gb news kathleen merry christmas, it's 3:00. >> i'm martin daubney. 3:00. >> i'm martin daubney . this is >> i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. thanks forjoining me. i'll be keeping you company for the next three hours. we've got an action packed show coming up. top story jeremy hunt has set the budget for march the 6th, and there's talks of tory tax handouts . it's too little, too handouts. it's too little, too late . can anything save the tory late. can anything save the tory party from electoral defeat? will drill into the details next. what a fantastic royal year it's been. we'll take a look back at yesterday's coronation documentary , coronation documentary, touching, moving as it was . touching, moving as it was. plus, in mike tindall , the plus, in mike tindall, the former rugby star, has prince

william found the brother figure he so desperately needs in his life? next story breaking news shortly . about an hour ago, for shortly. about an hour ago, for the first time since records began 2018. that is, they were zero dinghies that landed during the christmas period . why could the christmas period. why could that be? rishi is amazing policies. well something else we'll have all of the analysis. next up storm jarrett is blasting parts of britain . with blasting parts of britain. with snow, wind and rain . we'll have snow, wind and rain. we'll have all the latest to see if this will affect you. and finally, a late contender for one of the funniest stories of the year, legendary comedian ricky gervais has done a blistering monologue on illegal immigration. he's had a right royal pop at gary lineker. it's fantastic and i'll be explaining why we need more of that kind of humour in 2024. that's all coming in the next

hour. that's all coming in the next hour . it's a that's all coming in the next hour. it's a miracle at christmas. no dinghies have landed on british shores for the first time since records began, but before rishi starts pouring the champagne on ice , there the champagne on ice, there could be a very different and simple explanation that's coming up after your latest news headunes up after your latest news headlines with sam francis . headlines with sam francis. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. i'm sam francis in the gb newsroom. the headlines at three. the chancellor jeremy hunt, has announced that the 2024 spring budget will be delivered on the 6th of march next year. it could be his last chance to introduce major tax and spending changes before the next general election. it comes as reports have emerged that downing street could axe inheritance tax and reduce income tax. the move is one of just a handful of pledges that number 10 hopes will boost rishi sunak's chances of a win. meanwhile the housing secretary,

michael gove, has hinted at a pre—election giveaway . pre—election giveaway. suggesting the party will cut costs for first time home buyers in the us . the michigan supreme in the us. the michigan supreme court has rejected an attempt to remove former president donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot . the ruling is, in ballot. the ruling is, in contrast with the recent court case in colorado , where mr trump case in colorado, where mr trump was disqualified from running for president in the state due to his alleged role in capitol riots . that decision has been riots. that decision has been paused, though , pending an paused, though, pending an appeal here in the uk. paused, though, pending an appeal here in the uk . a 16 year appeal here in the uk. a 16 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire at a school in west london. ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to the blaze at the london oratory school at around 10:00 this morning. the london fire brigade said. part of the building has been damaged no injuries been damaged but no injuries have reported . thousands of have been reported. thousands of travellers are facing yet more delays and cancellations as storm gerrit forces flights to be grounded . earlier. 18 british be grounded. earlier. 18 british airways flights at heathrow were

axed and multiple yellow weather warnings are in place across the uk today. our national reporter theo chikomba , is in dover. theo chikomba, is in dover. there are gusts of up to 80mph throughout many parts of the uk. >> nine yellow weather warnings until 6 pm. so people are being advised to check before they travel in southampton. those looking to use the red funnel red jet service are being cautioned that there may be disruptions and cancellations , disruptions and cancellations, and those travelling in portsmouth using hovercrafts are also being warned that there are further cancellations and disruption today . disruption today. >> well, staying in dover ferry, passengers are facing up to three hours of delays at the port due to staff sickness among french border officials. it comes amid increased demand at the port as thousands of people make post—christmas trips across the channel. those who miss booked ferries are being put on to next crossing, where to the next crossing, where space is available. downing street says a suspected arson attack at the office of conservative mp mike freer is clearly concerning . fire crews

clearly concerning. fire crews were called to the building in north london on christmas eve, after it was partially damaged by the blaze. no one was in the building at the time of the incident, and the investigation is ongoing . well elsewhere, is ongoing. well elsewhere, hospital car parking fees across england have risen more than 50% in just the last year. england have risen more than 50% in just the last year . that's in just the last year. that's according to new figures . according to new figures. visitors and patients spent £146 million for parking in 2022 to 23. that's the equivalent of £400,000 spent in hospital car parks every day. the data , which parks every day. the data, which was uncovered by the liberal democrats , also found parking democrats, also found parking fees paid by hospital staff has also soared more than eightfold. it's up five points, up from 5.6 million to more than £46 million, and brits will soon be able to buy new pint sized bottles of still and sparkling wine . that's as part of new wine. that's as part of new post—brexit freedoms. the new size will appear on supermarket shelves as well as in pubs, in clubs and restaurants . the clubs and restaurants. the government says the move will

offer more flexibility and choice for customers. parliamentary under secretary for business kevin hollinrake says the move will benefit everyone . everyone. >> well, he's really important change. we used to be able to buy pints of champagne in bottles and wine, for example, before joining the european union, so i think it's an opportunity for innovation. churchill's favourite size of bottle. he said it was the right size for lunch for two or for dinner for one. so um, so i think it's a nice innovation. it's something we can do now. we left the european union and more than 200,000 shoplifting cases went unsolved in the space of a year , as new figures show, only year, as new figures show, only around 15% of the 362,000 cases were said to have resulted in a suspect being charged , and the suspect being charged, and the liberal democrat studied the figures . figures. >> and they've accused the government of failing to tackle what they epidemic . a what they call an epidemic. a home office spokeswoman said charging rates shoplifting charging rates for shoplifting are by almost a third in the are up by almost a third in the past year . this is gb news

past year. this is gb news across the uk. we're on tv in your car on digital radio and on your car on digital radio and on your smart speaker now though. more from . martin more from. martin >> thank you sam, thanks for joining me. and if you're enjoying a pint of wine at home, cheers! i hope you had a great christmas. now let's crack on with the show. will it be a spnng with the show. will it be a spring showdown? because speculation is rife today of a spnng speculation is rife today of a spring election , as chancellor spring election, as chancellor jeremy hunt confirms , the budget jeremy hunt confirms, the budget will be delivered on the 6th of march. and it comes as today it's been reported the tories are considering scrapping inheritance tax and helping first time buyers get onto the property ladder. but as we head towards the end of 2023 with these new promises out there, how well has the prime minister donein how well has the prime minister done in the first place of meeting his five pledges set out at the beginning of the year ? at the beginning of the year? well, i'm joined now by our gb news political correspondent,

olivia leigh, who has the latest i >> -- >> so -- >>so| >> so i want to make five promises to you today , five promises to you today, five pledges to deliver a peace of mind , five foundations on which mind, five foundations on which to build a better future for our children and grandchildren . children and grandchildren. >> when rishi sunak laid out his five pledges in a speech to journalists back in january, it was widely believed in westminster was being westminster that he was being unambitious . but 12 months on unambitious. but 12 months on and the goals to halve inflation, economy , inflation, grow the economy, cut, national debt, cut, nhs waiting lists and stop the boats remain to a varying extent unfulfilled and as pledged. inflation has halved this year from a high of 10.7% at the end of last year to around 4% now. but that's the end of the unalloyed good news. despite jeremy hunt's get back to work spnng jeremy hunt's get back to work spring budget, the economy has stubbornly failed to grow . for stubbornly failed to grow. for most of the year, growth has hovered around the zero mark, meaning we are permanently teetering on the edge of a recession and there's bad news in the national debt. quarter

two. far from falling , two. far from falling, economists now suggest that debt is , and the obr has is skyrocketing, and the obr has said that the current trajectory is . and meanwhile , is unsustainable. and meanwhile, nhs waiting lists reached an all time high of an eye—watering 7.7 million last month. and with demand back to pre—pandemic levels , they don't look set to levels, they don't look set to shnnk levels, they don't look set to shrink any time soon. to compound the problem , nhs nurses compound the problem, nhs nurses and doctors have been striking on and off all year , and doctors on and off all year, and doctors at least look set to continue well into 2024. as for stopping the boats, polls suggest that the boats, polls suggest that the public believe a sunak has failed on this pledge too, though that may be a little unfair. the data shows that there has actually been a 30% drop in crossings. this year compared to last. it is perhaps hardly a surprising view on that point. >> on foreign courts, the conservative party is in civil war mode over the rwanda scheme , war mode over the rwanda scheme, which looks set to be bogged down in parliament for many months to come. down in parliament for many mo meanwhile e. down in parliament for many mo meanwhile ,. down in parliament for many mo meanwhile , keir starmer is >> meanwhile, keir starmer is coming up with own solutions. >> government's lost control >> the government's lost control of our borders. i think the way

to the boats is smash to stop the boats is to smash the criminal gangs that are running trade of running the vile trade of putting people in the boats in the place. the first place. >> start of year, >> at the start of the year, the prime us judge prime minister asked us to judge him purely how he delivered him purely on how he delivered on pledges. he on his five key pledges. he cleverly gave himself some wiggle in the run up to the wiggle room in the run up to the general election, with the exception halving inflation, general election, with the exc deliberately lving inflation, general election, with the exc deliberately didn'tnflation, general election, with the exc deliberately didn't settion, general election, with the exc deliberately didn't set any he deliberately didn't set any deadunes. he deliberately didn't set any deadlines . but 12 months on, and deadlines. but 12 months on, and with popularity ratings at an all time low, sunak is all too aware that time is fast running out. olivia utley . gb news great stuff. >> well , gb stuff. >> well, gb news political correspondent olivia lee joins me now from westminster. correspondent olivia lee joins me now from westminster . olivia me now from westminster. olivia a reminiscent a fond look back over a year has to be said that wasn't a vintage one for rishi sunak being charitable , he sunak being charitable, he probably scored half a point out of five here. for those firefighters , inflation halved, firefighters, inflation halved, yes, but it wasn't actually his doing. the probably the bank of england that. big england did that. the big question . well first let's start question. well first let's start with how do you he did in with how do you think he did in 2023. let's talk about

2023. and then let's talk about can he dig himself out of a hole in year ? in the new year? >> well , i in the new year? >> well, i think what's quite difficult for rishi sunak is that when he laid out those five pledges, people all thought that he didn't really need to do anything to achieve them . anything to achieve them. >> people thought that they would all be pretty much achieved automatically. it was believed the situation achieved automatically. it was be ukraine the situation achieved automatically. it was be ukraine started the situation achieved automatically. it was be ukraine started t01e situation achieved automatically. it was be ukraine started to calm ation achieved automatically. it was be ukraine started to calm down in ukraine started to calm down a bit and the world came to terms with what was happening there, energy prices start terms with what was happening th

finalised, he could sort that out with with relative ease as well. so he was going in with pretty low expectations. but at the end of this year he hasn't really achieved any of them apart from halving inflation, which as you say, arguably wasn't really his doing at all. inflation has halved in almost every western economy and not all of them have rishi sunak and jeremy hunt charge . so what jeremy hunt in charge. so what can he do now ? now? well, what can he do now? now? well, what his focus seems to be on are a raft of tax cuts before the general election. now when jeremy hunt and rishi sunak came to power last, uh, autumn , they to power last, uh, autumn, they kept saying over and over again that what they needed to do was get inflation down. and once they did that, they would have they did that, they would have the headroom to start lowering taxes in his, uh, statement a few weeks ago, his autumn statement in november , jeremy statement in november, jeremy hunt said that they are now in a place. now inflation is to down start cutting those taxes. he started off with a cut to national insurance , and it looks

national insurance, and it looks like come the, uh, spring budget scheduled for march the 6th, a little bit earlier than usual, perhaps indicating we're gearing up for a may election. there's talk of cutting inheritance tax , talk of cutting inheritance tax, scrapping stamp duty. what i think will be really, really interesting is whether jeremy hunt decides to raise the thresholds at which people start to pay inheritance or start to pay to pay inheritance or start to pay income tax. now it sounds bonng pay income tax. now it sounds boring , but pay income tax. now it sounds boring, but it's pay income tax. now it sounds boring , but it's actually boring, but it's actually really, really important because as it is, those thresholds have been frozen for about ten years. the higher tax bracket is at £50,000, £50,000.10 years ago is not the same as £50,000 now, against a backdrop of record high inflation. so whatever. jeremy hunt tinkers around the edges with, even with his national insurance cut, people are worse off than they were a few years ago. if he changes that, perhaps , perhaps he could that, perhaps, perhaps he could get a few more voters on board. but is there anything at this stage that he could do to pull a

rabbit out of the hat and clutch? victory from the clutch? uh, victory from the jaws of defeat seems pretty unlikely when they're 20 points behind in the polls. >> olivia , there's already >> um, olivia, there's already been a bit of a revolt about the announcement today over inheritance tax. a number of tories saying it only affects 4% of people. it seems like a tax break for the richest. and again, it's not playing out well with the base. i guess my question is quite simple. can any tinkering work or do you think now people just want change? because whatever rishi doesis change? because whatever rishi does is there doesn't seem to be a poll bump. and in fact there's by elections coming up, rebellions over net zero and boilers rebellion over rwanda looming very soon. does it just feel to you like a government on its last legs ? its last legs? >> well , it definitely does >> well, it definitely does a little bit. rwanda policy is going to really, really struggle in both the commons and the lords . uh, come the new year, lords. uh, come the new year, i was in parliament for that debate , uh, which ended up being debate, uh, which ended up being a bit anticlimactic. the the,

the bill did actually pass the second reading pretty easily, but i to a lot of but i spoke to a lot of conservative that conservative mps there on that day said still had huge day who said they still had huge reservations but saving reservations but were saving them for the third reading. and them for the third reading. and the report stage. that is going them for the third reading. and th

example, no one's really going to be feeling the benefits of that even by that by may, or even by september. so there's an argument that it's just too late at this stage. >> okay. olivia utley , thank you >> okay. olivia utley, thank you for joining us from westminster. superb stuff. now the christmas tv schedule is bringing up a host of surprises. last night, bbc one premiered a behind the scenes documentary focusing on king charles's coronation year. it was wonderful . the princess it was wonderful. the princess royal took a starring role, providing heartfelt commentary as we were given a fly on the wall look at the life of the new monarch and his big day. and here's at what life was here's a peek at what life was like for the royals on the day of coronation so are we to of that coronation so are we to we can get ourselves organised down there. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> somewhat . oh, it's all over. >> somewhat. oh, it's all over. lordy . oh,

lordy. oh, i. there was just a really exciting moment of just getting them into that carriage the first time. and then we knew we were . off. and then we knew we were. off. >> i thought back of , you know, >> i thought back of, you know, being two years old and watching the queen's coronation and, you know, a tiny black and white television . television. >> and there goes the sort of golden coach with my sister in it. i can't explain the feeling because it's so surreal and this cannot be happening . cannot be happening. >> yeah, it was quite a moment. >> yeah, it was quite a moment. >> we were ready. we were ready and we were ready to go out and face literally the world pomp and pageantry. >> don't we do it the best now

joining us now is former royal butler to the king grant harold grant. thank you forjoining us. grant. thank you for joining us. a wonderful documentary touching , poignant and just what the doctor ordered at christmas . doctor ordered at christmas. >> absolutely. thank you. >> absolutely. thank you. >> martin. >> martin. >> i watched it like many other viewers watched last night, and it was interesting from my point of view, because watching it as a member of the royal a former member of the royal household, but still so much of it brought back many, many memories and of course, many other behind the other characters behind the scenes that i recognise from my time the household. but i time within the household. but i thought it was nicely done and i think gave most people a bit think it gave most people a bit of the scenes and what of a behind the scenes and what it with those it was like with those preparations, which i also found really , and lots of really interesting, and lots of touching moments , particularly touching moments, particularly the one where, um, prince william was trying to help the king and do his clasp on his cloak, and he joked about his sausage fingers. >> lots of humanity, lots of self—deprecatory humour on display. isn't that the point ? display. isn't that the point? it's making them seem more normal , more it's making them seem more normal, more relatable ? normal, more relatable? >> absolutely, martin. and this

is exactly the family that i knew you know, behind closed doors, people say, what is it like ? like? >> well, that's giving you an idea is like. the idea of what it is like. the humour, the fun, the down to earth approach. i mean, there's also little scene where you also a little scene where you saw princess anne to saw princess anne go up to her brother he's been crowned, brother after he's been crowned, arrived back at the palace, and she him old bean. she refers to him as old bean. and giggle. and then she refers to him as old bean. and does giggle. and then she refers to him as old bean. and does always giggle. and then she refers to him as old bean. and does always giggle. anrof�*nen she does always say a kind of nods head him and then she does always say a kind of nodstheyhead him and then she does always say a kind of nodstheyhead a him and then she does always say a kind of nodstheyhead a moment then she does always say a kind of nodstheyhead a moment and1 she does always say a kind of nodstheyhead a moment and you they they have a moment and you know, this is what i keep saying to people closed doors. know, this is what i keep saying to p> and can i quickly ask you, grant, about mike tindall ? well, grant, about mike tindall? well, mike tindall, there's a lovely piece in the telegraph today about how he's become almost like a surrogate brother for william . putting his arm around william. putting his arm around prince george and developing a really sort of , prince george and developing a really sort of, i think, a loving, brotherly relationship with william . with william. >> i was lucky enough to get to know him during my time in the household, and weirdly, i've

bumped him a times bumped into him a few times since and he's very good. >> uh, he's fitted in beautifully with the family. he's very good with the young, the young princes and princess charlotte . and as you said, you charlotte. and as you said, you know, with prince william, he has strong connection has got a very strong connection . as you said, . they've got, as you said, a kind which kind of brotherly bond, which is really also what's really nice. i think also what's happenedin really nice. i think also what's happened in recent years with between prince harry and prince william those , uh, new william is having those, uh, new family to kind of be family members to kind of be there support each other has there to support each other has been important been really important to them. and is this and again, this is what this programme actually shown programme has actually shown people, , part of part of people, um, part of it, part of me thought it would be me kind of thought it would be nice maybe more nice if they'd maybe focus more on quite on the coronation, but quite rightly, focus on all the rightly, they focus on all the other that going other parts that are going on over think over the last year. but i think everybody spoke to were everybody i've spoke to were really in the really interested in the coronation part, and it'd be nice to see more of what nice to see a bit more of what went on behind the scenes. but who knows, maybe that's, uh, that's do that's the reason for them to do another document . another another document. >> for joining >> superb. so thanks for joining us. to the us. former royal butler to the king. harrold. king. thank grant harrold. always merry always a pleasure. and merry christmas . always a pleasure. and merry christmas. now always a pleasure. and merry christmas . now start christmas. now you can start your new year with £10,000 in cash, a £500 shopping spree and a brand new iphone. sounds

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news. >> welcome back. it's 325. you're watching or listening to martin daubney on gb news coming up, ricky gervais , his latest up, ricky gervais, his latest netflix special has causing controversy, upsetting plenty of snowflakes and hitting all of the hot topics and especially good news he's annoyed gary lineker . now good news he's annoyed gary lineker. now this week the us military have launched attacks against iranian backed militant groups in iraq in response to drone strikes on us bases. could this lead to an escalation and what is already an incredibly unstable middle east? well, joining me now to discuss this is former royal navy commander, rear admiral chris parry . um, rear admiral chris parry. um, chris, thank you for joining rear admiral chris parry. um, chris, thank you forjoining us chris, thank you for joining us on the show. it's always a pleasure, always a concern . of pleasure, always a concern. of course, when the western allies are dragged into these conflicts, echoes of the iraq war and afghanistan, of course . war and afghanistan, of course. how concerned should we be about america being pulled into the

conflicts in the middle . east? conflicts in the middle. east? >> i think, martin, we need to be concerned about the whole free world being dragged into the conflict middle east. the conflict in the middle east. >> i think iran and china and russia would like to characterise this as the united states against everybody else, but it's not the case. um, i think we've got to wake up in the free world that, uh , the the free world that, uh, the three countries i just mentioned , uh, are in a state of low level war with us at the moment. >> uh, and what we're seeing in ukraine, seeing in ukraine, what we're seeing in the sea, what we're the south china sea, what we're seeing is seeing in the middle east is a manifestation of that. uh, we're seeing a range of proxy wars that are being waged on behalf of these two totalitarian regimes that are seeking to undermine the validity and the authority of the free world. >> and if you look at the red sea, for example, the sea is the physical equivalent of the world wide web . uh, physical equivalent of the world wide web. uh, it physical equivalent of the world wide web . uh, it gives us our wide web. uh, it gives us our access to global ization. it's the basis for the international rules based system. and those

three totalitarian dictatorships are actually challenging. uh, the free world's dominance of the free world's dominance of the world's oceans. uh, and i'm afraid to say that 2024 is going to be very tense . there's going to be very tense. there's going to be very tense. there's going to be very tense. there's going to be lot of excitement and to be a lot of excitement and there'll be lot of these there'll be a lot of these things uh, things rippling along, uh, between in the interface between these two blocs, the free world and the totalitarian world. >> and, of course, chris, it's not just weapons themselves, it's the weaponization of things like oil supplies , shipping like oil supplies, shipping routes, of course, affecting produce, getting to the uk, all of that becoming very tense. these walls in far, far away lands. chris they come to our shores when we're suddenly hit by fresh cost of living crises. as a consequence, as a knock on effect of these wars . effect of these wars. >> yeah, we're seeing the breakdown of globalisation. >> i think we're going to see inevitably, uh, these two blocs coalescing, not just from a strategic and military point of view, but from an economic and financial point of view as well. >> uh, china , russia, iran are >> uh, china, russia, iran are all already talking about

de—dollarisation of the world's economy . they're talking about economy. they're talking about de—americanization of the world's institutions . we have to world's institutions. we have to wake up in the new year. this is a fundamental threat to our way of life. i was talking over christmas with friends , and christmas with friends, and we're saying it's just like 1936 again. uh, we're having to face the twin threats of fascism , um, the twin threats of fascism, um, in, in russia and iran and communism in china. in, in russia and iran and communism in china . and unless communism in china. and unless we start to rearm and stop appeasing these people , we're appeasing these people, we're going to find ourselves overwhelmed . overwhelmed. >> okay. former royal navy commander rear admiral chris parry , thank you very much for parry, thank you very much for joining us on the show. and a huge part of this is being sovereign and sovereign in terms of energy , being of energy, being self—sufficient, because all of these wars, of course, have exposed us to the fact that we are dependent on these importation of gas and oil at a time when the net zero zealots seem intent on making us dependent on tyrants, on despots, on foreign hostile nations, surely there's an argument to say if we were

self—sufficient, we'd be much, much more secure from these external walls . that's just my external walls. that's just my thoughts now . there's still lots thoughts now. there's still lots more to come between now and 4:00. storm gareth, of course, is causing havoc across the country and we'll be getting the latest updates on what it means for you post in your post—christmas travel. and i got back despite pat garrett today. took me 3.5 hours to get here, but i made it. but first, here's your latest news headlines with sam francis . sam francis. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. i'm sam francis in the gb newsroom. the headlines at 3:30, a 16 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson. that's following a fire at a school in west london. ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to the blaze at the london oratory school at around 10:00 this morning. the london fire brigade said. part of the building has been damaged, but no injuries have been reported . chancellor

have been reported. chancellor jeremy hunt has announced that the 2024 spring budget will be delivered on march the 6th. it comes as reports have emerged that downing street is considering axing inheritance tax and reducing income tax . tax and reducing income tax. meanwhile, the housing secretary, michael gove, has hinted at a pre—election giveaway suggesting the party will cut costs for first time home buyers . drivers are being home buyers. drivers are being warned to watch out for hazardous conditions as heavy rain and strong winds sweep across the uk . in scotland, across the uk. in scotland, storm garrett has caused the trans—pennine rail line to flood , blocking all stations between lockerbie and carlisle. meanwhile, thousands of travellers are also facing delays or cancellations as the storm has forced their flights to be grounded. multiple weather warnings remain in place across the rest of uk . meanwhile, the rest of the uk. meanwhile, ferry passengers are also facing up to three hours of delays at the port of dover. it's facing high demand as thousands of people make post—christmas trips across the channel those who miss their booked ferries are being put onto the next sailing,

where space is available. enhanced passport checks by french border officials follow following the uk's withdrawal from the eu have significantly increased processing times . the increased processing times. the michigan supreme court has rejected an attempt to remove former president donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot , according to reports. ballot, according to reports. it's based on the us constitution's insurrection ban. the ruling is in contrast with the recent court case in colorado , where mr trump was colorado, where mr trump was disqualified from running for president in the state due to his alleged role in the capitol riots. that decision has been paused, though, pending an appeal, paused, though, pending an appeal , and paused, though, pending an appeal, and you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com . our website, gbnews.com. >> for stunning gold and silver coins, you'll always value rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , the gb news financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of

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christmas brazier. now here i am back to work with a bang. um yes. it's not. it's not the best. the wind is very, very strong at the moment. and that's a bit of. that's the issue down here on the south coast. they're saying that the wind will be very they're advising very strong. so they're advising people they can avoid people to if they can avoid coastal roads because of the idea of the waves sweeping over the roads. and also to avoid rural roads if you can. that's where the real danger lies at the moment, with trees coming down. um, weather warnings in place across a lot of the country . mainly, though, in country. mainly, though, in scotland , as we were hearing scotland, as we were hearing just now , a tree fell down onto just now, a tree fell down onto a line out of edinburgh . and so a line out of edinburgh. and so trains have been delayed there considerably . trains have been delayed there considerably. um, very trains have been delayed there considerably . um, very difficult considerably. um, very difficult to get across to wales at the moment. you have to go to down the prince of wales bridge . you the prince of wales bridge. you can't like you could can't go across like you could normally from gloucester area . normally from gloucester area. you have to go right to down bristol and go across that way andifs bristol and go across that way and it's very difficult to get to the isle of wight to do. the

ferries have been cancelled from southampton and here in southampton to cowes and here in portsmouth, the there not running here either. so you can't take the hovercraft from portsmouth across to. but the weather warnings won't be in place for too much longer. they say that now is the worst time and as we go through the evening into tomorrow, things should be calming down a little bit, which will be good. >> okay. jeff moody in portsmouth, thank you for that update . and hang on your hat update. and hang on to your hat down there . yeah, took down there. yeah, it took me a few hours get in today. it few hours to get in today. it normally takes came normally takes me. i came from the west country. it normally takes hour and takes me about an hour and a half. took me 3.5 hours to get in but i came at the in today. but i came at the crack dawn sure. make in today. but i came at the cracii dawn sure. make in today. but i came at the cracii dawn for sure. make in today. but i came at the cracii dawn for you, sure. make in today. but i came at the cracii dawn for you, oura. make sure i made it for you, our beloved viewers. i made it, and if you're going to make it, just take bit extra and take a bit of extra time and take a bit of extra time and take . now coming up for me take care. now coming up for me or offensive, obviously it's funny because ricky gervais says armageddon stand up special is causing plenty of controversy on netflix . we'll be looking at netflix. we'll be looking at that shortly. warning it offended gary lineker. i'm

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michael portillo, gb news britain's news channel . welcome back. >> it's 339. thank you for joining me on the show. you're watching or listening. of course the martin daubney on gb news. now some good news because for the first time in five years there have been no migrants crossing the channel over christmas. that's right. home

office figures show there have now been ten consecutive days without a single arrival , without a single arrival, recorded via dinghy across the channel what could this be? let's analyse this miracle at christmas , shall we? and take christmas, shall we? and take a reminder of some of the numbers. since 2018. that's when the first began recording the numbers of people arriving via boats, because of course , before boats, because of course, before that the preferred method of entry into the uk was hopping aboard a truck. that does still happen , as our home security happen, as our home security edhon happen, as our home security editor, mark white has shown so well this year, said a few thousand and coming that way. but since 2018 till now, 114,345 illegals have entered the uk via small dinghies. in 2022, which was the record year as 45,774. now that fell . all this year. to

now that fell. all this year. to 29,437. and as we just said , for 29,437. and as we just said, for the first time since those records began in 2018, there have been zero zero people landing illegally via small dinghies . so what could this be? dinghies. so what could this be? could there have been a miracle at christmas? could it have been that the people smugglers took christmas off? it would seem unlikely, wouldn't it, christmas off? it would seem unlikely, wouldn't it , that the unlikely, wouldn't it, that the people coming over the types of people coming over the types of people the types of people from the types of countries such as iraq, iran , countries such as iraq, iran, afghanistan? well, they don't they don't celebrate christmas over there being a non—christian country and all that. so it probably isn't the fact that it was christmas after all, they don't take christmas off these criminals. they tend to go any time they can to make a few quid. so could it have been rishi sunak stop the boats policy? well we've already discussed on the show that there's been a spectacular failure and there have been 29,437 this year. it would seem unlikely that a clampdown over christmas suddenly kicked in as

we all tucked into our turkey and plum duff. could it be for the fact there's been a huge clampdown on by the french? well, it's christmas and the french do take christmas off, as we know they take record amounts of holiday during the summer holidays, 40% of the gendarmes manning the beaches at calais and all those areas take time off during the time when we need them most. so i think we're going to assume it wasn't because of a festive outbreaking of extra duty from the french authorities. could it be something far, far simpler ? in something far, far simpler? in fact, geoff moody's package a moment ago might give you a clue. yes it's been really stormy. we've had terrible weather for ten days. the wind has been lashing in across across there. and if you look at the wind maps that we've seen, typically in the dover area, they've been running at 24, 25 knots and above , sometimes gusts

knots and above, sometimes gusts as high as 40, 50, 60 or 70, even 70 miles an hour. quite simply, the dinghy crossings came to a grinding halt because the weather's been terrible once again pointing out rishi sunak would far would be far better off learning a rain dance or learning how to bring the bad weather on board, because bad weather on board, because bad weather is our best defence against illegal immigrants. despite what any politician may tell you, you heard it here first. now moving on. comedian ricky gervais has come under fire for his latest show , fire for his latest show, armageddon as he tears into woke culture, taking a swipe at james corden and also gary lineker. two great. >> i stand by the traffic lights and i wait for a big lorry to pull up. >> it faces backlash as thousands have signed a petition for axe some of his jokes for him to axe some of his jokes . can we hear this joke here?

yeah, i wanted to hear that joke. that's the joke with the punchline with gary lineker in it. anyway joining me now is comedian diane spencer. diane um, this latest clip , it's um, this latest clip, it's fantastic. i check it out. it's on my twitter feed. it's on the gb news twitter feed. it's basically ricky gervais. well, can you talk us through the sketch ? sketch? >> uh, yes. so uh, ricky gervais says i love illegal immigrants. i'm woke now and he says , i i'm woke now and he says, i stand on the beach. and when they when he pulls the boats onto the beach and he says, women and children first. no oh, just you lads. all right, come on then, lads. come on. so that's his first lovely little dig. and he, does this dig. and then he, uh, does this thing where he says stands at thing where he says he stands at a stop and he under a bus stop and he peers under a lorry and he sees a guy clinging on and he says , are you all on and he says, are you all right, mate? and the guy goes, yeah, i'm just on. on my way to gary lineker's house. and he goes, you'll fine. gary lineker's house. and he goe um, you'll fine. gary lineker's house. and he goeum, i, you'll fine. gary lineker's house. and he goeum, i, i you'll fine. gary lineker's house. and he goeum, i, i am/ou'll fine. gary lineker's house. and he goeum, i, i am notll fine. gary lineker's house. and he goeum, i, i am not actuallye. so, um, i, i am not actually a ricky gervais fan. i mean, what

we know about comedy is that obviously it's different flavours for different folks, you know, um , but i do find him you know, um, but i do find him funny in different places . and funny in different places. and this new special has come out andifs this new special has come out and it's his writing and it's called armageddon . i mean, i called armageddon. i mean, i would think you know, him being an atheist, there's probably going to be a lot of jokes in there about the end of the world and things that, but, um, and things like that, but, um, it seems that it's got some people have got their knickers in a twist and they are writing to netflix because they don't want those jokes spoken with, which is just, are we not beyond this by now? because i'm pretty sure ricky gervais , who has a sure ricky gervais, who has a massive worldwide fan base, did not write the show for the people who already dislike him and who won't buy tickets anyway i >> -- >> so precisely. and i think actually , diane, we do now have actually, diane, we do now have the clip to show so gb news viewers can hear what people are getting offended out here. it

is. >> well, i am woke now and i can prove it. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> i love illegal immigrants. yeah sue me now i sometimes i go down to dover for the day right . down to dover for the day right. >> and i, i look out right and look look for a boat and i see a dinghy with about 60 of them. and i go over here, right. >> and i pull them in, i pull them in to shore, and i go, women and children. first they 90, women and children. first they go, are no women in just go, there are no women in just you is it? just on, you lads, is it? just come on, lads, . lads, go lads. >> if i go down there one day and there's no boat, i am absolutely gutted. >> i don't know, ijust absolutely gutted. >> i don't know, i just sort of wander into town and i. i stand by the traffic lights and i wait for a big lorry to pull up. right. | for a big lorry to pull up. right. i underneath and right. and i look underneath and there's a lad sort of clutching like that and i go, where are you headed ? and he goes, gary you headed? and he goes, gary lineker's house. i go down lineker's house. i go just down there . there. >> so i'm so glad we can get to, to, to play that. >> the person who's joking is. >> the person who's joking is. >> yeah. i mean i'm so glad we got that clip because gervais,

we saw when he did the golden globes, he just, um, he just lambasts the pompous and what's been really interesting about this, and i think even funnier, aside from the actual sketch itself, diane has been the predictable, pathetic backlash the independent wrote a piece on ricky gervais on this particular sketch, saying he's basically suella braverman , but a comedian suella braverman, but a comedian . are we at the stage now where we're not allowed to land based multi—millionaires who hold political views that the majority of britain don't? surely that's what satire and comedy is about. lineker is an absolutely fitting target for this kind of humour. >> well, like i said at the start, humour is always dependent on the person who creates it, the person who listens to it, what vibes with them and what doesn't. uh, that article by the independent was very snotty and you know what? you you gervais is popular, so

he is a target. but like i said, he's not writing it for these snotty reviewers who were never going to buy a ticket. they were never going to go see him. they they no matter what he brought out, it would be very likely that they would criticise it. he probably, in many people's eyes, can't do any right. so i don't think it's going to put off the people who are buying tickets. i think the people who's opinions are really important in this are his fans. i think instead of listening to you know, these newspapers, who would have just tore him down anyway , they tore him down anyway, they talked to the fans of ricky gervais, the people who went to see the show live, the people who have watched it on netflix , who have watched it on netflix, see what they think of it because that's who it's for. and |, because that's who it's for. and i, i think it's really sad that there's a group of people out there's a group of people out there who are saying, no, you can't enjoy , you can't enjoy can't enjoy, you can't enjoy your comedy. it's inappropriate. and you're right, he's taking

the mickey out of gary lineker , the mickey out of gary lineker, who i mean, for goodness sake, you know, are we supposed to curtsy every time gary lineker walks past like that ? man, he walks past like that? man, he thinks he's some kind of martyr. his head is so big it's a wonder he can eat crisps . like he he can eat crisps. like he probably can't see the packet through his massive ego. so i think ricky gervais should do jokes on whatever he likes because it's for his crowd and let's listen to what their opinions of his jokes are. well diane, you know you've hit the nail on the head. >> his summer is closer , >> his summer is closer, nicholas. it's closer to the bone. but it's obviously massively, massively popular because he's making millions of quid out of it. his tours are a total sell—out. he shows are the highest rated things on netflix . highest rated things on netflix. and an interesting thing that's come out of this part of the criticism who criticism of the people who can't fact his, can't stand the fact that his, his so—called contrarian racist, transphobic, anti—immigrant views are so popular, they say , views are so popular, they say, well, he can only say this because he's so rich, but that's

the kind of answering their own question, because if he wasn't, they'd be trying to cancel his career. they'd be trying to shut down his shows . they'd be trying career. they'd be trying to shut do run1is shows . they'd be trying career. they'd be trying to shut do run himhows . they'd be trying career. they'd be trying to shut do run him out; . they'd be trying career. they'd be trying to shut do run him out of they'd be trying career. they'd be trying to shut do run him out of they'ctheatre ng to run him out of every theatre across the land. they can't to run him out of every theatre acrthat he land. they can't to run him out of every theatre acrthat he land. he'sthey can't to run him out of every theatre acrthat he land. he's ricky an't do that because he's ricky gervais , and that is what makes gervais, and that is what makes their rotate out. their heads rotate out. >> really does. and i find >> it really does. and i find that if , um, >> it really does. and i find that if, um, for a start, can i just underline i do not think it any way, shape or form that ricky gervais is racist or bigoted or anti—semitic. of course, he's not anti—trans. i don't think he's any of those things . and i think him poking things. and i think him poking fun at the situation is kind of a crucial thing to do as a comedian and just sort of test the waters . um, but yeah, that the waters. um, but yeah, that they they're so angry that he can be successful and not on their terms is, um, it's a bit like gb news they get so angry every time gb news does something exciting and people are involved and people love watching the channel that you

have this sort of group of people who say, who can't stand the fact that we're having a good time. they very angry and they try to attack us, but it's a lot of keyboard warrior stuff. you know, i, i think that if ricky gervais, you know, suddenly announced a date at, uh, a theatre in london, i'm pretty sure it would sell out in seconds . and of course, there seconds. and of course, there would be all this online. hoo ha. oh, we're going to protest. you shouldn't do this. at you shouldn't do this. but at the of the day, they're the end of the day, they're probably not going to turn up. and the people who do turn up will have fantastic show will have a fantastic show because to see the because they're going to see the comedian that they enjoy. because they're going to see the conyeah.i that they enjoy. because they're going to see the conyeah. and: they enjoy. because they're going to see the conyeah. and the ey enjoy. because they're going to see the conyeah. and the fact enjoy. because they're going to see the conyeah. and the fact of enjoy. because they're going to see the conyeah. and the fact of the joy. >> yeah. and the fact of the matter is, diane, you're not only that ricky only correct to say that ricky gervais racist, isn't gervais isn't racist, he isn't any those things. in fact, any of those things. in fact, he's actually quite liberal. he's into animal rights. he's actually quite liberal. he's into animal rights . he's he he's into animal rights. he's he tells touching stories about death and sorrow and loss. he's not remotely right wing or xenophobic or any of those things, but he understands that

the kind of people that they are deserve to be utterly lambasted. they deserve to be parodied, especially if they're mentored. hence my reference to him at the golden globes . you know, if golden globes. you know, if you're a millionaire . and you're you're a millionaire. and you're going to be telling me how to live my life, then you are specially become poppy. specially become a tall poppy. you deserve to get it you especially deserve to get it in neck and have no in the neck and you have no right to bleat back and isn't it ironic that we see we see with like i disagree with you there you go on then. i think you do. go on then. i think i think they i think if you you are there and you're being a millionaire and you're telling the common folk how to live their lives, you deserve to have their lives, you deserve to have the mickey out of you. the mickey taken out of you. >> . but do >> definitely. but i do then think also have the right to think you also have the right to respond . to the fact that the respond. to the fact that the mickey was taken out of you because you said they don't have a like , reply, but a right to like, reply, but i think they do. know, think think they do. you know, i think it all the time. it flows both ways all the time. >> well, i'm sure that >> yeah, well, i'm sure that they that or they can exercise that via x or twitter or whatever it's called. but i mean , the fact the via but i mean, the fact the via their lawyers that i think it's wrong. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah.

>> the idea that gary lineker will this and doesn't will be hurt by this and doesn't have right to reply is funny have the right to reply is funny in itself. spencer, thank in itself. diane spencer, thank you for joining in itself. diane spencer, thank you forjoining us in in itself. diane spencer, thank you for joining us in this christmas period. you so christmas period. thank you so much. it's so much. wonderful. it's so important laughing at important to keep laughing at these people this stuff . these people and all this stuff. i ask you to get in touch early on with views. you did on with your views. and you did on with your views. and you did on ricky gervais. glennis says this i'm not a real fan of ricky gervais, but i thought his joke about migrant heading to gary lineker's home was spot on. gary lineker's home was spot on. gary lineker after all, says some offensive things. himars fair point there glennis stuart says this ricky gervais is very clever and knows how to add comments into a joke and will infuriate late woke communities . infuriate late woke communities. from the netflix ratings, it seems that's we non—woke are still the majority. stuart i'll dnnk still the majority. stuart i'll drink to that and on other things on inheritance tax, gwyneth says this inheritance tax doesn't . only affect the tax doesn't. only affect the very rich 4% of the population, it affects the very ordinary

londoner who inherits the family house. it's a myth that it's that brilliant for everyone that it's brilliant for everyone but the rich . and we're looking but the rich. and we're looking ahead general election in ahead to the general election in the next year . and bridget says the next year. and bridget says this the tories want to win the election. they need to restore the and stop the standard of living and stop overspending public money. thank you very much. now coming up, donald has a special donald trump has a special christmas his christmas message for his critics in the us. and it's not pretty. that's all coming up. i'm martin daubney on gb news and britain's news and we are britain's news channel >>a channel >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there, it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast storm garrett will continue to bring wet and windy weather to the uk. for the rest of today, with heavy snow in northern scotland, so some treacherous conditions out there now . the worst of the out there now. the worst of the wind and rain has eased for the time being across england , time being across england, wales, scotland. but wales, southern scotland. but another bout of wet and windy

weather moves into west wales, northwest the northwest england, through the evening per hour wind evening 70 mile per hour wind gusts, 80 mile per hour wind gusts, but 80 mile per hour wind gusts, but 80 mile per hour wind gusts across the far north of scotland, heavy gusts across the far north of scotltblizzards heavy gusts across the far north of scotltblizzards over heavy gusts across the far north of scotltblizzards over hills heavy gusts across the far north of scotltblizzards over hills and'y snow blizzards over hills and drifting well through the drifting as well through the night , the wind does ease night, the wind does ease a little and there'll be less rain about, but still some showers coming in from the west and enough of a breeze, of course , enough of a breeze, of course, to keep the frost away . so to keep the frost away. so a mild start in the south. still on the cold side across parts of scotland where there will continue to be hill snow into thursday and outbreaks rain at lower levels. strong winds continue across the country . continue across the country. with 40 to 50 mile per hour wind gusts and some heavy bursts of rain. some longer spells of rain in example , the in places, for example, the south and southeast. by the end of afternoon. it's mild in of the afternoon. it's mild in the south 11 12 celsius, but the south 11 or 12 celsius, but mid single figures further north and that over the and colder than that over the hills. friday does start off with some sunshine. it's still blustery out there that are blustery out there and that are still quite a number of showers around, particularly the around, particularly in the north in between north and the west. in between the showers of some sunny

spells, but on the chilly side the showers of some sunny spelinto ut on the chilly side the showers of some sunny spelinto then the chilly side the showers of some sunny spelinto the weekend. .y side the showers of some sunny spelinto the weekend. further and into the weekend. further hill snow in the north, wet and windy weather elsewhere . windy weather elsewhere. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boiler year. sponsors of weather on gb news . wake up of weather on gb news. wake up to the headlines with headliners every morning at 5 am. we treat you to the day's biggest stories before anyone else. >> seven days a week you can catch up on everything you need to know before you've even had your um headliners your kippers. um headliners every morning at 5 am. only on gb news the people's channel, britain's news

>> good afternoon. it's 4 pm. welcome to the show. i'm martin daubney this is gb news. i hope you have a fantastic christmas. thanks for joining you have a fantastic christmas. thanks forjoining me. i'll be keeping you company for the next two got a cracking hour two hours. got a cracking hour coming up. top story the budget date has been set for the spring march. the sixth. so does that mean finally, after 24 straight tax rises , we might finally get tax rises, we might finally get a tax cut? inheritance tax income tax or more. could that tempt you to vote tories or are they toast? we'll have a look at all of the details . plus, how all of the details. plus, how has rishi done this year? five pledges doesn't score very well

is the clue. next up, a warm fuzzy glow as you watched it yesterday, a fantastic documentary on bbc one looking back at the king's coronation, we'll have a look back at the highlights and also looking ahead to mike tindall , of ahead to mike tindall, of course, married to zara , course, married to zara, fantastic role model and the brother who's missing from prince william's life. also so driverless cars , they're set to driverless cars, they're set to be a reality in the uk by the end of 2026, and even the transport minister, mark harper, says people who drive these cars will be able to drive without looking where they're going. is that a breakthrough or an accident waiting to happen ? and accident waiting to happen? and finally, donald trump is back. he's buoyant . he sent out a he's buoyant. he sent out a touching christmas message to his rivals which said rot in hell. yes, he's not pulling any punches. he won a legal case in michigan to try and prevent him from standing as the candidate for the party. and i'm asking this, will he be the president

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march. it could be jeremy hunt's last chance to introduce major tax and spending changes before the next general election. >> and it comes as reports have emerged that downing street could axe inheritance tax and reduce income tax. >> the move is one of a handful of pledges that number 10 hopes will boost. rishi sunak's chances of a win, but shadow financial secretary to the treasury james murray says labouris treasury james murray says labour is ready to make the changes working people need . changes working people need. >> i'm sure there'll be endless speculation about the date of the election. >> we're ready it whenever >> we're ready for it whenever it i think what it comes because i think what people know is people across britain know is that tax burden is set to be that the tax burden is set to be the people the highest in 70 years. people have seen 25 tax rises have already seen 25 tax rises under this government since the last growth is on the last election. growth is on the floor in this country. people are worse off, people want change. and so whenever the election we'll ready election comes, we'll be ready for . for it. >> let's m5 ma- m to the united >> let's take you to the united states where the michigan states now, where the michigan supreme court has rejected an attempt to remove former president donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. the

ruling is in sharp contrast with the recent court case in colorado , where mr trump was colorado, where mr trump was disqualified for running for president in that state due to his alleged role in the capitol hill riots. that decision has now been paused pending an appeal. now been paused pending an appeal . back now been paused pending an appeal. back here in the uk, a 16 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire at a school in west london. ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to the blaze at the london oratory school at around 10:00 this morning. the london fire brigade said part of the building had been damaged but no injuries were reported . drivers injuries were reported. drivers have been warned to watch out for hazardous driving conditions today as heavy rain, and particularly strong winds sweep across the country. storm garrett has caused the trans—pennine rail line to flood, blocking all stations between lockerbie and carlisle. meanwhile, thousands of travellers are facing delays or cancellations as the storm

forces their flights to be grounded much purple weather warnings remain in place right across the uk. national reporter theo chikomba is on the dorset coast. there are gusts of up to 18mph throughout many parts of the uk. >> nine yellow weather warnings until 6 pm. so people are being advised to check before they travel in southampton . those travel in southampton. those looking to use the red funnel red jet services are being cautioned that there may be disruptions and cancellations, and those travelling in portsmouth using hovercrafts are also being warned that there are further cancellations and disruption today . disruption today. >> lakshmi parthasarathy theo chikomba well staying in dover ferry passengers are facing delays of up to an hour and a half at the of dover due to half at the port of dover due to staff amongst french staff sickness amongst french police. it comes amid increased demand at the port as thousands of people make that post—christmas trip to the continent. those who miss booked ferries are being put onto the next available crossing . the next available crossing. the hospital car parking fees in

england have risen more than 50% in the last year. that's according to new figures. visitors and patients spent . visitors and patients spent. £146 million to park in between 2022 and 2023. that's the equivalent of £400,000 spent in each hospital car park every day. the data, which was uncovered by the liberal democrat s also found parking fees paid by hospital staff has soared more than eight fold. that's up from £56 million to more . than £46 million. we'll more. than £46 million. we'll soon be able to buy new pint sized bottles of still and sparkling wine. it's all part of a new post—brexit freedom. apparently, the new size will appear on supermarket shelves as well as pubs, clubs and restaurants . the government says restaurants. the government says the move will offer greater flexibility and choice for consumers . the parliamentary consumers. the parliamentary under—secretary business, under—secretary for business, kevin hollinrake, says the move will benefit everyone . will benefit everyone. >> well, he's a really important

change. we used to be able to buy pints of champagne in bottles and wine, for example, before joining the european union, so i think it's an opportunity for innovation . opportunity for innovation. churchill's favourite size of bottle . he said it was the right bottle. he said it was the right size for lunch for two or for dinner for one. so, um , so dinner for one. so, um, so i think it's a nice innovation. it's something we can do now. we left the european union more than 200,000 shoplifting cases went unsold in the 12 months to july of this year. >> new figures showing only around 15% of 362,000 cases resulted in a suspect being charged. the liberal democrats, who study the figures have accused the government of failing to tackle what they call an epidemic. however a spokesperson for the home office said rates for charging shoplifters are up by almost a third in the last year. shoplifters are up by almost a third in the last year . that's third in the last year. that's the news on gb news across the uk on tv in your. car, on digital radio and on your smart

speaken digital radio and on your smart speaker. this is britain's news channel. thank you speaker. this is britain's news channel . thank you polly, speaker. this is britain's news channel. thank you polly, a pint of wine. >> now there's an idea if you have a little drink at home. right now over christmas, please have one for me. and thank you so us on the so much for joining us on the festive period. now, an a major speech in january 2023, the prime minister said he would halve inflation, grow the economy, lower national debt , economy, lower national debt, shorten nhs waiting times and to cap it all, stop asylum seekers crossing the channel on small boats . and now, today again, boats. and now, today again, we're seeing talk of spring tax cuts, including ditching the dreaded inheritance tax to smooth over and woo voters as we approach a general election. so know when looking back at rishi's five pledges, how many of them has he achieved ? our of them has he achieved? our political correspondent olivia lee joins me now. olivia so we went over this earlier. lee joins me now. olivia so we went over this earlier . five went over this earlier. five pledges. shall we quickly run through them and give rishi a score for each one? crack on.

how many has he got out of five? first halving inflation. >> well , first halving inflation. >> well, halving inflation. i think we can safely say that he has achieved , uh, it was 10% at has achieved, uh, it was 10% at the end of last year and it's around 4% now. whether that was due to the actions . of rishi due to the actions. of rishi sunak and jeremy hunt is a little bit more up for debate. uh, inflation has halved in pretty much all western economies year and economies this year, and obviously have obviously they don't all have rishi and jeremy hunt in rishi sunak and jeremy hunt in charge of them . as for the charge of them. as for the others, uh, it's pretty patchy. nhs waiting list. that's perhaps the worst . are he promised that the worst. are he promised that he was going to cut them, and they're actually at a at a record high of 7.7 million. as for growing the economy, well, that hasn't really happened either for in some quarters of this year , the growth has nudged this year, the growth has nudged up to sort of 0.2, 0.3. in others, it's gone down to zero point —0.1, 0.2. so overall,

essentially it's hovered around zero, meaning that we're teetering on the edge of the of a recession , uh, growing a recession, uh, growing shrinking national debt. that's not really happened either. the obr, in its latest projections, said that by the end of this decade, we would see national debt starting to shrink. but in the meantime, it's still going up. so overall, paul, it's not a brilliant picture for rishi sunak, he said over and over again that, oh, stopping the boats. of course that was the last one. i only did for stopping the boats. i mean, rishi sunak has a plan for that. there a but there weren't a plan, but of course bogged down course that's been bogged down in of commons and will in the house of commons and will continue in continue to be bogged down in the house of commons, the house of and probably courts the house of commons, the house of many,nd probably courts the house of commons, the house of many,nd pro months courts the house of commons, the house of many,nd pro months to :ourts the house of commons, the house of many,nd pro months to come. for many, many months to come. so on one of his five pledges, rishi sunak is delivering, of course , he did give himself a course, he did give himself a little bit of wiggle room. he didn't actually set himself any deadunes didn't actually set himself any deadlines , but it was implied deadlines, but it was implied the speech was in january. it's now december. there was an implication there that by the end of the year he would have

moved forward on some of those goals. fact, said over goals. and in fact, he said over and that he wanted and over again that he wanted the public to judge him simply on how he delivered on those on how he has delivered on those five goals. well, could it be that the public is now judging him on exactly what wanted to him on exactly what he wanted to be on and finding be judged on and on finding him wanting his personal popularity ratings are pretty much lower than they've ever been, and the tories are still trailing 20 points behind in the polls. tories are still trailing 20 points behind in the polls . the points behind in the polls. the hope now for the conservatives is they can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, with some rabbit out of a hat. tax cut in the spring budget. but we'll have to wait and see. >> yes , olivia, at least >> yes, olivia, at least stopping the boats nil point cutting nhs waiting list, nil point debt falling to nil point. academy economy growing nil point halving inflation. yes, but maybe the bank of england half a point. i make that half a point out of five. olivia. he'll certainly be hoping for a better 2024. thank you very much for joining us from westminster. thank you. now former us

president donald trump has told his opponents they can rot in hell in an angry christmas rant, as you do . he's currently as you do. he's currently juggbng as you do. he's currently juggling four criminal trials with a total of 91 felony counts. and it comes as the michigan supreme court rejects attempts to remove trump from the ballot in the state there. well, joining us now is political commentator and co—host of dennis and julie with dennis prager. that's julie hartman. thank you forjoining hartman. thank you for joining us on the show. julie. let's start with that christmas message , if we can. it's message, if we can. it's unorthodox, but by jove, trump is absolutely blasting from the hip . hip. >> well, you know, we forget here in the united states that donald trump is just a human being like all the rest of us. >> and trust me when i say that conservatives always think, oh gosh, wouldn't he just be quiet ? gosh, wouldn't he just be quiet? he's playing right into what the left wants him to say. they want to make him out to be this authority , an unhinged authority, an unhinged individual . authority, an unhinged

individual. but the man has been through hell and he has been treated so poorly by the elites in our country. and so you can't help but not blame him for lashing out like that. but i think what's happening with donald trump is indicative of a greater problem, and that is that the most discriminated against group right now in the united states are concerned nafive united states are concerned native americans. we see them going after donald trump, native americans. we see them going after donald trump , the going after donald trump, the head of the republican party . head of the republican party. but it extends beyond that . in but it extends beyond that. in the 2020 election. we know that twitter colluded with the fbi to suppress conservative content. we know that the biden administration has colluded with meta facebook in order to suppress anti—vaccine content. we know that also in the fbi, there were these internal memos calling religious americans, catholic americans , quote, catholic americans, quote, violent extremists . yes, we see violent extremists. yes, we see that non—violent january 6th offenders are being treated far more harshly than even violent

black lives matter riots , black lives matter riots, offenders. the list goes on. and so i think when we see this anger from trump, he's not only expressing anger about his his own situation , but about the own situation, but about the entirety of persecution, not just against the trump camp, but against conservatives and republicans in general. >> yeah. in fact, julie, he talks of a witch hunt against trump and maga , and then he goes trump and maga, and then he goes into a tirade criticising inflation on afghanistan's surrender . the green new scam , surrender. the green new scam, as he calls it. no energy independence. electric car lunacy. he also talks about open borders. and julie, i wanted to ask you , we see often pictures ask you, we see often pictures from los angeles . my sister from los angeles. my sister lives in texas. we see the changing very, very quick demographic change of millions of people coming over your southern border. we're about to approach an immigration election

in the uk. how big a topic do you think immigration will be in the 2024 presidential election ? the 2024 presidential election? >> oh, i think it is one of the top three most important issues that we are facing right now . that we are facing right now. let me tell you, this statistic over the past three years, actually less since president biden took office. he's about to enter his third year of his presidency over 7 million undocumented immigrants have come across our southern border alone . now, people may be alone. now, people may be listening, thinking, oh , where listening, thinking, oh, where did she get that statistic? she's making that up. this comes from the department of homeland security . this is our own security. this is our own government data . can you believe government data. can you believe that undocumented that 7 million undocumented immigrants . and we know that, of immigrants. and we know that, of course , many are coming for a course, many are coming for a better life. and i have enormous sympathy they're sympathy for them. they're fleeing these ridden fleeing these crime ridden countries specifically, and especially in latin america . especially in latin america. yeah, but we also know that we are a lot of citizens are getting a lot of citizens from iran , from china, from from iran, from china, from syria , from countries where

syria, from countries where there are populations that are very hostile to the united states. i was reading actually just this morning that over 125,000 chinese nationals have crossed into the southern border in the past year. now don't you see that this is a great opportunity for our adversaries to perhaps send in spies or bad actors to take advantage of this situation? i think more americans are waking up to it because they are seeing they're looking out on their streets, and they are seeing the flood of immigrants, especially in cities like new york city. so i hope that people will certainly take that people will certainly take that to the ballot in 2024. but we'll just have to see. >> well, judy , that's the next >> well, judy, that's the next big question we saw with maggie thatcher in britain. they say when they play the man, it means it shows they ran out of ammunition. so they're going for trump personally. they're trying to in the courts, to stop him in the courts, failed in michigan, likely the colorado case will be overturned by the supreme court. can

anybody stop the trump train being the candidate on the ticket? and more to the point, do you think that for the liberals, the ultimate nightmare could happen? a trump could be the next president in 2024? trump to the terminator returns . trump to the terminator returns. >> well, look, it's a controversial thing to say, but i think that trump will be our next president if there is a fair election and in 2020, there is reason to believe that that many components of that election were rigged, especially we saw the way that big tech rigged the election. i just mentioned to you a few moments ago that twitter colluded with the fbi to suppress conservative content. we know that twitter had weekly meetings with the fbi and that even the fbi paid twitter over $3 million. why would a government agency pay a big tech giant , giant government agency pay a big tech giant, giant $3 million in anticipation of an election ? anticipation of an election? also, we know that one of the

biggest stories that twitter suppressed was the hunter biden laptop . so i would not be laptop story. so i would not be shocked if they did similar things again in 2024. so if it is a fair election, i think that trump will win. although if he does win, boy , let me tell you, does win, boy, let me tell you, i really worry about what is going to happen. we saw how horrible things got in 2020 with the black lives matter riots . i the black lives matter riots. i can only imagine how the left will react if bogeyman trump , as will react if bogeyman trump, as you say, is back for a second time, it's not going to be pretty supersoft. >> julie hartman, co—host of dennis and julie. thank you so much. fantastic guests. please come back and join us again and yeah, i think it's going to be the biggest show on earth. that's next november the 5th. you it up . you couldn't make it up. fireworks america . trump to fireworks in america. trump to the return . certainly one to the return. certainly one to watch. and of course we're covering that throughout the entire year for you here on gb news. now it's time for the great british giveaway and your chance to win treats, tech and

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you're watching or listening to martin daubney on gbh news. driverless cars. what do you think? welcome technology or an accident? waiting to happen. we'll have that later this hour . we'll have that later this hour. now last night, bbc one premiered behind the scenes documents focusing on king charles's coronation year. the princess royal took a starring role, providing heartfelt commentary as we were giving a fly on the wall look at the life of the new monarch and his big day. let's find out more. joining us now is former royal correspondent for the sun. the legend that is charles rea charles merry christmas. always a pleasure to see you. uh he can't hear us. we're going to go back to him in a minute. i wanted to ask him about how he felt that the royals have had as a year. this year, 1992, of course, was the famous annus horribilis. but i think this year has been an absolute corker. and the documentary , um, corker. and the documentary, um, yesterday was the cherry on the cake. let's put that now to

charles rea, who i think can now hear as charles was just about to say, i have to say again, it's always a pleasure to see you, and you're an absolute legend now. said it twice, charles. course, charles. uh, 1992. of course, the famous um annus annus horribilis 2023. i think looking back was a fabulous year. and the documentary yesterday behind the documentary yesterday behind the coronation really capped off a wonderful year for the royals . a wonderful year for the royals. >> i think it was fabulous in some parts. uh, martin, i don't think it was so fabulous for the royal family in other parts, i.e. the start of the year when spear came out and harry decided to, uh, put a bucket load over the royal family. >> and of course, at the end of the uh, we had end game, the year, uh, we had end game, which know omar scobie and the which i know omar scobie and the sussexes say they don't have anything to do with it, but i don't think it don't believe them. i think it was corporate one. uh, i think was a corporate one. uh, i think that backfired on them rather than the royal family, to be perfectly honest. >> but still, it was there and you still had, of course, the, uh, revelations of , uh, what's

uh, revelations of, uh, what's going on with prince andrew, although he's denied all the allegations , but he's in for allegations, but he's in for another tough start of the year with this , these names being with this, these names being released , uh, by a court. uh in released, uh, by a court. uh in i think it's january the 2nd. so it's not going to be very good. but in terms for people like us, it's been a great year because there's been a lot of a lot of royal stories and that's what we do . do. >> and charles, the documentary itself , um, some >> and charles, the documentary itself, um, some very touching moments , of course, particularly moments, of course, particularly i liked it when william was helping charles with the clasp on his cape and charles joked about his sausage fingers , and about his sausage fingers, and they seem to have a very warm and loving relationship . and the and loving relationship. and the great thing about documentaries like this is it peels away the pomp and the ceremony, and it allows us to see these people as allows us to see these people as a bit more like us. and that that in itself is a great triumph . triumph. >> you're right. you're right. martin. this was probably for me, the best programme , um, over me, the best programme, um, over the christmas period . i thought

the christmas period. i thought it was fabulous. and i think we saw you . you've stripped away saw you. you've stripped away all the pomp and the ceremony and everything else, but it also laid the lie that harry came out with, that he was denied need of hugs and kisses when he was younger. um, we saw a king yesterday who was hugging and kissing anybody who had a pulse, to be perfectly honest and he was very, very tactile with his own , uh, grandchildren . and, you own, uh, grandchildren. and, you know, we saw both charles and camilla in a, in a real great light . um, camilla in a, in a real great light. um, and if you camilla in a, in a real great light . um, and if you were light. um, and if you were working for the palace, i think you would be sitting back having a stiff whisky, thinking, yeah, we've done it. it's been a good job and all the best to my old chum hardman, who was one chum robert hardman, who was one of main members of team of the main members of the team responsible collating all responsible for collating all this. he was from the daily mail i >> -- >> and, charles, can i ask you about mike tindall? mike tindall, of course. the former england rugby legend and, um,

married to zara , a wonderful married to zara, a wonderful piece in today's telegraph talking about how he's becoming almost like a surrogate brother figure to william, that the pair seemed to have a tremendous bond. and i think it's just a wonderful thing to see. >> yes, it is a wonderful thing to see. we see occasionally throughout the year. we've seen a few pictures of, uh, mike tindall in situations, happy situations, laughing situations, uh, with, uh, prince william and on, uh , monday at sandringham on, uh, monday at sandringham and we saw mike tindall with george with his arm around him. and george was looking up, all smiles and everything else , and smiles and everything else, and he was and louis was walking down, holding the hand of mia tindall . it just goes to show tindall. it just goes to show how close they are as families now sitting back in montecito is the real brother . and i should the real brother. and i should imagine if he's seeing scenes like that and reading things like, what's he been having in the telegraph? he's not going to be a happy bunny at all, but that doesn't matter. i mean,

tindall fills that that tindall fills that gap that i think prince of wales needs , and think prince of wales needs, and he does it very, very well. mike tindall he is a man's man , tindall he is a man's man, there's no question about that. >> yeah, and i think you're dead right, charles. and that picture >> yeah, and i think you're dead righimzharles. and that picture >> yeah, and i think you're dead righim zharlehislnd that picture >> yeah, and i think you're dead righimzharlehis arm hat picture >> yeah, and i think you're dead righimzharlehis arm around ure of him with his arm around george i just thought was wonderful . and it shows again wonderful. and it shows again that somebody who's definitely not from a royal background , you not from a royal background, you know, he from a from very know, he came from a from a very humble background. um, and yet he's got this relationship where he's got this relationship where he can banter away . apparently he can banter away. apparently he can banter away. apparently he calls william one point. willy because he's not the best of drinkers . of drinkers. >> that's right. they released that on the rob burrows podcast . that on the rob burrows podcast. he and zara and zara was was heard singing about. you're going to in lot of trouble going to be in a lot of trouble for that um, so yeah, the for that one. um, so yeah, the piers, the piers, the tindall's and the and the whales get on very, very well and quite rightly so. they're great family. and this is how families should, you know, get on well with each other . with each other. >> yeah, i totally agree, tindall was raised in west yorkshire, the son of a social worker mother and a banker, father of course, renowned for

liking drinks himself. and liking a few drinks himself. and apparently william calls him baldy in return, something charles i would never dream of saying to you, especially not at christmas. charles. it's always a pleasure to speak to you. thank you much . enjoy your thank you so much. enjoy your christmas happy christmas and a very, very happy new to speak to you new year. hope to speak to you many, times the many, many more times on the show. superb stuff. now there's lots more still to come between now including i'll be now and 5:00, including i'll be talking to a former prime minister of iceland about why the west must stay strong in its support for ukraine. but first, here's your latest news headunes here's your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst . the top stories this hour. >> the chancellor has announced the 2024 spring budget will be delivered on the 6th of march. it comes as reports have emerged that downing street could axe inheritance tax and possibly reduce income tax. it's also being reported that sir keir starmer has instructed his

frontbench team to finalise their manifesto plans within weeks, telling shadow ministers to have policy proposals ready by mid january. also the news today drivers are experiencing hazardous conditions on the road as heavy rain and strong winds sweep across the uk . in sweep across the uk. in scotland, storm garrett has caused the trans—pennine rail line to flood. that's blocked all stations between lockerbie and carlisle, and thousands of travellers are facing delays or cancellations as the storm forces flights to be grounded to multiple weather warnings remain in place across the entire country , and passengers at the country, and passengers at the port of dover are facing delays of up to an hour and a half. at the moment. that's due to staff sickness among french police . it sickness among french police. it comes amid increased demand at the port as thousands make post—christmas trips to the continent . those who do miss continent. those who do miss booked ferries are being put onto the next available crossing and a 16 year old boy has been

arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire at a school in west london. ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to the blaze at the london oratory at around 10:00 this morning. the london fire brigade said. part of the building has been damaged, but no injuries have been reported . no injuries have been reported. and in the united states , the and in the united states, the michigan supreme court has rejected an attempt to remove the former president, donald trump , from the 2024 trump, from the 2024 presidential ballot, according to reports. it's based on the us constitution's incorrect list. band.the constitution's incorrect list. band. the ruling is in contrast with the recent court case in colorado, where mr trump was disqualified from running for president in the state due to his alleged role in the capitol hill riots. that decision has been paused pending an appeal. those are the top stories background to all of them by heading to our website, gbnews.com .

gbnews.com. >> thank you polly. now driverless cars could be on some uk roads by the end of 2026. the transport secretary, mark harper, also said he expected to see the owners of those vehicles being able to travel without having to watch where they're going by the end of that same yean going by the end of that same year, 2026. but of course, critics argue if the tech is not ready, it could cause serious accidents. well you don't say. now joining me now is editor in chief of auto express, steve fowler. steve, thanks for joining us over christmas. hope you're having a cracking festive period. is it the stuff of sci fi dreams , or could this turn fi dreams, or could this turn out to be our worst nightmare? what could possibly go wrong with allowing cars to drive themselves as well ? themselves as well? >> i think in many ways, martin computers will probably end up being far better drivers than you and i are, but a lot of

people are worried about it. a lot of people don't realise they've got a lot of computers doing work when doing a lot of the work when they're already some they're driving already some autonomous already autonomous functions are already on may have things on your car. you may have things like assist or like lane keep assist or stability control systems where it's a computer doing things better than you could do. and they really do make a car safer. but now i've but yeah, i will admit now i've got some autonomous functions on my car i have on my my car that i have on my driveway . it's what's called driveway. it's what's called level two. there various level two. there are various levels from one to 5 or 0 is nothing, and it basically goes from hands off, eyes from feet off hands off, eyes off, and then levels of brain off. and this is what the government is saying by 2026, we could just sit there and maybe watch gb news on our phone while the car is doing all the work. now it does sound exciting and potentially useful , but also potentially useful, but also quite worrying is the tech there yet? >> as you quite rightly say, i'm not sure it's quite yet, not sure it's quite ready yet, but it's three years away. >> steve, how kind of popular is this with readers and viewers of auto express? i mean, do they want this kind of stuff or are they scared of it? and big

question is when it goes, pete tong, who'd be responsible? the driver who isn't driving the manufacture , the if there's an manufacture, the if there's an accident, who gets the blame ? accident, who gets the blame? >> well, that last point, we'll come to do do people want it? well, i think it falls into into two camps. you've got the tech fans, the geeks, if you like. they love all that sort of technology . but i think if technology. but i think if you're ask average you're to ask the average person, to person, they're going to be very, wary of it. now, the very, very wary of it. now, the thing i always say to people is we on holiday on quite we all go on holiday on quite happy on planes in happy to travel on planes and in most of most cases the vast majority of that flight is done on autopilot . but yes, there are people sitting at the front there monitoring you can monitoring things, but you can even land on autopilot these days , which people days, which a lot of people don't plane is don't realise that the plane is doing now say, i think we're doing now to say, i think we're a way off from true a little way off from true driverless cars , but it's driverless cars, but it's stepping it's about stepping stones. it's about taking the driver and the taking the, the driver and the car buyer and the journey towards full autonomy. autonomous cars and think of the benefit as well. you know , one benefit as well. you know, one day, hopefully in many years time, it will come to me to have

to make difficult decision as to make a difficult decision as to make a difficult decision as to can drive anymore. to whether i can drive anymore. now, are autonomous now, if there are autonomous cars just hail my cars around, i can just hail my own car from wherever it may be parked. turns up outside my parked. it turns up outside my house me wherever house and takes me wherever i want have to want to go. i don't have to worry it whether i'm fit worry about it whether i'm fit to drive not, for to drive or not, but for the moment, think right. moment, i think you're right. a lot of people are very, very nervous think nervous about it, and i think people more to tick people are more likely to tick a stereo than they are an stereo upgrade than they are an autonomous upgrade. now autonomous driving upgrade. now in terms of the insurance, which is a very important point, it depends who is in charge of the vehicle. currently all the systems that you can buy at the moment, level cars. systems that you can buy at the mon driver level cars. systems that you can buy at the mon driver is level cars. systems that you can buy at the mon driver is quite avel cars. systems that you can buy at the mondriver is quite clearly cars. the driver is quite clearly still in charge of the car. you're behind the wheel , you've you're behind the wheel, you've still got to be able to take control at a moment's notice. if the you if the car tells you to. if something goes wrong now, eventually when the car is in control , then that insurance control, then that insurance risk has got to move on to somebody else and the former boss of volvo, in fact, said a while ago that that company, when fully autonomous when they have fully autonomous cars, will take that risk cars, they will take that risk on there are a lot of on board. but there are a lot of legislative issues, a lot of

legislative issues, a lot of legislative we've legislative hurdles that we've got over before get got to jump over before we get to point . to that point. >> and i've seen cases before of teslas going rogue . and i think teslas going rogue. and i think at that point, a lot of people think this is exciting, but it's a bit scary. we were sold the dream, weren't we? in blade runner? just get in the back of a car. you take you have as a car. you take off, you have as many you like. that many sherbets as you like. that will christmas . will come in handy at christmas. an point about if an excellent point about if you're still able to drive with age firmness of age or you're in firmness of mind. but ultimately, i suspect, steve, that even if they can drive themselves, we'll all have to sign a little disclaimer. and if anything goes wrong , then we if anything goes wrong, then we will in dock . will end up in the dock. >> yeah, well, the one thing you can be sure is, even if you've got a fully autonomous car, your insurance isn't going to insurance premium isn't going to get which is get any cheaper. which which is a right now. but yeah, a big issue right now. but yeah, i think you're right. i think you're probably right. i mean, that's that's mean, as i said, that's that's a little we're still little way off. we're still talking three years away. i've been in some autonomous autonomous i've how autonomous cars. i've seen how they surroundings . they monitor the surroundings. they differentiate between they even differentiate between pedestrians and dogs along the streets , cyclists and everything streets, cyclists and everything else monitor. it's

else they monitor. it's incredible. and computing power , incredible. and computing power, as we know, is improving all the time. so you know, i've no doubt that is but it's that the tech is there, but it's how these cars relate to the infrastructure and to infrastructure as well and to other vehicles. and of course, the cars that will also be sharing road potentially, the cars that will also be shararen't road potentially, the cars that will also be shararen't autonomous.ally, the cars that will also be shararen't autonomous. so,. the cars that will also be shararen't autonomous. so, you that aren't autonomous. so, you know, there's a huge number of issues that have got to be got through yet. but there will definitely, be definitely, definitely be advantages, in safety. advantages, not least in safety. going back to the tesla points that you say, tesla will say themselves a tesla on themselves that a tesla on autopilot , themselves that a tesla on autopilot, as they call it, which is, you know, it's a bit stretching it. it's not autopilot. the driver still autopilot. the driver is still in control . a tesla on autopilot in control. a tesla on autopilot is three times less is roughly three times less likely to be in an incident where the airbag is fired than a car that's not driven on on autopilot. so, you know, the safety benefits are quite clear as i mentioned at the outset, there is a lot of technology that we've all got on our cars. we probably don't realise that is lot is actually keeping us a lot safer used to be. safer than it used to be. >> steve fowler, editor >> superb. steve fowler, editor in chief, auto express thanks for joining us. actually, forjoining us. and actually,

i've to warm idea i've come to warm to the idea even that item. no more even during that item. no more arguments with the missus about designated drivers at christmas. i think it's got my vote now with of a spring election, with talk of a spring election, one of the sweeteners on offer is more help for first home buyers. but what does that actually look like? plus, i'll be talking to a former prime minister of iceland about why the west must stay strong in its support for ukraine. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's

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news . news. >> welcome back. it's 442. you're watching or listening to me martin daubney on gb news. i hope you're having a wonderful christmas . hope you're having a wonderful christmas. now hope you're having a wonderful christmas . now could the christmas. now could the conservatives win over first time buyers in a pre—election giveaway? well, rishi sunaks party is reportedly set to promise to cut the upfront cost of a home for wannabe homeowners in a bid to lure younger voters , in a bid to lure younger voters, as also, according to reports , a as also, according to reports, a resurrected help to buy scheme could also be on the table in 2024. south is like great news. well, we're joined now by nightmare tenants presenter and landlord paul champlin. thanks for joining us, paul . landlord paul champlin. thanks for joining us, paul. i landlord paul champlin. thanks for joining us, paul . i hope forjoining us, paul. i hope you're having a wonderful christmas . these all seem like christmas. these all seem like great ideas . um, there's huge great ideas. um, there's huge barriers, particularly to younger people now being able to buy their own homes because of the cost , because of demand, the cost, because of demand, because the huge deposit because of the huge deposit costs. so this sounds like a

great idea, but how would it work? well firstly, as we say , work? well firstly, as we say, there's an election coming up. >> martin and obviously the conservatives are looking for the younger voter. and the younger voter. um, and a recent poll, 11% of 24 to 49 year olds said they'd support the conservative, compared to 43% over 65. so they're looking to obviously try and bring some sort of incentive in. if you look at the help to buy scheme , look at the help to buy scheme, martin, which came in, um, in 2013, 18, uh , they actually 2013, 18, uh, they actually approved about 372,000 loans. uh, that to bill the help to build buy scheme has actually now ended as of this year. so they've been looking at possibly looking at stamp duty concessions , longer mortgages or concessions, longer mortgages or bringing help to buy because obviously being a first time, uh, buyer is very, very challenging. i mean, the average deposit martin alone in london to find is £125,000. yeah >> and what's really interesting

about this , paul, is they do about this, paul, is they do this kind of scheme in america. this longer loan , 30 year loans this longer loan, 30 year loans which are underwritten by the government in case of defaults . government in case of defaults. and what's interesting, paul, is that the uk seems particularly addicted to short turn products . addicted to short turn products. two three, four, five year fixed terms . so two three, four, five year fixed terms. so perhaps there's some common sense, paul, in going for a longer period, which means you need a less of a deposit at the front end. well that's right, i mean under under helped by, by uh, currently or just coming to an end, you'd have to find the 5. >> and obviously the government would obviously help up to 40% of loan . uh, a longer of the equity loan. uh, a longer terms fixed mortgage for first time buyers makes total sense . time buyers makes total sense. the reality is obviously coming out of a year ago. i think it's almost a year ago from when , uh, almost a year ago from when, uh, liz truss was in charge. and obviously the rates went through the roof . um, i think the roof. um, i think historically everyone had short memories, didn't they, martin? because course, we had 0% because of course, we had 0% interest rates and, uh, people

had it good for too long. um, you know, the reality is next yean you know, the reality is next year, uh, 20, 24, 2 million people are coming out of their fixed terms. so it makes sense . fixed terms. so it makes sense. i think obviously, uh, they are looking now for products of , uh, looking now for products of, uh, under 4% coming in for fixed for five years, which will help. uh, i mean, there has been good news, obviously, because inflation is now at 3.9. and last month 4.6 and a year ago 10. so there is some positives. but yeah , getting first time but yeah, getting first time buyers, um , on the market, which buyers, um, on the market, which accounts for about 52% of the new build market. >> and paul briefly , if we could >> and paul briefly, if we could will any of this make any difference because ostensibly we have a problem of supply. difference because ostensibly we have a problem of supply . and if have a problem of supply. and if we increase demand through easier access like this , will it easier access like this, will it actually just make the project worse? >> well, i mean, there was an argument to say that when , uh, argument to say that when, uh, help to buy came in, developers were inflating their prices. >> um, of course we have a chronic housing shortage. you've

talked about it many times on your program and on on the station. um the reality is, is we need, uh, and i know , uh, we need, uh, and i know, uh, gove has been saying about this, uh, recently with regard to planning and relaxing planning laws and obviously taking out out of local authority hands. we need more and more housing. uh, the reality is we have a social housing crisis as well, and we've got over 70 million people in this country. and uh, it's the same old argument every, uh, every political party that comes in says we're going to build 300,000 properties a year. it never happens. >> okay . superb stuff. thanks >> okay. superb stuff. thanks for joining us. the presenter of forjoining us. the presenter of nightmare tenants and landlord paul champlain. a great stuff and you have a great christmas period. what's left of happy period. what's left of it. happy new you . now it's new year. thank you. now it's been announced that iceland has agreed . an additional agreed to provide. an additional ,340,000 in support for for ukraine humanitarian aid, and this comes at a time other this comes at a time when other nations, as us, are nations, such as the us, are having difficulty in providing new to clashes

new funding due to clashes between republicans and democrats in congress . us, now democrats in congress. us, now the former prime minister of iceland, sigmundur gunnlaugsson. iceland, sigmundur gunnlaugsson. i got that right. join me now. thank you for joining i got that right. join me now. thank you forjoining us on the thank you for joining us on the show . i'd thank you for joining us on the show. i'd like to ask you thank you for joining us on the show . i'd like to ask you the show. i'd like to ask you the question of a lot of countries. we just touched upon america there, but also here in the united kingdom , as wars drag on, united kingdom, as wars drag on, the public appetite for sending more money tends to decline , more money tends to decline, particularly when we'll face with cost of living crisis domestically. what was it about the situation in iceland that led to its government giving more money to ukraine? >> well, our approach is perhaps a bit different from most other countries in that we don't have a military. so we have no weapons to send them from the start. we have been trying to help them with, uh, vital suppues help them with, uh, vital supplies like pharmaceutics , supplies like pharmaceutics, tools, equipment and uh, earlier this year, uh, parliament approved, uh, $100 million for,

for a field hospital , approved, uh, $100 million for, for a field hospital, an advanced field hospital that we sent to ukraine. so we have we've sort of gotten into the rhythm of, uh, trying to assist in the humanitarian field . and in the humanitarian field. and in the humanitarian field. and in that regard , the situation, in that regard, the situation, of course, is as serious as ever . so we have not, um, been approaching this from the from a military approach , from military approach, from wondering what weapons we should give them or whether we should give them or whether we should give them or whether we should give them weapons. but uh, more or less, everyone is committed to continuing with the humanitarian aid, given the situation and, sigmund, we've seen some political fallout out for nations that have been dragged into this in scandinavia i >> -- >> um, 5mm m >> um, russia is amassing weaponry on the border with finland. not happy about the nato decision of sweden . can you nato decision of sweden. can you anticipate any hostility towards the icelandic nation from putin as a result of this? well we

have had some, uh, hostility , have had some, uh, hostility, uh, mainly , uh, electric or uh, mainly, uh, electric or cyber attacks from russia . cyber attacks from russia. >> but, uh, we are well, thankfully, now we are members of nato and have been from the from the start . uh, we used to from the start. uh, we used to have an american military base here and there are still nato operations in iceland , and we're operations in iceland, and we're grateful for that. but, uh, as oppose, uh, russia's anger is more aimed towards its nearest neighbours and the bigger countries like the uk and the united states . united states. >> and what would you say to people in britain ? um, as people in britain? um, as i mentioned, when i first met, spoke to you here, some people are getting weary of wars, especially now we have an additional front in the middle east, tension ramping up over there. and at the same time, um, a huge shortage of money domestically. and we mentioned there in america, they're faced with this difficult choice of do

we send more to money ukraine or do we spend that money on protecting our borders domestically? what do you say to people , um, in other countries, people, um, in other countries, such as the uk, that might be wavering and tiring of this war? why do we need to keep digging in? >> well, that's very understandable. and it was to be expected, uh, even before we knew that the situation in the middle east would develop in the way it has. but it's important to remember that it's best for us to, uh, try to take care of the problems where they are rather than importing the problems. that's why , in my problems. that's why, in my opinion, at least, we need to, uh, continue assisting people in the areas where, uh, where the wars are, where the difficulties are, rather than opening up borders and importing the problems from elsewhere, we can do much more good by, uh, providing assistance in in the areas rather than bringing the problems to our countries.

>> superb. thanks forjoining >> superb. thanks for joining us. former prime minister of iceland, sigmund gunnlaugson , iceland, sigmund gunnlaugson, thank you very much and have a fantastic thank you. >> happy new year. always pleasure. >> now you've been contacting us dunng >> now you've been contacting us during we've some during the show. we've had some fantastic emails . we'll read fantastic emails. we'll read a few out here. of course we talked david few out here. of course we talkethis david few out here. of course we talkethis . david few out here. of course we talkethis . it's david few out here. of course we talkethis . it's not david few out here. of course we talkethis . it's not a david few out here. of course we talkethis . it's not a nightmarevid says this. it's not a nightmare for president trump to return and bring some sanity into the white house. and indeed america, the list of disasters under the current lefty government is endless on driverless cars. we just covered that , graham says just covered that, graham says this the driverless car idea is truly unbelievable . i've worked truly unbelievable. i've worked in the motor trade and the number of existing modern cars that have had to be rescued or recovered due to electrical glitches from components is simply incredible. how about manufacturers sought out all the things they can that can stop normal cars from running before they progress , to driverless they progress, to driverless technology where the consequences of electronic glitches could be far more serious . so graham's not a fan

serious. so graham's not a fan on tories. and the second election we're talking about, what would it make you? what would take to make you vote would it take to make you vote tories wavering? john tories if you're wavering? john says this sunak having a good yeah says this sunak having a good year. are you having a laugh ? year. are you having a laugh? he's achieved nothing. both stopped. no inflation went down regardless, nothing to do with rishi nhs waiting lists, no economy , me not really grown. economy, me not really grown. i don't think john has been persuaded by that . and finally persuaded by that. and finally bertie says this . it will take bertie says this. it will take a lot more than a few bribes to make any difference to the polls. it's too late and they haven't dealt with the major issues . people aren't stupid . issues. people aren't stupid. did well, there we go. strong words . now, did well, there we go. strong words. now, coming up for the first time in five years, we've seen no migrant crossings at christmas . seen no migrant crossings at christmas. can you seen no migrant crossings at christmas . can you possibly christmas. can you possibly guess why? is it down to the fact that we've had lots of people taking time off for christmas in france ? doubtful. christmas in france? doubtful. let's face it, the french need no excuse to put their clogs up.

is it down to the fact that the people smugglers celebrate christmas again? that's unlikely , seeing as though most of them seem to come from iran, iraq, afghanistan and countries where they don't . where they don't they don't. where they don't even celebrate christmas . is it even celebrate christmas. is it down to rishi sunak stopping the boat? well, i think we've already covered that one off. what do you think it is? can you guess a little christmas quiz? one you won't find inside a christmas cracker? i'll be revealing the answer after the break. go on. you can probably guess what it is. take a look out your window. you might see the right before your the evidence right before your eyes. coming up in eyes. now it's all coming up in the next hour and lots more besides. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there , it's aidan mcgivern >> hi there, it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast storm garrett will continue to bring

wet and windy weather to the uk for the rest of today, with heavy snow in northern scotland, so some treacherous conditions out there now . the worst of the out there now. the worst of the wind rain has eased for the wind and rain has eased for the time being across england , time being across england, wales, southern scotland. but another bout wet windy another bout of wet and windy weather into west wales, weather moves into west wales, northwest england, through the evening. wind evening. 70 mile per hour wind gusts but 80 mile per hour wind gusts but 80 mile per hour wind gusts across the far north of scotland, combined with heavy snow over hills and snow blizzards over hills and drifting as well through the night , the wind does ease night, the wind does ease a little and there'll be less rain about , but still some showers about, but still some showers coming in from the west and enough of a breeze of course, to keep the frost away . so a mild keep the frost away. so a mild start in the south, still on the cold side, across parts of scotland where there will continue be hill snow into continue to be hill snow into thursday and outbreaks rain at lower levels as strong winds continue across the country , continue across the country, with 40 to 50 mile per hour wind gusts and some heavy bursts of rain. some longer spells of rain in for example, the south in places for example, the south and by the end of the and southeast by the end of the afternoon, it's mild in the

south 11 or 12 celsius, but mid single figures north and single figures further north and colder than that over the hills. friday does start off with some sunshine. it's still blustery out there and are still out there and that are still quite showers around quite a number of showers around , particularly in the north and the west . in between the showers the west. in between the showers of some sunny spells, but on the chilly and into the chilly side and into the weekend. further hills, snow in the north, wet and windy weather elsewhere . elsewhere. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler . >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler. as sponsors of weather on .

gb news. >> good afternoon. it's 5:00. i'm martin dalby. thanks for joining me on the show on gb news. hope you're having a wonderful christmas and it's time for a christmas drink . pour time for a christmas drink. pour yourself one and one for yourself one and have one for me. got cracking hour me. we've got a cracking hour coming including our coming up ahead, including our top story. jeremy hunt has set the date for the spring budget march the 6th. the tories are already talking about tax cuts , already talking about tax cuts, inheritance tax, um, inheritance tax cuts and also personal tax cuts. but would that be enough to tempt you into voting tory, or have you simply given up on them? i'll be asking that to john redwood shortly . and our john redwood shortly. and our next story for the first time since records began in 2018, there have been zero small boat arrivals in britain over the

christmas period. ten days. this is an all time record. so what's to thank for this? is it rishi's stop the boats policy or the french gendarmes putting in overtime? all the migrants themselves ? um, simply themselves? um, simply celebrating christmas ? or is it celebrating christmas? or is it something else? i'll have the answers later in this hour. and superb news. the dutch truck drivers are putting in £6.5 million in five years. back to this man sadiq khan dutch truckers have been stung by ulez fines. they've all been sent in one go and the dutch are saying enoughis one go and the dutch are saying enough is enough. they're taking khan to court in a case that could open the floodgates against the ulez scheme in london. we're talking to howard cox about that. and that's all coming up in your next hour. cox about that. and that's all coming up in your next hour . so coming up in your next hour. so ihope coming up in your next hour. so i hope you're having a great

christmas . we've had loads of christmas. we've had loads of superb emails so far in the show. will those tax cuts tempt you into to voting tory? what do you into to voting tory? what do you think is the blame for zero illegal arriving in dinghies? and do you wish those dutch truckers a happy new year and taking sadiq khan to court? please get in touch all the usual ways . gb views at gb news. usual ways. gb views at gb news. com that's all coming up after your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst . martin polly middlehurst. martin >> thank you and good evening to you. well, our top story today, jeremy hunt has announced the spnng jeremy hunt has announced the spring will set out on spring budget will be set out on the 6th march next year. the 6th of march next year. reports also suggesting downing the 6th of march next year. reportcould suggesting downing the 6th of march next year. reportcould .;uggesting downing the 6th of march next year. reportcould . axe asting downing the 6th of march next year. reportcould . axe inheritance ing street could. axe inheritance tax and reduce income tax in that budget. sir keir starmer has seemingly also instructed his frontbench team to finalise their manifesto plans within weeks . the labour leader telling weeks. the labour leader telling shadow ministers to have their policy proposals ready by mid

january. the shadow financial secretary to the treasury , james secretary to the treasury, james murray, saying labour is ready to make changes working people need. >> i'm sure there'll be endless speculation about the date of the election . the election. >> we're ready for it whenever it comes because i think what people across britain know is that burden is to that the tax burden is set to be the 70 people the highest in 70 years. people have already seen 25 tax rises under since the under this government since the last growth is on the last election. growth is on the floor in this country. people are worse off. people want change. and so whenever the election ready election comes, we'll be ready for it. >> in united states, the >> in the united states, the michigan supreme has michigan supreme court has rejected an attempt to remove former president donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. the ruling is in sharp contrast with the recent court case in colorado , where mr trump case in colorado, where mr trump was disqualified from running for president in the state due to his alleged role in the capitol hill riots. that decision has been paused pending an appeal and here in the uk, a 16 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire at a school in

west london. ten fire engines were summoned, 70 firefighters were summoned, 70 firefighters were at work at the blaze at the london oratory school at around 10:00 this morning. the london fire brigade saying part of the building has been damaged but there were no injuries . let's there were no injuries. let's focus on the weather picture across the uk now . heavy rain across the uk now. heavy rain and strong winds sweeping right across the country, causing hazardous driving conditions with some roads in scotland impassable due to snow. meanwhile, passenger cars on the east coast main line between london and scotland being advised not to travel due to those weather conditions and thousands of other travellers facing delays at airports as storm garrett means some flights are grounded . multiple weather are grounded. multiple weather warnings remain in place across the rest of the uk. too many to mention here that heavy rain causing flooding to homes, strong winds right across the uk. our national reporter theo chikomba has this update . chikomba has this update. >> there are gusts of up to

80mph throughout many parts of the uk . nine yellow weather the uk. nine yellow weather warnings until 6 pm. so people are being advised to check before they travel in southampton . those looking to southampton. those looking to use the red funnel red jet services are being cautioned that there may be disruptions and cancellations , and those and cancellations, and those travelling portsmouth using travelling in portsmouth using hovercrafts are also being warned that there are further cancellations and disruptions today. >> theo chikomba on the dorset coast there well, staying in dover ferry passengers are facing delays of up to an hour and a half due to staff sickness amongst french police. it comes amid increased demand at the port as thousands take the opportunity to get those post—christmas trips into the continent. if you miss a booked ferry, we're told you will be put on the next available crossing. now. hospital car parking fees in england have risen more than 50% in the last yeah risen more than 50% in the last year. that's according to new figures out today. visitors and patients spent . £146 million to

patients spent. £146 million to park in 2022 to 23. that's the equivalent of £400,000 spent in hospital car parks every day. the data also showed parking fees paid by hospital staff had soared more than eightfold . soared more than eightfold. that's up from 5.5 million to more than £46 million as brits will soon be able to buy new pint sized bottles of still and sparkling wine, all part of a new post—brexit freedom. apparently, the new size will appear on supermarket shelves , appear on supermarket shelves, as well as pubs, clubs and restaurants. the government saying the move will offer greater flexibility and choice for customers. parliamentary under—secretary for business kevin hollinrake says the move will benefit everyone . will benefit everyone. >> well, he's really important change we used to be able to buy pints of champagne in bottles and wine, for example, before joining the european union, so i think it's an opportunity for innovation . churchill's innovation. churchill's favourite size of bottle . he favourite size of bottle. he said it was the right size for

lunch for two or for dinner for one. so, um , so i think it's a one. so, um, so i think it's a nice innovation. it's something we can do now. we left the european union more than 200,000 shoplifting cases went unresolved in the 12 months to july of this year. >> new figures show only around 51% of 362,000 cases. result in a suspect being charged . the a suspect being charged. the liberal democrats are accusing the government of failing to tackle what they call an epidemic. however, a spokeswoman for the home office said rates for the home office said rates for charging shoplifters are up by almost a third in the last year. by almost a third in the last year . that's the news on gb news year. that's the news on gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker. this is britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> thank you polly. superb. now halving inflation. grow the economy lower national debt, shorten nhs waiting times and stop asylum seekers crossing on

the channel on small boats. yes those were the five pledges made by the prime minister last january . and now today again, january. and now today again, we're seeing talk of spring tax cuts , including ditching the cuts, including ditching the dreaded inheritance tax to smooth over voters. well, i'm joined now by the conservative mp sir john redwood. joined now by the conservative mp sirjohn redwood. sirjohn, thank you very much for joining us over christmas. it's always a pleasure and i hope you're having a superb festive time. so an election is in the air and talk of course turns to the economy and specifically with the conservatives to tax cuts. now, as a low tax tory, sir john, you must be delighted about this. but what do you think is the best route ? what think is the best route? what are the best tax cuts to be making . making. >> yes. well i've been making the case consistently. i was very pleased they made a start in the autumn statement , but i in the autumn statement, but i think priorities are to get think the priorities are to get taxes on energy , both for taxes down on energy, both for domestic consumers . so we have domestic consumers. so we have a bit more money to spend on other things and get the inflation

rate down more quickly and get the energy costs down a bit for industry, because we're losing quite a lot business and quite a lot of business and actually closing steelworks and factories our energy is factories because our energy is too dear. >> think we need to up the vat >> i think we need to up the vat threshold for small businesses so don't get hit over so that they don't get hit over the head 85,000, a turnover the head at 85,000, a turnover in the way they still do under the old eu rules, and allow them to expand a bit further before they need to go through all that extra bureaucracy and put that on . and i'd like to on their prices. and i'd like to see the ir35 revisited . i think see the ir35 revisited. i think the last two sets of changes have been very damaging . we've have been very damaging. we've lost 800,000 self—employed since february 2020. our self—employed army is crucial to flexibility to a lower inflation environment, to providing more job opportunities for people to work for themselves. and so i think we need to change the taxes there . taxes there. >> and sir john, there's been talk again of cutting inheritance tax. it's a tax which only affects 4% at present, but more are being

dragged into it. of course, as property values go up. but there have been murmurs of discontent from the conservatives today, saying it sings out the wrong message . it sends out the message. it sends out the message. it sends out the message again , the message that once again, the tory party are the party of the rich. what's your take on inheritance tax ? inheritance tax? >> well, i like most tax cuts and i think where you cut taxes, you often get more revenue because the truth is very rich people have good lawyers and good accountants , so they don't good accountants, so they don't bnng good accountants, so they don't bring their wealth here in the first place to get caught up in it or. but don't think it's it or. but i don't think it's the priority . that's i've the priority. that's why i've given priorities there given you my priorities there about business, about small business, there about small business, there about and about the self—employed and there people on modest there about people on modest incomes having to pay too much for they're about for their energy. they're about rescuing our industry very rescuing our industry from very crippling energy taxes. we have much higher carbon and energy taxes here than most of our competitors . just just look at competitors. just just look at how much cheaper petrol and diesel is in the united states of . if you're driving of america. if you're driving around than it is at around there, than it is at home. and that's all extra home. and that's all an extra costs businesses. so costs for our businesses. so these priorities . and these are the priorities. and it's in a

it's got to be done in a non—inflationary way. so the government also got to government has also got to control spending better . control public spending better. i think it's been a bit carefree and particularly with the huge increase in the number of public sector administrators and civil servants about 130,000 extra over the life of this parliament. it's all very costly productivity has fallen a long way in the public sector. i'm very pleased they've appointed chief secretary john glenn, as was now in the cabinet office, to be the productivity minister. and he's got a lot to do, and the sooner the better, because we need to create more headroom, more for those tax cuts more scope for those tax cuts that the private sector desperately needs. >> and sir john, the desperately needs. >> and sirjohn, the big >> and sir john, the big question is, will it enough? question is, will it be enough? we've through rishi's five we've been through rishi's five pledges him an end of year pledges given him an end of year report. by our reckoning, he gets point out of five. gets half a point out of five. inflation halved, but of inflation has halved, but of course the bank of england had a lot do with that. the economy lot to do with that. the economy hasn't grown, debt isn't falling, lists falling, nhs waiting lists aren't coming down and he certainly isn't stopping the boats. so do you think people

will vote with their wallets? will a tax cut bring home the bacon for the tories ? or are you bacon for the tories? or are you thinking it's a bit too thinking perhaps it's a bit too late ? late now? >> well, i think he should run on for most of the next year, as he's quite entitled to do on a five year parliament to give him more time to deliver on those. i think they were the right five priorities. that we need priorities. i agree that we need to lot more progress . the to make a lot more progress. the kind of tax cuts and public expenditure productivity expenditure and productivity changes i'm talking about would actually deliver two of the other three economic he's other three economic ones. he's got inflation well down through bank of england and other action. he now needs growth. action. um he now needs growth. and if he gets growth he'll get the deficit down. because if you grow the economy, you get more tax revenue. people earn more money, income tax. money, they pay more income tax. businesses profit. businesses make more profit. they tax . so they pay more profits tax. so you can all that and the you can do all that and the right could help deliver right budget could help deliver that. as autumn that. just as the autumn statement process statement began, that process and waiting list, and the and on the waiting list, and the first thing they need to do is to clean up the data and there aren't all those millions of

people all waiting for an operation or for a desperately important treatment. there are too many waiting for but too many waiting for that. but the waiting list include all sorts things. there's of sorts of things. there's lots of double there are double counting. there are people who need people who don't need the treatment . are there? treatment anymore. are there? there are problems with recognising the different conditions and you may have somebody down on three different lists, but they're the same person and priorities have to be made. so i think they need to clean up the list and get more accurate . this and need to accurate. this and they need to target all that extra personnel and money, which is going into the health service on those treatments and those procedures that make that are most needed. and make sure the capacity is there . sure the capacity is there. >> okay. and sirjohn, sure the capacity is there. >> okay. and sir john, finally, quickly , if we could um, there quickly, if we could um, there have been zero boat crossings in the past ten years for the first time records began, no time since records began, no dinghies have landed in britain. is that down to rishi stopping the boats, or is it something else ? else? >> well, i think a lot of the actions that the home secretaries and the prime minister have taken are helpful .

minister have taken are helpful. and we're told that it's 30% less than a year ago , and it was less than a year ago, and it was always going to take a whole range of measures. it was never going to be single thing going to be one single thing that was suddenly going to change ,i change everything. so yes, i think it's of the things think it's some of the things are working to do are working and we need to do more of them because there's still think the still too many. but i think the other addition his aims other addition to his five aims is important , other addition to his five aims is important, and that is is very important, and that is they now added aim of they have now added the aim of actually bringing down legal migration, because it's far more people coming in legally . and we people coming in legally. and we are inviting into many people. and then there aren't the homes for them and there's more pressure on the waiting lists, and there aren't the doctors and there aren't school places. there aren't the school places. and people feel it's just too much. and so to be fair to the migrants, because you want them to opportunities to have decent opportunities when they arrive. and to be fair to all the people already settled here, we do to make settled here, we do need to make much bigger strides in getting settled here, we do need to make much the ger strides in getting settled here, we do need to make much the numberes in getting settled here, we do need to make much the number of in getting settled here, we do need to make much the number of legalting migrants. >> okay . superb, sir. sirjohn >> okay. superb, sir. sirjohn redwood, thank you very much for joining us on gb news over the festive period. a great festive period. have a great time. always pleasure.

time. thanks always a pleasure. now moving on. london mayor sadiq could be left red sadiq khan could be left red faced by an alleged unlawful ulez fines. that's because lawyers reportedly acting on behalf of dutch lorry firms or challenging penalties worth a whopping . £6.5 million challenging penalties worth a whopping. £6.5 million in challenging penalties worth a whopping . £6.5 million in the whopping. £6.5 million in the high court because they claim that the charging zone was not clearly marked. and there have been unlawfully issued with fines. if successful , it could fines. if successful, it could see more cases go to court. a cross europe and join us now to discuss this . is someone looking discuss this. is someone looking to replace sadiq khan as london mayor and that's a london mayoral candidate for the reform party. howard cox , howard, thank party. howard cox, howard, thank you for joining party. howard cox, howard, thank you forjoining us. hope you're you for joining us. hope you're having a great christmas . so having a great christmas. so talk through this case. it talk us through this case. it sounds, um, something that sadiq khan should be quite worried about. >> $- >> oh yes. it's quite complicated. uh, um. good afternoon. martin. thank you for having me on. yeah the thing is about this is there's all sorts of avenues that the legal, uh ,

of avenues that the legal, uh, our lawyers could go down or their lawyers could go down. >> and it's not just about actually being in the ulez. >> the actual finding themselves being fined for being in ulez. it's about being, uh, sent the actual fines and the reminders that they haven't paid them too late. >> also billing them in euros when it should be billed in pounds. all sorts of, uh, complex , uh, you know, uh, complex, uh, you know, uh, indications of the fact that ulez is a complete mess. and as you quite rightly said just now, it's it wouldn't surprise me. this opens the floodgate of not just from europe, but from the uk, too, because we know for a fact that most of the ulez signs and the lead signs, the low emission zone signs, which is made for the truckers, the hgv are illegal. they're unlawful because you don't know you have to pay anything to enter these zones. >> so it's going to be very complicated. >> and i think tfl lawyers are going to be very, very busy . going to be very, very busy. >> and howard, an >> and howard, there's an extraordinary case that came here from the lawyer of the company called transport nude company called transport in nude bv, saying that one driver alone

, when um, was approached with nearly 400 fine, says at one time because they all arrived en masse on his doormat in one glut. and that was going to be over ,400,000. and the lawyers said that would have bankrupted the firm . they should have been the firm. they should have been sent them earlier because, of course, if they'd been sent them earlier, they could have modified behaviour and modified their behaviour and avoided rest. howard and avoided all the rest. howard and it looks like they might have a good it looks like they might have a goal think they have got a good >> i think they have got a good case, and i think it will be thrown out by the high court. uh in terms of actually any opposition from tfl will be opposition from tfl, tfl will be told get your act together because administratively it's a complete and utter cock up. >> i'm hearing it non—stop. i'm heanng >> i'm hearing it non—stop. i'm hearing people, know, hearing people, you know, because one number plate, you know, transposed a number know, it's transposed a number say ab, it becomes ba. >> they still get the fine say ab, it becomes ba. >> someone still get the fine say ab, it becomes ba. >> someone else'set the fine say ab, it becomes ba. >> someone else's car1e fine say ab, it becomes ba. >> someone else's car orfine say ab, it becomes ba. >> someone else's car or van. for someone else's car or van. it is a complete and utter mess. >> it was introduced rapidly on august the 29th. too quickly . august the 29th. too quickly. >> it wasn't tested properly and

the whole thing has become something , well, more than just something, well, more than just frustration with the with the blade runners chopping down cameras and all that sort of things. think in for things. i think he's in for a hell hell of a time in the hell of a hell of a time in the three months. >> the four months, the >> in the four months, up to the may, election. >> in the four months, up to the majand election. >> in the four months, up to the majand watch election. >> in the four months, up to the majand watch me, tion. >> in the four months, up to the majand watch me, i'lli. >> and watch me, i'll be fighting to them . fighting like mad to with them. >> lot of people >> and howard, a lot of people don't . they underestimate don't. they underestimate motorists peril, don't motorists at their peril, don't they? many voters out there they? how many voters out there on motorists and significant on motorists and how significant could that block be? not just in the but also we're the mayoralty, but also we're talking today about cuts at talking today about tax cuts at the next general election, but there's no tax cuts for motorists on the table. well i did hear and i always get, uh , did hear and i always get, uh, really excited when i listen to john redwood because he's my type of tory. >> uh, there's not many of those left well martin. left as you. well know, martin. uh, point is, you know, fuel uh, the point is, you know, fuel duty, 37 million drivers in this country. it impacts in every part , every economy, every part part, every economy, every part of our personal lives, everything about our socialised and our entertainment lives. the whole thing is impacted on the cost transport. and i'm cost of transport. and i'm afraid if he doesn't do

something, i'm going to be lobbying very hard . i've been lobbying very hard. i've been talking jonathan for talking to jonathan gullis, for example. we're going to lobby hard in duty . hard for a cut in fuel duty. we're going to go big this time, not another freeze. we not just for another freeze. we need something significant not just for another freeze. we need s01need,1g significant not just for another freeze. we need someed, uh,ignificant not just for another freeze. we need someed, uh, martin, |t not just for another freeze. we need someed, uh, martin, that we also need, uh, martin, that pump watch the consumer price regulatory body, which i, i've been calling for six years, and the competitions and market authority agreed it should be in place. >> and where is it, martin? >> and where is it, martin? >> those place. >> get those in place. >> get those in place. >> will £0.10 off. get >> that will get £0.10 off. get £0.10 off in fuel duty, £0.20. that's something like £10 a tank cheaper the economy go. cheaper watch the economy go. >> well, let's hope we >> superb. well, let's hope we can like that in can get something like that in the new thank you very the new year. thank you very much us. howard much forjoining us. howard cocks, reform mayoral candidate for founder for london and of course founder of fuel now we do have of fair fuel uk. now we do have a statement from tfl. a spokesman told the media we have received a claim relating to penalty charge notices from claimants based in the netherlands and are considering our response s so you could start your new year with £10,000 in cash, a £500 shopping spree and a brand new iphone. sounds

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>> welcome back. it's 524. you're watching or listening to martin daubney on gb news. now coming up, are you looking for a new habit to work off that big christmas lunch? well, the answer could be simple something we can all do walking and we'll be looking at that shortly . now, be looking at that shortly. now, will it be a spring showdown? because speculation is rife today of a spring election , as today of a spring election, as chancellor jeremy today of a spring election, as chancellorjeremy hunt today of a spring election, as chancellor jeremy hunt confirms , chancellor jeremy hunt confirms, the budget will be delivered . on the budget will be delivered. on the budget will be delivered. on the 6th of march. and this is as the 6th of march. and this is as the tories are reportedly considering scrapping inheritance tax and helping first time buyers. but as we head towards the end of 2023, will it be enough to save the prime minister from election defeat? well joining us now is tory mp and former chairman of the defence select committee , the defence select committee, tobias ellwood. thanks for joining us over christmas dubai. he's got a splendid tree in the background there. i hope you're having no having a superb time. so no politics grinds on. it doesn't wait for santa, that's for sure .

wait for santa, that's for sure. tobias. we've been looking at rishi's five pledges and how he did in 2023. and i'm afraid it doesn't make for particularly pleasant reading halving inflation that has been achieved . but you could say the bank of england did it. the economy growing, been growing, that hasn't been achieved is falling, hasn't achieved that is falling, hasn't been . nhs waiting been achieved. nhs waiting lists. they're not down. and he also hasn't stopped the boats. so i guess tobias the first question should be how can rishi turn this around in 2024. >> yeah . these are the big >> yeah. these are the big questions that people are going to ask. and it is 2024. the final lap if you like. as we head towards a general election, we've got to get it right in this year. i would start from the very top and say, we need to show unity. >> we need to show discipline, we clarity as to we need to show clarity as to what we stand for. >> if the infighting is to continue, if we are to see different factions pursue different factions pursue different agendas, then we actually gift this to labour. that's very , very clear cut . and that's very, very clear cut. and what rishi sunak has done is inherited it a very difficult situation . but fiscal

situation. but fiscal responsibility is returning inflation. as you mentioned , is inflation. as you mentioned, is coming down supply side investments that jeremy hunt introduced in the autumn statement are starting to actually kick in as well . actually kick in as well. >> tax breaks, encouraging businesses to invest are also going to play their part as well. >> but you're absolutely right. this is very, very difficult terrain indeed. we've been in power for 13 years and the wider picture is that we need to play a role on the international stage. half of our gdp is affected by international headwinds. >> they're affected by what's going on in ukraine. >> we've done well to try and resolve that. there are also affected by now an escalating situation in the middle east, as international shipping is diverted around the red sea. >> these are all things that affect our economy. >> these are all things that britain lean in with our britain can lean in with our convening power and ensure that our not increasingly our gdp is not increasingly affected by what is happening on the global picture. lots of work to be done in 2024. >> i hope the focus on domestic

matters does not overshadow what needs to be done internationally i >> otherwise, yes, we will be heading towards opposition. >> well, tobias , a lot of people >> well, tobias, a lot of people would say that charity begins at home. and look at at home. and let's look at at potential tax cuts or should i say tax bribes . we are say tax bribes. we are approaching a general election and it is traditional, of course, for the conservative party to offer a tax incentive to the electorate and that will be welcome after 24 straight tax increases and the highest tax environment since world war two. talk today of inheritance tax or income tax coming down, what would your preferred route be? tobias >> well, i think we need to place this in perspective. you will hear this a lot from the opposition parties to say, oh, look happened the look what's happened over the last life has been last 13 years. life has been difficult from the cost of living crisis forth . but living crisis and so forth. but we've had three seismic events, general national events that any governing party would have to have , you know, be affected by, have, you know, be affected by,

namely covid, of course, the war in ukraine, we now can add to that the middle east crisis that i mentioned. of course , the, i mentioned. and of course, the, you know, the nation decided to go different regarding brexit. >> these are all things that have affected our economy and we've had to adjust to . we've had to adjust to. >> we're now coming through the we've had to adjust to. >> iof're now coming through the we've had to adjust to. >> iof that. w coming through the we've had to adjust to. >> iof that. we're ing through the we've had to adjust to. >> iof that. we're moving ugh the end of that. we're moving forward that perspective. forward from that perspective. so is the time to perhaps so now is the time to perhaps look at those things which are important to those that we hope will the conservative will support the conservative cause, and that will include a long terme pledge to look at inheritance tax itself . it's inheritance tax itself. it's already been taxed once already . already been taxed once already. there is a desire to want to hand on to, you know, to your to your next of kin, your offspring and so forth. i suspect we'll probably hear more of that given the headlines in that budget that jeremy hunt will will present in early march this year , next year. sorry. >> do you think it's the right route to go down? only 4% pay inheritance tax. that will increase, of course, as property ramps up, which is inevitable because we have a supply issue. but people are much more angry

at gb news. certainly amongst our viewers, about people being dragged into the higher tax brackets because inflation drags them in. as a consequence, many ordinary hard working people find themselves in the strange position of paying higher tax where they never thought they would be. aren't they the kinds of people that you need to be targeting pull them into the targeting to pull them into the conservative camp ? ordinary, conservative camp? ordinary, hard who now find hard working people who now find themselves taxed to the themselves being taxed to the hilt ? hilt? >> yeah. mm a mm- >> yeah. you make a very powerful point. and i think many conservatives indeed parliamentarians will conservatives indeed parliamentarianswill making parliamentarians will be making that point across the field . i that point across the field. i hope jeremy hunt will listen to that , that if there going to that, that if there are going to be whether it be be any changes, whether it be inheritance tax or otherwise, that also that you recognise what's also called fiscal drag being called fiscal drag of being people caught up into higher tax brackets, simply because those brackets, simply because those brackets themselves have not moved with increasing levels of inflation. >> and you make the case passionately for more commitments to ukraine. of course, we now find ourselves on the precipice of being dragged

into the middle east to two wars, into faraway lands. what would you say to people who say, we've sent billions to the ukraine? we've done our bit and now we can't keep donating money ad infinitum? how about spending ad infinitum? how about spending a bit of money domestically? why should our charity continue to go to ukraine? >> because it's not charity. if those grain ships don't get out of ukraine, it affects our economy. the cost of living crisis is directly affected by food prices , international food food prices, international food prices. so if those grain ships can't get out with, they are can't get outwith, they are impacted right across europe, including africa as well, which cause more discord. >> more migration as >> they're more migration as well because of that. and it affects inflation here in the uk. >> it's in our interest to put that fire out and there's something bigger, much , much something bigger, much, much bigger here. the price we're paying bigger here. the price we're paying now nothing compared paying now is nothing compared with the cost of allowing to putin advance his interest to expand his influence across eastern europe, the cost of war

go back to the 1930s. >> and what happened then ? when >> and what happened then? when we hesitated, we gave up and we conceded . that's exactly where conceded. that's exactly where we are today . and i'm afraid the we are today. and i'm afraid the world is reaching or the west is reaching a perhaps a threshold of our ability to deal with different conflicts across the world because we've become complacent , we've become risk complacent, we've become risk averse in the last 30 years, our defence budget remains at a peacetime level of 2. we need to defend our international interests because they directly affect our economy. in the uk. i can't stress more every time this is brought up, and i understand how passionate people say, why do we bother with what's going on over there? what goes on over there affects us over and if britain over here. and if britain doesn't forward, which doesn't step forward, which nafions doesn't step forward, which nations do? that's why we need to be robust in standing up for what we believe in, what we defend, stand for and defend, what we stand for and i'm back i'm afraid we've stepped back a little that. we've little bit from that. we've rekindled the last rekindled that in the last couple of years with our support for ukraine. but look at the world today , where world where it is today, where it be in five years time.

it will be in five years time. is to be more dangerous is it going to be more dangerous or dangerous? do wrap or less dangerous? do we wrap ourselves retreat , or do or less dangerous? do we wrap ourstep�*s retreat , or do or less dangerous? do we wrap ourstep forward retreat , or do or less dangerous? do we wrap ourstep forward asetreat , or do or less dangerous? do we wrap ourstep forward as we've, or do or less dangerous? do we wrap ourstep forward as we've done) or less dangerous? do we wrap ourstep forward as we've done in we step forward as we've done in the i prefer the latter the past? i prefer the latter rather than the former. >> okay , tobias ellwood, thank >> okay, tobias ellwood, thank you impassioned you for that impassioned monologue for us monologue. thanks forjoining us over period . i wish over this festive period. i wish you and your family and you peace and your family and a very year. great very happy new year. great stuff. loads more to come stuff. well, loads more to come between and 6:00. but between now and 6:00. but first let's your latest let's go to your latest news headunes let's go to your latest news headlines polly middlehurst i >> -- >> the headlines this hour. the chancellor has announced the 2024 spring budget will be delivered on the 6th of march. that comes amid reports that have emerged from downing street. they could be wanting to axe inheritance tax or reduce income tax . not clear yet which income tax. not clear yet which it is, and it's also being reported that sir keir starmer has instructed his frontbench team to finalise their manifesto plans within weeks . the labour plans within weeks. the labour leader telling the shadow

ministers on the frontbench they must have their policy proposals . by mid january. 18,500 homes in scotland are today without power as storm garrett brings heavy rain and strong winds in across the uk . energy firms across the uk. energy firms session a warning some households could face up to 48 hours without power, as well . hours without power, as well. meanwhile, drivers are being warned of hazardous driving conditions, with some roads in scotland impassable due to snow. passengers on the east coast main line between london and scotland are being advised not to travel, and thousands of other travellers at airports are facing delays, with flights grounded and meanwhile ferry passengers at the port of dover are facing delays of up to an hour and a half. that's due to staff sickness amongst french police. it comes amid increased demand at the port as thousands get away for those post—christmas trips . if you post—christmas trips. if you book a missed ferry , we're told book a missed ferry, we're told you will be put onto the next available crossing . a 16 year

available crossing. a 16 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire at a school in west london. ten fire engines and 70 firefighters were called to the scene at the london oratory this morning , the london fire brigade morning, the london fire brigade saying part of the building has been damaged but there were no injuries and the michigan supreme court has rejected an attempt to remove the former president, donald trump, from the 2024 presidential ballot , the 2024 presidential ballot, according to reports. it's based on the us constitution's insurrectionist ban . the ruling insurrectionist ban. the ruling is in contrast with the recent court case in colorado , where mr court case in colorado, where mr trump was disqualified from running for president in the state due to his alleged role in the capitol hill riots. that decision has been paused pending an appeal. those are the headunes. an appeal. those are the headlines . more on our website headlines. more on our website gb news.com . gb news.com. >> for a valuable legacy , your

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moving into 2024. with a spring in your step now joined now by international fitness presenter with vibe concepts, delving clock to share his his tips for staying fit across the festive penod. staying fit across the festive period . thank you so much for period. thank you so much for joining us, delvin. i really want to talk to you about this today it's that time today because it's that time of year feels year where everybody feels so daunted a gym, daunted about joining a gym, about gym gear, and about wearing gym gear, and i saw a fantastic article today in a newspaper where a lady was taught how to walk properly and improved her posture , improved improved her posture, improved her fitness. it proved to improve the mental wellbeing . improve the mental wellbeing. and i think walking is amazing. and i think walking is amazing. and i think walking is amazing. and i want you to tell us how we should be doing it properly . should be doing it properly. >> well, first of all, the first thing you have to start doing is get off that couch and get out into sunshine rain or into the sunshine or the rain or the snow and get moving. >> , now there's many ways >> okay, now there's many ways to walk . to walk. >> the best way to walk is to walk. >> but technically you should use your feet and plantar

dorsiflexion as you walk or power walk by walking flat on the floor. >> each time. okay, now it does take a bit of getting used to, but once you start doing it, it becomes very, very easy indeed . becomes very, very easy indeed. >> superb. and is it, um, is it okay to do it inside a gym as well? because i do like to walk. i got to say, i do like to walk on a treadmill, find it easier on a treadmill, find it easier on the joints, do you need to buy some decent footwear? but more to the point, how often should you do how should should you do it? how far should you ? and the thing you're you go? and the thing is, you're never too, never too old to get stuck in. well there's so much in there. >> okay, let me start by saying this. >> first of all, make walking part of your daily routine . part of your daily routine. >> some people like to jog. some people like swimming, people like to go swimming, but walking is a very, very surefire way of getting some kind of fitness . fitness. >> now, power walking, as i said, is very, very beneficial. >> can do it in a gym or at >> you can do it in a gym or at home or say at home, but near your home, in a park or on the street or in a gym.

>> you got treadmills. >> you got treadmills. >> treadmills are okay, but i'd prefer to be out in the sunshine as said, weather, nature . as i said, the weather, nature. >> it's much better for you now , >> it's much better for you now, believe it or not, i've got catherine here. catherine flamson here. >> operations >> she's my operations manager for she has for vibe, and, uh, she has a business within vibe working with postnatal ladies and prenatal ladies with fitness and walking is a very important part of that regime and that particular system. >> i'll let catherine say something about that right now. >> i'll let catherine say sonyeah|g about that right now. >> i'll let catherine say sonyeah ,| about that right now. >> i'll let catherine say sonyeah , it'sout that right now. >> i'll let catherine say sonyeah , it'sout thatthe ht now. >> i'll let catherine say sonyeah , it'sout thatthe best w. >> yeah, it's one of the best exercises that i recommend for my mums. exercises that i recommend for my um ns. exercises that i recommend for my um , s. exercises that i recommend for my um , you can it from early >> um, you can do it from early stages, postnatal. um, stages, postnatal. it'll, um, it helps , um, with their posture, helps, um, with their posture, strength , their core, losing strength, their core, losing weight . and anyone can do it. weight. and anyone can do it. and it's there's no barrier to the exercise . you can just get the exercise. you can just get outside and walk with your baby. i would say , um, it's best for i would say, um, it's best for the mums to go and be in nice green areas and close to nature because you can connect and feel the energy of the nature , and the energy of the nature, and that helps with the mental health as well of the fit mums, my fit mums. and so for me , i

my fit mums. and so for me, i prefer the mums to go out and get outside in the outdoors and superb. >> thank you very much for that catherine and for those who need a little bit more incentive . a little bit more incentive. although all those watches useful or apps useful, do they spur you along or then there have been a bit of a guilt trip. well for some people they need a bit of a motivation or a goal to achieve . achieve. >> uh, me personally, i've not used those because it can be disappointing sometimes when you don't a goal you set, disappointing sometimes when you don�*set a goal you set, disappointing sometimes when you don�*set yourself goal you set, disappointing sometimes when you don�*set yourself off. you set, you set yourself off. >> set a goal. your >> so don't set a goal. your goal just out goal should be just getting out of the house, get outside in the fresh air and just walk in as fast as slow, whichever fresh air and just walk in as fastyourself)w, whichever fresh air and just walk in as fastyourself moving hever fresh air and just walk in as fastyourself moving .ever fresh air and just walk in as fastyourself moving . okay, get yourself moving. okay, catherine, to demonstrate a quick walk actually, if you want to. yeah. go on. um check this out . right. to. yeah. go on. um check this out. right. you can either walk . out. right. you can either walk. >> there you go . or we can power >> there you go. or we can power walk . walk. >> she does look a bit like a robot, but he does feel like

that sometimes when you're walking correctly . what a great walking correctly. what a great demonstration . demonstration. >> there you go . >> there you go. >> there you go. >> well, it certainly looked it looked good to me. it looked good to me. thank rich good to me. thank you. rich that was i would was definitely what i would consider a power walk. looked consider a power walk. it looked very powerful . thank you very very powerful. thank you very much. devin clark from vibe concepts catherine flamson, concepts and catherine flamson, operations manager. thank you very for us and very much forjoining us and inspiring people to get out there walking . you don't need to there walking. you don't need to join a gym. you don't need to be spending money. spending loads of money. you don't get don't need to feel guilty. get out stuck in, go for out there. get stuck in, go for a walk with your dog, with your missus, with your kids. it's a superb thing to do clear the superb thing to do to clear the mind and feel great. now still to come. rishi sunak is set to battle it out against sir keir starmer in next year's general election. but who is in the strongest position? and can it all change? is there still time for rishi to turn it all around and martin daubney on? gb news, britain's news channel

>> only on gb news, the people's channel >> only on gb news, the people's channel, britain's news channel . channel, britain's news channel. welcome back. >> it's 545. we've got some breaking news for you now. and thatis breaking news for you now. and that is former european commission president jacques delors, described as the architect of the modern eu , has architect of the modern eu, has died aged 98. his daughter says. and it's worth pointing out he served from 1985 to 1995. delors also laid the groundwork for the single european currency, the euro. so, um, but for those sceptical of integration, especially in the uk , he was

especially in the uk, he was seen as a symbol of brussels meddling . and he's died at age meddling. and he's died at age 98. former european commission president jacques delors, described as the architect of the modern eu, he helped to create the single market following the free movement of people, allowing the free movement of people , goods and movement of people, goods and services within the bloc. um and of course it caused a very famous headline by the british tabloid, which probably isn't worth mentioning at this moment. now, now i'm joined . i'm joined now, now i'm joined. i'm joined now on the line by simon danzig , now on the line by simon danzig, who is, of course, the former labour mp. and we've been talking throughout the show here. he is always pleasure. here. he is always a pleasure. thanks hope thanks forjoining us. hope you're merry christmas. you're having a merry christmas. now about the end now we're talking about the end of rishi of year performance of rishi sunak we worked out that he sunak and we worked out that he scored half a point out of five. but we're looking ahead to the new year now. simon and of course the general election is looming. can rishi turn it around or do you think at the moment and moving forward, sir

keir starmer is in pole position ? >> 7. >>i ? >> i think 7 >> i think keir starmer is in a particularly good place. it's not for certain that he will win the general election. i think rishi sunak could still pull something out of the bag. >> it might seem exceptional , >> it might seem exceptional, but if he manages to get his rwanda policy through, uh, he's got inflation down. >> uh, so he deserves deserves some credit for that. >> the economy , i suspect, will >> the economy, i suspect, will pick up in the next, uh, three months. just a little bit. uh, it struggled with the nhs waiting list. >> so he's five promises which he himself shaped sunak shaped them . uh, he hasn't done awfully them. uh, he hasn't done awfully well with yet. i completely agree with you on that. >> but it's not all over. >> but it's not all over. >> and, uh, keir is going to be more answerable in terms of some of policies , uh, in terms of of his policies, uh, in terms of immigration, we saw over the last few days that is now proposing to have these offshore processing schemes where, uh, because he presumably say it feels very vulnerable on that

issue . and we've seen issue. and we've seen immigration move from fourth, third position in terms of priority for electors, right up to second place. now, just before cost of living crisis. so that's a big issue. that is a real battleground between the two of them. and if sunak makes progress on that, he could well be in with keeping a very small majority . majority. >> i wonder if you got a point there, because if you think about it too , overturn the 80 about it too, overturn the 80 seat majority will take a bigger swing than we even saw in the 1997 election. with blair, everyone's writing rishi off, but at the moment, simon, one of the key things that we haven't actually heard any proper policies from the labour party yet. i think people need to see policies from the labour party yebiti think people need to see policies from the labour party yebit of|ink people need to see policies from the labour party yebit of meataople need to see policies from the labour party yebit of meat onle need to see policies from the labour party yebit of meat on the eed to see policies from the labour party yebit of meat on the bone, see policies from the labour party yebit of meat on the bone, don't a bit of meat on the bone, don't they? you >> that's exactly right. >> yeah, that's exactly right. and immigration is a in and immigration is a case in point. labour came out with a five , uh, on tackling five point plan, uh, on tackling illegal immigration, which isn't worth the paper it's written on. in reality , uh, it's very in reality, uh, it's very similar to what the

conservatives are doing, except it doesn't have rwanda in it. and it involves giving a lot of international aid to developing countries, which i certainly wouldn't be in favour of. uh, now they've come up with this new scheme. they're beginning to put meat on the bones, but there was a lack detail in the was a lack of detail in the times article that it, times article that covered it, and i don't know whether it would stack up. and i'm not sure or convince that keir starmer is laboun or convince that keir starmer is labour. it's very unlikely blair's labour. uh so i think he'd struggle to get any strong illegal immigration policy through his party anyway . so through his party anyway. so you're right, as we start scrutinising, uh, labour's policies, i think some of it will some, some of that lead , will some, some of that lead, uh, will dramatically reduce. >> now, simon, it's worth mentioning, of course, that, um , mentioning, of course, that, um, that sir keir starmer doesn't isn't the most charismatic bloke on the planet, let's just put it that way. but then again, neither is rishi sunak. but the part of the problem with sir keir from brexit

keir starmer from brexit onwards, the guy had more positions on brexit than the kamasutra. and here's here's a guy people don't seem to be guy that people don't seem to be able pin down. and isn't that able to pin down. and isn't that the problem? we don't really know what stands on know what he stands for on brexit. he tried to cancel it for three years. now he says he won't change won't get won't change it. he won't get closer but of course closer to the eu. but of course everyone that will everyone thinks that that will happen. a problem happen. so there's a problem with trust . with trust. >> yes that's right. and i think that will come to the fore as time marches on and it's in a whole range of different. it's in relation to a whole range of different policies, whether it's, uh, whether it can define a woman and he struggles to do that. uh, the immigration policy has been all over the place or the nationalising the railways or aren't they? i can't even remember where they're up to now in terms of whether they're going nationalise our going to nationalise our railways, because positions have been changed that often. there is an issue about trust, as you point out. and the big point out. and then the big issue keir in all of this issue for keir in all of this as well is whether he'll lose some. he loses some muslim community votes to the liberal democrats

because of his position on the middle east and israel and hamas, uh, is unsettled voters in the muslim community because he wouldn't call for a ceasefire . and this is a bit like 2005, when a lot of muslim voters, because of the iraq war, went to the liberal democrats instead of staying with blair and labour. so his vote could splinter, just like the conservatives could splinter , uh, towards reform. uh splinter, uh, towards reform. uh uh, labour has a similar problem with the liberal democrats. >> um, the big question, though, is the red wall. i mean, the last election was run won and lost in the red wall. this one will be two. has starmer got the credibility on the doorstep or is he just seen as a bit of a posh bloke that doesn't really gelyeah . uh, no. nobody's in >> yeah. uh, no. nobody's in love with keir starmer are they. they're not. there's no love for, uh, rishi sunak either. i have to say neither are

particularly charismatic . particularly charismatic. neither of them are margaret thatcher or tony blair. that's for sure. and so in the red wall seats he has got, he's going to struggle. i have to say . i seats he has got, he's going to struggle. i have to say. i think there'll be some really mixed results. if you've got a good conservative mp who's been working it really hard as high local recognition , uh, is seen local recognition, uh, is seen to be doing the right thing, voting the right way , then voting the right way, then i think they have a good chance of hanging on. if the liberal vote picks the labour votes, some of it goes to the liberal democrat arts. so i think we're going to have some really interesting results, not least as you point out those red wall seats. out in those red wall seats. >> superb . simon danczuk, thank >> superb. simon danczuk, thank you very much for joining us >> superb. simon danczuk, thank you very much forjoining us on you very much for joining us on the always a pleasure. the show. always a pleasure. i hope great festive hope you have a great festive penod. hope you have a great festive period . now, you may have heard period. now, you may have heard a squeaking the corner a squeaking away in the corner that's dawn neesom that's not dawn neesom squeaking, the chair , i can squeaking, it's the chair, i can assure you. has anybody got a can of wd 40? >> honestly, the chair is not my joints. that's entirely joints. all that's entirely possible at my advanced age. thank much for alluding thank you very much for alluding that fact, mr daubeny.

>> you are tonight >> so, dawn, you are tonight standing in your transition into michelle dewberry. >> spot the difference, right? >> spot the difference, right? >> got a very small, >> so you've got a very small, petite, young, beautiful northerner and me, i mean, you know , well, you're a very know, well, you're a very beautiful petite. >> well, you're not petite. you're petite. you're not petite. >> i'm not beautiful. >> i'm not beautiful. >> you're gorgeous cockney, >> you're a gorgeous cockney, so stop holes. stop digging holes. >> we've got a cracking show coming. >> what's on your menu? >> what's on your menu? >> it is. >> what's on your menu? >> wes. of coming up >> we a lot of toast coming up on, this we are asking, on, on on this we are asking, are tories toast for young are the tories toast for young voters . voters. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> mm. >> mm. >> they're going to and >> they're going to try and bribe them home and bribe them with home loans and all that . all that. >> very. dare imply it's a >> very. dare you imply it's a bribe. they mean it. bribe. obviously they mean it. it's all an election it's not at all an election promise they promise whatsoever that they won't royals won't keep. um, are the royals toast for everybody? >> did well over christmas. >> did well over christmas. >> but really , is it much of a >> but really, is it much of a future for them in inheritance tax? >> death tax? we have to talk about that obviously, don't we. >> and finally, the of the >> and finally, the toast of the evening, a very important one is a of champagne in a pint a toast of champagne in a pint glass. oh yes. is this a good thing? >> well , i thing? >> well, i like thing? >> well , i like the thing? >> well, i like the idea of a pint of champagne. i like the

idea of a pint of wine. and of course, bringing them course, they're bringing them in. a brexit in. of course, this is a brexit bonus. imperial bonus. going back to imperial measures, churchill used measures, winston churchill used to pint champagne. to like a pint of champagne. he did, bottle too did, because a bottle was too much. did, because a bottle was too mu evidently i >> evidently for breakfast. i don't that , do i don't know about that, do you? i think cope. uh half a think you should cope. uh half a bottle but pint bottle is not enough. but a pint was about right. so loads was just about right. so loads of that coming out. good fun. >> the pint of wine >> and i think the pint of wine will its spirit . will find its new spirit. homeland. as a commuter drink. think about it. it could be a great amount of wine for a journey home anyway , am i just? journey home anyway, am i just? >> you only live two stops on the tube. >> exactly what i mean. >> that's exactly what i mean. look that's coming up next. that's, um, dubai and co with dawn neesom . i'll be back same dawn neesom. i'll be back same time tomorrow . i've been martin time tomorrow. i've been martin daubney. thanks for joining time tomorrow. i've been martin daubney. thanks forjoining us. have evening. stick have a superb evening. stick around for dewbs& co this evening with dawn neesom. have a good one. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there, it's aidan mcgivern

here from the met office with the gb news forecast. storm garrett will continue to bring wet and windy weather to the uk for the rest of today, with heavy snow in northern scotland, so some treacherous conditions out there now . the worst of the out there now. the worst of the wind and rain has eased for the time being across england, wales, southern scotland. but another bout of wet and windy weather moves into west wales, northwest england, the northwest england, through the evening wind evening 70 mile per hour wind gusts, 80 mile per hour wind gusts, but 80 mile per hour wind gusts, but 80 mile per hour wind gusts across far of gusts across the far north of scotland, heavy scotland, combined with heavy snow over hills and snow blizzards over hills and drifting well through the drifting as well through the night , the wind does ease night, the wind does ease a little and there'll be less rain about, but still some showers coming in from the west and enough of a breeze, of course, to the frost away . so to keep the frost away. so a mild start in the south. still on the cold side across parts of scotland where there will continue to snow into continue to be hill snow into thursday outbreaks rain at thursday and outbreaks rain at lower levels. strong winds continue across the country with 40 to 50 mile per hour wind gusts and some heavy bursts of rain. some longer spells of rain in for example, the

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year to go. possibly. we don't know. before the election. have tories lost young voters for good, though? nearly 7.5 million people tuned for in the king's speech this christmas day top the tv charts. brilliant yet again. but are we just watching them on telly? do we really care

about the royal family?