The News Agents
How the Epstein files have turned MAGA against Trump
- Title
- How the Epstein files have turned MAGA against Trump
- Runtime
- 32:27
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump's cheerleaders and media outriders are apoplectic with his administration. After months of anticipation that the attorney general Pam Bondi would release an Epstein 'client list' - the names of wealthy individuals that the disgraced paedophile billionaire had blackmailed for influence - a joint DOJ and FBI memo this week dismissed the idea that any such list even existed.
Not normally shy to answer questions, the President appeared apoplectic too, with a journalist who asked about his handling of the Epstein affair - all lending to the feeling that Trump is reeling from the wave of anger coming his way from him own base. How has a conspiracy become the breaking point between Trump and his cheerleaders? We discuss with Anna Merlan, senior reporter at Mother Jones and author of 'Republic of Lies'.
Later, as armed officers swept through a park in LA in scenes that have been described as "disgraceful" and "dystopian" - is ICE now acting like a lawles...
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- The test that will define Keir Starmer
- Runtime
- 43:40
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- It would be an exaggeration to say the vultures are already circling the wagon - but there are already conversations taking place about Keir Starmer's future. Bloomberg and Sky have both reported that sources in Labour are already contemplating the prospect of a move against the PM next May after the local elections.
Absolutely crucial to those results will be Wales. Labour has never been out of power since devolution in Wales - more than a quarter of a century ago. But if polling is to be believed, that could. all be about to change. Reform and Plaid Cymru, the Welsh independents, both appear to be edging ahead of Labour. And if that happens it could be a huge problem - both an existential challenge for Welsh Labour, and possibly for the PM himself.
The stakes couldn't be much higher. And with that in mind, Lewis sat down with Eluned Morgan, the First Minister of Wales. In a wide-ranging interview, she talks frankly about her relationship with Keir Starmer, ...
- Title
- Why does Gregg Wallace believe he’s the real victim?
- Runtime
- 31:06
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Gregg Wallace’s friends have been telling newspapers that his "autistic hypersensitivity" meant that he had an “oddity of filters and boundaries", including an inability to wear underwear or any tight clothing. Gregg himself has complained that the BBC neglected its duty of care to him and his recently diagnosed autism. Fifty more people have come forward this week to complain to the BBC about his alleged over-sexualised behaviour on Masterchef. Does Gregg Wallace believe he’s the real victim here? Why is he selling wellness consultation? And why did those around him who saw what he was doing not stop him?
Later, is Iran a threat to Britain on UK soil? How should the government respond to Iran - as diplomatic state or terrorist organisation?
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- Title
- Gregg Wallace BACKLASH for blaming behaviour on autism
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Title
- “You can’t have SNATCH squads pulling people off the streets?”
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Emily and Jon ask Musk's Grok WTF happened last night...
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- #Podcast #UKPodcast #PoliticsPodcast #News #Politics #NewsAgents #EmilyMaitlis #JonSopel #LewisGoodall
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- Title
- Why has Elon Musk's AI chatbot started imitating Hitler?
- Runtime
- 40:21
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Last night on X, Elon Musk's AI chatbot - Grok - started imitating Hitler in its responses to user questions. Was this intentional? Did Musk really command his AI tool to spew out anti-semitic takes? And will this lead to any sort of regulation over AI?
Later, we discuss the upcoming doctors strike. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned resident doctors the public "won't forgive" them, and despite a pay rise of 29% over the last three years they will still walk out at the end of the month.
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- Title
- Would a wealth tax save Rachel Reeves?
- Runtime
- 45:38
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The government has studiously avoided ruling out a wealth tax this week. Minister after minister has refused to knock down the suggestion, despite the Chancellor having dismissed the idea as recently as April. So what's changed? Could a levy on wealthy individuals be on the cards for October's budget? Would it even raise any money - or is Rachel Reeves in danger of scaring wealth creators out of Britain? We speak to the incoming director of the IFS, Helen Miller.
And later, why the failure to produce an 'Epstein client list' is sending MAGA crazy - and why bad bosses who try and gag their employees are due a reckoning.
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- Title
- Does the government want to sack the BBC boss?
- Runtime
- 56:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Labour used to be the party that leapt to the defence of the BBC. So why was the Culture Secretary this weekend calling for heads to roll, saying she was "exasperated" at the broadcaster, and refusing to express confidence its director general Tim Davie?
The BBC has admitted to failings in its Glastonbury coverage, which saw it stream one act chanting "death to the IDF" - despite the corporation later admitting it had deemed them "high risk" before the festival. But those admissions don't appear to have satisfied the government. Is Labour falling out of love with the BBC? And should the BBC be worried? Jon and Emily discuss with Sir Craig Oliver, former BBC News editor turned Downing Street director of politics and communications.
Later, on the twentieth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, which killed 52 people, injured more than 700, and led to the largest criminal investigation in British history - have we learnt the lessons from the tragedy? Yasmin Khan, a h...
- Title
- Will Trump's big beautiful bill bankrupt America?
- Runtime
- 19:26
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Trump squeaked his spending bill through the Senate last night with the casting vote of his VP. Three Senators voted against it. Many more had threatened to vote against it but were either won round or scared into it.
Elon Musk says it will bankrupt America and wants to take the political fight to any vulnerable Senator who disagrees. Would he really start his own political party?
And who would Republicans fear more if so - Trump or Musk?
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- Is Labour’s biggest threat from the left or right? #uk #news #politics #labour #reform #farage
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- #Podcast #UKPodcast #PoliticsPodcast #News #Politics #NewsAgents #EmilyMaitlis #JonSopel #LewisGoodall
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- Title
- Live Q&A: One year of Keir Starmer
- Runtime
- 49:19
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Twelve months ago, the Conservatives suffered the worst general election result in their near 200 year history and Keir Starmer took up the mantle at Downing Street. It's been turbulent - from riots sweeping the UK, to party divisions and economic uncertainty.
This Friday, Jon and Lewis answer your questions about the Prime Minister's first year in office and look back on how his government is doing.
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Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – three of the UK’s top journalists – host a daily news podcast: The News Agents.
They’re not just here to tell you what's happening, but why. Expect astute analysis and explanation of the day's news – and a healthy dose of scepticism and the abili...
- Title
- Is Rachel Reeves now unsackable?
- Runtime
- 35:27
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Keir Starmer did a round of interviews this morning in a show of support for his Chancellor. And the reason was clear. After she cried in the Commons chamber yesterday the bond markets started to panic.
If Rachel Reeves leaves the government, so the theory goes, her fiscal rules, her commitment to economic discipline, could be revisited. So after a bumpy week - for both Reeves and the government - has she proved to be unsackable?
And if it is the same Rachel Reeves who is to blame for some of the policy blunders made in the first twelve months of Keir Starmer's premiership - is that a problem?
We speak to Wes Streeting about that, as well as if he'd ever be tempted to take Ozempic...
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- Title
- Why BOTH sides want a progressive to win!
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Why was Rachel Reeves crying at PMQs?
- Runtime
- 37:24
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- There is much we still don’t know or understand about today. Was Rachel Reeves upset by an altercation with the Speaker? Was the issue something more personal? Was she exhausted after the fruitless and demoralising failure of her welfare reform bill? But the sight of the Chancellor at lunch time today fighting back tears at the PM's side was pretty surreal. She looked wounded, fragile and hurt - and inevitably, it’s started speculation she does not have the Prime Minister's full confidence.
The markets are queasy - reflecting a panic that the government is looking less stable. Could the PM be about to sack his own Chancellor? And - how does he reassert his authority for the job he needs to do if the Labour MPs are now directing policy?
We talk to Keir’s former chief of staff Sam White.
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- Broken NHS or “losing Englishness”
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
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- Donald Trump threatens to deport Elon Musk
- Runtime
- 40:37
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- After a lull in the Bro Wars - the sequel. This time Trump is threatening not only to remove Musk's government subsidies but even have him deported. Why? It all goes back to Musk's criticism of Trump's massive spending bill - which gives the wealthy tax cuts and removes Medicaid for 17 million Americans - and would add 3 trillion dollars to America's ballooning deficit. Could Musk start his own party? Will he really prove a political force against Trump? Which speaks louder in America - wealth or executive office?
Later, how shit is Britain? Should we accept the declinist narrative of the country being broken? Or is it being exploited by creepy xenophobes? We speak to Labour MP and former pollster Chris Curtis.
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- Title
- Farage could be LEADER if gov’t don’t fix things
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Does anyone know what the Starmer plan is?
- Runtime
- 47:19
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Tomorrow, Labour MPs will be asked to vote on the rejigged welfare reform bill. Senior Labour politicians Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham still don’t think it’s worth the paper it’s written on. But the whole debacle has thrown up a bigger question about Starmer's leadership and authority. Does anyone really understand what’s in the PM's mind or what he is trying to achieve? We speak to the Starmer whisperer, Tom Baldwin.
Later, Glastonbury, Bob Vylan and the BBC. And how has Wimbledon now become a symbol of Britain's decline?
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- Title
- Is This How You BEAT Trump?!
- Runtime
- 20:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Zohran Mamdani is just 33 years old. His victory over (tarnished) Democrat royalty Andrew Cuomo for the New York mayoral primaries is exciting a lot of younger folk. Is his pitch a potential blueprint for how democrats start to win again? Or was he just running against a terrible candidate?
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- Title
- How to Catch a TERRORIST!
- Runtime
- 41:29
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- This Friday, Lewis is joined in the studio by the newest members of the 'agents' family. Neil Basu is former head of Counter Terrorism Policing and Andy Hughes is an investigative journalist who's been covering crime for two decades.
They look back on 2017, a year which the UK experienced a series of devastating terrorist attacks, to talk about what it takes to catch a terrorist, and why some slip through the net.
You can listen to The Crime Agents here: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42L4DG/
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- Title
- Could Starmer’s Welfare Gamble Put Him ON HIS BIKE?!
- Runtime
- 36:52
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Remember how there was going to be no row back and no change to the government welfare reform bill? Well, now it seems there might be...
Starmer's team are talking about the importance of “conversations with colleagues“ after an amendment signed by 120 Labour MPs showed them how easily they could lose a major vote on Tuesday. Those conversations are code - as is “listening mode“. Are we about to see a climb down? A change of policy? Or watch the whole bill disappear?
We talk to Douglas Alexander about the direction of the bill, the party and our trade deal with Trump.
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- Title
- How Trump Became NATO's "DADDY"
- Runtime
- 37:44
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- At the NATO summit in The Hague, world leaders are doing everything they can to keep President Trump onside — and it’s working. After days of flattery and pledges to boost defence spending, Trump has reaffirmed the US commitment to NATO. No outbursts this time — just a president being treated like the bloc’s indispensable "daddy".
But behind the unity, there’s hesitation. Why are NATO leaders so reluctant to call out Russian aggression? Are they being strategic — or just scared? Emily speaks to Estonia’s defence secretary and historian Peter Frankopan to find out.
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- Trump: Israel and Iran "Don't Know WHAT THE F*CK They're Doing"
- Runtime
- 34:17
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- We’re at the NATO summit in The Hague, where European leaders were hoping to focus on defence spending and Ukraine.
But Donald Trump had other ideas — swearing on the White House lawn and claiming Israel and Iran “don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing,” despite insisting a ceasefire is in place.
Is Trump really in control? Or is the chaos exposing how little influence he has on the world stage?
Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall unpack the fallout.
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- Title
- Iran and Israel ceasefire already OVER?
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Does Trump want to TOPPLE Iran’s government?
- Runtime
- 46:34
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Has Trump now decided he would like to topple Iran’s leadership? He’s let his cabinet tell the world that the only game here was to stop Iran becoming nuclear competent.
Yet, overnight his motivation seems to have changed. Does this change the whole scenario and make an end game much harder? And what kind of conversations is Starmer now having with his inner circle about whether these strikes on Tehran are even legal?
Later, the complicated response of Iranian people as their cities are being bombed. Do they welcome the chance to see the regime fall. Or will they rally to the flag?
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- Title
- A FAR bigger danger than human immigrants? Digital immigrants
- Runtime
- 29:37
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- On this episode we’re joined by author of 'Sapiens' and 'Nexus' - Yuval Noah Harari - to talk all things politics, from Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine to United States and Donald Trump, and even all the way to the AI revolution.
#yuvalnoahharari #uspolitics #israelpalestineconflict #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #israelprimeminister #potus #donaldtrump #whitehouse #ukrainewar #russia #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelensky #ai #Podcast #UKPodcast #PoliticsPodcast #News #Politics #NewsAgents #EmilyMaitlis #JonSopel #LewisGoodall
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- Title
- Will the gov't survive under Trump?!
- Runtime
- 26:40
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Who is Government, joins Emily in the studio to talk about whether Americans have fallen out of love with their government, and what happens when you dismantle it.
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- Title
- Farage the pub bore and Israeli REGRET?
- Runtime
- 37:17
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Chris Patten has done it all. Conservative cabinet minister under Thatcher and Major, our last Governor of British Hong Kong, then back home overseeing policing reform in Northern Ireland, EU Commissioner in Brussels, Chairman of the BBC, Chancellor of Oxford University, you name it, Patten has more chance than anybody of having done it. But his sort of Tory Party is one which increasingly feels consigned to history. What does it mean for Britain’s future if there are no successors to the sort of politics he embodied?
Now in his 80th year, Lewis went to Patten’s salubrious Barnes home, to discuss a remarkable career in national and international politics. He talks the future of China, the Iran conflict, Starmer’s handling of Trump and how Farage is Britain’s biggest pub bore.
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- Title
- “It’s not anti-Semitic to criticise the treatment of Palestinians” says Lord Chris Patten.
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- “The Massive Ordnance Bomb sounds more like sex toy”
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Will Britain go to WAR with Iran?
- Runtime
- 41:22
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Sir Keir Starmer has put his cabinet on alert for a possible US attack on Iran.
Just 24 hours after insisting Donald Trump had given no indication he was about to “get involved” in the conflict between Israel and Iran, the Prime Minister called a COBRA meeting to review how Britain might respond to a major escalation. Would Starmer be able to say no to Trump? What might Trump ask us to do? And how did we get here in under a week?
Later, we are joined by the Hungarian deputy foreign minister to discuss their welcome of Netanyahu, NATO, Ukraine and whether Hungarians are falling out of love with Viktor Orban.
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- Title
- “There’s a FAR bigger danger than human immigrants”
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Is Iran really making a NUCLEAR BOMB?
- Runtime
- 31:19
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The speed of the escalation between Iran, Israel, and the US has been staggering. Trump is flirting with entering a war he doesn’t want, with an enemy he may not be able to control. At the heart of this conflict are questions over Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons. Netanyahu believes it’s an imminent threat. Trump’s own administration didn’t believe this back in March.
So what’s actually changed? And is Iran actually nuclear-ready? We discuss with Iranian analyst and former state department advisor Vali Nasr.
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- Title
- Netanyahu’s first warning came in 1995.
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Writer of The Big Short: What Dems could attack Trump with
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- “I wish it was a different response”
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
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- Why are politicians WEAPONISING grooming gang survivors?
- Runtime
- 36:34
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Louise Casey's report on grooming gangs is incredibly tough reading. She details, over 200 pages, the repeated failings of local authorities, police forces, government departments and indeed the legal system, which treats the victims of the most horrific abuse as somehow culpable.
She was tasked to look into the issue following a clamour for a national inquiry earlier this year. Bundled up in those calls - propelled by Elon Musk - was the claim that Pakistani men were responsible for the vast majority of "group-based" child sexual exploitation offences. Baroness Casey has looked at that claim. She has found a comprehensive failure of adequate data gathering, although from the records of three police forces says there is an "over-representation" of Asian and Pakistani men. She is concerned about the politicisation of the debate, the risks of racists hijacking the issue, and most profoundly, about fixing a system which still sees girls subject to heinous abuse at the hands ...
- Title
- Grooming gang scandal survivors FAILED
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Trumps making money on scale NEVER seen before
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Will Trump and Netanyahu go into a full-scale WAR with Iran?
- Runtime
- 44:49
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- What is Israel's end game in Iran? Does it genuinely believe Iran is making nuclear weapons - or is this about overthrowing the whole regime?
Did Trump make Iran more dangerous when he ripped up the diplomatic deal Obama had forged with the country? And will Trump end up dragging America into a brand new Middle East war?
We talk to CNN correspondent and Ex Files host, Christiane Amanpour and ask how Iranians themselves are feeling about the prospect of their own leaders being toppled.
Later, why is abortion still technically illegal in England and Wales. And does the law need to change? Tomorrow, MPs will be given a free commons vote. We ask Labour backbencher Stella Creasy why pressure from America is making her bring this amendment now.
#iran #israel #israelvsiran #nuclearweapons #usairan #donaldtrump #benjaminnetanyahu #alikhamenei #supremeleader #islamicrepublic #potus #israelprimeminister #keirstarmer #labour #abortionlaw #stellacrea...
- Title
- MUST WATCH: Steve Bannon LASHES OUT Over Elon Musk Question!
- Runtime
- 22:19
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- As tensions in LA spills out, President Trump is sending the armed forces onto the streets of the city. It's against the wishes of California's governor, who has warned that "democracy is under assault". Jon an Emily are joined by the architect of Trump's 2016 victory and host of host of the War Rooms, Steve Bannon.
Is Trump enacting the mass deportation he promised? Or is he manufacturing a crisis that will allow him to access more emergency - executive power?
Later, should Elon Musk be deported? Should Trump be giving tax cuts to billionaires? And which British politicians is he watching most closely?
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- Title
- Zia Yusuf On Why He REALLY Left Reform... (For 2 Days!)
- Runtime
- 1:03:24
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Lewis talks at length to Zia Yusuf, the former Reform Chairman about that weekend, where he resigned and unresigned in the space of 72 hours. Is Reform really about to storm Westminster, or rather is it its best disguised joke?
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- Title
- How Anti-Migrant Riots Are RIPPING Britain Apart...
- Runtime
- 51:03
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- It's been 3 days since the streets of Ballymena in Northern Ireland went from peaceful protest to full on riots. Since then, 41 police officers have been injured, rioters have hurled petrol bombs, and people have fled their homes as hate-filled mobs set fire to them.
As the tensions builds and the protests turn to racist rioting, is this more of what we saw in Southport last summer, or is this specific to Northern Irish identity?
Later, Jon sits down with Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and Jamie Oliver to talk about his latest campaign on how the education system leaves children with dyslexia behind.
#immigration #ballymena #uk #ukpolitics #northernireland #immigrationlaw #immigrants #migration #migrants #bordersecurity #borders #riots #labour #keirstarmer #jamieoliver #dyslexia #education #school #reform #nigelfarage #tommyrobinson #conservatives #kemibadenoch #Podcast #UKPodcast #PoliticsPodcast #News #Politics #NewsAgents #EmilyMaitli...
- Title
- Jamie Oliver’s tearful plea for kids with dyslexia
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Will Musk be DEPORTED?
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Title
- Have Labour Just TRIGGERED a Tax BOMB?!
- Runtime
- 33:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Rachel Reeves has announced her first major spending review as Chancellor, pledging increases to budgets for the NHS and Home Office. But critics – including the Conservatives – say her approach amounts to “spend now, tax later.” Is Labour being reckless, or realistic? Are tax rises now inevitable this Autumn? And can Reeves use this moment to rebuild her economic credibility?
Lewis Goodall and Jon Sopel speak to the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, about Labour’s fiscal plans, what the public should expect next, and whether this new government can deliver on its promises without breaking the bank.
#tax #money #uk #ukpolitics #ukeconomy #economy #taxes #taxpayers #taxpayermoney #rachelreeves #keirstarmer #labour #conservatives #reform #kemibadenoch #liztruss #nigelfarage #nhs #homeoffice #Podcast #UKPodcast #PoliticsPodcast #News #Politics #NewsAgents #EmilyMaitlis #JonSopel #LewisGoodall
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- Title
- Are pensioners politically untouchable?
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- The U-Turn That Could RUIN Labour...
- Runtime
- 43:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Keir Starmer is defending Labour’s U-turn on winter fuel payments—now extended to 9 million pensioners, including wealthier households. But with child poverty levels double that of pensioners, many are asking: has Labour prioritised votes over fairness? And is this a betrayal of struggling young families?
Later, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn joins us in studio to talk Gaza, Reform UK, the SNP's record in government—and the fallout from that Hamilton by-election.
#keirstarmer #labour #uk #ukpolitics #conservatives #reform #nigelfarage #kemibadenoch #snp #westminster #winterfuel #winterfuelpayment #ukgoverment #Podcast #UKPodcast #PoliticsPodcast #News #Politics #NewsAgents #EmilyMaitlis #JonSopel #LewisGoodall
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- Title
- Was This Trump’s Most EXTREME Move Yet?!
- Runtime
- 48:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to the streets of Los Angeles — without the permission of California Governor Gavin Newsom. The move has sparked legal threats from the state, a political firestorm across the U.S., and fresh questions about the President’s use of power.
Why did Trump bypass the usual protocol? Is this a genuine attempt to restore law and order amid immigration protests — or a personal feud with Newsom turned national? And is this all just a dress rehearsal for something more dangerous: using emergency powers to assert federal control over local states?
Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel dig into the story that’s got America watching nervously — and explore what this power play could mean ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Later, award-winning poet and comedian Tim Key joins us to talk about his breakout film The Ballad of Wallis Island, plus Lewis Goodall brings the latest on the Chancellor’s quiet U-turn over the winter...
