Gabriel Pogrund Audiobooks

Left Out, Westminster reporting from inside Labour's most turbulent years

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Who is Gabriel Pogrund?

Gabriel Pogrund is a journalist, born in the mid-1990s, and currently Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times – which is to say, one of the people whose job is to know what Westminster’s machinery is actually doing. He read geography at University College London, cut his teeth in student journalism as editor of The Tab London, wrote for the Jewish News and spent 2018 at The Washington Post as a Stern Fellow.

His reporting has drawn blood. In 2023 he broke the story of BBC chairman Richard Sharp’s failure to declare perceived conflicts of interest, a story that ended in Sharp’s resignation that April. With Patrick Maguire he has written two inside accounts of the Labour Party: Left Out, on the Corbyn years, published in 2020, and Get In, on Labour under Starmer, in 2025.

Gabriel Pogrund in audiobooks

Left Out, written with Patrick Maguire, is the Pogrund title in our catalogue: the inside story of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. Political books can date quickly, but the ones built on real access become the first draft of history, and an inside account of one of the strangest periods in modern Labour politics has obvious staying power for anyone who follows Westminster.

In audio this is commute listening of the best kind for UK politics watchers: reported narrative rather than punditry, from a journalist whose day job is prising information out of Whitehall. Listeners who get on with it have a natural follow-up in the authors’ later account of the Starmer years.