political scandals

**Since publication, Savanta revised the polling data included in this episode to show the Labour candidate on a two point lead. More information here**

A 3am call, and a Tory MP talking about a life or death situation in which he was being held captive in a flat.

Amazingly, that wasn't even the weirdest bit. As the day, and the story, unfolded, there were allegations of campaign money donated by Conservative supporters being used to pay for the MP's medical bills and more.

Mark Menzies , Fylde MP, is just - remarkably - the latest in a long line of MPs - both Tory and Labour - who have lost the whip this parliament.

What's going on? Has scandal become easier to detect? Harder to hide? Or is this what the end of every reign starts to feel like?

We talk to the Times journalist who broke the story, Billy Kenber, and to the man whose job at the heart of Downing Street was interfacing between the PM and his MPs' each time scandal broke, Craig Oliver.

Later, whats going on in the West Midlands race? We have exclusive Savanta polling.

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Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, is being accused of being a ‘tax avoider’. While these attacks are coming predominantly from the right, they’ve been mounting in recent weeks and now Labour is having to confront the allegations.

So what could this mean for the deputy leader? Is Labour in trouble? Or is this a Tory smear campaign?

Anoosh Chakelian, Britain editor at the New Statesman, is joined in the studio by political correspondent Freddie Hayward; this episode was recorded on Thursday 11th April.

Read the pieces mentioned in this podcast: Is Angela Rayner in danger?; What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne; I looked into Angela Rayner’s tax affairs – here’s what I found

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by detailing the extraordinary and terrible press conference from President Joe Biden after the damning details revealed in the Special Counsel's classified documents report. Then Ben Shapiro, host of The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro Show, joins to discuss Biden's struggles with memory we learned in the report, the alarming press conference, the American public believing Biden is not mentally fit to be president, the truth about Biden's mishandling of classified documents, the lies he told about it in his press conference, and more. Then Steve Krakauer, executive producer of 'The Megyn Kelly Show," joins to discuss the corporate media’s take on Biden’s characterization of the special counsel’s report, their spin for Biden when it's their duty to question authority, and more. Then Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, joins to discuss whether Jeffrey’s death was truly a suicide, what the autopsy photos really show and why they raise questions about if it's a suicide, Mark’s inability to get answers from the government, the mistake of moving his body after he was found dead, all of the factors that were abnormal leading up to Epstein's supposed "suicide," the unnamed guards mentioned in reports, the camera’s mysterious malfunction that day, whether the DOJ is covering something up, how he thinks his brother made his money, and more.

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It’s hard to know what to believe about George Santos’ wild origin story. Since being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022, almost every facet of his life has been called into question — from his name and religious background to his former marriage and previous employment. But when the Justice Department starts digging into his campaign fundraising reports, they discover an even bigger bombshell. 

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In the week the Tory peer Michelle Mone has finally admitted involvement in a PPE firm awarded £200m in "VIP" Covid contracts, we discuss the numerous allegations against politicians and ask why Parliament is beset with bad behaviour - and how it's affecting the Tories' reputation.

And then we let you in behind the scenes of the New Statesman newsroom, to talk about how journalists source, fact check and verify their reporting - with a debut from our features editor Melissa Denes.

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Adam Carolla, host of The Adam Carolla Show, to discuss Hunter Biden trying to play the victim about his addiction and media coverage, “Squad” Democrats lying about the Israel-Hamas war, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new COVID lies about school closures and the lockdowns he pushed, how Newsom is a "sociopath" and hypocrite when he tries to revise history, whether he might run for president, the bizarre freakout from Tiffany Gomas on that airplane, her new explanation that neither Megyn nor Adam believe, whether she was on drugs or if she believes in lizard people, the problem with conspiracy theories and the internet, whether Gov. Ron DeSantis is wearing lifts in his cowboy boots, DeSantis' new response attacking Trump over it, DeSantis’s odd fashion choice of wearing cowboy boots all the time, Donald Trump’s “tan” and hair controversies as well, the liberal elite who have been wrong about so much from COVID to the food pyramid, why they want you to get brainwashed with them, SBF found guilty and the liberals who championed him, the Connecticut mayor race revealing potential illegal ballot stuffing from Democrats, surveillance video evidence, whether we should have a camera at the voting drop boxes or only have Election Day voting, and more.

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Deep Throat, Operation Gemstone, two valiant reporters, and a secret 30 years in the making. Watergate was not a single scandal, but rather an avalanche of events and co-conspirators, all engaged in corruption to keep President Nixon in office. The stakes were so high that Nixon’s Special Security Advisor, G. Gordon Liddy, lived under fear of being assassinated, and the wife of Nixon’s Campaign Director & Attorney General was drugged and held captive in a hotel room to keep her silent. What was the “smoking gun” that led to the toppling of this enterprise? Was it the tapes Nixon secretly recorded, and the 18-minute gap, that ultimately pushed Nixon to be the first and only President to resign?

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Labour Muslim MPs have had a long meeting with leader Keir Starmer in which they expressed their discontent with their leader for not explicitly calling on Israel to do more to save civilian life in Gaza.

He’s also seen at least 23 councillors step down over their frustration with Labour's position.

Does the Labour leader need to do more to offer reassurance to Muslim voters and MPs?

And why is it so problematic to ask for a ceasefire?

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G. Gordon Liddy is finally given the job of his dreams: managing a dirty tricks campaign to spy on "the left". He is as bad at this job as it is possible for a person to be.

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Donald Trump employs the novel legal strategy of confessing his crimes on television. Hunter Biden strikes a plea deal with a Trump prosecutor. RFK JR’s anti-vax, anti-wifi candidacy gets a boost from Joe Rogan and Elon’s VC fanboys. And Justice Sam Alito is mad we all found out he got free rides on a billionaire's private jet whose hedge fund he later ruled in favor of. Then, CNN’s Jake Tapper stops by the studio to talk about Trump, CNN, Fox, and his new novel “All the Demons Are Here.”

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