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officers are being scrutinised. welcome to newsnight for your weeknightly interviews and insight. let me introduce you to our political panel for this evening — claire ainsley, former head of policy for sir keir starmer, and henry hill, who is the acting editor of the tory website conservative home, plus dal babu, a former chief superintendent in the metropolitan police, and nick is here as always. nick, the betting scandal has widened today — and here at newsnight we have new reve...

Then a Leave Minister said they had waited their life to do it. Theresa may wants to get on and trigger article 50 well before her self imposed deadline of the end of march. The possible date is the ninth or 10th of march. It has to be a formal letter from the uk. The reason why they want to get an early if they have been advised the European Commission and the European Council will be able to give their formal response before the first round of the president ial election on the 23rd of april, b...

Disarmament. jeremy corbyn voted against the renewing trident in 2016. and said if he were elected prime minister he would instruct the uks defence chiefs never to use them. keir starmer is different. the labour leader says under his leadership "security will always come first" and yes he would be prepared to push the button. the conservatives say labours spending plans dont add up, and around half his shadow front bench were part of that vote against trident in 2016. our political editor chris ...

Which like to defend your leader, sir keir starmer? i which like to defend your leader, sir keir starmer?— which like to defend your leader, sir keir starmer? i absolutely would defend him and _ sir keir starmer? i absolutely would defend him and the _ sir keir starmer? i absolutely would defend him and the entire _ sir keir starmer? i absolutely would defend him and the entire shadowi defend him and the entire shadow cabinet. if you look at where labour was in 2019 but the journey we have bee...

Differentiates them from the conservatives whom they claim are not sufficiently patriotically and committed to the institutions that in which we all have faith. this is pretty key because this might cause some people who were about to vote at the elections to think, a vote for labour is a vote for britain and we have all got a slightly deeper sense of nation after thisjubilee bank holiday weekend, where that will take us, whether it be transient or not, who knows but its a very interesting inter...

Papers at 10:30pm and 11:30pm. at the labour party conference, anna mcdonald has resigned from the shadow front bench in the middle of the conference in brighton. in a letter to sir keir starmer, the former shadow secretary of state for employment rights launched a blistering attack on the labour leader saying, blistering attack on the labour leadersaying, ijoined blistering attack on the labour leader saying, ijoined yourfront bench team on the basis of the pledges that you made in leadership c...

Shadow front bench has said young people dont want to listen to dusty old ministers in suits standing behind podiums, they are far more likely to listen to people of their own age with the wider campaign here but the government is saying this as a sort of gentle nudge nudge policy accompanied with the stick which potentially comes at the end of september if youre not double jab you wont be allowed into large, crowded venue such as nightclubs. the government has now, though, drop the idea that st...