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Emma Thompson tells us the Harvey Weinstein allegations are just the tip of the iceberg of a wider and systemic problem in Hollywood
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"We can react in anger. Or we can react by doing" - powerful interview with blood donor Ian in Manchester
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"People that are working here shouldn't be targeted like that, nobody should be targeted like that."
Social media content creator and “proud Englishman” John Fisher, aka Big John, on the flag debate.
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“The President of the United States simply does not have the legal authority… to impose tariffs. Period.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom tells @bbcpaddy why he’s challenging President Trump’s tariffs in the courts.
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"My cousin is not Hamas. These kids are not Hamas."
Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, lost 6 family members amongst the almost 700 killed in Israeli strikes into Gaza.
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"Death threats, phone calls - I don't know how they got my number"
Brian Glenn, the man who asked President Zelensky why he doesn't wear a suit, tells #Newsnight about the public response to his question.
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"I am sorry but if you are a white man you don't get to define what racism is" : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #newsnight
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“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”
@vicderbyshire speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.
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David Bowie died three years ago today.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Speaking to Newsnight in 1999, he predicted the internet was going to have "unimaginable" effects on society and "change the state of content" forever
Watch the interview here: bbc.in/2CYSi43
#newsnight | #tbt
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US comedian and host of The Daily Show @Trevornoah, speaks to #newsnight about President Donald Trump.
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“I’ve got £3m worth of cattle stood in the shed… but we’ve got no money”
“This will be end of family farms”
@vicderbyshire speaks to farmers and supporters attending the farmers’ inheritance tax protest in Westminster.
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"I'd like Government contracts with Tesla to be cut and ended."
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey calls for the Government to block Tesla contracts after Elon Musk told protesters to “fight back or die” and that “violence is coming” at a rally this weekend.
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“I think they’ve been treating the north with contempt.”
Mayor of Greater Manchester @AndyBurnhamGM tells @lewis_goodall “the north is fed up of being pushed around” by the government and “people’s lives are on the line” 👇
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"What's the difference between an aeroplane and a Theatre. Why is it safe to fly six a breast to Greece but not safe to sit in a theatre? I don't understand that."
- questions Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre.
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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are.”
@vicderbyshire asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
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David Bowie died a year ago today. Back in 1999 he made this incredible prediction about how the internet would change our lives forever
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“People were going on the holiest night of Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, to pray… look at the hundreds who have been injured.”
Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK @hzomlot talks to #Newsnight about the spiralling violence which has triggered airstrikes and rocket attacks
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“It’s a kind of brutish attempt at harassment… as if my wife did not have enough to worry about"
Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic surgeon in Gaza, says police turned up to his family home in the UK today, to ask why he's in Gaza and who paid for his ticket
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"Those last four weeks of her life when she was in the hospice, I think it's odd to say, but were some of the happiest of her life."
Sir Michael Palin reflects on the care his wife received in a hospice, as he calls for more support for hospices in the budget.
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"We've now been able to confirm that this image was in the back garden of Royal Lodge"
BBC's Joe Pike says Prince Andrew hosted Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Royal Lodge.
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“This is extreme, this is inhumane, and it is a government of cowards.”
Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, responds to the government's changes to Britain's asylum system.
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WATCH: Sparks fly as Alastair Campbell and Alex Phillips clash on the future of Brexit
#Newsnight | bbc.in/2Ps915G
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"I am sorry but if you are a white man you don't get to define what racism is" : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie bbc.in/2fJux1x #newsnight
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“I don’t quite understand why… we had four weeks of everybody shrugging their shoulders.”
Famed surgeon Dr David Nott says governments were warned about coronavirus at the end of January and he doesn’t understand “why there seemed to be nobody that picked up this”
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"I was absolutely bowled over by the response" - Lucifer star @tomellis17 on the #SaveLucifer campaign #newsnight
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“I’m shocked a Labour government would do this…and make this one of the first things they do.”
“Do you blame the Prime Minister for that?”
“Of course…”
Christian Fraser speaks to actor and campaigner Liz Carr in the moments after MPs backed proposals to legalise assisted dying.
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Victoria Derbyshire: ‘Is it possible to estimate the yearly extra cost to your business because of Brexit?’
This chemical manufacturer: ‘£155,000 per year’
#Newsnight | bbc.in/2Ps915G
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“I don’t care who you believe in, where you’re from, this city is for everybody” – powerful words from blood donor Ian in Manchester
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"For the first time since the Second World War we have a domestic, proscribed terrorist group. It's right-wing, it's neo-Nazi, it's proudly white supremacist."
The Met's former counter-terrorism chief says Britain hasn't "woken up" to the extreme right-wing #newsnight
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"We will push back with fortitude"
Chris Packham on what the response should be to the government's raft of new environmental policies
#Newsnight @ChrisGPackham
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“The government should have given funding to existing ventilator manufacturers, and existing companies like us.”
Andrew Raynor of MEC Medical, a medical parts manufacturer, says “nothing” happened when he contacted the govt offering to make #Covid19 ventilators
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"I think she's got a problem with immigration."
Anna Soubry MP tells #newsnight that free movement of people is "the only reason" Prime Minister Theresa May will not agree to a single market
Full interview tonight 22:30 @BBCTwo
@KirstyWark | @Anna_Soubry | #IndependentGroup
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"As soon as you put a hard border back in again... you undermine the basis of the Good Friday Agreement."
Jonathan Powell, chief government negotiator in Northern Ireland 1997-2007, explains why the Irish backstop matters
WATCH: bbc.in/2SYRm6c
#newsnight | @maitlis
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“All my life I have voted Conservative but if I am faced with the choice of a Conservative Brexit candidate I, and I think huge numbers of people like me, will not vote for them” - Lord Heseltine, former deputy PM
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“What we’ve seen in Spain the last few weeks is outrageous, it’s a shock for every democrat in the EU” argues @markdemesmaeker #newsnight
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“This man has done such harm and damage to this country… your treatment of the poorest people in this country has been despicable”
Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee makes her feelings about George Osborne clear
@pollytoynbee | #newsnight | @EvanHD | @George_Osborne
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“This just happened because a bunch of extraordinary people got together and wanted it to” - @tomellis17 thanks #Lucifans for saving his show Lucifer from cancellation #LuciferSaved #newsnight
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“What troubles me about this episode… is the mindset it gives about what on earth is going on in Downing Street. Why did they try and manipulate this process?”
Former Intelligence & Security Committee chair, Dominic Grieve, says the committee must be non-partisan
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"[Elon] Musk is trying to pretend freedom of speech as some absolute right. It's never been an absolute right." Keir Starmer's biographer Tom Baldwin says there should be more regulation of social media #Newsnight
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"Racism to me is like gravity. You know, there is a position that is correct and there is a position that is incorrect"
Comedian Nish Kumar on the BBC's decision to partly uphold a complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty
@MrNishKumar | #Newsnight
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"BBC, no thank you. F**k off BBC."
The moment this Dutch man refuses to speak to #newsnight about free speech and Tommy Robinson
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"My biggest single worry perhaps about Boris Johnson is that he seems to me to be a politician who's inhaled his own legend before he's created it" - political historian Lord Hennessy on the UK's Prime Minister-to-be, Boris Johnson
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“It has been an honour and a blast… goodnight and good luck”
After 30 years of presenting #Newsnight, Kirsty Wark signs off for the final time
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CONTENT WARNING: MENTIONS OF ABUSE
"If you have penetrative sex with a child we will come at you with rape [charges]."
Baroness Louise Casey states that the law must be tightened so adults who have sex with a child under 16 are always charged with rape.
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“I spent my twenties trying to get old men’s tongues out of my mouth” – Emma Thompson on being a woman in Hollywood
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“Even if you just look at the total amount that Labour currently wants to increase the spending, it would basically bring us still to levels that are lower than France, Norway, and Sweden.”
- Economist Mariana Mazzucato on Labour’s spending plans
#Newsnight | @MazzucatoM
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"The question we should be asking is ‘where's our money gone?’... The truth is the water industry has simply become a legitimised rip off."
Environmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey says water companies have failed to invest enough in a "functioning sewage system".
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"Frankly what Ofcom should do is shut it down"
Broadcaster Adam Boulton tells #Newsnight regulator Ofcom should shut down GB News for disrupting Britain's 'broadcast ecology'
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Can the prime minister solve the UK's productivity problem by reducing immigration?
@lewis_goodall reports
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“This is one of those moments where Britain actually has a responsibility… to defend an agreement between two nations,” says @TomTugendhat on the Hong Kong protests.
He adds “there is no foreign interference”. This is just about protecting the joint declaration
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“I was accused of being a hysterical populist."
Former cabinet minister @RoryStewartUK says in 2020 the UK government asked him to stop publicly advocating the use of masks
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“This is a very bad result for the prime minister, 117 votes against her… much worse than she thought” says Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, who insists the result is worse that it looks as an ”overwhelming majority of backbenchers have voted against her”
#newsnight | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
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“It's disgraceful“.
The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn reacts to the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from their Aston Villa away fixture on safety grounds.
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FULL INTERVIEW with a witness, talking to @BBCNews, who says he saw a man with a gun on a building roof firing shots.
Donald Trump was rushed off stage during a rally in Pennsylvania after gun shots were heard.
He talked to @BBCBlindGazza - more information @BBCNews
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"I do think there's an issue with truth. And, you know, it's exacerbated when the CEO of X is a purveyor of misinformation and disinformation."
John Legend accuses Elon Musk of spreading lies on X #Newsnight
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“Honestly I’m so shocked right now, to be treated this badly”
Faiza Shaheen, who was set to stand for Labour, describes hearing that her candidacy had been pulled over liking a series of Tweets which she claims Labour said would frustrate its campaign
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“He... is clearly responsible for making the country more divisive, divided, poorer, less relevant in the world, fewer opportunities for our kids and grandkids.”
Nick Clegg criticises Nigel Farage and labels Brexit “the most extraordinary act of self-harm”.
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“We’ve had pitiful leadership… people are not putting their country first and foremost… I despair of what is happening to our country” - Conservative MP Anna Soubry tells our political editor Nicholas Watt
@Anna_Soubry | @nicholaswatt | #newsnight
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"Nine times out of ten it is sheer rubbish". Classics professor Mary Beard's health warning on Elon Musk's posts about the Roman Empire #Newsnight
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"This act makes children less safe!"
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf makes his party's case for repealing the Online Safety Act, citing the uptick in downloads of VPNs.
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"Perhaps we should ask for that subsidy back."
Mark Carney, who hopes to become the next Canadian prime minister, suggests Americans should pay more for energy because Canada subsidises it.
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“We’ve got the worst prime minister since Anthony Eden.
“We’ve got the worst leader of the opposition in the entire history of the Labour Party
“And we’ve got the worst Parliament since Oliver Cromwell”
- Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe
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“Joe Biden appeals to people who pay their cable bills on the day they arrive. Bernie Sanders appeals to people who may forget to pay their cable bill entirely.... the first group is more reliable.”
David Frum, senior editor at the Atlantic
#Newsnight | @davidfrum
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"You shouldn't be publishing it, you have no basis to do it and I don't know how I'd sleep at night if I was someone writing it myself."
@IanDunt challenges lockdown sceptics on their conduct amid debate over pandemic freedom of speech
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“I wanted to make everyone that believed in me proud… I knew I could get those grades if I actually did the exams.”
Mithushan Thiagarajah had an offer to read medicine at Cambridge and was predicted 4 A*s. Today he was downgraded and the offer has been withdrawn.
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We’re live now on @BBCTwo with Emily Maitlis – you can also watch online at bbc.in/2Ps915G
#Newsnight | @maitlis
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"My family stuck to the rules. Every other family stuck to the rules. The Royal Family stuck to the rules. Why couldn't Boris Johnson?"
Shadow cabinet minister Peter Kyle says a reported No 10 birthday party for the PM is "completely and utterly inexcusable"
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“It’s now the Brexit Party, effectively, but with this populist, Trumpian-type style”.
Former Tory MP @Anna_Soubry says “The Conservative party has lost its moral compass”
#Newsnight | @maitlis
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Emily Maitlis: "You didn't say well I'm not quite sure - you said it would turn the UK into a slave state and then you consider voting for it!"
Emily Matilis grills Jacob Rees-Mogg on the language he has used around the Govts withdrawal agreement.
#newsnight | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
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"He’s a 22 year old footballer. He shouldn’t be the one having to do this. But the fact that he is, is important. It’s impressive... there are a lot of children in this country going hungry"
#Newsnight | @maitlis | @GaryLineker
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"How did accepting four tickets for the Capital Summer Time Ball at Wembley worth £400 last summer help you do your job?"
Labour minister, Sarah Jones MP is questionned by @VicDerbyshire over politicians accepting hospitality gifts
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"I can't forgive them for what they've done... I've never seen human suffering like this."
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on why he won't be friends with the Conservative party.
Watch the full interview tonight at 22:30 @BBCTwo
#newsnight | @maitlis | @johnmcdonnellMP
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"That room was more than half empty... how are we supposed to get justice when they don't even care?"
Vice-Chair of Grenfell United Karim Mussilhy says he was surprised by how many MPs left the Commons before Prime Minister's statement on Grenfell Inquiry report.
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“I was a police officer for more than 25 years and I regard domestic violence as terrorism on an epic scale. It’s a disease on pandemic proportions.”
Fmr police chief superintendent John Sutherland says domestic abuse is “the single greatest cause of harm in society”
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"If you cut that [spending] too much you actually make it worse"
Economist Ha-Joon Chang warns against austerity, saying that Britain has failed to invest in "productive capabilities" over the past 25 years
#Newsnight | bbc.in/2Ps915G
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‘Whatever way you slice it, the monarchy is neither a fair nor representative institution’
Journalist Ash Sarkar says she believes the royal family have revealed themselves to be a ‘cartel of some very weird people’
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“This whole notion that you run government like you run a household…is a complete myth”
Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato tells #Newsnight Government’s should address social issues through tax
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“It was a deeply depressing occasion… I’m disenfranchised.”
Former Deputy PM Lord Heseltine says tonight's debate “was a masterclass in avoiding the answers to questions… and there were a lot of assertions which make no sense”
#newsnight | @maitlis | #BBCOurNextPM
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"We shouldn't be living with the consequences of [the PM's] broken promises."
Husband of Iran detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Richard Ratcliffe who is on a hunger strike, says Boris Johnson told him Nazanin's case was a "high priority"
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"Racism to me is like gravity. You know, there is a position that is correct & there is a position that is incorrect"
Comedian Nish Kumar tells #Newsnight following the BBC's decision to partly uphold a complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty
More: 2230 | @BBCTwo
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We took a closer look at p48 of the Tory manifesto...
@maitlis: Is this a shifting away from a legal framework, to a political framework?
@LordCFalconer: It is... so if Mr Johnson becomes PM again, he won't be restrained by the courts from acting unlawfully
#Newsnight | #GE19
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“The UK now has more daily deaths from Covid than the rest of the entire EU put together.”
#Newsnight's Political Editor @nicholaswatt talks us through the latest #coronavirus data
👇 WATCH 👇
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“The point of this is not how long it takes a lorry to cross the border in Northern Ireland. The issue is identity.”
Jonathan Powell, Good Friday Agreement negotiator, says the ability to feel Irish or British or both "will be destroyed” if a customs border is put in
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Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption says the Metropolitan Police have effectively “obstructed or delayed” MPs performing their constitutional function of holding the government to account by asking Sue Gray not to publish key details of her report
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“You could certainly pick up people in the English Channel, hold them on some kind of a mothership & send them back to the land from which they’ve come on some quiet and moonless night”
Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott tells #Newsnight how the UK could deter small boat crossings
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"Unfortunately the United Kingdom is living with the economic impact of that decision."
The former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, says he wishes he ‘had been wrong’ about the impact of Brexit on the British economy.
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"What Trump is trying to do is buy time... in order not to help Ukraine."
David Frum, speechwriter to George W. Bush and Atlantic staff writer, believes that President Trump is actively seeking to undermine Ukraine's war effort by drawing out negotiations.
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"There are more people in jail in the UK because they spoke what they thought was right... than there are in Russia."
Ex Trump ambassador Carla Sands claims more people are jailed in the UK for free speech than in Russia. @vicderbyshire questions her sources.
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"These are totally unacceptable tweets... I think it was proportionate to arrest him"
Zack Polanski, Green Party Leader, on the arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan at Heathrow airport on Monday.
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“If they call it, we’ll support it”
Mick Lynch @RMTunion tells #Newsnight what would happen if the TUC calls for a general strike and that housing costs, interest rates and food poverty need to be tackled
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‘Brexit has failed’ GB News presenter Nigel Farage admits after he is read a list of negative facts about the UK economy
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“He has no feel for politics. Remember he’s on his big fat DPP pension. What does he know about ageing women?”
Labour MP Diane Abbott rejects the PM’s insistence that he understands the WASPI women’s concerns about changes to the state pension age.
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"He needed to look at his own reflection... he was conning people throughout his time in office"
Former attorney general Dominic Grieve hits out at his former colleague over his record as Prime Minister
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"That woman was inciting violence. She is free to think her horrible, horrible, racist thoughts. That is fine. What she isn't allowed to do is go and incite violence."
Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika on the Lucy Connolly case.
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"Threats on the phone, threats to my child...packages at my house."
Anouska De Georgiou, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, describes her experience since waiving her right to anonymity in 2019 - insisting she will not be silenced.
#Newsnight
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“Could you live on £70 a week?”
“Absolutely not”
“So why do you expect young people to?”
“We won't”
@vicderbyshire challenges DWP minister Torsten Bell on benefit reform.
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"We're going to leave you with the names of the 72 men, women, and children, who lost their lives as a result of the Grenfell fire."
@vicderbyshire
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“I question the motives of the neighbours who stood there with a microphone pressed against the wall recording somebody’s row… so concerned were they, they went to The Guardian” – Richard Barnes, deputy mayor of London under Boris Johnson
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“I've travelled across the country… something that I very much doubt Kemi Badenoch or Chris Philp have done, to get a young woman… to a place of safety.”
Safeguarding minister Jess Philips defends her response to grooming gangs in the UK following calls for a national, government-led inquiry.
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