Should Andy Burnham call a snap election? Not another one!: “Too many of the public are Brenda from Bristol. They just want the government to get on with it”.

"He's raking it in from gold bullion, whilst talking about getting rid of workers' rights." How long can Farage keep up his 'man of the people' image when he's promoting gold bars online, and owns a £4m property portfolio? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/will...

“There’s a real mismatch between the bonhomie character Farage likes to present and the reality of Reform's policies.” TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak on losing traditionally Labour members to Reform.

‘Why is nobody awake to this? Why is nobody screaming?,” Emily Maitlis says. Donald Trump claims there's no affordability crisis in America, but is that because he's pocketing more than $2 million a day from his own family's crypto schemes? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/trum...

"It's critical to the fabric of America to say, once you're born in America - no matter the birthplace of your parents - you can be anything you want. "You can be President." @maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social react as the Supreme Court turns on Trump to uphold birthright citizenship.

Starmer has released his Defence Investment Plan, a year overdue, which would leave a £5bn black hole. Is the prime minister trying to screw Burnham before he’s even started? The News Agents disagree…

"For every day Trump's been in the White House, he's become roughly $2.5 million richer. "It would take an average American 40 years to make what Trump’s raking in one day." As America battles an affordability crisis, Trump's made an eye-watering $1.4 billion via crypto.

"What the f*ck is going on, because this doesn't feel normal," says Emily Maitlis. META whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is under such a strict legal gag that she was asked to leave The News Agents studio www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

“They’ve silenced her. “This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth.” The "bizarre" moment @maitlis.bsky.social is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.

With a Parliamentary Standards report due soon, will the “five million quid bung” from a crypto billionaire bring down Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-r...

“There was a sense of self-confidence that ‘I can do things the way I want to do them’ which Starmer never displayed.” Why Andy Burnham’s first prime ministerial speech (despite not being PM) shows he plans to rip up the No.10 blueprint

"Reform does not look as anything like as big without him." With a Parliamentary Standards report into Nigel Farage's "five million quid bung" from a crypto billionaire due, is his own party planning to give him the boot? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-r...

“Wes, you just didn’t have the numbers. You’re a busted flush.” Does Andy Burnham owe ‘treacherous and duplicitous’ Wes Streeting a Cabinet job if he gets into No.10?

“Starmer tried to invoke a dark vision of what Farage would mean.” “Burnham has said, 'I’m not going to demonise Reform voters'.” Could Andy Burnham’s approach to Reform turn things around for Labour?

“Trump will probably quite like the sheer audacity and guts of what Burnham has done. “He likes a winner.” Donald Trump has already made a dig at Andy Burnham, but would he play nice when (or if) the likely next PM visits The White House?

"Starmer did his best to hug Trump close, and that worked for quite a long time... "But if Burnham holds his nerve, that's a much more powerful signal." Will Andy Burnham 'suck up' to Trump if he becomes PM – or would he be wise to keep his distance? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

"Our system is great getting rid of duff prime ministers. "When people say it's unstable, I would say: Which of the prime ministers we've had recently would you not have got rid of?" With seven PMs in 10 years, is the system not working, or working exactly as it should be?

"He's really got it. He's tapping into a communal energy. "People are tired of being on their screens. They're tired of being polarised. Mamdani is speaking to that hunger." Ben Rhodes on whether the NY mayor can bring the "generational change" US Democrats desperately need.

"There is this curious disconnect between the fact that Farage's signature political contribution is Brexit and yet he's not discredited by so many people thinking it has gone badly." If Brexit 'failed', why is the "Godfather" of Brexit's party leading in the polls 10 years on?

"Donald Trump decided he would rip it up, and make it better – but it's all turned out to be an absolute fucking fiasco." Is Trump's destruction of the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool the perfect metaphor for his political career? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

📢 Q&A 📢 The PM has resigned. A new one is on the way. What do you want us to unpick? 📧 Send your questions to: [email protected]. (Voicenotes welcome) Jon and Lewis will answer them in Friday's episode.

"No one has taken a knife to the reflecting pool. This has not happened. "Trump's refurbishment has gone badly wrong." 'Vandals' have been blamed for destruction of a Washington memorial, but the real culprit is taking a nap in the White House... www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

"It had that edge of Mean Girls." Today in the Commons, Kemi Badenoch called Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson a "spiteful class warrior." Brutal, or fair game?

"Keir Starmer is not very good, that is the real truth," says MP and Andy Burnham ally Karl Turner. "He would begrudge going into the tea room." Turner now wants Burnham to become PM, asap. But will that fix the country? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/i-do...

"Keir Starmer is not very good, that is the real truth," says MP and Andy Burnham ally Karl Turner. "He would begrudge going into the tea room." Turner now wants Burnham to become PM, asap. But will that fix the country? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/i-do...

"He was telling me the mistakes that I was reeling off were No. 11's mistakes. "I said to him: 'What on earth are you talking about? You are the gaffer!'" Karl Turner MP on his conversations with Starmer, and why Rachel Reeves should stay on as Chancellor.

"I don't feel sorry for a failed politician who's f**ked it up. "Thank you very much, tatty bye, farewell." Karl Turner, MP and Burnham ally, says Starmer is "incredibly angry" about Burnham - but he had to go to save Labour from "extinction".

"What is clear from his language and statement is that he blames the Labour Party. "He blames, and I think clearly loathes, Andy Burnham." Can Starmer blame anyone but himself, and the one big mistake he made, for being forced to resign as PM? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/did-...

"What is clear from his language and statement is that he blames the Labour Party. "He blames, and I think clearly loathes, Andy Burnham." Can Starmer blame anyone but himself, and the one big mistake he made, for being forced to resign as PM? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/did-...

“Talk about fortune favouring the brave! "He forced Starmer to send his own MPs to Makerfield, to oversee a contest that would remove the PM from his own job." Has Andy Burnham just pulled off the perfect heist?

“Talk about fortune favouring the brave! "He forced Starmer to send his own MPs to Makerfield, to oversee a contest that would remove the PM from his own job." Has Andy Burnham just pulled off the perfect heist?

"Historians will look back and marvel how it could be that a Prime Minister with that majority could throw away all of that political capital." Did Starmer's resignation speech summarise exactly why he's been a "failure" as PM?

"It genuinely was Reform's worst night since the general election." Reform UK made one big mistake in its Makerfield campaign, costing them a seat they were desperate to win. But is there now a bigger problem on the horizon for Farage? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/refo...

"When Jo Cox was murdered, the clarion call was we must do something to detoxify political debate... 10 years on the country feels more polarised than ever." Did the UK really learn nothing from the 2016 murder of Jo Cox? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...

"Having one of the cage fighters on the White House lawn, to a live television audience declaring that Michelle Obama is a man is grotesque." "That went out across America to mark its 250th birthday" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...

“There are various little clouds in the sky over Reform that are gathering”. Is the great miscalculation of Reform to think it could copy Trump's politics in Britain, and voters would just lap it up?

"This genuinely was Reform's worst night since the general election." Reform UK made one big mistake in its Makerfield campaign, costing them a seat they were desperate to win. But is there now a bigger problem on the horizon for Farage? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/refo...

“Andy Burnham ran a campaign which was a hostile takeover of the Labour Party in plain sight. A frame-by-frame coup.” Is it time for 'shameless' Starmer to 'grow up' and step down after Burnham’s Makerfield victory?

Why are people still "sucking up to Donald Trump"? "I'm not brave enough to answer that question," says Radek Sikorski, Poland's Deputy PM, Minister of Foreign Affairs. He discusses the Iran peace deal, and applause from world leaders as Trump walked away from war with nothing

"Donald Trump has achieved sweet fuck all in this war – and America is paying a price for it." Trump wrote a book called The Art of the Deal, but after signing a $300 billion peace deal with Iran, should that be changed to 'The Art of the Capitulation'?

"There's proof he's sexist. He literally said 'I'm sexist'" Comments by Robert Kenyon, Reform's Makerfield candidate, about women, left some local voters disgusted, but others say his language could be heard in "any pub, any working town"

The Makerfield by-election may be hugely important, but locals, complaining of bins stuffed full of leaflets may have had enough. But will their vote define the future of Labour? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/im-s...

"We already know what his job's going to be. He just needs to cut tape, doesn't he?" Says Lewis Goodall. Why is Prince George going to a £63,000 a year private school when his future seems set in stone already? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

"People are furious at the suggestion that a future head of state might want to go to a state school". "As if that would be ridiculous." @lewisgoodall.com isn't on board with the Royals decision to send Prince George to Eton, at a cost of £60,000 a year.

"Starmer is dead, he has no personality". "Kids were shouting 'send them back'". "We are breeding hate". The people of Makerfield give their verdict hours out from historic by-election.

"We are so much more willing to believe conspiracy theory. "People I know - educated people - say, 'but I read it'. "You may have read it. But it's bullshit!" Has political violence and conspiracy gone mainstream in Britain?

"When Jo Cox was murdered, the clarion call was we must do something to detoxify political debate... 10 years on the country feels more polarised than ever." Did the UK really learn nothing from the 2016 murder of Jo Cox? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...

"When Jo Cox was murdered, the clarion call was we must do something to detoxify political debate... 10 years on the country feels more polarised than ever." Did the UK really learn nothing from the 2016 murder of Jo Cox? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...

"There is a clear sense across this country that the chronic impact of social media is so extensive. "It's not the childhood any of us want in this country." Have tech companies "stolen" our children's childhoods? Kanishka Narayan speaks to @jonsopel1.bsky.social and @maitlis.bsky.social.

"Having one of the cage fighters on the White House lawn, to a live television audience declaring that Michelle Obama is a man is grotesque." "That is going out across America to mark its 250th birthday" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...