she was as long as possible she was telling a rally of local supporters in london tonight that she will always stand with them. earlier sir keir starmer said labour had not taken any decision to bar diane abbott from standing as an mp. meanwhile jeremy corbyn launched his campaign to be re—elected as the independent mp for islington nonh the independent mp for islington north tonight. the launch has been hosted at a community centre , which was officially centre, which was officially opened by the politician in 2018 as part of a social housing project. he's vowed to be an independent voice for equality , independent voice for equality, democracy and peace . well, the democracy and peace. well, the prime minister's been hitting out to hit plans by junior doctors to stage another round of strikes next month. members of strikes next month. members of the british medical association will walk out for five days starting from the 27th of june. speaker this afternoon, rishi sunak said it was politically motivated action and not in the interests of patients or staff . or staff. >> today's action by the junior

doctors on the same day as the labour party are having a health day, does slightly ponder the question as to whether this is politically motivated. it's hard to escape that conclusion, given the timing and to call a strike in an election campaign, especially as we found a constructive resolution with the remainder of the nhs workforce. >> meanwhile, nhs waiting list targets would be met within a five years of a labour government. that's according to a new pledge by sir keir starmer today. the plan would see an additional 40,000 appointments in england each week , making use in england each week, making use of evenings and weekends and bringing wait times down, he said. within the 18 week target, the tories have called it copy and paste politics and pointed to its plan to invest in nhs technology instead . an inquiry technology instead. an inquiry into crimes committed by paediatric nurse and serial killer lucy letby will not be

live streamed to the public. letby was sentenced to 14 whole life orders for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others in her care. lawyers for the families of her victims had argued for the inquiry to be streamed in an effort to counter the spread of what they called grossly offensive conspiracy theories. but the inquiry's chairwoman says there's a risk of breaching court orders, which prevents the identification of several people involved, and that comes after articles appeared in us media questioning some evidence in the case. and just lastly, a volcano in iceland has been erupting once again today. it's the fifth time since december. if you're watching on tv, take a look at these startling pictures of that volcano spewing magma and ash clouds into the atmosphere. the outbursts happening on the reykjanes peninsula that's home to around 30,000 people just south of the capital, reykjavik. previous eruptions have forced

people to be evacuated from their homes, closed roads and even razed homes to the ground in grindavik. nearby, a fishing town on the coast. that's the news. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on the screen right now or go to gbnews.com/alerts . now or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> let's zone in on a big policy at this election. the conservatives want to do away with mickey mouse degrees and fund more apprenticeships. the theory is this the average university graduate leaves with £45,000 worth of debt plus interest. they don't start paying interest. they don't start paying that back until they start earning around £25,000 a yeah start earning around £25,000 a year. the taxpayer is funding too many young people to spend three years drinking jagerbombs, smoking cannabis and occasionally studying tourism management at a bang average university, and there is little to no chance of that person paying to no chance of that person paying the taxpayer back or being a productive member of society for many, many years to come . that's the theory. the

come. that's the theory. the tories think that money could be better spent on training mechanics, plumbers, gas engineers and people who will get paid whilst they train and then go into a job at the end of it. here is education secretary gillian keegan trying to sell this. >> i went to what would be known as a failing comprehensive school. one of my teachers actually suggested to me that i look at apprenticeships, so i appued look at apprenticeships, so i applied for a number of apprenticeships, but the one i chose was with general motors. it was a local subassembly car factory. i learnt so many things in that car factory. i mean, i don't think you could bottle the experience. it was so good and we built . we built. >> okay, so apparently these are the degrees that are the worst value for money. i think we can get them on the screen there now. photography, translation, criminology , fine art, public criminology, fine art, public administration, film, english lit, fashion and tourism management . many people who management. many people who study those degrees are likely to go into different lines of work that did not require them to actually get that degree .

to actually get that degree. okay, so the tory policy does come at a cost, okay, so the tory policy does come at a cost , though they come at a cost, though they estimate it would be around £885 million to fund the 100,000 additional apprenticeships they say they will get that money by simply not paying the loans for people doing silly courses. well, you're the taxpayer would you rather pay for a trainee mechanic or someone to study pubuc mechanic or someone to study public administration? another angle is that we've seen a lot of this at universities recently, haven't we? one of the big criticisms of this camp has been that if you were visibly jewish, that you wouldn't necessarily feel that welcome . necessarily feel that welcome. and i think it's easy to understand why they might feel a bit like that. does going to a university actually make you more intelligent? in every case? there is also this aspect. universities have been accused now for years of offering a backdoor into britain by allowing foreign nationals to study rubbish degrees and then get a low skilled job driving down wages and saturating the labour market. the stats there

were 409,000 unemployed, 18 to 24 year olds in january to march this year, while apparently 1.9 million were economically inactive. so does it make more sense to drive people towards studying criminology, where the average salary after five years is £24,637 a year, or to drive them towards roles like this, which is an engineering operative apprentice on a 12 month course with a salary of £13,312, with a. by the sounds of it , quite a £13,312, with a. by the sounds of it, quite a good chance anyway, of being offered a job at that company afterwards. well, it's a plan for britain's youngsters. the question now, i suppose, is it a good one? let's get the thoughts of my panel, shall we? director of popular conservatives mark littlewood. we've also got businessman and activist adam brooks and the author and journalist rebecca reid. mark, i'll start with you . reid. mark, i'll start with you. what are mickey mouse degrees? well the tories are on to

something here, patrick. >> these are degrees , i think, >> these are degrees, i think, unfairly called mickey mouse degrees. actually, i think walt disney actually operate a college of their own. so you can literally do a mickey mouse degree in in america. these are degrees that don't really add to your ability to earn in the workplace. you've highlighted some of them there. so the conservatives are asserting far better to be spend 2 or 3 years learning to be a plumber or an electrician than 2 or 3 years, i don't know, on mongolian pottery or medieval poetry and they might be right in this regard, but you hit the nail on the head , patrick, and your opening remarks. the problem is this the taxpayer shouldn't be involved at all. really, i mean, you can you can work out which degrees people fail to pay the money back on when they've had the loan, but i'd much rather leave this to the students and the universities. not for the office for students, which has apparently already started to crack down on courses it deems to be low quality . who are these to be low quality. who are these people? let students decide what

courses they want and pay the whole whack back. >> okay . all right. i'll come >> okay. all right. i'll come back to you on that. but, adam, do you think that we stigmatise people who go and get a practical trade or go straight into the workplace? >> i think there's a lot of snobbery in that. i mean, some some of my most successful friends and i'm talking multi—millionaires are people that started at 16 or 18 from the bottom, learned their trade , the bottom, learned their trade, either stayed with the companies, are now very high up in those companies , or they in those companies, or they started their own, their own companies or firms in their 20s. i've got some really successful friends that have worked from nothing. now, what scares me about university is i wouldn't want my kids anywhere near them at the moment with, you know, some of these deranged lecturers and teachers that are spreading so, so much nonsense, filling their heads, almost indoctrinating them with this left wing nonsense and woke nonsense so it would scare me, you know, but we've seen movements of anti—semitism, anti—capitalism, climate nutters

and coming out of these universities and it's almost like they are spoilt brats . like they are spoilt brats. okay, now i want my, my, my boy. i want him to learn a trade because i think there's going to because i think there's going to be a shortage of tradesmen in the next few years. >> well, i mean, that is the argument to it. i mean, rebecca, why should the taxpayer have to foot the bill for someone who wants to just go and do some kind of vanity degree, really, which is basically three years off, some no mark university studying. absolutely sweet. f.a. when they could actually be funding them to do something practical . practical. >> i think there's lots of reasons, so i did english literature, which is one of the degrees on that list. so apparently my degree should be a mickey mouse degree that's scrapped. i think there's lots of different kinds of success. i don't think that going to university should do english literature is the best way to make a lot of money, but it is a good way to be an interesting, perhaps more academically rigorous person. and we need both. we need people who have trades and we need people who know a lot about the history of literature in this country. so having both is important. but what needs to not happen is that

if you take away funding for degrees like history of art, that means that only people who have wealthy parents and who don't need to think number one about money can go and do these things. and we should value learning for learning's sake and intellectual rigorousness in this country should matter to us, but it is the taxpayer who's paying us, but it is the taxpayer who's paying for it. >> and that's the problem, isn't it? if someone comes out of university with £45,000 worth of debt , the taxpayer has given debt, the taxpayer has given them that money, why should you're buying on? >> right, patrick, this is the problem . of course, it might be problem. of course, it might be an extremely worthwhile way to spend three years learning about engush spend three years learning about english literature. that's fine. i myself am thinking at some point of taking a master's degree in football just because i'm interested in football , i'm i'm interested in football, i'm under no illusions that this is going to turn me into a footballer or a football manager, and i would expect to pay manager, and i would expect to pay for it myself . pay for it myself. >> well, you can't get a student loan for a master's, so you would have to, you know. >> well, that's what i mean. let's say i want to do a ba in football studies. i should pay

for it myself. if you want to have that experience, you should pay have that experience, you should pay for it yourself. we're about if the labour party win the next election, we're going to cut the voting age to 16. by the time you're 18, you should definitely be determining what sort of education services you want and you should be paying for them. possibly on a loan deal. but it doesn't require the office for students to get involved. >> there's no loan. people won't be able to do it. but realistically, we live a lot longer than we used to, so education should go longer. so for instance, why can't you do a three year degree and then do an apprenticeship? we don't need to be treating people like we did when everybody we don't need the taxpayer. >> let's just throw an umbrella over this policy, because this is now one of several high profile policies that have hit the headlines. so far this election campaign that involve the younger generation. we've got votes for 16 year olds with laboun got votes for 16 year olds with labour, we've got national service with the tories. we also have this now from the tories as well, which would affect 18 two, roughly speaking, 22 year olds when it comes to university degrees, i suppose, adam, the question is, from what you've seen so far, who do you trust most with our kids? >> i don't trust either of them, as i've said many times, but i've got to say, the

conservatives scare me less than laboun conservatives scare me less than labour. i think this is a good policy because i think it'll start getting the economy going from the bottom up where we need it and get more people in work and more grounded people, as well as you say, some some students just go for the jolly up and to get that qualification, it doesn't mean they're going to get a job in anything. >> i want a massive mistake that tony blair made. >> no, i want them to have a jolly up. i think everyone , jolly up. i think everyone, whether you will go to university or not, for it, i don't care. i'm delighted to pay for jagerbombs. people need time forjagerbombs. people need time to grow and develop. >> we can do that. >> we can do that. >> vie portland. >> vie portland. >> but then. rebecca, rebecca, it is three years of snogging the wrong person and drinking jagerbombs good for you. >> it helps you grow and develop. >> i can tell you what individuals can put this on a crowdfunder and you can pay for it. >> i would happily pay for somebody to do it. i will pay for my child, for my children to do it. >> that's fine. you you lob your money at that. >> but my child shouldn't have better opportunities to have fun because i come. >> i don't think i should be forced to pay for the activities that you have. just i think you

should. >> i think it makes a better country. >> the age of eight. >> the age of eight. >> i have to pay for people's pensions and things i don't use. >> why shouldn't you pay? honestly? don't you want happy, well—rounded people as well? >> the idea that the taxpayer should pay for 18 year olds to go round jagerbombs. >> i'd rather pay for that than some pensioner with two houses. >> is it seriously the argument of the left in britain at the moment that it's a more worthwhile endeavour to pay for the cannabis consumption of an 18 year old at bath spa university than it is to pay for marjorie, who's 86, at number 42. we can't turn a flipping heating on, not marjorie. i think marjorie needs it, but the kind of two home owning pensioner. absolutely. i'd much rather pay for someone's kid to get paid. >> you've just sort of brought up a point there. is that the left would rather universities sort of stay and be busy, because they are churning out left wing students en masse. >> so you're saying if you're more educated, you're more likely to be left wing? >> i'm saying, universities indoctrinate many students. >> i mean, a lot of these degrees have about three contact hours a week. so if they're doing any indoctrination, they're doing a great job. all

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welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up. why is nigel farage the face of reform when he's not even running as a candidate? lee anderson joins me next. but first, i mean, bizarrely , it's been the big bizarrely, it's been the big story of the day. this. should diane abbott be allowed to stand for the labour party? it's time now for the head to head. well, diane abbott has tonight told a rally of her supporters that the labour party wants her blocked as a candidate, but she'll still stand for election in her constituency of hackney north and stoke newington . it comes and stoke newington. it comes just hours after sir keir starmer denied reports that abbott would be barred from

standing as a labour candidate, branding them untrue and insisting that no decision had yet been reached over her future. abbott was suspended from the party last year for claiming that jewish people don't experience racism all their lives, remarks she did later apologise for. so tonight i am asking, should diane abbott have been allowed to stand for the labour party? let me know your thoughts. go to gbnews.com forward slash your say. tweet me @gbnews. go and vote in our poll. but first going head to head on this. our youth worker tracey miller and former labour defence minister ivor caplin . defence minister ivor caplin. tracey, i'll start with you on this. should diane abbott be allowed to stand as a labour candidate? >> i think so, yes. >> i think so, yes. >> god, why , why, why in a >> god, why, why, why in a nutshell, i think that she made a comment , nutshell, i think that she made a comment, which we all know about, it went everywhere. it wasn't just the jews though. it was. was it irish? irish travellers. right. so how come that side of it wasn't highlighted? it's almost like it's just against jews, i'm, you know, i'm not racist. i don't discriminate against anyone. so i'm not saying i condone what she said or anything like that,

but people make mistakes. and also it should be a case of dying. why did you say that? what was your perception? what made you come to that conclusion? at the time, i don't think she's had the chance to dissect it and explain it anyway. however, she retracted the statement. i think people can make mistakes. they can say things that are sometimes not the right thing to say. we're all human, and i think that she should be given another chance. okay. >> all right. that's that side of it. ivor should diane abbott be allowed to stand as a labour party candidate in this change? labour party? no. >> why not? >> why not? >> it's the is the simple answer . i think that, the way that she deau . i think that, the way that she dealt with it was, was too, too much really . i dealt with it was, was too, too much really. i think it was just, you know, what she said was completely , utterly wrong. was completely, utterly wrong. i think there are, opportunities for other people. i mean, diane has done a fantastic job. no one's denying that. for 32 years in hackney. one's denying that. for 32 years in hackney . that's an in hackney. that's an incredible, time as as member of parliament. but maybe it is time for new blood in, in in hackney. i understand there are three

very good candidates who've been around , around the hangleton, around, around the hangleton, the hangleton, the hackney area, to cut women of colour and one gay man. so there are , there is gay man. so there are, there is obviously a ability in, in, in, in hackney and i think diane would do the best thing now for the labour party, which would be to call it a day and say, i've done my bit and she has done her bit. >> okay. i mean, she has had quite a checkered past. she's made a few quite high profile gaffes. she's also said things like chairman mao did more good than harm. and then there was this anti—semitism scandal that , this anti—semitism scandal that, you know, that followed. and it's not the first time she got into hot water with the jewish community, either. i mean, people do make mistakes, but something that can be regarded as racism. do you think people would normally be forgiven for that ? that? >> naturally. no, it's not right for you to dislike someone

because of the colour of their skin or their culture. you can't discriminate. you have to love everyone. and as a politician, you're going to represent a wide community. so you have to you can't have those kind of views. but she has done 32 years. she has a wealth of experience. there's a lot she can still bnng. there's a lot she can still bring . and i just think that bring. and i just think that what are we showing young people if we've got this cancel culture where you do something wrong and you're just out, what are we teaching young people that you make a mistake and you're finished? >> a lot of cancel culture seems to come from the left, though, you know. is it not? is this not? you know, you reap what you sow. >> sow. >> i hear you, i hear you, but i think she should be given another chance up perfectly. >> talk to you. view. i've got another one for this on there is keir starmer's handling of this. i mean that is very much the other side of this. whatever anyone's views on diane abbott are keir starmer has been hiding behind this notion that we will wait and see what this report says. and now it's emerged that the report into diane abbott was finished about five months ago, and here we are. i mean, this is terrible leadership, isn't it? >> well, this is happening in

various places. i understand it. so you know, this is not unusual in these last what, 6 or 7 days that the party has to get to its point of 650 candidates, i think on this one, i don't know the details. patrick. on on, on when this interview, when this when this interview, when this when this was available . but what i, this was available. but what i, what i do know is that i, you know, keir has to be operating within the rules that the party has. and i think that's what he's tried to do, trying to get over what happened in 19 and 19. >> this is this is the this is another issue. mr integrity. mr forensic here saying no, we've got to wait and see what this report says. and if this report was out in december, then he's known all about it. and he and he's and he's actually potentially thrown diane abbott under the bus here. but do we actually know that because there's so many come out and said, yeah, it's been treated as fact. this report was published in december apparently. okay >> well i don't i don't know, i haven't, i haven't seen the actual report either. so you know, it's a it's a difficult

time. and look, i think this is a time when, when candidates themselves can make decisions. and because there are good people in hackney, i think it is probably the right time for diane to say i've had a great time at 32 years, and you know, it's time at 32 years, and you know, wsfime time at 32 years, and you know, it's time to pass on to someone else. >> all right. tracey, is this a shameful way to treat the country's first black female mp ? country's first black female mp? >> i think so, i think so, like i said , you know, the comments i said, you know, the comments she made wasn't great. she retracted her statement. she's apologised for it. she has been in this position for years. like i said, she's i think she's done a lot. i think we can agree that she's she's contributed a lot, let her stand. if nobody votes for her, i think naturally she will feel within herself. maybe it's will feel within herself. maybe wsfime will feel within herself. maybe it's time to step down. >> yeah. look, some of the arguments and i will put this to you. some of the arguments about diane abbott being given, you know, second chance or third chance or whatever you want to call it is saying, look, you know, that that she she is she deserves these chances because she is britain's first black

female mp. she should race really come into it there do you think? because that is a bit squiffy , isn't it? i mean, squiffy, isn't it? i mean, that's all. i don't know, it's almost a bit like positive discrimination, isn't it? in a way. >> i hear what you're saying, it's a it's amazing that she's the first black mp , you know, the first black mp, you know, labour mp, but i think it goes across the board for everyone . across the board for everyone. if this is the case, then let's keep that energy for every mp that says something wrong, let's get rid of everyone then. if that's the case, because we're all human, we're all going to make mistakes. so let's keep this energy for every mp that says something wrong. okay. >> look keir starmer's got a got a big issue at play here. now i think reading between the lines reading between the lines there was probably a behind the scenes orchestrated attempt to, you know, have a, have a, you know, a handshake and a goodbye to diane abbott . she has literally diane abbott. she has literally as of right now in, hackney, stoke newington decided that that's not happening . right. so that's not happening. right. so we are where we are. what keir starmer does in the next day or so is going to be really , really

so is going to be really, really significant. he's been backed into a corner here by diane abbott. either he has to let her stand. >> well the corner is the national executive committee. it's a corner isn't the leader of the labour party. but of course he will have maybe some view that he wants to put in terms of the nec making a decision. and that's how the party operates , and that's what party operates, and that's what they will be trying to do over they will be trying to do over the next. you know, two or 3 or 4 days. so i mean, i think there is a process and we should all, i think, say that's that's fine. i think, say that's that's fine. i mean, they are letting apparently. >> so labour's graham jones okay will be allowed to stand as an mp. he initially was suspend ed i believe because he made some pretty shocking remarks actually in the wake of the october 7th attack. right. yeah. so if he's being allowed to stand, that is a middle aged white man, right? this is what the argument on the left of the party will say. and a lot of people think it is about race, though, patrick, i really don't i don't think that's the right thing. an

article in the guardian today, labour's shocking treatment of diane abbott could alienate black voters for years to come. that's the guardian's view. >> it will have a ripple effect. >> it will have a ripple effect. >> we have, you know, a number of black voters and black black candidates, etc, etc, etc. i don't think race is the issue here. the issue is that diane , here. the issue is that diane, you know, 32 years, fantastic. but it is time to move on. >> okay. all right. do you think we will be reporting this time tomorrow that diane abbott is standing for the labour party ? standing for the labour party? >> probably not. but it would be goodif >> probably not. but it would be good if she could stand and she was reinstated. so naturally, starmer must have dissected and spoke to her and said, you know, what was that about ? so for spoke to her and said, you know, what was that about? so for him to reinstate her, let her stand. >> go on. »- >> go on. >> it's thursday, isn't it? >> it's thursday, isn't it? >> yes. okay. >> yes. okay. >> okay. i'm just checking. i know, so you might have to wait till friday. >> okay? okay, okay. it's wednesday. no it's wednesday. there you go. hey, you see, we've all we've all had we've all had a long election campaign already. hey, it's wednesday now. it's wednesday now. all right guys, look. well, look, thank you very much for that. so look who do you agree with? okay

let's see what the polls are. should diane abbott have been allowed to stand for the labour party? robin on x says why is wes streeting still being allowed to stand following his recent london mayoral comments? i'm sorry gemma says it would be goodif i'm sorry gemma says it would be good if she stands as an independent and beats the labour candidate. i wonder if for labour that is one of the concerns actually. now your verdict is in 27% of you think that diane abbott should be allowed to stand for labour, 73% of you say she shouldn't. look. coming up, junior doctors have announced a five day strike before the election. shock horror and shadow health secretary wes streeting has already promised to meet them for negotiations. so can labour be trusted with the nhs ? are we be trusted with the nhs? are we going to get whopping great big pay going to get whopping great big pay rises and strike strike strikes? i sit down with shadow employment minister alison mcgovern. that's happening very shortly, so don't move. but next, nigel farage continues to be a thorn in the tories side. >> i'm not asking for anything other than i've done them some huge favours over the years. as a party. give me something back. we might have a conversation . we might have a conversation. >> is he about to cut a deal with the tories here? and is he stealing the limelight from his

reform uk colleagues? i pose that to their one and only mp,

next. this is patrick christys tonight. coming up, i grill labour's alison mcgovern on the party's grand plans to save our crumbling nhs. but first, we welcome reform uk mp lee anderson. now despite not standing at the election reforms, honorary president

nigel farage is doing everything he can to push the party's election messaging to the nation. he's had a busy schedule booked in. he led a party press conference in dover yesterday, will be appearing alongside richard tighter and immigration conference tomorrow and continuing on the campaign trail over the weekend. but lee anderson joins me now. why is nigel farage the face of reform when he's not even running late? >> well, look , patrick, you know >> well, look, patrick, you know that. don't be so ridiculous, nigel farage has been probably been the most influential politician in this country over the past 30 years or so. look, i welcome the news that is not standing, because i'll tell you why, patrick. it means that he can start. he can come to places like ashfield, like he is at the weekend to campaign in my area to make sure that i get re—elected on july the 4th. this is great news for me. it's great news for richard tice who's standing in boston and skegness. i want to see nigel farage all around the country, not just in one seat. okay >> all right. are you not a bit put out there that they only want to talk to nigel?

>> no, they want to talk to me. they want to talk to richard. they want to talk to richard. they want to talk to barnaby. listen, patrick, that's that's ridiculous journalism, by the way. you know, the people that contact me on a daily basis have got all the press, all the media from all over the country, including gb news. want to speak to me, want to speak to nigel, wants to speak to ben, wants to speak to richard. it's not just nigel. it's not just a one man show. this is about reform. reform? all the party want to reform the country. the people of this country need an alternative to vote for. they fed up to death of the conservative party and the labour party. they want an alternative. >> there's an interesting thing doing the rounds today. lisa richard tice has told the telegraph he's assembling a team of lawyers and cases to fight starmer's plan to apply vat to private school fees, which he's branded discriminatory. so tice says that stopping the charitable status of private schools , but not other schools, but not other charities, amounts to discrimination , as does applying discrimination, as does applying vat to private schools, but not universities . and the kicker is universities. and the kicker is this really? he says he's ready to use the echr to block the

policy , despite that not being policy, despite that not being the biggest fans of our friends in strasbourg. what do you make of reform crawling over to the echr? well patrick, it's not this. >> this is the irony of the echr it really, you know, it's been our worst enemy. but, you know, in some parts it can it can be our best friend. >> really making the for case it. >> exactly. this is the irony of the echr it's so ridiculous that it could change a policy in our great country. but it's quite right, richard is, you know, this is a spiteful policy. i used to work with men down the pit many, many years ago doing a properjob. patrick, pit many, many years ago doing a proper job. patrick, which pit many, many years ago doing a properjob. patrick, which is auen properjob. patrick, which is alien to many people in this country who would send their children to private school. these men would work seven days a week down a coal mine to send their children to private school. these weren't rich men. these were just people that want the very best for their country. but this spiteful policy by the labour party will stop working class people sending their children to private school and get the very best education

possible. >> you. you don't think it does slightly undermine reform's campaign? if you go to the echr over something? >> no, no, i think he's i think he's hilarious. i think it's absolutely hilarious. we can use something that we despise with a passion and i despise the echr is absolutely use this ridiculous organisation to overturn. >> if he pulls out of it. if we were not in the echr now, then you wouldn't be able to do anything about this policy, would you? >> well, we could we could win an election. patrick couldn't we? that's what we need to do. win an election. >> all right, all right, all right. now, look, nigel farage has claimed that if the tories give him something in return for his, quote, huge favours over the years, then election deal might be on the cards. we just have a little listen. >> i got rid of mrs. may with the brexit party. i stood aside for boris to help a massive majority. what are they going to do back for me ? do back for me? >> what would you like? >> what would you like? >> what would you like? >> what are they going to do back for me? peerage? no no no i've turned all that rubbish down in the past. >> what about sir nigel farage. >> what about sir nigel farage. >> no no no no no i'm not asking him for anything other than i've

done them some huge favours over the years as a party. give me something back. we might have a conversation. >> well we should. should you cut a deal with the tories? are you going to cut a deal with the tories? >> absolutely not. patrick, this is silly season. the next couple of days we're going to enter the short campaign of the general election for this year. nigel is teasing you. he's getting clicks on social media. he's getting clicks on gb news. this is nigel being mischievous at his very best. there are no deals to be made now. i can i can give you an exclusive live now, patrick on gb news. there's no way i would stand for reform uk in the next election if there was any deals to be done with any party. that's a given. >> so. all right, so i mean, thatis >> so. all right, so i mean, that is quite a bold claim to make given that we have still got five and a bit weeks of an election campaign. >> well, there's a few days to go before i put my deposit in. patrick is £500 for my deposit. i'm telling you now, i will not stand for reform uk if there's deals to be made . deals to be made. >> okay. all right. well, look. okay. we will. we will have to

see what happens then. now that is a shot across the bows to richard tice and co isn't it. but when i have a little look as well at some of the things that i've been doing the rounds recently, you know nigel on the trevor phillips and this is an issue that i think is close to your heart as well, because you were dogged with islamophobia claims for a while. we spoke about them on air as well. nigel, you know, faced quite a lot of serious allegations over it. he was simultaneously accused of being both anti—semitic and islamophobic, which many people would regard as being quite, quite the achievement if both of those things were true . and do you things were true. and do you think that that there is a bit of a racism cloud hanging over reform? reform ? >> reform? >> no. absolutely not, patrick. it's absolutely not. this is what the left in politics do all the time when they start losing the time when they start losing the debate on any single subject, they always play the race card. it's absolute nonsense. nigel farage has known quite well. i class him as a friend. he is not racist. i've been accused in the past of being racist and islamophobic as

yet nobody can provide a shred of evidence to, you know, to prove that i was islamophobic or or racist or anything like that. it's absolute nonsense. they use this all the time . this all the time. >> patrick, what do you make of rishi sunak refusing to debate nigel farage? again? some people said, well, look, what right does nigel have to offer it out? and when he's not actually standing, i mean, it would be quite a bizarre thing to do, wouldn't it? i just i do wonder if that is an aspect where nigel has cost himself here, because if he was, if he was standing, then he's got more of a case to actually debate these people. now they can just brush him away , can't they? >> well, i think i think as a prime minister, patrick, he should be prepared and brave enough to debate anybody . and enough to debate anybody. and nigel is a real threat. you know, when he comes to debating in public, there's nobody better in public, there's nobody better in this country which has got a fair point in that there's probably only him. and, sir keir starmer. that can be the pm, you know, in five weeks time. but, you know, the public, the great

british public would love to see a debate with nigel farage with, with rishi sunak and sir keir starmer. they would love that, especially if it was on gb news, wow . yeah. i mean, watch this wow. yeah. i mean, watch this space, look. absolutely. and look, just to come back quickly on this, i know we focused a bit on this, i know we focused a bit on the echr when it came to the private school stuff. i did see this legal action and i just wondered, you know, does that really resonate with a lot of reform voters? you know, seriously, does it does it actually really resonate? you know, the idea that reform, you know, the idea that reform, you know, kind of the party of the party of the working man and the person that's been sidelined left, right and centre, you know, the person who's been forgotten about, oh, we're going into bat for posh kids. >> well, listen, patrick, i can honestly say in the, in the, in the donkey's years, i've been knocking on doors for, for two political parties, well, three political parties, well, three political parties, well, three political parties that private schools has never, ever come up on the doorstep. but it is an aspiration of working class people up and down the country to send their kids to the very best school. and this policy of the labour party puts that at

risk. >> okay, lee, thank you very, very much. that is, lee anderson. there is the reform uk mp and always always a good sport. lee thank you very very much. right. okay. look coming up as wes streeting cops it for the diane abbott debacle. do you feel comfortable about what's happened here with diane abbott? >> no . >> no. >> no. >> not particularly. i think this has gone on for a very long time. but could this become a major issue for the labour party ? >> my panel 7 >> my panel are ? >> my panel are going to talk about that at ten. what on earth does keir starmer do here? does he risk alienating the left? does he risk saying that he's not a changed labour party? i want to know whether or not diane abbott did actually complete that anti—semitism awareness course. it makes it sound like she was caught speeding, doesn't it? but next, mr streeting also said that he's the man to save britain's crumbling nhs. do you believe him ? and, well, it's especially him? and, well, it's especially important because we are about to see junior doctors strikes and medic strikes right in the run up to the general election . run up to the general election. some would say those are

politically motivated, but what are the labour party going to do about it? especially when the leader of the unite union, apparently one of labour's biggest union donors , has said biggest union donors, has said that their plans for workers rights have more holes than a swiss cheese. so what actually would strike action look like under the labour party? labour frontbencher alison mcgovern makes the case for her party's plan and that's

welcome back to patrick christys . tonight we are only on gb news now. coming up, has the labour party lost its identity in their treatment of diane abbott? how can they simultaneously be the party of natalie elphicke but not diane abbott? it's bizarre, isn't it? but first, labour's shadow health secretary wes streeting has today outlined his party's plans to clear nhs waiting lists within five years. a look at why he had to say 40,000 more appointments in our

nhs every week through extra evening and weekend clinics, £1.1 billion directly into the pockets of nhs staff so that we can get those waiting times down to get those waiting lists down. >> and we will double the number of diagnostic scanners because it is outrageous that so many people, 1.6 million in our country, are waiting in anguish and anxiety for those diagnostic tests and scans. >> but that pledge came on the same day as junior doctors announced another five day strike, with the walkout set to begin on the 27th of june. timed. yes, you guessed it in time for the general election. the last junior doctors strike in february resulted in more than 90,000 appointments and operations being cancelled or postponed, and with labour insisting they won't meet the junior doctors, 35% pay increase, demand questions have been raised now as to how they can eliminate that nhs backlog. whilst strikes remain ongoing .

whilst strikes remain ongoing. well, i'm joined again by my panel whilst we wait for our friend from the labour party to join us is director of popular conservatives, mark little. well businessman and activist adam brooks, author and journalist rebecca to read, i'll start with you, mark, on this. i mean, there is a serious fear, is there is a serious fear, is there not that the labour party would have to cave in to things like the bma, etc, if they want to actually get anything done? yeah. >> i mean, a 35% pay demand is a bit rich, isn't it ? >> i mean, a 35% pay demand is a bit rich, isn't it? i mean, my own view is that people should be rewarded for their productivity and in general, in the public sector we're seeing productivity fall. so you wouldn't expect to see wages rise where wes streeting might be as cunning as a fox here. patrick as he said, waiting list. you know, we'll get waiting lists down. we'd expect them to fall naturally. there's such a backlog still from covid when we didn't do, you know, cancer screening and all the rest of it. but as time passes, the waiting lists will will fall

from a horrific level to something slightly less horrific. what he's not yet addressing is the nhs system is broken. pretty much the worst health, health care system anywhere in western europe. we've got to change it fundamentally to actually improve outcomes. >> all right guys, thank you very, very much. i will come back to you. but i've just been informed that our guest is now ready to go, which is great stuff. so labour has today accused rishi sunak of making reckless and unfunded election promises that they claim could cost the taxpayer a whopping £71 billion in borrowing and a 2.5% hike in interest rates. so i'm very pleased to say i'm joined now by labour's shadow employment minister, alison mcgovern . thank you very much mcgovern. thank you very much for joining us. great to have forjoining us. great to have you on the show. so, i mean, you are desperately trying to convince the country that you are the party of economic competence. then are you ? competence. then are you? >> well, we are the party that is offering funded plans to improve our public services , and improve our public services, and we are the party that has put forward , as well as our missions forward, as well as our missions that show the direction that we

want to take the country in. if we are lucky enough to be elected . we've set out six first elected. we've set out six first steps and economic stability is the first of those steps. unfortunately, the country knows only too well what happens when you make unfunded tax promises, because that's what liz truss did. and it led to a real turbulence in our economy that most british families could ill afford to be repeated. >> okay, all right. look, now, yesterday labour had to retract some of the names of their business leaders, endorsements. it emerged that some of them are dormant companies. one of them and they're leaving do last week. and then you guys very kindly sent over a press release here about labour's economic competence. we've read out some of the details there, but i can't help but notice one of the people that's quoted in this is a chap called jonathan portes, who's an anti—brexit pro mass migration left leaning academic who wants a massive expansion of the welfare state, are we sure we can trust your numbers on this ? this? >> well, i mean, firstly, all the numbers are laid out in the

press release . secondly, i mean, press release. secondly, i mean, jonathan's not here to defend himself. and i think that most, neutral observers would say that he is a qualified economist. i mean, you know, i without, trading qualifications with you live on television, you know , live on television, you know, he's he's a very well qualified economist. so the most important thing on economic stability and making sure that good decisions are made on the economy is taking transparent decisions, having them be thoroughly , having them be thoroughly, looked at by the obr again, which liz truss failed to do. so it's the way that you take economic decisions that build in that stability in the economy and that rachel reeves has been doing out transparently, showing how we'll fund our promises and setting out the principles by which we will take economic decisions. >> all right. i mean, look, on education, which is going to have a big economic consequence here. obviously, the labour's plan on on vat with private

schools there. i mean , treasury schools there. i mean, treasury analysis last week found that if the policy forced 100,000 pupils out of private schools, then it would require the government to spend an extra £650 million a yean spend an extra £650 million a year, apparently the latest info we've got is that a quarter of a million kids could be dumped into their state sector. i mean, would this not be an economic disaster? >> well, i, i question your use of the word dumped there, i don't think i think state schools are very good, they could do with some extra teachers. that's why one of our six first steps is to get 6500 extra teachers into our state schools to help support the teachers that are already there, doing a good job. look, i you mentioned that was treasury analysis . it actually is the analysis. it actually is the assumptions given to treasury economists by conservative special advisers . so i don't special advisers. so i don't really there are also eight local authorities. >> you say they are full. there are no school places available.

there i mean, are we actually going to be able to accommodate all of these people? do you think these are this is kids lives we're talking about. >> that's that's right. and i think that, i, i think that the state schools will be able to , state schools will be able to, deal with any situation going forward. forgive me if i have a little bit of scepticism about some of the sources for that information that you have mentioned. we want to have extra teachers in our state schools, and we want to make sure we've got enough places for children in, in, in state schools . we've in, in, in state schools. we've actually had falling rolls in some areas, which is a different problem to manage. so we want to make sure that we've got good schools with a really excellent curriculum, with english and maths and creative subjects all included. and i think if i'm honest, i think that a lot of the commentary, is not quite right. you know, i think they described bridget, our shadow education person, as chippy because she thought it was a good thing, you know, to have good thing, you know, to have good state schools for people to

good state schools for people to go to. so i think the vast majority of pupils is it 93% of children are state schools would recognise that the big need is to get extra teachers in, and we're going to do that by people paying we're going to do that by people paying vat on private school fees, which i think most people would expect that to happen. >> but but, you know, can you actually guarantee there's going to be enough places for those kids to go? because it's interesting, isn't it? because you know, during the whole brexit discussion where, you know, labour took a position on brexit, they were saying, look, you know, you don't know what you're voting for here with brexit. you don't know what you're going to get. and a lot of the commentary on this when it comes to the education policy, a flagship labour policy appears to be i'm sure it will be all right . be all right. >> that's not the case. i've set out already that we are planning to invest more in our schools, not just 6500 extra teachers, but also , you know, reform and but also, you know, reform and a curriculum review to make sure kids are learning the right things. and also in every primary school, making sure that there's a breakfast club there so that not only so that children can start the day with a good, healthy breakfast, but also making sure that their

parents have got the option of starting a job that begins at 9 am. so we've got a good plan for our schools. it's costed, and i think that there's lots of parents out there who just want to see investment in schools and their children, you know, feeling confident and happy when they're at school. that's the big issue here, and we've set out, as you said, how we're going to fund that. >> okay. now look, medics are saying that they're going to go on strike as the election happens, as wes streeting appears to have left the door open to some discussion, as you would expect, obviously, and potential pay rises, there may be, i mean, intrigued at the unite union, which is one of labour's biggest union donors, i believe, saying that labour's current plans for workers rights have more holes than a swiss cheese , so what does this mean, cheese, so what does this mean, really, for labour's relationships with the unions going forward? can we expect more strikes, do you think, under a labour government well, plan for, workers rights and for improving people's working lives, have been we've worked on

them since 2021 with colleagues in business and colleagues in trade unions. >> and we've set out a number of very important things. for example, ending exploitative zero hours contracts, giving people rights from day one. those are important things because at the moment, flexibility to often at work is all on one side. it's on workers shoulders. and i think that lots of people want to see, you know, the quality of people's working life improved. i i think that there'll be many trade unionists across the country that are keen and enthusiastic to fight for that package as we go into this election. >> okay. all right. and just, just lastly with you, look, this diane abbott fiasco, it does seem odd that the labour party at the moment is more comfortable with people like yourself sitting alongside natalie elphicke than diane abbott. what's going on? >> well, keir said today that no decision has been taken to bar diane. she had to go through disciplinary process because of a letter she wrote, which is difficult for everybody, given

that she's the first black woman in parliament and a and a labour mp. and, you know, we're at the beginning of a snap election. there's a process of confirming all of our candidates, and that's happening now . that's happening now. >> alison, thank you very, very much for your time this evening . much for your time this evening. alison mcgovern is labour's shadow employment minister. well, look , we are now one full well, look, we are now one full week of election campaigning in, aren't we? and to celebrate, we have compiled some of the highlights for you. >> looking forward to all the football . football. >> not so much my bag. well rishi. rishi. it may resigning as an mp. >> now would bring the ceasefire. >> no, i would do it. i would do it. >> ijoin it. >> i join this ministry.

>> i join this ministry. >> it's now bang on 10 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight . patrick christys tonight. >> no decision has been taken to bar diane abbott. >> labour chaos over diane abbott. >> do you feel comfortable about what's happened here with diane abbott? >> no. not particularly. i think this has gone on for a very long time. >> but should she be allowed to stand for labour. >> but should she be allowed to stand for labour . and. stand for labour. and. what the heck are the lib dems playing at? >> also, i've been a centrist conservative all my life, but i think the party's really changed, and i think the last 14 years has done a real damage to the country. can you spot what's wrong with that clip? >> plus , why has rishi sunak >> plus, why has rishi sunak copped it for this i wonder? also, people were chanting death to america. >> some people were not everyone, but some people were . everyone, but some people were. >> you won't believe what a prominent muslim figure has to say on that. on my panel this

evening, it's the director of the popular conservatives, mark littlewood, activist and landlord adam brooks, and author and journalist rebecca reid. oh, yes. okay. now what is in these balloons? there's no prizes for the winner. but guess anyway, what was in that balloon? get ready britain, here we go. labour's diane abbott chaos just got even weirder. next . got even weirder. next. >> you'll use it just after 10:00. labour veteran diane abbott is fighting back tonight. she's vowed to be the mp for hackney north and stoke newington in for london as long as possible. she told a rally of local supporters in east london tonight that she'll always stand with them , as you've been with them, as you've been hearing. sir keir starmer said earlier on today labour hadn't taken any decision to bar her from standing as a labour mp,

and jeremy corbyn has launched his campaign today to be re—elected as the independent mp for islington north. the launch is being hosted at a community centre, which was officially opened by the politician in 2018 as part of a social housing project . he's vowed to be an project. he's vowed to be an independent voice for equality, democracy and peace . the prime democracy and peace. the prime minister's been hitting out today at plans by junior doctors today at plans by junior doctors to stage another round of strikes next month. members of the british medical association are going to walk out for five days, starting from the 27th of june. speaking this afternoon, rishi sunak said it was politically motivated action and not in the interests of patients or staff. today's action by the junior doctors on the same day as the labour party are having a health day , does slightly ponder health day, does slightly ponder the question as to whether this is politically motivated. >> it's hard to escape that conclusion , given the timing and

conclusion, given the timing and to call a strike in an election campaign , especially as we found campaign, especially as we found a constructive resolution with the remainder of the nhs workforce, rishi sunak well, nhs waiting list targets would be met within five years of a labour government, according to a pledge by sir keir starmer today. >> the plan would see an additional 40,000 appointments in england each week, making use of time during the evenings and at weekends, and bringing waiting times to down within the 18 week target. the conservatives have called it copy and paste politics and pointed instead to their plan to invest in nhs technology . the invest in nhs technology. the owners of royal mail have agreed to a £35 billion takeover bid by czech millionaire daniel kretinsky. the deal will see the continuation of one price goes anywhere first class post six days a week. the company's branding will also remain, as will its uk headquarters, but the sale has attracted heavy

criticism from senior politicians and unions amid concerns over the future of the royal mail service in the uk , royal mail service in the uk, and gb news can reveal that environmental activists plan to target the uk's busiest airports this summer . target the uk's busiest airports this summer. in fact, over the last two weeks of july, just stop oil plans to target airports including heathrow and gatwick at the height of the british summer getaway . they british summer getaway. they say, in order to cause maximum disruption . the group's also disruption. the group's also running a series of online courses aimed at encouraging and informing volunteers on how best to carry out a protest that's the news. for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com slash alerts . alerts. >> well, the labour party's campaign hit its first major bump in the road today. it's all about diane abbott. mr abbott was suspended from the labour

party in april 2023 amid a racism and anti—semitism scandal, talking about jewish people, the irish and travellers , she said they undoubtedly experienced prejudice . this is experienced prejudice. this is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they were interchangeable. it is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice, but they are not all their lives subject to racism . their lives subject to racism. she lost the labour whip, they launched an investigation and the line from labour was that we'd have to wait and see what the result of that was, before they made a decision about diane i >> -- >> there seems to be room for natalie elphicke down in dover , natalie elphicke down in dover, but not diane abbott up here in london. can you welcome diane abbott back to your happy fold? >> well, look, diane is , going >> well, look, diane is, going through a process. >> nick, as you know , in >> nick, as you know, in relation to the, investigation of an issue relating to her that's not finally resolved, yet, but now sir keir starmer is

accused of lying about this . accused of lying about this. >> it's emerged that investigation apparently finished in december last year. so she was given a warning and told to attend a two hour anti—semitism awareness course, reportedly . so why would he reportedly. so why would he potentially lie about it? yes today the initial noise was that diane abbott had been booted out of the labour party. then reports said she'd been accepted back in and got the whip back . back in and got the whip back. then they said she wouldn't be standing as a candidate and now it looks like she will be standing. it's a circus. here's the latest from the labour leader. >> no, that's not true . no >> no, that's not true. no decision has been taken to bar diane abbott. the process that we were going through ended with the restoration of the whip the other day. so she's a member of the parliamentary labour party and no decision has been taken barring her. >> here's what wes streeting had to say about it. >> do you feel comfortable about what's happened here with diane abbott? >> no. not particularly. i think

this has gone for on a very long time. but, you know, i'm here this morning to talk about the nhs waiting list and what we do about do you think she's owed, do you think? and i say this with, with enormous respect for everything that diane has achieved in politics, and i have achieved in politics, and i have a great deal of respect for what she's achieved in politics, actually. >> well, here was diane abbott's initial reaction. she said, naturally , i am delighted to naturally, i am delighted to have the labour whip restored and to be a member of the parliamentary labour party. thank you to all those who supported me along the way. i will be campaigning for a labour victory, but i'm very dismayed that numerous reports suggest i have been barred as a candidate. and the whole thing took another twist this afternoon when it emerged that labour's graham jones will be allowed to stand as a labour mp. he famously said this in israel again, no british person should be fighting for any other country at all. >> full stop is against the law and he should be locked up. >> in case you missed that, there he was, saying that anyone who left britain to go and fight for the israeli defence force

should be, quote, locked up. but the left wing press hasn't been too kind to sir keir starmer over this . a headline here from over this. a headline here from the guardian reads labour's shocking treatment of diane abbott could alienate black voters for years to come. well the breaking news earlier on this evening, addressing a crowd outside hackney town hall, diane abbott has vowed to be the mp for hackney north and stoke newington. quote as long as it is possible, was there an attempt to stage manage diane abbott's exit from the labour party ? if so, it has gone party? if so, it has gone catastrophically wrong. but the big question is this should diane abbott be allowed to stand at this election as a labour candidate? let's get the thoughts from our panel this evening. it's the director of popular conservatives, mark littlewood, got landlord and activist adam brooks, and i've got author and journalist rebecca reid. mark, i'll start with you . you know, how can with you. you know, how can labour be fine with natalie elphicke and then have diane abbott potentially not standing? i mean, should she be allowed to stand as a labour candidate?

>> well, that is a decision for the labour party. what i find absolutely gobsmacking here. patrick, you read out her supposedly offensive letter in the guardian . i think it was the guardian. i think it was offensive. that was 13 months ago. that is the totality of the evidence. there's no dna samples to collect. you don't need to pretend you're playing forensic detectives. this isn't an episode of ncis. detectives. this isn't an episode of ncis . they should episode of ncis. they should have been able to make a decision within 24 hours on whether they were going to kick her out of the party. there's no more evidence to look at 13 months on and a general election a few weeks away. they still can't decide, she can't, of course, run as an independent. but i mean, keir starmer can't seem to make a decision on this. >> i'm just getting this in my ear now. apparently there's been another development recently, a few minutes ago, something jeremy corbyn's backed her, i believe. well, here we go. let's have a look. >> there are thousands of people outside hackney town hall in support of diane abbott . support of diane abbott. obviously i'm not there with

her, but i've sent a message of support because democracy within parties as well as within communities is a very important part of our lives. >> so that's how jeremy corbyn's campaign launch, which is taking place this evening. rebecca, i put it to you. it's not the best look for the labour leader, is it? if he's got jeremy corbyn saying , oh, come on, you need to saying, oh, come on, you need to bnng saying, oh, come on, you need to bring diane back. and then he does bring diane back . does bring diane back. >> well, also, if i was battling an anti—semitism allegation, the last person i'd want defending me would be jeremy corbyn, i think that the comms on this had been really bad, and i'm very disappointed because i think they have done brilliant work thus far on purging anti—semitism from the party, but unfortunately , i think but unfortunately, i think there's a lot of love for her. i think she's done a lot of good things, and they're letting that blind them to the fact that if you say something that stupid, you say something that stupid, you have to go, yeah, okay. >> adam, your views on whether or not diane abbott should be allowed to stand as a labour mp. >> of course she shouldn't. if she had said those things about muslims instead of jews, she would never be welcomed back into the labour party. that's the fact now, she said. so many

terrible things, race baiting things over the years , i can't things over the years, i can't believe she's being lauded. who cares that she's a woman of colour? that doesn't bother me what colour she is or what gender she is. she shouldn't get away with a lot of the things that she's got away with. for me , for me. 2019, there's two reasons labour got trounced, you know, one was jeremy corbyn and the population was scared stiff of him, and the other was the thought of her as home secretary. she's laughable . secretary. she's laughable. >> what has she said that was race baiting previously she said many things in 2012. >> well, it was precisely that letter in the guardian. no, no. >> and i have i agree with that. >> and i have i agree with that. >> 2012 she insinuated that black cab drivers were racist and that they weren't picking up black passengers . black passengers. >> as the list goes on, i've got to suggest that it is harder to get a cab as a black person. >> oh, come off it, rebecca. there are plenty that's not there. >> all all races. of course they're not. please, please do not defend her race baiting over the years, diane abbott has said so many divisive things she

insinuated she did insinuate that, west indian mothers care more about their children than, well, in defence of her sending, in defence of her sending her children to private schools, that she mocked people for doing so and that they shouldn't be in existence. >> so she's a hypocrite as well as a race baiter as well. think. >> yeah. rebecca. well, it starts obviously with rebecca. i mean, she said things as well, like mao did more good than harm. >> i, i'm not with her on that at all. but i suppose, you know, bofis at all. but i suppose, you know, boris johnson called black people piccaninnies with watermelon smiles and said that women wearing burqas, letterboxes. people do say stupid things sometimes, i don't think. i think the problem is she's not consistently on message. she has also, to me, a bigger issue is that she's so often got her figures wrong. i think that she has done a huge amount of good for hackney, and she's been a fantastic mp, but she's been a fantastic mp, but she is no longer serving the party. maybe she should be a councillor instead of an mp. >> i'm not sure what. what good has she done? >> i think on the on the great, on the sort of like grass roots

base issues. sorry, i can't see. she's a much loved mp and she's been re—elected. how many times? five. six. yeah. >> i've never thought any labour anybody who lives there labour will hold that seat, whoever the candidate. >> but when i live, i'm not yet. >> but when i live, i'm not yet. >> i'm not yet aware. i mean, i'm not picking on her particularly, but i'm not yet aware of her stunning achievements in in policy. sherm. >> no, i think she's just considered to be an incredibly good mp and much loved by her constituents, which is a decent achievement. >> no, i mean, everybody's lauding these great policy achievements that she she hasn't beenin achievements that she she hasn't been in power for 37 years. yeah. not sure what they are over 37 years, other than being one of the key people who led her party for us to defeat her party has been in opposition for almost all of the time. >> there is another aspect to this, which is which is keir starmer's leadership on this. >> now, if it is the case that he has actually lied about when this report was finished and when he knew about it and everything, how on earth can we trust him to run a country if he can't even manage? diane abbott i mean, has he has he lied? >> has he said that the report wasn't finished? he kept saying he's going to wait for the result of this report, wait for the result. there might be addendums to it. >> and it broke last night, though apparently that report

was finished. >> my guess is that if there is this course she's supposed to go on, that course hasn't been done yet, and that was what was going to be the thing that put the. on the end of it. now, i don't think you can have a two hour course that makes you not racist or not anti—semitic. i think if you express those, it takes more than two hours. but i imagine that's probably, you know, exactly, exactly. >> you know, i think when you think about it. well, anti—semitism awareness course it's feeble. >> it's feeble. patrick, look, i mean, they should have been able to take a decision within 24 hours if they have particular case with lloyd russell—moyle, who has been on this case. why has it taken 13 months? and the leader of the labour party and our presumptive prime minister still doesn't know what the conclusion is? i think because the shadow chancellor saying she can't present a budget for ten weeks because she wants the obr to write it for her, if we elect the labour party on july the 4th, is this procrastination and inability to make any sort of decision going to be the standard operating procedure of our next government? >> come on, there have been plenty of other people who have been dismissed for inappropriate behaviour. he has got rid of other people . so why is this other people. so why is this taken? 13 suspended? because she's much loved and i think it's politics. >> politics. i think i think it's much love.

>> it's pretty obvious that there's many factions of the labour party and there's infighting going on, but it would take a spectacular, you know, chaos for them to lose this election . this election. >> and it's not going to be on this, is it? >> all right, all right, all right. no, look, coming up. can you spot what's wrong with this in a second? now i've been a centrist conservative all my life, but i think the party's really changed. >> and i think the last 14 years has done a real damage to the country . country. >> i will reveal all in my press pack, and i'll also have all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages hot off the press. but first, ed davey continued this bizarre, action packed election campaign with a bike ride in wales. but aside from headline grabbing stunts , do the lib dems actually stunts, do the lib dems actually have any policies ? you'll find have any policies? you'll find out when i'm joined by former lib dem minister norman baker

next. welcome back to patrick christys . tonight. still to come. tonight's panel will be whizzing you through the very first of tomorrow's front pages. every day this week , we have had a new day this week, we have had a new policy on one of the front pages, so stay tuned. but first, i welcome former liberal democrat minister norman baker. and the lib dems launched their welsh election campaign a little earlier today, with their leader ed davey, continuing his action packed schedule of falling off paddleboards and skidding down a hill on bicycles and just doing stuff like that , i thought he stuff like that, i thought he was going to smash through that orange wall himself. then for a

second. >> but, well, we're getting a fantastic response from voters when we're knocking on people's doors . people are really clear. doors. people are really clear. they want the conservatives out and in so many areas, they know and in so many areas, they know a liberal democrat vote can do that. a liberal democrat vote can do that . they like what we're that. they like what we're saying on the health service, on the economy , on the environment. the economy, on the environment. they like our local candidates. so we're increasingly positive about our chances across the uk . about our chances across the uk. >> yeah. norman, look, some people would just say the lib dems are parading ed davey around like the village idiot. what are his policies? well it's a huge number of policies and we're accused of having too many policies. >> normally , i mean, it's >> normally, i mean, it's referred to the nhs. >> we want to make sure that people can have access to a gp appointment within within seven days. we want to make sure the waiting lists are cut. those two things are terribly important for people. we want to make sure there's a proper integration between health and social care, which doesn't happen in this country. we want to make sure that there's proper attention to the environment, not least of all the appalling sewage problems which are being created in this last few years in which the tories have done nothing.

>> swimming in windermere yesterday. >> well, i mean, yeah, i mean , i >> well, i mean, yeah, i mean, i don't know about falling off a board, but i hope he wasn't falling into any water from thames water or southern water because. >> well that is, that was that was why i thought it was slightly bizarre because previously the lib dems have banged on about the sewage in windermere and then he went swimming in it. >> well, i mean, there is a problem with sewage. there's no doubt about that. there's a problem because water companies are paying themselves and their shareholders far too much and not investing the money to tidy up the environment. >> so we need to make sure that ofwat's abolished and replaced with something more fit for purpose that are more local currency involvement with with water companies and with sewage discharges . discharges. >> and presently has been the case. >> so what does that look like in reality ? and i will just put in reality? and i will just put it to you, actually, when we see images that we were seeing on the screen there of ed davey frolicking about, i mean, do you think the victims of the post office scandal are enjoying seeing him prance around the country? >> well, look, i mean, to be fair to ed, there's been a whole succession of post office ministers going back 20 years. >> he's just one of many. >> he's just one of many. >> so it's a bit unfair to pick on him as an individual post office minister, should he have done more? >> maybe. but so should all the other maybe or definitely yes .

other maybe or definitely yes. >> well, maybe you should have done. >> i'm not familiar with the details, but look, he's been post office ministers in the labour government and the tory ministers . so it's a bit unfair ministers. so it's a bit unfair to pick on him, but he didn't do anything about it, did he? >> and now he is. now he is the leader of a party and now he is asking you for your vote. and there is a relevance there. >> i don't think it's true to say he did nothing about it. he might have done more. i don't know, i'm not. >> i wasn't involved in that because i was at the home office or he ignored it. >> as far as everything the evidence is, he ignored it. he ignored the post office. we've simultaneously got this post office inquiry going on with paula vennells crying her guts out and people standing outside there saying my life has been ruined, etc. and you've got him riding a bike and doing wheelies in wales . in wales. >> look, i don't i'm not an expert on the post office issue, but i'm just saying to you that the post office, which goes back decades and he's one of many 10 or 20 post office ministers in that time . that time. >> okay, i had a little look at the lib dem website earlier on because i was desperately trying to get hold of some policies here. a fair, prosperous and innovative economy that promotes opportunity, a flourishing environment with fair access to

nature for all, a strong united kingdom, a fair international order, a truly fair democracy where everyone's rights are respected. i mean, look, to be fair , that is meaningless guff, fair, that is meaningless guff, isn't it? >> well, it's headlines . >> well, it's headlines. >> well, it's headlines. >> i mean, there's a lot more beyond it. the manifesto. we're always accused of putting out something which is far too big. and i hope we won't have something too big this time, because all the detail will be there. but there's headlines you've read out that's nothing wrong with it. >> so we're going to we are we are going to have to wait for a wait for a proper manifesto. thatis wait for a proper manifesto. that is fair enough, of course. and we do await not just the lib dems manifesto, frankly, everybody's manifesto. we'll be looking for that coalition. what would you ransby do you think you'll end up in coalition with anyone? >> no, i don't think so. >> no, i don't think so. >> i mean, i think we've got our fingers burnt last time, to be honest with you. i think the last coalition worked rather well, actually. and if you look back at the tory policies and the tory governments in 2015, they've been disastrous. the most sensible , stable government most sensible, stable government we've had in this country for 20 years was a coalition government between the tories and lib dems, actually. >> so there's nothing wrong with coalition government. >> but we suffered greatly because the public didn't really

like us doing that. >> so i don't think we'll be doing that again. >> but it's not my call. >> but it's not my call. >> what i do think, however, is there's a possibility of a hung parliament, but it's more likely if you believe the bookies, it'll be a labour majority . it'll be a labour majority. >> what is very clear, patrick, is that the electorate's following an abc policy. anyone but conservatives and they're looking desperately for whoever can beat the tories in their particular seat. and whereas bofis particular seat. and whereas boris johnson was able to keep the red, keep the blue wall intact and win the red wall from laboun intact and win the red wall from labour, what's happening now is the red wall is going back to labour by and large, and the blue wall is going to fall to the lib dems and the liberals saw the opinion poll in godalming and ash, which is jeremy hunt's seat, the chancellor exchequer. >> he's in trouble. he's in trouble . trouble. >> we're on 35. >> we're on 35. >> the tories won 29% and that's being reflected across the south. >> you see, john redwood's standing down now. >> a whole lot of mps, even hugh merriman , who's a good minister, merriman, who's a good minister, by the way, standing down in bexhill and battle, you know, they're all departing the sinking ship, is there something , though, to be said for the idea that the lib dems only really appeal to people in big

houses in surrey who wish that we'd never left the eu and, you know, are all quite lucrative lobby types like hugh grant. >> i don't think that's true. i mean, i think we obviously people who voted to remain will be sympathetic to the lib dems, but that's not what would you . but that's not what would you. >> yeah. what is the lib dem policy on the eu by the way at the moment? >> well we're accepting that we've left. i mean that's what it is. we want a closer relationship with our european colleagues across the channel which is only sensible, not least of all for the migration issues, but i mean, we've accepted we've left. but no, to answer your question, there are answer your question, there are a whole range of people who want to vote lib dem. >> there are people who believe in environment, people who want decent public services, people who want to make sure that people pay their taxes properly. people want to make sure that we follow our international order and don't break international law . law. >> and also we punch our weight in the world, which we're not doing at the moment. i mean, it's criminal. for example , the it's criminal. for example, the government is not funding bbc world service properly. that's soft power they're neglecting. >> so a lib dem policy would be to fund the bbc more . to fund the bbc more. >> well, bbc world service would

be funded more. >> certainly interesting . >> certainly interesting. >> certainly interesting. >> all right. okay norman, thank you very, very much. that is norman baker that former lib dem minister. thank you very much for coming in. great to see you. and i believe i'll be seeing you later in the week actually. anyway, coming up, what's wrong with this video put out by the labour party? >> i've been a centrist conservative all my life, but i think the party's really changed and i think the last 14 years has done real damage to the country . country. >> yes, we'll reveal what that's all about. but next i've got a very first look for you at tomorrow's newspaper front pages . and like i said, every day this week, we've had a policy on the front pages . so hang on, the front pages. so hang on, i'll

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. and i have got the very first of tomorrow's front pages for you. let's do it. i start with the. i labour promises to fix doctors threatening retirement. i've also got diane abbott, dash starmer. try to stop me. labour plan to ease

out. veteran left winger collapsed i mean that has been a catastrophe. let's go to the telegraph. abbott i will not be intimidated by starmer. she she has decided to very much not go quietly and labour plots vat raid to pay for its policies, claims jeremy hunt jeremy hunt is today accused labour of having a secret plan to raise vat and challenges sir keir starmer to explicitly rule out . starmer to explicitly rule out. there's also a story at the bottom there about gary lineker, which i will return to shortly. but now the daily mail world exclusive revealed the crown's case against lord lucan , case against lord lucan, unearthed by the mail after 50 years. the official scotland yard report that exposes bombshell new details about how the notorious pair plotted his wife's murder before killing his children's nanny and vanishing without a trace . let's go to the without a trace. let's go to the metro. cynical election dog strike. walk out before britain goes to the polls. junior

doctors have been accused of a cynical election stunt by calling five days of strikes the week before polling day on july the 4th. they will abandon hospitals from june 20th 7th to july the 2nd. in their bid to win a pay rise of up to 35. joint leader doctor robert lawrenson said that their 11th walkout, the first since february, will be the biggest and loudest yet. i interviewed doctor robert lawrenson a few months ago and i asked him that even if they got a 35% pay rise, would he still leave and go and become a doctor in america or canada? and he said he might do so . it does make me question, so. it does make me question, really, what's the point in all of this? because people's lives will be lost. but hey, anyway, also, of course, there was a doctors strike where he decided he had to go to a relative's wedding and go on holiday and all that. anyway, whatever. he's all that. anyway, whatever. he's a nice chap. i'm sure he is. right. okay, yeah . rebecca, i'll right. okay, yeah. rebecca, i'll start with you on this. this cynical election doctor strike. i mean, who are they trying to kid with? this? this is going to cost people's lives. i mean, i don't think it's necessarily cynical. >> it's. it's hard tactics. and

thatis >> it's. it's hard tactics. and that is a strong union. and that's how you get yourself a pay that's how you get yourself a pay rise. it shouldn't have gone on this long. talks should have been more successful than they have been. and i think it's a failure of management that it's got this far. but yeah, absolutely. there's no question this is this is political. this is saying to people vote labour. that's clearly what the unions want. >> yeah, i mean they were saying that it's not politically motivated. adam, i would suggest that this means it absolutely is. >> this is political and it will cost lives like the rest of their strikes have cost lives. that's people's loved ones that will die because these people are playing politics with their lives . they're 35, demands lives. they're 35, demands aren't backed even by labour, aren't backed even by labour, aren't backed even by labour, aren't backed by many people that i speak to in the nhs who do not back this strike. they're on their own. i think the public sentiment on this, you know, they've got hardly any support with the public. yeah. all right. look i know mark, i asked you a little bit about the doctor strike earlier on when we were waiting for the labour ministers, shadow ministers. so i'll, was it on if that's all

right. i want to talk about what's on the front of the daily telegraph gary lineker, i tweet so that i can sleep at night. so gary lineker has written in the telegraph today, or there's an article saying he claimed that he continues to tweet about controversial political issues so that he can look himself in the mirror at night speaking a literature and arts festival. the bbc star presenter said i don't think i probably make a blind bit of difference, but if it makes a difference to me and that's important, i don't do it to try to influence . i do it so to try to influence. i do it so i can look at myself in the mirror at night, of course he did find himself in hot water last year when he compared the language used to describe the conservative government's rwanda policy as that of nazi germany. mark i mean, i don't think gary lineker needs any help looking in the mirror, do you? >> i mean, this is not racism on a different level, isn't it? i mean, he has paid an absolute mint by licence fee payers to present football programmes ,

present football programmes, right? that's what the public expect of him. i don't think he's a bad presenter in that regard. but he now admits at last it's all about him. it's to make a difference to him. it's about how he feels. you know what? i'd have more respect for him if he said, i appreciate i'm a football presenter, but i actually want to use my platform to influence politics. he's claiming he has no influence. it's all about him and how he feels, not about the poor licence fee payer who's paying his colossal salary. i wish he'd either stick to football or at least be honest with himself that he's actually is trying to influence things. so i think it's exactly what he's trying to do. >> look, i think if gary lineker was an ice cream, he would eat himself. this man, you know, he's in love with himself. i'm surprised he's actually away from a mirror in his house. you know, he's up there with carol vorderman with pure narcissism. they think they do think that they are changing people's minds. they do think that they're actually influencing this general election. they're on cloud cuckoo land. i haven't spoke to someone that likes gary

lineker for a long, long time. i think he's alienated a lot of normal people in society. i think, you know , he really is deluded. >> you shouldn't be able to do this on a bbc contract . this on a bbc contract. >> go on. rebecca. a no doubt a staunch defence of gary lineker. >> i mean, i can take him or leave him, but it is called a metaphor. he's not literally saying so i can look in the mirrorjust in case anybody was mirror just in case anybody was confused. he's saying in order to be able to feel like he's a decent person using his platform appropriately. >> oh, i didn't know what that meant. >> he should point it out. so, i don't think that he is suggesting that he is somehow changing the world. i think he's saying if you have a platform, it's important to speak about issues that matter to you, which i think is good. i think he has previously pointed out that he's not a political commentator for the bbc. so he is allowed because he's a sports commentator, to talk about politics. i think that's reasonable and appropriate . reasonable and appropriate. >> all right. all right. >> all right. all right. >> he wouldn't have 25 million followers or whatever. he's got if it wasn't for the bbc and the licence fee payer. let's just remember that. >> all right. well, look. hey, gary lineker has said that he, you know, he doesn't think he makes a blind bit of difference. he does it because it's important to him his tweets. so

that's nice. now a 9 million followers by the way apparently. wow. but now a recently elected labour councillor has been caught barefaced lying about being a lifelong tory voter as part of an election stunt. milli hill , from stroud district hill, from stroud district council, shared her support for sir keir starmer in a video posted on axe as she endorsed the labour candidate, doctor simon offer. but milli has not actually voted conservative since david cameron and backed jeremy corbyn at the 2019 election. shall we hear what she had to say in this video ? had to say in this video? >> i've been a centrist conservative all my life , but i conservative all my life, but i think the party's really changed and i think the last 14 years has done real damage to the country. so i've been looking at labour and i think they've got some very exciting policies on the economy, the nhs, mental health issues , green energy. so health issues, green energy. so having met simon opher, who's a local gp and has worked here for 30 years, he really understands this community and i think he'd

make a great mp. so for the first time in a really long time, i'm optimistic and excited to vote in a general election. >> mark. turns out she's a labour councillor. >> it's unreal, isn't it? look, patrick, i'll let you into a secret of the dark arts of politics. when gb news viewers get leaflets arriving on their doormat and they'll see on the back. doormat and they'll see on the back . jim, 38, local resident, back. jim, 38, local resident, endorses such and such a candidate. jane, 47, from the area , says oftentimes these are area, says oftentimes these are actually pictures of party activists, but this woman is actually claiming she is a lifelong conservative. despite being an elected labour councillor and voting for the labour party, five years ago. you know what i think should happen? the labour party should conduct an investigation . 13 conduct an investigation. 13 months later, keir starmer and eamonn are about whether to kick her off the local council. that's presumably what happened. >> she'll be standing outside stroud town hall demanding that the people allow her to run. what she has done over sinwar. yeah. adam, look what do you make of this? we're gonna have

to watch out for a lot of this stuff over the course of the election campaign, aren't we? >> i speak about why i've lost all trust in uk politics and things like this. just under underline why, from mps to councillors, they think we're idiots and we are being treated like idiots by these people. now how did she think she would get away with that? how stupid have you got to be? and that's what is running our country vie. and thatis is running our country vie. and that is what is running our areas in our authority. >> rebecca, i've noticed a little bit of a trend so far this election . okay, so we this election. okay, so we started with jonathan ashworth just refusing to bother to try to explain votes for kids , the to explain votes for kids, the 16 year olds. and there is a case for that. he just chose not to bother to make it. had a, labour party activist, former blair advisor on last night who again, didn't really seem content to engage in a discussion about their schools policy . and we did just have a policy. and we did just have a laboun policy. and we did just have a labour, from bencher on earlier on. people can make their own minds up about the approach that

she took to that interview. and then you see this now where labour put out, you know, a councillor in a in an advert. i just wonder if they feel as though they've already won this and they don't really have to try. >> i think there's two things going on there. i think in terms of this specific woman, millie hill, i think she i think this is a slightly uncharitable reading because i think what she's saying is i was a lifelong tory voter, centrist tory until the 2019 election. she she wasn't clear enough. and she should have been clearer . but i should have been clearer. but i think she was a tory previous to that. and that's what she meant in terms of, labour not feeling that they need to explain what they need to play ball, i think gb news has a specific experience because the labour party are, i think, traditionally quite nervous of right wing media. and i also think that they are working on the basis they'll be in power next and you will need them. so they can probably play a bit of a hard game, because if none of them will come on here, we're going to have a harder time having these conversations. so i think gb news has a specific experience, but i think they are being very careful and it is better to say less than to say more. and you can't get yourself in trouble if you keep your mouth shut. >> i do wonder how long this

tactic, and i think, i think it's fair to say it is a very grateful for them coming on. i'm grateful for them coming on. i'm grateful for them coming on. i'm grateful for any, any politician coming on as everyone will know, we're going to see more of it over the course of this campaign. people would argue there is a case to say this is good politics, which is if you don't if you don't explain anything or you don't really engage or you laugh, you laugh things off, then you can't really do too much wrong. but i think the public actually do want answers. they want to be sold certain things. you need to be sold votes for kids, for example . i don't think you can example. i don't think you can just have, oh, this is no big deal just have, oh, this is no big deal. it is a big deal. it is. >> it is a big deal. and i think this is when the crunch point will come, likely, week after next, the parties will launch their manifestos. and if the labour party manifesto is 20 or 30 pages of word salad, the problem is labour spokespeople will start contradicting themselves and you'll pick up that one spokesman has said this and that doesn't seem to be in line with what somebody else has said. so i actually think it would be in the labour party's best interest to actually have a very clear line on things. but as the diane abbott thing suggests, they haven't really got to that stage yet.

>> let's be honest with the viewers out there. labour are going to win this general election, not because they're popular, not because people support them. it's because so many people hate the tories and what has happened, and i think thatis what has happened, and i think that is that is the truth of this election. all right. so many people are going to vote them just because they're not blue. >> well, one of the labour policies is to eliminate well pledges is to eliminate the nhs backlog within five years. but with junior doctors announcing that strike action would a starmer led government actually end up caving in to the unions? we'll be discussing a bit of that in tonight's greatest britain and union jackass. but first, you will not believe what a prominent muslim figure says to this. >> people were chanting death to america . some people were not america. some people were not everyone, but some people were . everyone, but some people were. >> yeah, i have to wait and see to find out what happens there. it's patrick christys tonight we are on

gb news. okay. well, i will be playing you a clip from an exclusive gb news documentary about how islam has made a us town unrecognisable. that's going to be happening very, very shortly . be happening very, very shortly. but before all of that, i've got more front pages for you . let's more front pages for you. let's go to the mirror. we're behind you , keir. so it's keir starmer, you, keir. so it's keir starmer, the labour leader there posing with student nurses on an election campaign. there we go. also right underneath it. you are pure evil. so mixtures of light and shade there on the mirror's front page. teacher murdered her lover. sorry murdered her lover. sorry murdered lover then had a drink with his mum . right? gosh. let's with his mum. right? gosh. let's go to the nationals. we're going north of the border now. this did make me chuckle a little bit. uk party leaders debate confirmed. except for viewers in scotland , apparently john scotland, apparently john swinney has been the snp leader for about 2.5 minutes, is absolutely raging that he is not part of the leaders debates that are taking place. and so he's not going to be on itv. there we

go. so that's john swinney there , the leader of the snp who is absolutely livid , apparently, absolutely livid, apparently, that he doesn't get to stand alongside keir starmer and rishi sunak. i'm going to look at an inside story in the daily telegraph. a new yougov poll has the greens ahead of the conservatives, with the under 50s overall , the conservatives 50s overall, the conservatives placed 27 points behind labour. among the under 50s, the party was on 8, which is equal to reform. labour's on 59, the lib dems are on 6% and the greens are on 12. mark the under 50 is are on 12. mark the under 50 is a big chunk of voters just trying to do the maths here. >> i'm guessing that's pretty much half the electorate, right? 18 to 50, 50 to 82. have i got my maths right there behind the greens ? i'm pretty sceptical greens? i'm pretty sceptical about that poll. i don't know what the sample size is. if the conservatives only get 8% amongst the under 50, unless it's the case that it's only

people aged in their 50s and older who actually turn out and vote. >> okay. all right. i mean, do you think that there is a chance that britain is actually just going to be a socialist country and stay that way forever? >> maybe people care about climate change and recycling and having nice green things and more plants. it's also, to be fair, the greens is a very natural place to dump your vote if you don't want to vote for anybody else. yeah, so i've always gone women's equality or green if i don't like the person or if you're massively pro gaza, apparently, as we saw in some local council holac reasonable. >> that was an odd day that people have a lot of reasonable concerns, and it's a good place to go if you feel you're socially conscious and poorly represented. yeah. all right. i mean, what do you make of that then then adam, the poll today, it's in the daily telegraph is saying that apparently the tories are less popular than the green party with the under 50. >> i know they're unpopular, but that's utter nonsense . and i that's utter nonsense. and i think you'll see that during dunng think you'll see that during during the general election, it's going to be closer than people say. i mean, i still think it's going to be a annihilation, and a labour majority, but those figures just

don't make i don't know anyone that would vote green. >> i mean, that might be a little bit of a skewed sample . little bit of a skewed sample. like, i don't know anyone who would vote reform. i think that might just be who we know. >> all right, well, look, hey, find out what happens when muslims take over an american city. apparently, pro—hamas parades , animal sacrifice and parades, animal sacrifice and a ban on lgbt flags, arabic signs and restrictions on music lessons in schools. well, in a gb news documentary , our us gb news documentary, our us correspondent stephen edgington goes to a place possibly ironically called hamtramck, michigan to investigate how islam has changed the town. >> here's a clip just down the road here in dearborn. a few weeks ago, there was a protest, a rally to do with gaza and israel and people were chanting death to america. some people were not everyone, but some people were. there was one individual that said there was at least one. i think there was several, but, what do you make of that chant? and you know, do you support its message? >> my real message is that islam

is america's last hope. >> okay . >> okay. >> okay. >> i want joe biden to know when he suffers on that night, knowing that he lost the election like the loser , that he election like the loser, that he is like the bloodthirsty, maniacal murder murderer that he is. people are limiting it by saying , what will you do come saying, what will you do come november? what happened in this genocide against palestinians is going to be the centre focus of our political engagement for the rest of our lives. we will never forget it, and we will make sure anybody who did not sign on to ceasefire resolutions will pay the price . with this. the price. with this. >> what do you mean by that? >> what do you mean by that? >> they will lose their power. we will get them out of office. >> yeah, it's all normal stuff there. so joe, joe biden would no doubt deny that he is a murderer as claimed by that gentleman there. you can watch the full documentary . i've been the full documentary. i've been privileged enough to have a little sneak peek at this. it is absolutely bonkers. so it is, america , a muslim city. it's on america, a muslim city. it's on the gb news youtube channel. and

stephen edgington, our us reporter, has done some really fascinating work there, including actually putting some of their own tweets back to them. it is astonishing stuff, actually. really. so go, go and have a look at it, but we're going over to south korea now where residents are being forced to take cover after north korea's government sent hundreds of hot air balloons over the contested border . but wait, contested border. but wait, there's more. the balloons, unbelievably , are filled with unbelievably, are filled with rubbish and actual human poo , rubbish and actual human poo, with the south koreans warning pyongyang to immediately desist from its inhumane and vulgar actions . i mean, that's a fair actions. i mean, that's a fair request, and it's also the way that they look, of course, which is possibly quite rude in itself. but, yeah , i mean, let's itself. but, yeah, i mean, let's hope north korean leader kim jong un is listening. thank you very much. one for the cheap seats at the back. there i mean, yeah, look, this is this is an escalation in tensions between the countries. we all thought it would go nuclear, but it is literally right now, as it currently happens, culminating. it's gone nuclear. it's gone nuclear. okay. it's time to

reveal today's greatest wrestling union. jackass all right, drag us out of the gutter , mark. who's your greatest? britain? >> okay, here's a lovely story. two teenage lads, freddie corbett and harley hollingworth, 15 and 16, stopped an adult chap killing himself on the rail tracks. they jumped onto the rail tracks, pulled him away, saved his life and for all of this, anybody under the age of 50 vote in green. and, you know, the youth of today, we need to, you know, look down on them. two heroes here, freddie and harley . heroes here, freddie and harley. >> good lads. oh. good stuff. well, that's a fantastic start. well, that's a fantastic start. well done lads, that is fantastic. right, adam? >> mine is j.k. rowling. she's just done a, interview in the times saying why she's fighting back for women against the trans agenda. and thank god that she is. she's the biggest voice, probably in the world pushing back against some of this lunacy. so please carry on. >> okay. all right, rebecca, who's your greatest? britain? please >> i'm sure you'll agree that angela rayner deserves our congratulations. there's no

police action going forward because apparently there's no problem there. >> apparently there's no problem there. yes, i think she might have had some decent news from hmrc as well today , but, but hmrc as well today, but, but yes, of course he does slightly counteract the, issues that she might have had with some, some particular gentleman in ashton, today's gwyneth of the greatest britain. mark, i'm going to ask you to name them again for me, please. he's pretty cool. >> bit. >> bit. >> and harley hollingworth, who saved a chap's life , or at saved a chap's life, or at least, in any event prevented him from killing himself, taking his own life. so so well done, mark. who's your union? jackass? please. keir starmer for me. >> 13 months to fail to make a decision about whether diane abbott can be a labour candidate on a very short letter in a newspaper. pathetic. >> okay, go on. >> okay, go on. >> my nomination is the junior doctors for playing politics with people's lives. people will die during this strike and it is politically motivated. it's unforgivable. and it hasn't got very much support. >> i do find it, you know, really it is people's lives. i

know i'm, you know, strike action can be an important vessel to getting your demands met and all of that . and i don't met and all of that. and i don't genuinely i don't want to live in a world where we ban, strike action. but then you look at it and you think people's lives will be lost as a result of this, and the backlog that they say that they, you know, are so desperate to clear . well, how desperate to clear. well, how are they going to do that if they keep adding to it? but go on, rebecca, who's your union jackass, mine is rishi sunak for the announcement about national service. it is the most barrel scraping politics, but also , if scraping politics, but also, if we're going to bring in national service, why don't we have people do it at 60? that sounds like a much better idea. >> why do you think it's such a terrible idea, national service? because it's not all about people going and serving in the military. it is more about things like delivering prescriptions to old people of a weekend. >> well, the main reason that it was stopped originally is because the military were like, please stop sending us these idiots. we can't cope with them in terms of it being white. but no, what also, national service , no, what also, national service, which went on after the war, but also but specifically to this version of it, people 18 have a right to get on with their lives. they have a right to get

into education, to get into training, to whatever it is they feel they need to do. also a lot people who are 18 can be breadwinners for their families. people are parents at 18 it's infantilizing. whereas when you get to retirement age, if you perhaps would like to give back to the world, why not go and teach what you've learned they've put in their whole lives? >> well, what do you mean, give back? they've literally supported a country taken away . supported a country taken away. oh my god. >> well, before you, before you draw your pension, you might want to give something. what are the 18 year olds, 60 years of age 60, you have put in to the country for a good part of 4 or 5 decades? >> that's in what? oh, please. >> that's in what? oh, please. >> well, i give up, but these people are about to do that. >> okay. all right. well today's winners of the union jackass, are going to be the junior doctors, the strikers. there we go. so they are the union jackasses. well look, thank you very much. it's been a lively show. i'll be with you again tomorrow from 9 pm. i am thoroughly enjoying this election period. you never quite know what madness is going to happen. there were, unfortunately for everybody, no new policies there on the front of the papers today. but that probably means that there will

be some tomorrow. so all the more reason to tune in then. thank you, thank you, thank you. and yes , headliners are up next. and yes, headliners are up next. they'll be whizzing you through an even more detailed look at all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. i'm hoping that i can have something decent lined up for you tomorrow. a couple more front benches along the way as we picked through the noise of what are so far anyway. but in a slightly bonkers but nonetheless very important general election campaign. it's your weather now . your weather now. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's going to be another showery day tomorrow. the showers will be much more focused across eastern areas and it should stay a bit drier across the west. that's as high pressure is slowly building in from the west, but in the east low pressure is still in charge and that will continue to bring some pretty heavy outbreaks of rain to parts of southern scotland, northeastern england, through this evening. that's

where there's a weather warning in force until the early hours of thursday . heavy rain will of thursday. heavy rain will push into parts of wales, possibly the south—west of england as well, by tomorrow morning, so risks of outbreaks of heavy rain by tomorrow morning. a fairly mild night, though temperatures only dipping down as low as 11 or 12 degrees for many towns and cities. so a mild start to the day, but it will be quite a cloudy day and there will be some heavy rain around across the northeast of scotland . actually, it will turn scotland. actually, it will turn much drier than it has been today through tomorrow morning . today through tomorrow morning. some brightness across parts of the central belt as well, but elsewhere further south across northern ireland, northern england as well. cloudy, with a risk of some showery outbreaks of rain. it's particularly this band across central england into parts of wales, where it could be quite a wet start to the day. there's also a risk of some heavy showers breaking out across the south coast . first across the south coast. first thing some areas will stay dry and i think across the west it will get drier through the day as the rain becomes more focused across central and southeastern areas of england. low pressure

still not too far away from the east coast , and that will be east coast, and that will be dragging in more in the way of cloud and onshore breeze as well. so that will bring a cooler feel tomorrow for many of us, but still in the sunshine, temperatures climbing up to the high teens, that's too not bad at all. it will still feel fairly pleasant. there'll be more in the way of sunshine to start

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>> it's 11:00. you're with gb >> it's11:00. you're with gb news. and our top story tonight, the labour veteran mp diane abbott has hit back at the rumours tonight, vowing to be the mp for hackney north and stoke newington in london for as long as is possible. she said she told a rally of supporters tonight in east london she would always stand with them. earlier on today, sir keir starmer, the leader of the labour party, said labour hadn't taken any decision to ban her from standing as an mp. well, at the same time, jeremy corbyn has launched his campaign to be re—elected as an independent mp for islington north, also in london. the launch was hosted at a community centre which he opened in 2018. he's vowed to be an independent voice for equality, democracy and peace . the prime minister and peace. the prime minister hit back at plans today by junior doctors to stage another round of strikes next month . round of strikes next month. members of the british medical association are planning to walk

out for five days starting on the 27th of june. he was speaking at a campaign event this afternoon and he said it was politically motivated to go on strike and certainly not in the interests of staff . the interests of staff. >> today's action by the junior doctors on the same day as the labour party are having a health day does slightly ponder the question as to whether this is politically motivated. it's hard to escape that conclusion, given the timing and to call a strike in an election campaign, especially as we found a constructive resolution with the remainder of the nhs workforce. >> meanwhile, labour said today nhs waiting list targets would be met within five years of a government with them and it's according to a pledge made by sir keir starmer this afternoon. the plan would see an additional 40,000 appointments in england each week, making use of time dunng each week, making use of time during evenings and at weekends. and, he said bringing wait times to within an 18 week target . the

to within an 18 week target. the conservatives labelled the move copy and paste politics and pointed instead to their plan to invest in nhs technology. the owners of royal mail agreed a £3.5 owners of royal mail agreed a £35 billion takeover bid by £3.5 billion takeover bid by czech billionaire today. the deal will see the continuation of one price goes anywhere first class post six days a week as well as the company's branding will also remain, as will its uk headquarters. but the will also remain, as will its uk headquarters . but the sale will also remain, as will its uk headquarters. but the sale has attracted heavy criticism from senior politicians and unions alike. amid concerns over the future of the royal mail's service to the public, gb news can reveal that environmental activists plan to target the uk's busiest airports over the last two weeks of july. just stop oil plans to target airports this summer, including heathrow and gatwick, at the height of the getaway, in to order cause, they say, maximum disruption. the group's also running a series of online courses aimed at encouraging and