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Should Andy Burnham call a snap election? | The News Agents
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- Should Andy Burnham call a snap election? | The News Agents
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- 1:00
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- 4 months ago
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- Do Farage’s finances prove he’s ‘keeping his options open’? | The News Agents
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- 2:37
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- 4 months ago
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- Why can’t Nigel Farage be clear about his finances? | The News Agents
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- 39:31
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- 4 months ago
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- Nigel Farage has become the face of Direct Bullion. Not a surprise to those of you buying gold, perhaps, but it probably is to those who don’t. And it earned him £270,000 in the process. He’s also amassed a five-house property portfolio (three undeclared) and then there’s the small matter of the 5 million crypto donation. Again undeclared. How is this sitting with a man who voted against the Employment Rights Act and wants to scrap the current minimum wage? Is it hurting Reform UK? Or is it just confirming he's as a maverick politician who can get away with stuff that others can’t?
Later, Luke Tryl from the polling organisation More in Common on the realignment of British political parties, just as Andy Burnham is set to become Prime Minister.
And - where exactly is Jon Sopel?
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- Trump's crypto billion dollars - why is everyone fine with it? | The News Agents
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- 37:38
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- 4 months ago
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- President Donald Trump made more than $1bn last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency. This week's disclosure shows his crypto earnings now far overshadow income from his real estate business.
On this week's episode we ask why nobody seems to have too much of a problem with it?
Later, we discuss this week's Supreme Court judgments, where Trump's plan to over-turn the right to birthright citizenship failed.
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- Jon explains why he didn’t turn up to work today…
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- 2:53
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- 4 months ago
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- TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak on losing traditionally Labour members to Reform | The News Agents
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- 1:06
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- 4 months ago
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- Supreme Court turns on Trump to uphold birthright citizenship | The News Agents
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- 2:12
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- 4 months ago
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- As America battles an affordability crisis, Trump’s made an eye-watering $1.4 billion via crypto.
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- 2:47
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- 4 months ago
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- Is the prime minister trying to screw Burnham before he’s even started? | The News Agents
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- 2:13
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- 4 months ago
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- Is Starmer trying to screw Burnham before he even starts? | The News Agents
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- 34:36
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- 4 months ago
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- Everyone understands the need to leave on a high - whether it’s Prime Ministerial legacy or a sense of completing the job.
But the new defence investment plan that Starmer's signed off leaves Burnham with an unexploded bomb in the shape of a five billion pound debt.
Does Burnham stick to the plan? Or does he rip it up? And how does he fill the hole if he goes along with it?
We ask TUC secretary general Paul Nowak what unions want from a Burnham premiership.
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- “Why do some people get to hurt other people just because they are powerful?” | The News Agents
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- 2:51
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- 4 months ago
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- Exclusive: The whistleblower silenced by Facebook hits back | The News Agents
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- 30:37
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- 4 months ago
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- How do you interview someone who’s been gagged? That’s the task we set ourselves on today’s episode. Sarah Wynn-Williams - a former Facebook executive turned whistleblower author - is not allowed to talk about facebook, or her book, careless People. She’s not allowed to.
She’s not even allowed to discuss the lawsuit that’s been slapped on her. Or how she’s finally responded with one of her own.
This is her story - told by another woman who knows how silence can be used to control and intimidate - Amy Wallace.
A spokesperson for Meta has said, "This former employee is trying to use the legal process to sell books, which an arbitrator already ruled broke the agreement she signed with the company when she accepted a large severance payment years ago. Her book is divorced from reality, disparaging and riddled with false claims."
The full arbitration can be read here:
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- “This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth." | The News Agents
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- A spokesperson for Meta responded with the following statement:
“This former employee is trying to use the legal process to sell books, which an arbitrator already ruled broke the agreement she signed with the company when she accepted a large severance payment years ago. Her book is divorced from reality, disparaging and riddled with false claims.”
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- Things looking ‘ropey’ for Farage as a report into a £5m undeclared gift is due | The News Agents
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- 2:23
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- 4 months ago
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- Can Andy Burnham's revolution fix Britain? | The News Agents
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- 45:07
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- 4 months ago
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- Andy Burnham has made his first prime ministerial speech to the nation, even though he’s not yet PM. He spoke of the need for a "circuit break". Handing power back to people locally. Taking it away from Westminster. It was dynamic, bold and it was energising. But is Britain ready for electric shock therapy? And how does devolution not end up with badly run parts of the country becoming even worse off?
Later, what state is the Reform party in? Could they survive without Farage if he went? And would any of this hasten a general election?
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- Why Burnham’s first policy speech shows he plans to rip up the No.10 blueprint | The News Agents
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- 2:18
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- 4 months ago
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- “Wes, you just didn’t have the numbers. You’re a busted flush.” | The News Agents
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- 2:21
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- 4 months ago
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- How would Andy Burnham deal with immigration as PM? | The News Agents
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- 2:51
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- 4 months ago
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- Q&A special: Burnham's coup, his future cabinet and "duplicitous" colleagues | The News Agents
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- 40:45
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- On the week of Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister, Jon and Lewis host a special Q&A edition of The News Agents, answering the questions you have about the future of the country.
How will Andy Burnham's cabinet take shape? What will his policies look like? And is he surrounded by "duplicitous" colleagues?
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- Could Andy Burnham’s approach to Reform turn things around for Labour? | The News Agents
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- 2:21
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- 5 months ago
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- Would Trump play nice if (or when) the Burnham visits The White House? | The News Agents
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- 2:43
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- 5 months ago
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- How will Burnham deal with Trump? | The News Agents
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- 41:08
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- 5 months ago
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- Overnight, President Trump offered his first sliver of a thought on the incoming prime minister Andy Burnham. Calling him "a liberal … and a mayor of some town" - which, arguably, could have been much worse. Does Burnham need to put his relationship with Trump centre stage? Or just ignore him? Will Trump be as relevant to Burnham as he was to Starmer? Later: has the water closed over the Starmer premiership without a ripple? Why have we moved on so quickly? Are we in danger of turning the office of prime minister into a pop-up shop?
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- With seven PMs in 10 years, is the system not working, or working as it should be? | The News Agents
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- 2:50
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- 5 months ago
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- The Lincoln Memorial Pool: Can Trump lie himself out of another disaster? | The News Agents
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Why has Farage not been discredited by Brexit, even though so many people think it’s gone badly?
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Zohran Mamdani: The Democrats' new power broker? | The News Agents
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- 40:13
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- There was something of a political earthquake in New York overnight. Three left wing Democratic candidates, endorsed by Mamdani, sweeping out established Congressional characters and hailing in a new era of progressive politics in the Big Apple.
Mamdani's political stardust shows little sign of waning - is he now the most powerful figure in his party? And what does that mean for the future of the Dems?
We speak to Ben Rhodes, one of Barack Obama's closest aides during his presidency, and author of a new book 'All We Can Say' - a history of America through political speeches - about the magic of Mamdani, and the malice of Donald Trump.
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- Is Kemi Badenoch too brutal for her own good? | The News Agents
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- 42:37
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Kemi Badenoch looked like - not for the first time - she was going to make the Chancellor cry in the Commons today. She accused her of treachery and betrayal in her behaviour towards the PM. Badenoch then turned her sights on Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, and accused her of being a spiteful class warrior.
Why was the Tory leader so viscious in her seeing off of Keir Starmer and his team? Is this the result of being terminally online? Is it a reflection of a more authentic politics? And if the public disapprove of this discourse why has her popularity seemingly improved?
Later, ten years to the day since the Brexit result - what are the places that voted leave feeling?
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- Are Kemi Badenoch’s attacks brutal or fair game?
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- 2:55
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- 5 months ago
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- Karl Turner, MP and Burnham ally, on his conversations with Starmer | The News Agents
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- 2:01
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- 5 months ago
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- What will Burnham's Britain actually look like? | The News Agents
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- 38:41
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- 5 months ago
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- You’re going to hear from a staunch Burnham ally today - a blunt speaking man at the heart of his last leadership campaign - and an MP who recently lost the whip from Keir Starmer.
Can Karl Turner tell us what Andy Burnham thinks? And what he wants to do? And isn’t there hypocrisy in anointing another leader without going to the country first?
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- Karl Turner, MP and Burnham ally, says Starmer had to go to save Labour from “extinction”.
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- 2:33
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- 5 months ago
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- Is Keir Starmer - with his lack of contrition - the author of his own downfall?
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Starmer quits: Has Burnham just pulled off the greatest heist in politics? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 50:54
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- And just like that, Keir Starmer became the sixth British prime minister to resign in ten years - triggering a leadership contest it’s increasingly likely no one will enter. Wes Streeting has pulled out of the race. Andy Burnham is arriving at Parliament where he will be sworn in as MP. If there is no challenger, he could be PM in just over two weeks' time. Is this the most perfect heist in political history? Does Starmer have a right to feel aggrieved? And does Burnham have an actual plan?
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- “Talk about fortune favouring the brave!” | The News Agents
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Was Keir Starmer’s speech exactly the reason why he’s been a failure as Prime Minister?
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- To get into No.10, does Brand Burnham have to change? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Is Reform's great mistake to think it could copy Trump's politics in Britain? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Burnham batters Reform - next stop Number 10? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 41:36
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Overnight in Makerfield, Andy Burnham showed how to win more than fifty percent of the vote on the Labour ticket. It was political smack for his party. A reminder they still have the electoral chemistry to win decisively in tight races where Reform has stormed in the past. Keir Starmer is pretending nothing big has happened - and said Reform were already on the wane. He is refusing to make way for Burnham - who is rather hoping for a coronation rather than a bloody contest. So who will fire the first shot? And when? Is it just a matter of choreography? Or are things about to get messy?
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- “Burnham ran a campaign - a hostile takeover of the Labour Party in plain sight.” | The News Agents
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Why is Trump now handing over billions to Iran? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 33:19
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Once you’ve listened to Trump's friend's slag off his deal with Iran, you can’t help wondering what his critics will say.
In one fell swoop Trump has lifted sanctions on Iran, invited investment into the country to help the same old regime recover, agreed to a sixty day trial period on the reopened straits and “moved on“ from his wish to help the Iranian people escape their tyrants.
What has he achieved in this war? Precisely nothing. Who knows that? Practically everyone.
We ask where it leaves his next foreign policy moves - and speak to Poland’s deputy prime minister about how NATO should handle his erratic behaviour.
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- Special Report: How the Makerfield by-election could change everything | The News Agents
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- 52:41
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- 5 months ago
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- Whatever happens in Makerfield in the next 24 hours, the outcome will be momentous. If Andy Burnham wins, we could see him challenge Keir Starmer for Prime Minister by the end of the week. If Burnham loses, then Labour are plunged into a whole new level of existential crisis. Either way, this will be one of the most significant by-elections in British electoral history - the stakes could hardly be higher.
Jon, Emily and Lewis have this special report from the constituency. What do the people of Makerfield want to see change in Westminster? Are voters happy with the prospect of potentially electing the next Prime Minister? And why are the Burnham team feeling nervy just hours out from polling opening?
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- Is Burnham’s team less confident than the Westminster herd would have you believe? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- “Maybe the future head of state might want to go to a ~state~ school?”
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Makerfield residents share their opinions ahead of historic by-election.
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Has political violence and conspiracy become mainstream in Britain? | The News Agents
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- How political violence and conspiracy became mainstream in Britain | The News Agents
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- 50:40
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- 10 years on from the murder of MP Jo Cox, there is a grim warning from her sister Kim Leadbeater: the atmosphere in politics now is "probably worse".
Leadbeater warns of people trying to "sow division" in our country - and that's a division that Russia is seeking to exploit. One of the arsonists convicted of trying to firebomb Keir Starmer's house had also been tasked by Kremlin-linked actors with putting up far-right posters, seeking to stoke community tensions.
How can it be that, after the tragic murders of Jo Cox and David Amess, our politics continues to slide towards polarisation, anger, and conspiracy?
Later, Jake Richards - justice minister and lead on the government's men and boys strategy - on the crisis facing young men and the crisis facing Keir Starmer and his party.
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- “I thought it would be a warning, but it was the start of more political violence” | The News Agents
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- “It’s not the childhood any of us want in this country.” | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 2:39
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Why is Donald Trump hosting a cage fight at the White House? | The News Agents
- Runtime
- 29:40
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- "Congratulations to all!" Read the President's tweet on truth social. Nominally, this was about the end of the (self-imposed) Iran war. But it’s also possible Trump was congratulating himself on his 80th birthday, which somehow managed to hijack the 250th Independence Day anniversary.
So why was there a cage fight on the White House lawn? What does Joe Rogan really make of Trump now? And why - if there's a ceasefire - are the Iranians insisting the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
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- Has Trump achieved anything with Iran war as deal agreed? | The News Agents
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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