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The British Dream: A Hell of a Year

Join our politics podcast for a look back at a year where things got weird in Westminster.
Theresa May mid-coughing fit conference speech. Photo: Paul Warburton / Alamy Stock Photo 

It’s been a quiet year, with only one of the most surprising elections in living memory to distract us from Brexit, the Grenfell Tower fire and the Westminster sex abuse scandal, to name just a few of the year's biggest news events.

Join the British Dream as we travel back 12 months, to a completely different political landscape, where Theresa May was riding high in the polls and Jeremy Corbyn was far from being the absolute boy.