The News Agents

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents,How and why did an image of Arsenal's Bukayo Saka become the main feature on the back pages of almost every major newsp...

Q&A general election special

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily and Jon answer your General Election questions.Editor: Tom HughesSenior Producer: Gabriel RadusSocial Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell Video Produc...

Labour launch their manifesto: but is there really any 'change'?

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Labour has launched a 25,000 word manifesto and as promised, there were no new rabbits and no hats. What we saw in Manchester was a newly confident La...

Sunak v Starmer: Round 2

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily, Jon and Lewis stayed up late to analyse the latest TV battle between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer. Who came out on top this time around on Sky ...

Are the Conservatives now admitting defeat?

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tory frontbencher Grant Shapps has appeared to concede the Tories are now heading for defeat at the election and warned voters against allowing Labou...

Rishi Sunak launches his manifesto. Is Britain still listening?

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rishi Sunak launched the Conservative manifesto today at Silverstone. We’ve been trying to swerve the racing metaphors but the odd one crept in. He ...

Macron, Angela Rayner, Misogyny and Class

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Angela Rayner has told Lewis she carries the weight of working class women on her shoulders, and doesn't ever want to be the Labour Leader. Meanwhile ...

D-day misstep: is it all over for Sunak?

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's manifesto week - Lib Dems announce theirs on Monday. Tories Tuesday. And Labour Thursday. But the cloud of Sunak's speedy D Day departure still h...

Q&A general election special

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's general election Q&A special Emily, Jon and Lewis answer your questions on safe seats, compulsory voting, and the constituency they...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents, The extraordinary story of Khalida Popal - the first ever captain of the Afghanistan Women's National Football Team - ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nadine Dorries on the 'disgusting' Tory Party chair

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Overnight, Richard Holden, The Tory Party chair parachuted himself into the safe seat of Basildon & Billericay. Which is 280 miles away from his f...

Why are Labour calling Sunak a liar?

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rishi Sunak accused Keir Starmer of planning to put people's taxes up by £2,000 if he got into power - sums he said had been independently verified. ...

The Sunak vs. Starmer TV debate: who won?

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The first election debate is done. Sunak and Starmer had it out live, on television, for an hour. Did we learn anything? Jon and Emily watched from ho...

Will Farage win in Clacton?

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re in Clacton-on-Sea today. So, coincidentally, is Nigel Farage the new leader of the Reform party and prospective parliamentary candidate. We ca...

Farage stands: is this the Tories' worst nightmare?

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So Nigel Farage is standing to be the Reform MP in Clacton. He’s stood before - (seven times if anyone is counting) but Clacton clearly feels to him...

Why the tide isn’t turning against Labour

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Keir Starmer has had one of the toughest weeks as Labour leader, and yet the polls still show electoral wipeout for the Tories - as Starmer's personal...

Q&A general election special

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis and Jon answer your questions on the Tory leadership, private schools, and downing pints. Plus much more.Editor: Tom HughesSenior Producer: Gabr...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents, UK cyclist Lizzy Banks joined Gabby & Mark in the studio, following her 10-month battle with UK Anti-Doping, for a...

Donald Trump: guilty on all counts - The News Agents - USA

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trump is found guilty in New York. Just before 5pm on Thursday New York time the airwaves started cracking with news of an imminent verdict. Twenty mi...

Why is Starmer purging the Labour left?

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Keir Starmer is on a warpath. But not against the Tories but his own side. At least, what is nominally his own side. Starmer has poured petrol on ...

Has Starmer lost control of the Diane Abbott story?

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's day two of the Diane Abbott fiasco and the Labour party look no closer to getting to grips with the situation.Keir Starmer insists that no decisi...

Is the Tory campaign already falling apart?

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rishi Sunak has had a gaffe-filled weekend amidst new policy announcements over the triple lock and compulsory National Service. Lib Dem leader Ed Dav...

Why does Rishi Sunak want to conscript teenagers?

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The News Agents has new episodes every Sunday as we run-up to July 4th's UK General Election. We react as Lewis speaks to Home Secretary James Clever...

Who broke Britain? With James O'Brien

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James O'Brien joins us in The News Agents bunker to talk all things client journalism, talk radio, and whether he'll be as harsh on Labour as he has b...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents,We brought you an exclusive interview between The News Agents' own Jon Sopel and the Arsenal and Ukraine defender Oleks...

Your election questions answered

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Each Thursday during the election campaign we are answering your questions.Do MPs get paid after Parliament breaks up? Why do majorities shrink so fas...

Rishi calls a July election. What now?

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So we finally have a date for the general election, and it’s very very soon.How is it going to go down with the voters ? How are Tory MPs feeling ab...

Is Sunak calling an election today?

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are not ones to gossip but frankly the Westminster rumour mill is in overdrive, so we thought we should talk you through how the talk of a general ...

Cameron vs. Sunak and the row over foreign students

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Cameron has accused Rishi Sunak of hurting Britain’s soft power and putting universities at financial risk with his threat to curb the visa ri...

Is Netanyahu heading to The Hague for war crimes?

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister and Defence minister and three Hamas leaders - accused of war ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Is Putin coming for Georgia?

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are on the ground in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, where Europe and Asia meet. For weeks hundreds of thousands of (overwhelmingly) Gen Zs have t...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents former England defender Rio Ferdinand joined us to discuss the stigma around mental health in football and whether team...

Keir Starmer's 6 pledges - Blair, Blair, Blair or blah, blah, blah

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Keir Starmer has rolled up his sleeves, taken off his tie and headed to Essex to unveil his six first steps for government. Is Starmer looking for Bla...

Do we need to crack down on 'extreme' protest groups?

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an exclusive early interview we speak to the Government's Independent Advisor on Political Violence. John Woodcock, a cross party peer, has spent t...

The government minister who thinks the Tories are still winning

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have a real live government Secretary of State with us in News Agents HQ today - David TC Davies insists the election still winnable for the Conser...

Can Rishi scare people into voting Tory?

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If it had been a speech about defence, it might have made more sense. But Rishi Sunak had no new policy offerings in todays pronouncement - he warned ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Could Net Zero destroy a whole community?

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis Goodall hosts a special report from Port Talbot, South Wales, where thousands of jobs are about to be lost at Tata Steel.Port Talbot is Britain'...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark took a closer look at a controversial new rule in cricket - the impact player in the IPL - and whethe...

Will Starmer now have to let Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn back into the Labour Party?

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did the Labour Party screw up in welcoming Natalie Elphicke into its party? One former frontbencher tells us Keir Stamer got this wrong. They're calli...

Why has Labour welcomed a right wing Tory defector?

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Very little political news is truly jaw dropping. But this morning's was. Natalie Elphicke, on the Conservative right of the party, and MP for Dover, ...

Is the government 'gaslighting' the British public?

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The government is determined not to let a little thing like a disastrous set of local elections put it off its stride. Over the course of the bank hol...

Election special: How bad is it for Tories?

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The local election and mayoral results flood in. How bad are they for the Tories? How much of that is Reform? And how well have Labour actually done?E...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark explored whether a Premier League salary cap will actually help smaller clubs bridge the gap to the '...

The issue the political parties won't talk about

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After several delays, Brexit checks finally came into force this week - adding cost and delay to how small businesses can get their goods into the UK....

So, one person has gone to Rwanda...

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As of this week, Rishi Sunak can boast he has sent asylum seekers to Rwanda. Admittedly, it was just one guy. Admittedly he was paid £3k to go. Admit...

Why are so many of our MPs facing death threats?

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If the Palace of Westminster were a village - the Head of Counter Terrorism police tells us - NO one would dare to live there. Today we ask why so man...

Humza Yousaf resigns. Is Scottish independence dead?

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the stroke of midday, Humza Yousaf, Scotland's First Minister, made the announcement that just a week ago would have been unthinkable. Acknowledgin...

INVESTIGATION: Britain’s hidden homeless children

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2024 Britain nearly 140,000 kids are homeless. Just because you don’t see them on the street doesn’t mean they’re not there. This is Britain’...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents...A Premier League launched an attack on VAR via their social media account - and threatened legal action... Is there a...

Neil Kinnock: The Prime Minister Labour never had

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lord Neil Kinnock - Labour leader from 1983 to 1992, Thatcher's biggest rival in her pomp, joins Lewis in the studio for a sit down chat to talk about...

Is the SNP government hanging by a thread?

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scotland's First Minister is facing a confidence vote after he pulled the plug this morning on his coalition government by ejecting the two Green part...

Wake up call or gimmick? The government's new defence plan

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Prime Minister is in Europe this week making the case for an increase in defence spending of £75 billion over the next six years - to deal with g...

Why is Elon Musk at war with Australia?

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Australia’s PM is at war with Elon Musk - calling him an ‘arrogant billionaire’ - and worse. He’s fighting to get violent images of a church ...

Rwanda delayed: Will Sunak ever get planes off the ground?

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rishi is making those naughty Lords stay in the chamber until they pass his Rwanda Bill without pesky amendments. That may come in the early hours of ...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents... A Sports Agents exclusive - Mark & Gabby had a first-look at an independent report into diversity at the senior ...

Have Israel and Iran stepped back from the brink?

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Middle East, the world, not for the first time in these long six months, has been holding its breath. Ever since Iran fired 300 hundred rockets in...

Sleaze, campaign funds and a 3am phonecall: Another Westminster scandal

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

**Since publication, Savanta revised the polling data included in this episode to show the Labour candidate on a two point lead. More information here...

Does Liz Truss actually have a point?

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, yes, yes. She crashed the economy, has blamed everyone else, made Britain a laughing stock, inflicted higher mortgage rates on millions of househ...

Should the police be shutting down Nigel Farage and the NatCons?

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was a conference that few people here would have ever noticed. Suella, Nigel, Orban - speakers deemed "far right" by the Brussels authorities - fo...

What is Iran's endgame?

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday night, Israel warned its citizens to go to a safe room and prepare to spend the night there. Two hours later, Iran began sending drones in...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

13 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents... An array of stardust as the likes of legendary jockeyAP McCoy and Team GB icon Denise Lewis joined Gabby & Mark ...

Europe's first black leader

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, we speak to Europe's first black leader - Vaughan Gething, the new First Minister of Wales. In an extended conversation, we talk h...

Should Ofsted be scrapped?

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

TW: This episode includes discussions around suicide. If you need someone to talk to, Samaritans listen. Call them on 116 123.Last week, The National ...

Westminster sexting and the honeytrap

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

William Wragg, the MP who found himself blackmailed by a person to whom he'd sent explicit photographs - last night resigned the Conservative party wh...

Will Labour just be another version of the Tories?

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is a truth near-universally acknowledged (amongst pollsters at least) that Labour will be the largest party at the next election. But how would the...

Is Angela Rayner really in trouble?

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Police are re-examining claims Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner may have broken electoral law more than a decade ago by failing to pay a capital g...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

06 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Sports Agents, your questions for Gabby & Mark on everything from Olympics predictions, to how the panel on Match of the Day is s...

Ian Hislop on Boris Johnson, Piers Morgan and political satire in the age of the absurd

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Hislop, editor of The Private Eye and team captain on Have I Got News For You sits down with Lewis for an extended conversation about political sa...

Why is David Cameron being reported to the ethics adviser?

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the early hours of Thursday morning Layla Moran - the only British MP of Palestinian heritage- received news she’d been longing to hear for month...

Why is the UK still selling arms to Israel?

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Prime Minister has called the Israeli Prime Minister's actions in Gaza 'increasingly intolerable' in a phone call with Netanyahu after the deaths ...

Why did JK Rowling want to be arrested?

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A new law has Police Scotland saying that they'd investigate every online hate crime. But what they've categorised as a hate crime has caused controve...

(Easter) Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, The Sports Agents dug into why Arsenal are still in a league of their own when it comes to the commercial success of their Women's team, ho...

Q&A Special

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Your questions answered in a special Q&A edition of the podcast with Emily, Jon and Lewis.Editor: Tom HughesSocial Media Editor: Georgia FoxwellVi...

Is the world running out of babies?

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Forget everything you know about an exploding world population. The sad truth is, our birthrate is plummeting globally to the point where there soon w...

Is Rishi Sunak prepared to pick a fight with China?

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Once you have revealed that China is hacking British citizens on a major and global scale, the next question is - well, what are you going to do about...

The Moscow terror attacks: Are ISIS back?

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The bombing of a Moscow concert hall left at least 137 dead and even more wounded. The regrouped ISIS - now ISIS K- have claimed responsibility even t...

Owen Jones on why he's left the Labour Party

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Influential left-wing commentator Owen Jones is in News Agents HQ a day after he quit the Labour Party - despite being a member since he was 15 - on a...

The Sports Agents: Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, The Sports Agents took a closer look at the state of Rugby Union, reflected on Nottingham Forest becoming the latest Premier League club to...

Kate Middleton reveals she has cancer

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At 6pm on Friday the Princess of Wales released a video statement. In it, she discusses her cancer diagnosis for the first time. She acknowledges the ...

Could the Reform party overtake the Tories?

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There's only one poll that counts and that's the actual election and that's not today. We know that, we get it, but the latest numbers from YouGov are...

Why is Thatcher back in fashion?

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Thatcher has been out of power for thirty years but this week it's started to feel like she's back in the room. Rachel Reeves, shadow chancel...

How should the Royals respond to TikTok conspiracies?

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Even after Kate Middleton appeared IRL at a local Windsor farm shop, the Tiktok conspiracy theories continued. Was it really Kate? Was the photo stage...

Are the Tories really ready to replace Rishi Sunak?

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The weekend has been awash with talk of yet another leadership putsch. Is Penny Mordaunt on manoeuvres? Is Kemi Badenoch scheming? The answer is proba...

The Sports Agents: Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, The Sports Agents were invited to the head offices of 'The Enhanced Games' to interview President Aron D'Souza - who wants to put on an Oly...

Sayeeda Warsi on her "arsonist" Tory colleagues

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

British politics has been dominated by race this week. The big picture is that certain ideas which would once have been unsayable are now commonplace ...

Do the Tories have any credibility on extremism?

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Gove has announced today that the government is redefining extremism. But given they've taken up to 15 million pounds worth of donations from ...

Has Rishi lost control of his party?

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The PM has belatedly conceded that the comments in which a Tory donor expressed his urge to 'shoot all black women' WAS actually racist. He's still no...

Another day, another Tory racism row

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's Tory 'was it racist?' row centres a donor who's given the Conservatives more than ten million pounds. The Guardian scoop revealed comments he ...

Lee Anderson wants his country back

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Anderson has defected to the Reform Party, saying he’d done a lot of soul-searching on his political journey, and wants his country back. He had...

The Sports Agents: Weekend Edition

09 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to The Sports Agents, a brand-new twice-weekly addition to The News Agents podcast family, hosted by Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman... This week...

EXCLUSIVE: The Telegraph and the "hypocrisy" of Andrew Neil

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is fury surrounding a bid by the former head of CNN to buy The Telegraph and The Spectator due to the involvement of the Abu-Dhabi-backed RedBir...

Why are we paying for a cabinet minister's libel bill?

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Donelan is Rishi Sunak’s Science Secretary. She has accepted that she libelled an academic. That’s unusual. It’s even more unusual that...

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Emily Maitlis to "F*** off"

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a fat joke about the Leader of the Opposition on the floor of the House of Commons as he delivered his Spring Bud...

The worst Tory poll of all time

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Conservative Party have just received their worst polling results of all-time, with Ipsos now showing Tory support at just 20 points. It's the wor...

What's the strategy to make Trump president? Inside the MAGA bunker

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After everything that’s happened - the million plus deaths from Covid, the January 6th insurrection, the indictments, the law suits the debts and th...

The News Agents USA Special: Live from Richmond, Virginia: Trump on the campaign trail

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The News Agents: USA, on Global PlayerWe're in Richmond, Virginia for Donald Trump's last rally before he is almost certainly crowned the Republican c...

Starmer’s “Worst Nightmare”- Galloway wins in Rochdale

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

George Galloway has said that Keir Starmer’s woken up to his “worst nightmare”, after the former Labour MP won the Rochdale by-election by almos...

Is the Chancellor trying to nick Labour's policies?

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Right now the Treasury are flying more kites than you would see on top of Parliament Hill on a windy day. This comes ahead of next week’s budget - t...

Is it time for Rishi to boot out Liz 'deep state' Truss?

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Truss was doorstepped by the BBC in Westminster today and asked to explain why she'd been talking about the dangers of the 'deep state' at a Washi...

The Sports Agents - Coming 5th March

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman, two of the UK’s best sports broadcasters, host a brand new twice-weekly podcast exploring the stories behind the sport...