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Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – three of the UK’s top journalists – host an award-winning daily news podcast: The News Agents. They’re not just here to tell you what's happening, but why.

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Has Kemi decided Reform are a bunch of racists?

October 7, 2026

Lewis Goodall (0:02)

This is a Global Production.

Kemi Badenoch (0:05)

In 2024, voters gave their verdict on the rouse, the plots and the infighting. Remember all that drama? That's gone. The Conservatives have had an export boom.

We have had an export boom of drama queens going to reform.

Jon Sopel (0:38)

If there's one image that was in Kemi Badenoch's head as she delivered that speech to conference, it was probably the face of Robert Jenrick, who dominated her conference this time last year, and then pretty much flounced off to join reform.

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