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Is MAGA starting to question Trump over the Strait of Hormuz? | The News Agents
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- Is MAGA starting to question Trump over the Strait of Hormuz? | The News Agents
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- 2:59
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- 6 months ago
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- “The number of people who die in these circumstances, it defies logic” says Patrick Radden Keefe.
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- 2:41
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- 6 months ago
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- Is Trump allowed to run for a third term? | The News Agents
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- 2:21
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- 6 months ago
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- Does Donald Trump remember who started the war in Iran? | The News Agents
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- 31:31
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- 6 months ago
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- Donald Trump launched "Project Freedom" over the bank holiday weekend - a "humanitarian gesture", aimed at guaranteeing the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz still stubbornly being controlled by Iran.
The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced today a "red white and blue dome" over the area as he insisted that the US holds all the cards in the conflict.
There's just one problem: nobody seems to be buying it. Ships aren't moving through the Strait in any real volume, and there were fresh attacks from both sides over the weekend despite a ceasefire. Has Trump forgotten who started this war? And have other world leaders stopped listening to him?
Later, has Zac Polanski peaked too soon ahead of the local elections on Thursday? One poll shows his approval ratings plummeting over the last week - why?
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- Emily and Jon react to Reform’s policy prioritising migrant detention centres in Green seats.
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- 2:54
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- 6 months ago
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- Why has Nigel Farage taken £5m from a crypto billionaire? | The News Agents
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- 40:05
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- 6 months ago
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- In the last weeks, the funding of the Reform party has attracted more and more attention. This is a party which tells us they are heading to Downing street, a party tipped to the top the poll in next week’s English local elections.
We now know that Nigel Farage’s party has been given over £12m from a single donor, a Thai based British businessman, crypto billionaire, Christopher Harborne. And we also now know that just before Nigel Farage was elected an MP in 2024, Mr Harborne gave Farage a gift of £5m, never before declared.
How could it be that Reform, a party we are told which is preparing to be government, is so dependent on a Thai based crypto billionaire? What does it say about the way we fund politics? And politics to come?
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- How Trump's failed war in Iran screwed Britain | The News Agents
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- 38:43
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- 6 months ago
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- The Bank of England Monetary Policy Report might sound like a dry and dusty economic report - and often it is - but today's made for truly shocking reading for Britain.
Its analysis shows living standards are already falling and, as a result of Trump's war in Iran, inflation could go above 6%, and as many as six rises in interest rates might be needed by the end of this year. That would mean rocketing mortgages, eye-watering increases in food prices, and job layoffs with the UK economy stunned by the fallout from Trump's war with Iran. Is there any sense of a way out of this mess from the White House? Or is
Trump happy to sink the global economy if it increases his chances of pummelling the regime in Tehran into submission?
Later - 40 days until the world's most prohibitively expensive World Cup kicks off. Is America actually trying to keep people away?
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- “You have a US defence secretary bragging he told soldiers to commit a war crime” | The News Agents
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- 1:46
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- 6 months ago
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- “They are easy words to say - it’s harder to translate what it means.” | The News Agents
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- 2:15
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- 6 months ago
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- Fiona Hill on whether Trump's a Russian asset | The News Agents
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- 3:00
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- 6 months ago
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- Has antisemitism become a national emergency? | The News Agents
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- 46:08
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- 6 months ago
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- Two men stabbed in broad daylight in Golders Green this morning became the latest victims of what Kemi Badenoch has called a national emergency of antisemitism. The last month has seen multiple attacks on the Jewish community of North London. Is this an orchestrated attack underwritten by Iran? Or is it further proof of the escalation of antisemitism in our country since the war in Gaza and Israel?
Later, has the King nailed it in Washington? Or did that fine speech change absolutely nothing?
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- Is Trump a Russian asset? Fiona Hill on the President she worked for | The News Agents
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- 44:50
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- 6 months ago
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- Fiona Hill served in Donald Trump's first administration and is one of the most authoritative voices on geopolitics. She advised on his Russia strategy and matters of national intelligence - before becoming a witness in his impeachment in 2019.
She has worked up close and personal with the President. And, as the war in Iran rages, and Putin continues to try and chisel Trump away from Europe's position on Ukraine, she came into the News Agents studio to try and make sense of the new age of international turmoil ushered in by Trump's second term.
What does she understand about the Putin-Trump relationship? Is the President compromised? Is Trump a fundamentally different man now compared to his first term? And is he backsliding America into territory similar to Russia?
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- Are you feeling 'jollier' having watched the King’s Congress speech? | The News Agents
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- 1:56
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- 6 months ago
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- After the Golders Green stabbings, Sarah Sackman pushes back on Zack Polanski.
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- 1:23
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- 6 months ago
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- America isn’t buying Melania’s outrage over Jimmy Kimmel's gag | The News Agents
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- 2:18
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- 6 months ago
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- Will Starmer's body count prove FATAL for his premiership? | The News Agents
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- 47:29
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- 6 months ago
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- Morgan McSweeney was called before MPs to explain HIS version of how Mandelson was hired: was he just finding a great job for a mate? Why hadn’t he responded to all the red flag warnings? Was due process really followed? And had he put Starmer in a position where the PM wasn’t told the whole truth?
Later, Tom Baldwin - Starmer’s friend and biographer- on how, and whether, the PM can survive, and whether the high body count of sacked staff speaks to a wider malaise in his Downing Street.
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- Was Mandelson able to "reassert himself at the heart of Starmer’s government”? | The News Agents
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- 2:42
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- 6 months ago
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- Should MPs be banned from drinking on the job? | The News Agents
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- 2:42
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- 6 months ago
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- Should we really be surprised by the attempted shooting of Trump? | The News Agents
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- 2:11
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- 6 months ago
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- “Charles waved the flag of acceptability and Trump’s got away with it again | The News Agents
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- 2:36
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- 6 months ago
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- What will the King's visit really achieve with Trump? | The News Agents
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- 38:44
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- 6 months ago
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- Trump has praised King Charles for pressing on with his US state visit in the wake of Saturday night's shooting, calling him ‘brave’. The President’s comments have thrust the King back into the diplomatic spotlight.
With tensions between the UK and the US compounding, it seems that Keir Starmer has deployed the King as a literal trump card. So can the King make any difference for the ‘special relationship’?
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- “We’ve stopped believing our own eyes” | The News Agents
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- 2:39
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- 6 months ago
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- ”Protection officers see people do immoral things, but they’re not moral police” | The News Agents
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- 2:13
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- 7 months ago
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- How liberals lost the fight | The News Agents
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- 58:57
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- 7 months ago
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- In a world of increasing extremes, Liberalism itself has come to be an insult. From 'metropolitan liberal elites' to 'bleeding heart liberals' the liberal establishment seems bewildered and fresh out of devoid of new ideas in the face of populist extremes. Labour, Tories, Liberal Democrats – all now struggling to hold their own against Reform UK and The Green Party, both of which have taken populism from opposite ends of the spectrum to the heart of British politics.
This week, Lewis is joined by Adrian Wooldridge to discuss the complexities of the liberal argument in a fractured world, and what a renewed liberalism might look like.
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- Is the world’s greatest liberal country now against liberalism? | The News Agents
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- 2:26
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- 7 months ago
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- Are the Democrats ready to fight dirty? | The News Agents
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- 2:43
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- 7 months ago
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- “We should have a pluralist approach to cultures” | The News Agents
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- 2:43
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- 7 months ago
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- The Democrats are finally fighting dirty - will it be enough to win vs Trump? | The News Agents USA
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- 32:11
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- 7 months ago
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- Voters in Virginia have approved changes to their electoral map which essentially makes it easier for Democrats to win. Republicans argue they’ve been disenfranchised - and they’re right: It’s ugly. It’s unfair. But it’s not illegal.
What’s more, they've already done the same thing in the red state of Texas.
So are democrats finally learning how to play dirty? Is it enough to win? And are they prepared to go low as a response to Trump - even if it creates a moral vacuum and erodes democracy in the 250th anniversary year of the republic.
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- Has the cabinet given up on Keir Starmer? | The News Agents
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- 39:29
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- 7 months ago
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- Is Keir Starmer a passenger and not a driver in his own government? At the end of a week of crisis management - with a sacked official spilling the beans on the grubby business of the Mandelson appointment - the charge against the Prime Minister that's really stuck is that somehow he’s never in control of anything within his own government.
Can Starmer weather this out? Or are his cabinet colleagues just playing a waiting game until after the local elections two weeks today? We talk to Sam Coates from Sky News who’s had his ear to the ground.
Later - what did royal protection officers around Prince Andrew actually see? Is it possible they guarded Andrew whilst he was with Epstein without asking any questions? The Crime Agents' Andy Hughes has an exclusive interview.
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- “Starmer can be warm and chatty - but there’s a limit”
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- 1:48
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- 7 months ago
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- “Starmer said ‘trust me, I’ll clean up politics’. That’s the disappointing thing!” | The News Agents
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- 2:12
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- 7 months ago
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- Has Starmer become the problem he promised to fix? | The News Agents
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- 31:58
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- 7 months ago
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- Keir Starmer came to power promising to clean up politics and end the games at the top of Westminster. Yet this week has brought another sacking, linked to the handling of Peter Mandelson’s appointment, alongside reports of efforts to secure an ambassadorial role for the Prime Minister’s former communications chief, Matthew Doyle.
As more details emerge, the picture looks increasingly complicated. So is Starmer creating the very problem he wanted to eradicate? And can he keep putting the blame on everyone else?
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- Has Trump lost all control of what’s happening in Iran?
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- 1:52
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- 7 months ago
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- How does Keir Starmer recover from the Olly Robbins bombshell? | The News Agents
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- 43:32
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- 7 months ago
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- Olly Robbins - the foreign office top civil servant fired by Keir Starmer on Thursday - gave his version of events today. He described an atmosphere of immense pressure over the Peter Mandelson appointment and suggested Downing Street weren’t that interested in the vetting process at all.
Was he bullied into giving Mandelson the job? Was Starmer right to sack Robbins? And why was he hunting for another ambassadorial role for another friend of another paedophile? It’s all getting silly.
We talk to the chair of the committee Emily Thornberry about what she just heard.
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- Was Olly Robbins bullied into giving Peter Mandelson the job? | The News Agents
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- 1:58
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- 7 months ago
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- Will Keir Starmer’s decision to fire Olly Robbins backfire?
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- 2:20
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- 7 months ago
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- Starmer was told to vet Mandelson first. So why didn’t he? | The News Agents
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- 34:50
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- 7 months ago
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- Keir Starmer is still pleading his case before MPs. Should he have been told about the failed Mandelson vetting by Olly Robbins? Should he have asked? Who’s fault was it really that he didn’t find out until last Tuesday. And why, critically, did he ignore a letter of advice from then cabinet secretary Simon Case explicitly telling him to vet Mandelson BEFORE appointing him. We still have no clear answer…
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- “Boris Johnson used to call Starmer ‘The Lawyer’… and it was NOT a compliment” | The News Agents
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- 1:33
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- 7 months ago
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- Civil servants are SEETHING after "slippery" Starmer threw Robbins under the bus | The News Agents
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- 2:41
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- 7 months ago
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- Will anyone from the Republican Party find the backbone to attempt to oust Trump? | The News Agents
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- 2:19
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- 7 months ago
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- “Olly Robbins knows exactly what happened.” | The News Agents
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- 2:46
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- 7 months ago
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- Did Keir Starmer “lie, lie and lie again" over Mandelson? | The News Agents
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- 36:49
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- 7 months ago
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- That's the charge from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who has called on the Prime Minister to resign today.
The Guardian reported last night that Starmer appointed Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to Washington even though he had failed government security vetting. The PM has said today he is "absolutely furious" he was not told about this - and has sacked Olly Robbins, the top civil servant at the Foreign Office.
Starmer had previously insisted that “full due process” was followed in the appointment, and that Mandelson had cleared the vetting. Could it really be the case that Starmer was never alerted to the vetting issues? And if he was never told - should it have been his job to know? Why does he keep coming across as a passenger, rather than the driver, of government?
And does the latest revelation in the Mandelson affair put the PM in fresh peril - just as it looked like the leadership speculation was beginning to dim?
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- Mandelson failed security vetting. Starmer, once again, says he had no idea | The News Agents
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- 2:39
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- 7 months ago
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- Has Trump lost control of his own party? | The News Agents USA
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- 33:40
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- 7 months ago
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- Besides Trump's threat to eliminate Iran, something else remarkable happened this week. A string of Republican Congressmen finally found the courage in themselves to come forward and criticise that threat.
Trump's actions in the Middle East are a disaster for his colleagues. Gas prices are up, the affordability agenda is in tatters, and America looks on course for a humiliating military defeat to an old adversary. Is this the catalyst for widespread rebellion in the Republican party?
Jon speaks to Marc Short, Trump's director of legislative affairs, about what happens now in Iran - and to the Republican's in the midterms later this year.
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- Did the Pope just call Trump a tyrant? | The News Agents
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- 32:15
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- 7 months ago
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- The Pope didn’t mention Trump by name. But speaking to a large congregation on his trip to Cameroon he warned that the world was being "ravaged by tyrants". Has he upped the ante in his war with the president? And as a man of God is he allowed to warn about unjust war - or is that a political intervention? And is this a beed Trump can't win? JD Vance has conveniently told him to stop pontificating on theology too.
Later - three weeks out from the May elections is Reform on the wane? Is Plaid on the march in Wales? And is Starmer experiencing an 'Iran bounce'? We’re with More in Common's Luke Tryl.
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- “He would have got away with it if it hadn’t been for all those people who have seen Pulp Fiction”
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- 2:15
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- 7 months ago
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- Is it any surprise the Pope felt the need to speak up?
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- 2:15
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- 7 months ago
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- Does the end of Orbán’s 16-year premiership also mark the end of ‘illiberal democracy’ in Europe?
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- 2:38
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- 7 months ago
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- Hungary's Magyar tells the country's president to step down immediately | The News Agents
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- 2:10
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- 7 months ago
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- Social media ban for kids: Why is Starmer stalling? | The News Agents
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- 34:39
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- 7 months ago
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- MPs are voting again on a social media ban for U16s today - but the government has only committed to a consultation on the move so as it stands it's unlikely to become law. The clamour for the move is growing, and public opinion is strongly in favour of restricting social media use to adults only. So why is Keir Starmer dragging his feet and losing any capital he could gain from moving on it? Would a ban even work? And what impact is big tech having on our teenagers and children?
Later, after his historic ousting of Viktor Orban, Peter Magyar has wasted no time in trying to deconstruct his populist hold on the country. He's lashed out at state TV channels who'd banned him from their networks in opposition - and visited the country's president, telling him he was unfit to serve. Will his attempts to start a new chapter in Hungary work?
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