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Got round London Marathon in 4.45hrs, progress on 2025. The crowds were incredible, the experience exhilarating & humbling. I ran in memory of Laura for @NLondonHospice. I’ve raised £24k over 2 years, thanks to all you wonderful people for sponsoring me 🙏🏻
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Sky News political editor @BethRigby has completed the London Marathon for a second time in honour of one of her childhood friends - and to raise money for the North London Hospice.
Rigby says running the marathon has been 'quite satisfying'.
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An immigration climbdown by @ShabanaMahmood?
Yes, she had to compromise over care workers - that was predictable - but the other settlement changes are a really tough package of reforms. Great to discuss with @HarrietHarman & @RuthDavidsonPC on Electoral Dysfunction:
On this week’s pod with @HarrietHarman and @RuthDavidsonPC it’s not Trump world anymore, what does it mean for Burnham? Plus excellent discussion on immigration with journalist & former advisor @DannyShawNews
What can Andy Burnham learn from Donald Trump? youtu.be/9ujTLs62ojI?is=ZRnM… via @YouTube
On this week’s pod with @HarrietHarman and @RuthDavidsonPC it’s not Trump world anymore, what does it mean for Burnham? Plus excellent discussion on immigration with journalist & former advisor @DannyShawNews
“We want that money”
Harriet Harman explains why the government is giving high earning migrants shorter wait times to receive Indefinite Leave to Remain as the home secretary is accused of a u-turn on her original plan.
Listen now 🔗 trib.al/KLAoRGH
BREAKING: Russel Brand has been found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He will be remanded in custody until sentencing on Monday and judge says he will face a “significant custodial sentence”
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SCOOP: I've been leaked a draft of the Joint Statement due to be agreed at a major EU-UK summit on 20 November
The EU's negotiating terms include:
- no foreign criminals will be deported back to EU countries
- more British cash if they want to join the EU's electricity single market
- action on reciprocal export controls and tariffs around key industries (cough cough, probably steel)
Sources tell @SamCoatesSky the UK govt won't agree to all demands - and the EU27 hasn't approved it yet either
But will any of this survive that make-or-break summit in 2 weeks?
An EU-UK joint statement has been leaked. What's in it?
Sky News has seen the draft EU negotiating terms for the make-or-break summit with Andy Burnham on 20 November.
Deputy political editor @samcoatessky and producer @JackParkr look inside the main sticking points.
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Good morning, Europe. While you were sleeping, Democrats made sweeping gains in the US midterms, taking control of the House of Representatives and Senate in a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump.
Watch how the results unfolded across the country ft.trib.al/Zmn8aTr
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Elon Musk was among the biggest losers of election night.
He doled out around $446 million — the most a non-candidate has ever spent on an election — but his preferred candidates were swamped, losing almost everywhere.
politico.com/storyline/live/…
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Breaking News: Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat, has won Michigan’s Senate race, according to The Associated Press. He will become the first Muslim senator when he is seated in January. nyti.ms/3X5nFoP
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'We all know that my name and my faith aren't the reason you can't afford your gas.'
Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has been speaking in Michigan, talking about the Republican campaign against him, calling it the 'ugliest we've seen in our lifetimes.'
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What a night and what a
story! 🇺🇸
Good to see a real ‘Trump-branded’ watch in the flesh, Only 250 of this batch made. The US President made a cool $4.7 million from these.
Affordability anyone?
Big thanks to panel
@erolmorkoc @hilaryr @robfordmancs & our amazing U.S. team.
ANALYSIS: ‘Expect the worse’, what midterms mean for world. Trump faces 2-year ordeal at the hands of a hostile US Congress. He’ll struggle to force through any kind of domestic agenda & be plagued by investigations & political gridlock
Via @DominicWaghorn news.sky.com/share/13607794
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The truly worrying aspect after a night of sensational results in the US mid-term elections, (described by one Republican as a ‘massacre’ for Trump’s Party) is that the world is now on tenterhooks about what the US leader is going to do now. He’s not known for being a good loser
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Abdul El-Sayed in fiery exchange with a British reporter after simple question
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WATCH: Our @jamesmatthewsky doing his job & handling this altercation brilliantly. Of course the US midterms matter beyond the US.
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
Abdul Ed-Sayed gives speech to supporters in Michigan. Says ‘we built a movement in a battle between the money and the many, the many can win’ (race not called yet, but El-Sayed in lead)
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Blue wave across red states something to behold. In Kansas, Adam Hamilton the 1st Democrat senator to be elected since 1932 Talarico 1st Democrat to win in Texas since 1988. In that race, Elon Musk ploughed tens of millions into Republican campaign to defeat Talarico but lost
"What is happening here is a political earthquake."
Sky's @marthakelner reacts at a Democratic watch party as James Talarico beats Republican candidate Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race.
Watch our live coverage ➡️ trib.al/g387SDC
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The Republican rout across red states something to behold. In Kansas, Adam Hamilton the 1st Democrat senator to be elected since 1932. Talarico 1st Democrat to win in Texas since 1988. Musk ploughed tens of millions into Republican campaign to defeat Talarico but it didn’t work
.@JamesTalarico: We didn’t win by alienating our neighbors, or by shaming our neighbors, or by ridiculing our neighbors. We embodied a new kind of politics. A politics rooted in a deep love — for our state, for our country, and for all of our neighbors.
My faith teaches me that love is the strongest force in the universe.
Love is not passive. Love is not neutral. Love is not weak. Love requires that we stand between the bullies and the bullied. Love requires that we look evil in the eye and not blink.
Love can heal what’s broken in America.
💥MIDTERMS: Trump hates losers, but now he is one
Voters hand Trump emphatic rebuke as Democrats win House & Senatein ‘blue tsunami’, flipping Senate seats in Trump strongholds - Kansas, Ohio, N & S Carolina,Texas
Astonishing night as Trump rejected👇🏻
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What do MPs know when they’re casting votes? Does Burnham need to move away from ‘soundbite politics’? And is ANOTHER Brexit referendum becoming unavoidable?
@RuthDavidsonPC and @jessphillips discuss that and more in this week's Electoral Dysfunction members' episode.