Louis Harris-White
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“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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“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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“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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"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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“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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“Nigel would ship them out - totally un-British, totally unacceptable, you have to call it what it is.”

Nick Watt asks Deputy PM David Lammy if he agrees with Sir Keir Starmer labelling Reform UK’s immigration plans as racist, saying “it reminds me of the Windrush scandal.”

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“Not you again!”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells Nick Watt that he thinks Sir Keir Starmer’s conference speech was “unifying” and “in stark contrast to the snake oil salesman Nigel Farage.”

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“Rachel Reeves, was that a better speech than yours?”

“Of course”

Nick Watt hears reaction to Sir Keir Starmer’s conference speech from The Chancellor, Bridget Phillipson and Ellie Reeves.

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"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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"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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"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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I think it’s disturbing.”

Sohrab Ahmari, US Editor of Unherd, on Donald Trump’s comments that networks who criticises the President could risk losing their licence, following Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from ABC.

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“I’m just stunned at the idea that somehow in the media where 97% of the people are anti-Trump… that is somehow considered fair and balanced”.

Former Deputy National Security Adviser, KT McFarland, defends criticism of Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from ABC.

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"The Russians are testing the doorknobs... and what they're discovering is the US President is not at home."

Senior Editor at the Atlantic, David Frum, on President Trump's response to Russian jets violating NATO airspace.

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“Maybe the Lib Dems might have to be in coalition in the future?”

“I wouldn’t rule it out”

Nick Watt presses former Lib Dem leader and cabinet minister Sir Vince Cable on whether the party would join a coalition in the next parliament.

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"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.

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