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Nicholas Watt

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Nicholas Watt

@nicholaswatt

Political Editor BBC Newsnight

London

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Joined March 2009

Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Oct 14, 2022
A group of senior Tories have been holding discussions + have decided the following: the sacking of @KwasiKwarteng will prompt them to come out publicly next week + call on @trussliz to resign. My source: “These are serious people. The PM will find it difficult to survive.”
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Jul 6, 2022
The sacking of Michael Gove is not going down well in the Conservative party. One former Boris Johnson ally tells me: “Sacking Gove is revenge. But Boris is now detached from reality. He is now like Putin.”
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Jul 5, 2022
One of Boris Johnson’s closest allies tells me: It will all be over by this time tomorrow. No PM can survive the resignation of two senior cabinet ministers like that
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Jul 7, 2025
A spontaneous round of applause in ⁦@BBCNewsnight⁩ studio after Betty Brown, 92, the oldest victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal, told ⁦@vicderbyshire⁩ she won’t stop fighting until she wins back every penny that she says was stolen from her
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Oct 13, 2022
A former cabinet minister tells me: “Brace for the mother of all U-Turns on the mini budget today. A friendly person in the know is advising us to steer clear of the media today to avoid the explosion. We wouldn’t want to look silly by tomorrow.” #waitandsee
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Jan 12, 2022
A Tory grandee turned to a member of the 2019 intake of MPs, who may play a decisive role in deciding Boris Johnson’s future, to ask their thoughts on PM’s statement. The 2019er told their fellow MP that the PM’s statement was meaningless and it’s over for him
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Mar 29, 2019
Nigel Dodds tells me the UK should stay in the EU if that was only way to preserve NI’s place in UK. ‘I would stay in the European Union and remain rather than risk Northern Ireland’s position. That’s how strongly I feel about the union.’
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Jan 6, 2025
The former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a statement in response to claims made about him by ⁦@elonmusk⁩ ⁦@GordonBrown⁩
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Feb 2, 2022
A Conservative MP submitting a no confidence letter this afternoon to Sir Graham Brady tells me that will be one of two this afternoon. Both MPs due to go public
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
May 26, 2020
Break: Danny Kruger, former political secretary to Boris Johnson and now Conservative MP for Devizes, tells colleagues to stop demanding resignation of Dominic Cummings on the grounds that such calls are tantamount to a vote of no confidence in PM @danny__kruger
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Nov 20, 2019
As Jo Swinson prepares to launch manifesto senior Tories fear Dominic Raab could be under pressure from Liberal Democrats in Esther and Walton. “The chat among Surrey Tories is that Dominic Raab could be in trouble,” a senior Tory tells me @joswinson @DominicRaab
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Jun 6, 2022
One minister tells me there is no comparison between Boris Johnson winning tonight by a higher margin than Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Minister: “Key difference in 1990 Mrs Thatcher was up against an actual and credible candidate. Today was entirely a judgement on him. Far worse.”
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Feb 9, 2022
Boris Johnson is touring the tea room…again
Nicholas Watt
@nicholaswatt
Jun 6, 2022
Some very long faces on supporters of @BorisJohnson after poll closed. One PM ally said of Tory MPs: They are a bunch of lying snakes. I don’t trust anything they say