29 November 2025

46 minutes

Available for over a year

Why did the leader of the opposition call the chancellor 'spineless' and 'shameless'?

Kemi Badenoch joins Nick in the Political Thinking studio to reflect on what lay behind the personal and political debates around Budget Day.

How can she emulate Margaret Thatcher's regeneration of the Conservative Party?

How did anger help drive her into politics?

And why do her kids wish she still worked at McDonald's?

Producer: Daniel Kraemer

Research: Chloe Desave

Editor: Jonathan Brunert

Sound: Ged Sudlow and Andrew Mills