Hostages in Gaza, riots in Ireland and (election) shockwaves in the Netherlands
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As Israel and Hamas exchange hostages for prisoners, the worst riots in decades break out on the streets of Dublin (at the egging on of one Conor McGregor) and a far-right, anti-Islam populist wins in the socially liberal, deeply pro-EU Netherlands - what's happened in the world after a fortnight of all-consuming British political psychodrama.
Lewis talks to Secunder Kermani, Channel 4's Foreign Correspondent who's spent most of the last 2 months on the ground Israel, POLITICO EU's Dutch reporter Pieter Haeck and Virgin Media News Correspondent Richard Chambers.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | The moment. Say, our best time will be free. |
| 0:15.9 | David Cameron. |
| 0:17.4 | And now we're saying he's got balls of clanking steel. |
| 0:20.3 | They agreed with the Court of Appeals are conclusions and the government has basically lost. |
| 0:25.6 | So much for restoring sovereignty in a post-Brexit age. |
| 0:28.6 | This is now turning into a not insignificant crisis for Sunak's premiership for a policy that wasn't even his. |
| 0:34.6 | It's the most ugly breakup. |
| 0:36.6 | We've had a difficult week, lots of difficult discussions, including discussions. |
| 0:40.3 | Very big rebellion. |
| 0:41.3 | Eat out to help out. Do you agree that there wasn't a full or indeed perhaps any consultation |
| 0:47.3 | with the CMO or DCMO or the OCMO? |
| 0:51.3 | Yes, my written statement makes clear there was no consultation. From January, |
| 0:55.4 | we cut taxes for 27 million working people whose hard work drives our economy forward. |
| 1:02.5 | It has been a stunning fortnight of UK political news, one which we've of course savoured on the news |
| 1:08.9 | agents and it has left us uncharacteristically. Of course, |
| 1:11.7 | rather breathless at times, perhaps a portent of the election year to come. It's meant that we've |
| 1:17.5 | sometimes been unable to cover some of the equally important stories taking place around the world, |
| 1:23.2 | even in the last 24 hours, a wave of news from the Middle East and the ongoing horrors there |
| 1:29.1 | in the Gaza-Israel War. Today, a glimmer, a glimmer of a glimmer of hope, with the start |
| 1:35.3 | of a pause, a return of some of the hostages, a deal, however short-lived between the two sides. |
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