. a former but not an offence. a former engineer who worked on the faulty horizon it system claims the post office tried to put words into his mouth when he attempted to disclose concerns he had about the software. gareth jenkins was with fujitsu for his whole professional career and was regarded as distinguished right up until his retirement in 2015. he said that he's truly sorry for his wrongful convictions , but wrongful convictions, but evidence he gave about the honzon evidence he gave about the horizon it system was used in the prosecutions of many subpostmasters. those convictions have since been quashed. he told today's inquiry he never had oversight on all of the systems bugs, and relied on others to supply reliable information . julian assange will information. julian assange will soon appear before a federal judge in the mariana islands. that's a us territory in the western pacific, the 52 year old founder of wikileaks left the uk this morning after more than

1900 days at belmarsh prison . 1900 days at belmarsh prison. he's expected to be sentenced to five years, roughly the equivalent of the time he's already served in britain, meaning he'll most likely walk free. it's understood he'll plead guilty to a single count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security information . now the king's new information. now the king's new family order has been sworn in for the very first time by the queen at the japanese state banquet, queen camilla stepped out wearing the miniature portrait of her husband on a pale blue bow for the event in the buckingham palace ballroom. the unveiling of the new king charles ii family order comes nearly two years after he acceded as monarch following the death of his mother . and you're death of his mother. and you're probably keeping tabs. england are nil nil at half time, with the second half kicking off against slovenia in the euros as the lions aim to secure the top

spot of their group. england, currently sitting at the top of group c. if you're watching on television, you can see this is the fan zone in central london, eagerly awaiting for england to get their act together against slovenia. but victory tonight could mean they avoid a difficult test in round 16. it's after a lot of criticism of their performances following that narrow win over serbia last week , and their one all draw week, and their one all draw against denmark as well, we wish them well. for the latest stories, sign up for gb news alerts, scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common shirts . shirts. >> can anyone save the nhs.7 some treat it like a religion not to ever be questioned or criticised. while an ever growing minority of common sense folk are a bit more realistic about its clear failures and uncertain future, a fact devastatingly brought home by a channel 4 dispatches documentary, undercover a&e, nhs in crisis. now you might have

missed this, but just look at how some a&e staff at one hospital react to failings to hit their targets . hit their targets. >> longest waiting 46 hours. longest from it's going to be four hours. >> but these people have been in 46. yeah. >> so we're not hitting any targets . targets. >> nhs england is keen to stress that such scenes are not commonplace, but the fact remains that between april 2023 and march 2024, nearly 400,000 people were left waiting , more people were left waiting, more than 24 hours across a&e departments, a 5% rise on the previous year. and this is not a staff culture problem. it must run a lot deeper than that. so is there any hope of saving our sickly health service .7 well, do sickly health service? well, do you have a little look at what some of the parties are thinking of doing about this? labour has promised to lean on the private sector to hit an 18 week nhs waiting times within five years. >> pension. the nhs and we have put figures on that. we've said

that we'd end the non—dom tax loophole for the super wealthy, which would give us 40,000 extra appointments every week in our nhs to bring down the 8 million people waiting on waiting lists currently across the uk so that we can clear that backlog before the end of the next parliament. >> yes, non—doms again, isn't it? those non—doms do a heck of a lot of heavy lifting and obviously keir starmer won't be taking the pressure off the nhs. he would never go private woody, but the conservatives point out that they're giving the nhs record funding, which, to be fair, they are as well as training new doctors and nurses and say only a strong economy and say only a strong economy and innovation can solve the nhs issues. >> put record funding in. we're training more doctors and nurses, we're doing more checks and scans and what i want you to know is that the nhs is safe in my hands. i will always stand up for it to give you and everyone else the peace of mind that it will be there for you and your families when you need it. thank you. >> yeah, but we do have a load of striking doctors and staff,

don't we? that clearly don't particularly like the tories, lib dems now their leader, sir ed davey, says the nhs is front and centre of his party's manifesto. >> well, we've made the nhs and care the centre point of our manifesto , with a huge package manifesto, with a huge package of £9 billion of investment. partly that's in gps and local services so people don't have to go to hospital. quite so much. part of it is in care so people can be discharged from hospital, and that relates to ambulance services. we've seen in many parts of the country delays at hospitals for the handover , hospitals for the handover, because there aren't enough beds, because people haven't been able to be discharged. so we've invest in care services so people can leave hospital when they're ready. that's better for them, it's better for their families, and it frees up space in hospitals, okay. and reform uk leader nigel farage wants to see a totally new system brought in. >> i you know, i look at health and i look across the channel oddly at the french. you have a very different system where you pay very different system where you pay your health contribution

through taxes, but actually to a series of insurance companies and they compete against each other to provide the best services. if you can't afford it, you're still covered. so it's a mutual system in society . it's a mutual system in society. and you know what? if i look at their returns on stroke, heart disease and cancer, they're massively better than ours. there is a better way of doing this. it needs radical thought. >> so who has the right idea? can anyone save the nhs? let's get the thoughts from our panel. now i'm going to whizz you over to them. i've got journalist and author harriet sargeant. i've got political correspondent at the spectator, james heale and gb news is senior political commentator nigel nelson. harry do we need to just slaughter the sacred cow that is our nhs, rip it up and start again, do you think? >> yeah, definitely. >> yeah, definitely. >> and i'm with nigel farage on this and what a relief it was to hear him because there's this cosy consensus with all the other party leaders that we've just got to sling more money at the nhs and that's going to magically make things better.

well, i spent about nine months in six different nhs hospitals shadowing staff from porters to ceos, and i saw many of the scenes disgraceful scenes described shown in that documentary. i saw something similar, but i was told by the left that this was, you know, disloyal, anecdotal. so i'm so glad that people can see for themselves what is going on in our nhs and how something needs to be done. >> look, the nhs doesn't work and there appears to be and i'm talking about this from personal experience as well. and i dare say that there are people now absolutely screaming at their television screens saying that this has happened to them in their family. there is no accountability when things go wrong and people die on the nhs. >> james completely , and i saw >> james completely, and i saw that last night when we were watching the debate with rishi sunak and there was a woman in the audience said my father died in the nhs and complained about

the kind of negligence that he went through. ultimately i think went through. ultimately i think we need a lot of different reforms in the nhs. one thing i'd personally like to see is more protections for whistleblowers, so that those coming forward and raising kind of complaints about this be able to take them forward in future. but negligence is something the nhs definitely needs more work on. given the kind of stories we hear about it and how galling it is for the victims families and all of this. >> yeah, indeed. i mean, there is a whopping great big culture of cover up in the nhs that we would not accept anywhere else, which nigel is remarkable considering we all went out and clap for them, didn't we? yeah, absolutely. >> i mean, you got it right when you say that the nhs is a religion and that's been the big problem in this country, that it was founded in 1948, never intended to be the service it became and was still using broadly in 1948 model in the 21st century, it doesn't work at the moment. you can't start thinking about big reform until you've actually sorted out all the immediate problems. so labour's idea of 2 million extra hospital ops a year to bring the waiting list down, that's got to be done as a short term thing in the long term. we then have to

start looking at is this the way to fund it? nigel farage have got a point. it may be the french spend 21% more on health than we do. it may be their system is worth looking at at the moment. we've got we've got a situation where everyone says we must have the nhs free at the point of use. it's only been free at the point of use for the first three years of its existence, and then it started charging. yes. so dentures came first and we've then had eyes and teeth and then prescription charges came in. so we haven't. so at the moment we're in a situation where we can do it because there's already a, something in the past for it. >> so we've veered onto now something that i think is important. >> go on, go on. you take it. » i— >> go on, go on. you take it. >> i was going to say, i mean, we make this big fuss about being free at the point of use. >> there's 47 other countries that have free health care. so, i mean, this is not a great. well, so we do pay for it. >> and we do. >> and we do. >> of course we pay. we do pay

in taxes. >> i mean, it is i get that, you know, when you go to withenshaw hospital or whatever, you don't you don't produce a credit card at some point. but we are all paying at some point. but we are all paying for it. it comes out of our wages, it comes out of everything. you know, the nhs is not free, is it so? so what is the solution for you then, harry? you know, we were talking a bit there. you said about nigel farage some kind of insurance based model. >> yes. i mean we can look, there's so many, countries that we can look at, you know, australia, israel, do interesting things. france, germany, we can look at all of these.i germany, we can look at all of these. i mean, holland. 20 years ago, they had an nhs model and they decided it wasn't fit for purpose. and they got rid of it. and they've had a much better health care system. i mean, i think we've got to realise how serious this is. if there was a report comparing us internationally to 18 other countries and keir starmer who i don't think is the man who's going to be doing anything about this, unfortunately, he said, you know, when you've got an acute illness, the nhs is the place to be. well, that's just not true because cancer, stroke

and heart, all of which i would say are pretty acute. we come the second from bottom out of 18 countries. there are 6500 people who would be alive today if they lived in one of those 18 other countries. that's how bad it is. >> how can people trust that that sir keir starmer is the man that sir keir starmer is the man that to reform the nhs when he's so ideological that he would he would languish and let his loved ones languish on nhs waiting lists instead of going private, which he can afford to do. >> well, the really fascinating thing is that wes streeting, who's the shadow health secretary i think has been talking a really good game on all this, talking about private capacity, you know, using private healthcare to try and free up space for the nhs. so that's all the more striking is the fact that keir starmer is so different on this. and my concern is that wes streeting i think, gets the point about the nhs needing fundamental reform is going to be undermined because you're not going to get the support from the new prime minister if he gets elected next

week and you're going to see the traditional labour concerns, the fear mongering about private privatisation, for instance, and therefore you won't get to enact on some of the interesting things you've been saying about the need to be pragmatic about the need to be pragmatic about the nhs in the future. >> just final word to you on this, nigel. do you think that it's fair to say that actually, you know, not all nhs staff are angels and some of them need a kick at the backside. >> yeah, i think it probably is, but that's the same with any organisation. so but most of them are, most of them are great. i mean certainly my experiences in the nhs have been predominantly good, not always, but predominantly good. so that's not really the point. the point basically is that reform is needed. wes streeting says. it's reform or die, as the phrase he uses. so he is talking about this is the nhs on on in the last last chance saloon. at the last last chance saloon. at the moment. yeah. >> all right. okay. well, it's an interesting battleground, isn't it, for this election. where will we end up? but to a very special programme that i've got for you tomorrow night. so you are invited to be a part of it. join my live studio audience for sunak versus starmer. the verdict on patrick christys tonight , as verdict on patrick christys tonight, as we bring you top analysis and reaction to the

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of your money to france unless they actually stop more of these boats? ex—labour mp and mep sean simon is live shortly. but first, our labour writer pledge a broad ban on trans conversion therapy despite warnings in the cass report . essentially, this cass report. essentially, this could really mean that parents might be criminalised if they dare to tell their own child that they might not, in fact be trans discrimination. lawyer robin moira white goes head to head with commentator olly london and that's next. stay tuned

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up. should we stop giving the french millions of pounds until they stop the small boats? that's what nigel farage has suggested. do you agree with him? former labour mp and mep sean simon hits back at that shortly. but first, our labour right to pledge a broad ban on trans conversion therapy. the risk here is that it could criminalise people if they dare to tell a child that they might not be trans. it's time for tonight's had to add. yes. well, sir keir starmer has committed to a full ban on conversion therapy if he wins the election, despite warnings that a ban could threaten the freedom of parents and medical professionals to talk to children about gender identity issues, labour wants to outlaw conversion therapy now. this aims to suppress a person's

sexuality or gender identity as they say it amounts to abuse. and, you know, i think people can understand that. maybe some of it is a little bit weird, but hilary cass , the author of a hilary cass, the author of a landmark review of gender services for children, has warned i think clinicians will be really worried that if they have conversations with a young person and then they change their gender identity , then they their gender identity, then they could accuse the person of conversion . nobody wants to be conversion. nobody wants to be the first test case. that's the real challenge. cass also warned that the legal threat posed by a conversion therapy ban could drive professionals away from treating people with gender dysphoria, but despite this, labour are determined to push the policy through quickly, ideally within their first 100 days.in ideally within their first 100 days. in government. no idea why, but that's what they want to do. women and equalities minister kemi badenoch has now blasted labour. she says that they are blundering into this space without due care and attention, placing gender ideology over sound policy making, adding that there was a risk the ban could criminalise parents, clinicians and teachers. tonight i'm asking are

labour right to pledge a broad ban on trans conversion therapy? despite the numerous warnings? let me know your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. tweet me @gbnews. go and vote in our poll. but first, going head to head on this hour. discrimination lawyer robin moira white and social commentator olly london. both of you, thank you very much. great to have you on the show. and olly, i'll start with you. the fear here by some people is that this could basically criminalise somebody if they told a child that they might not be trans . is that they might not be trans. is that they might not be trans. is that a worry for you? >> yeah, it's definitely very problematic. i mean, we can all agree when it comes to gay conversion therapy, that is incredibly wrong. and most people will agree with that. but this is where it gets tricky when it comes to transgender children, because of course, we see clinicians, therapists, other people trying to help kids that may be struggling with gender dysphoria. we know it is a real thing, but the numbers of children that are , struggling children that are, struggling with gender identity is really skyrocketing . and this is not

skyrocketing. and this is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. so the issue is that parents, clinicians , therapists may be clinicians, therapists may be criminalised or simply trying to help their child find peace with themselves and finally to kind of learn to love themselves. so i think it's very concerning, robin. >> this just feels like a massive backward step. we had the cass report. we have people coming out and saying this vindicated the likes of j.k. rowling , etc. and now here we rowling, etc. and now here we are, labour within the first 100 days could be accused of coming for the nation's kids. >> now come on, as olly said, that doesn't seem to be any doubt that gay conversion therapy is close to torture. and if we accept that trans people exist, a practice that denies that we have to define matters properly, we have to write good law. and if you engage in quotes, therapy or conversion practices which deny a particular outcome as a valid one, there's nothing that

prevents a discussion. there's nothing wrong with a discussion and giving people time to think and giving people time to think and challenging their views. none of that would be wrong. but what would be wrong would be denying that a particular outcome can be right. and if we write bad law, we deserve what we get . what we need to do is we get. what we need to do is engage with the new administration and make sure that we write good law. >> okay, ollie, i worry that we are heading back towards just total affirmation . so a child total affirmation. so a child comes in and you know , decides comes in and you know, decides that they are wearing, you know, non traditional clothing for their particular gender etc. you know exactly the kind of cases that i'm talking about here. and then instead of being able to have a rational conversation , have a rational conversation, the quotes on quotes medical professional rushes to affirm the fact that that child is indeed trans and sets them off on a, you know, kind of irreversible pathway. >> well, you know, i would argue that in itself is conversion therapy, you know, taking a

healthy kid, a boy that might be effeminate, you know, maybe the boy is gay. he just doesn't understand that at the moment. or maybe the girl is a tomboy, maybe she's a lesbian. and then when a doctor or clinician tells them you are trans, let's get you, you know, transitioning, thatis you, you know, transitioning, that is the wrong approach because there are many, many kids that you know, need to find themselves on their own. they don't need teachers. they don't need doctors telling them that they're trans. they need to figure that out on their own. and you know, as an adult, people can make that decision. but i would say that, you know, transitioning kids itself, whether it's teachers in schools or anyone else, is a form of conversion therapy itself. >> yeah, i think a lot of people might agree with that. robin, i'm going to ask you another kind of slightly bonkers thing about what labour did initially. so far this election campaign, it was going to make it easier for adults to identify as a different gender. and people thought, well, that might potentially pose a bit of a risk to women's only spaces. and then it became, oh, actually, we're a bit squiffy on whether or not gender ideology is going to be taught to kids in schools. and

then now here we are today about whether or not, it could essentially criminalise people if they decide to tell a child that they're not, in fact, trans. and this legislation, i believe, was put forward initially by by lloyd russell—moyle, who has been biffed by the labour party. well, why are they, why are they rushing this frankly? >> well, frankly, this, this legislation was put forward by the conservative party in its 2019 manifesto, and it's another one of the failed promises of the last conservative administration . kemi badenoch, administration. kemi badenoch, has been saying that we are rushing into doing this. well. cammy's been part of an administration for five years that did nothing, didn't have the discussions, didn't have the appropriate talks with the relevant professionals and the people involved and could have worked that through and just ducked the issue completely and has left it for the new administration. absolutely. there are risks . absolutely. we

there are risks. absolutely. we need to write good law that takes into account the risks. that doesn't criminalise parents for having a discussion with their children, doesn't criminalise medical professionals for having an appropriate conversation. i transitioned 13 years ago. i had those conversations with therapists beforehand to ensure that i was indeed trans and i wasn't something else, and there wasn't something else, and there wasn't something else, and there wasn't something being hidden there. it's absolutely right to have those discussions because these are really serious decisions. >> i just i just wonder , robin, >> i just i just wonder, robin, how much more evidence do we need that something is a little bit skewiff here? okay. because we had issues whereby medical professionals appeared to be rushing to push trans onto kids or at least affirm that we know that people are very, very squiffy about what's being taughtin squiffy about what's being taught in schools, etc. we know that there was not really proper medical testing that was being done before people were being put on things like puberty

blockers and all of that. why are we now revisiting this, robin? why can't we just let this go? why is the labour party so obsessed with appeasing a fraction of really quite a militant wing of the lgbt community? >> well, so militant that it was a conservative policy in 2019? >> yeah. all right. fine. but we are where we are now. i get that, robin, but we are where we are now. so let's just address this now when it comes to the labour party and, and across the liberal western democracies, conversion therapy is being banned country by country. >> we fall behind in the way in which we look after our citizens. if we don't go down this route, it's right to go down this route. it's right to go down it carefully and thoughtfully and write good law that protects people and doesn't criminalise people it shouldn't criminalise. but we should stop people torturing gay people and trans people. >> okay, ollie, look, final word

to you. when you look around now and you see that this might be about to come in, etc, do you fear for children in an increasingly confusing world, especially with social media, especially with social media, especially with social media, especially with everything that's going on, and i think sexuality and gender issues are perhaps more at the forefront of a child's upbringing than they have been previously. some people will think that's a good thing. obviously other people will think that's quite risky. are you fearful for kids growing up these days ? up these days? >> absolutely. you know, it's one thing for an adult to make an informed decision that's best for them, that makes them happy, and that's how they feel. but it's another thing when a child is having this really pushed at them from all angles , whether them from all angles, whether that's social media on tiktok, whether that's hollywood films and tv shows, whether that's, you know, rupaul's drag race . i you know, rupaul's drag race. i think that is the concern is when it's being pushed in kids faces, it's almost become cool. and we see, you know, kids at schools, especially girls becoming non—binary or trans because it's trendy groups and groups of girls in the same classes become non—binary. and i mean, it's one thing to wake up

one day and feel like that. but when kids are actually going down a medical route, whether they just hit 18 or 19 and you know when they regret this decision in later life, that is, you know, that is irreversible. >> all right, both of you, thank you very much. really great stuff that a difficult topic to talk about. i think we did a good job of it. so thank you. who do you agree with there. there are labour rights a pledge abroad ban on trans conversion therapy. despite warnings that it might criminalise parents or therapists or medical professionals who disagree that a child may be trans. gudrun on x says no, they're not. this should be the last on the list of priorities for the british people. you know what, gudrun? i suspect it is actually last on the list of priorities for the british people. but unfortunately we have a group of politicians who seem to hold it very dear to their hearts. jasmin onyx says labour will say whatever they think will get them votes. that is a fact. what they will actually do is entirely different thing. yeah, again, i'm not sure this gets you votes. we saw what happened with the snp , didn't we, in with the snp, didn't we, in scotland, nicola sturgeon and all of that. i just one of the other things that baffles me about this. your verdict is now

in their 41% of you think that labour are right to pledge a ban on trans conversion therapy, 59% of you say that labour are not right. and look , ollie london right. and look, ollie london alluded to right at the end. there does it not seem as though there is an extraordinarily large number of young people growing up now genuinely thinking that they are born in the wrong body and is that because people have always felt that way, or is it because something a little bit odd is happening and things might be being forced upon them? i know which side of the fence i am on coming up, wikileaks founder juuan coming up, wikileaks founder julian assange has been freed after more than five years in hmp belmarsh. is this a victory for free speech or actually, is he a bit of a wrong'un? this divides opinion. his former lawyer, geoffrey robertson kc, is live to react to that huge news shortly. but first, nigel farage demands a no nonsense approach to france and small boats. >> they literally , once these >> they literally, once these boats are afloat, escort them to our 12 mile line where they hand them over to border force. that of itself, i think, is outrageous , he says no money to

outrageous, he says no money to the french until they stop the boats. >> a former labour mp and sean simon is and his

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. still to come. on the historic day. julian assange is finally freed. his former lawyer, geoffrey robertson kc, joins me live to offer his expert insight. but first, nigel farage has called for britain to stop further funding to france until they stop escorting boats

full of illegal migrants across the channel and to the uk. here he is speaking to gb news live from the channel, shortly before he won the tric award for best presenter. >> i may you can see a white dinghy. there are 45 people on board behind it. you can see an escort vessel because that's what the french do. despite the £500 million we've given them, they literally once these boats are afloat, escort them to our 12 mile line where they hand them over to border force . that them over to border force. that of itself, i think, is outrageous . but the significance outrageous. but the significance of this boat is that this number on this vessel take it beyond 50,000 that have come since rishi sunak has been prime minister, it's quite stark, isn't it? and the reform uk leader has a simple solution, as i've said, cut funding to the french, he told reporters. we've got to say to the french that this is a completely unacceptable practice. you are literally aiding and abetting criminal gangs and certainly no more money. why have we given

them the money? how has this conservative government been so bad at negotiating? well, france refuses to stop the boats once they are out of shallow waters, insisting that it would breach maritime law to intervene and would also put migrants lives at risk, often because they refuse help or threaten violence. well, i now welcome former labour mp and mep sean simon. sean, look, thank you very, very much. to great have you on the show. and so right then no more money to france, says nigel. what say you ? >> well 7- >> well i, i 7— >> well i, i say hum 7 >> well i, i say i'm, i'm not at all surprised that nigel, has decided to make the french the enemy. and the problem when it comes to the small boats. but it's actually not the french, is it? it's not the french. it's not the europeans, it's a it's a global problem. and it's being, it's being done to those migrants and to us by very, very serious, very nasty organised

crime. but the worst kind of international criminals that those are the actual problem . those are the actual problem. >> i mean, that is undeniably. yeah, sure. look, i mean , yeah, sure. look, i mean, undeniably criminal gangs are aiding and abetting the transfer of human cargo, right? the way through. >> nigel, do a photo. why doesn't nigel do a photo op about criminal gangs instead of about criminal gangs instead of about the french government? the problem is not that the french government are, going behind these people in boats, escorting them. >> to be fair, sean, i really do think that is a bit of the problem because we've given them at least £500 million. we expose here @gbnews that some of that money went to putting a fence around a football stadium that was nearby, so that the migrants didn't damage their football stadium. they're taking police off the beach so that they can go and police the olympics. we also unearthed footage of them just filming as women with children, actually, on the rare occasion, of course, these boats are not chock a block full of, you know, young men wading out into the channel and waving,

waving them off. so when it comes to actual value for taxpayers money, we are not getting it, are we, sean? >> well, no. no, of course we're not. so it depends what you're saying. if you're saying, the tories are yet again have done a disastrously bad deal, they have, wasted vast amount of money on a bad deal with the french. that needs to be renegotiated, then i would say yes. absolutely. of course, if there is a deal to be done, the tories will have done a terrible one for sure. and that's why the labour manifesto says very clearly we'll renegotiate our deals with the french. but if you say how they're going to do that just out of interest, you're saying it's all like, you know, give, give all the take all the money back from the french. is that going to stop the boats? no, of course it's not. it's not going to make any difference. it'sjust not. it's not going to make any difference. it's just going to make it worse. >> okay. i suppose, i suppose what nigel would say, though, is

that it would save us, you know, hundreds of millions of pounds as well. can i just clarify something, sean, if that's all right? do you actually see anything wrong with a load of young men who we don't necessarily know who they are or where they're from, actually breaking into britain on a daily basis? >> yeah, absolutely. i don't want to see that any more than any more than anybody else does. >> can i just ask, do you not want to see that because you actually think that's a bad thing for britain or because you feel sorry for people making that journey across the channel absolutely. >> both . absolutely both. it is >> both. absolutely both. it is that our borders should be respected , there is a there is respected, there is a there is a proper way to enter this country , and there are certain people actually, the vast majority of people in the world who are not allowed to enter this country unless they're on holiday and that's the way that it should be. and that's why what we should be doing is what labour is saying that we should be doing, investing money in what they're talking about. a thousand new, hardcore police

officers, intelligence officers, new, not giving money to the french government, but relationships with european intelligence and police agencies to really crack down on these are they're the worst organised criminals in the world. these are the nastiest people around. >> yeah. i mean them. yeah. is. yeah, fine . absolutely. yeah. yeah, fine. absolutely. yeah. but is there not a slight flaw with what keir starmer, the labour party is saying, which is the assumption is that the full might of every single other european country to this point has been unable or unwilling to smash the gangs. but sir keir starmer, on july the 5th will be able to. and what's that? based on? >> so, so i think that is a that is a to use your phrase , it is a is a to use your phrase, it is a slight i don't know if it's not so much a flaw, but it's a, it's the weakness in the argument. yeah. and it's also the massive weakness in the nigel farage argument, which is that this

isn't just a simple problem, that by a gimmick on a boat, you can fix and i'll, let's get all the money back off the french. and i think nigel even said send in the royal marines. i mean, grow up, nigel, and don't use the royal marines for your silly political stunts. all right . political stunts. all right. actually, fine. this is a really serious global. >> it is. but we have but we have just established, haven't we, between the. yeah, absolutely. and i'm fine with that. i understand that. and yes, i do think it is a bit simplistic to say sending the royal marines. i mean, the royal marines might not actually do it. right. so there is that side of it. but we have just established between the two of us, have we not, that the fatal flaw with sir keir starmer and the labour party's plan about smashing the gangs is that he might not be able to smash the gangs. >> i know i never said it was a fatal flaw. what? what i said is that i think if we're having a sensible, grown up discussion about it, i think you're right. and i think if you talk to keir starmer, he would admit also that you're right, that this is not an easy problem , that that

not an easy problem, that that labouris not an easy problem, that that labour is just going to easily simply fix overnight that nobody else has been able to fix. it's a difficult problem all over the world, and it would be difficult for labour to fix , but they have for labour to fix, but they have to do a betterjob than the tories and frankly, they'll do a better job than nigel. on his betterjob than nigel. on his boat talking nonsense. >> well, it's interesting because, well, i mean, look, nigel would say that he'd turned the boats back and i have put this to reform. i have put this to reform, which is who are you going to get to actually turn the boats back? all right. and, you know, there is that side of it. again, there are flaws in everybody's plan. i do wonder, though, whether or not having the likes of yvette cooper there with a sign saying refugees welcome and simultaneously removing what little deterrent the rwanda plan actually might have been. it is going to make a blind bit of difference, but we will we will as the polls stand, we will, we will we will find out, won't we? thank you very much. i just say it's been an absolute pleasure to have you on the show. much appreciated. and i'm sorry that we've run out of time, though, as sean simon there, who is the former labour

mp and an mep, right. okay. coming up, remember this sir keir starmer pledge? >> we will restore serious government to our borders, tackle this problem at source and replace the rwanda policy permanently . permanently. >> well, yes. as you were heanng >> well, yes. as you were hearing now, the migrants in calais say that apparently they are waiting for a labour government before they cross the channel. yeah, they've got it all this lot, aren't they? you know, brain surgeons, accountants, politically aware. so will starmer turn britain into the migrant capital of the world? plus what happens next here? yeah, it's a good one. but first, julian assange has been freed after more than five years in a british prison. is it a victory for free speech? and what next for the wikileaks founder, after his 12 legal ? we'll be talking about that very shortly.

okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up, will a labour government open the immigration floodgates? more

than they already are. but first, julian assange has today been released from prison after reaching a plea deal with the us authorities, which will see him plead guilty to one charge under the espionage act, but allow him to return to his native australia. the wikileaks founder was wanted on 18 espionage charges after thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents were published between 2010 and 2011. in one of the biggest data leaks in american history , assange has in american history, assange has beenin in american history, assange has been in belmarsh jail in london for a total of 1901 days. but hey, who's counting? after he was expelled from the ecuadorian embassy in 2019, where he lived for seven years to avoid extradition to sweden on rape charges in june 2022, the then home secretary, priti patel, approved his extradition to the us, but he had been fighting that decision, with the high court granting him permission to mount a fresh appeal in may this yeah mount a fresh appeal in may this year. but earlier today, assange left belmarsh, boarded a flight to northern mariana islands in the western pacific, where he's

expected to plead guilty to a single charge before being allowed to travel to australia. so there we go, well, i'm going to wizard us back over to my panel now, because unfortunately, julian assange's former lawyer, has pulled out at the last minute, which, dare i say, is probably a joke in there somewhere about maybe that's why he spent so long in prison. but journalist and author harriet sergeant, political correspondent for the spectator, james heale and gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. what do we feel about juuan nelson. what do we feel about julian assange? is he a hero or a villain, do you think? harriet? i think he's a villain. >> i mean, i listened to the bbc radio four today, three different news segments gushing over julian assange . not one over julian assange. not one mention is the fact that he was done for rape and for sexual assault, and that he fled into the embassy to escape being extradited to sweden to face those charges. that's not, to me, a heroic man on the other thing is that he's, you know, he's always presented he's a journalist, but he only gave away western secrets. i mean, if you're a journalist, you're meant to do both sides. i mean,

we never saw russian secrets or chinese or iranian secrets. it was only just western secrets. >> well, i suppose i suppose, james, the argument might be, you know, he exposed some really quite horrific things that were happening that our military or the american military was a part of. and maybe we had a right to know about that. >> i think there's any defence has to be tempered with the fact that the way in which he went about it was certainly cavalier, if not deeply irresponsible. there were names of people low down in food chains, you know, involved in networks across the world who didn't have any kind of protections , and their names of protections, and their names were just put out there. and damn the consequences that happened to them. and not least, of course, what harriet says subsequently with the sexual charges that were levelled against him and what happened as against him and what happened as a result of that. so i think that it's, you know, it's too soon to say no. you can't possibly say he's a hero. i would say, and i think that a lot of the fawning today seems a little bit over placed. >> i suppose the another aspect of this is, all right, let's just say, you do think he's an absolute wrong'un . has he served absolute wrong'un. has he served his time, though? you know, heck of a long time in ecuadorian embassy, which can't have been that nice. and then, you know ,

that nice. and then, you know, quite a long time in belmarsh and he has got to plead guilty to something on an american territory as well. i mean, is that actually the length of time you would expect him to serve for the crimes that he's allegedly committed? >> yeah, actually it is. i think that the plea deal that the americans have come up with is a sensible way of closing this complete chapter . and i agree complete chapter. and i agree with harriet and james that he's not a journalist. journalists don't behave that way . you don't don't behave that way. you don't dump millions of documents on the internet without checking them, without knowing what the consequences might be for other people. he put lives at risk by doing it. and those people who talk about how he was, he's a great sort of champion for freedom of expression. and no, he's not. freedom of expression carries with it a responsibility. and he decided to abdicate that responsibility by doing what he did. so he's not a journalist. he's not a freedom fighter. but i think that it's time anyway to close a chapter on this closed chapter again. >> you know, there is a

compelling argument that if it wasn't for people like julian assange, harry, then, then then things could happen, you know, all over the world that we wouldn't know about and we might have cover ups. and we do have cover ups. we know we've got cover ups. we know we've got cover ups. we know we've got cover ups. so, you know, is he not actually performing a service there in a sense, no. >> i think what you said was absolutely right. i mean, he if you if you're a journalist, you're meant to check that you're meant to check that you're not actually harming the people you're writing about. yes. exposing is one thing, but actually putting them in physical harm is something different. and that's what he did. and he did it to not to sort of big powerful people. i mean, that's the brave thing is those journalists who take on big, powerful people. he did it to small people who couldn't fight back and had no protection. >> and i think he wanted the privileges of being of journalists without the responsibilities. and that was his great abdication and moral failing. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. we will draw a line under that, there for now. coming up, i will be sitting down with former environment secretary george eustice . but secretary george eustice. but next, as migrants in calais say that they are waiting for a labour government before they

cross the channel because starmer pledged to scrap the rwanda plan. are the immigration floodgates about to be opened? it is interesting, isn't it? i have spoken to illegal migrants here who tell me that they were very scared of rwanda . if that very scared of rwanda. if that goes then that is the problem. they are also , as again, we they are also, as again, we exposed here on gb news being fast tracked across the continent to calais now. why? because shock horror are european continental friends have just voted to have stricter laws when it comes to deporting people. so britain under keir starmer conceivably could well be an outlier. do you think that labour would open the floodgates to an illegal migrant invasion? is patrick christys tonight we are on gb news. stay tuned. >> for that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news evening. >> welcome to your latest weather update from the met

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>> it's 10 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight. >> they literally. once these boats are afloat, escort them to our 12 mile line, where they hand them over to border force. that of itself, i think, is outrageous . outrageous. >> should we stop sending money to the french until they start stopping the boats and k becomes a net recipient of illegal migrants? >> we estimate about 100,000. >> we estimate about 100,000. >> oh, this is just invented. this is just fantasy. >> well, the tories and labour go to war on illegal immigration. are they two cheeks of the same backside? plus . the of the same backside? plus. the batting scandal has just taken a new twist. now labour are caught up in it. plus a postman has been caught writing the word racist on reform leaflets . racist on reform leaflets. should he be sacked and win a

winner ? winner? >> chicken dinner gb news breakfast. >> nigel farage alastair stewart reveals his heartbreaking diagnosis to camilla tominey. >> absolutely. next year , >> absolutely. next year, hopefully i might win one of those or indeed be nominated. anyway, on my panel tonight is journalist harriet sargeant, political guru at the spectator james heale and columnist at the sunday mirror , nigel nelson. oh, sunday mirror, nigel nelson. oh, and can you tell me now blink and can you tell me now blink and you miss it with this one, by the way? but can you tell me what happens next here? okay. all right. well, should we stop paying all right. well, should we stop paying the french until they stop the boats? that's what i'll be talking about . be talking about. next. >> the news at just after 10:00.

four men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass at the prime minister's constituency home in yorkshire. police said officers were there with the four men within a minute of them entering the grounds. the men, who are aged between 20 and 52, remain in police custody for questioning. in other news, today , labour is in other news, today, labour is pledging to halve knife crime within a decade. it says if it wins the general election . the wins the general election. the party's plan includes creating a new cross—government coalition to work on solutions, as well as community hubs involving youth workers and careers advisers. sir keir starmer says cracking down on knife crime is his personal moral mission. >> i was the chief prosecutor for five years and therefore i prosecuted many cases involving the use of knives and i've made it my personal mission to deal with this. it is a moral mission as far as i'm concerned. it isn't a question of urban versus rural. in fact, i think there's more knife crime, sadly, in

rural areas. or at least it's going up more quickly. and i think it's not fair on the families we've been hearing from this morning to simply point the finger to somebody else . finger to somebody else. >> sir keir starmer, now the king's new family order, has been warned for the first time this evening by her majesty the queen at the japanese state banquet at buckingham palace. queen camilla stepped out wearing the miniature portrait of her husband on a pale blue bow for the event at the buckingham palace ballroom. the unveiling of the new king charles ii family order comes nearly two years after he acceded as monarch following the death of his mother . pretty hot death of his mother. pretty hot outside today. a yellow health alert, in fact, was put in place as temperatures soared across the country. london was the hottest part of the uk, with temperatures recorded above 30 degrees. meanwhile, it was 24. in manchester, 26 in cardiff, many thousands more soaking up the sun on the beach. but is

that the end of the summer already? forecasters are warning us the hot spell won't last long, with showers and possibly thunderstorms predicted for tomorrow . brollies out now. the tomorrow. brollies out now. the first samples ever collected from the dark side of the moon have arrived on earth. china became the first country to excavate the lunar dust, successfully bringing it back to earth. earlier on. today, the re—entry capsule of the chang'e six probe touched down on the northern chinese region of inner mongolia. its cargo of lunar soil was collected earlier in june before embarking on a journey through space. it will now be analysed by scientists as part of china's ambitious space programme . and as if you didn't programme. and as if you didn't know, england have drawn nil nil with slovenia in their european championship group c game in cologne tonight. manager gareth southgate brought on cole palmer , alexander—arnold and anthony gordon off the bench at different times, but it wasn't

enough to win the group. slovenia also progressed as a third place team and were cheering at the end of the match. that's the news for the latest stories sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. comments . comments. >> all illegal migrants in france cannot wait for a labour government. that's to according reports in the telegraph, after their reporter spoke to some migrants near dunkirk who said they would not take the risk of crossing the channel in small boats until they knew there was a new government. this is likely the knock on effect from sir keir starmer pledging this on rwanda . rwanda. >> we will restore serious government to our borders, tackle this problem at source and replace the rwanda policy permanently . permanently. >> i think the problem is for many people now, the source is the migrant hotel next to where they live. but rishi sunak claimed last night that migrants will be queuing up in calais if labour wins power. >> either you believe illegal

migrants should not be in our country, they should be removed to somewhere else or with keir starmer . they're all going to be starmer. they're all going to be released. all the people we've detained and they will be out on the streets and that's a choice for everyone. do you want illegal migrants on planes going elsewhere, or do you want illegal migrants out on your streets with labour? those illegal migrants will not be on planes to rwanda. they will be out on our streets putting pressure on public services. and by the way, i can tell you now they are queuing up in calais waiting for a starmer government so they can come here and stay here. >> oh, they've not been on planes already though, have they? >> and that's a problem for him. >> and that's a problem for him. >> but is that a bit rich coming from him. because nigel farage went out to the channel today to mark a bleak migrant milestone for the prime minister behind me you can see a white dinghy. >> there are 45 people on board. behind it you can see an escort vessel because that's what the french do . despite the £500 french do. despite the £500 million we've given them, they literally , once these boats are literally, once these boats are afloat, escort them to our 12 mile line where they hand them

over to border force. that of itself, i think, is outrageous. but the significance of this boatis but the significance of this boat is that this number on this vessel take it beyond 50,000 that have come since rishi sunak has been prime minister. >> if you look very closely behind nigel, you could see a giant red carpet just laid out across the channel, leading to british soil. but home secretary james cleverly then clashed with his counterpart yvette cooper on lbc. earlier, after labour's shadow home secretary suggested they might use the dublin agreement. do you remember that to send migrants back to the eu country that they originated from? >> we used to have the dublin agreement, which did have some returns to europe, and we were did also mean that we would give for young people. >> we were a net recipient. the arrangement that you're talking about will inevitably mean the uk becomes a net recipient of illegal migrants. we estimate about 100,000 additional. >> this is just invented. this

is just fantasy. but the point is just fantasy. but the point is this is just total garbage. no, i mean seriously, no. hang on. no, he shouldn't be allowed to just, you know, basically make stuff up or tell lies. i mean, that is just not on. >> it's interesting though, isn't it ? because, they both isn't it? because, they both lied there, but anyway, for what it's worth, this is a devious plan to stop the boats. >> first of all, a lot of people are coming on the small boats are coming on the small boats are coming on the small boats are coming because they've been criminal gangs trafficking them, and the uk under the conservatives have been hopeless in tackling that crime. and we're saying that we want to work with our european partners and with other countries to tackle those criminal gangs and work towards rejoining the european union. >> well, here's what sir keir starmer's tough talk on the migrant crisis looks and sounds like a nobody, but nobody should be making that journey across the channel. >> nobody. it's a breach of our borders. it's also, i think , a borders. it's also, i think, a matter of national security, because the government should be deciding who comes to this

country. and we need to know who it is that's coming to this country. so we have to deal with it. i take it very seriously. i do not accept that it's impossible to take down the gangs that are running this vile trade, and that's why in the first few days of government, if we're privileged to come in to serve, we will set up a border security command. >> so the government should decide who comes into this country and presumably who leaves unless the government decides that it wants to deport criminals. in which case, dare i say, is someone like keir starmer might sign a letter saying that they should stay? yeah. all right. okay. you buying any of that or would labour make britain the asylum capital of the world? let's get the thoughts from our panel this evening. i've got journalist and author harriet sergeant, political correspondent for the spectator is james heale and gb news, senior political commentator and columnist at the sunday mirror. it's nigel nelson , harry. well, we've just heard a procession of different politicians lie to us there over and over again . and we did. for

and over again. and we did. for what it's worth, seeing nigel farage actually in the middle of the channel, looking at some very real boats who do you think cares the most? >> well, nigel farage, i mean, i've been following this for many years. this whole migration thing, and it's just repetitive. we have the same thing over and over again, politicians saying we've had the conservatives after five different elections, saying they're going to control migration, and it has gone up and up and up, i don't think keir starmer is going to do it. i don't think his plans, he emphasises border force. i spent some some months with border force and it's not the border force and it's not the border force that's the problem. it's not them that need beefing up. they can stop the asylum seekers , but it's what happens to the asylum seekers afterwards. i mean, they stop them, but then all they do is send them into the process of the asylum system. >> is that not the. and they stay. yeah. >> is that not one of the flaws with what rishi sunak was saying there, which is the, you know. oh, well, you know, under a

labour government, they're going to they're going to let all this lot out on the street, they're queuing up and they're waiting to come. you will not see anyone on a plane be deported. i mean, we're hardly deporting anyone now. finally deported anyone last few years. >> yeah. 1 in 5 hotel rooms, i believe. last year in the uk was occupied by a migrant. illegal migrant. and so as a result of this, it's placing huge pressures on sort of local economies across the country . economies across the country. obviously, it's huge issues for community tensions as well. and i think that other than rwanda, there's very little in kind of there's very little in kind of the way of substance which differs from the two main parties on this. i think there's much more deeper, substantial issues here. part of it is about kind of solving the migrant crisis . at root, part of it is crisis. at root, part of it is looking at international treaties as well, but i do think the danger is that labour is far too relaxed about this, and i hopeit too relaxed about this, and i hope it will go away as it talks about when we talk about budgetary pressures on things like the nhs we've talked about earlier in this programme, every pound that goes on housing people here doesn't go on fixing the nhs and it's going to be something that undermines governments for years to come. >> people are absolutely sick and tired of it. yeah, i was talking to someone today just normal person out there on the

street who has come from iran and had said to me that they are absolutely sick of paying tax for people who've come here illegally to, to live . nigel, illegally to, to live. nigel, a couple of flaws with the labour party's plans on this appear to be sir keir starmer saying that, just by virtue of having him in downing street will be able to smash the gangs in a way that the full might of our european friends have so far been unable to do, which i don't quite understand how he how he's figured that one out. yvette cooper saying she's going to use the dublin agreement, which i think would result in us being a net recipient now. >> well, the dublin agreement, what she's actually talking aboutis what she's actually talking about is the idea that we try and do the deal, the deal with european countries that we once had with the eu , which means had with the eu, which means that you can actually return people to, to europe. james cleverly's figure, if that means we'll take 100,000 migrants, is just a complete nonsense. it's based on european council decision last year, on population of european countries

to share migrants out. we're not in europe. we won't be part of that deal. it's not going to happen. when it comes to down deaung happen. when it comes to down dealing with the smuggling gangs, at least keir starmer has got a stronger way of doing it by using anti—terror laws and mi5 to by using anti—terror laws and m15 to try to try and smash them. >> but would that mean so? just so we're clear on this, do you? and we'll have to wait and see. none of us are entirely clear at the moment. that's fair enough. but is your interpretation of what you said is that he's going to send m15 out to assassinate the gangs? >> no, i don't think i think we gave up our licence to kill sort of quite some time ago. so. no, the idea is to use the use the same, sort of same sort of tactics. you would use against terrorists to go after the gangs. the point at the end of this is you won't stop the boats entirely. what that might do is reduce the number coming over, but until we get a system whereby asylum seekers can claim asylum offshore, at the moment they can only claim asylum on

british soil. that is the draw. that's fine to deal with. >> should we not just assassinate the gangs? >> well, i mean, the gangs aren't hanging around in the uk waiting to be assassinated. they're spread all over the place, you know, there's some in i mean, it's in an international, big international business. so how keir starmer thinks he's going to track these gangs down, in albania or wherever they have, or in iraq or wherever they are, and then put a stop to them is just magical . magical. >> well, europol basically is the answer. i mean, interpol already exists, nigel. >> it does, but we're not a member of it. well so we lost. we lost our membership. >> yeah, but we lost our membership with brexit. so one of the ideas this may not work, by the way, but one of the plans will be, is to is to get us back there so we can embed officers in europol, which we can't at the moment. >> yeah, but europol isn't working. you know , this working. you know, this minecraft is right across europe. a europol is looking at europe. a europol is looking at europe and they're not smashing

the gangs in europe. >> so what? >> so what? >> why are we. >> why are we. >> and nigel. nigel, you said about about trying to stop the gang. sorry. the boats from crossing in the first place. i think the key thing is deterrence. and that's what the head of the former head of the uk border force said yesterday, is that a deterrent? is necessary now? i think rwanda is a very flawed scheme. i think there's lots of question marks over it, but that is a deterrent of some kind. if you look at what some of the imaginary deterrent, i mean, there's no there's no there's absolutely no evidence that rwanda will act as a deterrent. >> now, i can't say that it won't because it's not actually in existence, but certainly with the money we're spending on it, you could keep an asylum seeker in a hotel for 25 years for the money. each one will cost to go to rwanda. >> we are we are now, dealing with two major parties, with ones with an imaginary deterrent. >> and one is with an imaginary solution to smash the gangs and that is, that is where we are as a nation. and we should strap in britain. yeah. sorry. >> i was just going to say, look at australia because they did stop it. and what they did. >> but but australia had had first of all australia turned back the boats. but they did it in international waters. there

are no international waters between calais and dover. they also had an agreement with indonesia to send people back. we have no agreements yet. that's that's been the problem that we're facing. >> we are going to have to draw a line under this one, i'm afraid, although i imagine we'll probably end up talking about it at some point. coming up, what happens next between this unsuspecting tourist and the king's horse ? oh, yes. find out king's horse? oh, yes. find out more later in the show. but first, rishi sunak has finally suspended two candidates caught up in the tory election, betting scandal. is it a bit too little, too late? and now a labourer involved in the whole story might go away. former environment secretary george eustice is live in the studio in three short minutes. stay tuned

okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages are heading your way very, very soon. but first, after days of political pressure, rishi sunak withdrew support. this afternoon from laura saunders and craig williams. the two tory candidates suspected of betting on the general election day. both candidates will still appear on ballot papers under conservative banners, though, as sunaks decision came only after ballots had been printed. it came on the same day that keir starmer's party was implicated in the betting scandal, with keir starmer suspending its parliamentary candidate , kevin parliamentary candidate, kevin craig, after being told that the gambling commission has also launched an investigation into

him, reportedly over a bet that he'd lose his own seat. well, i'm joined now by former conservative minister george eustice. george, thank you very much. i do have to put it to you. partygate, dodgy ppe , you. partygate, dodgy ppe, gambling. i mean, it's the tory party, just all a bit dodgy. >> well, i think there's a there's a time when basically if you're on the ropes and things are going against you, sometimes the media narrative turns against you and things that might have been a storm, but then a storm that passes end up being a storm that lingers. and i think that's what the conservative party has been dogged with in this election. there have been, you know, mistakes that have been made , if mistakes that have been made, if you're in a better state and, you're in a better state and, you know, people gave you the benefit of the doubt, things would move on. but we found on on a number of things, including this one. the story hasn't moved on. so the prime minister, i think, has done a, you know, the right thing now. but it was it's difficult i actually in these sorts of situations and i, i always actually supported boris johnson as well in these sort of situations. if you , you know,

situations. if you, you know, there's something to be said for, you know , not just, you for, you know, not just, you know, going for people just because the media are baying for blood. and i think, you know, he was right to give them the benefit of the doubt. but it's an election. the storm wasn't going away, so he's had to act. >> have you ever put a bet on something political? i haven't actually, no, no, perhaps i should have done. i don't know, but perhaps not now. seeing how this has gone, i actually think it's probably just not a not a good idea. if anybody's too close to politics, they might not have insider information , not have insider information, but they've probably got a sense of which way things are going. it's probably just not. not a good thing to do. apart from anything else, if an election is going to be called, you want people to be thinking, how are we going to win this election? how are we going to stop keir starmer becoming prime minister? you don't really want them thinking, right, let's get down to the bookies and put a bet on it is part of the problem with the conservatives that so many of them, and i believe you are included in this, have decided to throw the towel in. well, look, i'd done 25 years in politics. i first stood as a candidate for ukip way back in 1999, and was then an adviser to david cameron and, you know,

michael howard before that, before doing 15 years in parliament. so i just, before doing 15 years in parliament. so ijust, i before doing 15 years in parliament. so i just, i just parliament. so ijust, ijust wanted a change. and i think that's the case for a lot of people. you saw the same in 2010. lots and lots of labour mps stood down in 2010. you know, the days of people wanting to be an mp until the very end. you know, i think are gone. people now do that. >> and i think there's a sense of duty, though. i mean, i do speak privately to a couple of tory mps who are pretty certain they're going to lose their seat. but they've said to me that they don't believe in handing over a loss, and they don't think it's morally the right thing to do. >> well, look, people have got different motivations. for me. i wanted a chance to do something different , and it wasn't really, different, and it wasn't really, you know, that you would lose a seat. it's much more, you know, if a, if you wanted to do a change, i'll be 53 at the next election. i wanted to do something different. you know, i wasn't. it's a job you've got to do at 110% full tilt. and if you if you don't feel you want to do that and you want to change, you should make that decision. >> what's been the worst thing about this general election campaign for the conservative party i mean, is it rishi sunak himself or the people who are

advising him who stood outside in the rain? there was the d—day issue. anyone with half a sense of political nous doesn't leave d—day early. he's got massively bogged down in this gambling scandal as well. he keeps telling us all they will do whatever it takes to stop the boats without doing whatever it takes to stop the boats. i mean, is the problem him or the people around him? >> well, i think if i'm if i'm honest, i think when you go into an election as the conservative party is, you know, on the ropes, 20 points behind in the polls, you know, there was a it was a chance that they took that basically doing a surprise election was either going to change the terms of trade, shake things up, maybe lead to more scrutiny going on to the labour party, you know, or it wouldn't. and as it turns out, so far it hasn't, you know what's happened is, they've taken this risk going for an early election and things haven't really come their way in the way that they hoped. i think the really big problem is, you know, we go into this so far behind that, the media and the pollsters almost seem to have made their mind up, that it's a foregone conclusion. and it's a foregone conclusion. and it's very hard to get a spring in your step when that's the context in which you go into an

election. >> nigel farage i some might say in history, may well prove did hammer another nail into the coffin. we have to wait and see, obviously, but he's out there in the channel today. he says he wants to turn the boats back. he's identified a key issue there, according to quite a few polls now has been the inflection point. is there or thereabouts , isn't it? i mean, thereabouts, isn't it? i mean, you know, do you guys wish that you'd just turned the boats back? do you think early doors jumping to turn that first boat back? we wouldn't be here now, would we? >> well, look, i think the point is, i mean, the best thing i've seen actually done is, is when , seen actually done is, is when, you know, the french police actually started puncturing the dinghies before they took off, because that's the right thing to do. actually, if you want to try and safeguard lives and before they even set sail, you should be, you know, slashing those dinghies so that people can't get in them in the first place. and that was done in some instances. i think we need to see more of that sort of action. but, you know, nigel farage got this idea that royal marines should take these, boats and

take them back to french shores. i mean, there's all sorts of reasons why that can't work. you know, you'd be then invading french territory. what happens if france decides to load them on boats and take them to the uk shore? what are we going to do about that? you know, it's just it's a classic, simplistic, nigel farage solution . the truth nigel farage solution. the truth is, and this is where you have a problem, i think with keir starmer as well. you know, everything that keir starmer talks about has been done to death, tried and tried and tried many times over and over again in the last few years. this is a massive, massive challenge. you know, we've gone to this position now of getting the rwanda bill in place so that we can actually use that as a deterrent. some say it won't work , some say it will work. the work, some say it will work. the only way to find out is to try it. and that's why keir starmer is so stupid to say that he's going to abandon that. >> what is the actual reason to for vote the conservatives other than they are not labour, if basically i think rishi sunak has done a fantastic job of stabilising and steadying the ship, particularly on the economy, we've now got inflation back down to 2, he's

demonstrated that he can manage the economy well . and, you know, the economy well. and, you know, with the public finances, it's a challenging environment globally for every government. and as you look ahead in the next few years, you need a government that's going to be good with the finances. and that means rishi sunak. >> okay. all right, there are issues as well when it comes to the nhs. we spoke a little bit about that earlier on. you know miss waiting list. miss waiting list. miss waiting lists as well a missed targets, i should say , a missed targets, i should say, you know, is rishi sunak got any proper solution to that, do you think? >> well, we put huge extra investment into the nhs. i mean, spending on the nhs has almost doubled since 2010. and the really big challenge that every government faces with the nhs is, as medicine advances, as people live, longer pressures and demands on the nhs grow and tend to grow faster than the amount of money that you can put into it. it's a really big challenge, but is that not, with respect, partly down to immigration? and that is because we've seen record upon record level of immigration under the

conservatives. >> well, it's, partly due to that growing population, although obviously some of the migrants that have come here to work are also contributing . work are also contributing. they're paying their taxes like, like everybody else. you know, it's only the asylum seekers is a relatively small amount of the total immigration figure. and people tend also to need nhs support later in life . so it's support later in life. so it's more a product of an ageing population than it is of migration. >> if you're if you're being brutally honest, what would you score the conservatives out of ten for the last couple of years ? >> well, 7- >> well, i'd ? >> well, i'd actually give them eight, but you know, i shall vote conservative and i'm a former conservative mp and i've been a conservative supporter for 25 years. i would love it if the country at large gave us an eight, because that means we would be back in government. and i think that's right for the country. but obviously we go into this an election in a very difficult context. all right. >> thank you very much. do you appreciate having you on the show and hope to talk to you again very, very soon. and that is george eustice there, right. okay. well look stay tuned

because coming up we expose the royal mail postman who's been caught writing abuse on the official election leaflets. but next i'll bring you very first look tomorrow's newspaper front pages. my panel.

hello and welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now it's patrick christys tonight. now wsfime patrick christys tonight. now it's time to bring you tomorrow's newspaper front pages with my wonderful panel. let's do it. so i've got the metro free. dosanjh is owing home 400 k bill forjackson's saga. and this is the wikileaks founder juuan this is the wikileaks founder julian assange faces repaying australia's government. nearly 400 grand for private jets, after the. well, after he basically flew out of here, didn't he? let's go to the telegraph now. cabinet minister claimed that he won £2,000 on election bet scottish secretary tried to dismiss remark as a joke . as fifth as a fifth figure joke. as fifth as a fifth figure is now embroiled in the scandal,

cabinet minister claimed that he won £2,100 betting on the day of the general election and now he says that that is a joke. that's alastair jack, i said to have alastairjack, i said to have made the comments to the bbc shortly after rishi sunak called the snap poll last month. the nhs also warns of chaos as the heat wave hits during strike action. great. the daily mail lacklustre lions another bore draw , but at least england draw, but at least england topped the group and avoid the germans . yeah, fine, but we have germans. yeah, fine, but we have just drawn nil nil with a country in the shape of slovenia who i believe have a population of 2.1 million people. quite a few of them were in the stadium watching. 11 of them were on the pitch. and, you know, i mean, it's just remarkable, isn't it? absolutely remarkable. anyway, starmer mail readers were right about labour in 2019. that's why we've changed. that's our other story. let's go to the times. labour man suspended for betting on election . party acts as tory on election. party acts as tory minister says he won £2,100. i do think, by the way, when this this chap alastair. jack, i

don't think all is quite as it seems with this because i think he did actually put the bet on quite a long time ago. i think , quite a long time ago. i think, didn't he? >> he's just come out in the last ten minutes and said that he put £20 in april on a july election. yeah. and yeah, he didn't realise that it would actually happen at that point. he didn't have inside information. it was just a guess he put it on. >> i actually don't think there's any indication that rishi sunak knew in april that we were going to get on july the 4th. >> yeah, absolutely. so this is the key question about is it inside information or is it just an educated guess or not. >> yeah. there is a there is a world of difference between that and someone putting on money. the day before the election was called and i actually do feel a little bit sorry for him. he's been caught up in all of this. but anyway, there we go, let's go to the guardian quarterly, fifth tory face investigation. yeah. all right. it's the same stuff, isn't it? there we go. fine, yeah. let's just focus. let's just focus a little bit, actually, because i'm. because i'm sick of it. i want to focus a bit on the football. yeah, and just say, james, we we're rubbish. >> well, it's funny, i was just out there in the green room, and i saw the back page of today's sun, in which declan rice

promised we'd have fire in our bellies and we'd go into war. a nil nil result against slovenia, a country with a population the size of seven london boroughs. i mean, it was pathetic tonight, honestly. and you have to say, who's going to be out of their job first, rishi sunak or gareth southgate? >> well, that's a bad put on. that's a bet i'd put on. nigel, what has gone wrong? we've got an embarrassment of riches with this england football team. you know, we're led by a bloke who, in my view, probably votes lib dem. is that the problem? >> i have absolutely no idea how gareth southgate votes and i'm sure it wouldn't. it wouldn't make any difference anyway . no make any difference anyway. no it's been, it's been really boring. so far, it's been a bit of a disaster. we've just scraped through into the, into the next round. but it is just scraping through. >> this is for me, harry. there is a big the national mood , is a big the national mood, right, is linked, i think, with how well the england national team is doing. you know, when we had the previous euros and we had the previous euros and we had the previous euros and we had the world cup, where the world cup before that and it was like, whoa, you know, we're all we're all topless in trafalgar square, nine pints deep or i was

just everywhere, but whatever. yeah, everywhere, but, but, you know, now you look at this and you think the election's been bonng you think the election's been boring and is dragging. you think the election's been boring and is dragging . okay. boring and is dragging. okay. and i say that as somebody who has to report every night. i'm sorry, but let's be honest, it is, and also, we're pants at the football. >> well, i don't think the election has been boring. i think it's been heartbreaking, deeply depressing. and it's bred a huge amount of cynicism. so yeah, i wish it had been boring. i think it's been much , much i think it's been much, much more troubling than that. and this, this football, which i have to say, i don't know much about. >> well, you know, to be fair, that's fine. you don't need to, because at the moment we've not been playing it. so it doesn't matter. you are. >> you are exactly. >> you are exactly. >> it's depressing. and heartbreaking like everything else . else. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> all right. well, look, now let's let's. where's this on to something else. because tom bradby has said that there aren't many white male news anchors left . okay, i don't know. >> i need to you . as he prepares >> i need to you. as he prepares to host itv's election night coverage in an interview with

the radio times, the 57 year old presenter said i don't particularly. >> i'm not quite sure what he said because that's not my decision. that will be someone else's decision. there aren't many white male anchors left, dare i say so? i feel a bit less nervous about that than possibly. i should. but just put your head down, do a good job, and try to be as nice as you can to everyone around you. all right. are we about to see one less white male news anchor after that comment, do you think? >> well, i have a soft spot for. i want you to know that i have a soft spot for white males. >> thank you. harry whatever they're doing, that's great. >> thank you. but it's just a bit odd. you know, the fact that he. he felt the need to say. i can understand why he said that, but, normally people don't come out and say that if they work for the person who does the best job. >> i mean , why are we talking >> i mean, why are we talking about whether you're, you're white, pink, red striped or what? it's the person who does the best job. yeah. >> and it's also it's a curious comment to make, given that on

election night he's going to be with ed balls. george osborne and nicola sturgeon. yeah. so you have an all white panel there over on bbc clive myrie will be presenting with laura kuenssberg. clive myrie gets it on talent anyway . he's on talent anyway. he's absolutely superb at doing that. krishnan guru—murthy will be doing it on channel 4, but that's alongside emily maitlis. it seems to me that there are plenty of white and rory stewart and alastair campbell. yeah all i say is, i mean, there's a fair few white male anchors here on gb. >> news doesn't seem to do badly in the ratings. so yeah. yeah. no i think let the best man win. >> yeah yeah i just thought it was an interesting comment actually because you know, you could argue that oh okay. maybe it's about reading between the lines. does he feel a bit of pressure from the old diversity hires? i wonder if that's what he's getting at. i think i misheard it when i first said it. >> white male anchors are something else, and there's plenty of those still around in journalism. >> there are, there are, there are, yes, there's rather a lot of those. and now some people believe there's such a thing as

nigel farage derangement syndrome . okay. which makes syndrome. okay. which makes lefties say and do irrational things. step forward. broadcaster narinder kaur, who appears to have fallen into that rather bonkers trap. yesterday, nannder rather bonkers trap. yesterday, narinder tweeted this picture of nigel farage giving a campaign speech with the caption oh god, this actually sent shivers down my spine. is it just me or is this hitler esque? if you're listening on radio, it's just nigel waving to a crowd , nigel waving to a crowd, actually. and as part of that, that natural progression of the arm, shall we say, from waving from one side to the other and you all get you all get what i'm trying to say here. anyway, why why why do we always have to bnng why why do we always have to bring the nazis into it? >> well, because it's they're rather limited frame of historical reference, really, and they've got nothing else to compare it to. and of course, a lot of these people live for clicks. they can't wait to get the social media hit from everyone retweeting it. so they therefore go for the most extreme thing and jump to the

most offensive comparison. you know, sort of hitler esque. i'm not sure mr hitler ever wore something like nigel's a colourful jacket. no, but no, it's a ridiculous comparison. >> hugo boss. >> hugo boss. >> wasn't he more of a hugo boss man, hugo boss would probably care to qatar forget that. but, but yeah, i do. nigel, there is there is something i think, such as farage derangement syndrome that does appear to grip a lot of people because he's successful, because he appeals to the people that the left think they should have a monopoly on. >> so they get very upset by that. i mean, no politician should ever use comparisons with the nazis or with hitler or anything like that. >> it always gets them into trouble. and the same thing appues trouble. and the same thing applies to commentators. don't make that comparison, nigel farage may be many things. i've known him for years. i don't agree with a word he says, but the last thing i would accuse him of is being hitleresque. >> yeah, there's almost absolutely gone. >> and he's certainly not a teetotal vegetarian . teetotal vegetarian. >> it's. >> it's. >> no, that's true, that's true . >> no, that's true, that's true. all right. okay. well that's out

there now. now a female tourist visiting whitehall learned the hard way to never get too close to the king's guard and their horse. i've been teasing you with this for a while now. here it is. i hope she's all right. but i'll be honest with you. i could watch that all day. let's play could watch that all day. let's play it again. so she goes close to the horse , and the horse says to the horse, and the horse says no or nay. i suppose the horse says neigh. off you, pop. is it me , or is she a massively me, or is she a massively oversold? that i think i think she's taken a dive. that's a yellow card. >> i think it's better than the euros. i mean, look at that. >> he's got her up front. get her a plane up front for england right now. anyway two men helped her up immediately, and hopefully she's doing okay. coming up, we celebrate gb news triple win at today's tric awards night crown. tonight was greatest britain and union jackass. but first, i'll show you the political postman who

was caught scrawling abuse on official election leaflets. anna, we'll have some more. tomorrow's newspaper front pages, so stay

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france until small boats halted. we have spoken about this quite a bit already tonight, he basically. what? we all know the drill, don't we? he says that the french are just waving them through, and they are. but princess anne is also making a slow but sure recovery. and they also say, come on, england, you can do better. yes, that's because he can't get much worse than drawing nil nil with a minnow mountainous nation. but there we go, i am joined , as there we go, i am joined, as ever by my wonderful press pack journalist and author harriet sergeant , political sergeant, political correspondent at the spectator. james heale and gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, now , yes, just days nelson, now, yes, just days after nigel farage accused the tech giant google of election interference after he alleged that they'd blocked reform uk adverts, a royal mail postie in the north—west of england has today been caught writing the word racists on reform uk election leaflets . so that is, election leaflets. so that is, allegedly the man doing that. royal mail are aware of the incident and are conducting urgent inquiries, i mean, is this it? should we sack him?

james, i'll start with you on this. i mean, what do you what do you think about all of this? >> well, i don't like people losing their jobs, but i do losing theirjobs, but i do think, you know, serious grounds of disciplinary work, and i just don't understand this trend of modern britain whereby people just don't feel able to do the job for which they're contracted. you know, we saw it with the tfl driver who was shouting free, free palestine a few months ago. you see it now is that you know, this undermines, you know, basic civic and political function in this country. he was contracted to a job and obviously he didn't feel able to do that without, you know, scrawling this kind of graffiti. it appears that allegedly seems and i think this kind of stuff makes reform look like the victims. it backfires massively and it's just wrong. so i don't understand this modern trend. and i think the worrying thing is that is happening elsewhere. >> i think actually there is a good point that people are now. it seems to me, are unable to just do the bare minimum of what theirjob is just do the bare minimum of what their job is without whether that's, you know, teachers or whatever, without feeling the need to engage in some kind of weird political stunt . weird political stunt. >> yeah, some sort of activism. well, we saw i mean, we've seen it all the way through the civil

service from sue gray down to the this postman who, incidentally, i don't think is a proper postman because he's not wearing shorts. >> oh, do you think that might be a setup? >> well, i know we're not a set up, but he's not. >> i mean, i know you've got a soft spot for post. i have time. >> you're on this show. last yean >> you're on this show. last year, you nominated as the greatest briton, my postman, and it turns out to be my postman as well. >> and you're actually so always in shorts and a stewards inquiry there. >> we're going to go to var on this postman issue. >> we'll see. >> we'll see. >> he would never do anything like that. >> he would never. he's a dyed in the wool reform man. probably we don't know. we don't know. anyway. nigel. yeah? what's your take on that? do you think that's just someone i just want? >> want postman to deliver letters, not scrawl all over them. just stick them through them. just stick them through the letterbox. that's their job. of course. he shouldn't be doing. do you remember the good old days where they just used to nick the money outside the cars and we'd all move on? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> proper good old fashioned postie just takes the tenner out of your card . but anyway, now of your card. but anyway, now woke doctor who star david tennant sparked controversy when

he made these eyebrow raising remarks about british lgbt awards. sorry about kemi badenoch at the british lgbt awards. you know what i mean? >> if i'm honest, i'm a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it, as long as they're not hurting anyone else, should merit any kind of special award or special special mention because it's common sense. isn't it? however, until we wake up and kemi badenoch does not exist anymore . i don't wish ill of anymore. i don't wish ill of her. i just wish her to shut up. >> yeah, okay. anyway, kemi badenoch responded today and she certainly didn't hold back. so she wrote this. i will not shut up. i will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from stonewall over the safety of women and girls . now this for me women and girls. now this for me is where it gets a little bit interesting. okay, so she she says a rich lefty white male celebrity so blinded by ideology

he can't see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end.she publicly for my existence to end. she does continue to say that tennant is one of labour's celebrity supporters. she goes on a bit about how he stood by and now kemi badenoch. i wonder if she made a mistake by bringing his skin colour into it. >> harriet no, i think because we've seen over and over again the people who most attacked women over this whole trans thing are a sort of wealthy, middle class white males. and i feel that they're they can't i find it incredibly hypocritical. i get very angry. so no more power to her, okay? i like them. attack more. >> fair enough. do you think there's a do you think there's any relevance to the fact that he happens to be a white man? or can you see the point she was trying to make? i don't know, i see the point. >> i think maybe, perhaps there

will be a sense that others can make that point for her. perhaps. i think that you know, the attack was ludicrous enough as it was without necessarily, perhaps, going into that. but she wants to respond robustly. i do think earlier, patrick, you asked in this programme what the best reason for voting conservative was. i say the answer just conservative was. i say the answerjust been given two answer just been given two words. david tennant. that answer there, i think, perhaps epitomised the kind of the arrogance of a lot of this for instance, that point he raised about no doing no harm to others. well, i think the whole bafis others. well, i think the whole basis under which he's saying about kemi badenoch comments is her response to the cass review and of course, the harm that went on there in terms of genden went on there in terms of gender, social, gender services for under eighteens. so i think that, you know, his point is completely wrong. he did an inoffensive way. and i think that she is fighting fire with fire. >> yeah. i mean, no. what do you make of that? >> i would if i'd been her, i'd have kept quiet, it doesn't require a comment. i mean , we're require a comment. i mean, we're back to people doing their jobs. i think that the tenants should actually just stick to the job he's got and not enter politics ehhen he's got and not enter politics either. yeah, well, yeah, but however. so i don't go along with his attack on her. her attack on him, i think was unnecessary, a bit undignified. she's a cabinet minister, as you pointed out. maybe the next leader of the tory party, i

think sort of keeping her own counsel on this one and just letting it pass should have been the best way of doing it. >> i get what you mean, but i think i think it must be tricky because that would that would wind me right up. you know, someone like david tennant standing there saying, say something that you think, yeah, it's maybe being a bit of a useful idiot for stonewall as well, and you want to put it back in his box very quickly. >> i think that like for us, she often gets her opponents so mad they can't think properly. and i think that's a real tool for her own advancement, which is that they can't land their punches on her. >> all right, interesting point we are now. oh no, we're not before that. this is the terrifying moment that passengers were forced to use oxygen masks after a korean air flight dropped nearly 30,000ft in just five minutes. to be honest with you, i thought it was going be a bit more dramatic than that. the boeing plane left south korea bound for taiwan over the weekend, but developed a cabin pressure issue. and as we saw that there were oxygen masks there. i'll be honest , we saw that there were oxygen masks there. i'll be honest, i was expecting a little bit of turbulence, but i'm now being

reliably informed in my ear that 17 passengers were injured and the dramatic footage is now happening, so i shouldn't have spoken too soon. and it comes just weeks after a 73 year old british man sadly died after a singapore airlines flight experienced turbulence. so severe that it plunged nearly 6000ft in under three minutes. so there we go . it is time now so there we go. it is time now to reveal today's greatest briton in union. jackass so, harriet, who's your greatest briton ? briton? >> my greatest passion is jk. jk rowling, because she seems to be the only person at the moment who's sticking up for women and who's sticking up for women and who's showing , unlike the who's showing, unlike the majority of our politicians, real guts and integrity. >> okay, strong start. go on james. >> mine is the king for his excellent work today in the state visit by the emperor of japan. and as we said earlier , japan. and as we said earlier, getting on with the job despite his own personal illness, he's been getting on with it and done a superb job representing the country with one of our oldest allies now. >> yeah, indeed i did. i saw something on twitterjust before something on twitter just before i came on actually, which said that at this banquet tonight,

apparently, keir starmer has been sat next to one of the king's closest aides, and rishi sunak has been sat to next someone who works in. i read into that what you will. but nigel, who's your who's your greatest briton ? greatest briton? >> it's greatest britain's. so it's a shout out for eamonn and isabel stephen and ellie and an camilla and nigel and the gb news teams who then topped the trick tv awards today . trick tv awards today. >> we won the hat trick, didn't we today? so well done everybody. yes, well done to all of those people. can i also just say well done to everybody who works behind the scenes on those shows. well done to everybody who makes those kind of things. things happen. and it isn't just, you know. yes. whilst whilst all of the presenters are of course wonderful, there is, there is a team full of people out there, who really make this happen. so, so well done everybody. it is a it is a massive, massive thing. so gb news are the winners today. it would be weird if i, if i said otherwise, really. but i also just hope it puts quite a few people back in their flipping box, to be honest, because, you know, we won stuff last year. we've won stuff this year. we very often win the ratings war

as well at key times in the day. we are a new channel still and we have absolutely come alive. so, you know, at some point people are just going to have to accept that we are here and here to stay, i think. but, anyway, i'll send me off my soapbox now. who's your union jackass? harriet. >> well, this is the nurses who were laughing on the channel four programme. they were laughing at the patients on the waiting list. so they're my big jackasses. >> yeah. lovely start. okay, go on, mine is gareth southgate, for producing an uninspired display tonight of 90 minutes. that would make rishi sunak and keir starmer look positively riveting and all that talent. so little outcome, you know, it's a sort of metaphor for a lack of national productivity. >> yeah. i think he puts a high vis jacket on when he goes in to check the loft. you know, honestly. anyway. >> go on, mine's, julian assange and i think we've said enough tonight about why he is a total jackass. >> okay. fair enough. yeah. so much so that his lawyer had bothered to turn up. he might have, he might have said something about that, but, crucially, he didn't. so there we go, right. today's winner of the union jackass award is

indeed gareth southgate. i am increasingly wondering whether or not it's possible to sack him. mid—tournament. but, alas, we'll have to wait and see. thank you very much. my wonderful panel. i've thoroughly enjoyed tonight, and thank you at home. and thank you to everybody who keeps voting for us to win tric awards. oh, and yes, i've got a live studio audience for you tomorrow. be a part of it. okay? get yourselves in this studio. i want to hear from you. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> evening. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. very warm and humid again for most places tomorrow it will be a bit cloudier across parts of the east, particularly eastern scotland. we are kind of between two areas of high pressure. an old weather front has been providing quite a lot of cloud today over parts of scotland and northern ireland, and still producing a little bit of light rain over eastern scotland. 1 or 2 heavy showers for southern scotland and northern england . scotland and northern england. they should tend to fade away. for most. it's a dry night, lengthy, clear skies across the

south, turning a bit misty along some eastern coasts and perhaps in the south—west, and temperatures holding up maybe no lower than 17in the capital, but a much fresher feel in the northwest for much of northern ireland and western scotland. so a more comfortable night here. we should start off with quite a bit of sunshine in western scotland, but in the east of scotland, but in the east of scotland quite a grey start and likely to stay fairly cloudy here through the day. could even be a little bit of rain at times as well. a brighter day though for northern ireland compared to today. a bit more in the way of sunshine. quite a bit of cloud over the far north of england, but the bulk of england and wales dry and sunny, just a bit misty around some coasts in devon and cornwall, and the threat of this mist and low cloud lingering across parts of the north sea coast as well. i suspect, though, much of england and wales just dry and sunny and very warm once more. plenty of sunny spells for northern ireland and the west of scotland. but in the eastern side, as i mentioned, always likely to stay fairly cloudy with maybe a little bit of rain at times. notice cloud and rain

is edging towards the west of northern ireland as well. temperatures

>> good evening. you're with gb news at 11:00. the latest headlines. four men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass at the prime minister's constituency home in yorkshire. police said officers were with the four men within a minute of them entering the grounds. the men are aged between 20 and 52 and remain in police custody for questioning. tonight meanwhile, suspended labour candidate kevin craig says he deeply regrets betting against himself and taking a punt on the tories, winning his own constituency. he says he'll fully comply with any investigation, and that comes after the former conservative candidates craig williams and laura saunders, also faced investigations amid allegations of betting on the date of the general election. mr williams

says he committed an error of judgement but not an offence . a judgement but not an offence. a former engineer who worked on the faulty horizon it system claims the post office tried to put words into his mouth when he attempted to disclose concerns he had about the software. gareth jenkins was with fujitsu for his whole professional career and was regarded as a distinguished employee up until his retirement in 2015. he said he was truly sorry for the wrongful convictions, but evidence he'd given about the system was used in the prosecutions of many subpostmasters. evidence, which has since been quashed. today he told the inquiry he never had complete oversight of all the systems and he relied on others to supply reliable information. juuan to supply reliable information. julian assange has arrived at court on a remote island in the pacific, where his long running campaign to avoid extradition to the united states will formally end.the the united states will formally end. the 52 year old wikileaks founder left the uk this morning

after more than 1900 days at belmarsh prison. assange will plead guilty to one charge after the us dropped 17 other espionage charges against him. he is expected to be sentenced to five years, which is roughly the equivalent of the time he's already served in britain, meaning he's most likely to walk free. and you probably saw england's performance tonight drawing nil nil with slovenia in their european championship group c game in cologne. manager gareth southgate brought on palmer, alexander—arnold and gordon from the bench at different times, but it wasn't enough to win the group . enough to win the group. england, though, have still qualified for the knockout stages. slovenia have also progressed as a third place team. that's the news for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. comma. it's time now for headliners .