while rishi sunak will and while rishi sunak will surely be nervously keeping an eye on nigel's big announcement, he's been at a sports centre today and the tories have today pledged to protect women's rights, in the course of which they've been accused of stoking a culture war. meanwhile, sir keir starmer is spending today trying to convince the electorate that labour would go nuclear on defence despite twice backing jeremy corbyn for prime minister, who pledged to scrap uk's trident plan. can we trust the labour party on defence and rugby league legend rob burrow has sadly passed away aged just 41, after a brave battle with motor neurone disease will pay tribute to the leeds rhinos star. the talk to former team—mate. that's all coming up in your next hour. well, welcome to the show to stand or not to stand, that is the big question. and at 4:00 today, nigel farage

will answer it here on gb news. we'll find out. will nigel farage stand in the next general election after all, despite saying he wouldn't and despite losing on seven previous occasions, what changed his mind? we'll have the full analysis. will be there live. we'll have an interview with the man himself. get in touch. the big question i want you to answer today, should nigel farage stand as an mp? he said six weeks wasn't long enough, but now it's only about four and a half weeks. but could he still do something to convince you to change your votes? we've got an exclusive poll out. i'll tell you about that later in the show. how you intend to vote. but that could change. all bets might be off at 4 pm. today. get in touch with your views. gbnews.com forward slash your say get stuck in. i read as many as i can before the end of the show, but first it's your headunes show, but first it's your headlines with aaron armstrong . headlines with aaron armstrong. >> hi there. good afternoon to you. it's 3:02 i'm aaron armstrong. rishi sunak's denied

he's stoking a culture war with his pledge to amend the equality act . the prime minister wants to act. the prime minister wants to make clear sex means biological sex rather than gender, and says the current confusion over the legal definition can't be allowed to continue. the proposals would allow organisations to bar transgender women from single—sex spaces, including hospital wards and sports events . labour has called sports events. labour has called the policy an election distraction. the lib dems say there's no need to unpick the act, but rishi sunak says the conservatives are trying to clarify the law rather than change it. >> so the equalities act was passed over a decade ago, and what's clear today is that there's a lack of clarity in the law, and that's risking the safety of women and girls . so safety of women and girls. so we've announced the bold action that we would change the law, change the equalities act so that sex means biological sex. and what that will do will mean that providers of single sex services and single—sex spaces will be able to protect women and girls and ensure their safety and security.

>> meanwhile, sir keir starmer says labour is totally committed to the security of the nation and to the uk's nuclear deterrent. he's described the trident programme as a fundamental, vital part of our defence. labour are pledging to build four new nuclear submarines and increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. when an economic conditions allow. the conservatives say they'll meet that target by 2030. sir keir has dismissed concerns his shadow foreign secretary and the deputy party leader voted against the uk having nuclear weapons just eight years ago, and he's criticised the tories for politicising the issue. >> prefer if politics were kept out of this issue even at this election , throughout the whole election, throughout the whole of this parliament, i have deliberately not been partisan over security yet. just before this election , the tories this election, the tories questioned this labour party's

commitment to national security and i will not let that stand. the people of britain need to know that their leaders will keep them safe, and we will. >> the liberal democrats are vowing to tackle water pollution as part of their manifesto. they've announced plans for a new protected blue flag status for rivers with legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping, and also special protection for swimmers and wildlife. it would include the expansion of marine protected areas to cover at least 50% of the uk territorial waters by 2030. lib dem deputy leader daisy cooper says it will benefit everyone and we've been leading the campaign to end the scandal of raw sewage dumping here in henley. >> local residents know all about that. they know that the sewage dumping is bad for wildlife . they know that it's wildlife. they know that it's causing real problems with tourism as well, and people want

tourism as well, and people want to see an end to this particular scandal . that's why today, scandal. that's why today, liberal democrats are announcing our plans to introduce a blue flag status to protect local rivers . rivers. >> now, turning to the news. you've heard a moment ago about nigel farage. he's fuelled speculation he'll stand as a reform uk candidate after saying he'll make an emergency general election announcement later. the party's honorary president has previously stated he would instead focus on getting donald trump re—elected as us president. mr farage has stood and failed seven times to gain election as an mp. you can watch that here on gb news at 4:00. friends and fans of rob burrow have paid tribute to the unassuming lad with a superhero origin story following his death at the age of 41. burrow's passing was confirmed by leeds rhinos on sunday following a lengthy high profile battle with motor neurone disease. he raised awareness and millions of pounds for charity. well—wishers have gathered outside headingley stadium in yorkshire to pay their respects , laying flowers,

their respects, laying flowers, scarves and other tributes . the scarves and other tributes. the royal college of nursing is warning patients are dying in hospital corridors, describing the problem as a national emergency, the union says people are being treated in unsuitable spaces, including cupboards and car parks , for long periods of car parks, for long periods of time, and may even undergo cancer diagnosis or intimate examinations. there almost three quarters of 11,000 frontline staff surveyed say the care they're delivering in public places compromises patient privacy and dignity . and four privacy and dignity. and four members of a dog fighting ring, including a kingpin known as doctor death, have been sentenced for a string of animal for welfare crimes, chelmsford crown court heard. dogs were given brutal training regimes and then starved to make fighting weights before being put in bouts where they fought, sometimes to the death. the ringleader, philip alley , was ringleader, philip alley, was sentenced to five years in prison, while the other gang members received sentences for offences under the animal

welfare act. we'll have much more on the day's news in our later news programmes. or you can get more right now by scanning up, scanning the qr code or signing up to the gb news alerts. the details are also on our website. now it's back to . martin. back to. martin. >> thank you aaron. now, of course, there's only one place to start today, and that's with nigel farage, the honorary president of reform uk will make what he's called an emergency general election announcement today at 4 pm. and farage said last week that he wouldn't stand at the general election because of the very short notice . well, of the very short notice. well, he's been ukip candidate at five general elections and two by elections, and he lost every single one of them. so what is different this time? well, i'm joined in our studio by our political editor, chris hope. chris welcome back to the studio. you've been out for the last two weeks with the tory party. we'll come to that. >> and the labour party and the

labour party will come to that in a bit. >> the rumour mill has gone into overdrive. everyone is saying he's going to stand and most likely in clacton. what are you heanng likely in clacton. what are you hearing ? heanng? >> into a becalmed election, pond has landed a large farage sized rock. that's what happened. martin today wasn't expected. we had talk about what is a woman on the tory party going after culture, the culture wars, battle , etcetera, wars, battle, etcetera, etcetera. then we had in the north of england , we had north of england, we had a triple defence lock from, from the labour party talking about how they're going to commit to the to maybe a defence review, which could lead to increased army size. and so it goes on to the nuclear, nuclear weapons. and then farage announces on twitter he's going to do some announcement at 4:00, an emergency election announcement. we don't know what it is. so let's speculate, shall we? give you give me a bit. give me a chance to speculate on your show. martin. last wednesday, you heard him tell harry cole i'm open to offers from the tory party. nothing happened. next day he tells question time. it was banter. well, it wasn't banter. if you heard him say he was basically announcing in real

time on on a on a media chat, what's in it for me? what's in it for me? what it meant there was he saw what labour are up to. we need to stop labour. he would say. friday happens . the would say. friday happens. the gb news mrp poll drops giving tories down to a top of 70, 70 or 80 or so mps. labour miles ahead reform zero mps for 12% of the vote. sunday times newspaper . he says if farage says he wants to get a take over the tory party monday happens, well, how do you do that? you get on to the field of play. so the rumour mill is in overdrive that he's going to announce, standing as an mp , possibly in clacton. as an mp, possibly in clacton. his old friend arron banks , you his old friend arron banks, you know him? two don't. he funded the ukip party and brexit party or donate to the brexit party. but certainly the ukip party, survey clacton back in january found out that if he stood in clacton, he'd win his seat. clacton, he'd win his seat. clacton is the only seat won in a general election by ukip mp. at the time that was douglas carswell. so it all roads are

leading towards one conclusion. but we don't know yet till 4:00. >> but you will be there live at the scene at 4:00. you'll have that announcement info and you'll grab an interview with the man himself. chris, don't go anywhere. i'll come back to you in a moment. and as speculation grows at nigel, farage will do an about turn and announce he is going to stand in the upcoming general election . prime minister general election. prime minister rishi sunak has reiterated his stance that a vote for anyone other than a conservative will help sir keir starmer get the keys to number 10. >> at the end of the day on july 5th, one of two people will be prime minister either keir starmer or me. a vote for anyone who's not a conservative candidate is just a vote to put keir starmer in number 10. so if you're someone who cares about tackling migration, both the boats and legal migration, if you're someone who wants a more proportional, pragmatic approach to net zero, that saves people money. and if you want, if you're someone who wants lower taxes, it's only the conservatives that are going to offer all those things. and that's the choice at this election. lower taxes with the conservatives, a plan to stop the boats legal migration coming

down, and a sensible way to get to net zero that saves people money. that's what we offer . money. that's what we offer. keir starmer doesn't believe in any of those things, and that's the choice that people should consider. >> okay, chris hope is still with me in the studio. chris, you've been out there on the front line for these past couple of weeks with conservatives and the labour party. i've been in the labour party. i've been in the studio talking with you from where i'm sitting , this is all where i'm sitting, this is all sort of feel a bit robotic. >> it's enthusiasm. he's enthusiastic . >> it's enthusiasm. he's enthusiastic. he's up for it. they're trying to show youth to voters . gb news. viewers against voters. gb news. viewers against the elderly. keir starmer. they call him sleepy keir. and the rest of it. in a briefing to the newspapers, starmer's 60 or 61, 20 years older than rishi sunak. so he's enthusiastic when he meets people. he wants to hear what they're doing. he gets excited when he does a bowling ball and he gets near to the jack or he he's i've watched him successfully threads on some form of wiring for a rural broadband box. he was delighted to get that right . and you know, to get that right. and you know,

you can't fault the for man trying, but he has called an election when his party is 20 points behind in the polls, and it may be not enough to do it today. he was in hanley. now, why are the tories campaigning in hanley ? that should be. they in hanley? that should be. they should be holding. we saw daisy cooper on the news there. she's in hanley because they want to win it for the tory party. but the tories are in a seat. they should win anyway and they're in 18 out of 20 seats. >> they campaigned in so far are actually safe tory seats. which makes you think they're just trying to shore up any form of victory as they can. and chris, that brings me neatly on to this poll that's just dropped. jl partners poll for gb news. what's the detail? >> well, this is quite extraordinary . so we have we do extraordinary. so we have we do have conservative politicians presenting on the channel, you're a former brexit party mep. so we are seen as being right of centre by people who like to criticise gb news and don't watch it. this poll by jl partners gives the lie to that, that we have got a huge number far more labour supporters amongst our viewers than tory ones.i amongst our viewers than tory ones. i read the numbers out, labour amongst gb news viewers

530 served by jl partners between march, may 29th and may sist, 46% between march, may 29th and may 31st, 46% want to vote. labour now up 7. 25% want to vote. tory down 3% and a ten point jump in just a few weeks of support amongst our viewers for the labour party, something is happening out there . these are happening out there. these are people leaving, i think the tory party, the red wall and going towards labour. >> and yet reforms vote on 18% down to perhaps surprising , but down to perhaps surprising, but not me though, because i think that came after the farage announcement . announcement. >> i've always thought that reform support as being like a balloon puffed up by the hope of farage standing. okay, chris, so as you said, martin, let me speculate. >> chris. let's speculate that later on at 4:00 today, mr farage says he will stand. where do you see that 18% going? >> well , that might go up. they >> well, that might go up. they might take more off the tory party. if you have him standing. i mean, but what what role will he be? because there's also speculation he's taking part in a tv debate. farage on friday in

this this minor parties debate amongst the smaller parties. where does it leave richard tice ben habib, lee anderson there are all these people with, you know, they've all got their own who they think they are. it's my party. my who they think they are. it's my party. my role in this party. farage starts elbowing his way in what happens next. but a lot of people , i mean, i certainly of people, i mean, i certainly know because i took part in two of those elections. >> the brexit party then took a heck of a lot of votes from the labour party, particularly in the red wall. so it's not just it wouldn't just necessarily impact. that's the problem. >> keir starmer, as you rightly say , that the that coalition say, that the that coalition built by boris johnson , support built by boris johnson, support and started really by nigel farage in the euro elections in 2019 with the brexit party, they those votes then went across the tory party had been labour keir starmer get them back. that's not clear at all. so it could hurt both there's no question. but it does hurt. seem to hurt more the tories than than labour are a resurgent reform uk party. >> so the big question is are this? nigel said i'm not standing, there's not enough time in six weeks. well, there's only four and a half weeks now.

he stood seven times before 4 million votes with ukip didn't get a single sausage, not a single person away is there. and he didn't get voted in himself in seven times. have things changed this time or is this the definition of insanity? repeat the same thing and expect a different result. >> i think he felt i can't face doing it again. he doesn't like the rejection. if you say if people tease him and say you've lost seven times getting to parliament, he hits back by saying , i won the ,2,014 saying, i won the ,2,014 elections and 2019, and he's right to say that. but that was under a different voting system, not first past the post that we have. he doesn't like it. he's got he's a proud man like we all are. he doesn't like rejection. i think now is a chance. he sees it. and i think also i should say he's in ashfield. you're all manner on on saturday he was mobbed when he was with lee anderson. he loves it. he loves people coming to see him. yes. he's got this big opportunity in america with with donald trump. but he's a you know, he wears his union jack on his socks. this is his country. >> it is what, chris, i know you need to get over there for that big announcement. so we'll let you p0p

big announcement. so we'll let you pop off now chris i'll speak to you in a short while. let's move on now to sir keir starmer , move on now to sir keir starmer, because he says that his commitment to britain's nuclear deterrent is absolute. but he was put on the defensive earlier today after he was asked whether his whole shadow cabinet would behind him on the issue because labour deputy leader angela rayner and the shadow foreign secretary, david lammy, both voted against the renewal of trident. if you recall , back voted against the renewal of trident. if you recall, back in 2015. and here's what the labour leader had to say i lead this party. >> i've changed this party. if we're privileged to come in to serve, i will be the prime minister of the united kingdom. and i've made my commitment to this absolutely clear . and i've this absolutely clear. and i've got my whole cabinet, shadow cabinet behind me on this. we have changed the labour party , have changed the labour party, and i know full well that national security and defence of our country is the number one issue. that is why i voted to renew the deterrent. and that's why i've been absolutely clear

on this. i lead from the front. i've always led from the front. and this issue, i feel very, very strongly about. >> well, to discuss this further , i'm now joined by our reporter charlie peters. charlie, welcome to the show. there's a feeling here that there's a rearguard action being fought against the previous positions of previous leaders. previous labour incumbents who didn't seem that interested in defence. now, sir keir starmer on a full blown charm offensive . charm offensive. >> well, starmer says that this is a changed labour party and that change, he says, is permanent and key to that is what he's launching today. a so—called triple lock on britain's nuclear deterrent. and that includes three policies that includes three policies that he has committed to should he be elected in july. first and foremost is that the continuous at sea deterrent, britain's nuclear submarine capacity will continue. secondly, he says labour party will replace the current vanguard class submarine with the dreadnought class

that's intended to come in in the 2030s. of course, it's worth noting that has already government policy. and finally, the third part of that so—called triple lock is that the labour party has committed to all of the necessary upgrades and improvements needed for those dreadnought class submarines, as i said, expected to enter service in 2030. and that third point, i think, is actually possibly the key section because the vanguard class, the subs that we already have, their intended lifespan when they're introduced in the 1990s was just 25 years. that's been extended significantly. they have looked in many ways rather worse for wear when returning to faslane in recent years. on those extended patrols, as many of them go through major life extension, maintenance work and repairs . second to this big repairs. second to this big announcement also is the fact that he made it in front of several veteran labour candidates and alongside the shadow defence secretary, john healey . and he was pressed, as

healey. and he was pressed, as you said, on those points about the former vote by many senior labour bigwigs, including angela rayner and david lammy, he's the shadow foreign secretary, voting against those dreadnought class submarines in 2016. well, keir starmer answered that by saying if you elect me, i'll be the prime minister, not them. this decision lies with me and his commitment , decision lies with me and his commitment, he decision lies with me and his commitment , he says, is commitment, he says, is unshakeable. it was also asked about labour's defence spending plans because, as it stands, the government has a 2.5% spending increase on defence commitment by 2030. by contrast, labour says they want to reach 2.5% when the conditions allow economically . economically. >> suburbs of excellent analysis. as ever, charlie peters, thank you for joining us. now, don't forget that we'll bnng us. now, don't forget that we'll bring you nigel farage's big announcement live at 4 pm. today, live and direct. and the interview with him straight after that. and there's plenty of coverage on our website , of coverage on our website, gbnews.com. you've helped to

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welcome back. it's 3:25. now a reminder that at 4:00, we'll hear live

from nigel farage. he said that he'll make an emergency general election announcement. we'll bnng election announcement. we'll bring that to you live and direct right here on gb news. now, there are just three days to go until the 80th anniversary of d—day, june 6th, 1944 was one of d—day, june 6th, 1944 was one of the most important days in this country's entire history. paved the way for the eventual liberation of western europe. just under a year later, our reporter sophie reaper is in glorious normandy. sophie, welcome to the show. the sun is shining on you. the scenes i've seen earlier absolutely magnificent. tell us about the build up to this momentous day . build up to this momentous day. >> well, good afternoon to you, martin. or should i say bonjour from beautiful bayeux. here on the normandy coastline. as you say, the preparations ahead of that d—day anniversary are ramping up here. flags are being hung. people from all over the world are descending on this part of france. as the build—up

continues . just two of those continues. just two of those people are from america . we people are from america. we spoke to them earlier on this morning. frank, ralph and marianne . marianne lost one of marianne. marianne lost one of her family members on d—day, and she wanted to come and celebrate and commemorate that family member. this is what they had to tell me . tell me. >> they are here to celebrate the basically the liberation of the basically the liberation of the world. how the how the course of the world may have gone one way. fortunately for the allies and everybody else , the allies and everybody else, france included, we have, you know, it changed the course of the world. and now we, now we can live in relative, you know, freedom. and it's, that's that's that's why it's so important to me. >> it's about liberation of a people of oppressed. you know, area, europe, which was under siege by, by the nazi germany . siege by, by the nazi germany. and about that, that freedom isn't free, that in to order

restore freedom, it we have to pay a restore freedom, it we have to pay a price. sometimes and sadly, it was my family. but it could have been anybody's family. and yeah, coming together is really important. and i think it's important for heaung and i think it's important for healing and it's important in celebration of , of what we have celebration of, of what we have as people on this planet to be focused on more of what we have in common. and that's our humanity than what our differences might be. >> and that sentiment there from marianne, that it could have been anyone's family, but it was hers . that was the sacrifice hers. that was the sacrifice that those men made. they knew there was every chance they may not be coming home. and so many didn't . and that is why we'll be didn't. and that is why we'll be coming together all this week in the build up to the anniversary, the build up to the anniversary, the 80th anniversary of d—day . the 80th anniversary of d—day. >> sophie reaper. i'm very, very envious you're there at this momentous time. fantastic stuff. thank you so much for joining

momentous time. fantastic stuff. thank you so much forjoining us on the show. and i just wanted to add, i've been to byu as a teenager, driving past the wall, the war memorials, the cemeteries, there is such an incredibly humbling experience. they just go on and on and on. every single one of those white crucifixes is a buried soldier, and they're just the ones they could find. the remains of. i also went on a d—day beach tour sainte—mere—eglise , where the sainte—mere—eglise, where the americans liberated many, many years later. when i was there , years later. when i was there, still had an american mayor, a serviceman who stayed behind and married his local sweetheart in that village . an incredibly that village. an incredibly humbling experience. the original american flag that was raised and replaced, the german swastika , is still on the church swastika, is still on the church wall full of bullet holes and charge just an incredible thing. and 80 years on, what a thing to remember. now before we go to the news, got some very quick emails on nigel farage of course 4:00 30 minutes time the big announce that jeff says this about standing nigel in parliament. it's a big yes from me. we need someone to change

the face of politics in this country. and he is my man, jonathan says. i wonder if boris has signed up to the reform party now. that would be a big announcement. jonathan, let's do one thing at a time. adrian adds. this i hope nigel does stand. i want him to earlier, before we need lots more reform candidates though. he's there are hardly any at the moment and paul quickly adds this when nigel announces that he is standing. should the music come ? standing. should the music come? is it? the music should be the final countdown because it will mean complete tory wipe—out, or it should even be the theme tune to the movie the terminator. after all, nigel did say i'll be back. a hollywood ending there for this half hour. there's a brand new way to get in touch. send your views gbnews.com/yoursay loads to come between now and 4:00. of course, tributes are being paid to rob burrow, the rugby league legend who has died after a brave battle with motor neurone disease. but first, let's get your latest news headlines and

with polly middlehurst. >> the top stories this hour. >> the top stories this hour. >> the top stories this hour. >> the conservatives have been accused of phoney culture wars after announcing plans to amend the equality act. >> the proposals would make clear sex means biological sex rather than gender, and would stipulate those who are biologically male but identify as female could be barred from using single—sex spaces. labour called the policy an election distraction, but the prime minister says the safety and security of women and girls means the current confusion over the legal definition can't be allowed to continue . allowed to continue. >> so the equalities act was passed over a decade ago, and what's clear today is that there's a lack of clarity in the law, and that's risking the safety of women and girls . so safety of women and girls. so we've announced the bold action that we would change the law , that we would change the law, change the equalities act so that sex means biological sex. and what that will do will mean

that providers of single sex services and single—sex spaces will be able to protect women and girls and ensure their safety and security . safety and security. >> vie sir keir starmer today said the labour party would never shy away from doing our duty at home and abroad, and national security and economic security, he said, must go hand in hand. he was reiterating labour's commitment to maintaining the uk's nuclear capability. the labour leader has pledged a deterrent triple lock, including the construction of four new nuclear submarines and an ambition to increase defence spending when economic conditions allow. he says a changed labour party has moved on from the jeremy corbyn era. meanwhile, the lib dems have announced new protections for rivers and coastlines as part of their manifesto . it'll include a their manifesto. it'll include a blue flag status for rivers, which would set legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping. the party says water bosses haven't been have been

able rather to get away with environmental vandalism by being permitted to pollute waterways under toothless conservative policies . and as you've been policies. and as you've been heanng policies. and as you've been hearing friends and fans of rob burrow have been paying tribute to the unassuming lad, with the superhero origin story following his death at the age of 41, burrows passing was confirmed by leeds rhinos yesterday following a lengthy and high profile battle with motor neurone disease. he raised awareness and millions of pounds for the charity. well wishers have been gathering outside headingley stadium in yorkshire to pay their respects to lay flowers, scarves and tributes there. those are the headlines for the latest stories do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news

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around about 4:04 pm. this afternoon. he said that he will make an emergency general election announcement from that very podium. you can see there. we'll bring that to you. of course, live right here on gb news. moving on the britain's got talent final last night was won by 28 year old sydney christmas from kent with a rendition of somewhere over the rainbow. but the show has come under fire over whether it can really be called britain's got talent, because five of the nine finalist s weren't even british. well, i'm joined now by professor jonathan shalit, who's a talent manager and is the chairman of the inter talent group . welcome to the show, group. welcome to the show, jonathan. should it matter that we had a ghanaian dance double act, a south korean dance troupe who were also performing karate ? who were also performing karate? we had a tenor, a singer from south africa , and even some south africa, and even some japanese stunt skippers should we be having a united nations got talent meeting or should it

be britain's got talent? >> well, i have a counter comment to that. perhaps the engush comment to that. perhaps the english premier league should be called the united nations premier league in the english premier league in the english premier league. you've got you've got german, you've got french, you've got dutch, you've got you've got ghana, you've got mexico, you've got brazil. britain's got talent is the british viewers voting for their favourite talent. and that's what britain's got talent is in the same way as america's got talent had a brit win a few years ago. i think if we were to start saying that no one but brits would come on britain's got talent, we would be the biggest losers because we would. >> that would not allow british talent to go overseas. >> i think it's a combination of great talent. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> the producers , want to have >> the producers, want to have as much british talent as possible , but the television, possible, but the television, television audiences want to watch a great show of a great selection of talent. >> and britain's got talent gives just that. >> the ratings they achieve are still extraordinary. it was a massively talked about show last

week. the winner, sydney christmas , is being talked about christmas, is being talked about by literally millions and millions of people today. so this is a talent show that matters. it's a tv show that m atters. matters. >> it's part of the problem , >> it's part of the problem, jonathan, is that previous seasons have simply hoovered up all of the british talent. anybody who would have stood by now has already been out there. we just don't have an entire plethora of talent that can just be cooked up within the space of one year. so they've had to widen their to net a global audience to fill the roster. >> you're absolutely right . but >> you're absolutely right. but the same applies to chelsea, manchester united and liverpool. there are not enough english stars to be in their team, so they hoover up, as you put it, from overseas, it is an entertainment sherm. what the you know people enjoy the talent. last night that wonderful ghanaian family i think it was an answer and i can't remember. people found them adorable and they enjoyed them adorable and they enjoyed them being in their homes and watched them on television. and voted accordingly. so i actually think that overseas competitors gives added pleasure and joy and

it's sort of part of, i think, the richness of britain has always been that sort of cultural diversity we have. and i just had to show, like britain's got talent that shows in the strongest possible way. >> but isn't the answer, then to call it something different, rather than calling it britain's got talent because they're not from britain, they are from elsewhere. just call it i know the world's got talent and just make it more of a global event , make it more of a global event, because the badge that you see, britain's got talent, it does imply that people taking part of british and 5/9 of them weren't. >> listen, i suppose that's if you take that literally anywhere in the world. you can rename many television shows and premier leagues to a different name with the word international. i think the issue is it's shown on britain's premier commercial network, and british people watch it on a british people watch it on a british tv station live every night. hence it's called britain's got talent, in the same way as an america is called america's got talent, but an america's got talent, but an america's got talent, but an america's got talent. they have

lots of overseas contestants as well as they do all asia's got talent, as they do on australia's got talent. so i think you could call it by a different name, but i think the name reflects the country in which it's broadcast . and you which it's broadcast. and you know what? it works. people love it. so while people love it, it will continue. >> and jonathan, one more final point. they're even moaning about the winner , sydney about the winner, sydney christmas, not because she's british, but because she's already been in starlight express in germany. she's appeared as cruise singer on royal caribbean international cruises. she appeared as rizzo in the musical grease. she's got a song on spotify. they're even complaining she's not a raw and new fine. she's already an established artist. is that a valid point ? valid point? >> because the whole thing about got talent is it brings in people who've got experience of what they do, whether they be a singer or a juggler or a dancer or something of any any professional activity. what sydney christmas is trying to do is to be a west end star. and until last night, she wasn't

that after last night, she'll be a massive west end star. and britain's got talent has given that incredible platform. hers ipso because in recent years, producers and directors and casting directors haven't given sydney the shot. her talent deserves. and this window of opportunity has given her that. so i think the show should be applauded for giving someone who hasn't been recognised properly for their talents in the past the platform they now need to be recognised. the fact is, any producer director but sydney for their show now will sell tickets because of britain's got talent. >> so enjoy the king and queen get to enjoy her at the royal variety show this year. >> that'd be tremendous for her. >> that'd be tremendous for her. >> ed.d. professor jonathan >> ed.d. professorjonathan shannon, diplomatically put, you should get into politics. thank you very much for joining us should get into politics. thank you very much forjoining us on you very much for joining us on the show. always a pleasure. now the show. always a pleasure. now the world of rugby league is in mourning after the death of rob burrow, who fought a brave battle, of course, against motor neurone disease. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's

welcome back! and gb news viewers can see live pictures on your screen from central london, where nigel farage will speak at 4 pm. round, about 12 minutes time. welcome back to the show . and as welcome back to the show. and as we said, we'll be live and direct from nigel farage at 4 pm. for that emergency general election announcement . bring election announcement. bring that to you live, as well as an interview with nigel straight afterwards. now the world of rugby league is in mourning following the death of rob burrow. burrow was one of the most successful players of the modern era. he won eight super league titles with leeds rhinos and he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease four and a half years ago. burrow died from the incurable illness aged just 41. our yorkshire and humber reporter anna o'reilly is at headingley, which of course is leader's home ground. welcome to the show and a tributes pouring

out from everywhere, even beyond the world of sport. tell us about the legend . about the legend. >> yes, martin, the really is here at the rugby ground. hundreds of people have been coming since that news came out yesterday that rob burrow had died of motor neurone disease, surrounded by his family at pinderfields hospital. he may be able to see behind me. there's just a lot of tributes and the pile of flowers and shirts and scarves just keeps mounting. for the rugby legend rob burrow. he had a 17 year career with leeds rhinos and he represented england internationally as well. and on behalf of great britain. he was also known for his fundraising as well. when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 37, back in december 2019, he started

fundraising along with his friend and former team—mate kevin sinfield. they raised millions together for motor neurone disease and in fact this morning his parents were at seacroft hospital, where a brand new £6.8 million rob burrow mnd centre is being built. i spoke to gary hetherington earlier . to gary hetherington earlier. he's the ceo of leeds rhinos and this is what he said about rob. >> it's so sad , there was an >> it's so sad, there was an inevitability about it. we all knew about that. but yet it's still a surprise. rob was such a battler and, you know, the day has come, and it's such a sad one. and it's such a significant one. and it's such a significant one as well, because i think what we should remember is the legacy that rob leaves behind both as a great player, as a great person, and of course, his contribution to raising awareness for mnd. but he was an inspirational player and character and he was such a special one. i think special

players is something that's the players is something that's the players that's a bit different and he was certainly different. he played rugby league. he was grew up in castleford and he grew up in castleford and he grew up in castleford and he grew up as a rugby league player from the age of about 7 or 8 and it was tiny. he was small and everybody said, rob, you'll never make it because you'll never make it because you'll never be big enough. and that was his inspiration because he wasn't big, he was five foot four and a half. he claimed to be five foot five, but he was so fast , so be five foot five, but he was so fast, so dynamically fast and so strong and so tough . and that strong and so tough. and that was his motivation to prove everybody wrong. and he did exactly that. he proved everybody wrong because he was an inspirational player. >> a really moving tribute there to rob burrow in his rugby career, and also in what he's done to raise vital funds and awareness of mnd . awareness of mnd. >> thank you very much for that moving report there, anna reilly. now, just a few minutes time, we'll hear live from nigel farage. the honorary president of reform uk has said that he'll make an emergency general election announcement. and you

can see live pictures there on your screen. we've got a load of your screen. we've got a load of your essays coming in on this point . lorraine says how i wish point. lorraine says how i wish nigel farage would stand for torbay . he would definitely gain torbay. he would definitely gain a seat around here. i just love the man and his politics, taylor says this, i hope he goes for it. he has got nothing to lose and a massive following. we need nigel to come back, tim says. what about if he says he's going to appear on tonight's surprise edition of love island ? that's edition of love island? that's all coming straight out of this. i'm martin daubney on gb news. first your weather with alex birkett . birkett. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. who's . news. who's. >> hello again! it's time for your latest gb news. weather forecast brought to you by the met office. through the rest of today, it's actually likely to stay mostly dry, but there are some wet weather on the way as we go through tomorrow because of a system that's currently out in the atlantic, this is going to push its way eastwards and

then south eastwards across the country as we go through tomorrow. but for the time being , like i said, mostly dry, a few spots of rain, perhaps across parts of northern england, northern ireland where there is a decaying front lingering across us. but overnight, most places staying dry with some cloud. a few clear spells perhaps, but some rain, then pushing into northern ireland as we head towards dawn. because of the largely cloudy skies, i'm not expecting temperatures to drop a huge amount. generally staying in double figures. if we take a closer look at what we can expect tomorrow morning, then it is going to be a bit of a damper start across parts of scotland. some heavy bursts for the far north of scotland, particularly orkney. shetland could have some downpours here. elsewhere across much of scotland. quite a cloudy picture and there will be outbreaks of rain coming in from the west. a dner rain coming in from the west. a drier and brighter towards eastern parts, also quite cloudy and damp across northern ireland, parts of northwest england and into wales as well, but more central, southern and eastern parts of england actually starting the day on a dry note. and there should even be some sunshine breaking through the cloud at times. we are going to see that rain in

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gb news. >> the afternoon. it's fast approaching. 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . as you can see on your the uk. as you can see on your screen, nigel farage is about to make a hugely anticipated emergency general election announcement in london, with all the speculation rife that nigel is set to announce that he will, after all, stand as an mp. we'll have full analysis and of course, cover that announcement live, plus an interview with the man himself coming up. live, plus an interview with the man himself coming up . so let's man himself coming up. so let's get stuck into it. the only story in town , and it is that story in town, and it is that the honorary president of reform uk is about to make that massive announcement. the emergency general election announcement . general election announcement. the crowds are amassed. the journalists are there awaiting to nigel come out. these pictures are live from central london, where he's about to appear shortly . i'm now joined appear shortly. i'm now joined by gb news political editor, chris hope. chris, so you're at

you're down there this massively anticipated press conference. what's the mood in the room ? what's the mood in the room? >> well, there's a lot of anticipation here, martin. there's about 50 journalists behind you with steve pans around , you'll see the interest around, you'll see the interest in nigel farage is only actually not even an mp. he's lost seven seven elections so far, but he thinks this could be his eighth. if he stands for a seat to the right, you'll see lots of tv cameras. it does seem quite, interesting. people behind the scenes are saying this is a announcement which will knock our socks off. well, we know what it won't be. it looks unlikely to be a deal with the tory party to stand down any candidates to make it try and do a deal with, with the tories , to a deal with, with the tories, to try and make it harder for labour to win their win their majority . but it looks more majority. but it looks more likely that we will see him declare to fight the election and watch. the door is about to come through the door at any moment now. we'll try and ask him as he walks in. i think what it feels like here is he's getting the band back together and that means an eighth attempt at becoming an mp. here's some voices now , the door is opening voices now, the door is opening behind me. david bull will be

speaking. first, he's introducing nigel farage. he's introducing nigel farage. he's in the doorway there. that's david bull, and behind him you'll shortly see nigel farage. yes. hello. how are you? exciting yeah. all the people who are here comes to george . a who are here comes to george. a key ally to david nigel farage. that's holly valance, who's the pop that's holly valance, who's the pop star. hello, holly . nick pop star. hello, holly. nick candy, a donor to the tory party. here. they all come. now, these are the people who advise nigel farage through the door. shortly might come. the man himself , shortly might come. the man himself, david bull, in the entrance there. he's a former member of the london assembly. and these are the people who have been talking to farage over recent days. in my mind, he's been negotiating in public with the tory party. they refused to do a deal with him since he made that offer to the to the tories on on the on the sun's youtube channel last week. we heard him say at the weekend he wants to hollow out the tory party and take take it over the only way he does that is by being an mp, and it looks like that's where it might be going. but again,

we're watching this door to see if he emerges. here's david bull, he'll be introducing him. gwen taylor richard tice, leader of reform uk, looking very happy. richard, is he standing? richard tice is a nigel farage standing for to be an mp . we standing for to be an mp. we can't wait. >> hello ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to you. >> thank you very much. let's go to david ball now forthcoming this afternoon at very short notice. >> i'm doctor david ball. >> i'm doctor david ball. >> i'm doctor david ball. >> i'm deputy leader of reform uk . uk. >> i don't need to tell you this is an incredibly exciting time in british politics. reform uk going up and up in the polls and that's thanks in no small part to the gentlemen. i want to introduce to you now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the leader of reform uk, richard tice . tice. >> please. thank you . >> please. thank you. >> please. thank you. >> thank you david. lovely pleasure. great to see you.

thank you david. good afternoon everybody. lovely to see you here in glaziers hall. and goodness me, 12 days in. >> does it feel like a lifetime? >> does it feel like a lifetime? >> anyone bored yet? no no, we've been trying to create some interest in this general election campaign. and here we are. everyone thought that reform uk, that we'd get squeezed out. that was the prime ministers and the tories strategy. they said let's try and squeeze reform down. well it's interesting isn't it . it's interesting isn't it. what's happening to the polls? >> are we going down. >> are we going down. >> are we holding. no, we're going up . going up. >> yes. >> yes. >> totally contrary to the tories plans. actually, we're going up in the polls. tories plans. actually, we're going up in the polls . and going up in the polls. and that's because we've been talking about what the country wants to talk about. but the main two parties, they're too embarrassed to talk about it because it doesn't suit their narrative or because they've completely messed it up. >> yes , this is and must be the

>> yes, this is and must be the immigration election. >> that's why when the news came out about facebook without spending anything on facebook, advertising , spending anything on facebook, advertising, we're spending anything on facebook, advertising , we're getting the advertising, we're getting the most likes, the most shares, because we're talking about what people want to talk about . and people want to talk about. and then campaigning end of last week in boston and skegness in ashfield . we're getting a ashfield. we're getting a fantastic response. >> it is truly extraordinary. >> it is truly extraordinary. >> but something is going on out there. word is spreading like wildfire. people know there is something fundamentally rotten wrong with what's going on in our country, and people are working out what it is. i've talked about it. nigel's talked about it. the huge unplanned increase in the population is putting massive pressure on housing, on rents, on the affordability of accommodation , affordability of accommodation, the pressure on health care and

it's suppressing wages for the lowest paid, the least well off and the young. and it's simply unfair and at least we're prepared to talk about it, because that's actually what the country wants to be talking about. and that's why we're going up in the polls and people are looking for a bit of interest . i mean, there's not interest. i mean, there's not much interest in the main two parties in the polling. there basically not moving or the tories are slightly slipping . tories are slightly slipping. now. i've obviously last week tried to install a bit of interest into this election. i've been talking about barbers, others have been talking about hairdressers . it's getting hairdressers. it's getting people going. why not? we need some interest. but but actually how do we go from interest to real excitement? how do we actually energise this election? how do we really say, let's turn on the rocket boosters as if

we're in our highest polling, 14, 15? that's good. i'm delighted with that . but i'm delighted with that. but i'm hungry for more. i'm ambitious. i want to do ever, ever better . i want to do ever, ever better. and that's why i thought we can do better than this . we can go do better than this. we can go from fifth gear through to sixth gean >> this is a fossil fuelled car, by the way , to seventh gear. by the way, to seventh gear. >> but what about eighth gear? what about turning on? how do we turn on the turbo boosters? the rocket chargers to this campaign that, as people know, i wanted nigel to be able to give as much energy and effort and commitment to this campaign as he felt able to this campaign as he felt able to do now. sunak thought he'd got one ahead of us and everyone fell for it. i thought, no , no,

fell for it. i thought, no, no, no, let's get some real excitement into that campaign. so the big question is , does so the big question is, does nigel want to stand? i've got a different question , and i think different question, and i think this may drive and excite and enthuse ever more action, ever more boost to reform uk. i thought, well, actually , what thought, well, actually, what i'd really like is to invite nigel to be leader of reform uk. absolute delight . he accepted . absolute delight. he accepted. and so that's what the plan is. and so that's what the plan is. and that's why i'm delighted to welcome my very good friend nigel to the stage to take us forward from here. thank you very much indeed . thank very much indeed. thank you. >> great stuff .

>> great stuff. >> great stuff. >> very, very good. thank richard, thank you very much indeed. >> now we put out the operations nofice >> now we put out the operations notice for today under the title emerging raisi election announcement. >> and we did that because we think this election needs a bit of gingering up thus far. it is the dullest, most boring election campaign we have ever seen in our lives. and it's funny because the more the two big party leaders try to be different, the more they actually sound. the same. we've reached such ridiculous levels that we saw yesterday on the conservatives social media. a post about the cross—channel illegal migration crisis with starmer's got no plan. the tories have reduced cross—channel migrants by 36, so they've even come to lying because it's now up nearly 30% this year and sir keir starmer

overnight. of course, on this big issue of immigration, says that they are going to cut the numbers. he of course, the man who campaigned not just for a second referendum, but a believer in open borders and a man who was a lawyer for very, very hard for those that arrive on the back of lorries to get benefits once they got here. so frankly , we're at a situation, i frankly, we're at a situation, i think, where nobody believes a word that they say, no one's listening. people are zoned out and right at the minute, none of the above is top of the polls by a country mile. and the problem with all this is we know whoever wins taxes will remain high. the highest tax burden since 1948. everyone's promising not to put taxes up, but nobody talks about reducing the tax burden. we also know that our people are getting poorer. yes, we have growth in the economy. the last set of

figures were slightly better than before gdp, they call it. we must all bow down to the god of gdp . in fact, the more of gdp. in fact, the more immigration we have, the better the gdp numbers are. because there are more people in the country . but what about gdp per country. but what about gdp per person ? per capita? it went down person? per capita? it went down by almost 0.7% over the last yeah by almost 0.7% over the last year. so we know that taxes will stay high. we know that mass immigration will continue regardless of which party wins power. we know that people will get poorer, but we also know that crime or fear of crime will get worse . london even the get worse. london even the wealthier parts of london have been transformed over the course of the last few years . crime is of the last few years. crime is so bad now that people generally do not even bother to report it. but it's okay. you can go shoplifting and nick up to £200 with a kit before anybody is even going to prosecute you. and these are all symptoms of a

country that actually is in decline. we're in economic decline. we're in economic decline in relative terms. oh, sure , we're doing better than sure, we're doing better than our former partners in the european union, but we're . the european union, but we're. the other parts of the world, we're in social decline, and we're actually in a form of moral decline. >> we've forgotten who we are as a country . a country. >> we heard a very impassioned speech by keir starmer this morning about d—day, and he talked about his own brother serving on hms antelope in the falklands and he spoke actually with a great degree of passion . with a great degree of passion. but here's a little statistic that sums up what's been wrong with our ruling classes on thursday of this week, there'll be massive international commemorations of d—day, something in which the british played an extraordinary part, something which we can be just immensely proud of in terms of what we were able to organise, able to do and the courage that people showed . but can you

people showed. but can you believe a poll out last week showed that 52% of 18 to 34 year olds don't even know what d—day is? and that's what you get when you're led by a career political class that don't really care about the country , that are about the country, that are embarrassed to say anything that could be seen to be vaguely patriotic. oh, we're told that michael gove and others have improved the education system. well, it's only what if over half of our young people in this country do not know about an event that is within living memory, and which should be one of the proudest things this nafion of the proudest things this nation has ever managed to achieve, something i think is fundamentally wrong at every level . the centre of gravity on level. the centre of gravity on every national debate has moved hugely to the left since 2010, when david cameron and george osborne took power. so we represent a very different kind

of politics. we believe that the westminster political class are now more detached from ordinary folk than they were even before that referendum stunned everybody back all those years ago. now, in 2016, something has gone very, very wrong. what we also know is that the election is over. it's done . labour have is over. it's done. labour have won the election. there is not a contest. there is a big mrp poll coming out on sky news at 5:00 that will confirm all the things that will confirm all the things that we've seen before, whether the conservatives get 80 seats or 150 seats is now almost irrelevant . starmer has won this irrelevant. starmer has won this election and that's my fear. nothing will change. maybe things will get ever so slightly worse now. i stood here a week ago and i said, look, hands up, i've been non—plus out by rishi

calling a short term election doesn't give me the time to fight a constituency. it doesn't give me the time to build up data. i thought the rational thing to do was not to stand, but to do my bit, as i put it, supporting the country around the party. and for the last week thatis the party. and for the last week that is what i've been doing. i've been travelling all around the country. i've had the honour of appearing with piers morgan on question time, amongst other things . i've on question time, amongst other things. i've been to on question time, amongst other things . i've been to dover to things. i've been to dover to talk about the migrant crisis that i alone, i alone predicted for one and a half years ago, but more importantly , i've been but more importantly, i've been out on the streets meeting an awful lot of people. and interestingly, a lot of young people . and i'll tell you this, people. and i'll tell you this, and you won't have got this yet, and you won't have got this yet, and the pollsters won't yet have picked this up. but i promise you, after 30 years of experience in this game , experience in this game, something is happening out there . there is a rejection of the political class going on in this

country in a way that has not been seen in modern times . but been seen in modern times. but the other thing that really shook me in a way last week were the number of people coming up to me on the street saying, nigel, why aren't you standing ? nigel, why aren't you standing? and i gave my logical, rational reasons for it. but i couldn't help. after each exchange. i simply couldn't help feeling that somehow they felt i was letting them down, that i wasn't standing up for these people, people in their millions who stood with me in some cases, for many, many years. election battles, referendums . and i battles, referendums. and i guess! battles, referendums. and i guess i have been a champion for many of those people. i took the day off yesterday. i had a normal day . i walked the dogs, normal day. i walked the dogs, did a bit of fishing , popped

did a bit of fishing, popped into the pub, you know, a normal sort of day , which gave me time sort of day, which gave me time to think and reflect. and i began to feel a terrible sense of guilt, even if it is very difficult for me to fight a parliamentary constituency. and it is hard, you know, contrary to what you'll hear on radio and television, about how many times i've stood most of the times i stood were for ukip when we were a fringe party, used the elections as an effective pressure group to make our way through. and it is true, the one time i did stand and fight, through. and it is true, the one time i did stand and fight , the time i did stand and fight, the conservative party cheated against me in such a way that one of the party agents got a nine month prison sentence. so offended. but of course the result stood. so all those things have been weighing on my mind. but difficult though it is, i can't let down those millions of people . i simply millions of people. i simply can't do it. it would be wrong. so i have decided i. i've changed my mind. it's allowed you now. it's not always a sign

of weakness . it could of weakness. it could potentially be a sign of strength . so i am going to stand strength. so i am going to stand in this election. i'll be launching my candidacy at midday tomorrow in the essex seaside town of clacton . so midday town of clacton. so midday tomorrow, clacton at the end of the pier and. but perhaps , the pier and. but perhaps, perhaps more important than that, i mean, i've made a far bigger decision than that which is. and i've talked to richard and he is happy about it. is. and i've talked to richard and he is happy about it . oh, of and he is happy about it. oh, of course you're right. your piece is about how badly we're all getting on, because that's journalism for you . actually, i journalism for you. actually, i regret to say we're getting on quite well . but richard is more quite well. but richard is more than happy for me to put my head and shoulders firmly over the parapet and take the flak. so i'm coming back as leader of reform uk, but not just for this

election campaign. i'm coming back for the next five years . back for the next five years. and there is one very simple reason for that. we all know already that the conservative party will be in opposition, but it won't be the opposition . they it won't be the opposition. they are incapable of it. they have spent most of the last five years fighting each other rather than standing up and fighting for the interests of this country . they are split down the country. they are split down the middle on policy. country. they are split down the middle on policy . and frankly, middle on policy. and frankly, right now they don't stand for a damn thing . so our aim in this damn thing. so our aim in this election is to get many, many millions of votes. and i'm talking far more votes than ukip got back in 2015 when we when we got back in 2015 when we when we got 4 million votes, we're going to get many, many, many more votes than that. how many seats in parliament can we win under this system? well, that's another matter. and that depends on what momentum we can get from here. when people start to realise in the red wall with

reform second to labour, when they start to realise that actually in those seats it's a conservative vote. that's a vote for labour, it's a conservative vote that is a wasted vote. then i think we might just surprise everybody . and i know that you everybody. and i know that you all think that our votes will simply come from the conservatives, and they'll get crushed . believe me, this crushed. believe me, this conservative party under rishi sunak who nobody ever voted for, not even the conservative voted for. this party needs no help in being crushed. it's crushed itself already . and those people itself already. and those people who already say they'll vote reform very few of them would go back to the conservatives, even if we stood down. so we are appealing to conservative voters. we are appealing to labour voters and those commentators and journalists that are longer in the tooth might remember that in 2015,

against all predictions, we took more votes from the labour party than we took from the conservative party. so keir starmer , yes, he will win, but starmer, yes, he will win, but we're absolutely going to make sure his percentage is a lot smaller than it is now. but perhaps above all, what we're appealing to are those who intend not to vote because they don't believe there's anybody within the westminster establishment that actually stands up for them very often there are people running small businesses, acting as sole traders . they run a place, they traders. they run a place, they run a taxi company, whatever it is , they know when they're right is, they know when they're right that nobody in westminster is on their side. nobody in westminster even understands what they do and what we're going to put forward over the next few years are men and women that will stand for us, represent us, who've got real life experience to us. this is not just an extension of being in the oxford union. it isn't just some great big game. it's actually about our country and

its people. and we're worried and we're fearful of many of the impacts that we've seen. we find what happened after those local elections just a few weeks ago of candidates winning in leeds, in burnley , in bradford and in burnley, in bradford and elsewhere, standing, shouting allahu akbar, standing, shouting we are coming to get you. the birth of sectarian politics in our country, caused by massively irresponsible immigration policies and it was the labour party that opened the door. and who would have believed that a conservative party would have accelerated it to anyone that says to me, well, surely you won't stand against bill bloggs because he's a really good bloke and he was a brexiteer. the answer is 2.4 million 2.4 million people. this conservative government have allowed to settle in the uk in the course of the last two years. so whether bill bloggs is a good bloke or not, he has actually been part of what is a

massive betrayal of 17.4 million people who voted brexit. they voted yes to get back our independence, but they absolutely voted to get back control of our borders . and control of our borders. and richard said earlier that this is the immigration election. but it is. we have to build a new house every two minutes just to accommodate those that are legally, legally coming in to britain. the impact on the health service, the impact on infrastructure, on everything else. we have to get a grip. it is the major issue of our times. the population explosion has devalued the life of ordinary britons in just the most extraordinary way, and even if those in westminster don't know it, i promise you that those outside of it do . now i want to outside of it do. now i want to pay outside of it do. now i want to pay tribute to richard, who has kept this party going during times when he was told there was

no need for it, no need for it. bofis no need for it, no need for it. boris has an 80 seat majority. they're going to deliver brexit and everything. everything that brexit voters wanted. well, richard has kept this going at great personal cost in terms of time and money. i'm very pleased to say, richard, from this moment is going to be chairman of this party and i hope is going to spend as much time in boston and skegness whilst i'm taking the flak, so we can go up there and win that constituency. and i think back actually in boston, richard , to 2015, when boston, richard, to 2015, when ukip put up a 21 year old candidate who was a bit bit to green say the least, he got 15,000 votes. i'm sure you're going to get many, many more than that. so the really big message here is what i'm really calling for and what i intend to lead is a political revolt. yes a revolt, a turning of our backs on the political status quo. it

doesn't work. nothing in this country works anymore. the health service doesn't work. the roads don't work. none of our pubuc roads don't work. none of our public services are up to scratch. we are in decline. this will only be turned around with boldness. we will only recover our position through economic growth. that will only come when we get away from just half a dozen multinationals dominating the thought of our politicians and allowing real entrepreneurship to flourish. so we're very, very much on the side of the little guy and woman. we're very much on the side of creating growth. we're very much on the side of ending the poisoning of our education system, where 50% of young people don't even know what d—day is. so make no mistake, we are unashamedly patriotic. we believe that it's right to put the interests of british people first. we believe brexit needs to be implemented properly and

we are going to be the voice of opposition. and i tell you what i've done it before. i'll do it again. i'll surprise everybody. thank you . okay thank you. okay >> right . >> right. >> right. >> well, as is customary with everything richard and i do, you can all ask as many questions as you want . can all ask as many questions as you want. name and company, i do. no, but name and company first. >> christopher gb news. mr farage, you tried before you haven't won several times. you admitted that. why can you win this time without the data? you don't know where you're living. where are your supporters? in clacton? and the second question is, what's your ultimate goal? a five year plan to replace the tory party as the main opposition party in this country. if labour wins point one? >>i one? >> i made the point to you, chris. earlier. i only stood once in earnest. all the previous times were as a pressure group to raise the profile of why we believe leaving the eu made sense when

nobody else in parliament was saying it. i did stand that one time i did lose. i mean, i don't mind losing, but when they cheat , so much so that one of the party agents gets a nine month prison sentence, you can perhaps understand why i'm not that friendly with the tory party. all this. are you going to do a deal with the tory party? i mean, not on your nelly is the answer to that . look, it's very answer to that. look, it's very difficult in the space of a few weeks from scratch for me, of all people , given what they're all people, given what they're going to throw at me to win a parliamentary constituency. but i repeat the point i made. i can't turn my back on the people's army. i can't turn my back on those millions of people who followed me, believed in me . who followed me, believed in me. despite the horrendous things that were being said about me in 2012, 13, 14, 15, 16, they're still there. they're still there, and they want someone to believe in. but you can add to that a younger cohort. i said earlier, richard said the same

something is going on. isn't it amazing ? we haven't spent a been amazing? we haven't spent a been on facebook pushes or advertising. and yet of the top 50 most like posts on facebook in the first week of the campaign, 32 are reform. even the today programme . what the today programme. what a shame. nick robinson's not here. it really is , but even the today it really is, but even the today programme. doing a feature on tiktok this morning say just how many young people are saying vote reform. we're not putting money into it. this is happening organically. something remarkable is going on. the one prediction i'll make , chris, is prediction i'll make, chris, is we will get many, many more votes than the 4 million that ukip got in 2015. many, many more votes. we will win seats. i don't know how many. the crucial part of this campaign will be getting those those people who are saying now they'll vote laboun are saying now they'll vote labour, but i suspect in many cases that's through disgust to vote for something they really believe in. and the plan, look, this you know, we're a very new

party this election at short notice. we're not making any bones about it. it's damn difficult. but just because something is difficult doesn't stop you doing it. the real plan is to be the opposition party in the next parliament, and the biggest party at the 2029 general election . that is the general election. that is the ambition. simple as. thank you very much. >> andy bell five news nigel farage haven't you just made keir starmer the happiest guy in british politics right now? >> because you've just ensured that a whole lot of conservative seats that might have stayed conservative will not be conservative will not be conservative next time around. >> exactly the same question i was asked in 2015, exactly the same question. oh you'll damage the tories hopes. and we took more than we took from the conservatives. and you were all wrong. all of you were wrong in 2015. n0. wrong. all of you were wrong in 2015. no. is the answer . those 2015. no. is the answer. those people currently saying they'll vote reform won't vote conservative. they've gone the

red wall has feel completely betrayed. the promise is that bofis betrayed. the promise is that boris johnson made and frankly, i'm not sure now even believed in himself . i'm not sure now even believed in himself. if i'm not sure now even believed in himself . if they've gone, in himself. if they've gone, they're not coming back . what they're not coming back. what we'll do from here be quite interesting, actually . i think interesting, actually. i think we'll draw fairly evenly from now on from conservative and the labour party. you watch the polls in a week's time and he asked me the same question. i think you'll see we're going to start drawing from labour equally as much as the conservatives the conservative we've got. i've got to reiterate this, the conservative party have lost this election without my intervention. it's done. trust is broken. trust is gone. and maybe that's why there's so little coverage of what's going on on the election, because kind of people know the result. we, you know, we i've thrown myself into this today not just to sort of entertain everybody, but because i genuinely think that something remarkable can happen. at least that's what i'll try for . for. >> bbc news margaret thatcher

famously said she wasn't for turning. you are obviously for turning. you are obviously for turning. why the massive u—turn all of a sudden? >> have you never changed your mind about anything ? well, i mind about anything? well, i tell you what, if you have never changed your mind about anything, you are a remarkable human being. i want to read your book. human being. i want to read your book . i'd human being. i want to read your book. i'd love to human being. i want to read your book . i'd love to follow it. no, book. i'd love to follow it. no, i mean, look, you know, this is the old thing about hearts and heads, isn't it? you know, i rationally thought this was too difficult. i've changed my mind because i can't let down millions of people who would feel let down by me unless i was at the front and led this charge over the course of the next five and a half years. that is why i've changed my mind. i can't let those people down. i won't let those people down. i won't let those people down. i won't let those people down. the amount of guilt i felt yesterday simply thinking about it was too much. but i also know . simply thinking about it was too much. but i also know. i also know just as throughout europe there is a new phenomenon racing through politics ahead of these european elections this weekend.

i promise you , something is i promise you, something is happening out there . i've been happening out there. i've been in this game 30 years. i fought lots of elections . i've lots of elections. i've generally got a pretty good sense of timing. something is happening out there. so yes, i changed my mind and you know what? i'm not ashamed of it. one little bit. we've got another one in the front row here. >> shehab khan from itv news. you mentioned that you're going >> shehab khan from itv news. you mentioned that you're going to be contesting across the �*iumzzgeswgztgéjua’ifurtggigg country. the system is designed in a way which it means it will be quite difficult for you to win a number of seats. what would be viewed as a success here? now that you're running, how many mps do you need to win to say this election has gone well? >> i agree with you. electoral reform is vital. it's absolutely ridiculous that we have no proportionality in our system whatsoever. you know, tony blair looked at this way back in the 90s. av+ was the proposal where you'd vote for an mp but have a second vote to get representation in parliament for big views. all i can tell you is this if we get a massive,

massive vote and a relatively small number of seats, then the call for reform will be there. and i want to reform the electoral system . i want to electoral system. i want to reform the sheer corruption of the house of lords, where you give enough money, you get a seat in the house of lords, you know, we are a radical party. we do not think the current political structure works for our country any more. success or success, on the one hand, for me will be standing up and fighting for what i believe in rather than running away from it. rather than like answering the previous question, we're going to get a huge number of votes. i think there's every chance we'll get more votes than the conservative party. i genuinely do, and you can all hold me to that in a few weeks time. but i genuinely believe we can get more votes in this election than the conservative party. they are on the verge of total collapse, and it couldn't happen, frankly, to nicer people. but but well, i say that because in 2019, you know, i got rid of mrs. may, we formed the brexit party within six weeks. richard and i got rid

of mrs. may. we then stood aside for boris. i mean i didn't even get a thank you. so i don't think they're terribly nice people and i you know i genuinely mean that we will win seats in parliament. how many. i don't know all depends how much momentum we can build over the course of the next few weeks. thank you very much indeed. one more. in the end, i will get to all of you. i promise . all of you. i promise. >> i promise from pierre , the >> i promise from pierre, the fact that you're making this announcement here and not in clacton, does that stand as proof that you care more about the london media than you do about your future constituents? >> are you coming to clacton at 12:00 tomorrow? answer the question. are you coming to clacton at 12:00 tomorrow? >> is the bus going ? >> is the bus going? >> is the bus going? >> is the bus going? >> i tell you what. i'm going to be in clacton at 12:00 tomorrow. why do it here in london? because this is where you all are. and you hate leaving your little bubble, don't you? no, i don't mean that i will be. you're very welcome to come to clacton tomorrow . there's a very clacton tomorrow. there's a very good wetherspoons there now. let's keep going. lady there.

>> hi. natasha clark from lbc , >> hi. natasha clark from lbc, when did you decide to make this decision? >> 2:00 yesterday afternoon. >> 2:00 yesterday afternoon. >> whose decision was it? yours or richard tice ? or richard tice? >> well, ultimately, it was my decision to say i'm going to put myself forward and say to richard , are you happy with richard, are you happy with this? and he's more than happy with this. in fact, i think he's delighted with it, actually. so we've talked on and off about this, of course, for months, and i've been very reluctant to do this. very reluctant. i mean, to be honest, i've been reluctant because i've actually rather enjoyed life @gbnews and it's been a great job, best job i've ever had. i did enjoy your job ever had. i did enjoy yourjob as well when i was there, but, but but then again, you know, i got sacked, but i'm used to that, it happens quite regularly, no. i've loved being @gbnews and doing a show four nights a week and doing extra stuff and travelling around the country and all of those things, so giving that up is not an easy thing. >> your plan to do this today , >> your plan to do this today, to come here today, to stand and

to come here today, to stand and to swap jobs with richard tice that was your idea or his idea? >> oh, i don't was it a conversation that you guys had and you decided to do it together , do you think? i mean, together, do you think? i mean, do you think he's been bullied and strong armed or something? i mean, what are you suggesting ? mean, what are you suggesting? no, it's a very silly question. never mind. let's go on. >> thank you, kate mccann at times radio can i ask you if there was a particular moment you mentioned meeting people and people saying they felt let down? was there one interaction that really made this for you, and did you discuss it with donald trump? did you seek his advice at all? and just finally, i believe you have a candidate already in clacton. so what's going to happen to him? >> thank you. well, yeah, you're right. there is a candidate in clacton and you know, that's that's he knew for many, many months that this was a possibility for many , many possibility for many, many months this was a possibility, not a probability, but a possibility. did i discuss it i think i think the donald's got other things to be dealing with just at this moment in time. he's been he's been rather busy, including joining tiktok and

suddenly racing up to ridiculous . i think it was numbers. i think it was particularly in skegness , particularly in skegness, actually, particularly in skegness, a constituency . in skegness, a constituency. in 2013, ukip won 16 county councillors on lincoln district, on lincolnshire district council . i mentioned earlier the seat that richard standing in where we, you know , got 15,000 votes we, you know, got 15,000 votes from a candidate who was incredibly young . so it's one of incredibly young. so it's one of those places that i've campaigned a lot over the years . campaigned a lot over the years. i was just there was one particular interaction in the street with a bloke, and i just sort of he sort of shrugged his shoulders and said, well, okay, mate, you know, a sort of, you know, i'm not going to give you a hard time or you off, but i just felt and then the next day i was the next morning i was in ashfield with lee anderson and getting the same thing . and then getting the same thing. and then i, you know, i got home late saturday night and had time to think about it. and then sunday morning i just thought , i'm just morning i just thought, i'm just not feeling good about this. i'm letting people down. better to fight something that is very,

very difficult. you know , where very difficult. you know, where the outcome is far from certain. better to do that than let people down and i wanted the uk to be an independent country , to to be an independent country, to be a self—governing country. and, you know, i was pretty alone on that for many, many years. and we did achieve it. and i'm very proud of the fact that i spent all that time doing it . but i just that i spent all that time doing it. but i just think the that i spent all that time doing it . but i just think the way it. but i just think the way we're being governed, i think is disconnected from ordinary folk. i just, i just think we're failing and i, i genuinely believe that the choice between these two men is very , very these two men is very, very narrow. the narrowest has ever been at any british general election. i think in modern times, sir. >> good afternoon, nigel nicola bulley talk , did donald trump's bulley talk, did donald trump's conviction help you change your mind? and how are you going to use brexit to improve britain's financial situation? >> okay, donald trump's conviction made no difference to me at all. and the whole thing was a complete kangaroo court from start to finish. utterly ludicrous. one looks at what

clinton and various other presidents have done. i mean, the fact that he even came to trial, i think it's a travesty. i've now no doubt he'll win the presidential election, but america becomes ever more divided and the whole thing becomes ever more worrying, look , you know, i've made my mind up. i'm going to do what i'm going to do, all right? i'm going to do, all right? i'm going to do what i'm going to do. and i believe i'm right in doing it. and if i win, i win. if i don't, i don't. but many other reform candidates are going to win . we are self going to win. we are self governing. i mean, the economics of this are the least of the problems . you know, we've gone problems. you know, we've gone from seventh to fourth in terms of global exports . we're doing of global exports. we're doing far better economically. as i mentioned earlier , that our mentioned earlier, that our former colleagues, partners in the european union and there are many other things on the cost of living that we'll talk about in the next couple of weeks, in particular, why we're paying the most ridiculous energy bills and have been for the last 20 years, green subsidies, not being self—sufficient in energy. all

of that will come. lady bear. >> thank you, jerry scott from the times. >> mr farage, you spoke about kicking things up into the eighth gear. >> what are we going to see differently now to what has already come and do you hope your return is going to bring in more donations? you made a point. you put a lot of his own money in. >> how do you hope to kind of remedy that situation? >> yeah, the donation thing last week did start to turn. actually did start to turn. we started to get some serious money coming into the party last week. again, it's all a bit last minute eighth gear, which richard talked about. i just think we're just going to do more of what we've been doing with an even higher level of energy, higher level of optimism. and you know what? the money is going to come. we will have enough money. we're not going to have 30 million. but as the facebook example, i gave earlier proves, actually, we're doing very, very well on a limited budget. it's amazing what a well—aimed stone from a sling can do. lady. there i mean, don't worry, i won't forget over here. >> no i won't sophie huskinson

from the mirror. so you've announced your standing for mp to become mp for clacton? yes. this is despite you previously having said, and i quote . do having said, and i quote. do i want to spend every friday for the next five years in clacton? that's right. what's changed your mind? >> that's right. you're absolutely right. it's a massive. you're absolutely right. it's a huge commitment. it is a huge commitment. i said earlier in answer to the question there from lbc. i said earlier that actually working @gbnews is the best job i've ever had . i haven't had to ever had. i haven't had to travel up and down the country, i haven't. i was 21 years an mep, you know, i know what it's like to travel around constituencies to meet people. it's a huge effort . and part of it's a huge effort. and part of that weighing up factor was absolutely the question you asked. am i prepared to give the time not just to politics but to a constituency as well? and the demands of a parliamentary constituency are greater, even though they're smaller than the demands of an mep constituency necessarily. you know, surgeries , meeting people, all of those things. you are absolutely right

. i'm making a massive potential commitment. if i win that seat to this and to those people. thank you for the question, gentlemen. there >> thanks. ben quinn from the guardian . mr farage, is this the guardian. mr farage, is this the moment at which the actual candidate in clacton is finding out that he is no longer the candidate ? and also, what does candidate? and also, what does it say about about the way you view democracy, that these types of backroom changes of leadership can happen? >> sorry. i almost nodded off that i really do apologise. he knew six months ago that it was a possibility. all right . he a possibility. all right. he knew it was a possibility. and is my standing in clacton going to help 600 other candidates? i think it may well do. all right. and sometimes tough things have to be done . you know, it's not to be done. you know, it's not an easy right. we're going to go over here. we're getting a bit bored with the right wing, let's go over here. >> mish mr farage. >> mish mr farage. >> harry fawcett from channel

news. >> you say this has been in the works for some months. until a couple of days ago, you were definitively ruling it out. you're accusing the tories of lying of people not believing a word they have to say. why should people from this point believe a word you have to say? >> hang on, i said. i've been planning for months to do it. i've said already i'd planned to run. i know i was actually going to launch in this room last thursday. all right. i didn't do it because there was short term campaign that was called. i thought i could serve the cause better going around the country as i've done for the last week, with a fair degree of energy. all right. i've just realised it doesn't work. the formula doesn't work. the formula doesn't work. the formula doesn't work. people don't buy it. they want me in the front lines. they want me to take the flak. and that's why i'm back doing it. so i haven't been dishonest with anybody. i have changed my mind. i've not been dishonest with anybody, least of all myself , jane merrick from all myself, jane merrick from the eye newspaper. >> you said that you would get more than 4.5 million votes, that you did in 2015. >> will you resign if you don't

get that, target and then, secondly, are you still planning to help your friend donald trump with the his republican campaign? >> if i don't get that result, i'll go down the pub and have a think about it, all right? and be very disappointed, no. look, i haven't changed my mind. conviction or not, i haven't changed my mind that the world will be a safer place with donald trump in the white house i think the weakness that we've seen under joe biden has seen underjoe biden has encouraged and, you know, putin, president xi, etc, the world would be a safer place with donald trump. clearly, if i'm elected the mp for clacton and i'm there every friday, as the mirror pointed out to me, very helpfully, it will become more difficult. but not but not impossible. all right. okay. yes sky at the back there. >> thanks very much , richard >> thanks very much, richard tice mentioned just now that the polls aren't moving. >> i guess that also reflects your performance so far. is this decision in part a reflection of

the fact that you don't think the fact that you don't think the campaign has got off to the start that you were hoping, and do you think that you're bigger than this party, i would say this to you . the conservative this to you. the conservative party's first week, above all, has been to crush the reform vote. we're bringing back national service and nonsense like that, which isn't actually true. anyway, and it hasn't worked. we've gone up on the week, not down on the week. the point richard made was with three points up with most pollsters on last week than we were before . so actually, given were before. so actually, given the onslaught, we think we're in a pretty good shape. all right. we think we're in pretty good shape, what we now have to do is to get the big push up. none of you believe it's possible . just you believe it's possible. just you believe it's possible. just you watch. i think what we've done today would inject some energy and some optimism into the campaign . will reprioritize the campaign. will reprioritize what we're all doing. hey, i'm pretty bullish about this. i really, really am. i'm pretty bullish about this . okay, let's bullish about this. okay, let's keep going for a few more. i know time is running on, hi,

nigel, christian from the daily express, you've spoken very passionately this afternoon about everything wrong with britain and the current party system, but would you outline for our readers what reforms optimistic, positive view of where britain needs to go is? and can you confirm whether you'll be representing reform at bbc seven way debate on friday? >> do you know richard and i mentioned this in the car on the way here. there are a number of debates. we haven't had time to work it all out yet. all right. but we will between us, between us, we will cover all of it. i have to say seven is an awful lot, isn't it? but hey, there we are. i'm sure plyed are a very important party, and we should all see them in our houses in in gloucestershire or wherever or wherever it is, so i haven't worked all of that out. all right. we've got a lot more to work out over the course of the next couple of days. i did not come fully to this decision until 2:00 yesterday afternoon. having taken a previous tack the week before, and that's where we are. okay, i'm going to do a few more. yeah. one. because people

are getting bored. >> nigel farage, jack carson from the sun. yeah many people will be surprised by this announcement because for the past week, ian richard tice has been saying that he's the leader and you're just helping out. yeah. so so what is it? can you just spell out that you have. you don't think he has? and secondly, if donald trump was british, do you think he'd be in reform uk? >> well, he was in reform usa wasn't he. you know, when ross perot set up reform usa, trump was briefly a part of it. but of course , remember it was reform course, remember it was reform canada that completely transformed the landscape in canadian politics. and one of the reasons that i chose the name reform, having been the brexit party before, i was thinking about that precedent in case the tory party let us all down, which indeed they have. look you know, i've been doing this longer than richard. i have, as i've said already , 2 or have, as i've said already, 2 or 3 times today, there's a people's army out there that i built up over many, many years, and they're still there . and and they're still there. and they're very fond of richard, but they don't me a little bit better. it's just as simple as

that, sir. >> thanks very much, emilio from politico. two questions. firstly, i know you said that you're not interested , but have you're not interested, but have the tories been trying to do some kind of deal with you at all? and if so, can you give us any details? and secondly, are you bidding to be prime minister in 2029? >> there has been no attempt at seduction at all, at least not that i've noticed, so i don't think that's happened at all, i'm aiming for this political party to become the voice of opposition in the next parliament. i'm sure we're going to achieve that because the conservatives are incapable of doing that. and in 2029, do you know what? by then somebody younger and better may well have come along. but. but if i can help get it moving, help keep it moving. i'll be delighted with that. for me, politics has never been about rank, title and position. for me, politics has always been about changing things, about changing narratives, about changing outcomes. yeah, well, look , if outcomes. yeah, well, look, if we if we get to that point in 29 and i'm still standing up, who

knows, chap at the back . knows, chap at the back. >> i know joe mays from bloomberg , if reform does well bloomberg, if reform does well at this election and the final result is narrower than the polls suggest, and you found yourself in a position to influence the composition of the next government. >> would you help the tories back into power, or would you rather keir starmer became prime minister? >> oh goodness me, i mean, i haven't got time for all this. >> it's all too complicated. look, let's just fight the campaign for the next four weeks, shall we? you know, i would, you know, if we were in a position to influence anything like that, as indeed the lib dems found themselves with clegg back in 2010, you know , i think back in 2010, you know, i think our objectives would be pretty simple, wouldn't they? you know, no betrayal of brexit and proper control of our borders. and whichever one offered the best would be the best at the moment. i can't see either, sir. >> hello. tom scott from from politics home. is this the moment now you're expecting, or would you accept more conservative candidates to come into the fold for a reform uk and hopefully campaign for your party? >> and is that something that you can think of ? you can think of? >> i think in a week's time, in

a week's time , the polls will a week's time, the polls will look very different. as i say, you'll begin to see that a conservative vote is a wasted vote in the red wall. i think much may change, right? i've done my best. thank you everybody. we'll see you on the campaign trail. >> okay. that was nigel farage there. the phrase a political bombshell is often overused. i think we can agree this was a political bombshell for those just joining us, nigel farage, first of all, announced he was the new leader of reform uk richard tice had become the chairman five years to be the come. i'm going straight back now to chris hope who's with nigel farage. >> nigel farage you're with chris hope and gb news, you really only chose to make this choice at 2 pm. yesterday. the polls have been where they are for you for months. >> i'm omitting. for you for months. >> i'm omitting . the. happening >> i'm omitting. the. happening on the streets that no one's yet detected . and i saw that over

detected. and i saw that over the course of the last few days campaigning around the country, there's a change going on, particularly among young people. very, very interesting. and secondly , when you meet people secondly, when you meet people face to face who've been supporting you for ten years, 20 years, who feel let down by you because you're not as they see it, you're not really there. i can't let those people down. >> what the odds on you winning? you're a betting man. winning a seat. >> we're going to win seats. don't you worry about that. >> how many seats might you win ? >> how many seats might you win? you're the. i'm not the expert. you're the. i'm not the expert. you're the. i'm not the expert. you're the. you won the game. >> okay, that was nice. i thought they're talking to chris hope at that general election emergency announcement you've just seen live on gb news and expansive some 50 minutes that talk richard tice and nigel farage. for those just joining, let's just go over a few of the major points. and richard tice started by introducing nigel farage, who then said he would

be the leader of the party. richard tice introduced him as the new leader of reform, and then nigel went on to say that would be for the next five years. he also then said he will be standing as a prospective parliamentary candidate in clacton, and went on to outline some of the things that made him do that. he said he made that decision at 2 pm. yesterday afternoon, and he said that was afternoon, and he said that was after meeting a variety of candidates of voters on the campaign trail, particularly in skegness and ashfield, where people were shrugging their shoulders. he felt that he was letting them down. he felt guilty about that. he felt he had to stand up a few of the choice comments that came out, he said. i intend to lead a political revolt that was the word he used. this is a turning point, a turning of our backs on the status quo, he said. nothing works in britain. he said, i've doneit works in britain. he said, i've done it before. i'll do it again . i'll surprise everybody, he said. he said i genuinely believe that we can get more votes than the conservatives

even very bullish in that prediction. and he said something remarkable is going on. he kept talking as well. and again echoed that to chris hope, our political editor, that young people in particular, young people in particular, young people in particular, were telling him something is going on out there. well, i'm joined now by maria caulfield , who's a now by maria caulfield, who's a health minister for the conservative party. maria, welcome to the show. so no doubt you just saw nigel farage there speaking out. one of the one of the more boorish predictions he made is that the reform party, he said, will get more votes than the conservative party at this general election. he said nothing works in the country, and he squarely and thoroughly laid the blame at the feet of the conservative party. what's your immediate reaction to that ? your immediate reaction to that? >> well, he also admitted that our economy is doing really well post brexit. and actually we were outperforming the eu and many other countries and then seem to dismiss that almost as quickly. >> and i think, you know , the

>> and i think, you know, the interesting part is we had local elections just a few weeks ago and reform won just two council seats in the whole country. >> and i think it's just very disappointing for those of us who fought really hard for brexit. i was a brexit mp, in a remain constituency and took a lot of flak for doing so. but we have proved that the doubters wrong, that this, this economy is growing faster than many others across europe, that we've got record levels of employment , got record levels of employment, that if you look at our education system, our , our education system, our, our school reading, skills are, i think we're the one of the highest in the western world for reading age, there is a lot of things that are working. manufacturing is up in this country, and, you know, that's despite two years of covid and it was this country who led the way by the way, just to get us through, covid and boris reduced restrictions when people criticised him for doing so , so, criticised him for doing so, so, you know, it's very easy for, for to , nigel to talk about

for to, nigel to talk about this, but i think, the performance in the local elections wasn't great. and i think the polling , the latest think the polling, the latest polling, even today shows that reform probably won't win any seats. and all it does is let maria . maria. >> but maria, that that may change now that nigel has entered the arena of battle and when he was asked that specific question about, you know, why is he standing against good brexiteer conservatives, perhaps you put yourself amongst them, he said. there are 2.4 million reasons and that is the amount of people who've been allowed into the country in the last few years alone. and he laid that blame squarely at the door of the conservative party. who was the conservative party. who was the power, who was the government in power ? he said government in power? he said this is the immigration election. and specifically on that and high taxes and on crime and worse than the conservative party is to blame , he said. party is to blame, he said. we're a nation in moral decline. and, you know, the conservative party, you're the ones who've beenin party, you're the ones who've been in power. >> well, you know, i don't

necessarily agree with that because , you know, we are the because, you know, we are the party, the only party who's been putting our neck on the block trying to get immigration down, we have seen even in the last few weeks, there have been no boat crossings. during the latter part of may, we have got 25,000 people deported in the last 12 months. the media never report these figures. we have stopped 36,000 crossings in the last 12 months from france. we have got we've got the irish sea ship, for example, complaining about our rwanda policy because illegal migrants are flocking to ireland to avoid the uk because they're so worried about rwanda. we have made some concrete changes that keir starmer will overnight, turn around and scrap. and what i didn't hear from nigel. and i've got a lot of respect for nigel, and, you know , he is, you know, he's been know, he is, you know, he's been a tremendous campaigner. particularly around brexit, but i didn't hear any policies of what reform would do about immigration at all, and so can i ask you a quick a quick question

to sum up, are you will you admit now that if nigel farage now is back , then it's going to now is back, then it's going to severely impact the conservative vote? well, i'm not sure that it will, because i think as many labour supporters, supported, brexit as conservatives. we saw that in the red wall seats. that's why , traditional labour that's why, traditional labour seats went to conservative because we were the party that got brexit done, and they turned to boris and the conservatives in 2019. so i think it affects labour as as much as it affects the conservatives. but overall , the conservatives. but overall, jul, when you look at the polls and when you look at the local election results , it doesn't election results, it doesn't materialise into seats and we know that from our system that sometimes you can have, and it's happened to the conservative party in the past, a significant majority of the votes. that doesn't always translate into seats. okay and so all it will do is split the brexit vote and let keir starmer into number 10. >> okay. maria caulfield, we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us,

giving us your immediate reaction to nigel farage's announcement. and now, as you've just heard, nigel farage will stand as reform uk's candidate in clacton . and here is a full in clacton. and here is a full list of those who have declared their candidacy. so far in that constituency. jovan owusu, nepal labour party natasha osborne, green party giles watling , green party giles watling, conservative party matthew bensalem, the liberal democrats and nigel farage reform uk and that list of candidates isn't finalised yet as the deadline isn't until later this week and that will be published on gb news website gb news. com once it is finalised now people have been reacting immediately in a visceral manner and they said this helen, thank goodness. what a relief. nigel is standing isabel as this. well done nigel, isabel as this. well done nigel, ihope isabel as this. well done nigel, i hope you get the seats you need for the next election. jane says this clever nigel. he's waited until very near to the deadune waited until very near to the deadline before putting his cards on the table. that means that his opponents won't have the, won't have the time to put up their kitchen sink and their best opponents against them,

nigel, we did feel let down by you, catherine says, but now we forgive you. things can only get better. it's an astonishing hour we've packed in there. we'll have full analysis after this . have full analysis after this. the best political analysis. what does this mean for the future of this general election campaign? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

a very good afternoon to you. and what an afternoon it's been. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster, all across the uk. it's our top story. and it's official. a political bombshell from nigel farage, who has recently this afternoon announced that he will be standing in the seat of clacton in the general election, whilst he is also announced as the new leader of reform uk and just how

bad could this be for the prime minister, who is already falling behind in the polls? he's trailing by 21 points with gb news viewers in our latest poll. those two big stories, plus full reaction all coming up in our next hour . well, next hour. well, that's put the cat amongst the pigeons, hasn't it ? nigel farage said it was the it? nigel farage said it was the dullest general election campaign in history, and today he's just rolled a grenade into the arena . and what an the arena. and what an announcement it was. we'll have full analysis. first of all, he announced as the new leader of reform uk, richard tice has stood aside. he's now the party chairman. then, nigel announced he is going to stand in clacton. he changed his mind, he said at 2 pm. yesterday after having met with a bunch of voters in skegness and in ashfield while on the campaign trail, he simply said he felt too guilty to turn his pac back on people who put

their faith in him. he said he could no longer stand aside. he had to enter the arena of battle, no matter how hard it may be, and he acknowledged it will be hard. it's pointed out to him by chris hope from gb news and otherjournalists . this news and other journalists. this could be the eighth time he hasn't succeeded in getting elected, but nigel said he'd rather stand and fight than stand aside. an amazing afternoon in politics. if you believe in politics, well, christmas just came early. stick with us. we'll have full reaction throughout the next houn get reaction throughout the next hour. get get in touch with your views. gbnews.com/yoursay or say, was this the right thing to do? will it make no difference? get stuck in. i'll read out as many as i can in what promises to be an action packed hour. but before all of that , it's time before all of that, it's time for your headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> martin. thank you and good evening to you. well, let's recap that breaking news that come to the political

establishment and indeed the country in the last half hour. nigel farage has said he will stand as the reform uk parliamentary candidate for clacton in essex, the general election in july. he was speaking at a news conference in london just a short time ago to confirm his change of heart. mr farage also announcing he's going to be taking over as leader of the reform uk party. >> so i am going to stand in this election. i'll be launching my candidacy at midday tomorrow in the essex seaside town of clacton. so midday tomorrow, clacton. so midday tomorrow, clacton at the end of the pier and well, rishi sunak has denied he's stoking a culture war with his pledge to amend the equality act . act. >> the prime minister wants to make clear sex means biological sex rather than gender, and says the current confusion over the legal definition can't be allowed to continue. the proposals would allow organisations to bar men who

identify as women from single—sex spaces including hospital wards and sports events. labour called the policy an election distraction. the liberal democrats say there's no need to unpick the equality act itself. rishi sunak says though the conservatives are trying to clarify the law rather than change it . change it. >> so the equalities act was passed over a decade ago and what's clear today is that there's a lack of clarity in the law , and that's risking the law, and that's risking the safety of women and girls. so we've announced the bold action that we would change the law, change the equalities act so that sex means biological sex and what that will do will mean that providers of single sex services and single—sex spaces will be able to protect women and girls and ensure their safety and security . safety and security. >> rishi sunak while sir keir starmer says labour is totally committed to the security of the nafion committed to the security of the nation and to the uk's nuclear deterrent, he described the trident programme as a fundamental, vital part of our

defence. labour is pledging to build four new nuclear submarines and increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp when economic conditions, he says , economic conditions, he says, are right, the conservatives say they'll meet that target by 2030. sir keir, though, dismissed concerns that his shadow foreign secretary and the deputy party leader voted against the uk having nuclear weapons. just eight years ago. and he's criticised the tories instead for politicising the issue . issue. >> prefer if politics were kept out of this issue , even at this out of this issue, even at this election, throughout the whole of this parliament, i have deliberately not been partisan over security yet. just before this election, the tories questioned this labour party's commitment to national security and i will not let that stand. the people of britain need to

know that their leaders will keep them safe, and we will. >> sir keir starmer now the liberal democrats are vowing to tackle water pollution as part of their election manifesto . of their election manifesto. they've announced plans for a new protected blue flag status for rivers with legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping and special protection for swimmers and wildlife. it would include the expansion of marine protected areas to cover at least 50% of the uk's territorial waters by 2030, lib dem deputy leader daisy cooper told gb news. the move will benefit everyone and we've been leading the campaign to end the scandal of raw sewage dumping here in henley. >> local residents know all about that. they know that the sewage dumping is bad for wildlife if they know that it's causing real problems with tourism as well, and people want tourism as well, and people want to see an end to this particular scandal. that's why today,

liberal democrats are announcing our plans to introduce a blue flag status to protect local rivers . rivers. >> daisy cooper, now friends and fans of the former rugby legend rob burrows, have paid tribute to the unassuming lad with a superhero story following his death at the age of 41. burrows passing was confirmed by leeds rhinos on sunday following a lengthy and high profile battle with motor neurone disease . he's with motor neurone disease. he's raised awareness and millions of pounds for that charity . vie pounds for that charity. vie well—wishers gathered outside headingley stadium in yorkshire today to pay their respects, laying flowers, scarves and other tributes there for him . other tributes there for him. smoking charities are urging the next government to revive legislation designed to ban young people from ever being able to legally smoke, new analysis has revealed that the majority of britons are backing the plans to phase out the sale of tobacco completely. the law would have made it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born afterjanuary sell tobacco products to anyone born after january the

sell tobacco products to anyone born afterjanuary the 1st, born after january the 1st, 2009. the prime minister said he was disappointed that the law wouldn't make it into the statute books before the general election . that's the news. for election. that's the news. for the latest stories to sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites . carmelites. >> thank you pauline, i have heard in this past hour from nigel farage that he will take over from richard tice as leader of reform uk, and that he will stand as a candidate for mp in clacton in the upcoming general election. here's a reminder of the moment he made that announcement. >> but difficult though it is , i >> but difficult though it is, i can't let down those millions of people . i simply can't do it. it people. i simply can't do it. it would be wrong. so i have decided i've changed my mind . decided i've changed my mind. it's allowed you now. it's not always a sign of weakness. it

could potentially be a sign of strength. so i am going to stand in this election. i'll be launching my candidacy at midday tomorrow in the essex seaside town of clacton. so midday tomorrow, clacton at the end of the pier . the pier. >> well, i'm joined now by gb news, a senior political commentator, nigel nelson. nigel, thank you for waiting patiently . i nigel, thank you for waiting patiently. i know nigel, thank you for waiting patiently . i know you've been patiently. i know you've been waiting to get your opinion across all this time. well, that put the cat amongst the pigeons, didn't it ? didn't it? >> it certainly did, the great thing about general actions is the unexpected keeps happening. >> so however well planned the various parties, do their campaigns, they're always not knocked off track by something coming completely out of the blue. and nigel has certainly come completely out of the blue this afternoon . this afternoon. >> now, he was very boorish as well as the factual announcements. he's now the new leader. richard tice is the party chairman and he will stand

as a candidate. he said , i as a candidate. he said, i intend to lead a political revolt. he turned . he talked a revolt. he turned. he talked a lot, nigel, about this being a turning of our backs on the status quo. he specifically mentioned a lot of young people he's meeting on the campaign trail. he said nothing works in britain. and he made a very bullish prediction on that. he genuinely believes that the reform party can get more votes than the conservatives at this general election. nevertheless, though, nigel, he's tried seven times before and he hasn't done it, do you think it could be different this time? >> i'm afraid i don't, i mean , >> i'm afraid i don't, i mean, when you look at that, that kind of typical nigel boast initially in his statement, he was saying, oh, well, well, i'll, i'll, improve ukip's 4 million votes from 2015. then he went on to say you'll get more than the conservative as well. that means more than 20 million votes, which is highly unlikely with what's left of the campaign , for what's left of the campaign, for a very new insurgent party now ,

a very new insurgent party now, if you look at the various polls, we've seen the gb news polls, we've seen the gb news poll today with a 21 point lead for labour, that puts reform on 18. a yougov poll has dropped within the last couple of minutes. that gives, reform 15, 15 points. but even that doesn't deliver any mps. our first past the post system always conspires against small parties, and even though reform are doing better than, say, the lib dems, the lib dems are still predicted to get between 40 and 50 mps. >> but the point with that , >> but the point with that, though, nigel, is that those polls were conducted before this announcement. do you think this announcement. do you think this announcement will change the playing field? when we look specifically at the constituency of clacton, a poll was carried out by survation in january without farage it being a conservative hold by eight points. but with farage on the battlefield, he would take that seat by ten points. so the polls

do suggest that there would be a significant change were nigel farage not only to stand as an individual , farage not only to stand as an individual, but as the party leader. do you think that will have an impact, or do you think it will the only impact it will have, as people are saying at that press conference, it will hand sir keir starmer the keys to number 10. >> certainly labour benefit benefit mostly out of this, that it's that it's tory voters who are most likely to go to reform when it comes to clacton . yes, when it comes to clacton. yes, nigel's got a good chance to win clacton , although he has to clacton, although he has to overturn a 25,000 tory majority there to do it, i thought he would take south thanet when he was, when he was standing there for ukip back in 2015. i spent some time with him on the campaign trail down there. he didn't, he came second. there was one of his one of his big disappointments . but it just disappointments. but it just shows that it's very difficult to turn down even someone with the with the personality and charisma of nigel farage into into voting . so what this might into voting. so what this might do, though, is, is increase the

reform, polling shares . so if reform, polling shares. so if they start going above 20, that's when they start picking up mps . not that's when they start picking up mps. not very many, but it's when you start to actually make a real difference. >> okay. thanks, george. nigel nelson , thanks for being patient nelson, thanks for being patient and waiting all that time to get stuck in. and also, let's cross now to gb news political editor chris hope . chris, you were live chris hope. chris, you were live and direct there and you grabbed nigel farage, did his first interview as he left the podium , interview as he left the podium, so chris, want to get to you in a moment. i want to know from chris hope what the conservative party react ocean has been to this. i spoke to maria caulfield, a short while ago. chris hope, i think we can join you live now. so, chris, i wanted to know to you what has been the conservative party reaction ? nigel farage very, reaction? nigel farage very, very strongly there, saying, i genuinely believe we can get more votes than the conservatives. what's the reaction ? reaction? >> i think, yeah, well they are

they're saying that the tory party put out a statement to gb news saying that nigel farage risks handing keir starmer a blank check to rejoin the european union. the tories say impose the retirement tax on pensioners and hike taxes on hardworking brits up and down the country. this statement goes on. it's hard hitting. martin farage knows that reform won't win any seats, but he doesn't seem to care that a vote for reform only helps labour. he's doing exactly what keir starmer wants him to do. just yesterday , wants him to do. just yesterday, eu insiders openly voiced their expectation that starmer would seek a softer brexit deal, opening the door to rejoin the eu altogether. that would mean uncontrolled immigration and betraying the will of the british people. if farage really is really, is he really willing to risk undoing his life's work by handing starmer a blank check to rejoin the eu and just finally, the statement says only a vote for rishi sunak and the

tories can deliver a clear plan, bold action and secure future for the party. so clearly the tory attack line here is don't back the guy behind me, nigel farage. don't back reform. you just help labour get an even bigger majority. but nigel farage mentioned earlier when asked in a question for gb news, he remembered members back to 20 2015 when the won party 4 million votes and many of those came from the labour party . and came from the labour party. and that's his point. he says he thinks that reform can damage both tories and the labour. it's not really an attack on the tory party, but the party with most to lose from it is no question the tory party. >> but chris, when pressed on this matter of why, stand against conservatives who are brexity who were decent, nigel said there are 2.4 million reasons and that's the number of people the conservatives have let into our country since that promise to take back control. and as for the threat of sir keir starmer rejoining the european union, nigel would no doubt say , well, that's because

doubt say, well, that's because the conservatives didn't really get brexit done. they left the cat flap to brussels open . cat flap to brussels open. >> and that's why i'll do no deals here with the tory party. he's not going to say to them we'll stand down and individuals because you backed brexit back in 2016. he sees a betrayal amongst the main parties, frankly, who run this country . frankly, who run this country. the failure to control the borders on net migration, illegal migration and of course illegal migration and of course illegal migration, which only a fraction of that, he sees as a failure of the vote that he campaigned for back in 2016. and that's why he's challenging the two main parties. he's calling it the immigration election , it the immigration election, ian, and he's saying the election is over. labour's won the election. there was no contest left. nigel farage just told us just now, we'll hear more from him tomorrow at midday in clacton. but i think the whole election campaign martin has got a lot more interesting, certainly has. >> he said he wanted to ginger things up and by jove, that's what i call a pinch of ginger.

thanks for joining what i call a pinch of ginger. thanks forjoining us. our what i call a pinch of ginger. thanks for joining us. our chief political chris hope. thank you very much. and we can now cross to speak to the chief political editor of the financial times, jim pickard. jim well, the election campaign, nigel said, was the most boring in history, certainly has got considerably spicier in these past two hours. we've already just heard there the conservative party blasting back the nigel farage will be handing the keys to downing street to sir keir starmer, leaving the door open to rejoin the european union. really, really hitting farage where it hurts. >> i would say that's kind of scaremongering and that's what i'm sure nigel farage will say. it's scaremongering. >> i'm sure labour party will say that as well, because keir starmer has been consistent , at starmer has been consistent, at least for the last couple of years, that labour government under him would not try and take britain back into the european union, wouldn't take britain to the single market or the customs union. >> yes, they are seeking to soften some of the edges of the existing deal to make life easier for business, you know, changing a few things on phytosanitary checks and maybe a

little bit more cooperation on defence and that kind of thing. >> but they are, as far as we can believe, keir starmer. >> and of course, he is someone who has changed his mind a few times over certain issues and of course, if you go back seven years or however long it was , he years or however long it was, he was advocating a second vote on brexit. >> so i'm not saying that one should necessarily trust him, but i think, from having talked to a lot of senior labour mps, they do feel like the question of brexit is now settled, not really something where they want to rip the plaster any more. >> so the conservative party right now , the fact they put out right now, the fact they put out that statement right away, shows us how unnerving this is for them to be attacked by the reform party from the right. >> and if you think about where the conservative party has taken that campaign over the last week or two, they've been trying to squash the reform vote. >> they've been appealing to older brexit voting people with policy policies such as bringing back national service, having this pension triple lock, you know , talking a lot about this

know, talking a lot about this policy of sending asylum seekers to rwanda . and therefore, if and to rwanda. and therefore, if and we've seen nigel farage is coming back now, you know, that thatis coming back now, you know, that that is going to make it a lot harder for the conservative party to get those messages across and suppress the reform vote. in fact, the opposite might happen, which is that the reform vote might even go higher. and if you got them on 15% right now, they are kind of in spitting distance of the tories. i don't believe in my gut that they can overtake them. but when nigel farage makes that boast , you know, weirder but when nigel farage makes that boast, you know, weirder things have happened in politics. i still think the central assumption is just that they will damage the tory vote and help starmer to a big majority. but weirder things have happened. >> and the point here, jim pickard, he said no deals with the conservatives absolutely no way, he said. i intend to lead a political revolt, a turning of our backs on the status quo . he our backs on the status quo. he said this came to him on the campaign trail, particularly in those very brexity, disillusioned parts of britain

in boston and skegness, ashfield, nothing works in britain anymore, he said. then he said i've done it before. i'll do it again. i'll surprise everybody, all what might we see, jim? the fact seven times he's tried, seven times he's failed to get elected is something different this time. jim piggott well in the first past the post system, the two parties always prosper. >> you know, we see that time and time again. it's very rare for one of the tiny parties to get an mp. you look at caroline lucas in brighton. that was kind of an aberration . and the green of an aberration. and the green party is optimistic of getting a seat in in bristol this time around. but again, it's an aberration because of the way the system just squeezes the small parties. and it's not impossible that these figures, these polls giving reform 15% or so in the polls, could be exaggerated in the reform vote, because when people get into the polling booth, they might realise that, you know, generally speaking, it's either a labour or conservative government and therefore they will they will retreat to the

more inverted commas mainstream party. but what i would say nigel farage is on to something is that when you talk to voters in recent months, the level of disillusionment with westminster and with the main parties is at very high levels . i was in very high levels. i was in grimsby a few months ago and i was really surprised , you know, was really surprised, you know, you meet a lot of people who aren't that interested in politics. when you go out and talk to voters , but it just felt talk to voters, but it just felt stronger and heavier that mood of dissatisfaction than i've seen it in 17 years in political journalism. and so , you know, journalism. and so, you know, weirder things have happened in nigel farage getting a seat . i nigel farage getting a seat. i really wouldn't bet against him becoming the mp for clacton. and we saw it again with george galloway, at a by—election quite recently. i wouldn't bet against farage right now. >> and the thing is, jim pickard, we live in such volatile and unpredictable times . that poll, just out by sky news, has labour on 422 plus two, two, two. that is doubling their vote. conservative 140 losing 232. that's halving their

votes. and an snp wipe out from from 17 down to 17 losing 31. perhaps things of different this time jim piggott, but we have to leave it there. that's the political editor of the ft. jim piggott. always a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you very much. and as we just discussed, nigel farage will now stand as reform uk's candidate in clacton. and here is a full list of the people who have declared their candidacy in the constituency so far. and we have giovanni nepal, that's the labour party, natasha osborne green party, giles watling, the conservative party, matthew bensalem, that's the liberal democrats and nigel farage, reform uk. that list of candidates just to be clear, isn't finalised yet as the deadune isn't finalised yet as the deadline isn't until later this week. and when it's published it of course will be on the gb news website once it's finalised. now don't go anywhere. lots more reaction to that massive, massive news that nigel farage is to stand in the seat of clacton in the general election. i'm martin

daubney on gb news.

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show. so a bombshell announcement put the cat amongst the pigeons specifically on the topic of polling. does this now mean that all the polls we've seen so far are out of date ? seen so far are out of date? what do you think nigel farage standing will mean for the various polls moving forward ? various polls moving forward? >> the interesting thing, martin, is that the reform numbers have been incredibly sticky since nigel farage actually said he wasn't going to be the leader, he was going to help with the campaign, but he wasn't going to be the leader. and people assumed, i think, quite rightly, that the conservatives would start to squeeze that reform vote. but it just hasn't happened. they've been incredibly sticky and so i think to predict what exactly is going to happen next would take, some chutzpah from pollsters who said it, said the numbers might, might, you know, might, might be squeezed after he wouldn't stand for reform, but i think you have to say this isn't great news for the conservatives. he will take votes from labour. he we don't know how many some of our

polling from before the campaign started showed that he'd take evenly from the from the labour party and the conservatives in terms of what he would top up for reform . but you have to say for reform. but you have to say this isn't great news for the conservatives >> so, tom, a jl partners poll for gb news you did earlier that last few days had the labour party on 46% with gb news viewers plus seven reform, as you said on 18% minus two. how do you anticipate that may change after today's announcement from nigel farage? >> yeah, i think, you know, you'd expect those numbers amongst your viewers to go up a bit, i think what that poll shows more than anything is your view is actually look like the nafion view is actually look like the nation as a whole. and that labour are labour are actually ahead. and so, you know , labour ahead. and so, you know, labour need to pay attention to channels like yours , where, you channels like yours, where, you know, there's significant numbers of their voters watching you today. >> and another poll just landed in the last half hour or so from

sky news. it's again grim reading for the conservative party. labour on a 422 seats. that's the majority of 194, an astonishing swing from where we were in 2019. the conservatives on 140 losing 232, an snp wipe—out 17 losing 31 seats. tom lubbock. does this mean in your opinion, as an expert pollster, we are moving into an unchartered territory of extraordinary political volatility ? volatility? >> i mean, we are in a highly volatile , environment, but volatile, environment, but i would just say that the conservatives that is that is a bigger majority than tony won blair in 1997. but it's not wipe—out territory for the conservatives. they would still hold on to enough seats to be by far and away the, the, his majesty's opposition. and so i think actually , it's not think actually, it's not a terrible result for the conservatives as compared to,

you know, some of the forecasts we've seen going into this election. what now with with this nigel farage announcement, whether they can hold to on more than 100 seats is what we'll be watching for. but, you know, than 100 seats is what we'll be watching for . but, you know, the watching for. but, you know, the conservative party on 160 seats, 180 seats, 200 seats, 120. does it matter ? they're still in it matter? they're still in a position to rebuild what they want to avoid at all costs is going below that 100 seats. that kind of almost total wipe—out, which splits the party, which really leaves them with just a fragment of what they had before . and that is what i would be most worried about if i was a conservative mp supporter. councillor. that's what i'd be looking for. >> so an extraordinary situation . tom lubbock, where losing 232 seats for the conservatives and keeping hold of 140, isn't necessarily the worst case scenario for them. they might actually be quite happy because it's not less than 100 seats. is that what you're saying ? that what you're saying? >> yeah, i think that's where we are now. martin, there are

obviously three results that they'd be looking for . obviously three results that they'd be looking for. a hung parliament would obviously be the best case scenario . getting the best case scenario. getting over that 200 seats or around that 200 seat mark would be the second. and then the third is that kind of wipe—out territory. and i think you know, all of them are probably still in play, given looking at our modelling, but it's looking more likely that we're getting to the bottom end of that range rather than the top end. >> okay. superb. thanks for joining us. that's tom lubbock the co—founder of jl partner paul the co—founder of jl partner paul, thank you for your expert insight as ever. now we're going to get lots more reaction to today's huge news regarding nigel farage. a little later this hour, i'll get labour's reaction by speaking to a member of the shadow cabinet. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> the headlines this hour, nigel farage has said he'll stand as the reform uk

parliament candidate for clacton in essex in the general election in essex in the general election in july. speaking at a news conference in london a short time ago to confirm his change of heart, mr farage also announced he'll take over as leader of the party. >> so i am going to stand in this election . i'll be launching this election. i'll be launching my candidacy at midday tomorrow in the essex seaside town of clacton . so midday tomorrow, clacton. so midday tomorrow, clacton. so midday tomorrow, clacton at the end of the pier and also in the news today. >> the conservatives have been accused of phoney culture wars after announcing plans to amend the equality act. the proposals would make clear sex means biological sex rather than genden biological sex rather than gender, and would stipulate those who are biologically male but identify as female should be barred from using single—sex spaces. labour called the policy an election distraction, but the prime minister says the safety and security of women and girls means the current confusion over the legal definition can't be allowed to continue. and sir keir starmer says the labour

party will never shy away from doing its duty at home and abroad and national security, he said, and economic security must go hand in hand. he's reiterated labour's commitment to maintaining the uk's nuclear capability. the labour leader has pledged a deterrent triple lock , which includes the lock, which includes the construction of four new nuclear submarines and an ambition to increase defence spending when economic conditions allow, he added. he says a changed labour party has moved on from the jeremy corbyn era , and the lib jeremy corbyn era, and the lib dems have announced new protections for rivers and coastlines as part of their manifesto. it'll include a blue flag status for rivers, which would set legally binding targets to prevent the dumping of sewage . the party says water of sewage. the party says water bosses have been able to get away with environmental vandalism by being permitted to pollute waterways under toothless conservative policies . toothless conservative policies. those are the headlines. for the latest stories. do sign up to gb

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reform uk and i can now be joined to speak to andy preston, the former mayor of middlesbrough. andy, welcome to the show. can i get your immediate reaction to that bombshell announcement ? bombshell announcement? >> wow. yeah, what a bombshell. i mean , just when we thought i mean, just when we thought this, this, this build up the general election was chaotic and full of twists and turns. there's another one. and what's next? i, i'm very surprised. i didn't think nigel farage would take such a big gamble. i think it's a big gamble for him , i it's a big gamble for him, i think it's far from certain that he'll win in that seat. you know, the tories and labour were very much neck and neck, and i would estimate right now that they're all about tory labour reform are probably about evenly matched. and it could go either way, if he loses, i think he loses some credibility. if he wins, he becomes a monstrous hero , so it's going to be really hero, so it's going to be really interesting . i think the interesting. i think the repercussions of this, should he win, will be huge . and the win, will be huge. and the pressure, amongst tory members

to take on a popular leader like farage will be huge, absolutely huge. >> and andy, the immediate response from the conservative party was to go on the offensive against nigel farage and say they'll be handing the keys to labour to rejoin the european union. they've gone straight for the brexit card. >> i, to be honest, i think that's silly. i think what's going to happen is, nigel farage will increase publicity for this, election in clacton. i think the turnout will increase. i think the tories will lose some votes. i think labour will lose some. but fewer votes. and i think it's going to be close. i think it's going to be close. i think it's going to be close. i think what's going to happen is the tories are going to lose this anyway . it is is the tories are going to lose this anyway. it is a catastrophic situation. the situation for the tories is far worse than any of us could have possibly dreamt . if it gets possibly dreamt. if it gets slightly worse, is that a problem ? no. there's a monstrous problem? no. there's a monstrous rebuild job. i think that where this is really interesting is when the tories undoubtedly lose. when rishi sunak undoubtedly exits the leadership

, will the tories welcome a nigel farage figure? he's he's definitely popular with large numbers of the public. i'm confident that large numbers of the tory membership like him to . the tory membership like him to. but i have to say, i think while he's a very strong protest politician, being in power is completely different and i'm not sure he's the right guy for the job in any party. and i think it would damage the tories going to the right . the right. >> and andy, a lot of people have been pointing out today at the press conference and of course, over recent weeks and months, nigel farage has stood seven times. he's never succeeded in getting elected. and yet andy preston, we see such massive volatility in politics at the moment. the none of the above party seems to be polling sky high. there's a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the system. might might this time be different, andy? or do you think history is going to repeat itself again in nigel farage will fail ? will fail? >> i think the odds are probably against him. but what is different this time? it's in his

favour, is that we have got not just a wounded tory party in rishi sunak, but a moribund rishi sunak, but a moribund rishi sunak, but a moribund rishi sunak and an absolutely already defeated tory party and labour aren't strong. the tories aren't bad because labour are strong . the labour is strong strong. the labour is strong because the tories are so awful. labour are not popular either. in this situation. people want someone who stands up and appears to have that leadership quality , my mind goes back to quality, my mind goes back to the tory party conferences . the tory party conferences. david cameron was the boss. he was the leader. boris johnson would turn up and he had that star quality and people wanted to be around him and have selfies with him. and it's the same with nigel farage. i'm not endorsing nigel farage farage his politics. by the way , but he his politics. by the way, but he has undeniably got a star quality that will excite some members of the public. a lot of tory members who are dissatisfied and some tory mps. so i would say that a reverse takeover of the conservative party is definitely on his mind. i would warn the tories off against it though. >> well, andy preston, fantastic

insight . the >> well, andy preston, fantastic insight. the former mayor of middlesbrough, thank you very much for joining middlesbrough, thank you very much forjoining us on the show. much for joining us on the show. wow, that's an extra morsel to play wow, that's an extra morsel to play with. excellent surf now. thanks to everyone who's got on touch with me this afternoon. we'll get your thoughts on nigel farage. big announcement very

soon. well, there's only one story in town today, so let's get straight back to it. nigel farage will stand for reform uk in clacton in essex. and he's also the new leader of reform. and i'm joined now by the former liberal democrat mp norman baker . norman, welcome to the show. so the cat has been put amongst the pigeons. can nigel farage do it or history repeat itself? >> well he's lost seven times, but i think this is his best opportunity to be honest with you, because the conservatives are on the floor and, there was are on the floor and, there was a poll, of course, in clacton, which put him about 10% ahead of, giles watling. the existing tory mp, so he must have quite a

good chance of winning under the circumstances. >> now he's made that calculation himself and he's got a good chance of winning, otherwise he wouldn't do it. and of course, the fact he knew the now leader of reform again, as it were, is because reform is not a party as other parties are. it's a private company, and he's a majority shareholder. so he's a majority shareholder. so he can do what he wants, really. and he's done that today. he can do what he wants, really. and he's done that today . feel and he's done that today. feel a bit sorry for richard tice, who i think he's leant reform over £1 million. but hey, that's politics for you. the interesting question, martin, i think, is what impact this has beyond clacton. i think it will push up the reform vote in the election, at the largely at the expense of the conservatives. so although i think reformer and lancaster win more than one seat, i.e. nigel's seat, i think the impact could be to damage the impact could be to damage the conservatives quite significantly and give more uhmwpe , if you like, to labour uhmwpe, if you like, to labour and lib dems and norman, it was telling that the immediate, visceral reaction from the

conservative party was to say that this would hand the keys to sir keir starmer to allow the uk to rejoin the european union. >> norman. they went straight for the brexit card . for the brexit card. >> well they did, but i have to say they're wrong on two counts. first of all, i think the keys will be handed to keir starmer already. really quite some time ago, or at least adopted keir starmer to keir starmer and ed davey as a sign a hung parliament, and secondly , keir parliament, and secondly, keir starmer has been pretty clear and much to my disappointment, frankly, that he's not going to go anywhere near the european union in terms of reversing brexit. so i think that's an absolute scare story from the tories, which just simply won't land. >> do you think something is different this time, norman? there seems to be so much volatility in the polls and that's before this announcement from nigel farage. and nigel farage said himself today i intend to lead a political revolt. he said nothing works in britain. people are telling me all over the country are turning of our backs on the status quo is what's needed. do you think that's true, that he's once

again trying to lead this upstart revolt against the mainstream ? mainstream? >> well, there's certainly nothing much. it's working. i mean, i mean, britain is falling to bits, whether it's, prisoners using plastic forks to, to get themselves through walls, which is happening in our prisons, or whether it's a potholes on the road, the nhs. cuz i can go on forever. britain is not working at the moment, so it's right for someone to come along and, and make the for case dramatic change. i think the impact will be, on the conservative party largely after the next election . largely after the next election. and the issue will be whether or not the conservative mps who are elected are ones to the right of the party, who will welcome nigel farage nigel farage into some sort of arrangement, or whether there be a more moderate left leaning conservative mp? so what i want to touch on with the brit school and we won't know that until we see who's been elected after after july the 4th. >> okay, norman baker, we have to leave it there. thanks for joining us. i am now joined by reform uk leader nigel farage. nigel, welcome to the show. so you've put the cat amongst the pigeons. that's for sure, mr

farage. but can i please put to you the immediate point by the conservative party straight away they were saying you've handed they were saying you've handed the keys to sir keir starmer to allow britain to rejoin the european union . european union. >> no, they did that. they did that with net migration running at three quarters of a million a yean at three quarters of a million a year, a total betrayal of the brexit vote. as the mrp poll that was published by sky news at 5:00 shows with or without me, the election's over anyway . me, the election's over anyway. this is about who can form a voice of coherent opposition and what we, i'm pretty certain of is the conservatives in opposition will row with each other, hate each other, maybe even more than they do in government, and say reform is here to be a voice of opposition and to get ready and prepare and campaign for 2029. >> and nigel, you spoke about voters you met on the campaign trail in both in skegness and ashfield. is it those people that got to you to got to make

you change your mind, a sense of when your eyeball to eyeball with the electorate, their sense of disappointment in you, not standing. is that the key factor that made you stand up this time ? >> 7- >> yeah. i ? >> yeah. i mean, two 7 >> yeah. i mean, two things really. one, i you know, i said i'd do my bit and goodness me, six days last week i was out everywhere doing everything. question time, you name it. and, you know, constituencies, dover , you know, constituencies, dover, everything. and i number one, i think something's going on out there. i think there is a the potential for a revolt against the political class is out there in a way i've not seen before. and number two, yeah, you know, those people who were part of the people's army that we built in the ukip years, they just feel very let down by me. and i yesterday at home yesterday morning , getting this sort of morning, getting this sort of feeling of terrible guilt about what was going on, and i concluded, i cannot let these people down. difficult though it is to fight a seat, be a national party leader, do all those things. i'm going to give it my absolute best shot. >> and mr farage, your critics

have said many times, and indeed your asset at the announcement, you've tried several times, you haven't succeeded in being elected yet. what's different this time? do you think the volatility in the electorate, do you think the appetite for change, or are you destined to fail? once again, nicholas, this is utterly ridiculous. >> martin. you know, when i stood for ukip of 1990s, we barely saved , i think one barely saved, i think one deposit we saved in the whole general election out of hundreds of candidates. so this argument absolutely absurd . fallacious. absolutely absurd. fallacious. i've stood once and guess what happened ? the conservatives happened? the conservatives cheated so badly. one of the party's agents got a nine month prison sentence suspended. so, you know, don't give me all that rubbish. i'm running. i'm doing it . i hope to rubbish. i'm running. i'm doing it. i hope to win. if i win, i win. if i don't, i don't. the important thing is that reform gets many, many millions of votes and gets seats in parliament and starts to build that voice of opposition, a voice that understands how ordinary folk feel , not the

ordinary folk feel, not the westminster elite. mr farage, can i ask you people have been saying already, is this think ing chess moves ahead about trying to take over the conservative party? >> is it about getting elected as a reform candidate and then crossing the floor to the conservatives trying to take over the party from within? >> as it stands, there is no conservative party. and frankly, martin, i can't right now see beyond july the 4th. >> okay. thank you very much for joining us, nigel farage, a delight to have you on the show after that bombshell announcement earlier on. and i'm now joined by nick thomas—symonds, who's the shadow minister without portfolio. nick, welcome to the show. you'd have seen this afternoon as events unfolded. and i first get your immediate reaction to it. well, firstly, martin, good to join you on your show. >> as always. look, our message to voters is unchanged. it's the message i've been delivering on the doorsteps today in recent days, recent weeks and months.

and that is that if you want genuine change, real change away from the chaos of the conservative natives and their failure over the last 14 years, the only way to do that is to vote labour. it is a choice at this election between a change labour party under keir starmer and five more years of chaos, instability and failure under the conservatives and that fundamental choice is going to be on the ballot paper on july the 4th. and that, quite frankly, hasn't changed. >> nick, the immediate response from the conservative party to mr farage's announcement was that this leaves the keys open. it hands the keys to sir keir starmer to rejoin the european union. you say, can we trust the labour party? a lot of people still hark back to the days when sir keir starmer led the people's vote movement to cancel brexit. >> well, we've set out that on

our relationship with the european union there are red lines. >> we will not rejoin eu, we will not rejoin in the single market. we will not rejoin the customs union. we will not go back to freedom of movement. and that's what we've said consistently. that is our position and that's what we're seeing , to the voters at this seeing, to the voters at this election. but this election is not about the arguments of the past . this election is about the past. this election is about the future . it is about delivering future. it is about delivering what we've set out for our first steps, from economic stability to investing in gb energy and the jobs of the future, to cracking down on things like antisocial behaviour , to antisocial behaviour, to creating a border security command in order to deal with the issue of small boats in the engush the issue of small boats in the english channel, and investing in our failing public services, not the fault of the people who work in them. by the way, martin, but the product of 14 years of the conservatives we do want to see more teachers in our

schools , and we want to see our schools, and we want to see our waiting lists brought down. that's what our message is to the public, and i look forward to continuing making that case to continuing making that case to voters. >> right up until the close of poll on the 4th of july. >> and nick thomas—symonds, let's talk about defence. sir keir starmer had been out on the stump today trying to convince the electorate that the labour party, as you put it, is a changed party by promising to back what he calls the nuclear triple lock. i thought triple locks were just for pensions. now it's also for defence. but a fair criticism might be, nick, that in the past sir keir starmer did back that labour party of the past. jeremy corbyn, in fact, wanted to scrap trident. get rid of it. is this once again sir keir starmer merely positioning himself to say what the electorate wants to hear to get elected ? hear to get elected? >> well, no. and our party policy on nuclear weapons has not changed. in fact, our continuous at sea, deterrent is something that the shadow

cabinet 100% supports. indeed, having an independent nuclear deterrent at all is a creation of the post—war labour government under clement attlee. and it was updated both by the governments of harold wilson and tony blair. so i would argue that it tony blair. so i would argue thatitis tony blair. so i would argue that it is squarely a part of labour history, but it's also a central part of the future as well . and if we are to be well. and if we are to be privileged enough to form a government, its first duty is to keep the country safe. and that continuous at sea deterrent is central to that. we have a particularly dangerous world at the moment , from the security the moment, from the security challenge of china to the illegal russian invasion of ukraine to the situation in the middle east, where indeed our own ships have been threatened in the red sea. >> so in those circumstances , >> so in those circumstances, the continuous at sea deterrent is central and our commitment to it is unshakeable. as keir starmer has set out today.

>> okay. thank you very much for joining us on the show. nick thomas—symonds , who's a shadow thomas—symonds, who's a shadow minister without portfolio. and as you said, it's always a delight to have you on the show. now, quickly before we go. got a quick couple of emails. patricia says this now it's getting exciting . sting. i have faith exciting. sting. i have faith and believe in this country once again , martin says this rejoice! again, martin says this rejoice! this is great news. today i did have my doubts about nigel's future direction with his obsession with us politics, but daniel says this. breaking news labour will now win in clacton, so thank you very much for joining me on today's show. that's all from me for now . that's all from me for now. dewbs& co is up next. and don't forget, join us from 6 am. tomorrow. it's breakfast with eamonn and isabel, tomorrow. it's breakfast with eamonn and isabel , followed by eamonn and isabel, followed by britain's newsroom at 930 with andrew and bev and then, of course, tom and emily with good afternoon britain from midday. i'll be back tomorrow. it's my mish from 3:00 pm. i'll be back tomorrow. it's my mish from 3:00pm. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. wow, what a day. but now it's time for your weather with alex biryukov . biryukov. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again! it's time for your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office through the rest of today, it's actually likely to stay mostly dry, but there are some wet weather on the way as we go through tomorrow because of a system that's currently out in the atlantic, this is going to push its way eastwards and then southeastwards across the country as we go through tomorrow. but for the time being, like i said, mostly dry, a few spots of rain , perhaps a few spots of rain, perhaps across parts of northern england, northern ireland where there is a decaying front lingering across us. but overnight most places staying dry with some cloud. a few clear spells perhaps, but some rain then pushing into northern ireland as we head towards dawn . ireland as we head towards dawn. because of the largely cloudy skies, i'm not expecting temperatures to drop a huge amount, generally staying in double figures if we take a closer look at what we can expect tomorrow morning, then it is going to be a bit of a damper start across parts of scotland , start across parts of scotland, some heavy bursts for the far north of scotland, particularly

orkney . shetland could have some orkney. shetland could have some downpours here. elsewhere across much of scotland. quite a cloudy picture and there will be outbreaks of rain coming in from the west, a drier and brighter towards eastern parts , also towards eastern parts, also quite cloudy and damp across northern ireland. parts of northwest england and into wales as well, but more central, southern and eastern parts of england. actually starting the day on a dry note and there should even be some sunshine breaking through the cloud at times . we are going to see that times. we are going to see that rain in the northwest gradually making its way south eastwards, and there could be some heavy downpours mixed in with it. possibly the odd rumble of thunder too. in the southeast , thunder too. in the southeast, likely to stay pretty dry through much of the day by the time the rain arrives here, it will have broken up, so it should be mostly light temperatures in the southeast, rising to the low 20s, but colder air towards the northwest of this front means that it's going to be markedly fresher here, and there'll be plenty of showers pushing through . some of showers pushing through. some of these could be heavy, possibly thundery. there could even be a bit of snow over the scottish mountains, which not unheard of for the start of june. later on, as we go through the rest of

this week , it's going to be this week, it's going to be a bit cloudier, a bit cooler than it has been recently, and most of us will see a bit of rain at times. by by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

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