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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16h

are you joking?!

Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 4d

‘Why do we need to talk about domestic abuse’ - Leeds International Festival of Ideas

This Thursday 7.30pm - tickets here 👇

leedsinternationalfestival.com/event/why-do...

Why do we need to talk about domestic abuse? | LIFI - Leeds International Festival of Ideas

Leeds International Festival of Ideas.

leedsinternationalfestival.com

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 6d

#Newsnight 1045pm @BBCTwo

• has Kemi Badenoch silenced her critics? After announcing a series of policies incl abolition of stamp duty, what shld her strategy be heading to the budget then local elex in May & important elections in Scot & Wales?

With @KayBurley
@SteveBakerFRSA
@kiranstacey

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 7d

She has said her party has identified £47 billlion in savings they cld make

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 7d

Kemi Badenoch tells her conference ‘the next Conservative government will abolish stamp duty on your home. It will be gone’

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 7d

#Newsnight 1030pm BBC 2

• Kemi Badenoch speech tomorrow likely to highlight new rules she wld bring in around the economy. We’ll discuss

• & contender for deputy leader of Labour Bridget Phillipson tells us if her opponent Lucy Powell wins, there’s a ‘risk’ it cld ‘destabilise the party’

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 9d

Newsnight stories & interviews were viewed
55 MILLION TIMES last month

Specifically - 55,021,000 times in just one month - across all platforms

If you want MASSIVE social reach for your exclusive interview or story - come to us at Newsnight (DM me on here or insta)

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 8d

#Newsnight 1030pm

• after a slew of policies from the Conservatives in Manc we’ll talk live to their Shadow Financial Secretary to Treasury

• ahead of ex-FBI James Comey’s appearance in court this wk on criminal charges of lying - we’ll talk to a whistleblower who believes he’ll be charged next

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 9d

Newsnight stories & interviews were viewed
55 MILLION TIMES last month

Specifically - 55,021,000 times in just one month - across all platforms

If you want MASSIVE social reach for your exclusive interview or story - come to us at Newsnight (DM me on here or insta)

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 10d

Police forces will be granted powers to put conditions on repeat protests, the government has announced, a day after nearly 500 protesters were arrested

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 10d

At least 355 people have been arrested in central London during protests in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action the Metropolitan Police has said

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11d

The Manchester synagogue attacker had been arrested on suspicion of rape and released on bail before the deadly attack on Thursday.

Jihad Al-Shamie, known to be a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, was not charged with the offence.

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12d

Baroness Mone hits out at Kemi Badenoch over PPE VIP lanes:

‘I acted no differently than Matt Hancock who referred 4 companies…
And let’s not forget Michael Gove & his referral of 4 contracts to his friend David Meller’

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12d

…It was the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, and nothing was going to stop him from doing what he was meant to’

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12d

…And even when the terrorist looked through the windows at the worshippers, he continued to lead the service, when they were escorted out of the building he continued, when they all had to go to the police station to give statements they continued the service…

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12d

I received this from a colleague in Manchester about the courageous actions of Rabbi Daniel Walker at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue:

‘The Rabbi calmly shut that synagogue door to prevent Jihad and his murderous intentions in…. (cont’d)

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 13d

Have just watched Panorama's
'Undercover in the Police'.
It's really shocking.

We'll be talking about it on #Newsnight with Mina Smallman, whose daughters Nicole & Bibaa were murdered. Later 2 Met PCs took photos of the dead women at the crime scene

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Panorama - Undercover in the Police

Secret filming by Panorama reveals evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at one of London’s busiest police stations, Charing Cross.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14d

#Newsnight 1030pm @BBCTwo

• has Sir Keir Starmer done enough to silence his critics? What do you think of him taking the fight to Nigel Farage & Reform? Do you now know what the PM stands for? What does he need to do next in your view?

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper joins us

See u at half ten

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 15d

#Newsnight 1030pm BBCTwo BBCNews

• Will Hamas agree to President Trump’s 20 point peace plan to release the remaining hostages and stop the killing in Gaza?

• the PM prepares to tell his conference & voters what he stands for & where he wants to take the country

See you soon

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 15d

#Newsnight 1030pm BBCTwo BBCNews

• Will Hamas agree to President Trump’s 20 point peace plan to release the remaining hostages and stop the killing in Gaza?

• the PM prepares to tell his conference & voters what he stands for & where he wants to take the country

See you soon 👋

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 17d

hopefully not on Newsnight

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 18d

so weird

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 19d

By 2029 the government says we’ll have to have digital ID cards on our ‘phones 👇

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 20d

Nigel Farage appeared on the radio today and failed to back the scientific & medical advice given to pregnant women when it comes to taking paracetamol

He also suggested migrants were eating swans & carp

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social runs through the claims and official responses

#Newsnight

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22d

"It's the same as saying people with lung cancer have matches in their pockets. It's not the matches that gave them lung cancer, it's the smoking."

Former Centres for Disease Control director Dr Demetre Daskalakis on President Trump linking paracetamol and autism.

#Newsnight

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