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"The appearance is a very poor one in terms of the way the police are perceived to have handled that protest" Tom Winsor, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary, speaks on the policing of migrant hotel protests in Epping - but adds the police are "not taking sides". #Newsnight
"We don't know where they've come from... I sound so right-wing but I'm not, I just find it wrong." @vicderbyshire speaks to Epping residents about the protests outside a local asylum hotel. #Newsnight
"There simply isn't really a sensible alternative." Former Home Office minister Laura Farris on how the government addresses local dissatisfaction over asylum hotels, after protests in Epping and Diss. #Newsnight
“It’s a powder keg now and we need to get something done. We need the Home Office to listen” After days of protest, Epping Forest District Council Leader Chris Whitbread tells Newsnight he wants to see the asylum seeker hotel in his area closed. #Newsnight
"One of the reasons people are shifting to Reform is people think none of this is fair. " Former Tony Blair & Gordon Brown adviser Theo Bertram comments on the anti-migrant protests in Epping. #Newsnight
"We're just swamped with people, there could be up to 1,500 people in here - mostly men" "When Keir Starmer made his 'island of strangers' speech, he was echoing Enoch Powell" "As someone that consumes the news on a regular basis, I couldn't say what Labour is doing"…
"How is it possible a junior employee... is responsible for the financial crisis." Former Barclays trader Carlo Palombo, whose conviction for rigging LIBOR was quashed today. #Newsnight
“I left when he was a toddler, he’s a teenager now” Tom Hayes, former UBS trader, on what his wrongful conviction for rate-rigging has cost him and his family. #Newsnight
"If they're out there on the streets dealing with protests, they're not dealing with other things" Tom Winsor, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary, says some crimes will not be investigated if police are occupied with asylum protests. #Newsnight
"X in particular has been the place where most young people have found pornography" Baroness Bertin, author of the Independent Porn Review, says X should face the "full force" of the law if they do not meet age verification requirements by Friday. #Newsnight
"It's shocking. Absolutely shocking." UNISON leader Christina McAnea gives her reaction to reports former Unite boss Len McCluskey enjoyed private jet flights and football tickets arranged by the firm building a controversial hotel for the union. #Newsnight
"Trump could sign an executive order tomorrow demanding the release [of the Epstein files]" Epstein victims' lawyer Spencer Kuvin says reinterviewing Ghislaine Maxwell is "a waste of time" as his clients just want access to info the US Dept of Justice already has. #Newsnight
"My face had been used in an AI generated deep-fake porn" Former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt talks to #Newsnight
This week, new rules will require all sites hosting pornographic content to enforce age verification, in an attempt to stop under-18s from viewing pornography online. Will it work? Young people talk candidly to #Newsnight
"'We are going to have a summer of riots. You can just feel it. It is a tinderbox.'" After protests outside asylum hotels, @nicholaswatt reports what he has been told by a parliamentary veteran, who warns: "'My constituents feel they are losing control'". #Newsnight
“I think it’s fair to say the Govt is very worried about situations like this; new asylum accommodation opening in a particular place -they worry it could be quite sensitive & might flare up” Ailbhe Rea of Bloomberg comments on protests outside an Essex asylum hotel. #Newsnight
"Behind the scenes we are fleshing a lot of this investigation out. So what I can tell you is that President Trump was in good spirits this week" Republican Congresswoman Anna Paula Luna, on pressure on the President to release more Epstein documents. #Newsnight
“For me the recess cannot come soon enough for this Govt, and Keir Starmer probably does need a reshuffle…he needs to reboot his party” Conservative peer Lord Vaizey says the Labour Government are ‘lurching along:’ #Newsnight