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Sky News — Sky News Today With Matt Barbet
Sunday 26 July 2026 · 13:00 BST · 30m · 4 stories · 15 annotated moments · 23 of 30 min on news stories (77%)
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A manhunt is underway in Berlin after a van was driven into a crowd at a Pride parade, killing one person and wounding 16 others. Authorities are searching for 21-year-old Abdul B, who is known to police and described as belonging to Berlin's Islamist scene. The public has been warned that he may be armed and dangerous, and police are asking for help in locating him.
In Spain, King Felipe visited an evacuation center in Villamanta near Madrid, where people forced to flee their homes due to raging wildfires have taken shelter. Two fires have converged just outside Madrid, creating a more dangerous situation, and a national emergency has been declared.
The programme also featured a discussion on the first week of the new UK government under Prime Minister Andy Burnham, covering the pace of policy announcements, funding questions, and the upcoming announcement on adult social care. Both a former Labour advisor and a former Conservative advisor agreed that an early general election is unlikely, though they predicted the parliament may not run its full term.
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Charged quote Car driven into crowd at Berlin Pride event kills one
Well, authorities are searching for 21-year-old Abdul B. He is known to police, who say he belongs to Berlin's Islamist scene. The public has been warned that he may be armed and dangerous. Well, earlier, I spoke to police commentator Graham Wettin about the police response in Berlin. Well, I think it's some prompt information
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 4:30-4:34
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Charged quote Car driven into crowd at Berlin Pride event kills one
and we have seen similar attacks in Germany, the use of a vehicle driving it into a crowd, which of course can have fatal consequences. Yeah, and they're very, very difficult to stop, to prevent. You have hostile vehicle mitigation measures you can put in place, and we've all seen those around Christmas markets,
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 6:52-6:56
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Charged quote Car driven into crowd at Berlin Pride event kills one
You have to have some access points for vehicles to come onto these events, and often on previous occasions, it's those access points that have then been used by hostile actors to come onto the event itself and carry out these awful incidents. Let's take you live now to Spain, and you can see there that is the Spanish king,
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 7:28-7:32
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Charged quote Car driven into crowd at Berlin Pride event kills one
for vehicles to come onto these events, and often on previous occasions, it's those access points that have then been used by hostile actors to come onto the event itself and carry out these awful incidents. Let's take you live now to Spain, and you can see there that is the Spanish king, King Felipe, who is at an evacuation center
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 7:32-7:37
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
I'm guessing you've been following developments even more closely than most people in the first week. What have you made of it? I think he's had a good start. I think it's probably the most consequential start to a new government in years. Sworn in, and then within 48 hours, already cutting bills to affect cost of living
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 9:09-9:12
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
impacting people's lives, changing the machinery of government, and it's not over. We've got more next week. Claire? Well, it's been a very glitzy start. I mean, we've seen a whole new number 10 open up within a matter of days. We've had 6 a.m. press releases that leave us all talking for the rest of the day
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 9:29-9:31
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
but a lot of these announcements were ultimately totemic. It's a symbol of where the government aims to go. But isn't that just the point, that we seem to be managing politics on a vibe basis without actually having any scrutiny of these policies? There's going to be a relatively big announcement being made next week regarding social care.
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 10:54-10:59
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
and that really should have been thought through before this. And we're going to have a summer long drip, drip of these policy announcements with absolutely zero scrutiny. So I'm not sure that this is the way that successful governments work. I am not sure that this is what the general public will want,
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 11:25-11:27
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
that successful governments work. I am not sure that this is what the general public will want, just these sort of social media announcements and very pretty pictures coming out of number 10 North. What they want to see is how it's going to affect them and some details of the plans before we have to wait until the budget
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 11:38-11:41
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
I'd call it a well-planned, sought-out programme for government, something we didn't hear from the last Conservative government, which quite frankly, the transitions were shambolic and we're still paying the price for the Liz Truss debacle. I think this is politics, the Prime Minister's in control of the message
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 12:30-12:33
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something we didn't hear from the last Conservative government, which quite frankly, the transitions were shambolic and we're still paying the price for the Liz Truss debacle. I think this is politics, the Prime Minister's in control of the message and look, the early polling shows the public like it.
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 12:34-12:36
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
for the Liz Truss debacle. I think this is politics, the Prime Minister's in control of the message and look, the early polling shows the public like it. Britain's got hope back. The country has a spring in its step. Okay, so just to confirm, there isn't gonna be an August lull then? No, I don't think so.
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 12:42-12:43
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
that we are expected to see announced in the coming week. The main issue, and Claire, you brought it up, adult social care. I mean, it's described as one of those impossible situations to solve. And interestingly, Andy Burnham said he's gonna use some of his political capital. He's got quite a lot within the Labour Party,
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 13:04-13:06
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
Isn't that good news, Claire? I think it's good news that social care is being spoken about. It is one of those issues that successive governments have managed to brush under the carpet and put into the too difficult to deal with box. It absolutely needs to be dealt with. And I think that this is why I'm more concerned
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 13:21-13:23
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Charged quote Andy Burnham's first week focuses on cost of living and social care plans
I think it's good news that social care is being spoken about. It is one of those issues that successive governments have managed to brush under the carpet and put into the too difficult to deal with box. It absolutely needs to be dealt with. And I think that this is why I'm more concerned at it coming out at the beginning of August,
Sky News, Sky News Today With Matt Barbet, 26 July 2026, 13:23-13:25
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