ICYMI my #Newsnight explainer on the potential economic fallout of the Iran/Israel confrontation, featuring Bob McNally of Rapidan Energy Group 👇

Israel + Allied success fending off the weekend's Iranian attacks relieved many. But my concerns...
- about taboos being broken, by Israel on 1st Apr + Iran on Saturday
- that Iran's conclusion may be it needs nuclear deterrence, & faster
- which hastens an Israeli strike against…

🚨personal news🚨I’ll be leaving the BBC at the end of May. Newsnight in its current format will end then, so most posts will go. I decided not to apply for other BBC jobs. Working there for 35 yrs has been life defining: an eyewitness to history collaborating with such brilliant…

BBC Newsnight has fought a 9 month legal battle alongside The Times to get hold of these employment tribunal documents.

In court University Hospitals Sussex tried and failed to get some of them redacted and block us from accessing the rest.

EXCL: w/Charlotte Rowles

“Gang culture” at neurosurgery department, doctor alleges

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#Newsnight - the Budget

Whoever wins the election, they’ll face choices - billions in public spending cuts OR taxes rises OR change their rules on borrowing

Tonight we’ll talk to Exchequer Secretary & Labour’s Campagin Chief

And Ben Chu & Nicholas Watt will be live

Me: ‘Have you seen levelling up in this area?’

The *audience: ‘No’

We broadcast from a new constituency - Doncaster East & Isle of Axholme (the successor to the Don Valley seat which voted Conservative for the first time in 2019)

*unscientific sample

#Newsnight

#Newsnight 1030pm

Our audience is here :)

We’re live tonight from a brand new constituency - Doncaster East & Isle of Axholme (successor to Don Valley seat which voted Tory for 1st time in 2019)

How are people feeling about their lives, their finances ahead of the budget?

Yesterday former govt advisor on faith @colinbloom told #Newsnight Rishi Sunak was frightened to talk about Islamist extremism - that he needed to be firmer in his leadership on topic.

Now PM has stood outside no 10 & condemned extremism & urged police to take action ..

🚨NEW PODCAST
This week's episode looks at how best to prepare for opposition... with the help of:
Neil Kinnock
Diana Johnson
Charles Walker
Robert Buckland
George Young
Cath Haddon
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Cry more, cry more. George Galloway gives me some advice as I encounter him at his Rochdale campaign HQ ⁦BBC Newsnight⁩

Galloway: “No state has a right to exist”

Earlier this morning I asked newly elected George Galloway about the Middle East and begun by asking whether he thought the chant “From the River to the Sea” was offensive

Superb performance from a triumphant BBC Newsnight team in the Ultimate News Quiz raising money for Action for Children again… with @bbcnews coming a respectable 13th… brilliantly chaired by @garylineker #UNQ

.Kirsty Wark receives the Outstanding Contribution Award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2024, honouring her work on BBC Newsnight #RTSAwards

ICYMI My report on why the over 50s have been leaving the labour market since the pandemic - and how to get them back 👇...

Arun Advani of CAGE @ Warwick and Institute for Fiscal Studies tells me “The claim that you'd get 300k more people working by abolishing a tax that affects 25k people at a very basic level just doesn't make any sense.”

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EXCL: Veteran Labour MP Margaret Hodge has written to the Met Police and Electoral Commission calling for them to investigate whether the Conservative Party broke electoral law in taking £200,000 from the partner of a prominent donor.

More on BBC Newsnight at 1030pm.

Why have older workers left the UK workforce?

Why does it matter?

And how do we get them back?

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'I find there's Islamophobia in the comments that were made.'

Tory MP Mark Logan, a member of the cross-party parliamentary group on British Muslims, says Lee Anderson should offer an apology for Islamist claims about Sadiq Khan. #Newsnight

I understand Suella Braverman believes the suspension of Lee Anderson was an 'overreaction' by Rishi Sunak