The News Agents

Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. and beyond.
With @Maitlis, @JonSopel and @Lewis_Goodall.
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"I know Kaitlan Collins - she does smile, she's great fun. She's bloody clever."

As Donald Trump tries to publicly embarrass Kaitlan Collins (again), @jonsopel remembers the time he stood up to the White House as they tried to relegate the CNN reporter…

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“If he gets rejected, it'll be humiliating.”

“If he wins, he'll be asked to do things that will test his conscience, the limits of the law.

Todd Blanche waits to see if he will be Trump’s attorney general. But will this be the worst week of his life either way?

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Does higher education still offer social mobility?

@lewis_goodall: "Millions have accessed social and economic worlds that would've been unavailable to them without HE".

@jonsopel: "For years, I’ve said your degree is your passport to the future. I wonder whether it still is?"

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"Reform repeatedly tells us we are a police state, that the police try to sanction us for what we put on social media," says @lewis_goodall.

"They are now reporting Zack Polanski to the police, and expect him to be arrested for his social media"

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“Reform repeatedly say we are a police state... Now they expect Zack Polanski to be arrested.”

“It’s one or the other, lads!”

Is there a hypocrisy in how Reform deals with free speech, and incitement to violence, when it is directed at them?

@jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

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"It's one or the other, lads. Either you want the police involved in online life or you don't."

Reform wants Zack Polanski arrested for 'inciting violence' with an Instagram post. But after celebrating Lucy Connolly, is this just double standards?

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"When I tweet, one of the first people to like it is Zack Polanski."

Is Polanski using social media to share dog whistles, or is he just so "chronically online" he's become a "social media idiot"?

@jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

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Nick Clegg is urging people to "man the barricades" when it comes to "indefensible" tuition fees...

The fees he helped introduce.

"Im sure the generation of graduates paying tax rates of nigh on 50% will be terribly grateful for his conversion", says @lewis_goodall

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"He's had imposter syndrome for many years, like most people from working class backgrounds."

Andy Burnham's 'bezzie mate' Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram on how the new PM will balance 'imposter syndrome' and 'Catholic guilt' with his political ambitions

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Labour has beaten Reform in the polls for the first time since last April.

Is now the time for Andy Burnham to call a snap election?

"At some stage he’s going to have to do it. He’s going to have to stand", @MetroMayorSteve tells @lewis_goodall.

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"I would look seriously at wealth tax", says @MetroMayorSteve. "Even wealthy people say there could be a small additional tax on them."

Liverpool mayor and close friend of Andy Burnham calls for a wealth tax to fund social care and defend against Russia.

@lewis_goodall

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"They will turn against him, when they see the opportunity. I hope he knows it."

Week one done for Andy Burnham has PM. But did he make the wrong decision with one key appointment after entering No.10?

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"He didn't wait long before he slipped a knife into what Andy Burnham was doing as PM.... If you were loyal to Keir Starmer, you're out on your ear."

Will Starmer loyalists succeed in causing trouble for the new Labour leader?

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"Trump was removed from the platform forcibly and just cut out of the picture altogether.

"Poor old Donald."

Trump tried to crash the stage as Spain raised the World Cup trophy – but they were determined to celebrate without him

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"It's the same diagnosis and the question is: Does Burnham have a different prescription?"

Andy Burnham has become PM, but did the nation hear the same promises, made on made by Keir Starmer in 2024, after he entered Downing Street?

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"There is no situation so bad that a few well-chosen words by Pete Hegseth can't make infinitely worse."

Trump's 'secretary of war' tried to defend the billions spent on the war in Iran in Congress. It didn't go well

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"They will turn against him, when they see the opportunity. I hope he knows it," says @Neal_Compass

Is Andy Burnham surrounded by enough loyalists to survive when the going gets tough…

Or are there too many ‘fair-weather friends’?

@lewis_goodall

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"They will turn against him, when they see the opportunity. I hope he knows it."

Week one done for Andy Burnham has PM. But did he make the wrong decision with one key appointment after entering No.10?

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“People are voting for Andy, not Labour. It’s the last chance saloon”, says @Neal_Compass

“Already, I see the walls closing in around Burnham”.

If Burnham fails as PM, could we see a ‘fascist’ backlash?

@lewis_goodall

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“John Healey is not the first person you think of as your Chancellor.”

@Neal_Compass on why Andy Burnham gave the top job to the wrong person.

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