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Sophy Ridge

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Lead politics presenter, Sky News. “Fuelled by canteen hash browns” - the Sunday Times. Watch the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge 7pm Mon-Thurs

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📣 Coming up on #PoliticsHub with Sophy Ridge… 🔴 Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi 🔴 Former Tory MP Dehenna Davison 🔴 Former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth 🔴 Columnist and author Sarah Vine ⏰ 7pm 📱 Live trib.al/OLkLdNY 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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This week we have a national inquiry into grooming gangs, we are talking about accountability and we are also - most importantly - talking about the victims. About the children - because they were children when they were abused. But there's someone who always believed those

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'It is a really historic day' Dehenna Davison and Jonathan Ashworth react after MPs voted to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales trib.al/OLkLdNY Sophy Ridge 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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'I just cannot understand how so many working-class girls from poor backgrounds could have been ignored - that is systematic failure.' Jonathan Ashworth speaks about the grooming gangs scandal, and tells Sophy Ridge he thinks there 'should have been a public inquiry sooner'.

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How did the late British journalist, Andrew Norfolk, expose grooming gangs? Sky's lead politics presenter Sophy Ridge reports ⬇️ Politics Hub latest: trib.al/ea0ALlH

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I wanted to pay tribute to a man who listened to victims when others ignored them, and who died just weeks before the Casey report was completed

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'Do you think Donald Trump could be serious about a potential strike against Iran?' - Sophy Ridge 'I do, I absolutely do. I think we should take that very seriously' - Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel MP trib.al/A2HxL5s 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

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Will the United States enter the conflict between Israel and Iran? Sophy Ridge explains whether the US will enter the conflict, and if European leaders know anything about President Trump's decisions. Watch Wednesday's #PoliticsHub in full: trib.al/NgQAVxt

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There were some within the department, some officials who said be cautious, don’t allow this to be published' Michael Gove confirms that Whitehall officials tried to convince him to go to court to cover up the grooming scandal in 2011. #PoliticsHub Sophy Ridge

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'We have to have the honest conversations, especially if it's uncomfortable' Sophy Ridge explains why continuous uncomfortable conversations are necessary when it comes to the grooming gangs scandal. #PoliticsHub trib.al/8b362hF

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Watch live as the assisted dying bill returns to the House of Commons for a vote that could see it either fall or move on to the House of Lords. Sky's Sophy Ridge presents full coverage of the debate and vote. trib.al/OzN6du0 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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MPs are facing perhaps the most important choice they will make as parliamentarians - whether to legalise assisted dying The strength of feeling in Parliament has produced some of the most thoughtful and impassioned debate I've witnessed - join me for full coverage Sky News

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Lots of caveats - this is not an exact science - BUT the amendments backed by Kim Leadbeater MBE MP seem to be passing, and the ones she doesn't seem to be falling Could be an indication that the assisted dying bill is more likely to pass than not?

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Diane Abbott: "This may be the most fateful bill that we discuss this Parliament. It is literally a matter of life and death. "What could be more unjust than to lose your life to appallingly drafted legislation? I would not put my life in the hands of a panel of officials"

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John McDonnell refutes the suggestion some MPs are ducking the assisted dying decision to send to the House of Lords - "Indeed, I want to abolish the Other Place"

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There have been incredibly powerful, moving, desperate speeches from MPs on both sides of the assisted dying debate We don't like talking about death but my god, listening to these stories, we've got to confront it & improve things no matter what happens with assisted dying

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Parliament has just made one of the most momentous decisions in its history… that those with six months or less to live should be able to choose an assisted death. In 15 years reporting on Parliament, I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a more moving, desperately felt debate from both