The Rest Is Politics

Emily Maitlis of The News Agents podcast and Krishnan Guru-Murphy will present the election special. They will be joined throughout the night by a range of guests, including Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, the hosts of The Rest is Politics podcast.

Clare Balding will be crunching the numbers as the data arrives, while Cathy Newman will be reporting from the campaign headquarters for both Labour and the Conservatives. Channel 4 News’s political editor Gary Gibbon will also be present to provide analysis.

Especially in the politics genre, where the likes of Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s The Rest Is Politics and George Osbourne and Ed Balls’ Political Currency continue to hold office.

Given their respective backgrounds – maverick political high-flyers, each with their own distinctive hinterlands – theirs is a penetrating gaze.  

Campbell, a prolific journalist and writer best known as Tony Blair’s acerbic spin doctor, knows No 10 from the inside. Stewart, Secretary of State for International Development in Theresa May’s Cabinet and an early public critic of Boris Johnson, is also a best-selling author, academic and royal tutor.