relaunch. >> meghan markle has reportedly reached out to british pr gurus to help boost her popularity. but what can we expect from a meghan pr blitz on britain? and a very happy international women's day to you if you are a woman. and to those who celebrate, absolutely. >> i love international women's day. tell me why. it's day. go on, tell me why. it's one of my favourite days of the yeah >> go on. why >> go on. why >> well, because on one day it's international women's day and then the men have all the others i >> -- >> all the other days. >> all the other days. >> well, that's one way of looking at it, tom. it's a joke, but the campaign theme today is , but the campaign theme today is, is inspire inclusion. so how are you today? inspiring inclusion, by by keeping my mouth shut. right. being seen and not heard.

good. and letting you drive the show. >> well , fantastic. sounds about >> well, fantastic. sounds about right. how are you at home celebrating international women's day? of course. >> i promise not to interrupt you at all. >> of course, it is also mothering sunday this sunday, so don't forget. please do send your mother some flowers. a text is not enough. >> are you going to go and see your mum or just i am? your mum orjust i am? >> of course i am. of course i am, mum. i will see you on sunday. >> i'm going to see my mother and my grandmother. >> well, that is brownie >> well, that is double brownie points anyway. let us know what you're views at you're up to. gb views at gb news. com do approve news. com do you approve of international do international women's day? do you be you think there should be a men's day? two? or is that every other year? other day of the year? but first, headlines . first, your headlines. >> thanks, emily. good afternoon . it's 12:02. i'm sophia wenzler . it's12:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your top in the gb newsroom. your top story. a major independent investigation has found more lives were probably lost than saved by a double agent working

within the ira during the troubles . the individual, troubles. the individual, codenamed stakeknife, was working covertly for the british army inside the ira's internal security unit. more than 100 murders and abductions linked to the unit responsible for interrogating and torturing people, met police firearms officer martin blake has denied the murder of chris kaba after being named publicly for the first time. the 24 year old was shot once in the head through the windscreen of a car in south london in september 2022. the officer was initially identified as 121, but it was ruled the 40 year old can now be named because it poses no real risk to his life or that of his family. he's been released on bail and is due to face trial in october. under the counter extremism tsar has warned. london has become a no go zone forjews during no go zone for jews during pro—palestine protests. it's after the prime minister said forces are trying to tear apart the country, writing in the

telegraph, robin simcock said rishi sunak was right to raise concerns about the increase in extremist disruption . he says extremist disruption. he says policies are needed to meet the scale of the challenge and urge ministers to be bolder and be willing to accept higher legal risk when tackling extremism . risk when tackling extremism. now the uk will join the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza . the foreign directly to gaza. the foreign secretary made the announcement after president joe biden said dunng after president joe biden said during his annual state of the union address that the us will build a port in gaza to deliver a supply of emergency aid when completed in the coming weeks. a supply of emergency aid when completed in the coming weeks . a completed in the coming weeks. a temporary pier will allow hundreds of lorry loads of food to be shipped daily. officials have insisted us troops will not be deployed in gaza, but will operate offshore during construction , and protesters construction, and protesters again demonstrating against a decision to house asylum seekers at raf scampton. it comes a year after the home office plans were revealed as the government works

to reduce its reliance on expensive hotels . west lindsey expensive hotels. west lindsey district council launched legal action against the proposal and conservative councillor robert patterson says the fight will continue. >> we've got a legal stop order in place which the home office are ignoring. they're not doing the portacabins, but they are building on the accommodation blocks and they've been doing it openly , in breach of the stop openly, in breach of the stop order for months , we've lost order for months, we've lost a judicial review, but we have a we've been able to appeal the judicial review . so we're going judicial review. so we're going to appeal the judicial review. and the council is also going to launch another legal challenge . launch another legal challenge. >> meanwhile, the prime minister has been accused of failing to stop the boats, with channel crossings topping 3000 for the year so far. downing street insists the government is making progress. it comes as the uk pledges up to £1 million as part of a deal to get libyans to return to their home country .

return to their home country. former prime minister theresa may will stand down at the next general election, bringing her 27 year career as an mp to an end. announcing her decision to stand down as the member for maidenhead, she said she wants to focus on causes including the fight against modern slavery. she's been the conservative mp for berkshire since 1997. we've been speaking to local residents to get their reaction. >> it's been a good mp for maidenhead, as far as i can tell , my reaction is that i'm sorry to see her go, and hopefully whoever takes her place will be as enthusiastic . sukh, for as enthusiastic. sukh, for looking after the residents of maidenhead as she was. >> i think it's a pity that she's stood down because she seems to have integrit me as an individual. >> she did a lot for us around here. well, she still do. does. i mean, she comes to our, our, old age pensioners gatherings .

old age pensioners gatherings. >> in other news, mps are being warned that britain will be left increasingly reliant on military allies due to a £29 billion financial black hole in defence spending. the influential public accounts committee warned the government currently lacked a credible plan to fund the ministry of defence. the gap between the mod's budget and the cost of the uk's desired military capabilities is its largest ever, at £169 military capabilities is its largest ever, at £16.9 billion, labour said. the report was more proof that the conservatives had failed and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's back to tom and . emily. to tom and. emily. >> it's 1207 now. big question is the conservative party crumbling before our very eyes? only 1 in 5 voters, fewer than 1

in 5 voters will back the government at the next election. that's according to the latest polling . polling. >> and theresa may has become the 60th sitting tory mp. 62nd. if you include those who've already gone to announce she's throwing in the towel at the next election, the former prime minister served her constituency of maidenhead for 27 years. >> like a good innings , one >> like a good innings, one might say. she says she's standing down to focus on her charity work. but is she really just jumping off a sinking ship? >> well, let's speak to our political correspondent , political correspondent, katherine forster, who's been following the story, and catherine, this came as a surprise to many people. >> yes, it did. i mean, there's now about 60 conservative or conservative mps who've lost the whip, announced they're standing down at the next election, some very big beasts, among them people like sajid javid , dominic people like sajid javid, dominic raab, etc. but of course , raab, etc. but of course, theresa may, the biggest of all, resigned , saying she's not going

resigned, saying she's not going to stand again on international women's day. she was, of course, our second ever female prime minister and interesting. i thought, too, that she gave her, she gave this exclusive to her local paper, the maidenhead advertiser , rather than to a big advertiser, rather than to a big broadsheet or to a broadcaster . broadsheet or to a broadcaster. and i think at the heart, she is a constituency mp. what the, the people that were done in the boxes were just saying basically was that she'd worked hard for the constituency and even after she stood down as prime minister, she continued as a backbench mp, something that, former prime ministers tend not to do. david cameron said he would stay and it didn't suit him very well at all. and then he was off. so, yeah, she had a, a majority of about 20,000, which would seem super safe in normal times. of course, these

are not normal times, but she says that she's standing down because she wants to focus on her work on modern slavery and she's formed this global commission on modern slavery and human trafficking. and she says that that means she's spending so much time on that that she can't the time she would can't give the time she would like to, to her constituents. and she is, she's off. who and so she is, she's off. who will replace her? time will tell. but, it would look like a safe ish conservative seat. although, of course , the liberal although, of course, the liberal democrats will be snapping at their heels . they did take the their heels. they did take the council in maidenhead last may. >> so interesting stuff. the lib dems do like to dig in. in this part of the world. it's not a million miles from chesham and amersham, where of course the lib had that spectacular lib dems had that spectacular upset that by—election win a few years katherine years back. katherine forster, thank you very much for those details. >> yes, it's very interesting how, when someone steps down, we often look back with, perhaps

rose coloured spectacles, there were quite a few controversies, of course, during her time there were, but there was also this sort of assumption or criticism from many quarters that she would become a sort of ted heath like figure who was known as the incredible sulk , sitting on for incredible sulk, sitting on for decades after he left office, sort of grumbling from the back benches. >> it seems that theresa may is not choosing that path. she's going off to do things, and perhaps that will avoid her, being lumbered with a similar nickname. >> well, we can now speak with deputy chairman of the conservative party and member of parliament for redditch, rachel mclean. live from her car. excellent stuff. thank you for taking this, call. you seem to be very busy. well, happy international women's day. of course. now, on international women's day, we've had theresa may announce that she'll be stepping down at the next election. we've also had robin simcox, who is the counter—terrorism tsar, warning of a permissive environment that the government has allowed a

permissive environment for extremism to take hold in this country. he's gone as far as to say london has become a bit of a no go area forjewish people, at least at the weekend. on saturdays, the protests saturdays, when the protests erupt , you as saturdays, when the protests erupt, you as a female mp, we often hear they experience disproportionate amount of abuse and threats . how disproportionate amount of abuse and threats. how is it this international women's day being a female politician ? a female politician? >> well, can i just first of all say, obviously , as many people say, obviously, as many people have said, it's, can i mark my own respect for theresa may stepping down? >> she's been an inspiration for many of us. >> and the reason we have so many women in the conservative party wanting to stand for office at all levels is largely down to her and of course, our other, other successful members of parliament and who've achieved high office but also serve their constituents in a very dedicated fashion. so look on the issue of abuse and so on. i think it's, it's important to remember that this is it's a

very difficult issue. but i also don't want to make more of it, if that makes sense, because we know that when we if you like, put this front and centre, it does act as a deterrent to very decent , good does act as a deterrent to very decent, good women does act as a deterrent to very decent , good women who does act as a deterrent to very decent, good women who are living in their local communities and think that they might want to take part in pubuc might want to take part in public life . i mean, like all of public life. i mean, like all of us i've had i've had some issues and i think that's par for the course. but on the other hand, to put it in perspective, being a member of parliament serving my local community has been a complete pleasure . it's not complete pleasure. it's not without its difficulties politically been in the sense of the sort of abuse that you're highlighting, been highlighting, for me, it's been it's been well managed by the police. they have been incredibly responsive . incredibly responsive. >> rachel, what about rachel? that's great. that's that's great. and i completely understand the point you're trying make you you're trying to make there. you don't want to, have, you know, be too hyperbolic about the threat politicians actions. threat on politicians actions. but when you have the counter—terror, when you when you counter—terror ism

you have the counter—terror ism tsar that the tsar suggesting that the government has been far too lax when it comes to extremism , when it comes to extremism, that's also an issue of safety for the rest of us. >> yes. so these are two different separate issues , of different separate issues, of course. and i also read the comments from robin simcox this morning, and i largely agree with him. i think what he said in his piece and his comments is that obviously the government have taken a number of steps that done that , that they've rightly done that, but we have to continue bearing down actually stood up down on it. i actually stood up in parliament and said we shouldn't be beaming slogans such the river to the such as from the river to the sea onto ben, matter how sea onto big ben, no matter how strongly people feel about it, we we've laws stop we we've passed laws to stop people climbing on war memorials, i think there's memorials, and i think there's probably and you saw probably more to do. and you saw the prime minister coming out just couple of weeks ago in a just a couple of weeks ago in a very welcome, speech that he gave downing street . i know gave from downing street. i know that lots of my constituents thought that was incredibly timely. said. we are looking timely. he said. we are looking again at definition of again at this definition of extremism, extremism , to tackle extremism, extremism, to tackle exactly issues you've

exactly the issues that you've raised and have been raised by the terrorism, the extremism adviser. i mean, i think it's completely unacceptable for anybody from whatever religion jews, muslims , anybody to feel jews, muslims, anybody to feel that they're not welcome on the streets of our capital city. it's shocking. it should not be the case. it's right that the government looking this . government are looking at this. >> yeah. no really, really important stuff. rachel, i do want to move to on some comments that you've made this week that i to heartily agree with i happen to heartily agree with in the budget debate, the number of people who are signing off work seems to be ballooning . and work seems to be ballooning. and you raised a really important point. there are some people who are signing off for sickness, for what appear to be very genuine reasons, but there are a lot of other words that are sort of bundled in this roster of reasons to slack . off. oh, i reasons to slack. off. oh, i think we might have. we might have.i

think we might have. we might have. i think you are. you are here. please do do elaborate on what you said in parliament. just a couple of days ago about this, this, these multiple reasons that people have not just, depression and anxiety , just, depression and anxiety, real things, but bad nerves . real things, but bad nerves. >> that's right, that's right. i highlighted it because i started looking into this issue. i'm obviously very concerned when people working . we want people are not working. we want people are not working. we want people to be able to work. it's a source happiness, a source of happiness, pride, dignity . it's really source dignity. it's really the source of purpose in life. but of people's purpose in life. but when i discovered that people are signing off work not just for anxiety and depression, which of course are clinically recognised conditions and rightly support, rightly they get support, there's phrase bad there's also this phrase bad nerves. and when i started digging into this, i found it wasn't at all differentiated from clinically from these medically, clinically recognised conditions. it was a phrase that was bundled in there . there's no definition of bad nerves. there can't be. because what what is bad nerves? i don't know what it is. i've got two psychology degrees. i've got considerable knowledge of mental

health mental ill health and health and mental ill health and mental illness. i think this is something is this not though, a consequence of. >> well, the record waiting lists in the nhs, the lack of mental health support in some areas of the country , is that areas of the country, is that not also. and the, the, you know , the pandemic and the lockdowns and everything that came with that. i mean, it's not it's probably no coincidence that you suddenly have this uptick in economic inactivity. >> if you just allow me to >> no. if you just allow me to finish and i would urge anyone who's interested to listen to my speech because i had a bit more time to set the issue out in the detail that that it deserves. it is detailed issue. we is a detailed issue. we shouldn't fall into the trap of just soundbites and just using soundbites and looking for simple solutions, because there aren't any . this because there aren't any. this problem of people being off sick, is a difficult one, and we must be compassionate and have the right response . and that's the right response. and that's why i think it's important to use words properly . we use words use words properly. we use words for meaning and bad nerves

doesn't have a meaning. i'm quite pleased to see that since i've been starting to raise this, i think the department are going to move away from using that as a definition, because what can't taylor help, of what we can't taylor help, of which there is a considerable amount to people if we don't know what's wrong with them. i mean, if i, if i go and fill in a form saying, have i got bad nerves? well, i've probably got bad talking you bad nerves talking to you because nerve because it's quite nerve wracking appearing on and wracking appearing on tv and standing up in parliament. that's not a reason not to be off work. what we do know about any mental, ill health or mental, illness condition is that by and large , obviously that by and large, obviously huge generalisation. and please don't take this as a sort of point that i'm ignorant on this. i'm not. it's much better for people to be in work. that is the way not only to get people out of and to better out of poverty and to better themselves, to improve themselves, but also to improve mental health at all levels. and that's government's that's why the government's plans rightly targeted at plans are rightly targeted at supporting get back supporting people to get back into . so i was highlighting into work. so i was highlighting something system which

something in the system which i was worried about because i just think we shouldn't be over medicalizing , the ups and downs medicalizing, the ups and downs of normal life, right? mean, of normal life, right? i mean, if you've facing difficulties and challenges in life, that's part life . we need to help part of life. we need to help people deal with that rather than saying, okay, you can be off sick now, i don't think that's happening, but we just need if it is happening. >> does seem an >> it does seem to be an extraordinary loophole. lots of there been work that's there has been great work that's been over the course of the been done over the course of the last years tighten up last 14 years to tighten up people who are out of work and say that they're looking for work work . that has work and fit to work. that has really been tightened but it really been tightened up. but it does is an does seem that there is an enormous loophole here. i mean, perhaps the country perhaps anyone in the country would have bad nerves if they had to go for a job interview. that's kind that's precisely the kind of thing might experience thing you might experience bad nerves that's nerves for. and if that's a reason to sign off and get taxpayer money sitting and taxpayer for money sitting and doing nothing, it seems like that's a massive problem . that's a massive problem. >> yeah. well, precisely. i don't necessarily use the word massive problem because like i said, i don't know how big the problem . that's why i raised problem is. that's why i raised it in debate, because there

it in the debate, because there are there are people are no numbers. there are people who off who are signed off for a combination all these three combination of all these three things. the government things. and the government data doesn't differentiate doesn't actually differentiate that. so it may be that all those people are signed off for anxiety in anxiety and depression, in which case all be very case i think we'd all be very sympathetic. what i was highlighting was we just don't have data. this bad have any data. this phrase bad nerves is completely meaningless. it's something that we when we just we all experience when we just go about our daily business, as you've rightly said, and look, i'm a mum of four and, you know, i've learned through parenting children that you protect children that you can't protect them you can't them from everything you can't keep children safe from from the world. pretend that world. you can't pretend that life is about being happy and living in state of paradise living in a state of paradise all the time. it's not inevitably life will come with knocks, difficulties, challenges, fear , challenges, fear, disappointment. i've experienced a fair share of it in my life, as i'm sure many of your listeners will also. but the key to being happy in life is understanding that getting through those things is what makes you a it makes you a person. yes, absolutely. >> i think, i think, i think

it's because there is a bit of a consensus growing that we medicalize too much, perhaps when it comes to this. i've just got just lastly from got an email in just lastly from a chap called andy in corby. now he boris johnson might he suggested boris johnson might be maidenhead . be a good mp for maidenhead. >> well, i'm sure that's up to boris. if he wants to apply, i'm sure he can. he can go through the process like anybody else. i can there will not be can imagine there will not be a shortage of people want to shortage of people who want to come and represent come forward and represent maidenhead, the local maidenhead, but the local association rightly will be responsible for that. >> well, rachel mclean, thank you you weren't you very much. you weren't tempted on on that, that dangung tempted on on that, that dangling bit bait. but rachel dangling bit of bait. but rachel mclean, member of parliament for redditch , thank you very, very redditch, thank you very, very much for coming on. nice to speak to. you know, i do think she's absolutely right that we probably medicalize, probably do over medicalize, but i think because the i do think that because of the cost because of nhs cost of living, because of nhs waiting lists, because of the pandemic and the impact of that, there is a reason, obviously , there is a reason, obviously, why more people are economically inactive. >> and i think the conservatives need to address that. >> yeah, i think there's

probably a bit of both in this. there's, there's i think it would wrong to say there's would be wrong to say there's no fraud going there's no fraud going on here. there's no people situations in people overegging situations in order to not have to work. but clearly there are also lots of genuine reasons why people can't work well. yeah, both both work as well. yeah, both both can be true. >> i mean, let us know. do you think easy to sign off think it's too easy to sign off sick? of people say it's sick? lots of people say it's very, very hard. you have to go through very, very hard. you have to go thro interviews and whatnot. and interviews and whatnot. >> or hard >> is it harder or less hard than well, let us know. than working? well, let us know. >> gb at gb news. com is >> gb views at gb news. com is it easy to sign on? it too easy to sign on? but anyway, becoming a anyway, london is becoming a no go for jews, anyway, london is becoming a no go forjews, says home go area forjews, says home office adviser robin simcox . go area forjews, says home office adviser robin simcox. is he right? and have we created a permissive environment for extremism in this country? we'll be joined by a security and intelligence expert . this is intelligence expert. this is good afternoon britain. we're on

gb news. >> london is becoming a no go area for jews. with pro—palestine protests taking over the capital. well, that's according to the home office's independent adviser on extremism, robin simcox, who writes in the telegraph that marches have gone unchallenged for too long. >> he's demanding the government and its agencies use their powers to tackle extremism, to stop it from being normalised. he suggests that we've got a permissive environment in this country for extremism, and the government's failed to tackle it well. >> joining us now is security and intelligence expert at the university of buckingham, anthony glees anthony, thank you for joining us. first of all, forjoining us. first of all, this is an independent adviser. some are calling him the extremism tsar to the home secretary. he's basically saying his own government has been far too permissive and has not taken enough. perhaps legal risks in cracking down on this stuff . cracking down on this stuff. >> well, you're right, he's

independent, appointed by the government, i think by suella braverman. when she was home secretary and he's he's paid to monitor the situation and we're obuged monitor the situation and we're obliged to listen very carefully to what he says. i'm sure the government will, after all, it chimes with what rishi sunak himself said just a week ago on the steps of number 10 downing street. we all thought he was going to announce a general election. the election. in fact, he read the riot and riot act about rioting and protests in this country, and rightly so. if you look at what he said , i think most decent he said, i think most decent people in country would people in this country would agree with every word that he he said, you know, we are a patriotic, liberal, tolerant , patriotic, liberal, tolerant, democratic society and we don't want it ripped apart by the very small number of people who are using, israel's , war of mighty using, israel's, war of mighty vengeance , which sickened so vengeance, which sickened so many people, including me. i have to say , using that as a have to say, using that as a stick with which to beat the

jews. >> anthony, is that is that almost one of the problems, though, that we are such a tolerant country , we that we've tolerant country, we that we've been too tolerant of intolerant, too tolerant of people who don't support british values, too tolerant of people who don't sign up to liberal democracy . sign up to liberal democracy. >> well, when you say we i think the problem. but again, robin simcox is pointing to this and i think we should take him seriously. he's pointing to the fact he says, and as i say, he paid to know these things that the iranian government controls mosques schools in london, mosques and schools in london, the iranian government, for goodness sake, he also right in pointing to the need to have proper policing of protests . now proper policing of protests. now i'm in favour of protests. i don't think you should ban protests , simcock says. let's protests, simcock says. let's have static protests so people aren't moving around and westminster can't take mass , westminster can't take mass, protests any longer. and i think he's probably right about that. a static protest would do the

trick. but the problem is that you have a some judges. i mean, people may remember that judge tam ikram , if i pronounce his tam ikram, if i pronounce his name correctly, is currently being investigated for the conditional discharge he gave to three women clearly supporting hamas and what it did on the 7th of october, and the police refusal to intervene at an early stage, taking out a very small number of people in the protest who were actually using the war in gaza to call for the destruction of a jewish state and of the jews. so when, when jews feel anxious about going out and about in london, we can understand it. it is a it is potentially a tinderbox that war in gaza. so we need to be tolerant. but in order to be tolerant, you're absolutely right. we need to be intolerant of intolerance. and means of intolerance. and that means the police have got to intervene

and we have to have judges who use the laws of this country and not some other country, to decide whether people are innocent or guilty. >> anthony, raised >> but anthony, you raised different countries in the way that different handle that different countries handle these .i that different countries handle these . i can't help but these things. i can't help but think there are countries think there are some countries that very , very tight on that are very, very tight on freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of protest. and there are some countries that basically let anything happen and are we not at risk of moving away from a more permissive, perhaps american model that seems to be in a relatively successful economy? i mean, the first amendment in the united states allows people to brandish whatever distasteful, sign they want to. the first amendment in the united states allows the westboro baptist church to picket the funerals of dead soldiers. it allows racists to march under swastikas. i mean, that's the most extreme form of free speech allowable . form of free speech allowable. and i wonder , does do the

and i wonder, does do the americans have a point? let the nasty stuff come up and the sunlight show it for what it is? >> well, oddly enough , tom, >> well, oddly enough, tom, i couldn't disagree with you more, but your view is kind of shared by a former, very senior, neil basu, very senior counter—terrorism cop in london, who said, look, if you do anything about the protesters , anything about the protesters, they won't simply protest. they'll start committing acts of terrorism. i think that's entirely wrong . the problem entirely wrong. the problem with, and there is no absolute free speech in this country, nor nor should there be, but if you allow the sort of things that they allow in america, you get to a stage where people don't only want think they have a right to storm the capital in washington, but elect a president who takes them on to carry out an act of violence at the beating heart of democracy. so i don't think you're right. i

think we have to be intolerant of intolerance . and that means of intolerance. and that means laying down the law. i think our problem here in the united kingdom is that we become too permissive of people who are getting into institutions, and then doing what they want to do, rather than doing what the law says they should do. >> absolutely, look to france , >> absolutely, look to france, they've been able to deport an imam who was essentially a hate preacher very quickly back to his home country, i believe tunisia very difficult for us to do the same. there have been so many exposes over the years about hate preachers in mosques and other extremist sites, and nothing really seems to happen. we seem to be quite soft touch because the human rights of that person always seem to trump, the, the expression of extremism and all of that, the threat of extremism. i do wonder when we're talking about this, we're talking about october the 7th. but is a problem that's but this is a problem that's gone years. known gone back years. we've known about problem for years. about this problem for years. and as robin simcox says, it's

been fester . been allowed to fester. >> well, it has i mean, what what happens is it kind of goes in waves. so when we had our first islamist attack in britain, 24 years ago, we all ran around like headless chickens. then finally people realised that two things were going on. there were people in the united kingdom who were planning jihadi attacks in the united kingdom, not going not planning attacks in the middle east or anything like that, that britain was the target. and the other thing that we turned a blind eye to was radicalisation , blind eye to was radicalisation, that people can be turned into terrorists by coming into contact with extremely violent , contact with extremely violent, evil people. and you mentioned some of those mosques that are controlled by iran in this country. >> but anthony glees, we must leave it there. thank you so much for coming on and talking and giving us your expertise. really, and all of that. yes. >> well, coming up, the firearms officer who shot chris kaba has been named publicly. we'll have the very latest on that after

been named publicly. we'll have the vlatesttest on that after been named publicly. we'll have the vlatest headlines|t after been named publicly. we'll have the vlatest headlines with er been named publicly. we'll have the vlatest headlines with sofia i >> -- >> thanks, emily. it's 1233. >> thanks, emily. it's1233. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your headlines. a newsroom. your headlines. a major independent investigation has found more lives were probably lost than saved by a double agent working within the ira during the troubles. the individual, codenamed stakeknife, was working covertly with the british army inside the ira's internal security unit. operation kenova examined more than 100 murders and abductions unked than 100 murders and abductions linked to the unit and found strong evidence of very serious and wholly unjustifiable criminality . met office firearms criminality. met office firearms officer martin blake has denied the murder of chris kaba, after being named publicly for the first time. the 24 year old was shot once in the head through the windscreen of a car in south london in september 2022. the officer, who was initially identified as nx 121, has been

released on bail and is due to face trial in october, the counter extremism tsar has warned. london has become a no go zone for jews during pro—palestine protests . writing pro—palestine protests. writing in the telegraph, robin simcock said policies are needed to meet the scale of the challenge faced and he urged ministers to be bolder and willing to accept higher legal risk when tackling extremism . the uk will join the extremism. the uk will join the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza . the foreign directly to gaza. the foreign secretary made the announcement after president joe biden confirmed the us will build a port off the strip in the coming weeks. the temporary pier will allow hundreds of lorry loads of food to be shipped there daily, and former prime minister theresa may will stand down at the next general election, bringing her 27 year career as an mp to an end. announcing her decision, the member for maidenhead said she wants to focus on causes such as the fight against modern slavery.

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i >> -- >> well, -_ >> well, we had a rather interesting conversation with rachel mcclean, the tory mp. earlier in the show. she was talking about how sometimes it might be a little bit too easy to get a sickness benefit. lots of you have been getting in touch about someone's touch about this. someone's written to remain written in and wants to remain anonymous . written in and wants to remain anonymous. she's a gp, she written in and wants to remain anonymous . she's a gp, she says. anonymous. she's a gp, she says. i write multiple sick notes each day, some legitimately, but many for patients with mental health problems who aren't seeking treatment but just want a sick note for their benefits and in seems have little intention of ever working or helping

ever working or really helping themselves better . we themselves to get better. we need to reform the benefit system. that's the view of an system. so that's the view of an anonymous gp there. >> interesting. so some genuine problems, but people who don't want to be treated. that's a really interesting point. although linda is a little bit more sceptical, she's written to in say what a lot of weeping and wailing from people today i. how come mental health was never heard of when britain was being bombed in the last world war? yes, soldiers had shell shock, quite understandably , but the quite understandably, but the general population coped with food shortages and many came home from shopping and found a hole where their house used to be. >> i'm sure there was a lot of mental health problems following that experience, says that experience, but chris says i a in the i gave ben a nudge in the previous show now it's your previous show and now it's your turn. stop putting turn. you must stop putting everyone box. everyone in the same box. i totally agree with you that there lazy there are far too many lazy people sitting their people sitting on their backsides however, us backsides. however, some of us who find work are who are trying to find work are being ignored by the politically correct woke worshippers. he correct sg woke worshippers. he says he's finding it hard to

find a job as a 50 plus straight white male. i mean, there might be a bit of to that. there be a bit of truth to that. there is a lot of box ticking it is a lot of box ticking when it comes at public sector comes to at least public sector jobs i've seen. jobs that i've seen. >> there are a million >> although there are a million job in the job vacancies in the uk. >> saying no one wants >> are you saying no one wants him? >> e a pub would, but >> i reckon a pub would, but maybe pub? >> no, maybe has lots of >> no, or maybe has lots of other skills. >> he does have lots >> i'm sure he does have lots and lots of but do and lots of skills, but i do know how it is for people, know how hard it is for people, particularly over age 50, particularly over the age of 50, to of of work to get lots of lots of work places actually want you places actually sort of want you to savvy , want to be social media savvy, want you to be touch typing and all the rest of it. and for people that grew up with computers, it's a different world than people come to learn people who have come to learn about them later in life. so that a barrier. about them later in life. so tha well, a barrier. about them later in life. so tha well, he's a barrier. about them later in life. so tha well, he's notarrieh about them later in life. so tha well, he's not that. about them later in life. so tha well, he's not that old. he's >> well, he's not that old. he's only plus, says. it's only 50 plus, julia says. it's certainly too not easy to. it's certainly too not easy to. it's certainly easy off certainly not easy to sign off sick. not everyone on benefits is work shy. i'm a single is work shy. i'm 56, a single mum of two teenagers. i was the registered carer for my own mum until she passed away six months ago. from depression ago. i suffer from depression yet not qualify for more than yet do not qualify for more than £1,500 and my rent is £1,500 a month and my rent is £4,500 a month. she goes on to

say no savings and she say i have no savings and she has lots of experience in a broad skill set, but finding it very hard to find a part time job. this thing. lots of women in particular have caring responses and it can be very difficult indeed to find a job that fits around all of that. but i do think rachel mclean is right to point out that there does seem to be a little bit of skiving too, and i think a little bit of taking the mick if, if, if you're if you're choosing benefits over a job, it's always better to be in a job, even if the job might seem a bit sort of lower than what you might have thought would be a i don't you'd a good job, i don't know, you'd hope. metropolitan police >> but the metropolitan police brace a potential backlash brace for a potential backlash from officers after the from firearms officers after the armed officer accused of murdering chris kaba was named in court. >> martin blake , a 40 year old >> martin blake, a 40 year old officer with the met's firearms command, was named by an old bailey judge after his anonymity order was lifted. >> well, joining us now is mark white, gb news home and security edhoh

white, gb news home and security editor, mark, this is very unusual to have named a police officer like this . officer like this. >> yes. and indeed, the original decision to charge this officer with murder in september last year caused a real backlash amongst firearms officers within the metropolitan police , with the metropolitan police, with hundreds of armed officers stepping back from those firearms duties that caused a crisis within the met's firearms command. they had to call in mutual aid firearms officers from other forces. the military was also put on standby and we await to see what the reaction will be from the met firearms command again , those individual command again, those individual firearms officers to this decision today by the old bailey judge, mark lucraft, kc , to name judge, mark lucraft, kc, to name this officer as martin blake, a 40 year old serving firearms officer with the met police firearms command. that challenge

had been brought by the media, actually to the old bailey because when he was originally charged in september of last yeah charged in september of last year, the magistrate had his first court hearing granted an anonymity order that was challenged on the grounds of open justice. it's normal custom and practice for anyone charged with a criminal offence to be named. there are certain restrictions, although we can name them and we can give his age. what we can't do is give his address. we can't show images of this officer as well. he's due to stand trial in october of this year. it follows the death of chris kaba 24 year old man in south london in streatham in september of 2022. now, chris kaba had been driving an audi car, not his own car, that was linked to a firearms offence the previous day. it was stopped by armed police officers

and during that operation to stop this car , a shot was fired stop this car, a shot was fired through the front windscreen of this vehicle . it struck chris this vehicle. it struck chris kabain this vehicle. it struck chris kaba in the head and he died in hospital the next day . hospital the next day. >> really concerning stuff, particularly mark, about the idea that there are lots of firearms officers who have decided that it's just not worth it now that they're going to hand back their firearms and not be a firearms officer anymore . be a firearms officer anymore. >> yeah. i mean, the real concern that they have is they say they're out there making split second decisions on a daily basis , dealing with very daily basis, dealing with very high levels of violent crime in the capital. and it's the same for firearms officers. right across the country in urban centres of population. they want to they say they're not trying to they say they're not trying to suggest that they should be immune from the law, but that

the law should take into account those those very difficult, very fast time decisions that a firearms officer has to make. and they feel at the moment that they're not getting that level of backing. and i think the naming of a firearms officer who is not yet, if he ever will be found guilty of a crime in court, they see as a step too far. so let's wait to see what happens. it may be that we're looking at hundreds of firearms officers in the capital again, stepping back from those duties. thank you very much indeed. mark white our home and security editor there bringing us the latest . but editor there bringing us the latest. but coming up we've editor there bringing us the latest . but coming up we've got latest. but coming up we've got huge amounts coming up on the show. going to be outside show. we're going to be outside raf scampton to mark one year since plans to house 2000 asylum seekers were leaked to the press. how are the locals feeling? quite a few protesters, i imagine

it's coming up to 1250. or watching . listening to good watching. listening to good afternoon, britain. now, it's been a whole year since plans to house 2000 asylum seekers at raf scampton were leaked to the press as the home office tried to reduce reliance on expensive hotels. >> since then, west lindsey district council and community groups have fought to prevent progress at the historic site, which they say puts £300 million of regeneration at risk . of regeneration at risk. >> the men of 617 squadron flew the iconic dambuster raids from the iconic dambuster raids from the airbase in may 1943. it has a lot of history. let's speak to our reporter anna riley, who is outside the raf base for us. anna, thank you very much for being there for us, introduce the man you're with.

>> sorry, emily. it's a little bit loud. you can probably hear some lorries going past there, but, yes, we're here one year on where protesters, as you can see, i'm with paul now. and protesters in the background marking one year on since it was announced that raf scampton would be used to house 2000 male asylum seekers next to an area with 700 residents, i'm joined by paul carter. he was in the raf for 22 years, so it this base is certainly something that you're passionate about. paul, with your background. but just tell me one year on why this campaign is still still so forceful about saying this isn't the right area for these asylum seekers? >> well, there's a lot going on here. like i said, there is all the history, the heritage of this place , people are aware of this place, people are aware of it. this is this is like i say, the dambusters took from here. the red arrows were here. there's a lot more than that. even that's just tip the even that's just the tip of the iceberg. shall say, what

iceberg. shall we say, of what happened top of that, happened here, on top of that, you know, there are 700 residents living the other side of a six foot wire fence that they're worried. people are worried. so, you know , people. worried. so, you know, people. people. it's the wrong place. it's the wrong time. wrong place shouldn't be here, it's just the government trying to cover their bad decisions. basically >> and you were initially told residents here were told that it would be £300 million that had been invested to make this a heritage site . why do you think heritage site. why do you think that's so important that that money will be invested here for that and create up to 1000 jobs as well? well basically we need to remember and we need to honour the guys who fought and died for our freedom. >> you know , the bomber command >> you know, the bomber command got a real raw deal. after the war, you know, they were told, oh, they were doing what they were doing was wrong. and it took them years to even get a statue, in london, we now have

the bomber command centre over the bomber command centre over the other side of lincoln, and lincolnshire has always been known bomber county because known as bomber county because this is where all the bomber bases were. they all took off from here, you can throw a stone in direction and hit in any direction and hit a bomber base from here, so we need to honour these people. half of them didn't turn up and these guys were in their 20s, you know, early a lot of you know, early 20s, a lot of them. they were going them. and they were going up day after night night, after day, night after night, with knowledge that half of with the knowledge that half of them probably wouldn't come back again. honour again. so we need to honour that. this the ideal that. and this is the ideal place it because of the place to do it because of the history what do you history of it. but what do you say home office who say say to the home office who say that spending millions that they're spending millions of every day on hotels that they're spending millions of it's every day on hotels that they're spending millions of it's military day on hotels that they're spending millions of it's military sitesyn hotels that they're spending millions of it's military sites like ytels and it's military sites like this where asylum seekers should be housed ? no. i'm sorry, that's be housed? no. i'm sorry, that's rubbish. that's rubbish. yes. they're spending supposedly millions of pounds on hotels every day. they spent tens of millions pounds on this millions of pounds on this place. it's even place. so, so far it's not even ready you know, the freedom ready yet. you know, the freedom of information act came up and they said that this is going to cost £10 a day less than a

hotel. you know , and i don't hotel. you know, and i don't believe that even because, you know, the security is going to cost the, the, the staff that are going to be on here, the heating, the electric, just just maintaining the place. you've got listed buildings here which they have to maintain by law, they have to maintain by law, the roof on the, on the, old officer's mess. it's going to cost £1 million, over £1 million to fix. and that's all got to be done. >> thank you. paul, thank you for speaking to us. we'll have to that there. but yes, to leave that there. but yes, protesters today here protesters gathering today here to mark year on since raf to mark one year on since raf scampton announced to scampton has been announced to have an asylum for up to have an asylum base for up to 2000 male asylum seekers. but the campaign continues here. >> anna riley, thank you very much for bringing us that . much for bringing us that. goodness me. it's been a year. i can't believe that we've been we've back to scampton can't believe that we've been we'vea back to scampton can't believe that we've been we'vea bit. back to scampton can't believe that we've been we'vea bit. i ack to scampton can't believe that we've been we'vea bit. i know, scampton can't believe that we've been we'vea bit. i know, butmpton can't believe that we've been we'vea bit. i know, but itpton can't believe that we've been we'vea bit. i know, but it does quite a bit. i know, but it does to me seem that i mean, we've got asylum seekers. it would be better to have facilities like scampton than hotels. >> a historical site though, and 2000 male asylum seekers in one

quite rural area, clearly not suitable . if i was a local suitable. if i was a local resident resident, i'm not sure i'd be very happy either. but we are spending £15 million a day. according to labour analysis. anyway, on hotel accommodation. so , well, i'd rather i'd so yes, well, i'd rather i'd rather sites like scampton than hotels or private rented accommodation. well, meghan markle hired british markle has hired a british pr guru boost her popularity, guru to boost her popularity, say reports. but is the damage salvageable? can she win back britain? we'll have a debate . britain? we'll have a debate. >> on a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it will be a dry afternoon for many areas with some sunshine, but there's a relatively brisk easterly breeze for many areas. that's as this area of high pressure across scandinavia still brings in that easterly wind. further south,

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gb news. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:00 on friday, the 8th of march. >> tory exodus. theresa may becomes the 60th serving conservative mp to step down at the next election . this, as an the next election. this, as an exclusive gb news poll reveals that fewer than 1 in 5 voters say they'll back the tories at the next election. but have the tories simply given up the fight and no go ? and no go? >> london the government's counter—extremism tsar has slammed his own bosses for

letting extremists go unchallenged for too long, as he claims london is a no go zone for jews. >> prepare for relaunch . forjews. >> prepare for relaunch . meghan >> prepare for relaunch. meghan markle has reportedly reached out to british pr gurus to help boost her popularity in blighty . boost her popularity in blighty. but what can we expect from a meghan pr blitz on britain? >> it's international women's day and so it's a good day for meghan markle to relaunch a bit of a british pr blitz. i mean, surely it can't hurt. >> well, when you've got numbers as low as harry and meghan , i as low as harry and meghan, i mean, they're numbers that, i think the only the only people in the country that might be less popular than rishi sunak at the moment, to tie together our first and first choice. >> quite possibly. and it's it doesn't take much of a memory to

remember why exactly they've become so unpopular, but could they turn things around? could meghan markle become a celeb in her own right in this country? could she relaunch with a new brand? she's got a new website after all. >> i think it would be a really easy thing to do, actually to win over the british public. go on then. three point plan, three point plan. okay. number one, drop the titles. you be private citizens. you're making money citizens. so you're making money as yourself as as, meghan markle not as the duchess of sussex, because you've quit the royal family. so stop pretending to be a royal number two. stop, giving your family such grief. your the family that you married into that gave you so much, that gave you your fairytale wedding that you your fairytale wedding that you always dreamed of, the only expected some basic duties. and i mean, being a royal did not come with costs . okay? you come with costs. okay? you didn't want the costs. now you don't get the benefits . that's don't get the benefits. that's fine. be amicable on those both sides . and. and perhaps the

sides. and. and perhaps the biggest thing that british people might expect if you want to, win over the hearts and minds of people, here is, come back. >> well, a bit of humbleness, perhaps . i >> well, a bit of humbleness, perhaps. i don't >> well, a bit of humbleness, perhaps . i don't know. you know, perhaps. i don't know. you know, it is international women's day , it is international women's day, so perhaps i'm sure she's, marking it in one way or another. >> you know, i'm going to come up with three feminists for the next hour . next hour. >> the feminist she is. >> the feminist that she is. anyway, going to the anyway, we're going to have the debate whether can debate whether whether she can win britain at gb win back britain gb views at gb news. or you're sick news. com or if you're just sick of it all, really. but of sick of it all, really. but we're going have debate we're going to have that debate and i hope you'll join in with us at gb news. but us gb views at gb news. com but it's headlines. it's your headlines. >> good afternoon. it's 1:03. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your top story a major newsroom. your top story a major independent investigation has found more lives were probably lost than saved by a double agent working within the ira dunng agent working within the ira during the troubles. agent working within the ira during the troubles . the during the troubles. the individual, codenamed stakeknife, was working covertly

for the british army inside the ira's internal security unit . ira's internal security unit. operation kenova examined more than 100 murders and abductions unked than 100 murders and abductions linked to the unit. the investigation was conducted by bedfordshire police, costing around £40 million over a seven year period , now serving as year period, now serving as a psni chief constable, john butcher says there was strong evidence of very serious criminality by stakeknife was undoubtedly a valuable asset who provided intelligence about the ira at considerable risk to himself , ira at considerable risk to himself, claims that he was responsible for saving countless or hundreds of lives are hugely exaggerated . exaggerated. >> most importantly, these claims belie the fact that stakeknife was himself involved in very serious and wholly unjustified , viable criminality unjustified, viable criminality whilst operating as an agent, including murders.

>> met police firearms officer martin blake has denied the murder of chris kaba after being named publicly for the first time. the 24 year old was shot once in the head through the windscreen of a car in south london in september 2022. the officer was initially identified as 121, but it was ruled the 40 year old can now be named because it poses no real risk to his life or that of his family. he's been released on bail and is due to face trial in october. the counter extremism tsar has warned london has become a no go zone for jews during pro—palestine protests. it's after the prime minister said forces are trying to tear the country apart. writing in the telegraph , robin simcock said telegraph, robin simcock said rishi sunak was right to raise concerns about the increase in extremist disruption. he says policies are needed to meet the large scale of the challenge faced, and he urged ministers to be bolder and willing to accept higher legal risk when tackling

extremism. the uk will join the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza. the foreign secretary made the announcement after president joe biden said dunng after president joe biden said during his annual state of the union address that the us will build a port in gaza to deliver a supply of emergency aid when completed in the coming weeks. a temporary pier will allow hundreds of lorry loads of food to be shipped daily. officials have insisted us troops will not be deployed in gaza, but will operate offshore during construction . protesters are construction. protesters are again demonstrating against the decision to house asylum seekers at raf scampton. it comes a year after the home office plans were revealed as the government works to reduce its reliance on expensive hotels. west lindsey district council launched legal action against the proposal and conservative councillor robert paterson says the fight will continue . continue. >> we've got a legal stop order in place which the home office are ignoring. they're not doing the portacabins , but they are

the portacabins, but they are building on the accommodation blocks and they've been doing it openly, in breach of the stop order for months, we've lost a judicial review, but we have a we've been able to appeal the judicial review. so we're going to appeal the judicial review. and the council is also going to launch another legal challenge. >> meanwhile, the prime minister has been accused of failing to stop the boats with channel crossings topping 3000 for the year so far. downing street insists the government is making progress. it comes as the uk pledges up to £1 million as part of a deal to get libyans to return to their home country , return to their home country, and former prime minister theresa may will stand down at the next general election, bringing her 27 year career as an mp to an end. announcing her decision, the member for maidenhead said she wants to focus on causes such as the fight against modern slavery. she's been the conservative mp for the berkshire seat since

1997. voters in her constituency said she's represented the community well. >> she's been a good mp for maidenhead, as far as i can tell , my reaction is that i'm sorry to see her go, and hopefully whoever takes her place will be as enthusiastic sukh for looking after the residents of maidenhead as she was. >> i think it's a pity that she's stood down because she seems to have integrity as an individual. >> of course she did a lot for us around here. well, she still do. does i mean, she comes to our, our , old age pensioners our, our, old age pensioners gatherings . gatherings. >> and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's back to tom and .

tom and. emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:08 and gb news can exclusively reveal that the government is set to appoint a new independent adviser on islamophobia. >> well, let's get more with gb news political editor, christopher hope. christopher what do we know about this adviser ? adviser? >> that's right. he's called, fayyaz mughal and the context of all this, and. >> hi , tom. all this, and. >> hi, tom. hi. emily is last friday when we saw that , speech friday when we saw that, speech by the pm rishi sunak on the step of downing street, saying it's step of downing street, saying wsfime step of downing street, saying it's time we got to grips with extremism , which is tearing, our extremism, which is tearing, our society , our politics, our society, our politics, our democracy apart. very dramatic turn of phrase there from the prime minister. fast forward a week . we're now seeing finally, week. we're now seeing finally, some action on the back of those words from the prime minister. i understand that as soon as monday , this individual fiyaz monday, this individual fiyaz mughal, he's the founder of counter—extremism group, faith matters and tell mama , which is

matters and tell mama, which is a national project supporting victims of islamophobia . he'll victims of islamophobia. he'll be announced or expected to be announced as soon as monday. he met with michael gove last night in to agree the job, in whitehall to agree the job, i think he's a brave choice by the prime minister and by michael gove because he's been a critic in the past of the government's prevent programme, notably , in prevent programme, notably, in in march last year, he said that ministers should stop channelling cash through prevent to tackle extremism and squandering on people who actually maintain the status quo . he said then that tackling extremism means tackling the views , values and toxic social views, values and toxic social narratives that fuelled division and dehumanisation so often associated with extremism. i think this is a brave choice by michael gove, when it should be confirmed as soon as monday , it confirmed as soon as monday, it shows that he's trying to appoint someone who is properly independent of the government, it comes ahead of probably on thursday . we'll see the thursday. we'll see the definition of what is , definition of what is, extremism. and that will be

that's being widened , i've been that's being widened, i've been told there's a ministerial write round going on and tom and emily will know what that is. that means that, the home office and the community department share share definition with other share the definition with other other ministers. they then pitch in views . the concern in with their views. the concern with that when it's now, maybe on thursday, could be that it could be broadened so wide that it could actually damage the campaigning work of other people who aren't extremists, maybe conservative christian groups, for example , who oppose gay for example, who oppose gay marriage and abortion. so there's risks when you try and define what extremism is, and that's probably hasn't that's probably why it hasn't been that that firmly been defined. that that firmly so far. >> it's also quite interesting because there has been quite a lot of open disagreement and debate about the terms islamophobia within the conservative party. you've had kemi badenoch, for example, coming out strongly to say that she doesn't believe islamophobia is the correct tum to use and that anti—muslim hatred would be preferable, perhaps this is a

case of that not being, not having quite the ring to it, i guess. >> well, that's right, emily, you're right. of course. the last independent adviser on islamophobia was was imam bukhari. asim he was appointed in 2019 to advise ministers on producing a definition of islamophobia. and then in 2022, the government decided the work would not be carried on. so the issue of what is islamophobia has not been fully defined by the government, and that's why you have people like lee anderson on our channel saying, well, what is it? is homophobia? what are you accusing me and what are you accusing me of? and it that towards it may be that we go towards getting a definition which everyone on with this. everyone can agree on with this. with this appointment. i'm not sure that's why i think that's not the, in, in the job at the moment, but that is certainly what the previous adviser what was the previous adviser before left his his job before he left left his his job in 2020. >> christopher is the >> christopher was is the official title here anti—islamophobia tsar. is that what it's actually the job title is because the government

pointedly did not use the word islamophobia in much of its communication, preferring the terms anti—muslim hatred. as you said , the government didn't said, the government didn't adopt that definition of islamophobia , saying that it islamophobia, saying that it could be a criminalising the, criticism of ideas rather than attacks on people. so anti—muslim hatred being a more effective terme, this would seem an enormous u—turn on from the government if they've used the word islamophobia in this official job title appointment . official job title appointment. >> we'll see on monday, tom, as it's been described to me, he's the independent adviser on islamophobia . of course, the islamophobia. of course, the government has one on on anti—semitism , we'll see how anti—semitism, we'll see how it's defined when it's announced. but as described to me, and of course, it's subject to be announced and i should say the ministerial department where michael works, the housing, michael gove works, the housing, local government and communities department as as well as the individual himself, fiyaz mughal. neither are committing to gb news this lunchtime.

they've both been approached for comment. waiting to see comment. we're waiting to see what they say and we'll take you forward and if he forward and we'll. and if he does to us, we'll ask does get back to us, we'll ask him job is just him what his job title is just for tom. for you, tom. >> and christopher, very >> and christopher, just very quickly. sure if i heard quickly. i'm not sure if i heard you that you correctly. did you say that this appointed is this man who's been appointed is on board with the prevent programme or. or not? >> he certainly wasn't last yeah >> he certainly wasn't last year, emily, when the shawcross review came out, he said that he said that it wasn't working . he said that it wasn't working. he backed william shawcross criticisms. that was a review , criticisms. that was a review, ordered by suella braverman at the time. was the home secretary. and he said that if you're tackling extremism , you're tackling extremism, you've got to tackle the views and values and toxic social narratives. he said that the prevent scheme, which is sits alongside protect, which is the main one the home office do to keep us all safe. prevent, is a way talking to community way of talking to community leaders communities leaders and those in communities . more soft, soft influencing to try before try and talk to groups before they get radicalised. he was saying it wasn't working. money was being spent on targeting

people trying people who actually were trying to status quo. so to maintain a status quo. so he's critical then of how he's been critical then of how money spent. so it money was being spent. so it seems to this individual is seems to me this individual is independent and does show possibly that the government is keen to get make some ground here. >> well, christopher, hope that's a really interesting exclusive report for us here on gb news. you very much for gb news. thank you very much for bringing it to us. >> well, we can speak to >> well, we can now speak to labour mp graham stringer who joins us now. graham, thank you very much for making the time to speak to us today. you just heard that exclusive from christopher hope, new christopher hope, a new anti—islam homophobia tsar has been appointed . been appointed. >> i did, and, i it sounded as though we need to find somebody who can accurately count the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin, to get to the right definition. i've always thought, that we have to be very careful with these terms

. we need to stop people threatening people , physically threatening people, physically intimidating them. but we also have to be very careful, that we protect freedom of speech and we don't stop people, choosing to worship in whichever way they choose. there are things in the christian bible, in the quran that are, in today's terms, quite extreme, but people choose to, believe the whole works. and putting freedom of speech, freedom of religious worship and protecting people is quite a difficult , task to carry out, think. >> graham, do you worry so just quickly, do you worry that a labour government might broaden the definition of islamophobia? so that it became almost a blasphemy law, that criticism of the ideology and belief system of islam might become a crime .

of islam might become a crime. >> i worry in this whole area that well—meaning meaning people, in all the parties, my party, conservative party, lib dems actually, because they want to stop hatred, move into a blasphemy law and they start, basically infringing on encroaching on people's, rights of freedom of speech. i do worry about that, but i don't think it's peculiar, to the labour party people who want to do the right thing, stop hatred can go too far. >> but, graham, there was a definition that was worked up a couple of years ago. the government chose not to adopt it, but the snp adopted it. the liberal democrats adopted it and the labour party adopted it. and appg , an all party parliamentary appg, an all party parliamentary group co—chaired by anna soubry and wes streeting, came up with this definition that includes

the firm, accusing a muslim majority state or of inventing or exaggerating islamophobia , or exaggerating islamophobia, ethnic cleansing or genocide perpetrated against muslims. as one of the examples of islamophobia. basically, if a muslim state says something is islamophobic, that becomes islamophobic, that becomes islamophobic , that seems very islamophobic, that seems very problematic. it's sort of giving carte blanche to countries like iran to say, oh , that's iran to say, oh, that's islamophobic. suddenly that's islamophobic. suddenly that's islamophobic. >> i agree with you . >> i agree with you. >> i agree with you. >> it's a bit of a worry. therefore, that would the labour party adopt the, definition that it has adopted? would that become law? might that be spread out on the rest of society? >> in your previous question , >> in your previous question, ian, i, i answered it by saying, ian, i, i answered it by saying, i do worry about i'm sure wes streeting was well meaning when he was looking for a definition, like that. but as you point out, and i agree with the thrust of your question , you could end up

your question, you could end up allowing somebody else to define what your law is. and i think that's that's on its own, taking it outside this, this very difficult sphere is wrong. we should decide on our own definition , and it shouldn't be definition, and it shouldn't be based on what another country decides . decides. >> well, thank you very much. great to speak to you. graham stringer, labour mp. really good to get your view on all of this. i think most people would say assault of muslim people should be a crime. harassment of muslim people should be a crime. any violence of course, perpetrated against a muslim should be a crime. but criticising a religion must not be a crime. absolutely. in this country. >> and you're echoing the sentiments of peter tatchell, who on this programme was a who came on this programme was a couple and said the couple of weeks ago and said the word just implies word islamophobia just implies if something in if you criticise something in the quran, then you're islamophobic. you should be able to something in the to criticise something in the quran, the bible, in quran, as in the bible, as in the torah , as in the book of the torah, as in the book of mormon. it should all be open and available for satire, parody

and available for satire, parody and criticism. >> well, theresa may becomes the 60th sitting tory mp to announce she's throwing in the towel at the next election. >> the former prime minister served constituency served her constituency of maidenhead for 27 years. now she's to on she's standing down to focus on charity work. but is she jumping off a sinking ship? >> well, it's cross—street to maidenhead, her constituency, and news reporter and speak with gb news reporter ray addison rae. reaction on the ground . ground. >> yeah, well, she's been the local mp here since 1997, as you were saying, 27 years. >> and i'm told that she's been fairly outspoken during that time on issues such as the nhs and the railway network as well. why is she stepping down? well, she says that her work to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking is taking up an increasing amount of her time, and she just simply no longer feels that she has the time to represent her constituents with that commitment that she feels that commitment that she feels that they deserve. constituents are reacting with a range of views. many say that she's been a very good constituency mp.

they say that she made the time to go and speak to local people, to go and speak to local people, to hear their views and represent those in parliament, particularly as a backbencher. they say they'll be sorry to see her go. on the flip side of that , perhaps the other side is best summed up by the views of one man who said she knew nothing, did nothing , man who said she knew nothing, did nothing, and man who said she knew nothing, did nothing , and served for did nothing, and served for herself. now, when i asked people who they're going to vote for at the next election, obviously this is traditionally a saying a tory area, many saying therefore they will still vote tory. they can't see themselves voting labour and many others saying that they'll be looking for some kind of third option. and reform has been mentioned by several people today. here's what people had to say to me. >> good mp for maidenhead. as far as i can tell, my reaction is that i'm sorry to see her go. >> she's been a boon to mp. i admire her a lot and it's a shame that she's standing down, i think she's been a good

constituency . she, you know, mp constituency. she, you know, mp but, as a prime minister, i think she was, lacking somewhat, to say the least. >> but i think it's a shame she's not didn't have the chance to show what she'd be like as a prime minister. and i think the problem is she was scuppered by the right wing of her party. >> well, i never vote for conservatives , but theresa may conservatives, but theresa may was better than while boris johnson. god. >> well, since since i've been down here, of course, she did a lot for us around here. well, she still do. does. >> you know, she never really had a chance to show. and i think her brexit would have probably been a preferable 1 to 1. we ended up with. >> well, theresa may earlier issued a statement saying it's been an honour and a privilege to serve everyone in maidenhead. she says i've always done my best to ensure that i respond to the needs of local people and the needs of local people and the local area locals, telling me they hope whoever replaces

her the same enthusiasm that her has the same enthusiasm that she did for this area. >> well, ray, thank you very much for bringing us that live from maidenhead. of course, the news the former prime minister theresa may standing down at the next election, 27 years. >> well, the sussexes reportedly on a charm offensive as they look for a pr manager in the uk. but is it all a little too late? we'll be having a after we'll be having a debate after this short

break. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:26, and we'll have much more to come on. that breaking news that there will be an islamophobia tsar for the government. for the first time in years. but first, can meghan markle save, salvage, salvage or save both synonyms. her relationship with britain? >> well , for the first time

>> well, for the first time since moving abroad in 2020, the duke and duchess of sussex have reportedly hired a uk based pr guru. it's apparently to launch meghan markle's latest commercial venture across europe. but are they trying to rebuild their relationship with this country? >> and is it too late? well, joining us now is the former royal correspondent for the sun, charles rea, who who that charles rea, who who thinks that they salvage their they can't salvage their reputation. and the chairman of one uk's leading talent one of the uk's leading talent agencies, professor jonathan shalit. shalit obe, who thinks that they can, professor jonathan, let's start with you. how can they possibly salvage what is a very low reputation right now ? right now? >> by doing the right thing ? >> by doing the right thing? >> by doing the right thing? >> i mean, if meghan is seen doing good works in the uk , doing good works in the uk, which is very easy for her to do as a part of the royal family, reputations can be changed overnight. i mean, i don't agree that it can't be salvaged. i agree that right now she's not the most popular person in

britain , but she hasn't britain, but she hasn't committed some grievous offence. she's behaved in some people's eyes inappropriately. other people's eyes. they think the country is racist. that's a matter for debate between different perspectives. but absolutely, she can change. she can change her reputation, i think, to suggest that many people have changed and improved their reputations from a bad moment in their life . there are moment in their life. there are many people on television, the pubuc many people on television, the public eye in politics, who have managed to change their perception. so absolutely, of course, she can change the perception of herself in the uk . perception of herself in the uk. >> charles. is that right? she could change reputation could change her reputation overnight with a bit of good advice. >> i don't think so at all. i think king canute has got more chance of stopping the tide than whoever this pr guru is , has got whoever this pr guru is, has got of actually improving her image in this country. of actually improving her image in this country . we've gone too in this country. we've gone too far, you know, we've gone through allegations of racism. >> we've gone through the oprah winfrey interview , where there

winfrey interview, where there clearly there were a number of lies made. and you cannot get away from the fact that there is an accusation of racism against members of the royal family, which i totally refute . and which i totally refute. and yeah, look, we have racists in this country. there is no question of getting away from that. but to actually label the country as a racist country, is absolutely wrong by them. now, if they wanted to , to, improve if they wanted to, to, improve their image, is she going to come over here if she wants to embrace britain again , she had embrace britain again, she had the opportunity of doing, good works. royal duties when she was within the family. why suddenly now, 3 or 4 years later, does she want to do it again ? i just she want to do it again? i just don't understand it. >> yeah, professor jonathan shalit, is there a point here that if meghan markle really wants to rebuild a relationship with the uk , she can't with the uk, she can't particularly do it from california ? california? >> well, first of all, it's up to her and her husband to decide

where they live. plenty of people, have international reputations who travel around the world. i don't think where she lives is the key issue. it's what she does and where she does. it's the key issue. suggest anybody can't change their reputation. meghan's a comparatively young lady who, as people get older, they change and that people's priorities change and their desires change. and presumably she gets older and her children grow up and harry wants his children to know his english, their english cousins. who knows what conversations go on, jonathan, do you think they need to? >> do you think they need to scrap the, ditch the royal titles and go it alone ? titles and go it alone? >> well, first of all, people, people go people on going back to the royal titles. they don't have hrh in front of them. harry is the is the son of the king. if you're the son of the king, you're a prince. i don't they use the crest. i'm sorry. >> they use the crest . >> they use the crest. >> they use the crest. >> well, why shouldn't they use their family crest? plenty of

people who've got a family crest use it. i'd say the thing use it. i'd also say the thing about racism. i mean, you just announced story. announced your previous story. the has appointed an the government has appointed an islamic. islamic phobias are so clearly the government think there's racism against islamic people . so meghan's accusations people. so meghan's accusations against the uk , she's not a lone against the uk, she's not a lone voice because the government has just appointed azhar to deal with it. >> final word to you charles rae. don't remember ? back rae. why don't we remember? back to the royal wedding. i hosted a party. the bunting out. party. i had the bunting out. she was lovely. excuse they she was so lovely. excuse they were. excuse for a were. but any excuse for a party. they were both so loved across the country. why can't they have that again ? they have that again? >> well, they can't have it again. and you're absolutely right, tom, that when she came over here, she had the easiest passage into the membership of the royal family than any woman you know , pre diana, to be you know, pre diana, to be perfectly honest, the they weren't bent over backwards to make her welcome and she threw in their faces. and i just hope

you know jonathan's just mentioned about an islamophobic society. i hope they don't start bringing out a sussex azhar. that would be the end of the daysif that would be the end of the days if we had that sort of thing, but , days if we had that sort of thing, but, you know, days if we had that sort of thing, but , you know, the thing, but, you know, the sussexes cannot just suddenly , sussexes cannot just suddenly, decide we're coming back. they haven't even apologised for the things that they said about their own family. forget about what they said about britain, but they're her own family. they haven't to haven't even bothered to apologise that's to be apologise. that's going to be one i'm not sure, gary one step and i'm not sure, gary goldsmith in the celebrity big brother house is helping matters . but with his loose lips. but thank very much, jonathan thank you very much, jonathan shalit, always great to speak to you. and of course, charles rae two. great debate. you. two. great debate. thank you. good it's really good stuff. >> yeah, it's really good stuff. but know what else but you know what else was surprisingly what? joe surprisingly good? what? joe biden could string a sentence together we'll together last night. we'll be discussing state of the discussing his state of the union and biden union address and the biden versus trump furore. after your headunes. headlines. >> it's 132. your

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i >> -- >> it's 138 now. the us president, joe biden, used his state of the union speech to take a bit of a swipe at his republican rival, donald trump. >> yes, biden said the former president sought to bury the truth about the january 2021

january 6th attack on the us caphol january 6th attack on the us capitol, whilst he also used the speech to condemn his recent comments about nato and russia . comments about nato and russia. but he never mentioned trump by name. >> well, we can now speak with the chair republicans the chair of republicans overseas swenson . is it overseas uk, greg swenson. is it normal for a president to use their state of the nation speech to take swipes at a rival? no it's really not. >> and i think you saw a really angry and bitter president biden last night. and it wasn't really a state of the union speech. it was more of a of a campaign speech. but he was yelling the whole time, so it wasn't even that effective. i think the only appeal it might have is to the radical wing of his party, radical left wing of his party, because most the of the because most of the most of the issues he he addressed and his his creating some sort of conflict with president trump, most of those were were built around really left wing progressive causes that that , progressive causes that that, again, will not appeal to the general electorate. greg hasn't the whole state of the union ceremony really just fallen by

the wayside to some extent from both sides? >> yes. biden was campaigning, but we just saw video there of marjorie taylor greene, the republican representative , in republican representative, in a trump hat, wearing red with slogans blazoned across her. that's not appropriate for this occasion, either . occasion, either. >> no, it's not, and i think, you know, mike johnson, the speakeh you know, mike johnson, the speaker, you know, encouraged everybody to, you know, keep some decorum for this event. i mean, the state of the union in general is turned into a circus in many respects . and you saw, in many respects. and you saw, you know, that on both sides of the aisle and, you know, with the, maga hat. and then the, with the maga hat. and then there shirt, but you there was the t shirt, but you know, with, with, you know, some kind it. so you kind of slogan on it. so you know, i don't think that's a great but, you know, the great idea, but, you know, the president supposed the president is supposed to be the leader, most it's leader, and he was the most it's probably divisive , i probably the most divisive, i hate to borrow that word from the but divisive the left, but a really divisive state of the union speech. so it's to watch. it really is. >> greg, i've seen is.— >> greg, i've seen , lots is. >> greg, i've seen , lots of >> greg, i've seen, lots of analysis of this speech, lots of comment ,

analysis of this speech, lots of comment, many people saying that actually this was quite a strong speech , from joe biden. and speech, from joe biden. and there weren't the usual gaffes. there were no, long pauses or stumbling over words. is that right? >> yeah, i think it is, in the sense that he was able to stay on the teleprompter and deliver a speech without making a major blunder, but he did have a lot of, you know, really misrepresentations or outright, outright lies in the speech. and so i think if you look at the content of the speech, it wasn't just the tone of, you know , the just the tone of, you know, the yelling, but also some of the real facts, you know, real misleading facts, you know, facts and figures that he brought up. he exaggerated his deficit cutting by $1 trillion. he used the hamas figures to talk about the casualty rates in gaza. you know , which in the gaza. you know, which in the past he's been very critical of and has not used those. so, you know, there's a there's a long list of issues . know, there's a there's a long list of issues. i know, there's a there's a long list of issues . i thought know, there's a there's a long list of issues. i thought his his he was really offensive to both the, the supreme court as well as the alabama supreme court offensive to israelis and jewish americans. so, you know,

most of the most of his real points that he made were exaggerations or downright misleading . misleading. >> greg, i wonder if there's a problem for here republican strategists, which is that there's this general impression that biden can't get his way through a single sentence, and it's been sort of hyped up and hyped up. most people won't watch most of the speeches in full biden does. bits full that biden does. the bits that viral, the bits that that go viral, the bits that spread are when spread around the world are when he misspeaks and thinks that the president of something president of mexico is something to do with the gaza, rafah crossing and all the rest of it, but ultimately, when people do sit down and him for an sit down and watch him for an hour or so, as they did in the state of union speech, they state of the union speech, they see the most part, see that for the most part, yeah, an guy, but yeah, he's an old guy, but perhaps he's in as deep perhaps he's not in as deep cognitive decline general cognitive decline as the general impression suggested . impression might have suggested. >> look, i would freely admit that he had a good night in terms of keeping it together, so to speak. you know, he did not actually, you know, blow up at any as opposed only any point as opposed to only three when had the

three weeks ago when he had the car of a of a press car crash of a of a press conference after the robert robert report was released robert hur report was released and when he was even more defensive , more angry, more defensive, more angry, more bitter. and so it's just a matter of i think the democrats will have to either keep him in the basement, so to speak, like they did in 2020, or just look for the right moments. so maybe he peaked at the right time. he probably had a, you know, a nice day of rest. he maybe he took a nap, i don't know, but you know, they don't they rely they i don't think they can rely on a lot of campaign on him to do a lot of campaign speeches. and surely don't speeches. and surely they don't want press conferences. i want to do press conferences. i mean, whoever let him get on the stage three weeks ago should be fired. >> well, thank you very much indeed. greg swenson, who is the chair of republicans overseas. that's great. we'll be speaking to deputy assistant to to a former deputy assistant to donald trump a little bit later on show. we're also going on in the show. we're also going to a a little bit to be having a look a little bit more about that breaking news of an that's been an islamophobia tsar that's been appointed . appointed by the government. >> but now our bad nerves are reason to claim sickness

benefits. apparently not, says a former tory minister. we're going to get much more on this very shortly

good afternoon. britain. it's just gone 1:45. and bad nerves is not a reason to claim sickness benefits. according to a former tory minister. well, she doesn't think it should be, even though it is. >> well, rachel mclean says an unknown number of those claiming sickness mental sickness benefits for mental health are citing bad nerves, which as a totally which she describes as a totally meaningless phrase. she also said benefits . well, here's said that benefits. well, here's what rachel mclean let's just show you told us in the last houh >>i houh >> i think it's important to use words we use words for words properly. we use words for meaning and bad nerves doesn't have a meaning . i'm quite have a meaning. i'm quite pleased to see that since i've been starting to raise this, i think the department are going to move from using that as

to move away from using that as a definition, because what we can't help, of which can't tailor help, of which there is a considerable amount to people if we don't know what's wrong with them. i mean, if i, if i go and fill in a form saying, have i got bad nerves? well, probably got bad well, i've probably got bad nerves you because nerves talking to you because it's wracking it's quite nerve wracking appearing on tv standing up appearing on tv and standing up in that's a in parliament. that's not a reason not to be off work. what we do about any mental, ill we do know about any mental, ill health or mental, illness condition is that by and large, obviously huge generalisation. and please don't take this as a sort of point that i'm ignorant on this. i'm not. it's much better for people to be in work. thatis better for people to be in work. that is the way not only to get people out of poverty and to better themselves, but also to improve mental health at all levels. >> rachel mclean, speaking to us a little bit earlier, but let's cross over to the political commentator russell quirk now. and russell, this seemed really surprising when rachel first raised this in parliament this week. the idea that you could

sort of tick a bad nerves form just about anything, i'm sure people would have had nerves for anything. nerve wracking. we've got that phrase in lexicon got that phrase in our lexicon why earth are we getting why on earth are we getting people signing on to benefits why on earth are we getting pecbad signing on to benefits why on earth are we getting pecbad nerves on to benefits why on earth are we getting pecbad nerves as to benefits why on earth are we getting pec bad nerves as well? nefits for bad nerves as well? >> it's crazy, isn't it, that, you know, nerves actually are a good thing in many circumstances. >> you know, they kind of keep you on your toes. i think, look, most those of us most of us, not just those of us that go on tv, like you guys and me, we go through life and, you know, life is full of nervous situations, whether it's exams, whether driving test whether it's a driving test or you know, a parents evening or whatever, and the notion that actually that should now disbar anybody from partaking in those, those, those events, those situations because of so—called bad nerves . i mean, it's bad nerves. i mean, it's ridiculous. i mean, what next? >> people having days off, perhaps for a bad hair day? >> i mean, it seems absolutely preposterous to me that the serious point here, by the way, obviously, i'm i'm joking about the bad hair day thing, but maybe that's coming next. is the

cost this now there are cost of this now there are something like 2.5 million people in britain on long terme sick. that's about 8% of the entire adult population of britain. so 8% are on long terme sick. i don't believe for a second that all of those people are really long. terme sick. the fact now that we have something like 22 million people on benefits costing the taxpayer £300 billion per annum. frankly guys, it's completely and utterly out of control of the 2.5 million people that are on long terms sick. half of them now about 1.3 million, up from 900,000. a short years 900,000. just a few short years ago. so that they can't work because they're either depressed , anxious or have bad nerves. now i think if most of us, if all of us in fact, took the attitude that a nervous and anxiety inducing situation stopped us from working, well, no wonder this country is so unproductive. as jeremy hunt said at the despatch box,

actually, at the budget that we are less and less productive now than we have been for a long time. no wonder. and if we all did the same, country would did the same, the country would literally a halt. literally grind to a halt. >> right, if >> well, absolutely right, if everyone with any level of anxiety took work off went on benefits, then of course we'd be left with no workforce. but it's interesting because we've been discussing to discussing whether it's too to easy be signed off work for sickness , and there seems to be sickness, and there seems to be two stories that are coming through in the inbox. some who have struggled to get benefits for quite serious injuries. have struggled to get benefits for quite serious injuries . so for quite serious injuries. so amanda says i had routine surgery to my spine. it went horribly wrong. left with life changing disabilities, i'm hounded by the dwp hounded and bullied by the dwp to go back to work or they'll stop my esa . whereas ashley says stop my esa. whereas ashley says my daughter not my daughter is 28, she's not worked she left college, worked since she left college, has two children, gets enough money nails, and money to have nails, lashes and tattoos , got some of tattoos, got some sort of arthritis. benefit arthritis. additional benefit reforms needed. so you've got two sides. some people complaining that they've got

horrible injuries and they are bullied by the dwp . and then on bullied by the dwp. and then on the other hand, people clearly taking for bit of a ride. >> well, i guess it's a question of though, of proportionality though, emily, isn't it? i think we'll always hear stories of someone that's a genuine condition that's got a genuine condition where treated where they haven't been treated very frankly very well by the dwp. frankly how those civil servants can assess people correctly when the majority of them are sitting, working home, assessing working from home, assessing people zoom, goodness only people over zoom, goodness only knows, but i think proportionately the bigger problem , surely, as we've seen problem, surely, as we've seen from the numbers, the from the numbers, you know, the growth in people that are now not working long is up not working long terme is up from a colossal 900,000 in 2013 to now, 1.6 million 11 years later. so the statistics rather, speak for themselves, i think. look, i think we've i'm afraid got to get a bit tougher, haven't we, with people either that seek benefits or indeed work shy people that think that they can take every opportunity to have a day off in productivity terms. now this

country has gone from growing its productivity per person by 2% per annum up until 2008. and again, another data point for you. and now we only grow in productivity terms at half a percent per year. so we are four times less productive in growth terms than we were in 2008. surely we all recognise that this is a problem, and the problem is that we as employers , problem is that we as employers, government, the state benefit system, it's frankly to lax that we've all seen these graphs as growth to 2008. >> and then the countries really struggled afterwards. but i do wonder there's a lot of people who say and a lot of people who will disagree with you say that covid massive covid was a massive, massive issue . it made covid was a massive, massive issue. it made a covid was a massive, massive issue . it made a lot of people issue. it made a lot of people very ill, and there's no wonder why there are more people who are claiming benefits. i suppose the flip side that is the flip side of that is actually showed how you actually covid showed how you can a bed and from can be in a bed and work from home. perhaps more easily than ever before. so perhaps more people who are ill should be perhaps working. i think we've

got to stop using ancient history as an excuse not to put ourselves up by a bootstraps, haven't we, tom, you know, whether the old brexit whether it's the old brexit argument, in brexit argument, bearing in mind brexit was years now we hear was eight years ago, now we hear that peddled as a reason for this a reason that. and this and a reason for that. and yes, still some call yes, we still hear some call centres for covid why centres blaming for covid why they can't answer your call within half an hour, we've got to stop accepting these lame excuses for our laziness as a nation, frankly. well there you go. >> strong stuff. russell quirk, thank you very much. political commentator. of course. now, that's all for this hour. >> was once a book that was >> it was once a book that was co—authored by liz truss , kwasi co—authored by liz truss, kwasi kwarteng, priti patel, called unshaped britain unchained. dominic raab, which had which had the phrase, britons are amongst the worst idlers in the world in them. it's quite a big issue . issue. >> in the last tory leadership election, liz truss got in a lot of trouble for saying we were lazy, didn't she? she said something about that. lazy, didn't she? she said sonlething about that. lazy, didn't she? she said soni don't about that. lazy, didn't she? she said soni don't think: that. all lazy ,

>> i don't think we're all lazy, but off of us that but kicked off some of us that are some of lazy . are lazy, some of us are lazy. >> i'm never no, never. >> i'm never lazy. no, never. >> i'm never lazy. no, never. >> always an earlier than >> you're always an earlier than i always earlier, know. >> always in earlier, you know. >> always in earlier, you know. >> that's even on >> well, that's even on international women's day. >> no lion for me. >> no lion for me. >> absolutely. and happy iwd. anyway we're going to be debating france's decision to make abortion a constitutional right very, very soon. appropriate for international women's day. we'll be having that fiery debate after this. >> should the uk follow suit ? >> should the uk follow suit? >> should the uk follow suit? >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello there. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. well, it should be staying dry for most of us through the rest of the day, but there still a chilly there will still be a chilly breeze should last through breeze that should last through much weekend but much of the weekend as well. but through the south—west it'll start. we'll start see some start. we'll start to see some showery through this showery rain through this

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gb news. away. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 2:00 on friday. the 8th of march. >> anti—islamophobia tsar michael gove is set to appoint a new independent adviser on islamophobia. the appointment comes as ministers seek to deliver on the commitment by rishi sunak to tackle both far left and far right extremism, as well as islamist extremism. of course . coui'se. >> course. >> tory exodus theresa may becomes the 60th serving conservative mp to step down at the next election . an exclusive

the next election. an exclusive gb news poll reveals that fewer than 1 in 5 voters say they'll back the tories at the next election. have they given up the fight ? fight? >> and the metropolitan police marksman who shot dead chris kaba, has denied murder as he was named publicly for the first time. our home security editor will bring us all of the details. well, we were discussing a little earlier in the show how easy or not it is to receive benefits for sickness and a little row emerged in the inbox. someone has taken offence . chris someone has taken offence. chris has taken offence. hi, chris. if you're still watching , chris you're still watching, chris took a bit of offence at tom for in quotes his patronising tone. yeah well look, if people are signing off from work because they think that no job is good

enough for them, there are a million job vacancies in this country. >> any one of those jobs, in my view, is better than signing on for benefits just because you don't want to work well . don't want to work well. >> chris says he has an exceptional track record . he has exceptional track record. he has decades of experience in sales and management, and that you shouldn't suggest that he go and work in a pub. it's an insult, he says. and he says he's already lowered his expectations. >> but is he claiming benefits? >> but is he claiming benefits? >> well , well, that i >> but is he claiming benefits? >> well, well, that i can't >> but is he claiming benefits? >> well , well, that i can't get >> well, well, that i can't get to the bottom of. so chris, let us know . us know. >> let us know. chris are you. because. yeah. if you if you've got a wealth of experience and you what, i'm you think you know what, i'm going sit out of the labour going to sit out of the labour market for a bit until the right job along. absolutely. if job comes along. absolutely. if you're savings. you're doing it off savings. brilliant. you. brilliant. all power to you. absolutely >> don't go and work actually he says says that left says he says that he has left universal credit benefits universal credit in any benefits that entitled as that he's entitled to, as they're waste of time they're a complete waste of time and how are you making and space. how are you making any money? >> any money? » m any money? >> be living off >> well, he might be living off savings fair. that's savings and that's fair. that's fine. all to fine. that's like all power to

you. great. and i you. absolutely great. and i hope that you can the right hope that you can get the right job that's absolutely job for you. that's absolutely fine. people are fine. my issue is people who are signing benefits , a job is signing on to benefits, a job is offered, say, down the road at the local pub and they go, nope , the local pub and they go, nope, i'm too good for that, too good for good to in pub. for too good to work in a pub. i'm going i'm going to take i'm going to i'm going to take taxpayers and taxpayers cash instead. go and work in the pub. >> on that note, should >> well, on that note, should chris and work? chris go and work? >> no, i don't think if chris isn't on benefits then no, but there of people who are there are lots of people who are that should just that should should you just take any comes available any job that comes available regardless years of experience? >> the alternative is >> if the alternative is benefits, that's a good question to vaiews@gbnews.com to ask. vaiews@gbnews.com headunes to ask. vaiews@gbnews.com headlines for sphere . headlines for sphere. >> thanks, emily. it's 2:03. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your top story. newsroom. your top story. northern ireland's first minister has apologised to the families of alleged informers who were killed by the ira and says she's wholeheartedly committed to healing wounds of the past. her comments come

after a major investigation found more lives were probably lost than saved by a double agent during the troubles, codenamed stakeknife , he was codenamed stakeknife, he was working covertly for the british army inside the ira's internal security unit, operation kenova examined more than 100 murders and abductions linked to the unit. the investigation was conducted by bedfordshire police over a seven year period, costing around £40 million. now psni chief constable john butcher says there was strong evidence of very serious criminality by stakeknife was undoubtedly a valuable asset who provided intelligence about the rha at considerable risk to himself . himself. >> claims that he was responsible for saving countless or hundreds of lives are hugely exaggerated . most importantly, exaggerated. most importantly, these claims belie the fact that stakeknife was himself involved in very serious and wholly

unjustifiable criminality whilst operating as an agent, including murders . murders. >> met police firearms officer martin blake has denied the murder of chris kaba after being named publicly for the first time. the 24 year old was shot once in the head through the windscreen of a car in south london in september 2022. the officer initially identified officer was initially identified as 121, but it was ruled the 40 year old can now be named because it posed no real risk to his life or that of his family. he's been released on bail and is trial in october, is due to face trial in october, the counter extremism tsar has warned. london has become a no go zone for jews during pro—palestinian protest . go zone for jews during pro—palestinian protest. this it's after the prime minister said forces are trying to tear apart the country. writing in the telegraph, robin simcock said rishi sunak was right to raise concerns about the increase in extremist disruption. he says policies are needed to meet the scale of the challenge faced, and he urged

ministers to be bolder and willing to accept higher legal risk extremism . risk when tackling extremism. the uk will join the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza. the foreign secretary made the announcement after president joe biden said dunng after president joe biden said during his annual state of the union address that the us will build a port in gaza to deliver a supply of emergency aid when completed in the coming weeks. a supply of emergency aid when completed in the coming weeks . a completed in the coming weeks. a temporary pier will allow hundreds of lorry loads of food to be shipped daily. officials have insisted troops will not have insisted us troops will not be deployed to gaza, but will operate offshore during construction . protesters are construction. protesters are again demonstrating against a decision to house asylum seekers at raf scampton. it comes a year after the home office plans were revealed as the government works to reduce its reliance on expensive hotels. west lindsey district council launched legal action against the proposal , district council launched legal action against the proposal, and conservative councillor robert paterson says the fight will

continue. >> we've got a legal stop order in place which the home office are ignoring. they're not doing the portacabins but they are building on the accommodation blocks and they've been doing it openly. in breach of the stop order for months , we've lost order for months, we've lost a judicial review, but we have a we've been able to appeal the judicial review . so we're going judicial review. so we're going to appeal the judicial review. and the council is also going to launch another legal challenge . launch another legal challenge. >> and former prime minister theresa may will stand down at the next general election, bringing her 27 year career to an end. announcing her decision , an end. announcing her decision, the member for maidenhead said she wants to focus on causes such as the fight against modern slavery. she's been the conservative for the conservative mp for the berkshire seat since 1997. voters in her constituency said she's represented the community well . well. >> she's been a good mp for maidenhead as far as i can tell, my reaction is that i'm sorry to

see her go, and hopefully whoever takes her place will be as enthusiastic, for looking after the residents of maidenhead as she was. >> i think it's a pity that she's stood down because she seems to have integrity as an individual . individual. >> she did a lot for us around here. well, she still do. does. i mean, she comes to our, our, old age pensioners gatherings . old age pensioners gatherings. >> and for the latest story , >> and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's back to tom and . tom and. emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:08 and in the last few minutes the foreign secretary that's lord cameron . he's been lord cameron. he's been speaking. it's nice to hear from him. we don't hear from him that often. a listen to often. let's have a listen to

what . what he's saying. >> we've been involved in this maritime the start maritime corridor from the start . because what it's going to do is from cyprus in the is take aid from cyprus in the mediterranean and directly into gaza. what we've been doing is helping with the pre—screening of aid. so you check it in cyprus so it doesn't have to be rechecked when it arrives. that's important. we also had the royal auxiliary ship lyme bay delivering aid from cyprus right at the start. but this new idea from the president of the united states, which were involved in of building a temporary harbour in gaza, means that aid will be to go that aid will be able to go directly from cyprus to gaza. but it's going to take time to build . so the crucial thing is build. so the crucial thing is today, the israelis must confirm that they will open the port at ashdod. that is in israel, but that's a working port. it could take aid now that would increase the amount of aid, and that aid can then be driven into gaza. that would make a real difference. and we need to make a difference right now. a real difference right now. >> are frustrated how >> are you frustrated at how long it's taking to set this

corridor up and overall how aid is getting into gaza? >> this is frustrating because we need more aid to go in. in the last few days, we've averaged about 120 trucks of aid going in. we need more like 500 a day, not 120. and we've repeatedly called on the israelis to change the things that need to be changed. more openings into gaza, more un staff inside gaza able to transport the aid around gaza, making sure that they switch back on the water and electricity that goes from israel to gaza . these things israel to gaza. these things will make a difference. and if we want to make a difference quickly, we it is the number of trucks that go in that's most important and that we can measure, because at moment measure, because at the moment the humanitarian is the humanitarian situation is dire people are going dire with people who are going hungry with people dying of disease and with a shortage of food and medicine and all the things that people need. >> these delays , does >> and given these delays, does this just not show that there's not of ceasefire any not much hope of a ceasefire any time soon? >> well, i think there is the chance ceasefire, it chance of a ceasefire, but it requires hamas , should

requires hamas, who should have released my released the hostages, in my view but it relies it view already. but it relies it needs them to sign up the needs them to sign up to the deal that israel has agreed to release prisoners in their jails in return for hostage release. the hamas should sign that today. then we could have that pause for 45 days, or maybe even longer, and use that pause to build momentum for a permanent, sustainable ceasefire without a return to fighting. we all want to see this terrible fighting stop, and that would be the best way to make it happen. but it is for hamas to make that decision, and they do that today. and they should do that today. >> a quick question. >> and just a quick question. theresa has announced she's theresa may has announced she's standing down and just get your reaction. to see her reaction. are you sad to see her leave parliament? >> theresa has >> well, i think theresa may has been absolutely brilliant been an absolutely brilliant pubuc been an absolutely brilliant public served public servant. we served together cabinets and together in shadow cabinets and cabinets for over 12 years, and she's got a string of great achievements to her name, championing modern slavery, slavery legislation, making sure more women got involved in politics, acting as a the board in terms of i guess we'll never

know what she was acting as acting as a what was she acting as probably a fantastic constituency mp. >> that seems to be the narrative today. >> i'm hoping that it would be something like godzilla, you know. >> well , gb know. >> well, gb news political editor christopher hope has been listening, joins us now, listening, and he joins us now, mostly focussed there on our approach to helping facilitate aid to gaza . also asked about aid to gaza. also asked about the hopes of a ceasefire . the hopes of a ceasefire. >> yeah. that's right. well, it's starting now with what we're saying about theresa may. i think that's totally right. she and an amazing she is, was and is an amazing constituency mp. i vividly remember during the brexit battles 2017 to 2019, when she would come back from those events over in brussels and then just go and serve food to old people in maidenhead on a saturday lunchtime and she'd all this amazing work keeping herself tidy and yolked into her, her local community and the fact that she should announce her leaving in the maidenhead advertiser and then when she

when she leaves, she says, it says i'm leaving because i haven't got time to. i can't give time. want give to give my time. i want to give to you people . i'm doing you local people. i'm doing all this modern slavery. this work with modern slavery. i mean bit of mean every, every single bit of her about public service. you her is about public service. you can a about whether can have a debate about whether she could. failed on brexit she could. she failed on brexit and it with her and nearly ruined it with her plan, but i think she was an amazing , you know, ken clarke amazing mp, you know, ken clarke called her a difficult woman. i think she took that as as a compliment. she was somebody who pursued her objectives on modern slavery, on promoting women in, in parliament. and she she's a complete trailblazer , i think. complete trailblazer, i think. and even david cameron now being very nice about her because the two did not get on that well, she was certainly when he was prime minister and she was home secretary, advisers to both secretary, the advisers to both certainly were, were very careful with each other, and they could see her as a clear rival to him in number 10, because of course, she home because of course, she was home secretary during his entire time as prime minister. you as prime minister. but you saw there the foreign secretary, david cameron, i think, showing why is increasingly an asset.

why he is increasingly an asset. i think to rishi sunak. i know many wondered why he was appointed back the back in appointed back in the back in the november, but the reshuffle last november, but in truth he is pushing really hard the things that matter. hard on the things that matter. he is projecting the uk aggressively the world aggressively around the world and is just today there, announcing the plan to try and start sending aid by from start sending aid by ship from cyprus through a port in cyprus to through a port in israel called ashdot , and then israel called ashdot, and then take that straight into the gaza strip to try and alleviate what could be a famine, a few weeks away. think he is showing away. so i think he is showing what you can do with power in the world when you want to. and he's putting other mps who had that role in the past before him to shame chris. >> perhaps one of the reasons he's that power around he's showing that power around the he's not the world is because he's not like may. he doesn't like theresa may. he doesn't have up and to the have to turn up and go to the local coffee morning with the pensioners group, doesn't pensioners group, and he doesn't have of what was the have to sort of what was the thing? >> can m- thing? >> can not forget also >> so can we not forget also that theresa may us that theresa may did bring us dangerously jeremy dangerously close to a jeremy corbyn prime minister? i mean, we can't forget about that, can

we? she made some dire mistakes and errors of judgement. surely >> emily, i was being very careful not to forget that. i did mention that it almost went wrong during brexit. i was merely saying that she's a very good local mp and a public servant . i'm definitely saying servant. i'm definitely saying that choices that she got some choices wrong on absolutely on brexit. absolutely no question . but you raise there, question. but you raise there, tom, lord tom, the question of lord cameron. having lunch cameron. i was having lunch recently with ambassador for recently with an ambassador for an i was saying an eu country, and i was saying it is confusing because david cameron turns up the former prime minister. they all know him and he and he they're not quite who's in charge of quite sure who's in charge of our affairs. it david our foreign affairs. is it david cameron or is it rishi sunak? i mean, problem sunak's got is mean, the problem sunak's got is today he's in a pub in north—west of england doing interviews . you know he's away interviews. you know he's away basically thursday, basically monday, thursday, friday trying to win votes, win people round, talk to people , people round, talk to people, talk to us as journalists trying to this , this majority to hold this, this majority together ahead of the election later this year. but yes, and he's almost outsourced foreign policy to david cameron.

>> it's quite useful having a foreign secretary in the lords. they don't have to go back to their constituencies. they can travel all over the world. he's gone to so many different countries so much stuff countries and done so much stuff in so he's been in the 100 or so days he's been in the 100 or so days he's been in but chris, i do want in the job. but chris, i do want to ask you on exclusive to ask you on your exclusive story brought to us story that you brought to us last government is to last hour. the government is to appoint on appoint an adviser on islamophobia . islamophobia. >> yes. now, i've got some more on that because since we came out that someone else got in touch to make clear it's not and you're asking very correctly about the job title . it's not an about the job title. it's not an adviser on islamophobia. it's. and an anti—muslim hatred adviser. >> really, as you were saying that terme is not defined by the government. >> so. exactly right. it's an anti—muslim hatred adviser. it's likely to come next week. the individual we've been told about , faisal mughal, founder of faith matters and tell mama he is one of the front runners for the role and nothing is signed off yet . so the government is off yet. so the government is slightly rowing back from him being on. it is looks

being nailed on. but it is looks like they are going to appoint somebody. will be a moment, somebody. it will be a moment, i think. and if they can get someone who is independent and can and take can try and take on the government's on government's approach on prevent, which is heavily criticised by william shawcross last be seen to last year, that will be seen to be a good thing. >> chris, that is an >> chris, that is such an important clarification and i, you emily both you know, emily and i both breathed relief there. breathed a sigh of relief there. we're steering clear of blasphemy law of this nebulous terms islamophobia stick to the real, definable anti—muslim hate stuff that in the title really, really good to know. thanks for joining us, christopher hope. >> very interesting indeed. yeah. very interesting. well let's go stateside because us president joe biden has used his state of the union speech to take a few swipes at his republican rival, donald trump. >> yeah. biden said the former president sought to bury the truth about those january 6th attacks on the capitol. he also didn't mention the his opponent by name, but kept, kept alluding to comments he made. but let's discuss it now with sebastian gorka, the former deputy

assistant to donald trump . assistant to donald trump. sebastian, thank you for making the time for us this seemed like the time for us this seemed like the most political state of the union speech for quite some time. >> well, ever since i've been living here in america for 16 years, i would have to say without a doubt, this is a constitutional requirement of the incumbent every year to make a state of the union address in front of capitol hill. >> and it's meant to be a discussion of what he has done. what is the state of the union and what he plans to do? not meant to be a campaign speech from the hustings and the fact that he talked about my old boss who hasn't been president for three years, 13 times, mumbled and shouted and talked about how the covid vaccine is now curing cancer. the covid vaccine is now curing cancer . this the covid vaccine is now curing cancer. this is the covid vaccine is now curing cancer . this is clearly the covid vaccine is now curing cancer. this is clearly a mentally compromised person who knows , if the election were knows, if the election were today, he would lose to president trump . president trump. >> but a lot of the commentary

around this speech has been that he showed an energetic side that he showed an energetic side that he came across, maybe a little angry ' he came across, maybe a little angry , but there were no major angry, but there were no major gaffes , i think saying covid gaffes, i think saying covid vaccines cure cancer. i think that's, beyond a gaffe, that's a demonstration of senility . so demonstration of senility. so clearly they pumped him full of whatever chemicals they pumped him up with every year for the state of the union. but it was it was a harangue. it was like, you know, grumpy old men for or it was just it was anger filled, remember? oh, come on, sebastian, you know, you know what he was meaning the covid vaccines that the miracle of american, capital created and these mrna vaccines that only these mrna vaccines that only the united states actually operation warp speed, funded by donald trump, got this sort of miracle out to the world. >> the mrna technology is helping prevent cancers in some areas, but aren't you perhaps

secretly, a little bit disappointed that he didn't seem to stumble over any words that he didn't accidentally say , that he didn't accidentally say, that the president of mexico was over in gaza or whatever else he's been doing recently . been doing recently. >> tom, i think you should be writing the talking points for the white house. you show a definite alacrity and aptitude , definite alacrity and aptitude, look, let's be serious about this. this is a man who refused to mention the name of the beautiful 22 year old mutant, nurse student who was so brutally murdered by an illegal auen brutally murdered by an illegal alien two weeks ago that her skull was caved in to a point of not being recognisable, only after he was heckled. only after after he was heckled. only after a conservative member of congress pushed a pin. a badge in his hand with lincoln riley's name on it. and then when he finally mentioned it during the heckling, he misspoke and called her lincoln riley. i mean, he he's senile beyond senile, and

he's senile beyond senile, and he doesn't want to talk about the fact that he, that man has let 8 million illegals into our country unvetted in the last three years. you think you have problems with people coming across the channel think about 12,000 illegals every 24 hours. that's how much joe biden hates america. >> well, in any response from donald trump himself, oh well, it was genius. >> so he has his own alternative to twitter, which is truth social. his own social media platform. and he did a live fact checking. and you should go back. you should get an account all of you on truth social. check out what the president did because it was, it was to say, to use a, you know, a trumpian phrase. it was bigly epic. >> bigly epic. >> bigly epic. >> now, sebastian, i know that you are prolific on twitter, and i know that you know, the president, the former president, donald trump as well. i think a

lot of people around the world feel that twitter, perhaps is a less vibrant place without the sometimes erratic and often amusing tweets of the former president . have you had president. have you had a conversation with him about getting back on the service now that it's run by elon musk, do you think do you think he might just do it? >> look, i've met the president personally a few times in the last couple of months. and, we don't talk about twitter or social media accounts. we talk about the next cabinet and how we're going to make sure there's a free and fair election. look, i him on when i miss him on twitter. when i was in the white house, people used ask me, sir, when used to ask me, hey, sir, when the president's tweeting at 3 am, really, isn't a.m, that's you really, isn't it? i said, no, i need some it? and i said, no, i need some sleep. i can't keep up with him even though he's 20 years older than me. so i think there was a kind of non—compete clause with his investors when they created truth social . but i'm with you truth social. but i'm with you guys. we are less than eight months away from the election, so i am hoping and hoping that

imminently he will get back on twitter as well , because he had twitter as well, because he had how many people were following him , almost as many people that him, almost as many people that follow elon musk now that we don't have the kind of censorship on x as we did prior to elon's buying it, we need him back. we need the master. i'm not sure i can cope. >> sebastian . just the thought >> sebastian. just the thought of it. not sure i can cope with the constant stream of consciousness. >> oh, look, whether you disagreed with him or agreed with him, i disagreed with him a lot. can't. lots of lot. but you can't. and lots of people left this too. people on the left say this too. he very funny on he was just very funny on twitter. just he could he twitter. he just he could he could do format very could do that format very, very well. yes. >> remember when came >> i remember when he came off it, remember his it, i remember missing his madness . madness. >> it's not just twitter. go to my twitter feed, go to my web page, said gawker.com. and look at the video of his speech from cpac. this is the biggest conservative event of the year , conservative event of the year, and he gave a speech two weeks ago and it was hilarious. he went off teleprompter 20 minutes in spent next hour

in and spent the next hour telling stories about the white house. it was like monty python. it was hilarious. guys, he's such an entertainer. he loves america, but he's an entertainer. we've seen that with those, with the big crowds that he continues to bring entertaining. >> there's another question of governance, but i'm sure we can talk about that another day. sebastian thank so sebastian gorka, thank you so much joining on good much forjoining us here on good afternoon britain. really appreciate guys. >> thanks, guys. >> thanks, guys. >> deputy assistant to >> former deputy assistant to donald himself. well donald trump himself. well coming we'll be outside raf coming up we'll be outside raf scampton because it's one year since plans to house 2000 asylum seekers were leaked to the press. how are the locals feeling? are they still out protesting? find out shortly

it's -- it's 227, and hm it's 227, and it's been a year since plans to house 2000 asylum

seekers at raf scampton were leaked to the press. the home office is trying, of course, to reduce reliance on expensive hotels. >> well, since then, west lindsey district council and community groups have fought to prevent progress at the historic site where they say, which they say puts a £300 million regeneration at risk . regeneration at risk. >> yes, the men of squadron flew the iconic dambuster raids from the iconic dambuster raids from the airbase in may 1943. so let's speak to our reporter, anna riley, who is outside the base for us. anna, people are still protesting . still protesting. >> they are? yes. good afternoon to you both. they are one year on, since, edward lee, the gainsborough mp, made the announcement in parliament that raf scampton, near lincoln home historic home of the dambusters, was going to be used to house 2000 male asylum seekers and that was a real blow to local people here who expected a £300

million investment to be made in the area to make it a historic site, a heritage centre and to also create potentially up to 1000 jobs. people here don't feel that the site is suitable. there's only 700 people that live in the nearby area, so they say that the amount of asylum seekers potentially coming here would be more than double than the actual amount of residents . the actual amount of residents. and one year on, people are still campaigning here that this is not the right site. i spoke to some of the campaigners earlier and this is they earlier and this is what they had say . had to say. >> i think it's not right for 2000, is it 2000 asylum seekers i want to put in, and it's only about 638 locals. i think it's it'll be overwhelming for the locals. and i don't think it'll be such good. would it be an extra school and everything else? right. extra school and everything els by the migrant centre, by the bus , and i like to walk bus stop, and i like to walk around the camps. i don't feel really secure enough with all these thousands of migrants coming ,

these thousands of migrants coming, well, as it's been said time and time again , the history time and time again, the history and the heritage of this place, you know, this this as far as the air force goes and bomber command goes , this is the only command goes, this is the only place that people go. oh, yeah. you know , when you talk about you know, when you talk about scampton, the scampton, talk about the dambusters, everybody knows the dambusters. >> that's the view from some locals here. and campaigners here. but of course, the home office are saying that they're spending millions of pounds a day housing asylum seekers in hotels and that they feel uses of bases like raf scampton is the best use of taxpayer money to house asylum seekers, while their claims are being processed . but certainly people in this local community. one year on still seeing raf scampton is not the right site. >> well anna, thank you very much for bringing us that live from a majestic, raf scampton. i have to say the dambusters film is one of my favourite war films. it's an absolute corker. >> perhaps we can watch it sometime together? >> no, absolutely . get some

>> no, absolutely. get some popcorn and, and raf duxford has a museum that has a one of the, one of the original bouncing bombs in it, which were fantastic bombs to sort of bounce along. there you go. >> we can go on a little school trip anyway, france has inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion its constitution. to abortion in its constitution. today, sends today, many say it sends a powerful message towards women's rights. on international women's day . but not everyone agrees. so day. but not everyone agrees. so we're asking , have abortion we're asking, have abortion rights gone far enough? more on that after your headlines . that after your headlines. >> it's 231. i'm sophia wenzler and the gb newsroom. your headlines. a major independent investigation has found more lives were probably lost than saved by a double agent in the ira during the troubles. saved by a double agent in the ira during the troubles . the ira during the troubles. the individual, codenamed stakeknife, was working covertly with the british army inside the ira's internal security unit. operation kenova examined more

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i >> -- >> all lyman >> all right. well, some big news from the continent. france has inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution. today >> it's the first country in 50 years to do this, with many saying it sends a powerful

message on international women's day. >> but does everyone agree ? have >> but does everyone agree? have abortion rights perhaps gone too far ? far? >> well, joining us now in the studio is madeleine page, spokesperson for the rights to life and stella centre kaiju. the former labour aide and political commentator . right. political commentator. right. let's start with you, madeleine. what's your case? >> i think it's funny being on international women's day. >> i think that actually, if we look at the numbers of abortions in this country, we have over 200,000 abortions a year and over half of those will be of women will be of baby girls . and women will be of baby girls. and i don't like this rhetoric that abortion is a women's right. i think it's a great tragedy when a woman feels like she has a woman woman feels like she has to an abortion. there are to have an abortion. there are a lot of other extenuating circumstances that i think we need be at, and we need to be looking at, and we shouldn't forgetting the shouldn't be forgetting the humanity child. humanity of the unborn child. should we celebrate that france has guaranteed abortion as a constitutional right? >> yes, we should celebrate it.

it depends on, i guess, where you're coming from. it. we should note that abortion was still was already legally legal in france. it's not like this is a new thing. they haven't changed anything in the matter that access abortion. that women access abortion. all they is they have they have done is they have enshrined as a constitutional enshrined it as a constitutional right, means right, which basically means that in the future it will be a lot harder. if someone wanted to ban abortion in france to do that. doubt it is going to that. i doubt it is going to happen anyway. it's a similar situation in the uk . it's not situation in the uk. it's not a similar. it's a similar situation in the uk in that you can access abortion, but right now it criminalised. it's now it is criminalised. it's still offence to have still a criminal offence to have an i'm sure an abortion. i'm not sure i agree with in it agree with madeleine in that it has to do with women's has anything to do with women's rights. fact that, of , rights. the fact that, a lot of, foetuses which are aborted were female, because i don't think that in the uk it is a problem that in the uk it is a problem that women who are pregnant would go and have an abortion if they find out that the foetus is a female, as opposed to whether , a female, as opposed to whether, if it were to happen in some countries in the world. >> yes. of allegations about

what happened under china's evil one child policy, for instance. but madeleine, this isn't really a controversial issue in the uk in the way that it is in the united states. most opinion polls say that britain has it about right . the polls say that britain has it about right. the limit polls say that britain has it about right . the limit that polls say that britain has it about right. the limit that is set on, what do you disagree with? clearly you disagree with the current limits. that is set on why? >> well, actually, 70% of women want to see a lowering of our abortion time limits. >> so at 22 weeks, babies are surviving. there's currently an amendment that's going through parliament to lower our abortion law to 22 weeks. >> and i've spoken with lots of families who've had children born at that stage . and at the born at that stage. and at the moment we have abortion essentially, for any reason , up essentially, for any reason, up to 24 weeks. so that two week difference means that we have children who are capable of surviving. and in one room of a hospital, we may have doctors fighting to try and save that baby's life. and then in another room, we have a doctor taking the life of one those the life of one of those children is mother is

children who is whose mother is people might ask if it was moved from 24 to 22, you would probably then say, why not 20? >> why not 18? why not 16? this is just about chipping away at that. >> you could make that argument, but we need to look at the survival rates. a child is living at 20, is capable of living at 20, is capable of living at 20, is capable of living at 22 weeks. >> and actually the nhs says that at 12 weeks in the womb, a babyis that at 12 weeks in the womb, a baby is fully formed and has everything that they need. >> just don't have the >> we just don't have the medical technology at 12 weeks to that life. to save that baby's life. >> but we do at 22 weeks. >> but we do at 22 weeks. >> so our law is very extreme . >> so our law is very extreme. >> so our law is very extreme. >> and when look at other >> and when we look at other countries eu, our law countries across the eu, our law is double theirs. the median across eu is 12 weeks for across the eu is 12 weeks for abortion and we have it till 24. >> one thing, that a lot of conservatives in america don't like is how it's been, how abortion has been framed as health care. do you think that it's right to frame abortion? yeah i think i think it is quite right that it is healthcare.

>> and one thing i would like to add to what madeline just said is that in the we have some is that in the uk, we have some of the strictest laws in the world in terms of criminalising abortion , in that you could be abortion, in that you could be in life, and that is in prison for life, and that is harsher the law in syria, harsher than the law in syria, than the law in south sudan. and you the us, emily. you mentioned the us, emily. it's harsher than the laws in texas , which would be a surprise texas, which would be a surprise to a lot of british people, particularly when you consider the fact that 1 women are the fact that 1 in 3 women are going have an abortion at going to have an abortion at some in their life, some point in their life, extremely late. >> abortion. don't think >> tum abortion. you don't think a should ever go to prison a woman should ever go to prison for in situation for that in the in the situation where woman an extreme where a woman has an extreme late abortion, there is late tum abortion, there is usually other circumstances that are forcing her to do that, and it will have been a decision that she has taken with her. >> doctor. are you asking me whether i want to see women personally when i want to see women? >> a doctor would, would, would give a late tum abortion . it give a late tum abortion. it wouldn't be a criminal matter. in that case, i think exactly if it was , either illegally or with it was, either illegally or with some, you know , non—compliant

some, you know, non—compliant practice and the vast majority of the public, if they show what kind of situation this usually happens, i think they would agree that these women should not to prison. not be sent to prison. >> the british public >> i think the british public has been shocked at some of the cases saw last year cases that we saw last year where mothers who where you had women, mothers who were , who were sent were criminalised, who were sent to prison, mothers with kids because they were either confused about when their their, their pregnancy, pregnancy started or because there were other extenuating circumstances. and they didn't receive any support. they didn't receive any care. and this where my care. and this is where my problem is with, abortion problem is with, having abortion being which being a criminal offence, which is what it is right now in the uk. make no mistake about that. it's that a lot of women will be scared to go doctor scared to go to the doctor because they think that because they will think that they doing wrong, they are doing something wrong, or that there or they will think that there has a limit. surely for has to be a limit. surely for sure, sure, for there sure, for sure, for sure, there needs limit. but why are needs to be a limit. but why are we assuming women to we assuming that women want to have an abortion at at 7 or 8 months? woman wants to do months? no woman wants to do that. no woman, even if even if a woman is pro—life, as pro—choice as it gets. as in favour if even if a woman thinks

that abortion is nothing to think about it, everyone should have access to it. i highly doubt that a woman with a belly this big would say yes. you know what? i can feel the baby happen. >> it has happened and it has happened. there cases of happened. there are cases of women had abortions women who have had abortions that think it's that late, and i think it's wrong british wrong to say that the british pubuc wrong to say that the british public by the public are shocked by the circumstances that would surround something. >> actually are. >> i think actually they are. >> i think actually they are. >> fact that women can >> and the fact that women can be criminalised. >> actually what i've >> i think actually what i've seen is the british public have been shocked at the fact that a woman have abortion so woman would have an abortion so late carla foster is the late that carla foster is the case, that often people refer to her nearly eight her baby lily was nearly eight months along in gestation. >> that is a fully viable, survivable baby. >> there are so many people in this country who have been born at eight months or even earlier , at eight months or even earlier, and that's why we're saying at 22 weeks, babies are surviving and we need to be giving them that right to life. >> madeline, what do you make of stella's point yes, stella's point there that yes, we have abortion legal in the uk up to 24 weeks, but thereafter

we have some of the strictest restrictions anywhere in the world, it's almost like we've got this sort of game of two halves, this black and white policy . policy. >> it's not true that we have the strictest restrictions in practice, very, very, very few women. it's only been recently that there have been these cases of criminalisation, which is as a result of pills by post, which was advocated the was advocated for by the abortion clinics who wanted to be able to post pills during covid out to women. >> that has now been made permanent, which means a riuit g't' “52 “gt 2 can rifiéit g'“ 1152“? 2 can have abortion woman can have an abortion outside setting. outside of a medical setting. >> she can make a phone call to a medical professional. >> about her >> she can lie about her gestational ann, which is what happened case of carla happened in the case of carla foster very dangerous to foster and is very dangerous to the reason why it's foster and is very dangerous to the at reason why it's foster and is very dangerous to the at ten reason why it's foster and is very dangerous to the at ten weeksreason why it's foster and is very dangerous to the at ten weeks is|son why it's foster and is very dangerous to the at ten weeks is because it's foster and is very dangerous to the at ten weeks is because of; set at ten weeks is because of implication for the woman having an home, outside of an abortion at home, outside of that clinical setting. >> lastly, do you >> stella, just lastly, do you think post is a good think abortion by post is a good thing? because a lot of people say it's fantastic for women's rights? you don't have to go into, the doctor's into, you know, the doctor's surgery and go through side surgery and go through that side

of things. >> one, what i don't like about this conversation is that it assumes about this argument is that women want that it assumes that women want to something illegal. it to do something illegal. it assumes that women want that women will, will turn to women will, will, will turn to this abortion by post as their first, as their first choice, which the case at all. which is not the case at all. i think it's something like 90% of abortions take place before abortions are take place before the pregnancy is ten weeks, which is very, quite early. so this is not the situation we're talking about. so you're talking about, limiting limiting the rights of thousands of women of the vast , vast majority of women the vast, vast majority of women who have abortions when it is, legal and acceptable by, by the pubuc legal and acceptable by, by the public and by our culture, our culture and our medical establishment for a tiny , tiny, establishment for a tiny, tiny, tiny minority, literally a handful of women who are misguided into abusing this right extreme cases . exactly. right extreme cases. exactly. >> well, thank you very much. >> well, thank you very much. >> so many more questions we could have asked. but thank you so much for coming in. we've run up to the break, but much more to on.

to come on. >> thank madeleine, thank >> thank you madeleine, thank you you're fantastic. you stella. you're fantastic. thank your views on the >> coming up, your views on the subjects covered throughout the show. been getting a full show. we've been getting a full inbox we'll get to after inbox and we'll get to it after this.

good afternoon. britain. it's coming up to ten. two. three and bad nerves is not a reason that you should be claiming for sickness benefits . according to sickness benefits. according to a former tory minister. yes. >> rachel mcclean says an unknown number of those claiming sickness benefits for mental health citing bad nerves, health are citing bad nerves, which she describes as a totally meaningless phrase. >> i think it's important to use words properly. we use words for meaning and bad nerves doesn't have a meaning. i'm quite pleased to see that since i've been starting to raise this, i think the department are going to move away from using that as

a definition , because what we a definition, because what we can't tailor help, of which there is a considerable amount to people if we don't know what's with them. i mean, what's wrong with them. i mean, if i, if i go and fill in a form saying, have i got bad nerves? well, i've probably got bad nerves you because nerves talking to you because it's quite wracking it's quite nerve wracking appearing standing up appearing on tv and standing up in parliament. that's not a reason not to be off work. what we do know about any mental ill health or mental, illness condition is that by and large, obviously huge generalisation. and please don't take this as a sort of point that i'm ignorant on this. i'm not. it's much better for people to be in work. thatis better for people to be in work. that is the way not only to get people out of poverty to people out of poverty and to better themselves, but also to improve health. improve mental health. >> got you >> well, it's really got you talking what she had to say there, tom, got in a bit of hot water with chris, who may or may not be still watching or listening, probably not over whether you should just take whatever job you can whether you should just take whateverjob you can get , whatever job you can get, regardless of your experience in

other sectors. >> to be clear, to clarify why this doesn't apply to chris, chris seeking benefits, chris was not seeking benefits, so i think i should make that clear. my comment, chris, is not for you. it's for it's for anyone is on benefits that anyone who is on benefits that refuses a job because they think that job is too lowly for them. no it's not. >> it does raise the question, though, about whether sometimes it's a rational choice to go on benefits because actually some work doesn't seem to pay because tony says , hello, go work in a tony says, hello, go work in a pub. well, let's see what this means. it'll probably be minimum wage, unsociable hours. why do it so high? it when benefits are so high? make a pub job, pay, reduce benefits, minimum wage , benefits, increase minimum wage, increase personal allowance. this paid this applies to all low paid jobs , which is where most of the jobs, which is where most of the benefit scroungers are. so he's saying that essentially a lot of jobs pay enough to jobs don't pay enough to motivate people to get off the dole. >> i don't think that's true . i >> i don't think that's true. i think that the reforms that iain duncan smith made to universal credit were all about making work pay and i think that if you're someone on jobseeker's,

if you're someone on jobseeker's allowance, that's , a very allowance, that's, a very different situation to someone claimed sickness benefits, perhaps personal independence payments are actually a lot higher than, than other forms of benefits. maybe that's the distinction here. and maybe that's why this is an attractive offer for people. >> i know a lot of people have problems pip, but adam says problems with pip, but adam says anyone of work benefits anyone out of work benefits should be made to work in the to community earn their benefits. well, presumably if you're a legitimate, person who has a long time sickness, you're probably not going to be able to work in the community or anything. >> and michael says, if you're fit and well, you should not sit at and let's honest, at home and let's be honest, hard working and let hard working people. oh, and let the , hard working people the honest, hard working people pay the honest, hard working people pay living their taxes. >> and, wayne says, yes, we definitely have a work shy britain. i work in manchester for a housing association and the majority of houses i work in, the people seem to think claiming benefits is a right and

their children also think this. i mean, it wasn't that many years ago that it seemed like every tabloid newspaper was constantly talking about benefits. britain. we had that, that tv programme called benefit street, do you remember? and the entire street, it seemed everyone on it was on benefits for one reason or another. and, of course lots of abuse came their way, but it's obviously their way, but it's obviously the case that for some people, their parents may have lived on benefits their grandparents may have lived on benefits, they live on benefits, they start a family very early, and then their benefits. their children are on benefits. and that's hard to break. >> i definitely can be in some situations. absolutely, i wanted to get some more views on, coming in. phil says, sorry, we are running out of time. when phil says, when i was a manager years ago, jobcentre used to send for people for interviews and they obviously didn't want to work . when i asked why they to work. when i asked why they came for the interview, they said didn't , then their said if they didn't, then their benefits stop. phil benefits would stop. so phil

rang job centre and told rang the job centre and told them so. so phil was saying that there were people to claim their benefits. a whistleblower going to job centre and going to to the job centre and going to the interviews. but then deliberately failing the interviews so they could stay on benefits. like more benefits. that sounds like more work getting job. >> well, this is the thing you have you've to an have to say. you've gone to an interview get to get your interview to get to get your benefits. it's, that's it benefits. well, it's, that's it for week. yes, it's for another week. yes, it's friday, we'll back friday, it is. we'll be back on monday at but monday as usual at 12:00. but don't anywhere it's don't go anywhere because it's martin daubney martin, martin daubney next. martin, tell us. >> yeah. top chauffeur. that's top show . so of course i'll be top show. so of course i'll be addressing the issue. theresa may was she the worst prime minister the tories ever had? gillian keegan in hot water again, this time threatening to punch rude ofsted inspectors. >> is it time for her to get, a fail and get sent to the back of the class ? the class? >> also, london is has no go areas according to the home office. >> well, now they agree with lee anderson and suella braverman what took them so long? raf

scampton of course. the dambusters home 2000 asylum seekers might be dumped on there. today is the first anniversary of that protest will be live with the people organising the protest and also at last, the home office has a good idea. let's send £1 million to libya to help stop immigration at source. they finally had a good idea. good idea. we've got all of that coming up in the show. i'm here three till six, but first it's time for your latest weather forecast. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello there. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. well, it should be staying dry for most of us through the rest of the day, but there will be a chilly there will still be a chilly breeze should last through breeze that should last through much the as but much of the weekend as well. but through southwest it will through the southwest it will start. we'll start to see some showery rain through this evening. weather evening. that's as this weather front across front starts to arrive across parts devon cornwall. parts of devon and cornwall. so some of some showery outbreaks of rain

to here. further north to come here. but further north elsewhere across the country, it should stay dry through this evening and much of the evening and through much of the night, still be night, but they'll still be quite easterly breeze and quite a keen easterly breeze and quite a keen easterly breeze and quite of around that quite a lot of cloud around that cloud enough to cloud could be thick enough to bnng cloud could be thick enough to bring rain to parts bring some drizzly rain to parts of scotland, and but it of eastern scotland, and but it will be a fairly mild start to the day, away from the far northwest of scotland, where there could be a touch of frost in any sheltered area , as there in any sheltered area, as there will a chilly wind, though will be a chilly wind, though through of saturday, through much of saturday, especially if you're exposed to the coast, where the breeze the east coast, where the breeze will be much stronger. that band of will into parts of of rain will push into parts of northern england, parts of northern and much northern ireland and for much of wales as well. there's likely to be some outbreaks rain be some outbreaks of rain through further through the afternoon. further south, across central south, though, across central areas it will areas parts of southeast it will turn brighter into the turn a bit brighter into the afternoon, a afternoon, but there is a risk of heavy downpours. in of some heavy downpours. but in any will feel fairly any sunshine it will feel fairly pleasant, with highs of 12 or 13 degrees much more likely degrees rains much more likely on sunday. there'll be some quite persistent and heavy bursts of rain to come, particularly for northern and eastern of the country, eastern areas of the country, with some dry spells but risk

with some dry spells but a risk of showers . in the west. it does of showers. in the west. it does look like that rain will clear away the east, for away to the east, though, for the start of next week to bring some on some dry weather again on tuesday . tuesday. >> that warm inside from >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news as

i >> -- >> well . >> well. >> well. >> a very good afternoon to you. >> a very good afternoon to you. >> and a very happy friday. it's 3 pm. >> welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. >> broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . may. well, she danced the uk. may. well, she danced onto prime onto stage when she was prime minister but like dozens of other mps, theresa may will exit stage right at the next election. just why are so many conservatives quitting, i wonder 7 conservatives quitting, i wonder ? education secretary gillian keegan is in hot water yet again. she said she would

probably punched a teaching inspector and ofsted inspector who was apparently was really rude to her. but it's not the smartest thing to say, is it? and the government's counter—extremism sa has said that london streets have become a no go zone forjewish people dunng a no go zone forjewish people during pro—palestinian protests. what on earth has happened to our country? >> so welcome to the show. >> so welcome to the show. >> it's always a pleasure to have your company. now. >> i've been asking all morning. >> i've been asking all morning. >> theresa worst >> is theresa may the worst prime minister the conservative party i've had party have ever had? i've had hundreds , in fact, well over hundreds, in fact, well over a thousand responses. let me know what you think. keep them clean . what you think. keep them clean. gb views at gb news. com nigel farage always said that he felt theresa may was the worst , but theresa may was the worst, but has she been surpassed since by people who followed her? let me know your thoughts and i'll read out the best. but first, it's time your news

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