Peter Snowdon

Journalist and Author.🎙️: POLITICO in London. Formerly @BBCr4today, @BBCRadio4 docs, @TimesRadio. 📖: ‘Cameron at 10’, ‘Back from the Brink’, 'Blair Unbound'

[Esther Webber @estwebber]

EXCL:

Morgan McSweeney is doubling down on his pivot to security as he shows up in Prague to warn about disinformation.

Allies say he is conscious of the potential for AI to ramp up in British elections, with trust already low and the Reform Party on the march.

[Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan]

NEW EP 🎙️ How to replace a Prime Minister — and get away with it. Any leadership hopeful’s dummy guide to ruling no10 when the odds are against you

@Dannythefink
@theobertram
@NationJames
@claire_ainsley

Link below ⬇️

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

How to replace a U.K. PM and get away with it?

🎙️ As Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting jostle for influence within Labour, @saschaosullivan looks at what it takes to turn around a party’s fortunes mid-term.

🎧 Listen to this week’s Westminster Insider:
https://t.co/RWzMKDKkCz

[Patrick Baker @patrickxrbaker]

🚨🚨🚨Fresh Westminster Insider pod 🚨🚨🚨 all the tricks for a PM making a success of taking over. Listen here!

[anne mcelvoy @annemcelvoy]

Obv do a ton of work and great interviews here at #GlobSec Prague security and defence meeting. Check out the live stream and interviews by me, @zoyashef and brilliant Politico colleagues.
However, it cannot be denied that we also do a decent commingle #POLITICO Speakeasy …

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

The EU should consider “a new governance for external policy and defense,” @MichelBarnier told us.

The need comes from “looking at what happened around us with China, Russia and the U.S.”

📹 Watch the full interview: https://t.co/NBdEnMzGRy

#GLOBSEC2026
#POLITICOTheSpeakeasy

[anne mcelvoy @annemcelvoy]

The Week Ender listen from Brussels Playbook comes with two interviews I did , examiningdifferent ends of Europe on their relations with Ukraine/Russia. Serbian parliament speaker @anabrnabic on why her country keeps ties to 🇷🇺 / and Jaane Kuusela , Finland’s top defence official, on why it chose NATO over dealings with Moscow. Good sense of the many choices facing Europe
Recorded at #Globsec #POLITICOSPeakeasy Producer @PASnowdon

[Peter Snowdon @PASnowdon]

Bonjour @MichelBarnier, just after talking to @NicholasVinocur at #POLITICOTheSpeakeasy #GLOBCES2026

[anne mcelvoy @annemcelvoy]

A thrill to join Canada playbook podcast- and talk about my interview with @cafreeland - whom I’ve known since the dizzying post communist years in Kyiv. My podcast debut with @TaylorVaisey & @MickeyDjuric. Great pod in general to catch up on Canada devs. https://t.co/kV56jXlyTP

[Evan Hall @JournoEvHall]

Great to see Politics @SamCoatesSky and @annemcelvoy nominated within the inaugural set of News Podcast Awards @EditorsUK

Hats off as well to partner podcasts - Electoral Dysfunction and The Wargame - for picking up nominations too 👏 🎙️

[anne mcelvoy @annemcelvoy]

So excited to be hosting the first episode of new Week Ender interview pod from @Politico Brussels Playbook.: We will talk to guests shaping the future of Europe. Ex- US nat sec advisor. @AmbJohnBolton & former 🇨🇦 dep PM@Cafreeland joined me. Have a 🎧 ! https://t.co/RUuDNRE7dP

[Patrick Baker @patrickxrbaker]

🚨NO10 BUNKER MODE POD!🚨

“Complete panic”, mad comms, ministers roving around uninvited.

What’s it like inside in No10 in weeks like this?

ExNo10 insiders @RossKempsell @RobertMidgley07 @BeatriceTimpson reveal all+ @LucyBeresford on a PM’s psyche

https://t.co/FPac4JaJiT

[Dan Bloom @danbloom1]

How to cling to power, by 4 people who've been there before

Rule 1: Brief like hell. “I rang Chris Mason and told him [Johnson] had fired Gove because he was snake and treacherous,” says Guto Harri

https://t.co/nc6gOoT91R

[Mark Mason @WalkTheLinesLDN]

Politicians get to discover what actors already know - when all you've got to do is walk, it becomes the hardest thing in the world.

https://t.co/1ugLMgE9R2

[Peter Snowdon @PASnowdon]

Suspect this, more than other developments in the last 24-48 hours, turned the screw…

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Extraordinary and unprecedented joint statement from the 11 affiliated Labour trade unions (main party funders) saying “it is clear” that Keir Starmer won’t lead Labour into the next election.

[Tom Chidwick @TomChidwick]

It looks like Streeting's meeting with the PM went as well as Margaret Thatcher's visit to Ted Heath's house after the Tory leadership contest in 1975.

After 5 minutes, in which Heath refused to give her any advice or join the Shadow Cabinet, Thatcher spent 10 minutes ... (1/2)

[Peter Snowdon @PASnowdon]

There’s the next edition of the The Long View with @Freedland

[Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @ChountisFabbri]

Newcastle - 4 years, 11 months
Bute - 11 months
Grenville - 2 years, 3 months
Rockingham - 1 year
Chatham - 2 years, 3 months
Grafton - 1 year, 3 months
Then North for twelve years.

Seven ministries in eight years (1762-1770) averaging a PM every year years.

[Patrick Baker @patrickxrbaker]

Sometimes it is not possible to survive the morning round. Tomorrow morning will be one of those mornings. Whichever minister is asked, please listen to my podcast on the subject, though it will not help you. All the best.
https://t.co/pvneBGc9QK

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

This was the mechanism which undid Tony Blair and forced a timetable for departure

[Peter Snowdon @PASnowdon]

This is the key point. Silence speaks volumes.

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

The herd is moving but even more striking than the growing number of backbenchers & PPS’s calling publicly for Starmer to go is the silence of so much of the Cabinet