the bayesian, metre tall mast of the bayesian, just visible through the torrential rain and storm force winds. the mast eventually disappears as the vessel tips over and sinks. efforts by divers to reach inside the wreck are being hampered by debris. the body, recovered yesterday, has been formally identified as the vessel's chef, canadian ricardo thomas. among those unaccounted for is british businessman mike lynch and his daughter. well, david tabizel is the friend and former business partner of mike lynch. he spoke exclusively to michelle dewberry earlier tonight and said if anyone can survive , his friend can. >> any chance of him surviving this? he has the strength , the this? he has the strength, the strength to do this. and i hope that we aren't talking in the past tense. he is a remarkable man, and if you've had the blessing and the honour to have

worked with him or known him, this is. he's a force of nature and somebody who i think, will become a business, an intellectual and scientific legend in the decades to come . legend in the decades to come. >> the us secretary of state has arrived in doha this evening as frantic efforts continue to secure a peace deal to end the war in gaza. anthony blinken, speaking in the last few moments, said he would do everything possible to get hamas on board with the proposed bridging deal after israel said it was prepared to accept the interim proposals. meanwhile, the israeli military says it's recovered the bodies of six hostages who were captured dunng hostages who were captured during the 7th of october attacks. israeli military spokesman daniel hagari vowed to double down on efforts to ensure the return of the remaining hostages . emergency services in hostages. emergency services in

lincolnshire were called to rescue dozens of people at a seaside pleasure park earlier this evening. the incident at botton's pleasure park in skegness followed a malfunction of one of the rides. lincolnshire police confirmed 25 people were stranded in mid—air for a number of hours, while fire service personnel attempted to get them down safely. police have also confirmed none of those trapped suffered serious injuries . king charles has injuries. king charles has visited southport today to meet survivors of last month's stabbing attack, which left three schoolgirls dead and others injured. his majesty also took time to meet members of the pubuc took time to meet members of the public who showed up for the visit . earlier, he spoke to some visit. earlier, he spoke to some of those who provided support in the aftermath of the attack. and he also thanked emergency service personnel who dealt with both the stabbings and the riots that followed. well that's it,

you're right up to date with the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to patrick 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. >> is the prime minister living up to his nickname sir flip flop? he told us it would be a government of service. >> i invite you all to join this government of service . government of service. >> it turns out he might have meant serving his union paymasters. we've got the junior doctors aslef teachers, nhs staff and then today , the rmt's staff and then today, the rmt's mick lynch marched into the department of transport. and then starmer said this about taxation. >> we will not raise tax on working people. no tax rises for income tax , for national income tax, for national insurance, for vat. we will not

raise income tax . raise income tax. >> okay. well who's going to pay for all that stuff then. and he said that he'd be all about growth. >> our focus is on growth. that's been the missing ingredient for the last 14 years. it's been slightly the missing ingredient in this campaign as well, because we're not talking enough about how we grow the economy and create wealth, but offering whopping great big pay rises without any conditions for a better service will just cause inflation. >> not growth. and then he suddenly wants people to be able to work from home more, despite that meaning that fewer people will be on trains into work nullifying the point, really, of his bumper trains deal. he slammed the tories for considering cancelling winter fuel payments for pensioners last year. >> the prime minister was apparently drawing up plans to remove the winter fuel allowance from pensioners. so will he now rule out taking pensioners winter fuel payments off them to

help fund his £46 billion black hole. >> and now he's doing it himself. he said this as well about the channel migrant crisis. >> i think that we can smash the vile gangs that are running this trade, that are making a fortune putting people into boats and breaching our border security. i'm not prepared to put up with that. i'm not prepared to put up with that . and that's why i think the that. and that's why i think the serious answer is to smash the gangs. >> and then he scrapped rwanda with no plan b and hasn't even got started getting to work on his new border command. he put this guy in charge of prisons. >> we're addicted to sentencing. we're addicted to punishment. so many of the people who are in prison in my view, shouldn't be there. a lot should, but a lot shouldn't . shouldn't. >> and now we've got operation early dawn to find every single way to lock people up for longer , way to lock people up for longer, even for online comments. if sir keir starmer told you it was raining, you'd probably want to go outside and check, wouldn't you? can britain survive five years of this , prime minister?

years of this, prime minister? let's get the thoughts of my panel let's get the thoughts of my panel. we've got columnist and broadcaster esther krakue, director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, steven woolfe , and prosperity, steven woolfe, and journalist jonathan les. and, esther, i'll start with you. do you think britain will survive five years of the man who's been nicknamed sir flip flop , nicknamed sir flip flop, >> no. but i didn't think i wasn't expecting enthusiasm to decline this precipitously. look he he was. we always think that when a new government comes in, there's sort of a sense of things are going to get better. keir starmer didn't have any of that enthusiasm. maybe rachel reeves, because she seemed like the most competent member of his cabinet. but in general, there was no great enthusiasm for him to begin with. and then just a few weeks into his premiership, you see this sort of chaos erupting. i mean, there's no money. apparently the tories left the economy in a terrible state, but there is money to, to be, to be basically kowtowing to all these public unions. so that's, that's inconsistent. you know, you're, you're stripping pensioners of their winter fuel payments, but you have money to pay payments, but you have money to pay train drivers, even though

trains will eventually become either obsolete or driverless. there are so many inconsistencies and a lot of the things he says, you know, we want to focus on economic growth. okay, but there are no tax cuts coming in. energy pnces tax cuts coming in. energy prices are probably going to stay high. there's no been there's not been any discussion about long term energy, sort of our mix or pricing or anything like that. where is the economic growth going to come from? it looks like taxes are going to go up in the autumn budget. so i mean, there are lots of inconsistencies. forget even just the enthusiasm, really. he seems quite like an absentee prime minister. he's just kind of hiding and trying to wheel out members of his cabinet when it's relevant. but he doesn't even seem to believe in his own vision if he has one. >> well, i mean, stephen, you know, we are. what are we now? six weeks or so in and he promised the government of service. he said, you know, the adults are back in the room and all of that. can you actually trust a single word this guy s ays? says? >> you couldn't trust it before and you can't trust it now. i mean, look, this is the man that tried to avoid actually doing any debates in the way that kamala harris is trying to do.

so in america, they're hiding the fact that they couldn't really do anything. that's everything was about a very well constructed and argument about saying nothing. and when you get bland people doing bland issues, this is what happens when reality hits the face. there's no adults in the room. this is children still at university, just on their first week. this is like their first week in university where they're enjoying themselves. the fact is, will we survive? a nation survives but will we thrive? absolutely not. and i look at one particular figure that's going to really come down on them over a period of time . our them over a period of time. our national debt is rising. the conservatives are a huge amount to do with this. and i'm not not allowing labour to get off the hook on this either when they get involved. but it's 110 billion a year. that's 10.8% of billion a year. that's10.8% of our actual national income . 4.5 our actual national income. 4.5 billion is just an increase in 1% of vat. if we wiped out that 110 billion debt, we'd have no vat. wouldn't that mean we move

the nation of our country contextualised? they won't do that. they're just going to. sorry. >> we spend more servicing our debt. >> we spend more servicing our debt . just just the interest debt. just just the interest payments than we do on the army, on the defence and police combined. yeah, but to just contextualise but if you're going to start spending more on your doctors , on your kind of your doctors, on your kind of train drivers , this is what train drivers, this is what you're going to have. >> and this is why the decline of britain will continue. >> what has keir starmer done right so far ? right so far? >> i mean, give the guy a break. he's been he's been in power for six weeks. obviously there are quite a few of those have taken up quite a few of those have taken ”p by quite a few of those have taken up by the worst civil unrest we've had in what, like 13 years, which actually a majority of the public think that he handled quite well. and i happen to obviously, as aster points out, there has been a decline in popularity in the government. and i confess that happened faster than i thought, because the only major thing that's happened have been the riots, which also a majority of people think he handled quite well. look, i think that we have to bearin look, i think that we have to bear in mind that there's going

to be a long five years, okay? and there are going to be a lot of things that labour does wrong in that time. and when it does, those things wrong. patrick, you know me, i will come on and i will tell you when i think they've done things wrong. i think that there is a risk of there is a risk of overegging there is a risk of overegging the pudding and saying that everything's falling apart, and it becomes a bit like the boy who cries wolf because things are not falling apart. obviously, things have gone terribly in sense of the riots, but that's not a labour's door. no one will blame labour for what happened. >> will you blame him for taking off money from people like my mother, who's not going to have the winter fuel allowance, who is not earning a fortune, as is there 11 million pensioners in this country who will now suffer because of it. which is ironic. >> stephen i actually, stephen, i actually did criticise the reeves move on that by and i have to say patrick, he's not scrapping the winter fuel payment. it's means testing it. so the poorest pensioners in theory will still get it. but obviously there is an issue about very, very rich pensioners who are claiming benefit. they say they don't need. i happen to think the means testing is not a particularly progressive way of

doing things anyway, because the means testing itself sort of sort of overbalances or, you know, outweighs the saving that you make anyway. so there are all kinds of reasons not to means test things, but but obviously the government has to find money. we all agree with that. the question is how they find it. yeah, indeed. >> and when it comes to specifically to one of the major issues that's rearing its head at the moment is the early doors negotiations. non—negotiation that they've got. i mean, you've basically got a procession of union barons with an empty bag walking into various different government departments, asking them to fill that bag up with cash and then leave. i mean, it's not a particularly good start there. it's not. >> and again, this is where i think listening to the public is probably wiser, because not all unions or not all striking unions or not all striking unions are made the same. people have a lot more sympathy with junior doctors, for example, and nurses than than train drivers and university lecturers. so, for instance, the pay rise that train drivers were most recently offered would put the average about like around 70 k. most junior doctors don't see 70 k for the first ten years of their career. and the reason why, when people say we should be listening to the public, it's not because it gives you a

bargaining chip and something to leverage on. if you're going to spend the public's money and just, you know, kowtow to the interests of train drivers, what people are thinking, we won't always need these train drivers. we can take coaches. people have adjusted, but we will always need our doctors and nurses. these are the kinds of decisions that highlight or signal that this is a government that's serious, that the adults are actually back in charge and not just saying it, but actually doing it. yeah. >> so one of the key issues that we've got right now, six weeks into labour is this issue with the unions and potential inflation and taxpayers money. with that, another issue, i suspect, is the idea that he's maybe coming across as quite authoritarian when it comes to things like social media and when it comes to response, in some respects to the riots, is that also a problem? >> absolutely. i mean, look, there's two tier policing has existed since robert peel actually put policing in place. you know, i've been doing a lot more research on this since we looked at it. and when we see the way that the judges acted in peterloo, the way the judges acted in the chester riots, the way they did it in the, you know, right. going back to cromwell's period, this is absolutely something that we've seen here. it's a class issue

very much. these are working class people. we're in charge. we're acting like snobs. we're going to put you in prison straight away. but the fact is, nowadays people are seeing this differently. they're seeing people being put away for standing outside a riot and a judge turning around and saying, just watching it is a crime that isn't acceptable in this country. throwing bricks and putting them through windows gets a prison straight away. everyone agrees, but there's a level down there, and the way that he has actually enacted himself as though he is a modern day cromwell on this, shows me that there is a lack of trust in the british people in our judicial system, and using it to crack down in a very unequal and unfair way. this won't bear well in the long term. >> some quite scathing comments there . it looks as though they there. it looks as though they are physically pained. you, jonathan. >> i think that we have to be realistic about what's happened that labour is not introduce any new sentencing guidelines in its six weeks in power. it has not been. six weeks in power. it has not been . shabana mahmood has not been. shabana mahmood has not been. shabana mahmood has not been present in the courts to hand down sentences. everything

that you're complaining about would have happened under the conservative government. so they you may have a point in some respects about how we prosecute things about the level of sentence. and we've had many conversations about whether some sentences are too lenient in this country, whether some sentences are too harsh. you can say that about some comments that you might make on social media, which you then delete, which you can go to jail for, or being in present on a zoom call talking about blocking the m25 and getting four years for it. you know, this is not two tier policing. it's there is a question about whether you might have an inconsistency in sentencing, which is not which is not the same issue. >> my argument is there is two tier policing because it's based on snobbery. okay. well, the arguments of the way the language that he used as prime minister is not unifying language. it's very divisive language. it's very divisive language . it wasn't really language. it wasn't really understanding the causes and issues of which the vast majority of them. i would have rather him turn around and pointed down to those who were distinctly involved in the crimes, rather than being more broad brush brush than he was. and i think that's his problem.

>> could i just take a very quick straw poll before we move on then? so, so however far into this labour government, we are at the moment, has it gone better or worse than you thought it would have done worse? >> because i'm surprised by how tone deaf they are. >> i think it's just exactly how i thought it thought it would be. this is exactly why no one could have predicted the riots, but i think the labour has done pretty well actually. >> okay. all right. well, hey, a range of views. there we go. good stuff. it's a lively start. thank you very, very much. now we do have a cracking topic coming your way because coming up, the scottish government effectively decriminalised drugs in scotland about three years ago. yet they continue to top the drug death league table. so are the snp to blame? lbc's former political editor theo usherwood cast his expert eye over those shocking stats, plus a tory leadership contender has admitted using ozempic, the weight loss drug. all right. have they been fat shamed ? all have they been fat shamed? all of that is coming your way shortly. but next, keir starmer has set out his plan to turbocharge the path towards net zero, turbocharge the work that we need to do on that energy transition. >> the answer , my friend, is

>> the answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind. >> the answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind . the answer blowin in the wind. the answer is blowin in the wind. >> but will labour's green vision actually make you poorer? director of net zero watch andrew montford goes head to head with environmental scientist professor christian durn. it's live and

next. welcome back to patrick christys

tonight. now coming up, what's publishing alleged remarks by the late queen about donald trump disrespectful to the memory of our great monarch , memory of our great monarch, former senior gardener to the king, jack stooks, gives his unique insight. i want to find out really what happens to people in that royal circle who leak information to biographers and the press. but first, it's time for our head to head. sir keir starmer visited wales today to announce labour's plans to make britain an energy superpower by setting us on a plan to decarbonise at all costs. >> i'm here looking at what's a very important renewable project to discuss with the first minister how we can work more closely together on the renewable projects of the future to turbocharge the work that we need to do on that energy transition. >> ironically, for someone talking about energy, there wasn't a lot of it. there, was there. but with energy bills set to rise by £150 next year. tory leadership candidate robert jenrick hit back at the prime

minister's plan to turbo charge the road to net zero. he said the road to net zero. he said the uk is only 1% of the world's emissions . there's no prizes for emissions. there's no prizes for being the first country in the world to decarbonise. we should be working towards net zero 2050, but we shouldn't be decarbonising faster than our major competitors now. recent research published by the young foundation found that some 40% of uk households could fall into what's called transition poverty. all right. but what do you think, as keir starmer sets out his plan to turbocharge the path to net zero, will labour make britain poorer? let's get our thoughts now . of the two our thoughts now. of the two people going head to head on this, we've got the director of net zero watch, andrew montford, an environmental scientist, professor christian dunn shapps always a pleasure. i will start with you, andrew, if that's okay. do you think that keir starmer is going to make us poorer in this pursuit of net zero? >> absolutely . he's he's >> absolutely. he's he's intending to do what we've been

doing for the last 20 years, but faster and for the last 20 years, electricity prices have gone up almost every year. i think it's something like 17 out of the last 22 years, we've seen electricity price rises. that's almost completely the fault of renewables. so doing more of it is inevitably going to, put pnces is inevitably going to, put prices up even higher , but the prices up even higher, but the problem is that the grid is now reaching the point that, things are going to get worse rather quickly. so in fact, we should be expecting to see, electricity pnces be expecting to see, electricity prices actually accelerating away. now the situation is made rather worse because we also have a war in ukraine and the middle east is in turmoil, and that's pushing gas prices up. so that's pushing gas prices up. so that's that's making things worse as well. but yeah, we're in trouble. >> whichever front you look at, i get i get that. but you know, i get i get that. but you know, i look at things like that and i think the middle east has been

in turmoil since before i was born. you know, it was ever thus. right. so the idea that we keep using that as some kind of excuse seems a little bit odd to me. but professor christian dunn, i'll bring you in. now, you know, why should we just give ed miliband a bag full of cash so he can play the ukulele? near a wind farm? >> well, i most certainly don't want him to be doing that. i have to confess, but should we be giving him a bag of cash, this is a tricky one. because if we don't take action now, then the cost eventually is going to be far greater. if we're then having to face the consequences of climate change. i mean, that sea level rise, excessive flooding, changes in our cropping patterns, all sorts of huge issues which are facing people now and are only going to increase. so we have to do something that's i should should be hopefully a given. how we do that though is that's the tricky bit. and i really don't like the kind of the well, obviously it's good head to head is always good, but confrontation with an issue of such importance, we should be trying to work together on this, and i think net zero do a fantastic job of kind of highlighting some of the issues without a doubt. but we

have to do something about this, and we have to think as a society rather than how much it's going to cost individuals, because this is going to cost individuals money and that's that. that's awful . but we need that. that's awful. but we need a government to be taking a lead on this, and we're always saying that we are. why do governments only think in five year terms and all this? but when a government is trying to think longer term, it goes, oh no, it's going to cost me more money. this is terrible. well, we need that leadership. we need whichever government it is. i don't care what colour it is. we need a government to be taking us in the right direction. >> i think the harder sell. and i'll put this to you, andrew. is this why? why the heck do we have to be first? why the heck do we have to be this world leader in it? i mean, ross robert jenrick said there, there's no it doesn't appear to be any prizes for coming first. i don't think apart from maybe we bear the initial brunt of the cost. i don't know. what do you think about that? do we have to be the first? >> well, yeah. i mean, there's two things to say there, one is i would take issue with christian's position that we have to do something about this. yeah, that's that's essentially

a religious approach to the question to say we just have to do it. question to say we just have to doit.the question to say we just have to do it. the rational approach is to say, do the costs outweigh the benefits? and that that case has never been made. the government's never put forward a proper cost benefit analysis of net zero. so, you know, that's something we should be able to agree on that we should do this rationally. now, if we do need to do it, should we be the ones doing it first? well, no. almost certainly not. there are people with more money than us. better technology than us. and you know, this has become a way for our political leaders to grandstand and to say, look, we're leading. look at me. i'm taking the world. the world is following me. except, of course, the world isn't following us. you know , the rest of the world you know, the rest of the world is largely carrying on regardless. you know, china and india are just are just, you know, digging up coal and burning it just as fast as they possibly can because, you know, they know what real poverty is, and, you know, their people are not going to accept, you know, intermittent energy or no energy

at all. and so, you know, their governments are leading the way with fossil fuels. we are just, you know, we are almost a laughing stock now because we are destroying our own economy on what is essentially a wild goose chase. >> well, i will put exactly that to you, christian. you know, are we at serious risk of becoming an international laughing stock by deliberately destroying our own economy? >> okay, well, before i will have to obviously confront the religious side of climate change. i'm a scientist, so i'm looking at the science in the same way that i would use modern medicine to make myself better. i believe if you want to say that the science when it comes to climate change, however, are we going to become a laughing stock with this, well, britain , stock with this, well, britain, if britain can lead the way, then we should. we led the way on so many other issues throughout history, and if we can lead the way on this, perhaps, perhaps we should still have some pride in our country, and perhaps we should be leading on this. but also, crucially, what i would stress is that who gets first in all this cutting emissions is irrelevant. really. what is important is by cutting emissions, we're going to be

adding so many benefits to our society, and especially in terms of the economy in the long term as well. there are so many different advantages to this rather than well, like what? >> come on, come on. why are they why are they come on. >> well, by cutting emissions, eventually , especially if we eventually, especially if we don't just go with renewables, if we do look at things like nuclear, for example, which we should be looking at, we will have far cheaper electricity and abundant electricity, and we'll also have less pollution. we'll have cleaner rivers. we'll have such a better place to live. you know, we've got things like nature based solutions, which is what we should be incorporating this to kind of six cap store and capture carbon and so i mean we could obviously we could move on, but there's so many advantages to this if we think long term rather than just short term . term. >> okay. but i mean, i think i do think we have reached some kind of consensus there, although the question of whether or not we think this is worth it is obviously we have a point of difference, but this is going to cost us, isn't it, what labour

wants to do at the moment? i think we can agree is fundamentally going to cost each and every one of us. can i get some nods or a shake of the head there? because we are a bit out of time, but yeah, yeah, right. okay good. so i suppose the question is fundamentally, isn't it, whether or not we think it's worth it. some people do think that other people don't. thank you very much. great head to head. lovely stuff. who do you agree with? will labour make britain poorer? guarionex says net zero is one of the biggest cons the world has ever seen. adrian says net zero is turbocharging poverty. joel says give the leaders a chance to lead. uk is so toxic for politicians. well, look, your verdict is now in. 87% of you think that labour will make britain poorer as a result of this. oh, 97%. well, we had a late surge. 97% of you agree that labour will make britain poorer. 3% of you say that it won't. coming up now, a new biography has sensationally claimed the late queen slammed donald trump. is this really true? and frankly, does this leak now disrespect her majesty's memory? i'm going to speak to a real palace insider

called jack stooks , who was called jack stooks, who was senior gardener to the king until a month ago. all right. so he really knows what it's like in that inner circle. i want to know, really, what happens if you do leak information? do you just get ousted? plus, i'll show you what happens next. here okay. but next three years after the snp effectively decriminalised drugs, scotland's worst in europe, drug deaths rose by another 12% last year. so has the snp failed. the scots former lbc political editor theo usherwood gives his take on that. plus labour's planned release of some 200,000 prisoners. and i'll reveal which tory leadership contender admitted to taking weight loss drug ozempic. have they

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight coming up, has whoever leaked the late queen's alleged remarks about donald trump disrespected the memory of our great monarch ? i speak to great monarch? i speak to a former palace insider, but first, i'm very grateful to be joined by former lbc political editor usherwood. now, three years ago, scotland's snp government effectively decriminalised drugs in what it hoped would be a magic bullet to solve the crisis. but the latest figures show that its plan to remove the stigma on class a drugs by only issuing warnings for possession has failed because scotland's posted a shocking 12% increase in drug deaths to 1172 for the year 2022

to 2023. so it's 22.7 drug deaths per 100,000 people. makes it the worst uk region by a long way, and it's 277 deaths per 1 way, and it's 277 deaths per1 million people means it tops europe's drug deaths table by a shamefully long way as well, which is pretty shocking, really, isn't it? anyway theo joins me now. has the snp failed? really? i mean, how has it failed as well? >> so i think this is this comes down to how do you approach the misuse of class a drugs like heroin primarily, and the approach that's been taken in scotland is to not to legalise it. but as you refer to it, effectively decriminalise it by saying , okay, if you're caught saying, okay, if you're caught with a small amount of heroin that you can obviously prove you're not trying to deal with for your personal use, then you're going to be subject to a police warning rather than prosecution. and the hope is then that by doing that, it is possible that you don't push users underground and that you

can sort of bring them in and there can be treatment rooms and so forth where they can use drugs safely with with clean needles and so forth. and that actually the hope was and initially the figures seem to bear this out because there had been a drop in the number of misuse deaths from 2022 through to 20, well, 2021 through to 2022, but then it's now gone back up again by 12%. so the feeling that if there was any optimism from having adopted this policy seems to have gone . this policy seems to have gone. and of course, now the critics are circling and saying, well, hang on a moment. clearly, if you take the approach of turning , you take the approach of turning, you take the approach of turning, you know, of saying, well, using class a drugs isn't a matter that's going to see you brought before the courts that actually it doesn't necessarily help because you're not necessarily controlling the supply of these drugs. you're not controlling the actual drugs that people are using. and maybe scotland will actually and the snp may well use this argument to go even further in trying to control the supply of drugs as well, rather

than just saying try to blame westminster , really, who's in westminster, really, who's in charge of our health or, you know , it's westminster, it's the know, it's westminster, it's the tories who've made cuts to a variety of different services. >> but i mean, how much directly is the snp to blame for. >> so this is, this is a, this is you know, health in scotland is you know, health in scotland is a devolved matter. it's a subject, you know, it's run by the scottish, the scottish government in holyrood. this isn't westminster. you can if you want to have an argument about the barnett formula against the technicalities of that, go for it. but this is this is a this is a policy that is specifically scottish. scottish. it's not, it's not, it's not it doesn't apply to the rest of the uk. >> yeah. okay. well it's interesting interesting to note that i mean another issue that's frankly probably going to affect all of us really is so about 2000 prisoners apparently are going to be freed early on a single day next month. yes. in an attempt to tackle the overcrowding crisis, the offenders are all serving sentences of less than five years will be released after serving roughly 40% of those sentences. now the ministry of justice activated emergency

measures as the arrest of these rioters increased pressure on prisons. i mean, a couple of issues here. do we know what kind of offenders these are? are they going to be violent offenders? they're going to be sex offenders? >> no. so the government has said that if you're in prison for domestic abuse, terrorism, sexual offences and some violent offences, you are not going to be eligible for this scheme and rioters or anybody convicted as a result of rioting or the violence that we've seen in the country up and down the country, they are not going to be subject to operation early dawn, so they're not going to see their prison term go from 50%, which is when you release after halfway, serving down to 40%. it's not going to happen , but it's not going to happen, but there will be, i think , there will be, i think, questions further down the line about how does the government deal with overcrowding in prison? because if you have and i was speaking to charlie taylor, the chief prisons inspector, this is this is a problem that would have affected any government that came in,

whether rishi sunak won it or keir starmer won the election . keir starmer won the election. but if you have a prison population, which is running at 99% at capacity and you have overcrowding you, the practicalities are that you have to lock people up for 22, 23 hours a day and you and look, patrick, you know where i stand on this right? retribution and a deterrent. that's why people go to prison. but there's a third reason. and that's rehabilitation. because you don't want people going back into prison committing, having committed another offence. but you can't do that rehabilitation work when those who are working in the prisons have no choice because of the overcrowding, to simply leave inmates in their cells . so and the other thing, cells. so and the other thing, and this is where i think it may get a little bit more controversial further down the line. and the government hasn't yet announced this, but they've previously rejected keir starmer's and lord timpson previously said they're not looking at it, but i think they are going to look at it further in the not so distant future and that's in in what they call indeterminate present, indeterminate present, indeterminate sentences for pubuc

indeterminate sentences for public protection . and this was public protection. and this was something that actually was introduced by lord blunkett dunng introduced by lord blunkett during the tony blair years, where people were judges, if they looked at a particular offender and said , you're so offender and said, you're so dangerous to the public, you pose such a threat , i'm not even pose such a threat, i'm not even going to set a jail term. you're going to set a jail term. you're going to set a jail term. you're going to go behind bars until the parole board says that you're safe. then and then you can be released. and it was happening a lot during the early early noughties, during the blair years. but then, of course, ken clarke , the course, ken clarke, the conservative justice secretary, abolished it and there was an outcry about it because you're having people going to prison and never being released. but i think that labour will go back to this in the too not distant future. and that counts for about a thousand prisoners, because whilst they're not sentencing people to these ips, there are those who are currently in prison who are subject to them. >> i suppose the major risk in the short term for labour would be that some of these people that they release out early do go on to commit a horrific offence. and then it emerges that they were let out early, and maybe someone who did something a bit fruity on social

media, which may or may not have deserved a prison sentence, but was possibly less bad than an actual murder or something, and, you know, was was sent to prison as a result of that person being freed. but we'll have to wait and see, and hopefully that never happens. >> but but the other, the other thing is that you have people who are, you know, waiting their sentencing, but they want, you know, the judges are looking at the prosecution. prosecutors are looking at saying, we want to send this person to prison. and they're just there waiting for their court date because they've got no place to put them in. and so you can say, well, actually, you could have that individual who's committed a really serious crime. they may even have admitted that they may even be convicted, but they're out on bail and they're not behind bars because there's not a prison place available. so in this invidious situation, yeah. >> no, indeed. now i just want to round us off with a different story. actually. now this is quite interesting. so tory leadership contender robert jenrick has hesitated to use the word admitted because it sounds like he's done something wrong here, but he's admitted taking the weight loss drug ozempic last year. so he told politico. to be honest, i was overweight. itook to be honest, i was overweight.

i took ozempic for a short penod i took ozempic for a short period of time, didn't particularly enjoy it, but it was helpful. since then , i've was helpful. since then, i've just lost weight in the normal way by eating less, eating more healthily, doing some exercise, going to the gym, going running. i've lost four stone in 12 months. one thing i will say about that straight off the bat is congratulations for losing four stone in 12 months. whatever way you've done it, i think that's brilliant. it did also add an element of this that made me chuckle a little bit, because it was the old kind of thing of, have you have you ever have you ever smoked cannabis? well, i did it, but i didn't inhale, you know, so you've done ozempic. well, i did it, but i didn't enjoy it, you know. and i thought that was quite. has he been fat shamed though by almost because he was tom tugendhat almost made him come out and say this because he alluded to one of the other candidates. >> look, he said he didn't enjoy it. the side effects are pretty brutal from ozempic. by all accounts. it's a family show. patrick so i'm not going to go into them, but you can find them on the nhs website, i think it's not just a question for politicians, you know, it's a it's a wider question, isn't it, where you, you know, image is, is believed to matter. and this

isn't a new phenomenon. we think back to george osborne when he was of course, thinking about, you know, trying to improve his image in the treasury. would he potentially take over from david cameron in number 10? and he went he went on a quite a stringent fitness regime that saw him doing laps and press ups in saint james's park and, and having a new sza star haircut and special sort of poses on the, on the, on the platforms at conferences and so forth. you know, the politicians do have these, you know, they do have these, you know, they do have these sort of makeovers. and if you're going to be leader of the opposition, there's no way around it. you're going to be on telly most days. there will be a calculation amongst those who work for robert jenrick that people will make some fairly instantaneous decisions, not necessarily listening to what he has to say, but just looking from looking at his appearance and taking a view as to whether they like him or not. based on that. and it's not. it's not particularly a world that i would necessarily want to live in. and i'm sure many of your viewers want wouldn't want to live in where people make those have those first impressions. but, you know, from mrjenrick's but, you know, from mr jenrick's point of view and from those who

work for him, i think there's probably they've come to a view that actually he could shape up a little bit. and for his public image, given that they're hoping to take this where they are taking this leadership campaign very seriously. >> yeah, indeed. look, theo, thank you very, very much. we've managed to whiz our way through several different top topics out there. coming up, this man is representing us on the global stage, by implication , you're stage, by implication, you're comparing the erg to the nazi party , or at least to the south party, or at least to the south african racists. >> now, whatever you think about the erg, that was an unacceptable comparison, wasn't it, andrew? >> i would say that that wasn't strong enough. >> good stuff. but as he's been snubbed now by israeli leader benjamin netanyahu . is our benjamin netanyahu. is our foreign secretary bad for britain? i'm going to get stuck into that at ten. but next, a new biography is sensationally claimed. the late queen slammed donald trump. is it really true? and does the leak disrespect her majesty's memory? i'm going to speak to a palace insider called stokes, who was

and. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, a sensational new biography has claimed that queen elizabeth found donald trump very rude . found donald trump very rude. and our late, great monarch, who hosted the ex—us president twice dunng hosted the ex—us president twice during her reign, allegedly particularly disliked the way he looked over her shoulder as if in search of others. more interesting, she's also said to have believed that trump and his wife, melania, must have had some sort of arrangement. the astonishing claims are made by a chap called craig brown in his new book, a voyage around the queen. but do these claims now disrespect our late, great monarch, who famously was incredibly private when it came to this kind of stuff? i'm joined now by a true palace insider, jack stokes, who was the king's senior gardener until very recently. thank you very much. great to have you on the show. and does this actually disrespect our queen's memory? do you think ? do you think? >> well, patrick, thanks for having me on the show. >> well, patrick, thanks for having me on the show . yes, having me on the show. yes, i think completely it does. it doesn't seem any point or reason for this to have have come

about. so to, to sort of suddenly start claiming these things that somebody who has passed without giving them the opportunity to sort of defend themselves and say, well, actually, hang on a minute, that wasn't quite what was said, as we know, we know what the queen was like as a person. we know that in her reign , she never put that in her reign, she never put a foot wrong. so why would she suddenly get to a point in her life where she suddenly goes, oh, let's put my foot wrong. it's just it's not something she would do . it's just ridiculous. would do. it's just ridiculous. >> and look , presumably this >> and look, presumably this individual who's written this, he's going to say he's got sources to back this up. but you've been in the kind of inner circle of the palace, etcetera. what happens to people who do decide that they go and leak this kind of information ? this kind of information? >> i think the trouble is, you know , the family meet and speak know, the family meet and speak to so many different people around the world, and it's quite easy for people to say, oh, this was said or that was said. and to suddenly have have a discussion that was misconstrued . discussion that was misconstrued. or somebody might think that they overheard something else

being said that wasn't quite true, or they sort of got the tail end of an of an argument or the tail end of a conversation. there's so many ways that that these kind of rumours can, can come about, but i just can't see why the queen would have have done anything like that. it just doesn't. it doesn't seem or show anything that she would be that way, even inclined to want to do. >> and i mean, you were the king's senior gardener until very recently. what will king charles be making of seeing these kind of inflammatory things on the front of the mail? and serialised in the mail as well? presumably he'll be, you know, quite, quite annoyed about that. will he ? that. will he? >> oh, completely. i don't see why people will think that it's okay in any way, shape or form to, to try and bring, bring down the late queens, sort of way of life. i mean, as we know how she was as a person throughout her career, she was amazing to and have that legacy, to sort of follow that on to and have

somebody trying to, sort of ignite some kind of flames into into it. it's just it's not it's not right to do that, especially to the monarchy. now, today, i mean, they've been through so much. they're going through so much. they're going through so much at the moment. and the last thing they need is to, is to have this brought up when, you know, they're dealing with so much. >> no, indeed . and presumably >> no, indeed. and presumably you got to know the king relatively well as well there. i mean, do they ever confide in people? do they ever pass comment i mean, does this kind of stuff ever conceivably happen? i'm not asking you to reveal anything. if he has, of course, but do they ever have any kind of these private, unguarded conversations with the people who work around them? >> i think as as they are, i mean, they they are what we sort of tend to forget is they are actually a family. so you just like you or i, we might have conversations with people we trust and family and friends and they say things that, that are personal, that it might be, you know, something as silly as the queen saying to her daughter, oh, what what are you going to

what dress you're going to wear to such and such an event? and, you know, people can overhear things like that and then sort of say, oh, isn't it great that the queen was so normal? and that's what we don't tend to see with the royal family because we see them on show all the time. we don't see that side. so of course they are going to have personal, private conversations with with their, their friends. >> is there a bit of a code amongst staff though, just to never bring that up? i mean, is that a massive taboo? >> what to bring up what was said, gossip about it? >> yeah, yeah . >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> oh no. completely. i mean you you know what you can say and what you can't say obviously with, with anything it's, it's nice to know that they've got staff that that can appreciate and respect their privacy. >> i've just got to ask one thing though. and he has gone pubuc thing though. and he has gone public with this in the past. but you are the only person who ever thought i could realistically ask this and get a straight answer to did. does the king talk to his plants? >> well, as as we heard, we i think it was alan titchmarsh who

actually asked him the question on on a bbc programme and he actually said at the time, yes, i do. so it actually came from his very mouth. >> you you've got to stay with it. look, thank you very much. i do hope to chat to you again very soon, but thank you for sharing a wonderful little insight there into what royal life really looks like. as jack states, there is a genuine palace insider as the king's gardener until very, very recently. coming up, the first transgender paralympian has hit back now at her critics. his critics branding them jealous, should valentina petrillo be allowed to compete? former british olympian maria mckee weighs in, but next israeli leader benjamin netanyahu has refused to meet david lammy over his decision, amongst other things, to back an international arrest warrant for him. but you add that to a very long list of things and when i come back i'll be having a firm and frank discussion about whether our foreign secretary is now an international embarrassment to britain. you're not going to want to miss that. stay tuned for that warm feeling inside

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gb news. >> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight. >> if it feels like neighbourhood policing has vanished, it's not around you. we haven't seen a police. while i've been here, and i've been here for a little while now. >> yeah, it's foreign secretary david lammy, now an international laughing stock as well as a domestic one. >> also, we will not raise tax on working people. no tax rises for income tax, for national insurance, for vat. we will not raise income tax , starmer said. raise income tax, starmer said. >> no taxes on working people , >> no taxes on working people, but we're not having it. >> we're going to keep this

fight up and we'll keep going until we get an agreement that we can support yet another union baron looks to have labour by the proverbials. >> what does that mean for your money? and stanley petrillo . money? and stanley petrillo. >> petrillo sulphinyl , that's >> petrillo sulphinyl, that's a biological man. >> they're running as a woman at the paralympics , but he's hit the paralympics, but he's hit back now against his critics. i've got all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages with broadcaster and columnist esther krakue, director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity stephen wolfe, and journalist jonathan lewis . oh, journalist jonathan lewis. oh, and can you tell me, please, what happens next here? hey, get ready britain. here we go . ready britain. here we go. is david lammy really bad for

britain? next. >> good evening. it's just after 10 pm. the latest news from the gb. news centre. new video has been released showing the moment a british super yacht disappeared from view in a major storm off sicily early on monday morning. the grainy security camera footage shows the 75 metre tall mast of the bayesian, just visible through the torrential rain and storm force winds. the mast eventually disappears as the vessel tips over and sinks well. efforts by divers to reach inside the wreck are being hampered by debris. a body recovered yesterday has been formally identified as the vessel chef ricardo thomas. those unaccounted for include british businessman mike lynch, while david tabizel is the friend and former business

partner of mike lynch. he spoke exclusively to michelle dewberry earlier tonight and said if anyone can survive, his friend can. >> any chance of him surviving this? he has the strength, the strength to do this and i hope that we aren't talking in the past tense, he is a remarkable man and if you've had the blessing and the honour to have worked with him or known him, this is he's a force of nature and somebody who i think, will become a business, an intellectual and scientific legend in the decades to come . legend in the decades to come. >> the us secretary of state has arrived in doha this evening as frantic efforts continue to secure a peace deal to end the war in gaza. anthony blinken said he would do everything possible to get hamas on board with the so—called bridging deal with the so—called bridging deal. after israel agreed to the interim proposals.

>> we're working in our different ways to try to ensure that there is not escalation, sending the necessary messages to all of the potential actors , to all of the potential actors, including iran and including hezbollah , to avoid taking any hezbollah, to avoid taking any steps that could escalate the conflict or spread it. we're unhedin conflict or spread it. we're united in our work with the parties to try to bring this agreement across the finish line, and qatar and egypt in particular, are in direct contact with hamas working to bnng contact with hamas working to bring it along. >> well, meanwhile, the israeli military says it's recovered the bodies of six hostages who were captured during the 7th of october attacks. israeli military spokesman daniel hagari vowed to double down on efforts to ensure the return of the remaining hostages . emergency remaining hostages. emergency services in lincolnshire were called to rescue dozens of people at a seaside pleasure park earlier this evening. the

incident at botton's pleasure park in skegness followed a malfunction of one of the rides. lincolnshire police confirmed 25 people were stranded in mid—air for a number of hours, while fire service personnel attempted to get them down safely. police have also confirmed none of those trapped suffered serious injuries . king charles has injuries. king charles has visited southport today to meet survivors of last month's stabbing attack, which left three schoolgirls dead and others injured . his majesty also others injured. his majesty also took time to meet members of the pubuc took time to meet members of the public who showed up for the visit. earlier he spoke to some of those who provided support in the aftermath of the attack and he also thanked emergency service personnel who dealt with both the stabbings and the riots that followed . and your right up that followed. and your right up to date , let's get back to to date, let's get back to patrick for the very latest gb

news direct to your smartphone , news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> keir starmer's decision to make david lammy our foreign secretary, is looking like an absolute disaster. many people in britain already felt lammy was a complete laughing stock. whether it was for this gaffe , whether it was for this gaffe, if it feels like neighbourhood policing has vanished, it's not around you . around you. >> we haven't seen a police while i've been here, and i've been here for a little while how. >> now. >> or there was this performance on mastermind, who acceded to the english throne at the age of nine on the death of his father, henry the eighth, in 1547, henry the seventh, edward the sixth. he's never been one for general knowledge. when lammy was asked if replacing boris johnson was a goodidea if replacing boris johnson was a

good idea during the ukraine conflict, he reportedly said churchill replaced chamberlain just days before the second world war. lloyd george replaced asquith weeks into the somme and anthony eden lost his job during the suez crisis. but unfortunately for our foreign secretary, all three of those historical facts are wrong. there was the time that he thought the bbc was racist for asking if the smoke coming from the chimney of the sistine chapel as the world awaited news on the selection of a new pope would be black or white, he said. this tweet from the bbc is crass and unnecessary. do we really need silly innuendo about the race of the next pope ? but the race of the next pope? but silly gaffes aside, he also tends to put his foot in it politically too. there was the time he slammed the then us president donald trump, saying trump is not only a woman hating, neo—nazi, sympathising sociopath, he is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of western progress for so long. well, that might make it a little bit tricky for britain to work with trump if he

becomes the next president. david lammy also has form for calling people nazis. >> by implication, you're comparing the erg to the nazi party or at least to the south african racists. now, whatever you think about the erg, that was an unacceptable comparison, wasn't it , andrew? wasn't it, andrew? >> i would say that that wasn't strong enough . strong enough. >> yeah, and he backed calls for israeli leader benjamin netanyahu to be arrested if he ever sets foot in britain, which was a bit silly given that israel is a major ally in that region . and it also meant that region. and it also meant that when david lammy took it upon himself to go and sort out the middle east single handedly, he got this reception from the israeli premier yeah, that's right, he totally snubbed him. totally snubbed him. israel is now snubbing britain because of david lammy. in another epic fail, mr lammy has apparently wearing a badge supporting israeli hostages being held by hamas. that was when he was in israel, and then he took that badge off to go and meet the

palestinian leader, presumably thinking no one would notice apart from the fact that we all did. although he probably learnt that from his boss, sir keir starmer, who was criticised for taking his poppy off when talking to the muslim community not that long ago. look, you had all of that together and i wonder is david lammy an international laughing stock who's bad for britain on the world stage? let's get the thoughts of my panel . we've got thoughts of my panel. we've got columnist and broadcaster esther krakow, we've got the director of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, steven woolfe, and we've got journalist as well. jonathan, liz, esther is david lammy, a massive international embarrassment for britain? >> yes. but i don't think this occasion is the best way to, that best signifies this . i that best signifies this. i don't think he's qualified. i think he's one of the poorest, actually, politicians we've had in a very long time, you used to have politicians in this country that were from all walks of life

that were from all walks of life that were from all walks of life that were very well read, very educated, he doesn't seem to be ehhen educated, he doesn't seem to be either. that being said, i think it looks worse on netanyahu to cancel or to snub the foreign secretary than it does on david lammy, because you don't see a sort of his predecessors in that role doing the same thing. it's very immature and childish. the uk is still an ally of israel. if they're going to snub the foreign secretary because of something that he did, well, okay, what about the next foreign secretary? >> it is a bit tricky. >> it is a bit tricky. >> you only like the uk when we do. when? when the country or the foreign secretary does what you want? well i suspect that they might like them more. >> if the foreign secretary didn't say that, you'd arrest him if he ever set foot in britain. >> well, he withdrew. he withdrew the uk's objections to the icc case. whatever you think about him, there has been a change in government. there are backbenchers that are putting pressure on him. that's how the nature of the democracy works. but i do think he's woefully underqualified. okay. >> i mean, we've seen his performance on mastermind there for a start. do you think that keir starmer's decision to make him foreign secretary really cuts to the core of whether or not our prime minister has good

judgement? >> i think absolutely not. i mean, i can never forget the time that i was actually on with andrew neil on daily politics show when the debate about what was who would fight the indians, who fought for britain during the second world war, and david lammy came out and said a million indians fought for the european project. >> so yeah, i could have put that spin on. >> you could have put that. and i just thought to myself, well, you know, this what hitler's european project, the project that killed millions of jews and wanted to go on forever. and that said to me, this is a man that said to me, this is a man that went to oxford. he absolutely embarrasses himself in his degree from there by his lack of historical knowledge, the lack of capability of being linguistically interesting in the way that he speaks about things. and obviously he makes these mistakes on a regular basis. and why he has made one of the most important roles in government. foreign foreign secretary is beyond me. other than what deal was done to ensure that starmer was the leader and the backstabbing of

jeremy corbyn. that happened before that. >> okay, jonathan, yet again, you look pained by this. >> i just think it's such a ridiculous conversation. i think david lammy is one of the best labour people in parliament, actually. look, i've, i've interviewed i've interviewed him. i've found him extremely intelligent and engaging. we had a conversation about all kinds of political and foreign policy issues for magazine, for several hours. i was really interested, and i'm not impressed by every mp i meet. i can guarantee that . mp i meet. i can guarantee that. patrick, i think it's interesting, though, because emily thornberry, for instance, was snubbed of a cabinet role because she was the rumours that she was seen as a bit ditzy, a bit unqualified, and all of that. >> i actually think emily thornberry has on many occasions been a lot more impressive than david lammy. so i don't understand this. >> it's not either or apart from she doesn't think either or british and also and also i will tell you that he wrote a brilliant book called tribes. he wrote it. he wrote it. well, look, i thought it was . look, i thought it was. >> are we certain there wasn't a ghost—writer involved ? were you involved? >> it was an interesting.

>> it was an interesting. >> it was an interesting. >> i know you're a brilliant writer, jonathan. it was a brilliant book. i can't believe you wrote it. >> there is the perception that maybe at times david lammy has said some stupid things, like people are worse than the nazis or, you know, lazy. >> we've all said. we've all said stupid things. come on. i've not tweeted about foreign secretary coming out the sistine chapel. look david lammy, look, i think he's actually been a really good shadow foreign secretary. he's made a lot of good relationships. you mentioned the whole thing with trump, he's actually built quite good relationships with the republican party, just by who's leading it? no, i think he's i think he's actually made he's made inroads with some of the people around trump. he accepts his role now as different from his role now as different from his role now as different from his role as a backbencher fighting brexit. by his own admission . and he's not you admission. and he's not you know, he's he's he's left that that side of things behind. and when it comes to the issue that we're talking about right now, when he said he single handedly taking it upon himself to solve the middle east, i mean, that's just it's just nonsense. it's not true. he went with the french foreign minister, obviously, you know, no foreign secretary just arrives in a

foreign country uninvited. that's simply not what happens. he he went he met the israeli foreign minister. he met various people. i think he met the president as well. netanyahu is facing indictment by the icc. britain is signed up to the icc. when you when you make it out as though the uk government is going to go out of its way to arrest him if he comes on uk soil, the uk is a signatory, is compelled to by because of the icc. >> we can't ignore it. yet again, we could ignore that. no we couldn't, we couldn't. we can. we obviously can ignore it. there's no need for it. >> what is the what is the point of being signed up to being an ally in the middle east at a time of signed up to it, then you're signed up to international law when it benefits allies. that's. but we are. i would be fascinated to see what happens if trump wins in november. well, because that's the same as what happens when biden's president can. >> i just said to you to just inqu >> i just said to you to just insult a future president, do we think, do we think that the world takes that man seriously? because there are so many people in this country who do not take

david lammy seriously for a variety of different reasons. so do we really think that the rest of the world? >> no. >> no. >> i think actually a lot of people are looking at britain as a walkover state. no, i think they're looking at us. easy meat, being able to accept everything that we do. macron's having a whale of a time with with them at the moment. he can do whatever he likes over the immigration issues and we'll just do it and accept it, because that's what europe i think the reason why people don't take him seriously is because he shows a distinct lack of wisdom. >> it shouldn't be said to you that one day you may be foreign secretary, or one day you might have to deal with trump to not tweet something like that. it doesn't matter who it is. it could have been anyone. it could have been about trudeau. and that's the issue. it's because of the way he conducts himself. you command respect by your behaviour, not just it's not given to you, you earn it. >> i've not i've i've not heard. you know, i am very open to criticisms of various ministers. and if there are some ministers who are not taken seriously, i'd be very happy to have that conversation. i just don't think that lammy is one of them. i haven't heard any chatter about foreign governments in the very short time that he's been

foreign secretary, or indeed the couple of years that he was shadow foreign secretary before that, about sort of thinking that, about sort of thinking that he was some kind of pushover or not a serious candidate. well look, we have had unserious foreign secretaries liz truss was an unserious foreign secretary. i do not think that david lammy is all right. >> well, yet again, a range of views. you'd love to see it. now, responding to the netanyahu snub, the foreign office said there was no plans to meet prime minister netanyahu during this visit. this government is committed to upholding international law. we have made clear that we will not export items if they might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law. there is an ongoing review process to assess whether israel is complying with international humanitarian law, which the foreign secretary initiated on day one in office. now, coming up, i'll bring you the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. i will also finally show you what happens next. here and next. the first transgender paralympian has hit back at his critics, branding them jealous. i mean, should valentina petrillo be allowed to compete ? petrillo be allowed to compete? former british olympian mara

yamauchi is live and she's

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight, the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages are heading your way in a second. but first, the paralympics. first openly transgender runner valentina petrillo has branded critics of his participation jealous. the partially sighted italian who

transitioned in 2019, having previously won 11 national titles in three years whilst competing as a married father of two, said it's only fair that each of us can express ourselves in our own gender. sport should teach us the value of inclusion and this is fundamental for people's happiness. i gradually understood that you have to live with people's envy and jealousy . with people's envy and jealousy. unfortunately, it will. german paralympian catherine mueller rothgardt, who will compete against the italian in the 200m, expressed her fear over petrillo's advantage heading into the race because he trained as a man for a very, very long time. so is it only fair that petrillo is banned from competing to discuss this? i'm joined now by former british olympian mari yamauchi. mara great to see you again. thank you very, very much. so you know , you very, very much. so you know, we are we just jealous here. is this what it is? we're envious. are we? >> honestly, it's laughable really. he's causing unfairness for huge numbers of female athletes. >> you know, males in the female

category is unfair. it's unsafe in some sports for him to describe critics of his, you know , causing this unfairness as know, causing this unfairness as jealous is, is frankly laughable. he he is male. he's 50 years old. he should not be competing against the world's best female paralympians. >> yeah. i mean, there's a few things, as you rightly pointed out there, that make a mockery of this, don't they? i mean, the age, i suspect, as well, being another one to it. but yeah, there is another aspect, isn't it? which is, i would imagine, especially in the paralympics, people have had to overcome, you know, an additional barrier to sport in many senses, and then to see a man turn up and compete and potentially snatch that gold away from you must be, you know, just an additional level of bad , just an additional level of bad, really, i think. >> yes. i mean, i used to train with the british paralympians and what they've overcome is extraordinary in many cases. and you know, the categories, classes exist in para sport for a reason, which is to make competition fair. so if you then

decide that men can go in the female category, you know what is the point of having the paralympic classes to make competition fair? it just renders the whole thing meaningless. one of the female athletes who was prevented from advancing to the final at the 2023 paris world world para athletics championships. a woman from indonesia , she gets up at 5 from indonesia, she gets up at 5 am, she supports her family, a.m, she supports her family, goes training, then goes to work, goes trains again in the evening . she's only competing in evening. she's only competing in the 100m because she was put out of the 200m and failed to qualify for the paralympics. so, you know, many female athletes have been excluded because of petrillo and he talks about inclusion. this is only inclusion. this is only inclusion for males like him. it means exclusion for female athletes. >> it's a psychology thing isn't it? in a way, because that individual has quite openly said individual has quite openly said in the quote that i won't read out before that, to paraphrase , out before that, to paraphrase, i think that their right to happiness trumps everybody

else's right to pretty much everything else. i do have some serious question marks over the psychology of that, but one of my big concerns is if you look at the olympics that we had before, what were some of the main topics of conversation? it was the two people who many people regard as being men, who were in the boxing, and that was a problem. okay and now here we are again. and my concern is that actually , unfortunately, that actually, unfortunately, unless we do something about it, this is just the future of women's sport. >> yeah. i mean , there are >> yeah. i mean, there are echoes of the fiasco in the boxing, in the olympics because the rules in this case are if you're legally female, you're welcome in the female category . welcome in the female category. and many countries have self—id. so it's a it's a piece of cake for any man to get a passport which says female on it. you know, it renders the male and female categories in sport totally meaningless . and talking totally meaningless. and talking about happiness, you know, that's all about him. he he appears to have absolutely zero consideration for the impact he has on female athletes. and 30 female athletes complained about him. a couple of years ago when

he was demanding access to the female changing rooms. there we go. this is all about males breaking boundaries, which exist for women and girls to live and participate safely in sport and society safely. you know, it's all about him. and what's a real tragedy here is the officials and governing bodies responsible for the rules have failed. he is just taking advantage of rules which allow males in the female category. >> and in my view, they're needlessly fearful of a backlash that actually, i think will be quite minimal and will be quite minimal because it really does, in practical terms, affect quite a small number of people. but their inclusion in events like this can very often affect , this can very often affect, well, literally everybody, can't it? but you raise a good point there because it's easy to get obsessed with the pure sports of this. but there's a lot that goes on around it. access to women's spaces is another key issue, isn't it? and that, again, is something that clearly is going on here. it's not just about what goes on on the track or in the boxing ring is well,

it's frankly, you know, who you shower next to as well, isn't it ? shower next to as well, isn't it? >> absolutely. yes. we've heard from riley gaines and paula scanlon, some of the other female swimmers who had to change many times a day with an intact male. william thomas , you intact male. william thomas, you know, glenn frank on your program said of course i use the female changing rooms. you know, it's really appalling. it's absolutely about breaking down barriers. and you mentioned fear on the part of officials and governing bodies . that's the governing bodies. that's the absolute nub of it. they they really need to find some courage to for stand up fair competition and for safety, privacy and dignity for female athletes in the changing rooms associated with sport. now, currently, they're just rolling over and acquiescing to the demands of the trans lobby, and the result is that sport has become a laughing stock and it's needlessly dominating discussions . discussions. >> you know, there will be people, especially at the paralympics and maybe i shouldn't be saying that really,

but especially at the paralympics, there are so many. there are going to be so many tremendous stories that come out of it. and so many massive achievements, right, that people can only dream of. and you think if even just a little bit of that gets overshadowed in this sense by that individual, there competing, then that is a real, real shame. but look , thank you real shame. but look, thank you very much. i'm sorry. sorry. we're out of time now, i'm afraid. but i do to hope chat to you again very, very soon. it's mario morsi there who's a former british olympian herself. right. coming up, i'll tell you how much harry meghan's pr trip cost the colombian country. okay, bearin the colombian country. okay, bear in mind that is a poverty fidden bear in mind that is a poverty ridden country . clue. the ridden country. clue. the colombians are furious about it, next, i'll bring the very first of tomorrow's

>> welcome back to patrick christys tonight , and it's time christys tonight, and it's time to bring you a first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. >> let's do it. so we start with the metro. right. so they're all going in on this really tech

tycoon super yacht tragedy hopes fade for the missing six. this is the super yacht that sunk that everyone's been talking about all day. now let's go to the daily express. horror video shows yachts, final moments . so shows yachts, final moments. so this is caught on apparently a villa's cctv footage and it reportedly shows the horrifying moment that mike lynch's £30 million super yacht is engulfed by a tornado and sinks in 60s. and if we go to the daily mail now, the story has shifted slightly onto the idea that somebody might still be able to survive if they are trapped in an air pocket. could anyone still be alive? is the headline they go for and there's talk about, you know, this idea that, yes, if they've managed to get to some kind of air pocket that supposedly they could cling on, but unfortunately, you know, for obvious reasons, time is running out there. the times , pm warned out there. the times, pm warned empowering unions will stifle growth. employers fear that firms will be held to ransom and

they've also got a story that, you know, traditionally would have arguably been more at home in the daily mail. but it says ham sandwich a day increases diabetes risk. sometimes sometimes i would just like to. occasionally, when i need a laugh, i go on and look at historically, all of the things the daily mail have said will give you cancer. and it is just it's an endless list of broken hearts is on there. everything, everything, everything . everything, everything. strawberries. all sorts. but let's wiz ourselves, wiz ourselves over to the telegraph. and they have got this other, this other angle on this super yacht story, which is that potentially the hatches were left open, that doors might have been left open and that that could have contributed to it. but there's a story here, sandwiched in the middle of the daily telegraph, which says, i will lock up and deport more migrants . that is a statement migrants. that is a statement from yvette cooper. so yvette cooper has pledged to detain more illegal migrants and carry out a record number of deportations. the home secretary will expand immigration detention centres as part of a

plan to remove more than 14,500 illegal migrants in the next six months. >> an estimated 1 million. >> an estimated 1 million. >> yeah, well, probably yes, but but do go on, i thought i thought this was a headline from viz. >> right. >> right. >> more than anything else , or >> more than anything else, or maybe even the daily mail, you know, because quite frankly, the idea that yvette cooper, who was part of a political party that said we shouldn't be deporting in the same level that the conservative party, that we should stop rwanda , which was an should stop rwanda, which was an attempt to try and move people away from this country. and now i'm going to be the person that deports en masse is laughable because firstly, she doesn't indicate where she's going to deport them to as i've mentioned many, many times, the top five countries of people who are coming here who are failing the asylum processes are from countries that we will not ever return them to afghanistan, iran, iraq , somalia, etc. so iran, iraq, somalia, etc. so where is she going to deport

them to? vanuatu? >> they say that they're going to work with european enforcement agencies to find every route into smashing the criminal smuggling gangs , criminal smuggling gangs, organising dangerous boat crossings. okay and apparently there's going to be an extra 290 detention spaces created at the immigration removal centre. >> why does it need this sophisticated? well, that's a day, because it's not rocket science to, like, inflate a boat, put people on it and send them on their merry way. this whole like smashing the gangs as if there's some sort of evil albert einstein like genius that's sitting there with these cats.i that's sitting there with these cats. i knew someone who took those boats. it was literally it couldn't be easier. he found his way from ghana to libya and then got to italy. it was literally simple . simple. >> 40,000 people that failed asylum last year. >> they were due for deportation. 290 is a drop in the ocean. >> jonathan, are you talking about do you think yvette cooper should even be saying stuff like this? because the other side of it is, if she can't do it for some pretty straightforward reasons, like we don't have

returns agreements with some of the key countries that they come to, etc. then she's made a rod for her own back, even if she wants to, which people might be quite sceptical of this idea anyway. >> well, i think she's, you know, it's probably not a coincidence. this is on the front page of the telegraph, i think, the labour guardian, the labour party's strategy is to try and woo newspapers that will never support the labour party under any circumstances, and to try and sort of talk tough rhetoric on this issue, look , i rhetoric on this issue, look, i think that you have to ultimately, you'll have to judge governments based on what they do rather than what they say. clearly labour, quite rightly, in my view, suspended the rwanda scheme. and i suppose that it will have to demonstrate that it will have to demonstrate that it will it has some kind of ideas on how to stop the gangs. look, i my views on this will be different from the labour party, the labour government's. i think that you should have things like visa processes, not visa asylum processing centres in france for example, and you can allow safe and legal routes into the uk in order to claim asylum there, thereby sort of smashing the

gangs that way. but clearly we're waiting to see how the border security command works. if it actually does work, we can keep an open mind. >> but jonathan, i'm really open about this. i've had this discussion before. how do you think it's going to smash the gangs if you have an asylum processing centre in france, the gangs are further up the chain. they're in afghanistan. you're paying they're in afghanistan. you're paying $50 to get on the back of the boat through the back of a van. we've got the aerial visual imagery of that going off to turkey. they'll just increase it. >> and also you can't smash the gangs if the people can never be returned. this idea, this is the thing. so this idea that the safe and legal route usually at that point is , is a moot point that point is, is a moot point because there are many people that came to the safe and legal route, have applied for asylum, have been rejected. i think it's around 300,000 who have not been removed, who will probably never be removed because there's no returns agreement. so whenever people talk about safe and legal routes, they never talk about the people that have gone through the system have been rejected on public safety or for pubuc rejected on public safety or for public safety reasons and haven't been removed. abdul ezedi being one of the i mean, that that story is just

outrageous. clearly there are about 300,000 of those kinds of people in this country. >> if you have people who come from unsafe countries who find themselves in the uk, who are able to get into the uk, then i don't know what the answer is, because if you can't return them because if you can't return them because they've gone through the process, this is i understand. i understand the issue. i understand, i understand the argument comes along, goes yeah. >> where does it go, how you stop the gangs by having a system there that just encouraged them to get there. >> because stephen pay them to get. stephen, the reason that people are coming on the boats, that there is no other way for them to come here. that's the point. so if you actually and we know that when you did have an asylum system in place, then 77%, i think it was of those claims were found to be legitimate asylum seekers. so the point is that if you assume that sort of about 75% of claims will be accepted, you can have those claims processed in france and then allow people to come here safely and legally. so they don't have to go on the boat. >> okay. yeah, i think that's that's the kind of slight difference of point, though, isn't it, between a lot of

people who i think we need to stop the boat crossings because of the people who are on those boats and their safety versus a group of people who think that we should stop the boat crossings because we should stop people coming here and there is a there is a kind of on the issue of public safety. >> i mean, there's always this assumption that people fleeing war torn countries were on the right side of the conflict. like there's never this assumption that those people could have actually been on the wrong side of the conflict. >> and that's why you have processing. yeah. >> the thing is, you don't know anything about them. >> how do you process how these things are? >> these things are never going to be perfect. i mean, the point is, do we do we have we reject them. >> do you really think france is going to accept them there? >> do we have a system where we are offering sanctuary for people fleeing war and terrible conditions that is the that's the basic question that i think we need to be asking. i think that the labour party is right to be asking that question. >> what about those who are just doing it economically? >> well, i think, look, we can have a we can have a conversation. i'd be very happy to have a conversation with you about economic migration, because i think it's a positive. but that's obviously separate from asylum, clearly. >> all right. okay. now let's where's ourselves on now harry

and meghan's four day quasi royal tour of poverty ridden colombia cost an incredible $8 billion, which is £15 million. that was the security cost. apparently local media claim the £375,000 a day cost involved 3000 police and soldiers, plus helicopters, sniffer dogs and bomb disposal units. the trip was actually widely criticised by actual colombians and khalife city's right wing councillor andres escobar told the mail online the country paid. you couldn't make it or could you? the country paid almost 2 million usd for the security of this trip , and there are many, this trip, and there are many, many colombians who are hungry and have a lack of basic needs. esther, you know, harry and meghan have been taking food out of poverty stricken colombian children's mouths. >> well, here's the thing. >> well, here's the thing. >> they just accepted a trip. i mean, look, i do find it peculiar that harry, finds it safer to send his him and his wife to colombia than to come to the uk. yeah, just his ongoing. that being said, they were invited. this is a cost. that was obviously the vice president of colombia was happy to foot.

she clearly had her own agenda using those two. i think they were used as pawns and i think they were distractions of two years into her vice presidency for the lack of progress and the fact that people are rightly angry. but i would like to say it's not their fault. i don't know if she actually got a lot of money like her. bang for the buck out of this couple because like, they're just not very interesting. yeah, exactly. the world's most boring couple. i can't believe there's the manages to be a news story about this couple every week. they're not very interesting. >> i mean, are they just doing pr for despotic regimes now. is that their job. >> he said, what are you calling colombia? despotic regime. >> yeah. well, so you know, the president's son, right, is currently under investigation for money laundering for funnelling money from drug cartels to his own father's campaign. >> that doesn't make it despotic regime. it's a democratic. it's a democracy. look i'm not, i'm not. look, i'm not going to have a conversation about domestically. we're not going to have a conversation about donald trump's son. was are we going to talk about donald trump's family now? >> i mean, my god, he was despotic. well, i don't know. >> i'm not hating donald trump. donald trump would love to be bloody despotic. he wasn't, thank goodness, because, because because he was. because we were rescued from his wannabe

despotism. but look, i don't think it's particularly interesting to have a conversation about domestic colombian politics. clearly, the colombian politics. clearly, the colombian vice president invited this couple over for reasons, you know, that whatever reasons they were, i don't know what they were, i don't know what they were, i don't know what they were putting them on netflix. >> netflix. >> netflix. >> fine. you know what? and you know what? she had every right to invite them. the colombian government had every right to bankroll it, and they had every right to. except it's not a story. >> imagine if i wonder if she really found them as boring as most of us. >> well, if keir starmer was invited, someone that we can have a conversation about. we're not colombians. we're not colombians. >> hold on. imagine if keir starmer invited sofia vergara to the uk, which i would love because he was a fan of modern family. like on one level we're like, oh, that's great. on another level, are you taking this? >> this is spending millions. >> this is spending millions. >> they are still the harry is still the son. he's a son of the king. i mean, clearly he's not he's not a working man. the royal family. but it's totally he's given speeches . he's given he's given speeches. he's given a speech to the un security council. >> you're not making a good case to the colombian people who are deprived, because this man is not going in any diplomatic. >> i have no view on whether the

colombian government should have ianed colombian government should have invited harry and meghan, or if they want to see that and they want to fund it. that's entirely up to them. >> i'll be happy the day when we don't have to talk about meghan. >> oh my god. oh my goodness. >> oh my god. oh my goodness. >> i don't know why we're always talking about them. we don't need to be talking about them. >> they are a little bit little bit dull. okay. >> well on that bombshell all right, coming up i'll finally show you what happens next when this particular rocket looks as though it's about to take off. but does it ? though it's about to take off. but does it? yeah. that's right, it's the british rocket. yeah, it's the british rocket. yeah, it's the british rocket. yeah, it's the british rocket , am it's the british rocket, am i right? yeah. you're right, you're right. okay. that's coming right after i deliver more of tomorrow's newspaper front tuned

okay. welcome back. it's patrick christys tonight , and i've got christys tonight, and i've got some more front pages for you. let's do it . all right, start let's do it. all right, start with the mirror moving message as the end nears. sven, my goodbye. ex—england boss says we are all scared of dying. but i've lived a good life. there we go. let's go to the i. brits without news. ,7 eu visa face being turned away at an airport in 2025. but we're going to talk about this because this is an aggressive spin on this story. all right. so anyway they say that no special treatment for uk on looming travel rules and lobbying by the tories. and government has failed to win a relaxation of new eu red tape .

relaxation of new eu red tape. they say that british travellers won't be able to board a plane, train or ferry to 30 countries in the european union unless they have a valid etias visa waiver from spring next year. airlines and holiday firms express concern that unprepared travellers will face disruption. we'll return to that. i'm going to just get it. i know right for seven, for ,7 it lasts you. let's just do it now. look, who cares about the guardian price of a costa coffee? >> who cares about the guardian? >> who cares about the guardian? >> yeah, less than the price of a costa coffee i care about. >> i care about the guy. i bloody i bloody care about the guardian . guardian. >> you read it out there, jonathan. go on. you care so bloody much about the guardian. >> fine. okay, fine. going. >> fine. okay, fine. going. >> reeves plans tax rise amid alarm over black hole. that's the way we did that . i am so the way we did that. i am so glad you are glad we will have a right old barney about that one. all right, well, let's go back to your sps. >> we like the ets. >> we like the ets. >> all right. now look. right.

come on. like a stadium. so i spoke to someone. i spoke to someone in the room. now, people. i spoke to someone earlier about this. who explained it radically differently to me than what the. ihave differently to me than what the. i have chosen to do. and i'm willing to stand corrected. but this was my understanding of it, which is that if you spend ,7, you get this essentially as a visa for the eu. >> it's like an ester that lasts three years, as far as i'm aware. >> and it's a pretty good deal. and it means that you're allowed to go through the eu queue. so you know all that thing about how at brexit, oh, we got to go in the brits only queue. apparently this removes that. so for me that's a good news story. >> and then oh they're unprepared. >> are we children. >> are we children. >> just. but there's another there's another element to it which is that starting from november i believe there's going to be huge disruption for uk travellers going to eu ports , travellers going to eu ports, because for the first trip to the eu , before this thing kicks the eu, before this thing kicks in, you have to go fingerprinting. well you say that, but it's going to take quite a lot like 30, like 30s to a minute for each person. and it's just basically people at

dover are saying we don't have the capacity for that. people euros are saying we need to have a much bigger terminal. so look, it's going to it's not going to be fun. >> go to any airport in america. you've got to have that. no, no, no . 110. >> no. >> well that but but that's fine. but then but when you go to it fine. but when you go to america there is a capacity for that. are you joking? >> when was the last time you went to the us? >> well, a few months ago. >> well, a few months ago. >> they are so painfully slow. >> they are so painfully slow. >> it's not well, actually. well, it's to work similarly actually, because now once you've had your fingerprints done, you've got your essay, you can just go through the idea. >> the idea is that this i mean, this this conceivably is like just not an issue really, is it? you think the biggest problem is that it will take there might be a couple of months of a transition period. there might be some delays. >> yeah, it's going to be look, it's going to be right. and no one is saying this is probably going to be an issue in ten years time. but from november for a few months, when the first when it's your first trip to the eu, if you're going the eurostar, if you're flying to an eu airport, it's going to just increase delays and it's going to catch people out with the ets. >> all right. now, in jonathan's defence, i am going to now focus on the guardian. so reeves plans

tax rise amid alarm over black holes. so rachel reeves is apparently planning to raise taxes and cut spending and get tough on benefits in october's budget, amid the treasury alarm that the pickup in the economy has failed to improve due to the poor state of the public's finances . and you're right. finances. and you're right. okay, so is this not a broken promise? >> well, the thing is, i just it depends how he's going to do it. >> i mean, she starts doing tax broken promise. we increased taxes broken promise. but, you know, at . the end of the day, it know, at. the end of the day, it was inevitable. it's part of the dna. >> no. >> no. >> well, they only ring dna. >> well, they only ring dna. >> they only the labor party to increase taxes. >> they only ring fence three taxes. so national insurance, vat and income tax. so technically it's not a broken promise. but i think the idea the kind of oh my gosh, it's so much worse than i expected. well, that's not going to wash because the public finances have been exactly have been public for a long time. i do think they're going to be some hard decisions. but again, i don't think they could have won either way. i'm just curious where this

economic growth is suddenly supposed to come from, because that's what concerns me . that's what concerns me. >> well, i like the fact that you've kind of conceded that they could have gone either way. like i said, all the time during the election campaign, that i was absolutely sure that labour would come at some point shortly after the election, say it's much worse than we thought. that's what governments have always done. but to be fair to reeves, the boss of the obr, did actually say that it was the truth when she turned up to parliament. just before recess to talk about the winter fuel payments . et cetera. the obr payments. et cetera. the obr gave a letter to say, actually, we didn't know about all of the spending from the last conservative government, so there was a black hole. >> well, the thing is, what she she basically had to cancel anything that already didn't have funding attached to it. so it wasn't a £20 billion black hole. it was a speculation of what the tories wanted to do. but they just they hadn't found the funding to attach to it. that's not to say it's a black hole. that is to say, if you want to continue to do this, you have to find the attachment. >> the black hole increases. >> the black hole increases. >> that's why she cancelled all the black hole increases when you start putting your own spending issues. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> and that's why it's become

bigger and bigger, because you're suddenly giving more to train drivers, more to doctors. well, everyone and everybody else that's going to help it . else that's going to help it. she she has this issue and i think it's a sherlock issue, to be honest. >> i think they should have left the train drivers keep striking it. >> well, i mean, look, the budget is going to be what it's going to be horrific. >> one of the most compelling things that we've had recently. so there we go. now i'm going to whizz us along actually. oh no no no. haha. here we go. what could have possibly happen now? here's the moment a rocket exploded during a test at britain's newest spaceport . so britain's newest spaceport. so there we go. the test was being carried out and no saxavord spaceport. here we go. we're away lads, we're. it's what that looks to me like. it's. oh, it's on, it's on. oh, that's a fire, isn't it. that's a big. yeah that's a big oh that's gone hasn't it. that rocket the rocket body developed by a german start—up , burst into german start—up, burst into flames. seconds. what are you. >> are you right? okay, here we 90, >> are you right? okay, here we go, here we go . go, here we go. >> seconds after ignition while on the launch pad. last night.

and the start—up said the hot fire test of the first stage rocket resulted in an anomaly. and the loss of the spacecraft. no one, thankfully, was injured. what are you implying we should do ourselves next time? just do it ourselves next time . are you it ourselves next time. are you implying that rocket would never have blown up? no, no. >> if it wasn't made by. >> if it wasn't made by. >> don't make me do my thatcher impression again. >> rocket on that british rocket's a british rocket. >> would never have exploded. >> would never have exploded. >> there he is. right. >> there he is. right. >> good stuff. okay. well done everyone . now it's time for everyone. now it's time for greatest britain and jackass. as to who is your greatest britain king charles for visiting the families of the southport victims. >> yes , indeed, i think it was. >> yes, indeed, i think it was. it was. this was actually the perfect time to do that after the whole kind of the rioting and the whole ruckus of the last couple of weeks, and i do, i do think it does matter that he's, he's chosen to do this personally. it does send a very positive image. >> yes. no i agree and go on, sir stephen. i'll go isabella vaughan's spruce for standing up

to the ridiculous policing about silently praying in a particular place. >> it's an important part of protecting free speech in this country. we shouldn't be criminalising people simply for praying quietly in their own heads, and not even vocalising it. >> okay. all right. jonathan, who is your greatest briton? >> please? it's an honorary one. it's tim waltz, who is the democratic vice presidential candidate. i think he's extremely relatable. he's great fun. there was a clip yesterday from the democratic national convention of him sitting with his wife and his two kids, doing bunny ears behind him, and he's just thinking it was great fun and saying, my kids keep me humble. and you kind of think, can you imagine donald trump's response if one of his children were two of his kids? did bunny ears behind him? i just this guy knows how to have a sense of humour . he's knows how to have a sense of humour. he's the kind of, you know, an everyman. i think a lot of americans . wilmington. of americans. wilmington. >> i mean, in trump's defence, his granddaughter did do an entire speech about him just shortly after he got shot. it was quite funny. he didn't really seem to mind. >> maybe they have a different way of bonding. maybe they're

different. bunny has more like tongue in cheek humour. >> maybe. >> maybe. yeah. >> maybe. yeah. fair >> maybe. yeah. fair enough. right. okay. today's winner is king charles. there we go. all right. who is your union jackass? >> so the cotswold council, because they have ten different bins to sort rubbish into, which is ludicrous. i mean, they have a bin, a separate bin for coffee pods. >> know how much coffee are people drinking in the cotswolds ? people drinking in the cotswolds? >> well, but this is like, why can't they just go into, like, the normal recycling, like normal and recycling. >> so does anyone actually do it, you know? >> oh i coffee no one, no one's going to do it. it's completely counterproductive because people just think, well, you know, i can't do this. i'm just going to give up. and actually, people are just really works . are just really works. >> i'm going to go for lord timpson, >> the prisons man. >> the prisons man. >> the prisons man for opening up our jails to all and up ourjails to all and releasing 40,000 as the intention of all of those who've committed violent crimes and assaults and robberies and thefts just so that they can put in a and his followers that mugs. >> okay. all right. jonathan, who's your union jackass? >> robert jenrick, who is widely

tipped to be the next conservative leader. god help them, not for any ozempic related reason, because that's been the scandal, but because he's talking. well, he's had controversy, shall we say, that sort of like the sort of arguing about which of them was taken. ozempic is a bit pathetic, but he's about because of saying that he resurrected rwanda. if he becomes prime minister, just leave it. let it go. let it go. right. >> so today's winner is the cotswolds council. you've just seen it. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. everybody who's watched his headline is next. i'll see you tomorrow at 9:00. mwah >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good evening. here's your gb news weather update from the met office. most of today's showers are going to ease and clear away as we go through this evening and overnight, but our attention is turning to a weather system thatis is turning to a weather system that is out in the atlantic and is actually the remnants of hurricane ernesto. it's heading towards the uk and is going to bnng towards the uk and is going to bring some wet and windy to

weather northwestern parts tomorrow, but for the time being, like i said, many of today's showers will be easing, some continuing though, especially across parts of scotland and western parts of england and wales. otherwise, a lot of dry and clear weather around and with those clear skies, temperatures turning a little bit on the cool side, particularly towards the east southeast, towards the north and west, a bit more cloud here and some brisk winds. so temperatures holding up that little bit higher perhaps as we go through tomorrow morning. thenit go through tomorrow morning. then it is going to be turning quite quickly, quite cloudy and a bit wet across the far west of scotland. a brighter, drier part for eastern parts of scotland and northeast england . two cloud and northeast england. two cloud quickly spilling across northern ireland, so a grey start here and a bit damp in some parts as well . some showers down the well. some showers down the western side of england and wales for more central and eastern parts. it is going to be a mostly bright start, though there could be some high level cloud making the sunshine a little bit hazy across central eastern parts of england. it is going to turn a bit cloudier as we go through the day, but staying largely dry. however,

towards the north and west we have that feature i mentioned at the start and this is going to bnng the start and this is going to bring some very wet and windy weather turning really pretty unpleasant. feeling unpleasant. then towards the northwest, but in the southeast, temperatures getting into the low 20s, so warm enough in any

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news centre. the us secretary of state has arrived in doha as frantic efforts continue to secure a peace deal in gaza. anthony blinken said he would do everything possible to get hamas on board with the so—called bridging deal. >> we're working in our different ways to try to ensure that there is not escalation, sending the necessary messages to all of the potential actors, including iran and including hezbollah , to avoid taking any hezbollah, to avoid taking any steps that could escalate the conflict or spread it . were conflict or spread it. were unhedin conflict or spread it. were united in our work with the parties to try to bring this agreement across the finish line, and qatar and egypt in particular, are in direct contact with hamas working to bnng contact with hamas working to bring it along . bring it along. >> meanwhile, the israeli military says it's recovered the bodies of six hostages who were captured during the 7th of october attacks. israeli

military spokesman daniel hagari vowed to