and in the end, we came out to a decision whereby nigel farage was interviewed by nick robinson on panoramas were the greens and all the other major parties. and i think that was a really important decision that we took because he was scrutinised, like every other major politician, in peak time. a big reach, important questions were asked. and i think when you look at the reach that reform ended up having, which was 14% share of the vote, ahead of the liberal democrats, i think we got it about right. 0k. the tv audience who were watching the bbc one election night results programme live was down a third, from 6.1 to 4.2 million, compared to 2019. how much does that worry you? i think when you look at the totality of our linear television reach that night and the next day, 25 million people came to bbc news to watch that coverage. but they also went to our audio feed, which was radio 4, radio 5 and sounds. they also went to the newscast all—nighter. the audience is fragmented. they were on our live pages. we had massive reach... so you're not worried? no, because i think that we are part of

i have really enjoyed seeing nick robinson, marianna spring, jonathan munro, my deputy, you know, membersll continue to come on the show and to answer your questions, because they're very important. in terms of... i won't dodge your final points about the length of your programme. i believe in transparency, but i don't think you would expect me to make a programming scheduling decision with a camera in my face.

i have really enjoyed seeing nick robinson, marianna spring, jonathan munro, my deputy, you know, membersf the news team, richard burgess, also head of content, coming on. and i hope that we'll all continue to come on the show and to answer your questions, because they're very important. in terms of... i won't dodge your final points about the length of your programme. i believe in transparency, but i don't think you would expect me to make a programming scheduling decision with a camera in my face. thank you for coming on. thank you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media, email newswatch@bbc.co.uk, or you can find us on x — @newswatchbbc. you can call us on 0370 010 6676, and do have a look at previous interviews on our website, bbc.co.uk/newswatch. that's all from us for now. thank you forjoining us. we are off the air now until the first week of september, but do continue to send us your views and join us again then. goodbye. las vegas

with political party leaders recorded before the election by veteran bbc political journalist nick robinson. it was we who provoked this war. of course, it 's his fault. i predicted it 10 years ago. i was the only one. british politicians who predicted this would happen, and of course they all called me an outcast for daring to say it, it was obvious to me that the eastward expansion would not stop. gave this man a reason to say to the russian people: "they are coming at us again" and thus start a war. farage thus became the only politician in britain, which justified or tried to explain putin's actions, the ratings of his party went down. what he said is completely wrong and plays into putin's hands. this is the man who used the nerve agent on the streets of britain. which negotiates with countries like north korea. such statements are risky for the security of our country, the security of our allies, and can further encourage putin. all the leading parties in britain are more or less unanimous on the issue of the war in ukraine. farage's comments about russia and ukraine are shameful. i a

i have really enjoyed seeing nick robinson, marianna spring, jonathan munro, my deputy, you know, members're very important. in terms of, i won't dodge your final points about the length of your programme. i believe in transparency, but i don't think you would expect me to make a programming scheduling decision with a camera in my face. thank you for coming on. thank you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media, email... that's all from us for now. thank you forjoining us. we are off the air now until the first week of september, but do continue to send us your views and join us again then. goodbye. hello. we have some big contrasts in our weather right now. on the one hand, across many eastern parts of the uk it's dry, but further west it's cloudy. we've had the outbreaks of rain for quite some time now and that's how it's going to stay through the course of the evening. also quite humid in a number of areas. now here's the satellite pictu

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. quite a lot has changed since we were last on air. that landslide labour victory, to name but one. now, speak to any labour insider and they'll tell you that my guest today was at the heart of that victory.

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson.me back to a new series of political thinking, a conversation with, rather than an interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. quite a lot has changed since we were last on air. that landslide labour victory, to name but one. now, speak to any labour insider and they'll tell you that my guest today was at the heart of that victory. pat mcfadden was labour's campaign coordinator and he is now at the heart of keir starmer�*s governing project. he's what's called chancellor of the duchy of lancaster. we'll discover in a few minutes exactly what that means. but it does mean that he's key to delivering that promise on the front page of labour's manifesto — change. and one reason he got thejob is that it's not the first time he's been at the heart of government. he was tony blair's political secretary 20—odd years ago. pat mcfadden, welcome back to political thinking. good to be here, good to be here. i want to know, what was it like on the night

i mean, the nick robinson interviews on panorama, they really did delve and probe into policy in a muchdown the dodgy claims, such as the tories repeating of £2,000 tax rises under labour. they kept repeating it regardless — what did you think? i think they did as good a job as they possibly could in the circumstances. bbc verify was one of the things that i really appreciated this time. i think it was great to have that real forensic analysis of what was being said. and, yes, you know, the 2,000 tax claim that the conservatives kept pushing against labour — whatever bbc verify said, they were still pushing that line. but i think it gave the public at least a chance to weigh up what was really being said, and having somebody like ben chu digging down into the policy, as well — i thought it worked really, really well, and it was a good innovation this year. yeah, fact—checking is a whole industry now, right? everyone has their own version, and it will definitely be here to stay, so we should get used to it _ and i agree, i think it's a great thing. carolyn, i've noticed one of our commen

but there is a political thinking, i feel that nick robinson should come in.al thinking to be done at this time. i got a check the other day. it was very exciting. what for? secret children? no, not... not from the benefit system. oh, you got an actual cheque? but you're right to mention that, though, paddy, because the public is not in the same place as the labour left on the two child benefit cap. so there are plenty of voters who think actually quite, quite right, and that the government is in the right place on this, as the conservatives were. some voters think that, some don't. but it will be a running conversation in the labour party. we should we do have some time to talk briefly about the tories warming upfor grand national leadership race. no, i was already. my metaphor was going to be a soap opera. and like, that's such a cliche in politics, it's really overused. but actually this week it actually was a soap opera. it was like, do you remember in dynasty when you'd have, like, the two women in shoulder pads, like fighting in a fountain? that actually

this morning on radio four, he defended his record on immigration in a terse back and forth with nick robinsonut you see people listening to you on immigration who say, well, hold on, what blair is saying is do as i say, not as i did. you massively increased illegal immigration into this country. this is a prime minister without a mandate. this is a great myth by the way. >> and so just to be very clear about it, immigration. the day i left office was around half of what it is today. now it's true because we did not. what happens is people conflate the fact that we didn't put in these transitional arrangements. you allow people to come here from eastern europe, where the germans, for example, did not. right. but by the way, when you actually study it very carefully, first of all, these people had an enormous economic benefit in the country. >> and by the way, we only played back your suggestion that we need to control immigration, when in fact, under you net annual immigration quadrupled and the uk population was boosted by more than 2.2 million, quadrupled, by the way, through 97 and 2010. no

you know, nick robinson was going , oh, you know, nick robinson was going, oh, look at her fancy bit absolutely. >> no, absolutely. >> because, because apparently we're not all equal, but yeah, i think this just shows the lack of options on the left. like everybody on the left is just sort of fat and skinny at the same time, has no testosterone, and is a wheedling little sort of, you know, pretend nice guy trying to, like, nice. his way into some women's underpants. actually, probably you know, i don't know, they've probably just given up on sex altogether. i think the left invented incels before they had anything to do with the right. so whereas all the real men , the real men who the real men, the real men who have calluses on their hands, can chop down a tree, can fix a bike or anything, really, the incels have calluses on their hands as well . all all the, all hands as well. all all the, all the, all the real men are right wing. so, you know, caitlin moran knows that she can't get the sexual satisfaction she desperately wants , from from a desperately wants, from from a left wing

us all confidence in our country's stability and future cnn's international diplomatic editor, nick robinson, live outside ten downing street in london. and we've got to rough sense of how things will play out there now we do. in the next few minutes, max, we're expecting jeremy hunt, the outgoing transfer, the check-in, a step out from the doors just behind me here at number 11, downing street. he will be leaving expect the prime minister to come back here and in an hour or so expected to give that speech, go off to meet the king hand in if you will, his resignation to the king and within a few hours were expecting keir starmer to go meet the king. the king will invite him to form a government keir starmer will come here and we'll expect him to speak outside of number ten before he goes in and then his day gets really busy. there's a lot of official duties to administer briefing buyers, cabinet secretary, a trip to the nuclear bunker underneath the building here i'll have to write in handwriting to the commanders of the four nuclear warhead carrying submarines of the uk to tell them in case

i have really enjoyed seeing nick robinson, marianna spring, jonathan munro, my deputy, you know, membersok at previous interviews on our website, bbc.co.uk/newswatch. that's all from us for now. thank you forjoining us. we are off the air now until the first week of september, but do continue to send us your views and join us again then. goodbye. good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today... businesses and services around the world begin to recover after a mass it outage, but the boss of the firm responsible says it could take �*some time' to get all systems up and running. "audacious criminality" — the home secretary condemns violent disorder in the harehills area of leeds. a senior democrat claims president biden didn't recognize him at a recent meeting, despite their long friendship — adding to concerns about his fitness to stand for re—election. in sport... shane lowry conquers the wind at the open while today he'll have to deal with the rain at royal troon. the irishman holds a two—shot lead with his sights set on a second claretjug

i mean, when people like nick robinson at the bbc off gb news at the same time as the bbc arabic serviceza in the last eight months, i do understand why people can get a little bit annoyed, but the key issue is the involuntary funding system. if people weren't compelled to fund the bbc, they might have a much more positive attitude towards it . and that's one of towards it. and that's one of the reasons why the bbc really needs to rethink its funding mechanism. >> what about huw edwards being paid a salary of almost half £1 million? >> whilst not broadcasting? what does that tell you? >> well , i does that tell you? >> well, i think that's a completely separate issue . completely separate issue. basically, the man had a nervous breakdown . he was put on sick breakdown. he was put on sick leave. he might have been suspended and fired. he wasn't. he agreed to leave. his contract entitles him to be paid for a year even though he wasn't on screen. you just have to bite that bullet, >> listen, i'm thrilled to have you on the show. lots of common sense. it's a shame you're not still at the bee

here he is speaking to the bbc�*s nick robinson on the today programme.ist at your institute, says it's a very powerful and well—resourced institute, says taxes could go up by £53 billion if this sort of approach isn't. i'm not saying that what he's saying is, if you look at all the pressures that are coming through the system, this is why it's important we take action. we're not saying labour's planning this. we're saying the inheritance that labour's got means that it's got to take avoiding action. but finally on this, to be clear, you're not saying this is nice to have. tony blair's kind of got a vision of the future. it'd be lovely to have. you're saying must have. don't have it, you get higher taxes. you get failure from public services. i think if you don't do this, then the future is one in which we're going to be poorer. and at least what i say to people is because this is the purpose of having an institute like this, let's debate it, because if you think of this election campaign and you think how many days we spent on rishi sunak in his wet suit

amount of time in five minutes per person, there is no way to get into depth of policy, and the nick robinsonnd fact-checking is a real industry now, right? - innovation. and fact-checking is a | real industry now, right? everyone has their— real industry now, right? everyone has their own version and it will be here _ has their own version and it will be here to _ has their own version and it will be here to stay — has their own version and it will be here to stay. i agree, is a great thing _ here to stay. i agree, is a great thin. . ., , ., , here to stay. i agree, is a great thin. .., , .,, ., here to stay. i agree, is a great thin. , .,, ., ., thing. one the comments was from a former bbc correspondent _ thing. one the comments was from a former bbc correspondent who i thing. one the comments was from a former bbc correspondent who said l former bbc correspondent who said too much coverage was driven by headlines such as dd day on the betting scandal, and did viewers get any handle on policy?— any handle on policy? there is alwa s any handle on policy? there is always that — any handle on

i was listening to an interview she did with nick robinson several years ago and she talked about britainlikes of wrexham which were in danger with a 5% swing. if i click this, you will see they lost all of them. in fact the only one that didn't go to labour was this one, which we will talk about in a second, but some big results there. monmouthshire, david davies being taken out in monmouthshire. let's have a look at some of those results, so one of them i talked about the north coast, clwyd north, reform has taken a massive chunk of the vote share. in two thirds of the seat, the conservatives were defending and lost, it is because of the reform road and you can see it clearly in clwyd north which is part of the red wall. what about this one, you will remember this name i think, craig williams, former pps for rishi sunak who was sitting in that big rural seat in montgomeryshire. he had a 15,000 majority, and you can see there is a 20% swing from conservative to labour. he was the one who admitted and then apologised for betting on the date of the election campaign, and he certainly paid