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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 3h

“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 · 3h

"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 · 1d

“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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“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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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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

“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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“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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“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 · 5d

"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 · 6d

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 · 7d

"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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"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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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“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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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“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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“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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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 9d

“You’re learning from Donald Trump?”

“We’re taking back red hats for the people.”

Nick Watt gathers the mood of Labour Ministers and MPs at party conference ahead of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 10d

“I can’t control you lot can I…”

Andy Burnham responds as Nick Watts asks whether speculation about his leadership ambitions has “got a little bit out of control" following interviews he gave in the run up to Labour Party Conference.

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“Don't be cheeky...”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting responds to Nick Watt when asked about Andy Burnham’s leadership ambitions.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 13d

Virginia Giuffre's family call for Duchess of York to be stripped of royal title

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Virginia Giuffre's family call for Duchess of York to be stripped of royal title

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WATCH: Is Nigel Farage “obviously” copying Donald Trump?

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Is Nigel Farage “obviously” copying Donald Trump?

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

"So obviously, it's almost embarrassing..."

Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse on whether Nigel Farage is trying to emulate Donald Trump.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

"Nigel Farage was asked a question this morning on live radio, and perhaps he hadn't prepared as he much as might have wanted to."

Conservative Home founder, Tim Montgomerie, on the Reform UK leader's comments about whether there are safety concerns around paracetamol.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

“Trump doesn’t do geopolitics, Trump does his own ego… He wants to be ‘badass’.”

Gabriel Gatehouse, presenter of ‘The Coming Storm’ podcast, on how to interpret Donald Trump’s latest comments on Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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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

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