Politics At Sam and Anne's

Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. The Home Office is the last department to finalise their budget with Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of Wednesday's spending review. All eyes are on Yvette Cooper and the noise that comes out of Westminster today and tomorrow that will indicate how much cash the home secretary has secured...

A bunker. A scenario. A group of former senior ministers, military chiefs and other experts. Russia knows our weaknesses – but do you?    Sky News' security and defence editor Deborah Haynes presents The Wargame – a major new five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise, set in the near future.  Launching 10th June.

Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.  More details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' spending squeeze next week are trickling out - including a U-turn on the winter fuel allowance which we now know is happening in the spending review. The political implications of the U-turn, rather than the broader spending review itself, threa...

Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.  The UK steel industry – which was on the verge of collapse just weeks ago – will no longer face the heaviest of Donald Trump's tariffs, the US announced overnight.  We're the only country spared the doubling of tariffs on steel imports to the US to 50% – ours instead capped at 25%. This...

Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. Exclusive polling is announced by Sam and Anne, as they reveal cabinet popularity rating according to the public. Also, why is the Home Office is today releasing a weather report for weather that's already been and gone? They say warm weather impacts the number of small boat crossings. I...

 Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.     This time last year, Labour and the Conservatives were in the throes of an era-defining election campaign that would end in Sir Keir Starmer winning an extraordinarily large majority.   The Reform Party was little more than a buzzing bee amid the backdrop of the UK political landsca...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.     As Sir Keir Starmer waves goodbye to the Chagos Islands and his planned cuts to the winter fuel allowance, Sam and Anne assess what it all means.     How much “backseat driving” on the winter fuel U-turn has come from former chancellor Gordon Brown? And what’s the best way to impleme...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.     Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will have their strategy tested today as Deputy PM Angela Rayner sets out her plan for higher taxes, and questions are raised about their approach to Reform. Is becoming Reform-lite the way to go?     And, as the Prime Minister joins global efforts to p...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.   It'll be a day when the PM goes again at selling the merits of his EU deal. One former cabinet minister tells the podcast it's all 'concrete and waffle'.  Welfare is on the agenda today too - with a DWP committee session on child welfare.  And, did someone mention Nick Clegg? The forme...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.     It's EU summit day – so what will Keir Starmer agree?  It’s been described as an historic summit and will be a reset of relations since Brexit. It’s expected that the EU and the UK will sign a security and defense partnership.  But so far nothing is set in stone.    Plus, how sincere...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.     Today, Sir Keir Starmer heads to Albania to announce a crackdown on migrant smuggling gangs in the Balkans whilst internal political unrest continues to brew at home.    Sam and Anne discuss the growing tension inside both the Labour and Conservative parties, and Sam reveals how the...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McEvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.     It might be PMQs and there might be a big announcement about moving civil servants out of London but this episode also looks at the day in the backrooms of Westminster.    There’s more to nail down ahead of Monday’s EU summit – the announcement of a state visit for the Macrons might b...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy preview how the day will play out in British politics.    After Labour’s migration plans were announced yesterday, Sam and Anne reflect on the Prime Minister’s rhetoric and its populist overtones. But how authentic is it?     Also, the Tories launched their own deportation bill in parliament yesterday. What’s in it and is it all a bit of a stunt?   ...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy preview how the day will play out in British politics.    Today’s the day when Keir Starmer finally reveals his big shake-up of migration laws. Sam and Anne discuss the focus on low-skilled workers that’ll be big for the social care and university sectors, and how there’s a growing concern in government that the benefits of migration are being overs...

Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy preview how the day will play out in British politics. Overnight, reports emerged of a UK-US trade announcement being hours away. Sam and Anne discuss the significance of this political win for Sir Keir Starmer "at a time he needs it most". The pair discuss what detail is expected to be in the pact and what it means for the 'special' relationship be...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy preview how the day will play out in British politics.    As the fallout continues to grow following the local elections, Keir Starmer faces a challenge to his plan for change from his own MPs – are things going to get worse for Labour, before they get better?     And while Number 10 thought the India trade deal was going to be a good news story for...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy preview how the day will play out in British politics.  As Westminster gets back to work after last Thursday’s election results, is there the least surprising briefing ever to start the week? There’s a new crackdown on asylum claims days after Reform’s by-election and council victories.  We focus on the Labour reaction to those results this morning...

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy have a Friday episode to take stock of the by-election, mayoral and local election results so far.  Sam’s pulled an all-nighter to cover Reform’s victory in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election – it won by just six seats. It won the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty too.   So it’s a morning of questions to ponder – how do bigger parties respond to the Re...

The morning political podcast which gives you all need for the day ahead in 20 minutes, with Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy.    Back on British soil, Anne joins Sam to talk about Trump's 100 days in office and whether the President is really in a tough spot.    And there are reports that the US has decided a UK trade deal is a second or third order priority. Anne and Sam discuss...

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne's on your podcast app👈     The morning political podcast which gives you all need for the day ahead in 20 minutes, usually with Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy.    But, for this episode, Anne is somewhere over the Atlantic travelling back from the US so Sam is joined by Politico’s Tim Ross.    Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won the Canadian e...

As Trump’s 100 days in office edges closer, Anne checks in from DC to bring us all the latest on a domestically difficult week for the President.    Also, will the upcoming Canadian elections be a referendum on Trump from its biggest neighbours? Sam and Anne discuss what the global ramifications of that result might be.     And back in Blighty, local elections are nearing and Sam explains how they...

The podcast is transatlantic for this episode – with Politico’s Anne McElvoy now in a hotel cupboard in Washington and Sky News’ Sam Coates still in his kitchen in London.    Anne’s headed to DC to cover Rachel Reeves’ visits to the States and wonders how the Chancellor will fare on the MAGA-favoured TV channels when she does interviews today.    And with a week to go, it’s a chance to look at how...

With news overnight that a peace conference in London today would be going ahead without UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy or US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are peace talks over Ukraine going backwards? Sam and Anne discuss what’s going on.     And Rachel Reeves is landing in Washington today for what promises to be one of the most important IMF spring meeting in years – will she make any progr...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy look at the day ahead in British politics.  Returning from an Easter break for a new season, Sam and Anne begin by discussing how British and global politics will react to the death of Pope Francis. They discuss the Pope's own role in politics around the world and the legacy he leaves behind. Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves is headi...

It's the Monday after a dramatic weekend in the House of Commons and Sam and Anne are here to bring you up to speed on the race to keep the furnaces on at the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe.   So what happens now after emergency legislation was passed on Saturday to give the government control of the plant and stop its Chinese owners from shutting it off?  And does the UK have a future as a ser...