Is Freebiegate getting hypocritical?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has tried to shake off further accusations that he's indulged in freebies from a Labour donor by pointing out how many in the media do it too. What does this row tell us about the relationship between politicians and the public purse, and the part the media plays in creating that sense of injustice? Are we happy to hunt down every penny gifted - albeit publicly declared - in the quest for 'cleaner politics'? Or will we just invite comparisons that ANYONE in public life is 'all the same'?
Later, Diane Abbot on the 2019 election, that row with Keir Starmer and whether Corbyn got too cosy with Putin's Russia.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | Beth, I might just gently say, Sky invite us to quite a lot of hospitality events. |
| 0:18.5 | Your summer party is a great party costing thousands of pounds and you invite me every year, |
| 0:24.8 | presumably you want politicians to continue to come. |
| 0:28.4 | And, you know, part of that is how politics... |
| 0:32.6 | Kirstama, again being asked about freebies, about free tickets, about apartments, about clothes. |
| 0:43.2 | And the argument is, even if everything's above board, the optics are bad. |
| 0:48.5 | But should we worry about the optics if everything is above board? |
| 0:53.3 | And are we journalists purer than pure? |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, today we're wondering about the kind of coverage |
| 1:02.1 | and where it's coming from, |
| 1:04.3 | and whether this is actually shifting the dial |
| 1:06.7 | in terms of how labour behaves, |
| 1:09.0 | or whether it's simply telling us more about the UK press. |
| 1:13.1 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:17.6 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:19.1 | It's John. |
| 1:20.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:20.7 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:21.4 | In a moment, we'll be talking to Diane Abbott about that row with Keirirstama and other things. But first? |
| 1:29.1 | Well, it is the 26th of September and I think that, you know, it is a date that is very much |
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