It is time for newscast. Alex, if i had to describe newscast, i would say it is a visualised podcast which means it is a podcast, its a radio programme, and its a tv show. Our Subject Material is what is going on At Westminster and beyond. Its a podcast tv radio show, fine. As long as there is interesting news chat. No silly gimmicks or pop culture references. Today i think i will give my long awaited verdict on the taylor swift album really, nobody wants to hear you talking about that, 0k . Just move on. I am sure everyone will be waiting with bated breath, adam. Other stuff we have got in there, back to the politics of course, we have got louise haigh, the shadow transport secretary, who is doing this big announcement about what labour would do with the railways, so that is going to be pretty big, we will talk about that. Ok, so presumably it is alljust serious then, no silly gimmicks . And no comedians on the show . And then we will be lightening the mood because Michael Spicer, the
donald trump says his guilty verdicts are a travesty . are his fellow republicans preparing to rip up the us legal system to protect him? here, sir keir starmer paves the way for diane abbott to be a labour candidate at the election. why the climb down? thank you very much. applause hello. welcome to newsnight, with you each week night with interviews and insight. our friday night political panel is here. sonia sodha chief leader writer for the observer, and tom harwood deputy political editor presenter at gb news. let s start by talking about donald trump. convicted felon donald trump. he is angry. a day after his guilty verdicts in that hush money trial, he gave a ao minute press conference at trump tower and said americans were living in a fascist state . he called thejudge in his case the devil , attacked joe biden and claimed without any evidence his trial had been rigged . this is, uh, a case where if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone. these
but we need is a cure for this addiction. in the cure is an employer immigration tax. that is the cure to this addiction. smart immigration highly qualified, highly skilled, can be a great thing. but there is a price to it, there is a cost to it and that she does at the moment, there is no cost to big business for employing cheap low skilled overseas labor. the main topic on the campaign trail today has been tax with the conservatives and labour reassuring voters that they wouldn t raise vat if they win the general election. value added tax currently stands at 20% for most items. the liberal democrats also said they would not look to raise vat or income tax. but as our economics editor, faisal islam, reports similar pledges at the last election didn t stop the tax burden rising to its highest level since the second world war. the town hall meetings, the scoops of ice cream and the campaign water features continue for party leaders. but today s main stunt surrounded the cl
tonight there is still confusion over whether the long serving labour mp diane abbott can or can t stand again in the general election. she had been readmitted as a labour mp after being suspended last year. today she has said she has been barred from standing, but sir keir starmer later said that wasn t true and no decision had yet been taken. there is a rally tonight in support of her in her local constituency in east london. will you be standing as an independent? will you be standing as an independent? will you be standing as an indeendent? ~ . , ., will you be standing as an indeendent? . ., , ., ., independent? what is labour said to ou? she independent? what is labour said to you? she was independent? what is labour said to you? she was labour s independent? what is labour said to you? she was labour s pic independent? what is labour said to you? she was labour s pic after - independent? what is labour said to you? she was labour s pic after last| you? she was