Emily Maitlis

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4,121 appearances 30 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 25 Jun

Emily Maitlis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The News Agents · Is Kemi Badenoch too brutal for her own good? · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

There's a reason why it's shown live on TV most days, most weeks when there's Prime Minister's Questions on, because it's a bit of theatre that is utterly alien to American politics.

There's nothing like it anywhere in the American political scene.

And yet we have this as part of our politics, and it is a confrontational politics.

You are the leader of the opposition.

It's an official post in the Constitution.

And you are there to oppose and you're there to kind of... And if you're not going to score political points on a day when the Prime Minister has been felled by his own party, I mean, for God's sake, when are you?

And I also think, how does Andy Burnham approach her?

You know, on the US edition, we've been talking about, you know, the influence of Zoran Mamdani on American politics and how there is this optimism and there is this hope.

Joy.

Joy and pleasure in what he's doing.

And that's kind of very hard to...

to bat against.

I mean, obviously, Kemi Badenock will come and say, well, but look at the latest unemployment figures or look at the latest growth figures and whatever else.

But, you know, Andy Burnham, if he keeps that bit of authenticity as the kind of nice fellow with a smile on his face.

And I think Kemi might find that a very difficult thing.

I think if she just goes on the line of black T-shirt and eyelashes, he's OK.

I think she's underestimating him somewhat, given what he's, you know, given...

The political operation that has been unfolding over the past few weeks, some of which we've seen in the past week, and, you know, the Makefield by-election, but that has been going on longer than this.

Andy Burnham is not to be underestimated.

That was Nigel Farage 10 years ago today, on the 24th of June, when Britain had just voted to leave the European Union.

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