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#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE

President Trump criticises President Zelensky again and slaps down Europe’s leaders - where does it leave the PM’s strategy for peace?

• @nicholaswatt
• @JamesCleverly
• @MichaelWolffNYC
• @sophgaston

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March 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
vicderbyshire.bsky.social
#Newsnight 1030pm BBCTwo BBCNews

After Venezuela how alarmed shld Greenland, Colombia & Cuba be?

And what about the UK gov response?

With
@vanessaneumann
@jeremycorbyn
@DSORennie
@nicholaswatt
January 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
vicderbyshire.bsky.social
#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE @bbctwo

• farmers at protest,
& Treasury Minister live in studio

• winter fuel payments - Scottish Lab leader promises to restore it (broadly)

@nicholaswatt
@glasgowmurphy Ex-Lab leader in Scotland
@JakeBerry

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November 19, 2024 at 9:52 PM
vicderbyshire.bsky.social
#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE

The EU/UK deal with….

For the gov: @NickTorfaen
For the Conservatives: @RicHolden
For the Lib Dems: @libdemdaisy

AND @matthewsyed and @nicholaswatt
May 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
vicderbyshire.bsky.social
#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE

• NN can reveal UK intelligence agencies are ‘in despair’ over that Signal security breach

• Chancellor is to make a *further*half a billion pounds in cuts to benefits - to be announced tomorrow in spring statement - @nicholaswatt has the details
March 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
vicderbyshire.bsky.social
#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm @bbctwo @BBCNews @BBCWorld

- PM Andy Burnham’s diagnosis of where the UK has gone wrong - is he right? And if he is, can he fix it?

With
Business Sec @jreynoldsMP
@JennyChapman
@EdConwaySky
@CamillaTominey
@nicholaswatt
September 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
vicderbyshire.bsky.social
#Newsnight 1030pm

• PM orders investigation into foreign financial interference

• unemployment up - why?

• adoption breakdown - how can families be helped?

With former First Minister of NI Baroness Foster
Economics Editor of The Times Mehreen Khan
@nicholaswatt

See you soon @BBCTwo @BBCNews
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
Nicholas Watt @nicholaswatt This is what one Labour veteran told me: "This could be the making of Keir. Good prime ministers are made by great responses to huge events. Think of Thatcher and the Falklands. She was unpopular going into that and then everything changed."
February 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
flyingrodent.bsky.social
LOL *what* Labour government, what mandate from the public? Absolutely nobody signed up for Liz Kendall’s deranged programme of stomping on the poor and needy from her 2015 campaign except for the team of weird cranks around McSweeney, and maybe a small chunk of the lobby hacks.
Lord Walney#@LordWalney•55m "The problem is we have nothing to lose," one of the Labour MPs opposing their government tells @nicholaswatt for the BBC. Not quite. You have a Labour government to lose. The permission from the public to govern that many of us thought Labour had lost forever.
June 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
lauraphillips.bsky.social
"Bingo! this is a very clever move by President Zelensky. This looks like he is calling the bluff of both Putin and Trump."

A former cabinet minister tells @nicholaswatt the proposed ceasefire is a win for the Ukrainian President.

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March 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
iaindale.bsky.social
Do listen to this week's episode of IAIN DALE ALL TALK with @Jo_Coburn.

Coming up in the next few weeks

@nicholaswatt
@BethRigby
@Tessadunlop
@amcarmichaelMP
@mattfrei
@mounth
@NickFerrariLBC
@joepike
Jason Cowley

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January 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
thesinankose.bsky.social
This is a pretty good summary twitter.com/nicholaswatt...
February 21, 2024 at 9:08 PM
flyingrodent.bsky.social
The horrible truth in this one is that Sir Keir was never really in charge and he probably wasn’t consulted, because he was mostly sitting in his office doing the busywork that his handlers were only too happy to fill his time with. Like Ralph Wiggum: I’m driving the train! Choo choo
Nicholas Watt • @nicholaswatt 19m X Allies of Sir Keir Starmer are strongly disputing what this cabinet minister told me last night. One Starmer ally tells me that earlier this year the former prime minister asked his aides to chase Foreign Office ministers for "proper advice" on blocking settler trade or imposing sanctions on West Bank settlements. "He was no blocker," the Starmer ally told me. They claim that the Foreign Office told them the issue was "complicated" which showed, according to that ally, that they simply "had no plan". The ally tells me: "There's just a lot of rewriting of history going on." The critics of Starmer point to evidence given on 15 July - five days before Andy Burnham became PM - to the business select committee by the then Europe minister Stephen Doughty and the then trade minister Sir Chris Bryant. They both talked about how the powers in place did not go far enough to impose blanket sanctions on West Bank settlements. The two ministers, who are both still in government, said they would like to have gone further. The dispute now is: Critics of Starmer say he was the block on going further + Allies of Starmer say the Foreign Office was the block because they reportedly didn't have
September 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
lauraphillips.bsky.social
“Does this fundamentally show that #Trump is siding with #Russia?”

Newsnight Political Editor @nicholaswatt tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social of concerns in London and Paris about the withdrawal of US support.

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March 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
lauraphillips.bsky.social
"The White House... wants to make very, very clear that the President feels very, very strongly about this and he's really serious."

@nicholaswatt describes today's "very significant" White House statement on #Greenland.

#Trump

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January 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
iaindale.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE OF THE IAIN DALE ALL TALK PODCAST

300. @nicholaswatt

A very special guest for the podcast's 300th episode. @BBCNewsnight's Nick Watt joined me for a very entertaining chat about his journalistic career.

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January 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
politicsuk.com
🚨 NEW: Allies of Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood have complained to the Government Chief Whip after Labour Peer Charlie Falconer criticised her over the Assisted Dying Bill

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November 26, 2024 at 9:44 AM
paleofuture.bsky.social
UK news is even saying Biden will make a statement about the military action tonight, something I have yet to see any US news outlet cover.
BBC: "The current plan is not to recall Parliament" - #Newsnight's Political Editor @nicholaswatt has the latest after Rishi Sunak briefs the cabinet on possible US and UK military action against Houthi rebels in Yemen, with a statement by Joe Biden expected shortly.
January 11, 2024 at 11:01 PM
eidyngray.scot
This is pure, brazen corruption.

Britain's parliamentary rules are now subject to anyone powerful enough to threaten the Speaker into doing whatever they tell him to do.Labour engaging in the parliamentary strongmanship of Boris Johnson.

The UK Parliament is a joke.
Nicholas Watt @nicholaswatt Senior Labour figures tell me @CommonsSpeaker was left in no doubt that Labour would bring him down after the general election unless he called Labour’s Gaza amendment
February 21, 2024 at 8:53 PM
tangandhara.bsky.social
“Non-party banner” 😂
Nicholas Watt @nicholaswatt New: Nigel Farage's speech to the Reform UK conference has been delayed because of security concerns, a Reform UK source has told me. A sniffer dog was called in to check the area around the stage after what was described as an incursion involving a non-party banner appearing near the stage shortly before Richard Tice's speech, my source tells me
September 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
jaundicedview.bsky.social
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social OFFS @nicholaswatt. How can let right-wing loudmouth off the hook when saying US given #Ukraine HUNDREDS of $bn & money going to #Zelenskyy 's yacht!! Hold these people to account. DO YOUR JOB. Balance does not mean allowing LIES. #Politics #CurrentAffairs #Trump #Vance
March 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
martian-observer.net
seems Suella's 'fuck the homeless' legislation won't be in the King's Speech tomorrow
BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight on X: "Still undergoing scrutiny..." Newsnight's Political Editor, @NicholasWatt, reveals Home Secretary Suella Braverman's idea to restrict the use of tents by homeless people won't be in the King's speech tomorrow.
November 7, 2023 at 12:14 AM
lamentablyawake.bsky.social
Dirty tricks and blackmail to get their way are the preferred strategy of Starmer's Labour.

These ghouls with a huge majority and control of the organs of state are going to do so much awful stuff.
Three tweets by @nicholaswatt: 1: Senior Labour figures tell me @CommonsSpeaker was left in no doubt that Labour would bring him down after the general election unless he called Labour’s Gaza amendment 2: The message was: you will need our votes to be re-elected as speaker after election with strong indications this would not be forthcoming if he failed to call the Labour amendment 3: The Speaker’s office have been in touch to say: “This is not true.” For clarity: senior Lab sources briefed me on the messages: you will need our support after the election and this may not be forthcoming. The speaker met multiple MPs this week because he has an open door policy
February 21, 2024 at 9:40 PM
archive.mhoulden.uk
"u ok hun?" https://x.com/nicholaswatt/status/1533889858615255041
January 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM