British journalist Lewis Goodall is cohost of the UK’s most popular news podcast, The News Agents. On today’s Inside Politics podcast he talks to Hugh about the year in UK politics: why Keir Starmer has struggled to get a grip on governing, the lingering impact of Brexit and how Labour’s numerical victory has hidden the fragmentation of political support across the spectrum.

Then Lewis tells Hugh how the Irish general election looks from his London vantage point and wonders how history will look back on this period in UK and Irish politics.

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