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Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus to Russia where Vladimir Putin is reportedly sheltering the former Syrian dictator – for those Syrians who have defied Assad’s brutal regime for years this is a moment of celebration and hope, but also fear.

Syrian rebels launched the biggest attack in years against President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces, reigniting a bloody civil war – but with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel Gaza conflict just next door, the world appears to be on the brink.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy and guests talk about how the Ukraine-Russia war is escalating, in this episode of The Political Fourcast.

A close ally of Boris Johnson and open critic of Rishi Sunak and Kemi Badenoch, Nadine Dorries examines the current state of the Conservative Party in this week’s episode of the Political Fourcast – and she also criticises the Church of England in the wake of the John Smyth scandal.

From Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the shape of Donald Trump’s administration is becoming clearer – and it’s like nothing America has ever seen before.

Will Labour’s first budget in 14 years deliver growth and fix public services, or just hit businesses with a £40bn tax raid? Krishnan Guru-Murthy crunches the numbers with economists and politicians.

With MPs about the vote on a controversial bill to legalise assisted dying, Krishnan Guru-Murthy debates the issue with politicians on either side of the debate: Danny Kruger and Christine Jardine.

The Morgan McSweeney-Sue Gray saga, endless stories about freebies and gloomy economic forecasts ahead of Rachel Reeve’s first budget – so, how badly have Keir Starmer’s first 100 days gone and could the next 100 actually be worse? 

Can the next Conservative leader haul the party back from brink – and who should that be? Cathy Newman asks former Deputy PM Therese Coffey and former Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.

Despite warnings to keep it clean, Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly have been quietly tearing chunks out of each other as they vie to be the next Tory leader at this year’s Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.

After criticism over ‘freebies’, did Keir Starmer fire up Labour conference with his ‘change’ message? Cathy Newman asks the Leader of the Lords Angela Smith and the nursing union boss Nicola Ranger.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy and guests analyse Rachel Reeves’s speech in this episode of The Political Fourcast live from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

A damning new report, commissioned by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his health secretary Wes Streeting, has laid bare the shocking state of the NHS – crumbling buildings, outdated machines and thousands of patients unnecessarily dying because of long waits in A&E.

How can the new Labour government stop scandals like Grenfell happening again? Krishnan Guru-Murthy talks to the area’s former MP and the director of the charity investigating state-related deaths.

As Keir Starmer meets an embattled President Biden at the NATO summit, Krishnan Guru-Murthy discusses the decline of the West and the ascent of President Trump with some of the new intake of MPs.