Newsnight
Newsnight is a current affairs & news bulletin on BBC2. Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories. The popular program has been available since 2024. A total of 247 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in November 2025.
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With the Budget just hours away, we look at the economic and political pressures on the government, and some of the announcements likely to be in the speech tomorrow.
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President Trump says 'something good may just be happening' with his peace plan for Ukraine, but just who is it good for? With Victoria Derbyshire.
Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, is jailed for corruption over a pro-Russian influence scheme in the European Parliament. How much of a problem is it for Reform UK?
Comments by Democrats on the use of the US military are 'seditious behaviour, punishable by death!', claims President Trump on Truth Social. With Paddy O’Connell.
Is President Trump about to impose a peace plan on Ukraine to end Russia's war in Putin's favour? With Victoria Derbyshire.
President Trump hosts Mohammed bin Salman and says the Saudi crown prince 'knew nothing' about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr Khashoggi's widow Hanan rejects that account.
The home secretary says her asylum reforms can 'unite what is a divided country'. But is a rebellion brewing on Labour's backbenches? With Victoria Derbyshire.
In an effort to curb illegal migration, the Home Secretary plans the biggest shakeup to asylum rules in a generation. But will it work? With Katie Razzall.
The prime minister's been assured that it is 'not Number 10' briefing against ministers. But Newsnight hears that the knives are out for the chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. With Paddy O'Connell.
More Epstein emails emerge and leave President Trump with some questions to answer. Michael Palin talks about funding for hospices. With Victoria Derbyshire.
Some allies of the prime minister say he would fight off any leadership challenge. Newsnight's lively panel debates a night of drama in Westminster.
President Trump threatens the BBC with a $1 billion legal action over the editing of his speech in an episode of Panorama. How big is the risk for the corporation? With Victoria Derbyshire.
Keir Starmer flies back to Britain to deal with an in-tray of David Lammy and the prisoners, Rachel Reeves and the upcoming budget, and Lucy Powell and the Labour Party. Can he fix all or any of it?
More questions for ministers as one prisoner hands himself in, but another remains on the run. With Katie Razzall.
The justice secretary had a bad day as it was announced another two prisoners were let go by accident, both from Wandsworth Prison. Why does it keep happening?
The chancellor lays the ground for tax rises in what could be a painful Budget for voters, will her fellow Labour MPs back her? With Victoria Derbyshire.
With the budget just weeks away, we ask Reform UK's head of policy why they've dropped their promise to cut taxes by £90 billion a year.
October 2025
The royal formerly known as a prince faces calls for further sanction in the UK, but how will he fare in the American judicial system without his title? Matt Chorley digs down.
King Charles is to strip Prince Andrew of all his titles and kick him out of Royal Lodge. He'll be known from now on as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. With Paddy O'Connell.
Should we be paying a migrant sex offender £500 to go back to Ethiopia? Victoria Derbyshire asks the immigration minister.