The News Agents
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What do the Tories really think about Lee Anderson?
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Scully, former Minister for London, has given his first extended interview to The News Agents since he talked about 'no-go' areas in Tower Hamlet...
Has the Tory party been taken over by 'right-wing nationalists'?
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former Deputy Tory Chair Lee Anderson was suspended from the Conservative party this weekend after accusing the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan of 'giving...
Joe Lycett on raw sewage, Liz Truss and "woke" comedy
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lycett is one of the biggest comedians in Britain today. He has also, over time, become more and more political. He’s had a new show on Channel ...
EXCLUSIVE: Could The Telegraph be bought by a political extremist?
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Paul Marshall is a Tory donor, hedge fund millionaire, co-owner of GB News and - according to his anonymous Twitter account - amplifier of far rig...
Is Kemi Badenoch telling the truth?
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Kemi Badenoch accuse a whistleblower of lying - in a row over compensation payouts to Post office victims?And why isn't the Prime Minister pre...
Should Prince William be getting involved with Gaza?
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prince William has expressed his deep concern about the terrible human cost of the middle east conflict and expressed his desire to see an end to the ...
Why can't the West stop Putin's killings?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia has laid the blame for her husband's murder directly with Putin. Few world leaders seem to disagree. There is much grave ...
Two more Tory wipeouts
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two more Labour wins in two more by-elections. Kingswood and Wellingborough were very safe Conservative seats, but now they've turned red. The C...
Recession: are we f***ed?
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK is in recession - which means the economy has been shrinking for most of the last year.What does that do to our standard of living? And what ar...
Is Labour's lead slipping away?
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the past 7 days Sir Keir Starmer has had to face down a leak over his big policy U-turn, a policy U-turn and the suspension of two Labour candidate...
Could the weirdest ever by-election be won by George Galloway?
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer insists he took "decisive action" by suspending the Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali from the Labour party. Should it have come quicker? How ...
Does the Labour Party still have an anti-Semitism problem?
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer has gone out of his way to break with his party's antisemitic past and to reshape the Labour parliamentary party. But this weekend, shado...
Mick Lynch on Starmer, strikes and a united Ireland
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When will strikes end - and are Labour the party to stop the constant drumroll of them?We're joined by the most charismatic man on the left of British...
Why is Starmer running scared of his own policies?
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The worst kept secret in politics was freed from its shackles today as Sir Keir Starmer confirmed Labour would drop their 28 billion pound spending pl...
Why is our Prime Minister making jokes about trans people?
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How has Rishi Sunak shown so little emotional intelligence that he ended up making his customary 'trans joke'?In the presence of the mother of a bruta...
PopCon: Inside the Liz Truss revolution
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Truss and her mates have been selling their version of popular conservatism in central London this morning. They were delighted to see Lewis at th...
How close are we really to a united Ireland?
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Northern Ireland's new first minister Michelle O'Neill has had her knuckles metaphorically rapped by the PM - who's warned politicians to "focus on th...
Why is it so dangerous to be an MP?
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Justice Minister and MP for Finchley and Golders Green, Mike Freer, announced he would be leaving politics this week, fearing for his and his family's...
Is the EU losing control of Europe?
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paris is under siege. And this time, it's the farmers. But why?After weeks of tractors on the straße in Germany, France are hit by similar trouble. I...
Has Rishi Sunak 'got Brexit done' today?
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been four years since we formally left the EU - and its been eight years of trying to square an impossible circle. How do you keep Brexiteers ...
Who are the “Evil Plotters” trying to destroy Rishi Sunak?
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend the Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch made clear - in her trademark no nonsense style - that she wished all those trying to plot against a...
This week on The News Agents USA: Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election; giving you everything you need to know about the w...
Why is everyone starting to talk about World War III?
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Telegraph editor began the morning by asking how ‘everyday British life would change in a global conflict’. Trump has already called it for WW...
Why has America started to gas its convicts?
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, the first time this method of capital punishment has been used anywher...
Will conscription ever happen in the UK?
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The head of the army - General Sir Patrick Sanders - has said the UK needs to train and equip a citizen army to be on the front door for any future wa...
Has the government really ‘captured’ the BBC?
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The week started with Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary calling out the BBC for bias and a failure of impartiality. She struggled to give many exampl...
Will Israel get its hostages home?
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we hear from Ziv, who was at the Nova music festival and saw her friends die. Her boyfriend is a hostage. And from Eli whose 18 year old daughte...
Are British institutions really too 'woke'?
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PSA: If you want all the latest on the departure Ron de Santis and the Republican Presidential primary race we have a full bonus episode for you on Th...
The dangers of 2024 and how to manage them - with Britain’s oldest foreign secretary
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
2024 is still young but from Gaza to Ukraine to Pakistan, somewhere new is seemingly pulled into the mire of geopolitical clashes what seems like ever...
Rishi, Coffey, Kigali and...Count Binface
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi won his Rwanda bill as the rebels all but melted away. But how much of a victory is it - and can he convince the Lords to leave it alone? The fo...
Have the Tories stopped caring about the rule of law?
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a couple of dramatic resignations last night from Tory rebels, the government appears fairly confident it CAN get it's Rwanda bill through the c...
Is Rishi Sunak about to sack Lee Anderson over Rwanda rebellion?
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
60 Tory rebels are currently off signing amendments to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill including - checks notes - his two deputy chairmen who are on the gov...
This week on The News Agents USA: Donald Trump dominates in Iowa: is the Republican race already over?
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election; giving you everything you need to know about the w...
Has Rishi's party decided he's no good?
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mystery is afoot: in a critical week for the Government's Rwanda policy - with a looming Commons vote in 24 hours - a YouGov poll has emerged which ...
Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The war in Gaza has escalated. The UK, US and allies have attacked Houthi militia in Yemen, who themselves have been attacking Western shipping routes...
Can Nikki Haley stop Donald Trump?
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Christie - the only Republican candidate to publically call out Trump’s flaws - has pulled out of the presidential race. Does his departure o...
Post Office scandal: Why has justice taken two decades?
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The wrongly convicted Post Office victims have waited up to twenty years to have their prosecutions cancelled. Today, in one swift sentence, the Prime...
Sex Tape Allegations on Epstein's island: will we ever learn the truth?
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged trafficking victims has stood by her claim that sex tapes exist of Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton on Little St James ...
This week on The News Agents USA: The 2024 US election: the starting gun is fired
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...
The Post Office Scandal: who’s to blame for Britain’s greatest miscarriage of justice?
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why are more than 700 postmasters still trying to clear their names and access even the most basic compensation more than two decades after they were ...
Ukraine and Gaza: when will the wars end?
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's next for Ukraine and Russia? For Israel and Gaza? As tensions expand and inflame in the vital trading channel of the Red Sea and Russia continu...
Sunak sets the election date (sort of)
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister has pretty much ruled out a May election. He said today that he is "working on the assumption" that the General Election will be in...
When will Sunak call the election?
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2024. (Almost certainly) election year. Parties are in election mode and the pressure is on the PM to demystify when he will call the public to t...
2023 In Review: Part Two
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of their end of year review, Jon, Emily and Lewis look back on the news from the months of July to December.Editor: Tom HughesSenior Produ...
2023 In Review: Part One
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of their end of year review, Jon, Emily and Lewis look back on the news from the months of January to June.Editor: Tom HughesSenior Produc...
Christmas Q&A Special!
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Your questions answered in a (very merry) Christmas Q&A special with Jon, Emily and Lewis.Editor: Tom HughesSenior Producer: Gabriel RadusProducer...
2024: democracy's biggest year
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
75% of democracies in the world go to the polls next year. It's a year of enormous significance - not just for the US and for the UK, but for massive ...
Has Macron given in to racists?
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Macron relents to the far-right and introduces tough immigration laws into multicultural France. What does this mean for the right-wing Marine Le Pen'...
Will the courts stop Trump from running?
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court of Colorado has used an arcane section of the 14th Amendment of the US constitution to disqualify Donald Trump from standing for pre...
Wes Streeting: The NHS is not the envy of the world
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Streeting is hoping to become the first Labour Health Secretary in 14 years. How honest is he prepared to be about what the health service needs a...
Michelle Mone: Is it too easy for the rich and famous to lie to the public?
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What did Michelle Mone mean when she said all she’d done was “lie to the press“ after she threatened journalists with lawsuits if they dared to ...
The News Agents Investigates: The Rise of the Far Right
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Far Right are growing in strength, power and number across Europe and beyond. In election after election extremist forces are becoming bigger and ...
High Court: Piers Morgan knew about phone hacking
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prince Harry won, the press lost. In a landmark court verdict, a high court judge on Friday ruled that phone hacking and other unlawful practices to o...
Does Putin think he's about to win the war?
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Putin’s “Results of the Year “ was a marathon televised chat show where for 4+ hours he answered none of the questions the Russian publ...
Does anyone care what Gary Lineker tweets?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The incoming chair of the BBC, Samir Shah, has suggested that Gary Lineker may have breached BBC guidelines with his 'ad hominem attacks' on two Conse...
This week on The News Agents USA: Anti-Semitism and academic freedom: what’s happening on US college campuses?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...
How has Sunak got himself into this mess over Rwanda?
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak faces a crucial vote tonight in the Commons over his new Rwanda bill. It's not proving to be an easy week with his party split over whethe...
Is the Tory right about to kill Rishi's Rwanda bill?
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak is in a dark room in Paddington talking about the decisions he made as Chancellor to the covid inquiry. Meanwhile, various huddles of Tory...
Delusional, scandalous and snobbish: Tory PMs according to John Bercow
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an extended interview, Lewis Goodall speaks with the former speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.They discuss his difficult relationships w...
Is Rwanda about to bring Rishi Sunak down?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An impromptu Prime Minister's press conference this morning raised more questions than it answered. Rishi Sunak was responding to the resignation of I...
Boris Johnson: the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Johnson’s appearance before the Covid Inquiry always had the feeling of the end of season pre-Xmas finale. It began with protests from the ber...
Will you have to be rich to marry a foreigner under the new immigration rules?
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Home Secretary will bring in tough new rules to curb legal migration next Spring. Workers will be required to earn nearly forty thousand pounds to...
This week on The News Agents USA: What will a second Trump term actually look like for America?
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...
Why is Rishi Sunak less popular than Liz Truss?
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Conservative Party has lost half a million voters since their October party conference - according to a brand-new poll of polls. They suggest Rish...
Matt Hancock takes the stand
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Hancock has had his moment in the Covid Inquiry's sun. In characteristic form, he's been an appropriate mix of quoteworthy, weird and often both....
2008, Alistair Darling, and the day the world changed forever
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On 15 September 2008 the world changed forever. The collapse of Lehman Brothers Bank heralded the financial crash and the worst recession in 60 years....
Does it matter who owns our news?
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With The Telegraph newspaper up for sale we are asking a wider question about who owns our news. Does it matter if foreign parties have a stake ? Does...
Why has Rishi snubbed the Greeks?
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak has cancelled a meeting with the visiting Greek PM. Downing Street says it was because he raised the issue of the return of the Elgin Marb...
This week on The News Agents USA: Sean Spicer: Trump's Press Secretary on Trump, truth and 2024
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...
Why are the Tories arguing over immigration?
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Net migration is at an all-time high. Almost three times higher - ironically - than before the Brexit vote. If everyone agrees it’s unsustainable th...
Olivia Colman on domestic violence, paparazzi and The Crown
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar-winning and BAFTA-winning actress Olivia Colman joins The News Agents in a rare broadcast interview to talk about her work: on screen, and off-s...
Hostages in Gaza, riots in Ireland and (election) shockwaves in the Netherlands
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Israel and Hamas exchange hostages for prisoners, the worst riots in decades break out on the streets of Dublin (at the egging on of one Conor McGr...
Is worrying about public service cuts “left wing"?
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A quick trip to Downing Street for The News Agents today and an interview with the Chancellor fresh from his Autumn Statement. How does he explain tho...
Is Jeremy Hunt really cutting our taxes?
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The government is running out of chances to change the course of politics. Today’s Autumn Statement was one of them. It was billed by PM Rishi Sunak...
Is the Covid Inquiry coming for Rishi Sunak?
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past couple of days, the Covid Inquiry has seen the two most powerful scientists in the country during the height of the pandemic - Professor C...
This week on The News Agents USA: Why is Joe Biden haemorrhaging support from young voters?
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...
Is the 'Suellafication' of the Tory party over?
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What should the government do if the Supreme Court calls their policy unlawful? Simples. Just change the law.It’s not the Christmas cracker joke ans...
Sir Keir Starmer on Cameron, a Gaza ceasefire and Rwanda
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis travels up to Aberdeenshire to speak exclusively - and at length- to the Leader of the Opposition - Sir Keir Starmer after the mother of all Bri...
Has Labour's rebellion weakened Keir Starmer?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jess Philips - one of the 8 frontbenchers who voted against the Labour whip last night - gives her first interview to us since resigning last night fr...
Is the illegal Rwanda plan dead for good?
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within minutes of the Supreme Court ruling - that the government’s Rwanda scheme was ’unlawful’.Deputy chairman Lee Anderson was out of the trap...
This week on The News Agents USA: Are Republicans changing their stance on abortion?
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...
One cabinet, two prime ministers
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who is in charge of cabinet now, with two prime ministers sitting around the table? And are they aligned on domestic, as well as foreign policy? One d...
Cameron in, Suella out
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By 9am this morning, Suella began her own lifestyle choice of homelessness - sacked as Home Secretary. But the big news was still to come. David Came...
USA Special: Dispatch from the Deep South - is the US about to give Trump a second chance?
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily reports from Georgia, the eye of the Donald Trump legal storm, where he was caught on tape trying to get an election official to 'find' him more...
Who does Suella really speak for?
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suella Braverman is (still) the Home Secretary.That's despite ongoing calls from within her own party for the Prime Minister to sack her for comments ...
Is Suella trying to get the sack?
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suella Braverman is in trouble- again. It's almost like she invites it. This time she's written a piece for The Times which is being slammed as i...
How Putin is betting everything on Trump
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Hill is one of the most powerful British people of the 21st century but the chances are you haven’t even heard of her. She’s advised three p...
The King’s Speech and Suella’s disappearing tents
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we examine what was in the King's Speech - and what was left out. Suella's controversial "lifestyle choice" tents for the homeless were dropped....
Why is Trump beating Biden in the polls?
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are tremors amongst Democrats today - and the makings of a victory lap for Trump fans - after polling one year out from a Presidential election ...
Is there hope for peace in the Middle East?
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an extended interview, Jon speaks to Layla Moran, the only MP with Palestinian heritage and the Lib Dem MP for West Oxford and Abingdon.She talks a...
Covid inquiry: Was Matt Hancock "playing God”?
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did former Health Secretary Matt Hancock think the best person to decide who should live and die during the pandemic was... Matt Hancock? That was the...
Are the police getting the protests right?
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How should the police be responding to the government’s call to arrest more people on "hate marches" (sic Suella). Do laws need to change? Do specif...
The Covid Inquiry: F***pigs, morons and c***s
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So, three guesses whose WhatsApps gave us our episode title today. That’s right, Dominic Cummings was up in front of the Covid inquiry where we were...
This week on The News Agents USA: America’s most conservative senator: The Exclusive
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...
What is Israel’s endgame?
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel began a prolonged ground invasion in northern Gaza this weekend, it continued targeted airstrikes in the region and temporarily cut off communi...
Your questions answered: a listener special
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is Suella Braverman nailed on to be the next Tory leader?Will Donald Trump win the presidency from a prison cell?And...when are The News Agents going ...
What is Netanyahu's next move?
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last night - after Israel's Prime Minister addressed the nation - the troops went into Gaza. It was a raid that paved the way for what Netanyahu promi...
Why is pressure mounting on Keir Starmer to call for a ceasefire?
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Labour Muslim MPs have had a long meeting with leader Keir Starmer in which they expressed their discontent with their leader for not explicitly calli...
A year of Rishi - can he keep the Tories in power?
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak’s premiership is almost one year old. Is this where the Tory party wants to be 12 months out from an election? Can a party that’s been...
This week on The News Agents USA: Is Liz Cheney coming for Donald Trump?
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily and Jon host a weekly US politics podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.Episodes...