Journalist and Author.🎙️: POLITICO in London. Formerly @BBCr4today, @BBCRadio4 docs, @TimesRadio. 📖: ‘Cameron at 10’, ‘Back from the Brink’, 'Blair Unbound'
Joined March 2010
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 22
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.
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
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
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@theobertram
@NationJames
@claire_ainsley
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 22
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:
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 22
🚨🚨🚨Fresh Westminster Insider pod 🚨🚨🚨 all the tricks for a PM making a success of taking over. Listen here!
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
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 22
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 …
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 22
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: politico.eu/article/globsec-…
#GLOBSEC2026
#POLITICOTheSpeakeasy
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 22
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
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May 22
Bonjour @MichelBarnier, just after talking to @NicholasVinocur at #POLITICOTheSpeakeasy #GLOBCES2026
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 21
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. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 18
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 👏 🎙️
Shortlist announced for the inaugural @EditorsUK News Podcast Awards 2026
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 15
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 🎧 ! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 15
🚨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
open.spotify.com/episode/23v…
Starmer’s week from hell: Inside the Number 10 bunker
Westminster Insider · Episode
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 13
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
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 13
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.
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May 13
Suspect this, more than other developments in the last 24-48 hours, turned the screw…
May 13
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.
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 13
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)
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May 12
There’s the next edition of the The Long View with @Freedland
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.
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 11
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.
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Peter Snowdon retweeted
May 11
This was the mechanism which undid Tony Blair and forced a timetable for departure
Another half-dozen PPSs expected to quit tonight
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May 11
This is the key point. Silence speaks volumes.
May 11
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
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