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Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor, Sky News 📺📰🎙️ Politics at Sam and Anne’s podcast🎙️TV by @JoeCookJ

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1Jun 7, '24Tense. Do watch in full47.4×3.9M5.1k9551.9k
2Nov 2, '23Rishi Sunak X Elon Musk One of the maddest events I’ve ever covered46.5×3.8M5.6k1.6k632
3Sep 20, '23Angry statement from car company Ford UK33.5×2.8M11k3.1k180
4Jun 15, '23Incredible first hand testimony - in the additional evidence bundle - from a No10 official how there were no rules enforced but they were told to behave in front of the cameras30.6×2.5M4.4k2.1k174
5Feb 24, '24💥Lee Anderson suspended A spokesperson for Chief Whip Simon Hart said: "Following his refusal to apologise for comments made yesterday, the Chief Whip has suspended the Conservati27.8×2.3M3k61132
6Apr 12, '24Also, 🔥Liz Truss’s autobiography extracts have just dropped … and it’s clear it’s going to be an absolute banger In this tiny extract the Queen dies - and Truss is moved to ask “W26.1×2.2M3.9k535241
7Jun 9, '23Boris Johnson quits as an MP after receiving privileges committee findings24.8×2M3.6k98735
8Jun 9, '24💥💥💥💥 One Conservative candidate just messages this for circulation: “Richard Holden is a disgrace to the Conservative Party. He’s put himself over candidates. He’s shown comple23.2×1.9M6.9k2.3k403
9Sep 8, '23This is very significant There is not a single offshore wind farm in today’s renewables auction announcement. Ministers were warned the subsidies were too low at a time of rampant 23.1×1.9M3.6k1.2k99
10Sep 5, '23Honestly. Honestly. This is genuinely the new government infographic. (From the people who brought you the disco video) Honestly21.3×1.8M5.8k1k53
11Jun 6, '25How AI lied and gaslit me: 🤯💣🔥 Won’t lie: what happened to me this week made my jaw drop Do watch:20.1×1.7M3.9k1.2k2.4k
12Mar 1, '23Isn’t the person at fault here Matt Hancock - handing over private government communications to a untrusted third party without the consent of message recipients Isn’t therefore Ha19.5×1.6M4.7k1k66
13Feb 7, '23One Tory MP writes of Lee Anderson, marked for wider distribution:19.3×1.6M12k3.4k78
14May 7, '23Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, in response to @SophyRidgeSky about the media, says in passing “I’m in charge of the BBC”. Ummmm18.8×1.5M3.5k1.2k60
15Sep 28, '24“The sleaze, the nepotism and the apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle has done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party” Cant16.7×1.4M5k1.4k287
16Dec 7, '23I think the chances of a January 2025 election are slowly rising15.7×1.3M3.8k30960
17Sep 30, '23👀 on HS2 from The Times letters page15.2×1.3M9.1k1.9k258
18Sep 7, '23Thursday: “It’s extremely rare for prisoners to escape” Tuesday: “Most schools unaffected”15.2×1.3M3.3k52914
19Sep 19, '23🥶🥶🥶🥶 Some Tory MPs *VERY* surprised about the suggestions Rishi Sunak will push back petrol / diesel car ban from 2030 to 2035. One calls it “anti business”, means Sunak breaki14.3×1.2M3.4k77763
20Jun 7, '23Top story: OECD says UK to have highest inflation in the developed world. But what does OECD really know about the British economy? Quite a lot actually. On May 2, Clare Lombardell13×1.1M3.3k1.4k80
21Sep 2, '23Secretary of State not available for interviews on the biggest story of the weekend. Instead they’ve done this 👇🏻 to bizarre dance music in the background, perhaps to sooth fraye12.2×1M2.7k989104
22Feb 7, '24I'm told the Tories had been preparing their assault on Labour's £28 bn for ages - hoping to use it to pivot the conversation in their favour Then Sunak messes up PMQs, and all the11.9×978k3.3k63295
23Jul 21, '23That was VERY fun telly Tory Johnny Mercer just criticised Labour’s new MP for Selby for being too young - ‘we don’t want parliament to become like the Inbetweeners’ - and Labour’s11.5×952k4k38142
24Oct 20, '23“Thick”9.8×812k3.3k262287
25Jul 25, '23EXC: Ex-Mi5 chief turned senior ethics advisor Lord Evans tells Sky News in an interview 🔴MPs should have some form of limits on second jobs ⚫️The Boris Johnson government approac9.5×783k4.1k1.2k41
26Jun 9, '23Nadine Dorries has been removed from the WhatsApp group9.1×749k2.9k48831
27Sep 20, '23Cabinet minister Alex Chalk tells @SophyRidgeSky he is unsure who exactly was proposing 7 bins and a meat tax which Rishi Sunak “banned” today8.3×686k3.3k97377
28Sep 28, '22One Tory MP: It is actually incredible that the UK central bank has had to step in to protect the UK from the actions of the UK's own government! I mean, just think of that for a m8.1×025k5.6k164
29Dec 17, '21Boris Johnson promises to “fix” his government but says it’s not his top priority Full interview - hear the PM accuse me of “breaking the golden rule” - answers on a postcard….7.6×016k3.1k975
30Feb 7, '24Interesting fact: No10 authorised the Kemi Badenoch tweets before they went out.7.1×586k2.8k77881
31Aug 1, '19EXC: On Sky News now: we’ve obtained a “sensitive” internal Whitehall slide which makes sober reading about the first month of a no deal brexit. It warns of - “consumer panic” - “l6.5×07.9k7.5k295
32Nov 30, '17🇬🇧Donald Trump is facing unprecedented criticism in the Commons chamber today. MPs calling him “fascist”, “stupid”, spreading “evil” and “racist or incompetent or ignorant or all6.1×013k6.4k0
33Jun 1, '20Exc BAME report delayed amid fears its contents could stoke racial tensions By ⁦@inzyrashid⁩5.6×07.4k4.7k280
34Jun 12, '24Who won Sky Event according YouGov? Sunak 36% Starmer 64% 1864 respondents5.4×448k3.8k81926
35May 5, '23Breaking: Labour now the largest party in local government First time since 20025.4×446k2.9k54217
36Dec 18, '21EXC - big row in a Tory Whatsapp “Clean Global Brexit” group with over 100 MPs It leads leads to removal of Nadine Dorries after she defending the PM … and then Steve Baker declari5.4×010k3.4k433
37Jan 21, '23There's lots of 👀 in this jaw dropping story by @Gabriel_Pogrund But as with the Nadhim Zahawi affair. I'm left baffled at the role of Simon Case, who is still cabinet Secretary. 5.2×430k3.2k1k53
38Oct 14, '22NEW: Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal a major row going on between Tory MPs5.1×013k2.8k436
39Sep 6, '23Here is the section of Keir Starmer’s July mission speech where he mentioned crumbling buildings Rishi Sunak was saying at PMQs Starmer hadn’t mentioned this schools issue5.1×421k4.1k1.4k32
40Sep 7, '23Most Tory MPs haven’t resigned4.7×390k3.5k47116
41Oct 20, '22View post on X4.4×016k2k203
42Sep 28, '22I'm told by a city source it's hard to overstate how serious the situation is today. There is concern over the health of pension funds and this is why the Bank of England has acted4.4×012k3.2k206
43Dec 9, '21How does No 10 square this: In May the PM told Lord Geidt that he did not know who was behind No11 flat refurb until Feb 2021 Today the Electoral Commission says Boris Johnson What4.3×09.3k3.9k133
44Jan 25, '22Sky News understands that officials have handed over to investigators photos of parties in Downing Street which include images of Boris Johnson Sue Gray was given the pictures of p4.2×012k2.6k77
45Apr 11, '19Brexit latest: Tusk: “Please do not waste this time” UK: The Commons rise today at 5pm and will not return until Tuesday April 234.2×010k4k17
46Dec 18, '21This alone is just extraordinary. Over 100 Tory MPs in the group…4.0×013k1.6k189
47Oct 10, '21🔥Shortly after Kwasi Kwarteng says he’s engaging with Treasury over ways they can help industry, a Treasury source said: “This is not the first time the BEIS secretary has made th3.5×07.8k3.3k70
48Oct 19, '22The speaker Lindsay Hoyle is waiting for a report from Eleanor Laing about what happened in the lobbies but is understood to be taking it very seriously. He's seen the Chris Bryant3.3×011k1.8k75
49Jun 21, '19😱Tory leadership race day 1😱 - Police in midnight call to Johnson flat over row with his partner - Minister Mark Field suspended over physical handing of protestor - Tory whips i3.1×07.4k2.9k40
50Apr 1, '19Tory MPs held their training session today on what is a customs union “It was very useful but one person did raise the question why they hadn’t done this two years ago” 🤪🔫3.1×07.3k2.6k38
51Sep 15, '20Four senior congressmen write to Boris Johnson to reiterate there will be no US-UK trade deal if the legislation to override the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement isn’t pulled3.0×06k2.7k111
52Jun 17, '22One Tory MP at the Northern Research Group conference - where Boris Johnson failed to turn up - utterly furious Says they were being told Johnson “was on the train to Doncaster” th3.0×07.5k1.8k43
53Jun 17, '21NEW #matthancock (And I REALLY suggest you pause and watch this) In a pool interview Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, reacts to the question ‘Do you believe the Health Secretary2.9×06.4k2.3k261
54Oct 3, '25Wow. Wow. Palantir refuses take part in digital ID programme. Its UK head says Digital ID doesn’t have a mandate (so presumably they worry it will be cancelled, so if they do it th2.9×236k4.2k1.1k344
55May 29, '20Downing Street Daily Briefing Government was unable to reduce Coronavirus threat level below 4. Boris Johnson signalled on Wednesday it was likely to be reduced to 3, but the Joint2.8×04.4k3.1k61
56Sep 29, '22It's definitely not a crisis, but they've just cancelled live band karaoke on the final night of Tory conference2.7×09.1k1.1k40
57Jan 20, '21Boris Johnson answers ... is Joe Biden woke?2.7×03.7k848322
58Jan 25, '22Am told by sources the Met Police want the whole Sue Gray report published - there is surprise that government has decided it won’t be2.7×07.1k2k41
59Jun 25, '20The Campaign Group of left wing Labour MPs have requested a meeting with Keir Starmer about the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey. The request has been declined2.6×06.7k1.3k25
60Jan 7, '20Watch Jeremy Corbyn answer questions about whether Soleimani was a terrorist2.4×03.7k1.4k210
61Sep 28, '22I'm told: - Pension funds getting hammered and losing huge amounts of capital - Banks forcing them to make margin calls and liquidate assets - so gilts - Some pension funds losing 2.4×05.7k1.9k190
62Oct 16, '21Matt Hancock UN appointment “not taken forward”, UN spokesman tells UN news organisation Pass Blue2.3×05.2k1.4k68
63Sep 21, '21So tonight government policy is to subsidise CO2 production, restart coal power production and hope for an increase in gas supply But by COP, the government message will be to redu2.2×06.2k1.6k41
64May 27, '20NEW Trace & test insider tonight told Sky News - Contact tracing at their level won’t go live tomorrow - They can’t yet input and receive data yet 🥶 - They won’t start phone c2.2×03.7k2.3k42
65Nov 2, '21Incredible effort underway tonight by government whips to find a way to get Owen Paterson off the hook after the Parliamentary Commissioner - endorsed by cross party MPs including 2.1×03.6k1.9k92
66Jun 17, '22NEW: Letter from Lord Geidt toughens language on why he quit He says he “could not be party to advising on potential law breaking” Admits his resignation letter may have been too c2.1×04.6k2k97
67Jul 5, '22Jacob Rees Mogg: “The PM won a mandate from the a British people and that is more powerful than cabinet ministers resigning”2.1×04.4k93820
68Apr 12, '22One MP said: “Won’t the French feel silly about holding their election now. Don’t they know this is no time to change leaders.”2.1×06.8k1.1k25
69Oct 19, '22Tory MPs absolutely incredulous that they're being told they will lose the whip if they don't vote for the fracking motion which breaks the 2019 Tory manifesto. And I don't get the2.1×05.8k1.4k42
70Sep 28, '22No10 and Treasury ministers reject any notion tonight that there's a crisis. Meetings are continuing on a range of subjects in Number 10 - but there's no big focus on the market tu2.0×03.7k1.1k71
71Dec 13, '18Stop. What. You. Are. Doing.2.0×03.6k1.4k51
72Jun 16, '17I doubt Theresa May actually wants to be prime minister any more. Tonight's @BrookesTimes1.9×05.1k1.8k0
73May 27, '20Contact tracer 6 with details of training “I've just done my training with a company subcontracted by Serco. “We didn’t even have training, they tell you to read a pdf, and then do1.9×03.4k2.2k46
74Sep 28, '22An emergency intervention by the Bank of England - buying government debt itself - because of a political intervention, the first of a new government, that went wrong is .... quite1.9×05.6k1.3k69
76Apr 7, '22My analysis on Rishi Sunak’s woes - and whether things might get worse Did he have a US Green Card - declaring himself “permanent US resident” - during his first year as Chancellor1.9×04.1k1.6k87
77Jan 25, '22Multiple sources confirm Boris Johnson didn’t tell his cabinet of the police investigation *despite knowing before cabinet started the announcement was imminent* This has caused Ca1.8×04.5k1.4k33
78Jun 7, '22Tory MP tells constituents he voted for Boris Johnson after securing a review into funding for his local council1.8×03.3k1.4k53
79Apr 12, '22I understand there were discussions in government this week about bringing back Parliament asap because of potential chemical weapons use in Ukraine Now not possible because they’d1.8×04.3k1.1k34
80Sep 24, '19Tories not panicking at all 🥶1.8×03.9k1.8k16
81Jan 16, '22Today Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times challenges No10 claims that Boris Johnson didn’t know that the 20/5/20 garden party organised by his PPS Martin Reynolds was anything more 1.7×03.8k1.7k53
82Mar 19, '19A brexit supporting MP said: “I believe in brexit but I now wish remain had won. This is such a hassle. We could be talking about other things”1.7×04.5k1.3k10
83May 7, '21Birmingham Labour Khalid Mahmood quits Labour frontbench with this broadside - the first Labour MP to fully touch on the depths of Keir Starmer’s problems Loyalist after loyalist h1.6×03.8k1k85
84Apr 21, '22Steve Baker withdraws his confidence in the PM he gave on Tuesday. Says the PM abandoned his contrition the moment he left the headmaster’s study “The Prime Minister should be long1.5×04.5k88526
85Sep 28, '22Exc: Whitehall to be told to find efficiency savings as well as refusing to reopen spending review Chris Philp to write to Secretaries of State within hours "What efficiency saving1.5×03.5k1k35
86Jul 6, '22Here’s an incandescent Tory MP Gary Sambrook recounting how Boris Johnson yesterday appeared to blame other MPs at the Carlton Club for not stopping Chris Puncher’s drinking Sambro1.4×04k1k220
87May 24, '20Just in case it gets deleted...1.4×03.6k1.2k33
88Jun 17, '22Lord Geidt saying - loudly and clearly - my resignation was not about steel1.4×03.4k1.2k18
89Jan 19, '22Tory MP Jonathan Gullis claims on @skynews that MPs are withdrawing letters from Sir Graham Brady But admitted on air to me he doesn’t know who those individuals are or how many th1.3×03k63124
90Nov 4, '21NEW: There WILL be a vote, probably before recess, on Owen Paterson being suspended for 30 days This is a "full fat" uturn, I understand1.3×03.2k75017
91Oct 19, '22Suella Braverman was sacked: PM was advised that the ministerial code had been breached1.2×03.4k65115
93Jul 5, '22Priti Patel staying in government (yes we are running a spreadsheet)1.2×03.9k3958
94Dec 22, '20Anyone for Tetris?1.1×03.2k56724
95Apr 12, '22Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson’s wife, also fined1.1×03.6k5725
96Dec 18, '21Fury at the leaked WhatsApps begin One Tory says: Proof that baker for all his BS claims of loyalty is after the PM’s job and won’t tolerate people defending him. ..1.1×03.4k60133
97Sep 28, '22Why didn't anyone warn Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng this might happen? It's not that the machine didn't know - it's just by firing Tom Scholar on day 1, Team Truss made clear they 1.0×03.3k55922
98Oct 18, '22Cabinet leave Number 10 - avoiding cameras, grim faces1.0×03.4k44914
99Apr 12, '22Allies of the PM say they don’t know if Boris Johnson has been fined more than once1.0×03.1k5978
100Apr 12, '22OPERATIONAL NOTE We are waiting for Tory MPs - especially the cabinet - to issue messages of support for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak The spreadsheet is waiting to record the timi0.9×03k37615
101Sep 3In your feeds, Monday to Thursday, by 8am. Search for "Politics at Sam and Anne's". Everything about the day ahead in British politics in 20 minutes. In your podcast app, now in vi0.3×23k1636

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