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Victoria Derbyshire

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
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Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧 BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱 And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧 BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16h
#Newscast 🎧 Why is Donald Trump calling for President Zelensky to go? With Paddy, Joe & me 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
See you tomorrow 9am BBC 1
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Newscast with Paddy O’C & me • latest criticism within Green Party over Zack Polanski's leadership • Andy Burnham's 1st electoral victory as PM in London so we look at his relationship with the capital with Jim Waterson from @londoncentric.media www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Newscast - Can Zack Polanski Control The Green Party? - BBC Sounds
Polanski faces critics within his own party and calls for a rule change.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Labour wins Holborn and St Pancras by-election
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing..nobody was questioning whether they were English We certainly didn’t have sitting MPs questioning whether they were English’
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tory leader’s most forceful attack on Reform MPs: ‘I don’t want to explain to my son when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football that some people don’t think our black players are English…. 1/2
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch says a future Conservative government wld legislate so everyone can pass on their family home without paying inheritance tax; as well as couples being able to pass on an additional £1m without IHT
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE • France - in middle of protests calling for more investment & funds from government, & bond markets who’ve pushed France’s borrowing costs to their highest in years. What’s the answer? Are there lessons for other nations? See you 🔜 on BBC 2 and BBC News
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Newsnight 1030pm BBCTwo & BBC News It’s all about the Greens and Conservatives tonight Live - Ellie Chowns, Westminster leader of the Greens Shadow chief Sec to Treasury Richard Fuller Conservative peer Lord Finkelstein Our Pol Ed Nick Watt See You 🔜
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE @BBCTwo @BBCNews • the biggest political gamble of Andy Burnham’s career so far? The triple lock will go by 2030 to help pay for a new national care service for England. Would YOU support that at the next gen elex?
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The man who murdered student Henry Nowak is being allowed to appeal against the length of his sentence Vickrum Digwa stabbed 18 yr old Henry Nowak to death in Southampton in 2025. In June, he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RAF Fairford suspects released on bail, head of counter-terror police says
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RAF Fairford suspects are British men in their 20s, police say, as Iran denies involvement
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Five men have been arrested as counter-terror police investigate a major incident near RAF Fairford 
They were arrested on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, and have been further arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just been at the most memorable, poignant, uplifting and important breast cancer fund raising event of the year
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daniel Thomas has been arrested by Hampshire Police
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
did another with me afterwards for TikTok. I’ve been in touch with R every day since Tuesday to check in with her.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
hello, if I may the start of yr latest message is patronising but hey :) I didn’t ‘downplay’ anything nor did R think I did. I didn’t expose R to ‘doxxing’ - I deliberately didn’t use her surname and I interviewed her in front of the village hall. R was happy with the interview, so much so she..
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
hello…good morning; please do explain what it is you wld like me to apologise for
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
hi Dee, that’s not what I did, nor did R think that’s what I did.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
okay that makes me sad but I respect your choices :)
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve been talking to R this evening
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm BBCTwo BBCNews • as the economic backdrop worsens, the PM says he is able to make ‘difficult decisions’. We’ll discuss with Former Director of the IFS Paul Johnson Labour MP Rachel Blake Conservative peer Lord Finkelstein See you 🔜
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hi Phil, in what way?
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Eh?
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
hello Fran…by speaking to people in Piddington?
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK has got a *second* £36m donation - crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne says he’s matched the Ben Delo record-breaking donation announced yesterday
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK has received a £36m donation from a British cryptocurrency billionaire called Ben Delo Last year Delo was given an unconditional pardon by President Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
MPs have voted against proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales, bringing the latest effort to change the law to an end.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lisa Beamer was extraordinary. She was 5 months pregnant, and her two little boys were running around the house. She welcomed me into her home because she already knew her husband was an utterly courageous human being - and she wanted to tell the world. I will never ever forget her ❤️
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The plane crashed short of its target - Washington DC.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He, along with other passengers & some crew, decided to try and get control of their plane. According to those listening on the ground, including FBI agents, they heard Todd say to his fellow passengers, ‘let’s roll’.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I also met Todd Beamer’s widow Lisa. Todd was on United Airlines Flight 93. He managed to make a call out to the ground and was told that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Centre & that hijackers had taken over his flight.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everywhere you looked - walls, doors, hoardings, windows were covered with images of people like you and me with the word ‘MISSING’ across the top. It was deeply harrowing.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was sent to cover 9/11 for BBC Radio Five Live Many many traumatised people in the depths of despair continually stopped me in Manhattan holding pictures of their loved ones to ask, ‘have you seen my father’; ‘have you seen my sister?’
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Oh my God" | 'Godfather of AI' on the possibility AI could kill all humans #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZMjJGi4YhI
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Could AI kill all humans within a decade? 'Godfather of AI' on the "not unreasonable" 10% chance
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Breaking: Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
With Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, Labour MP Seema Malhotra & our Political Editor Nick Watt
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm • reaction to UK gov’s significant shift on illegal settlements in occupied West Bank. Sanctions will be imposed as the Foreign Secretary accuses Israel's government of turning a blind eye to what he calls the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by settlers
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hello if you’re stuck on a plane right now, do let me know what’s happening Whatsapp +44 3306 784783 #Newsnight
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hi Nestor I haven’t ever ‘slagged off’ the leader of a political party, or any politician. I ask them questions on behalf of our audience
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How much trouble is Nigel Farage in?
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ch 4 News asked Nigel Farage, his chief of staff Dan Jukes and Head of Policy James Orr for a response - they didn’t comment. Ch 4 News ‘understands the allegations are denied in full’
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Filmed by Verbatim Media, verified by Channel 4 News
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover filming shows Nigel Farage celebrating illegal foreign donations Footage shows a plan to break electoral law by funnelling money from a US ‘businessman’ through a UK donor The donations funded a series of widely reported polls secretly commissioned by Reform
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm • cost of UK borrowing - how serious is this for the gov (& the govs of other G7 countries), & does the PM have a plan? • + ‘a cover up bigger than the Post Office scandal’ - a former Tory Defence Minister tells us MoD officials lied to him over nuclear test veterans
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“It will make people better off…” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on Andy Burnham’s promise to bring “much more substantial change” as Prime Minister. #Newsnight
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm @bbctwo @BBCNews @BBCWorld - PM Andy Burnham’s diagnosis of where the UK has gone wrong - is he right? And if he is, can he fix it? With Business Sec @jreynoldsMP @JennyChapman @EdConwaySky @CamillaTominey @nicholaswatt
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sir Keir Starmer announces he’s standing down as an MP. There will now be a by election in his London constituency - the first electoral test for Andy Burnham as Prime minister
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