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Thrilled to get a win for Politics at Sam and Anne ‘s tonight as best format at the #PoliticalPodcastAwards.
Thank you to the wise and discerning judges!
The award for Most Original Format goes to Politics at Sam and Anne’s (Politico and Sky) #PoliticalPodcastAwards
@SamCoatesSky @annemcelvoy @politico @SkyNews
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PM @BBCRadio4 just told me that “Play School is being reimagined to meet the expectations of today’s toddlers” - as if toddlers were a consumer focus group.
Also please just can we not talk in this weird-speak?
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BREAKING: Two of Ed Sheeran's US concerts at Gillette Stadium today and tomorrow have been cancelled due to "severe weather warnings".
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Really interesting that this early election yarn got going in the first place.
🔴 Most senior cab folk were all aligned against the idea.
🔴 Andy Burnham not into it because he wants to do the job w/o it hanging over him
🔴 He remembers the Gordon Brown havering as an error -and so does James Purnell
🔴 But: has he made a mistake saying that it will be exactly at a particular time? it is one prerogative of British PM has that continental leaders envy. That could’ve been phrased more flexibly.
BREAKING: Andy Burnham has pledged that he will not call a general election until one is due in 2029
He is moving to kill speculation about an early election (Bloomberg reported last Saturday that people close to Burnham had decided against it)
Burnham says re 2029: “that’s when the next election will be”
He categorically rules out an early election, including in May 2027
Asked about May 2027: “Absolutely not”
PM: “No election any time soon”
“All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead,” he says, in a series of regional interviews with the BBC and ITV this afternoon
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This was one of the most surprising revelations in an interview I did for us @politico @AxelSpringerGRN with Cardinal Czerny who was a guest at the Axel Springer AI Summit. The wider message is the Vatican is keen to get involved in pushing back against frontier models - and beefing up it’s administrative muscle against the AI titans.
It is influential with lot of Catholic lawmakers across Europe. So it’s also our lead interview on the Weekender Brussels podcast. Have a read and listen.
Pope Leo XIV’s cardinal who heads the Vatican’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence has admitted he doesn’t use AI — despite being four months into a job intended to engage the Church with the AI revolution.
By @annemcelvoy:
politico.eu/article/popes-ar…
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I have wisdom to add to Friday pm, hour of billing despair for any freelance activity.
If any organisation ever tells you, you’re going to get paid through “a portal”, it will become a year-long thing and as recursive as Finnegan’s Wake.
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What sets Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer's speeches apart?
In the latest episode of Politics At Sam And Anne's, @SamCoatesSky and @annemcelvoy look at the contrasting styles and substance of each leader's speeches.
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An intriguing approach approach from the head of a Vatican AI commission Cardinal Czerny. He tells me why he hasn’t use AI since he got the job in May. “ I haven’t had the time” – his explanation and the church’s position on artificial intelligence is our topic on the weekender Brussels playbook podcast. politico.eu/article/popes-ar…
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To rejoin some version of an EU within 10 years..
Britain should rejoin EU within 10 years, Tony Blair tells Andy Burnham independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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DARREN JONES: I WAS ASKED WHETHER I WOULD CALL FOR KEIR STARMER TO RESIGN
By @PronouncedAlva
Jones has a fascinating way of delivering sharp criticism or warnings in a casual, matter-of-fact way, as if unaware he is doing it. He says he always knew he wasn’t getting a job in Burnham’s cabinet. When he tallied up the number of people the incoming Prime Minister owed jobs to – “people who had evidently done deals, or called for Keir to resign in public or had resigned themselves, plus people he needed to bring back who had not been in the cabinet and had supported the coup… the numbers didn’t add up”. He doesn’t shy away from the idea that some of the most prominent figures in the cabinet knifed Starmer in the back in return for a job at the top table.
He reveals, still ever-so-casually, that he was asked to make a deal himself. “I was approached indirectly and asked whether I would call for Keir to resign in return for something, but I was very clear that I wasn’t going to do that.” Something being a cabinet job? “I mean, that was my interpretation of the message. But that’s just not how I conduct myself.”
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What does a mega poll portend for Andy Burnham’s path to power at the election? @SamCoatesSky has the details on “Politics at Sam and Anne’s” pod from us
@SkyNews and @politico.
Plus, how is Tony Blair’s proposal for rejoining the EU really going down in number 10 - and in Europe?
Follow the podcast daily to get ahead of the schemes, dreams and bust-ups!
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A column in which I try to convince my sceptical German colleagues that I’ve encountered the agreeable, even drily amusing side of Friedrich Merz - over a few years of encounters.
Can he show a different side of his personality now that his leadership is in crisis? (Thanks to @stephanfaris for the droll headline)
politico.eu/article/friedric…
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As well as the brilliance of this from @mattforde , I’m equally fascinated by Andy Burnham‘s tendency to use an “ironing” gesture with his right arm to speed his sentences along - and now I monitor it so much, it’s become a micro obsession
Matt Forde
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Former British leader Keir Starmer’s rhetoric on Russia was “too tough,” according to Donald Trump.
Will Andy Burnham now take a different stance toward Moscow?
🎙️ @annemcelvoy + @SamCoatesSky unpack the PM’s message on Ukraine on #PASAA 👇
politico.eu/podcast/politics…
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Der Brexit war im Vergleich zur aktuellen gefährlichen Lage in der deutschen Politik eine Nebensache.
Nach einer Woche unterwegs in einer bewegten Republik - mein Kommentar für BILD.
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Some sympathy with the President’’s confusion here- if you ever have to put your details into a drop-down menu as a Brit and don’t know what your nationality is going end up being called that day.
Trump: "You call it United Kingdom, Britain, they call it sometimes England. They go back to the old. It's got more names than any other place in the world."
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It’s an interesting way of looking at political statements: - “I just say stuff really -it depends on the moment!”
But it is also reflective of a way that a lot of political communication is going- all alliances and aversions are fungible and are written in disappearing ink.
NEW: Burnham drops the most perfect Burnham quote yet en route to NY
Asked about his slagging off of Trump, the PM came out with this GEM:
“politicians say things throughout their career, but now the important thing is to focus on the moment you are in”
His entire mantra there
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True! Partly because Germany is fascinated by what’s happened to “3rd parties” like the FDP, who can hold the balance of power when things are going more extreme And also because it was quite “unusual” as my diplomatic cohost put it.
What to make of that Ed Davey viral video. @annemcelvoy revealed it has made German TV!
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Because a lot of people have asked about next steps - here is the new story from POLITICO which gives clear context on the suit being filed along with other media organisations on restoring access to the White House for our reporters.
politico.com/news/2026/09/21…
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