The Common Sense Revolution Podcast

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1. Ep 3: David Davis on Reform's £72m, the Cameron call and the crisis that could remake the Tories

   Sep 18, 20261 hr 6 min

   Our first ever guest. David Davis has views on where Reform's mega donations came from, what Labour plans to do about it, and why the response may be a gift to Farage. He tells the story of a Friday phone call from David Cameron that shaped the 2010 coalition, delivers a verdict on Kemi Badenoch she may or may not thank him for, and explains why he's not expecting an early election. This week's recommendations: David plugs his new podcast with Guto Harri, Politics Unleashed, launching mid-October, and the magazine he reads every month that's currently scaring him. Peter recommends his own ConservativeHome piece on the Prime Ministers we nearly had [ https://conservativehome.com/2023/09/05/peter-franklin-nine-prime-ministers-we-nearly-had/ ], David among them, and how differently 2010 might have gone. And his piece for UnHerd about a Tory/Reform pact looking unlikely [ https://unherd.com/newsroom/a-tory-reform-pact-is-further-away-than-ever/ ]. Patrick has finally caught up with Ludwig, and brings news of a parliamentary inquiry into Britain's Eurovision record. He encourages you to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnoikRec67k And Gavin picks William Hague in the Times on party donations, from a man who took a few himself as leader of the opposition [ https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/pay-politics-reform-ben-delo-donations-cs99qsjss ].

2. Ep 2: Can the Conservatives replace Reform as the angry party... and should they even try?

   Sep 10, 202644 min

   Reform's conference week had everything: a pact with Marine Le Pen's party to stop the boats forever, a Channel 4 undercover investigation that cost Farage two of his most senior aides, and masked men blocking roads in Dover and Portsmouth. And underneath it all, a fact almost nobody believes. Boat numbers are falling. Patrick, Peter and Gavin, three veterans of Conservative Central Office, ask what it all means for the Conservatives. Was the Bardella signing a stunt or a genuinely clever move? Is Farage running out of time, and why does his party's vote skew so much older than the AfD's? Is Zia Yusuf the successor, and would he be a bigger problem for the Tories than Farage himself? After the balaclavas, can Kemi Badenoch reach angry voters without repelling everyone else? Plus Burnham's line at PMQs that may follow him for months, the weekly up or down verdict, and a recommendation each, from James Herriot to a rival podcast [ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/not-another-one/id1749531924 ] to a paper on AI [ https://ai-2027.com ] that Gavin can't stop thinking about.

3. Ep 1: Welcome back, Andy

   Sep 3, 202640 min

   Three former Conservative Central Office hands, Patrick Kidd, Peter Franklin and Gavin Megaw, on what the Tories are doing each week, and whether it's working. Every episode ends with a verdict: up or down. This week: the day before Andy Burnham faced Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister, Kemi Badenoch carried out her deepest reshuffle yet. Andrew Griffith is in as shadow chancellor, Tom Tugendhat back at foreign affairs, Priti Patel out and James Cleverly off to run for London mayor. Accident or ambush? And now Burnham has to work out how to handle a Labour party that broke his predecessor, with a bond market already deciding what it thinks. Plus whether Reform have peaked, the Clacton by-election, and why Peter thinks Kemi should be a bit nicer. This week's recommendations from our trio: Tom Tugendhat's Telegraph piece on Chinese electric cars [ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/09/01/rescue-europe-car-industry-made-in-china-folly-factories/ ], Rachel Morley's Church Crawling, and Nevil Shute's Trustee from the Toolroom.