Talking Politics
ITV NewsPolitical Editor Robert Peston and News At Ten Anchor Tom Bradby discuss and debate all the key talking points of the political week - and answer your questions in our weekly Q&A episodes.Got a question for the team? Email talkingpolitics@itv.com You can watch every episode on YouTube, ITVX and Spotify and listen on every podcast platform, including Apple Podcasts. Hit subscribe on any platform to... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 176 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | NewsPoliticsNews Commentary | |||
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally revealed her Budget plans, albeit after the Office for Budget Responsibility published them first, by mistake.
But will tax rise upon tax rise win over doubting voters - or will her tactic to delay many of the ke... more
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told ITV News his government has restored respect to politics since coming into power.
When he came into Downing Street in July 2024, Starmer promised to "restore honesty and integrity to government”.
However, si... more
After months of furious speculation, briefing, leaking, and U-turning, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves is finalising her all-important second Budget.
It now looks like the rates of income tax won't rise after all - but, as Robert explains, there is a m... more
It is about to get a lot harder to claim asylum in Britain.
The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced significant changes to the UK's immigration system - the biggest, the government claims, of the modern era. She insists they will 'unite a d... more
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- Tax take illiteracy
How many more times are political pundits like Robert going to push out this false nonsense about the richest paying the lion’s share of total tax take. They simply don’t. They pay the lion’s share of the income tax take, but their wealth doesn’t come in income, does it? It comes from dividends and capital gains which are both taxed at lower rates than earnings, and it comes from property income, on which they don’t pay NI. Please Robert, stop with your inaccurate and lazy analysis.
Apple Podcasts3Syobahn
United Kingdoma month ago - Speed him up - please
The content’s decent, but I literally scream out loud for Robert Preston to hurry up and make his point. This type of ‘thinking time’ on mics is painful for a podcast format and the producers need be braver and have a word. They must hear it themselves.
Apple Podcasts3Nathan C UKUnited Kingdom5 months ago - Drivel dressed as discussion
Considering the resources of ITN’s news gathering, this really exposes its personnel as being very poorly informed on many topics. The last episode stated TikTok was right-leaning and Instagram was left-leaning, Netanyahu ‘might not be liked by Palestinians’ and Donald Trump likely didn’t make the AI video of him as a gold statue, which they spent a third of the episode discussing. Any time the discussion veers towards an articulated point, it’s derailed and cut short by a pithy joke or ad break... more
Apple Podcasts1James McAnespyUnited Kingdom9 months ago - Diabolically low volume
Interesting topics they cover however the contents is incoherent due to such low volume - a real shame please address this
Apple Podcasts2Rupert999United Kingdoma year ago - Terrible low sound quality
Terrible low sound quality, I can hardly hear the conversation
Apple Podcasts2John100oUnited Kingdoma year ago
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Apple Podcasts | #74 | United Kingdom/News/Politics |
Apple Podcasts | #170 | United Kingdom/News |
Apple Podcasts | #98 |  United Arab Emirates/News/Politics |
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3. Dominic Cummings
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5. Ed Davey
6. Peter Smith
7. Beeban Kidron
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