โThe power of the populist is, somehow, to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.โ
@maitlis
on Nigel Farage using his Coutts bank account closure to provoke a culture war.
Coming to
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โOne of the most vile, cowardly, egregious political acts Iโve ever witnessed.โ
@maitlis
on immigration minister Robert Jenrickโs defence of ordering a Mickey Mouse mural to be covered up in a childrenโs asylum reception centre.
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โRobbie Gibb made my life really, really hard - people would say to me, โRobbie is watching you.โ
@lewis_goodall
recalls being โlecturedโ at the BBC on impartiality by a board member who had been Theresa May's Head of Comms when she was PM.
๐
โDonโt blame the virus, blame Brexit.โ
The River Cafรฉโs Ruth Rogers outlines the harsh realities of a post-Brexit landscape for the food industry.
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
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.
โYou canโt get an ambulance, or a hospital bed! Thereโs no point in suggesting strikes are causing this problem.โ
@maitlis
challenges
@grantshapps
over proposed strike laws for โminimum safety levelsโ during the ongoing A&E crisis.
Coming to
@GlobalPlayer
.
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
โShe dares to have the gall to say โthe deep state blocked meโ, are you shitting me?!โ
@jonsopel
slams Liz Trussโs โnonsenseโ claims about her mandate being blocked during her short-lived stint as PM.
Coming to
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โNadine 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: โThat would first require Nadine to find her way to House of Commons.โ
Coming to
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@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
"The consistent lying they all did for each other. I thought it was disgusting the way they behaved in office."
@joelycett
didnโt get to see his best friend before he died during lockdown, which, he says, is what led him to troll Liz Truss in personโฆ on live TV.
โWhich country, until recently, had access to both the UK home market and the European market?โ
Rishi Sunak gushed over N. Irelandโs โunbelievably specialโ economic position. But did he also expose the fundamental fallacy of Brexit?
On
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โNigel Farage - a prep school boy who went into The City - is a working class hero? Come on.โ
Why do we allow the political elite to pose as โoutsidersโ?
๐
@lewis_goodall
| Ian Hislop |
@GlobalPlayer
โImagine the conversation [with] Gary Lineker and chairman Richard Sharp on impartiality... Gary turns around and says 'I didnโt facilitate an ยฃ800,000 loan for the PM.'โ
The News Agents discuss Gary Lineker's partiality coming under fire.
๐
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...
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๐จ BREAKING:
@MhairiBlack
tells
@maitlis
she is stepping down as an MP at the next general election.
She says Westminster is a โtoxic workplaceโ that has taken its toll on her "body and mind".
Coming to
@GlobalPlayer
.
@maitlis
: โYou went to work for a man who was a consistent liar.โ
@Guto_Harri
: โThere are lies that matter, and lies that donโtโ.โ
Listen back on
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โHow much money did you make in The City?โ
@lewis_goodall
asks
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
about his time working in finance after his speech rallying against โDavos Manโ at the launch of โPopular Conservatism.โ
Coming to
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๐๏ธ 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
โCalling the BBC a safe haven for perverts is monstrous - and talk about pot calling kettle black from the Conservative Party!โ
@jonsopel
slams Deputy Tory Chairman
@LeeAndersonMP_
and his comments over BBC presenter allegations.
Coming to
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โWe ended up buying this shit from non-dom, publicly educated people, with German wives, trying to get German passports.โ
@maitlis
on the lies that propped up the Brexit campaign.
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โImagine in any other workplace somebody being racist and HR saying โwe believe in Christian forgiveness, letโs move on?!โโ
Former Conservative Party Chair
@SayeedaWarsi
says Michael Gove should be โnowhere nearโ the govtโs new definition of extremism.
@lewis_goodall
โThe real tragedy for me was [Gervaisโs standup] was comedically weak.โ
โHe's skilledโฆ what a waste of that skill to attack minorities.โ
Coming to
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@lewis_goodall
|
@joelycett
.
@jonsopel
with the story that BBC Chair Richard Sharp sat on the panel when the BBC was interviewing for their Head of News job.๐ฅ
The BBC Chair is supposed to sit separately from editorial decision-making.
On
@GlobalPlayer
๐
@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
"[Baddiel] accepts that Iโm not a racist, so why does he construct something that's allegedly at the back of my mind?"
@jeremycorbyn
responds to
@Baddiel
โs characterisation of his alleged anti-Semitism.
Listen on
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.
@lewis_goodall
"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.
โIf she was white and called Sharon from Manchester, it wouldnโt even occur to the govt to take the passports of somebody โobviouslyโ British.โ
Ex Lib Dem leader
@TimFarron
says Shamima Begumโs UK citizenship stripping is a "reminder not everyone's equal."
On
@GlobalPlayer
"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
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โWeโre always asking politicians to be more honestโฆ and Jacob Rees-Mogg accidentally told the truth.โ
@maitlis
and
@jonsopel
on the Tory MPโs gerrymandering confession/slip upโฆ
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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.
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@GlobalPlayer
๐ฒ
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
โOne of the most extraordinary, unforgivable dereliction of duties of a serving Prime Minister.โ
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.
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โThere has been a slow, hostile takeover by the right of the Conservative Partyโฆ It's Farageโs party now.โ
The News Agents discuss how the right gradually took the reigns, and moderate members allowed it.
Catch up on
@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
โWe simply do not trust Boris Johnson, we think he is a liar.โ
@jonsopel
recounts being told by a senior member of President Macronโs administration what they thought of the ex-PM.
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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
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@jonsopel
'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
โI think weโve had three of the worst prime ministers in our history.
Lord
@AlfDubs
on the โpoisoningโ of the political atmosphere in recent years.
Coming to
@GlobalPlayer
@lewis_goodall
โYou touched a nerve, he looked irritated.โ
@maitlis
on her interview with Russell Brand, and how he knew when she was โeditingโ as he spokeโฆ
On
@GlobalPlayer
Slashing inheritance tax would save Rishi Sunakโs own family ยฃ300 million.
As for the majority of households? Absolutely nothing.
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@GlobalPlayer
๐
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
โWe all know at the heart of that โjokeโ 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 presentโฆit's pretty unforgivable."
@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
A senior civil servant told
@jonsopel
itโs โvery serious now for Dominic Raab.โ
He said Raab โhas zero self-awareness of what heโs doing, or the impact he is having on the civil servants who have to work with him.โ
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โSomeone at the BBC said to me, 'Robbie is counting up your tweets you know, he is watching.'โ
@lewis_goodall
on board member Robbie Gibb's "completely inappropriateโ involvement in BBC journalistsโ work.
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@GlobalPayer
โEverybody seems to know everybody.โ
@lewis_goodall
dives into the financial scandals engulfing Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi.
He also shows how back room connections play their part...
.
@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
.
โNobody signed up for this...Itโs obscene.โ
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
.
โHeโs ๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฒ bad at politicsโฆ On a par with Liz Truss.โ
Editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop on PM Rishi Sunak.
@lewis_goodall
|
@GlobalPlayer
โIt is utter nonsense to gaslight this nation about the fact this health service is being mismanaged from the top down.โ
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
โBoris Johnson was muttering about Rishi Sunak under his breath all the way through [Zelenskyyโs] speech.โ
@maitlis
finds out from one MP what Johnson was thinking while he watched President Zelenskyy's speech in Westminster.
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@GlobalPlayer
โWeโve ended up with people not slightly distrusting of politicians, but worrying every single one is a crook, a liar and a waster.โ
Labour MP Chris Bryant on Britain's โworst parliament in history.โ
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@jonsopel
|
@RhonddaBryant
โIโm bitterly disappointed by the purposefully divisive rhetoric coming from govโt, in particular Suella Braverman.โ
โShame on them.โ
@jonsopel
sits down with Lib Dem MP
@LaylaMoran
.
Coming to
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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, โessentially incriminated himselfโ in an interview, but thinks he has โcomplete impunity.โ
@GlobalPlayer
โI have referred Kemi Badenoch and David Cameron to the ethics adviser.โ
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
โThat stinks. That is extraordinary.โ
The public still doesnโt know who provided Boris Johnson with a personal ยฃ800,000 loan when he was Prime Minister.
His team say it is โnot in the public interest.โ
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@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
โBoris Johnson is without doubt the most dishonest Prime Minister of my lifetime.
โHe has a nodding acquaintance with the truth at best, only in a leap year.โ
Former speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, talks to
@lewis_goodall
.
๐
โLet me inform that gentleman - who I do not know - that every poll had me defeating Trump. I believe I would have defeated Trump.โ
@BernieSanders
responds to
@wesstreeting
.
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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.
"I just can't see how any of Mark Menziesโs Tory MP colleagues would ๐๐๐ง๐ put their head over the parapet to talk about Angela Reyner's potential tax bill of ยฃ1500 now."
๐
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
โCanada and Australia are way richer than us. If Britain had the same GDP and inequality as them, the average household would be ยฃ8.8k better off.โ
Here's why the cost of living crisis is a โcatastropheโ for Britain.
๐
@lewis_goodall
|
@TorstenBell
โIt was straightforward harassment, really.โ
Ian Hislop on
@piersmorgan
sending photographers to his house and offering money for โdirtโ on him.
@lewis_goodall
|
@GlobalPlayer
'It just looks abnormal. And you know why? Because it ๐๐จ abnormal'.
@lewis_goodall
draws parallels between questions over Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs and the cloud over BBC Chair Richard Sharp.
On Global Player ๐
@lewis_goodall
|
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
โSources close to Gary Lineker say he hasnโt stepped back, but the BBC have taken him off air because [he is] unwilling to apologise for his tweets.โ
The News Agents discuss the ramifications of the football punditโs exit from MOTD.
๐
A senior Tory told
@maitlis
โuntil you get all the toxic shit out the hole, you canโt start filling it in.โ
Nadhim Zahawiโs tax inquiry isnโt going anywhere for Rishi Sunak, so why is the PM allowing a ministerโs scandal to dominate his party?
๐
Weโre 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.๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ
โThis is the great myth: you think that capitalists invest capital.โ
@RMTunion
General Secretary Mick Lynch says European franchise owners โhavenโt invested a pennyโ into British railways. ๐
Coming soon to
@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
โThe 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.โ
@wesstreeting
slams
@trussliz
and questions why she is still an MP.
@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
|
@GlobalPlayer
"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
โThereโs no such thing as food poverty. Thereโs just poverty.โ
@JayRayner1
says that 20 years of government failure, not the price of food, is the reason for millions of Brits choosing between heating and eating.
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
โPrince Harry thinks this is vindication for everything his mother went throughโฆ he'll take the stand, he's got the money and the will to do this."
Listen on
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@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
โCorbyn deserves an enormous amount of credit for energising whole bunches of young people.โ
@BernieSanders
says it is โstrangeโ the Labour Party has "thrown
@jeremycorbyn
out."
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
Race, refugees and Rotherham.
On Saturday, far-right demonstrators protested outside a Yorkshire hotel housing asylum seekers. They were met with resistance and police.
@lewis_goodall
visited the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers to tell the story.
โThat is a political decision that has been taken.โ
@maitlis
asks Chief Negotiator for Brexit,
@DavidGHFrost
, his message to the young people who will never enjoy the same freedom to experience Europe that he did.
Coming to
@GlobalPlayer
.
โStop. Stop. Stop. Lewis. Donโt interrupt me. Because Iโm going to say something Iโd like you to listen toโฆโ
@matthancock
and
@lewis_goodall
come to blows.
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โIf Rishi Sunakโs kids turned around and said โIโm not going to universityโ, heโd say โyou bloody well areโโฆ too often politicians are talking about other peopleโs kids and I don't like it.โ
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@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
|
@JoJohnsonUK
โThis incident looked like it set out to make a political point. It wasnโt organic.โ
Is there more to the interaction between the Met Police and Jewish journalist Gideon Falter than meets the eye?
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@GlobalPlayer
โIโm on a night shift, weโre doctors down, Iโm dealing with patients who are seizing, another who is dying, all of this and youโre paid ยฃ14 an hour.โ
Junior Doctor, Josh, is grateful for his ยฃ28k salary but says the gruelling demands of the job means NHS doctors deserve more.
โItโs called populism. Whether itโs Russell Brand or Liz Truss... this idea there is conspiracy everywhere is really dangerous.โ
Listen on
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@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
Did Liz Truss undermine British national interest when she signed the UK-Aus trade deal?
Tory MP George Eustice: โYesโ.
Listen on
@globalplayer
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
โYou could have been at a UKIP or Brexit party conference.โ
The News Agents discuss the Conservative โmoveโ to the โNigel Farage agendaโ - who was present at Liz Trussโs party conference speechโฆ
On
@GlobalPlayer
"Normally former chancellors are supposed to have the least complicated tax affairs."
Nadhim Zahawi has landed in hot water thanks to an alleged seven figure settlement he paid the tax office to end a dispute.
@lewis_goodall
.
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has approved the spending of ยฃ34million to revamp her offices as the crumbling concrete scandal hits headlinesโฆ
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@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
โUtterly implausible.โ
Former Mirror journalist Dan Evans says it is "fantastical" Piers Morgan had no knowledge of phone hacking.
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@lewis_goodall
Former Conservative leader William Hague lays the collapse of Britishvolt at Brexitโs door while talking with
@maitlis
and
@jonsopel
at Davos.
Coming to
@GlobalPlayer
.
โKeir acted sympathetically, the [Labour] whips' office deserve all the credit in the world.โ
@jessphillips
lifts the curtain on the difficult decision to vote against the Labour leader.
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@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
โWhat makes it so disgraceful is that he knows itโs nonsense.โ
Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused Baroness Hale - the first woman Justice of Supreme Court - of not being an impartial judge for voting against the Rwanda Bill in the HoL.
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
โIt wasnโt a problem that needed fixing.โ
@maitlis
,
@jonsopel
and the very person who broke the story,
@lewis_goodall
, ask why the government wanted to privatise Channel 4 to begin with.
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
.
โThe extent to which trans people have become the butt of the joke in Westminster speaks to a level of transphobia thatโs started to infect British political debate.โ
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@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
"Truss will try and position herself as someone who was not understood at the time - an intellectual visionary."
Liz Truss eyes a political comeback, will she be successful or is it just too soon?
On
@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
โThe idea of telling your electorates youโre no longer going to represent them because youโre pissed off you didnโt get a peerage is pathetic.โ
@lewis_goodall
and
@jonsopel
react to
@NadineDorries
hitting out at Rishi Sunak after losing out on a peerage.
@GlobalPlayer
โBoris Johnson saw Simon Case as a private secretary - a personal henchman to make things go away, rather than to provide checks and balances.โ
The News Agents on the role the Head of the Civil Service had to play in Boris Johnsonโs personal ยฃ800k loan.
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