“There are limits to free choice you can’t ride a motorcycle without a helmet”

Caroline Johnson MP tells #newsnight that 'there are various things that we recognise are harmful that we restrict access to for adults too.'

'If they wanted to be really bold about the health of the nation that's what I would prefer to see'

Craig Whittaker MP said he would 'much prefer' the government set a date to ban smoking and the sale of cigarettes all together.

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Are tensions between Israel and Iran already affecting the world economy - and could an escalating conflict mean more inflation?

Ben Chu

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Iran’s official IRNA news agency published this video with the caption “Iranian missiles appeared for the first time over the sky of al-Aqsa Mosque in Quds, the capital of occupied Palestine”.

This video, viewed nearly 400,000 times, falsely claims to show Palestinians at Al-Aqsa mosque celebrate Iranian retaliatory strikes against Israel tonight.

The video is from last week, and shows Palestinians praying at Al-Aqsa on the last Friday of Ramadan.

Middle East [email protected] UK time:
- drones launched from Iran, ‘hundreds’ acc to Israeli reporting
- Netanyahu stresses ‘direct’ attack, ie from Iran not proxies
- quite possible that proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen will launch too, so large numbers arrive at same time

EXCL: w/Charlotte Rowles

“Gang culture” at neurosurgery department, doctor alleges

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In response to a growing dental emergency, I have been following a dental bus which has been visiting food banks in Newcastle.

People can’t access an NHS dentist and going private is out of the question. If something's wrong they have to live in pain, as I told BBC Breakfast...

EXC - Fmr Chief Inspector of Prisons tells #Newsnight govt plans to build more jails “utterly bonkers”, saying even if they spend £4bn on new places, they can’t spend fast enough to keep pace with rising jail population - currently at 88,926 (full capacity Eng & Wales 88,890). 1/

“So many people are having to use our food bank”

Steven from Cambridge City Food Bank says new houses need to be social housing due to high rents in the area causing people to go to food banks

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#Newsnight On the Road is back!

Join us at 22:30 from inside this aircraft hangar in south Cambridgeshire at Duxford's Imperial War Museum as Kirsty Wark takes the nations' pulse ahead of the general election, and hosts a panel of politicians

LISTEN: BBC data suggests NHS England will face a 10-year backlog for first appointments at adult gender clinics

NHS England said it planned to launch a review into the standard of care at the clinics

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READ: Data analysed by the BBC suggests it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in NHS gender care

One patient who’s been on the waiting list for years says their mental health has deteriorated while on it

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'Nobody feels like it's levelled up round here.' Karen tells Victoria Derbyshire that she blames the government's economic policies for her struggles to find work #newsnight

George Galloway has an atrocious record of baiting the Jewish community.

He has previously and infamously declared Bradford an ‘Israel-free zone’. He said of his previous election loss that ‘the venal, the vile, the racists and the Zionists will all be celebrating’. He described…

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

“I’ve answered that question.”

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt denies PM Rishi Sunak made trans jibe at PMQs, in interview with Chris Mason

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EXCLUSIVE: Dead rats shoved through letter boxes, petrol bombed cars and rape threats. I've been investigating the abuse and harassment targeted at local councillors and their staff. It is disturbingly widespread and often severe.
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