After a crushing by-election defeat last week, Keir Starmer might have been hoping for a quiet week to recalibrate. Instead, he got a new war.
In this episode, ex-deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara and former special advisor Cleo Watson reveal the reality of Number 10 on a war footing. How best to navigate the ‘Special Relationship’ with the US? What’s it like inside COBR meetings, where the ‘boys club’ mentality is primed to take over? And how the hell do you keep the country running during all of it?
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