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Victoria Derbyshire
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Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels

BBC Newsnight 🎥
Ukrainecast 🎧
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧

BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
#Newsnight’s nominated for Best News Programme at the Broadcast Awards

It’s for our special dedicated to hearing survivors of grooming and rape gangs in their own words
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Want to see legendary racehorse trainer Willie Mullins’ stables in Ireland?  It’s one of the INCREDIBLE items in a Silent Auction raising £ for the Hunt Family Fund – set up in memory of John Hunt’s wife & daughters.  All will go to support & inspire young women 👇👇

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The Hunt Family Fund - BidAid
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November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Net migration to the UK dropped sharply to 204,000 in the year to June, new figures show

That's a drop from 649,000 in the year to June 2024, and a drop of nearly 80% from the peak in 2023

(ONS)
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
#Newsnight 1030pm BBC 2

• the budget ….with

One of the world’s top economists Mohamed El-Erian

Former Chief Economist at Bank of England Andy Haldane

Director of the IFS Helen Miller

Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray

Shadow Business & Trade Minister, Conservative MP Harriet Baldwin
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#Ukrainecast - could a peace deal be closer?

With pre-eminent Russia expert Fiona Hill, BBC Ukraine Corr James Waterhouse, BBC Diplomatic Corr James Landale and me

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Ukrainecast - Could a peace deal be close? - BBC Sounds
Ukraine has called for a Trump-Zelensky meeting in the US this week.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’

- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils

That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims

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Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A US judge has dismissed criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the charges was unlawfully appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
#Newsnight 1030pm

With Piers Morgan and Layla Moran of Lib Dems

• Ukraine talks latest
• Chancellor appeals to Labour MPs for unity ahead of Budget
• BBC figures questioned by MPs
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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#Ukrainecast - what’s in the leaked US-Russia peace plan?

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Ukrainecast - What's in the leaked US-Russia peace plan? - BBC Sounds
Ukraine's President Zelensky says he will "propose alternatives"
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November 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
#Ukrainecast - what’s in the leaked US-Russia peace plan?

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Ukrainecast - What's in the leaked US-Russia peace plan? - BBC Sounds
Ukraine's President Zelensky says he will "propose alternatives"
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November 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Breaking news: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she will resign from Congress as of Jan. 5, a surprise announcement that came days after a public spat between President Trump in which he lobbed public insults at his longtime ally.
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from House
The longtime MAGA supporter says she is stepping down from office as of Jan. 5.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign

Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
How WhatsApp messages revealed ex-Reform politician's pro-Russian bribes

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Nathan Gill: How WhatsApp messages revealed ex-Reform politician's pro-Russian bribes
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has admitted bribery and will be sentenced on Friday.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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#Ukrainecast & #Newsround

This is a really special collaboration between us and the BBC’s children’s news prog

80 schoolkids including Ukrainians who’ve fled the war join us to ask questions and share experiences

It’s moving and it’s uplifting ❤️

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Ukrainecast - A special episode with Newsround
The team answer questions from kids about the war in Ukraine, to mark World Children's Day.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
UK Covid inquiry:

Chairwoman of the inquiry, former judge Baroness Hallett, said the UK's response could be summarised as "too little, too late"

Lockdown could have been avoided - but action came too late

'Chaotic' government with key figures criticised including Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
#Ukrainecast & #Newsround

This is a really special collaboration between us and the BBC’s children’s news prog

80 schoolkids including Ukrainians who’ve fled the war join us to ask questions and share experiences

It’s moving and it’s uplifting ❤️

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Ukrainecast - A special episode with Newsround
The team answer questions from kids about the war in Ukraine, to mark World Children's Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#Newsnight 1030pm

• is Trump administration going to impose a peace plan on Ukraine to end Russia’s war there?

• 1 wk to go before budget - which party has best policies to help with your bills?

With
Mims Davies MP, Conservatives
Jess Brown-Fuller MP, Lib Dems
David Pinto-Duschinsky MP, Labour
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Former Met Officer and serial rapist David Carrick is already in prison having admitted 71 offences of sexual violence

Today he’s been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl and a former partner
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"What is going on?" | Republican asked why Trump is yet to release all Epstein files

#Newsnight

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"What is going on?" | Republican asked why Trump is yet to release all Epstein files
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"We have decriminalised illegal entry into our country."

Reform Councillor Laila Cunningham clashes with Green Party leader Zack Polanski over the government’s new immigration policy.

#Newsnight
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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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.

#Newsnight
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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“We could subpoena him and I believe we should.”

Ro Khanna, a leading US Democrat pushing for the release of the Epstein files, tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be formally called upon to give evidence to the House Oversight Committee.

#Newsnight
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#Newsnight 1030pm

• Trump says Saudi's Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - contradicting a 2021 US intelligence report

• Epstein files closer to being released

• MPs warned they’re being targetted by Chinese spies

With ex-Head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#Newsnight 1030pm

• immigration reforms that will ‘unite a divided country’ says Home Secretary - is a rebellion among Labour MPs on the cards?

• a third of all rapes trials in Eng & Wales were delayed last year. We’ll speak to a survivor & talk live to a Justice Minister
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM