🎧 The Next PM

Episode summary: As Theresa May’s premiership gets very close to the end, we talk about who and what might be coming next. Can her successor re-establish the authority she has lost? Can anyone govern in this parliament or do we need a general election? Is the age of long-serving prime ministers also coming to an end? Plus we discuss what lessons can be drawn from the recent election in Australia: what does it tell us about the politics of climate change? With Helen Thompson and Chris Brooke. Talking Points: Theresa May’s prime ministership is nearing its last week. She has no authority left. - Is it about her and her mismanagement, or has something happened to the office? - Will her successor have any more luck? (It seems unlikely) - It doesn’t seem like there was any realistic scenario in which May could have peeled off significant numbers of Labour MP’s. - But the fight over the people’s vote within Labour could have turned out differently. If the leadership had succumbed, Labour MP’s in Leave constituencies might have…