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Jess Phillips on the “jarring” moment in Keir Starmer’s ‘reset’ speech that made her resign.
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- Jess Phillips on the “jarring” moment in Keir Starmer’s ‘reset’ speech that made her resign.
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- 2:03
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- 19 days ago
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- Has Labour reignited the Brexit debate by mistake? | The News Agents
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- 46:27
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- 19 days ago
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- Andy Burnham has ruled out making a Makerfield by-election contest another Brexit referendum. But will it end up being one anyway? The Greater Manchester Mayor has already had to clarify his position on rejoining the EU after a weekend where the issue has dominated the news agenda. Reform certainly hope to turn it into another Brexit campaign. They’ve sent Robert Jenrick out onto the mean streets of Westminster to try and convince voters it’s an establishment stitch up. But who is "the establishment" now?
Later, Jess Phillips on why she resigned and who knew she was going.
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- Will voters in the Makerfield by-election be bewildered to hear Brexit back in the debate?
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- 2:54
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- 19 days ago
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- Is Andy Burnham about to become Prime Minister? | The News Agents
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- 38:41
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- 22 days ago
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- In a week of endless rumours and leadership speculation, Westminster is once again in turmoil - with both everything and nothing seeming to happen at the same time.
Yesterday saw the resignation of Makersfield MP Josh Simons, opening the door for Andy Burnham to pave his way back into government.
It will be a tough battle for the Makersfield constituency, but Wes Streeting, who resigned as Health Secretary on Thursday, says Burnham has “the best chance of winning” the by-election.
So, could the Mayor of Manchester be our next Prime Minister?
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- Is Farage now putting distance between himself and Trump? | The News Agents
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- As by-election is triggered, - is Keir Starmer “one way or another doomed”? | The News Agents
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Is it time the press stood up to Trump after repeated insults to female reporters? | The News Agents
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Has Trump just written the campaign ad for every Democrat? | The News Agents USA
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- 38:00
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Did Trump really mean to tell Americans he wasn't thinking of their financial situation "at all" when he went to war with Iran? He repeated it several times so we can assume it was no slip of the tongue. The democrats are delighted. His allies are dismayed. Expect that line to get played on a loop. But has Trump stopped worrying about the economy for everyone except his own family? And has he given up on the midterms?
Later, Politico's Jonathan Martin joins Jon in the studio. What's Trump playing at? Is the base still with him? And is the American media doing enough to hold him to account?
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- Farage says £5m gift was a “reward” for campaigning for Brexit | The News Agents
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Wes Streeting has resigned - but not declared a leadership bid. Good play?
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Has Wes Streeting's resignation just SEALED Starmer's fate | The News Agents
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- 31:24
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Wes Streeting cited the unprecedented local election results and the unpopularity of the government as his reason for resigning as health secretary this lunch time. What he did NOT say was that he was directly running for the leadership - and now allies of the PM are saying he has bottled it because he doesn't have the support. Has today strengthened Keir’s hand? Or just drawn out a slow death?
Later - Nigel Farage managed to buy a £1.4m house in cash just weeks after receiving a £5m donation from a crypto billionaire. He told us last week it was for his personal security. Today he described it as a reward for delivering Brexit. Which was it?
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- Is Starmer’s refusal to step down as PM admirable or arrogant?
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- What will the investigation into Farage’s £5m gift find? | The News Agents
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- Has a Labour leadership contest already begun? | The News Agents
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- 41:19
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- A key cabinet member, Hilary Benn, was asked this lunch time if Wes Streeting was still the Health Secretary. Astonishingly he said he did not know. Is Streeting about to launch a leadership campaign? is Starmer preparing to fight him? And could all this chaos somehow leave Ed Miliband in poll position as PM?
Later, the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner launches an investigation into Nigel Farage's undeclared 5 million pound donation from a crypto billionaire. What will they find?
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- “He wouldn’t risk a Wes Streeting victory - and would therefore potentially stand”
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- What have Labour insiders been telling Lewis? | The News Agents
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- 2:25
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Starmer refuses to go: Crazy? Or courageous? | The News Agents
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- 39:11
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Anyone who thought Keir Starmer was about to succumb to pressure from the 80 strong list of MPs who turned against him were in for a shock this morning when they found a PM defiant and refusing to even discuss a leadership challenge. Can he hold them off? Is his position more or less perilous today? And what is Andy Burnham doing at Euston?
Jess Philips has become the most senior minister to resign - leaving a devastating letter in her wake. Will the King's speech stop the political regicide for 24 hours? Or are Starmer’s critics just building up steam?
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- Is Keir Starmer really ‘country before party’? | The News Agents
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Is Starmer’s refusal to go a sign of arrogance, or an attempt to avoid another psychodrama?
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Starmer's make or break speech: will it save him? | The News Agents
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- 49:32
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- It's always risky when a Prime Minister's speech becomes billed as a 'reset' and 'make or break' but Keir Starmer's address this morning was exactly that.
Facing a surprise possible leadership challenge from backbencher Catherine West - and a growing number of MPS in open mutiny - Starmer insisted he would prove his doubters wrong, face any contest head on, and keep Britain from ushering in "dangerous opponents".
It didn't seem to win too many of his parliamentary colleagues round - indeed as soon as he'd finished the drip drip of MPs demanding he set a timetable for his departure continued. But has it been enough to stop serious contenders - like Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner - from coming forward?
Or are they just waiting for the right moment?
Later, Emily and Lewis speak to London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan about where Labour goes now.
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- “We want urgency. The big idea. That was missing from Keir Starmer’s speech.”
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- “You can’t fatten the pig on market day”
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- “Farage has managed to convince people he is the newcomer” | The News Agents
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour? | The News Agents
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- 50:54
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- The morning after elections, political parties send their leaders out to areas where they outperformed expectations to try and sell a narrative about their results, even on the bruising nights.
Such was the scale of Labour's defeat that for much of the night, it wasn't clear whether there was anywhere they could send Starmer. Eventually, he headed to Ealing where Labour kept control of the council. In West London, Starmer insisted he isn't "going to walk away". He acknowledged that "voters have sent a message about the pace of change". But isn't that message that they would like a Reform government? Isn't it at the very least that they do not want him to remain in Downing Street?
Where does Labour go from here - and is Nigel Farage now measuring the curtains in 10 Downing Street?
Later, Luke Tryl on the complete collapse of the two party system.
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- Does Labour have the guts to replace Starmer? | The News Agents
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- Lewis clashes with controversial Birmingham Independent campaigner.
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Lewis presses Akhmed Yaqoob for saying Polanski is a ‘degenerate’ for ‘dancing with naked strippers’
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- SPECIAL REPORT: An election like no other in Birmingham | The News Agents
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- 47:17
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- It’s polling day in elections across Great Britain. Labour is braced for a battering, at the hands of insurgent forces on every side. Birmingham is a microcosm of that picture: an unloved Labour administration dealing with complex problems and complex politics.
But here it’s not just the Greens and Reform the party must contend with, but the rise of the so-called Gaza independents. A new political force appealing largely to British Muslims who, like everyone else, are disatissfied with the status quo.
Is this really a new sectarian politics, as the newspapers suggest? And if it is - should we be concerned about who is propelling those forces? With the control of the biggest local authority in Europe up for grabs, Lewis has gone home to England’s second city to find out.
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- “You think you’ll catch me out? I’ve run rings around protestors and judges” | The News Agents
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Trump's Epic Fury...with Indiana Republicans | The News Agents USA
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- 37:59
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Overnight in Indiana ,Trump showed the grasp he still has over the Republican Party where the candidates he’d endorsed for the State Senate won their primaries against the moderate Republicans that had stood up to his attempts to gerrymander.
It's remarkable in itself that Trump was at all invested in the races - these are local politicians earning $33,000 a year - and yet his influence proved key. What does this tell us about how the midterms will play out? Meanwhile, Marco Rubio has announced the end of the Iran war as if it were obvious to all of us. Are we about to see some actual progress in the conflict in the Middle East? A peace deal? An actual signed contract? Or is Trump just playing for time before his next big stunt?
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- Money, lies and death: London's criminal underworld with Patrick Radden Keefe | The News Agents
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- 41:18
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, is back asking questions of those in power. His new best-seller investigates the mysterious death of young Zac Brettler in the heart of London. What does it tell us about dark money, lies and corruption in this gilded city - now home to the world’s billionaires? And why were the police either unwilling or unable to provide his family with answers? We talk about identity, reinvention and oligarchs in his latest book, London Falling.
Later, Trump's Project Freedom in Hormuz ends on day one - has Trump capitulated or is a deal, finally, in sight?
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- Is MAGA starting to question Trump over the Strait of Hormuz? | The News Agents
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Is Trump allowed to run for a third term? | The News Agents
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Does Donald Trump remember who started the war in Iran? | The News Agents
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- 31:31
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Why has Nigel Farage taken £5m from a crypto billionaire? | The News Agents
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- 40:05
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Fiona Hill on whether Trump's a Russian asset | The News Agents
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Has antisemitism become a national emergency? | The News Agents
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- 46:08
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- After the Golders Green stabbings, Sarah Sackman pushes back on Zack Polanski.
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Will Starmer's body count prove FATAL for his premiership? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 47:29
- Date posted
- 1 month 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
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Should MPs be banned from drinking on the job? | The News Agents
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 1 month 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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- 1 month ago
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