that path. >> thousands of pro—palestinian demonstrators have gathered in the swedish city of malmo to protest against israel competing in the eurovision song contest . in the eurovision song contest. protesters dressed in palestinian colours packed the city's historic market square before a planned march through malmo. now, during a dress rehearsal last night, crowds could be heard booing israel's performance by eden golan. the second semi—final of the contest is underway. the foreign secretary says britain will not follow the us in withholding arms from israel. if a full scale invasion of rafah goes ahead. his comments come hours after president joe biden vowed to cut supplies if the southern garden city is attacked. lord cameron says there's a fundamental difference because uk sales are much smaller in scale and are policed by strict, strict rules. but added the government would not support an invasion of rafah unless it saw a plan to protect civilians. speaking of the national cyber security centre, the foreign secretary also urged fellow nato

members to increase their defence spending to 2.5% of gdp . defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. more than 9000 migrants have crossed the english channel in small boats this year. official figures show 250 people made the journey in two small boats since monday, taking the tally for 2024 to almost 8800. however, gb news can confirm another three small boats arrived on thursday and making the current total 35% higher than at the same time last year. it comes after a home office u—turn on the publication of the number of small boat migrants being prevented from making the illegal journey by french police . and fifa has been french police. and fifa has been threatened with legal action if it does not reschedule next year's expanded club world cup match. leicester city and chelsea are now taking part in the 32 team competition. it's scheduled for the united states in june and july. however the international players union and the world leagues organisation ,

the world leagues organisation, which includes the premier league, have written to fifa's president , league, have written to fifa's president, gianni league, have written to fifa's president , gianni infantino, president, gianni infantino, saying the sport's new schedule is beyond saturation and will cause economic harm for domestic leagues and also poses a significant threat to players. no issue or no comment yet from fifa. that's all the news for the moment. you can sign up to gb news alerts for more on all of our stories. more details on the website. now it's back to . patrick. >> welcome along. it's 9:05. i'm patrick christys now. keir starmer will be willing to sell this country out to the extremists if it gets him a few more votes. in my view, it hasn't taken long for the mask to slip. it's worth remembering that the labour party is only the second political party to be found to have acted unlawfully by the equality and human rights commission, the other being the bnp. keir starmer says it's changed well it hasn't. the mask supped changed well it hasn't. the mask slipped when wes streeting tweeted this about conservative

voters, didn't he.7 a tweeted this about conservative voters, didn't he? a win for susan hall and the conservatives is a win for racists, white supremacists and islamophobes the world over. starmer stayed silent. why did he stay silent? are yes. well, could it be because wes streeting is quite possibly going to lose his seat to an independent, pro—palestine candidate? that's exactly what i think could happen. his majority is 5218, the size of the muslim population in his seat, 25,743. thatis population in his seat, 25,743. that is 27.3% of his electorate . that is 27.3% of his electorate. goodbye, wes. so starmer can't condemn his comments. it's weak. in london, starmer kept his mouth shut when sadiq khan launched another dogwhistle attack on the chief rabbi. he said that the reason the rabbi had called him out for his gaza ceasefire stance was essentially because he was a muslim, saying that the rabbi didn't call out andy burnham because he's not called ahmed bahraini. he's now apologised , but starmer didn't apologised, but starmer didn't condemn it. why not? because he

wants to win. keir starmer has got jess phillips piping up now, saying she's worried about losing her seat because of the party's stance on gaza. she's got a majority , apparently of got a majority, apparently of over 10,000, in birmingham, yardley . but the percentage of yardley. but the percentage of the muslim vote in her constituency is a whopping 37.4. that's around 32,000 people. so what happens ? are the newly what happens? are the newly elected mayor for palestine? sorry sorry west midlands. yeah that's right. immediately tweets an israeli offensive in rafah must not go ahead. immediate ceasefire. there's some other stuff on there as well. i mean look birmingham council has just gone bankrupt. but yet you focus on the important local stuff. mayor, you've got nutters like this all in great horton , this all in great horton, manningham, heating city ward, ankola. >> i'm trying to tell you something here. this is a clear message to starmer. bradford has rejected labour. it's rejected

zionism . and this is a message zionism. and this is a message to you. nashar and imran hussain, we are coming for you in the general election anyway . in the general election anyway. he's got anyone that stands with zionism. we're coming after you . zionism. we're coming after you. free palestine, free palestine . free palestine, free palestine. >> i wonder if he knows what day of the week the local bin collection is. but anyway, keir starmer will do whatever it takes in order to win him and people like him back. and if you don't believe me, just look at what he's been willing to do with natalie. elphicke. this woman is essentially to the right of genghis khan, okay? she's been criticised for slamming her husband's sex assault victims. she's also been told to f off by the shadow chancellor. she's been absolutely caning starmer, his party. every labour mp and everything they've ever done. and yet just to try to score a cheap point against rishi sunak, starmer was willing to throw his arms around her, welcome her in and then send out the swivel eyed anneliese dodds onto the media round today to say how

elphicke is a good fit for the labour party. i mean, here's the national's front page. he's there you go. look, look. laboun there you go. look, look. labour. labour values being suspended from the commons for trying to influence a judge in her ex—husband's sexual assault trial, backing johnson and truss, supporting israel's bombardment of gaza , attacking bombardment of gaza, attacking trade unions over p&o firing scandal, scaremongering about vulnerable asylum seekers and finally blaming rashford's mess on free school meals campaign. it's interesting, isn't it, that starmer was willing to just allow someone with those views into his party? starmer has already turned a blind eye to sectarianism in rochdale . he had sectarianism in rochdale. he had no qualms sending out his shadow cabinet to go into bat for their candidate , after he claimed that candidate, after he claimed that israel had allowed the october seven attacks. keir starmer has no problems standing idly by while his lot throw around fake islamophobia claims. call normal people white supremacists and flirt with anti—semitism at the pro—palestine rallies. i don't think he'd have any problem

selling britain down the river for a few more votes, which, by the way, he doesn't even need. and i think that makes it even worse, doesn't it? but let's get the thoughts on my panel this evening. i am joined by the daily telegraph columnist allison pearson. we've got conservative peer lord shaun bailey and ex—labour party adviser matthew larzer. allison. should we be worried about keir starmer being prepared to embrace sectarianism? yeah i think we should be very worried. >> i think we could be looking at the gradual islamification of our country. we do not want a bunch of muslim councillors dictating british foreign policy. that's that's the that's the basic fact . and what we saw, the basic fact. and what we saw, as you said, lots of local elections , muslims, cross with elections, muslims, cross with labour for starmer not taking a more anti—israeli line defect to the greens. i think it's a lovely fat patrick that all the hard line muslims are in the green party, plus the trans women. so we're very much looking forward to that party conference, aren't we? oh yeah.

>> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> should be should be a meeting of minds. but we'll be there by the way. >> but basically i want to see that with my own eyes. >> you'll be in there. >> you'll be in there. >> but this guy, i'm not sure you'll be allowed in. patrick i predict you'll be banned. >> this guy moeen ali wins east leeds, where people are concerned about what people are concerned about what people are concerned about what people are concerned about in every local area in the country. potholes, planning permission, you know, dust bin collection. but no . mr dust bin collection. but no. mr ali wins. shouts allahu akbar , ali wins. shouts allahu akbar, god is great and then says this win is for gaza . you know, do win is for gaza. you know, do the people, the people of leeds think rafa might be the tennis player? they certainly don't know where it is in the gaza strip. so yes, i'm very, very worried. and i think starmer has said, oh, you know, we must regain trust. what does that mean? bending to the bending to the will of people who are using now their voting muscle to affect us. >> so, matthew, you're furiously shaking your head there. i mean, where was starmer on, you know, sadiq khan's latest outburst at the chief rabbi or wes streeting calling a load of people white

supremacist? he keeps quiet because he needs the votes, doesn't he? >> well, i mean, patrick, i'm a bit confused because you're trying to have your cake and eat it. you're trying to simultaneously claim that labour is in hock to islamist extremists. on the one hand. and yet you're criticising the defection of natalie elphicke, on the other hand, who's many things i'm saying. >> he's got no principle. i'm saying that he's willing to do whatever it takes to get votes. and those two go hand in hand. >> it's absolutely not true. i mean, the footage you saw there of the guy in bradford, his whole point was that he was opposing the labour party. he was nothing to do with the labour party because he was criticising the labour party. we've seen this week, this group, this group issue a muslim vote, issue a list of 18 demands. and you say will, will keir starmer give in to them? the answer is no. and you've seen that already because his response is i spoke, i've spoken to keir's office and their response is absolutely clear. yes, of course, always have conversations with people from communities of all different types , but no to giving in to types, but no to giving in to demands, you know, engaging. yes being held to ransom? no. well, i mean, keir starmer hasn't

personally addressed the 18 demands because he's had other things to talk about. i mean, if somebody asks you, i'm sure he will. >> but sean, you know, he also didn't address wes streeting tweet about susan hall. he also didn't address sadiq khan's comments there about the chief rabbi. also didn't really address for quite a while. far too late anyway, what was going on in rochdale and i just wonder really whether or not he would be willing to embrace sectarianism if it meant that he got votes. >> well, that's a problem. he didn't he didn't, he didn't. he didn't he didn't, he didn't. he didn't step up and answer them. and if you're a neutral, you'll be sat there thinking, okay, if you don't embrace these things, ineed you don't embrace these things, i need to hear it from you, not from your office. you're trying to be the prime minister of the country. i think what we're seeing now is palestine in particular, has become a double edged sword for labour. they were they're very pro that and that's good. they, they want to see a ceasefire, don't want to see a ceasefire, don't want to see people hurt. and we all agree that i certainly do. but because they've rebelled and wobbled certainly on a local level now people are saying we reject you. and what's important about what that councillor said. it's not that he doesn't want to have anything to do with the

labour party. he said he's rejected them. so he thought that labour were going to do a particular thing around it and they're not. >> and i don't know why he thought that, because there's never been any indication. >> i'll tell you why. because they haven't been clear. they haven't been clear. there's been lots. we've been so clear, sean. >> we've lost 70,000 votes in the west midlands. we nearly lost a morality against it. and you're saying, susan, let's remind ourselves, susan hall got hammered last week. sean. matthew, that's your candidate lost. >> that's different. the public have been clear. he's community been clear about what they want. the labour party has not. they've tried to absolutely clear sean. >> that's why that's why they lost tried to play both sides. it's a desperate attempt to smear the fact. the fact he got hammered last week. your candidate got hammered. she did worse than you did. >> changing the subject. what? you're talking about is that community there. we're not talking about susan hall. that man said. >> we're not talking about her because she was a total failure. >> that man said his community have rejected the labour party because of what they have or have not done. >> why is keir starmer responsible for what that guy says? what some random person says? what some random person says? because let's deal with the labour party. >> sean palestine is a very big

issue for the labour party because of the way in which they played it. >> let's bring alison back into it now, because, you know, there are aspects of this where jess phillips is piping up now saying, you know, i'm absolutely bricking. i'm paraphrasing, obviously, i'm absolutely bricking it over my seat because of gaza. she tweeted that, and, and what does the mayor of the west midlands do straight away? oh, right. ceasefire now. ceasefire on gaza, ceasefire. you know, sadiq khan again, one of the first things after his re—election, a ceasefire on gaza, that's the government's policy to not the mayor for those particular not the mayors for palestine, are they? >> yeah, i think matthew is being disingenuous. yes. in extreme muslim growing muslim numbers who have been labour supporters, they've been counted on as a bloc vote for labour, and now they're kicking off on certain aspects of things. and i think we are going to see labour mps, even very good and honourable ones, under pressure to bend to certain policies, absolutely under pressure, inimical to the will of the majority of british people under pressure. >> pressure. >> but there's no evidence that they are doing the bending. you're absolutely right. of course. it's a very serious issue.i course. it's a very serious issue. i totally agree with you, alison. >> can i just put under pressure if he is willing to allow

someone into his party who, by the way, i have, apart from the fact that she's just done this bonkers defection, i'm really got a massive issue with natalie elphicke at all. i mean, you know, i thought i thought she was relatively sound until quite recently, actually, but, you know, you might let you in, patrick, if you want to. >> yeah, yeah, i'm not sure i can get that through. the national executive, but if he's willing to forego all of his principles and let her in at the cost of, by the way, quite a few of his own mps, then what is there to guarantee he hasn't all of a sudden you end up with this ranting and raving allahu akbar guy with a with a labour rosette. i don't understand what principle he's changed. natalie elphicke in natalie elphicke has been absolutely natalie elphicke made a speech in the house of commons ten days ago about housing, where she criticised the government completely for its retreat on the landlords bill. that's the thing she's going to be advising the party on, okay? he hasn't changed. he hasn't changed one policy because of natalie elphicke. her politics have have changed because she sees what a failure the conservative government is. and the rats are leaving the tory sinking ship. >> can i can i say something right. most people in the country are not going to say,

oh, well done, natalie, you know a lot about housing. that's the right thing to do. what they're going to say is keir starmer should have shown a bit of class and said, thank you for your support. but no, because you're very, very, very far away from where we are and where we're going. but the reason he didn't say that, because he doesn't have one particular direction of travel, that's the difference. matthew, most people are not sat at home with a, with a with an excel sheet looking at policy. what they're looking at is how does this feel, what these people say. and she has been 100 miles away from where what she's doneis miles away from where what she's done is what she's major done. >> sean is the complete and total failure of this government total failure of this government to stop the boats, her constituencies in dover, her constituents are paying the price for 14 years of government failure and migration, which has seen the small boats crisis get worse, not better. >> saying it's all about her that i >> saying it's all about her thati can >> saying it's all about her that i can accept. >> no, i'm saying that she thinks the government failed on the small boats crisis and that she has got a plan keir starmer. >> she just said thank you natalie, but no support us from over there. >> a year ago, natalie elphicke wrote an article for the daily mail complaining about that starmer was was weak on the small boats, so she's changed her tune, hasn't it? >> yeah. of course. >> yeah. of course. >> absolutely. and people do change their mind. and we're going to discuss later that labour's next step on its plan to stop the small boats, which

i'm sure she's going to endorse. >> so any surprise about natalie is that she's far to the right of most of the people sitting on the conservative benches. i mean, there's at least 50. there are far more left wing than she is, aren't they? >> no, there aren't more like 300 of us. i think, you know, we hear all too often, don't we? >> that silence is violence. and i think we have to consider that when we think about how silent keir starmer has been on some of the, i would say, filth, what wes streeting tweeted was filth. i think about how basically people who want to vote for conservatives are white. >> didn't quite say that. >> didn't quite say that. >> well, what did he say ? he >> well, what did he say? he said a victory for susan hall would be a victory for white supremacists and racists. >> and susan hall endorsed donald, endorsed donald trump, and she liked islamophobia. she liked islamophobic posts on facebook, he said. and that's why she got hammered, you know, because because the people of london, of all different communities, of all different communities, of all different communities , because he was communities, because he was making it up, don't want no, he wasn't making it up because she'd endorsed she'd endorsed donald trump. >> sean, it's sean, a white supremacist. >> no, but sean wasn't the candidate. that's why sean got more votes than susan hall did. i did vote for her. you might have won, sean, if you'd stood

in for her. >> yeah, and i've got to say, matthew, again, i think you're being disingenuous. what he said was very, very offensive. you're talking to a person like me who spent most of his youth running away from the nf. so to be told, just because i don't share his political views, i'm somehow white supremacist. i actually think it's dangerous , because think it's dangerous, because what you're saying to people is you can't even. >> look, you didn't say you were a white supremacist. comforts to people. that's different. >> okay? he was he what he wrote made people think, okay, if i do this, am i a white supremacist? that's wrong. just because i still went out and voted labour just because i don't share your political view, you can't just then label me any way you like. i think it's dangerous and it terrifies small communities because they don't know what to do. because if they want to go to a wafer housing or whatever, they're going to be accused of being racist, which is something they can't stomach. >> all right. now, i mean, this is this is it's good to have you back, sean, by the way. we have we have we have missed you. thank you very much, but yes. right. let's crack on. okay. so we have got a heck of a lot to get through tonight, still to come, i will show you my experience at the pro—palestine encampment at oxford university. do you think this might be a bit fascist ? it's a little bit

fascist? it's a little bit fascist. palace site? no. >> okay. palestine >> okay. palestine >> i'll also speak to the co—chair of the north west friends of israel. it's rafi bloom very shortly. that's because the national union of students voted to expel its main jewish group. but up next, we've touched on it a little bit there, but we're going in depth. has sir keir starmer made a huge mistake by allowing natalie elphicke into the labour party ? elphicke into the labour party? so labour councillor brenda chilton is going head to head with the party's former spokesman , james matthewson. spokesman, james matthewson. make sure you stay tuned for that or go

welcome back to patrick christys . tonight. coming up, raffi bloom speaks out on the national union of students delegates calling for the expulsion of the main jewish group. i mean, it's absolutely insane what's going on.and absolutely insane what's going on. and then you couple that with what's happening in sweden as we speak with the jewish eurovision contestant being to told make sure they stay in their hotel amid fears of their life greta thunberg at that pro—palestine rally, by the way. so there we go. anyway first, should sir keir starmer have allowed natalie elphicke into the labour party? now elphicke has apologised today, hasn't she? to her new labour colleagues for her previous comments she made supporting her ex—husband following his conviction of sexual assault. jess phillips, a labour mp,

urged miss elphicke to account for her actions and she said in a statement today the period of 2017 to 2020 was an incredibly stressful and difficult one for me. as i learned more about the person i thought i knew , i know person i thought i knew, i know it was far harder for the women who had to relive their experiences and give evidence against him. i have previously and do condemn his behaviour towards other women and towards me. it was right that he was prosecuted and i'm sorry for the comments that i made to his victims. all right, fair enough. so sir keir starmer is under fire, though, for welcoming the former conservative mp into the party despite hitting the highest polling lead since the liz truss era. and here is the leader of the house of commons, penny mordaunt . penny mordaunt. >> first of all, can i reassure the honourable gentleman that i am not about to defect to the opposition benches? they wouldn't be interested in me. i'm too left wing. >> so tonight i'm asking how sir keir starmer made a huge mistake by allowing natalie elphicke

into the labour party, going head to head on this. our labour councillor brendan chilton, and former labour speechwriter james matthewson shapps. thank you very much. great to have you both on, james, i'll start with you. is this a massive, massive mistake from starmer ? mistake from starmer? >> i don't know if it's a massive mistake, but i do think it's misjudged , urged patrick, it's misjudged, urged patrick, because at the end of the day, we are seeing the likelihood of defections increase and that's good news for the labour party. it shows that the labour party has done a lot of work and a lot of self—reflection in recent years, something i'm sure me and brendan will both agree on, and i think that that idea that the party's become more acceptable for people in the conservative party is, is widely a good thing, however, and natalie elphick's case, i do not think her core value was as demonstrated by her voting record , the way she's voted, for record, the way she's voted, for example, on access to abortion , example, on access to abortion, on lgbt rights and other human rights don't necessarily represent what the labour party is meant to represent as a

whole. so i think when it comes to core values, there's a question here, and i think the labour party could, you know, misjudge these actions by getting a little bit too excited at the prospect of scoring a goal against the conservatives and potentially lose its way with its core values? >> yeah. i mean , like, i think, >> yeah. i mean, like, i think, by the way, a lot of viewers and listeners to this show might have quite appreciated natalie elphick's core values for , you elphick's core values for, you know, quite a while until she wandered over onto the, onto the labour benches there. but brendan, a lot of his own mps didn't do it. i mean, the thing that makes this worse for me is that makes this worse for me is that keir starmer did not need natalie elphicke. he's ahead in the polls. the polls is at his highest level since the liz truss era. why on earth has he welcomed this person in who has slagged him off? and now, presumably, in my view, is being incredibly disingenuous about this transformative journey she's been on, good evening, patrick. i think, the, you know, conversion that natalie elphicke has had is greater than that of saint paul on the road to damascus, but it is a conversion and, many, many hundreds of

thousands of people up and down the country are having a similar conversion to the labour party at the moment. however, i would just say, i think all we can do is take what natalie elphicke has said at face value, she has said, it released in the statement today that she regrets the remarks she made , during the the remarks she made, during the time when her husband was facing prosecution, i can understand for her, at the time, it was a very stressful, difficult period. and so we have to accept that. now, in terms of her other comments that she's made about the labour party, you know, i think, of course, you know , very think, of course, you know, very unfortunate, but the labour party is now a very broad church . we welcome everyone into the party and to support keir starmer as he leads labour, hopefully to victory at the general election. i would just say this. i don't agree with everything, natalie elphicke has said, but i'm sure, like james, when we've been out canvassing up and down the country, we found many people actually who vote labour that would share some of natalie's views and of course the people we need to win over to form the next government

might also share those views. and so to standing down anyway, though, isn't she? >> i mean, you've got a labour candidate in dover and deal who is now having to issue statements saying don't worry, i'm still standing. the person that i mean, james, it cannot be denied that if natalie elphicke was standing for the conservative party at the next election, leaflets would have been hitting the doors in dover and deal dishing out a load of absolute bile about her because they would have said she is a hateful candidate and now she's sitting next to or behind keir starmer at pmqs. >> yeah, and that's my concern. it's that that it looks like and there is a big question at the moment about the labour party. now look, i came from the hard left tradition. i came up through the hard left tradition, the trade union movement, and i when i left that tradition said that i believed in a more pragmatic approach to politics than ideology, pure ideology. so me and brendan o'brien, however , me and brendan o'brien, however, there is a question of how far you take that, because you still have to represent something. you have to represent something. you have to represent something. you have to have values . and for me

have to have values. and for me it's more the optics of it. it's more the optics of being able to say, this is our line, this is where we stand. and sean bailey said something credible earlier on your panel there about the fact that, you know , it does fact that, you know, it does look like, you know, the chance for keir starmer to say that's great, thank you. but no, you know, and let let i leave the leave the tory whip behind. that's a stronger position in my mind because it looks like we've got values we can choose . we can got values we can choose. we can afford to choose. at the moment it just looks a bit too opportunistic. >> i think it emphasises the other allegations. yeah. and i think it emphasises brendan, that actually potentially keir starmer is fundamentally a very weak man. he wasn't willing to speak out about any of the stuff. sadiq khan was saying about the rabbi didn't dare speak out about wes streeting because wes is sitting on about a 5000 majority, quite possibly could lose his seat. so he didn't want to speak out about that. and he doesn't have the bottle or the spine to tell someone who is possibly to the right of genghis khan that there's no way that she's going to have a place she has no way she's going to have a place on the on the labour benches. it's

just weak, weak, weak. brendan, no , no, i don't think it is. no, no, i don't think it is. >> i think keir starmer has been extremely bold and extremely tough in how he's transformed the labour party. now in terms of this specific case, of course there will be many in the labour party, myself included, that are not entirely comfortable with everything natalie elphicke has said. however, she has now left the conservative party and joined the labour party and she's pledged her support to the party. she's standing down at the next election and we have an excellent candidate in mike tapp in dover. i think this is a big westminster storm in a teacup. no one out there in the country is talking about this tonight , is talking about this tonight, most people have probably never heard of natalie elphicke outside of dover, and i don't say that disparagingly towards her. it'sjust say that disparagingly towards her. it's just a statement of fact. and this this will be, yes, tomorrow's chip paper , it's yes, tomorrow's chip paper, it's not a major story in the country. the big issue here is the labour party has won over the labour party has won over the support of the mp for dover, the support of the mp for dover, the area where the migrant crisis and the channel crossings. >> fascinating, though, isn't it, because keir starmer, keir starmer shaking their hands and

welcoming in a woman who has quite similar views about the trans issues as rosie duffield , trans issues as rosie duffield, who has been largely, largely ex—communicated from the party. >> i do, i do think we're arrogant if we allow ourselves to believe that we've won over natalie elphicke in some way. natalie elphicke in some way. natalie elphicke in some way. natalie elphicke wants to keep a job for the time being. i think that she wants to do that easily and with less pressure because the conservative party is under immense pressure and no doubt friends, family members, colleagues , everybody will be colleagues, everybody will be saying to her, you know, why are you standing for this? you know, especially in that community about the small boat stuff, you know, because that's been their primary policy. that's all they've talked about. and then they're in this situation currently where she can't deliver on anything, she can't change anything. she can't do anything about it. so i think for us to believe that it's because we've won her over , i because we've won her over, i think it's more likely that she's come knocking at our door. and we've been kind of, you know, excited enough to let her in because it's a good look. but i do think it does in that small because you're right, brennan, not many people will talk about not many people will talk about not many people will talk about not many people will think about it. but there's a small window of opportunity when people turn

on the news for 10s and they see that this has happened. and in that this has happened. and in that 10s they may just think, is that 10s they may just think, is that what i want to see from the labour party? all right, look, guys, thank you very much. >> we are bang. we are bang out of time. i'm afraid so. sorry about that, brendan, but i'll give you a bit longer next time. thank you both. shapps and. yeah. have a great evening. all right. so that is, labour councillor brendan chilton and former labour speechwriter james mathewson there. look coming up. all right. is britain right to refuse to sign the world health organisation's pandemic treaty that would see us give away a fifth of our vaccine jabs, have a look at that chap there on your screen, tedros or whatever he's called. you know, the head of the who. all right. do we really want him dictating to us how we should handle a pandemic ? how we should handle a pandemic? i appreciate we did not get it absolutely spot on last time, though , did we? but before that, though, did we? but before that, i travel to the pro—palestine camp at oxford university. things turned quite hostile. but this was the calm before the storm as a megaphone going on. there saying that we're

unfriendly press, which is interesting . i have had a shower interesting. i have had a shower since, and if that isn't bad enough, activists in the national union of students wanted to vote to expel the main jewish body. it is extraordinary what's going on in the world

next. welcome back to patrick christys. tonight we are living

in absolutely bonkers time. surreal times. dangerous times. okay especially when it comes to our university campus . so, look, our university campus. so, look, just take a little look at some of the stuff that i was getting up to today. one of the big criticisms of this campus has been that if you were visibly jewish, that you wouldn't necessarily feel that welcome. and i think it's easy to understand why they might feel a bit like that. yeah, that is oxford , that's oxford oxford, that's oxford university. they're one of the top universities in the world, a bastion of intellect, etc, etc. so we're going to have more on that later. but but now and it's linked. that later. but but now and it's unked.the that later. but but now and it's linked. the national student union is facing accusations that their conference in blackpool last month was dogged with anti—semitism, reportedly , up to anti—semitism, reportedly, up to 20 students tried to force a vote to stop recognising the main jewish representative body , main jewish representative body, known as the ujs union of jewish students . there was also students. there was also evidence that toilets at the venue had been daubed with

anti—semitic graffiti, so writing for the times newspaper last night, the prime minister said this only last month the ujs were themselves subject to a shameful attempt to get their organisation kicked out of the nus purely because of their support for the principle of a jewish state. and that's it, isn't it? forget all this zionism stuff and all of that. it's about being jewish. i think an earlier today, ujs representatives were invited to downing street by the prime minister to brief him and 20 university vice chancellors about anti—semitism on campus. here's what their president, edward isaacs, has to say . edward isaacs, has to say. >> we were very clear that any commitments made today at this meeting need to be followed by swift and decisive action by vice chancellors, because ultimately, jewish students deserve to study in safety and feel that they are included on campus , in campus life. campus, in campus life. >> joining me now is the co—chair of north west friends of israel. easy for me to say, rafi belem. rafi, thank you very much. great to have you on the show. and we are living through absolutely extraordinary times at the moment. is it openly

anti—semitic? do you think that the nus a you know, let's be honest, pretty far left organisation would want to expel the, the, the, the jewish union ? the, the, the, the jewish union? >> i think it's just a further example at that conference to start with of the jew hate that jewish students experienced. you mentioned the swastikas daubed in the toilet, effing zionists in the toilet, effing zionists in the toilet again as graffiti, and it just adds to the overall attempts that we're seeing to cleanse university campuses of zionists, which we know mean jews . and it really has similar jews. and it really has similar parallels with the 1933 to 35 penod parallels with the 1933 to 35 period in nazi germany . it's as period in nazi germany. it's as simple as that. >> i just don't know where jewish students are safe at the moment. so in amsterdam, you've got people bulldozing the pro—palestine camp at university. we all know what's happening in america, don't we? we've got a procession of different universities in britain at the moment, oxford university, which again , i'll

university, which again, i'll show people a little bit later on, i just don't think it's comfortable to be jewish at universities anymore. and it's being compounded by the fact that you've got university lecturers and staff signing petitions in support of these middle class fake communist s. >> absolutely. look, free speech is sacrosanct, and as a democracy we have to protect that. but what we've seen is an unprecedented rise in campus anti—semitism since the genocidal hamas attacks of october 7, and that includes the intimidation of jewish students . intimidation of jewish students. these protests that have now culminated in these encampments , culminated in these encampments, they're rife with anti—semitic rhetoric, things like from the river to the sea, intifada, make us proud . make us proud, and us proud. make us proud, and they're making universities no go areas for jewish they're making universities no go areas forjewish students. and it's absolutely shocking. and it's absolutely shocking. and the universities need to act. a lot of these protests are taking place on university property. they could act overwhelmingly. they don't act, but they have a duty of care to

their jewish but they have a duty of care to theirjewish students but they have a duty of care to their jewish students to but they have a duty of care to theirjewish students to make them safe. and they're not doing that. >> there is unquestionably a fear going around at the moment. when i was outside at oxford university today or the natural history museum, is there were people coming up to me who were not part of this protest. young people, students at oxford who watched the show, who liked the channel and as they'd come past, they'd say, they kind of whisper, oh, you know, i quite like what you do. but they didn't want the people in that encampment to see them mixing with me, because presumably they'd be excommunicate as well. there were reports there from that camp that a jewish student had tried to enter, and because they refused to sign a piece of paper that basically said that they supported the palestinian cause, they were turfed out. i mean, this is insane that this is happening in modern britain . is happening in modern britain. >> it's all part of this narrative to , demonise zionism. narrative to, demonise zionism. and i think for your viewers , and i think for your viewers, it's worth just very briefly reminding people that zionism is the is the right of the jewish people to have

self—determination in their ancestral and religious homeland. and it's this framing of zionism as colonialism, genocidal, and actually zionism is the antithesis of colonialism because it's the return of a people who had been expelled by numerous colonialist oppressors for millennia. and then when you have that and you have this, this unholy alliance of far left woke student bodies with radical islamists on the right who wouldn't agree on feminism, on sexuality, on religion, but come together over the jews . it's together over the jews. it's a toxic atmosphere that is making jewish students who have a democratic right to study on our campuses feel manifestly unsafe. and the government has spoken fine words, but they now need to act. >> you nothing for me. rafi embodies the complete lunacy of this unholy alliance, as you so articulately put it. there as actually one thing that's happening right now, in sweden with the eurovision issue. so, look, i'm absolutely . don't want

look, i'm absolutely. don't want to, you know, stereotype too generally here, but there is, there's a large demographic of there's a large demographic of the lgbtq+ community who enjoy eurovision, and that's fantastic, but they also appear to be doing stuff like this as well. i've just got a little clip because this is this is what's happening right now, apparently in sweden. so we'll just play a little clip vie portland side say . so that's one portland side say. so that's one of the clips, which is the israeli act being booed on stage . and there's also other reports which we'll bring you later on. it's not reports. i've seen it, which is of, what mobs really on the streets and the israeli act being told by their own security that they have to stay in their hotel. greta thunberg's apparently at this particular rally as well . i mean, it looks rally as well. i mean, it looks as though people are waiting for as though people are waiting for a lynching and they probably are. >> this is a young 20 year old girl who survived a terror attack , a genocidal terror attack, a genocidal terror attack, a genocidal terror attack by an organisation who wants to murder jews anywhere , wants to murder jews anywhere, who lives in a country which is

the only democracy in the middle east that has free sexuality, that has one of the biggest gay pride parades seen anywhere in the world every year in tel aviv. and you have the lgbtq community, some of them anyway, standing proudly alongside support for what is going on for hamas attack against israel. if these people went to gaza, they would be thrown off tall buildings. it is absolute lunacy and part of that is down to our educational institutions for encouraging it, for allowing it. but ultimately these people are, to paraphrase churchill, they are appeasers who feed the crocodile in the hope that it won't eat them. >> yeah, look absolutely . and, >> yeah, look absolutely. and, you know, i've been to numerous pro—palestine demonstrations at a variety of different locations . this one at oxford today, this this encampment, we're going to see some of the footage from it later. to be honest, it's right. if i was jewish i would. it is intimidating and it is threatening and it is disgusting. there is another aspect to it , by the way, that aspect to it, by the way, that is just completely laughable. and i think sometimes with these

people, one of the best things to do is, is ridicule them a little bit because you hold a mirror up to them. you know, maybe at some point they might actually see who they are. but. yeah. go on. rafi, quickly. you are. >> you are correct in what you say. however, what we have been seeing in these encampments, more and more, they start off that way in this benign , sort of that way in this benign, sort of wokey peaceful way. but they are being infiltrated by actors from the outside who wish to radicalise them and make them more violent and more extreme. and that is where the universities have to act, and they're not at the moment. >> well, yeah. and that has happened. that's absolutely happened. that's absolutely happened. rafi, thank you very much. you take care all the best. that's rafi bloom, who's the co—chair of north west friends of israel. right. look, in a statement, the us made clear it was individuals, not the body itself. we tried to expel the ujs. they said a lie is circulating online. that news have voted to disengage with ujs. this is categorically untrue. it is shameful to spread misinformation and fear amongst jewish students at a time when tensions are already so high.

and the truth is that news, in fact, stopped a small group of students who tried to call the ugs legitimacy into question. all right. okay. coming up, i'll show you my experience. yes. as we were talking about at that pro—palestine encampment at oxford university, everyone's unked oxford university, everyone's linked arm to, to try to force us, i think out press is close . us, i think out press is close. i'm so afraid of covid that aren't they? which brings me on to the world health organisation wanting britain to sign up for a pandemic treaty that would see us sign away a fifth of our vaccines. should we be jumping ship from the doomsday globalist body? professor jay bhattacharya, co—author of the great barrington declaration , is great barrington declaration, is live and it's

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, the uk is refusing tonight. now, the uk is refusing to sign the world health organisation's pandemic treaty .

organisation's pandemic treaty. amid fears that it won't actually benefit britain. the treaty states the uk would have to give away up to 20% of health products, such as ppe and vaccines , and be prevented from vaccines, and be prevented from stockpiling supplies , but stockpiling supplies, but apparently will only agree to a dealif apparently will only agree to a deal if british made jabs stay in the british national interest. the who director general told officials on friday. give the people of the world, the people of your countries, the people you represent, a safer future. i have one simple request please get this done for them. okay, let's cross over now to california where i am joined by doctorjay california where i am joined by doctor jay bhattacharya from stanford school of medicine . and stanford school of medicine. and you know, someone who was incredibly prominent with the now , i think, largely vindicated now, i think, largely vindicated great barrington declaration. thank you very much . great to thank you very much. great to have you on the show. why should britain not sign up to this nonsense from the who. >> i think generally the who. has done a terrible job during the pandemic. the idea that they

they use protected human life well is laughable . they put well is laughable. they put forward the lockdown policies that failed everywhere that caused tremendous collateral damage. they denied that the virus was airborne. they failed time after time . and the same time after time. and the same leadership that failed is asking for more power. it makes absolutely no sense. and it is so it is not in the interest of great britain. i do think that that more sharing of products might be in the interest of great britain . so for instance, great britain. so for instance, if the if the over there you don't want it, you may want to share the vaccines with people over there , but i don't trust over there, but i don't trust the world health organisation to make that designation appropriately. and that i think, is the major problem. >> yeah, it's a question of trust. and let's just say, you know, something else happens or whatever. yeah. really? seriously, this this guy tedros from, you know, from from, ethiopia could tell us, could he, that we have to give away a certain percentage of our protective gear to people in in other countries? you know, this

guy is absolutely, resolutely refused to in any way, shape or form condemn china, which of course, has got nothing to do with the amount of money that china has given to his home country over the years at all. nothing at all. i mean, why should we listen to this guy ? should we listen to this guy? >> we shouldn't. i mean, i think if the w.h.o. >> we shouldn't. i mean, i think if the who. would like britain or the uk or the united states or the uk or the united states or any other country to trust it, it needs to turn over its leadership . it needs to give leadership. it needs to give guarantees that the harms that it imposed on the world during the pandemic, with anti—scientific ideas embraced. and, you know, essentially the chinese style lockdowns and policies recommended to the world that that those kinds of problems will never happen again. and there need to be real reforms before any consideration of giving the who. more power. and the question of national sovereignty absolutely is an important one. patrick. it is very important that each country understand that the we're basically saying a supranational organisation , natural, the organisation, natural, the national organisation here, you take over some of the most

fundamental decisions that we would make about our own health, our own own own own conditions. i mean, it makes no sense to do that unless we trust them and we don't. >> is this just the furthering of a globalist agenda? do you think ? think? >> it absolutely is. i mean, that's exactly the idea. it's to globalise the response to future pandemics, globalise the calling of future pandemics , globalise of future pandemics, globalise the resource allocation of future pandemics , and if you had future pandemics, and if you had a global organisation that actually had the benefits of each home country at in its own heart fundamentally built in you, you might want, might, might consider it here. you don't have that kind of organisation. you have an organisation. you have an organisation that is beholden to the interest of relatively small number of people, of countries that are anti—democratic, rule it, large organisations like the gates foundation funded , and i gates foundation funded, and i don't know whose interest they serve, why why someone in the uk would want to support it. i have no idea. >> no , indeed. and i don't know >> no, indeed. and i don't know whether or not i would ever get to vote for tedros, would i, before he decides whether or not i can live and die during a

pandemic ? pandemic? >> that's a very good point, patrick. it is an anti—democratic organisation . anti—democratic organisation. there is no you know, you can have your country vote and you're one of whatever 100 and some countries that vote for for, or against various things. but even there there's not really votes. there's just the with under the new treaty, there'd be tremendous power in there'd be tremendous power in the hands of tedros to call, call. there's a new pandemic. and then all of the sort of parts of the treaty would come into play , he said, they say up into play, he said, they say up and down that they're not going to violate national sovereignty. but looking at the provisions of the treaty and the way they act dunng the treaty and the way they act during the pandemic, who can trust them to actually keep their word? >> look, thank you very much. great to talk to you. i would love to chat to you again very, very soon. that's doctor jay bhattacharya from the stanford school of medicine and of course, of the great barrington declaration . next, my run in declaration. next, my run in with the so—called peaceful protesters at oxford university. i'll take you behind the curtain of these pro—palestine fanatics, people who stand accused of intimidating jewish students on campus. i think we can have a little sneak peek. one of the big criticisms of this campus

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gb news. >> it's 10 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight as a megaphone going on there, saying that we're unfriendly press, which is interesting . i expose the interesting. i expose the pro—palestine oxford lunatics. do you think this might be a bit fascist ? it's a little bit fascist? it's a little bit fascist. free palestine ? fascist. free palestine? >> no. palestine >> no. palestine >> maybe they're the fascists. and why have we released this jihadi from prison ? i've also jihadi from prison? i've also got a big breaking political story to bring you in about half an hour's time. story to bring you in about half an hour's time . so stay tuned an hour's time. so stay tuned for that. and bupa alongside . for that. and bupa alongside. yeah, chickens for kfc bu israel

at eurovision on my panel. it is the telegraph columnist allison pearson, lord shaun bailey and ex—labour adviser matthew laza. and on your marks, get ready . and on your marks, get ready. tell me what's wrong with this clip . any ideas? any ideas? all clip. any ideas? any ideas? all right, well, get ready britain. here we go. yes. 10:30 pm. tonight. big political story is dropping, so make sure you stay tuned for that. but before that, bring out the water cannons. next . the water cannons. next. >> very good evening to you. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the chancellor has cautioned the bank of england against cutting interest rates too quickly . the bank has too quickly. the bank has decided to hold borrowing costs at the same level. 5.25. but governor andrew bailey says things are moving in the right

direction. he suggests that an interest rate cut could come as soon as next month. now the government insists the economy has turned a corner, but shadow chief secretary to the treasury darren jones says many households are still struggling with the cost of living. >> bank of england's decision today is its independent right today is its independent right to make decisions about interest rates. but clearly that's bad news for people at home who are having to reset their mortgages for the years ahead at a more expensive rate, and people having to pay rent for their homes . and that's why the homes. and that's why the economy has not turned a corner, and why people at home are not feeling any uptick when they're told by conservative ministers doing victory laps this week that the country has turned a corner when it hasn't. >> thousands of pro—palestinian demonstrators have gathered in the swedish city of malmo to protest against israel competing in the eurovision song contest . in the eurovision song contest. protesters dressed in palestinian colours packed the city's historic market square before a planned march through the city. during a dress rehearsal last night, crowds

could be heard booing israel's performance. the second semi—final of the contest is underway . the foreign secretary underway. the foreign secretary says britain will not follow the us in withholding arms from israel. if a full scale invasion of rafah goes ahead. his comments come hours after president joe biden vowed to cut suppues president joe biden vowed to cut supplies if the southern gazan cities attacked. lord cameron says there's a fundamental difference because uk sales are much smaller in scale and policed by strict rules . but he policed by strict rules. but he added the government would not support an invasion of rafah unless it saw a credible plan to protect civilians . well, the protect civilians. well, the 9000 migrants have crossed the engush 9000 migrants have crossed the english channel in small boats this year. official figures show 250 people made the journey since monday, taking the tally for 2024 to almost 8800. however, gb news can confirm another three small boats arrived on thursday. it comes after a home office u—turn on the publication of the number of small boat migrants being prevented from making the

illegal journey by french police . and donald trump's lawyers have questioned stormy daniels credibility , accusing her of credibility, accusing her of profiting from a story involving a sexual encounter with the former us president. it's now at the centre of the former president's so—called hush money trial . miss president's so—called hush money trial. miss daniels says she signed a statement denying an affair with mr trump because she was told she had to. her lawyers previously argued the statement was designed to be technically accurate by denying an affair without denying a sexual encounter . mr without denying a sexual encounter. mr trump's without denying a sexual encounter . mr trump's lawyers encounter. mr trump's lawyers have suggested she is more interested in getting a payout than telling the truth, and he denies any wrongdoing . we can denies any wrongdoing. we can get more on all of our stories by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to our website for more information about gb news alerts. now back to . patrick. alerts. now back to. patrick. >> well, it's time now to show you my experience at the pro—palestine encampment at oxford university. fascinating case. oxford isn't it one of the

best universities in the world, supposedly a bastion of freedom of speech and academic rigour. however, this camp was set up and since it was set up at least 108 academic staff and other members of staff at that university have signed a letter of support to these pro—palestine individuals. a jewish student has reportedly been turfed out of this camp for refusing to sign a letter saying that they are bang in favour of everything that has been going on when it comes to hamas's resistance to the israelis. and as you're about to see, this is as you're about to see, this is a seriously well run camp. they've got a press team, a medical tent , different events medical tent, different events and some speakers throughout the course of the day. but as you're also about to see these pro—palestine fanatics, they're not really just all in a circle singing kumbaya. but it did start out quite calmly . here we start out quite calmly. here we are at the oxford university

encampment . it is just outside encampment. it is just outside the oxford museum of natural history . the oxford museum of natural history. hiya. are you all right? are we all right? just have a quick chat with a couple of people about why you're here and what's going on, and everything like that is that possible? >> so actually, most of us here would rather not give a comment . would rather not give a comment. but we have some people in the press team. we might be free. would you just wait here for a minute? that's lovely. >> yeah. thank you. okay. brilliant. >> who are you guys with? so my name is patrick. >> i'm with gb news. >> i'm with gb news. >> thank you. hello you're right i >> -- >> yeah. -_ >> yeah. so we've already got a load of masks there. a strong american accent and not a huge amount of racial diversity. but i was told that no one wants to show their face. and i wonder why. but now i'm going to give you a little peek behind the curtain. so here is a bit about how that camp operates. says on this board. here is day for a community check in at 10 am, palestine and south africa teaching at 3:00. so i think we're maybe just about in time for that, actually, liberation

fellowship at six and an open mic at 8 pm. there's a row of camp jobs here, the bins, the litter. check the food tent assistant, floor fix and water refill as a megaphone going on there saying that we're unfriendly press, which is interesting . yes, gb news is interesting. yes, gb news is unfriendly press. apparently it's also quite funny, wasn't it, that none of those camp jobs have been done and apparently they don't wake up before 10 am, but they certainly don't believe in the freedom of the press or the individual's right to freedom of expression. roll on. is it possible to have a quick chat with you about why you're here? it's possible to have a quick chat with you about why you feel so strongly. >> why don't we don't think. sorry, i'm new here, but do you want to talk, though? >> because it's. >> because it's. >> yeah. i mean, ijust >> because it's. >> yeah. i mean, i just they asked me not to. oh, okay. we do engage with press, just not this press for obvious reasons. i'm not really, you know, i don't know , but but but if that woman know, but but but if that woman hadnt know, but but but if that woman hadn't have come over and said

anything to you, you would have spoken. >> actually, he does want to move us. then. >> have you got that ? she said. >> have you got that? she said. >> have you got that? she said. >> he said he doesn't want to talk. and then he'd turned around and said, i actually do want to talk. >> and this is this is what happens every single one of these events, right? so you go up, people are perfectly happy to talk. and then someone with pink hair has decided to stop shaving her armpits, comes up and says, no, don't talk to that lot. and then they get too scared. he was worried about being get this excommunicated from the camp if he dared to break camp rules. also, all normal stuff . i genuinely went normal stuff. i genuinely went there to ask questions and speak to people about their views . but to people about their views. but rather than have a conversation with me, i was, well, physically swarmed . i'm free, free, free swarmed. i'm free, free, free palestine free, free, free palestine, free violence free pan around. >> we can see that it's all kicking up a notch now , so it's kicking up a notch now, so it's quite good. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> are you all right there? so

are you a student at the university? we will not come . university? we will not come. can i ask, do you want to explain why oxford is complicit in genocide ? okay, we turn it in genocide? okay, we turn it round, we can see that there's quite a lot of, people free palestine . it's interesting, palestine. it's interesting, isn't it? because one of the big criticisms of this camp has been that if you were visibly jewish, that if you were visibly jewish, that you wouldn't necessarily feel that welcome. >> and i think it's easy to understand why they might feel a bit like that. yeah. so then, look, the longer i was there, despite the fact, i mean, the irony here, the great irony here is that if just 1 or 2 of them had spoken to me, we probably would have got enough material. i could have been on my way in a few minutes, but no, i have to hang around and then it really did began to kind of escalate. there were kind of pushing us back or trying to anyway, until we left the camp. once linked arms to, to try to force us. i think out as close belem, it's a

bastion of freedom of speech. oxford university. do you think this might be a bit fascist side? that's a little bit fascist palestine? no. okay. >> palestine . >> palestine. >> palestine. >> yep. there we go. and then even after we did leave, they still weren't quite finished. they were charging after me down the road , gloating. there are the road, gloating. there are more of us than there are of you . wow, the encampment there, oxford university, obviously. unfortunately, people didn't particularly want to talk. that's fine. that's their right. but, you know , people can make but, you know, people can make their own minds up. but, you know, people can make their own minds up . about about their own minds up. about about their own minds up. about about the kind of about the kind of people here. there we go. lovely. has anyone ever told you you might be behaving a bit like a fascist ? yeah. there we go. a fascist? yeah. there we go. i mean, look, i've been to quite a few of these now. the ones in central london have got a

massive undertone of, you know, proper aggression and violence . proper aggression and violence. that one, to be honest with you, i just thought was quite sad . i just thought was quite sad. and again, i'll just say it's a load of renter mobs , all people load of renter mobs, all people who are students and they've decided that they're going to make some kind of glorious stand by dyeing their hair pink and refusing to shave their armpits. let's go to the thoughts on my panel let's go to the thoughts on my panel. it's daily telegraph columnist allison pearson, conservative peer lord shaun bailey and the former labour party adviser matthew laza allison as you know, just completely laughable of some of those individuals were really the point is that we had members of staff from that university , of staff from that university, and this was pointed out to me by an academic who was at the university, who was sympathetic to some of the stuff that we were doing here @gbnews, tooting their horns on the way past. and you think, how would it feel to be jewish? there really ? be jewish? there really? >> yeah. really horrible that my old university, cambridge , old university, cambridge, they're all camped outside king's college on the strip of green , and the students are

green, and the students are doing their exams at the moment. they have to walk past those tents, and there'll be a lot of jewish students who are very upset, as you said, at the top, the union of jewish students, the union of jewish students, the nus, basically trying to kind of cancel them and making all these anti—zionist occupations . look, being young occupations. look, being young and foolish is the job description of a student . but description of a student. but these people, they're supposed to be the most intelligent people in the country and they are absolute idiots. there's a student, oxford student saying that as a colonised, a colonised people , all palestinians have people, all palestinians have got the right to resist against occupation. gaza isn't occupied. the israelis left it in 2005. so the lack of knowledge. and i just want to say, patrick, okay, about jewish people in this country, we are losing jews are going to be leaving in their thousands our country. and these kids know nothing about history. this all started because on october the 7th, one of the most heinous massacres in modern history, and indeed the biggest slaughter of the jews since

since the second world war took place . and they are having place. and they are having wellness sessions. yeah, leave it just it's horrible. it's really disrespectful and horrible. >> it is. but it's also that point for me , you know, that's point for me, you know, that's the closest i've ever got to oxford university, to be honest with you. and i was always really in awe of it mentally . i really in awe of it mentally. i was always really in awe when someone said to me, i've been to oxford or i've been to cambridge. i'll be honest with you. i always thought , oh gosh, you. i always thought, oh gosh, you. i always thought, oh gosh, you might be better than me, actually, really. and i met a load of them today and i thought, gosh , what a waste of thought, gosh, what a waste of oxygen. >> look, academic success doesn't automatically breed wisdom is how i'd respond to that. what i would say is really disappointing for me. the whole nofion disappointing for me. the whole notion of being a student is to is to debate , is to learn, is to is to debate, is to learn, is to test. and what they're doing is just rejecting . they won't have just rejecting. they won't have that conversation and why it's a real worry. these are people who are very likely to end up in positions of power in our society. so could you imagine a

home secretary who will not have a debate about anything? can you imagine someone who just says, no, this is our way or no way? the problem for these young people and what they're doing, they're making extreme reactions to anything . they don't like the to anything. they don't like the norm. and that is problematic. that's how fascism grew. fascism works from the fact that we will stand no conversation, and they need to look at themselves because they'll have no conversation . they'll never know conversation. they'll never know if they're wrong because they simply won't test it. and that's a real bad sign for this country. >> yeah. matthew, i mean , what >> yeah. matthew, i mean, what do we do about this? because beneath the fact that there's quite a ridiculous bunch of individuals, they're all deciding to live in tents and, you know, have glastonbury without the fun. yeah. there is there is a serious undercurrent to this, which is that they really don't care about how uncomfortable they make a lot of people. and the university and i would also say the police aren't really doing anything about that i >> -- >> yeah, i mean, i think they're trying to the university would say it was trying to navigate a fine line between making them martyrs. we've seen, obviously, the footage of some of the removal of the american encampments which have taken i mean, they're bigger encampments, but they've taken quite a lot of kind of, you know, bailiffs and hard hats,

etc. and that becomes the focal point. but i think i agree with sean that the most depressing thing is their absolute unwillingness to engage in debate. i mean, if oxford is famous for anything , it's famous famous for anything, it's famous for debating ideas from different perspectives . and, you different perspectives. and, you know, to me it's it should be a punishable offence to get in the way of a free press . and way of a free press. and because, you know, one day gb news who knows what if it was a different channel and different, you know, of course you have to stick with the principle of freedom of expression. and so i hope the university authorities are watching on that front. >> i would just make the point as well that it's easy because because why i've decided to do is just getting amongst a load of these different things. so it is very easy to get the impression that they only hate gb news, and they do probably hate gb news they definitely do. however, they do actually just really kind of hate anyone. i mean, they wouldn't have been massively in favour of the bbc rocking up. they're the only ones that they like are, you know, the al jazeera news van that turns up realistically. so you know, it's not you just hear more of it because i'm the one who's wandering around this stuff and actually physically getting it . sorry, sean, you getting it. sorry, sean, you were about to say it's troubling.

>> and what oxford university needs to look at is their reputation. i was invited to do a debate there very recently, and i fought twice and decided not to go because i don't want to go to a place where they're just going to paint you in any way they want to paint you. i'm not sure they're capable of having a debate that where you might have to argue something that they don't agree with, and that's important. oxford for centuries now has been a place of fought, challenged debate. they are destroying that over this one issue. and i think that's a real worry for us. and if i, if i'm thinking, well, i won't go there, who else won't go there? are there young people at home who think, i can't go to this place because and the thing i'd say jewish people for years have talked about anti—semitism. and as a black person, you've understood it as racism. this is , is an added element. and it makes me feel nervous. okay. once they've finished with the jews, who's next? who's next? i sat in a meeting today and heard about how uganda has very bad policies around, lgbt rights. i don't agree with them at all. but are they going to punish me because i'm black and ugandans

are black? i have to wonder that because if you're israeli, that's what it might feel like now. and these are the things they're not taking into account. and i really think they should. >> well, what's so ironic, isn't it, is that there they are with the masks on. so intimidating. and they, you know, the yasser arafat memorial tea towel wrapped around them in the ridiculous fashion statement, as sean says, they are calling israel racist state. they're, you know , zionist entity, which, you know, zionist entity, which, by the way, zionist entity is what hamas calls israel. but israel is a modern, progressive, liberal, one of the only country in that region which is pro—gay, pro—gay marriage, immensely liberal. so all these students who are who'll be shouting about homophobia and misogyny, wouldn't they on any other day of the week? but suddenly they appear to be on the side . appear to be on the side. >> there's not much liberating gaza from hamas, is there? no there's not. >> they did have posted signs saying israel's destroyed all the universities in gaza as well, which they did kind of make me laugh. so while we do wonder what they were teaching

there anyway. but look, a joint statement from the organisers , statement from the organisers, oxford action for palestine and cambridge palestine read over 100 universities across the globe have now taken bold and urgent action for palestine as members of these institutions , members of these institutions, we refuse to accept our university's complicity in israel's war crimes against the palestinian people, and we refuse to stand by while they justify israel's campaign of mass slaughter, starvation and displacement . of course, it displacement. of course, it would have been nice if anyone there had bothered. we've had to call in a right of reply, despite the fact that i drove two hours to oxford today to try and physically get one from a load of the people there. but anyway, coming up, i'll run you through the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages, and there is a major political news story that's about to break. and that breaks in 12 minutes time. so stay. it's a major gb news exclusive. we can reveal that one of britain's most dangerous terrorists is now back walking the streets. i'll just have all the streets. i'll just have all the details for you in a moment. don't go anywhere

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight, there is a major political story about the labour party happening just after half past. so stay tuned for that . but right now, gb news for that. but right now, gb news can reveal one of britain's most dangerous terrorists is now back walking the streets. mohammed ahmed was jailed after he was caught travelling to syria, intent on martyrdom. a judge later ruled he was a dangerous fundamentalist who was, quote, interested in and deeply

committed to violent extremism. he was caged for 17 years. there he is. that's that's him there. so that's that's him holding a gun, pointing it at you at home. he was caged for 17 years and five months in 2014, but seven years before his release, it was reported last year that he was due to appear before a parole board in december. but what has not been reported until today is that officials gave him the green light to be freed and he is actually out and about. i'm joined now by the former head of the national counter terrorism security office , chris phillips. security office, chris phillips. lock your doors, chris. >> yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? and this man was too dangerous to be released 12 months ago, but suddenly he's , obviously had but suddenly he's, obviously had a change of opinion, and now he's perfectly safe. i mean, this man, this is a man that's, already decided that he's going to martyr himself for the cause. so you know what's to stop him doing something equally as bad

when he comes out? >> yeah, i is it possible to get these parole hearings done publicly, or at least to have a recording of them and the reasons behind the decision making put out there in public? because, i mean, it is i who has to live with this guy. >> well, it is, and i think that's a key point, actually , that's a key point, actually, the parole board should be forced to live next door to this guy ' forced to live next door to this guy , because he will be living guy, because he will be living next door to someone and, and influence seeing people in that community. and i can assure you that the communities that he goes out to won't be that necessarily keen on having a convicted terrorist, living next door to them. but parole boards are a bit of a law unto themselves. i think they've been looked into more recently, but, they do seem to be making some bizarre decisions, and of course, it is mired in secrecy, and we just don't get to find out, the exact rationale for them letting him, leave prison there does appear to have been astonished . astonished. >> si king naivety. i mean, anyone who wants to travel to syria intent on martyrdom, and

you know who was quoted as being deeply committed to violent extremism, you know, to be let out? i think i'm right and say about seven years early the idea as well, that we knew he was going to be before the parole board, but it wasn't reported, you know, until now that he's out there could be no public backlash. there was no opportunity for people or, you know, you know, there should be some kind of public discourse for someone to raise it in the house of commons and say, look, we need to stop this. this is lunacy. they just think, you know, it's just throw the gates open off, you pop, you know, back to wherever it is you're from. >> yeah. job done. he's, he's been released, and not only him, actually. i mean , many, many actually. i mean, many, many other terrorists have been released over the last year or so, and, even worse, the prisons are absolutely stonking full and, and, i think just recently they've, put another edict out to carry on releasing people early because there's no room for them in the prisons. >> yeah. i mean, it does say a lot about our prison service if it is actually a hotbed of jihadi training at the moment,

is every chance you could go in as a low grade burglar or shoplifter and come out a radical islamic fundamentalist. but this guy was already one when he went in. you know, he's one of the one of the ogs of that prison. he was already one when he went in. and what kind of de—radicalised ization do people have to go through in your view? okay. and you have got literally an expert view on this. is it really possible for people who have mentally made the decision that they want to be a martyr, to then be de—radicalised ? de—radicalised? >> well, historically there have been people that have been de—radicalize , there's no doubt de—radicalize, there's no doubt about that. and many people are on the first and second rungs of radicalisation and are, you know, pushed back. but but when you've got it so deep into you in, into your psyche that you believe the things that they believe, they believe in the caliphate, they believe that we should all be living under islamic law. and they believe in dying for the cause. it's a very difficult thing to get away from

the fact that they are still very, very dangerous people . very, very dangerous people. >> and last question with you, chris. what kind of monitoring are we doing with this guy, possibly when he's out and about, you know, is this guy is there one saving grace to all of this that we can all sleep better in our beds tonight, knowing that there is probably some kind of 24 hour surveillance taking place on our friend mohammed there. >> well, there will be some kind of surveillance, but of course, there's only a limited amount of surveillance opportunities , and, surveillance opportunities, and, you know, there are so many other people to watch as well, so very difficult for the security services. i have no doubt that they will be monitoring and no doubt that they will be calling him in for interviews and maybe doing some tests on him to make sure that he's, he's not, thinking of, doing something bad. but but of course, there's no safe place for people like this that want to kill innocent individuals. no. >> look, thank you very, very much. great to have you on the show. as ever. that's chris phillips there. the former head of national counter terrorism security office. i just think, you know, when you have individuals like chris, they're

baffled at the idea to release someone like this early. i think it tells you everything you need to know. but alas, we have got a comment from the ministry of justice. that's nice of them to get in touch. the decision to release mohammed ahmed was made by the independent parole board after a thorough risk assessment , and he is now subject to probation supervision. strict licence conditions and faces a return to prison if he breaks them. good. of course, the concern with someone like mohammed is that if he breaks his parole conditions, that might mean a terror attack, in which case it won't just be him getting a life sentence, would it? but coming up, what do you think happens when a trans athlete is allowed to compete against high school girls, yeah . against high school girls, yeah. which way do you see that one going? stick around and find out. plus, i've got all of tomorrow's newspapers tonight with my razor sharp panel . with my razor sharp panel. they're primed and ready to go. and yes, i will stop teasing you with it now, when i come back, a big breaking news story about the labour

all right. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. let me start with some of the front pages. let's do it . we go to the pages. let's do it. we go to the metro. five babies die as cough bug spikes . jabs plea over the bug spikes. jabs plea over the wuping menace. this is the whooping cough issue that's apparently. apparently is, is becoming worse and worse. let's go to the independent. more tory mps want to defect, says labour as panic grips the party shadow health secretary wes streeting tells the independent that he's been approached by tories reeling from natalie elphick's defection . let's go to the daily defection. let's go to the daily express, who win the tug of war over interest rates. jeremy hunt has warned the bank of england of the delicate balancing act needed to cut interest rates, whilst keeping inflation under control. we're going to have a bit more of that later. the daily telegraph hunt urges bank not to rush rate cuts. bailey hints that borrowing costs could fall next month , in a potential fall next month, in a potential boost for rishi sunak , and, here

boost for rishi sunak, and, here we go. they've already got something on the front of the telegraph there, but i'll whizz over to the mail, worst whooping cough outbreak in 40 years. so that's the same as the metro now, right? i'm going to reintroduce my wonderful panel to the fray. of course, i am joined by the telegraph's allison pearson. i've also got conservative peer lord shaun bailey and former labour party adviser matthew laza . and now adviser matthew laza. and now here we go. okay, so breaking tonight. we are finally allowed tonight. we are finally allowed to talk about it. sir keir starmer will tomorrow launch labour's plans to tackle the small boat crisis. so it's a major speech on the kent coast . major speech on the kent coast. starmer is going to say that control of our borders needs graft, not gimmicks. as well as announcing a raft of new measures to supposedly end the tough talk, do nothing culture of the tories. this will involve okay, strap yourselves in new border security command led by a border security command led by a border security command led by a border security commander. obviously. otherwise that'd be

weird, wouldn't it, to take on the criminal smuggling gangs? and how's it going to be funded? and how's it going to be funded? a labour government, and how's it going to be funded? a labour government , they say, a labour government, they say, will direct £75 million of the allocated year one costs of the tories. rwanda plan to fund these new measures, of course, comes in the wake of natalie elphicke, the former tory mp for dover crossing the floor in the house of commons to join the labour party, that was just at pmqs. all right. okay, so i have here in front of me a fuller list of the kind of things that keir starmer wants to do. but i'm going to hand over to our resident labour fanatic , keir resident labour fanatic, keir matthew laza, first. so come on, talk . talk. >> i get to go first. >> i get to go first. >> talk us through how he's going to smash the gang. >> well, look, the key point about this is it's about using anti—terrorism legislation and the approach that has worked , the approach that has worked, against, you know, terror gangs and terror plots in the past. so it involves hiring hundreds of additional special investigators, which will be split across the agencies that work on this and the new border security command will be

modelled on the office of security and counter—terrorism , security and counter—terrorism, which the last labour government, introduced. and border control and stop and searches will be expanded, will be given expanded powers under the terrorism act to ensure enhanced stop and search and without the need for suspicion that you've had in the past. so basically, it gives more powers to our frontline in law enforcement to tackle the gangs. and it also involves working a working cross border. it's paid for not by 75 million taken out of the rwanda gang, which are actually paid for. i think that will take 30 people to rwanda or or we can use anti—terror, approach to smashing the gang. >> so it's anti—terror laws that are going to smash the gangs. now, sean, you were screwing your face up there. >> so stop and search. they'll be here. it's too late . if be here. it's too late. if someone climbs out of a boat without getting the mobile phones off them. sean, it's too late here. you've just sailed across a very big sea. you will do this with a mobile phone . do this with a mobile phone. >> but they don't. actually, they weirdly, they don't. the moment they realise they've been stopped and searched, those

those phones will be lining the engush those phones will be lining the english channel. >> that's the first point. the second point. let me i want to be fair about this. the idea of a more focused border force is correct, probably, but they have to watch it. it doesn't become like the home office, too big to handle the second piece as well. they talk about smashing the gangs unless they get import support, great support from the source country, it would be a complete waste of time because unless you can get to mr biggs, he doesn't care. he'll just keep going . he's he doesn't care. he'll just keep going. he's not he doesn't care. he'll just keep going . he's not taking he doesn't care. he'll just keep going. he's not taking a he doesn't care. he'll just keep going . he's not taking a risk. going. he's not taking a risk. he's sending people over. he's not carrying them over. so very different. >> so keir starmer's plan, which he will unveil tomorrow , he will unveil tomorrow, includes things like border control stop and searches, which we've mentioned they're expanding powers under the terrorism act to ensure enhanced stop and search, personal searches, examinations, seizure of mobile phones and devices. presumably what he's saying there is we'll be able to more accurately tell him this is what the belgians we arrested before the belgians we arrested before the belgians we arrested before the belgians have done it, because the moment when people come, their phones aren't confiscated because there isn't a law under which you can do it, whereas the belgians do confiscate the phones.

>> and that has had some success in tracing people back, further back down the chain , which sean back down the chain, which sean is absolutely right, is what you ultimately need there also. >> sorry, can i just say one last thing? >> unless they are prepared to actually send people back and i don't believe keir starmer said anything about that, it won't matter all it is. you'll know where they came from. great. what are you actually going to do to change that? i want this to work, but it doesn't sound like it's going to work. he said. a lot of things, but unless he actually says we will send people home, then it doesn't matter. well, this is this is an important point. >> now, keir starmer may elaborate on this. tomorrow we will have to wait and see. but as it currently stands, they would scrap the deterrent of flying people abroad and removing people . they would removing people. they would alice, and allow people to, well, not allow. but people would come to britain and they would come to britain and they would take their phones off them. there's not a lot here that i them. there's not a lot here thati can them. there's not a lot here that i can see about deporting anyone. >> well, i don't think it sounds all bad , actually. and i think all bad, actually. and i think the point which will strike home with a lot of people, is that the rwanda plan is much of that

is pie in the sky. i mean, all of these measures are going to cost about, the £75 million allocated for just one year or one tiny portion of the rwanda plan. and i think using counter—terrorism people , i've counter—terrorism people, i've often wondered why we didn't have mi5 and mi6 going in and, stopping some of these people smugglers because that must be possible to do that. and also , possible to do that. and also, what we have to admit, sean, is that the former, ian's someone, head of, board of border control, said that it was undermanned. there was, you know, there was no staff . it was know, there was no staff. it was absolutely shambolic. so if they can at least tighten that. but the point, the point, patrick, is surely the rwanda plan, even if they manage to get people off the ground , has got such the ground, has got such a limited scope for taking, you know , they say 1% at most three, know, they say 1% at most three, 300 people. we've had 8500 people since january . so i you people since january. so i you know, i think here's the point. >> here's the point. i'm not

trying to tell you the £100. brilliant. i'm not trying to tell you that. and i actually want this to work. but the point is keir starmer tomorrow needs to give a figure of how many people it's going to work, because is this 301 people or is it 30,000 people? who knows? he needs to tell us. i do accept that redirecting the money is a is a good spending money. that's a good thing to do. but what i worry about this is actually what he's criticising is a lot of talk and a little action. okay, set up a new force. but what do they do? the response to this has to be international. you'll never break these gangs and this you are on their path. >> he says here. i agree with you, sean. can i can i just say and i'll put this to you, matthew. yeah, yeah. so he says, so we will hire hundreds of new caseworkers for the home office, he says. and we'll do it immediately. we will create a new fast track returns and enforcement unit . we will ensure enforcement unit. we will ensure our courts can process claims quickly , and we will save the quickly, and we will save the taxpayer billions. how is he going to get around the exact same problem we have at the moment, which is that we just can't deport anyone?

>> well, it's one of the problems is not just that we can't deport, because there is an issue in some countries cases, but what is interesting about what he's going to say tomorrow, he's going to dub what the tories are doing, the travelodge amnesty, which is the people who are in hotels across the country as alison has both talked about on this sofa and written about, are just basically being stamped because they're not being investigated properly, because you haven't got that fast track to send people back, even if they are countries where you can send them back to legally, effectively. what the tories are trying to do is to get the get the, get the numbers of files down and get people out of hotels is say people can stay without their cases being my i mean, my big concern about this is, is that okay? >> it's all very well and good to confiscating people's phones when they arrive here. fine i think that just makes sense. i can't really believe we've not been doing that already, to be honest with you, which i think is ridiculous. right, this thing, we have to restore integrity and rules to our asylum system , says keir asylum system, says keir starmer. we have to clear the backlog . that is the path, the backlog. that is the path, the only path to real deterrence . my only path to real deterrence. my concern with alison is what does clearing the backlog actually

really look like? is it all right then come one, come all lads , you come in. lads, you come in. >> it's the opposite of that. >> it's the opposite of that. >> therein lies. well yes, but as matthew has just said, i'm afraid under our present administration, what they are doing at the moment is they are clearing the decks. >> that's what they're doing as they can. >> they are emptying those hotels and they are hiding. >> i spoke to one yesterday on the roundabout round the corner. >> thousands of people down the back of a sofa so rishi could stand up at a given moment and say, we have no backlog of asylum seekers here because they're all living in wolverhampton on our dime. that's what's going to happen. so this i actually think that what suella braverman and robert jenrick have said all along, until we leave this european court convention on human rights, we are not going to be able to return people properly to their place of origin. >> and that's the real thing. keir starmer and that political world have been guilty of fighting the government when they tried to deport people. >> he's going to talk to my a lot about using his. >> why will it be any different when he tries to do it? >> he's using his anti—terrorism experience. and actually one of the things to be on is there's a

serious crime prevention orders, which you can do under anti—terrorism legislation, which means that you can ban people from using the internet, etc, which the government won't do. >> all right. >> all right. >> well, hey, look, the important thing is, and we cannot deny this is we appear to be about to have a plan from laboun be about to have a plan from labour. right. which. so there's that and that will be we'll be heanng that and that will be we'll be hearing all about this in more on the kent coast with the new mp on the kent coast with a new mp, which has gone down incredibly well. right. okay. now, a high school in oregon has come under fire for allowing a transgender athlete to take part in races against biological girls the 10th grade. i mean, you can obviously see who it is. the 10th grader was seen blowing away the competition here in the 200 metre heat. wow. striding ahead of the other runners. so there we go. i mean, i'm sorry, but like, i don't even think they're going at full tilt there actually, well, yeah, i mean, we are a bit over alison, so i'll come back to it after the break, if that's all right. but i mean, it's ridiculous, isn't it? we'll play it's ridiculous, isn't it? we'll play that clip again shortly. coming up, should politics be left out of eurovision after israel is booed? and now i've just found out, i think i think israel has been sent through to

the final. so there's good news for israeli eurovision. i'm going to be discussing that with my panel as we crown tonight's greatest britain and union jackass. and okay, yes, i'll have more front pages for you

good evening, and welcome back to patrick christys . tonight on to patrick christys. tonight on gb news. i've got more front pages for you now , let's crack pages for you now, let's crack on, let's go to the. i cummings. bofis on, let's go to the. i cummings. boris and i saved thousands from covid, but we won't talk again. johnson's former chief adviser gives first major interview, dunng gives first major interview, during which he's obviously completely over everything, isn't he? he's moved on. so, man, who's moved on? let's go to the guardian. yeah, there we go. okay. fair and trepidation as 100,000 people flee rafe bombardment . starmer pledges to bombardment. starmer pledges to rip up rwanda scheme. they've also got that on their front page. just a reminder for you if you're just joining us, keir starmers labour party has unveiled their plan to stop the

boats. there's going to be a major announcement and speech on this tomorrow. let's go to the times, truancy up by a fifth on fridays, which, given that i'm off tomorrow , i feel like i off tomorrow, i feel like i shouldn't be really commenting on. but, minister blames unacceptable parenting after working from home fuels 50,000 extra absences and bank of england governor raises hopes of lower mortgage rates. there we go. right. okay, so those are all of your front pages . my all of your front pages. my wonderful panel are still with me here. well, apparently i've got the daily mirror as well. sorry. mirror. yeah. whooping cough warning vaccination plea to families amid fears of biggest outbreak in 40 years. thatis biggest outbreak in 40 years. that is to be fair, the same front page as three other outlets tomorrow. right my panel is with me. daily telegraph columnist allison pearson, conservative peer lord shaun bailey and former labour party adviser matthew larson. right now the eurovision song contest hasn't even kicked off yet, and we're already seeing hostility for one country, israel. so this isn't a show rehearsal. now, among cheers, people in the audience made it abundantly

clear that they didn't want the israeli out there . bazball israeli out there. bazball aside, sperm . so yeah, now that aside, sperm. so yeah, now that singer has been told to stay inside her hotel room as protesters against israel, inclusion in the contest have begun, greta thunberg is there obviously . of course she is, obviously. of course she is, yeah. i'm tonight. obviously. of course she is, yeah. i'm tonight . israel singer yeah. i'm tonight. israel singer eden golan, though, has qualified for the final on saturday and swedish host broadcaster svt has said it will not censor the eurovision audience if there is a repeat of the booing. yeah, alison, i mean, okay, so you've got booing on stage for one thing, but then you have got a group of people , you have got a group of people, including greta thunberg, out on the street, essentially barricading an israeli singer in a hotel room. this is just vile, isn't it? >> it's completely vile. she saved the planet then, patrick. >> she's changed. she's moved

on. yeah, she's done it now. >> she's moved on now. oh, that's all that's all sorted out? yeah. this is eden golan singing a lovely song, actually. beautiful voice called hurricane. she's 20 years old. she's representing a country . she's representing a country. she's representing a country. she's proud, proud israeli with lots of fantastic israeli backing singers and dancers. it's just completely unacceptable. it's bullying, isn't it? they've just become . isn't it? they've just become. they've just become the jews of the world, patrick. and they are the world, patrick. and they are the jews , aren't they? so the jews, aren't they? so that's. well, yeah. you know, anti—semitism and. yeah, i mean, ihope anti—semitism and. yeah, i mean, i hope she does. >> well, interesting, isn't it? because greta thunberg, you know, she's not that young anymore, is she? i don't know what is she now? 19, but she's been around for ages, so. but she she must know what it's like to be a young woman who's very public, who has received quite a bit of hate. and i think to, to really be inflicting that on somebody else, i find quite bizarre. sean. >> look, i look at his whole situation and to me it feels like bullying and greta being in her notoriety to this eye doesn't, doesn't help the

situation. and i think someone should ask her the exact question you've just posed. you know what it's like . why would know what it's like. why would you why would you do that? and i think sometimes people will risk harming the palestinian cause with some of these reactions . with some of these reactions. because you're looking at the eurovision song contest, it's meant to be about unity. you've definitely made it sectarian. now you know some people won't won't warm to that. and i think at some point the whole way that this is playing out, somebody will have to challenge, i'm someone who wants to make sure that nobody no, no extra deaths in palestine. let's stop. let's stop that now. but the way in which it's going, it's damaging relationships with with countries far beyond . countries far beyond. >> i know eurovision is always political, and usually we joke about it. yeah, well, the world hates us. >> we might not actually come last this time. >> and all of that. yeah, well, yeah. >> but i think it's very interesting that israel's been voted through in the semi—finals by the people of europe . yeah. by the people of europe. yeah. so it does give you some hope that that virtue signalling doesn't extend to people at home. >> can you imagine if they were i mean, this won't happen, but could you imagine the discrepancy between those people out there in the streets and

actually people at home anyway? right. moving on now , beloved, right. moving on now, beloved, sorry, beloved british actor hugh grant . all right, let's hugh grant. all right, let's just rephrase it. hugh grant has criticised apple's new iphone. hugh grant, of course , has hugh grant, of course, has criticised apple's new ipad advert, calling it the destruction of the human experience. is it really that bad, hugh? should we have a look for all reason, to build my walls all around you ? walls all around you? >> come and follow rainbows, i am told. >> i think, look, we're basically saying you can fit everything you enjoy in life into one ipad there. but right. look, it's time to reveal today's greatest britain and union jackass allison, your greatest britain, please. >> i'm going for an honorary onen >> i'm going for an honorary oner. is indeed eden. golan. the israeli entry for eurovision. this fantastic 20 year old proudly representing her country being terrorised in her hotel room by a bunch of nasty virtue

signallers. no poison to them. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> strong star sean mines is tees valley mayor lord houchen, who is re—elected on the back of delivering so much for his local area, he's really proud of his area. >> he comes from there and he's a he's a politician of real passion. i just like the fact that he was able to get re—elected on the back of what he's actually done, not what he's actually done, not what he's been talking about. >> okay . go on. >> okay. go on. >> matthew, the only the only tory who won, keir starmer for proposing a serious plan to tackle the boats and smash the gangs and not fail gimmicks like rishi. >> okay, now just again, i will keep reminding everybody if you are just joining us and i have just about got time for this, this was the big breaking news of the night. okay, so keir starmer is going to give a talk tomorrow, in which he will outline labour's plan to stop the boats. that includes things like creating a new elite border security command. enforcing additional counter—terror laws as well , confiscating the phones as well, confiscating the phones immediately, apparently, of people who come to this country, presumably in with a view of

finding out what's on those phones and tracking the people smugglers down, creating a new border security commander, hiring hundreds of additional specialist investigators. he wants to clear the backlog. he says , and he will pay for it says, and he will pay for it with, i believe , £75 million with, i believe, £75 million that would otherwise have been spent on rwanda. so that's it's in a nutshell. so that was the news tonight , right? today's news tonight, right? today's greatest britain is it's an honorary one. is eden golan, who is the israeli entrant for the eurovision , who is currently eurovision, who is currently holed up in a hotel room somewhere because there's a mob outside . right. union jack? outside. right. union jack? >> oh, still with eurovision . >> oh, still with eurovision. olly alexander olly alexander. the uk's entry who is really unleashed? my inner mary whitehouse, patrick worried about this. this is a disgusting display of young men in underpants doing. i mean, i don't know what it is. >> i'm not even young men in underpants. do what they do. >> young young men in a bathhouse. anyway it's pretty disgusting. it's actually not. he doesn't really sing in tune,

a bum note in every song . a bum note in every song. >> oh, there it is . okay. go on. >> oh, there it is. okay. go on. >> sean, my union jack is wes streeting for his comments and his rhetoric around susan hall, the tory candidate for mayor of london. if labour really is serious about running this country , they've got to move country, they've got to move away from this divisive identity politics nonsense. london is a place where so many different races rub together, and he is making terror in communities far beyond politics. >> i think we've got the tweet have we of, of him. so yeah. look, again, you know, well, i don't need to paraphrase. i can read it. a win for susan hall and the conservatives is a win for racists, white supremacists and islamophobes. the world over. >> oven >>i oven >> ican oven >> i can guarantee you i'm not a white supremacist, i really can. >> there are many things, but you're not aware. we know white supremacist. we'll agree on that. brown supremacist i should have nominated for jackass all the gay bars that are refusing to show the eurovision song contest as an act of solidarity with the palestinian people. happening. absolutely, yeah . happening. absolutely, yeah. there's another one in edinburgh has just done it. i said it's a,

so but my actual union jackass is your just about colleague, the green party, sian berry, who got this a week ago, was asking for votes of londoners, got elected to london assembly and three days later resigned so she could go and campaign in brighton to take over from caroline lucas. talk about taking the mickey with the electorate . electorate. >> yeah. no, indeed. and it is a good one. it's not the winner though. i've gone for wes streeting, but there we go. yes, but very, very close, matthew. right. look, thank you very much, everybody. and now thank you, thank you, thank you really enjoyed this evening. make sure that you keep a gb news tomorrow because we're gonna have a heck of a lot to go out with keir starmer. hey, you heard it here first. looking like he's announcing a policy which is fantastic . so there we go. we'll fantastic. so there we go. we'll be picking the bones out of that. i am however, off a nana will be sitting in this seat. it's headliners next, so make sure that you keep it gb news. and until then, keep fighting the good fight. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your

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gb news. >> hi there. very good evening to you. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom . some breaking the gb newsroom. some breaking news. sir keir starmer is set to unveil labour's plan to tackle the small boats crisis. the labour leader will launch the strategy tomorrow with a commitment to create a new border security command with hundreds of specialist investigue officers and prosecutors. the plan would bnngin prosecutors. the plan would bring in tough counter—terror powers to smash criminal smuggling gangs , which labour smuggling gangs, which labour says are undermining britain's national security. and that news comes as it's been confirmed more than 9000 migrants have crossed the english channel in small boats this year. official figures show 250 people made the journey since monday , taking the journey since monday, taking the tally for 2024 to almost 8800.

however, gb news can confirm another three small boats arrived on thursday and all this comes after a home office u—turn over the publication of the number of small boat migrants being prevented from making the illegal journey by french police . the chancellor has welcomed the bank of england's decision to hold its base rate, saying it's better to not rush into cutting rates. it's been left the rate unchanged for a sixth time at 5.25. now governor andrew bailey suggested a cut may be possible as early as june, but says it's by no means a done deal. jeremy hunt has urged the bank not to take risks with inflation. >> i welcome the fact that the bank of england is obviously thought about this very hard. they take this decision independently and i would much rather that they waited until they're absolutely sure inflation is on a downward trajectory, and rushed into a decision that they had to reverse at a later stage. what we want is sustainably low interest rates. and i think

what's encouraging is that the bank of england governor for the first time, has expressed real optimism that we're on that path i >> israel's made it through to the final of the eurovision song contest in sweden amid pro—palestinian demonstrations protesting against its participation. thousands of people packed the city's historic market square before a planned march through the city. israel's entry, eden golan was booed last night, but she got a more mixed reception earlier with some cheers of support . and with some cheers of support. and fifa's been threatened with legal action by global football leagues and players unions if it doesn't reschedule. next year's expanded club world cup. 32 teams, including chelsea and manchester city, will now compete in the competition, which will take place in the us next june . but a letter sent to next june. but a letter sent to fifa president gianni infantino says the sport's new schedule is beyond saturation . it will cause beyond saturation. it will cause economic harm for domestic leagues and poses a significant injury risk to players. fifa has yet to comment. well, for the

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