The Power Test
The Power Test
The Debrief: The elections, local government funding and not much bin chat
0:00
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -30:10
-30:10

The Debrief: The elections, local government funding and not much bin chat

The Power Test crew return to take in Sam and Ayesha's recent episode on the local elections with The New Statesman’s Britain Editor Anoosh Chakelian. They talk funding, planning and analysis.

Ahead of this week’s episode of The Power Test, Flo, Jon and Charlotte sat down to review last week’s conversation between Sam, Ayesha and The New Statesman’s Anoosh Chakelian and were joined by elections analyst Lewis Baston and the Society of Labour Lawyers’ George Peretz KC.

The Debrief has bonus analysis of the upcoming elections - with Lewis laying out his reaction’s to Sam, Ayesha and Anoosh’s discussion ahead of deeper dives into the issue of local government funding with Charlotte, and Labour’s all important planning pledge with Jon. George Peretz adds further detail on the potential of Labour’s ‘Take Back Control Bill’.

Share

If you’re not already a member of The Power Test - don’t forget that you can get this week’s episode TOMORROW ahead of everyone else and ad-free. Your support means the world to us, and helps us produce the pod each week. Please do consider joining us, and if you are already a member - we’ve got lots of extra special content coming for you - and why not join us on The Debrief, every Sunday at 7pm on Twitter/X. Just drop us a message if you want to get involved - we want to hear your reactions and thoughts!

Discussion about this podcast

The Power Test
The Power Test
The weekly political podcast for those of us crying out for a new government and a new start - asking whether the Tories are really finished and what Labour should do to win and change Britain for the better.