Matt Chorley's Urgent Questions Podcast
Matt Chorley brings you the biggest interviews, latest news and best analysis from the heart of Westminster every weekday. It's politics, but not as you know it...
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What is Dominic Sandbrook's favourite political scandal?
Friday
Plus… can we send werewolves to the moon?
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Do Labour MPs think Starmer is finished?
Last Thursday
Plus… how do you spin your way through the front pages?
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What did Ross Noble think Keir Starmer was singing?
Last Wednesday
Plus… how would Mandelson have been vetted?
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How angry are Mandelson's cabinet colleagues?
Last Tuesday
Plus....what does Steve Rosenberg love about Russia?
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Will Reform crash & burn like the SDP in the 1980s?
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Plus… is politics full of sulkers?
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Did Dara Ó Briain find Deputy PMQs funny?
Wed 28 Jan 2026
Plus… how did one Ambassador avoid a Russian honeytrap?
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What's the naughtiest thing Shabana Mahmood has ever done?
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Plus… what can politicians learn from Jaws?
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Will Braverman feel at home in Reform?
Mon 26 Jan 2026
Plus… what are Labour MPs saying about Starmer and Burnham?
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Do Labour MPs want a Burnham comeback?
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Plus … what's it like being lectured by Boris Johnson?
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Is there NOW a route to Number 10 for Andy Burnham?
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Plus… is Starmer right to think TACO: Trump always chicken out?
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Did Trump just de-escalate the Greenland row?
Wed 21 Jan 2026
Plus... Has David Baddiel taught me to love cats?
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Why won't Badenoch kick out Truss?
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Plus… how does Starmer respond to Trump calling the UK stupid?
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What's Mandelson's Trump advice for Starmer?
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Plus… should the PM ‘do a Kemi’ and sack Wes Streeting?
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What's it like to defect from the Tories to Reform?
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Plus... can AI Keir Starmer tell a joke?
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How did the Tories catch "treacherous" Jenrick?
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Plus… what defection document was left lying around ?
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What do Labour MPs really think about government U-turns?
Wed 14 Jan 2026
Plus… is politics bad for your health?
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Are ex-Tory MPs a help or a hindrance for Farage?
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Plus… has Donald Trump's voice Changed?
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What's going on in Greenland right now?
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Plus.... What does Geoff Norcott think about being labelled the "right wing" comedian?
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Has Wes Streeting got rid of NHS Fax Machines yet?
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Plus… what's it like to be on the phone with Trump?
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What was Matt Forde’s impression of PMQs?
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Plus… Why are -13, 36 & 42 the numbers you need to watch?
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Is Venezuela all about oil?
Mon 5 Jan 2026
Plus… will Greenland be next, and who should we be keeping an eye on in British politics?
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Political Time Capsule (Part 2)
New Year's Day 2026
Matt explores how we’ll look back on today’s politics in 2045.
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Political Time Capsule (Part 1)
Wed 31 Dec 2025
Matt celebrates 20 years in Westminster by looking back to 2005.
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Margaret Thatcher remembered
Tue 30 Dec 2025
Matt talks to some of those who knew the former PM best
