the net migration numbers that. the net migration numbers are out and the spin is on immigration figures and they are down by 10. >> it's actually been around a 50% increase in work migration . 50% increase in work migration. >> and find out why this man is back in the headlines. >> we're back and we're ready for it all over again . for it all over again. >> on my panel tonight is gb news superstar nana akua. we've got tory peer lord shaun bailey and ex—labour advisor matthew laza. oh, and this horse doesn't like tourists . oh, god help me. like tourists. oh, god help me. >> he's got my heart. >> he's got my heart. >> get ready, britain. here we go . go. they're out. the traps and the race is on. next. >> good evening. i'm sophia

wenzler in the gb newsroom. your top story this hour. the prime minister has admitted flights carrying migrants to rwanda will not take off before the general election in july. but he says the scheme will continue if he's re—elected. it comes as political party leaders begin six weeks of trying to win votes after it was announced polls will open on the 4th of july, kicking off the conservatives campaign this morning, rishi sunak claimed labour would do absolutely nothing to stop the boats. >> everyone else is starting to agree with my approach, which is bold. the one person that doesn't is keir starmer. that's a choice at this election . he a choice at this election. he thinks that we should just offer an amnesty to illegal migrants to make us a soft touch of europe. it would make us a magnet for thousands of migrants coming from everywhere. so that's the choice at this election. do you think my plan is the right one.7 do election. do you think my plan is the right one? do you think i'm the one that's taking bold action to secure our borders and to stop the boats? or do you think he's going to do that? and it's pretty clear that on this issue, not only does he not

share the country's values, that it's a problem. he's going to do absolutely nothing about it. >> and starting his election campaign in south east england, labour leader sir keir starmer says that what the conservatives have done to this country is unforgivable, and voters don't need to put up with it. >> rishi sunak clearly does not believe in his rwanda plan . i believe in his rwanda plan. i think that's been clear from this morning, because he's not going to get any flights off. i think that tells its own story. i don't think he's ever believed that plan is going to work. and so he's called an election early enough to have it not tested before the election. we have to deal with the terrible loss of control of the border under this government. we have to tackle the small boats that are coming across. nobody, but nobody should be making that journey . should be making that journey. >> meanwhile, lib dems leader sir ed davey says the conservatives are out of touch for far too long, people across the united kingdom have been let down and taken for granted by this conservative government and this conservative government and this out of touch conservative

party. >> but with this election, we have the chance to win the change our country so desperately needs . desperately needs. >> in other news, a man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years for a series of attacks in south london. mohammed noor targeted strangers and used a makeshift blade to kill johanniter dog by slitting her throat in brixton in may last year. the 34 year old was also found guilty of three other slash attacks two days before her death , and a record number her death, and a record number of more than 68,500 people were granted refugee status or other types of leave to remain in the year to march home office figures show. that's the highest number for any 12 month period since records began. meanwhile the total asylum backlog still stands at more than 100,000. and for the latest stories , sign up for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning

the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts . now it's to gbnews.com/alerts. now it's back to . patrick. back to. patrick. >> it's thursday, the 23rd of may, and the political parties are out of the traps. it's the first day proper of the election campaign. prime minister rishi sunak was looking to improve on a wet start yesterday, and the opfics a wet start yesterday, and the optics of a sky news journalist being forcibly removed from their launch event last night. >> and i'm being forcibly removed and we just simply wanted to have access tonight. >> as sky news. but unfortunately we're told that because there are pool arrangements in place. >> nice to see darren again, isn't it? mr sunak decided to kick start the campaign trail outside what looks like a row of portaloos at a warehouse rave . portaloos at a warehouse rave. >> i think after a difficult few years, i'm pleased that economic stability is now returning to the country. we've just seen that inflation has returned to normal. the economy is growing at a healthy rate again, wages have been rising sustainably for

several months now and although i know not everyone is feeling the full benefits of that yet, it's clear that we have turned a corner. the question for the country is the choice of this election is, you know, who's got the boldest ideas, the clearest plan to provide a secure future for you and your family. that's the choice at this election. >> he's doing a whistle stop tour of all four home nations. he went to wales and appeared to forget they hadn't qualified for the euros. >> looking forward to all the football . not so much my bag. football. not so much my bag. well >> no, but that's because you guys aren't in it. >> are the scottish national party set their stall out today? it's hard to tell, though, if their new leader, john swinney, is talking about his party here or the tories. >> never has a government deserved to lose more than rishi sunaks government. you want higher living standards and a fairer country where everyone can lead secure, happy, healthy lives . you want a national lives. you want a national health service you can rely upon

most of you think that brexit was a terrible mistake . you do was a terrible mistake. you do not think westminster works for scotland and you want scotland to have a strong voice. all of those things sum up what i am about. >> the liberal democrats have said that they want to target 80 tory seats. here's their leader, sir ed davey, delivering a completely meaningless word salad of guff to a load of people. probably dressed in socks and sandals for far too long, people across the united kingdom have been let down and taken for granted by this conservative government and this out of touch conservative party. >> but with this election , we >> but with this election, we have the chance to win the change. our country so desperately needs. and there's a real chance in this election if people vote liberal democrat, they will get that change. but it's not just a change of government. we need to transform

our politics. our policy is broken. if we can transform it, that unlocks the chance to fix our health and care system . our health and care system. >> hey, labour's sir keir starmer is attacking the tory heartlands in the south east. his day began by patting a baby's head. perhaps someone had shown him a little bit more compassion, though, after he appeared to avoid applauding craig mckinley's heroic return to parliament after his battle with sepsis. the handshake at the end. there. there we go. but then he got his message out there, didn't he? >> so this election is about a choice. two different countries, two different futures . decline two different futures. decline and chaos continuing under the tories or rebuilding our country

under labour, the power of the vote is with you . if you want vote is with you. if you want change, you have to for vote it. and if you vote labour, it's a to vote stop the chaos. it's a vote to turn the page , and it's vote to turn the page, and it's a vote to rebuild our country together. thank you very much. thank you . thank you. >> over to reform now. richard tice. his day started badly when nigel farage issued this letter. he will not be standing as a candidate, but he will be campaigning. it's fair to candidate, but he will be campaigning. it's fairto say campaigning. it's fair to say that this has not gone down that well with everyone but mr tice copped it again, though, for this unfortunate graphic . this unfortunate graphic. really. so i mean, he was saying there that, you know, 1066 the immigration line was was flat . i immigration line was was flat. i mean, quite famously, though, i must say there was some illegal immigration from france in 1066. but anyway, he got his point out there in the end , it's the there in the end, it's the immigration election, apparently. >> so you can't trust the tories. and as we know, labour wants more mass immigration. if

you want change, folks, you've got to vote for it. on july the 4th, vote for change. vote for reform uk . reform uk. >> now the eagle eyed of you will have realised that the word change is coming up a lot at this election so far. so that's how all the major parties kick started their campaigns today. it's a mixed bag. i'm just going to cross over now to our man on the street. this is barry and barry to see what he makes of what he's seen so far. >> they're all a load of prats. >> they're all a load of prats. >> let's get the thoughts of my panel tonight i am joined by gb news superstar nana akua. i have got tory peer, lord shaun bailey and ex—labour party advisor matthew laza. and look, seana , matthew laza. and look, seana, i'll start with you. sunak has got off to a damp start hasn't he. look he definitely got soaked . some people i've spoken soaked. some people i've spoken to said what a trouper is that in the rain. >> other people said why didn't he just go inside in the dry. what i would say to rishi is forget about it. the thing you learn about a campaign is it's

not one little disaster that defines your campaign. it's a general feel. you'll make some mistakes, some things won't go how you planned. but soldier on. i think what's much more important now is for rishi to learn to tell stories. must tell stories that counteract the narrative that, keir starmer labour party trying to get going. that's how he beats this man. >> okay. all right, matthew, i'll put it to you that there are two things that labour don't have an answer for at the moment. they want to make it easier to change gender. it's more men and women's changing rooms. and that asylum seeker amnesty, which could see 90,000 people added to the backlog. >> well, they're already in the backlog because they're already here. >> so, i mean, look, i mean, just sean, i've just been sent the first word, cloud, where they do a focus group and ask people the words they associate with what they've seen. and this is on the launches yesterday, the biggest words in the word cloud for yesterday, for this, for rishi, this this is for both labour and the tories. so for rishi the big four, the biggest four words were desperate, wet, rubbish and weak and for and for keir the first four words were confident, positive, ready and

hope.i confident, positive, ready and hope. i think that says it all about the fact alister campbell can pilot exactly what this is. it's for more in common, it's available there on the net. >> a labour party member put that together, surely. >> no, no independent focus group. >> matthew, what do you make of what we're seeing so far? who's got off to the best start? oh, god. >> well, i mean, rishi sunak was a cross between gonzo from the muppets and roland. rat doesn't he? and he was like a drowned rat. actually, if you take the a out of the sunak, it sunk. and thatis out of the sunak, it sunk. and that is kind of how he came across. that was just not good, was it? and then you had sir keir starmer, who looked like the cat that got the cream. yeah. but then he sort of didn't know how to sort of behave because he was not expecting. it was like he didn't really expect to find himself in this position. so he was caught off guard. and then you had ed davey who, he was grinning like a cheshire cat, wasn't he, with the rest of his party. and they finally worked out that their banners are orange and not yellow, because usually the lib dems are all sort of multicoloured banners. they haven't quite got it right. and of course, then you had richard

tice with the reform. and so i just felt that for me, i thought they were all pretty useless. it's all pretty lacklustre and frankly, i mean, i don't know what i will do in terms i have to vote, but i just thought they were all pretty bad. >> let's have a little look now at some of the resignations that have come in thick and fast so far. we've got sir michael ellis, mp for north hampton north, hugh merriman, a transport minister and mp for bexhill and battle. james grundy , mp for lee. dame ellen a—lang, a deputy speaker of the commons and mp for epping forest . jo and mp for epping forest. jo churchill, the employment minister and the mp for bury saint edmunds sean, your mps, even cabinet ministers don't want it. >> look, i think one of the things that rishi could have gotten better is not to surprise people. if you're a general and you're and you're about to enter a battle, the people you should inform is, are people going to fight that battle. and i think that hasn't hasn't played out too well with some of the mps i've spoken to. but this is natural. you do get a number of

mps who will stand down, but if you surprise them when they stand down quickly, it looks like has something to do with the prime minister and not a plan. they had beforehand. so he now will have to carry this because he didn't inform them. >> but nobody's on his side. so that's, you know, he doesn't know who's on his side. so even if he had told people he was going to do then that would have leaked out because they're so disunited that they just wouldn't have. >> but you're you might well be correct, but it's still you have to because the few who are on your side and the ones who are in the middle, if you don't involve them, they'll join the group. but but matthew, apparently rishi sunak has challenged now. >> well, he has challenged sir keir starmer to a weekly televised debate. starmer doesn't want it. why is he running? >> bring it on. i don't think there's any evidence that starmer doesn't want it. i know from speaking to people in labour hq they're up for it. i was in 2015, i was one of those negotiating debates with the tories when david cameron wouldn't debate, take his opponents. so as long as the rules are fair, which i'm sure agreement can be reached, you know, bring it on and i look forward to it. i mean, let's remember, as you say, sean, all

these mps are leaving because this has just been sprung on this. we're having a general election on july the 4th, when, remember when it's insulting to scotland because the scottish schools are on holiday. we're having it. >> why is that insulting? >> why is that insulting? >> because it's always. it's always. you never have elections dunng always. you never have elections during school holidays. why? >> because they're independent. >> because they're independent. >> because they're not independent. well, they certainly weren't. well, no majority voted to stay in including campaigned for by your party. and of course, all this is about is because rishi sunak knows he's going to lose and he wants to have his kids starting in school in california in august. he's he's smelling them. he's smelling the salt of the beach in malibu. he's checking out. but you see, you see you see what matthew's just done and said that is what's wrong with this campaign, particularly by the labour party. >> but not only and what's wrong with this country? the reason everybody's apathetic about politics is because of the way people in politics speak about politics, and personal attacks like that are necessary. >> it's absolutely true. >> it's absolutely true. >> you literally named the man and said, let's ask the prime minister, then i want a prime minister, then i want a prime minister in this country who didn't have a green card, who wasn't have a green card of another country and he deserves it because of his one at a time,

because of his record. >> sean. >> sean. >> sean, sean. >> sean, sean. >> he's ready, he's ready. he doesn't care about his country. >> all of you, stop it! this is getting weird. just finish the point, sean. finish! that's sean. >> finish the point. the bottom line is right. no matter. no matter who wins or loses. we have to emerge from this as a country that has some chance of sticking together. and we won't if those things continue. >> oh, come off it, sean. the prime ministers spent the whole day attacking keir starmer. and it's perfectly legitimate to attack rishi sunak, who doesn't know who will be, who will be in malibu before christmas. >> they're leaving because they know they're going to lose. frankly that's the only reason they're going totally. but you shouldn't really be talking about personal attacks. let me just remind you, angela rayner misogynistic, homophobic, banana republic, eton racist scum that came from your party. wes streeting . yeah, anybody who's streeting. yeah, anybody who's voted for susan hall is a white supremacist or hey, it wasn't quite what he said. >> he would give succour to. >> he would give succour to. >> no, no, but he said that those that is a win for those who are white supremacists and which implies that those who are

voting for him. well, it implies sean's the wise, the premises and me too. so. so did you vote for it? i don't think that the labour party can talk about throwing out insults . their throwing out insults. their insults are the worst. >> all right. okay, right off to a good start. and yeah, may i very politely. we love a spirited debate here. but we do have people listening on radio. and it is a little bit tricky when everyone's shouting over each other. i ourselves however i absolutely love it. so still to come, i am joined by one of the most important figures in the most important figures in the tory election campaign the party chairman, an mp richard holden. plus legal migration remains absolutely sky high. 685,000. where are these migrants coming from? though for me that's the biggest story actually. where in the world are they coming from and why is the government still failing to do that much about it? you'll never guess the answer, though, to this question, but you want to do. >> if you're not an mp, what do you want to do if you're not an mp? >> strap yourselves in for that one. but up next, this is, i think, really the other big story of the day. so nigel farage sent shockwaves through british politics. >> i've been offered a role to

work for a very big grassroots conservative movement in america i >> -- >> yeah. and so he's not going to be standing, is he ? so i want to be standing, is he? so i want to be standing, is he? so i want to hear your views tonight. following that, has nigel made a massive mistake by refusing to stand in the election, going head to head on that the reform party's rupert lowe and journalist mike buckley, it's patrick christys tonight. we're on

gb news. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, with legal migration running out of control , i lock horns with a migrant support worker, kate marsh, who joins us live from dover. but first, after nigel farage announced that he won't stand in the general election . has he the general election. has he made a huge mistake? it's time for tonight's head to head . it's for tonight's head to head. it's got a lot of people going this story, so this morning, farage confirmed that he won't be competing for a seat in parliament. in a statement, he said important though, the general election is the contest in the united states of america on november the 5th has huge global significance . i intend to global significance. i intend to help with the grassroots campaign in the usa in any way that i can. well, in the last few hours, this is what he told gb news. >> what i'm good at is getting grassroots energised, getting grassroots energised, getting grassroots active . and i'm grassroots active. and i'm currently, i've been offered a role to work for a very big

grassroots conservative movement in america, not aligned to the republican party. as such, but very influential . very influential. >> well, pollsters had recently predicted that a farage comeback would cause a surge in support for reform, with the potential to annihilate the fractured tory party at the ballot box. so tonight i am asking, has nigel farage made a mistake by not standing for reform in the general election? let me know your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. tweet me @gbnews. while you're there, go and vote in our poll. the results to follow shortly. but first i am joined now by reform uk's business and agriculture spokesman rupert lowe, we are, i believe, trying to get , mike believe, trying to get, mike buckley on at some point as well. he was obviously from the left. but for now, rupert, it is just you and i. so, look, i put a tweet out earlier asking my followers whether or not they thought nigel had made a massive mistake here if they felt let down, a man who puts the us over the uk, he can see reform has no

chance. he's all talk. always has been , there's quite a lot of has been, there's quite a lot of this going about as he cocked up. >> well, good evening, patrick. it's a pleasure to be on your show , the answer to the question show, the answer to the question is no, i think if there was any form of misunderstanding, it was through the announcement that was made this morning that i don't think was entirely clear. nigel is not doing anything other than supporting reform. indeed, he's , you know, stood indeed, he's, you know, stood down from his program on gb news so he can help across the country to campaign for our key target seats, one of which is the seat i'm standing in in great yarmouth. he's already committed to come and spend some time in great yarmouth, the constituency that's been very badly let down by both the tories and labour since the war, and i'm delighted he's coming. i think he's one of the most effective campaigners in britain. and he started this movement and i know he wants to

finish it off okay. i think could i, could i just ask you, could i, could i just ask you, could i, could i just ask you, could i just ask you rupert. >> you know, nigel has previously spoken in withering terms about american politicians coming over here and interfering in our politics. is he not now doing that over there ? doing that over there? >> well, i think in america he's right. you know, obviously the free world is now led by somebody who, in my opinion, patrick has got dementia. i think that's pretty clear for everybody to see. so i, i think it's absolutely crucial that we get a strong leader of the free world. donald trump is not everybody's cup of tea, but at least i think he will bring some decision making. he will bring some respect for freedom, some respect for the individual versus the collective. i think nigel quite rightly sees the leadership of the free world as very important. i think that doesn't. >> yeah, i get, i get all that and look , by the way, for what and look, by the way, for what it's worth, there's no there's no point pretending to anyone about it. you know, i get on

with nigel, obviously. and you know, that's well documented. right. so i don't want to seem like i'm digging him out unnecessarily here. but, you know, i am putting up the side of it that it could be viewed that you know mr great britain mr brexit mr union jack has decided not to stand because he's going to get a few dollars stateside. >> well i think he could have done both had he chosen to do that patrick i mean i personally think he would have won in clacton had he decided to stand in clacton. we've got a very good candidate in clacton who's got an extremely good chance anyway, and i'm sure with nigel's help, which i you know, i'm as he's given everybody his commitment, he's going to give the key people, at the end of the key people, at the end of the day, i think we can still win it, but i think that's a personal decision , he could have personal decision, he could have had a bite of both cherries, but he chose, i think, to spread his talents across the entire reform campaign, which arguably is, it could be said, is obviously stronger for us than than him just standing and committing himself to one seat. so i, i know nigel like me. you know,

we've been part of this. i stood for the referendum party to save the pound. i then did a lot for business, for sterling. i did a lot for vote leave. i ended up staying with the brexit party. theresa may, now i'm in reform because westminster is not working for any of us. so at the end of the day, at the end of the day, patrick, this is very important. we're all standing to give the british people an opportunity to vote from somebody from outside the existing westminster establishment. okay. if you're happy with the way you've been governed, vote as you've always voted. i if you want change. >> i do get that. rupert. look. i'm sorry, i'm sorry. stay. stay where you are, though, rupert, because we now can introduce, i believe, former labour party adviser mike butler. there he is. good luck. okay, mike, look, thank you very, very much, okay, so nigel farage here is doing the bigger thing for the world. it's more important at the moment. geopolitics for him to campaign here but not get bogged down in the day to day machinations of westminster and then go over and have a huge influence stateside as well. he is doing the brave thing, isn't

he ? he? >> i think what he's doing is cutting and running, and i think he's i think what he's doing is saying a few things. firstly, i think he's saying i can make more money by being in the us, which i think is probably very likely. and if that's what he wants to do, he can go ahead and do that. i think he's saying he's not particularly interested in britain or what happens in britain anymore. and if that's what he wants to do, then to be honest, that's probably something that i would i would celebrate. but what he's also saying is a real indictment on reform. what he's saying is reform. what he's saying is reform is not worth my time. it's not worth my energy. it's not a political party that's going to go anywhere. this election is not going to be about reform. it's going to be about reform. it's going to be about tories out getting a labour party government in. and he's decided that even if he stayed and stood a he would lose the seat. he wouldn't win, but also he'd be a sideshow and he'd be irrelevant. he clearly thinks he's got a more interesting opportunity over in the us. >> okay. all right, rupert, how big a blow is this for reform? because there are there are two ways of looking at this. there's the yes, this is a blow for

reform. but it gives the tories potentially more of a clear run at it. and now the only political wing snapping at anybody's heels are the pro—palestine independents snapping at labour. i mean, how bad a blow is this for richard tice. >> well, i think i've just told you, i don't think it is a blow. i thought the press announcement this morning was badly worded, and i don't think there was any necessity to talk about america, but i do take nigel's point on america. he is now. he's come out quite clearly, patrick, and he's committed to helping richard tice, to helping all of us in the reform shadow cabinet. and he's going to spend time in more than just one seat. he's going to help everybody, which is fantastic. so i don't i mean, frankly, the trouble we're in largely most of the heffalump traps are laid by the four horsemen of the apocalypse , who horsemen of the apocalypse, who were blair, brown, campbell and mandelson, who ? the problem is mandelson, who? the problem is the tories haven't repealed a lot of the ridiculous legislation that they laid, including the human rights act, into okay, into our constitution. >> all right. you put that there. you put your side of it across. mark. some people are saying that nigel farage is a hypocrite. would you agree? i i

think nigel farage is a hypocrite for many, many reasons. >> i'm not sure he's evidence of that today. exactly. i mean, i think today actually proved himself to be reasonably consistent in running after where he thinks the money is running. running after where he thinks the most notoriety is. but what he has done is, is i mean, he's cutting and running from britain . i'm glad about from britain. i'm glad about that because i think he's been a toxic influence on our politics for a long time. but i think what he's evidencing today probably makes clear to a lot of people who haven't seen to this point, is that he just doesn't much interest in britain. he hasn't got an interest in people's lives, and he has no interest in improving and improving people's lives. >> is that going to be a hard road back for nigel here now, though, rupert, isn't it? you know that is going to be a millstone around his neck that he had the chance to stand in this election. you know, he sits on a platform or certainly did on a platform or certainly did on gb news every single night saying, you know, cares about britain. he's got all the answers to all of the problems for this country at the moment. and he's not standing. >> well, patrick, you won't be surprised to hear that. i think

what mike's saying is complete drivel. but, you know, i wouldn't expect anything else, frankly. but at the end of the day, nigel. nigel, it's not about money. nigel spent 25 years fighting for british sovereignty on an mep salary, which, let me tell you, is hardly, hardly a great deal of money, so . and at the end, he money, so. and at the end, he could have gone and done something else. so i think to say that he's just taking the coin now is it's drivel. and i'm delighted that he's going to be playing a much broader part in our campaign. i think britain is very disaffected with the duopoly. the two party system that's failed us. we have a very average bunch of people in parliament and we need change all right. >> look, both of you, can i just say a massive thank you? and we got there in the end. so, so good stuff, look, who do you agree with? and honestly, this has been really fascinating for me in this newsroom and online and reading things like gb news your say and, i've got quite a few things coming in here, at the moment in front of me just

to see what the reaction has been to this nigel farage announcement, i can't help but wonder whether or not was he a bit too honest in saying what he said about america? could he have just written something that said, look, i'm going to do what i can here to campaign for reform. i don't necessarily want to get bogged down in one constituency. i don't know, i don't know. look who do you agree with? kim on x says yes, farage wants to have his say and strut around without actually having the guts to face the electorate in their judgement. electorate in theirjudgement. i don't know if i agree with that though. he's faced the electorate on numerous times. okay, it's not always won, but he has done very, very well at european elections. i think to say that nigel doesn't have guts. i don't think that's fair. all right. richard says for him personally. no, it's not a mistake. elliot says something. we'll only know in hindsight. i think the really important election will be the one after this, when both main parties have proven useless, that is an important point. is he playing the long game here, saying, well, let's see what happens with labour. and then he picks up the pieces. 59% of you on twitter, though, agree that nigel farage has made a mistake

in not running at the election. 41% of you say that he hasn't coming up, have we just seen a masterclass on how not to start a general election campaign? >> now i cannot and will not claim that we have got everything right. >> no government should. >> no government should. >> well, there's a lot to talk about when i have a chat with the tory party chairman , richard the tory party chairman, richard holden, who joins me live very shortly, can he get that campaign back on track? but next, the home secretary has been very chipper today when it comes to the net migration figures . figures. >> a couple of hours ago, the ons released immigration figures and they are down by 10% because of the plan that we have put in place, but net migration still stands at a staggering 685,000. so next i will show you where all of these people are actually coming from . when we go toe to coming from. when we go toe to toe with someone who's been described

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight look. still to come. i've got the tory party chairman, richard holden , chairman, richard holden, joining me in an attempt to defend rishi sunak's quite widely criticised snap election announcement yesterday. but first, the latest stats on net migration in britain were released this morning with the new 2023 figure of 685,000 falling 10% from the previous year's record high. however, it

must be said that last year's numbers were rounded up. so there we go. but despite that fall, the number of foreign workers arriving from outside the eu increased by more than 50. so i've got a bit of a nationality breakdown for you here. so apparently, indians topped the table for the number of non eu nationals arriving in the country. long term. we've got about 250,000 of them. nigeria are as well, as you can see, pakistan , china and see, pakistan, china and zimbabwe rounding off the top five. all right. so arrivals from india, nigeria and pakistan apparently made up a majority of those granted visas to work in the uk as well. so there's quite a lot at play there, to be honest with you. and quite astonishing numbers which you would have just seen on your screen. so whilst you'd expect these findings to shock those on these findings to shock those on the political right, even if that cooper is slamming them as a sure sign of government failure, well, in fact , what the failure, well, in fact, what the figures show is over the last

year compared to the previous yean year compared to the previous year, there's actually been around a 50% increase in work migration. >> and what that reflects at the heart of it, i think, is a failure on both the economy and on immigration, because there's been no action to tackle the serious skills shortages. what you've seen, for example , is you've seen, for example, is a big increase in engineering visas at the same time as engineering apprenticeships have halved. well you know, there's a link between those things. and that's what i mean about the failures around both the economy and the immigration system . and the immigration system. unless you tackle the skills shortages, unless you make sure we've got proper skills and training here in the uk, that's why we're just going to have really chaos in the system . so really chaos in the system. so we need a properly managed and controlled immigration and asylum system. so the system is fair. so that we make sure that we obviously benefit from the international talent and investment that our country will always need. but so we also have rules properly being enforced ,

rules properly being enforced, which again, they're not at the moment. >> right. well i now welcome kate marsh, a migrant support coordinator for the pro migrants rights charity samphire. look, thank you very much. okay great to have you on the show. when we have a little look at the demographics, we see a rapid demographics, we see a rapid demographic change that many people think will change britain forever. is that a good thing ? forever. is that a good thing? >> oh, if it's positive change, then yeah, certainly. >> i think british values and british culture is built on diversity and on multiculturalism, isn't it? >> as most cultures are , i think >> as most cultures are, i think this sort of fallacy that it's eroding british culture is just more sensationalism, isn't it, to instil fear and prejudice? >> i mean, i mean, is it though? i mean, is it actually though, because if you have a look at a lot of people, let's just say, okay, 250,000 people from india, we've got 83,000 people from pakistan, we've got 33,000 bangladeshis, 21,000 sri lanka's, every single person in the world knows that they have a

radically different culture by and large, than western culture. okay. and that's there's a huge amount of reasons for that. so if you do import a lot of those people, they it would stand to reason would bring that culture with them. so it is that a good thing? >> we have elements of different cultures built into our british cultures built into our british culture and we, you know, the food we eat, the music we listen to, everything we do is built on multiculturalism. i mean , do you multiculturalism. i mean, do you personally feel like your british culture is being eroded ? british culture is being eroded? do you feel like you are stopped from from living a british life due to people living in this country? >> because i think a lot of people feel as though the area that they live in has changed significantly in the last 20 years. and could i just put it to you as well that whilst we might have nice things like a more varied diet and a more rich music industry, we do also have a rise in sectarian violence and an increase in honour based violence as well. and you can't really ignore that, can you ? really ignore that, can you? >> yes, but you're picking out specific things from certain cultures. but we have crimes and

violence , as a massive problem violence, as a massive problem within our own british culture, so crime, violence and that type of thing has less to do with where somebody is from and more to do with what sort of a person they are. do you know what i mean? if somebody is not intrinsically bad because they come from a different country, i'm not saying they're intrinsically bad, and i'm not saying that. >> but sometimes they might bnng >> but sometimes they might bring their own issues with them. like we saw where we had eritrean clashing on the streets in london recently because unfortunately, we had helped to import both sides of a civil war that was going on there. so, i mean, that stuff does exist , mean, that stuff does exist, doesn't it? >> but of course it does. but so does issues within our own culture. do you know what i mean? those things are always going to exist. and all of these issues stem from mismanagement of british systems. do you know what i mean , the migration thing what i mean, the migration thing is only an issue because it's been mismanaged . okay. so the been mismanaged. okay. so the illegal migration issue is because of failed attempts to solve the domestic labour shortages in the uk by the tory government. do you know what i mean? the crime and the violence is failing through the policing

system and security system in this country. do you know what i mean? it's those are the things we need to look at. we need to stop saying, oh, foreign people are bad because there just simply isn't anyone saying that apart from i do mean i do. >> i do genuinely mean that with absolute respect. i think. i think you you like to say that loads of people say that, whereas actually really, what what i'm talking about is the idea that 1.2 million people arrived in britain last year and yes, okay, absolutely. i agree with you. things could and should have been managed better. and yes, absolutely, we should be doing more to fill our own labour shortages. there's no question of that. but it is always going to be incredibly difficult to absorb. 1.2 million people from, you know, hugely different cultures. any anyone would struggle to do that. and do you not think that maybe there is a question to have a little bit of a pause on certain things? or are you happy with this level of numbers? >> everything needs to be relooked at. do you know what i mean? these people are here because we've allowed them to be here. this is legal migration.

these are people we have given a visa or a route to. so you know, the problem isn't with the people arriving here. it's with the systems as i said. fair enough. government mismanagement all right. >> look, thank you very, very much. great to chat to you as margaret, support co—ordinator. easy for me to say there for sunny virk marsh. thank you very much. all right. okay look coming up, we have got a little bit from richard tice. he's laying out what he believes is at stake. on july the 4th. >> utter incompetence and uselessness of this concert of government. >> but next is a conservative comeback. truly on the cards. i've got to sit down, interview with the party's chairman, richard holden. it should be fascinating seeing a tech.

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. look. coming up. will this be the immigration election? but first, tory mps have reacted with fury to rishi sunak's surprise announcement at

the july fourth election, with those seeking re—election left scrambling to launch their campaigns and the mps leaving parliament now denied swansong speeches. one fuming tory mp said people are just pissed off, to be honest with you. i've woken up feeling numb. he is committing hari kari with his party. even some cabinet ministers were left bewildered by sunak's decision . esther by sunak's decision. esther mcvey, chris heaton—harris both raising their objections in yesterday's cabinet meeting. it's also emerged that sunak's decision to go to the polls on july the 4th was kept to just a tight circle of his closest advisers. and it was sunak who apparently insisted on making his speech outside in the pounng his speech outside in the pouring rain. well that chaos did give keir starmer something to talk about at his election launch earlier today. >> this election is about a choice two different countries, two different futures decline and chaos continuing under the tories or rebuilding our country under labour. the power of the

vote is with you. if you want change, you have to vote for it. and if you vote labour, it's a vote to stop the chaos. it's a vote to stop the chaos. it's a vote to stop the chaos. it's a vote to turn the page and it's a vote to turn the page and it's a vote to turn the page and it's a vote to rebuild our country together . together. >> well, i'm joined now by the man in charge of the tory campaign . it's the conservative campaign. it's the conservative party chairman, richard holden. richard, look, thank you very, very much. you didn't know he was going to call an election, did you? >> i was aware of a while ago that the prime minister was considering calling an election later in the year, and a few dates have been mooted . dates have been mooted. >> so you had no idea he was going to do it when he did it? then no . then no. >> well, as i said, there's lots of discussions about about when but the, the clear thing is now we've got that choice before us. that choice facing the country. do we carry on with that clear plan that we've got? do we instead go to the chaos of a

labour administration who have noidea labour administration who have no idea , no plan what they're no idea, no plan what they're doing? or do we have that bold action from a conservative government which has shown actually it's willing and able to address the issues faced by the british people. we've seen just in the last couple of weeks. patrick, you know, we've seen the gdp numbers over the first quarter of this year growing faster not only than our major european competitors, but faster than the states. we've seen those inflation numbers really falling. the prime minister said he was going to halve it now down to normal levels. you know, and i think we're starting to see real momentum in the country and the economy. with wages now rising faster than inflation for ten months in a row. >> fair enough. with absolute respect, what i have taken from thatis respect, what i have taken from that is that you, the party chairman, did not know he was going to call an election yesterday when he did, and i think that is that is quite interesting. why exactly has he doneit interesting. why exactly has he done it now. >> because the that's not, that's, that's thatcherite you didn't say he knew what i said with respect. >> you didn't say you knew and it would have been quite easy to say that. no, i was. has he done it? has he done it very aware.

has he done it now in time for the american school term times? that's the rumour. >> i don't know what that is referring to. he's called it now for a very clear reason. and that's because we've seen those economic numbers really moving in the right direction in the uk, showing very clearly that the conservatives plan for our economy is working. and at the same time, we're seeing that on one side and on the other side , one side and on the other side, a chaotic labour party with no idea what it's offering to the british people, labour leader who can't even stand up, not to just the trade unions, but to his own deputy when he tried to get rid of her not that long ago. what we've seen actually is ago. what we've seen actually is a clear choice at the election between a government with a clear plan, a bold vision which was to secure the future of our country in a very uncertain world. you've been covering it here on gb news over the last few months. what we've seen in the middle east, what we've seen in ukraine with a rise of china, you're often covering here, you know, these are big issues, geopolitical issues facing our country, big challenges facing our country. and who do we want to stand up to it? keir starmer,

who can't even stand up to his own shadow cabinet, or rishi sunak, who's standing up for the british people. >> all right. okay, look, there was the old, you know, rain fest outside downing street yesterday. that is one thing, okay. and i'm just going to play a little clip from earlier today. >> looking forward to all the football . football. >> not so much my bag. well you know but that's because you guys aren't in it asking a load of welsh people how they're feeling about the football in the euros when they hadn't qualified. >> i mean, some people will also remember when he he didn't know how to use apple pay at a petrol station. is he out of touch? a bit of a liability? >> not at all. i think you're seeing the prime minister getting out and about, talking to normal people. all we've seen so far from keir starmer is stage managed, big events where he's not actually meeting normal people. the prime minister is out there in the in the rain and the cold because he's not a fair weather prime minister. he's somebody who's seen as out there through the tough times, through covid. he was behind those big schemes which supported the

british people, small businesses like those in you know, right across the country and also the british economy in those tough times. and he's somebody who's just out there getting on with the job and going out and meeting people. and one of the things we're seeing today actually emerging, patrick, is, you know, actually the prime minister came on gb news did that, big people's panel debate with you guys. i thought that was a really good thing to do. you know, you guys gave the opportunity for the leader of the opposition. >> do you back our legal action against ofcom also, do you back our legal action against ofcom? >> well, you know, i am very clear that i think that actually what should have happened is the leader of the opposition should have had the balls to come on your show and actually speak to a gb news audience. and i'd also say that keir starmer at the moment seems to be dodging those debates as well . the prime debates as well. the prime minister has made it very clear he wants to be there, toe to toe with the leader of the opposition, so that those ideas can be out there, not just those set pieces in parliament, but actually out there for the british public to see over the next few months. i think that's

really important, and i want to see as many of those debates happening as possible. >> okay, all right. now, richard, i am just having something in my ear. so i'm apologising to you for this. can i just say before i let you get going? thank you very, very much for coming on, richard. it is much appreciated. thank you very much. thank you. patrick. all right. you take care, there's some breaking news. at least two people have died and 12 are injured after a two story building collapsed in majorca. emergency services say spanish media reports say the building was a restaurant on the beach in palma de mallorca. the incident reportedly happened at 830 local time, 930 in the uk. we don't know if any brits are involved in this tragedy. we'll bring you all the latest developments as they happen. just reiterate two people are dead and several others are injured after a building collapse in mallorca. well, we'll bring you the very latest on all of that coming up, will george galloway and his band of pro palestine activists

be the undoing of labour? we look at what the impact of the fringe parties and independents will be happening at the ballot box. but next reform's richard tice has billed it as the immigration election. so here's what i'm asking . immigration election. so here's what i'm asking. in immigration election. so here's what i'm asking . in order to what i'm asking. in order to win, does the labour party need to show they're serious about securing our southern border? my panel tackled that in a moment. this is patrick christys tonight. we are only on gb news, and right now i've got your weather with alex burkill . weather with alex burkill. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello. very good evening. here's your latest gb news. weather update brought to you by the met office. southern areas will stay mostly dry as we go through the end of the week, but it's a wetter story further north because the same area of low pressure that has brought all the rain we've had through the last day or so is lingering across the uk, so we can expect further outbreaks of rain as we go through the end of today,

overnight and into friday. some of the rain will be a little bit on the heavy side, but it is a definitely easing further south. it's going to stay largely dry overnight and there will be some clear skies under which it could turn a bit fresh, a bit chilly perhaps for some of us to start first thing tomorrow morning. but on the whole, once the sunshine gets going, temperatures should rise quite quickly. if we take a look at what's going to happen first thing tomorrow morning. and yes, it's a bit of a cloudy, damp start across many northern parts, particularly across a big chunk of scotland cloud and outbreaks of rain. none of it looks particularly heavy but could cause some further issues for areas affected by the heavy rain we've seen recently. perhaps some brightness across western parts of scotland. but across northern ireland, much of england and wales are fairly cloudy and a little bit damp. start the best chance of any sunshine first thing tomorrow morning will be across southern parts and to be honest, here's where we're likely to see the best of the sunshine as we go through tomorrow. as a result of the sunshine though, we could see a few showers popping up, but it is generally going to be

dner but it is generally going to be drier towards southern parts, a little bit cloudier and a bit wetter further north. some outbreaks of rain, perhaps the odd heavy shower here, but not as wet as it has been recently . as wet as it has been recently. the temperatures will be near normal for the time of year. feeling warm in any sunshine. in fact, across northern parts it will feel markedly less fresh than it has done recently. as we go into saturday. perhaps a bit of a chilly start for some of us, but it does look like the driest, sunniest day of the long weekend. a few showery outbreaks developing, particularly towards eastern parts. but on sunday we are expecting some more wet weather to push its way in. some of that could be pretty heavy at times and more showers perhaps on monday . on monday. >> two looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> it's 10 pm. i'm patrick christie's, and the election is

on, and the public have spoken. they're all a load of prats . can they're all a load of prats. can you spot sunak's gaffe here? looking forward to all the football . and can you spot why football. and can you spot why labour had to pull this advert? and the word on the street is this man's back. >> we're back and we're ready for it all over again . for it all over again. >> here's the net migration numbers are out and the spin is on immigration figures and they are down by 10. >> actually been around a 50% increase in work migration . increase in work migration. >> what on earth is ed davey going on about? but with this election, we have the chance to win the change our country so desperately needs . i've got all desperately needs. i've got all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages with gb news star nana akua tory peer lord shaun bailey and ex labour advisor matthew laza . oh yes, and you will never laza. oh yes, and you will never guess the answer to this question. >> do you want to do if you're not an mp ?

not an mp? >> get ready britain. here we go is this the immigration election? next . election? next. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. first to that breaking news coming to us out of mallorca. two people have been killed and at least 12 injured after a building collapsed on the spanish island . and that's spanish island. and that's according to emergency services. local media are reporting the two story building was a restaurant on a beach. we will bnng restaurant on a beach. we will bring you more as we get it. in other news, the government is looking to pass key bills before parliament dissolves. the prime minister's flagship smoking bill looks set to be shelved, whilst legislation to pay compensation to victims of the post office horizon scandal has passed . it

horizon scandal has passed. it comes as political party leaders begin six weeks of trying to win votes after it was announced . votes after it was announced. polls will open on the 4th of july, kicking off the conservatives campaign this morning, rishi sunak claimed labour would do absolutely nothing to stop the boats. >> everyone else is starting to agree with my approach, which is bold. the one person that doesn't is keir starmer. that's a choice that this election, he thinks that we should just offer an amnesty to illegal migrants to make us the soft touch of europe. it would make us a magnet for thousands of migrants coming from everywhere. so that's the choice at this election. do you think my plan is the right one? do you think i'm the one that's taking bold action to secure our borders and to stop the boats? or do you think he's going to do that? and it's pretty clear that on this issue, not only does he not share the country's values, that it's a problem. he's going to do absolutely nothing about it. >> and starting his election campaign in south—east england, labour leader sir keir starmer says that what the conservatives have done to the country is unforgivable and voters don't need to put up with it. >> rishi sunak clearly does not

believe in his rwanda plan. i think that's been clear from this morning, because he's not going to get any flights off. i think that tells its own story. i don't think he's ever believed that plan is going to work. and so he's called an election early enough to have it not tested before the election. we have to deal with the terrible loss of control of the border under this government . we have to tackle government. we have to tackle the small boats that are coming across . nobody, but nobody across. nobody, but nobody should be making that journey . should be making that journey. >> meanwhile, lib dems leader sir ed davey says the conservatives are out of touch for far too long, people across the united kingdom have been let down and taken for granted by this conservative government and this conservative government and this out of touch conservative party. >> but with this election , we >> but with this election, we have the chance to win the change. our country he so desperately needs , and a record desperately needs, and a record number of more than 68,500

people were granted refugee status or other types of leave to remain in the year to march, home office figures show . home office figures show. >> that's the highest number for any 12 month period since records began. meanwhile, the total asylum backlog still stands at more than 100,000. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts. now it's back to . patrick. back to. patrick. >> well, the net migration figures are in and it's worse than many people expected. net migration was at 685,000 in 2023. it's the third year running that overall net migration has exceeded the pre—brexit pre—covid levels of roughly 200 to 300,000. a total of 1.2 million people arrived in britain in the last year. the breakdown of non eu nationals is

this 250,000 people from india, 141,000 from nigeria, 90,000 from china, 83,000 from pakistan , 36,000 zimbabweans, 13,000 ghanaians and 33,000 bangladeshis, as well as 21,000 americans and 21,000 sri lankans. now it's to easy highlight the rate of cultural and demographic change that this will mean for britain. the latest stats also reveal that the net migration figure for 2022 has been increased. i mean, shock, horror . we were initially shock, horror. we were initially told that it was 745,000, but that has been rounded up to 764,000. now, the home secretary, james cleverly, says that the latest figure, that latest figure of 685,000 for 2023is latest figure of 685,000 for 2023 is a 10% reduction on the year before, and he's happy . year before, and he's happy. >> a couple of hours ago, the ons released immigration figures and they are down by 10% because of the plan that we have put in

place . place. >> labour's yvette cooper, though, is not impressed . though, is not impressed. >> well, in fact, what the figures show is over the last year compared to the previous yean year compared to the previous year, there's actually been around a 50% increase in work migration and what that reflects at the heart of it, i think, is at the heart of it, i think, is a failure on both the economy and on immigration. unless you tackle the skills shortages, unless you make sure we've got proper skills and training here in the uk. that's why we're just going to have really chaos in the system. so we need a properly managed and controlled immigration and well, those are the numbers. >> let's talk about what they mean now with my top panel. let's get the thoughts of them. is gb news presenter nana akua. i've got conservative peer lord bailey and i've got ex—labour party adviser matthew lasercorn . party adviser matthew lasercorn. i'll start with you. if it's the immigration election, if the tories lost it, immigration election, if the tories lost it , there's a few tories lost it, there's a few things to say about immigration. >> first and foremost, keir starmer talked about a border force. he made no mention of

reducing numbers and how we go about it. i think there's a worry that he's response will be, well, we'll just give everybody an amnesty and that's how we'll clear the backlog. and i think he needs to answer those questions as well. >> that's what the government's doing. >> but if you if you look at if you look at immigration, i think one point where rishi is right, 14, maybe 15 other european nafions 14, maybe 15 other european nations are now looking to do something along the lines of rwanda. if we are the only people not doing that in the future, then this is legal today. >> i get that. but this, this is legal today. and actually the net migration numbers for last, sorry, the year before last were were rounded up 764,000. it was before i mean that is quite astonishing i suppose when it comes to yvette cooper though, matthew , you people probably matthew, you people probably just don't trust her. >> i don't know why they don't trust her. yvette cooper, i don't think. look, the truth of the matter is that there's a lot of cynicism about what politicians in immigration, partly because this tory government went back to mr cameron and mrs. may as prime ministers, said that through the country. no, blair never said it

was going to be tens of thousands. he's going to reduce it to tens of thousands. cameron and may promise that. and of course, we've now seen over a million people coming every yeah >> what did blair promise them ? >> what did blair promise them? >> what did blair promise them? >> blair didn't promise to bring it down, to bring those we were in the eu and this was an eu rule. if we were still in the eu, immigration would be lower each year than it is at the moment. but may and cameron, cameron, sits in this tory cabinet, said it was going to come down to tens of thousands andifs come down to tens of thousands and it's now at a million. and rwanda is a sick joke. it's cost £200 million and not a single person has been forcibly sent by it. yeah, but and it's a token. the reason we're having the election, patrick, is because he's worried that this is never going to get a plane taking for off a while. >> okay, but can i just keep this on the net migration numbers is the legal levels of migration. absolutely. >> that's what i said. that's what i want to keep this tens of thousands of a million. >> the impression at school when they said you round something up, you go to the nearest ten. you don't add 10,000 almost, which is what's happened here. so look, the tories this this has happened on their watch.

there's no way out of this. whatever way you look at it, and all i see there is that we've replaced the kind of migration we had with, different parts of the world that are a lot of them are very culturally different to this country. so that's what's happened with the people who would have come here from the eu. instead, we're taking from other countries as well. and actually we have complete control over that. so whichever government come in and take charge of it, they just need to take total control and make a decision as to how many people we need and stick to it. and i don't understand what went wrong with the conservative party on this. i have no idea. >> totally agree. >> totally agree. >> now the thing is though, that there's no democratic mandate for this, sean, is there? >> look, there's no denying that it went wrong because we watched nana, analysis of it is fairly accurate. what the election will be about will labour do anything different, because what people will have seen over the ten, 15 years, it's gone wrong. labour were in support of all of these things and if traditionally had a blind spot on immigration. so it'll be very interesting to hearif it'll be very interesting to hear if keir starmer says i'm going to cut the numbers, i'm going to cut the numbers, i'm going to cut the numbers, i'm going to send people home, i'm going to send people home, i'm going to send bones home. i would be very interested to hear

keir starmer say, we're going to reduce net migration from whichever part of the world it is by whatever percentage. that, for me, is the only way i'd listen. keir starmer well, we've been absolute. >> labour's been absolutely clear have they, that he wants to get net migration down because it wants to get more people back into the workforce here. so we're not importing how easily sean doing the welfare to work that labour did . the work that labour did. the percentage of people in in the but by getting people because the migration figure is driven by people coming to here to do jobs, we need to get people off benefit and into work here to do those jobs, which will reduce the net legal migration to come up with something, some fair pay plan that would actually bankrupt a lot of businesses and wouldn't work at all. >> he's cut of raisi a set of rights, but we need to pay people fairly in the care sector. >> so the care sector we come up with is unrealistic or unrealistic. and the plan for the care sector, we need to get people in the care sector, we need to pay people here properly in britain so that we're not importing people to look after our older and vulnerable people. >> now, that's the net figure that i gave you before 16

80,000. the reality is that 1.2 million people arrived in britain last year, and i think that figure will probably be rounded up because i believe the last two have. so why not go for the hat trick? but the breakdown of these non eu nationals? sean 250,000 people from india, 141,000 from nigeria, 90,000 from china. i would imagine most of those are students, 83,000 from pakistan, 36,000 zimbabweans. we've got 21,000 sri lankans. should people or no. do people have a right to be concerned about the rate of demographic change in britain? >> i think what they have a right to be concerned about is the rate of economic change. how many of these people we've often talked about immigration as if it just adds to the to the country's income, what it does, it adds to the size of the pie, but it doesn't add to the make up of that pie. are people coming that are contributing or are people coming that will cost us. and that's where i think the real pain will lie. i think the other thing is, as well, the demographic change will be a problem for certain communities. and what are the government, any government proposing to do about this? and that's why i suggest

labour have a real serious blind point about it, because they will not talk race, they will not talk what's going on in communities. they won't have that conversation. so those changes will never be addressed and certain communities will suffer. you've already heard operation muslim vote, etc. that stratification of our society is going to. >> but sean, i mean, on an absolute on an absolute factual basis, leaving the eu meant that rather than there rather than people coming from the eu to work here who may be more culturally similar, people are now coming from different parts of the world. >> yes, yes. but it didn't have to mean that. and that's and as nana says, the tories made that choice. >> gnaana was right. >> gnaana was right. >> well, yeah, but but the way you're saying that is as though. oh, well, instead of what we've doneis oh, well, instead of what we've done is we've levelled the playing field as what's happened here. so people from the eu have to do the same thing as people from other countries to get into this country. so there's nothing wrong with that. that is right. but the problem has been the selection process. and i'm wondering whether the labour party will get that selection process right. >> labour wants to get the number of people coming here down. so we're going to get more british people into jobs, which

reduces the benefit bill and reduces the benefit bill and reduces migration. >> it sounds to me like you're saying it's fine as long as there are white europeans. >> exactly. i'm not. i'm not saying that. i'm saying that those i'm saying i'm saying that those i'm saying i'm saying that those i'm saying that that. let me address that. because the very specific charge there, sean. what i'm saying is, is, of course, one of the things about one of the things about eu migration is that a lot of people went home because they came temporarily. people are coming from zimbabwe and further afield. they stay, they tend to stay longer. that's what the figures show. i'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, but they came legally. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> what i'm saying, sean, is, is you're saying that there's an issue about demographics and patrick said is an issue about demographics. that's just a consequence of leaving the eu. in fact, i'm not saying with this right or wrong, you said it was a problem. you're the one who said it was a problem. no, that's not right. >> the problem is not the fact that they've not come from the eu or whatever the problem is. we've selected the wrong kind of people. and when i say that we're not going for looking at ourjob shortages and then our job shortages and then recruiting people to come into this country legally to try and fill those wherever they're

coming from, literally just taking on students and anybody. and that's not good enough. >> it goes back a little deeper under the labour government. that's when we really saw a ramping up. we got we became drunk on cheap employment instead, instead of instead of training our own, what we did was import cheaper. >> the economy was booming, so we needed more workers, which isn't at the moment. >> yes, for a time can i ask now we're reaping the world. >> can you bring the. can i ask something to you specifically now? because, look, obviously, you know, card carrying tory card carrying labour member. right, when it comes to this election, some people are saying is the immigration election right? who actually wins on that? because we've got the facts of a tory government and the suspicion of a labour government. >> i personally don't think it's an immigration election. i actually think that it's more cost of living. what that party can bring to you personally, as in which one will benefit you financially. and i think that because the problem with immigration is not the small boats, because that actually is a tiny portion, it's actually the legal immigration and we have control over that. so whichever party offers the best deal for that will i think we'll do fine . and i think either do fine. and i think either party i don't really care. but

for me, i believe that this is about cost of living. which party will benefit you personally? who's going to sort out the nhs? who's going to enable you to get a doctor's appointment? but every time, who's going to do that? that's the good point. >> so is this not an immigration? tell you what i tell you. >> why isn't an immigration election? because in certain parts of the country, immigration is a big, big deal. if you're down on the south coast, if folks in places like it's a big, big deal if you're in the middle of london, immigration just does not feel the same. it's just not an issue for communities, communities here. so actually i don't think it's an immigration election. what i do think it will be about is about the bottom line. people's people's incomes. people's people's incomes. people are very concerned about where they live. people are very concerned about where they're going to be as pensioner, the nhs and actually social care , nhs and actually social care, not just the nhs, is a big deal, always is. but i'd argue it's a bigger and a very specific way now that it hasn't been in the past , because people are past, because people are starting to ask tougher questions of the nhs itself, not just the politicians involved. >> okay. and you also think this is not an immigration. >> yeah, i think it's not purely an immigration election. i think it's up there as one of the 6 or

7 issues, as nana says, the economy, cost of living. and let's not forget the nhs, 7 million people on waiting lists. but but the broken promises on immigration just play into the broken promises we've had over 40 years. you can say that for both parties. >> so you know, all of you. >> so you know, all of you. >> another rip roaring start. so now a fantastic look coming up. find out how tory mp steve baker responded to this question on. >> what do you want to do if you're not an mp ? you're not an mp? >> it's really not what you expect, by the way. you unless you happen to have already seen that clip, there is no way you will guess the answer to it. plus, do the tories need to play dirty to win at the ballot box? now this is a great topic. do the tories need to play dirty to win at the ballot box? i've got the views of my panel, but next the views of my panel, but next the pro—palestine local councillors made this promise earlier this month. >> we are coming for you in the general election. anyone who's zionism . zionism. >> so how big an impact will fringe parties and independents have at the ballot box? i am joined by the director of the oxford islamic information

centre, doctor sheikh ramzi. we also do have clips for you as well of an ongoing event in east finchley in london. after there was some desecration of a cinema there that was daring to show israeli films. there's been a massive, massive counter—protest there. we've got some footage for that to show you. it's coming your way in just a sec

this is patrick christys. tonight on gb news. all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages are coming very, very soon. but first, a major question for this election is how big an impact some of the fringe parties are going to have. i am including , going to have. i am including, and people might shout at me for this richard tice and the reform party. they launched his campaign earlier today by appealing to disillusioned conservative voters either . conservative voters either. >> fourth is the date to look forward to , but goodness me, forward to, but goodness me, yesterday i mean seriously , we yesterday i mean seriously, we had the prime minister drenched in rain. his voice drowned out by the boogie blaster of the ramona in chief, no less. you couldn't make it up, but it typifies the utter incompetence and uselessness of this conservative government

>> all right, well, that's richard tice they're kind of attacking the tories from the right, isn't he? but a big problem for labour is whether they can hold on to the muslim vote. some of the labour mps in seats with large muslim populations who are being targeted because of their abstentions on a ceasefire, include this shadow health secretary wes streeting, shadow justice secretary arbana mahmood, shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth and shadow business minister rushanara ali. but labour's shadow business and trade secretary jonathan reynolds, didn't seem too concerned about the muslim vote when i asked him last night. >> i take nothing for granted when it comes to any community now. i think in any part of the uk, from the top of scotland to cornwall, labour is the only competitive party. the only party that can say if you want a change from the present government, we're your vehicle to do that. >> but we will take seriously and always take seriously the needs and concerns of every community. >> because, let's be frank, we've had all these opinion polls not a single vote has been cast and will not be cast for a long period of time. so we will

take absolutely nothing for granted. but we will campaign for the basis of the change the uk needs. >> well, can i just bring your attention to something that we are seeing right now? and it ties directly into the pro—palestine slash muslim vote. this is an incident that was taking place and i believe is taking place and i believe is taking place and i believe is taking place still in east finchley, an area with a big jewish population, and they were showing an israeli film at the local cinema there. this has happened at other, cinemas in the country , and the the country, and the pro—palestine lot decided to turn up. they were incredibly well organised and however, they were possibly too organised because it alerted the local jewish community and supporters of them to it, and they decided to turn up in even bigger numbers. and here's a clip. that you might dup. >> yeah, yeah . they >> yeah, yeah. they >> yeah, yeah. they >> they've had enough, haven't they. >> they've had enough, haven't they . they've had enough. i

they. they've had enough. i welcome now the director of the oxford islamic information centre, doctor sheikh ramzi. look, thank you very much for coming on. i'm just going to put this tweet to you now, which is a response to keir starmer's election campaign launch, which says their operation muslim vote begins. what do you know? do you know what that means , not know what that means, not really. operation muslim votes begin. i, i believe , the muslim begin. i, i believe, the muslim vote, of course, there is a legitimate organisation which which they came and of course brought all the muslims together and said, okay, let's show up , and said, okay, let's show up, let's show ourselves and let's, let's show ourselves and let's, let's see, we have some demand, some, some some, some something which we want, for example, 10 or 15, 15 points, they, they raise, they said, okay, if , if raise, they said, okay, if, if anybody wants our votes because around again i said around 4 million muslim in this country. he said if they want our vote, they come and they help us. i'm sure i'm sure about that. which the keir starmer keir starmer

sir keir starmer in the time will talk to the muslim vote or we'll talk to the all muslims and they find what they need when they come to the government, what they need, and bnng government, what they need, and bring him back because i believe in the several years is in decades which the muslim vote in the vote in the labour's . but the vote in the labour's. but now they turn to, for example, independent because the because of they did not vote want to the. >> well you mentioned independence. you mentioned independence. you mentioned independence . and that's independence. and that's a really key point. i think it's going to have a big impact at this election. we rattled off some people there. now there is, a guy who did very, very well at the west midlands mayoral election , ahmed yaqoob, who election, ahmed yaqoob, who actually had a twitter poster of himself put up there. it is. so that's his twitter poster. and there's the flag of palestine in there's the flag of palestine in the back for him. now, he was actually, i believe he is actually, i believe he is actually standing in, in birmingham, ladywood, doctor shay ramsey , do do people have a

shay ramsey, do do people have a right to be concerned that people have more of a concern for palestine than , say, for palestine than, say, birmingham ladywood , yes, of birmingham ladywood, yes, of course it's very important, palestine at the moment is the heart of the in the heart of the muslim , not here everywhere. and muslim, not here everywhere. and again, it's not only just a muslim. you can see the world. they are trying is not palestine basically is a humanitarian , basically is a humanitarian, things which you can see, for example, they see there is no food. they see there is no medicine. there is no hospital, there is no, schools, there is no universities . these are the, no universities. these are the, the people around the world, including muslim. of course they look for it and they say, this is not right in the 21st century, less sorted out, less ceasefire, less feed, everybody less. for example , take all the less. for example, take all the hostages back, and then let's be, bring a peace to the middle east. this is what they when you say take all the hostages back.

>> are you talking about the hostages that hamas have? >> that's right. they should. they should the hamas. they should take us back and should be ceasefire should the ceasefire should be a two state solution. this is a what? and of course , if the labour if the course, if the labour if the labouh course, if the labour if the labour, for example, where they didn't want to, give the labour the vote because , labour did not the vote because, labour did not go for the ceasefire, that's what that's what it all come down to. >> i get that this really, really inflamed when the labour party initially didn't back a ceasefire . you mentioned there ceasefire. you mentioned there things that are not right in the 21st century. okay. now i put it to you that we have seen months and months of anti—semitic ism and months of anti—semitic ism and outright hatred on the streets of london. but tonight, the capital's jewish community seems to be fighting back. these pictures show anti israeli graffiti that was sprayed across the entrance of the phoenix cinema in east finchley. it's in north london, okay. it is horrendous that. but then the, the, the local community there

decided that they were going to push back and we saw quite a lot of , well, jewish or push back and we saw quite a lot of, well, jewish or pro—israel individuals decide to descend onto that street and this is some of it. so they outnumbered the pro—palestine, brigade that were there right now. do you not think it's quite shameful that the local jewish community, not just there, but in other parts of the country, feel the need now to have to fight back against stuff like that? >> this is, of course, again. again you said, what we are what the muslim in this country is trying to do, trying to bring a ceasefire, a ceasefire to that. and, and again , any and, and again, any anti—semitism, any, any islamophobia or a this is totally wrong . everybody has to totally wrong. everybody has to have to get together, unite to eradicate islamophobia and antisemitism because the people are people, you know, the we are not politicians, of course, many of them. they want to they want to have some. right. and of

course, you can see jewish people is a vote for more independent, overtly pro—palestine politicians, though not a vote for more sectarian violence on the streets of britain . i don't streets of britain. i don't understand it very well. what you're saying, but the important thing is, if they have independent, if the independent says, yes, i am going to be there and i'm going to, i'm going to, ask for what you people, which i'm serving, asking me that is the right that is a democratic things which they do. and i'm sure if they do it a little bit wrong, they're going to get sacked or they're going to get sacked or they're going to get sacked or they're going to get, disciplined. therefore there is and i would have thought it is very important, very important to ceasefire and come and the two state solution. >> thank you. can i say thank you very much. that's, doctor sheikh ramsey there for coming on. so great to have you on the show. you're right about one thing, that's for sure, which is that we do live in a democracy,

and we all have the right to go and we all have the right to go and vote for someone if we want. and people can moan about things all they want. but if you elect people who are pro—palestine , people who are pro—palestine, independent candidates in your local area or the people do, then that's the way the election works. if you don't like it, then you go out and vote. don't you? but look, coming up after an avalanche of cock ups by the conservative, labour have made their first big blunder in this campaign video. find out exactly why shortly. although i think you might be able to spot it. and they're not happy with a personal attack from rishi sunak. but do the tories need to adopt a no holds barred approach to stand any chance? we're going to stand any chance? we're going to debate whether or not the tories need to drag this election into the gutter in order to win,

soon. all right. this is patrick christys tonight. and i've got the very first look at tomorrow's front pages for you. let's do it . all right, i go to let's do it. all right, i go to the metro. ritchie's bumpy take off. general election day one.

the pm concedes no. rwanda flights before the election. starmer says end the chaos . all starmer says end the chaos. all right, so let's go to the independent now. it never rains, but it pours, rishi. so you'll need one of these. and it is a picture of, an mp handing the prime minister an umbrella. apparently during a trip to derbyshire . and the outlook for derbyshire. and the outlook for the prime minister is gloomy as he's forced to admit rwanda flies won't take off before the election, but there we go. farage bows out. they also say, right, we go to the mirror so we get all the lefty ones out the way first. by the looks of things, election bad start for sunak at brewers. oops pm's footie blunder during his wales beer visit. we've played you that clip before. he asked the welsh whether or not they were looking forward to the football. they have not qualified for the euros. let's go to the guardian. oh, getting all of them out of the way. sunak begins election campaign by abandoning flagship policies. right, okay, bills on smoking ban. yeah. can i just say the real winners here are smokers, by the way. so far. so there we go. but, no fault evictions . they're also likely evictions. they're also likely to be dropped, let's go to the

daily mail . tories to cut green daily mail. tories to cut green levies on fuel bills. energy price cap set to plunge by under £100 before the election. we're going to kerb eco taxes on families, say the conservatives. so that is at least a message the tories are trying to get across now, which is to vote for the conservatives then that is a vote to stop all the mad green stuff and have, lower energy bills. so that's essentially that in a nutshell, isn't it? right. okay. so those are the first wave of your front pages. i am joined by my panel here, which is gb news presenter superstar nana akua. we've got conservative peer lord shaun bailey and former labour adviser matthew laza . i'm focusing on matthew laza. i'm focusing on the daily mail's front page here. and why shouldn't i? sean you finally got a positive message out there. >> i mean, for some people it will be negative, for some people will be positive. but anything that helps people pay their bills i think is a winner at this point. and actually imagine horror amongst horrors. labour actually win this presents them with a big policy because a big problem. because will they reinstate these taxes? because in certain corners of the world, everybody loves the

green thing and prepared to spend all our money on it. i'm not sure the public nana you're very outspoken on the what you may well describe as green nonsense. >> oh, well, it's absolute it's absolute rubbish, isn't it? i mean, the labour party came up with their 28 billion green plan , and then it's now come to down about 4.7 billion. and they've decided that actually i mean the market said that it would destabilise them. so they can't be trusted on in my view, on green things. i think it's concerning that if they do get in power, they may be focusing on this nonsense, matthew, your view on this ? i mean, this is view on this? i mean, this is this is something that so far the tories could say. i mean, i get that there's a lot of other stuff, by the way, but the tories could say, labour want to make it easy for change. gender that's more men in women's changing rooms. the labour they're going to make your energy bills go up. we're going to make them go down. >> i mean there should be a tory press officer there. >> yeah. well, yeah, i mean, but they're some tub thumping stuff here that the conservatives can confront. the electorate with, right. >> yeah. on the gender thing. labour's it's about whether it's

1 or 2 doctors to sign it off. it's not gender self—id like the scots wanted to do. we need to be absolutely clear on that, look , i think, you know, it's look, i think, you know, it's the tories like in politics, you call it retail, offer something you can sell on the doorstep. that's very easy because they've abandoned so much, you know, doing something on green levies is, is not a bad idea to try and counter labour's gb energy plan to give us energy security and actually ensure that we're less dependent on expensive gas from across the world. wow, wow . across the world. wow, wow. >> quite. though, ed miliband's track record of doing things that save taxpayers money is not a huge success. but my old boss now, now, the election campaign has only just got started. rishi sunak was keen to land the first blow, apparently on his biggest rival. he accused starmer of quote thinking he can walk into downing street and take the pubuc downing street and take the public for granted . so that is public for granted. so that is apparently the quote. i don't know how personally offensive that is, but it seems that labour mp pat mcfadden didn't take those words kindly. >> the conservatives were to win . do we even know if rishi sunak with would remain as prime minister will be subject to one

of the bouts of leadership challenges that always takes them over, so we're not surprised that they will throw personal attacks at keir starmer. but right now, i can also reveal that a conservative source has told us that apparently, one of the masterminds behind the conservative party, a chap called isaac levido , told tory called isaac levido, told tory mps last night that they're going to run a right wing campaign to try to stave off reform. >> nana do you think the tories need to need to veer to the right in order to win? >> oh, look, it's over for the tories. look, the job of reform is to be reform. the job of the tories is to be the tories. if the conservative party wish to pursue the centrist agenda which they have been, then they will lose votes and they are losing out to reform. so, you know , out to reform. so, you know, that's that's the way it goes, shaun. >> why not? why just stop at maybe veering to the right slightly? why not play dirty a little bit. you know, you're already in the gutter. >> it's there's two things i'd say, when i ran for mayor, one

of the mistakes sadiq khan made is when he. when he personally attacked me and he started to play attacked me and he started to play dirty. the public don't like that . what the public are like that. what the public are interested in is who's going to do for them playing dirty just means you look like someone who can't represent people who don't share their political views. that's the first thing. the second thing is the tories needs to be the tories. i personally think the win is in in the middle ground. i disagree slightly with nana. we haven't beenin slightly with nana. we haven't been in the middle, we've been veering to the left, we've been left of the middle, not not the middle. you know, i do think there's a little bit more of a pragmatic step. we could take things like tax cuts, etc. are tory perennials that are much more centre than left. we should stay there. so i think that's where we need to go. but we cannot be reformed. we shouldn't be reform. we should listen to reform. but we're not reforming. >> do you think it's going to be a dirty election? >> well, i hope not, but i think the portents aren't great. we saw just before the election was called the tories with their fake document. jeremy hunt standing with a sort of fake dossier about labour's, tax policy standing with a labour with the word labour behind him, as though he's sort of pretending to be a labour

spokesperson. i mean, i think you're right, sean. the more positivity we can have, the better. the problem is the prime minister says he's a man with a plan. he's not even a man with an umbrella. he's had a disastrous first 48 hours. >> the labour party are the worst, though, for chucky insult. so i don't mind if they want to chuck insults. they should just go for it because i want to see just how bad they can be and the things they can say, because from what angela rayner said and i literally cannoti rayner said and i literally cannot i mean, i agree. >> yeah, she was wrong to use that language. >> those things i would have been fired. and also that is to me it's hate speech. if i'd said that to somebody called someone homophobic, phobic, banana republic, racist etonian , republic, racist etonian, whatever scumb i would have been, i think that's i think that's hate speech. >> yeah. everybody in politics is guilty of personal attacks. right. and but i do think the left are champions at it really quickly. >> and i think we've got i mean, you know, one of the most interesting things today, as you highlighted earlier, is all these mps, all the rats sinking, leaving the titanic as more and more mps realise the game is up for the tories. and so therefore it's a desperate strategy to pitch right, to try and save what you can from the car crash.

>> all right, now look, rumours are swirling about why rishi sunak went for a snap summer election . some have even election. some have even suggested he wants to jet off to california as soon as possible to be a silicon valley tech bro, or as keir starmer would say, a silicon valley tech bubble brother. but tory mp steve baker said it at pmqs. do you remember? he stumbled over his words. he couldn't get it, but we all do that. tory mps steve baker has other ideas. so this is what this is why he said he was going to do if he lost his seat. >> what to do if you're not an mp? >> skydiving, motorcycling, fast catamaran sailing and the wide range of things i'll do, i think you're talking about work though. >> i was talking about work, but that's that's fine. >> the first thing i'm going to do if i don't win my seat is have a long break. >> just just look, just in case you missed the start of that clip again, i think this is absolute gold . i think we can absolute gold. i think we can hear from it. this is what he's going to do if he loses his seat. >> what to do if you're not an mp? >> skydiving motorcycle rowing,

fast catamaran sailing, the wide range of things i'll do. i think you're talking about work, though. i was talking about work, but that's that's fine. the first thing i'm going to do if i don't win my seat is have a long break. >> so i thought he was taking the mickey a bit. right. but so we had a little look. right. and this is mr baker's website. all right. this is his personal website . the tory mp recommends website. the tory mp recommends trips such as which drop zones to use. he's got a link. there you go. down all the political stuff at the bottom. skydiving. look on it. seriously right. and he goes, which drop zones to use? how to master a tandem jump. this is legit. use? how to master a tandem jump. this is legit . i mean, jump. this is legit. i mean, sean, what did what what would you do if you left politics? >> listen, this is brilliant. so the first thing say, steve, i'll love to come with you. i will come skydiving. secondly, he sounds like a middle aged man who's seen one too many tom cruise films. who's seen one too many tom cruise films . yes. and you know cruise films. yes. and you know what? leather jacket. you cruise films. yes. and you know what? leatherjacket. you know, what? leather jacket. you know, ray—bans . away i go. i'd love to ray—bans. away i go. i'd love to join him. i'll come with you.

>> well, you could wear. you can wear your polo neck like the like the milk tray. man, i like to call this the manopause. >> when they say they slick their hair back, you know, they go in the little shed or, like, he knows he's going to lose. >> to my good friend emma reynolds. >> i wonder where he was going. there was a moment there where i was like, where's he going? to be fair to him, was like, where's he going? to be fairto him, nine pints, be fair to him, nine pints, spearmint rhino lamb bonus. you know, that's you in your heyday , know, that's you in your heyday, it was wednesday. no, no not really . right. coming up she it was wednesday. no, no not really. right. coming up she is actually sorry. coming up. good news for tory campaign hq rishi sunak appears to be going through. >> what do you think of rishi sunak? >> who rishi sunak. sunak? >> who rishi sunak . who is he, >> who rishi sunak. who is he, well, that's my panel for the leader they think could connect most with the public. and, no, not john prescott . he certainly not john prescott. he certainly connected with him, didn't he? but that's more of tomorrow's newspaper front pages as well. don't move

welcome back to patrick christys . tonight. i've got some more front pages for you. let's do it . it's the times energy bills tumble in. first big election battle, right? okay, so relief for households with price cap to fall . so the rishi sunak is fall. so the rishi sunak is putting energy bills at the heart of his campaign. now let's go to the daily express pm's plan to take down starmer in tv debates. rishi sunak has thrown down the gauntlet to quotes and quotes spineless sir keir, challenging him to a debate every single week . let's go to every single week. let's go to the telegraph. starmer lacks the courage to debate me , says rishi courage to debate me, says rishi sunak.the courage to debate me, says rishi sunak. the prime minister hopes to expose labour's empty plans in weekly television face off. so okay, there we go. they've also got the opinion piece there from tim stanley, who is, saying labour's front bench is the dullest ever. well, there we go . dullest ever. well, there we go. there's the views there of telegraph columnist tim stanley. and right now i am, as you all

know by now, obviously joined relentlessly by my wonderful press pack. but can i just introduce you to, it's been an ongoing event. this so in east finchley, you might have heard me mention this before, there was scheduled to be another pro—palestine protest outside a cinema that was showing israeli films. okay, but the problem now, really, for a lot of the pro—palestine movement, is that the, jewish community have had enough of this and they decided to turn up at this cinema. and i can now show you footage of what i believe is a rare victory for the, as they would say, the anti—antisemitism brigade. let's have a little look . have a little look. so what you should have been able to make out there was east finchley tube station, a police cordon , a load of people, cordon, a load of people, pro—israel, and the

pro—palestine brigade being sent packing back on the tube and back out of finchley. so there we go. i just thought i would bnng we go. i just thought i would bring that to you because let's be honest, there's been quite a lot of doom and gloom recently about some of these protests, hasn't there? so, anyway, now , hasn't there? so, anyway, now, unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the prime minister, rishi sunak, called a general election yesterday. or alternatively, you live in gillingham. >> what do you think of rishi sunak ? who? rishi sunak, who is sunak? who? rishi sunak, who is he ? he? >> is he the local. oh oh. >> oh, him. yeah oh >> is he the local. oh oh. >> oh, him. yeah on he hasn't been prime minister long enough for me to remember his name actually i think, i think that's , i think that's what it is. >> yeah, yeah . >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> oh gosh. >> oh gosh. >> oh gosh. >> oh bless her i mean no no. is he struggling to cut through or not. >> oh he's so boring. they all are. all of them are so dull. i mean when you're talking about they're going to have weekly. he's calling for weekly debates with keir starmer. we'll all it'll be you remember at the beginning of the pandemic when they would tell you what's going

on and everything else by the end of it you're like, oh god, i used that to send me to sleep. i know it's awful. and people were dying and things, but in the end, the constant thing just, just i just switched off. sure. what are you much of him? >> what do you make of this? we've got the front on the express and the. and the telegraph here. starmer lacks the courage to debate me. is that.is the courage to debate me. is that. is that true? do you think sunak would do him at the debate? >> i personally think he would do him, but actually i don't think it's a courage thing. on starmer's point, starmer's thinking has to make the decision. do i want to be out there or do i want to be in here? and i'd argue too many debates. it becomes pointless. maybe one debate, maybe even two. but actually they should both be on the doorstep and should both be explaining what they're going to do and sort of give their message while being out in the country. we're very used to seeing them stood in a television studio somewhere in the south east of england. do something different. i don't think starmer is entirely wrong. >> well, it's unusual, isn't it? because normally the serving or sitting prime minister would is usually the more reluctant to do the debates. and in this particular case, he is he is wanting to do them, which implies something i think. yeah. well i mean, look, labour is

absolutely clear that keir will debate him, but rishi doesn't want to go out and meet the pubuc want to go out and meet the public because as we're going to see in an excruciating clip in a moment, every time he meets real people, he , you know, he people, he, you know, he encounters, he makes a fool of himself . himself. >> right? so keir wants to spend as much time as possible up and down the country. but he'll take on rishi in the tv show as well. >> okay. the studio thing, you know, because a lot of the questions will be staged. it's all performative of what we want to know is what are they going to know is what are they going to do? what are what are what are their policies, what are we waiting for? >> well, we've just about got time for today's greatest britain and union jackass. nana hit me with your greatest britain. >> well, it's got to be craig mckinley for going back to work and receiving the standing ovation. i mean , this guy has ovation. i mean, this guy has been through the wars, and i watched the program on gb news. it was astonishing. and i just i commend him . he walked in there commend him. he walked in there despite the fact that he's a quadruple amputee. so, yeah, fair play to him. >> absolutely. 100% fair play, go on christmas. >> my greatest britain is the government for making sure that the leasehold and freehold

reform bill made it through the wash up process. forget the political party bit for a minute. this is something that affects 5 million households in this country. we haven't done anything about this feudal , anything about this feudal, unjust, unfair system for 22 years. labour have removed it from their first 100 days of office if they ever got there, which is a real shame. so the fact that the government are pushing it through is wonderful. again, 5 million households need this to happen, although anybody no fault evictions gone for. >> all right now then you've got your chance. nana fryston nana is going to win, but mine is bnan is going to win, but mine is brian cox. >> professor brian cox, not the actor. the singer and dream for things can only get better. bnan things can only get better. brian cox has said. of course, it's a theme equally relevant now. and now the song is back at number four in the itunes chart. number six, sorry, number six in the itunes chart. so let's get it to number one. >> well, well, well, apparently they're playing glastonbury. >> apparently. i could be wrong about that. >> on the back of rishi rempe. >> on the back of rishi rempe. >> yeah, but yeah, they vote tory. all right , today's winner. tory. all right, today's winner. >> today's winner are the greatest. britain is, of course, craig mckinley . so well done.

craig mckinley. so well done. well deserved union jackass time nana. >> okay, it's got to be the former post office boss, paula vennells and actually, i was just reading on the front cover of the, at the guardian where they've exposed the fact that, apparently she killed a review that would have exposed the honzon that would have exposed the horizon it scandal more than ten years ago. so that is that's a strong start to be fair that go on and sean, my union jack carson honorary is cannabis. >> now hear me out. a landmark study . study. >> it's not a person. >> doctor rachel lee shows that the effect of cannabis on the young developing mind far outstrips what it is on older people. so all of these people sat at home in their nice, liberal, comfortable world who want to legalise, need to understand this will destroy our children. it will destroy poor communities. i, i love the fact that bath university have done this study because it says what many, like myself, have been saying for years . okay. saying for years. okay. >> all right, matthew. >> all right, matthew. >> and mine is the prime minister. mr sunak himself, for making a total fool of himself in wales with the football clip. >> we have got this clip looking

forward to all the football . forward to all the football. >> not so much my bag. well >> not so much my bag. well >> no, but that's because you guys aren't in it either. >> yeah, okay. >> yeah, okay. >> tumbleweed. it's embarrassing after the rain thing. two embarrassing moments. this is the sort of thing the public remember. i tell you, whenever, when you're with a politician, your number one job is to go, is to tell them where they are in swansea. >> getting it all out of the way now. >> oh , sure. >> oh, sure. >> oh, sure. >> all right. we're good luck. >> all right. we're good luck. >> we're pressing time . >> we're pressing time. >> we're pressing time. >> today's, today's union jackass is paula vanowen for me? >> yeah, the for double the akua for nana. >> yes, yes. »- >> yes, yes. >> all right, well, look , thank >> all right, well, look, thank you very, very much. everybody who's been watching and listening . i can promise you one listening. i can promise you one thing. over the course of the next six weeks, we are going to give it a right. good. go here 9 to 11 pm. and tear it apart. it's going to be a series of massive shows for a massive time in british political history. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you everybody for watching and listening. headliners next. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. very good evening. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. southern areas will stay mostly dry as we go through the end of the week, but it's a wetter story further north because the same area of low pressure that has brought all the rain we've had through the last day or so is lingering across the uk, so we can expect further outbreaks of rain as we go through the end of today, overnight and into friday. some of the rain will be a little bit on the heavy side, but it is a definitely easing further south. it's going to stay largely dry overnight and there will be some clear skies under which it could turn a bit fresh, a bit chilly perhaps for some of us to start first thing tomorrow morning. but on the whole, once the sunshine gets going, temperatures should rise quite quickly. if we take a look at what's going to happen first thing tomorrow morning. and yes, it's a bit of a cloudy , damp it's a bit of a cloudy, damp start across many northern

parts, particularly across a big chunk of scotland cloud and outbreaks of rain. none of it looks particularly heavy but could cause some further issues for areas affected by the heavy rain we've seen recently. perhaps some brightness across western parts of scotland. but across northern ireland, much of england and wales are fairly cloudy and a little bit damp. start. the best chance of any sunshine first thing tomorrow morning will be across southern parts and to be honest, here's where we're likely to see the best of the sunshine as we go through tomorrow. as a result of the sunshine, though, we could see a few showers popping up, but it is generally going to be dner but it is generally going to be drier towards southern parts, a little bit cloudier and a bit wetter further north. some outbreaks of rain, perhaps the odd heavy shower here, but not as wet as it has been recently . as wet as it has been recently. the temperatures will be near normal for the time of year. feeling warm in any sunshine. in fact, across northern parts it will feel markedly less fresh than it has done recently. as we go into saturday. perhaps a bit of a chilly start for some of us, but it does look like the driest, sunniest day of the long weekend. a few showery outbreaks developing, particularly towards

eastern parts. but on sunday we are expecting some more wet weather to push its way in. some of that could be pretty heavy at times and more showers perhaps on monday. >> two that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on

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wenzler in the gb newsroom. first to that breaking news coming out of mallorca . four coming out of mallorca. four people have been killed and at least 17 injured after a building collapsed on the spanish island. that's according to emergency services , as local to emergency services, as local media is reporting, the two story building was a restaurant on a beach. spain's prime minister, pedro sanchez, said he was monitoring the situation closely, and his government would be ready to deploy all the means and personnel that are necessary . in other news, the necessary. in other news, the government is looking to pass key bills before parliament dissolves. the prime minister's flagship, smoking bill looks set to be shelved, whilst legislation to pay compensation to victims of the post office horizon scandal has passed. it comes as political party leaders begin six weeks of trying to win votes after it was announced . votes after it was announced. polls will open on the 4th of july, kicking off the conservatives campaign this morning, rishi sunak claimed labour would do absolutely nothing to stop the boats . nothing to stop the boats. >> everyone else is starting to agree with my approach, which is

bold . the one person that bold. the one person that doesn't is keir