you would not want to miss >> you would not want to miss it, including details of a dramatic rebellion coming your way in this. >> our next story , birmingham is >> our next story, birmingham is broke. >> a £750 million woke equal pay deal , fat cat salaries , deal, fat cat salaries, financial ineptitude , europe's financial ineptitude, europe's second biggest regional council has simply gone broke. how did it happen and why should we have to pay for their mistake .7 to pay for their mistake? >> takes next. as i mentioned , >> takes next. as i mentioned, top of the show, four years on, isn't it amazing how fortunes have changed? >> they felt on top of the world. >> they felt invincible. they got swept in on a mandate of getting brexit done . what went getting brexit done. what went wrong? how did they throw in this commanding lead away? is there any way back? and is that man the potential saviour potentially with this next man here? >> because nigel farage, of course, is out of the jungle ant and dec mocked the lenders and keith , that's you, the beloved

keith, that's you, the beloved gb news viewers. >> but how do you think he got on? we'll ask a few of you for your take on how the king of the jungle angle, the king of brexit, the king of the jungle. is he well overdue? a political comeback ? i think he is. and comeback? i think he is. and i think a lot of you do, too. coming up in the next hour. think a lot of you do, too. coming up in the next hour . but coming up in the next hour. but it's all about the rwanda bill this afternoon . the vote is at this afternoon. the vote is at 7:00. we are expecting some top tories at the five families, as they're called , the right of the they're called, the right of the party to meet about quarter past five. we'll have that press conference. before that, we'll have all the inside line. we've got some exciting news about how the votes are going, some brexit revenge could be served up cold for rishi sunak. he's a guy who could be in peril. could brexit do for him ? could rwanda do for do for him? could rwanda do for him? sorry, what brexit did for theresa may. sorry, i'm really over excited. anyway, here's your latest news headlines with tatiana .

tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much . >> martin, thank you very much. 3:02. this is the latest from the newsroom at mps representing the newsroom at mps representing the dup are considering voting against rishi sunak's rwanda plan. that's according to westminster sources. it would mean just 21 tory mps are needed to defeat the government home secretary james cleverly argued parliament and the british people support the rwanda plan. a home office statement ahead of the crunch vote tonight revealed lgbt people may face some discrimination in rwanda , even discrimination in rwanda, even though they should be safe there. right wing conservatives will meet this evening to make a final decision on whether to vote against the safety of rwanda bill or to abstain. mr cleverly also touched on the government's success on small boat crossings . boat crossings. >> but tragically, there has been death on the bibby stockholm barge . and i'm sure stockholm barge. and i'm sure that the thoughts of the whole house are like mine are with those affected. the house will understand that at this stage

i'm uncomfortable going into any more details, but we will, of course investigate fully . mr course investigate fully. mr speaken course investigate fully. mr speaker, i beg to move that the bill be now read a second time here. this government is stopping the boats . arrivals are stopping the boats. arrivals are down by a third. this year as illegal entries are on the rise elsewhere in europe , shadow home elsewhere in europe, shadow home secretary yvette cooper says the rwanda asylum scheme could cost £400 million and take more than 100 years to deport 15,000 people. >> she criticised the prime minister's leadership in the lead up to the vote this evening. >> we've just got total tory chaos. >> yeah , what a fine mess this week. >> prime minister has got them all into and got the country into as well, tearing lumps out of each other over a failing policy while they let the country down. we've had a home secretary sacked an immigration

minister resigning and they've spent almost £300 million of taxpayers money on rwanda without sending a single person . without sending a single person. and the home secretary seemed to confirm today that in fact , that confirm today that in fact, that is £400 million. >> while her comments come as the labour leader, sir keir starmer, accused the tory party of being too self—involved to govern. >> we're all stuck in their psychodrama . we're all being psychodrama. we're all being dragged down to their level and that's what they just don't understand . while they're understand. while they're swanning around self—importantly with their factions and their star chambers fighting like rats in a sack. there's a country out here that isn't being governed and a country that needs leadership . leadership. >> james cleverly has promised the death of an asylum seeker on the death of an asylum seeker on the controversial bibby stockholm barge will be investigated fully. the body has now been removed from the vessel docked in dorset general secretary of the rmt mick lynch

says his union is deeply disturbed about the fatality on what he's called the government's quasi prison barge. the first asylum seekers were brought back to the vessel in october around two months after it was evacuated following the discovery of legionella bacteria in the water supply . child in the water supply. child killer lucy letby does not object to being stripped of her nursing credentials. the two day heanng nursing credentials. the two day hearing will decide if letby should be removed from the register for letby filled out a form where she was asked if she accepts the nursing and midwifery council's charges. she said i accept the fact of the convictions and i maintain my innocence in respect of all of the convictions . in august, the the convictions. in august, the 33 year old was sentenced to 14 whole life orders after she was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others . fire murders of six others. fire control staff will stage a series of strikes after christmas in a dispute over staffing . members of the fire

staffing. members of the fire brigades union on merseyside will walk out for eight consecutive days from on the 27th of december. they voted in august to take the action opposing claims of a reduction in night staff and the introduction of a duty shift system that they say they never agreed to. schools awaiting awaiting an ofsted inspection can now defer the visit until after the new year and all requests will be granted. it comes after the result of the coroner's report into the death of headteacher ruth perry , whose of headteacher ruth perry, whose family says she took her own life when her school was downgraded from its highest rating to its lowest eight over safeguarding concerns to school leaders. unions say simply granting inspection deferrals to schools at the end of term does not go far enough . and finally, not go far enough. and finally, campaigners are making a last ditch effort to block controversial plans to build a road tunnel next to stonehenge. the save stonehenge world heritage site group is challenging the transport secretary's decision to approve

a £1.7 billion scheme, describing it as vandalism. the plans will overhaul eight miles of the a3 and a3 to speed up journeys in the south west of england. the high court is currently reviewing the . case currently reviewing the. case you're with gb news across the uk on tv, in your car or on your digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news now back to . martin now back to. martin >> thank you, tatiana . now what >> thank you, tatiana. now what an action packed show we've got for you this afternoon. i can't wait. this is like christmas came early for into politics. this the right place be this is the right place to be for the three hours. the for the next three hours. the government's play to stop the boats leads our news of boats leads our news agenda, of course, rishi sunak course, today with rishi sunak facing defeat over facing a humiliating defeat over his asylum policy. more his flagship asylum policy. more on that in a moment. but let's start with the news that an asylum seeker has sadly died on the bibby stockholm barge in dorset. and i'm joined now in our studio ray addison to our studio by ray addison to talk us through this so terrible

timing as far as to today's debate, but what do we know about the details of this death? >> well , know dorset >> well, we know that dorset police called at around 622 police were called at around 622 this morning. police were called at around 622 this morning . they responded this morning. they responded with ambulance crews. and we've also recently seen footage of what is believed to be the body of the resident who is now deceased, being removed from the bibby stockholm barge. it's understood that that happened at around about 130 this afternoon, and that's what we've been told by our local sources . now, and that's what we've been told by our local sources. now, home secretary james cleverly has told mps in the commons that the government will launch a full investigation version. but he did say that that at this stage he's unconfirmed getting into any more of the details . so he any more of the details. so he doesn't want to talk about what may have happened to that person at this point. may have happened to that person at this point . the refugee at this point. the refugee council is saying that's not enough. we need an independent review into this death . and review into this death. and they've described what happened as not only an appalling loss of life, but they say it's

tragically it's not surprising now at this stage, we don't know the person's age. we don't know their country of origin. and obviously, we do not know their their cause of death . but we do their cause of death. but we do know that there have been unconfirmed reports that it may have been a suicide care for calais have responded by saying we've regularly been reports ing suicidal intentions among residents and no action has been taken by the government . and of taken by the government. and of course, the fact that the home secretary has then not gone into more details will sort of bolster those concerns that it may have been suicide died in the past . we know that 39 men the past. we know that 39 men who previously were on the barge and removed because of the legionella bacteria the had written to the home office describing what they said were terrified conditions. and they also said that they felt stress and anxiety and that one asylum seeker had previously attempted to take their own life, which had been thankfully unsuccessful

. that's really the details of what we know at this time. we also know it had a hugely sort of difficult journey to even housing any residents. it's unclear how many people are on there at the moment. it could be as low as 72. it might be as high as 300, but a lot of details still lacking at this time. >> okay, ray allison, thank you for that update on those tragic events. course, that events. and of course, that tragic could only pile tragic death could only pile more rishi sunak, more pressure on rishi sunak, who challenge who is facing a huge challenge to leadership tonight when to his leadership tonight when mps revised rwanda mps vote on his revised rwanda bill. and there's a very realistic prospect that the government will lose that vote because of a rebellion from tory mps . and on that topic, i'm mps. and on that topic, i'm joined now by conservative mp bob seely, who joins me now. bob, thank you for joining us on the show on this historic day. some news has just come in a rumour, bob. the dup eight votes intend to vote against the conservative party leaving them only 21 shy of an historic defeat . how do you see this vote

defeat. how do you see this vote panning out at 7 pm. tonight ? panning out at 7 pm. tonight? >> i hope we're going to win. >> i hope we're going to win. >> and i think we'll win it. >> and i think we'll win it. >> there may be a few abstentions or votes against. >> if you're saying we're going to lose it, that's to news me. >> and that's a big call. martin and what do you base that? >> no, i'm not saying will >> no, i'm not saying you will lose i'm saying there is lose it. i'm saying there is talk you may and the talk you may lose it. and the margin only 29 of a swing. margin is only 29 of a swing. and we've confirmed that and we've just confirmed that there eight. well, we've there are eight. well, we've heard from the dup. so heard eight from the dup. so that's just 21 shy of a defeat. and there is lot of talk and there is a lot of talk amongst the people, the five families, are at that families, those are at that breakfast, that satisfied breakfast, aren't that satisfied with just with the outcome. okay. just speculating . there could be speculating. there could be a defeat. yeah right. >> let's let's let's wait and see, shall we? >> we can sit here speculating about lots of things . about lots of things. >> there's a simple principle here that we're reducing illegal crossings . they're down a third crossings. they're down a third already. this year. they're up a third in europe. they're up nearly 100. in italy . we're nearly 100. in italy. we're bringing them down. rwanda is an important of that. it's

important part of that. it's a highly visible part of that. our voters, our constituents, my folks on the isle of wight want us to on deliver. we are us to get on and deliver. we are trying to do that. heard trying to do that. i've heard some great speeches. i thought robert who resigned, robert jenrick, who resigned, spoke also spoke very well. but i also thought geoffrey cox thought that geoffrey cox answered a lot of rob's points. and actually, i think getting this bill through will be an important tool and hope we can important tool and i hope we can get those flights going and that will act as a massive deterrent effect. we reduce effect. and we can reduce illegal migration also. martin we need to be reducing legal migration as well. we need to be delivering what our voters and the british people want to us deliver. >> yeah, absolutely. i think people would agree with that. 745 net is simply too much . people would agree with that. 745 net is simply too much. but back to this debate tonight, question 200 £290 million rumoured to have been spent on the policy so far, not a single person has been deported . and person has been deported. and tonight's vote isn't just around the idea at all. it's about the legal principality. it's watertightness . and that is what

watertightness. and that is what the star chamber were concerned about yesterday . we took legal about yesterday. we took legal counsel ourselves last week here on gb news and it seems that the rwanda bill, even the v2, would be relatively easy to pick apart for even the most competent human rights lawyer. do you not concur that that's the issue here? this may not stop us going round and round in the courts . round and round in the courts. >> okay, martin, i'm not a human rights lawyer, so i'm not sure i should be concurring with anybody. but if i understand sorry about the background noise. quite noisy noise. it's quite noisy here. there's couple issues that there's a couple of issues that rob also that rob raised, but also that jeffrey cox answered. one is about access to justice, that if i can game the system, there are plenty of leftie lawyers like keir starmer who will help all these people game the system. we have to have some we have to keep the principle. if i understand it, of some access to justice. yes. but we have narrowed it to the maximum amount we can in order to have a deterrent effect whilst keeping that access to justice. and this

is as tight as we can go. as geoffrey cox made the point to robert jenrick really eloquent speech, i thought rob spoke very well. the second point is about the echr and the so—called pyjama rulings . these are pyjama rulings. these are amendment 39 rulings. when these some bulgaria judge gets out in the middle of the night and declares what the british government has done, what a sovereign parliament has done to be illegal, i don't want that. i don't want that because the british people don't want that. so i wouldn't mind a little bit more clarity on that position. how we can ignore these so—called pyjama these so—called pyjama rulings, these pyjama , you know, pyjama judges, you know, striking down at the 11th striking things down at the 11th hourin striking things down at the 11th hour in the middle of the night. but i think, you know, i thought geoffrey spoke really geoffrey cox spoke really eloquently about to eloquently about you have to have some channel for justice, but you have to at the same time really sure there are very, really make sure there are very, very clear boundaries so we game the system or people are allowed to game the system to as minimal amount as possible . well, now, amount as possible. well, now, robert said any delay in the system could be bad , but the

system could be bad, but the problem is if you don't have some access to the courts, you then potentially collapse the entire law. and we are back to square one. so that's why. martin i'm supporting it tonight. and that's why i think my colleagues support it tonight . we've got to get this second, this second reading through. we've got to get the bill through because one thing was really, really clear today , the really, really clear today, the labour party yvette cooper dreadful speech in parliament. it's quite clear. no plan, no clue . it's politics. it's point clue. it's politics. it's point scoring , it's posturing. that's scoring, it's posturing. that's all the labour party have and the most dangerous thing, my friend , if we get this bill friend, if we get this bill through and if labour win, god help us the next election. even if this is deterring illegal migration, if we've kiboshed illegal migration and it is still in, if the labor party will scrap that, that would be a disaster for our country. >> bob, four years ago today you guys were elected on an 80 seat majority with a mandate of getting brexit done and that

process, of course was absolute and plagued by rifts within the party and across the house because we had a bill, a brexit bill, theresa may's bill, which simply didn't satisfy the left or the right of your party. in that sense, bob , it feels like that sense, bob, it feels like history is repeating itself. how can a single bill please all of your politicians and bob, if we do head towards a defeat tonight, which i know is not an outcome you would like to entertain, but if we do, how damaging will it be for your party and for rishi sunak? okay >> firstly, i'm not dealing with hypotheticals because i think it'll pass, so wait and it'll pass, so let's wait and see. i'm not going to say, oh, it's this and oh, it's like it's like this and oh, it's like that. i think this vote will pass. i'll be supporting it. i urge to do so as urge my colleagues to do so as well. regards bigger well. as regards your bigger question brexit, about question about brexit, about migration, these are massive issues which are stressing out societies governments societies and governments elsewhere. everywhere elsewhere. absolutely everywhere in europe. and you know, we still have a growing a growing economy in this country. germany has problems. and with has got these problems. and with an economy that's shrinking,

italy doing well. italy as well, not doing well. so these are issues that are really gripping people and gripping political society . we gripping political society. we are tackling them fine . there's are tackling them fine. there's tension within our ranks. absolutely. there was over brexit and there is now again. but we are dealing with them compared to a labour party that offers absolutely nothing but sits on the sidelines and carping, wanting us to fail and yet not having a clue what they would do. apart from what we were doing a few years ago. if they were in power. so yes, it's being difficult for us and it's testing us. none of the other parties have a clue what to do. >> okay. bob seely, thank you for that impassioned defence. i think we know how you're going to vote tonight. good luck with that. just shy of four hours to go now until that crunch moment. and our political correspondent olivia from olivia utley joins us live from downing olivia, you downing street. olivia, you probably there giving probably heard bob there giving an impassioned of the an impassioned defence of the way he intends to vote. nevertheless i put it to him, we've in this last hour

we've heard in this last hour that it seems that the dup eight votes could be eight key votes, could brexit revenge, could be the brexit revenge, deciding to vote against the government potentially , which government potentially, which leaves them only 21 votes shy of an humiliating defeat. olivia this is going to go all the way to the wire, isn't it? >> well, absolutely. it does look as though it's going to go all the way to the wire, and it is very bad news indeed for the government that those eight dup mps have said that they will actually vote against the bill. in better news for the government, i don't think there's a single tory mp who has actually said record that actually said on the record that they will vote against the bill. there plenty who there are plenty who are suggesting they won't suggesting that they won't vote for it, suggesting they'll probably , but no one has probably abstain, but no one has actually come out and said they'll vote against it. not even jenrick the minister even robert jenrick the minister who his position who resigned his position because he didn't like the bill. now obviously, that doesn't mean that it's plain sailing for the prime minister. there would have to be 29 votes against the bill for it to be defeated. but it

could also be defeated by abstentions alone. if 59 conservative mps chose to abstain, vote neither for nor against the bill, then it could still go down the pan. so rishi sunakis still go down the pan. so rishi sunak is getting pretty tetchy . sunak is getting pretty tetchy. i was watching him in parliament just now. he was sort of bobbing up and down in his seat, scratching his legs, looking pretty on edge. he's called back graham stuart, the net zero minister. he's been at cop 28. he's got he's been flown back into london for the vote this evening and then will be flown back out to dubai. who knows how many air miles that's going to take because clearly the whips are very, very worried that it's going go down to the line . going to go down to the line. and news will be very, and this dup news will be very, very bad news to them in deed, the only sort of shred of hope at the moment for the government is that so far quite a lot of these right wing rebels are still just asking for amendments and the government has actually started to say in the last few

hours that it would be prepared to make a few tweaks to the bill to make a few tweaks to the bill to sort of toughen it up a little bit. the home secretary, james cleverly suggested to bill cash in the house of commons a bit earlier that, yes, parliament would prove to be sovereign over other european laws and parliament would be supreme over those human rights laws if it came down to it that might be enough to persuade some of those right wing rebels over. of course, the fly in the ointment for the government then is that if they do amend the bill, then the left of the party, those one nation mps, could end up voting it down. they've said that they are prepared to vote for the bill but wouldn't be prepared to vote for it if it was amended. now, the one other thing to bear in mind, i think that the whisperings in westminster could of course be wrong. the whisperings in westminster at the moment that it will the moment suggest that it will squeak through tonight, but even that not the of the road that is not the end of the road for sunak. if it gets for rishi sunak. if it gets through with a small majority , through with a small majority, then the house of lords, which

don't forget, more left don't forget, is much more left leaning than the house of commons. third of the commons. only a third of the lords tories. the house of lords are tories. the house of lords are tories. the house of lords could end up voting it down, in which case it would be sent back to the house of commons and a ping pong stage, as called, would ensue as it's called, would ensue where the bill goes between one house being house to the other, being amended point at that amended at every point at that stage, could amended stage, it could be amended beyond and in beyond recognition, and that in itself would be very, very damaging to rishi sunak. so even if he avoids catastrophe this evening , there's lots of danger evening, there's lots of danger waiting for him in the new year. okay >> olivia utley excellent summary. as ever. live from downing street, james cleverly said today this bill will end the merry go round of legal challenges. i've got a funny feeling the circus is just about to begin and we'll have it all for until here on gb for you until 7:00 here on gb news. now, of course, we'll have lots more on that story throughout show. it's the throughout the show. it's the only show in town. will rishi avoid humiliating defeat and avoid a humiliating defeat and there's coverage on there's plenty of coverage on our . gbnews.com. you our website. gbnews.com. you helped make it the fastest helped to make it the fastest growing news website in growing national news website in the thank you very much

the country. thank you very much . do you think , rwanda? . so what do you think, rwanda? i want to hear from you . what's i want to hear from you. what's your take on this? is this enough? will it satisfy the left of the party? will it satisfy the right of the party? will it end the merry go round or will it end up going round and it end up just going round and round the courts? a round in the courts? willa single person get to single person ever get to rwanda, despite £290 million being let me know what being spent? let me know what you vaiews@gbnews.com you think. vaiews@gbnews.com still to come, how the bank pred still to come, how the bank ripped birmingham city council plans to hit residents with a mega tax hike after overspending by absolutely millions . i'm by absolutely millions. i'm martin daubney on gb news british news

sunday mornings from 930 on . gb news. >> welcome back . it's 326. >> welcome back. it's 326. you're watching or listening to martin daubney on gb news now an emergency budget meeting has taken place in birmingham with the city council setting out what it calls a credible plan for addressing a £300 million budget gap over the next two years. rising council tax selling off council owned assets and redundant buses were all under consideration to tackle the quote , extremely serious and the quote, extremely serious and challenging situation. that's one way of putting it. well, joining us now with the updates is our west midlands reporter jack and jack. good afternoon to you. my friend. i can see you've been outside cold all day, jack.

i watering amounts of money, eye—watering levels of incompetence . and yet here we go incompetence. and yet here we go again . it's the humble council again. it's the humble council taxpayer who's expected to pick up the bill. >> yeah. so where this suggests an of increasing council taxes come from. martin has come from the latest financial report which have been happening, you know, a month since of course that bankruptcy at the council was declared back in september. the latest one which we had a few days ago, was endorsed by the council with its recommendations today . okay. and recommendations today. okay. and of course , applying to the of course, applying to the department for levelling up for housing and communities, applying to the secretary of state, michael gove, for of course, that permission to raise council tax in the next in next year's budget above what is usually as a maximum usually allowed as a maximum increase at single time of increase at a single time of 4.99. they are going to write requesting for that permission. of course, with previous bankrupt councils we've seen how in some cases they've risen. council tax by ten or even 15.

as you mentioned, that is really going to hit the residents hardest. but just, you know, for people that don't necessarily know particularly what's gone on here at the council and why this council in a financial council is in such a financial mess, let's just kind of take a look some some figures. so, look at some some figures. so, of course, back june, had of course, back in june, we had that equal pay liability of £800 million. was was found by million. that was was found by an it system itself, £100 million over budget. now that equal pay liability dates back to a supreme court ruling back in 2012 where it was found the council were not typically paying council were not typically paying the same bonuses to the more female dominated areas of the public sector as they were, the public sector as they were, the more male dominated areas of the more male dominated areas of the public sector. so the unions are still pushing for that equal pay are still pushing for that equal pay liability. there was a deal on the table to try and settle that, but that fell through, of course, in the lead up to all of that bankruptcy. now, the forecasted budget deficit for next year, 2024, 2025 is in the region of £1651 million. that

then was going to go up to 177,000,000 in 2025, 2026. but the government commissioners who have been in at this council overseeing everything as they try to come back from this bankruptcy, have set a deadline of the 7th of january for this council to find £300 million worth of savings over the next two years. and so that's where this recommendation , the latest this recommendation, the latest financial report, essentially comes from. they say they've managed to find £150 million worth of savings so far for next year's budget. however of course, that's still short of what they're saying they currently need. and of course, it's only halfway to that £300 million. and so that's why they've recommended that they go to and of to the government to try and of course increase council tax to try and also capitalise on some of their revenue . and that of their revenue. and that essentially means get permission for capitalisation direction , for capitalisation direction, which means essentially being allowed to sell off some of their assets and also borrow to try and of course cover their deficits, but also that equal pay deficits, but also that equal pay well. so that

pay liability as well. so that that plan was endorsed by the cabinet today. they are going to fill in those letters and writes to the secretary of state, michael gove, asking for permission and speaking afterwards, giving his afterwards, giving me his reaction that meeting reaction to that meeting council. robert alden, who's the leader the birmingham leader of the birmingham conservatives here, gave me his reaction well. reaction as well. >> labour administration reaction as well. >> in labour administration reaction as well. >> in birmingham nistration reaction as well. >> in birmingham has'ation reaction as well. >> in birmingham has had] reaction as well. >> in birmingham has had to here in birmingham has had to admit the unprecedented situation into . situation it's got itself into. we've negative reserves here we've got negative reserves here in a —678 million in birmingham a —678 million labour were looking to make 300 million worth of savings over the next few years from the budget. and today they've admitted they're to look budget. and today they've ad setted they're to look budget. and today they've ad set ad they're to look budget. and today they've ad set a deficit'e to look budget. and today they've ad set a deficit budget to look budget. and today they've ad set a deficit budget next)ok to set a deficit budget next yeah to set a deficit budget next year. means they're going year. that means they're going to capitalise the to look to capitalise the expenditure next year's expenditure from next year's budget savings expenditure from next year's bu balance savings expenditure from next year's bu balance the savings expenditure from next year's bubalance the budget. savings expenditure from next year's bubalance the budget. to savings expenditure from next year's bubalance the budget. to put ngs expenditure from next year's bubalance the budget. to put itjs to balance the budget. to put it into context of how you might think about it at home, it's like taking to pay like taking out a loan to pay off mortgage. and this is off your mortgage. and this is not a way to sustainably run business. >> yeah, now john cotton, who's of course the leader of the council, says that they are focussed on the work they know about the difficult job that they've got in front of them, but they they are trying to

but they say they are trying to be transparent throughout all all of process and of all of this process and of course engage in public course we'll engage in public consultation it comes to consultation when it comes to deciding councils deciding which of these councils assets do decide they need assets they do decide they need to sell off to raise that revenue. jack carson thank revenue. okay jack carson thank you. >> excellent update as ever. i think the first saving they should make is to give the boot to that person whose idea it was to that person whose idea it was to waste £750 million on equal pay- to waste £750 million on equal pay. mean , that would be a pay. i mean, that would be a good place start, wouldn't good place to start, wouldn't it? thoughts. what's it? just my thoughts. what's more, to come between now more, still to come between now and including the new and 4:00, including the new legal challenge being launched against the decision to approve against the decision to approve a tunnel scheme a road tunnel scheme next to stonehenge . but first, your stonehenge. but first, your latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you. your top stories from the newsroom. eight mps representing the dup are considering voting against rishi sunak rwanda plan, according to westminster sources, it would mean just 21 tory mps are needed to defeat the government. home

secretary james cleverly argued parliament and the british people support the rwanda plan. a home office statement ahead of the crunch vote tonight revealed lgbt people may face some discrimination in rwanda, though they should be safe there right wing conservatives will meet this evening to make that final decision on whether to vote against the safety of rwanda bill or to abstain . while james bill or to abstain. while james cleverly has promised the death of an asylum seeker on the controversial bibby stockholm barge will be investigated fully , the body has now been removed from the vessel docked in dorset . general secretary of the rmt mick lynch says his union is deeply disturbed about the fatality on what he's called the government's quasi prison barge. the first asylum seekers were brought back to the vessel in october around two months after it was evacuated following the discovery of legionella bacteria in the water supply chain . child in the water supply chain. child killer lucy letby says she doesn't object to being stripped of her nursing credentials. the

two day hearing that began today will decide if letby should be removed from the register. letby filled out a form where she was asked if she accepts the nursing and midwifery council's charges. she said i accept the fact of the convictions and i maintain my innocence . in august, the 33 my innocence. in august, the 33 year old was sentenced to 14 whole life orders after she was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others . members murders of six others. members of the fire brigades union will stage a series of strikes after christmas in a dispute over staffing among staff on merseyside will walk out for eight consecutive days from the 27th of december. there taking action opposing claims of a reduction in night staff and the introduction of a duty shift system that they say they never agreed to . you can get more on agreed to. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com .

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which would see a £1.7 billion project erected. two mile tunnel next to the site, along with eight miles of new road. but joining me now to discuss this is gb news national reporter theo chikomba theo . this one theo chikomba theo. this one rolls on and on and on. any sign of a resolution in sight ? of a resolution in sight? >> well, that's a question i was actually asking to someone who's part of this campaign just a few moments ago. and he's saying, well, simply no, when a decision is going to be made. well, today is going to be made. well, today is the first of three days where legal challenges are taking place. the court heard place. today, the court heard that several grounds of this challenge are to be dropped and they're going to go the they're going to go to the supreme january the supreme court on january the 16th. and today really was the first day where they were laying out some of the legal framework for this challenge. and essentially see this project. as you mentioned, 1.7, a tunnel near stonehenge. and of course, this the people who are leading

the project, highways england, they're saying this will reduce traffic because at the moment , traffic because at the moment, the road to go past stonehenge on the a303 is quite narrow and it sees people in peak time, particularly this time of the day, seeing queues of up to about an hour. and they say having this tunnel will make that traffic go down to around eight minutes, saving more time for locals. and of course helping businesses and more. but those who are here campaigning say simply it's not a good enough argument. and they're saying , well, actually it should saying, well, actually it should remain as as it is now. we've heard from the save save stone , heard from the save save stone, stonehenge, world heritage site group, and the stonehenge and stonehenge alliance . and they stonehenge alliance. and they are saying that this tunnel is not fit for purpose and it won't be fit , particularly with cars, be fit, particularly with cars, which are changing to electric. that's just one of many arguments they are highlighting here. but today is the first of three days and they'll be concluding on thursday .

concluding on thursday. >> thank you very much, theo. john. that is very much the definition of a rock and a hard place. that story. anyone who knows that road, it's a single carriage road, probably as carriage road, probably about as wide was the day those wide now as it was the day those stones they can't stones were erected. they can't widen road because it would widen the road because it would be on to the onto the land around they are stuck around it. and so they are stuck in a quandary. moving on, it's a really exciting day. on gb news because launching the because we're launching the great british giveaway and you could win £10,000. new could win £10,000. brand new tech and shopping vouchers . and tech and shopping vouchers. and here's how you can make those pnzesis here's how you can make those prizes is yours. >> this is your chance to win cash treats and tech. in our very first great british giveaway, there's a totally tax free £10,000 cash up for grabs. >> cash , which would help make >> cash, which would help make 2024 a whole lot better . 2024 a whole lot better. >> we're also going to send you shopping with £500 worth of vouchers to spend in the store of your choice . what would be on of your choice. what would be on your shopping list if it's a new iphone? we've also got that covered, too, with the latest iphone 15 pro max, which you'll also receive for your chance to

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me, michael portillo gb news britain's new . channel britain's new. channel >> welcome back . 342 you're >> welcome back. 342 you're watching or listening to me molten daubney on gb news. now if you've been following nigel farage is time in. i'm a celebrity. every twist and turn as i have and having come third in his bid to be king of the jungle, he spoke on his last on his show last night from down unden his show last night from down under. and here's what he said about how his time spent on the show went. >> the sounds of the jungle, the crickets , the kookaburra, the crickets, the kookaburra, the cuckoos , the owls, the howls of cuckoos, the owls, the howls of creatures we've never heard from . to be honest, i spent 23

nights in there and i loved every single minute of it. it's been the most unbelievable experience . and i would not, for experience. and i would not, for one moment say that i regret a single moment of it. great to be out. but i really had a fantastic time . fantastic time. >> what you win now is ben leo gb news, reporter, who of course , was dispatched down under in those early days with your corks on your hat. splendid stuff. i want to talk about the early days of the snobbery . let's face days of the snobbery. let's face it, ant and dec's and always driving is veering to the right. the cabins, the lenders belittling gb news viewers . none belittling gb news viewers. none of it seemed to stick, though . of it seemed to stick, though. nigel just seemed to take it all in his stride. >> yeah, i. i am probably of the minority who wasn't totally offended by ant and dec's gags. i'd put a tweet out saying, look, if it's just light hearted, in my opinion , you hearted, in my opinion, you know, you've got to be able to take a joke. but the key thing was the arguments in the camp with nigel about brexit, about

immigration at one point, danielle harold called his his policies and his work inhumane . policies and his work inhumane. and like you said , what he and like you said, what he achieved in that jungle wasn't just a third place popularity contest. he's shown the nation and his critics and those who didn't know who he was or what he was about before he went in there, that you can discuss these what people would think are taboo subjects about immigration, brexit, whatever else, multiculturalism with class, with dignity, without getting into a row and without it appearing like some sort of wild far right character like the msm paint nigel out to be. >> and politics is all about timing. nigel's walked out timing. and nigel's walked out to an absolute disaster in the conservative party four years ago today it was an 80 seat majority and they're all calling for nigel to be the comeback king to go and save the day. and i you've got some new i believe you've got some new polling yes, polling out saying, yes, the people that. people want that. >> bombshell polling out >> some bombshell polling out today. so, first all, nigel's today. so, first of all, nigel's popularity off the back of the jungle. this is a yougov poll. his favourite ability rating has gone up two points. uh, somewhat

favourable, one point and his very unfavourable rating has dropped by four points. so a massive hike in his popularity ratings there. and on the political front , reform uk where political front, reform uk where of course nigel is honorary president richard tice is the leader. a poll from redfield and wilton has reform up wilton strategies has reform up 1% to 11. and to just percentage points behind the lib dems . so points behind the lib dems. so not only is nigel winning his own popularity vote, but it seems that he's also having an effect on his links to reform as well. do you think itv be well. do you think itv will be happy about that? >> because. cause think >> because. cause i think i think the establishment, not just itv , they wanted him to go just itv, they wanted him to go on there to be this bogeyman, to be to be this this kind of far right miscreant. they could just annihilate, hopefully forever. and obviously that hasn't happened. it pinged off the armour. ben yeah, well, look, i was there for two and a bit weeks. >> i had to rush home because i was getting married. so i came home early, unfortunately, because absolutely loving home early, unfortunately, becau there. absolutely loving home early, unfortunately, becau there. but)solutely loving home early, unfortunately, becau there. but iolutely loving home early, unfortunately, becau there. but i wasely loving home early, unfortunately, becau there. but i was there ring it out there. but i was there watching the show day in and day

out. i was speaking to people working and from working on the show, and from what i gathered and assessed was that did try and throw that they did try and throw loads of hurdles challenges loads of hurdles and challenges at in terms of at nigel nigel in terms of getting trip up over getting him to trip up over brexit, immigration, having rails and getting getting amongst like amongst it with people like fred, a staunch remainer. fred, who is a staunch remainer. it work and that's when it didn't work and that's when we the drop off we started seeing the drop off in airtime because from my perspective, thought they were perspective, i thought they were trying stitch him up. trying to stitch him up. many other people agree with me as well. nigel alluded it well. even nigel alluded to it in his programme night. but in his programme last night. but the of the argument is the flip side of the argument is that fact the itv that in actual fact the itv producers has realised that he wasn't pantomime wasn't this massive pantomime villain made him villain that people had made him out to be. and frankly, he was just a normal bloke, so he wasn't really providing the entertainment factor. that's on the side. the flip side. >> and do you think it was interested in how the main opponents, the main bogeyman against and nelly, against nigel fred and nelly, they first out. i they were the first out. and i wonder if the farage army wonder if ben the farage army mobilised and took him down. i think they did. >> i mean, you've seen it in multiple times in the past with nigel. had was it the nigel. you had the was it the 2015 european elections when nigel. you had the was it the 2015 stormed| elections when nigel. you had the was it the 2015 stormed to lections when nigel. you had the was it the 2015 stormed to victory?when nigel. you had the was it the 2015 stormed to victory? you1 nigel. you had the was it the

2015 stormed to victory? you had ukip stormed to victory? you had the brexit party, you had the latest european elections. so people like to say, especially on the likes of twitter and all these , you know, sort of far these, you know, sort of far left breeding grounds, people like to say nigel is irrelevant. he's tried to get into parliament this many times. i mean, ed balls did it on good morning britain yesterday. itv another example of itv snobbery making a snide joke about the fact he hadn't made it to parliament. these people parliament. what these people don't can call don't realise is they can call nigel unpopular, nigel irrelevant and unpopular, but time after time he keeps proving them wrong . he's not. proving them wrong. he's not. he's not unpopular. he's winning elections. two elections. he's. he's won two national elections without even being parliament. he's had national elections without even beirbiggestrliament. he's had national elections without even beirbiggest contribution s had national elections without even beirbiggest contribution s ithe the biggest contribution to the seismic change in politics. and anyone's had arguably in this country over the 100 years. country over the last 100 years. and into a tv reality and he's gone into a tv reality show where he's taken £1.5 million of itv's money and shown that he's a popular , more that he's a popular, more popular than ever before. it's an outright win on all fronts. >> i think you're right. and also, you said, unfortunately, i had to come from my had to come back from my wedding. hope your wife wasn't

wedding. i hope your wife wasn't watching. yes, ben, leo, superb stuff as ever. thank you very much. was much. now, boris johnson was announced new announced the new prime minister, four ago minister, exactly four years ago today. cast your mind back to those heady days now , boris those heady days now, boris moving back into number 10 seems very unlikely these days. but stranger things have happened. senior figures believe that johnson back in government would be electable . suicide, however , be electable. suicide, however, there are small amounts of mps who still feel that the return of boris johnson could be the answer to the party's electoral problems . answer to the party's electoral problems. the times have also reported a list of red wall tories who regret not ousting bofis tories who regret not ousting boris johnson in. well, joining me now is the deputy editor of conservative home, henry hill. henry, welcome to the show. it's always a pleasure, of course, today for years on from that momentous moment in time, a whopping 80 seats majority. the promise to get brexit done. and yet today we are hours away from potentially an humiliating defeat that a rebellion for

rishi sunak. how many, many people must long for those days of your . of your. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> boris johnson does still have a loyal following . a loyal following. >> it's diminished from what it was in the parliamentary conservative party and amongst conservative activists . conservative activists. >> i think the problem for boris's supporters is that, you know , a lot of the problems the know, a lot of the problems the government is grappling with today are a result of his record. >> it was under boris johnson after the 2019 election that the government decided to use the brexit power to control immigration in and the points based immigration system to massively increase legal immigration, for example, which is why the government is now unable talk about it more or unable to talk about it more or less so heavily focussed on less and so heavily focussed on small boats. >> so it's true he won that election and it was a potentially transformational moment, winning all of those seats from for labour the first time. >> but sadly he didn't live up to the promise of that election and we're still grappling with the consequences of that failure. >> and henry, do you think the

divisions of yore, the divisions of brexit, of course, between the liberal arm of the party, the liberal arm of the party, the remainer arm of the party, who through gritted teeth, said they will get brexit done versus they will get brexit done versus the red wall, the same divisions ostensibly are here again today, right now, aren't they? and that's crux of this vote. that's the crux of this vote. and is there a certain amount of karma? would you say? some people out there, many people certainly who watch this channel think rishi sunak was the architect of boris johnson . his architect of boris johnson. his downfall today could be payback time him . time for him. >> i mean, rishi sunak is certainly having an absolutely miserable time . and as a former miserable time. and as a former chancellor who has been heavily involved in essentially the treasury running british policy, which includes sky high immigration, he is absolutely in some ways the author of his own misfortune. >> but the conservatives have beenin >> but the conservatives have been in power for 13 years. >> they've changed leaders sort of four times. they've changed direction several times. and they in 2019, they were able to use the imperative of brexit to

assemble a coalition of voters that they couldn't unite around a normal policy programme. boris tried. he had levelling up and all the rest of it. the remarkable thing about boris's reputation on the conservative right that as governed, he right is that as he governed, he was a pretty liberal was actually a pretty liberal prime minister. his manifesto was about spending more was all about spending more money focusing on the north of england on. so forth. england and so on. and so forth. but now the conservatives, but now, now the conservatives, there's so many different divisions from divisions inherited from previous parliaments and previous parliaments and previous and the big previous leaders and the big obvious problem, which that obvious problem, which is that they actually got all they haven't actually got all that in 13 years in that much done in 13 years in office. the party is office. i think the party is more less ungovernable still more or less ungovernable still and will remain way. and will remain that way. probably after this side probably until after this side of side a general of the other side of a general election defeat. of the other side of a general ele�* now, defeat. of the other side of a general ele�*now, henry, if you're >> now, henry, if you're a football fan dark days, you football fan in dark days, you like to dig out that dvd of yesteryear, don't you, and relive times. relive some happier times. and there's lot there's a lot there's a lot of there's a lot of reminiscences fondly about bofis of reminiscences fondly about boris at the moment because the tories aren't having a very good time of it. is there a way , do time of it. is there a way, do you think is there a way back for boris as leader and wow, even this week there's been talk

of a dream ticket, a farage bofis of a dream ticket, a farage boris double act. i mean, i don't think so. >> i mean, strangely things have happened. obviously. maybe but it's very hard to see how the party would won. you know, it's not in the interest of any conservative leader to let boris johnson get back into for parliament precisely the reason that he then become that that he would then become that prince the water you prince over the water as you say, he then have to become party and all rest of party leader and all the rest of it. i think the problem it. but i think the problem with, if boris, nigel with, you know, if boris, nigel double is simply again, double act is simply again, bofis double act is simply again, boris johnson's actual record in office, right? >> boris was a pretty >> boris johnson was a pretty liberal leader . liberal leader. >> he was progressive even in many respects. he was he raised taxes to their highest level. he raised immigration. he was the architect of the sugar tax . he architect of the sugar tax. he almost certainly backs rishi sunak new ban on smoking. how does nigel feel about does nigel farage feel about that? i don't think that that? so i don't think that there is an alliance between the two of them that makes a lot of sense. each of them can make a sensible contribution. nigel farage for farage can make a coherent for case his politics and boris johnson his.

johnson for his. >> actually don't think >> but i actually don't think that merge together well that they merge together as well as some people expect. >> and henry, briefly, we >> and henry, briefly, if we could, scale of 1 to 10, could, on a scale of 1 to 10, how spectacular has the squandering of power been from four years ago today until today . i mean, i'm going to give it an eight or a nine just because inever an eight or a nine just because i never give anything a ten. there's it can always be worse. but it's absolutely extraordinary that they achieved that years ago. is that four years ago. and this is where we now. where we are now. >> i think many people agree with that. conservativehome editor henry hill, thank you very joining on the very much for joining us on the show. stay with us, because show. and stay with us, because after the break, we'll be staying with that crunch commons vote in which rishi vote tonight in which rishi sunak possible sunak faces a possible humiliating defeat over his rwanda of course, rwanda plan. and of course, we've this last hour we've heard in this last hour the set for some brexit the dup set for some brexit revenge, potentially eight votes. they appear to have pledged against rishi, leaving them only 21 votes shy of that massive rebellion . stay tuned massive rebellion. stay tuned for all of that. i'm martin daubney on gb news and this is

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gb news. >> good afternoon. it's 4:00. i'm martin daubney. welcome to gb news keeping you company for the next two hours. top story today, can you today, of course. can you believe years ago today, believe four years ago today, the tories swept to an eight seat whopping majority and now we're just three hours away from a crunching vote which could see a crunching vote which could see a huge rebellion against rishi sunaks rwanda deal later. news there have been defections . there have been defections. people are going to vote against this from the dup, leaving the

tories shy of a rebellion which could shame sunak could it do for sunak what brexit did for theresa may? we'll have all of the latest. this one's going to go all the way to the wire now. story broke brms of a £750 million woke equal pay bill. financial ineptitude that makes your eyes water and of course the humble council taxpayer will have to pay £10 extra to have their garden waste taken away to pay their garden waste taken away to pay for this loss. mistake. how did this happen? how can we stop it ever happening again today? child killer the nurse, lucy letby , was in court. and can you letby, was in court. and can you believe she said she did not resist plans to have her struck off the nurses register? how is this even a conversation ? how this even a conversation? how can be be allowed anywhere near a nursing register ? that's a nursing register? that's a debate for later in the show .

debate for later in the show. and have you seen the referee scandal that shamed football ? scandal that shamed football? all this fella here owns a football club and he challenged a referee after the referee allowed play to carry on. and there was a seven minute injury time equaliser. one one and one is on the floor. he got a kick in for good measure. i'm asking this who on earth would be a referee in football? any more? all of that coming in the next hour. all of that coming in the next hour . so all of that coming in the next hour. so there's three hours to save the rwanda bill. lots and lots of rumours circulating about the rebellion . we've got about the rebellion. we've got confirmation the dup say they are going to vote against it. a bit of brexit revenge . that bit of brexit revenge. that means now only 21 tory votes are required for a rebellion which could see the end of days for rishi sunak will have all of that in the next hour. but first, here's your latest news headunes first, here's your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst

i >> -- >> thank 5mm >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon to you. >> good afternoon to you. >> well, the top story today, eight mps representing the dup in northern ireland are currently considering voting against rishi sunaks. rwanda plan. that's according to sources that we have in westminster. >> that would swell the numbers opposed to the bill and mean just 21 tory mps will be needed to defeat the government. >> a home office statement ahead of the crunch vote tonight appears to suggest that lgbt people may face some discrimination in rwanda. >> but it said they should still be safe there. so right wing conservatives are to meet this evening to make their final decision on how they'll vote on the safety of rwanda bill. the home secretary, james cleverly, has argued that both parliament and the british people do support the initiative . support the initiative. >> but tragically, there has been death on the bibby stockholm barge bridge. i'm sure that the thoughts of the whole house are like mine are with those affected. the house will

understand that at this stage i'm uncomfortable in going into any more details, but we will, of course investigate fully . mr of course investigate fully. mr speaken of course investigate fully. mr speaker, i beg to move that the bill be now read a second time. this government is stopping the boats . arrivals are down by boats. arrivals are down by a third. this year as illegal entries are on the rise elsewhere in europe . elsewhere in europe. >> well, the shadow home secretary yvette cooper, told the house of commons that the rwanda asylum scheme could take more than 100 years to deport just 15,000 people. >> we've just got total tory chaos. >> yeah, what a fine mess. >> yeah, what a fine mess. >> this week prime minister has got them all into and got the country into as well , tearing country into as well, tearing lumps out of each other over a failing policy while they let the country down. >> we've had a home secretary sacked, an immigration minister resigning and they've spent almost £300 million of taxpayers

money on rwanda without sending a single person. and the home secretary seemed to confirm today that in fact, that is £400 million. >> yvette cooper well , you may >> yvette cooper well, you may have heard in that earlier clip we played for you that james cleverly was offering his condolences after the death of an asylum seeker on the controversial bibby stockholm barge would be investigated fully. the body has now been removed from the vessel docked in dorset. general secretary of the rmt mick lynch says his union is deeply disturbed about the fatality on what he's called the fatality on what he's called the government's quasi prison barge. the first asylum seekers were brought back to the vessel in october, around two months after it was evacuated following the discovery of legionella bacteria in the water supply . bacteria in the water supply. now turning our attentions to south wales now where three teenagers have been killed in a car crash. they've been named as callum griffiths, jessie owen and morgan smith . emergency and morgan smith. emergency services were called to the incident at kidwelly at around

7:00 last night after a collision between a bus and a car car. south wales police confirming the young man, two aged 18 and 119, were declared dead at the scene. the area's deputy mayor, councillor dan owen jones , says a dark cloud is owen jones, says a dark cloud is hanging over the . community now . hanging over the. community now. child killer lucy letby has stated she doesn't object to being stripped of her nursing credentials . she'd been asked if credentials. she'd been asked if she'd accepted the nursing and midwifery council's charges and she said i accept the fact of the conviction means, but i maintain my innocence. the two day hearing that began today will decide if letby should be removed from the nursing register in august. the 33 year old was sentenced to 14 whole life orders after she was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others . members murders of six others. members of the fire brigades union will stage a series of strikes after

christmas in a dispute over staffing and shift patterns. staff on merseyside will walk out for eight consecutive days from the 27th of december, for they're taking action an on the reduction in night shift staff and the introduction of a duty shift system. it said it didn't agree to . and lastly, stonehenge agree to. and lastly, stonehenge risks being delisted as a unesco world heritage site if plans to build a tunnel nearby. go ahead. so say campaigners. build a tunnel nearby. go ahead. so say campaigners . they're so say campaigners. they're bringing a second legal bid to block the proposals, claiming it's a rational for the government to ignore the monuments and cultural value after the un warned the £1.7 billion tunnel scheme could put its world heritage status in dangen its world heritage status in danger. transport secretary mark harper is backing the plans for the tunnel. however, it's a two mile long construction and it will overhaul eight miles of the a 303. the high court is currently reviewing the case. that's the news on gb news across the uk. on tv in your car

, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. this is britain's news channel. >> thank you, polly. and we start this hour with the growing pressure on the prime minister who faces a humiliating defeat in the commons tonight over his revised rwanda bill. one of rishi sunak five key pledges, of course, is to stop the boats. his flagship policy to achieve his government's ambition is to send asylum seekers to rwanda to have their claims processed there. but after a chain of legal defeats, the prime minister has amended the plan in the hope that it won't get stuck or struck down again. in the courts. well, i'm joined now by our political correspondent olivia leigh, live from downing street. olivia, thanks for joining us again. in the last houn joining us again. in the last hour, we learned the dup were pledging eight votes against this , putting the tories only 21 this, putting the tories only 21 away from a defeat. and then

astonishing news in this past few minutes. robert jenrick the former immigration minister who quit over this bill looks like he's now going to vote for it. this circus is going to go all the way to the wire, isn't it ? the way to the wire, isn't it? >> well, absolutely . it does >> well, absolutely. it does feel now as though it will go all the way to the wire on the one hand, on the good hand for the government. no. tory mp has actually come out and said that they're going to vote against they're going to vote against the and as you said, the bill. and as you said, they're jenrick the they're robert jenrick the immigration minister who quit because bill so because he disliked the bill so much now looks likely to vote for it on the other hand, eight dup mps have said that they will vote against it and there are plenty of right wing rebels who still look as though they're going to abstain now in order to try and pull some of them over the line. the government looks like it may do some little tweaks to the bill to toughen it up a little bit. but the problem with that is that if they go too far in toughening it up, then

some one nation mps to some of those one nation mps to the of the conservative the left of the conservative party end voting it party could end up voting it down. said last night that down. they said last night that they vote the bill in they would vote for the bill in its current state, but if it was amended then they would not vote for it. now, the problem for here is that it all here rishi sunak is that it all comes down trust. he has said comes down to trust. he has said that the provisions by which a migrant could end up not being deported to rwanda are very, very narrow indeed . he said that very narrow indeed. he said that the only migrants who would end up not being deported would be women in the later stages of pregnancy whom it would be pregnancy for whom it would be too dangerous to or people too dangerous to fly or people with dangerous illnesses , things with dangerous illnesses, things that treated in that couldn't be treated in rwanda, but will the right wing conservative rebels believe him? that's why it all comes down to whether they trust him or not. and to me, this feels very like the later days of theresa may's premiership, when the conservative party and their leader became almost completely divorced. trust ebbed away almost entirely . and night after almost entirely. and night after night we saw those brexit wranglings in the house of

commons. now, i don't know this for sure, and it is, as we say, going to go down to the wire, but it looks as though rishi sunak could just about manage to squeak it through this evening. but even that is the case, it but even if that is the case, it is far from the end of road is far from the end of the road for the prime minister if it wins by just a handful of votes, then the house of lords, which let's remember, a lot let's remember, is a lot more left than the house of left leaning than the house of commons. only about a third of lords are conservative of the house of lords would feel emboldened it down or emboldened to vote it down or amend it at later stage. and amend it at a later stage. and if that's the case, it would end up being sent back to the house of commons in an amended state. the it the commons would amend it further. it would go back to the lords and get into a state lords and we'd get into a state of sort of ping pong and eventually it could well be that the legislation, is the rwanda legislation, as it is at moment, is almost at the moment, is almost completely cognisable, completely unread. cognisable, which would very, completely unread. cognisable, whic damaging would very, completely unread. cognisable, whic damaging indeed very, completely unread. cognisable, whic damaging indeed for ery, completely unread. cognisable, whic damaging indeed for the very damaging indeed for the prime minister. i've heard quite a lot of people saying in westminster today that although they think it will probably they do think it will probably just about squeak through this

evening, will be a crunch evening, there will be a crunch moment for rishi sunak in the new year and today could end up being in retrospect, if you like, the beginning of the end for this prime minister. >> okay, olivia lee, excellent summary. as usual. and i completely agree. lots of echoes of the final days of theresa may lots of spartans puffing up their chests, but when it comes down to it, maybe they have blunt swords and they vote it through anyway and put the party first. despite all their tough words. see. 7:00, only words. let's see. 7:00, only three hours less than now. till that huge crunch vote . and we've that huge crunch vote. and we've been out and about in birmingham asking some of the great british pubuc asking some of the great british public whether they agree with the rwanda let's have the rwanda plan. and let's have a what they said. a listen to what they said. disagree with it. >> again, not understanding all of the detail. it just seems to me that rather than trying to get to the root cause, we're just dealing with what we've got and out. so i'm and sending people out. so i'm not sure i do agree with what they're doing. >> i'm appalled by it, if i'm honest with you. yeah, these

people are coming to our country because don't feel safe in because they don't feel safe in their country. so why would their own country. so why would you help them to have a you not help them to have a safer life? we're very lucky with the life that we have in the uk. i think it's a good idea for me. >> i don't think it should be coming into the country anyway illegally . i feel sorry for some illegally. i feel sorry for some coming from some countries. i understand that, but they're not all truthful and how they come in. so i just don't know. i don't know where it's going to 90, don't know where it's going to go, to be honest. >> excellent stuff. and we also asked birmingham, >> excellent stuff. and we also astou birmingham, >> excellent stuff. and we also astou trust birmingham, >> excellent stuff. and we also astou trust rishi birmingham, >> excellent stuff. and we also astou trust rishi sunak1ingham, >> excellent stuff. and we also astou trust rishi sunak onjham, do you trust rishi sunak on migration? we asked them that very same question. let's hear what they had to say on that one. >> know how you can trust all these politicians? i mean, how are to trust them are we supposed to trust them when they can't even trust each other? i don't know how we can have something that have a grip on something that you even know. amount you don't even know. the amount of are coming in of numbers that are coming in every single day. we're led to believe things are being believe that things are being done, don't think done, but i don't think anybody in whole in this country trust the whole scale of it. >> no, i don't trust him on this

one. >> i don't think he's got a grip. i think he's clutching at straws, be perfectly straws, to be perfectly honest. >> trust to sort it >> do i trust them to sort it out? no nor do i think that we have a problem with migration. no, actually. i think no, i don't actually. i think that leaving the eu caused us to have less of a pool of people to be able to pull on and. and now then we're going to have to pull from other countries. and that's why we've had an increase in net migration. i don't see that there's anything wrong with it. it more culturally it makes us more culturally diverse. right >> there have it all. a >> and there we have it all. a single person there in single person out there in birmingham any of our birmingham trusted any of our politicians on migration , and politicians on migration, and that, i think, is going to be a huge defining moment of the next general well general election. well meanwhile, another piece of news today is bound to pile more pressure on the prime minister. it's been confirmed that an asylum seeker has died on the bibby stockholm barge in dorset. and our reporter ray addison joins us now live in the studio for an update. terrible timing, terrible news. what are the

details, ray? >> well , there's been a report >> well, there's been a report now in the times that richard drax, who is the mp for south dorset, has issued a statement to them saying that he can confirm that tragically there has been a suicide. he described it as very sad news, obviously saying that anyone taking their life is very tragic . he also life is very tragic. he also added that it was a tragedy borne out of an impossible situation. we know that dorset police received a phone call just after 6:20 am. this morning. they responded with air ambulance crews as well. and we don't know many details about the person who is deceased. we don't know how old they are. we don't know how old they are. we don't know how old they are. we don't know their country of origin. and obviously , at this origin. and obviously, at this stage, we do not know the cause of their death. however, is of their death. however, it is becoming be becoming seeming to be apparently clear that they did take their own life. >> okay. thank you very much. that update. sad story. still to come, how birmingham residents face a mega tax hike with the bank rip council. they're wanting special permission to

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£300 million budget gap over the next two years. rising council tax selling off council owned assets and redundancy were all under consideration to tackle the extremely serious and challenging situation . well, challenging situation. well, joining us now with the full update is our west of west midlands reporter jack carson . midlands reporter jack carson. jack, thanks for being with us. you've been there all day. you must be pretty cold by now. listen, a £750 million equal pay deal listen, a £750 million equal pay deal, mega, mega financial ineptitude and here we go again. it seems the humble council taxpayer is expected to pick up the bill. yeah yeah, you're right. >> and that's one of the recommendations that's been approved by the councils cabinet meeting today from the latest financial report that we've had for december into, of course, the state of the council's finances and the state of where they are in trying to, of course, get themselves out of this problem of their bankruptcy . we've had these financial reports every month since they

declared bankruptcy back at declared that bankruptcy back at the start of september there. and of course, the latest that we've got from the government committee owners is, of course, what they're setting out of how much saving, how many savings they want this council to find by by january. so let's just take it some some figures on this graphic that we've got for you.so this graphic that we've got for you. so the 7th of january is the deadline that the government commissioners that, of course, sent by gove to sent in by michael gove to oversee bankruptcy oversee this whole bankruptcy and coming out of the bankruptcy, they've set the 7th of january is the deadline for this council to find £300 million of savings over million worth of savings over the next two years. now, that £300 million figure is an increase on the figure we got from the financial report in november that had forecast november that had a forecast budget deficit of . of november that had a forecast budget deficit of . of £1648 budget deficit of. of £1648 million for 2020 for 2025 and £177.1 million in 2025, 2026. now where this whole deficit comes from and of course, where

the whole issue of bankruptcy comes from, is very much also down to that £800 million equal pay down to that £800 million equal pay liability that you were referring to, martin, as well. now, that came from the implementation of a new it system, which found that equal pay system, which found that equal pay dating back to a 2012 pay claims dating back to a 2012 supreme court ruling over historic equal pay claims from unionised members within that worked within the council over things such as historic bonuses in the more female dominated areas of the public sector here. that's what those claims date back to the implementation of that financial system, the it system itself is £100 million over budget. so being able to control the money that this council is spending seems like is a trend has been a problem. but what they say in this latest financial report is that they've been able to find £150 million worth of savings. so far for 2024, 2025. but as you heard there , the forecasted budget there, the forecasted budget deficit of over 160 million means they're still need needing to find that money. of course, redundancies is one of the areas

that money will come from. but as the council cabinet has agreed they're going agreed to today, they're going to to to the the secretary to write to to the the secretary of state, michael for the of state, michael gove, for the department levelling up, department of levelling up, requesting raise requesting permission to raise council for next year above council tax for next year above the maximum 4.99% level. that's the maximum 4.99% level. that's the maximum 4.99% level. that's the maximum you can rise council tax without holding a referendum. what we've seen around country with around the country with previously bankrupt councils is that in some cases it's risen by ten or even so very much ten or even 15. so very much it's going to be the taxpayers that live here in the city. they're going to be bearing the brunt , of of they're going to be bearing the brunt, of of this brunt, of course, of this financial crisis now capitalisation which capitalisation direction, which essentially able to essentially is being able to have permission to sell off your assets , work your financial assets, work your financial headroom , as well as borrowing headroom, as well as borrowing money as well. that's also something that the cabinet today has write to the has agreed to write to the secretary of state, michael gove, having permission to gove, about having permission to do that as well within the selling that assets, selling off of that assets, there's be new there's going to be a new cabinet, a new committee led by the council leader john cotton, to process of to go through the process of deciding its assets it deciding which of its assets it decides want to sell decides it might want to sell off. within general

off. of course, within a general consultation the consultation with members of the city as well as it looks to try and raise that revenue. but the leader the opposition the leader of the opposition on the council robert oldham, leader of the opposition on the co that robert oldham, leader of the opposition on the co that cabinet)bert oldham, leader of the opposition on the co that cabinet meeting. lam, leader of the opposition on the co that cabinet meeting. he , leader of the opposition on the co that cabinet meeting. he gave in that cabinet meeting. he gave me a little bit me his reaction a little bit earlier on. >> well, the labour administration here in birmingham admit the birmingham has had to admit the unprecedented it's got unprecedented situation it's got itself we've negative itself into. we've got negative reserves here birmingham of reserves here in birmingham of —678 million. labour are looking to make 300 million worth of savings over the next few years from the budget. and today they've they're going they've admitted they're going to a deficit budget to look to sell a deficit budget next that means they're next year. that means they're going to to capitalise the going to look to capitalise the expenditure year's expenditure from next year's budget instead of making savings to budget. put it to balance the budget. to put it into to how might into context to how you might think at home, it's think about it at home, it's like taking out loan pay like taking out a loan to pay off your mortgage. this is not a way sustainably a business. >> okay, thank you. of course , >> okay, thank you. of course, councillor john cotton says that his cabinet are focussed on facing this problem head on. they want to be transparent throughout this whole process of course, but within the report that we had agreed to by the council today, £73 million worth of services cuts are listed in

there . what that is there. what that is specifically, we don't know. and so this city very much for the moment holds its breath. >> jack carson superb update. absolute bedlam in birmingham. and joining us now to discuss this further is media campaign manager at the taxpayers alliance , conor holohan. conor, alliance, conor holohan. conor, thank you for joining alliance, conor holohan. conor, thank you forjoining us on the thank you for joining us on the show . again, the numbers show. again, the numbers involved in birmingham are simply eye—watering. £300 million of savings to be scavenged for. and this driving . scavenged for. and this driving. some of £800 million that some woke software found about equal pay woke software found about equal pay dating back to 2012. i put it to you, conor, if birmingham city council were any other business, they'd be put into receivership and all the top brass would get the boot. >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> but as it stands, you know, birmingham council is the biggest local authority in europe and it can't be allowed to fail, which is why it's so bad when council falls,

mishandle their finances like birmingham has done. and you know, the lead commissioner who's gone in get things in who's gone in to get things in order said that this is self order has said that this is self inflicted. you know this they ignored and ignored the warning signs. and now local now as we've learned, local taxpayers are going to have to pick up the pieces. and it's going to be, you know, if it was if they repeated happened if they repeated what happened in croydon and they were allowed to up council by 15, to put up council tax by 15, our analysis found for the analysis has found that for the average council taxpayer average band d council taxpayer in that would in birmingham, that would be £286 their council tax bill £286 on their council tax bill every single year. >> no, no matter how you cut this, bills are going to have to go this, bills are going to have to 9° up this, bills are going to have to go up because they can sell off assets , which in itself many assets, which in itself many people think is criminal people would think is criminal to a leisure centre, to to sell off a leisure centre, to sell off land, to sell off. what are community assets because they haven't managed they simply haven't managed their and their pence is their pounds and their pence is bad enough . but course this bad enough. but of course this will mean cutting back of will always mean cutting back of services. they call them non—essential, but i put it to you if empty in your brown bin, your garden waste is going to go up 20% as they're toting up to

£60 a year. these kind of things really, really annoy people . really, really annoy people. >> absolutely . and again, that's >> absolutely. and again, that's on top of the potential council tax rises, almost the certain council tax rises. it's pretty much nailed on. they're going to get that these are huge costs. and again, these are you know, these are things which birmingham council are responsible have responsible for. they have ignored again, ignored the signs. and again, that's words. these are that's not my words. these are the words of the veteran guy who's in to try and who's been brought in to try and sort out finances. and sort out these finances. and these real life results these are the real life results that come about when council bosses just can't get their finances in order. and we've seen it elsewhere in croydon, we've it woking, we've we've seen it in woking, we've seen it recently in nottingham and unfortunately always and unfortunately it's always taxpayers are left picking taxpayers who are left picking up the pieces and connor, you mentioned places there in nottingham, my home city, £51 million spent on the robin hood energy scheme, which is a not for profit energy scheme to tackle fuel poverty. >> i put it to you, that's not the job of a council . well, the the job of a council. well, the job of a council is to empty

wheelie bins and fill potholes. and then in thurrock, £500 million of debt because of solar farms. and as you mentioned in woking, a £12 billion risk ski property portfolio at what point connor were councils given the authority to speculate with taxpayers money like this? well there's a there's a tendency right across councils where i speak to people who have led councils and do lead councils and they're told there is pressure put on them by officers to engage in this kind of thing, to engage in this kind of thing, to raise money. >> you know, you talk about nottingham and that they set up this not for profit energy company. there was zero company. well there was zero profit in that energy company which bust and profit in that energy company whicit bust and profit in that energy company whicit lost bust and profit in that energy company whicit lost tens bust and profit in that energy company whicit lost tens of bust and profit in that energy company whicit lost tens of millions nd profit in that energy company whicit lost tens of millions of why it lost tens of millions of pounds for local taxpayers. and now is effective now that council is in effective receivership in woking, it's gambling and buying ridiculous sky scrapers that tower over the town as a monument to the council's failure and their services are being cut and their council tax is going to be shooting up at a time of a cost

of living and cost of living crisis. and to be honest, it's unacceptable. and these people will rightly punished the will rightly be punished at the ballot it. ballot box for it. >> they be driven out of >> can they be driven out of their office? you look at their office? when you look at some numbers, connor, some of the numbers, connor, there over 3000 councillors there are over 3000 councillors in the uk on more than 100 grand a year , 739 officials on pay and a year, 739 officials on pay and perks of over £150,000 a year. we've got these people who are seemingly inept, running councils being paid more than the prime minister >> it's unbelievable. we do the town hall rich list every year town hall rich list every year to reveal these figures and when we go around the country, as we do with our sort of roadshow, to talk to people about it, they they can't believe the sums, like you say, people earning more than the prime minister often they're often in councils. okay, they're big but often big organised nations, but often in that are constantly in councils that are constantly putting tax often putting up council tax and often delivering results and in delivering worse results and in some gambling their some cases gambling with their money, it all on red and money, betting it all on red and ending up in the black. as we've seen in woking and slough and croydon and connor. >> people do about

>> what can people do about this? i guess nothing, right? they have to suck it they have always have to suck it up accept the financial up and accept the financial penalty the incompetence of penalty of the incompetence of others. can't on others. i mean, we can't go on strike and refuse to pay our council tax now, can we? >> this is the tragedy of it. i mean, we can we can change the way you vote at your local election. maybe you want to get the current administration out. but there remain a slew of officers who will also encourage people take these risks people to take these risks with taxpayers think what we taxpayers money. i think what we really need to be doing is ending this era of councils gambling with taxpayers money in order funds. like you order to raise funds. like you say, they should be there to collect people's bins and keep the running, not to run the schools running, not to run shopping or shopping centres or start a challenger. to challenger. energy companies to the because we've seen the big six because we've seen how ends it isn't good. how that ends and it isn't good. >> okay, absolutely astonishing stuff. thank you for that insights. media manager insights. media campaign manager at the taxpayers alliance. conor holohan. thank you forjoining holohan. thank you for joining us on the show. what do you make of this out there? i just find it utterly staggering they it utterly staggering that they can squander so much money and then , oh, sorry, know,

then say, oh, sorry, you know, we've millions of pounds in we've lost millions of pounds in this 750, £800 million. this case, 750, £800 million. we've got to make £300 million savings over the next two years, which you guys have to which means you guys have got to pay which means you guys have got to pay for your essential pay more for your essential services. the way, services. and by the way, the non—essential services, we can't do any more. and the way, do any more. and by the way, we're off local the we're flogging off the local the local centre totally and local leisure centre totally and utterly inept. anyway there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00, including child killer lucy letby could be stripped of her nursing status following her horrific crimes. but does it really need a two day hearing to decide what should be, i think a foregone conclusion. but first, there's your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst . polly middlehurst. >> martin, thank you . the >> martin, thank you. the headunes >> martin, thank you. the headlines this hour. eight mps representing the dup in northern ireland are considering voting against rishi sunaks rwanda plan, according to sources in westminster, that would swell the numbers opposed to the

government's bill and mean just 21 tory mps will be needed to defeat the government. right wing conservatives will meet this evening again to make their final decision on how they'll vote on the safety of rwanda bill. the home secretary , james bill. the home secretary, james cleverly, has argued that both parliament and the british people do support the initiative . meanwhile, downing street has said migrants living on the controversial bibby stockholm barge have been assessed for emotional trauma. it follows the death of an asylum seeker on board. his body has now been removed from the vessel, which is docked in dorset . earlier, is docked in dorset. earlier, the home secretary promised the incident will be fully investigated. the first asylum seekers were brought back onto the vessel in . october and child the vessel in. october and child serial killer lucy letby has been found unfit to practice. at a hearing this afternoon , letby a hearing this afternoon, letby had told the nursing and midwifery council she didn't object to losing her credentials, but she said, i maintain my innocence. in august

, the 33 year old was sentenced to 14 whole life orders after she was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others . attempted murders of six others. and lastly, the head of thames water has told mps the company doesn't have enough money to cover its ballooning debts. the uk's biggest water supplier has £1.35 billion of external debt , £1.35 billion of external debt, with the first £190 million due to be repaid in april next year. it comes days after interim bosses said immediate and radical action was needed to secure the company's financial future. those are the headlines. more on all those stories by heading to our website, gbnews.com . gbnews.com. and gb news.com. and thank gbnews.com. and thank you, polly.

>> now, killer nurse lucy letby could be stripped of her nursing status following her horrific crimes. a two day hearing of the nursing and midwifery council starts today and a panel could decide to permanently strike the 33 year old off the register and remove her nursing credentials , remove her nursing credentials, as letby does not oppose a bid to strike her from the nursing register , but maintains her register, but maintains her innocence in respect of her convictions. sophia tells us more. >> the most prolific serial killer of children in modern british history . killer of children in modern british history. four months ago, lucy letby was found guilty of seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder i >> whilst she was working on the neonatal unit at the countess of chester hospital . chester hospital. >> while she carried out her killing spree. a jury at manchester crown court spent ten months hearing about the case, including details of how letby carried out her attacks and seeing evidence which ultimately

led to four teen guilty verdicts . in recognition of this , . in recognition of this, justice, goss sentenced the former nurse to a whole life order, meaning she would spend the rest of her life behind bars . but the end of the trial did not mean the end of the story. >> i will do all i can to make sure that no one else suffers as they have. >> a statutory inquiry as well as a corporate manslaughter investigation into the countess of chester are now underway . in of chester are now underway. in september, letby legal team also launched an application to make an appeal against her convictions , not to mention convictions, not to mention cheshire constabulary . his cheshire constabulary. his continued investigation into further potential incidents . further potential incidents. >> as we've got a duty to the people of cheshire and beyond to make sure that we investigate every single admission into the neonatal unit during the period of time that lucy letby has been employed either at the countess of chester hospital or the liverpool women's hospital to

make sure that we can identify any other potential allegations or potential offences that may have been committed by her. >> today , a two day hearing will >> today, a two day hearing will take place led by the nursing and midwife council to determine whether or not lucy letby should be stripped of her nursing credentials. commenting at the time of the guilty verdicts , the time of the guilty verdicts, the nmc chief executive , andrea nmc chief executive, andrea sutcliffe, said this has been a long complex criminal investigation. we've kept in close contact with the police and the trust throughout and will continue to do so . ms letby will continue to do so. ms letby remains suspended from our register and we will now move forward with our regulatory action seeking to strike her off the register for letby. if this goes ahead, regardless of the outcome of appeals and further investigations, she would no longer be considered a nurse . longer be considered a nurse. sophie reaper gb news. as that

you just find this absolutely astonishing that it's even a thing that this trial, this hearing, whatever it is, even exists. >> let's just be absolutely clear on this. let's be 33 will die behind bars after she was convicted in august of murdering seven babies and trying to murder six others. and yet again, she didn't face the music in the dock when she was convicted. and now she said, i do not wish to take part or be present at this hearing. i do not resist the application to strike me off the nursing register. well, thank you very much. but why does she even get the right to say that? how can it even be possible that a child serial killer is an immediate be struck off a nursing register without any voice, without any hearing, without any right to reply? she says here i accept the fact of the conviction . the fact of the conviction. however, i do not accept that i'm guilty of any of the allegations as i maintain my

innocence in respect of all of the convictions ones that's as well as may be. but she will spend the rest of her life behind bars . and i would put it behind bars. and i would put it to you on what planet could she even be considered fit to be a nurse or any kind of health practitioner, particularly anybody with the right or the duty or the permission to work with anybody's children in this land? after what she's done. now, i appreciate that there is a call for due process . i a call for due process. i appreciate there is that and i think everybody involved is doing their level best to make sure that this is done by the book. but i put it to you, this is an utter waste of money. it's an utter waste of time. and people like lucy letby do not deserve the right to even be considered to be a nurse. any any hospital, any surgery anywhere in this land . okay, now anywhere in this land. okay, now anywhere in this land. okay, now a reminder of our exciting great british giveaway. you could win £10,000. brand new tank and

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news is . welcome back to 444. news is. welcome back to 444. >> were you watching or listening to me? martin daubney on gb news now been on gb news now you've been getting touch. getting in touch. vaiews@gbnews.com on all the topics been covering. and topics we've been covering. and one thing that's really got you going birmingham because going is birmingham because council you . anne council tax matters to you. anne says . shouldn't someone be says this. shouldn't someone be looking into how the money has been spent ? well, that's the been spent? well, that's the point, isn't it? i mean, any of the business that had failed on this level so spectac actually anne would go through a full external financial audit, be placed in special measures. everybody that ran the shop would get the boot and there'd be huge , huge action. but be huge, huge action. but councils seem to get away with it . philip says this what really it. philip says this what really worries me is the number of labour led councils have failed through financial incompetence . through financial incompetence. a good point, philip, but let's

remember . woking £1.2 billion, remember. woking £1.2 billion, risky property portfolio that was conservative that then became liberal democrat at thurrock. they spent half £1 billion on social le panel forms that was concerned lviv nottingham. my. home city, that was concerned lviv nottingham. my . home city, £51 nottingham. my. home city, £51 million unlawfully spent on robin hood energy. that was laboun robin hood energy. that was labour. i don't just think this is a labour thing, i think it's a financial incompr science thing. moving on to lucy letby , thing. moving on to lucy letby, helen says this yes , it's helen says this yes, it's a foregone conclusion. why do we keep talking about her? it's becoming boring. i don't think it is . i think people have it is. i think people have a right to talk about this. if she has a say in being struck off when she's behind bars and she's a child serial killer, i think thatis a child serial killer, i think that is a big concern we should be having . now, moving on from be having. now, moving on from french president emmanuel macron's government is in crisis after opposition parties have unhed after opposition parties have united to defeat a key

immigration bill. sound familiar ? following the defeat, interior minister gerard darmanin offered to step down. however, mr macron rejected his resignation . the rejected his resignation. the bill would have made it easier for the government to expel migrants who are sentenced to prison sentences of five years or longer and would have made it more difficult for migrants to bnng more difficult for migrants to bring family members to france . bring family members to france. well, joining me now is president of generation frexit, charles henri galois. it's been a long time, charles. thank you. so great to see you . this story, so great to see you. this story, of course, is of special interest to us in the uk right now because tonight , in a few now because tonight, in a few hours time, we have a huge crunch vote on this side of the channel. and it seems to be a similar predicament. channel. and it seems to be a similar predicament . and that is similar predicament. and that is macron's immigration bill didn't keep anybody happy. those who wanted it to be harder. marine le pen , they weren't happy. and le pen, they weren't happy. and those on the liberal left thought it was too too hard line

and therefore the whole thing has fallen apart. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> you know, the parliament was quite split, so there have been some interesting things , such as some interesting things, such as you can expect more , let's say, you can expect more, let's say, criminal foreign criminals. there have been some interesting stuff, but still , you know, we stuff, but still, you know, we are still a member of schengen area. even if you you can expel them. they can come back to your country within within days. so it's not very efficient. >> and why the right parties has voted against it. >> it's because you had in it a massive regulation regularisation for illegal immigrants. so it means that they could expect some immigrants . they could expect some immigrants. but they could expect some immigrants . but at they could expect some immigrants. but at the end, because you you foster illegal immigration with regularisation , immigration with regularisation, then we should have more immigration with this bill. so i think the right parties were quite right to vote against against this bill. >> and how out of touch

charles—henri would you say the french political establishment is with the average working man and woman? how big an issue now is immigration into france with voters ? voters? >> i mean, if you look at the poll, it's clear the last poll from today, it's 80% of french people . they don't want more people. they don't want more immigration elianne so it's quite clear, you know, except some totally bureaucrats and left people that think , you left people that think, you know, like an excel file that you can change some people from to another. if you look at the average french people now, it's clear we don't want more immigration. we want much less immigration. we want much less immigration. and actually, that's why this bill is quite disappointing because with the regularisation , eventually it regularisation, eventually it will bring more people and shows on another story that's caught our attention over in the uk because it has echoes of the batley grammar school .

batley grammar school. >> of course, a teacher in britain still in hiding more than two and a half years after showing a cartoon of the prophet muhammad to pupils. he was dnven muhammad to pupils. he was driven out of his school and dnven driven out of his school and driven into hiding . and a story driven into hiding. and a story in a school on the outskirts of paris as a teacher showed a renaissance painting of diana and actaeon to children. 12 and 13 year olds. and we understand , 13 year olds. and we understand, and muslim children aged 12 and 13, turned their backs and complained. the story has gotten out of hand and now the teachers have gone on strike. yeah, i mean, it's totally absurd. >> it shows let's say it's the consequences of massive immigration because it shows a change of population . you know, change of population. you know, formerly this kind of cartoon, this kind of painting , it was this kind of painting, it was totally normal to see, to study, totally normal to see, to study, to go to museum to and see it. but we see that there is a complete cultural change, that massive immigration is bringing.

and i don't think it's a good thing for france. i don't think it's a good thing for europe because when you go to the uk, you want to see a uk citizen . you want to see a uk citizen. you have a certain image of the uk and i think it's the same for foreigners when they come to france, they want to see french people, they want to the people, they want to see the real friends, they want to see the french culture. think the french culture. so i think everything will go very bad if we if we keep on doing massive immigration. i think it's a big mistake for europe . and now the mistake for europe. and now the time is coming because as you can see, when you have a massive change population, there is a level where you cannot come back. and i think we are close to that level and i think that's why we must act quickly. >> and we of course, have seen french teachers murdered by islamist terrorists . was islamist terrorists. was dominique bernard , of course, dominique bernard, of course, was stabbed to death by a muslim man in his school's playground in october. samuel paty in 2020, a civics teacher was stabbed and

beheaded by a terrorist in france again, after showing that cartoon of the prophet mohammed. while i've got you on, charles henry , i know you, of course, as henry, i know you, of course, as monsieur frexit, i wanted to ask you, what's the appetite in france at the moment to leave the european union? there seems to be huge discord about open borders, the things that have blighted britain for years. is there any appetite to leave the eu within france at the moment ? eu within france at the moment? >> i mean, french people are very eurosceptic . they are very very eurosceptic. they are very critical about how the eu is run , about how the eu is about open borders . but still there are borders. but still there are some thinking that it can be changed. so that is, let's say the it's quite paradox for french people because they hate the consequences of the eu. but so far as there is a huge , huge, so far as there is a huge, huge, massive propaganda in france in

favour of the eu so far, they want to, let's say, take back more power from the eu, which is not possible with the current treaties . but still there is not treaties. but still there is not a majority. there are more than 30% of the people that want to leave the eu. but still there is no majority . but i think if no majority. but i think if there is a referendum and if there is a referendum and if there is a proper debate that can allow us to beat the propaganda and the narrative, i'm quite sure that with the referendum we will be able to win it exactly as you did in the uk. >> okay. superb stuff. thank you very much for joining >> okay. superb stuff. thank you very much forjoining us, charles henri galois, president of generation frexit. that's the brexit spirit alive and throbbing on the other side of the channel and we are two nafions the channel and we are two nations joined by similar immigration woes. president macron, as you heard there, face a humiliating defeat as the right wingers and the left wingers both united to vote. his plan down. and of course, we

face that crunch vote in exactly the same situation in a little over two hours time. now, in this country. will rishi sunak face a humiliating defeat? well, earlier on, sir keir starmer went on the record and he let it be known that he will be voting against sunak's plan. and here's why. >> we will oppose the scheme this evening for a number of reasons. it won't work. it will cost a fortune £290 billion already without a single person having gone. and it's against our values that does not mean that we don't recognise the challenge that there is with people crossing in small boats across the channel. we have to stop that. we have a duty to stop that. we have a duty to stop that. we have a duty to stop that. but stopping that means not gimmicks, but rolling our sleeves up with a practical plan that will actually work . plan that will actually work. >> okay, that crunch vote in a little over two hours before we finish this hour, look at this .

finish this hour, look at this. turkey has suspended all league soccer games after a club president. the guy who owned it, punched the referee at a match last night. and guaruja president faruk koka. you can see there, attacked referee halal ahmet mela on the pitch late monday after the final whistle following a11 draw in a super league game. now this is a terrible situation when he basically allowed a an extended penod basically allowed a an extended period of time and seven minutes into injury time they got an equaliser as the whistle went, the owner came on. he he chinned the owner came on. he he chinned the guy , he put him on the floor the guy, he put him on the floor and somebody else gave him a kick. and i think they should be kicked out of football for this. who'd be a referee in this game any more? and this follows in greece. they've suspended all games because similar games because of a similar scandal there . lots more to scandal there. lots more to come. we've got just about two hours ahead of that huge hours now ahead of that huge crunch vote. will rishi face a

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gb news. >> good afternoon. it's 5:00. welcome to gb news. i'm martin daubney keeping you company for the next hour. now it's just two hours go now until that hours to go now until that dramatic crunch vote in the commons . could russia's rwanda commons. could russia's rwanda bill be a dead duck? will it get voted down in a huge tory rebellion? news in the dup, eight votes going against but

robert jenrick the guy who quit over this bill as immigration minister sees , seems to be minister sees, seems to be backing it. this circus will go all the way to the wire. we'll have all of the latest inside the gossip from westminster right the way until that crucial vote at 7:00. next story , lucy vote at 7:00. next story, lucy letby has been struck off the nurses register after a trial today, which she said she did not resist plans to strike her off. but i ask you this as a child serial killer, why did she even get the right to a trial in the first place? surely letby should have been automatically struck off that nursing register and why are we seeing yet more evidence of two tier policing? well, we've all seen how pro—palestinian protesters can shout what they want in streets clamber over wall memorials, and there are no powers to intervene or arrests . and yet last night or arrests. and yet last night at trafalgar square, a guy with

an israeli flag was told to take it down by a met cop. is this more evidence of two tiered policing from the met? all that to come in this next hour. policing from the met? all that to come in this next hour . with to come in this next hour. with just two hours to go until that crucial crunch vote in the commons. it's amazing, isn't it? it's hard to believe that four years ago today, the conservative party swept in with a whopping 80 seat majority to get brexit done. and now the same brexit rift could do for sunak don't miss a single minute of this all the way until that vote at 7:00. stick with us on gb news. but first, here's your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> martin thank you. the top story this hour is that the co—chairs of a group of conservative mps have said they cannot vote for the government's

new rwanda bill. that's after eight mps representing the dup in northern ireland said they're also considering voting against it. rishi sunak's plan, that's according to sources in westminster . that according to sources in westminster. that means it could swell the numbers opposed to the government's safety of rwanda bill and mean even fewer tory mps will be needed to defeat the government. the home secretary, james cleverly, has argued that both parliament and the british people do, however, support the initiative of this government is stopping the boats . stopping the boats. >> arrivals are down by a third. this year as illegal entries are on the rise elsewhere in europe . on the rise elsewhere in europe. >> but the shadow home secretary , yvette cooper, told the commons that the rwanda asylum seeker scheme could take more than 100 years to deport just 15,000 people. we've just got total tory chaos . total tory chaos. >> yeah, what a fine mess this week, prime minister has got

them all into and got the country into as well, tearing lumps out of each other over a failing policy while they let the country down. we've had a home secretary sacked an immigration minister resigning and they've spent almost £300 million of taxpayers money on rwanda without sending a single person. and the home secretary seemed to confirm today that in fact that is £400 million. let's just bring you a bit of breaking news. >> we're receiving about the ex—labour mp , nick brown. we're ex—labour mp, nick brown. we're heanng ex—labour mp, nick brown. we're hearing that it's been confirmed hearing that it's been confirmed he won't stand at the next general election. the former labour chief whip has was suspended , of course, from the suspended, of course, from the party following an undisclosed complaint was made against complaint that was made against him. we have heard from labour. they say that they have an independent process in place to make sure all complaints are justly and fairly handled . so justly and fairly handled. so that news just into us that the ex—labour mp nick brown has confirmed he won't be standing in the next general election .

in the next general election. meanwhile, downing street has commented in the last hour that migrants living on the controversial bibby stockholm barge have been assessed for emotional trauma . it follows the emotional trauma. it follows the death of an asylum seeker on board his body has now been removed from the vessel docked in dorset . earlier, the home in dorset. earlier, the home secretary promised the incident will be investigated fully . the will be investigated fully. the first asylum seekers were brought back on board the vessel in october. we're in other news today, the child serial killer lucy letby has been found unfit to practice. at a hearing this afternoon in letby had told the nursing and midwifery council she didn't object to losing her credentials . but she said she credentials. but she said she maintained her innocence. in august , the 33 year old was august, the 33 year old was sentenced to 14 whole life orders after she was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others . the head of thames water others. the head of thames water has told mps the company doesn't

have enough money to cover its ballooning debts. the uk's biggest water supplier was £1.35 billion of external debt, down with the first 190 million due to be repaid in april next year. it comes days after interim bosses said immediate and radical action was needed to secure the company's financial future . members of the fire future. members of the fire bngades future. members of the fire brigades union will stage a series of strikes after christmas in their dispute over staffing and shift patterns . staffing and shift patterns. staff on merseyside will walk out for eight consecutive days from the 27th of december. they're taking action on the reduction in nightshift staff and the reduction of a duty shift system, which it said the union that is it did not agree to. and finally , more wet to. and finally, more wet weather is on the way, as if you didn't need to hear that with forecasts for hail thunder and potential flooding on the horizon, yellow weather warnings for the south—east of scotland

and the north—east of england have now been widened to cover central scotland as well. until the early hours of tomorrow morning. follows a weekend of morning. it follows a weekend of washouts with storm ellen and storm fergus sweeping in across the country, causing widespread travel disruption . that's the travel disruption. that's the news on gb news across the uk, on tv , in your car, on digital on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. this is britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> thank you, polly. now the prime minister is trying to avert a damaging rebellion by right wing tory mps over his rwanda plan ahead of a crunch vote tonight in about two hours time. in fact , both the flagship time. in fact, both the flagship scheme and arguably sunak's premiership depend on the outcome of tonight's key crunch vote. speaker in the commons earlier, home secretary james cleverly defended the government's renewed attempts at its rwanda plan . its rwanda plan. >> judges, of course, play an

important role , but they are not important role, but they are not policy makers . they should not policy makers. they should not be policy makers . and so when be policy makers. and so when the courts find a particular formulation of policy unlawful, it is the job of politicians to listen to their views, respect their views and find a solution . their views and find a solution. i will make further progress thanks to the efforts on the part of the uk government and the government of rwanda . that the government of rwanda. that is exactly what we have done in response to the verdict from the supreme court. >> well, our political editor chris hope is in westminster now. he's been there all day absorbing the gossip . chris, absorbing the gossip. chris, four years ago today , boris four years ago today, boris johnson swept to a whopping 80 seat majority, went out two hours away from a dramatic showdown which could see rishi sunak sunak humid awaited. what's the latest . what's the latest. >> well, it is febrile in

westminster. mps are running around trying not to talk to me at the moment because they want to talk to the chief whip and two other mps. they're forming groups as a group. they call the five families of the tory, right. they are meeting the erg and the common sense group, northern research group , the northern research group, the common sense group, the new conservatives. they are meeting at 515 to decide how to vote in this crucial second reading vote on the rwanda plan tonight. the result ? at 730, we are reports result? at 730, we are reports right now the chief whip, simon hart, has cancelled a meeting at five with some rebels to speak to 10 downing street. that's one rumour that's been denied by hart's office. so it's that kind of play. we are in a kind of place two hours out from this key moment for this government when i'm trying to check every rumour before try and give it rumour before we try and give it legs. and that one been legs. and that one has been denied by his team, but it does feel now. the feel so febrile right now. the question what happens next? question is what happens next? well, looks like are no well, it looks like there are no one the chamber, so far, no

one in the chamber, so far, no mps, tory mps saying they'll they'll the they'll vote against the government ones we government apart the ones we know about, robert jenrick and probably braverman. probably suella braverman. it looks them will looks like many of them will abstain from supporting the government that government with the hope that the strengthened the bill can be strengthened when back to the report when it comes back to the report stage, when start looking stage, when they start looking at it again in detail on the floor of the house of commons in january, risk for the january, we now the risk for the government people government is if enough people abstain, around more than abstain, i.e. around more than 56, it could defeat the government because the majority disappears. you only need 28 mps to vote against that. and an added twist to this is we've revealed on gb news this afternoon that around eight dup mps are likely to vote against the measure . that was the case the measure. that was the case about ago. it may be about two hours ago. it may be that comes back if the whip, the government whips can put some kind of pressure on the dup. we are it feels brexit all are it feels like brexit all over again because it does feel like brexit all over again. quite it feels very quite frankly, it feels very like vote one like the meaningful vote one stage in december 2018, when i first went grey. given the chaos of that period in my in my political life covering,

covering politics in extraordinary time as things stand, the government is not going to pull this vote at 730. if it pulls it, it will look very weak. if it loses it, it will look even weaker. if it loses it, it's very likely the labour party will propose a no confidence vote in the government to be voted on this week, which if they lose, that we're facing a january general election. there's lots of ifs there that all won't happen. but it does say something, martin, that we are faced that kind it does say something, martin, th.existential1ced that kind it does say something, martin, th.existential conversationt kind of existential conversation about a government which won a record majority, not a record, but a big majority, a majority just four years ago today. and chris, as we saw with theresa may's brexit bill, a lot of the same characters talked a tough fight. >> they puffed up their chest, the spartans. but when it came to down it, they had somewhat blunted swords and they went along with the government's to get over the line. are you get it over the line. are you expect a similar thing tonight a lot of tough talk but this will just squeak through . just kind of squeak through. >> well you mentioned spartans,

if i remember rightly, there were 28 spartans who held out through the three votes of three meaningful vote, three on theresa may's deal. that was enough to sink that to make sure that it couldn't get through. you need 28 tory mps right now to reject this plan once and for all. so people in number 10 can't believe it because they look at what labour's offer is on immigration action. it's nothing beyond what the tories are doing, working more closely with enforcement bodies on the continent doing continent and doing more bilateral deals . exactly what bilateral deals. exactly what the government is doing. the tory government is doing. the difference is this rwanda plan to migrants uk plan to fly migrants from the uk to for processing . the to rwanda for processing. the government it's passed government thinks it's passed this proposed, bill this is proposed, this bill being voted on tonight to make it a safe country, to overrule concerns by european judges if it gets that far, but certainly by the supreme court. that's the hope. and can't see why hope. and they can't see why tories willing to up on tories are willing to give up on that. even idea that that that. even that idea that that might something might work against something that doesn't that won't work if it doesn't exist anymore. the tories, of exist anymore. so the tories, of course , on right they say, course, on the right they say, well, the pm wants to stop the

boats stopping the boats is an extreme position to take because he didn't say cut boats by he didn't say cut the boats by 30. stop the boats . now 30. he said stop the boats. now if you want to stop the boats, if you want to stop the boats, if you're on the right of the party, that means pulling out of parts echr the european parts of the echr the european court. happen, court. whether that can happen, whether happen , we'll whether it will happen, we'll wait see. the government is wait and see. the government is bullish think they bullish on this. they think they can boats, these can make these boats, these flights this flights take off with this legislation and the will legislation and the proof will be the pudding . tories on be in the pudding. but tories on the to get it better the right want to get it better now. if is amended any now. but if it is amended any further in the new year, it risks losing the support of the one caucus on the left one nation caucus on the left who would prime minister. who would be a prime minister. martin not. martin well, maybe not. >> rishi sunak certainly boris johnson is no longer there four years to the day. chris who'd have thought that we are facing this calamity down the barrel? it seems so long ago. chris it just seems so long ago. chris hope, you for joining it just seems so long ago. chris hope, you forjoining us hope, thank you for joining us live downing street. of live from downing street. of course, story course, we'll follow this story dramatically. the way the dramatically. all the way to the wire. a little over two hours now. that huge crunch vote will, of covering all of it of course, be covering all of it here on gb news. well, joining me now is former sky political

correspondent peter spencer. peter, what better place to start? who would have thought that four years on from that seemingly unsurpassable historic 80 seat wapping majority, here we are once again the same ghosts of brexit, the same groups, the same thorns in the side of the conservative party >> who would have thought it? >> who would have thought it? >> indeed, and i was particularly struck when i read this morning a piece written in one of the papers by william hague, who you might remember was the conservative party leader in 1990, 1997, when tony blair and the labour party swept to power and swept them off the richter scale. >> and what he said in his piece was, look, you guys , just be was, look, you guys, just be careful what you wish for. >> you really don't get it. you're in government. >> one minute you're in the opposition, the next you go from hero to absolute zero. >> do you really want to go there? >> if you do, you're all stark raving bonkers . that said,

raving bonkers. that said, i mean, i was i was in conservative central office, so—called on that particular night. and it it went from a bit of sort of jollity to graveyard humour to the more frankly , humour to the more frankly, wanting to put a pistol to their heads. and that is that is potentially the odds that we're looking at this time round. >> now it does have to be said two things. >> one, if they manage to squeak , if the government manages to squeak it through anyway, then that will switch on from being a bullet to the head to slow, slow and painful death because the rules about this will go on and on and on for months . four fs on and on for months. four fs and the other point that i would make is that rishi sunak just simply didn't need to big this up to that extent in the first place. >> if it really goes against him , it has to be said this will be not so much a regicide as frankly a suicide. >> and it's interesting ing peter, we've seen a similar dilemma on the other side of the

channel france. emmanuel macron faced a huge defeat because his immigration plan didn't satiate the political left. the liberal side of the spectrum and didn't satiate the right wing of the country politically either . and country politically either. and it looks like we're heading down the same route. and if it gets voted through tonight, peter, i think you're right. it'll be tinkered with and both sides will it tinkered with in will want it tinkered with in different the right will different ways. the right will want it hardened, the left will want it hardened, the left will want and never want it softened, and never the twain shall meet . twain shall meet. >> exactement. kill >> exactement. kill >> i mean, this is the interesting thing about the conservative party currently is it trades as a broad church . but it trades as a broad church. but i've made this line before that it looks a little bit more like that temple in the bible after samson had had a crack at it. i mean, it is the two sides are so wide apart that that it's a bit of a cheat, really, to call themselves a members of the same party. i mean, i have to say

that one of the prime requisites for any prime minister is apart from all the other things like, you know, being good at talking and stuff is simply luck. he has been rishi sunak has been monumentally unlucky in inheriting when he became the party leader , not so much party leader, not so much a fighting force as a loose confederation of warring tribes . confederation of warring tribes. >> do you think there's a little bit of karma in this? if you dig deep enough? after all, a lot of people out there saw boris johnson as the saviour of the conservative of course, conservative party. of course, as for years, today, 80 as i said, for years, today, 80 seat majority . many people think seat majority. many people think rishi sharpened the knives and did for boris. and now here he is faced the same brexit beasts . is faced the same brexit beasts. >> well , i is faced the same brexit beasts. >> well, i mean, i think that the idea of sunak playing casca in julius caesar, the first to plunge in life, i think that's a fair bit overstated in actual fact.i fair bit overstated in actual fact. i mean, to be to be fair

that said, there will be those, of course, who do make that point and that i do come back to my point about about rishi sunaks sunny uplands. i mean, i would be very surprised if either in may or later on in the year he does not find himself heading for the sunny uplands in silicon valley and out of westminster gone completely a bit like it has to be said david cameron. the fact that he's got a resurrection is one one of these extra ordinary things to behold, but then never let it be said that politics doesn't chuck up things that you really, really don't expect . yeah. really don't expect. yeah. >> peter spencer, we'll have to leave it there. very entertaining. excellent french and a great bit of theatre thrown in and the knives will certainly be sharpened for rishi tonight vote. in tonight in this crunch vote. in a over two hours. of a little over two hours. of course, we'll have of that course, we'll have all of that here on gb news. don't miss it. it be quite a circus it promises to be quite a circus all the way the wire. all the way to the wire. meanwhile, another piece of news today pile more

today is bound to pile more pressure prime minister pressure on the prime minister because been confirmed because it's been confirmed that an seeker died on the an asylum seeker has died on the bibby stockholm barge in dorset. and our reporter ray addison joins us now live in the studio to go over the details . ray, to go over the details. ray, terrible timing, terrible story. what do we know? >> it's looking increasingly likely to have been a suicide. now we know that richard drax, who's the local mp for south dorset, he says he's been told by the home office that the man is thought to have taken his own life. we've also heard from downing street spokesperson saying that migrants living on the bibby stockholm barge have been assessed for signs of emotional trauma . they receive emotional trauma. they receive that medical assessment. they're then monitored for further support . any vulnerabilities are support. any vulnerabilities are identified , recognised and identified, recognised and supported, and there are trained staff available. it seems straight change to have come out with that particular statement and to focus on those areas unless there is some potential for this. having been a suicide. we know that earlier on this

morning, around 620, dorset police received that emergency call. they responded with ambulance crews. and we also saw footage at around about 130 this afternoon of what appeared to be afternoon of what appeared to be a body being removed from that bibby stockholm barge in portland in dorset. now, home secretary james cleverly is saying there's going to be a full investigation, not surprisingly, perhaps the news of the death has to led fresh criticism from charities. we know that the refugee council is actually calling for an independent review into the death care for kaylee's is saying that they've regularly been reporting that suicidal intentions exist amongst those who are residents of the barge . who are residents of the barge. however, they say the government's done nothing in the past . 39 former residents of the past. 39 former residents of the barge had written to the home office describing the conditions as being like a prison and saying that one other person had attempted to take their own life. thankfully, unsuccess fully, we now know that

fully, and we now know that stand up to racism and other organisations are organising a protest just outside of the home office on monday evening. so this is still very much an ongoing story. >> it feels like the curse of the bibby stockholm has become something of a of a political story. legionnaires. now this repeated failed attempts to get it used yet of course, ray, this was used was deployed previously , but for example by squaddies in the falkland islands. it's been used for people, asylum seekers in other countries without issue. so hopefully this is just an isolated incident. yeah, absolutely. >> although we understand that the population on the on the number of residents might be as high as 300. of course, the initial plan was to only house 200. that's what it was built and designed for the government more than doubled that to 500. and they're not there yet in terms of the number of residents. but there are genuine concerns, perhaps legitimate, that the higher the population on these barges and the tougher the conditions, the more it

could take a mental impact on the residents. okay. >> ray allison, thank you very much for that update. and of course, terrible timing on this coming just hours coming as it does just hours ahead this crunch vote in the ahead of this crunch vote in the commons tonight. i get lots more on that story on our website and thanks to you, gbnews.com is the fastest growing national news website in the country. it's got breaking news and all of the brilliant analysis you've come breaking news and all of the briexpectinalysis you've come breaking news and all of the briexpect from .is you've come breaking news and all of the briexpect from us/ou've come breaking news and all of the briexpect from us herea come breaking news and all of the briexpect from us here atome breaking news and all of the briexpect from us here at gb; to expect from us here at gb news. so thank you very much for helping to achieve that . but helping us to achieve that. but now there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00, including child killer lucy letby has been stripped of her nursing status following her horrific crimes . but nursing status following her horrific crimes. but i'll ask this. why did it need a two day heanng this. why did it need a two day hearing to decide that

and people that i knew had dewbs & co weeknights from . six & co weeknights from. six >> welcome back. it's 526, almost . you're watching and almost. you're watching and listening to martin daubney on gb news now. killer nurse lucy letby has been stripped of her nursing status following her horrific crimes . a two day horrific crimes. a two day heanng horrific crimes. a two day hearing of the nursing and midwifery council started today and a panel has decided to permanently strike the 33 year old off of the register and remove her nursing credentials . remove her nursing credentials. sophie reaper has the background to this story. >> the most prolific serial killer of children in modern british history. four months ago, lucy letby was found guilty

of seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder . whilst she was working on the neonatal unit at the countess of chester hospital . all she chester hospital. all she carried out her killing spree . a carried out her killing spree. a jury carried out her killing spree. a jury at manchester crown court spent ten months hearing about the case, including details of how letby carried out her attacks and seeing evidence which ultimately led to four teen guilty verdicts . which ultimately led to four teen guilty verdicts. in recognition of this just as goss sentenced the former nurse to a whole life order, meaning she would spend the rest of her life behind bars. but the end of the trial did not mean the end of the story. >> i will do all i to can make sure that no one else suffers as they have a statutory inquiry as well as a corporate manslaughter investigation into the countess of chester are now underway . of chester are now underway. >> in september, letby legal

team also launched an application to make an appeal against her convictions , not to against her convictions, not to mention cheshire constabulary . mention cheshire constabulary. his continued investigation into further potential incidents . further potential incidents. >> at we've got a duty to the people of cheshire and beyond to make sure that we investigate every single admission into the neonatal unit during the period of time that lucy letby has been employed, either at the countess of chester hospital or the liverpool women's hospital to make sure that we can identify any other potential allegations or potential offences that may have been committed by her today , a two day hearing will take place led by the nursing and midwife council to determine whether or not lucy letby should be stripped of her nursing credentials. >> commenting at the time of the guilty verdicts , the nmc chief guilty verdicts, the nmc chief executive , andrea sutcliffe, executive, andrea sutcliffe, said this has been a long complex criminal investigation. we've kept in close contact with

the police and the trust throughout and will continue to do so . ms letby remains do so. ms letby remains suspended from our register and we will now move forward with our regulatory action seeking to strike her off the register for letby. if this goes ahead, regardless of the outcome of appeals and further investigations, she would no longer be considered a nurse . longer be considered a nurse. sophie reaper. gb news. >> they just find it astonishing that that was even a thing that letby even had the option of contesting the fact she'd be struck off. she said, here i did not resist the application , but not resist the application, but she did not wish to take part or be present at the hearing. just like when she was sentenced in court and she wouldn't face the family. let's not forget she will die behind bars. she was convicted in august of murdering seven babies and the attempts of murder of six others. on what planet was this trial? even

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headunes >> martin thank you. the headlines this hour. the co—chair of a group of conservative mps have said they cannot vote for the government's new rwanda bill. that's after eight mps representing the dup in northern ireland. also said they were considering voting against rishi sunak's plan. that's according to sources in westminster . well, these moves westminster. well, these moves would swell the numbers opposed to the second reading of the safety of rwanda. bill and me. now 19 tory mps are needed to defeat the government's bill. the home secretary, james cleverly , has argued today in cleverly, has argued today in the house of commons that both parliament and the british people do support the initiative i >> -- >> this government is stopping the boats . arrivals are down by the boats. arrivals are down by a third. this year as illegal entries are on the rise elsewhere in europe . now the elsewhere in europe. now the shadow home secretary, yvette coopen shadow home secretary, yvette cooper, told the house of commons that the rwanda asylum scheme was a mess. >> we've just got total tory

chaos. >> yeah, what a fine mess this week . week. >> prime minister has got them all into and got the country into as well, tearing lumps out of each other over a failing policy while they let the country down. we've had a home secretary sacked an immigration minister resigning and they've spent almost £300 million of taxpayers money on rwanda without sending a single person . without sending a single person. and the home secretary seemed to confirm today that in fact , that confirm today that in fact, that is £400 million. >> meanwhile , downing street has >> meanwhile, downing street has said migrants living on the controversial bibby stockholm barge have been assessed for emotional trauma. today it follows the death of an asylum seeker on board who is understood to have taken his own life. his body has now been removed from the vessel docked in earlier on, the home in dorset earlier on, the home secretary promised the incident would be fully investigated. the first asylum seekers were brought back on board the vessel in october and the uk's biggest

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much for joining advocacy movement. thank you so much forjoining us. joseph you much for joining us. joseph you must have been horrified when you saw this. we've been reporting on these protests for many, many weeks since the program on october the 7th here at gb news. we think we've seen clear double standards in policing , clambering on war policing, clambering on war monuments , screaming, monuments, screaming, anti—semitic abuse . and now the anti—semitic abuse. and now the simple act of putting a flag in a public place has gone garnered this response. how does that make you feel? i mean, i think you described it correctly. >> it's two tier policing and it's outrageous. it's outrageous that this can stand. i'll give you a few more examples actually . so a few weeks ago, an islamists waved an al—qaeda flag on streets of london. the on the streets of london. the police they police didn't intervene. they actually defended it online and described it as a declaration of faith . we've seen protest after faith. we've seen protest after protest. thousands of palestinian flags all over the british streets . and as you british streets. and as you rightly pointed out , they're rightly pointed out, they're clambering over monuments, war memorials , jewels adorning them memorials, jewels adorning them with palestinian iconography. and i actually think you add it

on this show, the response from the met commissioner wasn't to say that you shouldn't be raising these flags. it was that there's no crime. it's not a crime to climb on statues . and crime to climb on statues. and that empowers . so like two weeks that empowers. so like two weeks ago at the exact same location that we just saw at trafalgar square, at nelson's column , square, at nelson's column, activists climbed onto nelson's column and unfurled a 30 foot palestinian flag and the police said nothing . this is clearly an said nothing. this is clearly an example of two tiered policing. >> now the met are saying this is a heritage site and therefore there are rules around draping flags on heritage sites, which is true. however it's back to that double standards thing , that double standards thing, isn't it? we've seen oftentimes in these very same places palestinian flags draped and it doesn't seem to garner the same response. that's the point. but on the broader issue, you talked about this empowering people. how do you feel as a jewish person in britain now, how things changed since october the

7th? so i don't know. >> a jewish person in that isn't questioning our future here. the jews are completely integrated in britain. we've been here for centuries in almost every synagogue in the uk orthodox synagogue in the uk orthodox synagogue , we actually say a synagogue, we actually say a prayer for the royal family and the government every saturday. we're so integrated so we're so integrated and so grateful such an grateful to live in such an incredibly tolerant incredibly liberal and tolerant society. yet . following the 7th society. yet. following the 7th of october, just the 1,500% rise in anti—semitism , the police in anti—semitism, the police recorded it as 800% or 775% recorded it as 800% or 775% recorded rise in anti—semitism. we're looking at this. we're looking at jews getting attacked. we're looking at genocidal chants on the streets . genocidal chants on the streets. we're looking at the police not enforcing the the way enforcing the law in the way that we believe it should be. and questioning whether we and we're questioning whether we have a future here. know have a future here. i know i certainly struggle to see a future for my family in 30, 40 years if we continue on this trajectory. that's a that's a really sad thing to hear. >> but you know, why do you feel like that is it a safety issue?

is it a case of this trajectory of travel, of seemingly the media, the police, academia , the media, the police, academia, the celebrity world seems to be just just taking a side where the jewish people are feeling more and more in the shadow. >> it's a safety issue. for 2000 years, my people have been persecuted. the holocaust is a living memory. it's a living memory. when we hear the memory. and when we hear the leaders of academia coming out and saying things like it's not against our code of conduct and the leading universities to call for a genocide of the jews , we for a genocide of the jews, we take that very seriously when we like when we see our friends getting attacked , spat on, on getting attacked, spat on, on the streets . we take that very the streets. we take that very seriously because we know where this path leads . we've been this path leads. we've been there before and in particular for what do you think it is about young people in particular? >> we saw a report out, a survey last week saying as many millennials think hamas or freedom fighters as opposed to

terrorists . where does that terrorists. where does that mindset come from, particularly amongst young people? >> i mean, it comes from political figures. it comes from the media. when you have somebody like jeremy corbyn described being and hopefully i get this quote right, describing hamas as champions of social justice, that's going to resonate with an entire generation . and sadly, there are generation. and sadly, there are people who are so far from events like the holocaust that they question whether it even happened there . 3000 miles away happened there. 3000 miles away from israel and they perceive genocidal terrorists as being champions of social justice and it's we're in an age of misinformation and almost post—truth . it's just what does post—truth. it's just what does my side say ? and i will just my side say? and i will just follow that blindly . follow that blindly. >> well, aslef, thank you so much for coming on the show today. it's my pleasure. an absolute pleasure to see you. joseph cohen, founder of the israel movement . sad to israel advocacy movement. sad to hean israel advocacy movement. sad to hear, but nevertheless, it needs to still to come , to be said. okay. still to come, will tory mps vote against rishi

sunak rwanda bill? that vote at 7 pm. tonight could prove to be a humiliating defeat for the prime minister on the fourth anniversary of that whopping 80 seat majority in 2019. i martin daubney on gb news. and this is

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me ? martin daubney on gb news. me? martin daubney on gb news. now robert jenrick has warned the house of commons that the number of small boat arrivals in the uk will rise for many years to come unless the rwanda plan is properly carried out this evening. the former immigration minister says he will not be voting with the government and it comes as sunak fights to avoid a damaging rebellion by right wing tory mps over his rwanda plan ahead of a crunch vote tonight and arguably his premiership hangs in the balance. well we're just a matter of hours now away from that crunch vote and our political editor chris hope is in westminster. chris the information is coming in by the minute. what's the latest ? is minute. what's the latest? is rishi going to be safe or are we, as fergie might say, getting towards squeaky bum time ? it is towards squeaky bum time? it is definitely a squeaky bum time here in parliament. >> so we're seeing here that danny kruger, the co chair of the new conservatives group,

they met with rishi sunak rishi sunak for bacon butties and danish pastries and coffee this morning at 8 am. he's just come out saying the bill is unsatisfactory. he can't support it . others are like to go the it. others are like to go the same way . the suggestion is that same way. the suggestion is that sir bill cash , who was who ran sir bill cash, who was who ran this star chamber group of lawyers looking over this bill, he support it. the key he can't support it. the key question is, are they abstaining or are they voting against if they abstain , then the they abstain, then the government save the day . if government can save the day. if fewer 56 or so tory mps fewer than 56 or so tory mps abstain. if it's fewer than that , if voting against, then the numbers are as little as 28. we think the dup, the democratic unionist party, they'll vote against. that's a spanner in the works. the meeting of the so—called five families of a tory right . so—called five families of a tory right. that's so—called five families of a tory right . that's not so—called five families of a tory right. that's not a mafia reference. that's a reference referencing martin will be believed to here that's referencing five groups on the right of the party they're meeting right now in the wilson suite in the portcullis house.

they're working out what to do. we're expecting a statement from them at around at around 645. it is very difficult, really. number 10 is very clear. they think this this bill will will pass mustard. it will mean that flights can take off. the big problem they've got, though, is whether they think about it. this bill needed a big majority in the house of commons. if it doesn't get that, house doesn't get that, then the house of lords will know they can amend because they'll amend it because they'll feel that the house of that parliament or the house of commons is divided. and that's the um, there is a is the problem. um, there is a is my phone is buzzing when i'm talking to you. forgive me. martin no is a very difficult time for the government. they know that their best they can get is this this bill, if they go too far to the right and try and make it more, more proof protected away from being challenged by lawyers , then the challenged by lawyers, then the those on the left, the one nafion those on the left, the one nation caucus, could then vote against it. so it's a very tncky against it. so it's a very tricky line for rishi sunak to go along. it's an argument about sovereignty. it takes us back to the brexit what matters the brexit wars. what matters and and why for the right,

and why and why for the right, this does matter. maybe this really does matter. maybe even than health of even more than the health of their government, because it their own government, because it could sink the government. this week. vote if they lose week. if a vote if they lose a vote tonight and a vote of no confidence it takes place, if they lose that we're in election territory, near that territory, we nowhere near that yet, the horizon. if yet, but it's on the horizon. if mps vote this down tonight . mps vote this down tonight. >> chris, as you say , the >> and chris, as you say, the ghosts of brexit, your or coming back to haunt this government and how ironic that it's four years exactly to the day that the conservatives got that 80 seats whopping majority on the mandate of get brexit done. and now many of the same foes, many of the same opponents, many of the same brexiteers coming back to haunt the liberal wing of the party. the big question, chris, is will the numbers carry it? will the brexiteers puff up their chests and go with it if you had to make a call on this? chris you've been around a while. what would get your vote? where's he going to go tonight? >> i think the government gets through low tens majority,

through with low tens majority, tens, 20s, that kind of number. he'll look damaged and weak. and i think the abstentions, what we're looking at, who's abstaining what that means abstaining and what that means probably series of probably for a titanic series of votes in january, there may be a sequel to this drama. martin i'm sorry to say that. and the next sequel, if that's the case, if you're looking at a low majority, a scraping through by its bow, of course , it's the its bow, of course, it's the next assault will be from the lords . that's right. the lords. that's right. the unelected lords is a battle which politically it may be that the tory party wants to fight . the tory party wants to fight. there's no better feeling if you're an mp knowing you're elected. you're a right to be there if you're being fought back by unelected peers on legislation which matters such as stopping small boats, it puts them in the right place. the problem is they might succeed in the lords and then if the commons try to overrule it, that can take months and may push past next general past into the next general election if labour win, past into the next general electwill if labour win, past into the next general electwill act if labour win, past into the next general electwill act the labour win, past into the next general electwill act the rwanda win, past into the next general electwill act the rwanda plan they will act the rwanda plan £240 million spent nothing to show for it. that'll be a hell

of a legacy for the tory party. so they don't want a fight with the lords because they know it will. it will delay these flights taking off in may, as the pm has promised us. okay chris, stay the line chris, please stay on the line with us. >> don't go anywhere because we've been and about asking >> don't go anywhere because we've ofeen and about asking >> don't go anywhere because we've of the and about asking >> don't go anywhere because we've of the great d about asking >> don't go anywhere because we've of the great britisht asking >> don't go anywhere because we've of the great british public] some of the great british public whether they agree with the rwanda in rwanda plan. today in birmingham. let's have a listen. >> with it. >> i think i disagree with it. >> i think i disagree with it. >> not understanding all >> again, not understanding all of the detail. it just seems to me that rather than trying to get the root we're get to the root cause, we're just with we've got just dealing with what we've got and people out. so i'm and sending people out. so i'm not i do agree with what not sure i do agree with what they're doing. i'm appalled by it, if i'm honest with you. >> yeah, these people are coming to our country because they don't safe in their own don't feel safe in their own country. so why would you not help them to have a safer life? we're very lucky with the life that we have in the uk. >> i think it's a good idea for me. i don't think it should be coming into the country anyway illegally . i feel sorry for some

illegally. i feel sorry for some coming from some countries. i understand that, but they're not all truthful now. they come in. so i just don't know. i don't know where it's going to go, to be honest. >> well, chris, we also asked the same members of the public >> well, chris, we also asked th> well, chris, we also asked th> well, chris, we also asked th> it's a big test on the issue of trust, i think is one well made there because many people have voted to leave the european union. the majority of the country, of course, back in 2016 thought they taking back thought they were taking back control and control of their borders and their laws. mean, there was their laws. i mean, there was simply no better distillation of that decision than battle that decision than the battle over immigration over small boats and immigration borders and laws are both in

play borders and laws are both in play here and looks like the play here and it looks like the government can't get they can't deliver on that promise in 2016. and that's why it's so frustrating. those members of the public are quite right to say that. and i've got to i've questioned closely , mr sunak, in questioned closely, mr sunak, in recent months for gb news viewers and seen him privately . viewers and seen him privately. he i think he's someone who does feel the passion he wants to deliver on, that he is definitely a tory right winger, but that's translating . but that's not translating. we're not seeing enough of that. i half the time that i think half the time that passion he does, he does think the government's done this the government's done well this yeah he the government's done well this year. he defends the record on the foreign affairs stage. he give of things give you a list of things achieved notably the windsor windsor it's not windsor framework. but it's not cutting the polls. cutting through in the polls. the polls aren't budging. and really, get if they really, if they can get if they can this rwanda plan and can land this rwanda plan and make it before the make it work before the election, a real chance election, it's a real chance here, i think, to take take a stick beat labour with stick to beat labour with because election, because next election, i think could well the immigration could well be the immigration election, way that election, given the way that bofis election, given the way that boris sat back while the boris johnson sat back while the tens of thousands people tens of thousands of people arrived legally the arrived here legally through the front putting pressure front door and putting pressure

on and like , on gp surgeries and the like, there's a chance take there's a chance here to take some action. a five point some firm action. a five point plan from james cleverly plus the migration plan. this the illegal migration plan. this is kind gestation of an the illegal migration plan. this is an kind gestation of an the illegal migration plan. this is an attempt gestation of an the illegal migration plan. this is an attempt here |tion of an the illegal migration plan. this is an attempt here to n of an the illegal migration plan. this is an attempt here to n of on of an attempt here to take on labour and maybe maybe start to beat them on this but beat them on this area. but if they lose the rwanda bill tonight, over. they lose the rwanda bill ton chris, over. they lose the rwanda bill ton chris, very over. they lose the rwanda bill ton chris, very quickly,. they lose the rwanda bill ton chris, very quickly, as we >> chris, very quickly, as we approach end of this show , approach the end of this show, you made a bet with rishi sunak about single pint of that about single pint of beer that he wouldn't single he wouldn't get a single person to before the next to rwanda before the next general election. is that beer safe is it less safe tonight ? safe or is it less safe tonight? >> it feels safer tonight . i >> it feels safer tonight. i mean, the bet i made was with you. i wasn't. the pm didn't call me to make the beer in person, bet in person. but i do think that beer is safe. certainly there's a there's a summer election is safe . if he summer election is safe. if he goes as long as next door to him, there's a bigger chance. but it does seem does seem but it does seem it does seem that the flights may well not take off. it feels that way because of the obstacles thrown up what what should be a up by what what should be a narrow the government narrow win for the government tonight, think. and that will tonight, i think. and that will mean problems with the peers tonight, i think. and that will mean forward. s with the peers

tonight, i think. and that will mean forward. it with the peers tonight, i think. and that will mean forward. it willthe peers tonight, i think. and that will mean forward. it will be peers going forward. it will be difficult it work, but difficult to make it work, but i think it's the best chance the tories have got to be dealing with immigration and the challenges officials challenges faced by officials about chris, dramatic >> okay, chris, over dramatic noisehead, thanks for that update. point, update. and on that point, michelle dewberry has just hoved into we're getting a bit into view. we're getting a bit breathless here. jus about this huge vote. i just think it's going be a massive, massive going to be a massive, massive test rishi sunak tonight. test for rishi sunak tonight. of course it will. >> we'll be getting stuck >> so we'll be getting stuck into that. ben habib, he has got a or two very strongly to a word or two very strongly to say about that. that'll be coming up in my show as coming up in my show also as well. four years to the day since the last election, are people delighted or people happy or delighted or less with what we've been less so with what we've been given in those last four years also as well , i want to ask also as well, i want to ask aboutin also as well, i want to ask about in france, you know, they're proposing this new plan that criminal that if kids commit criminal acts, the parents acts, it's the parents essentially that will be the essentially that will be on the hook when it comes to things like community service. is that a we follow a good idea? should we follow suit country? and also a good idea? should we follow suit row country? and also a good idea? should we follow suit row about ntry? and also a good idea? should we follow suit row about the ? and also a good idea? should we follow suit row about the candidate in that row about the candidate in the green party that wants to be referred to as a woman, the deputy chair for women the deputy chair for women in the tory retweeted description

tory party retweeted description as a wig. should as a bloke in a wig. should we be compelled someone be compelled to call someone a woman? because they say woman? just because they say they one? they are one? >> show coming next dewbs >> superb show coming next dewbs & this & co writes after this a brighter outlook with boxt solar le sponsors of whether on . gb news. >> hello again. welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office for some northwestern areas it will turn dner northwestern areas it will turn drier and clearer throughout the night and it could be a bit of a frosty start, but there will be some further rain to come. further east as this low pressure moves east across the country, dragging with it some of fronts as well. so that will continue some heavy continue to bring some heavy rain northeastern of rain to northeastern areas of england. rain should slowly england. the rain should slowly start more eastern start to clear more eastern areas of scotland, we'll areas of scotland, but we'll continue see some heavy continue to see some heavy showers the evening . but showers into the evening. but things do tend to dry out from the northwest overnight . so the northwest overnight. so we'll see some clear spells developing across much of scotland as well as parts of northern ireland. so we could see by tomorrow see a touch of frost by tomorrow morning. east, though, morning. further east, though, that and cloud will sink

that rain and cloud will sink into parts of east anglia and parts of kent and sussex as well, bringing quite a lot of cloud by tomorrow so cloud by tomorrow morning. so it'll be bit a dull start it'll be a bit of a dull start to the day. we'll see some to the day. we'll also see some rain moving into these eastern areas mid—morning areas through mid—morning as well. north and west, well. further north and west, though, dry and bright day, a though, a dry and bright day, a much better day than today with some long lived sunshine throughout though, throughout the day, though, temperatures be a temperatures will still be a little bit on the cooler side after slightly colder start to after a slightly colder start to the through thursday. we'll the day through thursday. we'll see the next of rain push see the next batch of rain push eastwards, but will tend to eastwards, but it will tend to fizzle out as it does move into more eastern areas. so although cloud thicken , the rain cloud will thicken, the rain will much more limited . will be much more limited. that's pressure is that's because pressure is building by the end of the week. so that means we'll see more in the way of drier weather by the end of the week. and the weekend and temperatures rising by day and temperatures rising by day and warm inside from >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler as sponsors of weather on .

mutter, apparently taking his own life. is it time now for that barge to close ? and for that barge to close? and for years to the day isn't it, that

the tories won their match? massive election victory. if you put your cross in the box for the tories, how happy are you with the way that things have panned out and a row has broken out about a wannabe green party mp who wants to be referred to as a woman, but who tory as a woman, but who the tory deputy chair women retweeted deputy chair for women retweeted a description of as basically a man in a wig. should we be compelled to describe people as women just because they ask us to? and get this right? over in france, a new plan would see parents whose children have committed have to carry committed crimes have to carry out community service . good idea out community service. good idea or not? should we follow suit . or not? should we follow suit. yes, indeed. i'll have to bet on all of that to come over the next hour. but first, let's cross live to polly middlehurst for tonight's latest news headunes. headlines. >> michelle, thank you. and good

evening to you. well, the top