gb. news >> very good evening to you. you're watching and listening to gb news. i'm sam francis, a look at the headlines at 11:00. police investigating the discovery of human remains found in bristol have now made an arrest. a 36 year old man has been detained in greenwich in south—east london. although he's not the same person. officers say they've been looking for. the search continues for the main suspect, who's believed to have travelled from the capital to bristol on wednesday with two suitcases containing body parts. the human remains the human remains, thought to belong to two adult men, were dumped at

the city's clifton suspension bridge , chelmsford crown court bridge, chelmsford crown court heard today that a security guard spent a number of years hatching his sadistic, brutal and degrading plans to kidnap, rape and murder holly willoughby. gavin plum, who's been jailed for at least 15 years today, had graphic and sexualised conversations with others online about attacking the tv presenter . the justice the tv presenter. the justice secretary has approved plans to release prisoners early to avoid what she's called the collapse of the criminal justice system . of the criminal justice system. shabana mahmood is allowing inmates who are not convicted of sexual or terror offences to be freed in england and wales after serving 40% of their sentence. she claims that without the emergency measures in place this week, police will soon be unable to detain criminals and courts could be forced to delay trials in the us, major democratic donors are withholding $90 million in donations that were promised to joe biden's election

campaign. it's understood that decision to freeze the funding hinges on the president's decision to push ahead with his re—election bid, and it's the latest fallout from his poor debate performance and stand out mistakes at the nato summit. this was the moment at the close of the three day event in washington that he mistakenly called the ukrainian president, president putin. >> ukraine will prevail in this war and will stand with them every single step of the way. that's what the compact says loudly and clearly. and now i want to hand it over to the president of ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. ladies and gentlemen, president putin, president putin, you can beat president putin, you can beat president putin, you can beat president putin, president zelenskyy, i'm so focused on here. >> the king and idris elba have been discussing how to support young people affected by knife crime and youth violence. today, the hollywood actor told king charles how intervention from the prince's trust now called the prince's trust now called the king's trust, helped him as

a teenager. the new prime minister, sir keir starmer, and the home secretary were also supporting the event today at saint james's palace . space has saint james's palace. space has been told by us regulators to ground its falcon nine rocket after one broke apart just a few minutes after its launch. the upper stage engine malfunctioned, meaning 20 satellites were deployed in low orbit, where they'll eventually burn up in earth's atmosphere. it's the first failure of the falcon nine rocket in nearly a decade. falcon nine rocket in nearly a decade . and finally, in sport decade. and finally, in sport england manager gareth southgate says his team's big match experience will be vital in their euro 2024 showdown on sunday against spain. they've reached the tournament's final for the second time in a row. that's after they were beaten in 2021 by italy on penalties at wembley stadium in london ahead of sunday's match. the king has asked the england squad to alleviate the blood pressure of the nation by avoiding any late

drama in the finals, including hopefully no penalties. but these psychic penguins at london zoo .7 well, they're predicting zoo.7 well, they're predicting a disappointing result zoo? well, they're predicting a disappointing result for england . disappointing result for england. not quite convinced we should be trusting the penguins. i think we'll stick with the kings predictions instead. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm sam francis. up next it's headliners. your next update from the gb newsroom tomorrow morning from 10:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you sam and hello and welcome to headliners i'm leo carson. tonight i'm joined by the best of the best. it's chris interwetten and nick dixon . so interwetten and nick dixon. so we're we're thinking about writing a funny intro for that. and chris, the thought, how

about, how about me? >> we wrote it together. >> we wrote it together. >> we'll save it for another time. >> intro you as, what was it? an ageing spinster and chris at wedding? >> that's not what i said. i said an ageing spinster. and the reason she's single. >> and he said, how about an ageing spinster? and chris had a wetton. and i said, that's the one. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and they're all fine. not funny. i'm used to being abused. i think that's, i think you come off worse in that joke on me. >> i'm not sure a bit fun in it. >> i'm not sure a bit fun in it. >> i like to think banter. you both came off worse. anyway, that's the fun banter out of the way. let's have a quick look at tomorrow's front pages. the daily mail leads with looters could run amok if we don't release prisoners. the telegraph has half of cabinet accused of planning hypocrisy . the planning hypocrisy. the financial times says starmer lays out revamp of lords. the times has minister says violent criminals will go free. the express has win or lose a race, sir gareth, but please win the daily star has john mauger his head. my son. i'm not exactly

sure what that means. it sounds half french and those we are front pages. and let's have a closer look at those front pages, starting with the daily mail. cressida, what have they got? >> they've got looters could run amok if we don't release prisoners , if we don't release prisoners, if we don't release prisoners, if we don't release prisoners, surely if we do release prisoners. what? that doesn't make sense. urgent action needs to be taken. so we all know the prisons are full. and so you can. there's a sort of special deal on prison sentences. now, you can do as much crime as you like, and you get 60% off or something mad like that. >> it's a better rate than income tax. >> it's really quite. now's the time to get into crime. so they're saying, well, should be much , much. mahmood is saying, much, much. mahmood is saying, that a sweeping new prisoner release scheme will start within weeks in a bid to avoid the justice system grinding to a complete halt. they're full. she's just saying we can't do anything else . she's not happy anything else. she's not happy about it, but she's saying we've been left a poisoned chalice .

been left a poisoned chalice. this is the way it is. >> oh, and they had no idea as the as the opposition. they don't get any data from any of the, the executive branches of the, the executive branches of the government. they're not privy to the same information. it's a sudden surprise to them that this is, this is like this. yeah. and it's a bit of a worrying start to the starmer government, isn't it? >> it's like it's, you know, releasing the prisoners. it's the kind of thing the joker would do if they seized gotham. it'd be the first thing you'd do, release the prisoners. >> and so when they say that prisoners could run amok, the choice seems to be whether they run amok in the prisons or on the streets, and they're more worried about them running amok in the prison, as far as i can gather. >> so there's like, let's release them to run amok in society. >> is that right? >> is that right? >> well, i think they won't have enough space to run around and run amok inside. so they're she's suggesting that the, they won't have any to space put a new prisoners. >> so, you know, the looters who have been arrested will the police won't bother arresting them because they can't put them inside. but, i mean, i'd suggest chris so they could the police could just look at another option, which is stop arresting people for pointless non crimes, such as retweeting a limerick that somebody deems to be transphobic.

>> do they tend to get custodial sentences or do they just lose their income and all their job their income and all theirjob prospects forever? >> don't get in the way of my culture wars baiting. yeah. chris skudder they tend to get someone coming to the house to check their thinking, and then the second time they go straight to jail. >> i think that's it. >> i think that's it. >> straight to gulag, straight to re—education camp. yeah, yeah . to re—education camp. yeah, yeah. i mean, people do get arrested for things like non—payment of tv licence. >> nick, what are you saying , >> nick, what are you saying, don't you think? >> i mean, if we're going to be releasing people who've done actual substantial crimes , you actual substantial crimes, you know, violent crimes, i mean, violent crimes and sex crimes over a certain limit are excluded from the release. yeah. so i think if your sentence is over four years, you won't get a reduction in your sentence. so right. >> sex offenders and serious violent offenders. and it's also after serving 40. but rather than the current 50. so they're already getting out halfway through anyway, i didn't realise that. so it's like 10% different. yeah. well just get rid of crime. i mean this is where it's going. >> what's gonna happen? there's going to be a complete societal breakdown. and at that point, it

will be a kind of survival of the fittest thing. the whole thing will start again. it's a circle of life. >> it'll be hung again. but beth rigby will still say, starmer's amazing. well, these sentences, these sentences are like dfs sofa prices. >> it's like they're all reduced to half price. nobody's ever paid full price for a dfs sofa . paid full price for a dfs sofa. >> everyone's got to go out of the prison. >> everyone's got to go moscow. moving on. what have the telegraph got in the front cover? >> nick telegraph have half of cabinet accused of planning hypocrisy. so conservatives highlight how nimby ministers objected to development. so obviously labour have got this big push on planning and building houses. they want to building houses. they want to build 1.5 million homes. they're calling this bulldozer bulldoze of planning regulations . but of planning regulations. but they point out here that actually people like reeves, rayner lammy complain to councils over new homes being built. this is a classic thing when you're trying to get elected, you're like, let's not build anything near this person's posh home. we don't, you know, you don't upset the people who are actually going to vote for you in your constituency, but long term you want to do completely different things, which is build thousands of homes on fields and grass and people's gardens. >> but that's like going through

someone's tweets. it's like, look, you complained about an application five years ago. >> i think this is more relevant. >> this is something that absolutely and completely contradicts the policy that they're supposed to be pushing. when labour were elected on a on a platform of building a million and a half new homes, and they said, we're going to build on the green belt, they're like, we swear it's got some ugly bits that you won't mind if there's a big tower block going up full of asylum seekers. >> these are these are old. haven't they gone back through their personal complaints, things they've done on a small scale in their area. but meanwhile , the policy of the meanwhile, the policy of the whole labour party has moved on. >> that's very generous, though. i mean. >> well, i'm here to give balance. >> well done. yeah. i mean, it's but it is a hypocritical, i think. but it is absurdly hard to build anything. i was watching a thing with dominic cummings and michael gove, popped cummings and michael gove, poppedin cummings and michael gove, popped in with a question, and he was explaining how hard it is to build anything he's trying to build some nuclear power station, but the fish were going to get sucked into a vent. so they had they said, you've got to play loud disco music to, to scare away the fish. do you

realise that's why we're not building things? there was another one where some cats, because they made some music to scare away fish. yes. and there was another housing development. they had to build a field that the cats would go to. right. stuff like this. isn't that incredible? >> this is why i'm often on the site, except when i'm trying to give balance on the side of the developers, because i used to work in construction and it's horrendous. it's the things that people have to do. although the donations they have to get. i worked on a site once where the person trying to build something because they changed the site, the access to some extent, they had to spend 250 grand on rebuilding the road outside because the local government went right. we'll have some of that. so i do generally feel for the house and all those costs are passed on to whoever's buying the house. >> so, you know, in the end, the regular civilian, the regular citizen has to pay . moving on to citizen has to pay. moving on to the times, cressida, what have they got? something about biden, >> well, we've got two things i've got, minister says violent criminals will go free, but we've heard enough about that. yeah. top donors pile pressure on biden to quit race. so the top donors are threatening to not give or to withhold $90 million until they get somebody younger. and who knows who

zelenskyy is? probably that's his latest gaffe. >> well, yeah, he's had a couple recently. you know, he's he's in an era era of his campaigning where he really needs to not be making these gaffes to put people's minds at rest . people's minds at rest. >> and instead it would put people's minds at rest at this stage. >> well, he called zelenskyy putin right in front of him, right in front of the whole of nato. it was like shouting out your ex—girlfriend's name during sex. it was just awful. it was the worst thing you could have. probably. yeah. >> and your ex—girlfriend, someone who's just invaded multiple countries and is the least popular person in the world, invaded your current wife village or whatever. >> and he also he also referred to kamala as vice president trump. yes. >> which is also that's an upgrade in many ways, it's absolutely extraordinary. i mean, you've even got people like stephen king saying he should quit, jon stewart saying he should quit, you've got you've got obama. this is a strange one. peter mandelson said that he believed that the obama aides were behind the george clooney piece that said he should quit. i don't think i

think you're supposed to admit that actors were sort of shills for sort of political causes, but it's just like we're just all on the table now. and even if you heard about this thing of the super friends intervention, a group, super friends are going to come and have an intervention to come and have an intervention to try and get rid of biden. there was a funny meme about it where he's saying, joke's on you, jack. i don't know who any of you are . yeah, it's at that of you are. yeah, it's at that level, super friend. >> i'm kind of reassured that there are some political figures behind these hollywood celebrities. and it's not just, you know, some airhead, you know, guy who puts on a hat and pretends he's batman coming up with these political ideas, cressida . cressida. >> no, that's a fair point, do you think that clooney is an airhead? >> yeah, i do, he seems smart, didn't he? >> but he wasn't. it's all obama. >> yeah, it's all obama telling him to what say. >> telling him the obama's over there pulling their strings. tony blair's doing ours and we're just carrying on. in the past . yeah. past. yeah. >> sounds great. okay, well, that's the front pages done. stay with us to find out who's going to replace rishi. why keir starmer is clashing with his backers and a dangerous

communist could be next french prime minister. zoot allures, see you

welcome back to headliners. i'm leo carson. i'm still here with cressida wetton and nick dixon kicking off this section with the times. and who's going to replace rishi as conservative leader ? to be honest, a spoon leader? to be honest, a spoon with a face painted on it would probably do a betterjob. >> cressida james cleverly leads race to replace rishi sunak, poll suggests. i was surprised. are you surprised at that? i didn't think james cleverly was. >> i'm somewhat surprised, but i also don't totally believe it. >> but anyway, okay, well, fair enough, it's a yougov survey, so 19% saying he'd make a very good or good leader, compared to 28% who said he would be a bad leader. and then in tory voters, it's a bit better for him. 39% saying he'd be good against, 16% said he'd be bad, and then it runs through the other people. it talks about suella kemi. i'm

amazed kemi only got 14. i thought she was the big deal. >> well i was i was surprised to see so many people just getting low scores. it's like yeah, voters don't want anybody to lead the tory party. i mean, i think farage would probably do better than any of them. >> well, he did actually in a in a poll on gb of people who voted tory in 2019 but then didn't in this election, farage came top of , you know, people wanted this election, farage came top of, you know, people wanted him to be leader of conservative party, which he's not even in. and then it was boris, then suella. so yeah, that was amongst gb viewers. but amongst this yougov poll it's very different. but they haven't even put jenrick in it. and he's one of the sort of dark horse candidates. and they said they didn't . even the people hadn't didn't. even the people hadn't even heard of tugendhat or victoria atkins. so they were out. so it kind of excludes quite a lot of people already. but they could go cleverly. cleverly. he seems like a nice enough guy. you know, people say at least. oh, really? well, people say he's all right. he's more human than, than, than some of the robotic politicians campaign about stopping date rape with legislation and your for your for date rape . for your for date rape. >> no, i thought it was arrogant. >> and like a typical politician. i'm going to solve

this massive problem, right? >> i was about to give the negative which is he's not going to win them, is he? he's not going to turn it around for them. everyone's not going to 90, them. everyone's not going to go, oh, james clapper well, now we're voting tory. probably it's someone. it might even be someone. it might even be someone we don't even know about yet. who's the. yeah. >> and i think i think the thing with politics now is it's become much more presidential. so we see the leader and this is, this is i think, why the tories failed so hard. it's because bofis failed so hard. it's because boris had been elected as the leader. so people felt that they'd been cheated and they voted for boris. they didn't want any of these new people who came and went, right. >> maybe we should switch that. but can i just say one more thing? the election is a kind of rorschach test for what you want anyway, because mogg today , anyway, because mogg today, rees—mogg on the spectator was made a good point that it's not about going to the centre. he said thatcher was to the right and she won these landslides and he went through history listing all these people who didn't tack to the centre. but george osborne says they need to tack to the centre. so isn't it just what you're just saying? my thing works. >> yeah, yeah, well, we've got the daily meal now and it looks like keir starmer is already disappointing his base. nicola

nicole, nicole i was going to say nicholas for some reason i don't know why that's funny. yeah i should say i managed to recover it. >> nicole i'd be more serious actually worse than nicholas. so so keir starmer on collision course with trade unions after warning he'll reject their demands on public sector pay. it's the old labour problem , it's the old labour problem, isn't it? you've got the unions, they're causing you trouble. it's the ancient labour problem. and they've seen the doctors get get what they want. they've gone. why can't we have our free money? i mean, that's what the left's all about, isn't it? and the doctors thing was like, resolved. so suspiciously easily. yeah, almost as if sort of. they're all ideologically augned of. they're all ideologically aligned anyway. >> but also, i think, i think doctors know that they can't really go on strike that much. you know, if we have hundreds of people dying , then people are people dying, then people are going to be like, oh, you know what? maybe the nhs isn't that great. >> whereas teachers have proven dunng >> whereas teachers have proven during lockdown they're not really necessary. >> yeah, we can get we could probably train a monkey to babysit our kids during the day when we're at work . wow. when we're at work. wow. >> well, i do feel sorry for them, but i don't think money's them, but i don't think money's the answer. i think make the conditions less horrific. that would be where i'd start.

>> well, they're talking about going down to a four day week in much of the public sector, which to me suggests that why don't they just work harder? why don't they just work harder? why don't they just work harder? why don't they just get rid of half of them and they can work a proper five day week and get all the work done? >> hard to argue with that, isn't it, yeah. >> yeah, it is hard to argue with that. anyway, we've got the guardian now and it sounds like british people don't want to vote for anyone. cressida. >> lowest turnout in uk general elections since universal suffrage, report shows. so only 52% of people voted. apparently nobody's into it. this is the institute for public policy research , it says if non—voting research, it says if non—voting was a party, it would have the largest share of support by far , largest share of support by far, so, yeah, people aren't, people aren't voting, labour is planning an elections bill next week, so they want to have 16 year olds voting. of course they do. it looks like they're going to do that, and they also want to do that, and they also want to make it easier for people to vote. so we had all the you can't turn up with your face on a magazine, you have to have yourid a magazine, you have to have your id and the election just gone. they want to get rid of

that. they're trying to make it all much more automatic. >> what do you mean? your face in a magazine? >> there was a politician who. i think it might have been borrowed. >> a copy of vogue. his idea? >> a copy of vogue. his idea? >> yes. well, something like that. it was a magazine that they had their address on it. anyway, the point is, you need proper, proper id, and then, of course, it's the guardian. so it does say that rich, white and old people who own property vote more. well, that's not that surprising, is it? if you own a property, you're more likely to vote. >> yeah, 13 turnout was 13% higher in constituencies with the highest proportion of homeowners. why don't we just go back to the old ways? men over 30 who own property were the only people who could vote. i mean, you've always said that since you turned 30 and bought a flat. hey, you and me, leo would be voting and virtually no one else renting . are you? oh, else renting. are you? oh, right. not you. then you're out, yeah. this would work. what a great system. but. >> well, actually, it would. >> well, actually, it would. >> it would make the houses cheaperin >> it would make the houses cheaper in the long run, if fewer people. >> anyway, it was a better society. >> well, yeah, i mean, absolutely, there'd be fewer crazy ideologues and ideas out there. and don't don't you think this sort of hints at the flaw in democracy that no matter who

you vote for, you get the government? >> yeah. it's a kind of illusion of democracy. why don't we just go back to absolute monarchy? you know, some people have said we just need a ceo rule in the country. why not just do that? because you have to have a fake media generating consent. the whole thing doesn't work, as corbyn said as well. this is i can't believe i'm quoting jeremy corbyn now, but he said it's a loveless landslide. there's that phrase going on. it kind of is, isn't it? with such a low turnout. >> and also it wasn't, complete landslide. if you look at the actual voting turnout in a lot of the seats, independent, independent, pro gaza candidates almost unseated people, even even wes streeting wes streeting only won by, i think, 528 votes. yeah. jess phillips phillips as well, almost unseated by a pro gaza candidate . so, they were gaza candidate. so, they were almost, you know, getting close to a tipping point that that would have been a huge embarrassment for the labour party . yeah. party. yeah. >> let's just go back to a christian theocracy. get rid of all voting. i agree, i agree there might be other options , there might be other options, >> moving on. we've got the guardian now with some insight into keir starmer's family life. nick. >> yeah, so she wants to get on

with her life. victoria starmer intends to do things differently andifs intends to do things differently and it's all about her trying to stay private. so i feel a bit weird that we're now going to talk about her. on national tv, but it's all about how she's sort of doing things differently . sort of doing things differently. she went to a racetrack and some people say it might not be a good look for you, but she doesn't care. she's not getting spin doctors involved. she's just doing what she wants. and although it says you know, she's never introduced her husband at a party conference, she thinks you could introduce him a couple of times, you know, just do some work. but yeah, i understand it. i mean, starmer said he goes home at six on a friday. he wants to keep that. >> no, he's pushed back on that now. he said it was an ambition. that's not what's been happening. oh i see i missed that one okay. >> and of course like any lefty she went to a smart private girls school near hampstead heath. so let's just get that in there. well done, you know, i was surprised at that. >> said her mum grew up near doncaster races. oh that's interesting. and then. no. yeah. heath private school . heath private school. >> yeah. the guardian loved that. i mean it's all they're all in the phase where we just love the psalms. no matter what they do for now. >> honeymoon phase. it's very

odd though, isn't it, to just not kind of not go with it. i mean, how what a bizarre life to only be 50% in on. and when she was younger, she was really into politics. she was a some kind of student president. she was in the labour party well before he was. maybe she's just jealous. >> yeah. she was elected to the same student role, i believe, as neil kinnock was, before her. so. but i mean, i respect the fact that they're keeping their children free from that because i think sometimes people people i think sometimes people people i was going to say show business. but politics kind of is show business, you know, exploit their kids and i don't think it's always healthy for the, for the children. so it's nice to nice to see and i hope i hope the british press will respect that decision. >> i agree with that. >> i agree with that. >> yeah. yeah. well we've got the daily mail now and the french establishment's efforts to keep le pen from power have backfired and ushered in a radical communist to the top of the table. cressida, the most dangerous clown in france. >> and as we know, there are a lot of dangerous clowns in france. that's where they train. crackpot far left policies that would bankrupt the country. and 90% top tax rate are burning hatred of nato. yet jean—luc

melenchon is now on the brink of becoming pm. and most of this article is by the daily mail. actually feels like leo's written it. he's described as a dangerous clown in france with the pomposity and waistline of kim jong un. and i've got loads, his positions are a toxic combination of communism, alliances with militant islamists and eco radicals. and it goes on and on. so, yeah, he's pro—palestine. he wants open borders, he doesn't like police, and he's doing really well off the back of it just at the moment. >> well, is he doing well because he didn't actually get that much of the vote. the nfp has his far left bloc got what, 26% of the vote, whereas whereas marine le pen , her bloc got 37% marine le pen, her bloc got 37% of the vote, which is obviously vastly more. but they got fewer seats because because this sort of gerrymandering, election rigging, where people considerate, where people. yeah, people. so the standard people resign the centrist and the far left parties took candidates out. so, you know, 200 people, all of the vote went to went to

one or the other in a three horse race, and i think that sort of backfired because i don't think i don't think macron , don't think i don't think macron, the centrist president, was expecting the far left to do so. well, i think he thought he was going to be the benefactor of those votes. >> probably. yeah. i mean, when i saw his 90% tax rate, i thought that france is going full third world. and the article says he turned france into a european venezuela. it's hard to disagree with that, isn't it ? and as you say, it's isn't it? and as you say, it's completely backfired. and they're all worried about le pen who would have been fine or bardella, you know, and everyone's everyone with the far right. okay. you've let this nutter in who , by the way, has nutter in who, by the way, has been accused of anti—semitism far more and would be far more anti—semitic. one imagines, if we're allowed to say that, than than le pen or anyone like that who seems to be quite pro—israel. so it's completely absurd. i mean, i saw jon stewart do a piece on this, and it was amongst his beau biden piece, but he just said, france, you know, got this. he was talking about how it would be easier to get rid of biden. and he said, france, stop fascism in a couple of weeks or whatever. the idea, they stop fascism. they're just letting some far left nutter who seems who has

been accused multiple times of anti—semitism, is that really stopping fascism? >> yeah, they seem to be blind to the fact that the far left are in fact, much more authoritarian, much more anti—semitic and much more violent and nasty than anybody on the supposed far right. i mean , giorgia meloni in italy mean, giorgia meloni in italy has shown she was she was decried as a fascist, as far right bigot . and she's been an right bigot. and she's been an incredibly sensible leader , a incredibly sensible leader, a bit too sensible, if you ask me. and, le pen, do you think le pen is now going to be taken out? they're investigating for , her they're investigating for, her some sort of campaign financing. shenanigans. do you think they're trying to trump her out of existence? because, i mean, she's sitting prime to have a run at the presidency in 2027. >> yeah, i miss that. but that is the kind of thing. but my prejudices immediately suggest. yes definitely. that is what they must be doing. yes >> your prejudices have never been wrong, nick. >> exactly 100% success rate. >> exactly 100% success rate. >> there's a lot of overlap in your prejudices, i think i dare your prejudices, i think i dare you a bit of fun. marine le pen got a higher percentage of the vote in france than keir starmer, now exiled to opposition. yeah madness.

>> well, well done for making it halfway in a moment. we've got labour's puberty blocker ban. eton opens its doors to state pupil pupils and there are calls for calls for suella to be kicked of the conservative party for being a conservative.

welcome back to headliners. kicking off this section with the telegraph. and it looks like labour could ban puberty blockers. how are we supposed to screw up our kids now? this is literal trans genocide, nick. good point. >> and normally we like balance. but i agree with everything you said, yeah. labour moves to ban puberty blockers permanently. so wes streeting to agree with tory ruling on powerful drugs for under eighteens as party toughens stance on trans issues. so it's quite interesting as streeting has been pretty awful on this issue. he was he's done a u—turn really, hasn't he. he was seems to be kind of like he transitioned. good point. he was sort of mockingly pro all the

trans stuff before he was like laughing at anti—trans people. i seem to recall. please don't sue me if that's wrong. but i remember he sort of ridiculing it in the commons and stuff. now he's gone. he's got on board with the blair agenda to put woke away, which is where labour's going. but it's kind of weird because anneliese dodds is so woke on this stuff and she wants it to be easier to transition. and she, when asked what a woman was, she said it depends on the context which it totes doesn't. so labour need to sort it out. it seems to me like blair is saying, put away the silly aspects of woke, although they die, you know, diversity stuff is still due to labour changes made on the blair i think if you go on the blair institute website, they still say things like diversity is strength and all that kind of thing. but i think what blair wants to do, and he said this in his times article, is sort of not be vulnerable on the kind of sillier aspects of the excessive aspects of wokeness, like the trans stuff. so i think that's what's happening here. they're rolling back, they're toning it down, no pun intended , because down, no pun intended, because of blair and. >> well, and the thing is, when people start shifting, you've sort of got to let them, haven't you? you can't be all like you said this a year ago, because we

want people to change their minds. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and you don't want the david tennant types saying, well, i've doneit tennant types saying, well, i've done it to my own or i've allowed it to happen in my own family, and therefore i've said it publicly, i can't ever go back on it. yeah, unfortunately, we've got to. well, not unfortunately. i think we should be gracious about it. >> i mean, this is a ban on, i think, private doctors and nhs doctors dishing out puberty blockers to children, which, you know, it sounds like it's just bafic know, it sounds like it's just basic common sense to not, unnecessarily medicalize children with with medicines that can give them, you know , that can give them, you know, serious, severe long term effects particularly, you know, some some of the people who've been medicated with this stuff weren't informed. they were told, oh, it's reversible. and then it turns out , actually it then it turns out, actually it gives you osteoporosis. there's higher increase of cancers. there's various other things that sterilises you . you can that sterilises you. you can never have children. it's horrific. it's, you know, in some ways it's the sort of thalidomide of our generation, but they're still concerned that these drugs can be dished out by activists online. >> yeah. so helen joyce , who's >> yeah. so helen joyce, who's the director of advocacy for sex matters, who's written about this a lot ,

matters, who's written about this a lot, she's saying that wes streeting needs to go further and rein in the private sale, as you just said. apparently there's some sort of there's a company in singapore that can send you this stuff. so it's not even the dark web. it's a company in singapore. you can buy these drugs online. yeah man. >> yeah, i buy all my medical products from online activists. >> yeah. i just i just pause . i >> yeah. i just i just pause. i want to get some steroids to work out in the gym . so i'm just work out in the gym. so i'm just going to pose as an eight year old. girl who identifies as a boy and hopefully, you know, some blue haired freak from stonewall is going to send me some. >> the only flaw is that you just announced it on national tv, but otherwise that would have definitely worked. >> we've got the daily meal now, and there are calls for suella braverman to be expelled from the conservative party for being slightly conservative. cressida suella braverman claims her attempts to lower legal migration under rishi sunak were blocked, as former pm faces calls to expel ex—home secretary from the tories following lgbtq+

flag remarks, >> so it's the every story about suella now starts with her saying everything the tories did wrong. so we go through all that. she's unhappy about immigration. she was trying to sort it out, she says. she was blocked. nobody agreed with her. and these calls to go have come because she said the progress flag says to me one monstrous thing that i was a member of a government that presided over the mutilation of children in our hospitals and the calls for expulsion, i mean , one example expulsion, i mean, one example is it's casey byrne, who's a former consecutive candidate who's also an lgbtq+ campaigner. so it's not really surprising that they are trying to expel, but it is surprising that there is he or she ever. >> have you seen a picture of casey byrne? it's like you asked a computer to draw you an lgbtq+ campaigner who's going to get annoyed about suella braverman? i just, i annoyed about suella braverman? ijust, i mean, i'm just surprised. obviously, it's great that the tory party is an inclusive party, but i'm surprised he chose the tory party instead of the green party or she or whatever. >> i don't understand the point of tory wets in general, but

everyone's going mad about suella. she's spoken at natcon in washington, and ian dale was saying how terrible her comments were about the progressive progress pride flag and alastair campbell described as extreme. is she really extreme? i just don't believe that she's extreme. but but she's alienated the tory wet, so maybe there's nowhere for her to go except reform. but these comments are not actually new. really. she's said before that sunak blocked her on immigration virtually the exact same words when she says the cabinet blocked her as well, which suggests that the woke blob that was stopping rishi's policy from being enacted was, in fact, rishi and his cabinet himself. yeah, you do wonder what the point of the woke incompetent because starmer's saying is i'm going to be competent, but they're a little bit woke. whereas the tories were woke and incompetent and they're meant to be the conservative party. like what was the idea there, guys? >> i think the idea is to get everybody to vote reform in 2029. moving on. we've got the telegraph now and keir starmer won't be banning mobile phones for kids. could he at least ban them from playing music on the bus?

>> nick that would be a start, wouldn't it? starmer rejects calls to ban mobile phones for under 16 seconds. i mean, it's pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. he's done a typically starmer sort of well, our children have mobile phones and i'm not in favour of simply banning them. and he says the classic psalm response. i think there's a serious question as to what the content is and the control of the content. and that is something where i think we need to look again, vagueness with hints of authoritarianism and censorship, kind of what labour do, isn't it? we might, we might, we might censor content, but we're not taking phones away from kids. that's what he's saying, basically. yeah yeah. >> i mean, do you think phones should be banned for kids? i mean, a lot of these, oh, fads, come on. >> i mean, the idea that they might need them for safety, i mean, okay, get the burner phones. isn't that what eton are doing now? giving kids a burner phone? >> so it's a phone that you can't play candy crush on and you can't watch videos, deal drugs with it, but you can't google deal drugs. but you can't. you can't google to how transition. >> exactly. yeah, do that, which is what you need. >> because a lot of these things are social contagions that take off via social media. >> have you spoken of labour and phones? have you heard that tony blair doesn't even have a mobile? really? yeah, apparently he's like, just so offline. he's

like the big guy. he's like, so pro technology and like ai and everything. tony, do you have a phone? oh no. he just lives in cave. >> he's going to put his digital id card. >> i know he'll be the only one that doesn't have it. you'll all have it. like so. is it like the start of rambo three when he's, you know, just living in the middle of the jungle like as a buddhist. >> and then they just come and get him when he's needed. like keir starmer says, we need your advice around wokeism. yeah, he gets it. >> he's like gene hackman in enemy of the state. he's living in a steel cage. nothing could enter. i mean, that's what i heard anyway. sorry, tony, if it's wrong, but that's what i heard, i can't remember, i heard it now, but one of these he can't watch, can he? he will never see it. i'll never see it. hasn't heard of it. >> we've got the times now and eton, the posh private school, has opened its door to state pupils. and they said it's like hogwarts, which, ironically, is what eton alumnus david cameron caught when he stuck his saveloy in that pig. cressida >> you were really pleased with that? yeah, it's like hogwarts. i was blown away, which is what david cameron said. eton opens up to state pupils. well what's

this all about? so normally you pay this all about? so normally you pay 50 grand a year to go to eton, but in some deprived areas, dudley, oldham and middlesbrough or parts of those areas, 60 teenagers are going to attend a summer school or they've attended a summer school at eton. and this is with a view to creating state sixth forms in but by eton. so it's like the brand. it's like the ivy, but it's not the london one. >> it's the one in rubbish schools by eton. >> well i mean the thing. okay, so these kids have gone on the summer school and what they're learning is they're learning about confidence and polish that comes from attending elite schools. so it's like a kind of cultural exchange . it's sort of cultural exchange. it's sort of half nice, but it's also ripe for ridicule because they're saying to these kids, you're going to go to eton now, whatever you do, don't feel inferior. they're actually saying, these kids on the way in. yeah. so what do you make of that? >> couldn't the idea of inferiority in their heads. but also, i mean, the idea that they're teaching these kids confidence because half of the

reason for sending your kids to private school is to give them that confidence. they're told they're better than everybody else. the other half is for the for the people they meet. >> yeah, not only that, they're told they're going to lead the country and they should sort of get ready now, because i knew someone that went to the same school as kate middleton, that was very much the vibe was that was very much the vibe was that was not the vibe at my school. >> same, same a my school. the dinner lady was also the careers adviser. >> right. you told it convincingly. you were nothing. give up now, basically, i know, and this stuff's too all late for me. so i'm annoyed about it because no one was doing this when i was young. they didn't care. comps were just left to do what they wanted and it was awful. and so yeah, i think, but i'm against all this. i think eton should be posh. and of course they should bring back grammar schools or they couldn't do it. now no one be smart enough to even do it. but there are still grammar schools, their grammar schools, but they're nothing like the old grammar schools. and there's only a few. and it's a postcode lottery. the old grammar school system was the best education, and it was the best education, and it was the only system that truly gave you social mobility, which we've completely lost. >> absolutely. we've got the guardian now scoffing at right wing concerns about elections being fiddled. but in fairness, there's some precedent, such as when left wing media such as the guardian colluded with the fbi,

tech giants and the democrat party to bury the hunter biden laptop story. nick. >> well, yes , i condemn >> well, yes, i condemn everything you just said in case it's libellous. but yeah, absolutely. right wing claim of o% absolutely. right wing claim of 0% chance of fair us election previews effort to undo 2024 results. so it's this heritage foundation has this thing, the oversight project. and they're basically saying we want to make sure this election isn't rigged. and they're saying, and we want to make sure there's sort of a peaceful transition of power, which is so funny because that's what they always say about trump, that he wouldn't, you know, give up power. they're saying president biden is very well positioned to hold the white house by force. so they're playing them at their own game. then the guardian complains about it. and as you kind of point out there, all their complaints are things the left's already done, you know, absolutely hilarious. i mean , absolutely hilarious. i mean, organised violence, you know, blm riots, anyone they even say one way is that the media will suppress information. the guy didn't even they didn't even bother rebutting that with anything because the new york post was centred on twitter and so on. and time even boasted about them doing this. so it's the right sort of. >> and even if you go back a week or two, you've got, you know, left wing media fact checking the claims that joe

biden has cognitive decline, saying, no, there's absolutely no way he's got any cognitive. we fact checked this and it's completely false. the needles right in the red. >> the videos were zoomed in. leo. yeah. >> oh it was yeah. it's cropped out. so yeah it's cropped out. so you can't see that you actually was addressing putin who was standing just behind zelenskyy absolute insanity. well, it's just the final section to go, and we've got to we've got king charles acting like a rapper. the end of engush like a rapper. the end of english football hooliganism. and we've got a special message from the prison who was filmed having with an inmate. you won't want to miss

welcome back. the headliners. we've got the guardian now, and king charles is trying to get us to greet each other like rappers. chris. adam. >> if king charles is fist bumping all over the place, should we be doing it too? this is in the guardian, it says the gesture fist bumping has become

racially complicated. oh god. >> is this another thing that's getting called racist now? well cultural appropriation. >> calm down. it's not racist. it's racially complicated. oh, that's just a fancy way. >> that's just racist. but went to college. >> what actually happened was he went to a cricket match and a cricket guy put his fist out, which, to be honest, i think is the story. i mean, that is a bold move, isn't it? well, you think somebody pushes charles might lower an orifice onto that fist. >> i mean , that's a dangerous move. >> he fist bumped him back and this is now causing a discussion in the guardian about what's appropriate and what isn't. >> it is a shocking thing to do to the king in simpler times, that would get you hung in the pubuc that would get you hung in the public square. you know what i mean? >> which nick desperately wants to see happen. >> i'm just saying society was better if he had refused rather than doing it, it would have made the king look very stupid and old. >> and i would argue a bit like a king. >> no , it would have made the >> no, it would have made the king look totally fine. like he's just. he's the king. just looks at your fist. i mean, what are you doing? that would have been the cooler thing to do.

just look at it with disdain. drape a handkerchief over it. yeah i don't mind either way, but i do like this sentence. as you say, the gesture has become racially complicated over the years, sending white progressives into flurries of awkwardness. what doesn't send white progressives into flurries of awkwardness? i mean, it's absolutely ridiculous. >> i like fist bump, though, because i've never understood handshaking because then you're just rubbing the palms. yeah, the part of your body that you make a sandwich with against the part of their body that they wipe their bum with. right. i don't want to do that. well, it's some people claim it's to do with like showing you've not got a weapon or something back in the day, but it bothers me. >> yeah. i'm like trump. i in so many ways. he doesn't like the germs. yeah that's what i hate is the germs of it, but i do. i'm so torn because i do like the traditionalism of it and the simplicity of it. because if you think about it now, we're in this realm of fist bumps and hugs. we're in this nightmare. i think michael mcintyre has talked about this in a sort of nightmare realm of ambiguity. aren't we about, yeah, you never know you when you meet know when you when you meet somebody what you're going to do. >> and then if, if they're french, they go in for a kiss. they think you're supposed to do another seven kisses. >> where? english. get away from me. yeah yeah. >> we don't touch. yeah. >> we don't touch. yeah.

>> anyway, some people think we're all autistic here. >> yeah, we are a bit. we've got the daily star now, and nasa have managed to fit a london sewage works into a space suit. nick. >> oh, yeah. astronauts to drink own urine, which is better than someone else's on spacewalks, thanks to a suit that turns pee to water. so if you remember the waterworld movie with kevin costner, they turned pee to water. that's now a reality. hopefully dennis hopper won't be there trying to kill everyone, but it's an old school reference anyway. astronauts will be able to drink their own urine during spacewalks thanks to. i don't know if they'll be thanking anyone. groundbreaking suit that turns pee to water, which they're calling. they said before you just had these maximum absorbency garments, which is effectively an adult nappy. which is effectively an adult nappy- l which is effectively an adult nappy. i mean, it really is an aduu nappy. i mean, it really is an adult nappy. but by the way , adult nappy. but by the way, there's extracting water from faeces has yet to be totally solved, which is a relief to many astronauts. >> i imagine bear grylls has done it. could it put it in a sock and squeeze it into his mouth? >> this guy's out of five emily hand for eating breakfast. >> well, we've got the guardian now talking about how the only thing that made football

interesting mass hooligan brawls have now gone. cressida, england fans have largely moved on from violence, but the needle remains once again. >> this is the guardian and they're very upset because they haven't completely got rid of all testosterone. there's still all testosterone. there's still a tiny bit left, but things are better than they used to be. apparently there were 66 arrests dunng apparently there were 66 arrests during the world cup, but in 2006, there were 810. so well done everyone, you've calmed down a lot. so that's good, isn't it? don't tell putin, obviously that we're not. well, putin fighting putin trains the russian state trains their football hooliganism because football hooliganism because football hooligans, because they see it as a as a proxy war. >> well it is yeah. >> well it is yeah. >> russia's what men are doing. they're like going back to something that i don't need to agincourt all over again. >> this is this is the closest in the mud. yeah. this is the closest we've come to war in a long time. it feels good. i mean , long time. it feels good. i mean, it's so great. i mean, there was a video of the fans sort of mocking the dutch fans on the train, saying there'll be no bleeping orange in berlin because they're not getting to the final. this is great stuff.

there's a song about john stones and how much he hates germans. he probably doesn't, but it's in the song. but the guardian is so threatened by it, they say, in many groups it felt as if there needed to be someone who would say to their friend who was acting up, okay, calm down. something not unlike the message of the london mayor's recent make campaign, the guardian is saying, say me. if you're doing a football chant, the football chants are great. >> that person has to get punched in the face. >> oh it's disgusting. i mean, when this tournament started, everyone was tweeting, oh, this is all a bit much. it's a bit tasteless. get lost. that's what it's part of the fun of football. like you said. >> absolutely. and let's squeeze this one in before we go. it's the daily star and the prison officer who's filmed having sex with inmates has hit out at others for their lack of morals. >> cressida, we've been filmed bonking prisoner in cell break silence and slams distasteful people, so she's already slammed a distasteful person. >> i saw the video. >> i saw the video. >> wow. well, we've all seen the video. linda de souza abreu, 30, was charged last month with misconduct in public. anyway, we've all seen the video , but we've all seen the video, but she says you don't know my side

of the story. i think we do. i think we've largely we have seen both sides. yeah, and apparently people she knows she's upset about loyalty of her friends and family because she can't even go to greggs or primark without being papped. >> she's a classy lady. >> she's a classy lady. >> i actually haven't seen the video because he keeps saying we've all seen it, i actually haven't. i don't know if that makes me some sort of prude. i've just been there reading dostoevsky. i don't get involved with these sort of things. i don't understand this argument here, though, she says. there are other jails in the world you don't have to pretend to be me. what does that mean? there are other jails in the world. >> i think she's like, oh, there's a bunch of these onlyfans type people, the milkshake thrower, the lady and the portal with new york, the re—enacting the scene on their own. yeah, they do something a bit outrageous and then it drives traffic. oh, right. you've got to make your special site stand out so you can go viral for just about anything. >> now , that girl, the hawk >> now, that girl, the hawk thingy girl that we all know about. yeah, she's got her own, like, reality show where a family, like, we're all so proud of her. it's like, what are you? what's wrong with you? >> yeah, the dad must be seeing that through gritted teeth, ironically, she's not. anyway, the show is nearly over, so

let's take another quick look at saturday's front pages. the daily mail leads with looters could run amok if we don't release prisoners. say labour. the telegraph have half of cabinet accused of planning hypocrisy. the financial times has. starmer lays out revamp of lords. the times has minister says violent criminals will go free. the express has win or lose. arise sir gareth, but please win and the daily star has honour his head, my son. and those were front pages and that's all we have time for. thank you to my guests cressida wetton and nick dixon. we're back tomorrow at 11 pm. with some other people. and if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast until then. good night and god bless . night and god bless. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> good evening. here's your latest gb news weather forecast coming to you from the met office. looking ahead to the

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western areas. further east. we will see some thickening cloud and some outbreaks of rain pushing their way in. all that rain, then towards eastern parts will make its way a little bit further westwards. as we go through the day. so more places seeing some rain for a time, but it will be breaking up a little bit as we go through the day as well. further west. yes, a better chance of seeing some brighter breaks in the cloud and also a few showers. so these not as heavy as those that we've seen today . temperatures still seen today. temperatures still a little bit on the low side for the time of year. just about scraping into the low 20s. much of the rain will clear away as we go into sunday though, clinging onto some rain in the far east of england first thing. otherwise some bright sunny spells again, some showers likely to develop, but these won't be quite as widespread as those that we've seen through today and we'll see through tomorrow. so a dry day for many before the rain is likely to return early next week. bye bye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

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