to be heard. >> the archbishop of woke has banned a reverend because he doesn't think lgbt ideology should be taught to kids, and. road closures and massive police support for pakistan independence day and want to scrap not strengthened reforms to kerb legal migration undone thousands of dangerous criminals released early from our prisons. robert jenrick absolutely tears into keir starmer and on my panel this evening it's gb news presenter and writer emma webb, businessman and activist adam brookes and former labour minister bill rammell. and what caused liz truss to storm off stage . get ready britain, here stage. get ready britain, here we go .

we go. just when you thought prince harry couldn't get any worse, next. >> patrick. thank you and good evening. the top stories. a woman has been jailed for admitting to sending a threatening message on facebook in the wake of the recent rise in the wake of the recent rise in disorder across the uk. 53 year old julie sweeney sent the following facebook message on the 3rd of august. she said don't protect the mosques, blow the mosque up with the adults in it. a judge has encouraged prosecutors to consider charging offenders who played central roles in the recent disorder in parts of the country , a charge parts of the country, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of ten years. in other news, the australian department of foreign affairs earlier confirmed an 11 year old girl stabbed in

leicester square is an australian tourist. australian consulate officials in london are offering support to the girl's family at this time. it has also been reported that the victim, who suffered eight stab wounds to the face, neck and upper body, will likely require plastic surgery. train drivers are to vote on a new offer aimed at ending their long running dispute over pay. that's been announced by the aslef union today. aslef said the offer was made in talks at the department for transport, which started after labour won the general election following months of stalemate under the conservative party. the offer is for 5% for 2019 to 2022, 4.75% for 2022. to this year, and a further 4.5% for this year. and next. that is according to the union. the drivers are being recommended to accept that offer, which would end their two year long dispute dunng end their two year long dispute during which they've taken 18 days of strike action, as well as refusing to work non—contractual overtime .

non—contractual overtime. ukraine's top commander says 100 russian prisoners of war have been captured in the kursk region. it is after ukraine launched a surprise offensive that president zelenskyy admitted was easy and met with little resistance. well, it comes as the russian city of belgorod declared a state of emergency amid daily ukrainian shelling that the governor says is destroying homes and killing civilians . back here. urgent civilians. back here. urgent tests are underway on a canal in the west midlands after a sodium cyanide spill. walsall council said the environment agency told it about a toxic chemical spillage that went directly into the canal at pleck on monday. the source of the spill is believed to have originated from a company called anachrome limited, a firm which deals in surface coatings and sealing. a major incident has now been declared and people are being warned to avoid the 12 mile stretch of canal leading to birmingham. sodium cyanide can

cause seizures, vomiting and loss of consciousness . and we've loss of consciousness. and we've also heard this evening that a global health emergency has been declared for monkeypox. the second time in two years. the world health organisation has raised the alert level it's following an infection outbreak in the democratic republic of congo that's now spread to neighbouring countries. congo that's now spread to neighbouring countries . the neighbouring countries. the virus spreads through close contact and although it's usually mild, it can be fatal in rare cases. according to an article in the new york times, since the beginning of this yean since the beginning of this year, the democratic republic of congo alone has reported more than 14,000 mpox cases and more than 14,000 mpox cases and more than 500 deaths. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> prince harry is missing his own uncle's funeral in the uk because of security concerns. instead he's taking his wife to the cocaine fuelled gang warfare , the cocaine fuelled gang warfare, murder and kidnap hotspot of colombia . shall we remind colombia. shall we remind ourselves of what harry said about britain .7 it's still about britain? it's still dangerous and all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read and whether it's a knife or acid, whatever it is. >> and these are things that are genuine concern for me. it's one of the reasons why i won't bring my wife back to this country. >> colombia has the third highest homicide rate in south america, and they're going to visit the vice president, who has to commute to work in a blackhawk helicopter after receiving bomb threats. do harry and meghan not realise that they are being used as useful idiots to polish the tarnished reputation of despotic regimes ? reputation of despotic regimes? that's their job now. it seems

that's theirjob now. it seems to do pr work for despots. they went to nigeria, one of the world's corruption capitals, so meghan could quote, reconnect with her roots and now they're to off colombia to quote, illuminate the country's role as a beacon of culture and innovation. well, i should probably just point out at this stage that the government faces numerous scandals, including the president's son, who stands accused of money laundering from drug cartels and funnelling that money into his own father's campaign. apparently, harry and meghan will visit a town in colombia founded by runaway slaves that has become a symbol of anti—colonial resistance. now presumably, they're hoping that that will be symbolic of their own journey in some way. but unfortunately for meghan, she might find that she has more in common with colombia's vice president, who has been described as the biggest fraud. she's done nothing, only play the victim and travel around in helicopters. their chief of staff has also just quit now after three months. harry and meghan have reportedly lost at least 18 staff since they

married in 2018, with nine or more having left since they moved to california in 2020. some of the others that they've parted company with reportedly include the manager of archewell , include the manager of archewell, their producer, and their head of audio. so that's their chief of audio. so that's their chief of staff. the person presumably managing a lot of their charity work, the people looking after their video content and the person looking after their audio content . i person looking after their audio content. i mean, i imagine their private chef feels as though every meal could be his last. meghan has also failed to find a chief executive for her new cooking and lifestyle brand , cooking and lifestyle brand, american riviera orchard, despite having interviewed several candidates. now i can't help but wonder if there's a common denominator here. one of prince william's friends said harry should apologise to the colombians while he's there for using cocaine in his youth because colombia is a country that's been destroyed by narco terrorists servicing wealthy drug users in the west, and he should stand up and apologise for his own participation in that disgusting trade. i mean, you put all of that together, and i think you have to wonder, don't you? are harry and meghan

massive hypocrites? let's get your thoughts on my panel. gb news presenter and writer emma webb. we also have landlord, businessman and activist adam brooks and former labour minister bill rammell. emma, harry and meghan are massive hypocrites . hypocrites. >> you don't say. i mean, just even hearing you read it out there, it's quite extraordinary, wasn't it? somebody who was involved with their spotify spotify podcast also , or maybe spotify podcast also, or maybe both of them referred to them as being frauds in some way, and maybe harry should be paying them reparations in colombia for all of the cocaine that he's used over the years . used over the years. >> well, there we go. i mean, look, adam, i do find it, you know, slightly ridiculous that you would miss your own uncle's funeral because you apparently because of security fears and security concerns. but you are willing to take your wife to one of the murder drug fuelled kidnap hotspots in the world. >> it's crazy . yeah. i mean, i >> it's crazy. yeah. i mean, i don't believe a word they say. i've never hidden my thoughts on these two, i really can't stand

them if i'm honest, he's as wet and hypocritical as they come. and she's one massive diva. and to lose 18 staff, it just says it all. >> were you employ people, don't you? that's quite a staff retention issue. >> the queen had some of her close staff for decades. that says a lot. and you only have to put in google her name and you find so many people. i mean, there's a famous maitre d in new york that said she was demanding and rude. our own angela levin, who we all love on this, on this program, you know , she describes program, you know, she describes her in not particularly flattering language. and it's a shame because in 2018, i threw a party for their wedding in the pub the nation was on a buzz. you know, i thought it would help race relations. i thought it was great that he was marrying her. and she's just turned out to be a disaster. and

i think she's nearly split up. the royal family >> bill, what do you think? i mean, has he got a right, do you think, to not feel safe in britain? >> no he hasn't. look, i was going to express some sympathy for harry, and i'll come on to do that. but i'd forgotten that contrast between colombia and the uk. as a minister. i went to colombia three times and i only went with protection officers because it's one of the most dangerous countries in the world. and to compare safety in the uk to colombia is just hogwash, however, i think you can have some sympathy for him. i think he's a damaged young man. you know, he lost his mother at a very early age and that's clearly scarred him. he's estranged from his father and his brother . and speaking as a his brother. and speaking as a human being, not a monarchist. i think that's very sad. but you know, judgement calls all the time . they seem to get wrong to time. they seem to get wrong to lose. to paraphrase oscar wilde, to lose one member of staff from your entourage might be deemed

unfortunate. to lose 18 in 6 years is a bit of a disaster, and i think they need to get a grip. they need to hire some decent staff . more importantly, decent staff. more importantly, they need to listen to them and bluntly be told what to do because they're trashing their brand. >> the other aspect of this, though, is, is going to countries like nigeria for a bit of pr they're doing pr for, you know, a regime over there that i think you know, they would probably baulk at really, if it was some kind of western regime, you know, similar issues in colombia here. is this their job now to do pr for despots? >> well, you took the thought right out of my head because they want to talk about things like online harms and children's safety. but did they call out boko haram and the kidnapping of schoolgirls when they were in nigeria? i don't i don't think they did. and i think that for young people in both colombia and nigeria, online harms are probably the least of their worries and the two of them just seem so out of touch. i mean, even when you see them on the

screen there, it's just there's something kind of absurd about the two of them. it's almost a kind of level of detachment that is delusional in some way. and the way that they are continually trying to kind of launder their reputation while holding on to that victim mentality . it's gone past the mentality. it's gone past the point of being annoying. now and in a way, i almost feel a bit sorry for them because i just oh, i don't i mean, ijust, i just can't fathom what must be going on in their heads. they are so detached from reality. >> but but i think you've got to recognise when you're in a hole, stop digging. and they are in a hole. they're in a big hole. i think they can recover their reputation, but they've really got to take professional advice and they've got to listen to that advice and bluntly do what they're told. >> even on that nigeria trip, many commentators and many journalists called out about how apparently she was so rude to the teachers on the on the trip to the school there, so she can't help herself . doesn't can't help herself. doesn't matter what, you know, position

you put her in, her behaviour, her true self seemingly comes through. >> so i mean it. but do you think that they have actually at times there have been been quite unfairly treated by the media about all of this stuff? >> well, i think there's an element that any misstep will be highlighted in a way that it wouldn't be for other members of the royal family, but it's because of what's happened, how it's come about, and the exposure they've had . but exposure they've had. but they've got to live with that and they've got to recognise it and they've got to recognise it and they've got to recognise it and they've got to try to turn it around if they want any future for themselves. >> i don't think that's true at all. i mean, if you look at the way that kate was treated waity katie, she just persevered and behaved with dignity. and then she has become the sweetheart of the nation. so i think if they if meghan markle in particular, but both of them had behaved differently and hadn't sort of ratted out their own family for their own personal gain and played the victim repeatedly moaning about how their cottage at the palace is too small and all these things, then they would have been treated

differently. and actually they in, in, in many ways they've made the situation . made the situation. >> so okay, take another example. you and i were sitting in the green room just now and seeing a previous clip of the king now selling £135 aftershave. >> he's doing a meghan markle now, you know, if they had done that, it would have been banner headlines. >> but but that's the reality. that's where they are. they need to recognise this and they need to recognise this and they need to do something about it. i just can't. >> people see through shameless virtue signalling quite easily, though. the idea that you would go to a colombian village that was founded by slaves and they're there to , you know, talk they're there to, you know, talk out about anti—colonialism and all of this stuff. i mean, i just wonder if harry is just absolutely crippled with white guilt. it's that kind of what it is. i mean, he just got to flagellate himself in public. until what? until someone forgives him. >> i think he does exactly what she tells him to do. but let's remember, this is a couple that basically intimated to the world that the royal family was racist and terrible people, and then decided to give their kids royal

titles. >> they are hypocrites and they refuse to give up the duke and duchess of sussex. >> they will use the royal name to the end of their days. >> and this is where they are hypocrites. they want their cake and eat it . you know they want and eat it. you know they want to turn their back on britain. they want to turn their back on the royal family, but they still want the trappings, you know, they still want security. i think there's still a legal case being taken to try and get the security back. >> with the american riviera orchard. they're trying to highgrove style semi royal branding and still going on these sort of like pseudo royal tours. like they're trying to set themselves up as some kind of parallel court. i just think that the language that he uses about britain, you know, is being, you know, horrifically scared at the idea of his wife setting foot in this country talks us down big time on the world stage. >> it's rubbish. but then if you but then if you're willing to go and talk up countries like nigeria and countries like colombia, i just don't think that makes, oh, he's betrayed us. us. >> us. >> and he continuously talks about how it's because of things that people have said and tries

to therefore silence people from criticising them. i think he's a complete hypocrite. >> okay, well, we did reach out to harry and meghan's representatives. we were yet to hear back. but coming up, tory leadership hopefuls line up to bash nigel farage now one after the other. >> look, nigel farage wants to destroy the conservative party and but as they also effectively ban him from the conservative party, are they just scared of him? >> lee anderson gives his unfiltered opinion shortly. but first, as gb news exclusively reveals, there's been a major escalation of migrant violence in northern france. are the refugees welcome mob putting brits in danger? just to clarify now, some of those illegal migrants in france are now attacking locals as well as police and each other, and they are on their way here. director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, stephen wolf goes head to head with activist and labour party advocate ayesha ali khan. they're live and that's next. tuned

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, as migrant violence escalates in northern france, are the refugees welcome brigade now putting brits in danger? it's time for the head to head . it's danger? it's time for the head to head. it's a big danger? it's time for the head to head . it's a big story. danger? it's time for the head to head. it's a big story. this police in northern france are facing a major escalation in migrant violence, with officers andindeed migrant violence, with officers and indeed locals being targeted .

and indeed locals being targeted. gb news can reveal this exclusively. just yesterday, police were attacked by a large group of migrants who were angered by attempts to arrest a suspected people smuggler. officers are regularly targeted in the region, but local residents are now being caught up in the violence as well, and the town's mayor told us that it was a guerrilla war and obviously that's on its way here, isn't it? because the borders brigade are still doing this. refugees are welcome . this. refugees are welcome. lovely stuff . so as migrant lovely stuff. so as migrant violence in northern france escalates, are the refugees welcome? mob putting brits in danger? let me know your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. tweet me @gbnews. go and vote in our poll. but first head to head on this now are the director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, stephen wolf, and activist and labour party advocate ayesha ali khan. both of you. thank you very, very much, stephen. i'll start with you. earlier on in the week, we revealed that both sides of the sudanese civil war are now fighting each other on

the beaches of calais and now in dunkirk. they're attacking locals and police officers as well. all of that appears to be coming our way. what are the refugees? welcome brigade playing at? >> oh, well, look just like macron and those in the european union who have supported the industrialisation of cross—channel migrant crossing by not preventing it in force and providing proper deterrence to the people smugglers. this is now leading to violence, not only in the camps that i first went to in december 2014 and then again in june 2015, and i've been visiting these camps for several years, and i've noficed for several years, and i've noticed how the people smugglers themselves are recognising, and this might come as a shock to you in the sense that the french are stepping up their game in stopping boats coming across, they are puncturing more and more of the boats as they get into the waters. and so that's causing more angst and anxiety and violence against the police. but i saw that for so many

years. so this, as i say , years. so this, as i say, industrialisation of cross—channel migrant smuggling is now coming to a head once again. yeah. >> and ayesha, why on earth have we got people out there with the refugees welcome sign? when we know now and we've known for some time, but we absolutely , some time, but we absolutely, definitely know now that people who are attacking each other, locals and police are going to be on those boats. >> well, first of all, patrick, i believe that refugees and those seeking asylum are absolutely welcome here. we've always been a nation that welcomes people in need. we've always been a nation that gives asylum and safe harbour to people who are escaping war, fleeing unrest in their homelands and so on. so i think we should not lose sight of this, this very fact that makes us the nation that we are. now, you've touched upon a point that i actually agree with that something has to be done about the people smugglers, about the people that have monetised, the suffering of people who are

trying to escape, all types of unrest and civil war and so on in their own homelands. and i think it's those people that we need to actually be addressing, and we need to have, solid policies in place. but also we must not lose sight of the fact that if people have, you know, people have escaped war, they've lived in refugee camps, they've travelled across all these different countries . and when different countries. and when they finally got here, we should not be treating them like criminals. >> yeah, fine. okay. but i've got to ask you, because you have you have with respect, you have just completely ignored the fact that we do have both sides of the sudanese civil war killing each other in calais at the moment. and we have got a report here that shows that now some of those people are attacking locals, police and each other. so, so, so those people exist and those those people want to come here. is that not a problem for us? >> look, whatever is going on in calais, it's happening there. and obviously people that are trying to make their way across the channel to come here, a it's

very dangerous. and i absolutely agree that they should not be making the treacherous journey here because it's just not safe. and also there's properly in place to deal with them when they get here. i mean, look at they get here. i mean, look at the conservative party. they had the conservative party. they had the rwandan policy. they kind of beat that drum for a good few years, you know, the way people, the way migrants and asylum seekers are treated, it's just criminal. >> all right. okay, i get that. i mean, stephen, to be honest with you, i'm a little bit more concerned for the people in dunkirk who are being attacked by these people. all the idea that we might be attacked by some of them as well. >> well, i think everybody should be concerned about violence of any, any form whatsoever. and i've said that the way that we are now dealing with this issue, because of the inaction by macron and i've, i've mentioned it many times, they have blood on their hands by not having the, the deterrence policies when people die in the channel. and whilst i respect aisha's view that we are an open and welcoming country, thatis

an open and welcoming country, that is true. and i also respect her view that there are those people who come are fleeing war and torture that is not borne out by the facts of the. as she will look at as y underscore zero two the actual evidence from the home office themselves about asylum applicants 60% of the first time applicants are refused , and only 20% are refused, and only 20% are actually ever granted asylum under the un refugee convention rules, which is fleeing torture. the rest do not ever qualify under that fleeing torture aspect. and so therefore you have huge numbers of people coming here, as we know, for economic reasons, and they fall outside of our generosity. we should not be accepting those. we should be deporting them and removing them. and if you did so, and we made it clear, then there would not be the necessity for violence in calais in places that we see. >> aisha, can i ask you? look,

you've you've expressed concern. fair enough for people who are fleeing war. and the journey across the channel is a dangerous journey and it poses with it certain risks and that people, in your view, shouldn't be treated badly when they get here and all of that stuff. and i do appreciate that. do you have any concern for people who are worried when they hear stories and they see facts ? stories and they see facts? actually, that actually some of the people coming to britain now could be violent, dangerous criminals . criminals. >> i mean, look, i absolutely do not want violent, dangerous criminals here myself. i'm not saying that we should be allowing these types of people here. majority of the people that come here are genuine cases. and as the guest that your guest has just pointed out, there is a process in place. and once a person who has applied for asylum, if their case has not been accepted, they are deported. they are not allowed to stay as soon as they. and the process is actually very quick. as soon as they put their case forward. it hasn't been accepted . forward. it hasn't been accepted. they can't just keep on

reapplying and staying and overstaying their welcome. they are deported. so that's the when something that's in place. but secondly, patrick, look, we've just seen weeks of violence. we've just seen people who've taken misinformation, something that they've thought about, and then they've just ran with it. and then look at the riots we've had up and down the country. we've had now obviously ongoing legal cases, which i'm not, i don't want to really go into because obviously they're ongoing. but what i'm trying to say is that, look, somebody has come over. they've they've have if they have a genuine case, absolutely they should stay if they've come and they don't have a genuine case. absolutely. they should be sent back. but we also have to show humanity and look at the background of that. >> i look, i do i do get that look . and this does tie in with look. and this does tie in with what you just said. i'll throw it to stephen. you know, i do have a concern that if we are seeing what we are seeing now in dunkirk and calais, locals being attacked, police being attacked, attacking each other, all of that stuff. right and then it

turns out that shock, horror, some of those people behave that way when they come to britain. okay? and we've just seen protests. we've just seen riots . protests. we've just seen riots. i'm certainly not condoning anything, by the way. i made that very, very clear. but what i am saying is, does that not create an incredibly dangerous situation for us here in britain? if something like that kicks off, how do we think people are going to react, whether it's right or wrong? but the other thing i would say and ask you, stephen as well. so two questions rolled into one. places like walthamstow in london and hackney in london that came out and said massively, refugees are welcome here. fine. why don't we just put them all there then? >> well , there are two aspects >> well, there are two aspects to that. first of all, the violence that is being perpetuated on both sides of the channel by those who are feeling left behind , ignored, and their left behind, ignored, and their concerns about large scale migration and the economic impacts which we now know are very clear in the poorest areas of our country, are also being matched by the violence that

we're seeing, not just in france , we're seeing, not just in france, because we don't we know that there's been violence in spain. we know that violence across several cities in italy, and the monitoring that we're undertaking and we understand fully that people smugglers are behind that, too. so what you're having is large scale , having is large scale, uncontrolled illegal migration with no controls to stop the people smugglers and no controls to deter people is leading to violence in lots of places. now and what i would say to those who say, look, i offer a genuine concern about this. i want people to come and stay. why aren't they offering them to stay in their homes? why are they not allowing them to come and live with them? why are they not taking up the burden of the costs? when prince charles says, let them come, why does he not open his huge estate in scotland and house them all there? and the reason why is it's always selfish, in my view , it's selfish, in my view, it's hypocritical. it's not in my

backyard. i don't want to pay for it. i don't want to feel a consequence of it and i don't want to see it. and that's why you get lots of liberal democrat areas where you have migrants welcome. but hardly anyone living in those conditions. >> that is something i would quite like to see, which is places that appear to be most open to this actually bearing the brunt of it. but look, both of you, thank you very much. i know it's a difficult topic to talk about, but thank you very much for doing so. director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity stephen wolf, activist and labor party advocate ayesha ali khan. who do you agree with? is the migrant crisis putting brits at risk? michelle says of course it is. just nobody seems to care. drover's says nothing to fear from them. the danger is from the far right of course. excuse me. yeah. fair enough. the far right is a danger. but i do think there is also a danger. drover from both sides of the sudanese civil war currently being on their way, apparently. but catherine, on your say says yes. the welcome refugees clan are endangering people in the uk. they should help people here, not from outside the uk. refugees are getting enough support from our government as

it is. i think it will become increasingly difficult to justify the massive amounts of taxpayer expenses, if indeed it turns out that people who've just arrived on a boat have actually attacked locals in dunkirk. but your verdict is now in. 98% of you agree that the migrant crisis is putting brits at risk. 2% of you say that it isn't coming up. i speak to the gender critical reverend who's been blacklisted by the archbishop of woke, justin welby, despite being cleared of any wrongdoing by a court he's hitting back at welby, so don't miss that. plus road closures, massive police support for pakistan, independence day . pakistan, independence day. i'll just explain why that might have exposed yet more two tier policing to you. but next are the tory leadership hopefuls foolish that nigel farage is effectively banned now from the party? well, we'll be talking about all of that with

mp lee anderson. weighing in on that. and starmer's non—existent

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight we are only on gb news. lots to go at. i'll be filling you in on a bit more two tier policing. it seems as pakistan independence day grinds parts of the capital city to a halt. but nigel farage will be banned from the conservative party no matter who replaces rishi sunak, after mel stride

joined his five leadership rivals in dismissing a future deal with the reform leader. >> no, not i made that very clear. so no deals, no deals. nigel farage. look. nigel farage wants to destroy the conservative party, so he joined his fellow tory leadership hopefuls in slamming mr farage for his commentary before the southport riots. i think his remarks, let me put it like this, were deeply unhelpful to those officers that were then having to go out and deal with the consequence of the rioting. >> this is not leadership, it is deeply irresponsible and dangerous, and he needs to decide . decide. >> is he a politician, a serious politician, or is he a social media content creator? >> lee anderson joins me now. reform uk mp lee. thank you very much. look, it's nigel being banned from joining the conservative party. a little bit like me being banned from papua new guinea. i didn't want to go anyway. >> well, i'll put it this way,

patrick. i don't suppose that nigel's actually losing any sleep over this. and i look at some of my ex—colleagues which are classed as friends as well . are classed as friends as well. a little bit disappointed with them. patrick, look at the all of the i think there's six of them in the leadership contest. me personally, i've got a bigger majority than all of them apart from kemi, but i've got a bigger vote share than kemi. so they need to look at people like me in places like ashfield, in the red wall and look to see why i won my seat, why won nigel his seat and richard and james and rupert and look at these people like james cleverly, like mel stride, who i think his majority is about 200 at the moment. these were these are people that nearly lost their seats and they sort of dictating the pace. they're having a go at nigel and you know what, if they want to win back those 4 or 5, 6 million conservative voters that they lost at the last election, maybe, just maybe , patrick, they maybe, just maybe, patrick, they should be listening to people like nigel farage instead of dissing him. >> i do wonder, though, lee, you know, whether or not there is

something to be said about should nigel actually be more open to doing a deal? right. because you know, failing that, it looks as though the tories will be split forever. you know, reform, you know, might not really ever form enough to have a majority. and that does perpetuate the idea that we're just going to continue to have a labour government. and already so far we've seen things like, you know, big public sector pay rises, some quite concerning stuff when it came to, you know, comments about social media, etc. from , from from keir etc. from, from from keir starmer, you know, should nigel maybe be trying to pave the way for a bit of a reunion? >> well, look , the last did well >> well, look, the last did well in 2019 election. when i first got elected. patrick, i think nigel stood down in about 100 seats. didn't stand down in ashfield by the way, and he did that to allow boris johnson and the conservative party to get an 80 seat majority. and what happened after the election? not so much as a thank you from the conservative party. i think that was pretty poor form. on behalf of the conservative party, they should have reached out to nigel and thanked him for what he did. so why, why, why on earth should nigel do a do a deal? now, look,

we're on the uppers. we're we're really on the way up now. the reform party, our membership has gone from 20,000. when i first joined up to nearly 80,000. we're definitely going to win council seats next time. the momentum is with the reform party. and if anybody's reaching out, it should be the conservative party. >> do you think most people out there in the real world could actually pick mel stride out of actually pick mel stride out of a line—up? >> i couldn't pick him out. i mean, i have to look twice at him sometimes to remind myself who he actually is. i was a member of parliament for three years before i knew who mel stride was, so i think it's a bit rich coming from that. he's a good guy. he's a decent guy, but he shouldn't be talking about nigel farage like this. nigel farage, you know, is the most popular politician, i think, in this country at the moment and definitely the most influential politician in my lifetime. so when the conservative party start dissing him as they're doing right now, they're doing themselves no favours at all. there's lots of conservative voters who abandoned the party just a month ago at the general election. the

conservative party needs to try and win them back, and they won't do that by having a pop at nigel. >> well, this is it. i mean, look, i'm sure that they would say, well, actually, the way that we're going to win the next election is to try to gather ground in the centre, and maybe if they can pinch people from laboun if they can pinch people from labour, etcetera, etcetera. and they obviously have some kind of strategy there, one would assume. but i just want to whiz us on to something else now, because number 10 has admitted that keir starmer is now expecting more boat crossings this summer, after the number of arrivals since he took office has already reached nearly 5000. gb news has just exclusively revealed. by the way, there's been a major escalation in migrant violence in northern france. locals are actually being targeted by these illegal migrants now. lee, the prime minister, needs to get a handle on this fast, doesn't he? because as it currently stands, there's a kind of a junkyard of small boats at the moment in doven small boats at the moment in dover. i mean, we could line them up across the channel and let them just walk across. can we? >> yeah. well, listen, patrick, the violence in in the camps in calais is not a new thing. i was told this when i went last year, as you probably know. and look

what's happening in calais. actually, they've got gang warfare. you've got the sudanese fighting against each other , fighting against each other, probably tooled up at the same time. and what happens then, patrick? they jump in a boat they picked up by our border force. they then escorted these thugs are escorted into our waters, put into hotels and put through the asylum process and then granted asylum. the ones that aren't are going to stop here anyway. and then you know what? in a few years time, we'll be scratching our heads, thinking to ourselves, why are these people running around committing crimes? let me tell you this, patrick. if you import a third world culture where life is very cheap , you're going to is very cheap, you're going to get third world behaviour on our streets in great britain. and parliament has got blood on its hands. >> well, this is what i was going to ask you. really? i know you've just put that in very strong terms there, lee, but what would reform really do? i know there's the turning back the boats policy and stuff, but i just wonder, you know, in practical terms, when you see certain areas around the country that seem to be very pro

refugees , welcome. could reform refugees, welcome. could reform not maybe try to pass some kind of policy where, you know, that's where the channel migrants go and live? >> well, there's a thing. i mean, you it's a sensible point. you're raising patrick. we could say draw these labour mps, all these luvvies that say you know, illegal migration is a good thing. i'll tell you what, every single constituency where you've got a labour mp. send the illegal migrants there to resettle. and i'll tell you what, most of them labour mps at the next election would lose their seats. >> okay. all right. well look, lee, thank you. thank you very much for for, coming on that is lee anderson there as a reform uk mp. hey, look, many people will disagree with him and say , will disagree with him and say, no, we do need to have the refugees welcome lot, don't we? we do indeed need to have a fairer system of distributing them around the country. and the keir starmer has got a plan. we just haven't had time to see it yet. but coming up, the met police have agreed to block roads for pakistan independence day celebrations.

now, in case you're wondering, yes, that is the same police force that issued a dispersal order for england fans during the euros this summer. is this yet more evidence of two tier policing? i tackle that at ten, but next i speak to this gender critical reverend who is, believe it or not, blacklisted by the archbishop of woke, justin welby. despite being cleared of any wrongdoing by a court, reverend doctor bernard randall is live

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up, i'll expose yet more evidence of what appears to be a two tier policing. after the met police agreed to shut rows down in central london to allow for pakistan independence day celebrations. but of course, if you did want to go celebrate the euros, then that was that was bang out of order. but first, a gender critical chaplain has

slammed the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, over claims that he'd been blacklisted and barred from preaching after he raised questions about the teaching of lgbt relationships to kids in school. the reverend doctor bernard randall lost his job as the chaplain of trent college in nottingham , was reported to the nottingham, was reported to the terrorism watchdog prevent, and ruled by the church of england to be a risk to children, all because he gave a sermon telling children that they could question teaching on lgbt relationships. now, despite being vindicated and cleared of any wrongdoing, randall is still barred from preaching after he was refused a licence or permission to officiate without first going through a risk assessment. the church of england's safeguarding team concluded that he could pose a risk of harm to children. well, i'm joined now by the reverend doctor bernard randall. thank you very much. great to have you on the show. so just to clarify, then, you were reported to prevent and you are still banned by the archbishop of woke for saying what exactly?

>> well, in fairness to justin welby, i'm banned by the bishop of derby and it's justin welby . of derby and it's justin welby. failed to intervene in that situation. when he had the chance, so what i did was give a sermon saying that there are different viewpoints on lgbt matters, and you may accept that marriage is probably only of a man and a woman. you may believe biological sex is real. you may look at gender identity language and think it doesn't really make sense. can't be more than partly true, but i emphasised repeatedly the importance of respecting the people you disagree with. no one should be discriminated against, no excuse for personal attacks or abuse, but when it comes to these things, you make up your own mind. you respect the people who disagree with and you know, love your neighbour. >> so what did the old terrorism lot say to you then? it prevent? >> well, prevent cleared it straight away. they said there was no indication of anything that leaned towards terrorism ,

that leaned towards terrorism, which is hardly surprising given the really moderate way that i express myself, so the reaction immediately , okay, so prevent said. >> actually, we're more focused on actual terrorism, which is , on actual terrorism, which is, to be fair, a good thing, and so as it currently stands, you have what actually been officially cleared of any wrongdoing. now from, from other quarters. >> have you all the secular organisations because the, the school where i gave the sermon, there was, i would say, a massive overreaction. they have reported me to all the different organisations and the disclosure and barring service and so on. all of the secular organisations have cleared me. they've said there's no safeguarding problem, there's no safeguarding problem, there's no safeguarding problem, there's no issue here at all. but the church of england's own safeguarding team, because i taught that it is okay to hold the church of england's teaching regard me as somehow this indicates a risk to i do. >> i do wonder, adults, i do

wonder what what what archbishop welby's record is like himself when it comes to, you know , when it comes to, you know, safeguarding issues and always being on top of that in relation to children, i don't know. is there are there any, you know, has he always been bang on it? >> i think there have been a lot of criticisms of not just justin welby, but the wider leadership of the church of england in terms of not really being as good at this as they should be, thankfully , safeguarding in the thankfully, safeguarding in the church is much, much better than it was ten, 20, 30 years ago. and that's that's great, but there are so many problems being swept up from historic cases that weren't dealt with properly, that are still not being dealt with now. people are not willing to take responsibility, and people who were relatively minor figures in safeguarding issues 20 years ago are now bishops and are not taking responsibility. and justin welby is one of those. if you look up on, on the internet,

his connection to john smith or smythe with a y, there are some questions to be asked . and we're questions to be asked. and we're still waiting for the official report on that, which is now, i think, four years overdue. so there are serious problems with accountability in the church hierarchy. >> i will say. yeah. and look, and as you would expect me to, i will say this particular juncture, having looked into things like that in the past, the church denying any wrongdoing in the most stringent of terms, and justin welby, absolutely. likewise as well. do you think he's wading in on on woke political issues and, and the church of england generally is, you know, so, you know , is, you know, so, you know, clamping down on you for saying something that you've said there which from what you've said sounds quite mild, you know, are also being very pro what's, you know, pro—refugee as it were, as well, coming out really strong terms about people who were, you know, quite angry about recent incidents, etc. do you think the church is deviating from its true path in your view ? true path in your view? >> i think justin welby is doing

a difficult job, and there are many things about it that i would do differently if i were in that position. and actually, i'm quite glad i'm not in that position because it is such a difficult job, yes. my point of view is that the church of england is not focused on the core purpose of the spiritual guidance that preaching the gospel, converting people to guidance that preaching the gospel , converting people to the gospel, converting people to the christian faith, helping them to be good disciples of jesus, all those spiritual things and sometimes getting too caught up in the secular, the worldly, which, yeah , christians can have which, yeah, christians can have viewpoints. that's fine. but i'm not sure that's what the church leadership ought to be focusing its time on. >> okay, well, can i just say a massive thank you and hopefully, i mean, you can be reinstated and allowed to, you know, do your thing going forward as well. that would probably be quite nice. that's the reverend doctor bernard randall there. thank you very much. we did contact the church of england for a response on the allegations. they did not get back to us. coming up. yes.

prince harry skipping his uncle's funeral because he thinks the uk is unsafe. but as he presses on with a visit to colombia with meghan later this month, is he a complete hypocrite? we're going to be talking to former royal butler grant harrold and journalist sarah robertson. they won't hold back, but next. well, i tackle fresh accusations of two tier policing as the met police block roads for pakistan independence day. despite treating england fans like criminals at the euros. we have also hoisted the pakistani flag above several pubuc pakistani flag above several public buildings, despite the fact that the union jack is seen as divisive. stay tuned for that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. tomorrow is looking pretty wet across northern areas across the south, though it should stay mostly dry, but it's going to be a breezier day than today. that's because low pressure is moving in from the

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gb news. >> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight . christys tonight. yeah, that's happening now. road closures and massive police support for pakistan independence day. pakistan pakistan . is in. the lord mayor pakistan. is in. the lord mayor even hoisted their flag in birmingham. meanwhile, england fans were banned from celebrating the euros. why are we so weak and all it takes is one lone actor. >> one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read . it's one of the reasons read. it's one of the reasons why i won't bring my wife back to this country. >> yeah, harry's gonna miss his uncle's funeral in the uk over safety concerns. >> young men with knife and bullet wounds come here every night . victims of the ongoing

night. victims of the ongoing gang wars in the city. >> but he's going to take meghan to colombia. is he a hypocrite? >> also want a scrap? not strengthened. reforms to kerb legal migration undone. thousands of dangerous criminals released early from our prisons. >> robert jenrick absolutely destroys keir starmer and refugees are welcome . here. that refugees are welcome. here. that mob they've tackled the far right now. they're coming for gail's bakery. right now. they're coming for gail's bakery . yeah, i've got gail's bakery. yeah, i've got the very first front pages with broadcaster emma webb, landlord and activist adam brooks and ex—labour minister bill rammell. oh, and can you tell me what caused liz truss to storm out vaughan gething . get ready vaughan gething. get ready britain, here we go .

britain, here we go. do we now prefer the pakistani flag to our own . next? flag to our own. next? >> patrick. thank you. the top stories this hour. a woman has been jailed for admitting to sending a threatening message on facebook in the wake of the recent rise in disorder across the uk. 53 year old julie sweeney sent the following facebook message on the 3rd of august, saying don't protect the mosques , blow the mosque up with mosques, blow the mosque up with the adults in it. a judge has encouraged prosecutors to consider charging offenders who played central roles in the recent disorder, in parts of the country, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of ten years. the australian department of foreign affairs earlier confirmed an 11 year old girl stabbed in leicester square is an australian tourist. australian consulate officials in london are offering support to the girl's family. it has

also been reported that the victim, who suffered eight stab wounds to the face, neck and upper body, will likely require plastic surgery . now news into plastic surgery. now news into us this hour . plastic surgery. now news into us this hour. the crime stoppers charity is offering a £5,000 reward to help trace an escaped offender in suffolk who has a history of sexual offences against children. 33 year old darryl taylor, who is from ipswich, was charged with seven sexual offences involving children on sunday the 11th of august. he was taken to ipswich hospital for treatment afterwards, but escaped from the medical facility around 10:00. that evening. crime stoppers are urging people to not approach him and to get in touch with them. if you might know his whereabouts. violent attacks against women on british railways have more than doubled since 2021, according to new data . the number of crimes data. the number of crimes against women and girls rose by 50% and the number of sexual offences jumped by 10%, the newspaper reported . unacceptable newspaper reported. unacceptable

behaviour such as touching , behaviour such as touching, upskirting or indecent exposures being experienced by women more than ever, with 51% of female victims stating that other rail passengers intervened to try to help . well, earlier today, help. well, earlier today, safeguarding ministerjess phillips said violence against women and girls is a national emergency . the ministry of emergency. the ministry of defence says ukrainian forces will be free to use weapons gifted by the uk as they continue their advances into russia. ukraine's top commander has said 100 russian prisoners of war have been captured in the kursk region after ukraine launched a surprise offensive that president zelenskyy admitted was easy and met with little resistance. the russian city of belgorod declared a state of emergency earlier, amid daily ukrainian shelling, that the governor says is destroying homes and killing civilians and urgent tests are still underway on a canal in the west midlands after a sodium cyanide spill. walsall council said the

environment agency told it about a toxic chemical spillage that went directly into the canal at pleck on monday. the source of the spill is believed to have originated from a company called anachrome limited. that's a firm which deals in surface coatings and sealing. a major incident has been declared and people are being warned to avoid the 12 mile stretch of canal leading to birmingham. sodium cyanide can cause seizures, vomiting and loss of consciousness. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> today, the police closed roads around our capital city so we can all celebrate pakistan independence day . this is the

independence day. this is the same police force that issued dispersal orders, so england football fans couldn't gather and watch the euros final. scotland yard confirmed road closures in ilford and ealing . closures in ilford and ealing. parts of ealing will actually be closed today , tomorrow and on closed today, tomorrow and on saturday reportedly. but don't worry, the police have also said that they'll be on hand to provide community reassurance. what does that mean? you know, when ethel is in her mid 80s, looks out of a window and calls the police to say sorry, i've accidentally woken up in pakistan. they'll just reassure her that no. in fact, thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate the independence of a country they obviously don't want to live in. there happens to be located more than 12,500km away in birmingham. the lord mayor has been busy hoisting the pakistan flag as well . pakistan there you go. >> pakistan .

>> pakistan. >> pakistan. >> today, birmingham will be lighting up their main library in green and to white celebrate as well. it is worth remembering that in march, westminster abbey hoisted the pakistani flag to celebrate pakistan day, which is apparently not the same thing as as pakistan independence day a few weeks ago. major roads were closed in london, so some members of the muslim community could celebrate ashura day . could celebrate ashura day. duhan van der merwe and ahmadi police closed oxford street. regent street, parts of trafalgar square and whitehall for that and that, of course , for that and that, of course, was absolutely fine. but if you wanted to go and watch the euros with your mates and have a few beers and you happen to spill out onto the streets at all, then wallop, you could have been nicked. now i honestly don't think that any other country in the world is as scared of its own flag as we are. do you remember that story about taxi drivers not being able to fly the saint george's flag? because

it it could too be much of a distraction . distraction. i. mean, that might be a tad distracting. a couple of days ago, a parish hall in norfolk had a debate about hoisting the union jack outside in case it was seen as divisive. but we'll just shut down parts of our capital city for another nation, or have the lord mayor hoist the flag of another country in birmingham. i mean, seriously, look, i think we just need to get off our knees a bit here, don't we? there's nothing wrong with people celebrating, okay? but if you're going to go absolutely massive for pakistan independence day, then maybe we should stop caring about flying the union jack wherever the heck we want to. let's get the thoughts of my panel this evening. i've got gb news presenter and writer emma webb, businessman and activist adam brooks. and we also have former labour minister bill rammell. emma, we currently we're going

to play a couple of clips as we talk on this. we currently have a situation in london with major road closures, the support of the police as well, and all of this stuff as people for not just today, by the way, but apparently for about three days. i think we can show a bit of southall tonight. this is, i believe, what's taking place pretty much as we speak in the southall area. if we can take a little. yeah. look. okay, so that's currently taking place there now, but obviously again, i will just emphasise that if england fans had gathered with their mates to watch the euros and spilled out onto the streets, then they would have fallen foul of a dispersal order and i'm not actually sure if you did that for saint george's day that you would get quite the same treatment. >> i think there would be some people who would be talking about the far right if you were to go out, you know, in fact, it's like the emily thornberry thing, isn't it? even if you if you fly a saint george's flag,

you're perceived as being far right in some way. we have a real problem with english patriotism in this country. and like you say it is, there is an element of two tier policing in it. but i also just simply don't think it's appropriate to be raising the flag of another country on any official building, except maybe in a very, very few limited circumstances. but also, if you come to a country and you want to make that country your home, that becomes your home, right? why would you be selling like like you said, why would you celebrate the, the independence day of a country that you've chosen not to live in? yeah. >> i mean, there's another clip that's doing the rounds at the moment that appears to show, a bit of a scuffle actually going on between again, what what we understand to be a member of the afghan community and some people of the british, pakistani community. that's what we're being told, as has happened there now, so that's just in britain now. so, adam, i don't know what i don't know what your thought of that is. >> you're talking about closing major roads for three days in

some areas for a foreign country's independence day. now, i would have the ump if it was poush i would have the ump if it was polish people. romanians day or the french national day, and we were shutting our roads. so before anyone tries to go, oh, he's racist or he's islamophobic, no, this gives me the ump. whatever country this would be, it's wrong, closed roads , closed businesses affect roads, closed businesses affect a lot of jobs and a lot of people. our economy, also groups of people letting off fireworks in the street illegally. they won't be nicked. they won't have facial recognition on them, cars beeping their horns till 12, maybe one at night. beeping their horns till 12, maybe one at night . would that maybe one at night. would that be allowed from england fans? no, it wouldn't. i think this is two tier policing yet again and i think it's a disgrace. >> the police. this was a bit earlier on as well because

they've had to close roads for this. and again i will say as well that i mean this is this is nothing like the road closures that we saw for ashura day, which was i mean, some of literally britain's most arterial roads in regent street, you had oxford street, hyde park, wasn't it? hyde park around there, marble arch, i mean, you know, they shut that down, but this was a bit earlier on, where they decided to shut some of the roads. and. so they got they got some road closures there. i just wondered, you know, if it was like, saint george's day and all of this stuff. i mean, we also have to couple it, i think, don't we, with the idea that there's, you know, a town hall in norfolk, for example, that's talking about having a genuine conversation with local residents about whether it would be divisive to hoist the flag of our own country. but we are absolutely fine to have the flag of every other single nation hoisted at any single opportunity. >> let's not create myths. we've just gone through the euros and

i've seen on every second house the flag of saint george flying, and it was fantastic. so, you know, the english flag is not in any way, shape or form banned. but we don't have two tier policing. what we have are operational decisions taken by the police who take account of the police who take account of the circumstances. now you know, whatever you think of pakistan independence day , just ask very independence day, just ask very quickly on that bill. >> yeah, i accept what you're saying. but part of pakistan independence day is going through southall, which also has a massive indian community, and i would love to see the risk assessment on that . assessment on that. >> well, you know, one of the things i was going to say is what i think the police need to do better after the event is published, their risk assessments as to why they reached the judgements that they do. but there was there was no suggestion there was going to be violence involved in the demonstration. what they will have done is taken account of the scale, the risk of what else is going on within that area, and you know , unlike other and you know, unlike other members on this panel, i've been

involved in organising demonstrations a long time ago, and we had a profound view that people on the left were discriminated against by the police. i think we were wrong then, and i think the right are wrong now in saying that the police are being biased, but you literally have the police saying that they spoke to community leaders and the only community leaders and the only community leader who was democratically legitimate is a member of parliament. the police have always spoken to community leaders on all sides. >> my point, because those community leaders they appoint themselves, they're not necessarily representative of the people that they claim to represent. they can't be removed from being a community leader. and so we saw a video of the police saying that they spoke to a community leader, and then they felt reassured that the community could effectively police themselves. you would have to have no eyes and ears to look at the scenes that we have seen and think there is no two tier policing, it's just a wild suggestion. >> the police, since the year dot, have always spoken to and consulted the organisers of

demonstrations and the organisers and the constituents of those of those demonstrations . of those of those demonstrations. it's police policing by consent. >> well, i'm going to ask you one thing. do you i mean, the extra policing we're going to be seeing in these these areas could probably come to half £1 million, maybe £1 million. and that comes from the taxpayer. is that comes from the taxpayer. is that okay? >> well, we live in a democracy where people are allowed to protest. they're allowed to go on marches. and yes, that does come at a cost that we all bear. but i'd far rather live in a country like that than where people aren't allowed to demonstrate and protest . demonstrate and protest. >> you're happy with your taxes going to fund road closures for a foreign country's independence day. >> so you take ealing and you take ilford. there are significant numbers of people who are british citizens, are of pakistani heritage , indians pakistani heritage, indians also. and so not not in ilford and not in ealing. and, you know, they have a right to be able to do that as long as they do it peacefully. >> let's just say that there are areas are 40% pakistani or

asian. what about the 50 or 60% of the other residents that have got to put up with beeping, car horns, fireworks and road closures for the three days? >> we live in a multicultural society. people have a right to celebrate. they have a right to demonstrate wrong . demonstrate wrong. >> then to issue a dispersal order for the euros final without knowing what the risk assessment was. >> i don't know, you know, there have been instances of football hooliganism in the past and i don't know what the police intelligence was, and that's where we have a problem with these debates, lack of context . these debates, lack of context. i was in this studio a week ago when i was being assailed about, why have we got the rioters into court straight away, where the thugs who'd attacked the police at manchester airport had not yet been charged. it was because they hadn't pleaded guilty, whereas the rioters had. you need the context before you rush to judgement, but i think that the people who wanted to go and celebrate the euros maybe didn't have a community leader to be consulted by the police in quite the same way. >> but even even irrespective of this, you can't deny, for example, that the police, treat

protesters who , who, who, who protesters who, who, who, who might say certain things on facebook quite differently to people who were literally calling for jihad people who were literally calling forjihad in the streets calling for jihad in the streets of london. and they said, oh, well, you know, jihad means different things to different people, even though the context being important, it was being said at a protest where there was a it was organised by a known islamist group that the government had been going back and forth about prescribing for quite some time, i just think that, you know, if you simply just say quickly on something, let's look at these things now, you know, i don't necessarily mind this stuff, right. >> but it just seems like if we're also having to report on numerous different incidences, whether it's a mural outside a fish and chip shop in london that's got the union jack on it being told, oh, that might be a bit offensive. >> it's just about fairness. >> it's just about fairness. >> yeah . if you've got, you >> yeah. if you've got, you know, england fans or whatever, you know, if anyone had gone

out, happened to wear an item of branded clothing that happened to have the union jack on it on the night that we were supposedly going to have these 100 far right riots that never happened, that have been batus within an inch of their life in walthamstow. but meanwhile you've got all of this. >> did that happen, patrick? no, it didn't, because it was a lie. >> no one wanted to go out because it country people felt scared to go out and wear an item of clothing with their own country's flag. >> that's the claim. i don't think that's borne out by the facts. and if anybody thinks and if you think, emma, that the police are biased against white people in favour of black people, you haven't met most police officers in this country. >> they've just been done for for, racism against three white officers, haven't they? >> thames valley police, thames valley police. >> so of course, of course there's discrimination against police officers against. >> yeah. they ignored them for promotion in favour of sergeant sidhu who got got the job. >> but yes patrick i try and look at this and i think would i be happy? my nan's not alive anymore. you know, if this is 6 or 7:00 at night, would i be happy with my late nan walking

down that road while that's going on? no, i wouldn't, it's intimidating. why should the rest of the community have to put up with that? >> also, i have to come back. >> so you're going to stop all demonstrations. that's what you're going to do. >> i have to come back on the suggestion that you made that. this is about white or black. it's not because the lockdown protests, i think, were policed quite differently to the black lives matter protests, as just to take one example, based upon police intelligence of what the risk was. >> and i said earlier, i think the police need to be much better in communicating why and how they reach their decisions. >> why was it that the people who went with the palestinian flags on their cars, tooting their horns and talking about raping jewish daughters, had the charges dropped against them? >> yeah, i don't know the particulars. you can pluck cases out of the air, but without the detail. without the context. >> bill, there's thousands of cases. some of us have been putting them up all week. i mean, on twitter. >> how can you also comment on it if you don't know the cases that we're referring to either? >> well, i just commented specifically about the manchester airport case and the facts bear out what i'm saying. >> all right, all right guys.

well, look, hey, you know what i just thought i saw that tonight, and i just thought, look, fair enough, but it does just it just strikes me as though, you know, we're not we're not doing the same thing for maybe, you know, when things have the british flag displayed, etcetera. i don't know, what do you think, but look, coming up, i've got all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages with my panel. oh, yes. and what caused liz truss to storm off in a huff? but first, prince harry won't jet to the uk for his uncle's funeral because he doesn't feel safe here. but hang on, he's taking his wife to columbia later this week for a four day public trip. so is the duke of sussex a complete hypocrite going head to head on this? the former royal butler grant harrold, and the journalist sarah robertson stay

to. welcome back to patrick christys. tonight we are only on gb news now. all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages are coming your way very very soon and there are some good ones on there, so stay tuned for that. but first, is prince harry a complete hypocrite? it's time now for another head to head . so now for another head to head. so it's emerged today that prince harry will skip the funeral of his uncle, lord fellowes, amid concerns about his security and safety in the uk. now lord fellowes sadly died last month at the age of 82, having served as private secretary to the late queen for nine years. but having lost a high court challenge earlier this year over his right

to automatic taxpayer funded police protection, harry has insisted it's too dangerous to travel to the uk. >> i think everything that's played out has, has, has shown people what the truth of the matter is. for me, the mission continues . but it has, it has, continues. but it has, it has, yes, it's caused as you say, part of a rift . part of a rift. >> but it comes as harry and meghan are preparing , excuse me, meghan are preparing, excuse me, to jet off to colombia later this month for a four day tour at the invitation of the vice president of the south american country, who, by the way, has to take a black hawk helicopter to work after a bomb threat. but anyway, colombia currently has a murder rate of 25 for every 100,000 people living in the country. that's compared to the uk's murder rate, by the way, of one per 100,000. so is prince harry a complete hypocrite ? harry a complete hypocrite? well, i'm joined now by former royal butler grant harrold and journalist sarah robertson. both of you, thank you very, very much. sarah. is harry hypocrite? >> i think you've answered that question already with your

introduction there, patrick. he is an absolute arch rank hypocrite of the highest order. >> this is a man who claims that this country that we're living in great britain , the country of in great britain, the country of his birth, his birthright, the country that his father governs as king, is too dangerous for him and his good lady wife. the duchess of sussex, meghan markle, to come and visit. he says that their lives are at risk. he lost his battle with with the courts. for the uk taxpayer, that's us muggins here to fund for his armed protection when he comes to the uk in to order protect him and his family. all very noble, of course, but but he then takes himself off to one of the world's most dangerous nations, colombia and that's not me saying that. that is what our foreign office, the uk foreign office, is saying. it's what the american foreign office saying travel there at your peril. and he manages to find security so he manages to find security so he can go off on a jolly with

his wife to colombia for three days, or, as he calls it, a charity charity mission. but if he can do that, why can't he then feel safe in this country? why can't he bring his own security here and do the same again? >> i'll come back to you, sarah grant. yes, i will introduce you into the fray. now, what do you make of this? do you think it's. it's fair for him to say he's not safe in britain? but they are safe in bogota. >> actually, you know what i'm like? i was kind of sitting on the fence a little bit on this one, i think on this occasion i. i can understand what he's saying. i mean, i'm wondering if there's other reasons why he's not coming to the uk for this funeral because again, it's a family. well, an uncle, as you mentioned, private secretary to the queen for several years. he knew him obviously quite well, but i'm kind of wondering if it's not close. close enough, if that makes sense for him to come oven that makes sense for him to come over. you know, sometimes when family members sadly die and sometimes you have to make that decision, do you go or do you not go? and i'm wondering if it's more to down that. i mentioned it. obviously it could

be to do with the fact that he has lost this battle and maybe he is standing, you know, putting his foot down. but i'm kind of wondering if i'm just looking for the point of view that maybe other reasons as to why he's not coming back and again, going to colombia, it's obviously that side of the world. it's, as you've mentioned, it's obviously more dangerous. so i'm sure he'll need security and will be given security. but the other thing is, if he did come to this funeral, if he did come to it, he would still get a degree of royal protection, because if there's other members of the royal family there, which i'm sure there will be, they will still be protection there. >> exactly. yeah. well exactly. isuppose >> exactly. yeah. well exactly. i suppose that's true as well, isn't it, sarah? you know, look, you know, maybe if harry's just honest and, you know, maybe if he is, maybe he just doesn't want to come here and get booed. i mean, maybe that's it. and he's got a right to not want to get booed. i mean, none of us would want that, would we? >> well, you do you do raise a valid point there, patrick. i think the point really is, is that actually he's running a bit scared of coming here. that's the thing he does. he knows his reputation here is shot to

pieces, more or less. and he is frightened. he doesn't he doesn't want to hear negativity and he certainly doesn't want to hear any negativity about about meghan, so i think there is a bit of that there. but but grant picked up a very valid point, which is other members of the royal family will be at this funeral, and he would be a lot safer at the funeral of his of his uncle, his his late mother's brother in law. and then he would be going around going around colombia, for instance . around colombia, for instance. you know, he is going to be a lot safer here. that just goes without saying. and no one's going to tell me otherwise. the other thing i just want to say is, isn't family really meant to come first? i mean, i think about lady jane, his aunt, you know how much she's she's gone out really for prince harry. she always supports him at his ventures when he comes off, comes over here, comes across. and i just think really can you not sort of support her at this time? but it may be there may be other factors at play here in in defence of him, but i do just think he's being completely hypocritical. grant. >> i do wonder as well, if harry

and meghan are doing the right thing by going to places like nigeria or colombia. so i think especially when it comes to colombia, for example, massive question marks over corruption there over, you know , and is it there over, you know, and is it not seen, could it not be seen. maybe they're trying to polish up the reputation of quite a, quite a corrupt country, really. >> this is where it's quite dangerous plastic and normally with any kind of visits now i won't use the word royal because obviously this hasn't been approved by the king. but, you know, with any kind of royal visits, these things are kind of looked into and carefully. a lot of consideration, a lot of planning goes into these kind of these occasions. i mean, a few people have said to me, is this like a royal tour? yes and no. i mean, in theory, they are still members of the royal family. they are doing a tour, but they're not doing it in the name of the king, which is exactly what a royal tour is, is if they were carried out on his behalf. and yes, i mean, it's not the most ideal situation to go somewhere that, as sarah has mentioned, it's a dangerous country as well . you know, it's country as well. you know, it's i wouldn't say it's more dangerous than here in the uk.

and i wonder how they're going to plan that with the security side of it. it's just going to be interesting to see what happens. but i think this is where it becomes, a bit muddy waters when you have royals that are no longer technically working, members of the royal family carrying out official business or tours. and that bnngs business or tours. and that brings into the question of security and, as we've said, coming to the uk, going to that funeral, he probably would be quite safe. he'd be a lot safer. i think, doing that. but i'm just i'm just looking from the point of view. there might be other factors as to why he's not doing it. >> absolutely. fair enough, both of you. thank you very, very much. and great to have you both on the show. so former royal butler grant harrold and journalist sarah robertson and coming up today marks keir starmer's 40th day as prime minister. and luckily for him, tory leadership hopeful robert jenrick has marked his homework . jenrick has marked his homework. >> wander scrap not strengthened reforms to kerb legal migration undone thousands of dangerous criminals released early from our prisons. >> can sir keir starmer claimed that his first 40 days were a roaring i'll get my paneps i'll get my panel's verdict after i deliver

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight i have got the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages for you, so let's do it. we start with the metro. our teacher son kevin, died abroad. we were sent the remains of a 77 year old canadian body swap is arguably the quite insensitive headline the quite insensitive headline the metro have gone for there. but yeah, the parents basically they were given. they were given they were given. they were given the wrong body, which is probably the only way that situation could have got even worse for them, bless them. but the independent revealed ukraine's plan to force putin to retreat in shame. so, so basically ukraine is now invaded russia. and you know, i can see it as a negotiating tactic. but i do wonder at what point people do start to raise serious questions about how much money we keep giving them. but the i save us hit by interest rate drop. but uk mortgage is set to fall to 3.5%, so the interest rate will cut multiple times

before december. apparently the daily telegraph career criminals walk free in soft justice scandal. well this will get people going, won't it? in light of some of the sentences that we are seeing dished out for social media posts at the moment, offenders convicted more than 100 times are still avoiding jail . and this is another story. jail. and this is another story. i'm going to talk about this with my panel. i'm very keen to know you at home or if you're listening on the radio feel about this. starmer caves to train drivers with a 15% pay rise. so apparently the chancellor has also agreed the above inflation salary increase of 5.5% for millions of public sector workers. yet we know that that's going to cost £10 billion. apparently the average driver's salary rises would would rise from 60,000 to just short of £70,000 to be a train driver in britain at the moment, a 15% pay offer. but it is over three years. so there we go. the times tories accused government of caving in with 15% pay offer.

fine. don't rush in new laws for workers, bosses warn . rayner workers, bosses warn. rayner accused of causing real damage to the economy. business leaders have warned that the government is at risk of doing real damage if it pushes ahead too quickly, with an overhaul of workers rights, apparently. anyway, just finally for one for you, the daily mail. they've also gone off on the train drivers. labour offers train drivers bumper pay deal to end the strikes right. time to bring in the panel now. emma, what do you make of this then? 15% for train drivers over three years. >> we are in so much trouble. they've been talking about this black hole in the public finances, and i and i hate to say i told you so, but when they were talking about giving the doctors a pay rise, it was clear that there was going to be a gold rush by all of the others who also sort of holding a gun against labour's head, threatening to strike that they're going to have to increase public sector salaries across the board. and i also think with train drivers, it's a

particularly sore spot because i think people are a bit more sympathetic to nurses. maybe not so much. doctors. nurses don't earn very much, but it's everybody's taxes that go to paying everybody's taxes that go to paying these salaries. and so if, if even even if you're giving a pay, you know, if you're not giving a pay rise to those nurses, there will be carers, nurses, people at the bottom of the economic ladder who are paying to raise those salaries and they're already earning so much. it just seems wrong . wrong. >> well, bill, i'll bring you in this, you know, former labour minister on it, my two questions would be, well, what happens now for the teachers and what happens now for the civil servants? what happens now for gps, etc? the other question is, you know , train drivers, when you know, train drivers, when they've gone on strike, have ruined people's christmases recently. is the message now ruin people's christmases and you get a pay rise? >> well , that's what they've >> well, that's what they've been doing for the last five years at least, and you know, the teachers have already been settled at 5.5%. and to an extent, there's a degree of

rebalancing happening here, because what always happens is the tory governments screw, for want of a better phrase, public sector workers into the ground. labour comes in and you've got to resettle it. this is a 15% deal over three years. that's actually less than some of the deals that the tories were handung deals that the tories were handling out in the last 6 to 12 months in power. but yes, there's a degree of rebalancing taking place. and, you know, in some areas of the public services, there's a huge recruitment crisis because we're not paying enough for public sector workers. >> i would i would say that paying >> i would i would say that paying a train driver 70 zero zero £0, is a hell of a lot of money, and that the average person on the street would baulk at that figure. and let's not remember, let's not forget that the unions have labour around the unions have labour around the balls. they fund them. so the balls. they fund them. so the unions are just flexing their muscles on this . their muscles on this. >> they don't. you know, i've beenin >> they don't. you know, i've been in the in the room when we've been negotiating pay as a

minister and the unions most certainly do not dictate to the labour party and this trade union, the rate, the rate they do, the rail union has a very for want of a better phrase, an aggressive relationship with the labour party. >> okay. is aslef mick whelan. yeah. because he's on he is on labour's. >> yeah, but but but look, look at the stance. the comments of aslef towards the labour party. >> they are but but the guy who has just successfully negotiated a 15% pay rise for his union is on labour. >> do they fund labour? >> do they fund labour? >> march with them. yes, they do through their members, through their members fund labour, the members decide that their political levy should go towards the labour party, and that's what is a conflict of interest. >> well, and what about the conflict of interest? with huge funding from to business the tory party, which in terms of scale has been way above what the trade unions give to the labour party? >> because i don't think people will have much sympathy with somebody who's already earning such a larger salary than them earning, and having having more, you know, a higher salary that

they're paying for. >> what we'll see is what what we'll see is and the same will apply we'll see is and the same will apply with junior doctors, and the same will apply with teachers and the same will apply with train strikes. you know, maybe it will turn out that actually if we just don't have any strikes, if for the next few years maybe people will actually just prefer that as opposed to what their tax bill looks like. i'm sceptical, but we'll have to wait and see. but now, today marks sir keir starmer's 40th day as prime minister and luckily for starmer, tory leadership hopeful robert jenrick has basically given him an absolute kicking . okay, rob an absolute kicking. okay, rob keir's first 40 days in 40s ready ? ready? >> okay go rwanda scrap not strengthened . reforms to kerb strengthened. reforms to kerb legal migration undone. thousands of dangerous criminals released early from our prisons . released early from our prisons. rioters not called out equally a black hole in the public finances invented to justify tax rises and broken promises. winter fuel payments for the elderly ditched levelling up as a priority for government abandoned. >> we still have 20s on that , by >> we still have 20s on that, by

the way, so we've had to cut that short for time reasons. but i mean, how would you assess keir starmer's job? so far? >> i mean, i don't i'm not a fan of generics, but it's pretty abominable. just the first, just over a month now, what is it, 5000 migrants have come across mark white, did an amazing report showing all of the role, like a graveyard of rolled up dinghies, it's just a failure after failure after failure. and, and i think, i mean, i've got a little bit of, of a list here of the various things they've done. but one of the most awful, obviously, in response to the riots is all this talk of clamping down on free speech. but regardless of that, they'd already dropped the or blocked the higher education and free speech bill. so, i just i'm worried about where we're going to be in five years time, to be honest with you, in 40 days, he's upset pensioners is upset. >> the working class, he's embarrassed us on the world

stage. we've now got the owner , stage. we've now got the owner, of x or twitter. elon musk , of x or twitter. elon musk, basically telling the world millions, tens of millions of people as well online that we have no free speech. i think it's been a disaster. >> but elon musk is the world stage online. >> he is . yeah. >> he is. yeah. >> he is. yeah. >> oh, yeah. the man's out of control. and he's allowing hateful views, untruthful views to be propagated. he's an actor who's inserted himself into the political debate to grow his business. >> i think if you if you ask someone on the left whether the first 40 days have been a success for keir starmer and they said yes, then they are lying. >> well go on. >> well go on. >> well, do you think i do say yes and i'm not lying, you know, for jenrick to do that, given his record and the tory record in government of allowing immigration to rip of savaging pubuc immigration to rip of savaging public services, we've been in power for 40. was it. no, no we haven't. we've said you were going to you were going to raise taxes and now they are sorry

there's been no tax rises yet. wait for the budget, the wait for the budget in september, but you know, we've we've started we've been in power forjust 40 days and we've actually handled the biggest crisis in terms of the biggest crisis in terms of the riots that we've seen in this country for over ten years. >> he inflamed the situation terribly with his speech. >> he did not inflame the situation. there were working class. no, he hasn't. he was attacking the far right groups who organised online to get thugs and violent criminals out onto the streets, focused on that far more than he did on the on the initial stabbing, think. >> and now we've seen another child get harehills riots. >> okay. right. all right. well we're going to, we're going to just whizz ourselves on from that slightly. now spare a thought for the former prime minister, liz truss, who walked off stage in a huff yesterday dunng off stage in a huff yesterday during a public speaking event in suffolk after she became the butt of this joke. >> the average american is not doing well and people do vote on. i think it was bill clinton's adviser who said it's the economy, stupid. so i think

that, he will he will, probably win . but what. that, he will he will, probably win . but what . i. win. but what. i. >> you know, i have no idea where that's come from . where that's come from. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> okay. all right. so liz truss has tweeted out since then saying that's not funny and that there's basically a hard left group, a far left group, as she calls it, as activists called led by donkeys that, you know , led by donkeys that, you know, shut down a discussion and, well, caused some kind of security threat. she's she's she's not happy about it. security threat. she's she's she's not happy about it . so she's not happy about it. so there we go. coming up. is elon musk a danger to britain bill. think so. bill definitely thinks so. is he a danger to britain or a fierce defender of free speech? my panel will battle it out when we crown tonight's greatest britain reunion, jackass. but next, after a shocking surge in the number of

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welcome back to patrick christys tonight. i've got a few more

front pages for you, so let's go through them. the guardian ukraine moves deeper into russia and targets air bases. there's also a riddle of a scottish altar at stonehenge. apparently previously thought it came from wales, but now that altar is scottish. i mean, that changes everything, right? the daily express it's cruel to rob pensioners of winter fuel payments. yeah. the express has now launched a campaign to restore payouts for older people. well, i hope they are successful. one of my previous news editors always said to me, don't launch a campaign you don't launch a campaign you don't already know you're going to win . and i don't see how they to win. and i don't see how they win this, unfortunately. but good luck to them. the mirror yeah, shocking news. tommy fury and molly—mae have announced that they are splitting up. that will mean something to love island fans and other people as well . it's over, so that's on well. it's over, so that's on that front page there as well as they just don't care online giants promise to protect our kids. now they have failed. so those are all of your front pages. but i wanted to bring you a story that you might have

missed, mainly because i actually think this is quite funny. all right. so after successfully seeing off the far right walthamstow soya slurping, negroni swilling croissant scoffing wokerati have found a new enemy. this time it's gail's bakery. that's right, new enemy. this time it's gail's bakery. that's right , the bakery. that's right, the up—market bakery chain is facing resistance to its plans for a new shop in a trendy east london town because of the pro—brexit anti—lockdown views of luke johnson , who happens to be the johnson, who happens to be the company's minority investor . a company's minority investor. a whole 500 people have signed a petition to stop it opening, amid concerns it could force other cafes out of business. adrian spurgeon, who's a barista at the independent coffee shop, told the times we've just had this big, diverse counter protest to protect walthamstow from the far right, and i doubt luke johnson would support that. he's very different to the people here. his views are not the same. yeah, i mean jolie and morgan, you know that lawyer who clubbed a fox to death? yeah,

him. and he was sharing, like, sour dough, homemade sourdough recipes so that his luvvie mates could make their own sourdough and not go to gail's. i mean, it's just pathetic, isn't it? absolutely pathetic . let's just absolutely pathetic. let's just reveal today's greatest britain union jackass. because i have a little feeling that that might rear its head there as well. greatest britain, please. from you, emma. >> my greatest britain is luke johnson because of his pro—brexit anti—lockdown views, but also because , his his mere but also because, his his mere existence has elicited that bedwetting quote that you read out there. that his views are not the same. he's just very different to the people here. i mean , it's just so unbelievably mean, it's just so unbelievably pathetic and i think that luke johnson's a bit of a legend, but that wasn't the driver for the petition. >> the driver for the petition was not wanting all the national brands on the high street, wanting some local diversity. i've got some sympathy for that. but it doesn't trump the marketplace in driving competition. >> i mean, i mean, this is it. i mean, there's where i live, there's actually quite an interesting pitch battle going

on because there's a gail's next to a starbucks. right. and the starbucks used to have queues outside it. now the gail's has got queues outside it. starbucks isn't getting lucky. so i do have some sympathy for the barista there. but you know, be better, right, adam. >> right. my nomination is an honorary one and my greatest briton is elon musk for defending free speech in the uk. >> all right. that's got a bell. got bell squirming gordon bell is your greatest brexit. >> seriously, rose harvey absolutely inspirational gp marathon runner who finished the marathon runner who finished the marathon in under three hours despite having broken her leg. she's someone who lost her job dunng she's someone who lost her job during lockdown and to quote her husband and the leg went two miles into the marathon. but she completed it. her husband said she demonstrated exactly why she was picked , showing true olympic was picked, showing true olympic spirit, resolve, determination and grit. i think he's absolutely right. >> so that woman there competing for great britain at the olympics basically broke her leg two miles into the olympic

marathon and finished it. fantastic. well, i tell you what, i could have gone for any of them, but i am going to go for rose harvey there, because i think that is a tremendous effort. so well done. who's your union jackass please, emma. >> well, i've unfortunately anticipated the whole show because i'm nominating the met police as my union jackass, i could i could list countless reasons . i won't bother for reasons. i won't bother for that, i think. yeah, i don't want to get a knock at the door, so i'll just leave it there, okay? >> all right. well, again, we would just like to wish everyone a happy pakistani independence day. >> we want to make that very clear. >> so my nomination is angela raynen >> so my nomination is angela rayner. rayner for scrapping plans to limit social housing to people that have been here ten years or uk citizens. >> so this is the scrapping of that british homes for british workers scheme. >> because it's not necessary, because local councils have that provision in their banding system already. >> so there we go. >> so there we go. >> it would have stopped local councils overriding that none of them do. >> okay. >> okay. >> go on bill, i'm going for the ministry of defence at a time of a huge recruitment crisis for the army, they're blocking

afghan british citizens who are soldiers, soldiers served bravely alongside our troops fighting the taliban. it's an absolutely crazy decision. they're saying they've got to be here five years before they can join the army. not for the first time. the ministry of defence can't see the wood for the trees. >> okay. all right, well, look, i'll tell you why i've gone for this person, angela rayner. because actually, i am concerned on numerous levels about not just the british people living in british houses and all of that stuff, but i am actually quite concerned about what might happen when it comes to who indeed are we going to see living in some of these houses around the country? and where are some of those houses going to be built? i think that's a big one to watch. but look, guys, thank you very, very much. it's been a fantastic show. i've loved all of it. there's some lively debate, to say the very least, and headliners will be up next and they're going to be taking you through in a much more detailed way all of tomorrow's newspapers. so make sure you do keep it gb news. i'll be back as ever tomorrow from 9 pm. where we can do it all again. and thank you to

everybody who makes this show possible. see you tomorrow at nine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office . tomorrow is looking office. tomorrow is looking pretty wet across northern areas across the south, though it should stay mostly dry, but it's going to be a breezier day than today. that's because low pressure is moving in from the north and west overnight. tonight bringing with it a weather front that's going to stick around for a few days, particularly across the north west. moving into the south—east later. so through this evening, the cloud will eventually clear the cloud will eventually clear the far south and east, leaving a dry and fine night for many areas of england and wales. but that wet weather will spread across northern ireland, much of scotland and the temperatures here will pick up into the mid teens overnight. so certainly a much milder night for these areas compared to last night. a fresher night though, to come for many areas of england and parts of wales, and it will be a

fairly bright start to the day, more in the way of sunshine to come for southern areas of england first thing tomorrow. across the west, though, where we're closer to that weather front, we could see some rain, particularly across parts of wales, but the heaviest rain through thursday, particularly in the morning, is going to be across western areas of scotland, moving into northwestern england. some outbreaks of rain also across eastern areas of scotland, but the far north and west of scotland already getting into that clearer weather as that weather front does clear to the south and east or move to the south and east or move to the south and east through thursday, pushing into wales, bringing some more heavier rain for wales through thursday afternoon. as i said, many southern areas of england should stay dry through much of the day. central areas too, but there is going to be more of a breeze around tomorrow. despite that breeze. temperatures still climbing towards the mid 20s but a much fresher feel arriving into the north—west now that rain will push into the south and east through thursday night,

gb news. >> good evening. the top stories from the gb newsroom train drivers are to vote on a new offer aimed at ending their long running pay dispute. that's been announced by aslef union today. aslef said the offer was made in talks at the department for transport, which started after won labour the general election following months of a stalemate under the tory party. the new offer is for a 5% backdated pay rise for 2022 to 2023,