The Debrief from The Power Test

After a weekend of number crunching and sleep deprivation, Sam Freedman joined Sunday's Power Test crew to discuss the local election results and what they suggest about the tough choices facing a future Labour government. Sam and the team looked back at a week of high drama in Scottish politics and chewed the fat on Ayesha and Sam's recent sit-down with former Scottish Labour leader Kez...

Defence expert and army reservist Peter Apps joined The Power Team team to dissect the latest episode and discuss how a future Labour Government might step up to international security challenges Sir Lawrence Freedman, the renowned academic (and Sam’s dad!), told Ayesha and Sam in the latest episode that he believed the UK was facing its gravest challenge since the Second World War and that a Labo...

So it was Sunday again, and while thousands of others were out running the London marathon, the political geeks that we are sat down for a bit of post-match analysis from last week’s episode of The Power Test - when Josh Simons, the Director of influential think tank Labour Together joined Sam and Ayesha for a full and frank conversation about the shape of a future Labour government. On this week’...

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 electio...

The Debrief is our listeners’ chance to discuss everything about the latest show and deep diver into where we go next to change Britain for the better. Think Love Island’s Aftersun, or Big Brother’s Little Brother, except instead of fake tan and the Diary Room it’s a bunch of political nerds discussing the latest Power Test episode. This week Power Test team members Flo Hutchings, Ed Owen and Char...

Flo Hutchings, Jon Will Chambers and Catherine Mayer share their reactions on the issue of regional divides and what a genuine levelling up agenda could look like under a Labour government. Let us know what you took away from Ed Balls’ comments on regional inequality and how you think Labour can best make change happen in government on this critical and vital issue. Make sure you’re following us o...