Louis Degenhardt
@LouisDegenhardt
@BBCNewsnight. Before that @SkyNewsPolitics
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20-06-2011 20:38:42
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My nightmare giving birth — and Britain’s maternity scandal. Thank you to The Times and The Sunday Times for publishing my piece on birth trauma. It’s a silent scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of mothers each year. Women, their babies, and partners deserve better
thetimes.co.uk/article/f6ff7f…
IT'S MARATHON EVE 😬
I'm running tomorrow for Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 who do great work supporting families after stillbirths and miscarriages.
If you're moved by their work OR the thought of my 26 miles of suffering, please donate here: justgiving.com/page/tom-larki…
It’s a #Newsnight night 1030pm BBC Two BBC News (UK)
• Murrell #SNP
• Menzies #Tories
• the *new* mental health act fails victims killed by people with severe mental health problems - say families
• ex-England Children’s Commissioner & England’s Behaviour Czar on shocking
ICYMI my #Newsnight explainer on the potential economic fallout of the Iran/Israel confrontation, featuring Bob McNally of Rapidan Energy Group 👇
EXCL: w/Charlotte Rowles
“Gang culture” at neurosurgery department, doctor alleges
bbc.com/news/articles/…
#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 ..
Cry more, cry more. George Galloway gives me some advice as I encounter him at his Rochdale campaign HQ BBC Newsnight
.Kirsty Wark receives the Outstanding Contribution Award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2024, honouring her work on BBC Newsnight #RTSAwards
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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