pants on fire. next. >> good evening with gb news and the latest top story is that the hamas terror group has called for a complete halt to the fighting in gaza. in a statement, the group and its palestinian islamic jihad allies expressed readiness to positively reach a deal to end the war in gaza. it proposes a six week ceasefire that would become permanent, and that comes after the un security council backed a three phase plan, which includes the release of hostages and the withdrawal of israeli forces . last night, hamas forces. last night, hamas accepted a ceasefire proposal that was passed by the united nations. well brokers qatar and eqypt nations. well brokers qatar and egypt have said tonight they would coordinate with both parties concerned regarding next steps . we'll keep you posted on steps. we'll keep you posted on what happens in the middle east tonight . what happens in the middle east tonight. here at home. the home secretary, james cleverly , has secretary, james cleverly, has condemned the attack on nigel farage after objects were thrown at him during a campaign event

this morning. police year old man on suspicion of public order offence, understood a coffee cup and possibly building materials narrowly missing the reform uk leader , who was on top of his leader, who was on top of his party's battle bus in barnsley town centre in yorkshire at the time. mr farage was addressing his supporters when he was interrupted by demonstrators . he interrupted by demonstrators. he said he'd been warned by police not to get off the bus . well, not to get off the bus. well, it's manifesto week and rishi sunak launched the conservative election manifesto today, saying that he understood people were frustrated with the tories. the prime minister promised, therefore , a multi—billion pound therefore, a multi—billion pound package of tax cuts, including a reduction in national insurance. the pledges amounting to a total of more than £17 billion in cuts by 2030. there's also help for first time buyers, with changes to stamp duty and a pledge for a new scheme to help to buy well, there was a promise to address

there was a promise to address the housing shortage as well , by the housing shortage as well, by building 1.6 million new homes and £83 billion has been set aside to fix potholes and resurface britain's roads. there's also, the tories said, going to be a total ban on smartphones in schools and on immigration. there's a promise to get flights off the ground to rwanda every month, with rishi sunak saying the deterrent would be a key part of britain's migration plan. clearing the asylum backlog within six months. well responding to that tory manifesto, the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, said the conservatives plans will lead to a second tory mortgage bombshell . bombshell. >> it is true that under the conservatives, the welfare bill has spiralled since 2019, spending on benefits to support disabled people and those with health conditions has risen in real terms . by £20 million. and real terms. by £20 million. and under rishi sunak as prime minister the taxpayer has been losing £1 million every single

hour to benefit fraud and error . hour to benefit fraud and error. >> now, as you've been hearing, a protest group has vandalised a new portrait of his majesty the king. two members of a protest group called animal rising entered the london gallery and stuck images across the painting. although it is covered in a pane of glass from the animated series wallace and gromit, the group saying it was calling attention to what it says is the poor treatment of animals in its view on farms, it says they targeted his majesty the king due to his position as a royal patron of the rspca. that's the for news 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. >> pleasure to be back with you this evening . right, so for many this evening. right, so for many people, this is the immigration election. we have started to get full blooded policies and manifestos on immigration. the

conservatives launched their manifesto today. and here's what mr sunak had to say. >> last year we announced changes which mean 300,000 people who were previously eligible to come here now can't. and we will introduce a migration cap. that means parliament, your elected representatives will vote on how many people should be able to come here every year. our plan is clear. we will halve migration as we have halved inflation and then reduce it every single year. >> well, i reckon that halving immigration from its current levels will mean that 320 4500 net every year would be the result. i think many people might still think that's too high. the tories also want to work with other countries to rewrite asylum treaties, put on regular flights to rwanda, prioritise national security over echr membership. but nothing on actually leaving the echr stop illegal immigrants challenging deportations, clear

the asylum backlog and cut the use of migrant hotels, and put a legal cap on migration that will be reduced every year. so that's what they are saying. they want to do. labour's full manifesto will be out on thursday. i believe. but here's what starmer has said so far. >> well, immigration is a sort of record high under this government, a complete failure. we need to bring it down. underpinning the number is the fact that we haven't got the skills in this country that we need, so we need to fix the skills strategy. but we've also got to come down on bad bosses. and so we want to ban bad bosses from recruiting from abroad . so from recruiting from abroad. so we'll have a single enforcement agency going into premises. if there's a breach of labour market rules , then that means market rules, then that means i'm afraid for that company, for that business is you're not going to get a licence to bring people in from another country. so skills agenda, but also beanng so skills agenda, but also bearing down on those bad bosses , we're going to ban them from bringing people in. >> all right. he's also said a thing or two on illegal

immigration, illegal migration is a test of seriousness for all governments and would be governments and would be governments and would be governments and not just here, right across the world. >> a symbol, as i said in my conference speech last year , of conference speech last year, of a more volatile world, an age of insecurity . insecurity. >> well, i mean, there's no policy there at the moment, but we will wait and see, won't we.7 the we will wait and see, won't we? the lib dems have put this forward. this is interesting. scrap the illegal migration act, establish a dedicated unit to make asylum decisions which exists outside of the home office. allow asylum seekers to work in the uk if they have been waiting more than three months, and negotiate low cost, fast tracked work visas to tackle labour shortages in key economic sectors . oh yeah, and basically sectors. oh yeah, and basically rejoin the eu. >> we believe in the long term we need to be back at the heart of europe. >> but we're being really clear that we're not going to pretend that's going to be easy. and

regrettably, the conservative party have so poisoned britain's relationship with our nearest neighbours , our allies, they've neighbours, our allies, they've undermined trust . and when undermined trust. and when i speak to european politicians, regrettably they don't trust the united kingdom anymore. and how sad is that ? sad is that? >> okay, well, we'll be talking about that in more detail a bit later in the show. but on to reform. now they are due to pubush reform. now they are due to publish their full manifesto, as i understand it. anyway, next monday. but here are some snippets. >> yes , i'm disappointed. very >> yes, i'm disappointed. very disappointed in what the government's done in immigration. people voted for lower numbers. we've got net migration of three quarters of a million a year for the last two years. this is not what people voted for. it isn't a failure of brexit. it's a failure of a conservative government. >> they say they want net zero immigration. and so what we need to do is we need to incentivise to do is we need to incentivise to business say, actually, if you want to employ people from overseas, that's fine, but you've got to pay a price for

it. there's that old business immigration tax. so look, there we are. okay. those are the main thrusts of immigration policies that we've got so far. the big question on this, i suppose, is who do you trust when it comes to immigration? let's get the thoughts of my panel this evening. i am joined by columnist and broadcaster esther krakue. i have also got the spectators. freddie grey making his debut on our sofa this evening. so thank you very much . evening. so thank you very much. and author of course, amy nicole turner and freddie himars. i'll start with you, look, who do you trust more when it comes to sorting out immigration, there are no good options. it seems to me none of the above , none of me none of the above, none of the above. you have, a tory party who make good sounding promises that nobody believes in. you have a liberal democrat party making , commitments that party making, commitments that everybody thinks will be a disaster , aside from a few disaster, aside from a few people who are quite radical, radically to the left on

immigration, and you have a labour party. doesn't really seem to have a very clear plan at all. and then you have reform who make bold noises, but a lot of people just don't know whether they'd be effectively able to govern. so there's nobody, who clearly represents what most british people , i what most british people, i would argue, come to you on this now that actually what the lib dems have put forward so far, many people might regard as being quite dangerous. >> so you would have asylum seekers being allowed to work straight away, getting rid of the illegal migration act, paving the way to rejoin the european union. so we could conceivably have, you know, additional free movement on top of the levels of immigration that we've already got from other countries as well, and a deportations office that would be outside of the home office's jurisdiction. well, you know, look who populates that office. it's probably going to be activists. i would have thought, what do you think about all of that? >> i mean, lib dems manifesto is completely adrift from reality. so i don't think we should treat it with any seriousness, i think, you know, the lib dems don't really talk about

immigration in the context of social integration. so they just they treat human beings like they're robots. you just want to import people from from wherever in the world because big business needs cheap labour. forget about the british citizen, british people whose wages are being undercut by the by this influx of cheap labour. but then they don't question what values are these people bringing, where are they coming from, you know, how were they integrated? were they actually adopt our values? you know, the left seems to care about ethnic minorities and lgbt rights and stuff like that. if you're bringing in people from from other parts of the world that don't believe in any of those things, any kind of the kinds of equality that we uphold, you know, they will have a lot to answer for. so i don't take the lib dems seriously. the labour party are actually sounding a lot like the conservative. ironically, i think every day george galloway is two cheeks of the same bum. just become more and more, more and more true, and more, more and more true, and reform again. the making the right noises. i think most people would agree with them, but do they have the infrastructure to make it happen?i infrastructure to make it happen? i guess most of the country are thinking what do we have to lose? >> okay. all right, amy, your your views on this. i mean, we've got sunak saying he wants to halve net migration. by my

calculations, that would make it still around 325,000 people a yeah still around 325,000 people a year. i think many people would still regard that as too high. >> but i don't understand why people see it as too high. is it a perception or is it evidenced because all the legal migration that we've had was in response to skills shortages? we needed those people to come and work here. now. >> yes, all those uber drivers and deliveroo drivers. what but here's the thing about legal immigration. the last two years over the well, you're the data on gov.uk is contradicts exactly what you're saying. over the last two years. there have been 3 million visas that have been handed out from the uk. of those those 3 million visas, 11% have been skilled workers and 30% have been students, 50% of whom end up remaining in the uk over two years after they graduate. so this notion that they're skilled workers, i'm sorry, that is not the truth. and the vast majority of them come from nigeria and pakistan, and most of them either go into the underbelly of british society or do sort of gig economy work like i >> -- >> and i m >> and i think the argument might be amy as well, that

labour possibly just don't care about that. >> i think that labour put forward a really good suggestion when they said, we need to train people up to so that the skilled, short, skilled worker shortages aren't. the list isn't as long as it is, that's good. but in the interim, what are you going to do if you're going to half the number of legal migrants? who's going to pop up the nhs? who's going to do the jobs that aren't filled? but the british businesses, the british businesses who who should be investing in the british public are not doing that. >> they're instead, they're importing cheap labour from across the world. and labour and the conservatives are enabling them to do that. i agree with you. invest in the british pubuc you. invest in the british public who's supposed to do that? the people who are not choosing to do that. >> i think the problem is you can't bring in international students. it's a complete different thing if we just stick to to the the workers shortages i argument, then what is going to instantly happen if you remove migration right. >> no one is saying remove migration. >> who's who's if you half the number tomorrow, let's let freddie. >> let's let freddie . >> let's let freddie. >> let's let freddie. >> life is about more than labour shortages and the problem with that, to the nhs, human beings are not freddie, freddie, toil, the important, the difficult thing about importing,

you know , 700 and however many you know, 700 and however many thousand people a year is that it's not just filling labour shortages, it means filling up school places. it means filling up hospitals. it means putting huge burden on british infrastructure that simply cannot cope. >> surely when you're importing a poor planning, they're allowed . here's the thing under the rules, it's impossible. >> which construction worker ? >> which construction worker? but hold on. >> under the bill, the rules which allow each country in the world short of possibly china, could build cities that could hold 750,000 people a year. >> how have we got to a situation where we have these massive labour shortages? we're not training our own people and we're not expanding because we keep importing more people, because we keep importing more people and thinking ahead, that's the problem. >> we keep importing more people than thinking ahead. for every one of those skilled labours that only make up 11% of the visas that have been handed out over the last two years, what they bring in 1.4 dependents. so they're not a net gain. they're a net drain on the country. and you need to i'm sorry. look at the data and accept the facts. >> but the thing is, i have looked at the data and all the data suggests that the majority of migrants are net contributors

i >> -- >> and then you're looking at the wrong data, because this is the wrong data, because this is the data from the government, from gov.uk. and you are looking the growth that we are looking at myths. the data on gov.uk is very clear . the data you are very clear. the data you are citing is false. >> okay. well, right. look, just as a very quick whip round, yes or no? do you trust anyone from what you've heard so far, to control our borders , yes, but control our borders, yes, but probably reform probably reform. >> fine. okay. yourself, i think sadly not. and i think actually beyond britain, it's a problem for almost all developed countries , and nobody seems to countries, and nobody seems to have very good solutions for it. >> do you trust anyone to sort out? >> because everyone's intent on demonising migrants and framing them as the cause of all our problems ? all we're honest. problems? all we're honest. >> some might, some might say making sure that we have enough homes for people who are already here to live in, but who's going to build them ? well, a british to build them? well, a british bill that would be we have a shortage of construction workers. okay. all right. coming up. coming up. nigel farage vows not to back down after he was attacked again on the campaign trail . that should be a clip.

trail. that should be a clip. >> i will not surrender to the mob. i will not stop campaigning i >> -- >> more on that later. but the reform party leader is taking on the pollsters. >> two and i very much hope that the polling industry becomes honest. otherwise i'll have a fight with them. >> yeah. i want to drill down into whether or not the pollsters are suppressing the reform vote. so i've got uk research manager for more in common, ed hodgson, giving his expert analysis . but next this expert analysis. but next this is big okay. it's big for everyone. it's big for all of us. former labour spokesman james matthewson goes head to head with broadcaster emma webb on whether we should trust labour or the tories more with our money. okay, they've got some big policies that were out today. they were absolutely hammering each other over who could be trusted more with your earned cash. so we are

welcome back to patrick christys . tonight. coming up, are pollsters deliberately suppressing reform? and nigel farage, i speak to a top pollster shortly to get to the bottom of that. but first, who do you trust more with your money? it's kicked off today between labour and the tories. it's time now for the head to head. yes. so the conservatives launched their manifesto at silverstone earlier today and

rishi sunak promised £17 billion in tax cuts. we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years , meaning that by 2027 we years, meaning that by 2027 we will have halved national insurance to 6. >> that is a tax cut, my friends, worth £1,500 to the average worker . average worker. >> wow. mr sunak also promised bold tax cuts for the self—employed, enhanced pension protection and no new net zero charges. but shadow chancellor rachel reeves claimed the manifesto contained a whopping £71 billion of unfunded commitments and accused the prime minister of cosplaying liz truss . truss. >> rishi sunak said he was the antidote to liz truss. instead, he's cosplaying liz truss by again doing what the conservatives did in that mini—budget with, in this case, £71 billion of unfunded commitments . so they're not commitments. so they're not going to cut national insurance. or if they do , all it's going to or if they do, all it's going to mean is £4,800. more on your mortgage. >> well then, sir keir starmer

piped up, didn't he made this punchy, if not slightly rich jibe about rishi sunak's pitch to the nation ? to the nation? >> well, this is coming from the party that's put tax. it's the highest level since, you know, for 70 years. and they're building this sort of jeremy corbyn style manifesto where anything you want can go in it. none of it is costed and it's a recipe for more of the same . and recipe for more of the same. and that's why this choice of turn our back on this, turn the page and rebuild with labour is so important. we've got six first steps. we're ready to go on july the 5th. >> i've got a feeling you might regret saying that. but labour's plans have also been criticised because apparently they're uncosted and their plans to raise cash through the ending of tax breaks for private schools. and, of course, the non—dom tax loopholes have come under fire. now rishi sunak believes the election presents a clear choice. >> keir starmer is asking for a blank check and he will not tell people which taxes he is going to put up that are ultimately going to cost them £2,000. so if you want a secure yeah . you want a secure yeah. >> so tonight i am asking who do

you trust more with your money. laboun you trust more with your money. labour, the tories or neither. and i'm very keen to get your views on this gbnews.com/yoursay tweet me @gbnews while you're there, please go and vote in our poll. i'll give you the results shortly. going head to head on this former labour spokesman, james matthewson and broadcaster emma webb. james, i'll start with you as far as i can tell, some of the labour funding at the moment needs to be for great british energy funding for new teachers, more state school places, free breakfast in every primary school, places, free breakfast in every primary school , renegotiate with primary school, renegotiate with medical unions, 2 million more nhs appointments every single yeah nhs appointments every single year. the railways increase the minimum wage to a genuine living wage. and that, i think, comes from non—doms, who will leave , from non—doms, who will leave, and windfall taxes from companies that will scale back production. so does that add up ? production. so does that add up? >> i don't really care whether it adds up. harry. the main thing is it's not coming from the british people. it's not coming because of the triple lock. that's the fantastic position labour has put itself in. whether you agree with it or

not. they backed themselves into a corner on it and that's fantastic for the british people because they now are signed up to that idea that the british taxpayer does not have to pay more, because the tories have already put us in a position where we're paying more than we've ever paid before. so the idea is that, you know, under a labour government, this is i'm pleased to hear this because we have this concern about labour shifting to the right central purpose of a labour party created by the trade union movement as it was, was to redistribute wealth in britain. and this is along those lines, right ? right? >> right. okay. i mean, it's nothing if not honest, i suppose. emma, your response as to whether or not any of that makes sense and if the tories will be better? >> well, unless i misunderstood there, that was typical socialism for getting whose money it is that you're spending. >> that money is the money of the british people. if it's raised through taxes, but look, i think it's i think it was amusing to listen to, rachel reeves talking about cosplaying when the labour party are trying to cosplay as fiscally responsible patriots, i am not

saying that the conservatives have done a great job. one of the reasons why we're in a sticky patch with the economy is because of lockdown, which was something that keir starmer cheered on, and i think everybody can, can can relish the, the just delicious , sense the, the just delicious, sense of humour around keir starmer saying that, criticising jeremy corbyn or criticising the labour party by, by comparing it to an uncosted manifesto of jeremy corbyn's that he himself supported at the time, i know. leopards don't change their spots and at least with the conservative party you know, it's an aberration that the reason why they're being so criticised by other conservatives and by the conservative party base is because they're being criticised on the grounds that they have not been properly conservative. and actually the reality is that i don't think keir starmer, if, if when he becomes prime minister, is going to be able to keep a lid on the friction with

the left of the party, who are hardly going to be rallying for fiscal responsibility. so i think that we'll see when the labour party are in government, that they'll be riven with divisions. but i don't trust them one bit. and even if i think that the conservative party have failed and nobody believes anything they say, even if they were promoting good policies in their manifesto , no policies in their manifesto, no one would believe them, but ultimately you can't trust the labour party. you can't trust socialists to take care of your money for you. >> all right. and i'm just going to introduce i'll put this clip to introduce i'll put this clip to you, james, because earlier on, you know, we had keir starmer there saying about how what the tories are putting forward is that jeremy corbyn style manifesto . all right. well style manifesto. all right. well i mean we have got the receipts haven't we. >> i have to get a train to meet the rest of the shadow cabinet and jeremy corbyn in birmingham to launch our manifesto. and that's what this manifesto is about, real change, ambitious change and ambition to meet the needs we should treat. if you

like the 2017 manifesto as our foundational document, the radicalism and the hope that that inspired across the country was real. >> is he a complete charlatan ? >> is he a complete charlatan? >> is he a complete charlatan? >> is he a complete charlatan? >> i don't think he's a complete charlatan in the same way that no politicians are complete charlatan. however he's a politician, keir starmer, he's a politician, keir starmer, he's a politician and he's standing to be prime minister of the country. >> so he is lying completely. >> so he is lying completely. >> he's playing a game. i don't believe that he's lying. i think what he's doing is very clever, because the optics of that little clip of british people here in that tonight on the news, when they hear keir starmer say it's a jeremy corbyn style, you know, manifesto in that kind of, you know, condescending way . what people condescending way. what people hearis condescending way. what people hear is keir starmer is not jeremy corbyn. >> what they also hear is the time, like i've just played now, which is two clips of him backing that exact manifesto, which isn't particularly great, is it, patrick? >> you're giving too much credence to the time the british pubuc credence to the time the british public have on their hands. those of us who were in this,

who were absorbed in this all the time, who were doing the analysis, fair enough. but people who hear that clip of keir starmer will think, he's not jeremy corbyn. and i withheld my vote from labour about jeremy corbyn. what, what ihear about jeremy corbyn. what, what i hearjust about jeremy corbyn. what, what i hear just to about jeremy corbyn. what, what i hearjust to say quickly on i hear just to say quickly on this point, there is emma saying, oh, the tories are terrible, but i'm going to vote for them anyway. i mean, the lack of inspiration in that, i mean, when it comes to it, 14 years of what we've had, we've had liz truss and we're talking about there might be divisions in the labour government. look at the divisions that there are in the tory government. you know, as we as we sit here and look at them. >> all right, james, all right. i'll try and come back to you if we've got time. but emma, someone look, unless i've missed something here and i'm willing to stand corrected on this. i haven't seen a huge amount of jeremy hunt. i haven't, which, given that rishi sunak was making some really extraordinary claims about tax today, the implication for me would be that maybe the tory chancellor isn't on board with this , and i think on board with this, and i think that should possibly concern people . people. >> yeah, i think there are lots

of reasons to be concerned. and actually i take issue with what you've just said there, not you. patrick because i'm not saying, well, that you should vote for the tories. in fact, i've been very critical of the conservatives campaign. i think trying to, trying to advertise youn trying to, trying to advertise your, your, your party by saying we're the least bad option is not a good strategy, when campaigning in a general election, i've been very critical of that , look, i'm not critical of that, look, i'm not saying that the conservatives have gotit saying that the conservatives have got it right. i've been very critical of them. i think they've made many, many mistakes. but i think ultimately a labour government will be an absolute disaster. and i think we're already doing that now and they're not even in disaster. >> what more of a disaster do you get? >> we have boris johnson with partygate . we had liz truss partygate. we had liz truss crash the economy, the tories have destroyed this country. it is a disaster. there is answers like after the last labour government. >> just, just, just to clarify, you say what more of a disaster could we have. all right. what were the finances like? what was

that little note after the last labour government just out of interest, 14 years ago? >> patrick, we're talking about a long time ago. the labour party has changed time wasn't it was the last time. it's changed six times ideologically. in that time . time. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. well, well all right. we are we are being asked to believe quite a lot. i mean, the you are one thing i will agree with you on absolutely, is that we are also being asked to believe quite a lot from the tories here, which we've precious little evidence to, to, to back it up, i suppose, emma, you know, there is, there is the labour line that we've got was it £71 billion of unfunded uncosted things here with the tories plus the highest tax burden since world war two? so when you look at what the tories want to do, does that add up? or are we looking at keir starmer and thinking, well, you know, as james will probably say, i mean, how much worse could it be? >> look, ultimately i don't think it matters because i think as as allison pearson has said, you know, the conservatives could promise you the world they could promise you the world they could promise you all sorts of treats. but, ultimately , no treats. but, ultimately, no one's going to believe them

because they failed on so many of their promises. yes, they did succeed in lowering inflation, but there are all sorts of other points that they have failed on, but i think ultimately that's beside the point. and, you know, it's also comical and we can laugh about it now, but we shall see when the, when the labour party released their manifesto on thursday and when we perhaps inevitably have a labour government, we shall see what sorts of , troubles unfold, sorts of, troubles unfold, because i really do think it's going to be an absolute car crash. and if you think it's been bad under the conservatives, it'll be worse under labour. but that's not me saying that's an argument to vote for. the conservatives. >> all right. well both of you, thank you very much. lovely stuff that very much. two sides of the coin there. so sir, former labour spokesperson james matthewson and broadcaster emma webb. right, well i did show you previously, of course, the clip of keir starmer backing jeremy corbyn's manifesto, despite today criticising the conservatives for launching one that he says is exactly the same as that. but yes, keir starmer has accused the conservatives of launching a corbyn style manifesto. who do you trust more with your money, david on your say, says i'm a tory and i've

still got my morals and mind. the tories are our only hope. all right, david, janice says starmer is leading in the polls. so that's clearly where the majority of bits want to put their trust. yeah, fair enough janice i suppose derek says i would pick reform before choosing either the tories or laboun choosing either the tories or labour. i think their manifesto is out on monday. i think your verdict is in. 6% of you say you would trust labour more with your money, 22% say you would trust the tories and 72% of you say neither. so there we go. coming up now. say neither. so there we go. coming up now . ed davey, i think coming up now. ed davey, i think this is big. this ed davey is announced that the lib dems will look to reunite us with the eu . look to reunite us with the eu. is reversing brexit really a good look for his party in the blue wall? there's much more to it as well. europe's lurch to the right, doesn't it? and on top of that, does he really wants to reopen that can of worms? former senior adviser to the lib dems pablo ohana , the lib dems pablo ohana, defends their controversial manifesto pledge shortly. but first, after winning his battle against the banks, nigel farage claims that he's coming for britain's polling companies and

i very much hope that the polling industry becomes honest. >> otherwise i'll have a fight with them. >> well, stay tuned because i want to get to the bottom of this. polling companies actually suppressing reform

vote. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. still to come, is there? davey writes a pledge to bnng there? davey writes a pledge to bring the uk back to the single

market. i especially didn't like the fact that he thinks we have to go cap in hand. former senior adviser to the lib dems, pablo ohana weighs in on what i suspect might be an electoral disaster for them. but first, reform uk leader nigel farage has launched a scathing fight back against polling companies that he feels are suppressing his party, after farage claimed that various polling groups didn't prompt for reform in their research. during an interview with laura kuenssberg . interview with laura kuenssberg. opinion executive calum weir is a polling company hit back claiming that this was categorically not true. so the nigel farage responded hi calum, you have just admitted to the world that you prompt reform uk under the other section, which means that you suppress the vote in your polling. do you really want a fight over this? and then he doubled down in a press conference yesterday. >> i have written to professor green, the head of the british polling council , and i very much polling council, and i very much hope that the polling industry becomes honest. otherwise i'll

have a fight with them. like i had a fight with the banks last yeah had a fight with the banks last year. i can't wait, it's up to them. it really, really is . them. it really, really is. >> just for clarity, that is not professor green the rapper, but on sunday, farage wrote to the british polling council to demand that they ensure greater transparency. his demands were met just 24 hours later, so the polling council confirmed that they had, quote written to all our members reminding them of the importance of making their question wording prompt and sequence clear. so look, our polling companies and have they been suppressing or hiding support for reform? well, i welcome to the fray now uk research manager for more in common, which is a polling company editor. hodgson. and look thank you very much. can you explain what's going on here. because you know look you've got the traditional parties haven't you. you've got your labour, you've got the tories, you've got the lib dems. and i can completely understand that. you would obviously have them, you know, in lights when it comes to who are you going to vote for. but reform are polling depending on what you look at, around 15, maybe even a bit

higher in some of them. should they not be in that same bracket as well? you don't have to go looking for them, should you ? looking for them, should you? >> yeah, i think it's worth saying there are a range of views here with different pollsters. so many pollsters, including more in common, the polling agency i work for do include reform uk in that main list of parties. we choose not to include other lists. so workers party, for example, comes behind the other option. simply because they're not polling high enough nationally to be included in that list. but pollsters set different thresholds, and there are good reasons for that . so opinium, reasons for that. so opinium, who we saw earlier in that tweet, don't put reform uk in that initial list of parties. one reason for that is because with smaller parties, most people don't vote for smaller parties. so if you're a pollster, you want to make sure that if people say they're going to vote for a smaller party, they actually mean it and they're actually looking out for it, because otherwise you might end up with people who, for example, might not have heard of reform uk before. and just like the word reform when they see it in a poll option, i think though, when you look at some of the other parties, though, that reform were were lumped in with,

you've got some kind of obscure trade union parties that, apart from the people who may be in that party, people who've never heard of. >> and i do wonder whether or not that is skewing the amount of people who might go and say that they're going to for vote reform, though. i mean, is that not is that not a mistake on the polling company's part ? polling company's part? >> i don't think it's likely to be having a massive impact, if i'm honest. so last week, we actually, as it happens, had a poll out at the same time as opinium. we have reform in our full initial list. opinion puts it in the second list. opinium had reform vote one point higher than us. so even if you are putting reform behind a behind a sort of a barrier, it seems that the reform voters know to click through and select it anyway. >> i suppose one of the things it comes down to really is whether or not you think there might be a left wing bias in the polling industry, do you think there might be? >> i don't think it makes sense to think that pollsters sort of have a view on which party they want to win , a sort of want to win, a sort of professionally speaking. actually, if you're a pollster, you get one chance every five years to prove how good you are

at predicting elections. and you don't want to be wrong. so you want to be as right as possible. there's no sort of skin in the game for under under estimating a party if you're going to be wrong on it. >> okay, is there any evidence at all to suggest that if you have someone who's not in those main kind of brackets of the traditional parties or something like that, and you have to go looking for them, that that actually people don't go looking for them. i mean, is there actually any evidence whatsoever to suggest that, you know, hiding reforms somewhere along with the monster raving loony party and whoever else would actually have an impact on whether or not people say that they're going to vote for them . they're going to vote for them. >> as i say, it .doesn't look from the polling we've seen, just comparing pollsters that do prompt for reform initially and those that don't. there's a massive difference, there have been polling errors in the past on this sort of thing. so historically, by putting ukip, for example, in that initial list of options, too many people have said that they'll vote for ukip and actually end up voting for them in a general election. similarly, in these local elections recently , some of the

elections recently, some of the mayoral election misses were from not having independent candidates named in the first list of options. and actually lots of people voting for some of these independent candidates, because i do wonder whether or not some of the pollsters will not some of the pollsters will not hiding reform. >> but you get what i mean, putting them in the other box that actually fundamentally misjudged the mood of the nation, whether they misjudged the fact that many people now, most people now, i think, do know who reform are and what they're about and whether that actually was maybe some pollsters maybe being a bit out of touch . of touch. >> it's tricky to say. i would say pollsters sort of, by definition, are more in touch with the mood of a nation than many people, given they're speaking to thousands of people every single week , when it comes every single week, when it comes to reform specifically, if anything , the polls are being anything, the polls are being too generous to reform at the moment. if you compare reforms, recent performances in by elections and local elections have actually done quite a lot worse than they have been doing in the polling. so i think pollsters generally are actually more worried that their reform vote share is too high. >> well, it's interesting, and because another way of looking at it for nigel farage might be

actually, it's better to for the polls to have you a bit low and then maybe after the election, if you are lucky, you can say you've outperformed the polls , you've outperformed the polls, can't you? as opposed to everyone predicting before the election that 20% of the public are going to vote for you, and then it may be coming in slightly less. but look, thank you very much for clearing some of that up. anyway and nigel farage is obviously willing to take this fight to, i think whoever wants it in any pub car park that will have it. so thank you very, very much. that is the research manager for more in common, ed hodgson, in a statement provided to gb news savanta, the polling company has said that we are an independent and well—established polling company that purely seeks to accurately measure public opinion, not promote or suppress one party over another and any implication otherwise is entirely false. we are confident in our figures as they stand. we won't be bullied into making methodological changes by politicians simply because they don't like our results. they continue. we were the most accurate polling company for the latest london and west midlands mayoral elections, with an average error across both of

zero percentage points when it came to reform uk's performance . came to reform uk's performance. unsurprisingly, polling company opinion have also been onto us, they said. every methodological easy for me to say decision opinion makes is designed to ensure the headline voting intention numbers are accurate. estimates of public opinion at the time of the poll. this has been demonstrated in opinion strong track record in elections, which includes their final poll of the 2019 general election, which was the most accurate of that campaign. all information about how opinion conducts its polls and the methodological rationale behind them is publicly available, and you can find it on their website. nigel's up for the fight on this. i think that possibly just picking a fight with somebody is quite a good way to go about getting more votes, whether or not it is justified. do you think that there might be a left wing bias when it comes to polling companies? but coming up, do you remember this garnoth . remember this garnoth. >> it doesn't look. yeah. hello. please >> i certainly do, and i will reveal to you very shortly the

pathetic sentence handed down to a deranged knife attacker that targeted london's jewish community. but next, ed davey is promised that the lib dems will get back into bed with the european union, is rejoining the single market that brits voted to leave. really an election winning strategy? i look forward to talking to former senior to the liberal democrats, pablo ohana, and that's

soon. welcome back. now, the lib dems unveiled their election manifesto yesterday. and their leader, sir ed davey, has promised a four stage roadmap to britain strengthening its ties with the eu. >> we believe in the long term, we need to be back at the heart of europe . but we're being of europe. but we're being really clear that we're not going to pretend that's going to be easy. and regrettably , we, be easy. and regrettably, we, the conservative party, have so poisoned britain's relationship with our nearest neighbours, our

allies , they've undermined allies, they've undermined trust. and when i speak to european politicians, regrettably they don't trust the united kingdom anymore. and how sad is that? >> i wonder how many european politicians he's speaking to because the eu elections saw a support for right wing parties in france, germany, italy, spain and poland. i am delighted to welcome former senior adviser to the lib dems, pablo ohana. pablo, look, thank you very much for joining us here. to the lib forjoining us here. to the lib dems really want to rejoin the eu. it'sjust a lurch dems really want to rejoin the eu. it's just a lurch to the right. britain looks like it's about to go socialist. so i dare say that maybe you should be happy for brexit, i think there was, you know, there was a rise in some right wing parties, but generally 75% of people voted for solidly pro—european parties in in that election. people have a vote. they're entitled to it. and you know, the debate is , is and you know, the debate is, is there to be had? i think it's important that we have robust debate between left and right in the centre and sometimes left wing, sometimes right wins , wing, sometimes right wins, sometimes the middle wins, and that's democracy. >> i just wonder about ed davey

attitude to it. i mean, he obviously sees us as going back to the eu with our tail between our legs, saying we're very sorry and being subservient to them. that's a terrible start to negotiations, isn't it ? negotiations, isn't it? >> well, it's not how i see it. i think, you know, in a democracy you have milestones when working class people get to vote, when women could stand for election, when the voting age was reduced to 18. democracy is not a one way destination. we can't just say we're a democratic society and there's no more work to be done. we're always going to be arriving at that democratic destination, always evolving , growing, always evolving, growing, challenging it. yeah. >> he says. he just said, sorry to interrupt, but, you know, he just say, look, oh, they're all really upset with us. and they might not trust us. so they they might not trust us. so they they might not trust us. so they they might not even want to have us back.is might not even want to have us back. is that is the implication. can i just say, why would we want to go back? i mean, to according reuters in may, i've got a headline here uk exits recession with fastest growth in nearly three years. germany fares worse. and then from february this year, there's an article eurozone has seen its economy practically motionless in the last year as it continues

to stagnate. we are obviously better than spain, portugal, hungary, lithuania, slovakia as well as a whole host of other eu nations. why would we want to go back to the single market? >> the government's own figures, the ons is saying that it is costing us £1 million per hour and we're here in an election campaign where the tories are claiming labour policies will cost £38 billion, labour are claiming tory policies will cost 71 billion, but independent economists and impartial analysts have concluded that brexit is costing us £100 billion every single year. >> how can our economy is growing faster than most of the european nations? sorry? say again. and yet, and yet our economy appears to be growing much faster than most of the european nations. the eurozone has been practically stagnant. we exited recession with the fastest growth in nearly three years, better than germany . years, better than germany. >> but we can't repair our economy. we can't invest in pubuc economy. we can't invest in public services and deliverjobs without doing something about that 100 billion black hole. thatis that 100 billion black hole. that is just it's sitting there. and so i think it is a logical,

solution for the liberal democrats to say, yes, we're going to have a practical relationship with the european union. we're going to rebuild those relationships. we're going to go back into the single market so that we can have that relationship. >> which would it mean? would that would the single market rejoining it mean that we would have to take all of the rules, whilst having none of the decision making ? decision making? >> but we already do, because if we want to sell into the european single market, we have to take that rules. so we are already rule takers. we used to be part of that conversation, we used to be part of that debate and we, you know, and all the rest of it, we had the referendum. now we're not, but we can't we can't sell into the european market on our own terms. >> just just to just to clarify, the lib dems are looking to win a load of tory brexit back in seats in the south. and their pitch for that is let's rejoin the single market without having any decision making, not not seems to be odd . seems to be odd. >> well, 65% of conservative voters back joining the single market, so, i mean, i think the

lib dem strategy at the moment is, as you say, to win those sort of tory blue wall kind of seats . and they are doing that seats. and they are doing that and the polls are reflecting that. and i think they're going to have a good night and i'm looking forward to the election. but i also think that there there are realistic and honest party in there saying, listen, we have this problem that we need to fix. this is our solution to that. i think it's practical. all right. >> pablo , thank you very, very >> pablo, thank you very, very much. great to chat to you. i hope talk to you again, pablo there, former senior adviser to there, former senior adviser to the lib dems, coming up with nearly two thirds of british muslims still backing labour in the latest polling. despite all that controversy , are they that controversy, are they having any cut through? i'm also going to be revealing the shocking details of a pathetic sentence handed down to a man who tried to stab jews. stay tuned . tuned. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest update from the met

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gb news. >> it's 10 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight. it's garnoth . christys tonight. it's garnoth. >> it doesn't look. yeah. hello? please >> you will not believe how the courts dealt with the crazed knifeman who wanted to stab jews in broad daylight. plus . nigel in broad daylight. plus. nigel farage is attacked by the hashtag be kind brigade again . hashtag be kind brigade again. >> the muslim vote is an initiative set up by organisations and individuals here in the uk to try and unite the muslim communities. electoral response . electoral response. >> new polls show the muslim vote may have collapsed. good news for labour, but the rest of

my life, all i wanna do is make you proud of me. >> is everything . >> is everything. >> is everything. >> sorry? president biden's away with the fairies again . oh and with the fairies again. oh and animal rights protesters target the king. have there been any arrests, though? plus . i've got arrests, though? plus. i've got some terrible news for vegans . some terrible news for vegans. on my panel tonight. it's columnist and broadcaster esther krakue . we've got the krakue. we've got the spectator's freddie grey and author amy nicole turner. and can you spot what's wrong with this? keep it on the screen. if we can. if you're listening on radio, it is a man in some kind of kilt dress thing. but there's more to. oh, there's another one. there we go. that's quite enough of that. get ready britain. here we go .

britain. here we go. what sentence would you give a knife wielding lunatic who attacked jews at random? next . attacked jews at random? next. >> the top story from the gb news room. tonight. rishi sunak launched the conservative election manifesto today, saying he understood that the electorate was frustrated with the conservatives. the prime minister promised a multi—billion pound package of tax cuts, including a reduction in national insurance. the pledges amount to a total of more than £17 billion in cuts by 2030. there's also help for first time buyers, with changes to stamp duty and a pledge for a new help to buy scheme. there was also a promise to address the housing shortage by building 1.6 million new homes, £8.3 billion has also been set aside to fix potholes and resurface roads , and there'd also be a roads, and there'd also be a total ban on smartphones in

schools and on immigration. there's a promise to get flights off the ground to rwanda every month, with rishi sunak saying the deterrent would be a key part of britain's migration plan. clearing the asylum backlog within six months. that is why if you vote conservative on july the 4th, the flights removing illegal migrants will depart in july, establishing the deterrent that will stop the boats. >> because when people know that if they try to come here illegally, they won't get to stay, then they will stop coming and if we are forced to choose between our security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court, including the echr, we will always choose our nation's security . security. >> rishi sunak. well, labour has also pledged to fix a million potholes every year if they're elected on july the 4th. the party says it will turn the tide on the neglect of the uk's

roads. last year, pothole damage cost drivers almost £500 million, with the average damage worth £250 per car. that's according to labour's figures. the shadow transport secretary, louise haigh, accused the conservative government of failing drivers . she says the failing drivers. she says the tories have left britain's roads plagued with potholes and have sat back as car insurance costs have spiralled out of control . have spiralled out of control. now the home secretary, james cleverly , has condemned the cleverly, has condemned the attack on nigel farage after objects were thrown at him dunng objects were thrown at him during a campaign event today. police have arrested a 28 year old man on suspicion of public order offences. it's understood a cup and possibly a stone narrowly missed the reform. uk leader, who was on top of his party's battlebus in barnsley town centre in yorkshire. mr farage had been addressing supporters when he was heckled by demonstrators. he said he'd been warned by police not to get off the bus . and finally, the off the bus. and finally, the convicted sex offender and

former pop star gary glitter has been ordered to pay more than £500,000 in damages to one of the women he abused. the woman, who can't be named , is suing the who can't be named, is suing the disgraced star, whose real name is paul gadd, following his conviction in 2015 for abusing her and two other young people between 1975 and 1980. he was briefly released in february last year before being sent back to prison after attempting to access images of children on the dark web. after his release. that's the news for the latest stories , do sign up to gb news stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. >> good evening. i have an important gb news exclusive to bnng important gb news exclusive to bring to you. no other media outlet appears to have wanted to report this, so you can make of that what you will, but you may remember this terrifying incident garnoth .

incident garnoth. >> it doesn't look. yeah. hello. please you have keys. look, somebody's got a knife by a shop . he's got a knife . . he's got a knife. >> well, that shocking attack was perpetrated by a man called gabriel abdullah, who attempted to go on a knife rampage at a kosher supermarket in golders green in london, one of the most densely populated jewish areas in britain . densely populated jewish areas in britain. he densely populated jewish areas in britain . he was arrested. the in britain. he was arrested. the first shock is what he was actually charged with. so apparently it was affray and being in possession of an article with a blade or a point. so not attempted murder or a hate crime. the day after this attack , gb news spoke to the attack, gb news spoke to the brave man who managed to stop

this crazed knifeman. now that the whole court proceedings have concluded, i can play his testimony to you just came straight out of the till. >> he started arguing straight away, asking about israel—palestine . and obviously israel—palestine. and obviously we, we don't talk about it here. yeah, it was standing right over there between the pallets , he there between the pallets, he was asking me, what does your religion say about the state? but he asked me like 4 or 5 times the same question over and oveh times the same question over and over. my father told me that oveh my father told me that a few shoppers were a bit concerned. they might have a knife on him or something, so my father came out also to check his pockets if he had anything, but he didn't because it was in back back of his trousers. he told my father to go out to go away. you're not a real jew. he didn't know what you're talking about. he lunged at my neck with his left hand , so i quickly, his left hand, so i quickly, let, took his hand off me, obviously. and then i tried to pin him down on the floor, but meanwhile there was someone shouting that he has a knife. and my father also was realising

that he had the knife, was trying to pull him away from me. so even while i was still trying to fight him down, he had the knife on him out and didn't even realise that until much till much later , i decided to take much later, i decided to take the trolley to put, to put the distance between him and me. the last resort i pushed the trolley quickly into him, and then i ran back and he he continued chasing after me. meanwhile, my father came in. he also had the trolley to protect him. and then a few workers with brooms and scooters. yeah. so he got a bit, scared inside. he walked back slowly. then he made his way to the to the house. so meanwhile we the police, we called the police, obviously. and the shomrim . so thankfully, the shomrim. so thankfully, the police go up with him, pinned him down. >> i mean, we can all see that, right? we can all see it with our own eyes. and we've got the testimony of the chap there who's saying, you know, the gun was wielding a knife, shouting about palestine, and tried to

stab him in the neck. okay, here is how the ordeal made him feel. >> basically, straight away i was very shaken , i was like, in was very shaken, i was like, in a different world because it's something that's unexpected and it's not. it's a very surprising event. it's not. it's a very surprising event . never witnessed anything event. never witnessed anything like that. >> but here is the kicker for you. all right. so gabriel abdullah pleaded guilty to those two relatively minor offences. and we can now reveal what he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, 12 months imprisonment, suspended for two years to run concurrently. a nine month alcohol treatment requirement, 30 day rehabilitation activity requirement. so the punishment for a man who took a knife to a kosher supermarket and attempted to stab jews while shouting about palestine is no prison time, and in fact, he gets a free trip to a rehab clinic by the looks of things as well, i have a statement here from

joseph reichman, who is the individual that you heard from there? the very brave chap, actually, who potentially saved quite a few lives by reacting outside that kosher supermarket . outside that kosher supermarket. he gave me this statement a bit earlier today. he said, look, when i first heard about the suspended sentence, i was utterly surprised. the fact he is basically out and about after attacking and threatening a bunch of people is crazy. obviously, i will ask for an appeal because this is way too light a sentence, i ask you now, no prison time for a man who wanted to take a knife to any jew they could find. is that really justice? let's get to my panel this evening. i've got columnist and broadcaster esther krakow. i'm also joined by the deputy editor at the spectator. it's freddie grey, and i've got author and broadcaster amy nicole turner, esther , i'll nicole turner, esther, i'll start with you on this. that to me just seems like an absolute joke of a sentence. really. >> well, it's a suspended sentence , so i'm assuming the sentence, so i'm assuming the overcrowding in prisons has something to do with the fact. but he will go to prison, i'm just i don't understand why this person has not been sort of fast

tracked as to one of the more dangerous people in society. he's either extremely mentally unwell or extremely heinous. i suspect he probably leads, leans more towards the mentally unwell, but either way, he's a danger to society and i don't think anyone would feel comfortable that someone like this is out and about on the streets. i think that's that makes me very uncomfortable. >> what message does this send? you know, you've got a guy there who has taken a knife and tried to stab a load of people at random because they're jewish in the neck and other places . and the neck and other places. and the neck and other places. and the message there is, if you do that and you , you know, claim that and you, you know, claim addiction or whatever, you're just going to be back out on the streets. >> well, let me start by closing this slightly, unless we know the full details of the trial, which we don't, we shouldn't speak too specifically about it. but i'll tell you what it looks like. and it looks like exactly what you're suggesting there, which is a pretty, pretty soft letting off for someone who's done something quite obviously very heinous , and that is very heinous, and that is certainly what it looks like. but again , without having read

but again, without having read the court reporting. >> so i don't think i mean, we can see it though, freddie, you know, look at that. sure. that's what we're seeing. i mean, what possible i think the alcohol, the alcohol rehabilitation would suggest that he was inebriated or under the influence of alcohol when he committed this, or he has a problem with alcohol, which could aggravate. but it's not. >> unfortunately, i don't think that's an excuse. >> not well, legally, not an excuse, but that that buttresses the point. >> that supports the point that this person, if he has a problem with alcohol and it could lead him to do these sorts of things, shouldn't be out on the streets. yeah, that's the point i'm making. >> probably if that's the case, then he needs more is more justification for rehabilitation rather than prison. >> yeah. but in a in a secure facility, do you, do you think it's right that no man has got no prison time at all? >> but i think the reason it was so lenient is because at the moment, judges are very limited for options, because there's literally no space in prisons. i was having a look at some of the other cases that have gone without prison time currently, and there was an example of somebody pouring boiling water over their prison officer. they got a sentence and they're not serving it because there's no space. there's been examples of prisoners, staying in prison

vans because there's so few spaces in prisons. so i think until we can, like, get rid of that problem and make space in prisons, people like this are still going to remain out on the streets. and also trying to like, section him under like the mental health act is also difficult because there are no spaces there either. >> i would actually think this person would obviously serve a prison sentence, but he should be sectioned just under health, charged with i mean, that's not an option either. >> the other thing is, is what he was charged with affray and basically possession of a knife. what do you have to do to get charged with attempted murder? well good question. >> i mean, there perhaps there the argument of the defence was that he made no forward stabbing motions with his hand. yeah, but, that's pretty tenuous, i would say . would say. >> and i think if he was determined to murder , if you're determined to murder, if you're going to. and again, we don't know the details of the case, he would have bypassed the trolleys that were being pushed at him and tried to find be more determined to, to actually stab these people. although, yes , it these people. although, yes, it doesn't look very good. >> i do think the concern for a lot of jewish people in london will be about two tiered justice

on this, because , you know, we on this, because, you know, we have seen with the policing, certainly in the last year , that certainly in the last year, that when it comes to jewish people being attacked and persecuted, authorities are slower to act and slower to prosecute than they are when other minority groups are targeted. >> i think that is i don't know, though, because, you know, hate crime statistics have gone up across the board. >> particularly against that, by the way, was not classed as a hate crime, which is remarkable, isn't it? so that again, it's a good point that you make, but that that was not a i thought i think many people regard as being arguably the most obvious example of a hate crime, racially, that i can think of. >> the affray charge he was charged with was a racially aggravated affray, which you could argue is a step down from a hate crime. so yes, again, it's very curious. >> just finally, i find it utterly remarkable. i do worry, amy, about the message this sends to people in incredibly heightened times at the moment. very tense times that you can see someone. i mean, trying to put myself in the position of those people at that kosher supermarket, what protection do they feel they've got? >> i just think this is speaks to the joke that has become the

tory party of law and order, and the fact that rishi sunak can say criminals will face no mercy on his social media when things like this are happening and court backlog is what is the what? >> what if he didn't argue with that, but don't expect it to get any better in under a labour government. we would hope, because keir starmer is a barrister. >> but what would happen if this guy did that outside of a synagogue or a jewish school? that's what terrifies me. at least these men could have defended themselves. but imagine if he tried to target a more vulnerable community within the jewish community. >> i would, i would argue now that the precedent that this sets is that if you take a knife to a indiscriminately to a group of jewish individuals and mercifully don't quite make contact with them, and then turn up at court and say, you've got a drink problem, that you will probably go free? >> well, it's just across the board, though, isn't it? >> with all crimes, we're in a situation where 95% of crimes go unsolved in our in our society. that's absolutely insane. >> yeah, i, i find that remarkable. >> i find that utterly remarkable. we reached out to the met police the crown prosecution service and the ministry of justice, but they all refuse to comment on individual sentences. so cheers,

guys. thank you. coming up, is veganism a dangerous fad? i've got hold of a study that suggests that it might actually be bad for you to be a vegan. plus farage is attacked again. oh whoa i stop i will bring you oh whoa! stop i will bring you his typically punchy response shortly. it's only just landed and you don't want to miss it. plus, i will bring you joe biden's latest inspiring message for the american people . for the american people. >> do you know what she knows? so long as she was denied , our so long as she was denied, our freedom can never be secured. yeah no spot on. >> but next, as a bombshell poll finds that two thirds of british muslims plan to vote, labour has the muslim vote campaign failed. i'm going to be chatting to the editor of the british news site five pillars, mohammed saleh, and that's next. hey

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. still to come. tonight's panel and i will bring to you the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. but before that, a new poll has shown that almost two thirds of british muslims could still back labour at the general election. this is despite recent opposition on the party stance on gaza. the israel—hamas conflict. so it's interesting results there. so savanta found that 63% of british muslim voters would vote labour if an election was held tomorrow. just 12% are offering support for the

conservative party. however if we do delve slightly deeper, the results become a bit more intriguing. so 44% of those polled said that the gaza conflict was amongst their top five election issues, with a whopping 86% indicating they'd consider backing an independent at leading their campaign on the topic of gaza. so it does beg the question, doesn't it? do we really want independent candidates like some of these chaps from the recent local elections, strolling around the corridors of westminster, we are coming for you in the general election anyway . election anyway. >> his dynamism is just not my victory. this is palestine. innocent people victory . innocent people victory. >> we stand for humanity. stand for palestine and stand for george galloway . george galloway. >> well, i'm welcoming now the editor of the british muslim news organisation five pillars is rasha mohammed saleh. thank you very much. great to have you on the show. a really interesting this i mean, i i'll be honest with you, i've gone on record numerous times and said i

had expected this muslim vote thing to really have a massive impact, actually, at this election, if i just look at those latest polls there, i mean, it would show apparently that it's not really having much of a dent. do you think it's collapsed? the muslim vote, no. i mean, it remains to be seen . i mean, it remains to be seen. ultimately, july the 4th is the day of truth, and we'll find out, i'm not totally convinced by this poll , i out, i'm not totally convinced by this poll, i would have estimated that about 50% of muslims would have voted labour or will vote labour simply because, the ties are very deep and the umbilical cord, to labouh and the umbilical cord, to labour. it'll take perhaps over a decade to be cut completely , i a decade to be cut completely, i think that the poll probably was a nationwide snapshot of muslims , whereas the muslim vote campaign is concentrated in certain areas of the country where there are dense muslim populations, like you know, west yorkshire, birmingham, certain parts of the london, greater manchester, and that's where the, you know , the campaign to

the, you know, the campaign to punish the tories and especially labouris punish the tories and especially labour is focused, whereas this poll, i think was a nationwide, i think we shouldn't get carried away about the muslim vote. i've been covering the muslim vote for 20 years and i personally think it's been overegged, apart from a few victories for george galloway here and there, but i've seen a level of organisation that i haven't seen before in my 25 years of covering muslim affairs, a level of, you know, even money and organisation and self—organisation on the ground. we have the galloway factor. we have the muslim vote organisation. so i do think that we are going to see perhaps a couple of, mps being returned to parliament on the back of the muslim vote. i think the muslim vote will be talked about. it will be noticed. they'll send a clear message to the tories and to labour, especially, that any pro—israel , you know, candidates pro—israel, you know, candidates will be targeted at the ballot box, but i think that's it. but in terms of, you know, stopping keir starmer from becoming prime minister or those grandiose talking points, no, that's not going to happen. >> i do. i did wonder when i saw

that poll there, you know, the labour party, one thing it's been accused of is taking the muslim vote for granted over the years, and that now potentially backfiring. >> right. and then i actually thought, well, i saw that poll and i wondered if, ironically, the muslim vote .co.uk might have been taking the muslim vote for granted a bit. what do you think about that? >> i'm not sure how serious the poll is. it's about a thousand people. it's not a massive snapshot, is it, patrick, so i personally am a bit surprised by the results, but not overly surprised because especially older generations of muslims, you know, old habits die hard, then maybe not living in the activist bubble that i live in necessarily, they're not online so much. perhaps they haven't been so affected by the online narrative and discourse surrounding gaza. so i think it's quite possible that older generations of muslims will unfortunately stick with labour, but the trajectory is clear . you but the trajectory is clear. you know, younger muslims, when i say younger, i mean, people probably under 50, under 45, 50, you know, they are leaving

labouh you know, they are leaving labour. they're deserting labouh labour. they're deserting labour. they're deserting labour. they feel they've been taken for granted. their votes have been taken for granted. they've not been listened to, especially on foreign policy issues. >> can i ask you about that? >> can i ask you about that? >> sorry. because i think the future looks very bleak for labouh future looks very bleak for labour, i think. yeah. because i think that's a really important point. the generational aspect of this actually, some people might view that as a bit of a concern. the idea that maybe the younger generation of the british muslim community could be perceived as pose by maybe the, the, the lay observer as possibly being a bit more radical in some of their views than the older generation. perhaps a sign there that maybe integration hasn't necessarily worked. would that be fair or not? >> i think it's fair to say that the younger generation of muslims are perhaps more religious in many ways, or more in tune with the religious values. it's quite strange because usually the trajectory is the opposite. when immigrant communities come into any society , usually they society, usually they assimilate. muslims haven't assimilated like other communities because they believe very strongly in their religion. they hold tight to their religion. and i think the older community was an immigrant community, they felt like they

were guests in this country , were guests in this country, they experienced a lot of racism, but they just took it on the chin , and their, their main the chin, and their, their main objective was to kind of fit in. whereas my generation and generation of my children , you generation of my children, you know, we're british citizens. most of us are born and bred here, we don't consider ourselves guests. and, you know, we're not a guest community. we are citizens of this country with equal rights to any other citizen. and therefore, we are more confident in expressing ourselves. we speak english like the english people speak english, etc, etc. but we're also very in tune with our religious values, even perhaps to a greater extent than our parents. >> and, you know, i suppose then that kind of what you just led off with there, which is that maybe assimilation has failed. so when people like nigel farage say that, i mean, he's right then, isn't he ? then, isn't he? >> well, i don't really believe in the assimilation. i think, you know, britain is, is, allegedly a multicultural society where everyone can rub along together. i like the fact that it's a multicultural society , some people might not,

society, some people might not, but i like the fact that we can. you know, go down a high street in london and everyone's wearing different clothes , speaking different clothes, speaking different clothes, speaking different languages, different food. i think that enriches the country, they're not all forming political movements, though, are they ? they? >> well, we're ultimately we've been taken for granted as a community, patrick, and therefore, we feel the need to be organised, just like the lgbt community is organised and have formed a lobby group, serve the jewish community, serve the hindus , but unfortunately, when hindus, but unfortunately, when the muslims do it, everyone thinks it takes on sinister undertones, which i think reveals racism and islamophobia . reveals racism and islamophobia. >> and i am quite intrigued to see how certain aspects of the british muslim vote just get on with the mobilised bloc of lgbt support that you, saying there. what do you make of that? because that could be a concern for people. >> ultimately, i think there's been a campaign to foist, you know, kind of lgbt values on the muslim community, and this is what we reject because we have our own values . and in our our own values. and in our religion, homosexuality is considered a sin , obviously, we

considered a sin, obviously, we live in britain. we obey british law. and, you know, we, should not target members of the lgbt community or anybody else, we should get along with them , you should get along with them, you know, in workplaces, in society in general . know, in workplaces, in society in general. so there's no sense of targeting. it's just when i guess, you know, certain lobby groups try to impose those values on our children in schools, for example. that's where the backlash from us begins. >> well, it's also to be fair on that front , certainly not just that front, certainly not just the british muslim community. i mean, i've got massive problems with that as well. and i know a huge amount of people do. i'm just going to ask you a question now. i would hope that you take this in good faith because it is armenia. i'm genuinely intrigued. i think a lot of people are when it comes to the mobilisation of the british muslim vote as a as a political force, right? it is the objective to be the dominant political force in britain. the british muslim vote, you know , i british muslim vote, you know, i mean, that's ridiculous anyway, isn't it? >> because we're what are we, 4

million people in this country of 70 million. so we're i don't know what that is in percentage terms, five 6% of the population, even if we wanted it to be true that ain't going to be true for hundreds of years. so i think it's more about, you know, i would love everyone to become muslim. i'll be honest about it. i would love for the whole of britain to become muslim because i believe islam is the truth. and i believe that it is a wonderful thing for everybody. but the reality is we are a small minority in this country and we're just it's more about kind of protecting ourselves from islamophobia and racism, and it's kind of trying to project what we believe is an equitable foreign policy when it comes to things like genocide in gaza. we don't believe our country, and this is our country, and this is our country, should be helping israel slaughter and massacre the people of gaza. so that's what it's all about, really. but obviously there's a lot of, you know, anti—muslim feeling in this country whipped up by, the mainstream media, even by gb news, i would say, and people are afraid because of that

reason. i think it's false propaganda . propaganda. >> yeah. i mean, look, obviously i would take massive objection to that. i would say that, you know, i think people do have a right to be slightly concerned about certain things that we are seeing going on in this country, but nonetheless, it has been an absolute pleasure to ask you. >> can i ask you like what? patrick? yeah. >> well. well, yeah. i mean, the rise of terrorism, right? i mean, that's that's an obvious thing as well. i think that is a concern for people. yeah. i mean, obviously islamist terrorism is a threat. i mean, i imagine that you would feel quite, quite bad, right? >> i, i don't represent muslims. they're not from our community. we're not hiding them under our bed. they're just they're just. >> that's fine. i don't look thatis >> that's fine. i don't look that is absolutely fine. i've not i've not come on here as i think you will understand from the tone of this interview, to have a massive row with you about islamophobia or anything in britain, genuinely, really intrigued about the muslim vote intrigued about the muslim vote in the latest polling. and, you know, we can have we can have a discussion about extremism at another time, if that's all right with you. but i am i am a little bit pressed. so i'm going to have to move on. i wish we were doing anyway. but as the editor of the british muslim news organisation, there are

five pillars rashad, mohamed, salah, thank you very, very much. i must say it is rather frustrating sometimes when the best flash points of an interview come literally when i have to move on. but coming up, ihave have to move on. but coming up, i have got a study this bad news for some of the tofu scoffing vegans out there. plus the idf releases its gripping helmet cam from its hamas hostage hostage rescue. easy for me to say. >> why ? >> why? >> why? >> ganesh. ganesh >> ganesh. ganesh >> but next, do bring you very first of tomorrow's front pages. it's patrick christys

gb news. welcome back to gb news. it's time to bring you tomorrow's news tonight. now, with the very first front page. let's do it right. i've got the metro , pop. right. i've got the metro, pop. paedos 500 k to victim. that's pretty on the nose there. gary glitter ordered to pay out over sex abuse . let's go to the sex abuse. let's go to the i labour promises £12 an hour to

care workers. every care worker in england will be entitled to a new minimum wage. if labour wins. power and they will pledge in their manifesto, which is apparently, according to the i going to be tomorrow manifesto, will promise 1.5 million care workers. they will get a new wage protection. all right, the independent sunak final gamble i will cut taxes by £17 billion and migration by 50. so there we 90, and migration by 50. so there we go, let's go to the daily telegraph. sunak promises £17 billion in tax cuts. they've got, beau biden will respect the verdict after his son is convicted on gun charges. so there we are. let's go as well to the daily mail. rishi don't give labour a blank check. pm warns that keir will change rules to hold power for a long time. i'm assuming he's talking about the votes for kids stuff there. let's whiz it over to the guardian tories mp plausible £17 billion tax giveaway condemned .

billion tax giveaway condemned. ed. it is interesting though isn't it, with the guardian that they didn't seem to be saying that kind of stuff when jeremy corbyn was, you know, announcing his his manifesto. but then again, neither was keir starmer. so i suppose there we go. right. okay. so those are your front pages. i'm joined as ever by my wonderful panel . and here to do wonderful panel. and here to do it all are columnist and broadcaster esther krakue. the deputy editor at the spectator, freddie grey, an author and broadcaster amy nicole turner, right . i mean, yeah, look, we've right. i mean, yeah, look, we've obviously covered quite a bit of this stuff already, haven't we? are the tories promising to give a bit of money away? and tax cuts, etc? labour promising £12 an hour, for care workers. i suppose this again comes down to, doesn't it, you know, where is this money really going to be coming from, freddie? >> well, yeah, we're in the we're in the sort of golden candy phase of manifesto released where, parties promise incredible things . and of incredible things. and of course, as everybody knows, the tories are in the hardest position because everybody will come back at them and say, you've been in power for so long

and you haven't done any of this. and indeed, this sounds like a manifesto that would have been good in 2010. now it sounds like something we know you can't deliver. >> yeah, and £12 an hour for care workers is not actually that good. two years ago, my when i was a bit of care worker, it was £10.50. so two years later, after what inflation going up to like 10, you're giving them £1.50 extra. i actually think a more like something that would be more clever is to try and recruit carers from the local community. yeah. >> or family members actually. >> or family members actually. >> well, yes. but getting people, people within the local community to either do part time caring work, obviously if they've passed through all the checks and all of that, because i don't think people realise how community focused care work is. i mean, one of the people whose mothers i was caring for own the local pub down the road, and he was very grateful to have someone up the road from her who knew her, who was actually embedded in her community. so i think that should probably be all right. >> i'm going to waste it on you because i've got this story here, which is potentially some quite bad news for all the self—righteous vegans out there who insist that their diet is

the healthier option. you might be indulging in a dangerous fad. so a study from sao paulo university and imperial college london has found that ultra processed vegan foods can increase your risk of heart death. it was found that only plant based diets that were restricted to whole foods protected the heart. amy, i know maybe going vegan isn't all it's cracked up to be. >> yeah, you know, the truth about that story is it's just ultra processed foods lead to heart death. and that's the problem. and the thing is, because the food industry has seen this vegan trend, they've jumped on it and made all this process rubbish with vegan slapped on the front. so really it's about ultra processed foods. well, yeah, because if you ate just vegan food, if you if you. i like following this account this eddie abu, have you ever heard of it. oh yes. very good. you know he's got it, right. yeah and it's this whole thing is like, if it looks like. how do you describe it? it looks like you couldn't. it couldn't be grown or. >> yeah. then, then. >> yeah. then, then. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> then don't eat it. well, this is the thing is that you've got all these fake vegan steaks and people have presumably spent

quite a lot of money and effort making something that looks like someone's held a steak near a radiator for a bit, made it bleach, it looks like cat food. >> but then i think if you also hate, if you hate me, why would you want to eat something that looks like a bleeding piece of meat? well, yes. >> and if you modify things structurally, you know, at an atomic level like that, it's going to have bad health consequences. we know this, but i'm just pleased because my very sanctimonious vegan friends , sanctimonious vegan friends, frank, if you're watching, you know, they've been lecturing me for ages about how not only am i immoral for eating meat, but also it's much worse for my health. if you did. and now i've got something to fight exactly like this is just about the ultra processed side. >> well, they all a lot of these vegans, the deep plant fibre they have to take supplements just shows that it's a suboptimal diet you need. >> yeah. you need you need to take. if you know you're vegan, you have to take some sort of supplement. it's true. just buy that. it's suboptimal. >> my husband was a vegan and he and he feels so much better since he's seen the light and he did have to supplement his diet.

it's true. >> i mean, i don't want to sound like extreme, but i just think this whole veganism thing is just a western fad. i mean, if you grew up in a country where you're like, you're grateful to have three square meals a day, you don't you don't say, oh, all i'm going to eat are these like ultra processed. >> it's a great point. >> it's a great point. >> that's a great point. it is exactly. it's one of those, i would argue, potentially quite luxury things that you can only do when by definition, you've got too much food available. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> yeah. it's like a lot of the things that we have now, we're the only reason we can sit and ponder and think about things like unconscious bias all the time, because we've got nothing else on. yeah. anyway. right. moving on. nigel farage was targeted while out campaigning today as a protester allegedly threw a cup of coffee and possibly wet cement at him whilst he was on an open top bus. we have a little look . bus. we have a little look. oh whoa ! stop . whoa! stop. >> raisi way. yeah

>> raisi way. yeah >> and in the last couple of hours , mr farage said he would hours, mr farage said he would not surrender to the mob . not surrender to the mob. >> all i can say is that whilst it is concerning and whilst of course it does make me thoughtful and i may need to change tactics slightly, but i'm going to make one promise to you. and the tens of thousands watching this live online and the media. and my promise is this i will not surrender to the mob. i will not stop campaigning. this democratic process must continue now. >> joe biden has continued campaign for re—election is bordering on cruel as his gaffes are becoming more and more frequent. here he is appearing to freeze during the juneteenth celebration at the white house. the next was number two, kamala harris and, bizarrely, george floyd's brother . watch. let me .

floyd's brother. watch. let me. >> grant shapps was to be lord balfe sunny . come on, i'm gonna balfe sunny. come on, i'm gonna have nobody but you. i don't want to love nobody but you. i love the rest of my life. all i want to do is make you proud of me. he is everything . me. he is everything. >> and then president biden delivered his powerful message to the nation. >> she knows what she knows . so >> she knows what she knows. so long as she was denied. our freedom can never be secured . yeah. >> is that elder abuse ? >> is that elder abuse? >> is that elder abuse? >> it certainly is elder abuse. and the biden presidency has been elder abuse ever since his candidacy in 2019. i met biden briefly in february of 2020, in new hampshire, and it was very clear to me then that he was already quite gaga. and i wrote, i wrote a piece saying that at

the time, and i got a lot of flack from it saying, you know, this is just sort of republican talking points of nasty gutter journalism from the right and stuff. but i was just saying what i thought of him after having met him. and it's become increasingly clear to me that he is not all there, and it's increasingly clear to the whole world and the american electorate, which is why donald trump. but i guess in the polls, if you could, you say the same about his actual presidency, though, because he has been very effective in many ways. >> his administration has been. >> his administration has been. >> but the argument is exactly no one voted his the men in black. >> his job approval rating just dropped down to 37, which is a new low. >> the american deficit dropped by like 1.7 trillion. >> but is it democracy? unemployment? this is the thing people. >> it's not democracy, is it? you vote, you're voting for. excuse me ? you're voting for excuse me? you're voting for somebody to lead the country. and he's obviously not leading it. you know, america is the land of the free and all that stuff. you know, the home of western democracy. and i would argue that's not democracy, is it? there's no way there's no way he's even dressing himself. >> well, yeah, that's true. that being said, trump is also

showing some signs of cognitive decline. this might not be perfectly obvious because he's more animated and a bit more mad, quite frankly. >> so. right. >> so. right. >> but you don't get to the ages of biden and trump without having some sort of mental slowdown. it's just the fact quietly, quietly, i'm just i'm just not sure, trump really is. >> i think for trump's age, actually, he is surprisingly cognisant . and why does he say cognisant. and why does he say so much bad stuff then? >> well, he's always, always been mad. >> well coming up, coming up, coming up . the army of the coming up. the army of the unwashed has set its targets on the king paul coyte . plus, can the king paul coyte. plus, can you spot what's wrong with this picture? there we go. yes i will be all next. but that, i'll bring you some more of tomorrow's front

all right. it is time now for some more front pages. let's do it . so we've got the times here it. so we've got the times here at pm. a for vote reform puts labour into number 10. we have heard this a heck of a lot before, haven't we? rishi sunak issues a warning at the tory manifesto launch. they've also got hunter biden guilty of buying a gun illegally. let's go to the daily express , tory to the daily express, tory ambition to deport 100,000 illegal migrants , rishi sunak illegal migrants, rishi sunak has fired up the election by promising to slash legal migration in half, with the tory plan emerging to deport as many as 100,000 illegal migrants. really? i'm not quite sure those two things add up because if he's wanting to slash legal migration , then that is not the migration, then that is not the same as deporting 100,000 illegal migrants, is it? that's deporting illegal migrants should be doing anyway and was actually done quite effectively under the blair government?

>> yeah, she doesn't want to say deporting illegal migrants is one thing. >> if he wants to halve legal migration, then that would still leave us, by my calculations, with legal migration of somewhere in the region of 325,000. so i'm not entirely sure whether or not they've muddled up two things there. but, as you can see, i am obviously joined by my price brackets columnist and broadcaster esther krakow, deputy editor at the spectator, freddie grey, an author and broadcaster amy nicholson , look, broadcaster amy nicholson, look, we've spoken quite a lot about about rishi sunak and immigration, and we did a whole section on it earlier on. so if you want, you can go and rewind on youtube. but now one of taylor swift's dancers has managed to temporarily snout the headunes managed to temporarily snout the headlines from the start after headlines from the start after he aired fears that he could be hounded for cultural appropriation for donning a kilt in edinburgh. cameron saunders, from saint louis, missouri, declared on instagram that he felt it was appropriate to wear the garment because the salesman gave him permission to wear it with pride after being given a history lesson on scotland, which included tartans the

thistle and scottish last names , thistle and scottish last names, cameron said that he always wanted to be an authentic kilt, but wanted to be super respectful about the culture before buying it , respectful about the culture before buying it, interesting really, because i don't think that's an authentic kilt. is it? yeah. >> i'm glad he didn't open his legs. that would be deeply uncomfortable , but very uncomfortable, but very traditionally scottish. >> right. well, yes. i mean, yes , if he in keeping in the tradition, if the wind was blowing where the wind should not blow. anyway, i think the whole concept of cultural appropriation is such a western obsession. >> yeah, well, well, i don't know how many people i, i can't think of someone like the don't care. >> yes, they don't care. but also, why , if you have real also, why, if you have real problems in life, why would you think about that ? think about that? >> well, it's also true that the kilts. >> lovely, actually. >> lovely, actually. >> yeah, well, this is the large extent the kilt to a large extent the kilt to a large extent was a 19th century invention to make the scots feel more, you know, romantic. >> yeah. but isn't this just rubbish? >> certainly. but it's just sounds like. >> sounds like you've done your research. so respectful kilt wearing. >> but this guy's just decided

to bang on about it. he could have just worked. he's in scotland. he's performing in scotland. he's performing in scotland. you know, when people go and play gigs all over the world, it's very common that they might wear like the national football shirt of where they're from or something like that. >> respect the fashion. i have these shoes. these are christian louboutin shoes. i would not wear them without a firm knowledge of the designer and the origins and the history. it's respecting fashion. >> it's respecting fashion. yeah, well, there we go. >> the french and the french. yeah exactly. >> yeah. no, i just find that bonkers. this idea, it's cultural appropriation to wear a kilt, but then to wear a kilt as a full dress. >> he was being on the side of caution. it's nice. >> it's sweet. he's dancing for taylor swift. is that right? >> exactly. yeah. i hope he's not wearing the kilt . not wearing the kilt. >> i think it just shows how foreign scottish people are to americans. like. >> that's great. >> that's great. >> well, i want to bring this clip to you, all right. because israel's operation to save four hostages held by hamas has, unsurprisingly sparked controversy. the hamas run health ministry claims that 274 palestinians were killed in the assault . the israeli defence assault. the israeli defence force says that their soldiers came under heavy fire from hamas. now the idf has released gripping helmet cam footage of

that hostage rescue operation. what . what. >> can . shame, shame ? yes. >> can. shame, shame? yes. andre. shalom shalom . yes. yes andre. shalom shalom. yes. yes. >> all right, well, i bring that to you because it's quite astonishing footage, really. but, we are going to seamlessly segue way into today's greatest wrestling union jackass all right, then, esther, can i start with your greatest britain, please? >> yes. so it's michael arthur alfheim, who's not british. he's german, he's a retired lorry dnveh german, he's a retired lorry driver, and he lost all four fingers on his right hand in a work accident. but he's now been fitted with a 3d printer device by a british company called hero gauntlet, which now allows him to grip and hold things, which is very cool. he can, you know, move on with his life. >> i mean, it's a rogue show.

i'm not saying he's undeserving of it, but it's an interesting show. >> he's a robot man. >> he's a robot man. >> yeah, he has a robot hand. >> yeah, he has a robot hand. >> it's cool. okay. yeah fine. yeah. all right. freddie my great britain at the moment is this, the britain's hardest geezeh this, the britain's hardest geezer, russ cook, who has nobly set off to germany. >> he's running to germany , for >> he's running to germany, for the euros. for the beer, he says he hopes he'll be able to come back with them after they've won the tournament . back with them after they've won the tournament. i back with them after they've won the tournament . i have my doubts the tournament. i have my doubts about gareth southgate's selection. so i'm not sure. >> i mean, he might be back. he might be back next week. yeah >> whenever. >> whenever. >> very quickly. all right. fair enough, go on emmy, it's i've picked nshuti gatwa, who plays not only eric in sex education. he's how i know him, but he's a doctor who. and in doctor who, they had their first same sex kiss this week. woohoo! >> i saw that and i was like, doctor who cares? because i tell you what, i tell you why it struck me because i'm writing a book about margaret thatcher, and i'm wearing a chapter about section 28 and what it was like

to live under section 28. >> and the impact it had on teenagers. and i think if you're a 14 year old boy at home and you see this, it affirms who you are and is brilliant and that's lovely stuff. >> i think they're more often, i think, for the avoidance of doubt, we can play a little clip of this. >> can . we? >> can. we? >> can. we? >> beautiful. all right. >> beautiful. all right. >> apparently that's powerful and lovely and strong . so and lovely and strong. so today's greatest britain winner is the hardest geezer, which, given the clip i've just played to you, my actually need some narrowing down, let's go to the, union jackass. now, go on, animal rising. >> it had to be them for defacing that, portrait of king charles, for all i'm sure all the poor badgers were screaming with with victory because they did that. it's ludicrous. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> there you go. also, i didn't really quite get that. and there were cameras set up for it. and these a lot of explanation. let's go, freddie, to your i'm afraid mine's a bit more of a tricolour jackass, because afraid mine's a bit more of a tricolourjackass, because i'm going with emmanuel macron, who's having a spectacularly bad

week, he performed so badly in the elections because he's so inept as president of france that he has called some fresh elections. and it may be a big mistake. >> okay, we'll wait and see. go on. amy, quickly, it's a holly valance. she hasn't worked in 20 years. she's married to a billionaire. but this week she hosted a £40,000 per head cocktail party to raise funds. so donald trump, you're just jealous. you're just jealous. >> you could have. you could have. you couldn't get you couldn't get people. >> you could have got people to spend £40 of cocktails with you, could you? that's what it all starts to go. all right, have a go. all right . okay. today's go. all right. okay. today's winner of the union jack asses is an animal rising. there we go. so there we are. right. look. thank you very much. been quite an eclectic mix today. as eveh quite an eclectic mix today. as ever. i do wish that we always a little bit more time on this show, but alas, headline is for next a more in—depth look in their inimitable way, at all of your front pages. thank you very much for having me back after a few days off. thank you, thank you, thank you. i'll see you tomorrow. take it easy. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. there will be fewer showers during the next 24 hours with an increased chance of clear spells, particularly in the west as higher pressure moves in. but we keep the northerly air flow, so we keep that cool air with us and as a result, where we do see clearing skies overnight, it is going to turn fairly chilly. the clearest skies will be across central western scotland, parts of northern ireland, western england and wales , although england and wales, although still the possibility of a shower or two running into west wales and cornwall. there'll also be some showers into the northeast of scotland , eastern northeast of scotland, eastern england, where there'll be more cloud ten celsius here, but where we've got the clear skies further west, the potential for the mid single figures by dawn. nevertheless, it's a beautiful start to the day for much of central scotland, through the highlands , grampians, western highlands, grampians, western isles as well. we've got this cloud cover into the northern

isles and the far north—east of the mainland, giving a few light showers in places. northern ireland, though mostly bright and dry. first thing likewise for northern england , a thicker for northern england, a thicker cloud there for the east of england into the south—east. 1 or 2 showers about first thing. likewise for west wales and cornwall. but these are the exceptions, i think, for the vast majority . blue skies and vast majority. blue skies and patchy cloud around. first thing, but mostly dry now as temperatures rise through the morning, there's always the possibility of the odd shower breaking out once again across eastern england. but for many it's a fine and bright day still on the cool side, but the winds won't be quite as brisk, so i think it's good to feel a bit more pleasant. temperatures of 18 celsius, perhaps 19 in the south, mid teens generally elsewhere

gb news. >> good evening. it's 11:00. >> good evening. it's11:00. you're with gb news from london. in a moment. headliners. but first, let's take you through the latest news headlines tonight and rishi sunak has launched the conservative election manifesto today, saying he understood the electorate was frustrated. the prime minister promised, therefore, a multi—billion pound package of tax cuts , including a reduction tax cuts, including a reduction in national insurance and pledges that amounted to a total of more than £17 billion in cuts by 2030. there was also help for first time buyers, with changes

to stamp duty and a pledge for a new help to buy scheme . there new help to buy scheme. there was a promise to address the housing shortage, too, by building 1.6 million new homes, £8.3 billion has also been set aside to fix potholes and resurface roads, and there'd also be a total ban on smartphones in schools and on immigration. there's a promise to get flights off the ground to rwanda every month, with rishi sunak saying the deterrent would be a key part of britain's migration plan. clearing the asylum backlog within six months. but labour has pledged to fix 1 million potholes every yearif to fix 1 million potholes every year if they're elected on july the 4th. the party says it will turn the tide on the neglect of the uk's roads. last year, pothole damage cost drivers almost £500 million, with the average damage worth £250 a car, according to labour's figures. the shadow transport secretary, louise haigh , accused the louise haigh, accused the conservative government of failing drivers, saying the

tories have left britain's roads plagued with potholes and have sat back as car insurance costs have spiralled out of control. well also in election news today, the liberal democrats have outlined more details behind their plan to replace the water industry watchdog, ofwat, with a tough new regulator. liberal democrat leader sir ed davey says the clean water authority would be given new powers to tackle sewage dumping and reform the water industry in england and wales. sewage is the lib dems main pledge in the natural environment section of the manifesto, which was unveiled today. the party promises to end the sewage scandal by transforming water firms into public benefit companies and banning bonuses for water bosses until discharges and leaks stop . the discharges and leaks stop. the home secretary, james cleverly, has condemned the attack on nigel farage today after objects were thrown at him during a campaign event in yorkshire police have arrested a 28 year

old man on suspicion