Please turn JavaScript on
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards icon

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.3 / day

Message History

The former chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has expanded on her view that Britain needs to rejoin the EU. Why is this more significant than it might appear to be?

• Join our never ending debate by emailing [email protected]

• The next live Rock & Roll Politics show is on Monday Dec 7th at London’s Kings Place – tickets available from the


Read full story

Shock! Horror! Shabana Mahmood announces a “U-turn” on her immigration plans. What did anyone expect after the original proposals were announced within weeks of her becoming Home Secretary without much thought given to strategic and political implications? But Mahmood is by no means alone in not daring to reflect too deeply. British governments take a chaotic...


Read full story

There is (and will continue to be) speculation about a General Election next spring, freeing Andy Burnham from the constraints of Labour’s 2024 manifesto and while he’s still on something of a honeymoon. But is he in any position to contemplate such a campaign before the plans for his big changes are clearer?

• The next live Rock & Roll Politics show is on Monday De...


Read full story

The Budget developed one theme of the Burnham Era: small changes and breathing space. But how dow this fit in with Burnham’s pledge to implement the biggest change in forty years?


• The next live Rock & Roll Politics show is on Monday Dec 7th at London’s Kings Place– tickets available from the


Read full story

John Healey presents his first Budget – constrained by a fragile economy, international turmoil, the red lines of Labour’s timid 2024 election manifesto and his own inexperience as an economic policy-maker. Can he rise to the occasion?

• Support the podcast on


Read full story