Live Q&A: Reform surge, Starmer's successor and reporting from nightclubs
The News Agents
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Jon and Lewis are back for a second News Agents live Q&A taking your questions.
In the week of the PM's "island of strangers" speech, they discuss why some voters feel "hoodwinked" by Keir Starmer's government, who in Labour ranks is in prime position to succeed him when the moment arrives, and whether the media is responsible for the spike in Reform's poll numbers - or if liberals need to figure out a better way to take the fight to the populist right. They also reveal the weirdest places they have been sent on assignment...
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. John and I have just finished recording live, broadcasting live, what you're about to listen to, which is our second ever live edition, |
| 0:21.8 | Q&A edition of the news agents, where amongst other things we were talking about |
| 0:28.0 | whether Kyristama is pragmatic or simply doesn't believe in anything at all, whether or not |
| 0:34.8 | the media, we are responsible for the rise of reform and the weirdest place we have ever |
| 0:39.9 | gone to for a story. And they are pretty weird places, spoiler alert. So here is one we baked earlier. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:52.6 | The newsagents. It's John. |
| 0:54.8 | It's Lewis. |
| 0:55.5 | And welcome to our second ever, only our second ever, newsagents live Q&A, which is streaming right now on Global Player on YouTube. |
| 1:05.1 | We have been asking for your questions for the last 24 hours on the smorgas board of political stories which is currently out there many |
| 1:12.1 | many of you have sent them to us we can to try and get through as many of them as we can but as well |
| 1:15.9 | if you are coming to this for the first time and would like to ask a question then leave it in the |
| 1:20.1 | comments and we'll try to get to as many of those as possible as well obviously the last time the |
| 1:24.5 | first time we did the live stream the main debating point of that show show was Lewis's jumper, which had a B on it, where the self-effacing, modest, shy retiring, Lewis Goodall said, a grade I never got at school. |
| 1:37.6 | Not strictly true, actually. I did get one for graphics. Mr. Fergus will attest you. |
| 1:41.4 | But otherwise, it was straight A's all the way. Yeah, and to be honest, even that was a bit of a lie, because it was a new labour years |
| 1:46.5 | and you could just basically do it all, nearly all this coursework, so it was a complete fabrication, really. |
| 1:50.1 | But anyway, we haven't had many questions in, but there have been comments about what you'll be wearing today. |
| 1:54.8 | And I think people disappointed that you won't be wearing a beret apparently. Apparently, beret and the polonet jumper. I did think |
| 2:01.0 | it, if the next time we do it, if people have requests, I'm extremely happy to do it. |
| 2:04.7 | I've come in as a kind of 1970s Doctor Whoom. Very happy to do that. |
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