Patrick Baker

🚨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/23v7bT…

Can a new Prime Minister really reboot a flailing government? Westminster Insider took a deep dive with @saschaosullivan 🎧 Have a listen

🚨🚨🚨Fresh Westminster Insider pod 🚨🚨🚨 all the tricks for a PM making a success of taking over. Listen here!

“Where have all the Spads gone?!” For a taste of the mayhem of life inside in Number Ten when Prime Ministers are in bunker mode. Listen to my latest pod on Westminster Insider here! open.spotify.com/episode/23v7bT…

Brilliant emergency pod on what it’s like to be in bunker mode — including a fascinating recollection by George Bridges of his chat with John Major when the game was soon up Your Saturday listen 💥💣⚔️

@rachelkennedy84 @politico Thanks for listening Rachel!

Enjoyed this @patrickxrbaker @politico The trauma is still real for bygone bunker occupants open.spotify.com/episode/23v7bT…

Great to chat to @JimDavisOnAir on @BBCRadioLondon about a crazy week in Westminster. Couldn’t resist a cheeky plug of my podcast Westminster Insider on “bunker mode” inside Number Ten, which you can listen to here! open.spotify.com/episode/23v7bT…

I went on this always entertaining podcast Westminster Insider, and Patrick let me talk about political neuroses, and Freud, and inflated Egos, and narcissism, and messy childhoods for ages, so I hope you find it as much fun as I did.

Highly convenient timing for Angela Rayner - suddenly be able to run! Going to be a big day here in Westminster. Here are my early morning thoughts with @rosemaryCNN

No 10 BUNKER MODE What's it really like inside? Piece from me and @danbloom1 on how to survive Number Ten at peak crisis from people who've been there. Full Westminster Insider podcast on SW1 bunker bedlam coming this Friday. Stay tuned! politico.eu/article/uk-kei…

Your regular reminder that Labour can't do regicides! Listen to my pod on Labour's long history of failed coups here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-h…

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. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how…

Great to speak to @BenInLDN on @cnni about the local election results!

With talk swirling of a @wesstreeting leadership challenge to @Keir_Starmer if next week’s local elex results are dire for Labour, listen to my pod which delves into the party’s less than impressive record at getting rid of their leaders! open.spotify.com/episode/1i5hYb…

Is the end nigh for the PM? Great to appear on @TimesRadio with @whippletom and @cleowatson88 discuss! (Spoiler: No one knows!)

Great to join @AnnitaBBC on @BBCNews to chat about yet another damaging day for the PM and No 10. Serious questions posed for @Keir_Starmer by the testimony of @OllyRobbins re the appointment of Peter Mandelson (which I sadly watched in its entirety!)

NEW: British ministers'/officials’ most indiscreet comments about Donald Trump will not be made public in the Mandelson Files to avoid prejudicing foreign relations Much was made of power over disclosure being handed to the ISC. But the ISC is taking broadly the same approach

Spoiler alert: it may not be fixable

Exchanges like this make you wonder whether ministerial questions couldn’t just be outsourced to ChatGPT: “Tory shadow minister Mike Wood asked Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds in the Commons earlier this year "whether No10 special advisers have auto-delete functionality turned on for (a) corporate and (b) non-corporate communication devices when discussing government business". Thomas-Symonds replied: "Corporate communications channels have auto-delete functionality enabled." And it might may well have been: as @patrickxrbaker explored in a recent “Westminster Insider” on politics and AI: politico.eu/podcast/westmi…