Sascha O'Sullivan

Been to Manchester central complex many times for conferences and rarely has the main hall been so light on outside exhibitors. Lots of padding with empty stands put up by central party

We talk about this in the pod! In fact one guest said it might - like Tony Blair - take two terms to figure out what it is

Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism over already? Host Sascha O’Sullivan goes behind-the-scenes of Labour Party conference in Liverpool, talking to senior politicians and advisors as she tries to hunt for Keir Starmer’s ideology – once…

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism is already over?

w/ Deputy PM David Lammy
Lucy Powell
@alistrathern.bsky.social
@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
@noahkeate.bsky.social & @ecasalicchio.bsky.social

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Tory Civil War Erupts As Theresa May Slams Badenoch's Plan To Scrap Net Zero Target The former prime minister joined other senior Conservatives in condemning the party leader.

Not the greatest backdrop to a make-or-break party conference ...

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

No PCC probe into 'swan eating' story 4.15pm: The Press Complaints Commission has been branded 'disgraceful' after deciding not to force the Sun to apologise for claiming asylum seekers had poached and eaten swans. Ciar Byrne reports.

A small reminder of where original story of swans/migrants came from… a 2003 story later corrected to admit there was no evidence

www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...

Liz Truss is now dunking on Andy Burnham

My favourite variant of this is when you add in queerness:

“He spend 50 years living in a remote hut with his close friend, where they preserved and catalogued the most extensive collection of ferns ever assembled in Britain”

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Farage claims he can save *£230bn* by excluding foreign nationals from welfare bill

Did Dr Evil come up with this number

Sure! We do an episode every week on different ones

Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel Just this week, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has made a fresh effort to remove migrants arriving from the English Channel with the Government’s one-in-one-out agreement with France. S…

🎙️ NEW ep🎙️ Who’s actually in control of the Channel crossings— and can Shabana Mahmood get a grip of it?

@jamescleverlymp.bsky.social
Andrew Harding
Ex Home Office DG Glyn Williams
Hannah Guerin
@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social
Joe Middleton KC
& more

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Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel Just this week, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has made a fresh effort to remove migrants arriving from the English Channel with the Government’s one-in-one-out agreement with France. S…

🎧 I'm on this week's 'Westminster Insider' @politico.eu @politico.com
talking about the mess the Home Office has made of the asylum system, alongside none other than... James Cleverly.

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@saschaosullivan.bsky.social

YouTube video by The New Statesman Has Your Party split before it started? | UK Politics | The New Statesman

What's going on with Your Party?

@meganekenyon.bsky.social joins me on today's @newstatesman.com podcast to explain, as does Ethan Croft, making his NS debut as we try to untangle the split between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTn4...

Actually quite a beautiful moment of Donald Trump saying he “doesn’t know” Peter Mandelson

Can Britain have a proper Green Party? Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party hav…

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️Can Britain have a proper Green Party? How the party had changed from early days of campaigns on camels & dog poo💩

🌳 & Zack Polanski’s efforts to make his party serious

@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@elliechowns.bsky.social
Natalie Bennett
Jonathon Porritt

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I don’t think any of us expected him to say that.

Former deputy labour leader Tom Watson calls for… deputy leader post to be abolished

tomwatsonofficial.substack.com/p/angela-ray...

With Rayner stepping down we have hit 10 minister's who have oficially resigned from this government. Make sure you are following @paddy-mcalary.bsky.social @timdurrant.bsky.social @rebeccamckee.bsky.social meganbryer.bsky.social for what Starmer will do next with his minsiterial team.

From no reshuffle to a No10 reshuffle to losing the DPM and a potential cabinet reshuffle - what a first week back

can't believe we've lost two people's princesses in our lifetime

Can Britain have a proper Green Party? Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party hav…

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️Can Britain have a proper Green Party? How the party had changed from early days of campaigns on camels & dog poo💩

🌳 & Zack Polanski’s efforts to make his party serious

@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@elliechowns.bsky.social
Natalie Bennett
Jonathon Porritt

www.politico.eu/podcast/west...

Just had to correct this live on the radio too... clearly someone at the BBC has got their briefing note wrong!

Oh sure, get three men to write about a woman going through a traumatic birth and what she did with the compensation as though she is stealing from her own child. That seems totally normal and fine

Commons people: when politics and music collide Podcast Episode · Westminster Insider · 08/22/2025 · 42m

Musicians can sometimes be the government's most vocal critics. Who could forget Stormzy calling out Theresa May over Grenfell or Elton John calling Keir Starmer’s government “absolute losers”?

On Westminster Insider, host @saschaosullivan.bsky.social digs deeper:

best in show at Green Party hustings

Westminster's half-term score card Podcast Episode · Westminster Insider · 27/06/2025 · 44m

If after all of that you still want more politics podcasting, check out the latest “half-term score card” episode of Westminster Insider, in which @saschaosullivan.bsky.social lets me give out grades to the Tories and Reform like I’m a Victorian school mistress

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Keir Starmer: Sorry, Mr Blair, but 1441 does not authorise force Keir Starmer: The attorney general has a tricky task in defending the legal basis for war.

One of my favourite recent pastimes is looking through Keir Starmer's old Guardian op-eds. Here's a great one, from 2003. (h/t @tom-clark.bsky.social)

www.theguardian.com/politics/200...