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“They are hoping this means an end to the war in Iran.” Our political correspondent Harry Farley tells @JonnyDymond how UK ministers are viewing the US midterm elections, after the Prime Minister pointed to 'division between nations'.

What do the US Midterm election results mean for a post-Trump Republican Party? The Economist's John Prideaux and Kathryn Jean Lopez, from conservative publication National Review Online, talk about the future of the GOP.

"It's a total repudiation of President Trump and the Republican Party that has provided him with the support." Pollster David Binder, who has worked with Kamala Harris and President Obama, talks about the success of the Democrats in the US Midterm elections.

"This is a thing he has brought on himself and on you isn't it?" @JustinOnWeb asks Texas Republican Party chair D'Rinda Randall about whether the party's losses in the US Midterms are because of President Donald Trump.

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has said previous government's apologies for the UK's role in the transatlantic slave trade was a 'sorry not sorry situation'. Political correspondent @hzeffman explains more.

"We have a moment, not a mandate." Newly re-elected Democrat Delaware Senator Chris Coons warns the party is 'still deeply unpopular' following major wins in the US midterms.

A battle for Congress. A big moment in Donald Trump's presidency. And a test for the Democrats.   @JustinOnWeb is in Washington DC for the US Midterms. Listen live for all his analysis on BBC Sounds.

"I think the package that I've announced strikes the right balance." Shabana Mahmood defends her work as Home Secretary after watering down plans to make foreign care workers already in the UK wait 15 years to qualify for permanent settlement.

Will Shabana Mahmood's watered-down settlement plans for migrant care workers mean the staff we need will chose to go elsewhere? To Canada or Europe? @bbcnickrobinson asks the Home Secretary.

" I care more about what are you gonna do for me as a lobsterman in Maine." Lobster boat captain and Republican voter Matt says he will vote for the party’s longstanding senator, Susan Collins, in the Midterms, because he sees it more as a local race than a referendum on Donald Trump.

" If the Democrats put up a very common sense, moderate Democrat... I think you'll see people like me voting for them.” Maine voter John, who works in logging and voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 US Election, says some of the president’s decisions have made his industry ‘bleak’ and ‘uncertain’.

"It's close, it's a very bitter fight." @JustinOnWeb reports from Maine - a key battleground state in the US Midterms - as the Democrats seek to unseat longstanding Republican Senator Susan Collins. Listen to Justin's analysis of the elections on BBC Sounds.

"We want to hear an unambiguous apology and then we can talk about reparations." Prof Verene Shepherd, from the Caricom Reparations Commission, sets out what Caribbean countries want to discuss as Commonwealth leaders meet in Antigua. The King is set to address the issue of transatlantic slavery, after Andy Burnham wrote he was 'open' to the UK formally apologising.

"The places are out there." Wikipedia co-founder and 'pathological optimist' Jimmy Wales tells @jonnydymond about finding positivity online amongst the toxicity.

"We are acting in the fog of war." Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Ukrainian Parliament, speaks to @JonnyDymond, after Ukraine and Russia say their emergency alert apps have been hit by cyber-attacks.

"It wouldn't take much for the (markets’) spotlight to cross the channel onto our shores." Andy Haldane, former advisor to Andy Burnham, tells @bbcnickrobinson he was looking for a bit more fiscal headroom from the budget. Full interview: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033q…

"Putin - my personal enemy, who killed my husband." Marina Litvinenko, widow of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was the poisoned in London with Polonium-210, says she believes justice for her husband's death will happen 'one day'. A 2016 public inquiry found that Mr Litvinenko's assassination was 'probably' approved by President Vladimir Putin.

Sir Patrick Stewart, star of stage and screen, has died at the age of 86. Sir Gregory Doran, former RSC artistic director, and actor Sir David Suchet pay tribute to their friend.

"If it was as easy to do the arbitrary cuts that they are putting forward, they would've done it when they were in government five minutes ago." Labour's Wes Streeting pushes back against criticism of the government's Budget savings in order to boost defence spending.

"I'd give it a four out of ten." Former Burnham advisor Andy Haldane gives the Chancellor's budget a Strictly Come Dancing-style judgement, as he explains to @bbcnickrobinson's Political Thinking what more he would like to have seen from John Healey. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b08qm…