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Is the new target voter for the Tories really 'Waitrose Women'? Emily and Jon press John Glen for answers.

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“The prime minister seems to be making random assertions of his aspirations without any mandate", says John Glen. Do some MPs - including Burnham - need to accept they were on the losing side with Brexit and just move on?

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"Donald Trump has long had an obsession with this woman, he's said the worse of the racist taunts that you could make - fit in or F off." US immigration agents have raided Trump critic Ilhan Omer's home - is this an attempt to "fire up the base" ahead of the midterms?

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Trump mocks a woman being attacked at his rally after she shouts ‘Release the Epstein Files’.... “Trump came to power promising to drain the swamp, but he’s not releasing the Epstein files. “Is it any wonder that women are protesting and saying: 'what have you go to hide?”

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 12/10/2026

“Stamp duty is a horrid tax. “There should be no place for a stamp duty in a modern tax system.” Helen Miller from the IFS on whether Kemi Badenoch’s pledges on scrapping stamp duty and inheritance tax could change the country’s fortunes.

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“The amount of oil you are buying you could have easily bought from Canada. “But it’s easier to be nice to Putin than Mark Carney?!” Trump’s US-Russia diesel deal has left Jon Sopel with one question: What does Putin have on him?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 12/10/2026

“Buying Russian diesel weeks before the midterms is like me going on a diet the day before my wedding.” “It's not going to get you over the line. It's not even going to touch the edge.”

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 09/10/2026

"Hegseth thinks it's a good idea, in a country which has a genuinely sick relationship with gun violence, to broadcast the state killing people via firing squad." The US will livestream an execution for public viewing in a "pathetic and grotesque" new low for Trump's America

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 09/10/2026

"The Greens' 'Zionism is racism' vote was a blunt instrument which has cost Zack Polanski dearly." The Green Party leader lost the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. Can this be blamed on the vote Polanski missed at last weekend's party conference?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 08/10/2026

“It would be a seismic shock in American politics, signifying that the high watermark of Trumpism is now in retreat.” Donald Trump has made his third visit to Texas in four weeks - is he starting to panic that the ruby red state will be taken by the Democrats in the midterms?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 07/10/2026

“Presumably this was meant to be a funny joke: ‘Haha, let’s destroy the libs - literally, with a big Iranian bomb’.” Why is Donald Trump encouraging Iran to “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 07/10/2026

"There is no political figure in Britain that gets a better press than Kemi Badenoch right now. "The Tory press are manifesting a Tory recovery. They're desperate for it to happen," says @lewisgoodall.com. Is a Badenoch bounce real, or has the right wing media made it all up?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 07/10/2026

"Kemi is trying to push Reform and Restore out in the corridor as the 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴." The Tory leader used her conference speech to call out the ethnonationalism of the parties on her right, telling Reform voters to "come home". But will they?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 06/10/2026

“You can trust Donald Trump to walk into a situation and automatically make it worse.” Donald Trump has said the 'Cornell 7', who are alleged of gang-raping a woman, won’t get a “fair shake”. Why’s he involved at all?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 06/10/2026

"This kind of trauma takes time to process. Your mind shuts it out, so you need people to help you piece it back together." "That’s what she’s doing on this phone call, and they’re gaslighting her." The ‘Cornell 7’ case is posing questions about life for women on US campuses.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 06/10/2026

“People knew our finest hour was fighting Nazism. It’s not very British to be turning on a tiny minority", says Jonathan Freedland. Will the electorate take Polanski seriously in the upcoming by-election after the Greens pass the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Zack Polanski’s absence from the ‘Zionism is Racism’ vote “doesn’t look like leadership, it looks like cowardice”, says Jon Sopel. "If Polanski wants to lead the party, he should lead in support of the motion. "If he opposes the motion, why isn't he leading in opposition to it?"

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/10/2026

"The leads to Andrew are not going away, there may be more of them than we currently know about..." Andrew's "brazen" legal action against Thames Valley Police suggests he thinks he's in the clear - but @maitlis, just back from the US, suspects otherwise.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/10/2026

“The Greens are more extreme than mainstream Palestinian opinion - they’re saying violence is now legitimate.” The Green Party's ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion calls for “the eradication of the Israeli state”, says Jonathan Freedland. “And they’re happy to see that achieved by violence”.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 02/10/2026

"We joke about our kids living at home until they're 30-35, but it's not funny" Deputy Green leader Rachel Millward backs a three-year “emergency brake” on private rent increases. But will landlord Green MPs stick this themselves?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 02/10/2026

“Your motion, it could be argued, is very crude and very blunt, and will only seek to further alienate and polarise.” The News Agents clash with group who want the Greens to classify Zionism as racism.

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The shocking case of Christa Pike - who survived two lethal injections - has brought the debate around capital punishment back to the fore. Is there ever a case for the death penalty? @lewisgoodall.com thinks so.

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"Without question, Iran is a threat to the UK." EXCLUSIVE: The Head of Counter Terrorism Policing gives his first interview since RAF Fairford - on what happened and the surge in Iranian-backed threats.

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"Is all the money clean in any Premier League club? There's associations with regimes around the world - that's the way it is." In 2023, Andy Burnham said no one would be "completely comfortable" if Man U was owned by Qatar. Today, it's Man City caught in a funding scandal...

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/09/2026

“It’s a long way from the EU of 2016. “Including the foreign leaders we might be trying to negotiate with - the populist right is on the rise across Europe." Burnham is facing pressure for a return to the EU - but would we recognise it even if we did?

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“This is about geopolitics, it's about economics, it's about the power of a nation, and not just about a football club", says Jon Sopel. Is the Man City funding controversy Andy Burnham's 'dirty little secret'?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/09/2026

“There is a sense among sexual abuse victims, that rich and powerful people are treated differently.” There is outrage over an alleged gang rape of a woman at Cornell University. The men were made to write essays. Is this endemic in America, from President Trump down?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/09/2026

The difference between Burnham and Starmer's conference speeches? "Let's be honest, it was a Jaguar vs Robin Reliant." "Today is vindication for Labour's decision to get some guts and replace Starmer."

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 29/09/2026

“It was magnificent - one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard.” @jonsopel1.bsky.social is at Labour conference speaking to audience members who were “moved to tears” following Andy Burnham’s speech. Were you as impressed?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 28/09/2026

"John Healey's speech was a bit like Keir Starmer - without the hair." Healey told the Labour Party what it needed to do - but he didn't say how he's going to do it. So why did Burnham choose him to be his chancellor?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 28/09/2026

"You're gaslighting listeners!" Has Labour policy on Heathrow expansion changed? @lewisgoodall.com gets "irritated" as Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander struggles to answer…

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 28/09/2026

"You could feel the clouds gathering over the political and economic horizon. Is this Labour party really ready for what's to come?" In today's episode, @jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com bring you the latest from Labour Party conference. Coming soon.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 25/09/2026

“The briefing from the Palace is, ‘poor old Andrew is in limbo’, which is not true. “WE’RE in limbo because we don’t know what’s happening in Andrew’s court case”. Has Pizza Express done more to investigate Andrew's links to Epstein than Buckingham Palace?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 25/09/2026

The Palace tried to silence an ex-lover of King Charles who corroborated Earl Spencer’s claims, says author and historian Andrew Lownie. “Charles had said very similar things to her in letters written after Diana’s death. “The tenure of it was, ‘thank goodness, this makes my life a lot easier’".

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 24/09/2026

“The idea that these journalists are a threat to national security… HOW? WHY?” Trump’s explanation for his media ban has gone from ‘they’re mean to me’ to 'they're a national security breach’… And Jon Sopel thinks it's “a crock of sh*t”.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 24/09/2026

“We need to actually admit to ourselves that leaving the EU massively hit our growth, our prosperity - and didn’t solve the immigration problem.” In reopening the Brexit debate, is Tony Blair helping or hindering Andy Burnham?

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Kamala Harris is 'back on the scene' - teasing that she's 'undecided' whether she'll run for president in 2028. But with an energised cohort of newbies, do the Democrats actually want her back?

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“If you do this Chagos deal you piss off Donald Trump, and, even more importantly, it’s got such little support in Britain.” “Andy Burnham has come in and thought; ‘There’s one simple solution here… Bin it’.” Is the Burnham right to rethink plans for the Chagos Islands?

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"I've never been afraid to admit that I like being in the centre of a media storm!" Is Piers Morgan loving his fight with Earl Spencer - or as Jon puts it, is he "a dog with two d*cks"?

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"I probably had a better relationship with his sister than he did." Piers Morgan on why "weird, mercurial" Earl Spencer should pulp his own book, after making mistakes about him in a new Princess Diana book.

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