Latest Lansons Podcast Episodes

Post-Budget Reflections

Political Capital - November 02, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes
The Lansons Public Affairs team analyse the impact of and outcomes from the government's Autumn Budget and Spending Review. Is the Chancellor less Rishi Osborne and more Gordon Sunak? This budget saw more spending than any other Chancellor since 2010, returning spending levels to the point when...

Political Capital: Super Thursday and the Queen’s Speech

Political Capital - May 13, 2021 15:00 - 35 minutes
The full Lansons PA team unpick the results from “Super Thursday” –  where local, devolved and mayoral races took place on the same day – and examine the legislative programme unveiled by the Government at the State Opening of Parliament. Sign up for the Political Capital newsletter here. Prod...

US Election Aftermath and Labour’s New Lead

Political Capital - November 13, 2020 15:00 - 27 minutes
Opinium’s Head of Political Polling, Adam Drummond, and Lansons Lead Political Consultant, James Dowling ask what happened to the US polls and what happens now. They also unpick Opinium’s UK polling on party’s and the prospect for a UK/US trade deal. Produced remotely by Lansons. Head to our R...

US Election 2020 Special

Political Capital - October 29, 2020 10:00 - 47 minutes
Opinium Head of Political Polling, Adam Drummond, and Lansons Associate Director and former Conservative Campaign Adviser, Mitchell Cohen dig into the numbers for next week’s US Election: Challenging popular myths about the race, examining the chances of each candidate and explaining how you pol...

Neck and Neck

Political Capital - October 19, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes
Recorded: 14.10.20 James Dowling and Senior Research Manager at Opinium, James Crouch, explore the company’s weekend poll which shows Labour and the Conservative Party neck and neck. We also explore attitudes towards lockdown – How are the UK population weighing up the balance between the econo...

Political Capital: Britain’s Favourite Politician

Political Capital - October 08, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes
In our pilot episode of a new fortnightly series of Political Capital Opinium’s Head of Political Polling, Adam Drummond, and Lansons Lead Political Consultant, James Dowling, consider the fortunes of Britain’s favourite politician: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak – examining his politic...

Britain’s Favourite Politician

Political Capital - October 08, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes
In our pilot episode of a new fortnightly series of Political Capital Opinium’s Head of Political Polling, Adam Drummond, and Lansons Lead Political Consultant, James Dowling, consider the fortunes of Britain’s favourite politician: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak – examining his politic...

COVID, Brexit and the recovery with David Gauke

Political Capital - April 27, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes
The judgement of history on the Government’s COVID response will come in due course and could ultimately vindicate them. The public verdict will, however, come much sooner and could nevertheless go the other way.  Former Cabinet Minister David Gauke discusses with James Dowling, Lansons lead pol...