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Emma Thompson tells us the Harvey Weinstein allegations are just the tip of the iceberg of a wider and systemic problem in Hollywood

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"We can react in anger. Or we can react by doing" - powerful interview with blood donor Ian in Manchester

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"My cousin is not Hamas. These kids are not Hamas." Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, lost 6 family members amongst the almost 700 killed in Israeli strikes into Gaza. #Newsnight

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"I am sorry but if you are a white man you don't get to define what racism is" : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #newsnight

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By popular demand, here's our playout from last night...

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David Bowie died three years ago today. FROM THE ARCHIVES: Speaking to Newsnight in 1999, he predicted the internet was going to have "unimaginable" effects on society and "change the state of content" forever Watch the interview here: #newsnight | #tbt

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US comedian and host of The Daily Show @Trevornoah , speaks to #newsnight about President Donald Trump.

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“I think they’ve been treating the north with contempt.” Mayor of Greater Manchester @AndyBurnhamGM tells @lewis_goodall “the north is fed up of being pushed around” by the government and “people’s lives are on the line” 👇 #Newsnight

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"What's the difference between an aeroplane and a Theatre. Why is it safe to fly six a breast to Greece but not safe to sit in a theatre? I don't understand that." - questions Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre. #Newsnight

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David Bowie died a year ago today. Back in 1999 he made this incredible prediction about how the internet would change our lives forever

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“People were going on the holiest night of Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, to pray… look at the hundreds who have been injured.” Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK @hzomlot talks to #Newsnight about the spiralling violence which has triggered airstrikes and rocket attacks

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“It’s a kind of brutish attempt at harassment… as if my wife did not have enough to worry about" Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic surgeon in Gaza, says police turned up to his family home in the UK today, to ask why he's in Gaza and who paid for his ticket #bbcnewsnight

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WATCH: Sparks fly as Alastair Campbell and Alex Phillips clash on the future of Brexit #Newsnight |

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“I don’t quite understand why… we had four weeks of everybody shrugging their shoulders.” Famed surgeon Dr David Nott says governments were warned about coronavirus at the end of January and he doesn’t understand “why there seemed to be nobody that picked up this” #Newsnight

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"I am sorry but if you are a white man you don't get to define what racism is" : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #newsnight

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"I was absolutely bowled over by the response" - Lucifer star @tomellis17 on the #SaveLucifer campaign #newsnight

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Victoria Derbyshire: ‘Is it possible to estimate the yearly extra cost to your business because of Brexit?’ This chemical manufacturer: ‘£155,000 per year’ #Newsnight |

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“I don’t care who you believe in, where you’re from, this city is for everybody” – powerful words from blood donor Ian in Manchester

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"For the first time since the Second World War we have a domestic, proscribed terrorist group. It's right-wing, it's neo-Nazi, it's proudly white supremacist." The Met's former counter-terrorism chief says Britain hasn't "woken up" to the extreme right-wing #newsnight

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"We will push back with fortitude" Chris Packham on what the response should be to the government's raft of new environmental policies #Newsnight @ChrisGPackham

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“The government should have given funding to existing ventilator manufacturers, and existing companies like us.” Andrew Raynor of MEC Medical, a medical parts manufacturer, says “nothing” happened when he contacted the govt offering to make #Covid19 ventilators #Newsnight

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"I think she's got a problem with immigration." Anna Soubry MP tells #newsnight that free movement of people is "the only reason" Prime Minister Theresa May will not agree to a single market Full interview tonight 22:30 @BBCTwo @KirstyWark | @Anna_Soubry | #IndependentGroup

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“All my life I have voted Conservative but if I am faced with the choice of a Conservative Brexit candidate I, and I think huge numbers of people like me, will not vote for them” - Lord Heseltine, former deputy PM #newsnight

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"As soon as you put a hard border back in again... you undermine the basis of the Good Friday Agreement." Jonathan Powell, chief government negotiator in Northern Ireland 1997-2007, explains why the Irish backstop matters WATCH: #newsnight | @maitlis

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“This man has done such harm and damage to this country… your treatment of the poorest people in this country has been despicable” Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee makes her feelings about George Osborne clear @pollytoynbee | #newsnight | @EvanHD | @George_Osborne

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“What troubles me about this episode… is the mindset it gives about what on earth is going on in Downing Street. Why did they try and manipulate this process?” Former Intelligence & Security Committee chair, Dominic Grieve, says the committee must be non-partisan #Newsnight

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“What we’ve seen in Spain the last few weeks is outrageous, it’s a shock for every democrat in the EU” argues @markdemesmaeker #newsnight

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“This just happened because a bunch of extraordinary people got together and wanted it to” - @tomellis17 thanks #Lucifans for saving his show Lucifer from cancellation #LuciferSaved #newsnight

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"Racism to me is like gravity. You know, there is a position that is correct and there is a position that is incorrect" Comedian Nish Kumar on the BBC's decision to partly uphold a complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty @MrNishKumar | #Newsnight

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"My biggest single worry perhaps about Boris Johnson is that he seems to me to be a politician who's inhaled his own legend before he's created it" - political historian Lord Hennessy on the UK's Prime Minister-to-be, Boris Johnson #newsnight

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“Even if you just look at the total amount that Labour currently wants to increase the spending, it would basically bring us still to levels that are lower than France, Norway, and Sweden.” - Economist Mariana Mazzucato on Labour’s spending plans #Newsnight | @MazzucatoM

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"The question we should be asking is ‘where's our money gone?’... The truth is the water industry has simply become a legitimised rip off." Environmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey says water companies have failed to invest enough in a "functioning sewage system". #Newsnight

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“I spent my twenties trying to get old men’s tongues out of my mouth” – Emma Thompson on being a woman in Hollywood

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"Frankly what Ofcom should do is shut it down" Broadcaster Adam Boulton tells #Newsnight regulator Ofcom should shut down GB News for disrupting Britain's 'broadcast ecology'

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Can the prime minister solve the UK's productivity problem by reducing immigration? @lewis_goodall reports #Newsnight

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“This is one of those moments where Britain actually has a responsibility… to defend an agreement between two nations,” says @TomTugendhat on the Hong Kong protests. He adds “there is no foreign interference”. This is just about protecting the joint declaration #Newsnight

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“This is a very bad result for the prime minister, 117 votes against her… much worse than she thought” says Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, who insists the result is worse that it looks as an ”overwhelming majority of backbenchers have voted against her” #newsnight | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg

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“I was accused of being a hysterical populist." Former cabinet minister @RoryStewartUK says in 2020 the UK government asked him to stop publicly advocating the use of masks #Newsnight

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"BBC, no thank you. F**k off BBC." The moment this Dutch man refuses to speak to #newsnight about free speech and Tommy Robinson

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“We’ve had pitiful leadership… people are not putting their country first and foremost… I despair of what is happening to our country” - Conservative MP Anna Soubry tells our political editor Nicholas Watt @Anna_Soubry | @nicholaswatt | #newsnight

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“We’ve got the worst prime minister since Anthony Eden. “We’ve got the worst leader of the opposition in the entire history of the Labour Party “And we’ve got the worst Parliament since Oliver Cromwell” - Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe #newsnight

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"You shouldn't be publishing it, you have no basis to do it and I don't know how I'd sleep at night if I was someone writing it myself." @IanDunt challenges lockdown sceptics on their conduct amid debate over pandemic freedom of speech #Newsnight

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“Joe Biden appeals to people who pay their cable bills on the day they arrive. Bernie Sanders appeals to people who may forget to pay their cable bill entirely.... the first group is more reliable.” David Frum, senior editor at the Atlantic #Newsnight | @davidfrum

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“I wanted to make everyone that believed in me proud… I knew I could get those grades if I actually did the exams.” Mithushan Thiagarajah had an offer to read medicine at Cambridge and was predicted 4 A*s. Today he was downgraded and the offer has been withdrawn. #Newsnight

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"My family stuck to the rules. Every other family stuck to the rules. The Royal Family stuck to the rules. Why couldn't Boris Johnson?" Shadow cabinet minister Peter Kyle says a reported No 10 birthday party for the PM is "completely and utterly inexcusable" #Newsnight

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“It’s now the Brexit Party, effectively, but with this populist, Trumpian-type style”. Former Tory MP @Anna_Soubry says “The Conservative party has lost its moral compass” #Newsnight | @maitlis

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We’re live now on @BBCTwo with Emily Maitlis – you can also watch online at #Newsnight | @maitlis

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Emily Maitlis: "You didn't say well I'm not quite sure - you said it would turn the UK into a slave state and then you consider voting for it!" Emily Matilis grills Jacob Rees-Mogg on the language he has used around the Govts withdrawal agreement. #newsnight | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg

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"He’s a 22 year old footballer. He shouldn’t be the one having to do this. But the fact that he is, is important. It’s impressive... there are a lot of children in this country going hungry" #Newsnight | @maitlis | @GaryLineker

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"I can't forgive them for what they've done... I've never seen human suffering like this." Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on why he won't be friends with the Conservative party. Watch the full interview tonight at 22:30 @BBCTwo #newsnight | @maitlis | @johnmcdonnellMP

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“I was a police officer for more than 25 years and I regard domestic violence as terrorism on an epic scale. It’s a disease on pandemic proportions.” Fmr police chief superintendent John Sutherland says domestic abuse is “the single greatest cause of harm in society” #Newsnight

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"If you cut that [spending] too much you actually make it worse" Economist Ha-Joon Chang warns against austerity, saying that Britain has failed to invest in "productive capabilities" over the past 25 years #Newsnight |

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‘Whatever way you slice it, the monarchy is neither a fair nor representative institution’ Journalist Ash Sarkar says she believes the royal family have revealed themselves to be a ‘cartel of some very weird people’

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“This whole notion that you run government like you run a household…is a complete myth” Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato tells #Newsnight Government’s should address social issues through tax

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“It was a deeply depressing occasion… I’m disenfranchised.” Former Deputy PM Lord Heseltine says tonight's debate “was a masterclass in avoiding the answers to questions… and there were a lot of assertions which make no sense” #newsnight | @maitlis | #BBCOurNextPM

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"We shouldn't be living with the consequences of [the PM's] broken promises." Husband of Iran detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Richard Ratcliffe who is on a hunger strike, says Boris Johnson told him Nazanin's case was a "high priority"

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"Racism to me is like gravity. You know, there is a position that is correct & there is a position that is incorrect" Comedian Nish Kumar tells #Newsnight following the BBC's decision to partly uphold a complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty More: 2230 | @BBCTwo

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We took a closer look at p48 of the Tory manifesto... @maitlis : Is this a shifting away from a legal framework, to a political framework? @LordCFalconer : It is... so if Mr Johnson becomes PM again, he won't be restrained by the courts from acting unlawfully #Newsnight | #GE19

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“The UK now has more daily deaths from Covid than the rest of the entire EU put together.” #Newsnight 's Political Editor @nicholaswatt talks us through the latest #coronavirus data 👇 WATCH 👇

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“The point of this is not how long it takes a lorry to cross the border in Northern Ireland. The issue is identity.” Jonathan Powell, Good Friday Agreement negotiator, says the ability to feel Irish or British or both "will be destroyed” if a customs border is put in #Newsnight

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Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption says the Metropolitan Police have effectively “obstructed or delayed” MPs performing their constitutional function of holding the government to account by asking Sue Gray not to publish key details of her report #Newsnight

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‘Brexit has failed’ GB News presenter Nigel Farage admits after he is read a list of negative facts about the UK economy

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"He needed to look at his own reflection... he was conning people throughout his time in office" Former attorney general Dominic Grieve hits out at his former colleague over his record as Prime Minister #Newsnight

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“If they call it, we’ll support it” Mick Lynch @RMTunion tells #Newsnight what would happen if the TUC calls for a general strike and that housing costs, interest rates and food poverty need to be tackled

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“A no-deal Brexit is a catastrophe and I will not go down in history as an MP who has facilitated it.” Conservative MP Dominic Grieve says, “It’s the moment when the national interest goes clearly in front of any party political consideration” #newsnight | @maitlis

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“I question the motives of the neighbours who stood there with a microphone pressed against the wall recording somebody’s row… so concerned were they, they went to The Guardian” – Richard Barnes, deputy mayor of London under Boris Johnson #newsnight

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“This is a moment of statesmanship. This is a moment for a government to step forward and try to lead truth and reconciliation…” Prof @DavidOlusoga says the PM doesn’t have the “moral authority” to lead the debate into structural racism into UK #Newsnight

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"It's inhumane, it's morally reprehensible, it's probably unlawful and it may well be unworkable." Former Home Office Permanent Secretary Sir David Normington on the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda #Newsnight

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"In this government you will not get sacked for lying, you will not get sacked for cheating... you will not get sacked for being useless at your job." - Former director of strategy for Tony Blair @campbellclaret on Boris Johnson's handling of the Matt Hancock affair #Newsnight

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“Theresa May wanted to tighten every single screw she could find on the immigration system” Former Home Office Minister Norman Baker tells #newsnight that Theresa May "wanted to exclude as many people as possible from the country… including those who were of economic value”

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“This is one of the biggest political stories either side of the border for many years.“ @FraserNelson explains why The Spectator went to the High Court to argue for publication of Alex Salmond's evidence to parliamentary inquiry #Newsnight

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"I feel I have been kicked out, to be honest" Dr Abuldrahman Babiker, a registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, tells Newsnight he is disappointed to be told he is not eligible for evacuation from Sudan on UK government flights. #newsnight

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“We need to dispel the idea we’ve broken the link with hospitalisations… We have about three times as many people on ventilators than this time last month." - Chair of @theBMA council @CNagpaul explains why he believes it is “irresponsible” to open up on 19 July #Newsnight

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"What sort of country do we live in where the media constantly tries to portray the leader of the opposition, who was the only one who stood up in solidarity with Russia's opposition... as an agent of foreign powers?" @OwenJones84 asks #newsnight

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“They’re doing that to create a theatre, a crisis…so that they can then say at the next election they can offer the solution” Zoe Gardner, migration policy expert, reveals why the Government is pursuing its migrant policy | #Newsnight

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"There’s about 10 days of food in total. The kind of disruption the government is talking about today… will lead to gaps on the shelves within a week.” Former Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King tells @Emmabarnett why he thinks we should be worried about a no-deal Brexit

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“I am suspicious of outrage, because I think, ‘are you really outraged? Are you really stomping about in your house furious, or are you just wanting to be heard on social media?’” - Comedian David @Baddiel on the reaction to Jo Brand's battery acid joke. #newsnight

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‘I will NOT make a pact with old age!’ Brian Blessed says he will go to space - his ‘biggest love in life’

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America has a new President. His name is Donald J Trump. Here's the opener to our #inauguration special #Newsnight

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“It’s about a planted photo into a newspaper, and we need to now what tricks are going on and what the veracity of that is” Emma Barnett quizzes Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, who claims that asking about Boris Johnson’s “private life”, is a matter for the “gutter press” #newsnight

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@tomellis17 Hi Tom - we're monitoring #SaveLucifer very closely here at the BBC @BBCNewsnight . As you're in London, would you like to come on #Newsnight tonight and explain why it should be saved?

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Labour has accused Boris Johnson of lying to MPs after he wrongly claimed Sir Keir Starmer had voted against a pay rise for NHS workers in England. #Newsnight ’s @Lewis_Goodall explains 👇

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"This is not a riot, it's not a mob. This is a collection of people, who are showing their heartfelt concern for the issue..." Chris Packham, broadcaster and naturalist on the #ExtinctionRebellion protest against climate change. More tonight 22:30 #newsnight | @ChrisGPackham

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Kirsty Wark: "Which candidate will be the best prime minister for Scotland?" Nicola Sturgeon: "With the greatest of respect that’s asking me if I’d prefer to be run down by a lorry or a bus." @KirstyWark | @NicolaSturgeon | #newsnight

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’26 years of Cop have shown that they have been hopelessly inadequate’ Just Stop Oil’s Phoebe Plummer says the UK government is betraying young people by allowing new oil and gas licences to go ahead #Newsnight

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TONIGHT: @ringostarrmusic urges the government to hurry up with Brexit, saying he would have voted for it - “but don’t tell Bob Geldof!”

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"I'm standing up for what I think is right" WATCH: @vicderbyshire questions Conservative MP Brendan Clarke-Smith on his continued support for Boris Johnson following today's damning report.

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"This country has been roiled by left-wing violence for more than a year now" - @AnnCoulter tells #newsnight

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“I don’t really think about my job when things like this happen. I think about what is right.” England football player Raheem Sterling says he will continue to speak out against racism because "there is only so much people can take". WATCH 22:45 @BBCTwo Monday #Newsnight

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TONIGHT: A mother whose three children were at the concert at Manchester Arena on Monday night speaks movingly to @maitlis #newsnight

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“You have a Tory Party that’s able to behave with an almost surreal sense of irresponsibility at the moment, because of the weakness of the Labour Party.” Former PM Tony Blair says tells @maitlis the “weakness of the Labour Party facilitates the right wing.” #newsnight

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"You retweeted President Trump recently saying that crime in Germany is way up. You know of course that that is factually wrong, don't you?" - @maitlis challenges AFD deputy leader @Beatrix_vStorch on crime figures in Germany #newsnight

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“If you create panic out of the crisis, every government has a right to control the panic.” As Covid critical posts are removed on social media platforms in India, the BJP's @gopalkagarwal responds with “tweeters have to comply" with the country's content regulations #Newsnight

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"Imagine if Remain had won," says says Spectator columnist Toby Young. "Then at the last minute Parliament voted to leave anyway. “That's how we feel” #newsnight | @toadmeister

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“Working with Boris Johnson is like walking a few feet behind a horse shovelling its sh*t” – a source tells @nicholaswatt #newsnight

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. @maitlis : "Do you recognise your party tonight?" Ken Clarke: "No. It’s been taken over by a rather knock-about character" The Father of the House says Boris Johnson’s cabinet is the “most right-wing cabinet any Conservative party’s ever produced” #Newsnight | @maitlis

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TONIGHT: “I think it’s fairly apparent Keir had other motives” Former Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, tells @lewis_goodall she was suspicious of Keir Starmer when they were in the shadow cabinet together Watch our film on the future of the Labour Party at 22:45 #Newsnight

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“Underlying all of this is a very simple problem… We were given a vote… & it turned out, of the two options we had, there was only one we were really meant to vote for” – Douglas Murray, adding “the people who lost the vote have to get over these stages of grief” #newsnight

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. @evanHD isn't happy with this potential change of tone on freedom of movement... #brexit #newsnight

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“The idea that the PM can give an assurance that someone won’t be subject to tax… I do find quite extraordinary as he’s in no position to do that legally.” - Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve on the PM’s texts to Sir James Dyson #Newsnight

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