Thread by @faisalislam

Coming up on @BBCNewsnight - I’m presenting, we hear from @MarcusRashford, an MP defending the Government, and also top trade adviser Dan Hannah on the big trade deal with Japan, as well as the architect of Black Lives Matter... BBC2 now!

Here’s full message from @MarcusRashford who we asked to join us on @BBCNewsnight late last night, but he was in bed ahead of match, responding to yesterday’s outpouring of support from councils, communities, and corporations for supplying food for English children in half term

Supermarket Asda (recently taken over back in British ownership) this morning joined in, pledging £100k for school holiday access to food

Here is Mansfield MP Ben Bradley who told us these community responses and the Governments existing extra funding for universal credit , furlough and councils was why he backed its refusal to extend FSM over half term in England.

https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1319764306238595072

The CEO of the Fareshare food bank charity (that is working with Rashford) disagreed with Bradley given the scale of the problem and debated with the MP (who was the only one of dozens of MPs we contacted willing to defend the vote on air

https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1319764176609431555

As @trussliz signed up a significant trade deal for UK with Japan, top Govt trade adviser @DanielJHannan argued that it was a deal better tailored to UK than the EU-Japan deal, it largely replicated, which itself is a very new deal...

https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1319772828540018690

In clip above I put issue of why UK will only be able to access some of the food export quotas in deal, if at the end of the year, the EU has some of its quota leftover to Mr Hannan. Our Tokyo correspondent @wingcommander1 put this to Truss, and she said there’d be a “review”

notable that at signing ceremony for UK-Japan deal in Tokyo - Japanese foreign/trade minister Motegi, said that protecting the European supply chains of Japanese investments (in manufacturing/ cars) was of “paramount importance” and japan had “high hopes” for a UK-EU deal:

And we heard from @aliciagarza about the Black Lives Matter movement, its adoption by giant corporations, and its impact on the US election - sorry about having to cut it short at the end of the programme.

https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1319772950116159489