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Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. and beyond. With @Maitlis, @JonSopel and @Lewis_Goodall. 🎧 Listen and subscribe on @GlobalPlayer 📲
Joined February 2022
🎥 We’re going 𝐿𝐼𝒱𝐸 at 12:30pm for a Q&A with @jonsopel and @lewis_goodall!. Got a question? Drop it in the live chat or email us at newsagents@global.com 📧. Tune in on @globalplayer 👉or @YouTube. See you at 12:30! ⏰
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What's the new MP for Clacton doing out here in Milwaukee? 🇺🇸. @maitlis asks @Nigel_Farage. @GlobalPlayer
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"Emily, you're a conspiracy theorist. We like the truth.". Why did Marjorie Taylor Greene tell @maitlis to fuck off? 🤬. Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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“Can you answer the question?” . “Emily, you need your head examined.” . Key Trump ally Kari Lake, who is being sued for repeated false claims of election interference, doubles down. @maitlis | @GlobalPlayer
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“The power of the populist is, somehow, to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.”. @maitlis on Nigel Farage using his Coutts bank account closure to provoke a culture war. Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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“One of the most vile, cowardly, egregious political acts I’ve ever witnessed.”. @maitlis on immigration minister Robert Jenrick’s defence of ordering a Mickey Mouse mural to be covered up in a children’s asylum reception centre. Listen on @GlobalPlayer .
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"The conversations in this hall are 𝙙𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖𝙣. I think the people spouting this garbage are starting to believe it.". @maitlis reports from the Republican National Convention where the likes of Russell Brand, Liz Truss and Rudy Giuliani have gathered. 🇺🇸
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“Robbie Gibb made my life really, really hard - people would say to me, “Robbie is watching you.”. @lewis_goodall recalls being “lectured” at the BBC on impartiality by a board member who had been Theresa May's Head of Comms when she was PM. 👉
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"What rules has he broken? A man wants to continue to watch football with his children? We have to keep our Prime Minister safe.". Gary Neville criticises what he says is unfair scrutiny over Keir Starmer accepting hospitality tickets to Arsenal. @lewis_goodall | @GNev2
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“Don’t blame the virus, blame Brexit.”. The River Café’s Ruth Rogers outlines the harsh realities of a post-Brexit landscape for the food industry. @maitlis | @jonsopel. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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“You can’t get an ambulance, or a hospital bed! There’s no point in suggesting strikes are causing this problem.”. @maitlis challenges @grantshapps over proposed strike laws for ‘minimum safety levels’ during the ongoing A&E crisis. Coming to @GlobalPlayer. @maitlis | @jonsopel
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“She dares to have the gall to say ‘the deep state blocked me’, are you shitting me?!”. @jonsopel slams Liz Truss’s “nonsense” claims about her mandate being blocked during her short-lived stint as PM. Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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“Nadine Dorries says the public has a right to know who the BBC presenter is - could this end up with an MP naming them in parliament?. Jon: “That would first require Nadine to find her way to House of Commons.”. Coming to @GlobalPlayer. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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Just waking up? Here's a quick recap of the gonners. @lewis_goodall | #GeneralElections2024
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“We just can’t shake Sir John!”. We spent an hour being tailed by the local MP in the 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 Tory seat as @lewis_goodall tried to find anyone who’ll be voting for him…
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"The consistent lying they all did for each other. I thought it was disgusting the way they behaved in office.". @joelycett didn’t get to see his best friend before he died during lockdown, which, he says, is what led him to troll Liz Truss in person… on live TV.
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“Which country, until recently, had access to both the UK home market and the European market?”. Rishi Sunak gushed over N. Ireland’s “unbelievably special” economic position. But did he also expose the fundamental fallacy of Brexit?. On @GlobalPlayer.
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“Nigel Farage - a prep school boy who went into The City - is a working class hero? Come on.”. Why do we allow the political elite to pose as “outsiders”?. 👉 @lewis_goodall | Ian Hislop | @GlobalPlayer
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“Imagine the conversation [with] Gary Lineker and chairman Richard Sharp on impartiality. Gary turns around and says 'I didn’t facilitate an £800,000 loan for the PM.'”. The News Agents discuss Gary Lineker's partiality coming under fire. 👉
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Three years on from leaving the EU, @maitlis and @lewis_goodall go back through a 2016 Brexit ad campaign to see if the promises made to the UK were delivered. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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"If Musk created X now, the way it is, would we in the media use it? No! we wouldn't touch it a barge pole.". Are unmediated platforms like X beyond redemption - and should we stop using it?. @lewis_goodall | @jonsopel
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🚨 BREAKING: @MhairiBlack tells @maitlis she is stepping down as an MP at the next general election. She says Westminster is a “toxic workplace” that has taken its toll on her "body and mind". Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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"You don't care?" . @maitlis asks @Nigel_Farage if he’ll apologise to the people of Clacton for breaking his Brexit promise of economic growth.
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.@maitlis: “You went to work for a man who was a consistent liar.”. @Guto_Harri: “There are lies that matter, and lies that don’t’.”. Listen back on @GlobalPlayer
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“How much money did you make in The City?”. @lewis_goodall asks @Jacob_Rees_Mogg about his time working in finance after his speech rallying against ‘Davos Man’ at the launch of ‘Popular Conservatism.’. Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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🗞️ Exclusive. An investigation into a powerful figure in British media, Sir Paul Marshall, has found him engaging with extremist content on Twitter. The super-rich @GBNEWS investor is a reported frontrunner to buy The Telegraph and Spectator. @lewis_goodall | @hopenothate
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“Calling the BBC a safe haven for perverts is monstrous - and talk about pot calling kettle black from the Conservative Party!”. @jonsopel slams Deputy Tory Chairman @LeeAndersonMP_ and his comments over BBC presenter allegations. Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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“We ended up buying this shit from non-dom, publicly educated people, with German wives, trying to get German passports.”. @maitlis on the lies that propped up the Brexit campaign. Listen on @GlobalPlayer
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“Imagine in any other workplace somebody being racist and HR saying ‘we believe in Christian forgiveness, let’s move on?!’”. Former Conservative Party Chair @SayeedaWarsi says Michael Gove should be “nowhere near” the govt’s new definition of extremism. @lewis_goodall
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“The real tragedy for me was [Gervais’s standup] was comedically weak.”. “He's skilled… what a waste of that skill to attack minorities.”. Coming to @GlobalPlayer. @lewis_goodall | @joelycett
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"She wants to be straight talking but she doesn't know what her next line is.". Kemi Badenoch doesn't shy away from making bold statements - but backs off as soon as there is any follow up, says @maitlis. @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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"I'd like to punch him, Andrew Tate. I think he's disgusting.". Steve Coogan weighs in on the wave of "toxic" male figures online with @maitlis.
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.@piersmorgan says the Qatar sportswashing debate is “laced with rank hypocrisy”. He questions which country is "morally clean enough" to host the tournament. Coming to @globalplayer. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @piersmorgan
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.@jonsopel with the story that BBC Chair Richard Sharp sat on the panel when the BBC was interviewing for their Head of News job.💥. The BBC Chair is supposed to sit separately from editorial decision-making. On @GlobalPlayer 👇. @maitlis | @lewis_goodall
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"[Baddiel] accepts that I’m not a racist, so why does he construct something that's allegedly at the back of my mind?". @jeremycorbyn responds to @Baddiel’s characterisation of his alleged anti-Semitism. Listen on @GlobalPlayer. @lewis_goodall
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"Twitter has normalised far-right views. They are being diffused down from the very top - Musk himself - who restored Tommy Robinson's account.". How can disinformation be stopped when social media platforms allow it to spread?. @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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"He called you a fascist, sir.". The News Agents blagged our way into the members' only section of Mar-a-Lago. Not sure Donald Trump expected this question from @lewis_goodall.
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"We haven't had one week since September when we've had the heating, photocopier and internet working.". "Last year, we ran out of whiteboard pens.". @lewis_goodall spoke to some of the 30,000 teachers marching on Whitehall to demand better pay and funding.
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“If she was white and called Sharon from Manchester, it wouldn’t even occur to the govt to take the passports of somebody ‘obviously’ British.”. Ex Lib Dem leader @TimFarron says Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship stripping is a "reminder not everyone's equal.". On @GlobalPlayer
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“I feel sorry for Rishi Sunak that his team allowed this to build all day.”. “Plan an election? They couldn’t even plan an 𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢.” ☔️. The PM cut a sorry, sodden sight as he announced a July election. @maitlis | @lewis_goodall | @jonsopel | @GlobalPlayer
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"Stop calling it a mini-budget or fiscal event. It was a massive shift in economic policy. The country is in complete economic shock," says @maitlis. "MPs are telling me they're staying away from the Tory conference. They don't want to answer questions.". Listen on @GlobalPlayer
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In just 3 years, there has been an 11000% increase in people waiting 12 hours or longer in A&E. @lewis_goodall lays bare the NHS figures getting remarkably worse, fast. Listen on @GlobalPlayer. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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"Dan Neidle says he 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 accused you of tax evasion.". "That's what it felt to me.". "You can't say you 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 that, either he said it or didn't.". Did @nadhimzahawi order a SLAPP upon the tax lawyer whose accusations ultimately brought him down?. @maitlis
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“We’re always asking politicians to be more honest… and Jacob Rees-Mogg accidentally told the truth.”. @maitlis and @jonsopel on the Tory MP’s gerrymandering confession/slip up…. Listen on @GlobalPlayer
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"It really saddened me. The immediate bitchy coverage of Harry and Meghan. I couldn't bear it.". Emily says the Sussexes' coverage "became the centre point within hours" and showed a lack of respect for the Queen. Listen on @GlobalPlayer 📲. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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“She went on television and helped to legitimise war crimes committed in Gaza… I actually felt sick.”. @OwenJones84 says Shadow Attorney General @EmilyThornberry is “not fit for office”. Listen on @GlobalPlayer. @lewis_goodall
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"It's Tommy Robinson in a cravat.". Lord Chris Patten says 'saloon bar bore' Farage has damaged the country more than anyone else and questions his appeal to the Conservative party. @maitlis | @GlobalPlayer
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“One of the most extraordinary, unforgivable dereliction of duties of a serving Prime Minister.”. Boris Johnson, while PM, went off the grid and was uncontactable as the global pandemic struck. He was meeting his book deadline, says Dominic Cummings. Listen on @GlobalPlayer
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“There has been a slow, hostile takeover by the right of the Conservative Party… It's Farage’s party now.”. The News Agents discuss how the right gradually took the reigns, and moderate members allowed it. Catch up on @GlobalPlayer. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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“We simply do not trust Boris Johnson, we think he is a liar.”. @jonsopel recounts being told by a senior member of President Macron’s administration what they thought of the ex-PM. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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"There is no one better placed to understand the cost of living crisis than a 25-year-old.". @lewis_goodall responds to Johnny Mercer's 'Inbetweeners' jibe aimed at new Labour MP Keir Mather. Coming to @GlobalPlayer. @jonsopel
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'It's hard enough to convince people around the world that the BBC is an independent broadcaster, not a state broadcaster.'. Former Chair @DianeCoyle1859 on the Tory government giving BBC jobs to 'mates'. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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“You touched a nerve, he looked irritated.”. @maitlis on her interview with Russell Brand, and how he knew when she was “editing” as he spoke…. On @GlobalPlayer.
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“I think we’ve had three of the worst prime ministers in our history. Lord @AlfDubs on the “poisoning” of the political atmosphere in recent years. Coming to @GlobalPlayer. @lewis_goodall
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Slashing inheritance tax would save Rishi Sunak’s own family £300 million. As for the majority of households? Absolutely nothing. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.👉 @maitlis | @jonsopel
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“We all know at the heart of that “joke�� is an overly simplistic, stupid comment on gender that is crass at best of times. ". "But when he knows the mother of a murdered trans schoolgirl is present…it's pretty unforgivable.". @GlobalPlayer. @maitlis | @lewis_goodall
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“Someone at the BBC said to me, 'Robbie is counting up your tweets you know, he is watching.'”. @lewis_goodall on board member Robbie Gibb's "completely inappropriate” involvement in BBC journalists’ work. Listen on @GlobalPayer.
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A senior civil servant told @jonsopel it’s “very serious now for Dominic Raab.”. He said Raab “has zero self-awareness of what he’s doing, or the impact he is having on the civil servants who have to work with him.”. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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Andrew Norfolk, the reporter who broke the story of the grooming gangs scandal in 2011, wants to "set the record straight". He tells us. .
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“Everybody seems to know everybody.”. @lewis_goodall dives into the financial scandals engulfing Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi. He also shows how back room connections play their part.
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.@NicolaSturgeon says some are using the 'cloak of caring about women's rights' to hide their 'misogyny and racism'. She talks to @lewis_goodall about the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, a controversial and divisive topic in Scottish politics. Coming soon to @GlobalPlayer.
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“He’s 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 bad at politics… On a par with Liz Truss.”. Editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop on PM Rishi Sunak. @lewis_goodall | @GlobalPlayer
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“Nobody signed up for this. It’s obscene.”. NHS staff are forced to examine patients in store cupboards and on hospital corridors, by holding up sheets. A neurosurgeon describes the effect that providing "the worst A&E care he has seen" is having on colleagues. @GlobalPlayer.
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"This is a civilisational war. The West has to do their job.". @lewis_goodall reports from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi where thousands of Gen Z protesters are hitting the streets night after night. 🇬🇪. @GlobalPlayer
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“It is utter nonsense to gaslight this nation about the fact this health service is being mismanaged from the top down.” . A London based neurosurgeon says it is vital NHS funds are sent directly to frontline staff in order for it to run. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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Could today be the last day of Tory rule? 🔷. A look back from 2010 to the present and 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 in between.
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“Boris Johnson was muttering about Rishi Sunak under his breath all the way through [Zelenskyy’s] speech.”. @maitlis finds out from one MP what Johnson was thinking while he watched President Zelenskyy's speech in Westminster. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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"We all treat Reform like they're a new party, they very much aren't!. They are UKIP, into Brexit, into Leave, into Reform - with the same leader!". @maitlis on the danger of treating Reform as a fresh political force. @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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“We’ve ended up with people not slightly distrusting of politicians, but worrying every single one is a crook, a liar and a waster.”. Labour MP Chris Bryant on Britain's “worst parliament in history.”. Listen on @GlobalPlayer. @jonsopel | @RhonddaBryant
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“What broke my heart is my daughters being scared for first time ever because of the colour of their skin.”. “But I’m the first in three generations of Khans going nowhere - I’m not moving mate.”. @MayorofLondon | @jonsopel | @GlobalPlayer
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“This country is dead. Sharia law is king.”. @lewis_goodall went door-knocking with Reform Party activists in Andy Burnham’s former constituency, Leigh, in Greater Manchester. Full episode out on Sunday 🎧
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“I’m bitterly disappointed by the purposefully divisive rhetoric coming from gov’t, in particular Suella Braverman.”. “Shame on them.”. @jonsopel sits down with Lib Dem MP @LaylaMoran. Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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Companies are required by law to declare their true owner. To not so do is a criminal offence. Lawyer @DanNeidle says Michelle Mone's husband, Douglas Barrowman, “essentially incriminated himself” in an interview, but thinks he has “complete impunity.”. @GlobalPlayer
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“Boris Johnson is without doubt the most dishonest Prime Minister of my lifetime. “He has a nodding acquaintance with the truth at best, only in a leap year.”. Former speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, talks to @lewis_goodall. 👉
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“I have referred Kemi Badenoch and David Cameron to the ethics adviser.”. Lib Dem MP @LaylaMoran believes - "if what @aliciakearns says is true" -the gov't willingly ignored advice that Israel had broken humanitarian law. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @GlobalPlayer
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“That stinks. That is extraordinary.”. The public still doesn’t know who provided Boris Johnson with a personal £800,000 loan when he was Prime Minister. His team say it is “not in the public interest.”. Listen on @GlobalPlayer. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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"I think Trump is 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙙 that Putin has something on him. You cannot explain why he's never uttered a bad word against him.". @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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“Let me inform that gentleman - who I do not know - that every poll had me defeating Trump. I believe I would have defeated Trump.”. @BernieSanders responds to @wesstreeting. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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"You are not killed by the average temperature. You are killed by the extreme.". Abandoned farms, migrants with nowhere to go and a dying national park. @lewis_goodall reports on the stark reality of climate change in southern Spain.
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"We shouldn't make stuff up.". "What was made up?". Is Kemi Badenoch worried she's damaged her chances of becoming the Tory leader with her comments about maternity pay?. @maitlis
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“It was a deliberate smear to stop me going out there and speaking my mind.”. @AngelaRayner says the council tax row was "frustrating" - adding misogyny and classism have been a "theme" throughout her political career. @lewis_goodall | @GlobalPlayer
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“Ban her! She is an 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 to her party and to her country.". "If a leader wants to show they have some guts they’d ban her from the next conference.”. The News Agents reflect on Liz Truss’s party conference speech. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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“Canada and Australia are way richer than us. If Britain had the same GDP and inequality as them, the average household would be £8.8k better off.”. Here's why the cost of living crisis is a ‘catastrophe’ for Britain. 👉 @lewis_goodall | @TorstenBell
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“It was straightforward harassment, really.”. Ian Hislop on @piersmorgan sending photographers to his house and offering money for “dirt” on him. @lewis_goodall | @GlobalPlayer
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'It just looks abnormal. And you know why? Because it 𝙞𝙨 abnormal'. @lewis_goodall draws parallels between questions over Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs and the cloud over BBC Chair Richard Sharp. On Global Player 👇. @lewis_goodall | @maitlis | @jonsopel
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“Sources close to Gary Lineker say he hasn’t stepped back, but the BBC have taken him off air because [he is] unwilling to apologise for his tweets.”. The News Agents discuss the ramifications of the football pundit’s exit from MOTD. 👉
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“This is the great myth: you think that capitalists invest capital.”. @RMTunion General Secretary Mick Lynch says European franchise owners ‘haven’t invested a penny’ into British railways. 🚂. Coming soon to @GlobalPlayer . @maitlis | @jonsopel
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A senior Tory told @maitlis “until you get all the toxic shit out the hole, you can’t start filling it in.”. Nadhim Zahawi’s tax inquiry isn’t going anywhere for Rishi Sunak, so why is the PM allowing a minister’s scandal to dominate his party?. 👉
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It’s one of those nights… An EMERGENCY NEWS AGENTS will be in your feeds later tonight.
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We’re excited to announce The News Agents Investigates, hosted by @lewis_goodall! . The investigative podcast will get to the heart of the biggest news stories, with on-the-ground newsgathering and reporting. Launching Sunday 1st October on @globalplayer and elsewhere.🕵️♂️
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“Good week for Tampax!” . How about that fancy new accessory Republicans are wearing?. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
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"We should split our rent with the rats.". Students at Manchester Uni are on rent strike, citing poor living conditions and extortionate prices. @Lewis_Goodall paid them a visit to see for himself. Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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“The fact Truss still shows her face shows she is utterly shameless.". "She marauds around the world, flaunting her book and warped views as if nothing happened.”. @wesstreeting slams @trussliz and questions why she is still an MP. @maitlis | @lewis_goodall | @GlobalPlayer
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"There will come a moment where the West has to say to Donald Trump, sorry, you're just spouting what Putin thinks, and we can't allow this to happen.". But when will that be?. @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall .
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“I hated 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 second I spent on it - a total waste of time." . "People should pay 𝙣𝙤 attention to these numbers - they are misleading.". Former Perm. Sec to the Treasury @Gus_ODonnell on the “grubbiness” of opposition policy costings. @maitlis | @jonsopel
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“She doesn’t know what she’s talking about, 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯.”. Nancy Pelosi tells @jonsopel and @lewis_goodall it's “annoying” the likes of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson think the world would be safer under Donald Trump. @SpeakerPelosi
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