Lewis Goodall

Lewis Goodall (born 1 July 1989) is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. He worked as a journalist for Granada Studios before becoming a political correspondent for Sky News. He later became policy editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight.

In 2022, along with former presenters Emily Maitlis (Newsnight]]) and Jon Sopel (Politics Show), Goodall left the BBC in frustration at the Corporation's editorial policy to launch the The News Agents podcast.

Quotes

• [What is Keir Starmer's Labour government for?] Is it for social justice? Equality? Liberalism? Freedom? No one knows, and Starmer actively dislikes talking in these terms. To return to [Harold] Wilson's aphorism, from [Jeremy] Corbyn to Starmer, Labour has gone from being nothing but a moral crusade to anything but. And by forgoing the theory of politics, Starmer is leaving himself open to the most obvious post-election day attack: now the Tories are gone, his principal argument for the necessity of himself has gone with it. What is the point of Starmer? What gels a wide but shallow coalition together without the Tory bogeyman at the door? What will the Starmer coalition be for as well as against? That question has not been answered in the election campaign.
  • "Labour has won the election – it hasn’t won the argument", The New Statesman (5 July 2024).
  • Italics in the original source.