The Political Editors: Steven Swinford

<p>The Times' current Political Editor Steven Swinford has been in the job for a turbulent three years, straddling three prime ministers and at least 42 ministerial resignations. He tells Matt about covering partygate, Tories squaring up to each other, a serene Liz Truss as her premiership exploded, and sacking the chancellor via tweet.</p><br><p>The Political Editors is half a century of politics told by the people who wrote the first draft of history for the Times.</p><br><p>Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton on whether&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/church-of-england-christianity-survey-gay-marriage-sex-female-archbishop-70ck07sj6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Britain is still a Christian country</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britains-strictest-teacher-has-won-me-over-6t6h6r8wm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alice changing her mind about Britain's strictest headteacher</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/surely-its-way-too-soon-for-royals-to-wheel-andrew-out-in-public-tgxjr62vr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">building the perfect shed.</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>