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Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph's weekly politics podcast, presented by Christopher "Chopper" Hope. The podcast has interviews with top politicians and commentators and analysis from the Telegraph’s Westminster team. Chopper's Politics is a must listen for those who want to understand British politics, delving i...
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The Lockdown Files: Episode 6, The Forgotten Victims
In January 2021, the first Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccines made their way into people’s arms. By mid-march, 11 million people had received the jab.
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The Lockdown Files: Episode 5, The Fallout
In the face of major disasters, it is perhaps inevitable that there will be missteps. And when the dust settles, people are asked to account for their...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 4, Project Fear
Is it ever ok to scare the public?
In this episode, the reporters dig into leaked messages which show a discussion between Matt Hancock and one...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 3, The Case on Care Homes
Tens of thousands of care home residents died during the pandemic. Many people see it as the government’s biggest failure. Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp mes...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 2, The Road to Lockdown
The Investigations team looks back on the early days of the pandemic. How prepared was the government? Was lockdown inevitable? But they hit a stumbli...
The Lockdown Files: Episode 1, The Leak
In January 2023, reporters at the Telegraph are called into a meeting. The newspaper has got something big.
Matt Hancock’s Whatsapps from when h...
BONUS: Richard Sharp's Exclusive Exit Interview from the BBC
In this bonus episode of Chopper's politics, former BBC chairman Richard Sharp joins Chris for his 'exit interview' to discuss the controversial event...
Cheerio... with Gove, Rees Mogg, Forde and Cox
Over 360 episodes, 8.2 million listens and one Red Lion Pub, welcome to the last edition of Choppers Politics Podcast.
Joining the Telegraph's l...
School children identifying as Lions & Tigers & Bears, oh my!
It’s been a week when the economic picture has worsened for millions of us and to discuss the government wrestling with the problem - and how Liz Trus...
Banks, Boris and the "blob"
Treasury minister Andrew Griffith MP hot-foots it across the road to the Red Lion pub to tell Christopher Hope that he thinks banks should help famili...
Boris blames kangaroo court: has Johnson gone "full Trump"?
On the day the former PM faces having his parliamentary pass removed after being found to have “deliberately” misled MPs over partygate, Christopher H...
"Disinformation" with David Davis
Finally the Covid inquiry starts next week - and the Government is in a right old tangle over what to do about it. Veteran Conservative MP and former...
Back to work, back to Boris, and the Taxing Tories
With the advent of AI and concerns over 8 million 'economically inactive' people in Britain, we thought it was high time we asked Mel Stride MP, Work...
Borders, bonking and Liam Byrne
Immigration. The issue which drove so many people to vote to leave the EU before the 2016 EU referendum is back in the news and rising as an issue. Al...
Hope, charity and "lying bastards"
Olympian James Cracknell joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion to explain why he hopes become a Tory MP, appropriately in Henley on Thames, and how h...
"We are slipping into authoritarianism"
Sir Charles Walker MP joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion this week to express his fears that we are descending into authoritarianism, after arrest...
Local Elections: Tories take a battering but can Labour claim victory?
Sir Keir Starmer claims that Labour is on course to win a majority at the next general election, after the party made gains and the Tories suffered he...
Bring back campaigner Boris says Greg Hands
Christopher Hope gets a field trip this week, leaving the Red Lion behind for Lewes in Sussex. Chopper is joined by Conservative Party Chairman, Greg...
Could the Conservatives claw back into the election race?
Tory grandee Sir Robert Syms makes a startling prediction to Christopher Hope in the Red Lion this week - he thinks his party can win the next electio...
A deep dive into Britain's newest trade deal - the CPTPP
Chopper is off frolicking in the sun so this week Dia Chakravarty is in the podcast hotseat for an in-depth look at a subject that saw Conservative MP...
What can the current crop of Conservatives learn from Lawson?
It’s been a week of reflection, and so we brought quiet contemplation to the Red Lion pub this week.
With the death of Nigel Lawson earlier thi...
Peter Mandelson: ‘I’ve yet to meet a Tory who says they are going to win’
It's a bumper episode for Chopper's Politics listeners this week, don't say we don't treat you.
Lord Mandelson joins Christopher Hope on the wee...
Can Labour capitalise on SNP chaos post-Sturgeon?
Note: this episode was recorded before Humza Yousaf was announced as the new leader of the SNP on Monday 27th March 2023.
Ahead of the SNP lead...
A brief Brexit rebellion and a bleak week for Boris
This week two of the Conservative Party's obsessions reared their head yet again: Boris Johnson and Brexit. You may think you've everything there is t...
The winners and losers of Jeremy Hunt's Budget
Taxes, childcare and Brexit beer boost: The Telegraph's Camilla Tominey and Gordon Rayner join Christopher Hope to give us the top lines of Jeremy Hun...
Managing migration and Macron
Yvette Cooper MP joins Christopher Hope on the week that Rishi Sunak unveiled his plans to tackle illegal immigration. Conservatives think that illega...
The Journalist and the Whistleblower: The inside story of the Lockdown Files
More than 100,000 WhatsApp messages. 2.3 million words - the equivalent of three copies of the King James Bible.
You’ve read the headlines abou...
Has Brexit finally been done?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, alongside the European Union president Ursula von der Leyen, announced details of the Windsor Framework this week, a deal...
Will no one rid me of this troublesome former PM?
Boris Johnson is turning into one regular headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. So this week Christopher Hope is looking at three spheres where the...
Sturgeon says goodbye and what it means for Scotland
Well, if there was any danger of recess getting boring, Nicola Sturgeon had other ideas. Just as Chopper was taking a well-earned holiday, the First M...
Capital punishment, pitiful polling and pogo sticks
New deputy chair of the Conservative Party, Nickie Aiken MP joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion this week to vigorously defend her co-chair Lee And...
Happy Birthday Brexit?
This week, Christopher Hope returns to his spiritual home, the Red Lion pub, to discuss, you guessed it, Brexit. Three years on from leaving the E.U.,...
Talking taxes with Jeremy Hunt
Christopher Hope swaps the Red Lion for Number 11 Downing Street this week, as he sits down with Jeremy Hunt. The Chancellor tells Chopper that he and...
Let them eat cake
The last of the Hope family's Christmas cake joins the guests in the Red Lion this week, and Wes Streeting is the first to take Christopher Hope up on...
Cash for litter
Rebecca Pow joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion for some coffee in a china mug, as the Environment minister talks about the announcement that plas...
Take Back Control
On the week that the Prime Minister announced his 5 promises to voters, Science Minister George Freeman joins Christopher Hope to give his suggestions...
2022 in Review
2023 is almost upon us, so join Christopher Hope, Gordon Rayner and Camilla Tominey to reflect on the wacky year just gone in Westminster. We've had f...
Strikes, sexism and why MPs' second jobs are OK
Twas the strike before Christmas... on this week's festive edition of Choppers' Politics:
Frances O'Grady gives her final interview as the Gene...
Small boats and the silver exodus
Sir Robert Buckland KC and Jonathan Gullis bring their views on how to tackle the migrant crisis to the Red Lion this week.
Robert Buckland cal...
Further strikes, fewer houses, and Farage
James Sunderland, former Colonel in the Royal Logistics Corps, joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion to talk about why the MP for Bracknell thinks th...