to other countries. people back to other countries. that's 2000 people more than we did last year. so that shows the progress we're making and including within that are 1700 foreign national offenders. again 400 more than last year. so yes , we are making progress. so yes, we are making progress. of course, there's more to do. i've been very clear that i won't stop until we have stopped the boats . the boats. >> meanwhile, the former immigration minister has criticised the foreign secretary for his apparent stance on controlling migration in robert jenrick accused lord cameron of campaigning against scrapping the graduate visa route, which allows overseas students to stay in the uk for 2 or 3 years after graduation . it comes after the graduation. it comes after the government's migration advisers said the policy doesn't undermine the integrity and quality of the higher education system, and should remain . system, and should remain. >> i preferred the former version of david cameron when he was prime minister and he set our manifesto at reducing legal migration to the tens of

thousands and along with nick clegg, he scrapped the graduate route . so i'm disappointed if route. so i'm disappointed if he's now campaigning to stop us from controlling migration and reducing the number of students coming into the country in this way, and you can see that full interview with the former immigration minister robert jenrick on patrick christys tonight. >> government documents have revealed that people living with hiv as a result of the infected blood scandal could receive more than £2 million in compensation . than £2 million in compensation. it comes as interim compensation payments of £210,000 will be given to infected blood victims for the most urgent cases, while the final scheme becomes operational. since the 1970s, 30,000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through contaminated blood products and transfusions. around 3000 have since died , and the high court since died, and the high court has ruled that prince harry cannot broaden legal action against news group newspapers to

include allegations against rupert murdoch. a judge has ruled the allegations against mr murdoch should not be allowed to be taken to trial, stating they added nothing material to the case. news group newspapers is accused of unlawful information gathering on prince harry since the age of nine, which it denies . and tv online dab+ radio this is gb news. i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour i >> -- >> hello and welcome. while you may have been expecting a typical state of the nation programme tonight we're bringing you something different. politics has always been a rough and tumble game. members of parliament have to be resilient against attacks from our biggest critics. but few politicians

ever have that resilience tested to the extent of one of my friends and fellow parliamentarians. friends and fellow parliamentarians . the friends and fellow parliamentarians. the very subject of this programme, some of you will be familiar with him, while others perhaps less so . but i, for one, can safely so. but i, for one, can safely say he is one of the bravest men i know. struck down by a sudden illness, his life has now been changed forever. but his determination not to let his circumstances hold him back from what he does best serving his constituents is truly inspiring. the interview you're about to see is at times difficult to watch, but ultimately a story of the utmost courage and indomitability. up until now, his story has not been . his story has not been. told. >> behind me is the palace of westminster, where every day mps of all political stripes go to work on behalf of their constituents. but just recently there's been an mp missing . a

there's been an mp missing. a tory mp has gone through a life changing illness but has an amazing story, an uplifting story to tell . i'm christopher story to tell. i'm christopher hope, gb news political editor. let's go and meet him . i'm on my let's go and meet him. i'm on my way to lambeth community care centre , just around the corner centre, just around the corner from the palace of westminster. here craig mckinley, the conservative mp for south thanet , has been recovering for the past seven months. craig is 57 years old, married and he has one daughter. he was first elected as a tory mp in 2015 and you may remember him from being on your gb news tv screens. sir craig mckinley, thanks for talking to gb news today. just tell us a bit about yourself. >> well, my politics go back a very long way, as i'm sure most people are aware. yeah, it goes back to the early 90s, 91, when gerald john mauger was discussing the maastricht treaty. that was when my

political antenna went up and i thought, well, this is a step too far. it was then that i decided that britain must leave the european union. it wasn't a european union union then. it was sort of that's what maastricht created. and myself and others created uk . before and others created uk. before nigel farage about six months before. and then nigel came along and, you know, we were great friends and all of that. we had a quite a history together. but the waves parted in the mid 2000. i came back to the conservative party got elected in the medway towns unitary authority as a councillor. so you can have three ballot papers got through the conservative party's pab. i was on the candidates list, didn't get a seat for 2010, but got a kent seat and association. i knew very well in south thanet in 2015. well, ladies and gentlemen , i must and i stood on gentlemen, i must and i stood on that platform as avowedly anti—eu , very pleased at the anti—eu, very pleased at the time that you could talk about those things over camera had offered the referendum and 16 was, you know, a glory day in my political history, really, it

was everything i'd ever wanted to achieve . whether it's quite to achieve. whether it's quite happened as much as i'd have liked, that's another issue. but we did get out, and that was very the irony was, of course, you beat nigel farage in 2015. well, the mad thing was, i don't know why he was stood against me, but i would have thought there were other seats out there he could have won. but, that's a mystery that i haven't sat down with nigel to discuss. but maybe we will one day. >> and you've been a right wing tory. i can say since 15. you're a sensible tory. >> sensible tory. >> sensible tory. >> okay. and you.7 you're >> sensible tory. >> okay. and you? you're one of the spartans. a 28 spartan mps who held out through all three votes of theresa may's brexit deal votes of theresa may's brexit deal. which means you've got a bit of something in you. you're stubborn, aren't you, craig mckinley? >> well, i suppose i'm not in this for personal aggrandisement. i'm here to do a job and a job that i think britain needs doing. >> i swear by almighty god that i will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her majesty queen elizabeth. >> her heirs and successors

according to law. so help me god . there was nothing was ever going to move me from voting against theresa may's deals because they're all bad. and you know, number one, the meaningful vote, one that she lost by the biggest margin in british political history , the ayes to political history, the ayes to the right, 242. >> the noes to the left 391. so the noes have it . the noes have the noes have it. the noes have it unlocked. >> almost. forget all those glory days that went on those knife edge votes. i mean, the maddest one was the multi multiple choice vote. if you remember that one that still didn't come to a decision. clear the lobby . oh right. right. the lobby. oh right. right. fine. yeah. lovely >> so you're used to being an awkward awkward bugger i suppose so, yes i suppose so. >> i've always been fiercely independent, always worked for myself, haven't always had to play by myself, haven't always had to play by the rules. but being in politics isn't about having a career in my view . this is about

career in my view. this is about getting things done that you truly believe in. >> but one day his life changed suddenly. it was one of those days that will be etched on craig's memory for life. it was the end of september 2023. he was getting ready to go on houday was getting ready to go on holiday with his family. he started to feel unwell and unexpectedly, craig had contracted sepsis . now, sepsis contracted sepsis. now, sepsis is a life threatening reaction to an infection. it happens when your immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage your body's own tissues and organs, start to feel just a little bit unwell. >> but you thought, well, you know, maybe a little bit of a cold coming on what they flooey or how do you feel? yeah, just a bit, yeah, a bit achy, just a bit, yeah, a bit achy, just a bit tired, just a bit off, you know, just off. off home. really. yeah. just that precursor you often get before you get a cold and there's a covid test. when i got home because you thought maybe a bit of covid about again back last yeah of covid about again back last year. nothing there. completely clear, early morning flight the

next day. thought i'd take myself off to bed and sleep for a few hours. my wife is a pharmacist. or did the usual checks, blood pressure and temperature, and i was all fine and felt a bit unwell during the night. was got up and was sick and by the morning my wife said no, i think we need to call the ambulance. what time was this? i think it's about past seven in the morning when i couldn't detect his pulse and couldn't check his blood pressure. >> the monitor wasn't registering. that's when i knew that it's time to phone the ambulance. the ambulance first didn't even want to take him to the hospital so much . the hospital so much. >> they didn't want to take him in. >> they didn't. they? only outstanding thing. or only bad, mark he had was his sugar level, which was very, very low. but once he had a bit of breakfast, even that came back up. so, they were thinking whether to just see the gp in the morning or rush him into hospital. luckily, they decided the second one and

that's when things started to speed up within about half an hour of being in hospital, i had this, what they call a dic effect, which is like when sepsis gets completely out of control, turned literally a colour of blue from head to toe. your whole body was blue. whole body from head to toe was blue. my body from head to toe was blue. my wife had already said my hands were extremely cold. >> he had septic shock. he was in the icu. yes. he went into his whole body top to toe. literally was a navy. and, and navy blue, navy blue. yes. that's the nature of the dic . that's the nature of the dic. and, within days, probably 2 or 3 days, we saw that, there was serious discolouration on his toes as well. and his fingers, particularly his thumbs. >> i'm out of it and gone and put into a coma and gosh, didn't come around for another 16 days to be able to get on, with all

the necessary procedures, they had to put him in an induced coma. >> and then within a few hours , >> and then within a few hours, he had to, be dialysed a dialysis . he started his dialysis. he started his breathing got difficult. so the lungs were also suffering. so that's when they declared the multiple organ failure . multiple organ failure. >> everything was starting to shut down. it was quite serious . shut down. it was quite serious. and wife was told that they'd very rarely see people who have this amount of illness in the hospital. and perhaps prepare for the worst. >> at this stage, we still didn't know what the cause was because none of the tests were so any bacterium or viral in present , and so any bacterium or viral in present, and that so any bacterium or viral in present , and that after six days present, and that after six days came to light, that pneumococcus. that's when we were told that craig would have 5% chance to survive . i must 5% chance to survive. i must admit, i, i never said goodbye. inever

admit, i, i never said goodbye. i never thought that's it for craig. you've got the first two days. stay the difficulty to deal with the idea that. is it really happening or is it a nightmare? but then . then the nightmare? but then. then the reality hits. after about 48 hours. that is not something you can wake up from. but i somewhere down deep, i, i always knew that craig would pull through . and he did it, became through. and he did it, became clear that there would be some kind of limb loss or digit loss we were hoping for to begin with, for fingers and toes. that was clear after about 7 to 10 days. >> since your limbs are dying off, aren't they? >> they are. you end up with a lot of blood clots in your extremities and that's quite

classic. they call it the socks and gloves and that's when i had socks and gloves. what does that mean? well you you know, your socks are your feet suffer because their extremities and gloves being your hands the you end up with big clots going into your hands and your feet. and also it affected the front of my face. you see, i've got a bit of scarring and the ears, a bit of ears. yeah, i had necrosis because of, a loss of blood supply in the front of my mouth, andifs supply in the front of my mouth, and it's caused some damage to teeth and a bit of scarring that they had to take off some dead skin and that would be some, some plastic surgery into the future. yeah coming up, i know the price i'm going to pay for living is quite serious disability, but we'll get over it. we're going to have prosthetics at work. we're going for some very fancy multi articulating hands and, you know, in time, hopefully i might be a little bit taller even because i've put an extra inch on my, my legs and thus far. so that's, that's perhaps the bonus of it

>> the arms and legs went black. >> the arms and legs went black. >> yeah. i mean , awful. i mean, >> yeah. i mean, awful. i mean, i've got. i've got some video. i've got. i've got some video. i've got. i've got some video. i've got it on here. actually, i've got it on here. actually, i've got it up because. >> yeah. rage and not really been much to report. if i'm honest, since this condition of the most appalling sepsis, started on the 28th of september. so over two months ago , i want to say a very months ago, i want to say a very big thanks to the nhs, started at medway hospital . and the at medway hospital. and the reality is, i probably shouldn't

have survived this far. >> so went completely black, completely black. they looked like pharaoh's arms. they'd just been sort of dug up out the desert. they were sort of desiccating and dry. >> the blood supply loss to extremities was caused this most strange, almost leather like plastic material to emerge . and plastic material to emerge. and it caused the complete death of my hands and also my feet . like my hands and also my feet. like frostbite effect. but your whole arm. very weird . into frostbite effect. but your whole arm. very weird. into a frostbite effect. but your whole arm. very weird . into a state of readiness. >> so then you're in a coma. up your arms and legs are black. yeah do you know how long you're in a coma for? were you out for a bit, i think they tried to take.i a bit, i think they tried to take. i don't really know the full details. when you speak to katie about this, she'll tell you. saw the when's. but, i think i was in a full coma for about a week or so, and then sort of in and out of , you know, sort of in and out of, you know, a bit of bit of sedation. and i was transported to saint thomas's hospital on the 16th of

october, when i was well enough to be moved, because i just physically wasn't well enough. >> so they stabilised you with drugs? yeah, yeah, platelet level was collapsed. so it means you really can't be moved because if you do have a bleed , because if you do have a bleed, you're not going to you're going to bleed out. but that's a three week gap pretty much getting on for three weeks. >> when you weren't aware. >> when you weren't aware. >> weren't aware at all. not a clue. and even i think the first few days of thomas's don't really remember them very clearly. >> so you woke up in saint thomas's, you thought, why am i here? yeah. yeah, maybe. yeah. and you went to went to looked at your arms and thought, well, why are they these black arms? >> and obviously wife was explaining what had happened . explaining what had happened. and you know, how did you know what i was thinking? actually, i think probably still on the joys of fentanyl and all the rest of it by then. so, yeah, in and out of lucidity . but i could see of lucidity. but i could see these things were probably lost . these things were probably lost. it was became obvious. >> move your fingers. oh, no. >> move your fingers. oh, no. >> they were completely fixed. fixed into a clenched fist.

yeah. and toes, you could i could move a couple of toes on my left leg, but, there was sort of a little sign of life in them . maybe they could have saved a bit of a foot, but my surgeon said you are better off having them off because you can have prosthetics, and you'll walk far better than having a partial foot. >> was there any moment at which the surgeons thought , you remind the surgeons thought, you remind me, saying this, maybe kochi knows more that is it worth craig carrying on? it's going to be. it's been a difficult life after this. was there a choice to be made? >> i don't think that ever happened to saint thomas's, but i think those conversations certainly happened at medway in the early stages. >> what happened there, he ought to be on, do not resuscitate . is to be on, do not resuscitate. is it worth it? you know, the choice was so serious you could have been left to die. >> and there's a choice made by katie on your behalf not to die. yeah yeah. >> and because you don't see many people like me , you don't many people like me, you don't often see quite amputees. and i think 20, 30 years ago, you wouldn't have seen any because

people just died. i think the quality of the drugs has moved on.the quality of the drugs has moved on. the understanding of sepsis has moved on. that that bit more over the years. and that's the reason i'm alive and trouble is the, you know, the price i'm going to pay for living is quite serious disability. but we'll get over it . so of course, is get over it. so of course, is this is the last time that these old things that have served me well for 57 years will be attached to me. >> i'm a bit of a positive person. i also believe positive thoughts have to bring positive things in your life, but it just got to a point when the amputation was the only way forward. that day was difficult that morning and the night before was very difficult because it became real. >> so it will be a new life, a different life, and we'll be adapting to it. so the grim reaper let me survive. but he's

taken his payment in four of my limbs. but that's the way it is. plenty of worse things happening. >> i went in the morning with the first train to get to craig as soon as possible, and i was surprised to see that i woke craig up in his room. he slept very well. i couldn't because i knew just that's when that is it. no way back. and, yes , he it. no way back. and, yes, he was very matter of fact, he accepted that they black. they're not any use anymore . and they're not any use anymore. and that's it. so he had a very long, very long operation . and long, very long operation. and he did come back . without those he did come back. without those black arms and legs. he did come back. without those black arms and legs . and by then black arms and legs. and by then i was fine. i just knew that is it. that's the new, new future.

new life begins. >> 4 or 5 hour operation. yeah and i woke up and saw i was. i couldn't have done it. they must have just sort of looked, looked at it and decided not to or something. but then i realised, oh yes , they have done it . after oh yes, they have done it. after the break there will be a rebalance because i physically won't be able to be chasing all of those rainbows all the time. i'm not going to be as able. i'll be able enough because being an mp, a time with family. that has got to be a change for the absolute good. and i'm looking forward to that.

and how do you introduce olivia to the scale of what had happened to daddy when craig fell ill? >> the ambulance crew was here. olivia was still in bed, so they arrived. ambulance arrived, and then she opened her door and she thought, oh, who are these people? so she was all around them asking what happened and they they would be making daddy better and fare better. the difficulty came when daddy didn't come home that evening , didn't come home that evening, and i had to tell her that that night that he needed to stay in hospital. and obviously, knowing the nature of craig snell illness, i couldn't100% the nature of craig snell illness, i couldn't 100% tell

her that daddy would come home. i didn't want to her keep false hope, so i just had to go around a subject that that is there to fare better and to get better and then around the fifth day, when , when she just by then she when, when she just by then she started to cry . i remember started to cry. i remember getting her ready for bath, and she just sat on the floor and she just sat on the floor and she told me . that. do you think she told me. that. do you think that he thinks of me? and that was it. that's when she started to cry. but, obviously when daddy felt better and i could see that the blood test results were starting to get better , and were starting to get better, and he was making more and more sort of connections with us as we arrived to the room. even still

being in coma, i could tell to olivia that craig was feeling better and the operation happened on the 1st of december, and you have to introduce olivia to her. >> to her daddy? yes yes. how do you do that, after the operation we talked about. >> that is black arm and legs a lot, once olivia was seeing them, and she also had good understanding of just being ill. she understood that if we left them there, they would make daddy feel even worse. so she . daddy feel even worse. so she. she accepted that fairly quickly. she even said she didn't like that. his black arms , legs before the illness. but she really didn't like those black legs or arms.

>> and when your daughter saw you, your your daughters. olivia's three or she four. she's four now, isn't she? when she saw you, what did she say? >> she was remarkable. i think children always are. but the first time she was brought up to see me. we covered up all these black hands

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top story this hour. the 73 year old british man who died after an aircraft was hit by severe turbulence on a flight from london heathrow to singapore, has been named as jeff kitchin . has been named as jeff kitchin. the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in bangkok. airport officials believe the man may have suffered a heart attack. more than 50 people were hurt. seven of them critically, after sustaining head injuries. singapore airlines confirmed there were 18 crew and 211 passengers on board. 47 were from the uk . a former royal from the uk. a former royal marine accused of spying for the hong kong intelligence service has died in an unexplained circumstances in the park in berkshire, 37 year old matthew trickett was charged with offences under the national security act earlier this month. police officers were called to grenfell park in maidenhead at around 5:15 pm. on sunday. a police cordon is in place as police cordon is in place as police continue to investigate the death, which is being treated as unexplained .

treated as unexplained. government documents have revealed that people living with hiv as a result of the infected blood scandal could receive more than £2 million in compensation. it comes as interim compensation payments of £210,000 will be given to infected blood victims for the most urgent cases, while the final scheme becomes operational. since the 1970s, 30,000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through contaminated blood products and transfusions . around 3000 have transfusions. around 3000 have since died , and a conservative since died, and a conservative mp has spoken to gb news about his battle with sepsis, admitting he's extremely lucky to be alive. craig mckinley is returning to parliament for the first time tomorrow after suffering a life threatening episode of sepsis in september, which led to the amputation of his hands and feet. the mp for south thanet has spoken out about his road to recovery and wants to be known as the first bionic mp . bionic mp. >> everything was starting to

shut down, it was quite