Sunak squares up, Farage steps in

Amol and Nick look at two possible game-changers in week two of
the election campaign: Nigel Farage returning to lead Reform UK,
and Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer facing off in the first
head-to-head debate of the campaign.


They’re joined by Cleo Watson – a former deputy chief of staff to
Boris Johnson in No10 and now a novelist - and Peter Kellner,
former president of pollsters YouGov.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


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The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producers are Hatty Nash
and Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive
producer is Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from Phil
Bull.