gb news. >> very good morning to you. it's half nine on friday, april the fifth. this is britain's newsroom. i'm ben leo, standing in for andrew pierce and this is bev turner. >> very good morning. a happy new tax year day. right. so honeytrap that is not honeytrap scandal that is not going away tory mp william wragg leaked colleagues numbers to a man that he met on a dating app. he's admitted last year. the hazel mp to gb news hazel grove mp spoke to gb news about the mental health challenges of his job, where the expectation , of course, is that expectation, of course, is that you will remain impermeably strong and set an example. >> i wouldn't necessarily say that politics is conducive to having your mind in a happy sense of equilibrium. all of the time, though. >> some good news. king charles is raring to go on the tour of australia in october after a positive start to his cancer

treatment . treatment. >> and don't do it to yourself, a tv advert encouraging people to carry out their own diy jobs has been blasted as irresponsible by builders. she's not even wearing a hard hat and are you braced for storm kathleen? >> 70 mile per hour gusts are set to batter britain this weekend and another woke warning. or should we be genuinely concerned about it ? genuinely concerned about it? >> oh, and diving disaster. if you think you're having a bad day, look at the french diver alexandre . he slips off the alexandre. he slips off the diving board. it's the inauguration of the olympic swimming pool. he had one job. looking forward the olympics. looking forward to the olympics. and he goes and there he goes. oh, we thought we'd start you friday. with a giggle, he was fine. >> he's an olympian as well, by the way. so there's for hope me? yeah. do you reckon you could do that? >> the metaphor is strong. no, i could swim well, but i can't. i

can't that, us know your can't do that, let us know your thoughts morning. views thoughts this morning. gb views at com is the email at gb news. com is the email address. lots to get through this morning. first though, your very latest news with ray . very latest news with ray. >> good morning. it's 932. our top stories a sixteen scandal rocking westminster has been described as extremely troubling by treasury minister gareth davies. that's after conservative mp william wragg admitted his involvement, telling the times that he'd sent intimate pictures of himself to someone on a gay dating app , and someone on a gay dating app, and then was then later manipulated into handing over the personal phone numbers of colleagues. gareth davies told us mps who feel they've been blackmailed should contact the police, not their party. >> it is extremely troubling, and worrying for anybody to hear this kind of activity takes place, well , rag has, as you, place, well, rag has, as you, referred to, apologised for the

action he took, but took in, a set of circumstances that i think many could potentially sympathise with and that he felt compromised and acted in a way that , he compromised and acted in a way that, he thought appropriate, but has clearly apologised for that activity . that activity. >> millions of people will receive a boost in take home pay from tomorrow, following a cut to employee national insurance from the start of the new tax yean from the start of the new tax year, class one contributions will be reduced from 10 to 8. meanwhile, a further 2 million self—employed people will see their class four national insurance reduced from 8 to 6. the government says around 29 million workers will benefit from the changes. new powers to prevent disruptive protests comes into force today, with offenders facing up to six months in prison or an unlimited fine . serious disruption fine. serious disruption prevention orders can be used to

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back to leo and. bev. >> ben, leo and bev turner this morning. >> people do that all the time on emails and tweets . hi, leo. on emails and tweets. hi, leo. thanks, leo, it's ben. i also do it with tom harwood. they seem to think i'm tom harwood sometimes as well. so if tom's been expressing some some trans views one and i comment on views one week and i comment on it the next, they say, oh, tom's changed his views in a week, isn't ? isn't he? >> be clear, this morning, >> so to be clear, this morning, emails bev and yes, emails to bev and ben. yes, please. right. this is britain's newsroom on gb news conservative mp he now mp william wragg. he has now admitted to being the person who handed out personal phone numbers to a man numbers of colleagues to a man that met on a gay dating app. that he met on a gay dating app. it's been dubbed the honeytrap sext scandal. >> hazel grove mp said he >> so the hazel grove mp said he provided the details after sending intimate pictures of himself to the user. now leicestershire police, they're investigating it as a cyber attack. >> last year, william spoke to gloria de piero on gb news. here he is . he is. >> do you think the political environment, the nature of our

politics, does it exacerbate or amplify your mental health? >> all life in different occupations have have their challenges, which can, you know, there's nothing unique to politicians. i think there's something, quite unique to a certain amount of pressurised environment in the political world, but that can be another pubuc world, but that can be another public facing roles and roles of leadership as well, where the expectation, of course, is that you will remain impermeably strong and set an example to others. so i think you will find that in different walks of life , that in different walks of life, i wouldn't necessarily say that politics is conducive to having, your mind in a happy sense of equilibrium all of the time, though . though. >> well, it definitely isn't today. so we're talking now to the man who broke this story about chief about william wragg, the chief political correspondent at the times. allegretti. good times. aubrey allegretti. good morning to you, aubrey, just remind our viewers the back story to this and how william

has now confessed, effectively, that he played a huge part in it i >> -- >> so really, for the last 24, 48 hours, ever since a report broke on the politico website, there has been speculation about who was behind, these mysterious messages that were sent sometimes from a person calling themselves charlie , sometimes themselves charlie, sometimes from a person calling themselves abbie to some quite senior mps and engaging them in sort of chatty, flirtatious conversation, then trying to send and ask for back explicit images from these mps. >> and that's obviously been going on for the last few days. but the messages themselves were sent over the course of the last few weeks, and actually a lot of mps have been really nervous, wondering what's what's going on, happening. when i on, what's happening. so when i had spoken to some of the victims and they had thought that will wragg was involved in some way, i confronted him yesterday afternoon and he

confessed to having passed along the messages . sorry, the phone the messages. sorry, the phone numbers to this person who he met on a gay dating app. he says that he never met this person. they due to go for drinks, they were due to go for drinks, but person never and he's but person never showed and he's obviously expressed a huge amount of remorse for what he's done because knows how much done because he knows how much he's his fellow mps. so he's let down his fellow mps. so just so just to be clear, so the victims suspected that william wragg was somehow involved. >> do you have any idea why aubrey . aubrey. >> so, in at least one of the cases , the mp continued cases, the mp continued exchanging messages with the sort of unknown third party person and was asking them kind of how they knew them . and the of how they knew them. and the person who called themselves charlie said that they used to be an intern for william wragg , be an intern for william wragg, and that sparked some alarm bells. the mp then went to william wragg and said, this person says he knows you. is that right ? and william that right? and william initially said, yes, that's

correct , he initially said, yes, that's correct, he didn't work for me, but i do know him and he can be a bit gregarious. and then william wragg story seemed to change when the mp went back to them and asked, are you sure you know this guy? because he's sending some strange sending me some very strange stuff. got stuff. william said. he got confused and, actually he didn't know this person, but that's where sort of initial trail know this person, but that's wiall sort of initial trail know this person, but that's wiall this sort of initial trail know this person, but that's wiall this led of initial trail know this person, but that's wiall this led back itial trail know this person, but that's wiall this led back tonl trail know this person, but that's wiall this led back to him.l of all this led back to him. >> so aubrey , two further mps >> so aubrey, two further mps sent this person or this group explicit pictures. have you any idea how common that is in parliament amongst politicians ? parliament amongst politicians? i mean, it seems extraordinary that one mp would do it. let alone two others, and whoever knows how many else more . knows how many else more. >> we don't really know their motivations, but certainly i think in william wragg's case, he probably felt a sense of kind of shame as did some of the other victims, which kind of kept all of this really secret and under wraps. and there are lots of mps i spoke to who just

said, why didn't william to said, why didn't william go to the he felt like he said, why didn't william go to the being he felt like he said, why didn't william go to the being blackmailed; he said, why didn't william go to the being blackmailed ?�*|e said, why didn't william go to the being blackmailed ? he should was being blackmailed? he should have, you know, refused and rebuffed demands rebuffed this person's demands because there are laws to sort of against that. so of tackle against that. so i think the fact that all of these people have sort of been , people have sort of been, suffering in silence a degree suffering in silence to a degree for time, including for some time, including obviously the victims who didn't sort necessarily want to tell sort of necessarily want to tell anyone that they had been approached by this person, or, you know, go to the authorities or to the house of commons services or to their party whips. all of this was really under wraps until they started sort of joining the dots together in the last few days. >> must be furious with >> they must be furious with william this point . william wragg at this point. it's all very well engaging in some online exchanges with somebody that he's met on a dating app and doing it himself. fine. whatever anybody does in the privacy of their house the privacy of their own house is business. however is not my business. however to then colleagues phone is not my business. however to then so colleagues phone is not my business. however to then so that olleagues phone is not my business. however to then so that they gues phone is not my business. however to then so that they can; phone is not my business. however to then so that they can also ne is not my business. however to then so that they can also be numbers so that they can also be entrapped. that's got to be a reasonable offence .

reasonable offence. >> there is huge amounts of anger amongst some of the mps who were victims of this. i mean, one of them i spoke to basically said, you know, when we were starting to put the join the dots, it felt as though we as gay men working in parliament were somehow being targeted and were somehow being targeted and we fearing for we were really fearing for our safety , so that hopefully goes safety, so that hopefully goes some explain the kind of some way to explain the kind of strength of feeling amongst the victims. it seems as though the conservative party isn't going to withdraw the whip from william wragg. so it's recess at the moment. he is obviously not in parliament and therefore won't necessarily kind of face any questions about this in the immediate future . but the police immediate future. but the police investigation into this incident of communications is of malicious communications is ongoing. i suspect once that ends there, there might be further investigations by the parliamentary standards commissioner into whether or not he's brought parliament into disrepute. >> there was a lot of speculation yesterday. iain duncan smith well, came out duncan smith as well, came out and this was a russian and thought this was a russian hacker, that was hacker, that there was a political motivation behind it. do we have any evidence of that?

aubrey or is it just mischief by someone that he's met on a gay dating app ? dating app? >> not so far. i mean, it's not uncommon, of course, for kind of hostile countries or their spy agencies to try and gather kompromat on mps. agencies to try and gather kompromat on mps . that is a kompromat on mps. that is a story almost as old as time, i think in this case that some of the victims i spoke to didn't feel they were engaging with a sort of with somebody with the apparatus of a big state, foreign power behind them, because when they threaten to go to the police, this person kind of clammed up, it seemed to suggest they realised they'd got in far too deep. and the victim sort of felt that if you if you were a sort of spy agency for a rival country that goes to the police, probably wouldn't, kind of deter you too much . this may of deter you too much. this may have been one individual, have just been one individual, or or 2 individuals or may be 1 or 2 individuals acting alone . acting alone. >> obe i know civil servants get training that kind of teaches them to beware of blackmail and bribery but our mps are bribery stings, but our mps are

not briefed on this kind of thing. it seems incredible to me that william wragg would a send explicit to a stranger explicit pictures to a stranger anyway, when he hadn't met them, and doesn't really know who they are. b also give away a are. but b also give away a trove of colleagues details trove of his colleagues details as well. i mean, has he not been through sort training through any sort of training about this? through any sort of training abowell, s? through any sort of training abowell, on point a, i mean, >> well, on point a, i mean, again, as we said, what he does in his private life is completely up to him, but on point b, yes, there is certainly a huge amount of training guidance given to mps and everyone who works across the parliamentary estate, including even some of the political journalists, because , you know, journalists, because, you know, there is such a wariness about how, exposed we all potentially could be and, you know, the sort of threats against parliament as a as an institution. but i think the issue is you can provide all of the sort of support, training and guidance that you like. if somebody commits a grave mistake or error of judgement or does something wrong on their their own sort of choice , then there's

own sort of choice, then there's nothing that can be done to guard against that, thank you so much joining us this morning. >> that was allegretti >> that was aubrey allegretti there, the chief political correspondent at times, correspondent at the times, who broke william broke the story about william wragg the original source wragg being the original source of numbers. thanks. of these numbers. thanks. >> aubrey aubrey says that it's his private life and it's up to him you mentioned that as him and you mentioned that as well. yes, agree. however, well. yes, i agree. however, when i just don't when you're an mp, i just don't think you should be sending nude pictures you've pictures to someone you've clearly if you've met clearly never met. if you've met someone know you someone and you know you can verify you're speaking to on verify who you're speaking to on the of that phone the other end of that phone number, fill your boots. the other end of that phone nurwhat fill your boots. the other end of that phone nurwhat you fill your boots. the other end of that phone nurwhat you want.'our boots. the other end of that phone nurwhat you want. but boots. the other end of that phone nurwhat you want. but he's;. the other end of that phone nurwhat you want. but he's never do what you want. but he's never met person. surely. i mean, met this person. surely. i mean, it's just shocking judgement. >> me, if >> i mean, goodness me, if you're an also, it you're an mp, but also, it doesn't matter. what if doesn't really matter. what if you're a teacher, you're you're a teacher, if you're a doctor, anybody , really? the doctor, anybody, really? the advice don't naked advice is don't send naked pictures yourself to someone pictures of yourself to someone you've never met. i mean, mind blown simple advice that blown at how simple advice that would be in 2024. would appear to be in 2024. >> not only he then >> but not only that, he then went for all his colleagues, went and for all his colleagues, phone you know, phone numbers, you know, it's just just seems just it just seems extraordinary. feel for extraordinary. i feel sorry for the but it's just the guy, but also it's just very, very slack. it's a developing story. >> we're be watching >> we're going to be watching

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flying in by about william wragg . some of you saying we're being far generous with him and far too generous with him and that, he be that, you know, he should be absolutely slammed what he's absolutely slammed for what he's done. saying, you done. but others saying, you know, him a bit of know, give him a bit of sympathy. >> em- >> right. it's been reported that in britain are that young men in britain are becoming more conservative, whilst have become whilst young women have become more whilst young women have become mo so asking, can a lefty >> so we're asking, can a lefty ever date a here to debate ever date a tory here to debate this? we're joined by the this? now we're joined by the dating expert nadia essex and the journalist cook. good the journalist julie cook. good morning to you both, nadia. let's start with you. can a lefty date a tory? >> absolutely not. i think i think it's really simple. the best relationships work, best if your morals and values align and the unfortunate thing with dating somebody with a different political persuasion is that in politics, you kind of have to be passionate about it because ultimately, once you get involved in it, it is really interesting. and if you are a conservative sitting at the table and then there's any kind of government announcement or anything happening, the labour person on the other side of the

table is going to be fuming one way or another. so you're constantly going to battle because is going to because the labour is going to because the labour is going to be tell the be trying to tell the conservative it's labour's better way. is better, and better this way. is better, and the conservatives going better this way. is better, and the no, servatives going better this way. is better, and the no, ouratives going better this way. is better, and the no, our way s going better this way. is better, and the no, our way is going better this way. is better, and the no, our way is betterng better this way. is better, and the no, our way is better and say no, our way is better and you're never going to find you're just never going to find a ground because you're a middle ground because you're each going to be able to you'll want the other on your want to get the other on your side . and not a healthy side. and that's not a healthy relationship. just relationship. that's just debating . debating back and forward. >> julie, you do you agree or >> julie, do you do you agree or can harmony with can you have harmony with political disagree? can you have harmony with pol i,cal disagree? can you have harmony with pol i, i|l disagree? can you have harmony with pol i, i completely disagree . >> i, i completely disagree. basically my husband is more right wing than i and i'm not that left wing to be honest. i mean, goodness, i was a remainer . he was into brexit. it's a complete opposite polar opposites we are and yet we get on really well. and i think that's part of the spice of life. that's part of the interesting part of a relationship, things interesting part of a reldiscuss.3, things interesting part of a reldiscuss. if things interesting part of a reldiscuss. if we things interesting part of a reldiscuss. if we all things interesting part of a reldiscuss. if we all agree|gs interesting part of a reldiscuss. if we all agree on to discuss. if we all agree on everything that's a bit everything that's that's a bit frightening, really. i think we should healthy debate, should have a healthy debate, particularly in relationship. >> so but but makes this >> so but but nadia makes this point about value. oh, sorry. sorry. no, i was just going to

say. but nadia makes this really interesting say. but nadia makes this really int�* long ng say. but nadia makes this really int�*long as say. but nadia makes this really int�* long as you've say. but nadia makes this really int�*long as you've got shared as long as you've got shared values, you co—exist happily values, you can co—exist happily together. square that together. how do you square that then, nadia, with what julie has just said. >> but while i want to ask a question, did you get during question, did you get on during the referendum? i can't the referendum? because i can't imagine two people in the imagine that two people in the same leave, same household, one leave, one stay, on. would imagine stay, got on. i would imagine there have been a lot of there would have been a lot of arguments, friction, arguments, a lot of friction, because it was an important issue. >> there was friction, but it wasn't arguments. i mean, i think most important things think the most important things in a relationship are the same attitude the same attitude to money, the same attitude to money, the same attitude fidelity , and attitude to sexual fidelity, and the same attitude to how you raise your children. i don't think politics up there with think politics are up there with those three important those top three important things, and you can debate things, and you can debate things in healthy way. that's things in a healthy way. that's that's democracy. surely that's the democracy. surely nadia, choose nadia, on people who choose partners specifically on their political persuasions, just cutting off huge swathes of the dating pool ? dating pool? >> it depends how much you're into politics. if politics is, you know, something, you're extremely invested in, something you're really into, something that you follow daily, something

that you follow daily, something thatis that you follow daily, something that is part of your life, then no, of course you can't, because it's part of your life. if it's something that you just it's something that you just if it's about values wing, left about values right wing, left wing, that's a little bit wing, and that's a little bit different. if it's actually different. but if it's actually political, parties, then just political, parties, then i just there's nothing we can do about that. >> we've had in recent times , >> we've had in recent times, julie, these big issues actually, and nadia hits the nail on the head with brexit. and then of course, along came lockdowns as well. i know relationships which have literally divorces born out of the fact that they didn't agree on these. it feels like a very modern phenomenon that we can tick a list of extremely divisive binary issues. does that make relationships harder ? that make relationships harder? >> yeah, i think it makes it harder. and i don't think it needs to be that way. you know, if you go back long, long ago before we had social media and this kind of frenzy that we all have so passionate and have to be so passionate and angry about everything the angry about everything all the time. you time. people just got on, you know? yeah, might disagree know? yeah, you might disagree with you can with somebody, but you can still marry if you loved them and

marry them if you loved them and they i say, their they shared, as i say, their more about more important values about fidelity and children and things like husband comes like that. and my husband comes from different from a completely different background if i'd background to me. and if i'd said, don't want this kind said, no, i don't want this kind of y, and z, i would of this x, y, and z, i would never have so i think never have met him. so i think the young people, i think the reason young people, i think this particular, this generation in particular, are than ever are having less sex than ever before is because they're far too worried things like too worried about things like politics and the woke agenda politics and all the woke agenda or agenda, and or the anti—woke agenda, and just go out and meet someone and see happens. go see what happens. go on. >> nadia. >> nadia. >> yeah, i think i think >> yeah, yeah, i think i think fundamentally that's the right thing. but i do think that you, you you're starting you know, you're starting a relationship on a different killed. i that's the hard killed. i think that's the hard part is that, you know, one, you have views. and think have opposing views. and i think that's that's really difficult. have opposing views. and i think tha okay. t's really difficult. have opposing views. and i think tha okay. thank.ly difficult. have opposing views. and i think tha okay. thank youifficult. have opposing views. and i think tha okay. thank you both .t. have opposing views. and i think tha okay. thank you both so much. >> okay. thank you both so much. really interesting nadia essex there. and journalist julie cook i do you've always difficult isn't it. depends how much we, we spend a lot of time talking about politics at work. do you go home and talk about it to your missus? >> she's into anything. >> no, she's not into anything. i'm sport , politics, news, i'm into sport, politics, news, anything. it like anything. and i love it like

that i to go home that because i want to go home from work and just relax and forget all. because forget about it all. because actually quite stressful. actually, it's quite stressful. and research and this interesting research that in britain, that apparently in britain, young women are becoming more progressive more left, and progressive and more left, and the men are pretty much staying the men are pretty much staying the same or slightly moving to the same or slightly moving to the is very the right, which is very interesting. yeah. >> to give you a >> i just want to give you a couple of examples, course, couple of examples, of course, of relationships from of relationships that are from different political different sides of the political fence labour cat smith, snp fence labour mp cat smith, snp mp they're a mp david linden, they're in a relationship. are. relationship. there they are. they they obviously they look happy. they obviously share football team share the same football team that helps pearsall of that helps claire pearsall of course, conservative course, former conservative advisor and nigel nelson are very , down the very own contributors, down the political line. right. still to come , storm kathleen is going to come, storm kathleen is going to batter britain this weekend . are batter britain this weekend. are we going to be heading for dangerous scenes or is it a lot of fuss about nothing? >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

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newsroom on gb news with me. bev turner and ben leo sitting in for andrew pierce. >> very good morning to you. the honeytrap scandal. tory mp william colleagues william wragg leaked colleagues numbers to a man he met on a dating last year. numbers to a man he met on a dating last year . the hazel dating app last year. the hazel grove spoke to gb about grove mp spoke to gb news about the mental health challenges of his job, where expectation his job, where the expectation of course , is that you will of course, is that you will remain impermeably strong and set an example. >> i wouldn't necessarily say that politics is conducive to having, your mind in a happy sense of equilibrium all of the time, though , and king charles time, though, and king charles is raring to go on tour of australia in october after a positive start to his cancer treatment. >> good news and some potentially further good news on the financial front, 29 million workers will receive a national insurance cut as the new tax year starts today . year starts today. >> yes, the government says they are cutting taxes. labour say taxes are still going up and it's all a big con. the question is, are you beginning to feel

any better off, the answer would be no. and don't do it yourself . be no. and don't do it yourself. a tv advert encouraging people to carry out their own diy jobs has been blasted as irresponsible by builders, and diving disaster. >> if you reckon you're having a bad day, look at the french diver here. alexis jornod slipping on a diving board at the inauguration of an olympic swimming pool in france. oh dean swimming pool in france. oh dear. oh . dear. oh. >> i feel so sorry for him every time. >> it really amuses me. i'm only laughing because he was absolutely fine. he did say afterwards . he said his body was afterwards. he said his body was fine, but his ego, he said, was very, very dented. it was the opening of the olympics pool of course, it's olympic year this yeah course, it's olympic year this year. excited. year. i'm quite excited. >> reckon french team's >> i reckon the french team's diving with the bookies has diving odds with the bookies has now plummeted.

>> has gb views at gb >> it really has gb views at gb news. com the email address. news. com is the email address. get involved with us this morning. need your morning. we need all of your input first. so the very latest news ray. news with ray. >> thanks both. good morning. 10:02. our top stories this hour a sixteen scandal rocking westminster has been described as extremely troubling by treasury minister gareth davies. it's after conservative mp william wragg admitted his involvement, william wragg admitted his involvement , telling the times involvement, telling the times that he'd sent intimate pictures of himself to someone on a gay dating app and was then manipulated into handing over the personal phone numbers of colleagues. gareth davies told us mps who feel that they've been blackmailed should contact the police , not their party. the police, not their party. >> it is extremely troubling , >> it is extremely troubling, and worrying for anybody to hear this kind of activity takes place, will wragg has, as you, referred to, apologised for the

action he took but took in, a set of circumstances that i think many could potentially sympathise with in that he felt compromised and acted in a way that, he thought appropriate, but has clearly , apologised for but has clearly, apologised for that activity . that activity. >> well, as we've been hearing, millions of people will receive a boost in take home pay from tomorrow following a cut to employee national insurance from the start of the new tax year, class one contributions will be reduced from 10 to 8. meanwhile, a further 2 million self—employed people will see their class four national insurance reduced from 8 to 6. the government says around 29 million workers will benefit from these changes . labour's from these changes. labour's deputy national coordinator, ellie reeves, told gb news the tax cuts are still not enough. >> the tax burden is at a 70 year high despite the changes to

national insurance, and families are typically £870 worse off. that's because of fiscal drag people being dragged into higher tax brackets , but also people tax brackets, but also people also be facing increases to their council tax bills this month. so despite what the government says, people are worse off under after 14 years of conservative government new powers to prevent disruptive protests come into force today, with offenders facing up to six months in prison or an unlimited fine . fine. >> serious disruption prevention orders can be used to stop repeat offenders from joining protest groups in a particular area and at a particular time, home secretary james cleverly says the powers target those who are, quote, dedicated to wreaking havoc. however, civil liberties organisation liberty has described it as a shameless attempt to prevent people from being able to make their voices

heard . parts of the country have heard. parts of the country have no train services today due to a fresh strike by drivers as left union members have walked out and mounted picket lines in their long running dispute over pay- their long running dispute over pay. five train operators, including avanti, crosscountry and west midlands railway, say they're not running any services. a ban on overtime at 16 companies is also continuing into tomorrow . israel has into tomorrow. israel has announced it's opening new routes for humanitarian aid deliveries into gaza, after warnings from us president biden. the erez crossing is being opened for the first time since the hamas terror attacks in october. officials also say they're planning to increase the amount of aid from jordan, moving through the kerem shalom crossing. in a call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu , president biden said netanyahu, president biden said that future us support for the country depends on steps taken to protect civilians and aid workers . a legal entitlement to

workers. a legal entitlement to unpaid leave for carers has been hailed as a huge step forward as it comes into effect tomorrow under the carers leave act, employees who are also carers can take up to a week of unpaid leave every 12 months. it will apply to more than 2 million workers in england, wales and scotland . charity carers uk said scotland. charity carers uk said around 600 people, a day give up work so they can care due to a lack of flexibility and support. grassroots cricket is to receive a £35 million boost from the government to help improve access to the sport in schools. it's the latest move made by the pm to ensure more young people are physically active. by 2030. the investment will be delivered over the next five years and will result in 16 state of the art all weather cricket domes being built within cities and diverse communities across england . and the king has england. and the king has reportedly told aides to ramp up plans for a two week state visit

down under. king charles is said to be over the moon and raring to be over the moon and raring to go after his cancer treatment started positively. the 75 year old is said to be feeling optimistic after he was able to meet with the public on easter sunday. he's reportedly told aides he's supercharging plans to also visit new zealand and samoa . well, for the latest samoa. well, for the latest stories, why not sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code? it's on your screen right now or go to gbnews.com/alerts. now it's back to ben and . bev. now it's back to ben and. bev. >> hey good morning. it's 1007. >> hey good morning. it's1007. you have been getting in touch with us this morning. thank you for keeping us company, this is on whether you could date someone with opposing political views. i've not asked you. >> by way, you . could >> by the way, could you. could you date someone who supported lockdowns ? lockdowns? >> oh, 100? no. they'd have been chucked ages ago. no. luckily,

my other half and i do do largely agree on it, but i'm a bit like you. i like to go home and escape sometimes from politics, and my other half would quite me to would probably quite like me to as well , end up would probably quite like me to as well, end up talking as well, but i end up talking about all the time. but you about it all the time. but you know, we lot of common know, we have a lot of common ground, says, of course know, we have a lot of common grotcan says, of course know, we have a lot of common grotcan date says, of course know, we have a lot of common grotcan date someonef course know, we have a lot of common grotcan date someone with rse you can date someone with opposing views. it's opposing political views. it's called for called being an adult for exclamation marks. i've often done so myself, and on occasions we bit of political we enjoyed a bit of political sparring. known respect we enjoyed a bit of political spaagreeing known respect we enjoyed a bit of political spaagreeing t01own respect we enjoyed a bit of political spa agreeing to disagree. espect for agreeing to disagree. millennials and gen z need to grow up. they shouldn't be dating at all as they're obviously too immature. >> that's people >> yeah, that's what people can't days is disagree can't do these days is disagree and on. everyone takes and then move on. everyone takes it so personally. margaret says being married to a leftie rather, i'd rather be married to a leftie. >> no, be married a leftie. >> no, be married to a leftie. i'd rather my eyes out. i'd rather poke my eyes out. >> be totally >> it would be totally impossible. have to listen impossible. i'd have to listen to their ridiculous left wing rubbish. i simply couldn't cope. >> she say, >> but then she does say, luckily has >> but then she does say, llbrain has >> but then she does say, llbrain and has >> but then she does say, llbrain and fred has >> but then she does say, llbrain and fred says has >> but then she does say, llbrain and fred says this has >> but then she does say, llbrain and fred says this is has >> but then she does say, llbrain and fred says this is in as a brain and fred says this is in relation to this mps parliamentary, pervy scandal about having been seduced by a

cyber texting situation . very. cyber texting situation. very. can you say i can't find my words? can you explain that? >> she's she's done ten shows in five days. >> i will have done ten shows in five days by the end of today. so i can't actually string a sentence together anymore, fred says with relation to the latest mp scandal, does this not sum up why the public has no faith in the people who run our country? sleaze more sleaze. sleaze sleaze and more sleaze. let's how the prime minister let's see how the prime minister deals with this. good deals with this. very good point, fred. deals with this. very good poiii:, fred. deals with this. very good p01i| havei. deals with this. very good p01i| have to agree and that >> i have to agree and that william wragg is getting far too much sympathy morning as much sympathy this morning as far concerned. i know far as i'm concerned. i know he's some mental health far as i'm concerned. i know he's going�*me mental health far as i'm concerned. i know he's going on mental health far as i'm concerned. i know he's going on in ental health far as i'm concerned. i know he's going on in theil health far as i'm concerned. i know he's going on in theil hea but stuff going on in the past, but come on man, you're an mp. i don't mind. >> said before, don't >> like i said before, i don't mind william sending mind william wragg sending whatever he wants to another person. own business. person. that's his own business. but give out other people's but to give out other people's numbers so they could get embroiled upon it is really, really bad, very slack. trevor says. clowns really bad, very slack. trevor say supposed clowns really bad, very slack. trevor say supposed to clowns really bad, very slack. trevor say supposed to be clowns really bad, very slack. trevor say supposed to be running the are supposed to be running the country. run country. they can't even run their own lives, rid of the their own lives, get rid of the lot vote for richard tice. lot and vote for richard tice. and says, just goes to

and mark says, this just goes to show what a low calibre mps show what a low calibre of mps we at moment. can we have at the moment. how can they the they be trusted to run the country can't keep it country when they can't keep it in trousers? in their trousers? >> yeah, i mean, it's basic stuff. it'sjust, >> yeah, i mean, it's basic stuff. it's just, you it's stuff. it's just, you know, it's not well, not basic, it's not well, it's not basic, it's national security, you've national security, which you've been trained on. >> it does raise >> so but it does raise a question about the calibre of mps and the judgement of mps and how a better calibre of how we get a better calibre of mp. >> right. well, talking of mps, as new tax year gets as the new tax year gets underway, is it today or tomorrow, workers tomorrow, millions of workers are sorry, are receiving an int sorry, a national insurance from the national insurance cut from the sixth saturday. >> that's right. you your >> that's right. if you do your tax return you it up to today tax return you do it up to today don't you. and tomorrow is don't you. and then tomorrow is the new year. the start of the new year. so the start of the new year. so the rate falling national the rate is falling of national insurance from 10% to 8% for 29 million the million employees across the country. such country. it's the second such cut of this year. >> yeah. the government says >> yeah. and the government says that combined will that those cuts combined will save average worker around save the average worker around £900 year. with frozen £900 a year. but with frozen thresholds, a thresholds, will it make a difference ? let's bring in our difference? let's bring in our political correspondent, katherine forster, the katherine forster, for the latest . hey good latest analysis. hey good morning catherine. some people are when the are saying, catherine, when the tax burden is at its highest since the second world war, you're kind of taking with a massive shovel on one side of it

and giving you a few breadcrumbs back. >> yes. and that is exactly, of course, what the labor party is saying. but the government are keen to shout this from the rooftops. this cut to national insurance, that they cut it by £0.02 in the pound at the beginning of the year. and as of tomorrow it's coming down to ipp more so in total from 12 to £0.08 in the pound, a third off in just a few months. they're saying that it will save the average worker on about 34,000, some £900 a year. so not to be sniffed at certainly. but of course there is the matter of fiscal drag. this very technical worm that we've been hearing about for a long time now, because it's fundamentally making most of us worse off the government has frozen the thresholds at which you start to pay thresholds at which you start to pay tax, and the higher rates of tax right through until 2028. and as people earn more, that

means that more and more people are paying more and more tax. so labour today are coming out and saying, pay no attention to what the government are saying. this whole thing is basically a big con. they're saying that that 41.1 billion is being raised through freezing these tax thresholds until 2028, and only 21.4 billion is being given back with these cuts. so basically the argument is that the government are taking away twice as much in personal taxes over the next few years as they are giving back to us. and of course, labour are going to run on this central message. do you feel better off after 14 years of conservative government than you did before ? and they bet you did before? and they bet that most people are going to say no worth saying. of course, the national debt is through the

roof. very difficult for whoever gets into power . gets into power. >> catherine. i mean, rishi sunak needs this issue with william wragg and the westminster honeytrap scandal like a hole in the head right now, doesn't he just when he's looking for some good news, gareth davies, it's a developing story. gareth davies has come out now given support out and he's now given support to william wragg after he handed over colleagues phone numbers for this, somebody that he met on a dating app was what do, what do you think the prime minister will do ? in response? minister will do? in response? our viewers are saying they want to see a response to this from the prime minister. we've been saying that perhaps there should be resignation on the cards be a resignation on the cards for william wragg. >> well, yes. and of course, as you say, the government wants us to be talking about tax cuts. and we've spent so much of the morning talking about william wragg. now standing down at wragg. now he's standing down at the next election. anyway, there were suggestions that he might possibly lose the conservative

whip. he would join a growing band of conservative mps who sit as independents, having got into trouble for one reason or another from right across the political spectrum . it's political spectrum. it's sounding now, though, in the last hour or so that that's not going to happen because they see william wragg as a victim in all of this. so it will be interesting to see what rishi sunak, has to say about this. but, you know, mps, they are human. of course they all make mistakes. but really , you know, mistakes. but really, you know, kids are taught at school, be very, very careful about what you put on the internet because once it's out there, there can be very, very serious consequences. >> and even more seriously for me, don't then give out your mate's phone number so other people can get involved in it. >> me. katherine >> goodness me. katherine forster westminster, thank >> goodness me. katherine forsvery westminster, thank >> goodness me. katherine forsvery westrappreciate nk >> goodness me. katherine forsvery westrappreciate your >> goodness me. katherine forsvichancellorippreciate your >> goodness me. katherine forsvichancellor jeremy te your >> goodness me. katherine forsvichancellor jeremy huntjr time, chancellorjeremy hunt has just speaking to reporters just been speaking to reporters now that national now about that national insurance cut. let's take insurance tax cut. let's take a quick listen. >> today's national >> well, today's national insurance cut is very

significant, not just because it's £900 in the pockets of someone on the average salary. in a period where people have been really feeling cost of living pressures, but also because if we're going to grow the economy, we have to make work, pay for the 6 million adults of working age who are not in work. and this measure, according to the office for budget responsibility, will see the equivalent of 200,000 people enter the workforce, filling around 1 in 5 vacancies across the economy. so it's good for the economy. so it's good for the economy. so it's good for the economy , it's good for the economy, it's good for growth, it's good because it makes work pay. >> but you'll know, chancellor, that the impact of this lower national insurance rates is more than offset by fiscal drag with people being dragged into higher tax brackets. do you think the pubuc tax brackets. do you think the public don't notice that? >> we've always been very open about the fact that after covid and the cost of living crisis, the energy crisis, we had to put taxes up . but the fundamental

taxes up. but the fundamental divide in british politics is between a conservative party having taken difficult decisions on the economy, is now starting to bring taxes down to pay off national insurance from saturday, another £0.02 off in the autumn statement last year that came through in january. we want to bring the tax burden down. the labour party wants to keep it as it is and that is the big choice that people will have in the general election this year , this national. year, this national. >> thanks, chancellor. >> thanks, chancellor. >> tuppy here, tuppy there. great. thank you very much. >> does it feel like it's going to difference to you? >> does it feel like it's going to views difference to you? >> does it feel like it's going to views at difference to you? >> does it feel like it's going to views at gbference to you? >> does it feel like it's going to views at gb news.�* to you? >> does it feel like it's going to views at gb news. com.»u? >> does it feel like it's going to views at gb news. com. i'm gb views at gb news. com. i'm not he even believes it not sure he even believes it himself. he, when himself. does he, when he's saying he look saying that he doesn't look completely convinced. >> the way? >> is he is he okay? by the way? he bit, stressed. he looks a bit, stressed. >> bit stressed, bit stressed. his election year and the latest thing said that labour is going to win 400 seats. yes. he's a bit stressed in defence of the tories. >> inflation is coming down. cost of living is coming down. they are introducing tax cuts. so maybe you they're so maybe you know they're pinning hopes fact pinning their hopes on the fact that going to feel a

that people are going to feel a lot off by end of the yeah >> who knows, we might have a massive the next massive upsweep for the next six months everyone's to months and everyone's going to feel of the feel amazing by the end of the yeah feel amazing by the end of the year, right? still to come, some schools are still defying ministers letting children ministers and letting children change behind their change gender behind their parents backs. we're going to be discussing that. britain's newsroom

gb news. >> welcome back. 1020 with ben and bev on britain's newsroom on gb news. i'm in for andrew pearson. he doesn't do fridays. does he know this is actually. i have a little good point, a little bit of an announcement to make. go on for the foreseeable. i'll be doing fridays are on britain's newsroom. >> i won't. aren't you lucky? that's brilliant. yes, of that's brilliant. ben. yes, of course we're saying you're here for andrew pierce. you're. andrew never on andrew pierce is never here on a friday. congratulations. >> don't day of the >> i don't know what day of the week it's been such week it is. it's been such a long couple of weeks. >> tell me about right. >> tell me about it. right. we're joined the studio by we're joined in the studio by amy turner and political

amy nicole turner and political commentator morning, amy nicole turner and political commegood' morning, amy nicole turner and political commegood morning. morning, ladies. good morning. i'm sure you'd congratulate you'd all like to congratulate ben appointment to do ben on his new appointment to do friday britain's friday morning britain's newsroom. gender change. newsroom. right. gender change. amy. nicole, we talk about this all the time in the telegraph. so government issued some guidance , didn't they, to say guidance, didn't they, to say that teachers need to include parents in these decisions . and parents in these decisions. and it appears now there's some evidence that the schools aren't it appears now there's some eviderthat. at the schools aren't it appears now there's some eviderthat. am 1e schools aren't it appears now there's some eviderthat. am i! schools aren't it appears now there's some eviderthat. am i right»ols aren't it appears now there's some eviderthat. am i right ?.s aren't doing that. am i right? >> yes, there is a but the group that put this, research together do lot previous on do have a lot of previous on being a women's group who only care about one issue, which is getting rid of trans, what they see as ideology. so i was a little bit suspicious about the research to start with, but if we take it at face value, it is concerning because this is about primary schools and they reckon they've got information on 600 primary schools , which seem to primary schools, which seem to be not involving parents on the decision when children choose to socially transition. so that would be using different pronouns, maybe a different name and using like the different

gendered facilities. yeah. now and using like the different gendeare facilities. yeah. now and using like the different gendeare very, ties. yeah. now and using like the different gendeare very, very, yeah. now and using like the different gendeare very, very, very now and using like the different gendeare very, very, very rarev there are very, very, very rare circumstances where maybe this is, where where this is a reasonable idea because children need to have confidence, children need to have confidence in their teachers . and if you in their teachers. and if you object to this, i think you are assuming that all children come from perfectly safe families. that would be all accepting and there would be no trouble for them. but it's not the case that every single family would be able to be safe. >> so primary school kids are. >> so primary school kids are. >> how old for this is what i 4 to 12. you know, if this is happening in primary schools it is more cause for concern. but then there will still be very, very rare circumstances where it is the correct decision to perhaps not tell the tell the parents the thing is, there is an absolutely fundamental tenet of safeguarding which is that a teacher and a pupil should never have a secret from a parent. you read my mind, bev. >> i was going to say this is a massive safeguarding concern.

>> i was going to say this is a massivejusteguarding concern. >> i was going to say this is a massivejust a uarding concern. >> i was going to say this is a massivejust a safeguarding�*rn. it's not just a safeguarding concern there are concern because there are schools that have these policies of, hiding something very of, of hiding something very important from the parents. so some of these schools, this report showed that , that that report showed that, that that schools are also assisting children with breast binding. >> yeah. this is outrageous without even necessarily informing the parents in whatever their school policies are, about the physical harm that breast binding can do. things like causing breathlessness, muscle wasting. but some of these schools have policies that children who are breast binding should be given a little break during pe. if they're if they're struggling. >> i was going to say as a religious person, that includes church of england primary schools doing that, which is not surprising given the way the church england is, is going , church of england is, is going, it's absolutely, horrendous. i mean, i'm actually struggling to find the right words for it because i think it is so concerning that they're doing

this even after the government has been explicit that they shouldn't be. now, i do agree, actually, that the guidance needs to have have statutory force, that to make sure that schools can't be influenced by activist groups who i think and i think some of this misrepresenting of the equality act comes from the fact that you have groups like stonewall who, who, give their advice or guidance to schools and they end up misrepresenting the equality act because they essentially interchanged sex and gender and therefore undermine same sex spaces. >> i mean, can i ask you a question? so it says a number of the school policies analysed state children as young as five can show signs of gender dysphoria and that biological sex is assigned at birth, depending appearance of depending on the appearance of the infant. can five year olds start showing signs of gender dysphoria ? dysphoria? >> yes, because gender dysphoria, where do they get those thoughts from? so the so the symptoms would be confusion distress. they don't explicitly

say i'm a boy or i'm a girl. they just demonstrate a, you know, a confusion within themselves which comes out as distress. >> and i think if your child is distressed, you obviously take them to the doctor. so my near five year old says he's batman. most weekends there'll be such a stupid argument, ben, and you know is. it's not. because know it is. it's not. because where where do five year olds get thoughts from get independent thoughts from that born in that they are somehow born in the without the the wrong body without the influence adults. you're not. >> you're not listening. corrupt teachers, you, teachers, i'm saying to you, is i'm saying children i'm not saying that children come forward and say i am a boy or i'm a girl. not that or i'm a girl. it's not that simple. dysphoria simple. gender dysphoria manifests. maybe they're just unhappy. >> they're just. >> maybe they're just. >> maybe they're just. >> unhappy. >> maybe they're just. >> go unhappy. >> maybe they're just. >> go to unhappy. >> maybe they're just. >> go to the unhappy. >> maybe they're just. >> go to the urand py. >> maybe they're just. >> go to the urand find then go to the doctor and find out they're unhappy. well, out why they're unhappy. well, in probably are more in fact, they probably are more likely we likely unhappy because we have a child endemic. likely unhappy because we have a chiibutidemic. likely unhappy because we have a chiibut that's:. likely unhappy because we have a chiibut that's the point. they're >> but that's the point. they're not doctor to not going to the doctor to assess they're unhappy. assess why they're unhappy. teachers story, teachers as seen in this story, are to address them by are beginning to address them by different pronouns. caving different pronouns. and caving into quackery. into all this quackery. >> child of five >> me. can a child of five demonstrate symptoms of gender dysphoria? i said yes. dysphoria? and i said yes. >> i think i just want to say

two things. first of all, the christian church aren't here to defend themselves and neither are stonewall, and we would welcome this welcome them in to have this debate, time. the thing that debate, any time. the thing that i a disturbing, amy, i i find a bit disturbing, amy, i suppose, is that my son, who's now just 20, used to routinely wear a dress and plastic heels. >> my sister used to dress me up all the time in dresses and heels when i was like, six. >> now, that's not gender dysphoria, but but i can see a situation whereby there might be a well—meaning adult, emma, who catches social catches on to this social contagion and goes, oh, well, maybe you are a girl. children are suggestible . are suggestible. >> this is so important. and actually, touched this actually, you touched on this already, that , you know, already, ben, that, you know, what the what the what are the what are the parents? people parents? what are the people around the child saying to them? what? it's to affirm what? because it's to affirm something around a child, especially a young child, where they still have magical imagination is not a neutral act. if you tell a child that you can whack them on the head with a wand and they'll become a horse, they'll believe you because they have magical

thinking certain age . thinking under a certain age. and so you to be very and so you have to be very careful you know, the fact careful with you know, the fact that all of these trusted adults around a child are saying a certain thing that that that certain thing that that can that could aggravate that could actually aggravate that dysphoria, that could actually make worse , that could make things worse, that could actually make it difficult for the child to break out of , of, the child to break out of, of, whatever confusion they're experiencing . and to what amy experiencing. and to what amy said, you know, it's not a case of your child is experiencing distress and you just take them to the doctor because now you have activist groups who are pushing call any kind of pushing to call any kind of therapeutic approach conversion therapy. yeah and so you're actually precluding anything other than the medical pathway that a child is then set on at a very early age by transitioning them socially with their pronouns their dress and pronouns and their dress and their socialisation, and then when they get to a later stage in that process, it makes it much more likely they'll go on to puberty blockers, and then they'll eventually end up biologically transitioning, because they're therapeutic because they're all therapeutic pathways closed to them. >> the thing is, we do we do

have activist groups on both sides this argument. you talk sides of this argument. you talk about activist side, about the trans activist side, and about the and i would talk about the anti—trans side, which is no one's protect and one's anti—trans protect and teach. no one's anti trans people are anti, men playing in women's sport, anti men in women's sport, anti men in women's toilets and anti, chopping off the genitals of young people. i think all these conversations they always lead to harming gender non—conforming people in the last five years since i've been talking about this subject, the number of people who question my gender all the time, the number of people who. now, whenever i go into a public loo, i was like sizing each other up. broad shouldered women, tall women. like, why are we policing people's i people's bodies in this way? i don't we're not. people's bodies in this way? i dori: we're not. people's bodies in this way? i dori mean, not. no one cares >> i mean, no one no one cares about what trans people about the what trans people get up what you want. i'm up to do. what you want. i'm a i'm a you just i'm i'm a libertarian. do what the hell you as long it's within you want. as long as it's within the and you're not harming the law and you're not harming other the other people. and don't the problem have you problem people have is when you start coming for the kids, when you start coming for women, and

when you start destroying the integrity think integrity of sport, i think otherwise, you like. otherwise, do what you like. i couldn't less, just you are couldn't care less, just you are lending such an old lending yourself to such an old school homophobic tropes that are used . amy, the trans are now used. amy, the trans movement. the trans movement is deeply homophobic. kids. amy. the trans movement is deeply homophobic, telling young gay kids they're born in the wrong body. >> oh, that's not what that's what they do, is it? >> they take young gay kids and say, you're not gay, you're just born in the wrong body. so let's let's put you on puberty blockers. this blockers. let's take down this dark pathway. >> also since, when >> and also since, since when did when being did since when did being a feminine being feminine boy or being a masculine girl in quotes make you other gender? but that's you the other gender? but that's gendeh you the other gender? but that's gender. problem. you the other gender? but that's ger nobody. problem. you the other gender? but that's ger nobody. well, problem. you the other gender? but that's ger nobody. well, but blem. you the other gender? but that's ger nobody. well, but this]. you the other gender? but that's ger nobody. well, but this is the >> nobody. well, but this is the problem the reason why , problem is the reason why, children who go on to be children who may go on to be homosexual are at particular risk of the adults around them saying, well, you're not conforming to the stereotypes that you should and that we think you should be, and therefore going put therefore we are going to put you pathway towards you on this pathway towards medical transition and therefore effectively sterilising young gay that's why effectively sterilising young gaythat's why people are >> that's why people are concerned that actually the push

for transition , so including for transition, so including social transition is homophobic and is a kind of conversion therapy. >> if your child amy was at school expressing that they might not be the gender in which they were born, wouldn't you want the teachers to tell you? yeah, of course , because my yeah, of course, because my child is in a safe environment. >> if had a if he had >> but if i had a if he had a classmate whose parents were i hate to say it, but ben, then i perhaps wouldn't want i wouldn't want them. >> amy, do you know what 90, 99% of the country think like i do? common sense. it's not some right wing view. >> the other thing i would say it shouldn't like taking it shouldn't be like taking such a issue a tiny minority issue and putting out to the public. putting it out to the public. there's always going to be misunderstanding, isn't it? except it would be a minority issue if it was just. >> you're just talking about >> if you're just talking about how the in the how many people in the in the population gender population experience gender dysphoria, to dysphoria, but it ceases to become minority issue when it become a minority issue when it in law undermines same sex spaces and therefore affect everyone, because the concern about same sex spaces is not

actually a concern about trans people. it's about people abusing loopholes in the law to access women's spaces. >> my issue will always be that this has been in place since 2010, right? single—sex 2010, right? these single—sex spaces have inhabited spaces have been inhabited by trans women and trans men since 2010. we've only had an issue with it in the last 2 to 3 years since, i think since high since, well, i think since high profile sports events, we've got to wrap it up there for now, ladies. >> but that is only round one. we're going to be having more conversations just next conversations in just the next hour but hour with emma and amy. but still come, william still to come, tory mp william wragg admitted to handing wragg has admitted to handing out phone numbers of out personal phone numbers of colleagues he met colleagues to a man that he met on dating app that then got on a dating app that then got them entwined in a sixteen scandal . should he resign? scandal. should he resign? that's a much more after your morning's news with ray addison. >> many thanks. 1031 our top stories a sixteen scandal rocking westminster has been described as extremely troubling by treasury minister gareth davies. it's after conservative

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us. now israel says it's approved. the opening of two humanitarian routes into gaza to allow more aid into the territory . aid into the territory. >> this comes hours after us president biden spoke with the prime minister. netanyahu for the since seven aid

the first time since seven aid workers killed earlier this workers were killed earlier this week, including three britons. >> and meanwhile, pressure is for on rishi has the for on rishi sunak. has the former court judges say former supreme court judges say arming israel breaches international so joining arming israel breaches interis tional so joining arming israel breaches interis internationalo joining arming israel breaches interis international criminal now is international criminal law expert sarah elizabeth deal. good morning to you sarah. good morning. does it breach international law . international law. >> so certainly when you look at the problems that arise when you have obligations under the genocide convention, when you have obligations militaries have obligations of militaries to war crimes from being to prevent war crimes from being committed, does pose a committed, are it does pose a risk that the uk would be complicit in aiding and abetting war crimes in gaza. >> the uk would, yes. right. >> the uk would, yes. right. >> so just talk us through the steps then of what that could mean. the worst case scenario, let's say for the uk. >> so certainly we do run the risk of uk. our leaders , risk of uk. our leaders, military officials are being found to be aiding and abetting war crimes, or whether they could be brought into the icj proceedings , or whether they proceedings, or whether they could be subjected in icj .

could be subjected in icj. sorry, international criminal, international court of justice of justice , where you have the of justice, where you have the case of south africa against israel or the ireland supposedly is going to join are. but then you also do have pending investigations at the international court international criminal court into being committed into war crimes being committed are situation involving are in the situation involving israel . israel and palestine. >> so supporters of israel would say they are defending themselves against the worst atrocity against jews since the holocaust. they're saying that they need to rid palestine of hamas, and actually they use more effort than any other war machine in the to world make sure that civilian casualties are as low as possible. and actually, the civilians to death ratio is something like 2 to 1. what would you say to that? >> i mean, certainly war crimes committed by any party a committed by any party to a conflict should be prosecuted. people should held people should be held accountable. the purpose of accountable. are the purpose of international criminal justice is to are one. we hope to prevent war crimes that militaries would follow the rules of international humanitarian law, the law of

armed , but at the same armed conflict, but at the same time, whilst there certainly is a right to self—defence, that right is very limited and there are restrictions on that. you have proportionality or you have to mitigate our civilian harm. there are prohibitions on targeting certain things. there are requirements. israel as an occupying power does have to provide humanitarian aid. there are legal requirements that they have are and i think at this point , as we have are and i think at this point, as we do look at now, have are and i think at this point , as we do look at now, how point, as we do look at now, how many months out we are, the very high number of civilian casualties, the large number of people who have been forcibly displaced that even those displaced are that even those who were very supportive of israel in the first days after october 7th have now stepped back and said, no, they have gone too far , and that there gone too far, and that there should be restraint, there should be restraint, there should be restraint, there should be a ceasefire you have a very dire humanitarian situation, and when you see even the icj issuing the orders, it is and that they're essentially not complied with, i think you do have to question, is israel really complying with their

obugafions really complying with their obligations ? obligations? >> benjamin netanyahu will know all though, and so why all of this, though, and so why is he proceeding to continue to wish to raise palestine to the ground without any sort of concern about the fact that he might end up in the criminal court ? court? >> if anyone could get into netanyahu's mind, it would be incredible, i think and we've seen this time and time again, as you look at conflicts over the decades, and that sadly, conflicts are getting worse. civilian casualties. it's no longer two armies going to the battlefield and just seeing military casualties, which are tragic, but still it's expected. but now that modern warfare has become something so in our cities, so involving civilians, i and i think you see, whether it was milosevic in the former yugoslavia or the hutus in rwanda , leaders are, when they rwanda, leaders are, when they get so entrenched in conflict , i get so entrenched in conflict, i think they lose sight. they find themselves infallible or impunity is rampant. they don't really see that they're ever

going to be held accountable for their offences. >> so in israel's defence, as i said, october the 7th, we've all seen the videos and the pictures and read the articles and the stories . that was the worst stories. that was the worst atrocity since the holocaust. and hamas have said they will do it again and again and again until israel is wiped off the map. and hamas aren't just some ragtag guys running around with ak they're by ak 47. they're funded by iran. they millions of dollars they have millions of dollars behind them. and on the topic of aid as well, hamas are taking all the aid. that's what israel is saying. aid getting into is saying. aid is getting into palestine saying palestine and they're saying hamas it down to the hamas are taking it down to the tunnels. think tunnels. so do you not think netanyahu, playing devil's advocate, we're advocate, is thinking we're going to get wiped off the map here we do something? here if we don't do something? so maybe should push the so maybe we should push the boundanes so maybe we should push the boundaries terms of, you boundaries in terms of, you know, the war machine, the civilian casualties to ensure the future of our nation. is that not going to be a defence if it ever does get to the icj? >> not at all. i one of the most important things in international law is that two wrongs do not make a right. and

even if other side is even if the other side is violating the law of armed conflict, does give conflict, that does not give the right party to do right to the other party to do so, know, in terms of the so, you know, in terms of the allegations, i think a of allegations, i think a lot of the the conclusions the news and the conclusions coming israel, i mean, coming out of israel, i mean, we've stories that have we've seen stories that have been just blatantly disproved, we've seen stories that have beers01st blatantly disproved, we've seen stories that have beeiso andlatantly disproved, we've seen stories that have beeiso and weintly disproved, we've seen stories that have beeiso and we knowiisproved, we've seen stories that have beeiso and we know that ved, we've seen stories that have beeiso and we know that aid, we've seen stories that have beeiso and we know that aid is and so and we know that aid is not going in. we know that there are restrictions means. and so i think that, if netanyahu truly wants to take this approach, he's violating international law. >> so i think what you're saying is then sunak sooner rather than later needs to come out and say, we are going to stop selling arms to israel. we want no part of this in order also to protect his government . his government. >> i think so, and i think that would be you see governments already doing that, and i think at the end of the day, you have to just look at basic moral decency that you have tens of thousands of civilians being killed, children being orphaned. i this is a humanitarian

i mean, this is a humanitarian catastrophe that's going to take years to recover . and, you know, years to recover. and, you know, this is something that's been it's an issue that's been going on for many decades. it did not start on october 7th, or the world failed to push for a political solution . and now we political solution. and now we are where we're at. and so i do think governments like the uk do need up. and i think need to step up. and i think when look at the response in when you look at the response in the investigation at the the iraq investigation at the icc, where they found that with the uk military was doing that they done investigations, they had done investigations, they were doing things. i think people the people started to look at the uk military as an example. and i think the uk is doing think given what the uk is doing in terms of russian war crimes, if they want to maintain their moral ground and they want moral high ground and they want to the rule of law and to uphold the rule of law and enforce this, they do need to set that example and they do need to say, we want a peaceful world. want this to continue. >> it's really interesting. thank you so sarah thank you so much, sarah elizabeth dill there, criminal law expert. thanks, sarah. that was really interesting. thank you . you. >> next it's going to >> right up next it's going to be . be windy. >> there's gear change. >> there's a gear change. >> there's a gear change. >> mean, the weather.

>> and, i mean, the weather. >> and, i mean, the weather. >> that's right. the met office has called for an amber weather alert . should we take it alert. should we take it seriously, or is it just another one those woke warnings one of those woke warnings designed you're designed to terrify you? you're with on

gb news. >> still in the studio with us now is international criminal law expert sarah elizabeth dill. thank you for staying with us. you love so much by the viewers. we've got you for five more minutes. about minutes. let's talk about something different. going something different. we're going to mercer, to talk about johnny mercer, who's that who's challenging the order that forces who's challenging the order that forname. sorry. whistleblowing to name. sorry. whistleblowing soldiers. what's going on there? >> so the inquiry had requested that he provide the names of the individuals who told him that they had either first hand knowledge or other personal knowledge or other personal knowledge of murders and other war crimes are allegedly committed in afghanistan whilst the uk military was. there are he? what's interesting about

this is he was public about talking about the fact that he had information about this, yet now when he's been asked to disclose the names, he has declined so. and and he declined to do so. and and he says, you know, these were given to me in confidence. and so the problem right now is that we do not know exactly what were the conditions information conditions that this information was him. there was given to him. was there an expectation as lawyers or as journalists? you know, you're journalists? you know, if you're going a source, you going to protect a source, you tell limits of it. you tell them the limits of it. you let them know. we don't know what to these what was explained to these individuals. if it explained individuals. if it was explained that a potential that there would be a potential for released, but for this to be released, but i think stunning in is think what's stunning in this is whilst certainly whilst i certainly respect someone's commitment to their morals their obligations, morals and their obligations, they do have to pay the penalty for that. and i think he also needs to step back and consider his role as a government officer. and these were uk officer. and if these were uk military soldiers who had been murdered, would he want an inquiry and the information to be released? would he want that information come forward? i information to come forward? i don't think legally has a leg don't think legally he has a leg to stand on, but he's also a veteran, he? veteran, isn't he? >> he's he's a military man,

>> he's a he's a military man, primarily. i if you asked primarily. i think if you asked johnny he'd i'm johnny mercer, he'd say, i'm a military then military man, then i'm a politician. yeah. >> i did three tours of afghanistan. yes. didn't he? and that camaraderie with his colleagues will be intense. and he he's prepared to go to he said he's prepared to go to prison not to name his sources. and that could happen. and that's that could happen. >> certainly, know. >> and i certainly, you know. yes it's the potential and i do understand the importance of the camaraderie. but at the same time, if war crimes were committed and if you truly cares about the military and what it stands for are at the same time, the inquiry has said they will keep confidential. i keep things confidential. i think had come out think if he had not come out publicly talked about this, publicly and talked about this, it easier it would have been much easier to names and to then disclose the names and let which has let the inquiry, which has already made an order saying they keep things they will keep things confidential. will ensure confidential. they will ensure anonymity. think he's kind of anonymity. i think he's kind of in a he's his foot in in a way, he's put his foot in it. that he's come out it. now that he's come out publicly this, are and publicly on this, are and i think what they should do is really sit down with the soldiers who have the information and really an information and really make an effort convince them. so that effort to convince them. so that the can get peace so effort to convince them. so that the there can get peace so effort to convince them. so that the there canin get peace so effort to convince them. so that the there can be jet peace so that there can be accountability. if there was wrongdoing. >> okay. thank you. thanks,

sara. you a little sara. we kept you a little longer we wanted touch longer there. we wanted to touch upon look out. there's upon that. now look out. there's a she sounds a storm coming. she sounds absolutely what's absolutely terrifying. what's her name? ben. >> kathleen. >> kathleen. doesn't >> kathleen. doesn't sound terrifying, but you might not want to go for a swim down in cornwall this weekend. gusts of up to 70 miles an hour are set to hit the west coast. >> yeah, do really need to hit the west coast. >> amber do really need to hit the west coast. >> amber weather really need to hit the west coast. >> amber weather warningneed to hit the west coast. >> amber weather warning over an amber weather warning over this? are nation of, this? or are we as a nation of, well, wokeist wimps ? well, wokeist wimps? >> well, let's bring in john hammond, director at weather trending, who is not a woki wimp, my old friend john, whenever we come on the telly and talk about this, we end up going viral in some way or another. we have fun, don't we? yes john. okay. how scary yes we do, john. okay. how scary is kathleen, not particularly. and it's not amber. it's yellow, which is at the bottom of the scale of weather warnings. red amber, yellow. so we're not talking about armageddon here, but we are talking about some, some useful advice for people who are thinking of, for example, of crossing the irish sea. a lot of families, of course, on the easter holidays

will be ferry disruptions . will be some ferry disruptions. no doubt there'll be some bridge closures, of closures, that sort of thing. the tree down, but on a the odd tree down, but on a scale of 1 to 10, this particular storm, i'll give it a four or a five. so it looks very gusty where you are. >> john. i'm a bit scared for you with that tree in the background, you'll be pleased to know, this normal? is this know, is this normal? is this normal april? expect normal for april? we expect showers, of course, in april, but not necessarily. strong winds . winds. >> no. it's unusual to get a named storm, bev in april. named storm, bevin april. there's only been one previously, but it's culmination of a very stormy winter. i think this is the 11th named storm this is the 11th named storm this winter. and as we all know, not just wind. it's the relentless rain , of course, relentless rain, of course, which has been affecting us for months and months and months . months and months and months. it's been one of the wettest 6 to 9 months on record . and to be to 9 months on record. and to be honest, it, there's no sign what we really want, don't we? is a prolonged spell of dry fine weather to dry things out to help the farmers and for us to, get out and enjoy, what used to

be called spring. but there's no real sign of the weather settling now in the near future. so although kathleen will whistle through and it won't hang around, beyond that, it's going to be further spells of wet and windy weather into next week . week. >> so is this as a result of man made climate change and how many tax dollars will it take to bnng tax dollars will it take to bring the sun back ? bring the sun back? >> don't get me down that track. that's better . she she asked me that's better. she she asked me the loading question. listen, i'm just a humble weather man. just a humble weather man. is it down to, climate change, man made climate change, global global warming. wow. what is it this year? >> i forgot his global boiling. global warming. climate change. >> global global >> global boiling. global warming, it's a factor. the fact is, climate is getting more is, the climate is getting more extreme, to be honest. and so we've had a remarkably mild winter yet again . i can't winter yet again. i can't remember the last time we had a cold month. all months are now warmer than they used to be. and you know what, bluebells are up

in the woods behind me. we didn't used bluebells up didn't used to have bluebells up until spring has arrived until may, so spring has arrived up month earlier than it up to a month earlier than it used to. something's going on, guys. >> okay, well, lovely to see you, john, as always , john you, john, as always, john hammond there, our meteorologist, it looks a bit blustery where he was, wasn't it? a lot of people, of course, are still on. the kids are on school holidays. they're away at this time of the year. it's rubbish get weather rubbish when you get weather like that. >> w- >> i was looking at i do it every week, looking holidays, every week, looking at holidays, just some sun somewhere. >> oh idea sticking >> oh good idea right? sticking with the weather, annie shuttleworth latest shuttleworth has the latest ford cup for this is cup forecast for you. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. we're midday. don't we're here until midday. don't go anywhere. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> hello there. good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update . much of the rain weather update. much of the rain will clear to showers through the rest day. we'll start the rest of the day. we'll start to bit warmer, but to feel a little bit warmer, but storm arrive storm kathleen will arrive through so it's going through the night, so it's going to warm but windy to be a warm but very windy weekend. storm kathleen is waiting the wings. area waiting in the wings. this area of pressure starting of low pressure slowly starting to fill, and that will start to ease much of the we've seen ease much of the rain we've seen through morning. so across through this morning. so across many england through this morning. so across manwales, england through this morning. so across manwales, we'll england through this morning. so across manwales, we'll see england through this morning. so across manwales, we'll see a england through this morning. so across manwales, we'll see a mileand through this morning. so across manwales, we'll see a mix of�*ld and wales, we'll see a mix of sunshine across sunshine and showers across northern ireland and western scotland. still see scotland. they will still see some heavy bursts of rain some quite heavy bursts of rain through rest the day. through the rest of the day. it's quite cold across it's still quite cold across the far scotland, but far north of scotland, but further although we've further south, although we've got southerly got quite a brisk southerly wind, a warm direction. we wind, it is a warm direction. we could highs of 18 19 could see highs of 18 or 19 degrees in the southeast. that's where the best of the sunshine will be this evening. the next band of rain arrive into band of rain will arrive into parts the southwest, and that parts of the southwest, and that will up northwards through parts of the southwest, and that willnight,up northwards through parts of the southwest, and that willnight, and orthwards through parts of the southwest, and that willnight, and itthwards through parts of the southwest, and that willnight, and it willrds through parts of the southwest, and that willnight, and it will bringrough the night, and it will bring with it these very strong winds. this is storm to the this is storm kathleen to the west of the uk, some very strong gusts. the winds will be particularly strong through the daytime it will

daytime on saturday, but it will mean at a very mild start mean we are at a very mild start on saturday morning. so lows of only 12 or 13 degrees in some places. the rain will push northwards, mainly affecting northwards, mainly affecting north western areas through the day . actually across the east it day. actually across the east it should largely dry, but should stay largely dry, but there warnings in force there are wind warnings in force for northern ireland and many west coasts scotland , wales west coasts of scotland, wales and see of and england will see gusts of 60, possibly 70mph here. so there could be some travel disruption . but in any of the disruption. but in any of the sheltered sunshine in the east, we could see highs of degrees we could see highs of 22 degrees by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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. tory mp william wragg leaked colleagues numbers a man that colleagues numbers to a man that he met on a dating app last yeah he met on a dating app last year. the hazel grove mp spoke to gb news about the mental health challenges of his job, where the expectation, of course, is that you will remain impermeable , be strong and set impermeable, be strong and set an example. >> i wouldn't necessarily say that politics is conducive to having, your mind in a happy sense of equilibrium all of the time, though . time, though. >> parliament calls in security experts look at the nature of his messages sent to william wragg, but he hangs on to the whip and protest groups unite just stop oil and pro—palestine action took a look set rather to join forces. >> we're going to have the latest on this gb news exclusive. it's been dubbed an unholy alliance between militant gaza protesters and far left environmentalists. >> i'll reveal a new group that has attracted the concerns of

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news. com is the email. get in touch with us this morning. first though, the very latest news ray addison. news headlines with ray addison. >> thanks, guys. 11:02. our top stories this hour a sixteen scandal rocking westminster has been described as a cause for concern by the chancellor . concern by the chancellor. that's after conservative mp william wragg admitted his involvement, telling the times that he'd sent intimate pictures of himself to someone on a gay dating app and was then manipulated into handing over the personal phone numbers of colleagues. jeremy hunt says mps and members of the public need to be careful about their cyber security. >> well, i think the events of the last few days have been a great cause for concern, the mp involved has given a courageous and fulsome apology, but the lesson for here all mps is that

they need to be very careful about cyber security. and indeed, it's the lesson for members of the public as well, because this is something that we are all having to face in our daily lives . daily lives. >> millions of people will receive a boost in take home pay from tomorrow following a cut to employee national insurance from the start of the new tax year, class one contributions will be reduced from 10 to 8. meanwhile, a further 2 million self—employed people will see their class four national insurance reduced from 8 to 6. the government says around 29 million workers will benefit from these changes . labour's from these changes. labour's deputy national coordinator, ellie reeves, told gb news the cuts are still not enough . cuts are still not enough. >> the tax burden is at a 70 year high despite the changes to national insurance and families are typically £870 worse off. that's because of fiscal drag

people being dragged into higher tax brackets, but also people also be facing increases to their council tax bills. this month . so despite what the month. so despite what the government says, people are worse off under after 14 years of conservative government the new powers to prevent, disrupt nafive new powers to prevent, disrupt native protests come into force today, with offenders facing up today, with offenders facing up to six months in prison or an unlimited fine for serious disruption. >> prevention orders can now be used to stop repeat offenders from joining protest groups in a particular area at particular times, home secretary james cleverly says the powers target those who are dedicated to wreaking havoc. however, civil liberties organisation liberty has described it as a shameless attempt to prevent people from being able to make their voices heard . parts of the country have heard. parts of the country have no train services today due to fresh strike by drivers . aslef

fresh strike by drivers. aslef union members have walked out and mounted picket lines in their long running dispute over pay- their long running dispute over pay. five train operators are involved, including avanti, crosscountry and west midlands railway. they say they're not running any services. a ban on overtime at 16 companies is also continuing into tomorrow . israel continuing into tomorrow. israel has announced that it's opening new routes for humanitarian aid deliveries into gaza after warnings from us president biden. the erez crossing is being opened for the first time since the hamas terror attacks in october. officials also say they're planning to increase the amount of aid from jordan, moving through the kerem shalom crossing. in a call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, president biden said that future us support for the country depends on steps taken to protect civilians and aid workers . well, staying with that workers. well, staying with that topic and fast food chain mcdonald's is taking back ownership of its restaurants in

israel. the firm is buying back its 30 year old franchise of over 225 outlets from al henri paul limited , which employs more paul limited, which employs more than 5000 people. the american company has been subject to boycotts and protests since alan bates began donating free meals to israel's military shortly after the hamas attacks. mcdonald's will own the restaurants and retain the employees as part of the deal. well, back here, a legal entitlement to unpaid leave for carers has been hailed as a huge step forward from tomorrow. employees who are also carers can take up to a week of unpaid leave every 12 months. that will apply leave every 12 months. that will apply to more than 2 million workers in england, wales and scotland . charity carers uk said scotland. charity carers uk said around 600 people a day give up work so that they can care , due work so that they can care, due to a lack of flexibility and support. the king has reportedly told aides to ramp up plans for a two week state visit down

undeh a two week state visit down under. king charles is said to be over the moon and raring to go after his cancer treatment started positively. the 75 year old is said to be feeling optimistic after he was able to meet with the public on easter sunday. he's reportedly told aides that he is supercharging plans to also visit new zealand and samoa . for the latest and samoa. for the latest stories, why not sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen right now, or go to gbnews.com/alerts. now back to and . bev. back to ben and. bev. >> welcome back, ben and bev. britain's newsroom is 1107. lots of emails flying in bev. do the honours. >> the sixteen scandal has got you quite, quite wound up. jane says. what no one has mentioned is fact that these people is the fact that these people are supposed be work are supposed to be at work representing it seems to me representing us. it seems to me that westminster has become a complete den iniquity, where complete den of iniquity, where sex of the agenda and sex is top of the agenda and something rest of us can't

something the rest of us can't say that word. the country is in a mess, and yet these servants are a dating agency. am so are on a dating agency. i am so sick them . and my own mother sick of them. and my own mother has touch on this, who has been in touch on this, who is a bit mary whitehouse. is a bit of a mary whitehouse. you i it from, you wonder where i get it from, she says. mp is such an she says. this mp is such an idiot. can you feel sorry idiot. how can you feel sorry for him? telling me off for him? she's telling me off personally. he went from personally. there he went from bad certainly he's not bad to worse. certainly he's not got or common sense. got brains or common sense. one person what he felt person said he did what he felt was appropriate . oh no. got was appropriate. oh no. has got to go hasn't got any to go today. he hasn't got any common sense. thank you mother. >> and just on to see what you get from. get it from. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> apple fall far from >> apple doesn't fall far from the quite on gender the tree. quite on gender conformity. that story conformity. so that story about some primary even some primary schools even letting kids go by different pronouns and not telling their parents, sharon from portsmouth says both my nephews at age five went around wearing high heels and carrying handbags full of dinky cars. both are still very much men, i i did it my much men, i said. i did it my sister used to do it to me as well. >> almost all boys go through that stage dress up. it that stage of dress up. it doesn't they want to a doesn't mean they want to be a girl, mark said. i worked

safeguarding children with protected children. the number one rule was no secrets ever, which protects the children and the adults. it's a really good point, mark and tim says, why should every unhappy child be taken to the doctor? it's utter rubbish. children want attention. the recent chat attention. all the recent chat about issue is something about this issue is something they can bring use as a they can bring up and use as a form of attention seeking. doctors haven't got time to deal with are just unhappy, with those who are just unhappy, really interesting. it gets me really interesting. it gets me really worried for the future of my kids because in this revelation today about the schools, even church of england schools, even church of england schools are doing it, and you would have thought that would be the one place where they'd kind would have thought that would be th> yeah. >> yeah. >> and this national >> and on this national insurance today, of insurance issue today, of course, you're all course, i'm sure you're all extremely your extremely excited to have your national cut, which national insurance cut, which goes it 10% to 8% goes from was it 10% to 8% something? said. something? rosemary said. i think is right in think the chancellor is right in lowering national insurance. lowering the national insurance. it taxpaying it is an incentive for taxpaying workers. there's lot of people workers. there's a lot of people are black, they are working in black, so they don't gain and they shouldn't,

and said , what tax cuts? and david said, what tax cuts? ask 900,000 pensioners how they feel. >> okey dokey. let's move on to our top story today. just to recap, conservative conservative mp william wragg has admitted to handing out personal phone numbers of colleagues to a man he met on a dating app. it's being dubbed the honey trap sex scandal. >> that's right. so the hazel grove mp said that he provided the details after sending intimate pictures of himself to the person that he'd met online, so he thought he was going to be blackmailed. well, i guess it was a form of blackmail. so he then gave out other people's phone numbers to this person. >> that'll fix it , >> that'll fix it, leicestershire police are investigating this as a cyber attack . and last year, actually, attack. and last year, actually, william spoke gloria william wragg spoke to gloria del channel gb del piero on this channel on gb news. to what he said. >> do you think the political environment, of our environment, the nature of our politics, does it exacerbate or amplify your mental health all life in a different occupations have have their challenges which

can, you know, there's nothing unique to politicians? >> i think there's something, quite unique to a certain amount of pressurised environment in the political world, but that can be another public facing roles. and roles of leadership as well, where the expectation, of course , is that you will of course, is that you will remain impermeably strong and set an example to others. so i think you will find that in different walks of life, i wouldn't necessarily say that politics is conducive to having, your mind in a happy sense of equilibrium all of the time, though. >> well, it's definitely not today. we're joined now by our political editor, christopher hope. morning. chris have hope. good morning. chris have we heard any more reactions from other mps either condemning what william wragg did or also defending him . defending him. >> no. not yet. morning. bev and morning, ben. i mean, we are seeing, i think, a tonal change in how people are talking about this. they recognise that

william wragg has given out a rather heartfelt statement overnight to the times . rather heartfelt statement overnight to the times. he said he's hurt people by being weak. i scared, i mortified, i'm i was scared, i mortified, i'm so sorry for my weakness has caused other people hurt. i think. from jeremy hunt's clip we in the news bulletin we heard in the news bulletin there, he said it was a courageous and fulsome apology. people recognise william wragg has with mental has had issues with mental health issues in the past, and we all know how isolating i think it can be. if you get messages on the phone you don't know where to turn, you panic, you do something you wish you hadnt you do something you wish you hadn't done and he's been caught out and has apologised full. hadn't done and he's been caught othinki has apologised full. hadn't done and he's been caught othinki has afdo»gised full. hadn't done and he's been caught othinki has afdo recogniseull. i think people do recognise that, he needs lot of that, that he needs a lot of sympathy moment, i've that, that he needs a lot of sympathy moment , i've got sympathy at the moment, i've got in my hands here a letter sent. from the commons speaker, lindsay hoyle, to , mps. and it's lindsay hoyle, to, mps. and it's quite interesting what they're saying in here. we know that the police are looking at issue police are looking at this issue in leicestershire. they're saying the saying here that the parliamentary security department working closely parliamentary security depapartners working closely parliamentary security depapartners in orking closely parliamentary security depapartners in government.( parliamentary security depapartners in government. i with partners in government. i know security experts in

know that is security experts in government to analyse and understand the nature of these messages and any related security risk, and they won't speculate further as to what has happened here. but the suggestion could be, and it's certainly open to, to speculation that this could be a foreign government trying to pick out mps who could be suspect and liable to be, to be approached and who could give away information about other mps. so they're not saying that. they're not. they're saying we can't speculate about the origin at this stage to mps and members of staff in parliament, but clearly they're taking it very seriously. it's a police issue, of course, that's been looked at as a cyber attack, but it may go as a cyber attack, but it may go a bit deeper than that according to this letter. >> all thank you >> okay. all right. thank you chris. rishi sunak needs >> okay. all right. thank you chri�*like rishi sunak needs >> okay. all right. thank you chri�*like a rishi sunak needs >> okay. all right. thank you chri�*like a hole1i sunak needs >> okay. all right. thank you chri�*like a hole insunak needs >> okay. all right. thank you chri�*like a hole in theik needs >> okay. all right. thank you chri�*like a hole in the headeds this like a hole in the head right doesn't an right now doesn't he. an election to election year something else to deal labour have deal with right. labour have slammed tories for their slammed the tories for their so—called tax con. >> the government have >> yeah. the government have said national said that the latest national insurance cuts will save working people year. people an extra £450 a year. >> speaking in blackpool , >> but speaking in blackpool, shadow chancellor rachel reeves

gave reaction earlier . gave us her reaction earlier. >> if you listen to the prime minister and the chancellor and we heard it in the budget last month, the taxes are coming down, the economy has turned a corner that their plan is working well. all that goes to show is how out of touch they are with the reality faced by ordinary british people. things might look all right from 10,000ft up in rishi sunaks helicopter. but down here on planet earth and here in blackpool south, people are still being squeezed by the conservatives. cost of living crisis. the truth is they have already failed . already failed. >> they are looking so confident now, aren't they? >> she talks about right here on planet earth. i don't think any politicians or party are on planet earth. i think very few of them know what's going on with people the with normal people on the streets, households. they're streets, in households. they're come on. come on. >> come on. >> very clever, though, isn't it, planet earth? i mean, i don't that at the don't like that sniping at the helicopter because it just helicopter thing because it just looks a bit like the politics of

envy, it does land with envy, but it does land with people, no pun intended. it does land with the audience to land with the audience there to say he's in his helicopter looking down on you. it's a very, strong . yeah. very, very strong. yeah. >> don't think people care. very, very strong. yeah. >> whyi't think people care. very, very strong. yeah. >> why shouldn'teople care. very, very strong. yeah. >> why shouldn't hele care. very, very strong. yeah. >> why shouldn't he be care. very, very strong. yeah. >> why shouldn't he be metaphor? >> why shouldn't he be metaphor? >> why shouldn't he be rich? i think most normal thinking people think that they look at a rich they think, that's rich person. they think, that's great. you. going rich person. they think, that's gr

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gb news. 1119. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news. with bev turner and ben leo this morning. and we're joined in the studio by broadcaster amy nicol turner. greatest done, amy, greatest name. well done, amy, for that on the end. and for adding that on the end. and political commentator webb political commentator emma webb in . right. shall we in the studio. right. shall we talk willie my talk about willie wragg? my patience for him has deteriorated as the morning has gone actually i'm sure if gone on. actually i'm sure if you're just joining us, we'll just recap the story. william wragg met someone on a dating app. wragg met someone on a dating app- 9°t wragg met someone on a dating app. got some compromising app. they got some compromising material him , images some material on him, images of some kind. said, you kind. then they said, if you don't the numbers of don't give us the numbers of other mps and other political

workers, we're do workers, we're going to do something these images. workers, we're going to do somenowg these images. workers, we're going to do somenow being these images. workers, we're going to do somenow being very; images. workers, we're going to do somenow being very contrite.. he's now being very contrite. he's now being very contrite. he's come and done an he's come out and done an interview the saying, interview with the times saying, yes, it was me that originally leaked this. everyone was panicking it was the panicking that it was the russians trying to overthrow the british government. amy you british government. amy do you feel for feel sorry for him? >> you know what i do feel >> do you know what i do feel sorry for? >> why that not surprise me? >> i think that what this >> i think that what is this compromising material? and when >> i think that what is this cwatched sing material? and when >> i think that what is this cwatched sing interviews and when >> i think that what is this cwatched sing interviews with when i watched the interviews with him, it's probably him, i feel like it's probably something quite innocent. and he's out. it would he's just freaked out. it would just , won't it? just be pictures, won't it? yeah. picture though? yeah. a picture of what, though? well, presumably that's his first. it must be first. i thought it must be something horrendous. then i thought and thought about it a bit more and watching face, i watching his little face, i thought probably just thought it's probably just a little nipple, isn't it? >> it won't be a nipple, >> and no, it won't be a nipple, amy. it's got to be something that sufficiently that is sufficiently incriminating that he was terrified that it would be something considers something that he considers sufficiently something that he considers suf'that'sy mean. so that's >> that's what i mean. so that's what curious. do >> that's what i mean. so that's wha remember curious. do >> that's what i mean. so that's wha remember whenyus. do >> that's what i mean. so that's wha remember when mps do >> that's what i mean. so that's wha remember when mps usedy >> that's what i mean. so that's wha remember when mps used to you remember when mps used to resign? do you remember those days? >> vaguely in the long distant past? how about emma? past? how about you, emma? >> know, do feel sorry for >> you know, i do feel sorry for him. i want caveat him. however, i want to caveat this . so firstly, it should be this. so firstly, it should be common sense that anybody in

pubuc common sense that anybody in public life doesn't do anything. so absolutely stupid. there's a really dumb thing to do to send compromising photos of yourself to anyone. never mind to somebody that you've never met on a dating app, somebody that you've never met on a dating app , because then on a dating app, because then you're making yourself vulnerable to this kind of blackmail. people in public life shouldn't need to told that shouldn't need to be told that this is a is a really silly thing for them to do. i do feel bad for because know bad for him because i know that you tell that he he you can. you can tell that he he feels guilty about it. he knows that what he's done is wrong. he knows that he was weak. he probably should have gone immediately to the police and said, blackmailed said, i'm being blackmailed and weak he uses. weak is the word he uses. >> not being so. >> so we're not being so. >> so we're not being so. >> knows. he knows, and >> he knows. he knows, and everybody what everybody else knows that what he's wrong , it everybody else knows that what he's wrong, it has he's done is wrong, it has exposed a weakness , in our exposed a weakness, in our democracy, it's exposed a weakness in public life that mps are because mps are people, and they do have to continue living their lives while they are in office, that they are vulnerable

to being exploited, abused , to being exploited, abused, blackmailed and so on in certain types of ways. and there needs to be some kind if it's if it's if for some unknown reason, it isn't obvious to people that they shouldn't do this kind of thing and make themselves more vulnerable than they already are, or that need to be, are, or that they need to be, there needs to some kind of there needs to be some kind of comprehensive, procedure , comprehensive, procedure, something, some policy, something, some policy, something to wrap around mps to make it very clear to them how they can protect themselves while they're in office, because it's not just about them and their reputation, it's also about the integrity our about the integrity of our democracy and the safety of the country. >> protect them from their own idiocy , is what you're saying, idiocy, is what you're saying, from utter stupidity from their own utter stupidity to protect them from. >> i mean, all mps are human beings. they are going to continue living their lives while they're in public office. human beings, know, human beings, as you know, i believe are fallen and inherently sinful. they will make mistakes. they will do things wrong. they are they are

vulnerable because they are exposed. people and public life. and they need to take every measure that they can in order to behave with integrity and to protect themselves from this kind of blackmail. i mean, and they should know better. and anybody who's in public life should know better. >> i don't care what he sends to this person. a way, he's this person. in a way, he's making vulnerable, making himself vulnerable, but then people's then handing over other people's mobile phone numbers so that they then be scammed. they could then be scammed. that's unforgivable they could then be scammed. thayeah, unforgivable they could then be scammed. thayeah, he 1forgivable they could then be scammed. thayeah, he .orgivable they could then be scammed. thayeah, he . itgivable they could then be scammed. thayeah, he . it justyle they could then be scammed. thayeah, he . it just seems like >> yeah, he. it just seems like he was in an absolute state of panic . but i know parliament panic. but i know parliament have much provision have put on so much provision around cyber security, around blackmail, around all this stuff . but in that moment, he obviously felt trapping is the trick though, isn't it? >> it'sjust trick though, isn't it? >> it's just espionage . >> it's just espionage. >> it's just espionage. >> so i'd like to know william wragg's background because he doesn't seem very based on this one event. he doesn't seem very streetwise. and that streetwise. yeah. and that actually another wider debate actually is another wider debate about in about our politicians in general. i think they're so low

grade naive. most of them are for are career politicians. they've not worked in proper businesses . they all went to businesses. they all went to private schools and boarding schools. just makes schools. you know, it just makes me about the wider, you me wonder about the wider, you know, our lot mps. mean, know, our lot of mps. i mean, it's just incredibly annoying. >> the deputy leader of 1922 >> the deputy leader of the 1922 committee something >> the deputy leader of the 1922 com he :tee something >> the deputy leader of the 1922 comhe has. something >> the deputy leader of the 1922 comhe has. yeah, something >> the deputy leader of the 1922 comhe has. yeah, he something >> the deputy leader of the 1922 comhe has. yeah, he has.nething >> the deputy leader of the 1922 comhe has. yeah, he has. it'siing like he has. yeah, he has. it's just despair anyway. right? should we talk about lonely women and the fact that apparently the lonelier we are girls, the more cake we eat? what kind of damning research is this? >> i'm going to stay out of this one. by the way, i'll just let you guys. well all men were excluded from the study, so it might to eat might turn out that you to eat cake lonely. might turn out that you to eat cak sure, lonely. might turn out that you to eat caksure, but lonely. might turn out that you to eat caksure, but this lonely. might turn out that you to eat caksure, but this the sly. might turn out that you to eat caksure, but this the study >> sure, but this the study found that, loneliness has an impact on appetite, and people are more binge eat are more likely to binge eat naughty things like cake if they're lonely. but i mean, it could be a bit chicken or egg, because you mean lonely? >> begum. >> begum. >> i don't know , but. >> i don't know, but. >> i don't know, but. >> but i can sort of see the logic, amy, in that, you know,

if you're missing fun that you might get with a romantic partner. cakes can be fun. >> yeah, actually think this >> yeah, i actually think this is quite a serious story, because there is an absolute pandemic of loneliness. a quarter of people across the world say they feel lonely right now, and feeling lonely can have the same impact on your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. >> and then on top of that, you're eating shocking. >> like, i think that is so shocking to the point where perhaps we should have a minister for loneliness in this country . country. >> somebody did did moot that. do remember? do you remember? >> somebody there was >> there was somebody there was an wanted an mp actually that wanted thought an mp thought there should be an mp for loneliness. >> at moment they're >> yeah. at the moment they're doing load of research about doing a load of research about the loneliness our the faces of loneliness in our society. and some of the society. and it's some of the statistics have come out statistics that have come out are shocking, particularly are so shocking, particularly with generation, with the younger generation, like 18 to 24 year olds. i think a have they feel a third have said they feel lonely nearly the time. lonely nearly all the time. >> all very sad, very sad . >> it's all very sad, very sad. why? why, emma? why do we all feel lost lonely the wilderness? >> you about >> i disagree with you about there minister there being a minister for loneliness though i do think that there is there is a place

that there is a there is a place for government to recognise the problem is problem because the issue is atomisation. is that atomisation. the issue is that we have that there are certain and this is affected by actions that the government takes, whether is related to taxes whether it is related to taxes or to housing, that makes life harder for families that disincentivizes people from forming families. that is then the sort of sturdy bedrock of society and the first bulwark against it, against loneliness, against it, against loneliness, against atomisation. so we have an increasing number of people who are living in single person households, for example. so we need we need to be building a society and having voting in governments that have policies, not that they necessarily carry out the policies that we vote them to do. minister for loneliness, that do we that focuses on family because that will deal with i think we've i think we've over focused on the nuclear family. >> you must be joking. >> you must be joking. >> increasing the birth rates through the through the gutter, amy, in amy, because people live in these families quite these nuclear families quite often from their extended often away from their extended

family, have family, we don't have intergenerational living, like intergenerational living, like in somewhere like india, where they actually have low they actually have really low loneliness rates, and we generally focus on like not having vast social networks have intergenerational families, though if you don't have generations, because the birth rate is so low. >> and why is it nuclear? >> and why is it nuclear? >> haven't got any money. nobody can because i'll can afford to have, because i'll tell why. can afford to have, because i'll tellbecause why. can afford to have, because i'll tellbecause women, young women >> because women, young women especially, being sold lie especially, are being sold a lie that can go out and that you can you can go out and party you're 35. you party until you're 35. then you meet man and have kids. it meet a man and have kids. it doesn't work that way because all men gone. all the good men are gone. >> by point, 95% of women >> by that point, 95% of women men want to have kids. >> good men are gone by men want to have kids. >> point. good men are gone by that point. >> well, they are, because they get picky. it back to get so picky. it goes back to this debate about about politics. could date politics. could you date somebody political somebody of the same political persuasion? are so picky persuasion? people are so picky and such high and they have such high standards from social media that they wait and wait and wait. maybe focus on maybe they choose to focus on their they they their careers or they they choose partying and bottomless brunches. and by the time they're settle down, they're ready to settle down, they're ready to settle down, they meet anymore. they can't meet anymore. i'm sorry. fact. they can't meet anymore. i'm sor| people fact. they can't meet anymore. i'm sor|people hang on a minute. >> people hang on a minute. >> people hang on a minute. >> people hang on a minute. >> people now have to follow the path university, path of going to university, spending on

spending their 20s working on their then up their career. they then end up having very late, which having children very late, which means they have less means that they have less children. they feel children. maybe they feel disincentivized children. maybe they feel disincen'of zed children. maybe they feel disincen'of economic reasons. children. maybe they feel disincyisn't economic reasons. children. maybe they feel disincyisn't enough ic reasons. children. maybe they feel disincyisn't enough culturalis. there isn't enough cultural support for motherhood. it's looked down upon. >> there aren't enough regarded as fathers doing their bit with parenting to make being a parent and attractive option. but if we culturally , if we culturally, i culturally, if we culturally, i mean, we saw only this week mean, we saw that only this week though, was this scottish though, it was this scottish language though, it was this scottish lan being, derisive about using >> being, derisive about using the phrase mother and father. if we had a culture that was very pro fatherhood and very pro motherhood and very pro family and, and a country and a culture that was pro raising children, there's no reason why a nuclear family is not compatible with the idea of intergenerational families, not nuclear families used to live close to. and this is a part of the problem of people having to move to cities in order to get driven by finance . finance. >> i could i could listen to us talk about this, but we do want to talk about this other story. and the bank and this is about the bank advert, has upset

advert, which has upset builders, actually. and i can kind why. let's kind of understand why. let's have little look. have a little look. >> guess what? >> but guess what? a sledgehammer louder you -- you can do it. >> although you probably shouldn't do without a hard hat on.and shouldn't do without a hard hat on. and that's the point, amy, that we shouldn't be knocking through getting out through walls and getting out your angle grinder unless you know you're and know what you're doing. and that's here, we are that's why being here, we are upset this. i understand, that's why being here, we are uthink this. i understand, that's why being here, we are uthink the this. i understand, that's why being here, we are uthink the adverti understand, that's why being here, we are uthink the advert wasierstand, that's why being here, we are uthink the advert was written , i think the advert was written by because always by my mother because she always used growing used to say when we were growing up, some bloke with a up, look, if some bloke with a white can learn it, white van can learn to do it, then can learn to do it. then i can learn to do it. >> and so, yeah, so but you do need to learn how do it first. >> i can see what b and q are trying to achieve there. emma and particularly the there and particularly the fact there are in that kind are so many women in that kind of that. but i think of like that. but i think i think the builders have got point. >> well, hopefully that wasn't a

load bearing what's load bearing wall. what's that? i the man i think so the says the only man on panel, think, i mean, on the panel, i think, i mean, the builders and the builders have a vested interest, they have a vested interest, but they do point in the sense do have a point in the sense that they this the argument that they this was the argument they is that they were making, is that actually more actually costs you a lot more money. make terrible money. if you make a terrible mistake , and then you have to mistake, and then you have to get builders in as an get the builders in as an emergency problem . emergency to fix the problem. and it pointed out that they and it was pointed out that they they've seen rise in these they've seen a rise in these emergency, call outs since this advert has been up. apparently i don't know, that's that's what was reported, but i so on the one hand, i do think it's a shame that our generation are not as savvy in terms of diy. so we recently had a leak coming through our ceiling, and my dad and many of his friends , though and many of his friends, though admittedly not all, are so good at diy that they're basically as good as as a tradesman, so they can do almost anything . whereas can do almost anything. whereas someone in my generation, i think, probably would have to call out professional, except as a youtube video for everything

now. >> and that's probably what the builders about as builders are talking about as well. some breaking well. we've got some breaking news, consultants news, right now, consultants have a pay offer worth have accepted a pay offer worth up £20,000 year, ending up to £20,000 a year, ending a year dispute dispute with year long dispute dispute with the the british the government. the british medical just announced. >> yeah, hopefully there won't be again , let's be going on strike again, let's get more of that now with your news ray allison. news with ray allison. >> thank you both. 1131 our top stories this hour. the sixteen scandal rocking westminster has been described as extremely troubling by treasury minister gareth davies after conservative mp william wragg admitted his involvement, mp william wragg admitted his involvement , telling the times involvement, telling the times that he'd sent intimate pictures of himself to someone on a gay dating app and was then manipulated into handing over the personal phone numbers of colleagues . gareth davies says colleagues. gareth davies says mps who feel that they've been blackmailed should contact the police, not their party. millions of people will receive

a boost in take home pay from tomorrow following a cut to employee national insurance from the start of the new tax year , the start of the new tax year, class one contributions will be reduced from 10 to 8. meanwhile, a further 2 million self—employed people will see their class four national insurance reduced from 8 to 6. and as we've been hearing in that breaking news, consultants have accepted a pay offer from the government , have accepted a pay offer from the government, ending a year long dispute. the british medical association says that 83% of members in england voted in favour of the offer, which is an improvement on one rejected earlier on this year. consultants have taken strike action over the past 12 months, adding to the nhs waiting list which has also been affected by the junior doctors dispute, which remains unresolved . new which remains unresolved. new powers to prevent disruptive protests come into force today, with offenders facing up to six months in prison or an unlimited fine. serious disruption prevention orders can be used to

stop repeat offenders from joining protest groups in a particular area at particular times. home secretary james cleverly says these powers will target those who are dedicated to wreaking havoc . however, to wreaking havoc. however, civil liberties organisation liberty has described it as a shameless attempt to prevent people from being able to make their voices heard . well, parts their voices heard. well, parts of the country have no train services today due to a fresh strike by drivers . aslef union strike by drivers. aslef union members have walked out and mounted picket lines in their long running dispute over pay. five train operators, including avanti, crosscountry and west midlands railway, say they're not running any services at . all not running any services at. all well. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts . com sign up to gb news alerts. com slash alerts . slash alerts. >> for exclusive, limited edition and rare gold coins that

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that there are two phone numbers that there are two phone numbers that have been messaging people in westminster. british phone numbers. >> w- numbers. >> are british phone >> now these are british phone numbers, of course we don't numbers, but of course we don't know who's behind those phone numbers. person numbers. it could be one person behind one a behind these two numbers. one a male, one a female, or at least purporting named purporting to be so one named abby, charlie. abby abby, one named charlie. abby would message straight men in westminster and charlie would message predominantly gay men in westminster . and we have access westminster. and we have access to the messages that were sent in order to lure in these victims. >> that is a bombshell. >> that is a bombshell. >> yes, the messages are very cunous >> yes, the messages are very curious indeed. >> i wonder if. curious indeed. >> i wonder if . well, we'll see >> i wonder if. well, we'll see them and you can say whether you would have responded to them if you'd received them. >> how terrified are people in westminster about this at the moment, you think is moment, do you think it is obviously . could there be more obviously. could there be more people who pulled in by this? >> there will be over dozen at >> there will be over a dozen at least. that's according to politico that have been rounding up numbers on this. but westminster is currently on recess . people are away from the recess. people are away from the corridors of power . and yet the

corridors of power. and yet the gossip is almost exclusively on this, particularly perhaps because nothing else is going on in westminster right now. this is the sole topic of conversation amongst all of the people of import. >> well, it won't be your sole topic of conversation. what else? emily, do have this else? emily, do you have this afternoon? else? emily, do you have this afternoon brexit britain is the >> well, brexit britain is the second most powerful country in the according to a new the world, according to a new survey. yes, the second most powerful country in the world, second only to the united states . is this a brexit britain victory? we're going to have that debate. both sides represented there. are we still a great country ? clearly this a great country? clearly this poll thinks we are. and also civil servants could down their tools over what's going in tools over what's going on in gaza. tools over what's going on in gaza . they don't want to be a gaza. they don't want to be a part of the arms sales to israel. they could down their tools. even legal claims against the government. exactly. >> well, we were talking to an expert in this area on the show earlier. she was fantastic and she saying exactly that, she was saying exactly that, that if israel are guilty of war crimes, these people, our government could also be implicated.

>> so we will be discussing >> yes. so we will be discussing that and we'll be speaking to a legal to find out what legal expert to find out what exactly civil servants role is in this show. >> bombshell exclusive on gb news. afternoon news. good afternoon britain. from in 23 minutes, the from midday in 23 minutes, the text messages involved in that william wragg sixteen sixteen scandal do not miss it. well done. you too. >> but that means you've got 23 minutes more of us, so don't go anywhere.

>> 1040. you're with ben and bev on britain's newsroom. only on gb news. what's up next, beverly? well i want to see what everyone's been saying at home, you are very much involved in this sixteen scandal with william somebody william wragg and somebody has tweeted there, called tweeted in there, just called one anonymous . anonymous one viewer anonymous. anonymous texts make me very nervous on a story like this. are they story like this. why are they treating wragg as victim? treating wragg as the victim? he's paid for by the he's an mp paid for by the

public. sending intimate public. he's sending intimate pictures gay site pictures to a gay dating site whilst would get whilst at work. would get anybody it's not mps, anybody fired. it's not mps, it's but would get it's unbelievable. but would get anyone except not mps. anyone fired except not mps. unbelievable and also tony from luton morning. tony, this mp seems to be getting sympathy for not only the monumental stupidity of sending pictures to a random stranger. he didn't meet person. of course meet this person. of course we should that. say should say that. he does say didn't meet them, but then craven submitting craven cowardice of submitting to rather than taking to blackmail rather than taking responsibility for his actions. >> what makes it even >> that's what makes it even more amazing. absurd me that more amazing. absurd for me that you . i mean, i know about you. i mean, i don't know about you. i mean, i don't know about you at home, but i would you guys at home, but i would never send pictures some never send pictures to some random met and random i'd never met and i couldn't verify the number. no, let alone as an mp. and then , let alone as an mp. and then, you know, not forgetting the fact that passed them on. fact that you passed them on. >> i do receive few, to be >> i do receive a few, to be fair, from warwick said, i'm fair, rob from warwick said, i'm a police officer. give out a police officer. if i give out personal i get sacked. it personal data, i get sacked. it doesn't matter what the circumstances nurses circumstances are. if the nurses or were to access or doctors were proved to access kate they kate middleton's data, they would be sacked. mps are protected well above unacceptable standards. the rest of us have to follow. it's too easy to access the highest

powers in our country. that, rob easy to access the highest pcaers in our country. that, rob easy to access the highest pca beltingur country. that, rob easy to access the highest pca belting point.1try. that, rob easy to access the highest pca belting point. iry. that, rob easy to access the highest pca belting point. i love|at, rob easy to access the highest pca belting point. i love it:, rob is a belting point. i love it and loneliness. were talking and loneliness. we were talking about the fact that women who are lonely eat more cake, and alan surely you would need alan said surely you would need more minister for more than one minister for loneliness, else they would loneliness, or else they would be we were talking be lonely. we were talking about this, a minister this, that there is a minister for loneliness, or at least they used to be. it tracey used to be. it was. tracey crouch was the first one, about five years ago. and adrian said people five years ago. and adrian said peo they don't anything but they don't do anything about it. everything in this it. just like everything in this crumbling country. >> william wragg's >> just in william wragg's defence, we played that clip earlier of him speaking to gloria last year on gloria del piero last year on this channel. he was talking about problems. about mental health problems. obviously being mp a obviously being an mp is a stressful job. he's chair of various in various committees in parliament. so in his defence, you under pressure . you know, he's under pressure. he potentially was going through some mental health stuff. he panicked. i get it. he is now. >> and actually what i have to say , what i do quite like about say, what i do quite like about this story is the fact that he has and said it was me, has come out and said it was me, i was weak, i'm mortified . i'm i was weak, i'm mortified. i'm embarrassed. i'm really sorry. because that is exactly because actually that is exactly the way to to

the right way to respond to a situation like this. but you've got tuned for emily and got to stay tuned for emily and tom, because going to tom, because they are going to be you the details of be telling you the details of some these messages. some of these messages. >> they've got the content of >> so they've got the content of the going to the messages. they're going to show graphics of was show some graphics of what was said. said said. apparently, tom said there was two. was two, not the pictures. two. no, after 9:00, two no, no, maybe after 9:00, two two names involved. one was called was called charlie, who was messaging predominantly gay men. one messaging one was called abby messaging straight westminster mps and staffers. so from 12:00 bombshell episode of good afternoon britain. >> this morning, far left >> also this morning, far left groups are joining forces. but how worried should we be? charlie peters with an exclusive on that well. on that as well.

gb news. >> now, could a new activist group bring fresh disruption to our streets this spring? policing minister chris philp has warned philp. sorry. has warned, issued a warning after gb news revealed that a just stop oil youth movement has joined forces with controversial activist group palestine action

for a so—called resistance campaign. our reporter charlie peters uncovered the story and he's with us now. charlie, this we're going to go to a package. apologies. there we go. let's face it. this new environmental group, demand , is group, youth demand, is advertising upcoming marches and activities in collaboration with palestine action, the group started as just stop oil students and is asking volunteers if they are willing to risk arrest . to risk arrest. >> i met with chiara sarti, an organiser with the group. >> we're a new campaign that is demanding that the tories and the labour party commit to stopping all tory oil in the stopping all tory oil in the stop , selling weapons with stop, selling weapons with israel and buying weapons from israel. >> but you're also saying that they're driving another genocide by virtue of links with oil and gas. >> they're allowing this fossil fuel projects to go through . fuel projects to go through. when that carbon gets put in the air, it will result in the

deaths of millions of people. >> why do you think that the a pro palestine and environmental causes are linked ? causes are linked? >> if you look closely, it is the same broken political system thatis the same broken political system that is driving genocide on both fronts. the tories and labour are are driving this policies that are going to kill millions of people. the basically placed no value whatsoever on human life and we can clearly see this in gaza. i think this is this clearly goes to show just how little value they place on human life, how cheap palestinian blood is into those people. >> we've also seen some signage , >> we've also seen some signage, soledar protests and clashes, shutting down factories . and shutting down factories. and what do you make of that sort of behaviour, particularly shutting down factories associated with elbit system? >> we absolutely only need >> yeah, we absolutely only need to do everything with non—violent we can to sever the links. between the, the uk and,

and the israeli war machine. absolutely. >> and i include, especially factories blocking sewers. yeah. breaking windows. do you support all of that action? >> i think we need to emotionally connect with what is happening here, 12,000 kids have been brutally murdered. i think if that's not, if that's not going to get you on the streets, you basically have no values whatsoever . and it's 1000 whatsoever. and it's 1000 generations are going to spit on your grave . your grave. >> well, charlie peters joins us now. absolutely fascinating . now. absolutely fascinating. charlie, listening to chiara speak, there , just give us your speak, there, just give us your assessment of it. having spent more time with with the protesters. >> sure. well, they are saying that they want to stop a genocide from rosebank, the oil fields to the west bank in palestine. they're combining those two approaches, the environmentalist and the pro palestinian, which is part of a wider trend that we're noticing where eco activists are linking up with the activists who are

engaging with the crisis in the middle east. but this new group, youth demand, is particularly controversial because we've revealed that they have this link, this collaboration, upcoming next week with palestine action now youth demand is a spin off of just stop oil , which, while it is stop oil, which, while it is seriously disruptive, is generally non—violent . you know, generally non—violent. you know, they sit in the middle of the road, they block ambulances, for example, but palestine action has taken extreme measures has taken more extreme measures in activities. we've seen in their activities. we've seen them up factories, them smashing up factories, breaking windows, pouring paint. for at you for those watching at home, you can see now an activist. this was an incident in newcastle last year where they caused tens of thousands of pounds of damage through getting of through getting to a roof of a factory associated with the military technology company based in israel and so this link is part of what has been described by lord walney as an unholy alliance between militant gaza protesters and environmentalists because, he said, he told gb news that they use force to bully and coerce

the public. and so there is this fresh concern now that we might see those engaged in environmental causes becoming radicalised and latching on to this crisis in the middle east, and step up their disruptive tactics. >> so just stop oil. they could potentially go from sitting in the road being a nuisance to something more, i perhaps say violent in the future, something even more disruptive. >> they've not given any indication of what sort of action is coming up next week. they wouldn't tell me what they had planned, but they did say that expected to that hundreds were expected to gather london next that hundreds were expected to gathein london next that hundreds were expected to gathein collaborationion next that hundreds were expected to gathein collaboration with ext week in collaboration with palestine , and we heard palestine action, and we heard from chiara. they're repeatedly saying non—violent saying that it's a non—violent movement, that don't movement, that they don't believe can protest believe that they, can protest successfully using those means. but also in the same interview , but also in the same interview, when i asked her, do you support the actions such as smashing up factories and windows? she said, yes. so there does seem to be some confusion there. and what have the police said about this? well, we have heard from policing minister chris philp

saying that he's extremely concerned this and we'll be concerned by this and we'll be watching it closely. he also said that the police have now got new powers and those powers said that the police have now got ncomewers and those powers said that the police have now got ncome out; and those powers said that the police have now got ncome out; and tithis powers said that the police have now got ncome out; and tithis isywers said that the police have now got ncome out; and tithis is thes have come out today. this is the serious prevention serious disruption prevention orders, lead to the orders, which could lead to the prison sentences of up to six months and or an unlimited fine for those found to be involved in this level of disruption. that's being added on to the pubuc that's being added on to the public order act from last year. so that's coming into effect today. these new protests, this group that we've revealed today, this be the first big test this will be the first big test of that act when they gather in central london this weekend. >> find psychologically >> i find them psychologically so when you hear so fascinating when you hear people like that talk. because first of all, i'm thinking , first of all, i'm thinking, well, i find it amazing that they their job is to save they think their job is to save other people's lives. like if you genuinely want to save lives , 90 you genuinely want to save lives , go and train to be a doctor. like go and do something. and if you want to make strong you feel you want to make strong political get political lobbying points, get involved in politics. do something. smashing something. but just smashing things up is brainless. >> getting involved in politics. when put this point to them,

when you put this point to them, they say democracy has failed us and even use the line youth and they even use the line youth demand regularly. we can't demand very regularly. we can't vote way out this mess. vote our way out of this mess. pointing belief that pointing to their belief that actually democratic means aren't going to be successful, hence why they're this direct why they're taking this direct action. why we could see serious disruption of london. >> what they're saying is by saying democracy has us, saying democracy has failed us, they're essentially saying we know than the public. we know better than the public. we know better than the public. we know you are thick. >> we do need to read this over youth demand have told us in a statement, charlie. youth demand have told us in a state|butt, charlie. youth demand have told us in a state|butt, also charlie. youth demand have told us in a state|butt, also cihave. chris but it also should have no place corridors power . place in the corridors of power. and sadly that is not the case at moment. at the moment. >> and they go on say >> yeah, and they go on to say people of all political persuasions seeing that persuasions are seeing that politics is failing us and that our are more interested our leaders are more interested in themselves. in enriching themselves. people, young content to young people are not content to have criminals running the country. palestine action are yet to get back to us. >> well, that's quite something, isn't it? i just i genuinely think that you need to clamp

down on them much harder. and frankly, why don't they get a job? why do something? we all want to save the planet, i get it, but i they're all mostly middle class kids who have never had jobs. >> they're off mummy and >> they're living off mummy and daddy's and they daddy's trust fund, and they think ideas, as said, think their ideas, as i said, because they snub politics. saying democracy has failed us. they are they think their ideas are better public. better than the public. >> and it's you know, >> and it's just, you know, thanks having me on your thanks for having me on your show ben. leo show this morning, ben. leo i will covering neil will be covering for neil oliver. i'll be back on your screens on evening, but screens on sunday evening, but that from britain's that is it from britain's newsroom. now, here's emily newsroom. for now, here's emily and tom from midday. >> a gb news xl bully live. how did the honey trap messages in trap? multiple members of parliament. we will be revealing the content of messages sent by this honey trap account. >> yes, you won't want to miss that. but also, could civil servants go on strike over arms sales to israel? their trade union is considering taking legal action against the government. is that the right of

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>> well. >> well. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on friday, the 5th of april. >> tory sex trap. senior conservative mp william wragg has admitted his involvement in a honey trap sixteen scandal targeting several mps and a political journalist. gb news has exclusive access to messages sent by the honey trap account. >> civil servants walkout civil servants could refuse to work over fears they could be complicit in war crimes in gaza. if israel is found to have broken international law. their union is considering taking legal action against the government . government. >> brexit victory britain has been named the second most powerful country in the world by the global soft power index. has brexit britain actually exceeded expectations? >> well, this is a story that