gb news. >> it's 9 pm. i'm patrick christie's tonight, prime minister. >> we are just yards away from where the titanic was built and designed . are you confident a designed. are you confident a sinking ship would enter the selection should rishi sunak sack his advisers? >> plus . the party's over for >> plus. the party's over for michael gove , and we will assert michael gove, and we will assert our rights. >> that's why i'm standing to be an independent candidate for the people of islington north. >> keir starmer worst nightmare is happening. also . is britain is happening. also. is britain on the brink of a race war?

>> plus alastair stewart and for the first time on british television, live in front of a representative studio audience, we'll be hearing from three men, each hoping to be the leader of the next uk government. in the first election debate . first election debate. >> tv legend alastair stewart is live with us to discuss what it takes to win a tv debate. also tonight it is starmer and the opportunity destroying , opportunity destroying, aspiration hating labour party . aspiration hating labour party. well, it looks like the tories are dumping pro boris candidates. >> plus i grew up working class , >> plus i grew up working class, i've been fighting all my life and i won't stop now . and i won't stop now. >> is sir keir starmer really working class on my panel tonight ? working class on my panel tonight? it's the top team of journalism royalty john sergeant apprentice finalist joana jarjue and political commentator alex armstrong . oh, yes. and who is armstrong. oh, yes. and who is ex—trump adviser steve bannon talking about here? >> a gutless and feckless. and we're unclubbable and we're out of it. okay get ready britain.

>> here we go . >> here we go. britain is on the brink of a race war. next . race war. next. >> that's patrick. good evening. i'm ray anderson in the gb newsroom , and we start with some newsroom, and we start with some breaking news. andrea leadsom has become the latest mp to announce that she will not stand at the general election. in a letter to the prime minister the health minister said she had come to the decision after careful reflection but did not go into further detail. it comes just hours after michael gove posted his resignation letter , posted his resignation letter, saying it's time for a new generation to lead. 78 tory mps are now leaving parliament a post—war, record breaking exodus . michael gove said it's time for a new generation . rishi

for a new generation. rishi sunak has been greeted by a group of pro—palestine protesters as he visited a college in the west midlands this afternoon. the situation was described as tense as the pm arrived at south staffordshire college in cannock. the last stop on his uk tour , police stop on his uk tour, police officers formed a guard for mr sunak as his entry to the college was delayed and he was quickly ushered into the building as the crowd surged around him whilst inside, activists with banners and flags chanted free palestine in labour has ruled out any deals with the snp after the election, even in the event of a hung parliament. sir keir starmer has been campaigning in the east of glasgow today, which is one of the seats that he's hoping to take from john swinney's party. sir keir said the snp's only ambition is to break up the uk and there would be absolutely no deal with the scottish nationalists . well, gb news can nationalists. well, gb news can reveal that more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the uk so far this

yeah illegally to the uk so far this year. the milestone figure was reached today after another 154 people arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats this morning. it's a blow to rishi sunak on his second full day of campaigning after he promised that his government would stop the boats . the former would stop the boats. the former boss of the post office has been accused of living in la la land over her role in the horizon scandal . paula vennells again scandal. paula vennells again becoming emotional today on her third day of giving evidence, she admitted making mistakes and accepted that there was no one else to blame. but she claimed that she didn't know why important information hadn't reached her. sam stein kc described that as absolute rubbish , and he suggested that rubbish, and he suggested that miss vennells had failed to ask the right questions. and finally the right questions. and finally the documentary filmmaker morgan spurlock has died at the age of 53. he came to prominence with his oscar nominated film super size me in 2004, which tracked his health while he ate nothing

but mcdonald's for a month . the but mcdonald's for a month. the film was credited with prompting a broad conversation about how fast food and rising obesity impacted society . mr spurlock impacted society. mr spurlock passed away in new york due to complications from cancer. well, if you want the latest stories, sign up for gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. common shirts. back now to . patrick. shirts. back now to. patrick. >> it is friday. yes, that's right. and as the general election campaign hots up, there is a terrifying backdrop. britain may be on the brink of a race war. on october the 7th, hamas attacked israel . and. vie hamas attacked israel. and. vie allahu akbar . this hamas attacked israel. and. vie allahu akbar. this was hamas attacked israel. and. vie allahu akbar . this was greeted allahu akbar. this was greeted by scenes of celebration in parts of the country .

parts of the country. and in the weeks that followed, we saw pro—palestine marches and anti anti—semitism counter—protest. but in the last couple of weeks things have stepped up a notch . initially, stepped up a notch. initially, the student protest seemed almost laughable. the staged die in at oxford university possible trust fund babies at exeter screaming into a megaphone stop! we will not disclose . we will not disclose. >> after 18 months, we finally did something. we shut it down. >> and revolutionary communists in cambridge wearing masks and losing their voice. >> what are you here protesting about? >> might not get a better opportunity than this to talk to us. >> us. >> what's your message to the palestinian people? what's your message to hamas ? what's your message to hamas? what's your message to hamas? what's your message to hamas? what's your message to israel ? hi, message to hamas? what's your message to israel? hi, i'm suella i'm keen to find out your views and what you're protesting

about. >> nothing at all. >> nothing at all. >> i'm really keen to hear what your message is to israel . your message is to israel. >> yeah, but it has got more sinister. swastikas have been found carved into toilet doors at regent's park college, at oxford university, anti and pro—israel supporters were subjected to vile abuse at a 250,000 person strong march last saturday. you told me you chevron, chevron, you and guerrilla tactics are now being used by the pro—palestine bngade used by the pro—palestine brigade turning up at cinemas, showing israeli films and trying to shut them down or spray paint them in red graffiti like last night at east finchley can see the red paint just scrawled across the front of the phoenix cinema there, and now the pro—israelis have had enough and they are turning up in serious

numbers . without you all. numbers. without you all. >> we can do. yeah, yeah yeah . >> we can do. yeah, yeah yeah. okay >> and they are sending the pro—palestine fanatics packing . pro—palestine fanatics packing. my pro—palestine fanatics packing. my concern is this the pro—palestine brigade will not like the fact that they've just been utterly humiliated there. and i think we can expect some serious retaliation . and jewish serious retaliation. and jewish community members have clearly decided that they're just not going to take this anymore. i think it's reasonable to wonder if britain is on the brink of some serious race war violence. but let's get the thoughts of my panel this evening. i've got former bbc and itv chief political correspondent john sergeant , political commentator

sergeant, political commentator joana jarjue and political commentator as well alex armstrong. alex your views on this, do you think that we might be, one more fractured protest away from some kind of race war spilling out on the streets? >> yeah, well, it certainly seems that way, doesn't it? and, you know, the met police have failed, so many times now to get on top of all of this anti—semitism we've seen at this, at these protests and make a strong stance on it. you know, we've seen the excuses, the tweets that have had to be, you know, rescinded after being sent after the excuse after excuse of the met police saying, oh, no, we're going to let that jihadi flag stay up. we're going to allow the nazi placards here or there and just ignore them. but we will take down anyone counter protesting quite viciously. and this is the problem. they've given rise to a group of fanatical people who have taken over a peaceful protest in most cases, and now those more violent people are starting to show up in numbers and putting swastikas on anything . it's

swastikas on anything. it's absolutely vulgar. >> okay, joanna, are you concerned? i mean, when i looked at what happened last night in east finchley, i thought we were potentially one bottle being lobbed in either direction away from, you know, seriously erupting, i think. well, i think that obviously it's horrible for them to have done something like this with the swastika. and it's disappointing as somebody who's been to some of these protests that it's being hijacked in this way. and i think that, you know, rather than this being a race war, i think it's more so a culture war, because when it comes to people who are neo—nazis, you know, globally, we see it from different countries, you know, even in ukraine. and you sometimes russia kind of used the excuse that they're invading ukraine because they want to de—nazify the country . so i because they want to de—nazify the country. so i think because they want to de—nazify the country . so i think that the country. so i think that it's more so a mindset. but clearly this is different in the sense that this was beyond even passive aggression in the sense that somebody was clearly trying to, you know, more than offend the jewish community. and we don't know who it is at this point , but it

don't know who it is at this point, but it really is a shame for the bigger cause. and i think that vandalism, as well, you protest to kind of show your support to influence some sort of change. but i think as soon as you start to vandalise , it as you start to vandalise, it ruins the argument completely. yeah. >> john, what's your view on this, whether you want to call it a culture war, a race war or whatever, i suppose the better term for it might be. yeah, a serious violence. i mean, i can quite easily foresee a situation as this escalates on our streets in the coming weeks where there are genuinely violent clashes now between two groups of people. >> there might be, but it's not a race war because muslim is not a race war because muslim is not a separate race. so it's probably easier not to talk aboutin probably easier not to talk about in terms of two races if you're jewish, then it's a jewish race and you've got your homeland and you've got a whole different way of looking at the world, the idea that just because you're a muslim activist, it's a different race. i think that's a mistaken terminology, and you've got to be very careful about that, because of course, what you're

talking about essentially is a really serious political argument about what it's going on in the middle east, not in oxford, not in london, but in the middle east. and what's developing there. and that is much more likely to affect how people see it on television and how they're responding to it. so one shouldn't see it as being, oh, this is something which is getting worse in britain and therefore it's escalating the root of it all is what's happening in gaza and what's happening in gaza and what's happening to the israel government. the extent to which they're more and more isolated across the world and all those things are having a really serious effect on how people are perceiving what's happening. >> and it's the perception is on all jewish people now, you know, it seems that anyone who's they've gone to east finchley for a reason, let's be clear about that. that's the massive amount of jewish people living in that area. so they're not targeting israel's government. they are targeting specifically jewish people who live in london, who they can easily show up at their door and intimidate. >> and there are lots of people

who then who are involved in these things at the moment. the extremists take over. you think, oh, so it's like a snowball. it's getting worse and worse . it's getting worse and worse. it's getting worse and worse. it's not. actually, the more the extremists get involved, the more run of the mill ordinary students who feel strongly about this won't go and also remember what's happening . the holidays what's happening. the holidays are about to come. students are about to go to leave at the end of term. so the assumption that the moment it gets worse, it'll go on and on, getting worse and worse. i don't think so, yeah. okay, i mean, my concern really with this is. and i saw it last night, is and i know from, from speaking to a variety of different people, which is that a lot of the pro—israel, lot feel as though enough is enough now and that they've been, you know, kind of punched and punched and punched and they have decided to clap back on this. and, and i don't think , this. and, and i don't think, joanna, that the pro—palestine bngade joanna, that the pro—palestine brigade are going to take that particularly well . and i just particularly well. and i just wonder whether or not the genie is already out of the bottle now. and we are, you know,

potentially a couple of weeks away from reporting something very serious. and i'll be completely honest , you know, for completely honest, you know, for the first time in the last couple of weeks i've been more and more concerned about that as well, as we've seen kind of more aggressive scenes. and i think that that's kind of from both sides in some instances . i know sides in some instances. i know that, you know, a lot of the time we'll kind of talk about one particular side and, and incidents , but i think that both incidents, but i think that both sides are being more riled up and feeling like they have to be more defensive. but i think that it's difficult when, you know, obviously somebody who's jewish is very easily identifiable and then people have an idea of what they think that a muslim person looks like as well. and similar to what john was saying, it's not necessarily a race thing because you know, for example, in africa, how many people the majority of africa are also of the muslim faith. so then it then puts a target on people who are visibly, quote unquote, muslim as well as people who are visibly we can actually just see this was a development today. >> and i rishi sunak election campaign, it's fair to say, has not got off to the best start. but he was out and about today and there was a protest that

took place. i mean, it's everywhere people go now. it seems . i everywhere people go now. it seems. i think i can place you a little clip, of, a pro—palestine protest at rishi sunak motorway today. protest at rishi sunak motorway today . rishi sunak laura beddow. today. rishi sunak laura beddow. yeah. and it's the sense, i think , alex, that it's think, alex, that it's everywhere. it's everywhere people go now, did the. has this started because we didn't nip this in the bud early doors? >> well, i think this has started because it's been riled up started because it's been riled ”p by started because it's been riled up by a very specific group of people who have a point to make. what's really depressing about this is that we've just hit a general election, possibly one of the most critical general elections in a generation , and elections in a generation, and the focus is on a war that has nothing to do with britain , has nothing to do with britain, has nothing, will never impact british people. and instead it's being a massive distraction. the left needs to sort out their back door . if they really, back door. if they really, really want to start protesting, why don't they talk about the cost of living? why don't they talk about energy bills? why don't they talk about things that matter to british people? it's going to really distract

the public from what is important . the public from what is important. but quite the public from what is important . but quite frankly, we important. but quite frankly, we know why these people are out protesting because they want it's all about what the popular thing is right now. if it was something else, they would be they would be out protesting. >> i don't think it's that. i think that obviously we're seeing a continuation of these protests because when it comes to the palestinian side, it really is an ongoing situation . really is an ongoing situation. so if, for example, the jewish side and the israel pro—israel israel people do go out and protest in favour of obviously releasing the, the, the, the hostages as they should, that was one incident on october 7th. whereas people the thing is that more people are dying. >> we're now seeing we're now seeing, you know, videos of some where some of these hostages bodies were found, all of this horrific stuff that's coming out, hamas releasing videos of some young israeli female soldiers that they were talking about, talking about committing horrendous acts of sexual violence to . and i think from violence to. and i think from for a lot of the jewish community, there is a sense that it's one thing having the marches every other saturday through london. it's another thing if we want to go to our

local cinema and watch a film and you're outside, spray painting it in red and shouting and screaming and banging drums , and screaming and banging drums, you know, let us at least live our day to day lives and that's why that's where i've got this point of concern now, which is i think we are seeing the counter protests , which i think are protests, which i think are absolutely fair enough, by the way, mark, my concern is, is where this leads in the next in the next couple of weeks. it just feels a bit. >> no, i actually completely agree because i almost feel as if, you know, a lot of the people who were protesting on the palestinian side are actually they're protesting for actually they're protesting for a ceasefire as well, for it to stop on both sides. but also when you're targeting people who are actually, you know, that's not jewish people going to finchley, are those people going to finchley and not the israeli government? >> those people going to finchley are looking for trouble. they're doing it deliberately. >> i think you've got to separate those those activists with the students. it was interesting when you saw their list of demands from the students. and what did they say? they were talked about what the university should do about investments in israel and so on. but the big point at the end in

capital letters was amnesty . so capital letters was amnesty. so don't throw us out of the university. oh yeah, of course. and you felt that's really, you know, these these young people, they want to make their feelings known, but the assumption that they now want to involve themselves in a race war, most of the people that i've know, or the young people that i talk to , the young people that i talk to, they actually want to get out. they want to do two things. they want to express their feelings politically because they now feel grown up, and they want to be able to express , and that's be able to express, and that's fine. but they also want to make sure that they also have a career at the end of it. >> i hope you i hope you're right about that, but i am very fearful that there are a huge amount of people who are right on the brink of some kind of violence here. and a spokesman for regent's park college, this is the oxford college where there were swastikas found daubed on the toilet door, says the college has made it clear that it takes this incident extremely seriously and that it is completely unacceptable . it is completely unacceptable. it is completely unacceptable. it is a distortion of our statement to suggest otherwise . so to suggest otherwise. so presumably someone must have accused them of not taking it

seriously. but there we go. still to come as sir keir starmer performs yet another screeching u—turn, this time on university tuition fees. can we really trust a word? the leader of the labour party says shadow transport secretary louise haigh, joins me live. plus, as sunak claims, starmer lacks the courage to face him in a televised election debate. i am going to speak to the man that knows all about what it takes to win one for alastair stewart and the first time on british television, live in front of a representative studio audience, we'll be hearing from three men each hoping to be the leader of the next uk government. >> in the first election debate . >> in the first election debate. >> in the first election debate. >> the legend himself, alastair stewart, is live and he's next. stay tuned

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, coming up, we discuss how much of a headache jeremy corbyn will give sir keir starmer by standing as an independent in islington north. it's not just that, though, is it? he's probably going to be campaigning, including maybe against sir keir starmer in his seat. fascinating little side story to this general election. but first to gb news and broadcasting legend alastair stewart, now rishi sunak has claimed that mr starmer doesn't have the courage to face him in a televised election debate after the tories challenged the labour leader to six head to heads over the next six weeks.

mr sunak has said that his opponent should want to debate him. >> i heard this morning that he said he wanted to debate the british people rather than me. i think what the british people want are answers. answers to the questions about what he would actually do if he became prime minister and how much it's going to cost them in higher taxes. i think those are the answers that he should be providing. it's either going to be keir starmer or me. that's prime minister on july the 5th, and he should want to debate me. i want to debate him and i hope that he takes up the offer. but sir keir, who has agreed to the traditional two televised election debates, claims he doesn't need more because the prime minister is too predictable and increasingly desperate. >> i have to say , of course >> i have to say, of course there are going to be tv debates. they're part and parcel of the election cycle . now, of the election cycle. now, i obviously want to spend as much of my time talking to voters directly. i could do 100 debates with rishi sunak, but i know what he's going to say. he's going to say everything's fine. the cost of living crisis is oven the cost of living crisis is over. the health service hasn't got any problems, and you know ,

got any problems, and you know, thatis got any problems, and you know, that is all he ever says. of course, there's going to be debates, but he is sounding a bit desperate now, but what does it take to win a televised election debate? well, my next guest, alastair stewart, knows all about how leaders can woo the nation after he chaired the first ever election debate in 2010 between david cameron, gordon brown and nick clegg. >> i'm alastair stewart and for the first time on british television, live in front of a representative studio audience, we'll be hearing from three men each hoping to be the leader of the next uk government. in the first election debate . first election debate. >> gosh, it feels like a long time ago that now, doesn't it? i'm very pleased to say that alastair joins me now. alastair, great to have you on the show. fantastic. well firstly, what was it like that first ever televised debate , a moment of tv televised debate, a moment of tv history? >> it was absolutely nerve wracking, and i hope that that little intro there that you very kindly played didn't show it, but we were terrified because

we, we were first only because we, we were first only because we literally drew straws between the bbc, sky and itv and itv one. and we said, yeah, okay, fine, we'll go first, and then the bbc went second and sky went last, and it was a huge responsibility because if we'd screwed it up, then it would have made it very, very difficult for it to become as starmer said, you know, it's part and parcel of the broadcast landscape, which it had been in america for decades , but it america for decades, but it wasn't here. what you're looking at right now, that's the first thatis at right now, that's the first that is a very, very first. gordon dave and nick, first time it ever happened. and i just pick up on two very quick points because i think that both keir and rishi made a reasonable point about debating with the people when we reflected on it afterwards . adam, david dimbleby

afterwards. adam, david dimbleby and i all agreed that what we really wished there had been was more direct contact from the audience, from the people with the leaders, more cut and thrust , like we get on gb news with the people's forum , and i think the people's forum, and i think that that is a lesson that hopefully will have been learned. the second thing i would say is, and you're looking there now, there is. that's people's forum. there's rishi, i think after we'd done our bit there then became too many and it became cluttered. and if you've got a lot of candidates up there like in, in scotland, for example, then it loses focus. there was a sharpness in having only the three people who, in that election , one of who, in that election, one of them was going to be prime minister come what may. it wasn't going to be a coalition again. and that really matters. and my final point, and it's advice and guidance to whoever picks up the mantle is, i think that what adam, david and i all did was to make it about the

leaders . it wasn't about us. and leaders. it wasn't about us. and i think some of the subsequent debates became a little bit too much about the presenters. >> i think i know he might be talking about that. yes, but when it comes to how they win these debates , what does it take these debates, what does it take to win a debate? we've had some infamous moments , haven't we? infamous moments, haven't we? the i agree with nick. we've had it really can be. i think ed miliband stumbled at one point. it was a bit unlucky, but it does. these moments matter? what does. these moments matter? what doesit does. these moments matter? what does it to take win one of these tv debates? >> i think one of the key things in this television era and instant commentary on social media is that it's about charisma. and i remember when i was doing economics and politics at bristol university, we did a course on charisma , and charisma course on charisma, and charisma is people like churchill. it's people like fidel castro . it's people like fidel castro. it's even like people like hitler. and the public are aware of who rishi sunak keir starmer and ed davey are, but they don't really

get a feel of them that much. and i think the debate, because it's so focused on them and they're getting questions that they're getting questions that they don't know, they can make an intelligent guess that they're going to be asked about they're going to be asked about the economy, and they're going to be asked about the health service. they don't know exactly what the candidate is going to say, and it's how he or she in this case, he says it and the look in the eyeballs and that that physical language that you and i as professional interviewers look out for, that really does tell everything. and that's why i think to get the pubuc that's why i think to get the public more directly poking questions at these people, as we do in the people's forum, is a goodidea. do in the people's forum, is a good idea . i mean, my principal good idea. i mean, my principal reflection on the debate that i did was that nick did come from nowhere. i mean , i vaguely knew nowhere. i mean, i vaguely knew he was i knew paddy ashdown much, much better , and nick came much, much better, and nick came into his own and was a towering figure in that debate. gordon, who i knew very well, i'd expected to be the arch academic, which he was in many respects and just churn out the

numbers, churn out the facts and figures . dave, who i knew very figures. dave, who i knew very well because we'd worked together at carlton television, i thought it was going to be the star.i i thought it was going to be the star. i thought he'd walk it and i think he looked a little bit like a bunny in the headlights. so people learn slightly different things, even if they go into, the audience with their, their preconditions and their, their preconditions and their pre assumptions. >> we're in a real. yeah it's about us. it's about. but you've got plenty of that, albert , it's got plenty of that, albert, it's we're in a fascinating time at the moment because normally not always but normally the incumbent prime minister doesn't really want to do that many debates. they'd like to do 1 or 2, but it's almost like roles reverse. we've all seen the polls, so it looks as though keir starmer , you know, could go keir starmer, you know, could go on to, to secure a victory. so rishi sunak this time seems to be the one who's going, come on, debate me, debate me, debate me. who do you see doing better out of those debates? and how many debates do you think we should have at this election? >> i would i would go for 2 or

3, and i'd and i think that we showed with the, and you'll remember this because you were involved in it in the, in the hustings debates that we did and gb news was asked to do when i did, i did, rishi and, and liz up in manchester and, and really enjoyed it. i think if they become too widespread then there is a problem. and i think keir mentioned it in your introduction and that is that the debate becomes it. that's the debate becomes it. that's the only issue. that's all that people are talking about. and all of the ordinary folk i talked to day in and day out around where i live, and it's a marginal constituency, incidentally, you know, they are talking about the health service, they're talking about the economy. they're also talking about the size of the state. what what government can and can't do. and i think that if , if rishi digs into and can't do. and i think that if, if rishi digs into that and remembers that liz truss wasn't completely bonkers, some of the stuff that liz and kwasi were

talking about was positive. and as the telegraph said , shortly as the telegraph said, shortly after that, we need to have a debate within the conservative party about what the tory party actually stands for. starmer is going to say time and time again, it's new labour. it's not new labour, as in tony blair and charles clarke and john reid, but he claims it's purged itself of anti—semitism and all sorts of anti—semitism and all sorts of other things. and it's a new product. now, i'm not at all sure that's true. i'm not sure that rishi, if you cornered him as i tried to in manchester, could define for you what the conservative party is this year. right now . that's why reform uk right now. that's why reform uk is doing so well, because they've got a lot of the clothing that the tories comfortably wore back in the thatcher era. and if you read what rishi said in his mays lecture, and if you look at some of what liz truss was saying, you might get a little bit closer to what a lot of folk who used to support the conservative party want the conservative party want the conservative party to be talking about.

again, just one final one with you, al. >> what we're not going to be seeing any tv debates is going to be nigel farage, because he's decided not to stand as a candidate. i think that could have been a concern for all of the politicians, because nigel is , i think, you know, a good, is, i think, you know, a good, natural performer in that kind of environment, isn't he? so he's going to be missing from any leadership debates if we do have them . have them. >> yeah, that is true. and he's not a leader of a party, and it'll be interesting to know whether , mr tice would, would be whether, mr tice would, would be ianed whether, mr tice would, would be invited to one of them. and i think that one of the things i've said to a lot of people about when i joined gb news i mean, i knew of nigel, i didn't know him intimately . mean, i knew of nigel, i didn't know him intimately. he mean, i knew of nigel, i didn't know him intimately . he wasn't mean, i knew of nigel, i didn't know him intimately. he wasn't a mate of mine. he became a mate of mine. and what i discovered was that nigel farage has a much broader hinterland than simply brexit and ukip and stuff like that. brexit and ukip and stuff like that . he's brexit and ukip and stuff like that. he's got brexit and ukip and stuff like that . he's got strongly held that. he's got strongly held views on a whole range of issues , and he's very articulate and very intelligent on many of

them. so it would be a shame. but i think the other thing that's been observed is absolutely true, is that reform and farage is going to be campaigning for them, will take votes for sure from the conservatives, but they'll also take votes from , from labour. take votes from, from labour. that's why boris did so well. and why the red wall tumbled down, no, alastair, thank you very, very much. and it is such a pleasure to be able to chat to you again here and to have your energy and your vigour and everything on this show. so thank you very much, my good man. you take care. i'll see you soon. all right. that's alastair stewart there. what a man. what a view. >> and, any time . seriously, any >> and, any time. seriously, any time at all. as i, as i've said to your producers and to the bosses, i love elections. i've got a thing about them, and i'm very happy to give my two pennies. if everybody thinks it's worth it. but do you and the whole team and your producers have been brilliant looking after me, big. thank you. and good night. to people who are kind enough to be watching and listening. >> wow. all the best, al. take care all right, well, look, coming up, jeremy corbyn will stand as an independent

candidate after being booted out of the labour party. so he's finally been evicted from laboun >> we will assert our rights . >> we will assert our rights. that's why i'm standing to be an independent candidate for the people of islington north. >> well, how much of a problem could he prove to be for keir starmer? because i don't think he's just going to be campaigning in islington north, is he? novara media journalist michael walker gives his take on this political divorce that's got everybody talking. but first, well as starmer is adding tuition fees now, apparently to his endless list of policy u—turns, how can we trust anything that the labour party promises? their shadow transport secretary, louise hague, is here to explain. all right. after the

break. welcome back. this is patrick christys. tonight we are on gb news now. keir starmer is coming under ever increasing scrutiny. as one would expect, we're in an election campaign which means that his infamous u—turns are now being highlighted. look, shall we remind ourselves of some of those u—turns? just off the top of my head , we've got the top of my head, we've got the top of my head, we've got the old net zero green pledges, support for jeremy corbyn and angela rayner. she was in, then she was out, then she was back in again here. we also tried to bin off again back in 2021, not to mention his plans for nationalisation, ending nhs outsourcing , scrapping the house outsourcing, scrapping the house of lords and now the rest of the media seem to be cottoning on. he was skewered to an extent over his previous promise to aboush over his previous promise to abolish university tuition fees, after his shadow education secretary refused to rule out

actually increasing them. >> you've got to make some pretty difficult choices. so i want term. >> you will return to a pledge to abolish tuition fees? >> no. we're now looking at alternatives to that because i don't think we can leave it. so we have to look at alternatives to that . to that. >> well, here now to presumably defend her boss is labour's shadow transport secretary louise haigh. louise, look, thank you very much. to great have you on the show. there is an issue when it comes to keir starmer and trustworthiness. isn't there all of those screeching u—turns i've just rattled off? how can anyone trust a word he says , well, i trust a word he says, well, i don't recognise some of the so—called u—turns that were just in your list there, but let me address the issue of tuition fees, because keir starmer did indicate when he stood to be labour party leader. for over four years ago, that he wanted to abolish tuition fees. since then, we've obviously had the disastrous mini—budget of liz truss, which crash crashed the economy vie. and since then we've seen inflation, soaring interest rates having to be

raised and working people have been really badly hit. so we know and your viewers will know very well the implications and the consequences of when governments make unfunded spending commitments or unfunded tax cuts. and because the economy has so been so badly damaged and because public finances are in such a poorer state, since keir made that initial , state, since keir made that initial, ambitious, ambitious pledge, then we're not able to make it. and it's really important that as we go into we are crystal clear about the promises that we intend to make and intend to keep, and that is really important for trust in politics. i was out on the doors today, actually , in grimsby, and today, actually, in grimsby, and ispoke today, actually, in grimsby, and i spoke to a woman who hadn't voted since 2010, when she voted for the lib dems, who promised , for the lib dems, who promised, oh, oh, i think we might have lost her there. >> unfortunately, that's louise's connection appears to have dropped off. oh, we'll just try and work to get her back. something that is worth noting, though, is a bit of a headache for sir keir starmer. now he is

saying he's a changed labour party. in fact , he's standing on party. in fact, he's standing on a banner that says change, isn't he? but jeremy corbyn has today been evicted from the labour party and he is. well, he's coming out swinging isn't he? he's just going to stand as an independent. we can hear from the former labour leader now. >> i was first elected parliament for islington north in 1983 and in all those years we in the community have had many, many campaigns. i believe in democracy. i want our political parties to be democratic . but members of democratic. but members of islington north labour have been denied the right to choose their own candidate and alongside that, the community as a whole has been disempowered because of that. so we have to stand up, we have to stand up and say, we're not taking this anymore. we will assert our rights. that's why i'm standing to be an independent candidate for the people of islington north. >> i'm very pleased to see the shadow transport secretary is back with us. it's time to get rid of diane abbott. now, then, is it as well, well, look, diane

abbott is in a independent process , and that is being process, and that is being considered over the next few days. and the labour party said that they will respond to that imminently. >> yeah. what do you make of it, though? do you think we should get rid of her? >> well, look, diane , said >> well, look, diane, said something that was completely unacceptable in the guardian. she's been going through an independent process , and it's independent process, and it's right that it should be dealt with in that way. but she's been a trailblazer for lots of, particularly young women of colour throughout the labour movement for longer than i've been alive. so i think it would been alive. so i think it would be a really sad way if this is how her parliamentary career ended. >> is it a concern now to have jeremy corbyn outside the tent? even more than he already was, because he won't just be campaigning in islington north? i mean, he could well be having a proper keir starmer seat backing the candidate who's standing against him there as an independent. he could well, i mean, his friends actually, apparently with liam mohammed , apparently with liam mohammed, who's standing against wes streeting, for example. and the candidate as well, ahmed yaqoob, who is running in birmingham ladywood, i believe, against shabana mahmood. so he's , he's, shabana mahmood. so he's, he's, he could be a force for force

for bad for the labour party. he worried. >> well, look, keir starmer removed jeremy corbyn as a labour mp because of the, disgraceful things he said about anti—semitism in the labour party and because of his record as labour leader, in response to the ehrc inquiry and findings on anti—semitism in the labour party, it was right that keir starmer did that , and it's right starmer did that, and it's right that he shouldn't be a candidate at this general election. we'll take on, every constituency and every vote, regardless of who our opponents are. and i'm confident that under keir starmer's changed labour party, we can win back the trust right across the country. >> okay. and keir starmer was up in scotland wasn't he. today. and that is going to be a big, big area for labour. and actually it's funny how things work out in politics isn't it. the swings of this person says i mean scotland could actually really be what, what hands labour the keys to downing street couldn't it? >> well i think the changed

context in scotland is extraordinary in such a short penod extraordinary in such a short period of time. and you're absolutely right. a general election victory for us across the uk is absolutely required that we make progress in scotland. i think from my own campaigning up there in the by—election that we had last yean by—election that we had last year, and from speaking to colleagues in scottish labour, and the real feeling on the ground is that they're absolutely sick to the back teeth of two incompetent governments, one in holyrood and one in westminster, and the desire for scotland, as it is in the rest of the uk, is for change. after 14 years of chaos and failure under the conservatives >> it's just very lastly with you. david lammy has been quite outspoken on, about benjamin netanyahu. there is a concern that a vote for labour might be a vote to make an enemy of israel. if you back the icc, see us icc, as you've made to say, when they say that if they say that they want to arrest benjamin netanyahu, presumably we would have to divest from israel as a whole. it would be a massive foreign policy shift. do

you think that's wise from labour? >> well, look, being a friend of israel and the absolute right for israel to exist doesn't mean that you're a friend of benjamin netanyahu, who is an incredibly divisive, politician who is undeniably , behaved in an undeniably, behaved in an appalling way in this war. and it is right that we support the do you think he's a war criminal, well, the icc and the icj have obviously made very clear to the israeli government that they must not proceed with the offensive in rafah . and then the offensive in rafah. and then that would break international law. and it's right . you know, law. and it's right. you know, when we say that israel and all other state actors have to abide by international law, it's right that there should be a system in place in order to protect and uphold that. and that system is the international criminal court and the international court of justice. so those independent institutions must absolutely be respected . respected. >> all right, look, can i just say thank you very much for coming on the show this evening? to great have you on. and, hopefully we'll chat to you

again over the course of the next six weeks. as louise hague, who is labour's shadow transport secretary. right. i've got a lot coming your way. the climate crisis that's shaping up to be a key election issue, that's all landed today . should the parties landed today. should the parties row back on their net zero promises? that's my take at ten. and who is steve bannon? former trump adviser talking about here? >> gutless and feckless. and we're unclubbable and we're out of it okay. >> but next look who's back. i'm ready to take the fight to keir starmer . starmer. >> we will assert our rights. that's why i'm standing to be an independent candidate for the people of . people of. >> but yes. what impact will the return of their former leader have on the labour party? you heard a little bit of a taster for it. i'm going to talk about it in more detail now

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight now, the climber has emerged as today's key battleground at the general election. will the party that

moves further away from net zero do better? i'm going to debate that shortly. but first. yes some some big election news. sir keir starmer has now officially expelled the former leader and supposedly friend, jeremy corbyn, from the labour party after he announced that he will stand as an independent against labourin stand as an independent against labour in islington north. so the labour party has shortlisted sam momo, who's a member of the london assembly, apparently, and praful nargund, who's an islington councillor in the contest to be the party's candidate. constituency where mr corbyn holds currently a 26,188 vote majority. keir starmer was was playing down any issues here though? >> well, look, that's a matter for jeremy. he's obviously made his mind up about that. we will have an excellent labour candidate in islington north as we've got excellent labour candidates across the country . candidates across the country. >> yeah. so there he is basically saying look everything's absolutely fine. this might be a fiery campaign and likely to be a difficult one for labour to win . apparently

for labour to win. apparently 98% of attenders at a local labour party meeting backed a motion thanking jeremy corbyn for his commitment and service to the people. joining me now is contributing editor at novara media and corbyn ally michael walker. michael, look great to have you on the show. thank you very, very much. i think this is a big problem for labour because corbyn is not just going to be in islington north, he's going to be out and about, he's going to be out and about, he's going to be out and about, he's going to be in places like wes streeting seat, i imagine, bethnal green as well, where you've got a couple of people going up against the serving labour mp there. this could be a huge headache . i mean, i think huge headache. i mean, i think keir starmer will be thinking about it in two ways. so on the one hand, i don't think he minds having a public battle with jeremy corbyn. he spent a lot of his leadership essentially trying to distance himself from him to the extent that i think labour have rejected a lot of quite popular policies because they're associated with him. so water nationalisation, for example, i think people probably would back that, but labour are sort of scared to do anything that looks like 2017 or 2019 at the same time. this does sort of

continue to raise the question of trustworthiness and duplicity. obviously, keir starmer is someone who tried to make this guy prime minister five years ago, and now now is, you know, dismissing him will be campaigning against him. so two ways of looking at this, i think jeremy corbyn is probably the only independent who has a serious chance of winning in his constituency. >> well, it's actually quite interesting because , keir interesting because, keir starmer, his own seat. i wonder whether or not i wonder how safe that is, because you've got daniel feinstein standing against him, presumably keir starmer. so presumably jeremy corbyn might turn up there as well. so you could end up with this bizarre situation where jeremy corbyn is campaigning alongside the guy who's running against keir starmer keir starmer, safe at this election . starmer, safe at this election. >> he's called andrew feinstein. sorry, apologies, apologies . sorry, apologies, apologies. he's a very impressive man, actually. so he was an mp with the anc. so sort of an ally of nelson mandela. he was in the south african parliament and a jewish man. so i've spoken to this gentleman a number of times

and he's sort of very frustrated with how he feels anti—semitism was weaponized and how, sort of jews who were critical of israel like himself have been sort of dismissed and alienated from the party. so a very interesting guy, a very interesting argument. my guess is that in that particular seat, keir starmer is going to be fine. i mean, keir starmer has lots of name recognition, a lot more than andrew feinstein . and i do than andrew feinstein. and i do think, you know, people really do want to see the back of the tories. so i don't think you will see this sort of huge momentum to have keir starmer not win in his own seat. jeremy corbyn, i think, is a different sort of issue. i think there are lots of people who would like to see a labour majority because they want to see the back of the conservatives, but would also like to see sort of jeremy corbyn, given his due respect and, you know, they wouldn't mind keir starmer becoming prime minister, but having a little bit of a, you know, a nuisance behind him because i think many people see and especially people in islington north actually see the way that jeremy corbyn has been treated as, as particularly unfair . unfair. >> i wonder if diane abbott's next, though very, very quickly. michael do you think she's gone

from what the what from what i'm hearing, frontbenchers say, i think they might keep her in. >> i think they might see that sort of kicking out. diane abbott, the first black woman elected to parliament, would be a step too far. >> look, michael, thank you very much. have a great weekend. that's michael walker there, the contributing editor and of our immediate guest, andrew feinstein . apologies, who is feinstein. apologies, who is standing against keir starmer in his seat coming up with reports suggesting that brexit deal architect lord frost will be banned from standing for the tories at the next election. is the party guilty of now abandoning true blue conservatives? boris supporters cabinet office minister alex burghart, who used to advise theresa may. he's going to be on this show shortly. but next, the climate is emerging as a key election battleground, which party cares more or less about the climate ? do you care ? the climate? do you care? >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your

latest gb news weather update this weekend it's going to be a bit of a mixed bank holiday. the driest weather expected on saturday for most of us. we'll turn a bit more unsettled as the weekend goes on, but through this evening, the pressure pattern really settles down and that will set us up for a much dner that will set us up for a much drier and colder night to come. tonight there are areas of cloud and rain we've seen across. northern areas will slowly drift northwards through the next few hours, and these clearer skies across the south will become more widespread, pushing into parts of southern scotland by the morning. there's a chance of some mist and fog across some southern counties, and it's going to be a fresh start. as i say , temperatures could be down say, temperatures could be down as low as three, 3 or 4 degrees across parts of wales. southern areas of england as well, but it will warm up fairly quickly as the sun will shine . first thing the sun will shine. first thing we could see some sunshine first thing across the north—east of scotland, where we're sheltered from that more southerly wind, thicker cloud though further south and west still some drizzly rain . but i think things drizzly rain. but i think things will improve through the day

here. elsewhere across much of england and wales it will be a dry and bright start, but some mist and fog may allowed some drizzly rain . notice, though, we drizzly rain. notice, though, we do have this area of quite persistent rain moving into the south and east that's moving in from parts of europe, and that could bring some very heavy rain to eastern areas potentially. so a bit of a wet day is on the cards for eastern areas of england. just some areas actually most of us should stay dry through the day on saturday andifs dry through the day on saturday and it's going to feel much warmer than it has done today. highs of around 22 degrees in the south, closer to 19 degrees across the north. but under the cloud it's going to be a bit of a disappointing day. things turn much more unsettled on sunday. bands of showery rain will push north and eastwards through the day, some more persistent rain for northern areas. heavy and possibly thundery downpours across many central and southern areas and that could bring some localised disruption , perhaps localised disruption, perhaps some flooding and spray on the roads and it will likely stay unsettled into the half term week . week. >> it looks like things are

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>> boris backing conservatives are allegedly blocked from standing . what's going on? also, standing. what's going on? also, i grew up working class , i've i grew up working class, i've been fighting all my life and i won't stop now. it's sir keir starmer lying about being working class. i've got tomorrow's front pages with broadcasting royalty, john sergeant's apprentice finalist joana jarjue and political commentator alex armstrong. commentator alex arm strong. plus, commentator alex armstrong. plus, who is ex—trump adviser steve bannon talking about here. >> gutless and feckless . and >> gutless and feckless. and we're unclubbable and we're proud of it. okay get ready britain. >> here we go . >> here we go. do voters actually care about net zero? next . net zero? next. >> good evening. i'm ray addison

in the gb newsroom. andrea leadsom has become the latest mp to announce that she will not be standing at the general election. in a letter to the prime minister the health minister said she had come to the decision after careful reflection but did not go into further detail . comes shortly further detail. comes shortly after michael gove posted his resignation letter, saying it's time for a new generation to lead . 78 tory mps are now lead. 78 tory mps are now leaving parliament a post—war, record breaking exodus . rishi record breaking exodus. rishi sunak was greeted by a group of pro—palestine protesters as he visited a college in the west midlands this afternoon . the midlands this afternoon. the situation was described as tense, as the pm arrived at south staffordshire college in cannock. the last stop on his uk toun cannock. the last stop on his uk tour. police officers formed a guard for mr sunak as his entry to the college was delayed and he was quickly ushered into the building as the crowd surged around him . whilst inside, around him. whilst inside, activists with banners and flags chanted free palestine! labour has ruled out any deals with the

snp after the election, even in the event of a hung parliament. sir keir starmer has been campaigning in the east of glasgow today, which is one of the seats he's hoping to take from john swinney's party. sir keir said the snp's only ambition is to break up the uk and there would be absolutely no deal with the scottish nationalists . deal with the scottish nationalists. gb news can deal with the scottish nationalists . gb news can reveal nationalists. gb news can reveal that more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the uk so far this year. the milestone figure was reached today after another 154 people arrived in dover , having crossed arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats this morning. another boat arrived this evening with 53 people on board. it's a blow to rishi sunak on this second full day of election campaigning, after he promised that his government would stop the boats. the former boss of the post office has been accused of living in la la land over her role in the horizon scandal. paula vennells again became emotional on her third

day of giving evidence. she admitted making mistakes and accepted that there was no one else to blame, but claimed that she didn't know why important information didn't reach her. sam stein kc described that as absolute rubbish and suggested that miss vennells had failed to ask the right questions because the risk was too great, and the documentary filmmaker morgan spurlock has died at the age of 53. he came to prominence with his oscar nominated film super size me in 2004, which tracked his health while he ate nothing but mcdonald's for a month, the film was credited with prompting a broad conversation about how fast food and rising obesity was impacting society . mr spurlock impacting society. mr spurlock passed away in new york due to complications from cancer. well, if you'd like the latest stories, you can sign up for gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news corach rambler. back now to

. patrick. >> the key battle lines are starting to be drawn for the election. we had immigration yesterday , immigration figures, yesterday, immigration figures, and they are down by 10. >> it's actually been around a 50% increase in work migration. >> well, today it's the environment. so both parties are putting the environment at the centre of their campaigns. but for different reasons. and you will have a choice about what you prefer . the line from the you prefer. the line from the tories is this we prioritised energy security and your family finances over environmental dogma and our approach to net zero. so the prime minister claims he's rowed back on net zero. he's allowing new oil and gas licenses. he's anti ulez. and today that announcement is that the tories will make it harder for customers to be pred harder for customers to be ripped off by price comparison websites, and they will stop being clobbered with bills for thousands and thousands of pounds from dodgy smart metres. so that's what the tories are saying. the line from them is

quite simple actually. we are not eco fanatics , we're pro not eco fanatics, we're pro using our own oil and gas and we will make your bills cheaper. what labour are coming at it from the other angle, they are planning on making climate change a key focus of their election campaign. they think that net zero is a massive priority. they think the climate crisis is something most voters really care about. the tories can't be trusted on that. just look, they will say at the way that they've allowed your rivers to be pumped full of raw sewage . to be pumped full of raw sewage. they've rowed back on the £28 billion green pledge. but they've settled on a figure of around 15 billion. they want to set up great british energy, which ed miliband says will help britain take back control of its destiny . destiny. >> our first step is to set up great british energy, a publicly owned clean energy company, by and for our citizens. >> and there's even a bizarre piece in the guardian today about how rishi sunak's standing in the rain on downing street is

a visible sign of climate change. but the big issue for labouris change. but the big issue for labour is cost. they say renewables are cheaper and that will bring your bills down. but in the short term they appear to be putting their eggs in the basket of people want to fight climate change and they won't mind if it costs them a bit of money. the battle lines on the environment have been drawn. whose side are you on? but let's get the thoughts now of my panel get the thoughts now of my panel. bbc, former and itv political chief john sergeant. i've also got the political commentator and apprentice finalist joana jarjue and broadcaster extraordinaire alex armstrong. john do you think that people really care about the environment at this election because the labour party really think everyone does? >> well, no , i think if you ask >> well, no, i think if you ask people, do you care about climate change and should we take action against it? of course they will say, yes, absolutely. but what they don't want is anything which will upset their own standard of

living. and that, of course, is the problem. it's like so many things in the public sector. do you want services to improve? yeah. are you prepared to pay more tax? well, i'm not sure about that. exactly that. so what you're getting and what's becoming more and more apparent is that this the zero zero target of 3050, which seems such a long way away , which we can a long way away, which we can all gently agree that's going to be all right now . it looks it's be all right now. it looks it's getting closer and closer and people realise that electric cars are not very popular. they've they've suddenly said, we're not going to give you money for a new boiler. and they think, oh, this is getting a bit tncky. think, oh, this is getting a bit tricky . and then people get tricky. and then people get worried because they're worried about, well, this is haven't got any more money. >> the line that the tories are trying to take now is that if you vote conservative, we will try to make use of some of the stuff that we've got resources wise, under our own feet or under the sea. we will do our best to make sure that you don't get ripped off by a dodgy, smart metre or comparison website, and

we're anti things like ulez and we're anti things like ulez and we're in no great rush to hit net zero. labour appeared to be saying no, this, this is a climate emergency. most people, they would say, would agree with that. sceptical. but, and we're going to we're going to do what we can and we're going to, we're going to try and use renewables as a way of making sure your bills don't go up. the tories are going to say your bills will go are going to say your bills will 9° up are going to say your bills will go up under labour. >> well, that's true, isn't it? we know that renewables cost more. we know that energy costs more. we know that energy costs more. what really matters to people is how much money they've got left in their bank. at the end of the day, it's the economy, stupid. the famous saying, right, and this really shows to me that labour are out of touch with ordinary working class people who don't want any more of this shoved down their throats. they've already been paying throats. they've already been paying out of their backsides for green incentives the last few years, and the government have been putting incentives after incentive into business, andifs after incentive into business, and it's not really made to much difference. we're also one of the best countries in the world when it comes to carbon emissions. so how much more do we need to give? >> joanna, i wonder if keir starmer is making a mistake

putting climate right at the centre of his supposed manifesto as and when we get it, i don't think he is, actually. and i think he is, actually. and i think that when we get to, you know, full on, full pelt, election period and debates and things like that, i think that he's going to frame it as hitting two birds one with stone, or even three birds with one stone in the sense that, you know, investing in a green economy or investing in in green energy is more likely to create jobs. and we know that we've got a real productivity issue in this country. so it's about being able to attract things like private investment into, you know, the traditional industrial heartlands that is actually probably will be real levelling up, especially for some areas in the north. so i think that when you frame it like that, and also taking into account that in the last couple of years we've seen time and time again that planning and long term thinking in this country has been a real problem. and we, you know , it's never and we, you know, it's never going to be the right time and it's always going to stink to an extent, especially when you've got something that's new. so at what point do we do it? i mean, we saw it was the uxbridge

by—election. >> we saw where it was. boris johnson's old seat, and a lot of people thought it was going to go labour. and they made that the ulez by—election. and most people in that seat decided they didn't want ulez. and so they voted for the tory candidate there. and i just wonder if that's what the tories are thinking here, if they can come out and say, look, we think net zero is a bit of a fad and we don't really care about that. they might actually play quite well. yeah. oh no, the chances are that particular thing we're going to do at all and it won't hurt you too much and it's all going to be wonderful. >> and we agree with this, but i think people might see through this and realise that if you're not careful, you will get these events. i mean, how frightening was it that aircraft falling so many thousand feet ? yeah. he was many thousand feet? yeah. he was saying there are more of these things coming. i think, you know, that's climate . know, that's climate. >> they said it was. >> they said it was. >> they said it was climate change. no, they said no. >> but but you know what? >> but but you know what? >> i think they would be worried about. >> let me know before you stop. otherwise you attack me and you'll be laughing. and people say i got it wrong in terms of

more incidents involving turbulence in in east asia. yes. the chances are that that has thatis the chances are that that has that is affected by. >> well, i just i just wanted to make the point. if you look at london, if you look at the mayoral election, right, susan hall got 33, that's, that's that's a 12% difference from where the tories are polling nationally that would be a big difference in the number of seats. and that you really have to look at why people were voting for susan hall. a lot of it in the suburbs was to stop ulez. yeah. and so if you make this all about ulez, you and the tory party are able to say, we're going to roll out, the labouris we're going to roll out, the labour is going to roll out ulez in every major city, then all of a sudden it becomes, i don't think that they'll frame it like that. >> i think they'll focus on energy security and they'll focus on the creation of jobs. i don't think that they will focus on the tiny things. i think they'll know that. obviously, that's a, you know, quite a the tories will be able to make an issue with that. >> is that then it's easy to come unstuck because you're promising things on the never, never they you're saying. right. it might come we might get this amount of jobs, renewables might save us this amount of money.

it's stuff we don't already have. whereas if the tories decide to say, we know there's oil there, we know there's gas there, we're going to frack. we know all of these things . then know all of these things. then just maybe that might actually play just maybe that might actually play a little bit to their base. i wonder whether alex the tories have been helped out a bit on this by some quite, quite hysterical climate stuff recently from the guardian, which was linked, by the way, to this article. it was in it was in this article where they were saying keir starmer was going to put the climate at the heart of his manifesto, where it said that rishi sunak standing outside in the rain on downing street, was a visible sign of climate change. and you think, well, hang on a minute. if keir starmer was appealing to that kind of mindset, i think most people find that laughable . people find that laughable. >> well, yeah, i mean, i found it. i thought it was ridiculous, isn't it? this is britain . it isn't it? this is britain. it rains most of the year. i mean, you carry an umbrella with you everywhere. and quite frankly, i think i put a tweet out saying this is this is just british people getting on with their daily lives. rishi sunak delivering a barbecue, whether it's barbecue, whether it's t shirt, whether it's my shorts. >> it was a terrible mess. >> it was a terrible mess. >> yeah. and obviously he didn't work it out. he should have

either waited. >> oh i mean, you know, there's someone with. >> no, there was no way else out about the sewage , the climate stuff. >> you know, the effects on our wildlife and things like that. and obviously we see these incidents across the world as well as in britain in terms of even flooding. >> so god , guardian readers, >> so god, guardian readers, pollution is a separate issue. >> of course , people are all >> of course, people are all agree on that. the problem is climate change is just so much more in the future, and you've got to do . that's where the got to do. that's where the problem is, getting people to concentrate on the fact that it is an emergency. >> very, very quickly. we've now had 78 conservative mps quitting. michael gove quit a couple of hours ago. andrea leadsom's just quit. couple of hours ago. andrea leadsom's just quit . we are leadsom's just quit. we are going to have to be very, very quick for this. but alex, you're shaking your head there. i said, michael, michael, gove's gone. >> it's the rats fleeing the ship, isn't it? it really is. they were out on exodus at the moment and i think it's damning on rishi sunak. if anybody it's they're leaving his premiership. they're saying we don't want we don't want to run an election underneath you. >> have you seen anything like this before, john? we literally haven't seen anything like this

before. >> but no, this, no, this, this really is it's i'm afraid it's the conservatives demonstrating once again how they can't simply work together. so give them an excuse to go off in different directions. and you feel they don't even think for a moment. they just say, right off we go. i want to do this. well. instead of thinking, what can we do for our party? >> it also shows how spineless they are, because i think a lot of them have got so used to being in power for 14 years that they can't even stomach, you know, trying to do their best for their constituents and actually representing some people who i'm sure you know, do all support. >> all i say is the, the, the rumours on social media are that it is bad news for the current editor of the times because they think michael gove might be about to become the editor of the times. but coming up, keir starmer, he's back making claims about being working class. i grew up working class, i've been fighting all my life and i won't stop now . do you buy it? and stop now. do you buy it? and does this working class stuff really matter to the voters? we debate that on top of all of

tomorrow's front pages. but next look, conservative minister michael gove has now stood down amid claims that the tories are blocking true blue conservatives pro boris candidates like david frost from actually standing. is this true and how does the party react to this record breaking mp exodus? i've got cabinet office minister alex burghart, former adviser to theresa may. actually, he's going to try and answer some of those questions and more very shortly. stay tuned.

welcome back to patrick christys on gb news. look still to come, i will have the very first of tomorrow's front pages for you , tomorrow's front pages for you, which are landing in thick and fast as we speak. but first, gb news is christopher hope exclusively revealed this morning that the architect of bohs morning that the architect of boris johnson's brexit deal, lord frost, has been banned from standing as a tory candidate in the general election . frost, the general election. frost, described as the great frost by bohs described as the great frost by boris johnson, is a low tax tory with traditional conservative values and many fear this is exactly why the party are choosing to abandon him. richard sunak has since denied that lord frost has been blocked from standing for parliament, with friends of him saying that the candidates committee is set to review this case again on the 29th of may. but concerns have been raised over the tories cleansing themselves of what many people regard as being actual conservatives , with actual conservatives, with former diplomat amanda gal last month accusing conservative campaign headquarters of a stitch up criticising their

candidate selection process. overall, really the concern is that they're going to shove the party full of wets and that's what it's going to be left after the general election. so as the tories reportedly ban lord frost from standing what is really going on, i'm very pleased to say that cabinet office minister alex burghart joins me now. alex, look, thank you very, very much . first and foremost, much. first and foremost, michael gove went a couple of hours ago . andrea leadsom's just hours ago. andrea leadsom's just gone.is hours ago. andrea leadsom's just gone. is it rats leaving a sinking ship ? sinking ship? >> i think so, i don't think that's a fair way of talking about it. you do understand that some people have done employment in really difficult circumstances , and i can enough. circumstances, and i can enough. yeah. it's, it's perfectly natural after, after a long stint in power, that , some stint in power, that, some people want to pay off and retire or trusts and. yeah, yeah , some good colleagues who've done a service for the party.

but i like, candidates as well . but i like, candidates as well. >> okay. all right, look, i'll tell you what, alex, i'm very, very sorry about this. what we're going to need to do. there's a little bit of an issue with your microphone. so what we're going to do, i'm going to ask you to just going to try and get that sorted behind the scenes. i'll just run through a couple of things. so michael gove has now stood down. he said he's not after 20 years, he's not going to seek re—election. strong rumours that he might go and be the next editor of the times. i think that's possibly quite bad news, or maybe even quite bad news, or maybe even quite disrespectful, actually, for the current editor of the times. but you add that to the 78, i think. now, other tory mps that have stood down and it does paint a picture of a group of people that weren't necessarily up for the fight. when it comes to people like david frost. and we are seeing this now around the country, there are people who are regarded as being, quote unquote, proper conservatives. people will debate what that means. but that might mean pro—brexit, low tax, you know, quite strong when it comes to immigration. all of that stuff who are being blocked or not

selected to stand at certain seats. now, that could mean that if the conservative party do suffer a bit of a wipe—out, who will some of the people be left? who will emerge from the ashes of what remains? and there is a fear amongst some quarters that that could just be very centrist, very wishy washy, you know, kind of lib dems basically. and that's what the conservative party could end up with. there's a lot going on here when it comes to all of that, though, really, and especially the bad start that rishi sunak has made to their campaign, it would be one thing ditching people like lord frost. it would be one thing with michael gove going, if you felt as though rishi sunak had got off to a rip roaring start, but i don't need to remind you all that. it started with him getting absolutely soaked to the bone outside downing street , bone outside downing street, with things can only get better, which i think might now actually be at number 3 or 4 in the charts blaring over him. and he's been on this whistle stop tour of the united kingdom and that's not gone particularly well. he's offended the welsh , well. he's offended the welsh, in a way, over the fact that

they didn't qualify for the euros . he was pictured next to euros. he was pictured next to an exit sign on an aeroplane he was at the titanic quarter in northern ireland, wasn't he? which led to him being asked questions about being the captain of a sinking ship. i mean, whoever is behind the advice that rishi sunak is getting seriously needs to give their head a wobble. don't they? and then he got hounded by the pro—palestine brigade in the midlands. i mean, it is actually i think, quite a terrible start. i'm going to reintroduce my panel now, so we do have with us, john sergeant, the stalwart veteran, he probably won't thank me for calling him that political powerhouse. we've also got joana jarjue and alex armstrong , look what i was about armstrong, look what i was about to grill , our armstrong, look what i was about to grill, our friend there from the conservative party on was about whether or not the conservatives are actually purging or refusing to have proper conservative standing. alex, i'll start with you on this. what do you make of the

suggestion that lord frost has been blocked from standing as a candidate? surely it would be an asset to the tories? >> well, he'd be a massive asset.i >> well, he'd be a massive asset. i mean, look at his contributions during brexit. i mean, we wouldn't have got through them without lord frost. and to see that he is essentially being shunned by the party is absolutely disgraceful. i thought the tories were meant to be this broad church, but it seems even including their own members, that they're not inviting them to stand in seats whilst they have an exodus of mps. it's absolutely bonkers . i mps. it's absolutely bonkers. i don't know what's going on at cchq, but they really need to get their act together, frankly. >> yeah. john, have you ever seen a calamitous start to an election like this? there was the rain, there was the welsh football incident . there's the football incident. there's the titanic incident. there's been pictured with an exit sign. it's got the whiff of death about it. has it? >> yeah. you get a bit of that. i mean, people take time to get into an election. so you often get this rather shambolic start simply because people are thinking first of all about the legislation that's still going through parliament for the last day. they're thinking about other things. labour at least

have had the advantage that they know , though, that this is the know, though, that this is the election they got to prepare for, and they look very prepared. >> they look better organised to do this. i'm just just because we are a bit pressed for time, please stay where you are. i believe we might be able to reintroduce cabinet office minister alex burghart , alex. minister alex burghart, alex. thank you. sorry about that. thank you. sorry about that. thank you. sorry about that. thank you very much for. >> all right. it's hustling now, patrick, for hustling for us. >> that sounds much better. good stuff. >> fantastic. >> fantastic. >> well, look, i'm sorry to do this to you, but i'm going to ask the same question. is it like rats leaving a sinking ship? >> no, not at all. >> no, not at all. >> and, look, we've, we've been in power quite a long time , in power quite a long time, there are people a lot of people who are retiring have have done, like 20 years service. and, and it's been a pretty eventful, you know, period in history . so know, period in history. so i can quite understand why some people want to retire, be some wonderful valedictory speeches today, people talking about all the things they've done. and i can also understand why some people would want to go off and, you know, have a final phase in their career doing something else after they've done, you know, decades worth of work in

parliament. i don't begrudge them that at all. but i also know that we're getting some very good new candidates, as well. and i'm really looking forward to working with them on that. >> i would like to ask you about, because the big noise today was about lord frost supposedly being blocked from standing, and there's been rumblings of this kind of thing going on throughout . is the tory going on throughout. is the tory party really trying to trying to shove itself full of wet? really? >> no, i don't think so at all. and i've been told that david hasn't been banned from being a candidate in this election. i have asked about it specifically today. and i look i really like frosty. i've worked with him, you know, since he was first appointed by boris, he's he's a really smart guy. he's he's a really smart guy. he's he's a really good member of the house of lords . and, and i hope to see of lords. and, and i hope to see him in the house of commons one day. so i, i don't i'm not worried about that. and there are it's certainly not the case that there aren't right wing candidates coming forward . you candidates coming forward. you know, my friend nick timothy, who's been selected, in suffolk is absolutely a right wing er if you , you look at charlie

you, you look at charlie jewhurst up in yorkshire or, young jamie mciver, who was selected in hemel hempstead, the other day. now these these are, you know, these are thatcherites , you know, these are these are right wing thinkers. >> okay, look, it's been gaffe central for the prime minister so far. he managed to offend the welsh about not qualifying for the euros. was pictured next to an exit sign on a plane. he visited the titanic quarter in northern ireland, got hounded by the pro—palestine mob in the midlands , got soaking wet midlands, got soaking wet outside downing street. who on earth is running this campaign? >> look, prime minister is, is going to get through, this campaign and, you just wait until the scrutiny starts on keir starmer. you know that all keir starmer. you know that all keir starmer. you know that all keir starmer and the labour party have had an easy ride over the past few years. they've managed to get to this position in the electoral cycle without telling anybody what their ideas are, what their policies are, and that scrutiny is going to come. now. you know that the british people will want answers before they go into the ballot

box, and the conservatives have policies and a plan. keir starmer doesn't believe in anything. he doesn't have any policies. he doesn't have a plan . and he's going to get found out. >> you'll be able to tell us rishi sunak's five pledges then won't you. >> yeah, absolutely . >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> go on then . patrick, you're >> go on then. patrick, you're such a mean man. it's been a long day. >> oh, well. all right, i'll say i'll. >> well, people can make their own minds about that. inflation grow the economy, reduce debt, cut waiting lists and stop the boats on that last one. stopping the boats? >> yeah, yeah. yeah, that's the five there on the tip of your tongue that stop the boats . one, tongue that stop the boats. one, 10,000 people have entered the uk illegally this year. if he's got any sense, he'll put leaving the echr on his manifesto, won't he, alex? >> i, personally, i'm very clear about this. >> i think if that's what we have to do to solve this problem , then that's what we need to do. and, you know, the, the

bottom line is that we have to deliver for the british people on this. it's completely what they expect. but, you know, i'm not the guy writing the manifesto , but, you know, the manifesto, but, you know, the prime minister's been clear. we'll do whatever it takes. >> all right, alex, thank you very much. >> and like i said as well, again, thank you for sorting out that microphone issue. it's great to have you on the show. and it's going to be a busy six weeks. so i hope to see you again. that's alex burghart. there is the cabinet office minister, former adviser to theresa may coming up. which party is winning the social media war? i'm going to show you some of the funniest clips that have been put out so far. it's quite good actually. what's going on on social media at the moment . plus, who is steve moment. plus, who is steve bannon, the former trump adviser, talking about here? >> gutless and feckless. and we're unclubbable and we're proud of it. okay. >> but next, it's the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. let's see how they're dealing

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. tonight, i have got the very first look at tomorrow's front pages for you. i'm starting with the daily mail, boris, start would be the most dangerous. and left wing labour pm since the 1970s. this is, there we go. they've also got an exclusive on the front page. shadow chancellor makes a pledge to the daily mail readers. so nice balance there on the front of the daily mail. rachel reeves. i'll never play fast and loose with your money, so. okay let's go to the mirror now. gove quits sunak's sinking ship. tory stalwart abandon as the prime minister to join the exodus of mps standing out. andrea leadsom has also said she's not standing. let's go to the express now . gove quits express now. gove quits ministers shock exit rocks tories , so there we go and let's tories, so there we go and let's go to the times. gove quits politics as more tories stand down. exodus of mps, they say new poll now puts conservatives

22 points behind. so that's apparently the latest polling, according to the times. so those are the first tranche of front pages. i've got my panel with me here. we've got john sergeant, the, political guru . we've also the, political guru. we've also got political commentator, apprentice finalist, joana jaflue apprentice finalist, joana jarjue and political commentator as well, alex armstrong, i mean, the gove stuff. look, we've spoken about this really, so i'm quite keen to just kind of crack on because there's a couple of other election related stories i think are quite good. so the upcoming general election is being framed by some as this battle for support of britain's working class. so the red wall turned blue back in 2019. rishi sunak could really do with their vote, but historic clips like this aren't helpful . this aren't helpful. >> i have friends who are aristocrats. i have friends who are upper class. i have friends who are, you know, working class. but i'm not working class. but i'm not working class. but i'm not working class. but yeah. >> meanwhile, successful lawyer and former head of the cps, sir keir starmer, is desperate to try to convince the nation that he is working class. >> i dad was a toolmaker so he worked in a factory and my mum

was a nurse , but she was also was a nurse, but she was also sadly very ill and so she couldn't work for very long. it was tough going at times and one of the things that helps me in the cost of living crisis we're going through now is knowing what it's like to struggle to make ends meet. i grew up working class. i've been fighting all my life, and i won't stop now . i felt the won't stop now. i felt the anxiety of a cost of living crisis before and until your family can see the way out, i will fight for you . will fight for you. >> did you know his dad was a toolmaker? that's all. well and good, though, isn't it? but do you actually know what working class means, sir keir, describe yourself as working class, sir keir. >> define working class. >> define working class. >> no working class is. families that , you know, work for their that, you know, work for their living, earn their money through going out to work every day. not through upper middle classes. do that well, working class families have the ordinary hope

to get on in life. i mean, this has been the story of this. have that. of course they do. of course they do. but distinction. >> that's a hard watch, isn't it? so, alex, you actually dug sir keir starmer out a bit for this. do you think he is working class. >> he's absolutely not working class like his dad wasn't a toolmaker . class like his dad wasn't a toolmaker. his dad owned a tool making factory. there's a huge difference between being a toolmaker and owning the factory in which you have employees that make the tools for you. let's make the tools for you. let's make that clear. he's also a multi—millionaire. he's worth at least 10 million at the moment. right? does that is he really? yes he is. he's absolutely. he's a multi—millionaire. can't verify that . verify that. >> we can't verify that. well, but i encourage people i encourage people to go home and research themselves. >> he's a multi—millionaire. so. so for keir starmer to be putting himself out as this working class hero is absolute nonsense . nonsense. >> so go on, go on. >> what if he's worth a few million pounds ? i think that,

million pounds? i think that, you know, i think i had this conversation with you in the green room a couple of weeks ago that, you know, if you start off as working class and then, you know, through social media, office working costs, that a factory. joanna, how do you know that his dad didn't start off as a humble toolmaker, and then through social mobility and working hard ? working hard? >> the question is, is keir a working class man? >> and his dad made may may have started working class? >> i think working class is about the values and maybe his dad working in that environment as a toolmaker to begin with. potentially and then owning the factory is actually very admirable. >> you're no you know, it's nonsense. >> i know you know it when you compare it to rishi sunak. i think working class is about your values and being able to relate to normal people. and if between the two of them, keir starmer would be the closest thing to working class rishi sunak come on now, that may well be true. >> however, john rishi sunak rishi sunak keir starmer is banging on about being working class, isn't he? >> yeah, and i mean, that's the mistake. i mean, you've got to be very careful. first of all, ever talking about yourself in

the third person. it's for other people to judge. that's the first thing to say. the second thing is working class is a very old fashioned way of looking at the world bosses and working class. it doesn't fit very well. people do go to work it. just the moment you start talking about it, you start saying, oh well, you know, you're ending up by saying, wait a minute, people like me like you. all the rest of it. what are they saying? can they connect with us people of all sorts? because that's what they've got to do . and that's they've got to do. and that's what a politician has got to do. so the idea that they sort of say , well, i'm really working say, well, i'm really working class and therefore i should win the election. >> this because because the left have taken and the labour party themselves tried to make everybody working class because there's this aspiration now they want people to feel like, yes, i'm working class hero and all this nonsense, but it's not. >> the labour party seems to represent more and more the wealthier people of the country. we saw back in boris johnson's last election that the working class have converted to conservatism. no, i don't think that's true. you're right. it is

about values. the working class are not woke. they are fed up with woke. >> they are values. >> they are values. >> they're the ones being punished the most by all these. >> oh, so, so you're saying that being working class is about values? what are those values? >> well, i think that it's about, you know, being able to relate to the average person. we were talking before in the break about, you know, do they even does keir starmer versus rishi sunak. if you were to pick between the two, who knows. how much is a loaf of bread and a pint of milk, which are the two and, and also who is the closest? just because his dad might have owned that factory doesn't mean people own businesses and they go down and then, you know, they have to kind of adjust their livelihoods. and i'm sure that he's maybe had some stories of that. he's maybe had some stories of that . and i think that it's that. and i think that it's completely different when you actually look at the pledges that labour have made in terms of for working people, in terms of for working people, in terms of you know, just the statements that they've made, keir starmer clearly will like rule. >> the only thing to bear in mind is that you can't what you can't do is inherit experience. so the idea that it's all class. so the idea that it's all class. so what were your parents doing? where are you from? they don't tell you very much about the person , the working class, the

person, the working class, the voting for reform, i can guarantee you that. >> all right, all right. >> all right, all right. >> okay, well, there we go. now, since the snap general election was announced earlier this week, both main parties have gone into overdrive on their social media campaigns and they're not holding back. so here's labour's best guess at what's filling rishi sunak's campaign diary. >> going to old football ? >> going to old football? >> going to old football? >> not so much my bag. well get people in. get people in. yeah. no, but that's because you guys aren't in it. well. >> yeah, that. but that's taking the mic aren't they really? but unsurprisingly, the tories are hitting back with content like this. they are offering the many different boxes that sir keir starmer comes in, or eco keir , starmer comes in, or eco keir, who comes with disposable views,

remain. keir with flip flops, included left wing keir, which costs you more? so, there we go. that's the those are the way that the social media campaigns are all going. the race for downing street is intensifying. i wonder who will win that social media war is definitely one to watch. coming up, does anyone have sympathy for former post office boss paula vennells, who cannot stop crying her eyes out? can she? this inquiry we debate that when i crown tonight's greatest britain and union jackass. but next i've got some more front pages for you. i'll see you

soon. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. and i've got the final round of front pages for you . so round of front pages for you. so we start with the i. gove quits as sunak hit by record exodus of tory mps. so, michael gove was

the 77th tory mp to abandon parliament. that is now up to 78 because andrea leadsom has gone as well. we move over to the guardian. un top court orders israel to halt assault on rafah. so the united nations top court yesterday ordered, which will be today technically ordered israel today technically ordered israel to halt its assault on the southern gaza city of rafah. they've also got a thing here. tory donors pour £2.5 million into key seats. it was pretty surprising if they didn't really the tory donors. but anyway, let's go to the daily telegraph inheritance tax against tory values. the sun right now. this is interesting. so day one of the election campaign, there was a the a point of difference between the two parties on immigration. and that was mainly because we had the net migration figures today. the key point of difference was on the environment. we spoke about that at the top of the 10:00 hour. it looks as though maybe tomorrow's one could be a bit about inheritance tax. that's according to jeremy hunt . the according to jeremy hunt. the chancellor says that death dufies chancellor says that death duties are profoundly anti—conservative and pledges tax breaks for the middle

classes . i mean, look, i don't classes. i mean, look, i don't know if he's got it in him. jeremy hunt, but it would be interesting to see a tory manifesto that scrapped inheritance tax, wouldn't it? so i wonder whether or not we might we might be talking about that tomorrow. but, to an outsider's take, i want to deal with that first. i'm going to deal with that first the inheritance tax thing. do you think if he's got any sense, john, he should scrap inheritance tax? >> oh, yeah. no. it's good, you know. good crowd pleaser. well worth doing it. well worth talking about it, particularly if you have to pay for it. put it in the manifesto. nice thing to have. easy to promise , much to have. easy to promise, much harder to put into practice. and you have to pay for it. but i mean, oh yes, get it in. that's what i would do. >> you scrap it, you scrap inheritance, scrap it. >> oh yeah. just say that a vote wouldn't make a real division between. >> you're looking at me like it's not a vote winner. >> well, i think that it probably will be a vote winner if he's focused on his demographic. and i think that that's actually important now for these two parties to hone in, whether you're working class or whether you're going to , you or whether you're going to, you know, pander to the, to the

other demographic that are more likely to vote tory. and i think that there needs to be clear dividing lines now, because i think there's been a few issues where the waters have been muddied too much. probably a good strategy for him. you know, in the conservative party in that sense. but do i agree with it? well, no, i mean, it is constantly just reading into the detail on this. >> it's on it's on the front of the telegraph tomorrow. so, you know, you can read it for yourselves. but jeremy hunt has said that inheritance tax is unfair. he's vowed to support the middle classes with tax breaks. he's vowed to build on two cuts to national insurance and said we made a start and we will go further. so this is pretty big, actually , to be pretty big, actually, to be honest, on the front of the telegraph, the chancellor's promise to support for the middle classes came as private schools. yeah. so obviously he's hitting back at keir starmer's private school stuff and apparent effort to draw a dividing line with labour on tax. he signalled that the tories would seek to end the effective 60% rate that applies to incomes between 100,000 125,000. well, i mean this this could well be a vote winner. >> yeah, i couldn't agree more

with you. and you know, inheritance taxes does affect more and more people all the time because we're you know, we're talking about people, lots of people buying homes and they're having to sell them on. that affects a lot of people. those price house prices have risen. but but for me, for a working person, i would like to see actual day to day taxes like income tax and national insurance really come down because that would be a real incentive for me to go out and go. should i vote conservative? >> labour makes the point about no, the point about inheritance tax and why people hate it so much is that they've they've paid taxes. >> they've saved their money, they've done what they're meant to do and wait for it when they're older and they want to hand on their money to their children, they then can't do it. for a lot of people think, oh, well, if this is already taxed. >> yeah. one thing i think it's a real and let's not forget very , very wealthy. >> it's unfair. >> it's unfair. >> very, very wealthy people have trusts as well. and they put their money into trusts and they avoid middle class tax . they avoid middle class tax. >> there was a story about anne robinson, you know, off of weakest link and goodness knows what else. i remember reading this the other week. she's she apparently was worth £50 million

and she's she's managed to find and she's she's managed to find a way of giving all of that away in her lifetime. so, you know, people who've got a bit of clout tend to just part company with. no, she's got she has to live for seven years, mind you, for them to get the full amount of money. well, good luck out there. >> speak for everyone. >> speak for everyone. >> when i ans ans ans relatives will be doing everything they to can make sure she keep it going. >> that's it. >> that's it. >> yeah. all right. now look to an outsiders take on the current state of our politics, namely the tories. donald trump's former key adviser steve bannon , former key adviser steve bannon, has lashed out at the conservatives in this country for surrendering the country to the woke left. this is during an astonishing interview with gb news us correspondent stephen atkinson. he doesn't hold back. >> the reason we're winning the united states , we're not united states, we're not depending upon a conservative elite who are gutless and feckless. we're depending upon mothers and fathers and school boards. we're depending upon working class people who are taking their extra time to go to precinct strategy because they said, hey , we're prepared to said, hey, we're prepared to stand and fight and not let our country be taken . and that's country be taken. and that's what's important. everything else is just conversation . you

else is just conversation. you have to have the political will and the muscle to sit there and say, they can call me a racist. they can call me a nativist , they can call me a nativist, they can call me a xenophobe, a sexist, a homophobe, all of it . sexist, a homophobe, all of it. when they get to that name calling, that means they've lost the argument and we're winning. you've got to draw that pus. you've got to draw that pus. you've got to lance the boil and draw that pus out of the system. and the conservatives aren't prepared to do that. they'll curl up in the foetal position because they're not going to be acceptable at the clubs. you have to get over. you have to understand where unclubbable and we're unclubbable and we're proud of it. okay. and we're going to save our country. and eventually leaders will step up in england and come to the forefront and save the united kingdom. >> strong stuff that , you know, >> strong stuff that, you know, was, he's entitled to his view, i suppose. right. it's time to reveal today's greatest britain on union, jackass , john, who is on union, jackass, john, who is your greatest britain? >> well, it's alan bates now. over the ocean. every week, you know. >> but just think of it.

>> but just think of it. >> i'll tell you what, though. think of it today, though, to have legislation going every day. no no, no, no. you see, that's the trouble about you lot. you get bored, don't you? >> you sort of five minutes on a topic and then you want something else. >> alan bates and the post office story is a terrific story of personal endeavour. and if you can't call him great, who can you call if you keep nominating? >> i'm concerned. and also i might nominate my uhjust just to wind you up . wind you up. >> but he had that crack about paula vennells . you know, she's paula vennells. you know, she's been giving evidence today. i don't know whether you've been watching it. incredible performance. gruesome really. and he then says, alan bates, what do you think about it? and he said, it's like a figure skater, like a figure skating on the head of a pin. and i thought it was so sort of clever that she just goes round and round and round. never gets to the point. >> which maybe explains a bit why she rose to the top in the first place. >> uncanny ability. those people don't. they >> that's it. to avoid trouble. and they see it and their own

survival is the main thing certain type of person isn't. >> it gets into position anyway . >> it gets into position anyway. >> it gets into position anyway. >> i've known some of them, joanna grace fryston , mine is joanna grace fryston, mine is the international court of justice. >> icj , who ruled that israel >> icj, who ruled that israel must halt their rafah offensive . must halt their rafah offensive. and i think it's really important, no matter where you stand in the argument, it really is a desperate situation in rafah. now, you know, most of the people obviously were told to move from the north to the south, and they're kind of pigeonholed in this small area. and then israel have now said that, you know, they want to kind of go in and it kind of just mirrors really even the icc and some of the things that they've been saying in terms of, benjamin netanyahu and his cabinet office and potentially having arrest warrants for them. so it just all needs egypt won't let them in, isn't it? >> it is. >> it is. >> it is real to go to egypt. >> it is real to go to egypt. >> that's the thing. >> that's the thing. >> all right. fair enough. all right, alex, here's your greatest britain. >> mine is carlo acutis. he has been deified. i think he's deified. i don't know if it's bfi daisy. deified. anyway, he is becoming the first beatified. thank you. john. he's become the

first modern millennial saint. he was called god's influencer . he was called god's influencer. sadly, he died when he was 15 of leukaemia. so this is a really beautiful thing. and he spread the word of catholicism online and was was essentially seen as the first influencer of his generation to spread london. >> born teenager is becoming the catholic church first millennial saint. that's a lovely british. he's the greatest britain way. well done. well done. carlo acutis. >> are you both catholic? you know it's not conspiracy. >> honestly, i'm a protestant. you're all catholic . >> honestly, i'm a protestant. you're all catholic. i'm a protestant, right? >> right, guys, we've got a matter of seconds here. so, john, very quickly, his union jack, please. >> okay. michael matheson, scotlands former health secretary, did fiddled £11,000 on expenses. had to give it back. should have resigned. only given 54 days off. >> okay, joanna, mine is paula vennells. i got in quick because i knew john was going to get take this, obviously with all the evidence she's been given crying and then, you know, sometimes kind of switching, it's been a bit weird watching

her, but i just think, cry me a river. her, but i just think, cry me a nven do her, but i just think, cry me a river. do you know how many tears some of these victims . tears some of these victims. she's crying for herself. she's not buying it. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, i was going to say absolute jack carson. but we said it anyway. >> go on. go on. >> alex. >> alex. >> mine is conservative party head office, also known as cchq for obviously rejecting lord frost's application to become a member of parliament, or at least stand with the mass exodus of all the other mps leaving. they need all the talent they can get and they've rejected one of their greatest minds. >> very often in this situation, when i'm confronted by the decision i made in the in the office an hour or so ago , i office an hour or so ago, i could have gone for any of them. i went for cchq a while ago. i was in a bad mood, so i've gone for that. but anyway, there we go. right? look guys, thank you, thank you, thank you. really strong show tonight. thank you everybody who's been watching and tuning in. i look forward to being back with you at 9 pm. on monday as we tear through the general election news again. i'll see you then. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb

news . news. news. news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news. weather update this weekend it's going to be a bit of a mixed bank holiday. the driest weather expected on saturday for most of us. we'll turn a bit more unsettled as the weekend goes on, but through this evening the pressure pattern really settles down and that will set us up for a much dner that will set us up for a much drier and colder night to come . drier and colder night to come. tonight there are areas of cloud and rain we've seen across northern areas will slowly drift northwards through the next few hours and these clearer skies across the south will become more widespread , pushing into more widespread, pushing into parts of southern scotland by the morning, there's a chance of some mist and fog across some southern counties, and it's going to be a fresh start. as i say, temperatures could be down as low as three, 3 or 4 degrees across parts of wales southern areas of england as well, but it will warm up fairly quickly as the sun will shine. first thing we could see some sunshine first thing across the north—east of scotland, where we're sheltered from that more southerly wind, thicker cloud though further

south and west still some drizzly rain. but i think things will improve through the day here. elsewhere across much of england and wales it will be a dry and bright start, but some mist and fog may allowed some drizzly rain. notice though, we do have this area of quite persistent rain moving into the south and east. that's moving in from parts of europe, and that could bring some very heavy rain to eastern areas potentially. so a bit of a wet day is on the cards for eastern areas of england. just some areas actually. most of us should stay dry through the day on saturday, andifs dry through the day on saturday, and it's going to feel much warmer than it has done today. highs of around 22 degrees in the south, closer to 19 degrees across the north.

gb news. >> good evening. i'm ray addison in the gb newsroom . i'm in the gb newsroom. i'm headliners. is up next. but first, our top stories tonight . first, our top stories tonight. andrea leadsom has become the latest mp to announce that she will not be standing at the general election in a letter to the prime minister, the health minister said that she had come to the decision after careful reflection but did not go into further detail. it comes shortly after michael gove posted his resignation letter, saying it's time for a new generation to lead. 78 tory mps are now leaving parliament a post—war, record breaking exodus . rishi record breaking exodus. rishi sunak was greeted by a group of pro—palestine protesters as he visited a college in the west

midlands this afternoon. the