“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
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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.
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@GlobalPlayer
“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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“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
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@jonsopel
Listen on
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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
“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
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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
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@maitlis
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@jonsopel
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@lewis_goodall
"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.
“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
“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 |
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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...
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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
.
@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
“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
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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
“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
“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.
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@GlobalPlayer
“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
“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
.
@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
"[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
"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.
“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
"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
“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
"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
“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.
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@GlobalPlayer
“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
“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.
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@GlobalPlayer
"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
'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
“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
“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
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
“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
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.”
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@GlobalPlayer
“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.
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@GlobalPayer
“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...
.
@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
.
“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
.
“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
“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.
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@GlobalPlayer
“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.”
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@GlobalPlayer
@jonsopel
|
@RhonddaBryant
“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
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
“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
“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.”
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@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
“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
.
👉
“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
"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 Menzies’s Tory MP colleagues would 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚 put their head over the parapet to talk about Angela Reyner's potential tax bill of £1500 now."
👉
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
“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.
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@lewis_goodall
|
@TorstenBell
'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
“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.
👉
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?
👉
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.🕵️♂️
“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
“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
"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
“There’s no such thing as food poverty. There’s just poverty.”
@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
“Prince Harry thinks this is vindication for everything his mother went through… he'll take the stand, he's got the money and the will to do this."
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
“Corbyn deserves an enormous amount of credit for energising whole bunches of young people.”
@BernieSanders
says it is “strange” 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.
“That is a political decision that has been taken.”
@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
.
“If Rishi Sunak’s kids turned around and said ‘I’m not going to university’, he’d say ‘you bloody well are’… too often politicians are talking about other people’s kids and I don't like it.”
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@GlobalPlayer
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
|
@JoJohnsonUK
“This incident looked like it set out to make a political point. It wasn’t organic.”
Is there more to the interaction between the Met Police and Jewish journalist Gideon Falter than meets the eye?
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@GlobalPlayer
“I’m on a night shift, we’re doctors down, I’m dealing with patients who are seizing, another who is dying, all of this and you’re paid £14 an hour.”
Junior Doctor, Josh, is grateful for his £28k salary but says the gruelling demands of the job means NHS doctors deserve more.
“It’s called populism. Whether it’s Russell Brand or Liz Truss... this idea there is conspiracy everywhere is really dangerous.”
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@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@lewis_goodall
Did Liz Truss undermine British national interest when she signed the UK-Aus trade deal?
Tory MP George Eustice: ‘Yes’.
Listen on
@globalplayer
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
“You could have been at a UKIP or Brexit party conference.”
The News Agents discuss the Conservative “move” to the “Nigel Farage agenda” - who was present at Liz Truss’s party conference speech…
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 £34million to revamp her offices as the crumbling concrete scandal hits headlines…
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@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
|
@lewis_goodall
“Utterly implausible.”
Former Mirror journalist Dan Evans says it is "fantastical" Piers Morgan had no knowledge of phone hacking.
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
@lewis_goodall
Former Conservative leader William Hague lays the collapse of Britishvolt at Brexit’s door while talking with
@maitlis
and
@jonsopel
at Davos.
Coming to
@GlobalPlayer
.
“Keir acted sympathetically, the [Labour] whips' office deserve all the credit in the world.”
@jessphillips
lifts the curtain on the difficult decision to vote against the Labour leader.
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@GlobalPlayer
@maitlis
|
@jonsopel
“What makes it so disgraceful is that he knows it’s nonsense.”
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
“It wasn’t a problem that needed fixing.”
@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
.
“The extent to which trans people have become the butt of the joke in Westminster speaks to a level of transphobia that’s started to infect British political debate.”
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@GlobalPlayer
@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
“The idea of telling your electorates you’re no longer going to represent them because you’re pissed off you didn’t get a peerage is pathetic.”
@lewis_goodall
and
@jonsopel
react to
@NadineDorries
hitting out at Rishi Sunak after losing out on a peerage.
@GlobalPlayer
“Boris Johnson saw Simon Case as a private secretary - a personal henchman to make things go away, rather than to provide checks and balances.”
The News Agents on the role the Head of the Civil Service had to play in Boris Johnson’s personal £800k loan.
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