establishment from 2018-03-07T19:10:41
In America they call it the Deep State. In the UK we know it as the Establishment - the few thousand people who work in Whitehall, big business, the media and lobbying who shape how the country is ...
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9: John Major's Brexit broadside at Theresa May from 2018-03-01T15:48:34
Former Prime Minister John Major has shed his mild-mannered image to deliver a blistering Brexit broadside at Theresa May's plan for Brexit.In an extraordinary blue-on-blue attack aimed at the PM, ...
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8: The young campaigner determined to stop Brexit from 2018-02-21T11:06:51
Can Brexit be stopped?Femi Oluwole thinks so. He’s set up the campaign, Our Future, Our Choice, to make the case for a second referendum.The 27-year-old argues that young people are being robbed of...
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7: Women, law and disorder from 2018-02-07T17:27
This week marked the 100th anniversary of some women getting the vote.In this week’s Ayes to the Left podcast we discuss why women are still under represented in politics and why progress has been ...
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6: Heard the one about a Tory comedian? from 2018-01-31T15:47:29
There are plenty of Conservatives who are comedians but not many comedians who are Conservative.Step forward Geoff Norcott. The star of the Mash Report and a regular on Live at the Apollo admits it...
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5: Labour ready for Brexit battle from 2018-01-25T15:56:21
Next week the Brexit battle moves to the House of Lords when peers begin debating the EU Withdrawal Bill.On this week’s Ayes to the Left podcast we talk to Angela Smith, the Labour leader in the Lo...
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4: Carrying the can for Carillion from 2018-01-17T17:21:50
The collapse of construction giant Carillion dominated Prime Minister’s questions.Jeremy Corbyn has described the demise of the firm as a “watershed moment” and called for Theresa May to end the “c...
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3: Theresa May's terrible start to 2018 from 2018-01-10T16:50:10
Theresa May had hoped to use this week's reshuffle to relaunch her faltering government.But the Prime Minister’s best plans quickly fell apart when she delivered one of the most disaster-strewn mi...
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Jeremy Corbyn special: Labour leader talks to Ayes to the Left about his remarkable year from 2017-12-21T18:00
Jeremy Corbyn began the year with a question mark over his future, leading a divided party and his poll ratings in free fall.There then followed a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes as he took t...
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Looking back on a tumultuous year in politics from 2017-12-14T10:24:08
It has been an extraordinary year for British and international politics. Theresa May began 2017 as the queen of all she surveys. She ended the year humiliated in the Commons, broken by her disastr...
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The Brexit plans hit the buffers from 2017-12-06T17:11:30
Theresa May’s week started brightly and then went quickly down hill.The Prime Minister had hoped to lap the glory of securing a deal with the EU to move to trade talks.But a farcical day in Brussel...
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2: Ayes to the Left podcast: Donald Trump’s anti-social media from 2017-11-29T17:58:54
The Mirror’s Kevin Maguire, Mikey Smith and Jason Beattie discuss Donald Trump’s Twitter bile, the Brexit bill and why Emily Thornberry was the star of PMQs. For information regarding your data pr...
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Philip Hammond's Budget tricks fool nobody from 2017-11-22T18:10:06
There were two big headlines in the Budget: the appalling growth figures and the stamp duty cut.But there was a vacuum at the heart of the Budget - nothing for social care, no public sector pay ris...
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Jeremy Corbyn lets Theresa May off the hook, Brexit woes and Russian meddling from 2017-11-15T17:32:02
After a run of strong performances Jeremy Corbyn’s winning streak at PMQs came to an end today.The Labour leader peppered Theresa May with questions on the NHS, crime, police cuts, the universal cr...
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Sexual harassment, Westminster's macho culture and why more needs to be done from 2017-11-01T16:56:28
There is only one topic of conversation in Westminster at the moment: the sex scandal.Some of the allegations have been harrowing to read, others have left a question mark over the careers of senio...
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1: Jared O’Mara revelations dampen another strong week for Jeremy Corbyn from 2017-10-25T16:53:36
For three weeks in a row, Jeremy Corbyn has owned Prime Minister’s Questions - putting Theresa May on the back foot on Universal Credit.It’s gradually putting to bed the idea the Labour leader’s re...
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Labour is back on the offensive over the economy - the power is shifting from 2017-10-18T16:26:28
Not even a good set of jobless figures could save Theresa May from a mauling at Prime Minister’s questions.While Jeremy Corbyn grows in confidence, the Prime Minister looked diminished and isolated...
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Transformed Jeremy Corbyn rattles Theresa May on universal credit from 2017-10-11T16:22:54
What a difference a general election can make. Six months ago Theresa May was a commanding presence in the House of Commons and Jeremy Corbyn struggled to be heard.Now it is the Prime Minister who ...
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Theresa May's disaster-strewn speech is a calamity for her leadership from 2017-10-04T15:03:11
Theresa May delivered one of the most memorable speeches ever delivered at a party conference - for all the wrong reasons.Everything which could go wrong for the Prime Minister did go wrong. First,...
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Jeremy Corbyn’s momentous week at the Labour Party Conference from 2017-09-27T17:16:41
What a difference a year makes.A party which was deeply split and uncertain about its leader gathered in Brighton this week to heap praise on Jeremy Corbyn.The Labour leader delivered a bold and co...
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Inside the Lib Dem conference, from Vince Cable's speech to Glee Club from 2017-09-20T09:26:02
Vince Cable used his first conference speech as leader to tell party faithful to get ready to be in power. But was any of his speech remotely plausible? Coming to you direct from Bournemouth, Mirro...
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Public sector pay, a "downright lie" and prepare for party conference season from 2017-09-13T17:07:23
These are turbulent times for British politics. The country faces an uncertain future because of Brexit, Theresa May is besieged in Downing Street and Labour has redrawn the political map under Jer...
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