The King intervenes on Ukraine as President Trump gets the full red carpet treatment at Windsor Castle. Will it make any difference? With Victoria Derbyshire.
17-09-2025
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President Trump arrives in the UK for his second state visit. Amid all the pomp, what will success look like for both Number 10 and the White House? And will questions over Jeff ...
16-09-2025
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President Trump likes to back winners; but as he lands in the UK some Labour MPs call Sir Keir Starmer an electoral loser. So how does the prime minister maintain his own specia ...
15-09-2025
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At the end of another bad week for Keir Starmer, his backbenchers ask whether he can survive to the next election. And, the governor of Utah calls out social media after the ass ...
12-09-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Katie Razzall.
11-09-2025
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One of the United States' most influential conservative talk radio hosts, Charlie Kirk, is assassinated by a gunman in Utah. What does it mean for America? \n\nShould Peter Mand ...
10-09-2025
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As Israel escalates its war into Qatar, Hamas claims its leadership survived the strikes on the country’s capital, Doha. With the US made aware that the attack was going a ...
09-09-2025
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MPs are jostling for votes as they prepare to crown a new deputy leader. But whose face will fit the frame? And, in an exclusive interview with Nick Watt, Conservative leader Ke ...
08-09-2025
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Angela Rayner gives up the fight for her job after she's found to have broken the Ministerial Code. As the PM reshuffles furiously, how damaged is his government? \n\nAlso, form ...
05-09-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Paddy O'Connell.
04-09-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
03-09-2025
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The government's long-term borrowing costs reach a 27-year high, piling further pressure on the chancellor: how would the newly elected Green Party leader square that with his p ...
02-09-2025
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Why is Sir Keir Starmer's Downing Street shake-up a big deal? The prime minister says his staff reshuffle will make the centre of government more powerful and allow him to drive ...
01-09-2025
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Victory for the government over housing refugees at the Bell Hotel, but will it end up feeling like a defeat? Plus Essex County Council says that staff should speak out if they ...
29-08-2025
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Two Green leadership hopefuls debate the issues ahead of the party's leadership election. In which political direction is the party going? \n\nAs TV presenter Rylan Clark goes v ...
28-08-2025
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The leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey says he'll boycott President Trump's state visit next month - will others follow suit? \n\nAll eyes on Gaza as President Trump chair ...
27-08-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
26-08-2025
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Donald Trump's former national security advisor and now his harsh critic, John Bolton, gets raided by the FBI. Who ordered it and why? And home secretary Yvette Cooper launches ...
22-08-2025
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A US congressional committee will finally see Justice Department investigation files relating to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. What might they reveal? Plus, as energy and ...
21-08-2025
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The government is scrambling for migrant housing solutions following the Epping judgement, after the local council there won its case to close the Bell Hotel. Can other councils ...
20-08-2025
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Epping Forest District Council is triumphant after a legal victory over the government means that asylum seekers must leave the Bell Hotel. Will other councils now follow? \n\nF ...
19-08-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Paddy O'Connell.
18-08-2025
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The American and Russian presidents meet in Alaska to carve out a Ukraine deal. Will it happen and will the Ukrainians hate it? And Newsnight reveals a new Afghan data leak. Wit ...
15-08-2025
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On the eve of the Alaska summit, can Trump close the deal with both Putin and Zelensky? And why are Afghans who helped the British and fled the Taliban being deported back to Af ...
14-08-2025
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It's the most important week for European security since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine back in 2022 - and today Europe's leaders told President Trump: don't s ...
13-08-2025
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European leaders have one last chance to stop President Trump doing a Ukraine deal above their heads with President Putin. An ex-Pentagon official and ex-Nato policy chief tell ...
12-08-2025
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President Trump takes control of Washington DC police, and deploys the National Guard to the capital to crack down on what he describes as ‘violent gangs’ and &lsquo ...
11-08-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Faisal Islam.
08-08-2025
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The presidents of Russia and America are to meet. Will they agree a Ukraine deal? And Israeli prime minister Netanyahu threatens to occupy the whole of Gaza. Would his army gene ...
07-08-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Katie Razzall.
06-08-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
05-08-2025
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Keir Starmer says he’ll end 'gimmicks and broken promises' on small boat crossings, with the detention of those to be sent back to France expected to begin within days. Ca ...
04-08-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Lucy Hockings.
01-08-2025
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The number of migrants crossing the Channel in a year hits 25,000 in record time. Is this proof that the smuggling gangs remain unsmashed? Or is too soon to say? Newsnight hears ...
31-07-2025
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Senate Democrats are turning to an obscure law to try and force Donald Trump to release the full contents of the Epstein files. Will this pile the pressure on the President? New ...
30-07-2025
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The battle to keep children safe online becomes an extraordinary war of words offline, as a cabinet minister says Nigel Farage's criticism of the Online Safety Act puts him on t ...
29-07-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
28-07-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
25-07-2025
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The night before Donald Trump flies to Scotland, fresh developments emerge about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Newsnight speaks to a lawyer who has represented both Trump and Eps ...
24-07-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
23-07-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
22-07-2025
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The Essex town of Epping is a 'powder keg', the leader of the district council tells Newsnight, after a weekend of arrests and protests outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. W ...
21-07-2025
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Is President Trump panicking? As he comes under more pressure over his former friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, he goes to war with Rupert Murdoch. We hear live from congresswoma ...
18-07-2025
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As Diane Abbott is suspended from the Labour Party for a second time, she tells Newsnight, 'It's obvious this Labour leadership wants me out'. Plus, will anyone be held accounta ...
17-07-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
16-07-2025
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A massive data breach by UK officials puts thousands of Afghans at risk. We hear from the daughter of one former interpreter with the British Army who is now suffering from comp ...
15-07-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Faisal Islam.
14-07-2025
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Hosepipe bans, rail disruption and fears of wildfires - the UK is gripped by the third heatwave in recent weeks. Is it time to start overhauling our homes, offices and cities to ...
11-07-2025
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As Emmanuel Macron concludes his state visit to the UK by agreeing to a ‘one in, one-out’ migrants deal, the two nations also sign up to a new nuclear pact. Will thi ...
10-07-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
09-07-2025
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As TV host Gregg Wallace is sacked from MasterChef over alleged misconduct, we ask what it means for the wider industry. We hear from Baroness Kennedy, the chair of the Independ ...
08-07-2025
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In the week of a key Anglo-French summit, Newsnight goes to Calais to see the small-boats situation on the ground. With Keir Starmer's plans under scrutiny, can anything smash t ...
07-07-2025
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As the government tells the UK's AI safety institute to refocus on defence, we hear from a godfather of AI who tells Newsnight: \
04-07-2025
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As President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill clears Congress, who are the winners and losers, and why is it such a big deal? Political editor Nick Watt brings has the inside track on ...
03-07-2025
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With the government still bruised by its own Labour welfare rebellion, Keir Starmer faced up to the wider Commons opposition alongside a tearful-looking Rachel Reeves. Will the ...
02-07-2025
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After more concessions, the government gets its welfare bill through - but at what cost for the prime minister and his authority? Plus, is the PM watering down his promise to th ...
01-07-2025
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Only a few days after the government announced major concessions to its own Labour MPs, are Sir Keir Starmer's welfare reforms in trouble again tonight? And the Culture secretar ...
30-06-2025
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It's not 'je ne regrette rien' in the government's birthday week. Keir Starmer marks his first year in office by listing what's gone wrong, from sacked staff and policy U-turns ...
27-06-2025
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The government strikes a deal with the 127 Labour rebels prepared to oppose the welfare reform bill. But how costly is another U-turn for Labour not yet a year into taking power ...
26-06-2025
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The prime minister shrugs off his own MPs' criticisms of his flagship welfare cuts as 'noises off', but can he avoid a further U-turn? Also, an update after yesterday's nuclear ...
25-06-2025
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A Newsnight special on the British nuclear tests scandal in the Pacific in the 1950s and 60s. Veterans accuse the government of withholding medical records that could link their ...
24-06-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Katie Razzall.
23-06-2025
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MPs vote to allow assisted dying of the terminally ill in a historic vote, but not with the thumping majority that some expected. Does that matter? \n\nDonald Trump takes critic ...
20-06-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Paddy O'Connell.
19-06-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
17-06-2025
BBC 2
Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
16-06-2025
BBC 2
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Matt Chorley.
13-06-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Nick Watt.
12-06-2025
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The chancellor looks to cast off the doom and gloom and make her pitch to Britain's left-behind voters, pledging investment with £113bn of capital spending. Will voters no ...
11-06-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
10-06-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
09-06-2025
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk - no sign of an end to the beef. How could things escalate from here? And back at home, after 11 long months, Labour people are smiling again - just a ...
06-06-2025
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Meltdown! The critical Musk-Trump relationship undergoes a rapid unscheduled disassembly as the President and the world's richest man lay into each other.
05-06-2025
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Battles behind the scenes with a week to go until the spending review. With real terms cuts coming in unprotected departments, the inside story on which public services are on t ...
04-06-2025
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Survivors of abuse and exploitation speak live on television for the first time, ahead of Baroness Casey's soon-to-be-released government report on grooming and rape gangs. Hear ...
02-06-2025
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump part ways but on what terms? Musk's billionaire friend turned rival Philip Lowe offers an opinion. Succession writer Jesse Armstrong on his new movie, ...
30-05-2025
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The US president hits back as the appeal court presses pause on the judges' decision to halt his tariff plan. We ask former CIA director general David Petraeus to spell out how ...
29-05-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Nick Watt.
28-05-2025
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King Charles makes his first visit to Canada as head of state, following President Trump’s repeated comments about taking over the '51st state'. We discuss live.\n\nPlus, ...
27-05-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Faisal Islam.
23-05-2025
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President Trump bans international students from Harvard in a major escalation in the row between the university and the administration. What happens next? And thousands of conv ...
22-05-2025
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The PM U-turns (kind of) on his cuts to pensioners' winter fuel payments; a relief for many, but where does that leave the Chancellor? And a 26-year-old cancer survivor say she' ...
21-05-2025
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Former Tory cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Newsnight that it is time for the Tories to make an electoral pact with Reform. \n\nAs the UK suspends trade talks with Is ...
20-05-2025
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The prime minister agrees a deal with the EU; how radical is it and does he risk a backlash? We ask a government minister what it means for the economy, migration and for the fi ...
19-05-2025
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Strike up the band for Keir Starmer's Euro-vision, as the prime minister prepares to take the stage for his big EU reset. But back home, he's facing the music at a crunch meetin ...
16-05-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Katie Razzall.
15-05-2025
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Don't look away - the plea to the UN about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We speak to a surgeon working in a hospital hit by an Israeli strike, which the IDF said targeted Ham ...
14-05-2025
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As Assisted Dying passes its first stage in the Scottish parliament, and amended legislation returns to the Commons in Westminster, Newsnight speaks to a leading supporter of th ...
13-05-2025
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The Prime Minister sets out his plan to tighten the UK's visa rules, promising that 'migration will fall'. Newsnight asks a government minister whether the measures taken match ...
12-05-2025
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Fresh from the Oval Office, Lord Mandelson talks to Newsnight about the big trade deal the UK just signed with President Trump - and if that's not enough we have Bill Gates too. ...
09-05-2025
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The US president and the UK prime minister strike a deal on trade. Which side has got the better deal? We unpick the economics and the politics of the agreement that both leader ...
08-05-2025
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Insights and global interviews on the news stories of the day. With Victoria Derbyshire.
07-05-2025
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The latest on the breaking news that India has launched strikes on targets in Pakistan. Plus, in a broadcast exclusive, former Transport secretary Louise Haigh on Labour's local ...
06-05-2025
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We ask California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom about whether he’d run for the White House. Nigel Farage sweeps the vote; will Labour and the Conservatives stop Refor ...
02-05-2025
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With both the government and the opposition predicted to perform poorly, senior politicians including a secretary of state and a party chair discuss whether these local election ...
01-05-2025
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As President Trump hits the hundred-day mark, has he rewritten the DNA of American politics or been hit by a reality check? Will the next 1,360 days be quite so dramatic? Adam F ...
30-04-2025
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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney tells Newsnight he'll only deal with President Trump on his own terms. Plus, with two days until the local elections in England, Newsnight co ...
29-04-2025
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As English local elections loom, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells Newsnight she's not afraid of 'cowards' in her party who criticise her leadership. And co-leader of the ...
28-04-2025
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