Laura Kuenssberg
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#bbclaurak 9am Sundays @BBCOne @BBCIplayer NEWSCAST on @BBCSounds any time follow @bbclaurak on @instagram
Westminster, mostly....
Joined July 2009
NEWSCASTERS! Your Sunday serving... me, @bbcpaddy, @hzeffman, @KemiBadenoch and @ShabanaMahmood on a very busy news day - protests, police, and plenty of politics... https://t.co/74gmWzFMxe
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The Home Secretary announces new police powers to restrict protests.
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“They are justified in asking for more from their government” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood responds to criticisms from the Jewish community in the wake of the Manchester Synagogue attack #BBCLauraK
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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“We do need a bit of a course correction” Labour MP Lucy Powell explains her pitch for her party’s deputy leadership and says “we can’t just pretend everything’s going great” for the government #BBCLauraK
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“There may have been a small price to pay in the polls, it will pay off eventually” Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her approach of taking longer than Reform to make policy around issues like migration will lead to political benefits #BBCLauraK
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“We believe in free speech, but it has to be within the bounds of the law” Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party will support the government’s new plans to restrict protests but asks “what took them so long” to act on the issue #BBCLauraK
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Big morning for @KemiBadenoch - announcing new plans for borders ahead of party conference where she is under big pressure to perform
“They will go back to where they came from” Kemi Badenoch defends her newly announced plans to remove 150,000 migrants living in the UK illegally each year #BBCLauraK
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“I am very worried about the state of community relations in our country” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the government has a responsibility to take action to make sure people are “well integrated” and “strengthen our communities” #BBCLauraK
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A very busy #bbclaurak - Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood joined us to announce new powers for police to curb protests
“Just because you have a freedom doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defends the new powers to restrict protests the government wants to give police based on “cumulative disruption” #BBCLauraK
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NEWSCASTERS! Your Saturday serving...
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And Kemi Badenoch arrives in Manchester for Conservative conference
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'if you want perfect leaders, you won't have any leaders'.. As new Archbishop of Canterbury is about to be confirmed, our interview with Justin Welby after he quit
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Laura Kuenssberg speaks to Justin Welby in his first interview since he resigned in November.
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@GretaThunberg 's flotilla has been intercepted - this was her speaking to us from the ship on Sunday
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South Africa and Turkey have criticised the incident in international waters. Israel says those on board are safe.
And we spoke to @GretaThunberg from the middle of the Mediterranean
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Sorry, this time with the right link! Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman admit their mistakes and tell their side of the story
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The peer, in an exclusive interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, says she stands to benefit from £60m PPE profit.
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Catch up with today's show and interview with the PM here https://t.co/WB5hPlnrRn
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Laura Kuenssberg is joined by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, shadow housing secretary James Cleverly MP and activist Greta Thunberg.
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And we spoke to @GretaThunberg from the middle of the Mediterranean
“The people of the world stand with Palestine” Greta Thunberg speaks to #BBCLauraK from her ship heading to Gaza which is aiming to deliver aid and "send a strong message to the people in Gaza that the world sees you" https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k
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Preview of one of the possible rows next week at #toryconf....
“There have been a whole load of judicial decisions which I regard as activist” Shadow housing secretary James Cleverly sets out the Conservatives’ policy on the ECHR ahead of their party conference #BBCLauraK
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This is how bad the situation is for Labour 👇
“Labour’s popularity has plummeted since gaining office” Polling expert Professor John Curtice explains who the government is losing votes to #BBCLauraK
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PM's answer to his critics in the party? (paging Andy Burnham), 'give me space' - not quite 'put up or shut up', but closest he's coming to acknowledging dissent and telling grumpy ranks to back off
“We’ve got the fight of our lives ahead of us” Prime Minister Keir Starmer responds to leadership questions by saying “I just need the space to get on and do what we need to do” and that “now is not the time for introspection” #BBCLauraK
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