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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 5h

"What I'm arguing for, is a return to the world it was before Tony Blair and the constitutional vandalism of new Labour."

Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis why he wants 'activist', 'pro-migrant' judges' out of the profession

Robert Jenrick denies 'Trumpian purge' after conference attack on ‘activist judges’ | The News Agents

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis 'activist judges’ are bringing the UK’s legal system into “disrepute” and vows to make appointments a political decision under a future…

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 5h

"He invokes white faces. He is the one who chooses this as his metric."

Robert Jenrick defended his comment about not seeing "another white face" in a Birmingham area, saying he was only criticising the lack of integration, not focusing on skin colour

'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents

Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make…

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 18h

"What I want is the removal of activist judges we have in our country right now."

Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis 'activist judges’ are bringing the UK’s legal system into “disrepute”.

Is this, as the Lib Dems say, a ‘Trumpian purge?’

Robert Jenrick denies 'Trumpian purge' after conference attack on ‘activist judges’ | The News Agents

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis 'activist judges’ are bringing the UK’s legal system into “disrepute” and vows to make appointments a political decision under a future…

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 20h

“To use one area as evidence that Britain’s entire integration model has failed is reductive and 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥.”

Robert Jenrick doubles down on comments about “not seeing a white face for an hour and a half” in Handsworth, Birmingham.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 20h

"Five, ten years ago comments like that would have gotten you the sack from the front bench of any major political party."

Robert Jenrick's comments about a lack of 'white faces' in Birmingham has drawn criticism. Why are Tories defending his words?

'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents

Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make…

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 21h

"We weed out the bad judges and defend the good ones."

Shadow Justice Sec. Robert Jenrick tells @maitlis.bsky.social he wants to "undo the constitutional vandalism" Blair inflicted on the UK judicial system...

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

Do Tory MPs and grassroot members want to see the Conservatives reassert their own identity, or become more like Reform?

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Tory identity problem: ‘Pitch yourself as Reform-lite, voters will go for the full-fat version’ | The News Agents

As Kemi Badenoch attends her first party conference as Conservative leader, some voters still can’t even name her. But low recognition is the least of her problems. With the party still reeling from 1...

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"This is the most extreme version of the options presented to her... She has shut down debate and said: This is over, this is what we're going to stand on."

Kemi wants out of the ECHR – but what does this mean for the UK? Solicitor and writer Joshua Rozenberg explains all...

‘She’s taking the most extreme option’: Why Kemi Badenoch wants out of the ECHR | The News Agents

The Conservative Party will pull the UK from the European Convention of Human Rights if it wins the next general election, says Kemi Badenoch. Why has she chosen this extreme option?

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

“How do you say ‘𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘶𝘤𝘦’ in French? We’re in Truss territory.” 🥬

France has seen five PMs in two years, as Macron’s 2024 decision to dissolve parliament - meant to stabilise gov't - has only made it worse.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"If you pitch yourself as ‘Reform lite’, those voters will go for the full fat version anyway."

@luketryl.bsky.social says the challenge Kemi Badenoch is facing at conference is: What's the point of the Conservatives when you have Reform UK?

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Tory identity problem: ‘Pitch yourself as Reform-lite, voters will go for the full-fat version’ | The News Agents

As Kemi Badenoch attends her first party conference as Conservative leader, some voters still can’t even name her. But low recognition is the least of her problems. With the party still reeling from 1...

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2d

"I have never known a time when the Tory Party felt so irrelevant."

A Reform implosion? A Labour catastrophe? What would it take to pull Kemi Badenoch’s party back from the brink of seeming oblivion...

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 4d

“These journalists and commentators saying Starmer has blood on his hands? I think it’s outrageous.”

Keir Starmer - whose wife and children are Jewish - is being accused of anti-Semitism and blamed in the wake of the synagogue terror attack.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 4d

“Lame. Low. Banal... Like he’s casting a Hollywood movie where everyone has six-packs and chiselled jaws."

Pete Hegseth hauled in top army brass from across the globe… to deliver a crucial message: stop being fat.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 5d

"I'll spend every day shining a light on the Trump administration."

Miley Taylor has been targeted by Trump with an executive order – seven years after he wrote an anonymous article while working for him, exposing his "inability" to serve

Targeted by Trump: ‘Every day I’m ready for a car of government agents to carry me away’ | The News Agents

Miles Taylor, who worked for Donald Trump during his first administration, and exposed his “inability” to serve in an anonymous article, tells The News Agents about his ongoing battle with the…

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 5d

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 5d

"He wants to be remembered for bringing peace to Palestine and Israel, rather than everything that happened in Iraq."

Tony Blair has a "long-term commitment" to peace in the Middle East – but is it to make change, or preserve his own legacy?

‘In a normal world, Tony Blair would not be at the centre of a Middle Eastern peace process’ | The News Agents

Tony Blair, best known to some for his involvement in George W Bush’s war in Iraq, could play a role in bringing peace to Palestine under Donald Trump’s new proposal. Is he the right man for the job?

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 5d

Terrorism seeks to divide - journalists shouldn’t do their job for them.

After an appalling Yom Kippur synagogue attack, @davidyelland.bsky.social warns the media’s chase for ever more ‘extreme’ opinions risks feeding that divide.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6d

"In the last 7 years he's taken my home, two jobs, a marriage, my personal security and life savings."

Miles Taylor - once accused of treason - now says he’ll spend the rest of Trump's presidency trying to ‘defend the Republic against an autocrat.’

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6d

"If you had to pick one man in the world who does not have a great reputation for bringing peace to the Middle East, it would have to be Tony Blair."

Why is the former Labour PM part of Trump's Palestine peace deal?

‘In a normal world, Tony Blair would not be at the centre of a Middle Eastern peace process’ | The News Agents

Tony Blair, best known to some for his involvement in George W Bush’s war in Iraq, could play a role in bringing peace to Palestine under Donald Trump’s new proposal. Is he the right man for the job?

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6d

“He is unhinged, doesn’t give a 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘯 about his allies and is set on remaking the world order as we know it.” 👀

Ex-Homeland Sec. Chief of Staff Miles Taylor - accused of treason by Trump - warns the military may “roll over” to the president’s loyalty test.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6d

'It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals in the halls of the Pentagon - it's a bad look'.

From secretary of war to “fat-shamer-in-chief”, why did Pete Hegseth fly 800 military personnel in for a ‘bizarre’ speech on weight, woke culture and DEI?

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'Low, banal and puerile': Why did Pete Hegseth fly 800 generals in for a fat-shaming speech? | The News Agents

Pete Hegseth has declared the US military as “woke” and suggested drill sergeants use violence against recruits to instill fear and produce “fighters”. But was it worth US time and money to fly…

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6d

“Parenting doesn’t stop when kids are 14. We still need to have the hard conversations with young men.”

Playwright Suzie Miller on her new work Inter Alia - exploring modern masculinity and motherhood - tells @maitlis.bsky.social why parents must talk openly about sex to their children.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6d

"Everyone recognises that there can be no future for Hamas, and is trying to convince Hamas to get the hell out of the way. But why would Hamas do it?"

Will Trump's Palestine peace plan ever work?

'Everyone wants Hamas out of the way – but why would it agree to Trump's deal?' | The News Agents

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have presented a plan to bring peace to Gaza, but also a threat to “finish the job” if Hamas does not agree to its terms. Will the terror group, which controls…

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6d

"The stain of Iraq over his legacy is on his mind… in a normal world, Tony Blair would 𝘯𝘰𝘵 be at the centre of the Middle East peace process."

How does Starmer feel about Blair taking a seat at the table of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’?

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 7d

"Farage wants 'free speech'? You got it: that leaflet was racist. Condemn it. Apologise.

And to immigrants: Farage says 'go home'? I say, you 𝘢𝘳𝘦 home."

Wes Streeting calls a Reform UK leaflet suggesting Anas Sarwar would prioritise Pakistanis racist.

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