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Live Q&A: Reform surge, Starmer's successor and reporting from nightclubs
41 minutes Posted May 16, 2025 at 2:15 pm.
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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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