Chatty MPs fuel podcast boom

Whether it’s online, print, radio or broadcast, it seems we can’t get enough of politics these days. And not content with traditional forms of media, an ever-expanding number of MPs are branching out into podcasts to share their thoughts with the wider world. Around half-a-dozen have launched their own shows in recent months, following in the footsteps of perhaps the most high-profile parliamentary podcaster: Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has hosted his fortnightly Moggcast show for ConservativeHome since 2018, often providing news lines which Mr S is only too keen to follow up.

The latest ambitious MP to launch such a project is the chisel-jawed Luke Evans, whose career reads like a Tory mother’s dream: a qualified GP who married a fellow doctor, he was selected for a Conservative safe seat at 36 and now lives in Bosworth happily with his two dogs, having been elected there in 2019. In Parliament he’s devoted most of his efforts to body image, with Evans calling for digitally altered body proportions to be labelled in advertising.