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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4h

“That is absolute rubbish - I’ve never heard such drivel…”

UCU General Secretary Jo Grady and ex Deputy PM, Baroness Coffey, clash over the handling of the economy and employment rights.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4h

“Are there too many blokes around Keir Starmer?”

“We need to have a bit of a cultural reset...”

Deputy Leader candidate Lucy Powell tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that Labour should avoid a “narrower and narrower group of people at the top of the party who then groupthink.”

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4h

“These sort of anonymous briefings that come from blokes is a culture that I want to end.”

Labour Deputy Leadership candidate Lucy Powell responds to claims that she was sacked from Cabinet because “she couldn’t be trusted not to brief or leak”.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 21h

WATCH: Democrat demanding release of Epstein files on "suspicious" delays to swearing in

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“Very unusual” | Democrat demanding release of Epstein files on "suspicious" delays to swearing in

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

WATCH: "Provocative" | Richard Bacon and Alex Phillips clash over flags and Gary Neville's intervention

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“Provocative" | Richard Bacon and Alex Phillips clash over flags and Gary Neville's intervention

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

"At first I thought it was a little bit of a conspiracy theory... but at this point..."

Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva suggests her support for the full release of the Epstein files is delaying her swearing in as a member of Congress in the US.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

"That is a concern"

Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan agrees with former National Security Advisor Sir Mark Lyall Grant that the row over possible Chinese spies in Westminster "complicates the decision coming up about the new Chinese embassy".

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

"The idea of throwing Matt Collins under the bus is frankly pretty low."

"This is a really serious incident."

Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat reacts to the collapsed China spy case and says Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Collins shouldn't be blamed.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

"There's going to have to be a change of leadership..."

Sir Mark Lyall Grant, who served as UK ambassador to the UN, says he can't see how President Trump's Gaza peace plan can "get to the final stage" under the current Israeli or Palestinian leadership.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

"The future of what leadership looks like has to come from the Palestinians."

Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan says people in the Middle East whose lives will be affected should have a say in the governance of Gaza going forward.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

“Zack Polanski is a breath of fresh air.”

Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister and author of 'Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance', discusses the new Green Party leader.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: Lord Heseltine pressed on Reform "equivalents to the fascists in the 30s" comments

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Lord Heseltine pressed on Reform "equivalents to the fascists in the 30s" comments

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 6d

“I suspect Robert Jenrick had a look at [Andy Burnham] and said you know what, this conference I’m going to play it a bit cooler."

The Guardian’s Policy Editor Kiran Stacey says the Shadow Justice Secretary was on "his best behaviour” at Tory Party conference.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 6d

"Will it be enough? I would be surprised..."

Kay Burley says Kemi Badenoch's performance at party conference has sured up her position as leader for the time being.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

“92-year-old Lord Heseltine is out of touch and deeply offensive to millions of voters.”

A Reform UK spokesperson responds to Lord Heseltine who described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

“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.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

WATCH: "They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left

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"They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“Was your language wise?”

Nick Watt asks Robert Jenrick about his comments describing Handsworth as was “one of the worst-integrated places" he’d been and that he had not seen "another white face" in the hour-and-a-half he spent filming there.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“This is about substance - this is not showbiz.”

Nick Watt hears from Shadow Ministers, MPs and a former Australian PM about the mood at Conservative Party conference.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“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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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 11d

"Even more un-British than certain unsavoury people attending certain protests would be a world in which the country saw Jews or the Jewish community demanding that certain rights were disavowed or forfeited."

Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund on the weekend's planned protests.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 12d

WATCH: “Terrifying” | Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett debate the UK’s “sad” economic situation

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“Terrifying” | Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett debate the UK’s “sad” economic situation

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 13d

"I'm all for people giving him a good kicking... but the danger is if you give him too much free publicity you turn him into a bigger figure than he is."

Former Labour MP, Diane Abbott on the focus on Nigel Farage during Labour Party conference.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 13d

"Farage does not like having his policies criticised, because he's used to simply standing on the sidelines."

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to Nigel Farage calling the Prime Minister's language "a disgrace".

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