The News Agents awards of the year

The News Agents

Global

Daily News, News, Government, Politics

4.2 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

2024 really has been a political year like no other - treating us to an indulgent helping of seismic elections, career comebacks and a gluttony of scandals.

So we thought we’d try and make some sense of it all with the inaugural News Agents awards of the year. With some help from LBC’s Natasha Clark and Aggie Chambre, Lewis adjudicates on the highlights and the lowlights, the heroes and the villains of the last twelve months - and a look ahead to what’s in store for us all in 2025.

We’ll be back on Christmas eve with the first of our ‘What If’ series, taking a deep dive into the sliding doors moments which have shaped our world. What if things had played out differently?

Tickets to The News Agents Live On Stage with HSBC UK are now on sale! You can get your tickets for Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh here: https://articles.globalplayer.com/7giHoMavXLgdrd6gaC3GxWG7T8

Editor: Tom Hughes

Executive Producer: Louis Degenhardt

Producer: Natalie Indge

Digital Editor: Michaela Walters

Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell

Video Production: Rory Symon, Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal

Digital Journalists: Michael Baggs

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.8	This is a global player original podcast.
0:13.5	Earlier today, I spoke with His Majesty the King to request the dissolution of Parliament.
0:18.9	The King has granted this request request and we will have a general
0:21.9	election on the 4th of July. Exit Hall is predicting a Labour landslide.
0:27.5	These numbers are astonishing.
0:30.7	They have chosen Labour and they have chosen the leadership of Kea Stama.
0:35.6	I'm fed up of performance art politics. I've had enough of it.
0:38.9	Reform here as well look absolutely thrilled.
0:42.1	A stonking win for Nigel Fras.
0:44.1	We're coming for Labour, be in no doubt about that.
0:49.8	If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
0:53.6	No! No! No! If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
1:00.0	And we are hearing reports that shots have been fired at this President Trump rally.
1:08.0	It's been the honor of my life to serve as your president. But in the defense of democracy, which is a stake, I think it's more important than any title.
1:16.6	So I've decided the best way forward is the past the torch to a new generation.
1:21.6	My mother used to, she would give us a hard time sometimes and she would say to us,
1:26.6	I don't know what's wrong with you young people.
1:28.3	You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
1:31.3	You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
1:40.3	In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the cats
1:47.0	they're eating they're eating the pets of the people that live there we have our first
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