Lewis Goodall

Successful political leaders do gel these unwieldy coalitions and Labour's got to find someone.

I don't think it can be Starmer, but if it is Starmer, he or they have got to find someone who can gel these two poles again.

I'm not going to bed.

You'd compare yourself to Nelson Mandela.

I'm not saying I follow people like that.

You do think you're a great man?

Of course.

Pretty anti-Semitic to suggest that there are Zionist puppet masters who control the media.

Jimmy Savile, what's Jimmy Savile got to do with the Epstein files or the Zionist class?

For those watching, no, it's not about me.

What you just heard was the sound of politics in Birmingham in 2026.

And what you're about to hear in today's special local and national elections episode

is how, in so many ways, culturally, politically, economically, socially, the politics of Birmingham in 2026, we think is so likely to be coming for the politics near you, for the national politics of the UK.

Welcome to The News Agents.

So we're talking about chaos in Birmingham for a very good reason.

Or are they not just Birmingham?

Because as important as Birmingham is, the biggest local authority in the country, huge city and so on, the reason that it really matters in terms of the potential politics in Britain to come is that Birmingham is a microcosm of the politics of Britain to come.

Birmingham is huge and it's deeply diverse.

And as a result, it has every shade, every characteristic, every combination of politics that the rest of the country has in aggregate.

So you've got the classic Labour-Tory areas, you've got Labour-Lib Dem, you've got the rise of the Greens, you've got reform as well at the outer edges.