hard work country where people's hard work is rewarded. >> rishi sunak promises tax, tax cuts in the tory manifesto after a weekend from hell, and he remains adamant he won't quit. >> own ministers are being asked whether you might resign . whether you might resign. >> has that crossed your mind? >> has that crossed your mind? >> no, of course not. i'm energised about the vision that we're putting forward for the country . country. >> also on the way tonight , i'm >> also on the way tonight, i'm afraid at the moment all marriage plans are off. should the tories welcome nigel farage into the party and unite the right? plus i'm just wearing it to wind up the minister for common sense . he's wokeism the common sense. he's wokeism the new religion. we hear from anti—woke . professor eric anti—woke. professor eric kaufmann also will analyse the rise of the rights in the eu elections as a rattled emmanuel macron calls a snap election in france. so will the uk's potential lurch to the left leave it as an outsider in

europe? and on my panel tonight, its top columnist, carole malone, journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth and founding chairman of global britain uk, a man bogle. and founding chairman of global britain uk, a man bogle . oh, and britain uk, a man bogle. oh, and is the lib dem manifesto strong enough to swing the election ? enough to swing the election? strap yourselves in. let's do this . this. rishi sunak's down, but not out. next . next. >> ben. thank you. good evening. well the top story from the gb news room today is that two boys have become the youngest convicted murderers in britain since the killing of two year old james bulger in 1993. the 12 year olds were found guilty of

murdering a man with a machete in a wolverhampton park last yeah in a wolverhampton park last year. they stabbed 19 year old sean season—high in november in an unprovoked attack. the jury's decision to convict both boys was unanimous. his parents have said they'll never recover from the loss of their son. well, in other news today, the prime minister says he never considered quitting despite heavy criticism over his early departure from d—day commemorations in normandy last week. it comes after the prime minister kept a low profile over the weekend, avoiding questions from reporters as rumours circulated that he may step down. well, now he's vowing he will not stop fighting for the future of our country . labour, future of our country. labour, meanwhile, is promising to deliver free breakfast clubs in schools as part of a new child care plan they say will save parents over £400 every year. they're also claiming it will cut almost half a million days

of school absences for parents who already pay for before school childcare. labour says funded breakfast clubs could cut the cost by up to £50 a week. liberal democrat leader sir ed davey has launched his party's manifesto with a pitch to voters based on boosting the nhs and social care. sir ed also said that unlike those of labour and the tories, their plans were fully costed, adding that more people are coming to the liberal democrat cause and you fought. reform uk has set out its economic policy for the election campaign . their plans include campaign. their plans include raising the personal tax threshold excuse me, to £20,000. excuse me again abolishing ir35 for sole traders and raising the vat threshold for small businesses to £150,000. now in

france. i've cleared my throat. now i can tell you about this. president macron has decided to call a snap election after losing to marine le pen's right wing national rally party. i'll tell you more about that. oh, here's the pictures. he made the announcement following his significant defeat and then dissolved the french parliament, the german chancellor, olaf scholz. social democrats were also beaten in yesterday's european elections by the right wing opposition . the right wing wing opposition. the right wing parties did not do so well, however, in finland and sweden. but they did make gains in italy and austria , and tributes and austria, and tributes continue to come in after the death of tv nutritionist doctor michael mosley. police in greece say doctor mosley died from natural causes after his body was found following a four day search effort. the 67 year old went missing after leaving his wife and friends on the island of symi on wednesday. he appears to have taken the wrong route home and collapsed where he couldn't easily be seen by search teams. earlier on today, mosley's trust me i'm a doctor co—star doctor saliha hassan

paid tribute to her mentor and friend . for the latest stories. friend. for the latest stories. do sign up to gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. comment shirts i >> -- >> very good evening to you. now rishi sunak, he's just faced a fresh grilling from the bbc's nick robinson in the first of bbc panorama's leader interviews, and the lead presenter from the bbc, mr robinson , questioned whether the robinson, questioned whether the prime minister was conservative enough to compete with a certain nigel farage. >> is there a lot of people looking at him and you? >> they think these conservatives that he's a kind of sunday roast with all the trimmings and you're a quinoa salad. >> and you said to me, well, are you a conservative enough? well, here's, here's what we're offering . lower taxes, protected offering. lower taxes, protected pensions, increase in defence spending, a more sensible approach to net zero, and a clear plan to both stop the boats and bring down the levels of migration .

of migration. >> okay, let's get the thoughts of my panel. daily express columnist carole malone, journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth, and founding chairman for global britain uk aman bogle. founding chairman for global britain uk aman bogle . carole, britain uk aman bogle. carole, let's start with you. first of all, i mean, that was a completely bizarre slice of the interview. they're talking about nigel being a fully fledged roast dinner and rishi sunak a quinoa salad. that aside, i'd expect nothing else from nick robinson, of course, because he's absolutely not on the side of the tories, which he makes clear every single day on the today show. do you understand that, though? what's he talking about ? about? >> well, of course i understand what he's talking about. what he's trying to say is, you know that nigel is the meat of like, the conservative meat, which is what we're the tories are looking for. and he's just a very pale imitation of it. he's the vegetarian imitation of it, which, you know, in many ways, i think is probably true currently. you know, rishi has shown more guts , i think, more shown more guts, i think, more gumption in the past month than he's shown throughout his entire leadership. but it's just too late now. the electorate are just too angry. >> benjamin, your wokeist man in

britain. i'm sure you have got a penchant for quinoa salads. what did you make of that? >> well, i actually don't like salad, which is evident from the size of me, but, you know, i think the fact is that, you know, elections are not won from the right, but he has a problem that in this short election campaign, he needs to try and stop a complete disaster where the conservative party is wiped out. >> and the main threat of that happening is clearly from nigel farage and reform. but he's already given up the chance of winning the election. if you look at where he's touring the country, he's going only to conservative held seats, not anything else, just the safest tory seat. so that shows what a disaster it is. but do i think he's a sort of conservative? the idea that nigel farage would want. well, no he's not. but you're never going to win a majority like that. >> well, look, you say elections aren't won from the right, but the conservatives aren't going to win. surely it's argued from the same position they're in. i mean, some would argue they're left of centre . left of centre. >> well, those people would be wrong. >> so there needs to do something. surely >> the fact is that i think it's more basic than that for rishi sunak. i think people don't

believe him. they don't believe that he understands the lives and the problems that people are facing. and i think ever since the d—day mistake, he is dead in the d—day mistake, he is dead in the water, whatever he says. >> yeah, he was a massive gaffe, man. let's get your thoughts. >> i mean, look, i think look, ben, i think in politics what matters is cut through. >> and i would argue on the contrary, you know, elections in the uk are won from the right. we saw that with stonking majority that boris scott, let's look at what happened in europe overnight, look uk, the united kingdom is inherently a conservative country and i think what is needed is reform to conserve the best of what is british. and i think rishi is going to find it inherently more difficult to counter what nigel is offering. and that is, to, to, to deliver what the conservatives have been offering for the last 14 years. carol you had something to say? >> yeah, i was just going to say, you know , i kind of half say, you know, i kind of half agree with something ben said there, which is which is a revelation itself. you know, when he said that the d—day thing, he kind of lost it. you

know, what that showed to me was and i know we're going to talk about this later. i don't believe for a second, rishi, unpatriotic. however, i do believe he hasn't got his finger on the pulse of the people in this country, of the of the working people in this country and that that is because he's he's never lived among working people . he doesn't understand people. he doesn't understand what they need. he doesn't understand how they think. if he did, he would never have left that detail. >> well, he'd argue his mum's a pharmacist and they worked in a chemist and you know, but you know, but a pharmacist is middle class in itself. >> you know, we're not talking about pharmacists. we're talking about pharmacists. we're talking about the fact if he had a if he was tuned in to the zeitgeist, the thought of this country, he would know that leaving that d—day thing would be catastrophic. >> did you watch? i'm not sure if you watched the whole interview, but at the very start of it, nick robinson, who by the way, i mean, i'll be honest, it was quite a bizarre interview. he said a couple of times, you've got a nerve, haven't you? you've got a nerve. >> well, to sunak, yeah. >> well, to sunak, yeah. >> forgetting that he'd used that phrase once or twice already, it was very strange. but at the start of it, he was he was basically saying that, i

lost my train of thought. what was i going to say? basically saying that he wasn't conservative enough. he didn't understand, as you just said, carol, the working class of the nation. but i argue and many others argue, just because you've got money, that doesn't mean you don't. you can't connect with people from working class. >> the kind of billions that rishi has that is disposable, it makes it less. it makes it less for easy you to understand. but but i think, you know, i think that he and a lot of the tories aren't as conservative as other people. and the tory party, that's part of the reason they. >> let me show you another clip. rishi sunak. he also promised tax cuts in tomorrow's manifesto but was forced to defend raising the tax burden to the highest level in 70 years. look at this. >> you say that you're cutting taxes. you've cut a bit of a nerve, haven't you? under rishi sunak as chancellor and then prime minister, the total tax bill in this country has gone up by £93 billion a year. that's even more than jeremy corbyn wants to put on people. >> so yes , you're right about >> so yes, you're right about the overall tax burden for someone in work. the overall tax burden for someone in work . an ordinary someone in work. an ordinary average worker today they face

the lowest average tax rate that they have faced in over half a century because of what we have done. and we've already started with a £900 tax cut this year . carol. >> yeah. well, i mean, yeah , >> yeah. well, i mean, yeah, that could be true. but that doesn't that doesn't take into account what's been happening over the last 2 or 3 years. and people have faced the biggest tax burden ever at a time when their energy bills were rocketing, when, you know, it was just after covid, when there was just after covid, when there was problems with money. anyway, you know, the, the not what do you know, the, the not what do you call the industry with pubs and stuff? >> what's the hospitality, hospitality? >> you should know that i should well, i should do because i do avail myself of it quite a lot, you know, people were struggling, you know, i mean, not everyone was on furlough. as rishi said, the other day, you know, look what i did, i did not everyone was on furlough. >> benjamin, do you have sympathy with rishi sunak? >> because we did have covid. we had the ukraine war. we've had lots of other, you know, one off events. you don't have any sympathy for the fact that the tories i mean, it's extraordinary that he spent as

chancellor what, £400 billion on furlough and has received no credit for it. >> and it's astonishing. >> and it's astonishing. >> and it's astonishing. >> and i think, you know, a lot of that is to do with boris johnson and the partygate, story that dominated that basically evaporated any benefit for the tories from how they managed covid. you know, which wasn't a complete disaster. so i suppose we should credit them with that. but the fact is that, you know, when he talks about tax, look, tax is the highest in 70 years. we know that. but when you've had 10% plus inflation for a significant period, which means that basic food items are now so much more expensive when you utility bills have gone through the roof, when wages have been stagnant until the last nine months, it doesn't matter necessarily. it does matter about the tax proportion. but when everything else that you don't have a choice in spending your money on has gone up so much, people have little left for their own aman. >> that's the problem. he faces. so you make your point first. >> look, i think, let's be honest, i think if labour were in charge during the pandemic, you know, it would have been even worse. >> they wanted harder and faster restrictions. >> exactly. but but what i would argue is that there was another way, a much more conservative way, a much more conservative way of dealing with the pandemic

and the threat it posed and the ukraine war. and we've seen that. look, i've just spent a month in india and we saw how prime minister modi and his government tackle the pandemic and the cost of living crisis that the ukraine war brought on, and that was governing in the national interest . and that's national interest. and that's what i think that rishi and bofis what i think that rishi and boris should have done, is put their foot down and say, look, you know, this is how we're going to govern. we're going to govern in the national interest, and we're not going to be dictated to by the media storm thatis dictated to by the media storm that is whipped up at that time of, you know, going in harder and faster with with lockdowns and faster with with lockdowns and with restrictions and spending. >> i think any government would have struggled, you know, when you when you shut an economy down for two years. yes. catastrophe follows. and that's exactly what happened in this country. and people were not allowed to work. >> i'm sorry. when you, prince, as the united states said, a third of their entire us money supply in just 12 months. what do you think is going to happen? why did nobody, apart from the people that mattered, the bank of england and all the expert economists not realise that amateur economists were calling it out on twitter. we were

saying i tweeted it in 2020, 2021. this is going to cause rampant inflation. anyway, let me show you one more clip. rishi sunak also came under repeated accusations that he was avoiding talking about nigel farage. >> well, i think the policies are what matter. the substance is what matter. nick. so let's i know we're going to get into it, but you're asking me about personalities. >> i'm asking you about nigel farage and people are noti you don't want to talk about him. so let's talk about policy. >> it's not that i'm not willing. i'm willing to talk about everything here. >> carol. does he want to talk about nigel farage or not? well i just think that was very searly of nick robinson. >> i thought he just. nick robinson does not not like rishi sunak. and that is self—evident. and that is not his job as an interviewer to show what he feels about the person he's interviewing. and i think he did there. he's trying to make a fool of him, which some people are saying he was very rude in the interview. >> he was. i watched the entire thing. >> he's always rude to tory politicians. it's his modus operandi. >> he says he'll give the same treatment to sir keir starmer and the other leaders when they come on. >> well, we've had evidence of that on the today programme. he

does not give the same treatment to labour politicians as he does to labour politicians as he does to talk back to farage. >> is sunak scared of farage? >> is sunak scared of farage? >> why does he should talk about farage? he absolutely should. and i think, you know, i think he made a big mistake a couple of weeks ago, farage, remember, made a hinted that there might be a deal to be done before he declared he was standing, for reform, and sunak better batted him off like he was a pesky fly. i would have been hacked off about that if i'd been farage. and he should not have done that. you know, the tories have got to find a way to work with farage, because he's going to be around and so is reform. >> benjamin, have the tories got a farage problem? >> yes. and they want to pretend that he's not there and that the problem doesn't exist. you saw it in the bbc debate on friday night, penny mordaunt would not go for nigel farage. she just ignored him throughout. they like pretending that they're not a problem. and i think the fact is that he can't stand on his record. he can't say that things like immigration would appeal to those reform supporters or people that are swinging that way, because he doesn't have the record for it, and therefore he thinks, let's just not give them the oxygen of publicity. but i

think it's way too late for that. and, you know, the conservative party could be, you know, overtaken by reform in the coming months. >> look, i think it's fair to say that if nigel farage is exposing a conservative failures of 14 years of promises in successive manifestos, then of course, the labour party has got a george galloway problem. you know, we're seeing that we saw that viral clip from, angela rayner last week promising to accept and recognise the state of palestine on day one of a labour government. if that is not appeasing to george galloway, and how the way he's breathing down labour's neck. >> well, it is, of course, one of the 18 demands from the so—called muslim vote organisation who said that, you know, labour, keir starmer, before we lend you our vote back after that local election, you know, i was going to call it a bloodbath for labour when it came to the muslim vote. not quite, but they had a massive detriment on, on the vote that one of the demands was recognised palestine as a state. >> so but that has been labour policy for a long time and also the, the us. >> but it's the time us supports a two state solution. >> so it's not a particularly controversial position. >> okay. >> okay.

>> my point was i've just remembered i've had a coffee in the break. the point was that nick robinson was going on about d—day again, and the fact that rishi sunak obviously made that massive gaffe by coming home for that itv interview. but sunak has twice, maybe three times now apologised. and i was just kind of thinking, what else do you want him to do? he said he's sorry. and if you watched the interview back and forth, you'll see what i mean. he just kept going on and on about it, which you know, amongst the quinoa and the roast dinners was very, very strange. but a man, benjamin butterworth, karen maloney, thank you very much. back to you in just a tick. still to come tonight, ed davey's, after a swing in the polls. so here's his latest campaign stunt. we'll dig into the liberal democrats brand new manifesto manifesto shortly. meanwhile europe you saw it last night. it's swinging to the right following the election. so why does the uk appear to be voting differently from our neighbours? up next suella braverman calls on the tories to work with reform. so should nigel farage be welcomed back into the conservative

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labour government? but first, should nigel farage be welcomed into the conservative party? it's time now for the head to head. and as rishi sunak attempts to move on from the backlash to skipping a d—day commemoration event last week, his former home secretary suella braverman has urged the tories to unite the right and embrace nigel farage. speaking to the times, braverman said i would welcome nigel into the conservative party. there's not much difference really, between him and many of the policies that we for . him and many of the policies that we for. stand him and many of the policies that we for . stand but speaking that we for. stand but speaking earlier today, nigel farage was quick to pour cold water over that suggestion. >> the braverman said i should rejoin the conservatives because our policies are very similar. i don't think so. i don't think so. you know what they've done? allowing nearly 2.5 million people to settle in the country in the last two years. it's most certainly not our policy. so i do like her, i do admire her, but i'm afraid at the moment all marriage plans are off, all marriage plans are off, all marriage plans are off. >> there we go. rishi sunak. meanwhile, he didn't exactly jump meanwhile, he didn't exactly

jump at bravermans suggestion either when he was asked about it. >> any one of two people will be prime minister on july the 5th. keir starmer or i. a vote for anyone who's not a conservative candidate just makes it more likely that keir starmer is prime minister >> so tonight i'm asking should nigel farage be welcomed into the conservative party? let me know your thoughts by heading to gbnews.com/yoursay or tweet me @gbnews. and whilst you're there, vote in the poll. i'll bnng there, vote in the poll. i'll bring you those results in just a few minutes. but first, going head to head on this, our former aides to margaret thatcher, nile gardiner and the former adviser to michael gove, charlie rowley about to say good morning. good evening to you both. thanks for joining me. now let's start with you should nigel be welcomed back into the conservative party and also, what would your old boss, margaret thatcher, say to it ? it? >> well, thanks so very much for having me on the show today, ben, and, in response to your question, it's certainly my view, i think, that nigel farage should be welcomed into the conservative party. he has made it clear, though, he doesn't

want to do some kind of pact ahead of the election. but post—election, if the conservatives are in opposition and if reform, for example, have 3 or 4, seats , potentially, 3 or 4, seats, potentially, i think it makes a lot of sense for reform to be working closely with the conservatives or indeed for nigel farage to be part of the conservative party fold . the conservative party fold. after all, he is the most, i think, important and influential british, conservative alongside bofis british, conservative alongside boris johnson since the days of margaret thatcher at heart, nigel is a very strong, robust thatcherite, conservative, and i do think in a postelection landscape he should be welcomed into the, the conservative party. i think suella braverman is absolutely a right to suggest that, he should be brought into the fold. and i know there are many other senior conservative figures that i've spoken to, who would be very keen, actually, to have nigel farage back inside the conservative party. so, i do think the conservatives really have to be united on, on multiple fronts . it has to be

multiple fronts. it has to be unhed multiple fronts. it has to be united conservative movement. it makes no sense to split the conservative movement down the middle between the conservative party and reform . jul. party and reform. jul. >> yeah, but nigel farage and reform certainly would say that. the problem is that the conservative party isn't a conservative movement. in actual fact, it's probably filled to the rafters with lib dems . the rafters with lib dems. >> well, yeah, i have a lot of sympathy for that. at that point of view. there are a lot of lefties inside. the conservative party has to be said, and, and i think this election certainly will be sorting that out in terms of the, the next leader of the conservative party has to be somebody who is a real conservative, who believes in conservative, who believes in conservative policies. the conservative party needs to get rid of all these sort of wet elements and return to being a true conservative, thatcherite party. let me ask charlie rowley charlie, are you a conservative wet and was your old boss michael gove guilty of that charge as well , well, i could be charge as well, well, i could be described as being a bit wet from time to time, but i think

that's because i agree with nigel and i agree with nigel. >> nigel himself said this afternoon that it's not a possibility. it's not going to happen. >> the marriage is off. >> the marriage is off. >> and i think, you know, when you spend your time and particularly this campaign wanting to destroy the conservative party, then they'll clearly be no room at the inn. but nigel made a point there a second ago, which is you don't want to divide the party. and i don't think it's about uniting the right of a conservative party. yes, there is crossover between the conservatives and what reform are offering when it comes to single issues such as brexit, such as immigration, things that are really important to communities, up and down this country. >> but you've got to understand that the conservative party is a very, very broad church. >> it isn't just a vocal aspect on the right, charlie. the fact that they are such a broad church and, you know, they welcome anyone and everyone, what happens is just being conservatives. well, the, the reason i think that, you know, the tories have lost support is because of the political dramas that have taken place over the

last few years, the chopping and changing of leader, the loss of trust that's been in politics with partygate , with a 49 day with partygate, with a 49 day term prime minister coupled with a prime minister that has continued to talk about things that matter to people like rwanda that hasn't offered tax cuts as quickly as i think many conservatives would want. >> but if you simply just focus on uniting the right and totally ignore actually the more pragmatic approach, the one nafion pragmatic approach, the one nation approach, the people that came to vote for the conservatives again in 2010 and 2015 under david cameron, you're at risk of ignoring the south and the south, east and south—west of the uk people that might be slightly more liberal that will bring the conservative party together. >> that's what's going to win them the next election. lots of conservative members have told me in recent weeks and months and even the past year, that it's that you don't win an election with what the conservatives are doing on the centre ground. for example, nigel gardner , your old boss, nigel gardner, your old boss, margaret thatcher, she didn't move to the centre ground. she made voters come to her where she was . she was. >> yeah, exactly, margaret thatcher shifted the

conservative party dramatically and significantly to the right. and that's why she won three general elections in a row. the reason why the conservatives are doing so poorly right now is because they have, in many respects abandoned, thatcherite conservative principles and ideals . also, of course, i think ideals. also, of course, i think the removal of boris johnson was a catastroph , mistake, actually. a catastroph, mistake, actually. and the conservatives are still paying and the conservatives are still paying the price for that. the only way i think the conservatives can come back, five years from now, if they , if five years from now, if they, if they lose this general election, frankly, is by returning to core conservative principles . if conservative principles. if you're the conservative party, you've got to stand for conservative ideas and principles. you cannot be a wishy washy party that includes all sorts of liberal leftie woke types. actually, a conservative party has to be a real conservative party, which is why, as i mentioned earlier, i think nigel farage would be very welcome, in terms of returning to the conservative party fold

and the conservatives need more figures like nigel farage actually , if they have any hope actually, if they have any hope of taking back control, if they lose it in this general election. >> charlie rowley last word to you, nigel farage would say, and richard tice from reform would say that a vote for the conservatives is a vote for laboun conservatives is a vote for labour, not the other way around. in terms of reform, letting labour in to number 10. well, that just simply isn't true, because at the end of the day, there's only going to be, as the prime minister said, one man that's going to be prime minister, and it'll be either be sir keir starmer or rishi sunak. so you've got to vote for either one of those two parties. >> really, if you want to stick with a conservative party that, you know, has seen the economy grow, now that is going to be committed to tax cuts, not tax freezes or tax rises. under the labour party, there is lots of crossover with the reform that wants to see, you know, those tax cuts. corporation tax cuts and making sure that self—employed people are getting a bit of a break as well. so there will be lots of and deaung there will be lots of and dealing with immigration. >> you know. so there'll be lots of crossover there. but but the

central point is that, you know, either one of those two men will become prime minister. >> so a vote for any other party would be effectively in a wasted vote. >> just quickly in 10s your old boss, michael gove. i'm not sure if you've spoken to him recently, but would he, if he were standing again, would he welcome nigel into the fold? i think michael would say that there is plenty of talent on the conservative party benches already. okay. charlie rowley nigel gardner, thanks very much. appreciate your time. so who do you agree with at home as former home secretary suella braverman calls on the tories to work with reform pm, should nigel farage be welcomed into the conservative party alain on your side says let's hope reform. don't touch the tories , we need don't touch the tories, we need something new. penny on your side says yes, the tories need nigel. he's the only one who can save them from a labour landslide. and james on x you say no. the conservatives should stand aside and allow reform to fight labour. the brexit party helped the tories in 2019. now they can return the favour. that's fair. and your verdict is now in. 55% of you agreed farage should be welcomed back into the conservative fold. 45% of you

say he shouldn't. a lot closer than i thought . coming up, has than i thought. coming up, has emily thornberry let the cat out of the bag when it comes to labour's private school tax raid, and if we have to, in the short term, have have larger classes, we have larger classes, you know, the, the fleet street legend kelvin mackenzie is in the studio to react to that cock up. >> and labour's plans to give every school kid a free breakfast. but next, there's been a right wing surge in the european elections. so if the polls are to be believed, why is britain swinging the way? we've been for you, so don't go anywhere. we'll

patrick christys. tonight with me. ben. lio on gb news coming up. is it the state's responsibility to give your kids breakfast? but first, a surge in support for right wing parties. at last night's eu elections has sent shockwaves through the continent , with france's continent, with france's president macron announcing a snap election after his party was trounced by marine le pen's national rally party. meanwhile, overin national rally party. meanwhile, over in germany, chancellor olaf scholz was left humiliated after his social democrat party was beaten into third place behind the nationalist afd party. it comes as a controversial dance tune, which translates to foreigners out has become a viral hit in germany . stand up, viral hit in germany. stand up, hold . on let the house. hold. on let the house. >> don't let the noise out. >> don't let the noise out. >> so that song has been banned

from music festivals across the country after accusations it's unked country after accusations it's linked to nazi movements , with linked to nazi movements, with the police now investigating recent videos of young germans chanting the lyrics in italy, giorgia meloni conservative party triumphed in the eu elections, winning 29% of the votes to become the bloc's biggest party. but with all the polls here in the uk indicating that sir keir starmers labour party will win a majority on july the 4th, will britain become an outlier in europe's swing to the right? i'm joined now by former mep and director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity , stephen economic prosperity, stephen wolff. good evening stephen. thanks for joining wolff. good evening stephen. thanks forjoining us. first of thanks for joining us. first of all, what's got the right riled in europe, in germany, in france , what are the policies that are really getting people off their backs ? is it migration? is it backs? is it migration? is it net zero? >> good evening event. absolutely >> the polling across europe has suggested that net zero, the increasing costs of energy and the impact on jobs has had a

widespread effect. you saw farmers revolts across various nafions farmers revolts across various nations that backed that idea. immigration is costing huge amounts to different countries. and the european commission's plan that every country has to now accept those coming across and if not, pay ,60,000 to the countries that this , that countries that this, that they're going to keep them in means that countries are going to have to pay not to take people in. and the third one, then that's really crucial to a lot of the young people is the cost of housing. you're now seeing rebellions across some of the islands in, in like majorca and ibiza, where young people are saying, we don't want tourists purely because the cost of accommodation for them is so high. there are three big issues, and none of them believe that the standing parties of the conservatives or the socialists in those countries generally were able to help them. so stephen, you were an mep. >> some are suggesting that european elections don't really count. it's not really a true

reflection compared to, say, a national general election. is that right? >> to a great extent, that is absolutely correct. i mean, the european elections have different voting models across the europe, and it but it does give people a chance to kick the existing parties in place. but the thing that's changed then over the last, two, two european elections is the way that people are beginning now no longer to vote for the conservatives or what they call the epp across europe, or the social democrats. you can see their votes in percentage terms declining. but were you're seeing the move towards those parties that are seen to have an anti european union slant, and i wouldn't say it's a revolution towards the right more a realignment of people's beliefs that there has to be an alternative. and those people speaking for them are meloni in italy, marine le pen in france. vlaams belang in

belgium and all of these, and austria, where they came first, second in holland, huge numbers. and if you look at this parliament, then one key factor is that the conservative gives plus those who were regarded as far right. i would, rather than those people backing parties , those people backing parties, actually now control 470 of the votes that that is the majority . votes that that is the majority. if they all stuck together, are they far right , these parties? they far right, these parties? >> no. >> no. >> look, this definition of far right is, i've often argued, is ridiculous . right is, i've often argued, is ridiculous. i mean, the idea is that just because you oppose open door immigration makes you far right? because you oppose the green energy makes you far right just because you don't support the socialists or epp or the sanitaire cordiale, which the sanitaire cordiale, which the europeans like to have, you're far right. there's nothing far right about these views at all. you're not seeing all these people across europe as you saw in this, the videos

that you're going to talk about putting their fingers in on their noses and sticking their handsin their noses and sticking their hands in the air, that's not what the ordinary people of europe are wanting. they just want people to control their borders, reduce their costs , borders, reduce their costs, give them housing, and give them ability to live their lives whilst not watching the elites in europe enjoying as much money as they get in the european parliament. well, steven, talking of the elites in the european parliament, i'm not sure if you saw this, but ursula von der leyen, the eu commission president, she suggested today that russia and i don't know why this always happens with elections and when they go the wrong way. >> she suggested russia had interfered with the election. it was, and they were to blame for right wing victories. i mean, why do they always go back to this when things don't go their way? we saw it with donald trump, the russia collusion hoax. what is this? >> well, they saw it with brexit. and i was often said that i was in the pay of putin. well, if i was in the pay of putin, my god, i've seen how wealthy some of these russian oligarchs were. why am i not driving the latest bentley? >> you should have a nice

mansion in belgravia, steven. >> that's right. i mean, i've obviously got three, but, you see, the problem is that they cannot look inwards on themselves and see that they're making mistakes. themselves and see that they're making mistakes . they have this making mistakes. they have this groupthink that they know best. and if they can't find a solution, which is their own policies which are wrong, they will look for scapegoats. and in this case, they will argue that it's russia. if it wasn't russia , it would be somebody else. now they're trying to argue it's the chinese. if it wasn't the chinese, it'd be the iranians. for goodness sake. if the martians were able to communicate with us, they'd be blaming them. >> i think if the martians saw one side of how things are going one side of how things are going on earth at the moment, they probably hotfoot it back a million light years away. look last question to do with your old boss. actually, nigel farage tom harwood, our deputy political editor, today tweeted something very interesting. he said putting marine le pen's national rally in the same box as nigel farage is lazy and wrong. when farage led ukip, he refused to sit in a group with le pen in the european parliament, even at the risk of losing party funding, there were two extreme for the british

radical right. is that true? >> that is absolute. not that was the position that was taken in 2014. we didn't join marine le pen's party at that time, and i think it was very clear that they had some party politics and their views in policies that didn't align with ourselves. but if you look at the way that marine le pen has taken cognisance of the way that she lost in the election against macron , she has also had to macron, she has also had to change her party. and i think one of the key points is by having the 28 year old, who's now in your picture there, jordan bardella, they've changed policies, they've changed their stance on leaving the european union to actually wanting to chine change it. but with jordan bardella, who is a very charismatic individual, i think they are becoming a much more, stronger party. and that's why they succeed. and one really interesting factual element then is that her party under bardella won every the vote, the pure

vote in every commune in france in this election. >> yeah, the tide is turning. and of course, macron has called that snap general election. as a result . steven wolf, former mep result. steven wolf, former mep and director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, thank you very much for joining me this evening. coming up in the last hour, rishi sunak begins to fight back. no government gets everything right, but i am proud of what has been achieved over 14 years. >> this election is also about the future . the future. >> but is he a sitting duck? more of those clips from the panorama interview earlier tonight in just a short tick. but next, as labour announces their new childcare plan , is it their new childcare plan, is it their new childcare plan, is it the state's responsibility to give your child breakfast? and was emily thornberry a bit too honest when speaking to gb news yesterday, and if we have to , in yesterday, and if we have to, in the short term, have have larger classes, we have larger classes. you know, the, the. >> oh indeed. former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, joins me live in the next to give take. this is patrick

christys tonight with

gb news. patrick christys. tonight. only on gb news with me. ben. leo. just for tonight only. patrick. by just for tonight only. patrick. by the way, lots of you asking. he's back tomorrow. i understand he's on his stag do somewhere up north. right. labour today they pledged to create more than 100,000 new nursery places for children in england . and despite children in england. and despite promising 6500 new teachers as well, sir keir starmer says it's all fully costed. >> there's any parent with young children will tell you childcare and nursery places are really essential. they're so good for children in their development and making sure that when they arrive at primary school, they've got the skills that they need. they've got the skills that they need . really good for parents need. really good for parents and carers because they can get back into the labour market. so very good also for the economy and our scheme is fully funded, fully costed but also fully planned, so it will be wrapped around primary schools .

around primary schools. >> well, on top of that, labour are also planning free breakfast clubs for every primary school, regardless of family income . so regardless of family income. so for parents currently paying early morning child minding services that could save them around £2,000 a year, and those who already pay for breakfast clubs would save £400 a year. so i'm joined now by kelvin mackenzie. kelvin. is there such thing as a free breakfast, no. no so this is this is fine. if you don't pay income tax. and by the way, because we have a system in our country where the benefits are so spectacular, housing benefit, food benefit, any, any child benefit, loads of people don't pay tax. nearly 50% of the country doesn't pay tax. who do they think is going to pay who do they think is going to pay for these breakfast clubs . pay for these breakfast clubs. right. where's that money coming from? we're told by we're told by starmer that it's all fully costed. >> yeah but they've not explained it. >> who's going who's going to, who is going to pay for it. and not only that, not all day. right. so at breakfast free nosh

okay. lunch time 20. these were doe doe numbers. department of education numbers last week 25% of all children get free lunches. why stop there? why don't we have free teas as well? why? what is the point of giving these? they're not free. somebody has to pay for it. and i'll tell you who's going to pay for it. anybody who is actually paying for it. anybody who is actually paying tax. and this is what's happening to our nation. loads of people have worked out if i don't go to work, i get benefits. all my kids get fed. i don't have to do kelvin, kelvin, sir keir starmer and labour. >> they'd say this idea will boost child attendance. kids won't be hungry. i mean, do you not do you not? okay, okay. the question is, do you want kids to go hungry at school, actually, let's put it another way. >> let's just take your argument there. actually the number of kids going to school, the amount of truancy has gone up while free lunches has gone through the roof. so explain to me that it's got nothing . there is no it's got nothing. there is no qed between it. and not only

this. what you're beginning to watch is everything right? labour have decided . and i'll labour have decided. and i'll tell you what. everything is going to be free. somebody is going to be free. somebody is going to be free. somebody is going to pay for it. i'll tell you who it is. it's the. it's the. it's it is literally the dwindling number of middle class workers. right. are going to going to make sure that the subsidy junkies in our country, of which they are exploding by the minute , are actually going the minute, are actually going to have to fund it. it is absolutely disgraceful. >> so just to answer the question , what do you do about question, what do you do about hungry schoolkids? >> hungry schoolkids are being seen to okay right now, right. in fact , they probably they. why in fact, they probably they. why do you think we have the fattest kids in europe? the reason is because when you go to school, you have about 3000 sausages, 400 potatoes, and they're all being funded by idiots in the middle classes. yeah. >> okay . well, look, speaking to >> okay. well, look, speaking to gb news yesterday, labour's emily thornberry was, well, let's say very honest about the ramifications of labour's private school tax raid.

>> and they are good schools and people should send their children there. i mean it's fine. you know, and if we have to in the short term have, have larger classes, we have larger classes, you know, the, the did she say the quiet bit outloud? >> kelvin , which was the bit >> kelvin, which was the bit that i couldn't she she was what she was saying was is true is thatis she was saying was is true is that is that there are going to be loads of kids who are going to be put into the state system and on that basis , can the state and on that basis, can the state system cope with it? thornberry said that, but she's about to get a telling off from shadow education secretary bridget phillipson. >> you can have a word with emily thornberry and not to talk about larger class sizes, then. >> well , about larger class sizes, then. >> well, happy to do so because that isn't the position that we see at the moment, right? >> so who's telling the truth, bridget? or emily, emily thornberry says yes, they're going to, chuck them into state schools. >> yeah, i would think that that is going to happen if there are the vacancies. but remember, emily thornberry is talking about london. she was quite

clever . she says there's spaces clever. she says there's spaces there. that's true because everybody's getting the hell out of london and a lot of schools are simply empty and are actually being folded. right. it's okay for her. you go around my way, they're bursting at the seams, and if round my way , the seams, and if round my way, the local private school really suffered and lost. say 15 or 20% of its of its numbers. and they all had to go to my local school up the road from me. it couldn't cope. they know it can't cope. this is this is an idea which will happen, but it'll take a lot longer and it'll be a lot different. and the worst aspect of it is if your child is in a private school, because . because private school, because. because they are suffering from some kind of education and learning disability, are you honestly saying you're going to go from this protected environment, right, right, and put into a state school? those children will suffer. >> and it's argued as well that it's a bit of a myth that people who send their kids to private schools are somehow loaded with money coming out there is same as landlords. actually. there's this misconception that they, the socialists, love playing the game. >> everybody who's got a kid at

a private school must be stinking rich, and everybody who has a private rented property is obviously a nasty , horrible. obviously a nasty, horrible. >> let me run through this last story with you very briefly. look at this headline from the daily telegraph. white men have least chance of getting on bbc training scheme. apparently, since 2022, an average of 22.5% of applicants were classed as coming from minority ethnic backgrounds, but made up 41% of participants on the scheme . is participants on the scheme. is the bbc shunning white applicants? >> kelvin ? i should think so. >> kelvin? i should think so. i should think that that that that plays very well with your £159, 65 or whatever it is, but if you think that's a joke, if you think that's a joke, if you think that's a joke, if you think that's a joke, just just try watching the adverts on itv. okay? >> i've got to read a bbc response, let's have a quick look, they said. similar to the telegraph's newsroom apprenticeship scheme, our apprenticeships courses enable people from a range of backgrounds to enter the media industry. we always offer places based on merit. we're committed to our recruitment processes being fair to everyone and attracting applicants that represent all parts of the uk. and like the telegraph media group, we're committed to creating our diverse and inclusive culture at the bbc.

the bbc runs many apprenticeship schemes, so it's unclear what analysis can be determined from applications made to one course. all right, well, it's kind of not right. >> why do you have to run all that, by the way? i mean, the bbc would never run an gb news said. >> because kelvin all eyes. because all eyes are on gb news like no other broadcaster . like no other broadcaster. >> and i wouldn't bother, i wouldn't bother. >> also today there was an there was a job application from the, advert from the football association going around again. same sort of thing. no whites please , just bame applicants, please, just bame applicants, you know. shocking. anyway, coming up europe has surged. thank you kevin. by the way i appreciate your attendance tonight. coming up europe has surged to the right and labour's dawn butler isn't happy. she's demanding an end to attacks on woke ideology. shortly i'll be joined by professor eric kaufmann, who runs a university course on studying wokeness, to explain his thesis on why wokeism is the new religion. but next tonight, rishi sunak continued the show that he won't go down without a fight. >> i'm prepared to take bold action to cut people's taxes, protect their pensions and bring

migration down. and in contrast, labour are just going to put everyone's taxes up. that's choice. >> so what do you think? can rishi sunak , the prime minister, rishi sunak, the prime minister, begin to claw back support after what was a car crash election weekend? this is patrick christys tonight with me, ben leo only on gb news now your weather with aidan. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . sponsors of boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. still some showers around during the next 24 hours, but also a few clear spells and under starry skies. tonight temperatures will fall . tonight temperatures will fall. it's going to be a chilly one for june. we've got this northerly airflow and within those northerly winds we've still got some showers, especially for the north and the east coast, 1 or 2 inland elsewhere, but many of the inland showers will ease overnight, leading to plenty of clear spells, especially in the

south and the west, where we've got clear spells temperatures dipping to 7 or 8 celsius generally , but a little lower generally, but a little lower than that in some sheltered spots , and as a result, the spots, and as a result, the potential for a grass frost first thing in 1 or 2 places. however despite the early june chill in the air, it's going to be a bright start to the day on tuesday. plenty of sunshine for southern england, parts of wales as well. in between the showers. showers also affecting parts of northern ireland, especially towards the west, but plenty of bright weather away from those showers and again thicker cloud further north. a few showers running into the north of scotland and the north sea coast of england. but during the morning what we'll see is the cloud build more generally across the uk and showers will again develop fairly widely. you could get a shower just about could get a showerjust about anywhere, but the most likely areas for frequent showers will be northern, central and eastern england, where those showers will be heavy at times it's going to feel cool here as well.

12 or 13 celsius on that north sea coast, but where we've got mostly dry weather towards the southwest, 17 or 18 celsius not feeling too chilly into wednesday morning. again, a cool start to the day . plenty of start to the day. plenty of bright weather. first thing a few more showers develop across eastern england. elsewhere, it stays mostly dry as a ridge of high pressure builds in that leads to a settled end to the day on wednesday. but it's only ahead of the next batch of rain moving in for thursday and fri day. >> friday. >> looks like things are heating up boxt boiler as sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> it's 10 pm. this is patrick christys. tonight's with me. ben leo. >> no government gets everything right. but i am proud of what has been achieved over 14 years. this election is also about the

future. >> in the last couple of hours , >> in the last couple of hours, rishi sunak faced yet another grilling. can he return from the abyss, or does he need to step aside for someone else in the party? plus . party? plus. the lib dems have launched their manifesto and under them, the cost of the nhs will skyrocket. and i'm just wearing it to wind up the minister for common sense. oh dear. i woke labour politician has railed against the right wing surge across europe, speaking of europe, the scottish football team look ready to face germany. i've got all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages with my panel, daily express columnist carole malone , express columnist carole malone, journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth, and founding chairman for global britain uk, aman bogle. oh, and what did esther mcvey say at a

local hustings to bring the house down? literally laughed off the stage. all will be revealed. strap yourselves in. let's do this . let's do this. should rishi sunak resign . next? should rishi sunak resign. next? >> at just after 10:00, the latest from the gb newsroom is that two boys have become the youngest convicted murderers in britain since the killing of james bulger in 1993. the 12 year olds were found guilty of murdering a man with a machete in a wolverhampton park last yeah in a wolverhampton park last year. they stabbed 19 year old sean c zahawi in november in an unprovoked attack. the jury's decision to convict the boys was

unanimous. his parents have said they'll never recover from the loss of their son. well, in election news today, the prime minister's promising to recruit 8000 neighbourhood police officers in england and wales if the tories are re—elected . rishi the tories are re—elected. rishi sunak says the plan would be funded in part by hiking visa fees and increasing the immigration health surcharge for overseas students. labour is calling it another empty promise from a desperate conservative party, and labour is promising to deliver free breakfast clubs in schools, part of a new childcare plan they say will save parents over £400 a week. they're also claiming it will cut in half a million days of school absences. sir keir says it will help parents get back to work, as any parent with young children will tell you, childcare and nursery places are really essential. >> they're so good for children in their development and making sure that when they arrive at primary school, they've got the

skills that they need really for good parents and carers because they can get back into the labour market. so very good also for the economy and our scheme is fully funded, fully costed, but also fully planned. so it'll be wrapped around primary schools . schools. >> and reform uk has been setting out its economic policy for the election campaign today. their plans include raising the personal tax threshold to £20,000, abolishing air 35 for sole traders and raising the vat threshold for small businesses to £150,000. reform uk chairman richard tice says the plans are the best way forward for working people . people. >> the right thing to do is to make work pay, so let's lift the starting point at which anybody pays any income tax to £20,000 a year. pays any income tax to £20,000 a year . that's still well below year. that's still well below the average national salary. but well above the current level,

which is about £12,570 a year. >> richard tice. now, tributes continue to come in after the death of tv nutritionist doctor michael mosley . tv scientist michael mosley. tv scientist professor brian cox took to x to say doctor mosley was a genuinely lovely man, whilst former labour politician tom watson said it's hard to describe how upset i am by this news. and the pop star mid—year also said the news was so sad. police in greece say 67 year old doctor mosley died from natural causes after his body was found following a four day search effort on the island of symi . effort on the island of symi. that's the news. for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts . alerts. >> thank you polly. now rishi sunakis >> thank you polly. now rishi sunak is staging a defiant comeback after what was probably

one of the toughest weekends of his political career. scooting back home early from d—day has been viewed by many as nothing less than a car crash move. and after his rain soaked lectern stunt and then visiting the titanic quarter to launch the tories election campaign, it appears he's being advised by some very low grade people. but speaking on the bbc's panorama interviews with nick robinson tonight in the last couple of hours, mr sunak remained resolute. >> after 14 years. five prime ministers boris johnson lying about parties, liz truss almost crashing the economy and you bunking off d—day. after all the broken promises , do you really broken promises, do you really think you deserve another chance ? >> 7- >> i've 7_ >> i've been ? >> i've been very clear in 7 >> i've been very clear in the past. no government gets everything right, but i am proud of what has been achieved over 14 years. this election is also about the future . we have a about the future. we have a clear plan. i'm prepared to take bold action to cut people's taxes, protect their pensions and bring migration down and in contrast, labour are just going to put everyone's taxes up. that's a choice. >> the prime minister scraps all

media interviews on saturday as the d—day aftermath gripped hold. that's prompted this tweet from boris johnson ally nadine dorries, who suggested sunak was about to be dramatically replaced by david cameron as the man to lead the man rather to lead the conservatives into the final weeks of the election. nadine said i've always said that cameron was popped into the lords and into a senior ministerial post for a reason. i thought maybe it was to replace sunak at an earlier stage. but rumours abound tonight that sunakis rumours abound tonight that sunak is about to fall on his sword. there are no mps, only ministers. if sunak does resign, any replacement would have to come from within ministerial ranks. i don't know what's going on in the upper echelons of the conservative party, but chairman richard holden personified the chaos with this extraordinary moment yesterday. >> how is that not appalling ? >> how is that not appalling? stitch up an anti—democratic emily thornberry today has a completely admitted that labour's. >> so you can't justify the way you have been parachuted into

basildon and billericay. >> you're not denying it's a stitch up and it's anti—democratic . anti—democratic. >> emily thornberry today has admitted stop you now. >> this is ridiculous. this is ridiculous. you said in an interview earlier this year you were bloody loyal to the northeast. what happened to that ? >> and the 7 >> and the tory troubles seemingly aren't confined to westminster either. scottish tory leader douglas ross announced this morning he was standing down to focus on winning a seat in aberdeen, where a tory colleague, david duguid, has already been selected and then bizarrely deselected. simply because he's unwell. snp leader john swinney unwell. snp leaderjohn swinney pounced on the chaos. >> i'm not surprised that douglas ross has stood down because his position was beyond credibility. >> he's treated david ducat absolutely abominably. >> david is ill, he's a respected member of parliament, but that's not good enough for douglas ross. david duguid has been ousted from standing for parliament and replaced by none other than douglas ross. i think it's just an absolutely

appalling way to behave towards appalling way to behave towards a colleague and shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth hit out at rishi sunak earlier, ahead of the conservatives manifesto launched tomorrow. >> tomorrow you will see a document littered with unfunded commitment after unfunded commitment, a desperate wish list, the most expensive panic attack in history from a weak, desperate prime minister who , in desperate prime minister who, in the chaotic scattergun of announcements which he has made in this campaign to date, has not even bothered to try to make his sums add up. >> so look , you don't need the >> so look, you don't need the polls to show you there's growing alarm over the way the conservatives election campaign is going. so despite the turmoil , the question tonight is, is rishi sunak right to reject resignation calls to make way for fresh blood? let's get the thoughts of my panel. daily express columnist carole malone, journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth and founding chairman for global britain uk, armaan bhogal. here we go. carol get those long legs

into yourself. there we are. that's my exercise for the day, should rishi sunak resign? and also, what do you make of nadine dorries suggestion that david cameron is being lined up to replace him? >> which one do you want? first look at the nadine dorries suggestion that who's been lined up, i think has some credence to it because what, what happened was rishi, when he was we were told that the decision for him told that the decision for him to leave at the end of the second day was taken weeks ago by his advisers and him presumably, but those kind of advisers should be sacked because they clearly have no idea what the country feels, what the country thinks about d—day. so the fact that cameron was on that podium of world leaders and not sunak felt a bit like sabotage to me. but anyway, your other question. there's some deliberate intent there. yeah, i think there might be a little bit of intent there because nadine, we had charlie rowley on earlier, michael gove's ex spad special adviser who, nadine, in her book the plots has said that it's michael gove who pulls allegedly the strings in the conservative party, you know, but but all of that said , there was sorry, that said, there was sorry, plotting going on. the bottom

line is it's the hay fever. it is hay fever. the bottom line is sunak should have known to stay put, you know, even if his advisers had said, you have to 90, advisers had said, you have to go, you have to go. who? you said, no, i'm staying. this is important to the british people. i understand what the british people think and feel, i'm saying. but he didn't. so he doesn't understand what they think about that. do i think he should resign? absolutely not. and it's lunacy to talk for weeks before an election about a resignation. this is why the tories are in the mess they're in every time they want to change their leader, every time they change their shirts, it's ridiculous. and that's why people have lost faith in them. they have a bit of bother. let's get rid of that leader. the tories, whatever state they're in, they cannot blame rishi 100% for what's happened to him. this is the tories. this is the infighting, scrapping like cats infighting, scrapping like cats in a sack for the past two years. just before we go, boris , years. just before we go, boris, when he was getting criticised dunng when he was getting criticised during covid, even all that stuff that was going on with him, they were still just a handful of points behind the tories, behind labour in the

polls. now look the 20th. >> yeah, well it didn't take a mastermind tonight. what would happen ousting boris. but benjamin butterworth i said in the introduction there that i had a bit of sympathy for rishi sunak. and also tonight, again, the bbc's nick robinson banging on about d—day. yes, it was a massive gaffe. yes it would have offended, you know, pretty much the whole nation. but he's apologised for it multiple times. why are we still going on about it? because i think most people can't understand how on earth that happens. >> you know, it's not good enough to say david cameron should have told him or his, you know, battalion of advisers should have told him. he should have known that. and i think it reveals something about his judgement, about his understanding of the country, about how he understands what people expect of the prime minister. and he didn't just fail to take part in that on behalf of britain, but it also showed that he didn't value that time with the french president, the german chancellor , the us the german chancellor, the us president. right. he should have known that things like that are a priority. and i just point out, though, he had done two full days of meeting the vets, the most important people who

were there, never mind of the prime minister's, the vets who were there and all the vets that were there and all the vets that were talked to who you'd met said he was absolutely sincere. >> yeah, well, look, i think yes, the prime minister committed a big faux pas. he's apologised for it. but let's not kid ourselves. keir starmer on the labour side, a man who twice campaigned knocked on doors and was hell bent on making jeremy corbyn the prime minister of the united kingdom. how can we forget that, benjamin? >> that's your man there. you support sir keir starmer, you want a labour government. he campaigned with jeremy corbyn, friends with hezbollah, friends with hamas , wanted to get rid of with hamas, wanted to get rid of the nuclear deterrent. what's worse? well, jeremy , home early worse? well, jeremy, home early from d—day or campaigning for jeremy corbyn was kicked out of the labour party by keir starmer. >> so you can't have much more decisive judgement than that. if rishi sunak had the backbone of keir starmer and had removed liz truss, then i bet you he wouldn't be 20 points behind. >> kicked him out only when it was in his interest to do it. >> he kicked him out pretty soon into being leader of the labour. >> why did he campaign with him then? >> twice, because that's how politics works. >> oh no. >> oh no. >> no morals then.

>> no morals then. >> well, the fact is that it wouldn't have been possible for keir starmer to get rid of the anti—semitism problem, to get rid of jeremy corbyn. if he hadnt rid of jeremy corbyn. if he hadn't made his way through the ranks. and i think he's an exceptional politician, and there's an oddity to people like you. politician. yeah, i do, without any doubt. >> he rows back on every single thing. >> the brilliance of keir starmer is the fact that people like you don't even notice that he's completely won the argument before you've even noticed any argument. >> this bloke, this bloke is about to win the biggest swing because. yes, but that's not because. yes, but that's not because of what they political history. it's because of the failure. >> it's because of the tories abject failure. it's not because of anything brilliant that labour has done. >> it's know that i have no alternative. >> keep making that argument because you people are. >> absolutely. so there's going to be useless. there's going to be a keir starmer tomorrow with starmer. >> there's going to be a poll out tomorrow that says that people still don't want to vote for starmer, but they're so angry with the, with the, with the tories that they will look, keir starmer is, is a man who's coming in with a government of no alternative. >> people aren't endeared by what keir starmer stands for,

doesn't stand for. it's because they have . fed up of 14 years of they have. fed up of 14 years of non—delivery on manifesto promises after manifesto promises. but look, i would say, i would argue to the hilt that all roads lead to the conservative candidates department. that's the matter, because you lost out ? not at because you lost out? not at all. on the contrary, it's the fact that you've had a prime minister we've had we've had prime minister after prime minister after prime minister in just five years. we've had, what, three prime ministers, four prime ministers shouldn't be that way. >> can i can i show you this quick poll that was out tonight, i think, from yougov. so who's having the worst general election campaign so far? the conservatives on 45, which is up 11% since whilst that june the 4th, i think it is, labour party's on 9. they're they've improved. they're down one, the lib dems 3, reform uk 4. so look the writing's on the wall. according to the voters, the tories . tories. >> that follows straight on for what happened at the weekend of a d—day. that was that was always going to happen. and anyway, people are so angry that they're going to say that. they're going to say that the

tories are having their worst election campaign. and frankly, you know, after d—day, it's looking like that's the case. but that's i'm not surprised at that. >> okay. all right. carole malone benjamin butterworth amal ferguson, thank you very much. coming up, why did the conservatives esther mcvey get this reaction. she was literally laughed off stage. we're going to have that full clip very, very shortly. my panel also returns to run you through the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. hot off the press . but before that the press. but before that remember esther mcvey, nemesis dawn butler when she did this? >> i'm just wearing it to wind up the minister for common sense i >> -- >> well, reacting to the right wing surge across europe, butler wants woke ideology to be free from attack . that's ruffled the from attack. that's ruffled the feathers of freedom fighter and academic professor eric kaufmann. he hits back live in the studio next. i'm really looking to this conversation. this is patrick

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dangerous rhetoric. the surge in support for the far right across europe is a warning for us all. well, i'm joined now by professor eric kaufmann, whose new book explains why wokeism has become the new religion. eric, thank you so much for joining me. your new book , taboo joining me. your new book, taboo how making race sacred, led to a cultural revolution. in there. you argue that wokeism is akin to a religion or a cult. first of all, can you just define woke? >> yeah, simple . >> yeah, simple. >> yeah, simple. >> one sentence definition for everybody. woke is the making sacred of historically marginalised race, gender and sexual identity groups. so you're making those sacred, which means that if you offend even the most sensitive member, hypothetically of such a group, you have committed blasphemy and you have committed blasphemy and you can be cancelled. >> so it's cult like behaviour. >> so it's cult like behaviour. >> yes. >> yes. >> it's okay. so. so what makes a religion and how does a religion remind you of wokeism? >> well, what it means is you've made these values sacred. so equal outcomes between, say, men and women , black and white, and and women, black and white, and also not offending such groups

are absolute values. they're sacred. which means that if you defy them, then you've crossed tripped across the red line and there is no punishment too great for you. right? so basically, you're smeared , your reputation you're smeared, your reputation is ruined, etc. and that's where we get this huge surge in cancellations, the number of people being fired for speech, typically in university settings, but not only we've had examples from the entertainment world, for example. so yeah. okay. >> so what do you make of dawn butler's comments, first of all. and why, unless i'm being completely ignorant, why is she banging on about incels along with the far right? what's that about? >> well, so i'm also an expert, by the way, on populist right politics. and i can tell you that, you know, i actually wish there was more attention paid to woke issues in deciding elections. in fact, they have very little pickup. so the first part of her statement is utter nonsense, just from the science. the second part is just catastrophizing, and that's what links into the book, really in this whole question of whoa, because woke says these groups are sacred. so anything that can be, you know, anything that's said that might offend is cause

for extreme reactions . and what for extreme reactions. and what we have here is catastrophization like, we're going to have germany 1933 all over again. if you know, populist right parties get over 30% of the vote, it's ridiculous. we've had populist right governments, you know italy, you know, all people nazis or the trans lobby will say it's a trans genocide and so on.and say it's a trans genocide and so on. and the incel thing is just she's tossed that in there because she's probably seen it on social media as another bogeyman that forms this sort of far right, scary constellation in her mind. right. >> so in your book, eric, you argue that well, meaning liberals, not post—marxist radicals powered progressive illiberalism and deculturation. who are these well meaning liberals? who are these people? >> well, really, what these well—meaning liberals are is it's a large group of people who feel guilty. you know, white guilt, for example. they have an exaggerated fear , what i call exaggerated fear, what i call fascist scare that we're going to be, you know, he's scared. yeah. if, if you let these if you let conservatives get an inch, then then pretty soon women will be in the home and

gays in the closet, and we'll be back in jim crow, alabama, or nazi germany, you know, and this they're allowed to say this and get away with this kind of demographically. >> who is it? is it young women? is it young men? >> well, i mean, it can be all i mean , there are certain groups mean, there are certain groups that are more, you know, women, more young women, more than young men tend to be woke. but, young men tend to be woke. but, you know, anybody can be woke is the reality. but this is just this belief that sort of somehow, you know, there is no degree of vigilance and extremism that is too much when it comes to describing the right or white people or conservatives. that boy, you know, you you turn the other way and they're going to pretty much have you back in nazi germany . have you back in nazi germany. >> let me just show you a picture. i went to the bank this morning. i'm not going to name the bank, but i, i walked in to just do some standard banking and the whole place was littered with pride flags, trans flags. not just on this, blackboard here, everywhere. everywhere you turn the looks. there are trans flags everywhere . and i thought, flags everywhere. and i thought, look like most people. i don't care who you sleep with. i don't care who you sleep with. i don't care what your sexual

orientation is. i don't even know what half those flags mean. but why do corporations adopt this level of wokeness? i've got a theory myself that i just said to you off air that perhaps, maybe in five, six, seven years, corporations will maybe understand that most people don't think like this. and actually, they're getting pretty annoyed of having this kind of stuff shoved down our throat. why do corporations, particularly adopt this woke behaviour? >> well, i mean, first of all, you're right. two thirds of the pubucis you're right. two thirds of the public is opposed to this stuff . public is opposed to this stuff. but, you know, as we saw with black lives matter, as we see with black history month, race, genden with black history month, race, gender, sexuality, anything around those sacred totems is something companies feel they need to push. it's a bit like in religion. it used to be in a conservatively or a catholic society like italy. it wasn't just people going to church. you had symbols of the cross and the madonna in public spaces and in organisations. and that's what this is. this is the new public religion. and the high holy days will be, you know, international transgender awareness day, and it can be black history month , it can be black history month, and it can be all of the days

that are around race, gender and sexuality because those are the sacred values in the woke pantheon. this is these are the religious values. >> but the problem is , i've just >> but the problem is, i've just complained about having the flags shoved down my throat. i want to go into a bank and just bank. i don't particularly want to see it and i've already said, quite honestly, that i don't care if you're trans, if you're gay, even if you're straight or if you're white, i don't care. but when you raise a concern about the fact that you've got this material being shoved down our throat, you get called transphobic as if you do care about that kind of thing. >> well, and this is why i'm sceptical that this is going to turn around easily is because anybody inside that organisation who raises raises an objection, runs into these taboos. again, the subject of my book is that left liberals have erected these taboos around race, gender, sexuality. so any time you try and resist, you can be smeared with this radioactive substance. and so even though most of the pubuc and so even though most of the public are opposed to it, the organisations are going to stick with it because people don't want to have that. >> so you think i'm wrong? you think the tide won't turn on corporates and businesses? >> it's turned a little bit in

the united states. i don't think it's going to turn here particularly. no, because there just isn't the sort of resistance against it because people are afraid of being called racist, transphobic, etc. >> and just briefly, your background, you left which university in the us? >> i left birkbeck, university of london. >> why were you cancelled? >> why were you cancelled? >> well , i >> why were you cancelled? >> well, i was, i basically i was critical of the social justice movement on a number of different levels, and it was mainly out of social media. >> now, i wasn't turfed out. now there were people that, you know, i twitter mobbed me. they put in internal complaints. i ultimately felt at some point that this pressure wasn't really worth the price of sticking around for. so i moved to the university of buckingham, which is probably the only free speech oriented university in the uk. >> there's an online course there you do on wokeism. what is it? >> yeah, so i've got a 15 week open online course open to anybody and it's on woke, and yeah, we go through the origins of this ideology . we go through of this ideology. we go through its effects and the philosophy and just remind us what your bookis and just remind us what your book is called. >> and where we can get books is

called taboo. >> now. it's not out until the 4th of july, but pre—orders are possible, taboo how making race sacred led to a cultural revolution. >> okay, great stuff, professor eric kaufmann, thank you very much. thanks. appreciate it. look forward to speaking to you again very, very shortly. coming up, ed davey launches his manifesto in the only way he knows . how. swinging into knows. how. swinging into action. but as the lib dems promise to spend £9.4 billion more on health and social care, has our nhs become a bottomless pit? but next, my press pack joined me to run through the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. it's bound to be lively. do not go anywhere. this is patrick

gb news. welcome back. patrick christys. tonight with me. ben. leo. time to get stuck into the first of tomorrow's newspapers. let's kick off with the metro hospitals. blood crisis after

cyber attack. an urgent appeal has been launched for blood donations following a cyber attack that forced delays to operations at a major london hospital. the eyes rishi sunak pins hopes on national insurance cuts to rescue stricken tory campaign. the guardian tory right's plans to give sunak set of demands if manifesto falls flat. will he listen, though the daily mail, britain's 12 year old machete murderers. very interesting story. two boys become the youngest to be convicted of murder since the bulger killers after a horrific, unprovoked attack on an innocent teenagen unprovoked attack on an innocent teenager. and the times the tories offer lower taxes and help for home buyers. i think we've got the express as well, it says. up the workers. pm promises two cuts in . national promises two cuts in. national insurance. let me just get the thoughts quickly before we move on to the lib dems. my panel, carol maloney, benjamin butterworth, aman bogle, this story about the 12 year old machete murderers, they've not been identified yet. a really horrific story. they're just children. but there's now a push by the media to get these lads

identified. >> i don't know why they haven't been identified, because in the jamie bulger case, they absolutely were identified. i covered that trial and they were identified. they were in the dock and they're for reporting for all. but it is astonishing because i'm also old enough to remember the child killer. before that was a lady called mary bell, who who'd killed a child. it is pretty horrific, you know. but, you know, when the when the, the kids that killed bulger, venables. and i've forgotten the other ones. anyway, when they were in the dock, it was a really unusual thing. not just because of their age, but because kids did not. kids then did not perpetrate that kind of violence on each other. today, kids wandering around with machetes. it's a quite normal thing. 12 year old kids wandering around with normal knives is a normal thing. so it isn't isn't that shocking in the sense that it was always going to happen? >> yeah. benjamin these two schoolboys, 12 year old, 12 years old, they killed an innocent teenager with a 16 inch machete in an unprovoked attack in a park. they can't be named for legal reasons. should they be named? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, i think maybe, presumably they'll be imprisoned for a long time. and so when

they get to 18, they may well be. >> well, this is the uk. you never know at that time. >> so it might be an inevitability that it comes out. i mean, it's just horrifying of how on earth a 12 year old gets hold of a machete. i mean, you know, there are so many questions about how a crime like that even becomes possible. >> oh, man. well look, i'm a big believer. >> i'm quite old fashioned in this way that i'm a believer that, look, if you're old enough to commit such a heinous crime, then you're old enough to be named of course. as simple as that. yeah. >> okay, look, let's move on. the lib dem leader, sir ed davey, he's having a whopping election campaign, isn't he? he celebrated the launch of his manifesto in the only way he knows . how. knows. how. that, of course, comes off the back of his paddleboarding, his bike riding, going down a slide, a water slide with journalists, balancing his time, caring for his son elsewhere and politics, davey promised to prioritise the nhs and social care sector with

a £94 billion package. and today he outlines why his manifesto is in britain's interest. >> when i said i wanted to do was really listen to people, listen to their concerns and make sure that when we got to this election, our policies responded to them. and that's one of the reasons why today , in one of the reasons why today, in the launch of our fair deal for britain, we've talked about rescuing the health service. we've talked about the cost of living. we've talked about things like the sewage scandal and i think more and more people are coming to our cause , i've are coming to our cause, i've you've heard me say that i think we can win lots of seats off conservatives in the home counties in the west country and elsewhere , and i think we could elsewhere, and i think we could be on a bit of a roller coaster ride here. >> so he's been swinging at theme parks, but he's also swinging in the polls, or at least hoping for it. so let's take a look at his pledges. the lib dem manifesto is titled for a fair deal, and here's some of the other major policies. recruiting 8000 more gp's, providing a trained mental health professional in every

school. the lib dems would seek to take the uk back into the single market. that's a key one returning to the single market and they'd allow local authorities to increase council tax by up to 500% on second homes. so carole malone, £9.4 billion more in the nhs. can the country afford it? >> you know, the general election is a weird time for the lib dems because we have to properly look at them and think about what they're saying because we don't normally, but you know what? all the stunts that davies has pulled over the past couple of years, and you just named them there, you missed the jenga one out and the exercising with pensioners or i can't take a word he says seriously. the idea that 9 billion is going to solve the inaya, an extra 9 billion is going to solve the nhs problems is just stupidity. like, you know, this year, i think this year it's 183, 185 billion are getting. why does he think this 9 billion is going to work. also where are these 8000 more gps going to come from? gp's are are either going off to australia to work to the sun or they're retiring at 50 because they

don't want to be in the profession anymore. so where where are these gps going to come from? he's not saying that benjamin. >> two questions. do you like his antics and do you like the policies, well, i think the anfics policies, well, i think the antics are certainly working because nick, nick davey ed davey i illustrate the point i was about to make nick clegg people don't know who ed davey is, right? only 13% of the population could name the lib dem leader at the start of this election, so anything that gets him noticed is working . and he him noticed is working. and he started off with those, you know, all those funny stunts. and then he did that quite moving political broadcast about caring for his son. and so i would say it's a good strategy. the thing is that, you know, the lib dems are going to have power to some degree again, after the next election. they're likely to have 40 or 50 or maybe more seats than that. so be back to the proper party that they were in 2010. >> not that's exactly what they're projected, and they're going to be taking out tory ministers and so the question is, you know, actually no one's seriously going to look at their manifesto and break those numbers down, despite the fact that they'll have a pretty decent parliamentary population. >> and you're laughing away in

the corner. what's what's tickled you? >> look, i think the last, serious lib dem leader was paddy ashdown. i think we all had huge respect for the man, but since then, i mean, look , the lib dems then, i mean, look, the lib dems are not a serious party, and these antics literally prove that on the ground. i mean, a roller coaster. i mean, is that what a sort of government they would run if they ever won a majority? god forbid. but as ben said, you know , they might have said, you know, they might have a decent number of seats after the election if they did. but the election if they did. but the big question is, would labour be happy to go into government with with the lib dems, who are literally prancing around on roller coasters? >> don't take him seriously. last week, what was his policy last week? it was free school dinners for all kids, including the rich ones. i mean, how stupid is that? >> i mean, it only costs 500 million, which is 1/80 of what liz truss managed to waste in month. >> liz, why do labour people always bring liz truss? >> because i care about everyone in the country whose mortgages have gone through the roof. she was in government for mortgages,

went through the roof around the world. >> it wasn't just the uk that interest rates went up. she's a tory rosette on this failure. i say this to you every week. if liz truss was responsible for mortgage hikes, why do they go up in canada, in france? >> and let's not forget who left that infamous note in the treasury. there's no more money left. i mean, that was the last labour government, and there's a lot more money then than there is now. >> so what a waste you've made. >> so what a waste you've made. >> okay, let's focus on labour now. so deputy leader angela raynen now. so deputy leader angela rayner, she's responded in typically punchy fashion to her council tax vow. here's what she told the news agents podcast on the label battlebus in macclesfield. >> it was frustrating. >> it was frustrating. >> there's been a number of times where, you know, i felt that, you know, whether it was misogyny or this, which i felt was, you know, it was difficult on a personal level, but it was frustrating for me because it was at a time when people we've got a housing crisis, and all they wanted to talk about is my living arrangements before as an mp and try and make it into some smear at a time when really the government had completely failed. people on housing. and i thought it was a deliberate tactic to try and stop me. i think there's been quite a bit

of classism as well. yeah, i think misogyny and classism have been very much a theme in, you know, you only have to see the way in which i'm described. and you see, some of the trolls , you you see, some of the trolls, you know, i'm, i'm used to that, and i'm used to, you know, i'm not a guy from eton in a in a smart suit. i'm a girl from a council estate . estate. >> okay, so miss rayner has , of >> okay, so miss rayner has, of course, been cleared of wrongdoing by police and always denied the allegations put against her. but, carol, what do you make of her claim? >> the rally was down to misogyny. >> this woman, you can never criticise angela rayner about anything without her bringing up beside them misogynistic. it's classist or it's sexist . i'm classist or it's sexist. i'm sick of hearing how she's a single mum and how she was brought up on a council estate. she's she's actually, you know, she seems to be suggesting that because of all those things, she shouldn't she's above the law, she shouldn't be questioned or criticised. this was a bona fide police investigation . police investigation. investigation. and there was also an investigation by hmrc. there were questions over the fact that she may or may not

have availed council tax. okay, she's been cleared by the investigations, but to suggest this was a misogynistic misogynist , i can't say misogynist, i can't say misogynistic. she's the very first person who, if a tory had been accused of this, would have been accused of this, would have been screaming for an investigation after well, she of course, benjamin called on boris johnson to resign only upon the police announcing they were going to investigate partygate. >> she didn't hold herself to the same standards exactly on that. >> but the difference was that he was undermining trust in the government in an extremely serious way, which has never happened. he wants to be deputy prime minister, and the fact is that, you know, they were only going after her because they thought it was a way to undermine the labour party. she'd done nothing wrong. the police, the police. >> you had sue gray? >> you had sue gray? >> well, we decided the government we did, because they did not. they'd already looked into it before, the, the tory mp james daly or former tory mp james daly or former tory mp james daly. >> why did she say in february? she said first of all, she'd misunderstood the rules. and then two months later she said, oh, i didn't do anything wrong because she took legal advice then. so she , she didn't know then. so she, she didn't know

either whether she didn't do anything wrong. >> but she was evident herself, whether she was correct to have not said she didn't do anything wrong. >> and the fact is, tories go after her at their peril because she has, in a way, a boris johnson factor. people listen to her in a way they don't others because she is a good god woman who has fought her way to the top of politics. >> so have lots of other working class women. >> studios like this are full of snobs that look down on angela raynen snobs that look down on angela rayner, but she speaks for the people. >> you're laughing at benjamin there, but nigel farage did say yesterday keir starmer was blair without the flair. and actually he said that angela rayner had more personality and suggested she'd be a better leader than sir keir starmer. >> well, i mean, that's something i mean with i mean look, starmer, you know, i think, a wet flannel would have more charisma than keir starmer. but look, i grew up on a council estate . me too. estate. me too. >> and i was born on a council estate. >> well, there you go. and so, look, i was born a councillor today, and i. >> and i pulled up angela rayner on twitter a few few few days ago. and you know what? for someone who aspires to be deputy prime minister of the uk, she

blocked me. right. there you go. so? >> so should you say to her. >> so should you say to her. >> well, i simply asked her why the double standards? but the question is, shall i also accuse her of being classist? yes. >> well, she she follows me on twitter. well, there you go. she would she would judgement. >> she also was talking about men who went to eton, people who went to private schools today. >> she said she wanted. >> she said she wanted. >> why can't you just celebrate a working class woman fighting her way to the top? >> because. because why do you hate other working class women who look at you? >> you're ridiculous when you do that. because all you do is put words into my mouth, which i'm. come on, explain. people can see. >> explain what? explain it. why do you constantly attack her? i didn't say that. i said, well, i don't think carole attacks her. >> i don't hate working class women. two i've never said i hate angela rayner. what i've said is she's ridiculous and you are being equally ridiculous by saying that i hate working class women because i'm criticising her. >> okay, we're going to continue this fracas after the break. >> i'll try and do it in a minute. >> try and keep these two apart. benjamin butterworth, carolyn maloney, a man. thank you. coming up, what did the tories

common sense minister esther mcvey say to get this reaction? i'll reveal all shortly. but to tell you the truth, it is absolutely brutal. i've got more of tomorrow's front pages to you as well. and maybe another punch

patrick christys. tonight with me. ben. leo. time to return to tomorrow's newspaper. front pages. starting with the mirror , pages. starting with the mirror, exclusive. so sorry. the daily telegraph sunak offers tax break to landlords, workers, parents and pensioners will feel the benefits of conservatism. promises the pm, and also the youngest murderers since bulger killers. we've talked about that the daily mirror. this is the exclusive my pledge on kids health from sir keir starmer. a ban on energy drink sales to under 16 seconds, and junk food ads before 9 pm, and a guarantee of an extra 100,000 dental appointments for children . you wouldn't believe it. or maybe you would, but i still get

id'd for energy drinks. you have to be 16 to buy them, so i'm not sure if i'd take that as a compliment or what. joined by our panel again tonight, carole malone, daily express columnist, journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth and founding chairman of global britain uk, amaan bhogal, now conservative candidate. estimate. will they hit the road on her campaign trail in a bid to secure votes? but it looked more like she tried her hand rather unsuccessfully, at stand up comedy. so what could she have said that was so funny? let's see, the conservative party always gets the country back on its feet. >> we have plenty. >> we have plenty. >> oh, carole malone, i feel a bit sorry for esther there. i mean, other tories are laughing stock. >> no, i love esther and but, you know, she's doing her job. you know, she's doing herjob. she's. what are they laughing at? >> well, they're laughing at the fact that the tories aren't going to go back on track. and there's no chance of it. and she's just trying to she's just trying to do her job. and of trying to do herjob. and of course, that's what's happening now. you know, committed tories are being laughed at now.

>> they were members right. they were tory members i know, i know, but we know the tory party is split into about 45 factions. >> so, you know, there's some of them at war with each other. >> so that was a hustings in, in tatton. there you go. which is where i'm from and where she's a she, she was the mp and i mean, it's, i mean, this is, one of the wealthiest constituencies in the wealthiest constituencies in the country, certainly outside of london and the south east. it's the wealthiest. and it's extraordinary that the polls put labour as winning that. and that was before reform surged into gean was before reform surged into gear, which probably makes it harder for the tories to win. so the fact that, you know, conservative politicians with the profile of esther mcvey, with a wealthy older area like tatton in cheshire, the fact they can't win there says they can't win anywhere. >> well, look, i think look, esther mcvey is one of the good common sense conservatives. i have huge respect for her. but again, you know, what is affecting people like her are is the bad performance of those who have managed to get the, leads off the conservative party literally laughed off the stage, a laughing stock. >> now moving on. nigel farage has come under fire for saying

rishi sunak does not understand our culture. during the leaders election debate last week. the reform uk leader has since insisted he was talking about class rather than race after accusations of, quote, dog whistle politics. but tonight the bbc's nick robinson questioned mr sunak on the issue we called are history even said that you were not basically patriotic. >> is he playing with fire by bringing your heritage into this argument ? argument? >> well, nigel farage can answer what he exactly meant by those comments. i'm not going to get involved in that, because i don't think it's for good our country or good for our politics. >> okay, amaan, was there anything problematic with nigel farage's comments? >> not at all. >> not at all. >> i mean, even if people thought that it was about the prime minister's indian heritage, let's be honest , you heritage, let's be honest, you know, indian culture and heritage is very much part of british, mainstream tapestry. you know, the largest number of, volunteer soldiers came from the indian subcontinent. so volunteer soldiers came from the indian subcontinent . so what the indian subcontinent. so what the prime minister to, to did what he did on d—day, i think, is not

only his lack of understanding. >> benjamin, do you think farage has any sort of undertones going on there? >> yes, i do, i think referring to our culture seems to imply that it isn't rishi sunak culture, which of course it is. he is british, and i thought it was an attempt to inflame the situation, but his point was that he didn't nigel farage, he didn't have relatives or grandparents who fought in d—day. >> is that not a valid point? well, neither do i and neither do most british people. >> and i think it was clear what he was trying to touch on. and thatis he was trying to touch on. and that is the kind of thing that a lot of reform voters fall for. >> carol maloney i'm a big fan of farage, but i think those comments were wrong. >> i think it's wrong to call sunak unpatriotic . i don't think sunak unpatriotic. i don't think he is at all. i think he's deeply patriotic. he never tires of telling us about his love for this country and what it's done for him and his family. so i think unpatriotic was the wrong thing to say. >> why didn't rishi sunak, want to talk about it? >> i think he didn't want to get involved in the race element of

it. i think he didn't want to, talk about the culture being his culture being separate from that, because that's what farage was hinting at. i don't think he wanted because that that would just inflame the argument. it would then become about race, then it would be out there. what a lot of what a lot of people are saying. he was hinting at and sunak doesn't want. >> i would argue that the only people hearing this dog whistle are the people who want to hear it, and those are the people who are commentating to do in what farage was trying to drive home here is simply that the prime minister should have made the extra effort for d—day. >> but we know that well. >> but we know that well. >> keir starmer wasn't actually as leader of the opposition, rather wasn't invited to d—day. but labour went out of its way for some months to curry favour with the french to get an invite. and i think that shows that you know, the labour party understood the need to be there, to be seen there. so what's rishi sunak excuse? >> let's not forget he had two full days, both in portsmouth and in normandy, and he he he attended every single event that was about british. the event that he missed was the last one, which was about was on omaha

beach, which is where the americans had heavy losses and that was where all the world leaders were. he should have been there. yes, but he did do a lot in the this is what happens when you have someone that's obsessed with internal tory politics. >> they don't understand representing britain on the world stage. >> i do agree, benjamin. you mentioned, tatton, the seat with estimated votes. we've got to read the full list, unfortunately, here's the full list of those who have declared the candidacy in tatton estimate value for the conservative party. ryan jude for the labour party. ryan jude for the labour party. oliver george speakman for the reform party. jonathan smith for the liberal democrats. nigel henley for the green party okay. it's time now to reveal today's greatest britain and union jackass , carole malone, union jackass, carole malone, your greatest britain. please mine is doctor michael mosley, who very tragically was found dead on the greek island of simi at the weekend after losing his way on a walk in searing heat. >> it's so sad. he very nearly made it back to his resort. but didn't hearts go out to his wife and his his four kids? you know, he achieved much in his life. mosley. he undoubtedly saved millions of lives himself by changing the way millions of

people eat , it's. my changing the way millions of people eat, it's. my heart goes out to his wife, claire. >> benjamin . >> benjamin. >> benjamin. >> my greatest. britain's honorary are the israeli defence forces who managed to bring back four hostages. and the video of it is quite extraordinary of them taking on under hamas gunfire in gaza to save those four lives. and it was an al jazeera freelance journalist and a doctor who was hiding through those hostages. okay, aman, i'm going forward on this time. >> i think my greatest britain is an honorary one, which is marine le pen. she's the exact antidote that the french need to get back on their feet. >> okay, well, it can only be. i mean, that footage is extraordinary. we don't have it, unfortunately. but carole malone, doctor michael mosley, very tragic story. and, you know, undoubtedly done a lot of for good the world. carole malone, your union jackass please. >> it's all those police chiefs all over this country who've been too gutless to enforce the new guidance , which says the new guidance, which says the trans officers must not be allowed to strip search women. this is a hideous humiliation and a degrading process for

women. and it's still happening because the police force are too gutless to stop it. >> benjamin swiftly , my jackass >> benjamin swiftly, my jackass is the attend attendees of appleby horse fair. >> now look at that of the picture. they left an absolute tip which was reported by the daily telegraph. i don't care what your event is, clean up after yourself, your messy man, your union jackass. >> yes, it's again a foreign honorary one. this time is ursula von der leyen for sticking at that. this centre is holding, she said after the, surge of the right across europe. yeah >> i mean, she also, again, i said to steven wolf earlier about blaming russian interference for the election result. the winner of the union jackass is the attendees of appleby horse fair. that behaviour is atrocious . there's behaviour is atrocious. there's nothing worse than littering. and if you ask me, they need to go back to school, go and speak to their parents for bringing them up or dragging them up so terribly. i mean, that's absolutely disgusting. so the union jackasses are those who attended the horse fair. carol maloney, benjamin bosworth, amanda bogle, thank you so much ,

amanda bogle, thank you so much, patrick would be pleased to know is back tomorrow from 9 pm. next. it's headliners. and that's right after your weather. i'll be back, next friday with britain's newsroom. catch you there. thanks for joining britain's newsroom. catch you there. thanks forjoining us. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hi there, and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. still some showers around during the next 24 hours, but also a few clear spells and under starry skies. tonight. temperatures will fall. it's going to be a chilly one for june. we've got this northerly airflow and within those northerly winds we've still got some showers, especially for the north and the east coast, 1 or 2 inland. elsewhere but many of the inland showers will ease overnight , showers will ease overnight, leading to plenty of clear spells, especially in the south and the west , spells, especially in the south and the west, where spells, especially in the south and the west , where we've got and the west, where we've got clear spells temperatures dipping to 7 or 8 celsius generally , but a little lower

generally, but a little lower than that in some sheltered spots , and as a result, the spots, and as a result, the potential for a grass frost first thing in 1 or 2 places. however, despite the early june chill in the air, it's going to be a bright start to the day on tuesday. plenty of sunshine for southern england, parts of wales as well. in between the showers, showers also affecting parts of northern ireland, especially towards the west, but plenty of bright weather away from those showers and again thicker cloud further north. a few showers running into the north of scotland and the north sea coast of england. but during the morning what we'll see is the cloud build more generally across the uk and showers will again develop fairly widely. you could get a shower just about could get a showerjust about anywhere, but the most likely areas for frequent showers will be northern, central and eastern england, where those showers will be heavy at times. it's going to feel cool here as well. 12 or 13 celsius on that north sea coast. but where we've got mostly dry weather towards the southwest, 17 or 18 celsius. not

feeling too chilly into wednesday morning. again, a cool start to the day. plenty of bright weather. first thing a few more showers develop across eastern england. elsewhere, it stays

gb news. >> good evening. it's 11:00. >> good evening. it's11:00. you're with gb news and our top story. tonight, two boys have become the youngest convicted murderers in britain since the

killing of james bulger in 1993. the 12 year olds were found guilty of murdering a man with a machete in a wolverhampton park last year. they stabbed 19 year old sean c zahawi in november in an unprovoked attack. the jury's decision to convict both the boys was unanimous. his parents have said they'll never recover from the loss of their son. in election news today, the prime minister said he never considered quitting despite heavy criticism over his early departure from d—day commemorations in normandy last week. it comes after the prime minister kept a low profile over the weekend, avoiding questions from reporters as rumours circulated he may step down. he's now vowing he won't stop fighting for the future of the country , and labour is promising country, and labour is promising to deliver free breakfast clubs in schools as part of a new child care plan they say will save parents over £400 a year. they're also claiming it will cut almost half a million days

of school absences.