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Nicholas Watt

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As a 1970s milk boy I learnt a great life skill: how to hold two old style glass milk bottles in one hand. On a good day it was three

Which milk bottle from our fridge at @GBNEWS was opened by someone born in the 1970s, and which one by someone in the 1990s? 👇😂

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I picked up a strong sense in Parliament today on the assisted dying bill that its chief advocate @kimleadbeater is hugely respected across the political spectrum but that, for now, her bill appears to be struggling to win enough support

“It feels to me that support is ebbing away” Newsnight political editor @nicholaswatt suggests to @vicderbyshire that the assisted dying bill is struggling to get support in the Commons, with some MPs telling him: “It’s too soon, it’s too big” #Newsnight



What a magnificent team you were too. It must be an age ago - I don’t have any grey hair in this picture

Blinking eck! 12 years ago we launched Sunday Politics from NBH. How can something feel like a world ago and at the same time yet feel like yesterday. @afneil presenting with @nicholaswatt @JGaneshEsq and @IsabelOakeshott

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So on @BBCNewsnight we decided to focus on @elonmusk who is clearly heading for a big role in the @realDonaldTrump administration after being pictured with the Trump family. @faisalislam interviewed the billionaire’s father, Errol Musk #Newsnight

BIG focus on @elonmusk evening as we‘re joined by his father tonight and we discuss his role in Trump’s victory. #Newsnight



Wow! Amazing work by the @BBCNewsnight team in Washington DC: @vicderbyshire @lizrawlings @lharriswhite + James Waddell. And thanks to @piersmorgan @AmeshiaCross and others for sharing your insights from the US with our viewers

💥 #Newsnight broke records last night with its audience share the highest in years💥 THANK YOU to new viewers & of course to loyal viewers :) Do catch up with our extended US Election special 👇 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…



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Looking forward to this.. tune in at 10.30pm.

#Newsnight US election results special with @Vicderbyshire, featuring: Piers Morgan, broadcaster Fred Trump III, Donald Trump's nephew Ameshia Cross, Democrat strategist Eric Bolling, conservative author & long-time friend of Trump & more 10:30pm BBC TWO | iPlayer

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A flat out rejection of Donald Trump’s claim of “massive” cheating in Philadelphia by Congressman Brendan Boyle who represents a district of the city in the US Congress. “Absolutely zero evidence whatsoever,” Congressman Boyle tells @vicderbyshire on @BBCNewsnight

Latest on Trump Truth Social "cheating" claims: "Absolutely zero evidence whatsoever" Democratic Congressman Rep. Brendan Boyle, representative of a district in Philadelphia, calls Donald Trump's claims on Truth Social of "cheating" in Pennsylvania "nonsense" and "garbage"…



And Professor @JoeTwyman has been on this one too

John Bolton has been paying attention. x.com/JoeTwyman/stat…



John Bolton, who was Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, tells @vicderbyshire: between 9.00pm and 10.00pm EST on polling day the former president will announce he has won the election @BBCNewsnight

“Of course he won’t... I’m predicting between 9-10pm he’ll announce that he’s won.” @vicderbyshire asks John Bolton, Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, 2018-19, whether the former President will accept the result if he loses. #Newsnight



Want to know how divided the US is? Listen to @vicderbyshire talk to Robert and Erika Nix from Philadelphia - lifelong Republicans married for 30 years and voting different ways @BBCNewsnight

Life-long Republican supporters Robert and Erika Nix have been married for 30 years and live in Philadelphia, in the swing-state of Pennsylvania This election, Robert is voting for Harris, Erica is voting for Trump Each believes the other has "drunk the Kool-Aid" and succumbed…



It looks like it could all be down to Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral college votes. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both need to win here. So @vicderbyshire spoke to Philadelphia Eagles fans in a divided state at the heart of a divided country. More on @BBCNewsnight tonight

If Kamala Harris wins "we're screwed" If Donald Trump wins "we're going to have a civil war" @vicderbyshire talks to Philadelphia Eagles American football fans from both sides in the key swing state of Pennsylvania. #Newsnight



I know how hard @vicderbyshire prepares. Here she is limbering up with Philadelphia Eagles fans in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania. Tonight Vic kicks off @bbcnewsnight election coverage in Washington DC interviewing Republican luminaries John Bolton and Rick Santorum

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So great to see the legend that is @Jo_Coburn present tonight as well!


I thought the question we should answer on @BBCNewsnight tonight is not who will win the White House but how does @realDonaldTrump or @KamalaHarris win the White House

"Only 28% of voters think that the US is on the right track." Political Editor @nicholaswatt looks at the key issues which could win the White House next week. #Newsnight



A pretty stark warning from Somerset farmer Richard Payne to @BBCNewsnight about how planned changes to inheritance tax will make it difficult to pass family farms down the generations

“It will be the end of farming as we know it." Somerset farmer Richard Payne gives his reaction to planned changes to inheritance tax relief, as @Nicholaswatt explains today’s budget reaction from the farming sector. #Newsnight



Must have walked a few miles round and round the parliamentary estate on Budget Day. Here’s what I picked up

“She looked really happy, and her team looked really happy.” @nicholaswatt takes us behind the scenes in Westminster as Rachel Reeves delivered the first Labour budget since 2010. #Newsnight



Loud cheering and clapping as @RachelReevesMP arrives for post Budget meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party


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