Chopper's Political Podcast

Feb 06 2025 46 ep. 33 mins 107

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Sit back, pour yourself a drink and join GB News' Political Editor Christopher Hope at his regular table in a Westminster pub where he will discuss the latest insider political intrigue and gossip with everyone from popstars to politicians. New episodes released every Friday.
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Episode 45: Rachel Reeves ‘angering’ red wall MPs as Chancellor accused of ‘ignoring’ millions of Britons in Budget

Feb 06 2025 34 mins

This week, GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope is joined by Labour MP Jo White and Conservative MP Andrew Griffith. White tells Christopher Hope that Rachel Reeves Budget was too focussed on the south and urges Keir Starmer to appoint a red wall minister 'if and when' there is a Cabinet reshuffle.Griffith questions Labour's attitude towards trading with America and why the ha

Episode 44: EU will 'disappear' within twenty years with surprise country predicted to leave next

Jan 30 2025 47 mins

Quentin Letts has predicted that the EU will not exist in 20 years time. Speaking to Chopper's Political Podcast he said: "Twenty years time the EU, I think will have disappeared. Gone down the plughole. Down the Swanee. Adios. I think the whole thing's gonna go because I just don't see that the French and German access can continue. And without that, there's going to be no money."

Episode 43: Home Office's Prevent programme should be 'improved' not scrapped says former Security minister Tom Tugendhat

Jan 23 2025 36 mins

Home Office's Prevent programme should be "improved" not scrapped, says former Security minister Tom Tugendhat as Axel Rudakubana was jailed for 13 life terms for attacking and killing children in Southport last year.The Government has started a review of the Prevent programme after it emerged Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021, yet went on to comm

Episode 42: 'Hundreds of thousands of grooming gang victims in every town and city' says lawyer representing 60 victims

Jan 16 2025 34 mins

Keir Starmer has been urged to use Nigel Farage 'as much as he possibly can' to ensure the historic relationship between the UK and America remains.Speaking to Chopper's Political Podcast, Gerry Gunster said: "He really should be trusted by the UK. And it's really beyond me that people can't look through politics and understand that President Trump is a person who values loyalty."W

Episode 41: More than 50 towns could have rape gang victims says campaigning Tory MP Robbie Moore

Jan 09 2025 30 mins

A Conservative MP who has spent years trying to expose the rape gangs scandal says that more than 50 towns have been affected.Robbie Moore, the MP for Keighley and Ilkley, has made dozens of interventions in the Commons to try to expose the plight of young white children being groomed or raped by predominantly Pakistani men.Research based on court documents by GB News suggests that

Episode 40: Sir Keir Starmer wants to reverse Brexit 'by stealth' in 2025, Sir Geoffrey Cox

Dec 19 2024 39 mins

Sir Keir Starmer will next year try to reverse Brexit "stealthily", according to former Conservative Attorney General Sir Geoffrey Cox.Cox told today's Chopper's Political Podcast he had been worried that the Brexit he helped to negotiate when he was in the Conservative government was "under threat".He said: "I've been saying so for a very long time, that the instinct of Keir Starm

Episode 39: Nigel Farage ally drops biggest hint yet of Elon Musk donation to Reform UK

Dec 12 2024 36 mins

Elon Musk - the world's richest man - will donate some money to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, one of Farage's key allies has said.There is speculation that Musk could be about to donate after Farage appointed property billionaire Nick Candy as his party's treasurer.Asked if Musk will donate Banks told GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast: "I'm sure he will do but not to the exten

Episode 38: Starmer dodges immigration question as Farage eyes up PM's job

Dec 05 2024 59 mins

Christopher Hope hosts a mammoth episode of Chopper's Political Podcast with a lineup including lifelong Tory member turned Reform UK supporter Tim Montgomerie, a broadcast exclusive interview with ex-Labour candidate Kevin Craig, GB News' Camilla Tominey, and four Cabinet Ministers, as he takes the show on the road for the first time since the election.Sit back, pour yourself a dr

Episode 37: Tim Shipman reveals the one thing Boris Johnson got right

Nov 29 2024 31 mins

Journalist Tim Shipman joins Christopher Hope to discuss his latest book ‘Out: How Brexit Got Done and the Tories Were Undone’. He reveals the one thing he believes Boris Johnson got right during his premiership as well as retelling the now infamous story of Queen Elizabeth II's blunt assessment of the former Prime Minister.Sit back, pour yourself a drink and join GB News' Poli

Episode 36: MPs on the fence should ‘vote against’ assisted dying bill urges Tory grandee

Nov 28 2024 38 mins

A Conservative MP has warned there will be ‘no going back’ if the controversial assisted dying bill passes its second reading in Parliament.Tory grandee Bernard Jenkin went on to tell Christopher Hope that MPs still on the fence should vote against the bill. He said: “I think what I'd be inclined to say, if you're in doubt, then you probably have to vote against. Because once