Q&A: Career regrets, Prime Minister's clothes, and middle class America

The News Agents

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Daily News, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What is your biggest journalistic regret? Should a Prime Minister's spouse get an allowance? And what does 'middle class' mean in America?

Thank you all for some BRILLIANT questions. The answers take us down some very strange alleys indeed...

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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.
0:13.0	It's Friday. And it's a special Q&A.
0:17.7	Do you think we should have a music bed for that or not?
0:20.3	What, with this production on this show? I wouldn't have thought so, John. You'd be lucky if you got a should have a music bed for that or not? What, with this production on this show?
0:21.8	I wouldn't have thought so, John.
0:23.0	You'd be lucky if you got a symbol or a triangle, quite frankly.
0:26.5	A little thing of a triangle.
0:27.9	I'd like that.
0:28.7	Yeah.
0:29.5	I'll be in charge.
0:30.6	Five seconds is an already an attack on the production team.
0:33.5	From you.
0:34.0	From me.
0:35.6	So our first question today is from Lauren.
0:38.7	And she says that, well, I'll just read this.
0:41.3	Loving the pod as always, your coverage of the Labour conference this week has been fantastic.
0:45.5	My question leads on from your interview at the conference with Tom Baldwin.
0:49.5	He explained that Kirstama is angry about his wife being dragged into this.
0:52.9	His wife had never asked to be involved in politics, as it has been reported amid Donagate that a Labour donor bought more than
0:59.3	£5,000 worth of clothes for Vic Stama. It appears she's chosen to be part of the political scene,
1:03.7	or at least reap the benefits of it. So the question is, is there an official role for a PM's
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