BBC Politics
“Human extinction is a possibility” | Ex-OpenAI researcher on the future of AI
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- “Human extinction is a possibility” | Ex-OpenAI researcher on the future of AI
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- 15:51
- Date posted
- 18 hours ago
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- Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower, speaks to Newsnight about his concerns for the development of Artificial Intelligence and also discusses OpenAI's rogue AI that's now known to have hacked multiple targets. Interview by Victoria Derbyshire.
#AI #artificialintelligence #technology #openai #bbc #bbcnews #bbcnewsnight #newsnight #victoriaderbyshire
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Holidaymaxxing? What economists say about maxxing out your vacations | BBC Radio 4 World At One
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- 8:11
- Date posted
- 19 hours ago
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- We're heading into the holiday month of August when much of Europe shuts down and many people head to the beach.
Daniel Kahneman, a behavioural psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in Economics, says you should end your holiday on a good note, so the World at One's Sarah Montague and PM's Evan Davis discuss how to 'holidaymax’.
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#Holiday #Economics #BBCNews
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- ‘All the support needed will be there,’ says UK PM Andy Burnham. #BBCNews
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- 0:29
- Date posted
- 19 hours ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- “Human extinction is a possibility, a possible outcome of this… race" - Ex-OpenAI researcher
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 20 hours ago
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- Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo on the ‘race’ between AI companies to create an AI ‘superintelligence’ - including by putting AI itself in charge of the research.
#Newsnight
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- Zack Polanski explains why he won't apologise to Nigel Farage over social media post
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Why did Reform UK report Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police over a social media post? And why won't Polanski apologise to Nigel Farage for sharing it? Victoria Derbyshire looks at the details.
#Newsnight
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Andy Burnham on 'difficult decisions' to be made funding social care reform in England | BBC News
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- 25:08
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Prime Minister Andy Burnham has outlined his plans for the reform of adult social care in England, pledging to "lift up" workers through pay and training.
Talking about the care given to his father, who has Alzheimer's, the prime minister said carers "should be the best paid people in society, not the worst".
Burnham is set to hold cross-party talks on his plans and also confirmed that a review by Baroness Casey would report a year earlier than planned in 2027.
Read more on this story on the BBC News website: https://bbc.in/3RDAg08
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#UKPolitics #SocialCare #BBCNews
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- UK PM Andy Burnham has pledged to reform adult social care in England. #BBCNews
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- 0:36
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Zack Polanski says guillotine re-post was mistake but refuses to apologise. #BBCNews
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- "A mistake" | Zack Polanski responds to ‘Nigel’ t-shirt row after being reported to police by Reform
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- 13:32
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Green Party of England and Wales leader Zack Polanski says he “didn’t look carefully enough” at an Instagram post on his account featuring a photo of a man wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a guillotine and the words ‘making plans for Nigel’ on it, but didn’t directly apologise because it was a “mistake”.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight he said the post was an “inadvertent mistake”, that he wasn’t aware of the phrase, referencing a song by the band XTC, and Reform UK reporting him to the police and saying the post was incitement to murder party leader Nigel Farage was “hyperbole”.
He said if he’d “done it deliberately I’d be apologising” and it was “important to point out it’s a mistake”.
He said it was “totally unacceptable for Nigel Farage to receive a single death threat” but accused the Reform UK leader of misrepresenting the nature of the post and, by posting about it himself, ensuring it had been “...
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- “Nobody can work out what he’s trying to do” | David Dimbleby on Trump and ‘America First'
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- 9:29
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby speaks to Newsnight about new series 'Invisible Hands: The American Century', Donald Trump's approach to 'American First', NATO and how new Prime Minister Andy Burnham should approach his relationship with the US President. Interview by Victoria Derbyshire.
#Trump #DonaldTrump #uspolitics #politics #ukpolitics #politicalnews #whitehouse #donaldtrump #andyburnham #bbc #bbcnews #bbcnewsnight #newsight #victoriaderbyshire
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Gary Stevenson: "I am quitting... I'm tired"
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Economist Gary Stevenson says he is resigning from public debate, saying “I've been doing this for years” and “it’s tiring”
#Newsnight
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- "He's started well... communication is the first rule of a Prime Minister who can appeal"
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- 0:20
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby, who hosted 10 BBC General Election specials, gives his initial verdict on the UK's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
#Newsnight
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Is Andy Burnham right to say he'd be prepared to "call out" President Trump?
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Broadcaster David Dimbleby tells Victoria Derbyshire he supports Andy Burnham's stance that he would be prepared to "call out" President Trump.
#Newsnight
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Gunshots interrupt BBC interview with MP in English Channel. #BBCNews
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- 0:36
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- “Egregious” student loans need “looking at”, says Lucy Powell | BBC News
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- 26:53
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Secretary of State for Education, Lucy Powell has said that she is “not going to change” her opinion on “egregious” student loans, and has said that while she cannot make any promises, student loans “need looking at.”
In a sit-down interview with BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Matt Chorley, Powell said that her new role as Education Secretary is the job she’s “always wanted”, and faces questions over the new prime minister Andy Burnham’s announcement that schools should offer more vocational courses.
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#LucyPowell #AndyBurnham #Labour #UKPolitics #BBCNews
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- Reform UK report Green Party leader Zack Polanski to police over guillotine T-shirt post. #BBCNews
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- PM Andy Burnham committed to reducing numbers of Neets with education reform. #BBCNews
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- President Zelensky is UK PM Andy Burnham's first international visitor. #BBCNews
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- 0:21
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- "Sanctimony doesn't balance the books" | Nick Clegg on Andy Burnham, tuition fees and big tech
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- 1:00:07
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- Sir Nick Clegg discusses his life in politics and Big Tech, including his early career in politics, the coalition government, austerity, tuition fees, Silicon Valley and artificial intelligence. He also assesses Andy Burnham's prospects as prime minister.
Interview by Matt Chorley.
#newsnight #nickclegg #austerity #liberaldemocrats #libdems #markzuckerberg #bigtech #ai #artificialintelligence #donaldtrump #siliconvalley #andyburnham #meta
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- Laura Kuenssberg goes behind the scenes with Andy Burnham. #BBCNews
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- What is Reform UK's social media strategy? #UKPolitics #BBCNews
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- Andy Burnham is not looking at bringing in rent controls in England, Angela Rayner said. #BBCNews
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- Andy Burnham is spending his first day working from No 10 North in Manchester. #BBCNews
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- Brian Eno and Gary Lineker ask Andy Burnham to tax millionaires more | BBC Radio 4 PM
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- 9:11
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Millionaires, including former footballer Gary Lineker and music producer Brian Eno, have written to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham asking to be taxed more.
In an open letter organised by Patriotic Millionaires, 120 well-off Britons told Burnham: "We can afford it. We're not talking about higher taxes on those who get up and go to work for their income every day, but on the very richest whose income is derived from the wealth they hold."
PM's Evan Davis talks to musician Eno to discuss why he's one of the letter's signatories.
Listen to PM on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
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#UKPolitics #BBCNews
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- The government wants people to see "light at the end of the tunnel", Angela Rayner says. #BBCNews
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- Angela Rayner gives first interview since returning to government | BBC News
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- 19:02
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- In her first interview since returning to government, Angela Rayner, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has spoken to Matt Chorley on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Angela Rayner said she would not repay her severance payment for leaving government last year.
She would not set a specific target to meet the prime minister, Andy Burnham's target for "the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period", disputing when the "post-war period" ended. Nor would she put a date on meeting the promise to end rough sleeping.
She also talked about a period of reflection when she spent time on the backbenches, and discussed the social importance of nightclubs.
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#AngelaRayner #AndyBurnham #Labour #UKPolitics #BBCNews
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- Andy Burnham vs Margaret Thatcher: Undoing the ‘wrong turns' of the 80s | BBC Radio 4 World At One
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- 12:45
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Britain took "some wrong turns” in the 80s under the watch of Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher.
But what did she do that he so badly wants to undo?
The World At One’s Sarah Montague and PM’s Evan Davis discuss the lasting legacy of the government of the 1980s.
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#UKPolitics #AndyBurnham #BBCNews
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- PC Andrew Harper's killers should be kept in prison, Kemi Badenoch says. #BBCNews
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- "He didn't have to produce any kind of manifesto to become PM" | Jeremy Corbyn on Andy Burnham
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- 5:52
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Former Labour Party leader and current Parliamentary leader of Your Party Jeremy Corbyn MP discusses Andy Burnham, housing policy and whether he would return to the Labour Party with Victoria Derbyshire.
#newsnight
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- “Andy’s walked into a ready-made government” - Thangam Debbonaire calls for "humility" in Labour
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- Labour peer Thangam Debbonaire calls on the Parliamentary Labour Party to have "humility" as Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister, crediting his predecessor Keir Starmer with taking Labour “from absolutely unelectable to winning a General Election”
Interview by Victoria Derbyshire
#Newsnight #andyburnham #keirstarmer #labourparty #uklabour
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- PM Andy Burnham has promised to give people “breathing space” against the cost of living. #BBCNews
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- 0:38
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- PM Andy Burnham has capped most bus fares in England at £2 from January 2027. #BBCNews
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- 0:22
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping? | Newsnight's Victoria Derbyshire takes a look
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Newsnight's Victoria Derbyshire and BBC Verify's Ben Chu assess Andy Burnham's pledge to end rough sleeping #newsnight
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- "He will reap what he has sown" | Are some Labour MPs unhappy with Andy Burnham?
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- 0:19
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Newsnight Political Editor Nick Watt reports the mood among Labour MPs from Downing Street on the day that Andy Burnham becomes UK Prime Minister #newsnight
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- Digital ID plans cancels in UK. #BBCNews
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- "Labour's new dispossessed" | Has Andy Burnham already alienated some Labour MPs?
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Patrick Maguire, Chief Political Commentator at The Times, is interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire #newsnight
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- Five tests for the new prime minister | Newsnight outlines the challenges facing Andy Burnham
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- Andy Burnham is now UK Prime Minister. What challenges will he face from day one in the job? Newsnight’s political editor Nick Watt outlines the five tests facing the new PM. Presented by Victoria Derbyshire.
#bbc #bbcnews #bbcnewsnight #Newsnight #andyburnham #primeminister #downingstreet #10downingstreet #politics #ukpolitics #victoriaderbyshire #nickwatt
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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- Andy Burnham has vowed to put "the care of people at the heart of everything I do". #BBCNews
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- Andy Burnham will be the UK's fifth prime minister in four years. #BBCNews
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- "I will score as many points as possible if it means the right thing for the country"
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- Kemi Badenoch acuses Andy Burnham of being a "people pleaser" and says she won't give him a "blank check" as leader of the Opposition.
#bbclaurak
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- "Classic Southerner!"
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire clashes with Kate Garraway and Jacob Rees-Mogg over Andy Burnham's plans for a No.10 in the North.
#bbclaurak
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- Badenoch: Burnham is 'people pleaser' with 'airy fairy' plans | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
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- 14:20
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has branded Andy Burnham a "people pleaser" and warned his plans for government are "airy fairy" ahead of him becoming prime minister on Monday.
Speaking in an interview for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Badenoch accused Burnham of not being aware of "what the country's priorities are".
After being elected as Labour leader, Burnham gave a speech at the Trade Union Congress headquarters in London on Friday, saying he would deliver "significant change".
Burnham will take over from Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister on Monday, following a reception with King Charles III.
During his speech on Friday, Burnham promised to deliver "the most significant change moment in our politics for 40 years".
In doing so, he made five pledges to the public, including working with other parties in a "distinctively Labour" direction and transferring power from Westminster to local authorities.
But...
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- "I wish Andy Burnham... all the best" | George Osborne calls for "stability" and "consistency"
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- 11:39
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
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- BBC Culture Editor and Newsnight presenter Katie Razzall interviews former UK Chancellor and British Museum Chair George Osborne about the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum, the longstanding diplomatic ties between the UK and France, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his successor Andy Burnham.
#newsnight #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum #andyburnham #keirstarmer #ukpolitics #georgeosborne
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- "Be yourself" - Ex-Labour leader Neil Kinnock gives advice to new leader Andy Burnham #newsnight
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- Victoria Derbyshire joins police as they arrest grooming gang suspect
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- 4:51
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- Newsnight's Victoria Derbyshire has been given exclusive access to a police operation into child sexual exploitation - specifically to arrest grooming gang suspects who are accused of raping teenage girls in Oxford 20 to 25 years ago.
Thames Valley Police along with five other forces co-ordinated early morning raids to arrest suspects.
#newsnight #ukpolice #policing #thamesvalleypolice
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- Change is coming... on Monday. #BBCNews
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- HENRY BURNHAM TT
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- 'We can be the party that puts hope in every heart', says Andy Burnham. #BBCNews
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- Andy Burnham has pledged to govern in an "authentically" Labour way. #BBCNews
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
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- "I am ready," says Andy Burnham in first speech as Labour Party leader. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news
