will show you pride month. i will show you some of the most bonkers things that have happened so far. my top panel tonight is expressed columnist carole malone. labour member and journalist benjamin button with his spectator political reporter. it's james heale . oh, and can you guess heale. oh, and can you guess what happens next here? >> if you're opposed to the genocide in palestine, you know, there's a rally on thursday. >> get ready britain , here we go >> get ready britain, here we go now we've really got an election battle . next. battle. next. >> good evening. news developing in the last hour here on gb news. we can tell you a british israeli hostage, nadav popplewell, was among four people who died while in hamas captivity . that's according to

captivity. that's according to the israeli military. so a british israeli hostage among the dead. it's understood the 51 year old's body remains in gaza . year old's body remains in gaza. and that comes as tonight, the us state department said it is completely confident that israel will now agree a ceasefire deal. us president joe biden's proposal , us president joe biden's proposal, setting out an end to the fighting and a return of some hostages, beginning with a six week ceasefire. we'll bring you more. of course, if we have it on that. now, also in the news tonight, nigel farage has confirmed he will stand as the reform uk parliamentary candidate for clacton in essex in the general election in july. he was speaking at a news conference in london this afternoon and he confirmed his change of heart, also announcing he'd take over as leader of reform uk. >> 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 also in the news today, rishi sunak denied he was stoking a culture war with his pledge to amend the equality act. >> the prime minister wanted to make clear that sex means biological sex rather than genden 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 hospital wards and sports events . labour has called the policy an election distraction . the an election distraction. the liberal democrats say there's no need to unpick the act, and first minister and snp leader in scotland, john swinney, says the conservatives plans to change the equalities act are a deliberate attempt to undermine the scottish parliament. now sir keir starmer says labour is totally committed to the security of the uk and to its nuclear deterrent. he's described the trident nuclear programme as a fundamental and

vital part of our national defence. labour is pledging, therefore, to build four new nuclear submarines and increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. when, he says economic conditions are right, the conservatives say they'll meet that target by 2030. and sir keir dismissed concerns , ones keir dismissed concerns, ones that were raised today that his shadow foreign secretary voted against the uk having nuclear weapons and that angela rayner, the deputy leader, told labour cnd just in 2020 that she wanted the party to work towards a world without nuclear weapons . world without nuclear weapons. the lib dems have been on the election trail today as well . election trail today as well. they're vowing to tackle water pollution as part of their manifesto . they've announced 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's going to and wildlife. it's going to include the expansion of marine protected areas to cover at least 50% of the uk's waters by

2030. and just lastly, friends and fans of the former rugby legend rob burrow have been paying legend rob burrow have been paying tribute to the unassuming, unassuming lad with a superhero origin following his death at the age of 41, burrow's 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 today to pay their respects, laying flowers, scarves and tributes. that's the news for the latest stories sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts . gb news .com/ alerts. >> all right then. just when general election fatigue was setting in, this happens. >> 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. so i have decided i've changed my mind . it's allowed you now. it's 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 , he says. this election, he says. >> this is basically a single issue election . issue election. >> nothing in this country works anymore . anymore. >> the health service doesn't work. the roads don't work. none of our public services are up to scratch to 2.4 million people. this conservative government have allowed to settle in the uk in the course of the last two years, that this is the immigration election , but it is. 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 legally, legally coming in to britain . britain. >> so the question is, who do you trust really on legal immigration reform? want to hit net zero. so 1 in 1 out. they also want to introduce an immigration tax on businesses. firms would pay a higher 20% rate of national insurance for foreign workers, up from the current 13.8. look, it is fair to say this has been described as unworkable in practice on illegal migration. they said they'd turn the boats around in they'd turn the boats around in the channel well, the labour party is promising to reduce immigration. >> well, immigration is a sort of record high under this government, a complete failure. we need to bring it down, underpin the number is the fact that we haven't got the skills in this country that we need, so we need to fix the skills strategy. but we've also got to come down on bad bosses. and so we want to ban bad bosses from recruiting from abroad . so we'll recruiting from abroad. so we'll have a single enforcement agency going into premises. if there's a breach of labour market rules ,

a breach of labour market rules, then that means i'm afraid for that company, for that business is you're not going to get a licence to bring people in from another country. so skills agenda, but also bearing down on those bad bosses , we're going to those bad bosses, we're going to ban them from bringing people in. >> certainly embracing health and safety culture. there wasn't he. but on legal migration, they say that they'll ban employers and agencies that break employment law from hiring overseas workers. they say they want to reduce reliance on foreign workers and reform the points based system, although it must be said there is little to no detail yet on what that means . and yvette cooper shadow home secretary is refusing to put a number on what she wants net migration to be. >> well, again, and i understand the question, and i know that you're effectively trying to suggest i. i set a target or a broad target. i'm not going to do that. we are going to be clear. net migration must come down. we believe it's really important. and what clear care has set out is commitments that we will bring net migration down on illegal immigration, labour are pledging more home office staff to clear the backlog,

establish a new border security command to prosecute trafficking gangs and work more closely with the eu. >> however, scepticism has been raised due to this picture of yvette cooper, with a sign saying refugees welcome and sir keir starmer winning a legal battle to ensure dubious asylum seekers have better access to taxpayer funded benefits. the conservatives, on the other hand a , conservatives, on the other hand , a plan to stop the boats legal migration coming down. >> that's what we offer. keir starmer doesn't believe in any of those things, and that's the choice that people should consider on legal immigration. >> they changed the rules for who qualifies for the skilled worker visa in april, with the minimum salary threshold rising substantially to £38,700, or the going rate for that role, whichever is higher. social care workers are also no longer allowed to bring dependence on their visa. a list of jobs for which someone can be sponsored with a reduced minimum salary has been made shorter, and the minimum income to sponsor someone for a spouse or partner visa has risen from 18.5 grand to 29 grand. the scepticism here

is pretty obvious. they've also been responsible for record levels of net migration, haven't they? on illegal immigration, everybody knows that rwanda is their big deterrent. the illegal immigration bill should also mean that anybody who has entered britain illegally recently will never be considered for asylum again. the problem here is credibility. will rwanda happen? will people actually be deported? if this is the immigration election, who do you trust? well let's get the thoughts of my panel this evening. i do have the daily express columnist, carole malone, journalist, for what it's worth, labour party member as well benjamin butterworth and the political guru at the spectator , james hill. carole, spectator, james hill. carole, i'll come to you . who's going to i'll come to you. who's going to win this immigration battle? >> then i think farage is going to win it. you know, historically labour have always been against they are the party of no borders . they've been of no borders. they've been against controlling immigration. they intrinsically believe that controlling immigration is racist. and it's not labour's response has always been to oppose visa restrictions and to

demand more immigration. you know, it wasn't too very long ago last year where starmer said we weren't taking enough migrants. we should be taking more off france and off italy . more off france and off italy. so his plan has always been to take more, and you heard farage there just now say that we have to build a house every two minutes to accommodate the people who come here legally. you know , 685,000 people a year you know, 685,000 people a year thatis you know, 685,000 people a year that is the that is 200,000 more than the size of a city like liverpool or leeds. we cannot accommodate that every single yearin accommodate that every single year in this country. and there's nowhere to there's just nowhere to put them. >> there is also the rapid rate of demographic change, which no one really seems to want to talk about, but is a massive deal. and benjamin, look on labour there. it's all very well and good to keir starmer saying things like read my lips, i will bnng things like read my lips, i will bring immigration down, but you just have to look at his track record, don't you? massive advocate of free movement. we've also had his legal history where you know, one of the major reasons why legal people want to come to this country now is for the generous benefits they get.

he had a big role to play in that legally. why should we trust him now? >> well, lawyers that do the work of enforcing the law and of making those arguments are not responsible. >> politicians are. right. so that's an absurd argument to throw against keir starmer. it's not worth that. >> four years ago, when he wasn't working as a lawyer, he boasted about getting more benefits from migrants come to this country. >> the fact is that, you know, i mean, labour has said for a while that immigration is too high, so it's not really new, you know, the highest number on record was under boris johnson and under rishi sunak. so the idea that they're trying to tell the country is the incumbent government that they're going to bnng government that they're going to bring it down is just for the birds. but i actually think there's a hypocrisy to all the major parties here, because we have sectors like hospitality, like social work, like health care, though they have a serious shortage of workers. there are not the people trained or willing in this country, and we need migrants to fill those sectors. there are a lot of businesses that tell you they would collapse without migrant laboun would collapse without migrant labour. and so i think that both the parties are being dishonest on this one. >> okay, james, you know, people say they'll always like to come on my show and say, oh, it's the

economy, stupid. well, yeah, fine. but when that economy says that per capita we are getting poorer and you do see huge impacts on our everyday lives as a result of massive net migration, both legal and illegal, is nigel farage on to something here? >> i think this is the fascinating way in which we discuss immigration. really, is it purely through a narrow economic lens when we look at, say, forecasts involving the obr, or is it about other things, for instance, such as the wider context about public services? and obviously we have a planning crisis in this country sort of the flip side of that, that line that nigel was just saying there about one home every two minutes, the fact we're not building enough houses regardless, the key thing, of course, is you've got very simple equation. if you've got 685,000 people arriving in one year legally, and you've only building 220,000 homes a year, you're not going to have enough space for all those people. so it's a much bigger issue. and i think whichever government gets in, we need to make it the focus of the five year plan. if they actually really want to get this immigration down and solve this issue once and for all. >> but the truth starmer is talking tosh when he says that he's going to train more brits

to do jobs. >> we have nearly 3 million people on sickness benefits in this country, and we have more than 8 million people who are not working, who are not looking for a job. so how is he going to train? we could be training them now. how is he going to suddenly get them keen to work? it's not going to happen. >> i mean, i do think, you know, one thing labour has put forward is, is adult training, being able to retrain in a different industry to the one you're in, which clearly would go some way to help fix the problems, that we are not as agile as an economy, as we're not as agile as a workforce, as the economy requires. but look, the fact is, if we don't take migrants, then carol can't get her gold plated pension that so many boomers in this country live on. >> do you know i've got to go related pension? how dare you assume i've got to go? >> because people of your generation have a fantastic deal >> here we go. attacking elderly people again for having worked. >> is that the demographics of this country say that we cannot afford the kind of public services, the kind of pensions. >> if we don't get more workers in, we need immigrants. >> okay. i'm just going to play you a little clip now because it's interesting to see how the different political leaders reacted to nigel farage's announcement i'll get announcement that i'll get a quick comment james off the quick comment from james off the back of it. so labour did appear to at least be publicly unfazed by this news. they've said that their message to voters remains

unchanged. so here is what nick thomas—symonds, the shadow minister without portfolio, said a little bit earlier on gb news. >> our message to voters is unchanged . it's the message i've 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 conservatives 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. >> james farage said that he wanted to really go after a lot of the don't knows. i wonder actually whether or not he's going to sweep up a few labour voters as well. >> i think so , and i think if >> i think so, and i think if you look at 2015, ukip has a lot of them were sort of holding pen. they went from labour into

the election, they went to ukip and they went to tory in 2017 and they went to tory in 2017 and 19. so i think a lot of previous labour voters are up for grabs this time. and maybe it's not this election but a future one. they could certainly go. farage in the reform party. >> yeah. look watch this space. because obviously nigel farage now will stand as reform uk's candidate in clacton. here is a full list of those who have declared their candidacy in that constituency. so far we have. joanne onwuzoo nepal labour party, giles watling, conservative party matthew benn , conservative party matthew benn, millom, liberal democrats, nigel farage, reform uk, natasha osborne, green party the list of candidates is not finalised as the deadline isn't until later this week, so it will be published on the gb news website onceitis published on the gb news website once it is and stay tuned as well because i will have richard tice, the former leader of reform uk, in just a few moments time. but in other news, it's officially summer and we've got a brand new summer giveaway that's £15,000 in cash to make summer spectacular, a brand new iphone, airpods and £500 to spend on the uk attraction of your choice . so if you like your choice. so if you like theme parks, visiting stately homes or just fancy a spa day,

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demand. good luck! >> yes, i would also like to point out you saw the full list of people standing in clacton. there we had invited all of them on this show. we do hope to get them on at some point in the future. but coming up, the former leader of reform. yes, former leader of reform. yes, former . and his latest chairman, former. and his latest chairman, richard tice joins me live to react to nigel farage's bombshell announcement earlier today. >> 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. well how much did he really know about farage's plan to run as a candidate? >> can it turn reform into serious challenges? he's live in the studio very , very soon, but the studio very, very soon, but next. this is a big one, actually. the popular conservatives, that group, including former pm liz truss , including former pm liz truss, they're urging rishi sunak to scrap the party's 2050 net zero target. would scrapping net zero altogether help mr sunak avoid electoral oblivion? well, i've got the head of campaigns at the pop got the head of campaigns at the pop cons, andrew allison, going head to head with just stop oil

spokesperson graham buss and his

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up, welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up , former tonight. coming up, former reform uk leader richard tice is live in this studio . after he live in this studio. after he stepped aside to let nigel farage take the reins. earlier today. but there are a few other stories knocking it around. so first, would scrapping their 2050 net zero pledge help the

tories avoid electoral oblivion? it's time for the head to head . it's time for the head to head. so today the conservative party splinter group, the popular conservatives, is urging rishi sunak to u—turn on his manifesto promise to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. the group, which includes liz truss and jacob rees—mogg, has set out five key points they think the tories need to address to avoid them becoming, quote, a shadow of their former selves. rishi sunak has recently rowed back on other climate policies. he delayed the ban on selling petrol and diesel cars by 2030. back in september. this was arguably the most popular thing he's done as prime minister. actually, it was welcomed by 47% of the british public, according to an ipsos poll. meanwhile, the labour party reportedly plans to make climate a key focus of this general election campaign. they're putting their net zero commitments up in lights to draw a clear dividing line between themselves and the tories, so

look , tonight i am asking, as look, tonight i am asking, as the pop cons urged, the prime minister to scrap the 2050 net zero pledge, would this help save the party from electoral oblivion? let me know your thoughts. go to gbnews.com forward slash your say. tweet me @gbnews. make sure you vote in our poll. but first going head to head on this or the head of campaigns for the popular conservatives andrew allison and just stop oil spokesperson graham. but andrew, i might as well start with you on this. look, what do you want the prime minister to do then? what is this five point plan? talk us through it . through it. >> well, the bit about net zero is scrap the net zero target. >> you know, the economy can't really cope with all of this , really cope with all of this, 20,000 people in this year. patrick will die of hypothermia. it's a fact. we live in a cold country, people can't afford their heating bills anymore because of the high costs of them. so i really think that we need to think about how much the

net zero. mish rahman policy , net zero. mish rahman policy, whatever you want to call it, is actually costing people . now, just l actually costing people. now, just l market decide. the market will decide and polls tell us that so many people really do, want to a net zero policy in a few years time . and then the market will time. and then the market will decide, okay. >> all right , decide, okay. >> all right, graham, i'll throw it over to you. look, i will put it over to you. look, i will put it to you that when rishi sunak road back a bit on some net zero commitments, he had a 47% approval rating, which does appear to be one of the more popular things he's done as prime minister. if the tories did this, they might actually get a few more votes. graham. possibly not a good thing for you at just stop oil, that's not exactly what the conservative environment network is saying, but look, i personally i'm not here to be i to be political. the climate crisis affects absolutely everyone, and in my view, we in fact, the climate, the committee for climate

crisis, climate change said that we cannot afford not to do net zero. and look, i used to work for shell. i was a principal scientist at shell, and i worked up to board level with the company, and the oil industry has signed up to a net zero by 2050. it's a global commitment to do this. and they know that we have to do it, right. okay. andrew we have to do it for the sake of the planet . sake of the planet. >> we don't have to set arbitrary targets. >> patrick. i mean, this is the thing, we can decide that we want to move to a net zero economy, and that's absolutely fine. but the government has just set arbitrary targets that it's going to be 2050, and international organisations have set targets, that it's going to be 2050. whether that's doable or not, of course, is a is a completely different question. i mean, for example, have you ever tried to charge a car in a

motorway service station of late 7 motorway service station of late ? there's hardly any charging points that you can possibly do that. points that you can possibly do that . and yet the government is that. and yet the government is now pushed back the electric cars and the banning of diesel and, and petrol cars to 2035. but you can't possibly charge an electric car very easily at a motorway service station. we have to let these things develop and eventually we will get there. >> all right . >> all right. >> all right. >> yeah, i agree with andrew on one thing that the 2050 net zero target is completely arbitrary. it was a i won't go into the details of how it was arrived at, but it's far too late . we at, but it's far too late. we need to be acting much, much later. >> can i ask you, greg graham, labour labour says it wants to decarbonise uk power by 2030, but i suspect that you still think that's too late, don't you? >> we have to go much further than that. >> well, this is it, isn't it? so yeah. >> the view of just stop oil is

that and the view of the client of most climate scientists is we have to go much faster than we are. do you wonder whether or not just just to say on that just just why can i just well, can i just put this to you and then i will let you explain why, which is do you not think that maybe climate scientists have a little bit of skin in the game when it comes to this stuff? >> graeme, no. >> graeme, no. >> i think what they do is they look at clients , look, the look at clients, look, the climate collapse, which is where we're heading, will climate collapse, which is where we're heading , will destroy climate collapse, which is where we're heading, will destroy our economy. we'll be fighting a perpetual war. we're going to see our everything that we hold dear disappear. >> and when exactly is that going to happen? graham just out of interest, just so i can prepare the bunker. >> oh, it's already happening now, isn't it? look out the window . 25% drop now, isn't it? look out the window. 25% drop in our in our wheat yields this year is expected. we've had floods for half the half the year so far. we've we're seeing, wildfires in canada. we're seeing vast numbers of people displaced in other parts of the world. this is real. okay. so we have to

take this more seriously than we are. and that means we have to stop oil and gas and coal, all right, to do it by 2030. >> all right, andrew, final, final word to you on this. if rishi sunak doesn't listen to you, what we appear to have here is a another split in the conservative party okay. and that doesn't look particularly good, does it ? good, does it? >> i don't think it's a little split in the conservative party at all, i think it's just common sense, conservative policies. we just need to decide how are we going to achieve these particular ends? i mean, everyone wants a better environment. everyone wants better air quality , for example. better air quality, for example. patrick, i mean, i mean, people don't want to leave a poorer environment for their children, grandchildren and great great grandchildren. we just have to decide how to do this in a very sensible way. and i'm afraid 2050 is unrealistic. and i'm afraid if he really thinks that sort of 2035 or 2040 or whatever

is realistic and he's no, i just completely disagree . completely disagree. >> all right. look, both of you, thank you. thank you very much. obviously we will discuss this again before the elections as head of campaigns at the popular concerts. andrew allison, just stop oil spokesperson graham buster. thank you. right. look, who do you agree with? would scrapping the tories 2050 net zero target helps you avoid electoral oblivion ? simon on electoral oblivion? simon on x says no, it would barely move the needle . most people don't the needle. most people don't have any concept of what life under net zero would be like, daisy says. the trouble is, no one believes a word sunak says. look how long he's been promising to stop immigration. graham says they're toast no matter what they do. grief. so how's the polling changed at all since these commitments? no. rishi and keir really don't appeal to anyone. they continued. well, look, your voters in 51% of you agree that scrapping the tories 2050 net zero target would help sunak avoid electoral oblivion. 49% of you say they would not. i can't help but wonder if the farage effect is happening a little bit here already. people giving up on rishi coming up rishi sunak small boat problem reaches henley . henley. >> okay, so that that's

interesting. fine. and then will you vote? if one of you said you weren't particularly sporty beforehand, but. >> and labour's divided frontbench goes nuclear, as angela rayner immediately contradicts this tough talk from sir keir starmer. >> the people of britain need to know that their leaders will keep them safe and we will. >> well, so can we actually trust labour with the nuclear deterrent? despite 12 frontbenchers voting to scrap it in 2016, kelvin mackenzie gives his unfiltered take shortly . but his unfiltered take shortly. but next, nigel farage sent shockwaves through westminster and the country. really by announcing that he's standing as announcing that he's standing as an mp in the general election. i speak to the man who stood aside for him to reform uk leader. it's richard tice , it's it's richard tice, it's unmissable and

next. welcome back to patrick christys . tonight on gb news. still to come. kelvin mackenzie tackles labour's tax on private school fees. because, i mean, this is hilarious. by the way. but guardian reading parents have now begun to panic over their children's own school places. and there we go. but first our welcome reform uk chairman, former leader richard tice. and look richard's time as leader of the reform party came to an abrupt end. today. he announced that he would stand aside for nigel farage to take the helm. >> really? like is to invite

nigel to be leader of reform uk. absolute delight . he accepted absolute delight. he accepted and mr farage wasted no time in laying out his political plans. >> 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 a political revolt. yes, a revolt, a turning of our a political revolt. yes, a revolt , a turning of our backs revolt, a turning of our backs on the political stage . es quo. on the political stage. es quo. it doesn't work . it doesn't work. >> earlier in the day, rishi sunak said a vote for farage was nothing more than a vote to put keir starmer in 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 proportionate, 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. >> former leader richard tice joins me now. richard, why don't you, nigel, let you know he wanted to be leader? >> we've been talking about it for ages and saying you know, what's the right thing to do. i've always said to everybody , i've always said to everybody, the more help he can give, the better. and here's the thing. it's not about the titles. it's about the effort, the oomph and already you're seeing that. and as nigel said, that word revolt. i mean, so many people said, i can't for vote these two parties. what am i going to do? am i going to stay at home? and what was remarkable was campaigning last week . we were campaigning last week. we were in a couple of constituencies and just the extra enthusiasm and just the extra enthusiasm and what actually we realised was that many, many people were saying , come on, nigel. and so saying, come on, nigel. and so he realised that actually this was the moment and the biggest risk in life is never taking one. so yeah, as he's quite

rightly said, it's hard doing, trying to do both rapidly stand for a seat and campaign nationally . but equally the nationally. but equally the state of the country it needs , state of the country it needs, it needs serious change, it needs reform. and that's why i've said, actually, we've got to do this. >> you said it's a risk. i mean, it is a big gamble. okay. so the latest poll that we had here on on gb news anyway put you guys at 12, the lib dems at 10, you with no seats and the lib dems at 39 mad is that it is mad, right? but that is the state of play. and i believe the tory majority in clacton is 24,700. okay, so if this comes to nothing, if on july the 4th you've not got any seats that that you have to be prepared for that you have to be prepared for that possibility. right? >> we're prepared for anything. as we've said today, as we've always said. but here's the thing. i guarantee you, we will get millions and millions and millions of votes and nigel talked about revolt. i tell you what, there'll be a lot of

people who are very, very unhappy with our political class, our political system . if class, our political system. if we ended up with zero seats, i think we will win seats. i think that actually we're going from strength to strength. and nigel, i'm absolutely convinced we'll win in clacton. the tories are utterly terrified, and rightly so. but we'll also take huge numbers of votes from socially conservative labour voters who do not want mass immigration, making people poorer, reducing wages and reducing the quality of life in making housing unaffordable for young people and increasing the pressure on health care. and people are saying actually , yeah, there's a saying actually, yeah, there's a real genuine choice out there. >> there are there are quotes doing the rounds on social media, which i'm sure you've probably seen. if nigel in the past saying, does he really want to spend every friday in clacton 7 to spend every friday in clacton ? you know, i mean, there's a whiff there, isn't there, of the ian dales about that with, with tunbridge wells, you know, i mean, do you think he's do you think that will play badly. >> well no, i don't actually . >> well no, i don't actually. but what it shows is that nigel has been completely honest and grappling with that big decision. did he want to stand?

did he want to really get stuck in and did he want to do it for a, you know, a serious piece of penod a, you know, a serious piece of period of time in order to help change the nature of politics? and, you know, that's why it took you know, he took a time to get there. but we're there, we're off and we're i tell you what, we're rocking. thousands of people have already joined since that announcement. >> look, i obviously watched that announcement. i watched the questions that followed. look, one thing that did stand out to me was how he was saying he wanted to be the real opposition in the wake of what he said was probably almost definitely going to be a keir starmer labour government. i did just wonder, though , are you playing roulette though, are you playing roulette with britain here? five years of laboun with britain here? five years of labour, the lib dems now quite possibly as a result of nigel and what you're doing could end up actually being the party of opposition as opposed to the tories , you know, five years of tories, you know, five years of that. and then i hope that what in five years time you sweep the board. i mean that that's a lot of stuff on the never, never there for the people. >> five years ago, people assumed that boris was in for 10

to 15 years. but actually things change very quickly . and change very quickly. and frankly, the country is in a terrible state and labour have got no plans how to get the economy growing, to how reform the health system. i've got no intention of controlling lawful immigration, no ideas about how to stop the boats . we're the to stop the boats. we're the only party with serious plans to do that, and i think people will realise very quickly that actually we need to vote for change. and i think that at the end of the day, there's no difference between the two main parties. if we didn't exist as nigel quite rightly said today, labour would still win this election . the tory brand is election. the tory brand is toxic. how toxic we will find out. but actually democracy is much better served when there's more debate, more choice. and that's what we give the british people . and i think that based people. and i think that based on what we're seeing already, people are saying, yeah, and word had been spreading, tell you what there is, there's a lot of shy reformers out there. don't tell anyone. i'm with reform . it's just like old reform. it's just like old brexiteers, lots of shy of brexiteers. that's what's happening. and this is going to be i think it's going to be like a battle. >> do you wonder how chaotic it is behind the scenes at reform,

though? because we did speak to someone who's well, we spoke to ben habib earlier. he didn't have any idea that this was happening. i mean, this is a bit chaotic, isn't it? >> far from it. it actually shows just what a well run ship we are that if you want to keep a secret, don't tell anyone. it's pretty obvious. >> even even someone like ben habib, who's what's his role? deputy chairman. >> is he deputy leader? >> is he deputy leader? >> deputy leader? >> deputy leader? >> you got these things in in the world of media and politics, it's very hard to keep a secret. so the answer is don't tell anyone. keep it very quiet, work it out. and that's what we did. and actually i think people quite respect that. they respect the honesty that we've come out with it. we've told it as it is. and i tell you what, if you want change, you've got to vote for it. >> can i it.- >> can i ask it.— >> can i ask you it. >> can i ask you know, when you say you mentioned several times in your in your speech up to nigel, you saying we're going up in the polls, going up in the polls, we're going up in the polls. that's not actually true, is it? you are quite stagnant in the polls. you fluctuate between about nine and 50. when we had the by elections, it was about you were on about 15. the latest polls put you on about 12. >> no, the latest poll, yougov poll on friday put us back at 15. so we'd gone up, we'd drifted down a bit and now we've

gone back up. so actually it is true in the last week we wanted to make sure we held in the polls in almost all the polls that i've seen , we've actually that i've seen, we've actually gone up one, 2 or 3. so we're going up in the polls. this will be another boost. and that'll come off the tories very, very last leak. >> come on try to i know it's difficult. we'll try to put a number. we what level you are because of our political system as we've spoken about, you have to be willing to accept that you might not win that many seats. right. fine but what number of votes would you. what would be a good night for votes on july the 4th? oh, we're very ambitious. >> we want more millions of votes. we want more votes cast for reform uk than the tories. and it is well achievable. well what does that look like? that looks like? that looks like six, 7 million votes, maybe 8 million votes. who knows. right. but something is happening out there. i tell you, something is happening. it's extraordinary. as nigel said, it's a bit like a people's revolt. >> right? okay. well, that was former leader richard tice. thank you very much for your time this evening. thank you very much for your time this evening . now, as time this evening. now, as you've just been hearing, nigel obviously is standing in clacton. okay here is a full list of those who have declared

their candidacy so far. we have jovan owusu, nepal, who's the labour party? giles watling, conservatives, matthew bensalem, liberal democrats , nigel farage, liberal democrats, nigel farage, reform uk natasha osborne, green party that list has not been finalised. the deadline is later this week. it will be published on gb news website and we have ianed on gb news website and we have invited all of those people on for an interview. right. coming up, i talk to tory candidate daniel kawczynski and i think we've got a heck of a lot to talk about, don't you? on how his party will rally after this. farage threw a massive spanner in their works. plus, what's going on here if you're opposed to the genocide in palestine , to the genocide in palestine, you know, there's a rally on thursday . thursday. >> i reveal what happened next. it is absolutely hilarious. by the way . but next, keir starmer the way. but next, keir starmer says that his party has changed in every possible way, including on the nuclear deterrent. >> would view the idea of having to use a nuclear weapon as something that was resolved, resulting in a failure in the whole world's diplomatic system. there has to be no first use, but true to form, angela rayner

just said the opposite. >> basically very, very shortly after that . so can they be to keep this country safe? kelvin mackenzie, former editor of the

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight coming up. farage sent shockwaves through british politics. today. indeed, with the announcement that he will stand as an mp. but what impact will he have? we're going to be looking at that. but first, keir starmer today declared that labour is the party of national security, as he pledged to build four new nuclear submarines and hit the nuclear submarines and hit the nuclear button if necessary. >> 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 got my whole cabinet, shadow cabinet behind me on this. we have changed the labour party. i now know full well that national

security, defence of our country is the number one issue. that is. >> so he said his whole cabinet was behind him on that. that's interesting because critics were quick to point out that no less than 12 members of his shadow cabinet, including his deputy leader angela rayner, voted against renewing trident back in 2016. and despite starmer's claims this morning, angela rayner has tonight told the bbc that she hasn't changed her mind on the uk having nuclear weapons. well, kelvin mackenzie, former editor of the sun, joins me now. kelvin. i mean, can labour be trusted when it comes to nukes, i don't think so . i to nukes, i don't think so. i mean, she is the deputy leader of the party. how on earth on something like the nuclear deterrent. the most important single policy of our country , single policy of our country, especially with putin every five seconds saying, i'm going to come after you, i'm going to come after you, i'm going to come after you, i'm going to come after you. if the top two people of our country don't agree with each other on the single most important policy of our country, you know, i'm not saying this is going to lead to a huge change in the voting

pattern of our nation, but isn't that a worry ? isn't that that a worry? isn't that a worry? and what's becoming clear is that starmer is not in charge of his own ship. after all, we've got this shocking division tonight. i think it's shocking anyway. right? remember, i can remember michael foot, right. and he, by the way, had a view about the nuclear deterrent. he didn't want it. so i can also remember, as can your viewers remember, as can your viewers remember jeremy corbyn, who actually was for the campaign of nuclear disarmament, actually was for the campaign of nuclear disarmament , to be nuclear disarmament, to be honest with you. so there we are within the labour party . there within the labour party. there is a very, very strong view that actually we don't want to have a nuclear deterrent at all. and so okay, then we go backwards only, what, 2 or 3 days ago we had the prime minister basically the prime minister basically the prime minister basically the prime minister in waiting, basically saying actually we don't want diane abbott actually to be truthful. and we then had the deputy leader saying, oh yes, we do . well, we know how yes, we do. well, we know how that ended. how can the voters

be sure that when the same issue is put to a potential labour cabinet, that they don't come up with the same answer? >> can keep going on about how it's a changed labour party, it's a changed labour party, it's a changed labour party, it's a changed labour party. and that's what he said. and then literally a few hours later, the deputy leader completely contradicts him and goes out of her way. >> right? she could have said nothing. she could have said shtoom right. she could have not made herself available if she knew this big issue. after all, this was the big. this was the big shout of the day . so she big shout of the day. so she just lies low for the day. you know, nobody knows anything about it or they can guess at it. but she made it absolutely clear that's where i stand. so she's a rallying point. so what is going to happen now right. so on two major issues. right. she has contradicted starmer. what would normally happen. right. and what is going to happen. yeah. well my bet is that come july the 5th when i expect labour to canter home, she is fired. i can't see any other way or starmer's fired . what you

or starmer's fired. what you can't have is you can't have two captains on the bridge. >> this is this is a window into for people thinking about, you know, okay, how would the functioning of a labour government work and if we have had in the last week two key points of difference between a leader and a deputy leader, that's a problem. can i just whizz us on to another big issue, which is labour's private school issues? now keir starmer has come out today and said if private schools close, it's nothing to do with labour's plan to hike vat school fees. well, at least two independent schools have blamed labour's policy for their decision to shut at the end of this school year. what do you make of it? right, because by the way, sorry, just quickly funny thing now is guardian readers are now waking up to the idea that their kids school fees are going to rise and they're not happy. >> okay, there's two important issues here. his argument, which carries no water at all, is that these schools were going to close anyway. okay or are closing anyway. and lots of them have closed under the tories . have closed under the tories. that's true. you add 20% to anything, whether it's avocados, your car or anything you like , your car or anything you like, you're going to see a pushback, right? the other issue is this.

and this is the one that hasn't been dealt with and actually affects my wider family, is that there are a lot of children with education and learning difficulties who are in private schools because their life, and i know this for certain. right was tortured when they went to a state school. absolutely tortured because they aren't 100. they are like 92, but they're not 100. their lives were the bullying was off the scale. they go to a school which deals with this stuff, but it costs money. okay. the boarding aspect costs money. what is going to happen to them? starmer tell me what is going to happen to my wider family? it is an absolute disgrace . this and this absolute disgrace. this and this is going to affect not, not, not 500, not 1000. this could affect affect almost 50,000 of these places . places. >> right. and that you're there just very quickly because of press time. but that member of your wider family, if this came in, would they have been out of that private school, do you think, possibly or because

labour say there's a plan for these people? okay. >> well, i don't know. well, why don't they tell us what the damn plan is? they make up. they make up this stuff as they go along. they can't even defend our nafion they can't even defend our nation with with a nuclear deterrent. what what what what hope have we got that children who have got education and learning and are in private establishments that they're going to carry on being funded. >> calvin, thank you very, very much. impassioned stuff there as kelvin mackenzie, the former editor of the sun coming up, how will the tories respond to this nightmare scenario that nigel farage is standing at the election? well tory candidate daniel kawczynski is live with us shortly , but next, what us shortly, but next, what impact is it going to have nigel standing ? will it have much of standing? will it have much of an impact at all? well, we will debate all of that when my top team returns. this is patrick christys tonight . we are only on christys tonight. we are only on gb news now. it's your weather with alex. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler is sponsors of weather on . gb news.

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gb news. >> it's 10 pm. i'm patrick christys, and it is all go. >> 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. >> and the establishment media lost their minds. >> 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 ? get that, target? >> obviously. >> obviously. >> but how will the tories respond 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. >> i've got a tory mp on live to find out. also, would view the idea of having to use a nuclear weapon as something that was resolved, resulting in a failure in the whole world's diplomatic system. >> there has to be no first use. >> there has to be no first use. >> this is going to be a big issue. >> this is going to be a big issue . labour's nuclear issue. labour's nuclear nightmare. starmer is talking tough, but he and 12 members of his shadow cabinet voted with corbyn and now angela rayner has just contradicted him. plus >> so that that's interesting. fine. and then will you , if one fine. and then will you, if one of you said you weren't particularly sporty beforehand, but the lib dems are back at it with their latest stunt, i think it is trivial. >> it is unserious. i am here talking about what we are doing to protect vulnerable women . to protect vulnerable women. >> yeah, the tories are going big on gender issues and gay pride month has started. i will show you some of the most bonkers stuff that we've already seen. my top panel tonight is express columnist carole malone ,

express columnist carole malone, labour member and journalist benjamin butterworth and spectator political hack james heale. oh, and what happens next here? >> you know, there's a rally on thursday, 1 pm. you can come along to that one. >> it's hilarious, by the way. get ready britain . here we go . get ready britain. here we go. nigel farage is back and he means business. next. >> just after 10:00, your latest gb news and the top story tonight, as you've been hearing nigel farage has said he will stand as the reform uk parliamentary candidate for clacton in essex at the general election in july. speaking at a news conference in london this afternoon to confirm his change of heart, mr farage also announced he'll take over as leader of reform uk. >> 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 meanwhile, rishi sunak has denied he's been stoking a culture war with his pledge to amend the equality act. >> the prime minister says he wants to make clear that sex means biological sex rather than genden 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 lib dems saying there's no need to unpick the act, and first minister and snp leader john minister and snp leaderjohn swinney in scotland said the conservatives plans to change the equalities act is a deliberate attempt to undermine the scottish parliament. sir keir starmer said today labour

is totally committed to the security of the nation and to the uk's nuclear deterrent. he described the trident programme as a fundamental and vital part of our national defence. labour is pledging to build four new nuclear submarines and increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. when he says economic conditions are right, the conservatives say they'll meet that target by 2030. sir keir dismissed concerns, though, that his shadow foreign secretary voted against the uk having nuclear weapons and that angela rayner told labour cnd in 2020 that she wanted the party to work towards a world without nuclear weapons . a world without nuclear weapons. the lib dems have today, as part of their electioneering, been vowing to tackle water pollution as part of their manifesto , as part of their manifesto, they've announced plans for a new protected blue flag status for rivers, this time with legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping and special protection for swimmers

and wildlife. that would include the expansion of marine protected areas to cover at least 50% of the uk's waters by 2030. meanwhile, the scottish party leaders are tonight facing off in an stv leaders debate. conservative snp douglas ross, labour's anas sarwar and lib dems alex cole—hamilton all have been taking part alongside first minister john swinney, who gave this opening statement me as your first minister, i will be totally focused on the issues that matter to you. >> i know these debates can often turn into a bit of a shouting match, but i think the times are far too serious for that. i know that many of you are struggling with the cost of living. i know you want the very best of health care for you and your family. if you're in business, brexit has made your life a lot tougher. i want to sort those issues out. i believe the best way to do that is to ensure decisions are made in scotland. for scotland. >> john swinney speaking there

for the latest stories , do sign for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts . gb news. common alerts. >> buckle up britain this general election just got a lot more interesting. here's the tale of the tape today . at 1024 tale of the tape today. at 1024 this morning, nigel farage tweeted i will be making an emergency general election announcement at 4 pm. today. then at 4 pm, the now former leader of reform uk, richard tice , took to the stage. tice, took to the stage. >> what i'd really like is to invite nigel to be leader of reform uk. absolute delight . he reform uk. absolute delight. he accepted . accepted. >> then nigel farage stands up and says stuff like this the 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 that people will get poorer, but we also know that crime or fear

of crime will get worse. and these are all symptoms of a country that actually is in decline. 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 ? even know what d—day is? >> but then he dropped this bombshell. 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. 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 . in this election. >> now, mr farage thinks that this election is a foregone

conclusion. >> what we also know is that the election is over. it's done . election is over. it's done. labour have won the election. there is not a contest. starmer has won this election. >> yeah, i mean, he was he said that a few times actually. but he does want to lead a revolt. >> so the really big message here is what i'm really calling for . and what i intend to lead for. and what i intend to lead is a political revolt . is a political revolt. >> and then of course, it was time for his trademark flourish at the end, wasn't it? i've done it before. >> i'll do it again. i'll surprise everybody. thank you. >> okay , well, the media >> okay, well, the media proceeded to lose their minds immediately . immediately. >> you come into clacton at 12:00 tomorrow. answer the question. are you coming to clacton at 12:00 tomorrow? >> is the boss gone? >> is the boss gone? >> is the boss gone? >> 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 . don't mean that. >> thank you. mike, man. and despite only being leader for five minutes, there were calls for him to tell everyone when he'd resign. >> 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? if you don't get that, target? >> 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. the latest gb news people polling is this labour leads the way with 46. >> conservatives are on 22, reform are on 10. the lib dems 8, the greens 8. but obviously that was all conducted and published as indeed every poll so far has been before nigel farage's announcement, thus rendering pretty much every single bit of polling data so far this election completely and utterly irrelevant. but none of that polling up really matters . that polling up really matters. it is a new general election now

. nigel farage will stand for reform in clacton. he is now the leader of reform uk and he says that he will for be the next five years. the question is this what impact will this have come july 4th, before i go to my wonderful, magnificent panel on this, i am joined now by former labour mp stephen pound. look, all the noise here is that he's going to give sunak a kicking and the tories are finished and this that and the other. it could well be quite bad news for laboun could well be quite bad news for labour, actually . labour, actually. >> but of course it could. i mean, the thing about nigel farage is he cuts across every single demographic and there's a lot of people in labour seats who actually have a great deal of sympathy with it. >> but patrick, here's the scenario. just just think about this for a moment. the day after the election or sorry, when parliament is recalled , there parliament is recalled, there may be 66 tory mps, far too many in my opinion. but you may be 66 tory mps, far too many in my opinion . but you know, in my opinion. but you know, there probably will be rather more than that. but imagine there's only 100 tory mps and nigel farage is sitting there. do you not think that that group of people who have just been hammered at the polls, who've seen an almost an extinction

event, similar to what happened to the canadian conservatives, do you not think that they'll coalesce around nigel farage? do you think they'll coalesce around someone who is a winner if, assuming he does win ? and i if, assuming he does win? and i think this could actually be an extinction event for the conservative party and the birth of a reform conservative party, and that's going to hit labour, no question about that . but by no question about that. but by god, it's going to bury the conservatives. >> yeah, but i mean , where do >> yeah, but i mean, where do you think he's going to hit laboun you think he's going to hit labour, presumably the red wall, etc, because keir starmer is now getting it from both angles, isn't he. he's getting it from the diane abbott brigade, he's getting it from the pro—palestine brigade. and now he might get it from the working class brexiteers as well. >> well, i don't think there is a diane abbott brigade to be perfect. >> well, i'm still up and outside hackney and hackney town hall and ngozi fulani and he's one of them. >> yeah. no i hear what you're saying. but look, if you're going to, you know, stay up for politics, you're going to get assailed from various quarters, if any politician had 100% of the support from every person in the support from every person in the country, there'd be something seriously wrong, or they'd be putting some something in the water to be perfectly

honest, keir starmer is big enough and strong enough. he can take care of that. but the reality is that there will be some labour voters who were attracted to what nigel is saying, because nigel farage, after all, up there with thatcher and blair as a truly influential politicians of the last 20, 30 years, and he does cut across . so it's not just bad cut across. so it's not just bad news for the tories. it could be bad news for labour. but believe you me, it's not half as bad for us as it will be for the tories. >> i mean, i am reading the latest news tonight and this literally came through to me whilst polly was delivering the headunes whilst polly was delivering the headlines there, and it is actually quite fascinating. this is just landed tonight. apparently tory aides have admitted that the party is, quote, finished now that nigel farage is standing as an mp and they expect defections to reform uk very, very soon. and there were some interesting tweets doing the rounds earlier on from a couple of conservative mps , a couple of conservative mps, with things like the words much to ponder on. how do you expect that? you might see some, that we might see some tory defections here? >> well, much to ponder, you know. and i know what that

means. yeah, we're just going to test the weather and see whether it's worth jumping ship because don't forget, you know, would reform take them? would nigel farage take them? but isn't it interesting that the branding on the conservative battlebus has three colours on it, and the middle one is absolute, totally identical to the reform colour, that shade of blue. you've got three three stripes on it. look at the middle one. it's reform. i think there's something going on here. but the problem , the on here. but the problem, the problem could well be though as you well know, the problem could well be that by the time we are five years into what looks very much like a labour government, keir starmer and your lot will have loaded the dice by letting kids vote. do you think that's not going to make a huge difference? i mean, they've got voting at 16 in scotland and there's more tory mps in scotland than there have been for years. you know, to assume that everybody between 16 and 18 is going to somehow, you know, vote labour. >> it's like, i think the latest polling. no, seriously, i on the way into work this morning, i was looking at this. the latest poll suggests that if voting was just conducted by the 1825 year olds, there wouldn't be a single tory seat . tory seat. >> well, if that's assuming that they'd actually get out and vote. but i mean , when many

vote. but i mean, when many buses from the schools. >> david, i'm telling you now , >> david, i'm telling you now, first, many buses from the school when we reduce the voting from 21 to 18, everybody said, that's it. >> labour are going to be in forever. it didn't make a blind bit of difference. there's plenty of conservatives at that age group. and as i said in scotland you've got more tory mps and you've had for years and you've got voting at 16. >> all right. look stephen, thank you very much. always an absolute pleasure, my good man. i will see you very soon. stephen pound, that former labour mp. right. let's crack on and do my panel, shall we? i've got daily express columnist carole malone. i've got journalist and labour party member benjamin butterworth, and i've also got james heale from the spectator . carole, how big the spectator. carole, how big an impact is nigel going to have at this election? >> oh, i think i think this is this is the tories strategist's worst nightmare. this is their worst nightmare. this is their worst case scenario. and i think it's, as stephen said there, this could be deadly for the tories, no question. but you know, i think stephen pound is wrong when he says that it's not going to affect them. i think now the red wall is going to be completely behind nigel after this. you know, there were there

were kind of wavering before, didn't really trust labour but didn't really trust labour but didn't certainly didn't want to vote tory. this gives them somewhere to go now. and i think you know that, you know farage you know that, you know farage you know, i've watched him with people on the election trail . people on the election trail. he's he's almost he's like a messiah. you know, people follow him. he has a way of connecting with people that other politicians don't. and i think this is. no, you're laughing , this is. no, you're laughing, but it's true. >> you've never throw up my pasta. >> well, well, well, you throw up your pasta, but do it over there. but but this is this is obviously been his plan. i wonder today when he announced this what the game plan was. and the plan obviously is. well, reform is going to get some seats after the election. he's going to reimagine the tory party and i think that a lot of people will expect him to lead the tory party. and, you know, a lot of people, a lot of really respected analysts tonight are saying that this is he's he stands for what a lot of people with conservative values want to see again, people, people who want to hear the truth and fearless i do, i do i do spend rather a lot of time actually sifting through gb news your say

on the tweets and the comments and all of this stuff. >> and when nigel said he wasn't going to be standing, there was a bit of a backlash when i bump into people on the street, you know, they usually asked me how nigel farage is right. that was one of the things which makes me feel great about myself, obviously. but you asked me how nigel farage is, and the thing i was getting was people really wanting to stump well, he is doing that now, benjamin, and it's going to be a nightmare, isn't it ? isn't it? >> well, he's not short of confidence, that's for sure. you know, the essex mandela has come to save us all is basically how that press conference sounded . that press conference sounded. but i would never, you know, underestimate the ability of nigel farage to lose elections. you know, never has a man had so much publicity, so much funding and so much opportunity lost so many elections. >> there were a couple of european elections that i seem to remember him doing rather well in under brexit result, and things have changed since. >> ukip reform is a different party and he's now and can i just say as well, i think it's really decent of richard tice to stand aside and let him lead, because this is the best thing for the i mean, i said to richard tice earlier, you were the future once, you know, all this party is rigged agitated uk

it's just old 70s 80s right wing politics and it is failing for the tories and it will fail on steroids for reform. >> well go on james, your view on this then. come on. >> well, i think it's fascinating that farage is already talking about five years. i think the election after this one and this one, i think you know, it's really about labour making huge gains at the tory expense. what i'm fascinated for is five years time and potentially, if there's a weakened tory party, does that make potentially make the grounds for a farage's kind of entryist movement of some kind, some kind of alliance five years down the line? and i think that's what the really interesting thing about this is that nigel has always been a sort of siren song for the right of politics. he'll always be to certain tory mps and activists as well, the hero of 2016. and so i therefore think he exhibits a really interesting place in the tory hierarchy . the tory hierarchy. >> and he's spoken to him tonight. he's had it. he's had a dnnk tonight. he's had it. he's had a drink with him in the pub. >> go on, go on. tell us about that. well no, he's on good foot. >> well he was in good form tonight. was the westminster arms, his favourite pub, just after launching and looking forward to clacton tomorrow. but he thinks there's something happening out there which is quite interesting, you know, talking it's different from talking to it's different from previous do think previous ones. and i do think what's interesting is that unlike, say, 2015 when he unlike, say, in 2015 when he stood down at south and it was

obviously a tory machine, which sort of took him out there. now the tory party is in a much, much weaker position. and so i think going to be a real think it's going to be a real 5050 race between him and giles watling, clacton, for that seat. >> i do think he has a >> i mean, i do think he has a much better chance this time because, you know, it will affect labour, but nothing like the way it affects the tories because their vote is so soft, because their vote is so soft, because this election isn't about policies , it's about about policies, it's about punishment. they will vote for anybody they think can punish the tories hardest. and if that means farage in clacton, i suspect it's possible there was a survey done in january. >> it wasn't there where it says that if he stood in clacton, this was back in january, that he would beat me and come. the tory incumbent by ten percentage points. that's got to be more than double. >> well, i thought the most i thought the most interesting answer today was when kemi badenoch in the morning said that she wouldn't welcome farage into the party after the election. and i think that's going to be a real dividing line come the next relationship. >> well, it's a good thing. it's a good thing that you all say this because next we do have a conservative candidate formerly known as an mp until the election was called. so i can put a lot of this stuff to him. but before that, i am now duty bound to tell you everybody who is standing in clacton. so there we go. they're getting a lot of

pubuchy we go. they're getting a lot of publicity tonight. are they? joven ayuso nepal of the labour party , giles watling, party, giles watling, conservative party matthew bensalem, the lib dems nigel farage, reform uk, natasha osborne, the green party that list may well change because the deadune list may well change because the deadline isn't until later this week and we will publish a full list on our website when it is finalised. and we did invite all of them on the show, right? coming up, what's got kemi badenoch back up over at the bbc? >> there's not for you or me for that matter, to decide which shows she should be able to go on because the presenter may have said something inappropriate before. we've had lots of scenarios of bbc presenters saying things that are inappropriate. >> we've got that. i'm also going to be showing you all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages , but what is going on here? >> you know , there's a rally on >> you know, there's a rally on thursday, 1 pm. you can come along to that one. >> the outcome of that, by the way, is absolutely hilarious. now we'll show it to you shortly. but first, yes, reform uk's new leader, nigel farage is running at the general election. what impact is this going to have at the tories? okay, well,

tory candidate, now formerly mp daniel kawczynski is live and i can't wait to hear what he has to can

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages are coming in very, very soon. but. yeah. look. hey, the big story of the day is this, isn't it? nigel farage sent shockwaves through british politics by announcing he will not only

become leader of reform uk, but he will be standing in clacton , he will be standing in clacton, 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, political revolt. yes, a revolt, a turning of our backs on the political status quo . it doesn't work. >> well, farage is announcement is a huge headache for rishi sunak with an exclusive gb news poll today revealing that the new reform uk leader is the favourite to replace rishi sunak among 2019 conservative voters . among 2019 conservative voters. i am joined now by the conservative party candidate daniel kawczynski. daniel, look, thank you very, very much . this thank you very, very much. this is the nightmare scenario for you, isn't it ? you, isn't it? >> well, i think the way in which nigel has last week, he wasn't standing this week he is standing for a seat and all of a sudden he's going to be leader of reform, i watched your interview with mr tice.

apparently, the deputy leader of reform wasn't aware that mr farage was going to become the leader . i farage was going to become the leader. i think the conduct in which he has self crowned himself as leader would make a dictator of a banana republic blush. i mean, these are not things that happen in normal, mature political parties . okay? mature political parties. okay? >> but i, i get that, daniel, i get that, but it has happened and now you have to deal with it. so how on earth do the tories deal with it? because nigel farage appears to be incredibly popular. reform are polling at 12. i mean, the tories are potentially heading to being the third party, aren't they? >> well, we have just become the world's fourth largest exporter in the world, how how have we managed to do that? quite an extraordinary achievement. we've just moved up three rankings and become the world's fourth largest exporter. the media don't really talk about the successes of this country, but exports are absolutely critical to our nation. and we're making

great strides with the economy. of course, the pandemic blew a massive black hole in the state of the public finances , £450 of the public finances, £450 billion. but we are turning around the economy and going from strength to strength. and the counterintuitive behaviour of mr farage is very worrying because he is splitting the ride in this country and if he facilitates , it's a starmer facilitates, it's a starmer government with a large majority that will inevitably attempt to . that will inevitably attempt to. >> but his line, his line, daniel, is that the tories were facing oblivion anyway. and you were, weren't you? so what difference does that make? and can i ask? kemi badenoch has said that she wouldn't want to be a tory mp under a party that nigel farage was a member of? if nigel farage was a member of? if nigel farage was a member of? if nigel farage joined the conservatives, would you leave ? conservatives, would you leave? >> well, i certainly wouldn't. i mean, i could never imagine nigel farage becoming leader of the conservative party. so, you know, that's a hypothetical question. and i know that he

would never want to leave lead the conservative party so, you know, that's a very hypothetical question. but i go back to my earlier point. this is a herculean battle of wills with a socialist and sir keir has described himself as a socialist. all socialist governments have increased unemployment. all socialist governments have run out of other people's money. just at the time when we are turning a corner after the pandemic , nigel corner after the pandemic, nigel farage is splitting the vote for the right of centre people. and if he facilitates a starmer government with a huge majority that will lead us back into the european union, i think there will be millions of people out there who want support of farage. >> yeah. is there not an argument to say that actually , argument to say that actually, whilst nigel might not be necessarily helping from your point of view and i can understand that. okay, then actually the tories have done this to themselves. we've had socialist style taxation , we've socialist style taxation, we've had mass immigration at record levels, we've had illegal

immigration at record levels. there is a housing crisis . the there is a housing crisis. the nhs is on its knees. the roads are an absolute shocker . nhs is on its knees. the roads are an absolute shocker. and all of that has happened with the conservatives and not all of thatis conservatives and not all of that is to do with the fact that we've had a pandemic and putin has invaded ukraine. nigel farage might not be helping , but farage might not be helping, but the reason we might be about to get a socialist government is because of you, isn't it? >> well, if you look at the last 14 years of this conservative government, when we came into office, as you will remember, we were handed a note, a good luck. there's no money left for the first nine years. we had to reduce an annual deficit of 183 billion down to 2019, when we balanced the books, we balance the books for the first time since margaret thatcher. think what? where we would be today if it wasn't for the fact that the next year, 2020, we had a pandemic. the pandemic has artificially skewed our economy , artificially skewed our economy, and the conservative government has done everything correctly in the first nine years of this

administration to make sure britain gets back into the black and has a sustainable economy. so i'm very proud of what the conservative party has done over the last 14 years. and let's not forget what the socialists said when we were reducing the annual deficit every single year from 2010 to 2019. they called it austerity. they wanted to us to continue to spend money prolifically. can you imagine where the united kingdom would be today if we had had a government that was spending money that had not reduced the deficit? no, i think the conservative government, but, you know, not not nigel is now not nigel is now standing in clacton. >> there is a 24 and a bit thousand conservative majority party in clacton. nigel obviously feels confident he'll win that. does that not say quite a lot about the discontent with the conservatives at the moment? >> well, nigel was saying that he was going it was going to win south thanet at the previous election . if you remember, he election. if you remember, he was saying that he was going to become a member of parliament. i

think he's lost seven elections. is it now in a row ? is it now in a row? >> didn't didn't the conservatives overspend and break rules and somebody got a suspended nine month prison sentence though for going up against him there. >> no i'm not aware of those allegations okay. >> all right. i think there was i think there was a campaign spending. there were issues there. nigel, nigel was raising was raising those. look another another big issue, another big issue at this election is, rishi sunak now being urged by some of his own mps to ditch all net zero pledges. the pop cons have said that he should ditch all net zero pledges, and that would be a big vote winner. look, nigel is running. you're behind in the polls. is it time for him to do something radical and just put all this green stuff in the bin? >> well , bin? >> well, certainly i'm very proud that the united kingdom has reduced co2 emissions at a faster rate than all of our , g20 faster rate than all of our, g20 competitors. the united kingdom represents less than 1% of co2 emissions. and yet we have moved faster than all of our major competitors . yes, i would

competitors. yes, i would support that policy. it's something i think jacob rees—mogg and others and liz truss have urged the prime minister i would very much back that move because i think the united kingdom has already done far more than all of our major competitors . and let's not competitors. and let's not forget, if we move even faster and we increase costs for companies, particularly those that are very dependent on energy, like the steel industry and others, that will make our competitive edge blunted, on the international arena . international arena. >> so. so sunak should do that. yeah, he should just you should just do it . yeah, he should just you should just do it. but what if he doesn't do it? he's got he's got four and a bit weeks now . four and a bit weeks now. >> well, let's wait and see what's in the manifesto. but to go back to your earlier point on immigration, i to like every other conservative candidate, wants to see a reduction of both legal and illegal migration. the only game in town for illegal migration is the rwanda issue. and planes would have and will take off this summer. sir keir starmer has committed himself to

scrapping the whole scheme and has no alternative. so again, highly counterintuitive behaviour by mr farage. on the one hand, he wants to tackle illegal immigration, but on the other hand he is facilitating a socialist coming into power with a large majority, potentially with no plan to deal with illegal immigration. i just don't understand why he's not being challenged on that point. >> all right, daniel, thank you very much for your time this evening. daniel kawczynski conservative party candidate. all the best coming up. should labour adopt the lib dems manifesto pledge to offer free school meals to every single primary school pupil? there are a heck of a lot of policies that are just whizzing under the radar at the moment. that is one of them. free school meals, every primary school pupil, lib dems well, tonight's panel are going to be debating that. but next we run through the very first of tomorrow's front pages. they are hot off the press and there is some fruity stuff knocking about about genden

welcome back to patrick christys . tonight. it's a bumper news day, so let's do the front pages, shall we? starting with the metro tories face a record rout. yougov poll predicts historic labour win, let's go to the independent farage election shock. i will stand as an mp and leader of reform. dismay for tories as nigel farage enters the fray . i will just at tories as nigel farage enters the fray. i will just at this point let you know as well that there is some story doing the rounds about how, behind the scenes, the tories are saying that this is a disaster and they are expecting defections to reform . watch this space. let's reform. watch this space. let's go to the guardian tory alarm as farage takes control of reform uk. keep a very close eye on what the polls do in the next few days. that would be my message to you. the i farage blows apart tory election plan with surprise challenge to sunak tories announced plans to cap illegal immigration, illegal immigration to uk if they win election in apparent counter move to farage. i suppose the

question there is do we believe anything? the times farage his return new poll deal blow to sunak. return new poll deal blow to sunak . ex—ukip leader will head sunak. ex—ukip leader will head reform and he's going to stand in essex. this comes amid yougov predicting labour's biggest ever win. wow, the daily mail. i'll tell you what. these front pages are stark, aren't they? double blow for sunak. are stark, aren't they? double blow for sunak . ritchie's blow for sunak. ritchie's darkest hour, 4 pm. farage stuns number 10 by revealing he will lead. 5 pm. bombshell poll shows labour heading for biggest election victory. i do wonder, you know, was calling this election actually seriously one of the worst political decisions ever made? daily telegraph i'm back to lead the revolt. reform can win more votes than the tories, says farage and richard tice was on my show earlier on. he was saying that they want to win more votes than the tories. it will not equate to many seats because of the way our election system works. fair enough, they know that. but he's he's eyeing

up 8 million votes. well, there we go anyway. right? with me now is my wonderful panel. as ever, ihave is my wonderful panel. as ever, i have got daily express columnist carole malone, journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth , and benjamin butterworth, and political correspondent for the spectator, james hale. now look , spectator, james hale. now look, keir starmer has boldly declared that labour is the party of national security, insisting he's ready to press that nuclear button. however, the tories quickly pointed out that back in 2016, some of his top frontbenchers, including the shadow foreign secretary david lammy, and his deputy leader angela rayner, voted against the renewal of the trident nuclear deterrent. and despite the constant cries of a changed labour party, rayner doubled down today by saying she hasn't changed her mind on trident. but starmer did hit back . starmer did hit back. >> 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, carol, i mean, angela rayner has said she hasn't changed her position. >> that means she hasn't changed her mind since she voted against the nukes. >> yeah , this is twice in the >> yeah, this is twice in the last week that angela rayner has , has, has embarrassed and humiliated the leader of the party. >> and which says to me that the party now are a they're split more split than they ever were , more split than they ever were, and they certainly will be split on security. i mean , it was only on security. i mean, it was only ten days ago when starmer refused to commit to spending 2.5% of gdp on defence. he's rowed back on that now. but i think this party is split now on many things and we're going to see those splits after the election. >> benjamin, your your views on this, i mean that is an astonishing . angela rayner astonishing. angela rayner should just kept her mouth shut. she's piped up. and why she's she's she's running the show. >> i mean, to be fair, the opinions she expressed a few years ago was that she thinks we should have a world without nuclear weapons , which is rather nuclear weapons, which is rather different than saying we shouldn't have britain. you know, i don't think anyone wants a world campaign for a bloke who didn't want us to have nuclear

weapons. yeah, i mean, look, jeremy corbyn is a skidmark on the history of the labour party, but they all tried to get him elected twice. he couldn't be. yeah, but it's like saying that if someone becomes vice president of a firm that's losing money and then they become the president and it starts becoming profitable , starts becoming profitable, well, you don't blame them for when they started the job. you blame them for the job they do . blame them for the job they do. and that's how i see keir starmer. he's fixed the company. he's doing a you know, an incredible job, fixed the company . company. >> well, he's got labour division. >> so well i mean there's a this is the big problem for labour, which is that unfortunately they've only got 200 mps right how. >> now. >> you've got a dozen of them on the front bench who voted against this back in 2016, the last vote. and of course, the person who keir starmer wants to be his foreign secretary. his emissary to the world is david lammy , who gave a big speech lammy, who gave a big speech 2016. so you can never conceive of any idea , any world when he of any idea, any world when he would use these nuclear weapons. and of course, he's going to be the man with the finger on the button. >> yeah, interesting. >> yeah, interesting. >> but i mean, there's a lot of talk that david lammy will not be foreign secretary. douglas alexander, who will return as a may return as an mp , you know, may return as an mp, you know, he was he is mooted as a foreign secretary >> that's great. if you put a

few noses out of joint, they're gonna be fighting like rats in a sack, fighting like rats in a sack. >> well, anyway, look, we've all become used to. this is good. this, right? we've all become used to pro—palestine activists wreaking havoc. but one professor at the university of sydney decided to take matters into his own hands. so apparently , in his class, people apparently, in his class, people kept storming in and just shouting about palestine. right? so he'd had enough of it. well this time he was ready because one pro—palestine student into erupted her lecture again. >> obviously , has security here >> obviously, has security here to stop us talking about palestine in your class , which palestine in your class, which is generally sort of outside the usual activity at this university, if you're opposed to the genocide in palestine. you know, there's a rally on thursday, 1:00 pm. you can come along to that one. >> oh, fantastic. love it. anyway, right now, kemi badenoch

came out all guns blazing on her media round today, proving that sheisnt media round today, proving that she isn't willing to take any nonsense from the establishment media during this election campaign. here she is giving bbc presenter mishal husain a dressing for down her line of questioning about former prime minister liz truss appearing on the lotus eaters podcast. >> i wonder if you think it is appropriate for any conservative candidate in this election to appear on a podcast associated with carl benjamin , who's the with carl benjamin, who's the youtuber who once joked about jess phillips, the labour mp, saying he wouldn't even rape her because let's be honest, nobody's got that much beer. >> it is not for you or me, for that matter, to decide which shows she should be able to go on because the presenter may have said something inappropriate before. we've had lots of scenarios of bbc presenters saying things that are inappropriate. i don't know about this show , i don't know about this show, i don't know what he said, and i don't like making comments on things like that that i don't know. i think it is trivial, it is unserious. i am here talking about what we

are doing to protect vulnerable women . what someone said on women. what someone said on a podcast, i don't even know who this person is , is immaterial to this person is, is immaterial to the policies that we're putting forward for this election. >> okay, so that is kemi badenoch they're piping up, she was really doing the rounds today as well, discussing the tories position on gender. there is now a big gap between where labour are on it and where the conservatives are on it. will that be enough to move the dial? i don't know, the conservatives are basically saying that they aren't really going to clamp down on the fact that they want to make gender a biological fact. again there is the other side to it, is there not? which is that all the issues that we've got with, you know, men in female spaces, etc, all started well or came to fruition really under the conservatives. but coming up, we pay tribute to rugby star and charity fundraiser rob burrow, who sadly passed away yesterday. as i crowned tonight's greatest britain and union jack aslef more front pages for you as well, so make sure that you stay tuned to patrick christys

welcome back to gb news. i have a few more front pages for you. let's do it . all right. it's let's do it. all right. it's two, actually. daily express vote for farage is more likely to end up with starmer in number 10. look we've been hearing this. that is the conservative line. that is an exclusive interview with the prime minister. the tories are just saying if you vote for rajghat laboun saying if you vote for rajghat labour, the counter to that is you're going to get labour anyway. the mirror sunak election crisis mega poll predicts conservative wipe—out total meltdown. that's the headune total meltdown. that's the headline they are going for , but headline they are going for, but i'm joined again by my wonderful press pack is carol maloney, is benjamin butterworth, and it is james heale as well. now let's have a little bit from ed davey, shall we? definitely not for legal reasons. ed davey is keen to dish out hot dinners to children in need after announcing his free school meal pledge. >> i'm determined in the way that marcus rashford managed to do for a short period to take on

that mantle as the liberal democrats and argue for more free school meals, insert jokes here about marcus rashford missing several open goals this season, but the lib dems have challenged labour to match their £500 million pledge to deal with the nation's hungry child crisis, with the government providing free school meals to for 4 to 7 year olds. >> apparently , and only to older >> apparently, and only to older children meeting poverty requirements. there's an estimated 900,000 children not benefiting from a free school meal. james is there any point to this policy? >> well, of course there is. >> well, of course there is. >> yeah, it's trying to put labour on the back foot and make all their activists feel good. i mean, i think the danger is, of course, is that it ends up being a to the middle classes who don't actually need the money. i think the money should be targeted. it goes actually people who need the free school meals, i think we've already got an existing scheme. why not look at expanding that rather than going for a massive scheme like the lib dems have done here? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> why should why should you know middle class get know middle class kids get a free school meal? what's the point ? means free school meal? what's the point? means testing. >> based on the lib dems >> well, based on the lib dems history of policies on education, they'll probably end up the price school

up tripling the price of school meals instead after what they did with tuition fees. can i just say also the daily mail front page nadine dorries says death is not the end, which i think is pretty fitting for a conservative politician. >> what's that got to do with free school meals? commenting on the paper i thought you'd just get you just get your joke in before. yeah, never mind the show. >> why should why should you know? it's ridiculous . know? it's ridiculous. >> someone on a, you know, a couple on 100 grand a year with a couple of kids under age five? why should they get free school dinners? why should people like me be paying for other middle class people with their kids of course, free school meals should go to families where they can't afford it, but not to everyone. it's mad. >> but this is interesting. do you think we should subsidise private schools? >> we could well end up. we could well end up with a labour government. we could end up with a lib dem opposition, by the way. but. or certainly something, something very close to that. and if this is the kind of stuff they're putting out there, you know, not only do middle class families not, i don't think want their kids to get free school dinners. they also don't want to be made to pay also don't want to be made to pay higher taxes. so everybody, everyone else who lives around seven oaks can get a free school

meal as well. i just find that bizarre really bizarre. but anyway, oh, i believe i believe we have a we have a clarification. we have a clarification. we have a clarification. angela rayner, the deputy leader of the labour party, has taken to twitter to clarify her position on trident. this is the nuclear stuff . here this is the nuclear stuff. here we go. i fully support labour's triple lock on trident. i've never supported unilateral disarmament . she also told the disarmament. she also told the bbc our nuclear deterrent is more important than ever in a world where putin's war is on europe's doorstep, the vote that we had some years ago mentioned nothing about multilateral disarmament . and that's what i disarmament. and that's what i feel is really important for long term , is that globally, we long term, is that globally, we should be looking for disarmament of nuclear weapons , disarmament of nuclear weapons, but that has to be done with a combination of other countries . combination of other countries. all right. lovely, okay. and, well , as all right. lovely, okay. and, well, as well, this weekend marked the beginning of pride month, and i've been mentioning this all day. so big brands like mercedes—benz and bp have given their logos a makeover. but what you'll notice here is on the left, we have woke virtue signalling. all right from their

western brands. on the right of your screen. what you'll be seeing is their middle eastern brands, where of course, gay rights are severely restricted andindeed rights are severely restricted and indeed often punishable by death. so they've decided not to include the rainbow flag for mercedes—benz middle east or any of the saudi arabian companies there, for example. but over closer to home, now to the natural history museum. get this in the latest scene of totally needless and pointless corporate virtue signalling about gay stuff. they've published a little gay natural history book which promises to quote shed a light on the diversity of non—heteronormative biology . non—heteronorm ative biology. interesting. non—heteronormative biology. interesting. this isn't it a little gay? this is the kind of thing that absolutely no. oh, good. they've quoted stephen fry , he says, a very welcome slap on the wrist. for those who claim that same sex love, intimacy and bonding are unnatural . well, carol, you know unnatural. well, carol, you know the corporations need to do this. >> this is ten different kinds of tosh, you know, how does it the writer of this book is a guy called joss, josh davies. how does he know the jellyfish can

be bisexual? i don't quite understand science . there's understand science. there's something called a bicolour parrotfish, which is apparently sex fluid. and this guy is stuck. and for stephen fry to dignify with this ridiculous. of course, he also says it's a silencer of bigots. so if we're going to be bigoted towards jellyfish, stephen fry is there too. >> well, well, look, i mean , >> well, well, look, i mean, benjamin, you know, is this is this what the gay community has been crying out for, this pride? >> well, you'd be advocating for book burning next. look the fact is ridiculous. this is an institution that works on science and history. and clearly, most giraffes , for clearly, most giraffes, for example, are bisexual. right? so next time you see a giraffe, you know it goes both ways. >> we know that you have turtles. >> your gay, i think your gay dog in the second edition. >> i think only the chronically ignorant would have a problem with a book about the science of the different sexualities of different animals. >> i think my, my, can i say there are sexuality is found in pretty much every species on the planet. >> you think bigotry is only found in one and that's human beings. >> oh, oh , what? bigotry is only >> oh, oh, what? bigotry is only found? oh, yeah. great, because .

found? oh, yeah. great, because. because people in the wild, the animal kingdom, they really they really treat everyone with respect, don't they? what are you saying? oh, come on, you think the bisexual giraffe. i've watched attenborough documentaries . there's something documentaries. there's something eating the face of one of their own creatures. they eat their young all sorts. not because they're gay, not because they're gay - they're gay, not because they're gay . right, they're gay, not because they're gay. right, james? the they're gay, not because they're gay . right, james? the corporate gay. right, james? the corporate minefield that is now navigating the middle east at pride. >> yeah. i mean, what can i say? they want to sell products, don't they? you know, and they've basically doing it all for what their consumers want. so i think it just reflects what's interesting about sort of values when they talk about it is values in some fields but not in others. oh animal farm there. >> we're going to have to be absolutely rapido with this greatest britain union jack ass time. everybody carol, quick, quick now. greatest britain man is a fabulous rob burrow who's courageous battle against motor neurone disease. >> entered at the weekend when he died aged just 41. he rob leaves behind a wife and three young kids and he was diagnosed with this in 2019 after he'd done 17 seasons with leeds rhinos, you know this man has never shown a scrap of

self—pity. he's fought right to the end to make to raise awareness of motor neurone disease. and he's raised an incredible £20 million. and the world hasn't just lost a great sportsman. it's lost a great human being. >> all right , go human being. >> all right, go on. benjamin, mine is sydney christmas. who's the woman that won britain's got talent last night? and i don't usually care for these shows these days, but, i mean, she is somewhere between stacey solomon and hannah waddingham, and she's just brilliant. >> go on. minds. >> go on. minds. >> jude bellingham for winning the champions league this weekend. hopefully going to win the euros. and i think you give rishi sunak a lesson in media management too. >> oh, 100% right. okay. well the winner is rob burrow for being just such a fantastic human being. now we've got union jack as carol mansfield schofield, the disgraced itv presenter who left this morning in disgrace, having had an affair with a young runner and lied about it. >> and now he's now enlisted as his manager. his daughter molly, which was astonishing. i mean, i just found it maybe there's no one else will employ him. i don't know, but but she was actually in the office of ymu who represented him when he went on telly schofield and told the

world about what had happened. i just think it's a bit, a bit off to employ your daughter to reinvent your image. it's not right. >> okay. go on very quickly . >> okay. go on very quickly. >> okay. go on very quickly. >> the lawyers will be on email, my union jackass is the maldives because they've banned anyone with an israeli passport. and it's just racism. >> it is outright racism. oh, god. >> and mine's david olusoga, the historian, for basically slagging off the honour system, having accepted an honour himself. >> yeah, 100. and he's the winner tonight of the union jackass. yes, indeed. the chap who appeared on harry and meghan's netflix documentary slagging off the gutter press shortly before they played a clip of me. so there we go. right. okay thank you, thank you, thank you everybody, and thank you very much for watching and tuning in. i have got another bumper week of shows lined up for you. the general election is happening. we are right at the centre of it. headune right at the centre of it. headline is next. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news.

>> hello again. very good evening to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. whilst it is going to stay dry for many of us, as we go through the rest of today, we can expect some wet weather pushing its way in as we go into tomorrow. that's an association with a feature currently out in the atlantic, and it's heading its way towards the uk. for the time being though, we are going to have a lot of dry weather as we go through the rest of this evening and overnight. some places will see some clear skies developing, but many areas sticking with largely cloudy skies and then rain pushing its way in initially across parts of northern ireland but reaching far western parts of scotland, england and wales later on. because of the largely cloudy skies, temperatures not dropping a huge amount but some places under the clear skies could just about drop into single figures. if we take a closer look at what will be happening first thing tomorrow morning, and it's a generally fine picture across many southern southeastern parts. yes, a bit of cloud across east anglia , but on the across east anglia, but on the whole a dry story here. different picture further north and west though. rain across northern ireland, northwest england parts of wales and also a large chunk of scotland as

well. waking up to a pretty wet start as that wet weather pushes its way in eastern scotland may be clinging on to some fine weather for a little bit longer, but across far northern parts of scotland here there will be some hefty showers around and some of these could turn pretty heavy, possibly even thundery . as we go possibly even thundery. as we go through the day, the rain is gradually going to make its way south eastwards, but southeastern parts of the country likely to stay pretty dry by the time the system arrives here. it will have broken up so much that i'm only expecting 1 or 2 spots of rain, if anything. and in the southeast, temperatures still on the warm side. highs of around 2223 celsius, but something markedly fresher towards the northwest. behind the front. as we look into wednesday, it is going to be a

gb news. >> it's 11:00 here with gb news news. in a moment. headliners. but first, let's take you through the latest news headunes through the latest news headlines and the top story tonight, nigel farage has said he will stand as the reform uk

party candidate for clacton in essex in the general election . essex in the general election. speaking at a news conference this afternoon in london 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 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 we'll rishi sunak for the conservatives has denied that he's stoking a culture war today with his pledge to amend the equality 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 ban men who identify as women from single—sex spaces, including hospital wards and sports events. labour has called the policy an election distraction .

policy an election distraction. ian.the policy an election distraction. ian. the lib dems say there's no need to unpick the equality act, and first minister and snp leader in scotland, john swinney says the conservatives plans to change the equalities act are a deliberate attempt to undermine in the scottish parliament. meanwhile, sir keir starmer says labouris meanwhile, sir keir starmer says labour is totally committed to the security of the nation and to the uk's nuclear deterrent. he described the trident programme as a fundamental and vital part of our national defence. labour is pledging to build four new nuclear submarines and increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. when he says economic conditions are right, the conservatives say they'll meet that target by 2030. sir keir, though dismissed concerns that his shadow foreign secretary voted against the uk having nuclear weapons and that the labour leader, deputy angela raynen the labour leader, deputy angela rayner, told labour cnd in 2020 that she wanted the party to work towards a world without nuclear weapons . the lib

work towards a world without nuclear weapons. the lib dems have been campaigning today