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4. How To Make Slogans Great Again Daniel Finkelstein on Hague being soundtracked by the Wombles @pollymackenzie on the Lib Dem choir earworm. Oh and Peter Mandelson sings. 🎧Listen

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🗳️ HOW TO WIN AN ELECTION 1. How to decide when to call an election Mandelson, Finkelstein and Mackenzie on Turkeys voting for Christmas, and Britain voting at Christmas. 🎄 🎧MUST LISTEN

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🗳️2. How To Write A Policy Peter Mandelson, @Dannythefink & @pollymackenzie on the King’s Speech, announceables, Angus the Monkey, HS2, and your ermine being confused with a Santa costume. PLUS: What is Braverman up to? 🎧LISTEN

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3. How To Make A Shock Comeback Peter Mandelson, 3-time cabinet comeback kid, on Brown’s offer over yoghurt and Sunak’s “window dressing”. @Dannythefink’s part in IDS’s downfall + @pollymackenzie on the No10 whiteboard. 🎧LISTEN

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5. How To Crush (Or Cuddle) Your Rebels @pollymackenzie sets the record straight on how tuition fees came to “bite” the Lib Dems. But Peter Mandelson says Nick Clegg "deserved everything he got". 🎧 LISTEN

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5. How To Bury Boris (And Other Political Ghosts) @dannythefink on Thatcher, @pollymackenzie on Lib Dem MP quizzes and Peter Mandelson *tries* to be fair to Miliband. PLUS listener Chris plays our theme on his head🎶 🎧LISTEN

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6. How To Raise A War Chest Who would give money to the Tories? When did a Labour donor demand policy change? How much would you pay for a Tim Farron dinner? Peter Mandelson, @Dannythefink & @pollymackenzie reveal all. 🎧LISTEN

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8. How To Write A Political Joke, And Not Become One @DannytheFink, @PollyMackenzie and Peter Mandelson on the art of gags, and some amazingly good (and bad) examples. 🎧 LISTEN:

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9. How To Answer YOUR Questions Danny, Polly and Peter open up the How To Win inbox. And Polly asks Peter why Labour are so bad at having female leaders. 🎧LISTEN

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10. How To New Year Relaunch Danny, Polly and Peter on letting Rishi be Rishi, Miliband’s £28bn plan, and their pick of the elections around the world PLUS Why Peter thinks Sunak was right to ask Cummings. 🎧LISTEN

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11. How To Destroy Ed Davey With the Lib Dem leader feeling the heat, @Dannythefink on resignations, @pollymackenzie on political games and Peter Mandelson on being misled on the post office scandal. 🎧LISTEN

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12. How To Win A By-Election 🗳️ @Dannythefink thinks we get over-excited by them 🗳️ @pollymackenzie thinks not everyone thinks as logically as Danny 🗳️ Peter says Labour losing Hartlepool is key to understand Starmer 🎧

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13. How Not To Split The Vote Access talks, local elections and The West Wing. 🗳️@pollymackenzie on PR 🗳️Peter Mandelson on Sunak “running scared” from Reform 🗳️@dannythefink on risk of Tory irrelevance. LISTEN 🎧

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14. How To Form a Coalition 🔵 @dannythefink on what matters 🟡 @pollymakenzie on snacks 🔴 Peter Mandelson on how Labour’s “artificial” poll lead and why a hung parliament is under-priced. 🎧LISTEN

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15. How To Follow A Focus Group The art of polling and opinion with Peter Mandelson, Daniel Finkelstein and Poly Mackenzie on polls, policies - and Liz Truss. 🎧LISTEN

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16. How To Survive The Campaign A listener Q&A special covering young people, realignments, u-turns, exit polls and Curiously Cinnamon cereals. Oh, and someone gargles the theme tune… 🎶 🎧

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17. How To Win In A Recession Is it the economy stupid? Peter Mandelson on why Labour must focus on the NHS and crime - not citizens’ assemblies or fox hunting. Plus @Dannythefink & @pollymackenzie on going viral. 🎧LISTEN

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18. How To Deal With Truss Sunak needs a big bang to get back in game. Kicking out his predecessor would be 💥 I ask Peter Mandelson, @pollymackenzie & @Dannythefink 🎧LISTEN

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19. How To Do The Budget (And The Dishwasher) @dannythefink and @pollymackenzie on domestic politics and domestic chores. And Peter Mandelson on why Keir Starmer should go on a diet. 🎧LISTEN

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20. How To Defect 🗳️What threat is Lee Anderson? 🗳️Which defections worked (and didn’t)? 🗳️Why do politicians wear hi-vis? Peter Mandelson, @pollymackenzie and @dannythefink 🎧LISTEN

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21. How To Win With Taylor Swift (And Other Celebrities) ⭐️Do star endorsements ever work? ⭐️Does Mandela trump Rick Wakeman? ⭐️Why did Harry Potter turn on Clegg? 🎧LISTEN

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22. How To Write A Manifesto 🖊️ Who is holding the pen on the Tory, Labour and Lib Dem manifestos? @Dannythefink, Peter Mandelson & @pollymackenzie reveal all. A must listen for election watchers. 🎧LISTEN

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23. How To Win PMQs and The Papers Your questions answered, inc: 🚲 Cycling fans 🗣️Daft debates 📰 Partisan papers 🖋️ Podcast poems 🎧LISTEN

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24. How To Win A TV Debate 📺Should Starmer risk it? 📺Would Sunak allow Tice? 📺Will Davey get a look-in? Plus: Rayner’s taxes, Elton John’s bed and your haikus. 🎧LISTEN

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25. How To Learn From Liz Truss 🥬 Would the Tories be ahead if Truss hadn’t replaced Johnson? 🌹Would Corbyn be ahead if he’d stayed as leader? 👀 Will Sunak “just go” after the locals? 🎧LISTEN

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26. How To Pitch For The Leadership Peter Mandelson, @Dannythefink and @pollymackenzie on Tory manoeuvrings, and what the impact of the US election on the British polls. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧

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27. How To Defy Political Gravity @lmkmcintosh talks us through the SNP’s rise and fall Plus @pollymackenzie @Dannythefink and Peter Mandelson on why only a donkey could prevent Starmer winning. 🎧LISTEN

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28. How To Spin Defeat Brilliant live episode with @thetimes subscribers analysing the local election results With Peter Mandelson, @pollymackenzie and @Dannythefink. 🎧LISTEN

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29. How To Leave A Legacy @pollymackenzie and @Dannythefink on gaslighting And Peter Mandelson on how the Green Party has become a “dustbin” for the left. 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧

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30. How To Tell When The Game’s Up Peter Mandelson, @dannythefink and @pollymackenzie have all been there when defeat seemed unavoidable. And Polly wishes the Greens were more, well, Green. 🎧LISTEN

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32. How To Pull Off A Political Stunt Lecterns, balloons, toilets… plus added Eric Heffer. And @Dannythefink on whispers of a summer election. 🎧LISTEN

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🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨 33. How To Call An Election Absolute cracker recorded at @PodcastShowLDN: 🔵Tory brainbox @Dannythefink 🔶Ex-Lib Dem @pollymackenzie 🌹New Labour mastermind Peter Mandelson 🎧MUST LISTEN

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34. How To Dodge Dodgy Candidates 🗳️Sunak’s “bad” start 🗳️Starmer’s change 🗳️Reform’s threat 🗳️Gove’s farewell 🗳️Lib Dem choir’s song 🎧LISTEN

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35. How To Fight Farage ✅ Ape or ignore Reform? ✅ Row about media questions ✅ TV debate prep ✅ Theme sung by The Smiths 🎧LISTEN

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