the superyacht this from the superyacht this afternoon, but one body remains inside the wreckage. this takes the death toll so far to six. one person is still missing and the for search them will resume tomorrow . police have named a tomorrow. police have named a man killed in his own home by his pet xl bully. the victim was david daintree. he was 53 years old and specially trained officers are supporting his family. emergency services were called last night to a house at ashley court in accrington, lancashire, after reports of a dog attacking somebody inside the xl bully was shot dead by police, who claims the dog still posed a significant risk to others. an investigation is ongoing. police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was involved in a collision during an attempted theft of his van. west yorkshire police said officers were called last night following reports of a man found seriously injured in wortley in leeds. officers found the victim unconscious , with the victim unconscious, with members of the public trying to help him. he was given emergency treatment by ambulance staff but

was pronounced dead at the scene. and four people who died in a house fire in bradford, including three children, have been named by west yorkshire police as 29 year old briony gawith destiny , who was nine gawith destiny, who was nine years old, oscar, who was five, and aubrey burtle just 22 months. a murder investigation has been launched after the incident, which happened in the early hours of this morning on westbury road. a 39 year old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and taken to hospital with critical injuries. superintendent lucy leadbitter believes the fire was started on purpose, whilst enquiries are at their early stages. >> we believe that the fire was started deliberately and this incident was domestic related. i would appeal to anyone who was in the westbury road area at the time of the incident, in the westbury road area at the time of the incident , who in the westbury road area at the time of the incident, who has cctv or doorbell footage to come forward . forward. >> the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal

immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has also outlined plans for the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals. of those who do not have the right to be in the uk, which includes failed asylum seekers. the government says it's also it will also reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, which will add 290 beds. but the conservatives have said that labour were not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the boats . and those are the latest boats. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now. i'm cameron walker. 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 . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> you have been sending foreign aid to parts of the world that are richer than parts of the uk. british taxpayers have funded

anti—congestion measures in kuala lumpur, flood prevention in mexico city and an all female chinese opera in shanghai. kuala lumpur is home to the second tallest building in the world, the merdeka 118, that cost 1.5 billion usd to build. they have got their own money over there . got their own money over there. some of the stuff you've been paying some of the stuff you've been paying for is absolute guff. you have spent £202,000 helping to foster dialogue among local craftsmen in shenzhen province in china. that's according to research by the institute of economic affairs . i research by the institute of economic affairs. i mean, another 200 grand has been splashed on fostering creative citizens in china through co—design and public makerspaces. what the heck does that even mean? for context, some of these places have the same gdp per capita as places like swansea or walsall. do you not think that maybe taxpayers in those areas might prefer the cash themselves? china has sent a robotic craft to mars. and yet

we're still sending them foreign aid, while pensioners in britain are now coming to terms with the fact that they might not be able to heat their own homes this winter. now, apparently in 2022, we sent £353 million to the taliban stronghold of afghanistan. how's that going ? afghanistan. how's that going? lovely stuff. as far as i can tell, there are two main points behind foreign aid. firstly, soft power. well, i mean again, how's that going? the taliban hate us. and china are eyeing up an invasion of taiwan. in fact, outgoing us president joe biden secretly upped america's preparedness for nuclear war after china added 90 nuclear warheads in one year last year to take its total arsenal of world destroying weapons to 500. please tell me again why they need our money. the other aspect of foreign aid is stopping people fleeing their own countries to come here and be refugees or asylum seekers. how is calais doing ?

is calais doing? it's not happening, is it? in the past, we've given money to an ethiopian girl band called yegna. we gave millions to kenyan rainmakers , but that was kenyan rainmakers, but that was in the past. okay, we have to look at what we're doing now. and i wonder whether at a time when hard working brits are really struggling and our new labour government has just borrowed £3.1 billion more than expected to help fund public sector pay rises, is it really to okay be sending so much money abroad for highly dubious projects? let's get our thoughts on our panel now. i am joined by the director of popular conservatives, mark littlewood. ihave conservatives, mark littlewood. i have also got political consultant suzanne evans and author and journalist rebecca reid. mark, i'll start with you on this. why on earth are taxpayers in places like walsall and swansea sending to money fund an all female opera in

shanghaior fund an all female opera in shanghai or wherever it was? >> it's a very good question, to patrick, which i don't have a very satisfactory answer. it is a colossal waste of money. i mean, i think to add to your monologue at the start, there is a third potential call on foreign aid, and that's if there's a one off humanitarian disaster, you know, some ghastly flooding somewhere or whatever. and we're the only people or we're some of the only people who can get in food and running water and the rest of it. but this is a disaster. it's often been said that foreign aid budgets are a way of taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries, and that seems to be the evidence of some of these schemes here. one note of caution, however, although i would end this madness, i was looking into the amount of money we had given china. it has fallen. i think it was 8 million last year. i don't think we should have given them a penny, but £8 million is only enough to keep the nhs going for

slightly less than 20 minutes. so let's not pretend if we killed all this off, we've balanced the budget. >> i completely understand that. but £8 million might go quite a long way in redbridge, for example. and that's kind of my. >> absolutely. and china, why are we sending any money to china? it's one of the wealthiest countries on the planet. they've got $300 billion in uk gilts. they've got $900,000 million in billion dollars in uk treasury bonds. they're one of the wealthiest countries on the planet. there's absolutely no need for that. and mark's absolutely right. you know we none of us wants to take any money away from emergency aid, from immunisation programmes, things like that. but the fact is that only accounts for about a fifth of the foreign aid budget. the other thing that needs to be remembered is, is, is up to 50% of this foreign aid goes in administration, it goes in governance, it goes to even non—governmental organisations who are actively working against the kind of political achievements of our of our own country. it's an absolute nonsense. we absolutely must keep emergency aid going , keep emergency aid going, supporting some of the poorest

people in the world. but the fact is, and the other thing that i think i find really upsetting is that it's not made any difference to their quality of life. so you look at countries like pakistan, democratic republic of congo , democratic republic of congo, ethiopia, they get a huge whack of the foreign aid budget, but it's done nothing to improve their capita gdp per capita at all. >> this is the other aspect to it. and look, i think like many people, i will be a lot more sympathetic to rebecca if i could, you know, point at something and go, that's absolutely 100% going in the right place. but it feels a bit to me anyway. and i think it feels a lot like it to a lot of people, which is like, there's this arbitrary pot of money and that just has to go, and we end up doing things like trying to fund ai infused pollution repellents in kuala lumpur. when do we really need to do that? you know, and i find that quite a hard sell for the british pubuc a hard sell for the british public when we could keep that money at home. >> the main problem, i think, is the comms issue. so the way that this is delivered makes people feel really angry. and i understand why, because it's one of those things that does really

well on twitter and on facebook and on social media, because it sounds awful when you say people in this country are starving and we're sending millions of pounds to rich people in china. it does sound terrible. i understand that, but there is more to it. so one of the things that i didn't realise until quite recently is that the way that they calculate the money that goes there is not. you don't get a check, you don't get like money. it's not a wire transfer. thatis money. it's not a wire transfer. that is how it's calculated by services. so in afghanistan 2022, afghanistan was the main beneficiary 352 million. that includes the army being there and the army coming out. it includes all those dogs that carrie johnson made boris put on helicopters. it's actually that might have been charities that might have been charities that might be on there, but it's a it's a much wider amount of money not just being given money for nothing . and the other thing for nothing. and the other thing is it's a bit to cruel cherry pick the worst of the worst. the chinese opera, for instance. i believe, though i need to double check this, one of the major reasons for one of the major, capabilities for foreign aid that we've been encouraged to explore is female education. so across the world, girls can't go to school, they can't learn to read. that's obviously a very

significant problem. we as a country, as a good country, full of good people, want women to learn to read and go to school. >> getting out of it. but why can't why can't china do it themselves? it just puts something on mars. >> nobody i don't think anybody is suggesting this is perfectly run. and absolutely countries should have to be more accountable. we need to do a better job both on how we spend, how that money is given, but also how it's reported. because at the moment i can completely see that this sounds dreadful. in reality, it's actually us helping people across the world. >> but we have we have had years of this stuff. you know, there was that £25 million towards kenyan rainmakers to help meteorologists. with respect, meteorologists. with respect, meteorologists do not need help from kenyan rainmakers and we've paid for that. why are we doing that. paid for that. why are we doing that . and there is there is that. and there is there is a compare and contrast at the moment. we've just seen a government. and this, by the way, is not labour's fault because this is stuff from the last year or so. so labour have not been responsible for this. now, however, i will caveat that by saying that one of the first things that keir starmer did was give 84 wanted to give £84 million to other countries to try to help stem the flow of people here that we have no way,

really, of keeping tabs on whether or not that will ever be money well spent. yeah. >> so here are two things to pick up a bit on what susanna and rebecca have said. the first thing is, if you look through the historical data, there doesn't seem to be any correlation whatsoever with international aid going in and getting some of the desirable outcomes that. rebecca. >> so you don't think that afghanistan and ukraine were a good use of money? >> well, i'm talking about these educational. >> so you didn't say you didn't say that. >> you didn't say that afghanistan was a catastrophic waste. >> so you don't think that you don't think that , for instance, don't think that, for instance, women being able to leave afghanistan to finish their medical degrees here was a useful or good thing? >> you may be you may be able to find individual cases. so you said, say these chinese not none. no no no no. these chinese opera singers are doing well out of it. you'll be able to find individual cases. but if you're looking at the economy as a whole, no correlation at all between western aid and economic growth , if you could show there growth, if you could show there was one. we've given a lot of money to country x year after year after year. and look at how

bountiful it is 25 years later. >> predominantly not why we do it. we do it for a humanitarian reason. >> the second disastrous element, which suzanne pointed to this target of nought point 7%, is madly out of date , 7%, is madly out of date, completely arbitrary, and means that there's pressures on officials to get as shuffle as much money out of the door as possible. we should be spending money on humanitarian projects on a case by case basis. >> that target isn't arbitrary. it's supposed to be an arbitrary target. and being in the un is a fairly important and significant thing to target that target dates back to 1974. i'm not saying it's a perfect number. >> world has changed since 1974. >> world has changed since 1974. >> it is arbitrary and it's out of date, and it certainly. >> but i don't think anybody wants to help these people have more free trade with them. >> that's not to ask just to ask something, though. generally i can understand that in the idea, when times are plentiful and everything's going really well, that we might want to have more of a humanitarian look abroad. but right now in britain, we've got some pensioners who are

really worried about whether or not they're going to be able to turn the heating on this winter should why should we really be doing any foreign humanitarian work when we've got that going on at home? >> i don't personally feel that levels of poverty in some countries are comparable to levels of poverty here. of course, i do not think that a pensioner should worry about heating ever in any country, but to me a human is a human and i don't feel i have more in common with them because i was born on the same landmass as they do personally. but the point of paying personally. but the point of paying the tax, that's the that's the thing i get that, you know, you've got you've got a world view. >> fine. we and we differ on that. but if it's british taxpayers money, does the british government not have a responsibility to put those taxpayers first? >> there should be a way of doing both. it shouldn't be an either or. and a lot of the a lot of the ways that we do tax in this country, i don't think work particularly well anyway. >> rebecca, you're just making the case for not having that fixed nought point 7% of gni. and mark, you know, they're pushing this out of the door. there have been circumstances when the civil servants responsible for spending this budget have been given huge bonuses just because they spend

that money in time at the end of the financial year, it is obscene. there's no other way to say it. >> i don't think anybody is arguing. >> 3 in 10 children in the uk live in poverty, so there's four points. >> absolutely. but but even if you scrap foreign aid overnight, that would not disappear as a problem. but. well the title of the debate is should we stop sending foreign aid to countries like china and india? that would be getting rid of . so if there's be getting rid of. so if there's a if there's an earthquake, if there's a flood, no more no aid to this country should be humanitarian. >> but the truth is, rebecca, it is an either or a decision which all politicians of all stripes always say they're making tough decisions, but it's actually a straight mathematical decision, which is how do you spend the marginal pound if you've got £1 million, how do you carve it up and i think there's a case, patrick, to actually say that, foreign aid, other than extreme humanitarian circumstances should come out of any budget surplus that the government specifically, the two most expensive things we did in 2022 were ukraine and afghanistan, both of which we would still have had to do under your system, the 20, the 22, the

£200,000 that you talked about earlier? >> unfortunately, in real life terms is nothing to me. obviously, that's a life changing amount of money to a whole country. it's nothing. >> yeah, but we shouldn't slice it up that way. i mean, afghanistan and ukraine should have been ministry of defence expenditure and it still comes out of the same pot . out of the same pot. >> ultimately, it's just money. we do or don't have defence operation. >> this is aimed much more. >> this is aimed much more. >> i think that's very much semantics at this point. >> and humanitarian experiences . >> and humanitarian experiences. i would allow the mod to function fine. >> a lively start and there's plenty more where that came from, because we do have a bumper show for you tonight. actually. labour has been accused of more cronyism. sue gray seemingly stacks the civil service with political appointees, so why isn't there more outrage at that? reform mp lee anderson gives his unfiltered opinion on that . now unfiltered opinion on that. now labour's bank breaking servitude to the unions, as well as yvette cooper's dubious deportation drive is all to play for this evening. but up next, yes, as rachel reeves paves the way for tax rises after a £3 billion borrowing surge in last month. that was just it last month. will the chancellor bankrupt

britain to satisfy the unions former labour party adviser torbett goes head head with former tory mp marco

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. well lee anderson is up soon. we've got rather a lot to talk about there, haven't we? but first, will rachel reeves bankrupt britain to satisfy labour's union paymasters? it's time now for the head to head .

time now for the head to head. absolutely. remarkable story emerged today. so the chancellor is paving the way for october tax rises after bumper paydays for public sector workers , for public sector workers, fuelled by a multi—billion pound surge in government borrowing. the treasury borrowed £3.1 billion in july alone. apparently that's according to the office for national statistics, way more than the 100 million anticipated by the office for budget responsibility so far this financial year, the government has borrowed 51.4 billion. that's £4.7 billion more than was predicted. so the spending watchdog said higher pay spending watchdog said higher pay deals for public sector workers were a key factor . but workers were a key factor. but this figure could get even worse as it doesn't account for the 22% and 14% pay rises forjunior 22% and 14% pay rises for junior doctors and train workers, respectively. but after leaving pensioners out in the cold by scrapping the winter fuel allowance, labour appear to have made a clear choice . unions over

made a clear choice. unions over the elderly. so will rachel reeves bankrupt britain to satisfy her union paymasters. going head to head on this, i am joined by the former labour party adviser, matthew torbay, and former tory mp marco longhi. shapps. thank you very much. always a pleasure , marco. i'll always a pleasure, marco. i'll start with you. is reeves going to bankrupt britain to pay the unions? >> well, it certainly looks that way. doesn't it, patrick? 3 billion. just this month. you know, we all know what's going to happen. it's going to mean higher tax rises and we all know that when a government as it did in the 70s, keeps on caving in to the unions, all that happens is that they keep coming back for more. and guess what happenedin for more. and guess what happened in the 70s? i'm a child of the 60s. i remember some of this. they bankrupt britain. inflation went to over 25%, and we see how much people suffered when inflation went up to just 11% in this country. just a few months ago. so reeves is if she

does continue down this path, she may well find herself trading her so—called fiscal responsibility for political gain to keep her union puppet masters happy. >> matthew £3.1 billion borrowed just in july and the all the kind of officials are saying the key factor in this was public sector spending. i mean is that not just appeasing the unions at the expense of everybody else? how can we justify that? >> i don't think it's appeasing. i think why should paying people properly be seen as appeasing? i think i, i spoke recently about the £20 billion black hole that rachel reeves had uncovered, or maybe hadn't uncovered, depending on your point of view, and was told by former conservative cabinet members that actually, 20 billion wasn't all that much. it was just a rounding error. so if she's borrowing for 4 billion, it's clearly not that much at all. i think also, there needs to be a little bit of, a little bit of reality about some of the public sector pay rises. they're being

called inflation busting. now, that might be because inflation is currently at 2%. but if you look at the rail workers and the train drivers as an example , train drivers as an example, they last got a pay rise in 2019. and inflation added up since 2019 to now is 30%. so actually what they've taken is a real terms pay cut of 14% over three years. so the idea that rachel reeves, former governor of the bank of england, is going to , is going to bankrupt britain to, is going to bankrupt britain just for the birds. okay? >> okay. all right. mark i'll bnng >> okay. all right. mark i'll bring you in on that because rachel reeves also stands accused of being gleeful, accepting around £330,000 worth of gifts and freebies, etc, which i will say, you know, accepting stuff is not uncommon as you probably will know, marco. but yeah, rachel reeves is full 350 odd grand, freebie in payment list. you know, simultaneously borrowing £3.1 billion and, you know, cutting off pensioners this winter. it's not great luck, is it? >> well, you know what, patrick?

it brings me back to a speech that she gave about a couple of years ago about freezing cold pensioners with small private pensions. but yet she's perfectly comfortable in cutting winter fuel payments to millions of them. now her actions are going to speak louder than her empty words. her concern for the elderly absolutely ring very hollow when she's. she's the one turning down the heat on their lives . and how can she how can lives. and how can she how can she understand the struggles of low income, vulnerable people when she is one the pocketing £337,000 in donations? yes politicians do receive donations because we accept it's a system thatis because we accept it's a system that is better than the taxpayer subsidising them. but you know what? when you're the chancellor of the exchequer, when you're the one that's supposed to be setting the example, when you're the one then cutting winter fuel payments when just two years ago you were saying, oh, look at these horrible tories, they might do this to you. and then she does it . that smacks of rank she does it. that smacks of rank hypocrisy , matthew.

hypocrisy, matthew. >> how can she claim when she delivers this budget in october, that she's been left with the worst economic situation imaginable, that there's this £20 million, sorry, billion pound black hole that's down there with a straight face when she's literally just borrowed £3.1 billion in a single month . £3.1 billion in a single month. >> admittedly, it doesn't look sorry . sorry. >> i'm going to go to matthew. i'll go to matthew. yeah. sorry. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> admittedly, it doesn't look good politically the way it's been written up by the express. but the devil will always be in the detail. now, i've had a look at rachel's declaration over the last, over the last 12 months, £350,000 has been accepted in what the express call supplementary income. and i think we need to be very honest and accurate about what this is. the mps don't receive any extra money. it goes to the office of the mp and 330 of the £350,000 that rachel has received over the last 12 months was for staffing, and that doesn't surprise me if i ever was up in the leader of the opposition's offices, which wasn't very often, i must admit. rachel

reeves had her own office and also had two overspill offices, which is which is what you'd probably want from someone that was wanting to run the country's finances, she's, you know, so what we're talking about here is basically a bottle of plonk . a basically a bottle of plonk. a houday basically a bottle of plonk. a holiday home gift in cornwall for a week, and a couple of tickets to the proms and the opera. i don't think that plays any correlation to the cuts to winter fuel allowance. there isn't. there isn't any correlation there at all. what you could say there is a correlation of is people like marco, who's on with us tonight, who owns ten houses and then threatening to vote against the renters reform bill and to stop no fault evictions that there there is a correlation and wondering where what what interests are at play. i don't think there is any of that with rachel reeves. okay. >> matthew , i will let marco >> matthew, i will let marco come back to that in a second, but i just want to ask you about this while you're here, which is it's all very well and good saying, well, this is going to be the pay rises for the public sector, and we're going to have to borrow £3.1 billion and possibly a little bit more going

forward, or quite a lot more going forward to pay for that. but there do not appear to be any conditions attached to that. and so she's done that and possibly at the expense of having to find money somewhere else to tax other people, to potentially cut some of the elderly off. but we are not necessarily going to get any better public services for this money. i mean, that does smack of just shamelessly appeasing union pay masses. matthew doesn't it? >> no, i think if they have been outmanoeuvred, which none of us were in the room and heard what was said for them to agree certain pay rises and then be told the following week by a different union. well actually, we're going on strike over a dispute with managers having to work on sundays or whatever it is. that's not great. i think it also points to, yeah, we're not going to see a great improvement at the moment. but i think that's also because we've been let down by governments, not just conservatives, but also successive governments for the last 30 years who haven't invested in our rail infrastructure. and we saw that with the end of hs2, it should have been built from the north downwards. so at least we would have had a manchester to birmingham line or whatever it

might have been. instead we've got a birmingham to london line which we've already got multiple of. so, you know, it's successive governments that have let us down on this. >> all right. now look mark, i have to ask you, can you come back to any of what has just been said there by matthew? but we don't have an opposition, do we? i mean, rishi sunak was last seen in beverly hills, somewhere at a restaurant where i think the cheapest pizza was 40 odd quid or dollars, and you know, all of this stuff is happening now. we've got a labour government that's potentially about to put a budget out that many people are thinking, well, hang on a flipping minute, you're going to cripple britain if you keep going at this rate. and we have got no opposition to it. what's going on? >> well, of course i'm not even there , patrick. so, you know, there, patrick. so, you know, you could perhaps speak from a better informed position than myself. but what i will say , myself. but what i will say, though, is that when your other guest speaker talks about coronations, how about correlations between the £15,000 that rachel reeves received from richard parker, who then subsequently guess what gets selected for the mayoral candidacy in the west midlands? i see he's nodding and agreeing.

he is now the mayor of the west midlands. what about the £20,000 that that adviser, who's now been appointed to the treasury, you know , isn't this all a bit you know, isn't this all a bit sleazy? you know, so you know, we're talking about hypocrisy. we're talking about potentially backroom, you know, bankrupting the country. we're talking about laboun the country. we're talking about labour, sleaze. those are way more important things than the fact that then compared to me, who's worked all my life to build up a little nest egg of ten properties, properties that weren't being used at all, and i made sure that i have tenants there now in in these properties , there now in in these properties, if we want to talk about renters reform, that's a separate conversation, because i can speak with nearly 30 years worth of experience, i don't know, i'm not sure your other guest really knows what he's talking about. >> all right. look both of you. >> all right. look both of you. >> thank you. thank you very, very much. it was a yet again, a proper head to head. we're on a good run of head to heads here on this show at the moment, so thank you very much. as former labour party adviser matthew torbay and former tory mp marco

longhi both giving as good as they got there. i think. so who do you agree with as rachel reeves paves the way for tax rises after this £3.1 billion borrowing surge? will the chancellor bankrupt britain just to satisfy the unions? alex on x says if we significantly cut foreign aid, we could make the majority of people in this country better off, which would negate the need for unions. all right, alex, well, there we go . right, alex, well, there we go. barry says. more like she'll bankrupt britain, but the union still won't be satisfied. i'm detecting a note of cynicism here, steve says. they always have and always will. but in the past, they at least tried to be subtle. now they just don't care. the unions are yet again running and ruining the country. inever running and ruining the country. i never thought i'd see it again. how wrong can you be? not not a huge amount of chlorine in that particular swimming pool there. but your verdict is now in. 95% of you agree that the chancellor will bankrupt britain to satisfy the unions, 5% of you say no. i wonder whether this loveless landslide is going to turn a little bit more loveless very, very quickly. coming up, ex—tory minister nadine dorries has joined this growing chorus of people who think that baby

killing nurse lucy letby might be innocent . i'll be honest with be innocent. i'll be honest with you, i don't quite understand this. i want to find out what's going on there. retired met police detective inspector hamish brown cast his expert eye over the case shortly. plus, i will show you the dramatic escape attempt of some uk drug smugglers . for safety's sake , smugglers. for safety's sake, stop the riff. >> stop the riff now . >> stop the riff now. >> stop the riff now. >> looks like border force might have been able to stop something , have been able to stop something, but next, labour has been accused of more cronyism as sue gray seemingly stacks the civil service with political appointees. look, why isn't there more outrage? and actually, frankly, why should this really matter to you at home? reform mp lee anderson tackles that, as well as trade unions, there's more demanding, demanding even more pay for less and yvette cooper's dubious deportation

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, there's been a lot going on, so you might have missed this, but there is a bit of a fresh labour scandal actually erupting because sue gray gifted a labour think tank director a top job in whitehall in the civil service. supposedly impartial. isn't it just sergeant spent the past year as a director at a group called labour together, which has close links to sir keir starmer and his allies. but she's been quietly appointed deputy director of the cabinet office. propriety and constitution group, which rolls off the

tongue. that means that she is responsible for ensuring the highest standards of propriety and ethics across all government departments. well, this is the latest civil service appointment to raise eyebrows after two labour donors, ian caulfield and emily middleton, were given jobs as top mandarins. well is the civil service being overtly politicised by labour like never before? i'm joined now by reform mp lee anderson. lee, thank you very, very much. i mean, this is frankly bang out of order, isn't it? i don't quite understand how this can be okay. i mean, if there was this was the tories or indeed reform. i mean, there'd be uproar, wouldn't there? >> well, they would, patrick. but the problem we have at the moment is there is no opposition in parliament to all this nonsense that's going on. we see the civil service being infiltrated by the left. most of the councils in the country are now run by the labour party. most of the police and crime commissioners in the country are laboun commissioners in the country are labour, police and crime commissioners, who've got most of the mayors in the country, labour party members, but they're voting on them.

>> they're voting. they're voting for . voting for. >> right, as well. so there's no opposition, patrick. there's no opposition, patrick. there's no opposition at all in this country at the moment. >> i get that . but, you know, >> i get that. but, you know, people will say, look, we vote for although i don't know anyone who ever actually has voted for a police and crime commissioner, but yeah, they are voting for the mayors, etc, but civil service is supposedly impartial. and if people thought there was a left wing bias in the civil service, which we were constantly told didn't exist, and now you look at some overt left wingers and labour donors being planted into top jobs in the civil service. you do have to wonder, well, what hope would any right winger ever have of performing a functional government? >> well, they haven't patrick. i mean, this is keir starmer all oven mean, this is keir starmer all over. you know, i've mentioned this on your show before where he won't let the reform uk party have any members on the select committees. he's got a massive majority. you know the media are all over us and like i said patrick at the beginning of this interview, there is no opposition in this country at the moment. you know, sir keir starmer is becoming like an authoritarian leader in this

country and he's going to fill the civil service with his friends. it is cronyism and it's a slippery slope. and i, you know , i really worry for the know, i really worry for the future of this country. patrick >> well, i mean, it is astonishing. and it does hark back to the kind of traditional socialist thing that you do, which is to try to stack the institutions full of your own. i mean, look, a cabinet office spokesman said this. there are clear rules governing recruitment and appointments of civil service roles, which are regulated by the civil service commission. we do not comment on individual staffing matters. well, all right, i mean, that's their argument for now, isn't it? but people will be keeping a very close eye on this. now, lee, in an unsurprising turn of events, labour's union paymasters aren't satisfied by bumper pay rises and are now effectively demanding more money for less work. on top of a 14% pay for less work. on top of a 14% pay rise. the transport salaried staffs association has demanded 38 days off per year, and a 35 hour week for its members, and the tsa are likely to get their way too, because they were one of the three trade unions that

met with the department for transport officials for negotiations yesterday . so, lee, negotiations yesterday. so, lee, is this where we are now, which is this where we are now, which is that unions are going to be getting more money for less work? >> well, it is patrick. this is a free meal ticket for the pubuc a free meal ticket for the public sector workers and the trade unions responsible at a time. patrick, when we look at some of our most impoverished pensioners in this country who's just had their winter fuel allowance stopped, these are people on about 12 grand a year. at the same time, we're giving train drivers on 60 odd grand a yean train drivers on 60 odd grand a year, a massive pay rises. this is a modern day labour, robin hood, this is the redistribution of poverty amongst our pensioners. they're taking off the pensioners and giving it to people on 60, 70 grand a year. you know what? we knew this was coming, patrick. we knew the trade unions would hold the labour party to ransom. and there's a simple reason for that is because the trade unions are the paymasters of the labour party. and i think you just touched on earlier when marco was on about how much money rachel reeves has received from certain donors. this is what happens when you get a labour

government . government. >> well, it'd be interesting. i mean, look, if people's public services do start to function better and we do see an uptick in it, then people might say, okay, fair enough. but that is the great unknown at the moment, isn't it? and it's whether they keep coming back for more, which might be an implication, but we'll have to wait and see. but finally, ali yvette cooper has pledged to detain more illegal migrants and carry out a record number of deportations. the home secretary plans to expand immigration detention centres as part of a plan to remove more than 14,500 illegal migrants in the next six months. so here's a little snippet of what home office minister seema malhotra had to say. >> earlier, the prime minister announced our first steps in which we would be bringing in the border security command and also taking steps to make sure that rules are enforced. that's why today's announcement is so important. we're announcing that we've got 100 new staff specialist officers in the nca boosting numbers by a third to make sure that there is the capability we need to tackle those evil criminal gangs that

are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk . risk. >> well, lee, do you trust yvette cooper get those numbers down? >> well, i don't patrick. and that 14,500 or whatever, whatever it was, that's nothing new. i think we deported about 26, 27,000, you know , people who 26, 27,000, you know, people who should not be in this country last year. look, patrick, nobody believes a word what yvette cooper said. bear in mind, this is when she was a shadow home secretary. this is a this is a woman who signed a letter to stop, you know, people being deported to jamaica. these were murderers. these were rapists. these were people that committed horrific sex crimes. one of them, by the way. who didn't get on the flight, went on to commit another murder. so i don't believe a word she said. i think most people would take what she said with a pinch of salt. >> one thing i will say on that, lee, is not trying to disagree with you for the sake of it here or anything like that. i will have to go back and double check that her name was on that letter. i know that several labour mps were, but i'm not.

i'm not 100% sure if she was one of them, but some people will say, well, this is low hanging fruit, right? she's actually going to go for people who say work at car wash is illegally or work at car wash is illegally or work at car wash is illegally or work at nail bars illegally. and actually, those people were always very easy to get out of this country. and if we have 1.2 million of those, as we do right now, you know why, why, why couldn't the tories have done that? even when you even think back to when you were a tory mp, why couldn't they have just got rid of them? >> because it was weak, patrick. it was weak. they had no political courage, they had no political courage, they had no political backbone. they didn't have the will. you know, i used to raise this on a weekly basis with various people, various people in the home office and ministers and the home secretaries. at the time, it was just weak leadership. it's quite simple to do. patrick, if you're not in this country legally, then you should be deported . all right. >> lee, thank you very much. as even >> lee, thank you very much. as ever. that's lee anderson there. reform mp coming up, i'll bring you the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. and can you tell me, please, what's going on . here? please, what's going on. here? yes, but next bizarre story.

this ex—tory minister, nadine dorries, has joined a growing chorus of experts, politicians who think that convicted baby killing nurse lucy letby might actually be innocent. so why is this case facing fresh scrutiny? retired met detective inspector

next. welcome back. now, former tory minister nadine dorries has put the conviction of lucy letby, a nurse found guilty of killing seven babies under fresh scrutiny . dorries has called for scrutiny. dorries has called for an urgent review, arguing that the perilous state of maternity and neonatal care in hospitals was a factor too easily dismissed by the court. was a factor too easily dismissed by the court . there dismissed by the court. there are also concerns about the evidence used to convict letby, after the crown prosecution service admitted vital prosecution data showing when letby used a security door on the ward was incorrect . well, i the ward was incorrect. well, i must admit i find all this

rather weird. i this keeps resurfacing. but to discuss this now, i'm joined by a retired detective inspector with the metropolitan police, hamish brown, hamish , there are issues, brown, hamish, there are issues, aren't there? with the quality of evidence that was submitted. i mean, is that the kind of thing that can cast this whole case into doubt ? case into doubt? >> well, certainly . i case into doubt? >> well, certainly. i mean, case into doubt? >> well, certainly . i mean, the >> well, certainly. i mean, the prosecution are going to show that it was tampering with air tubes. that it was tampering with air tubes . it was poisoning. lucy tubes. it was poisoning. lucy letby was always there . that's letby was always there. that's the prosecution case. and there were notes found at her address, which implied her guilt by the same token, the defence is going to say, well, hang on a minute. you haven't actually got any direct witnesses. we do this insulin poisoning or tampering with the air tube. in fact, one doctor said it must have been her, but he didn't see her at all. so? so that's not right. and the presentation of the evidence, and they go on to say,

well, look, it's coincidence dental that she happened to be there. so those are some of the main issues . there. so those are some of the main issues. there might be other things which will which will come up. but again, the prosecution will point out there have been trials, jury trials where she has been convicted . where she has been convicted. the case has been closely looked at twice by the court of appeal. and she's lost those. so i think the prosecution are going to forward. look, we can't do anything else. what more do you want us to say? >> what do you make of the fact that now a couple of former tory cabinet ministers, amongst other people, by the way, are really seeming to pick up the mantle on this lucy letby case and raise some serious questions on it. what do you think about that ? what do you think about that? >> well, it is open to the defence. if they want to make a further application to the court of appeal. there's been a serious miscarriage of justice and we have seen that actually in in a well publicised rape case where someone was sentenced

or served 17 years imprisonment and was ultimately released. so there is facility for that. if there's that compelling evidence, it's not unusual for particularly celebrities. and i say this with the greatest respect to jump on this sort of bandwagon when you don't know all the facts. but if they have concerns, they're entitled to make those representations by all means. but there has to be that compelling evidence. and again , the prosecution will again, the prosecution will point. i think , to a strong case point. i think, to a strong case closely looked at by both criminal and court of appeals , criminal and court of appeals, and that is their that is their stance when it comes to cases like this . like this. >> i know that, you know, juries are supposed to be, you know, impartial and, you know, not check any news or anything like this. i think it would have been impossible to not have unbelievably strong emotions about the deaths of so many babies. and this conceivably relatively fresh faced monster that lucy letby was, you know,

held up as it may well be. i mean, he was found guilty of being. and i want to make that very, very clear. do you think that juries who are essentially ordinary people are qualified to actually reach verdicts in cases like this ? like this? >> well, in fact, having been a juror myself some years ago, i was a foreman on two of the cases, and i was actually pretty impressed by the attitude of others . so i can say at first others. so i can say at first hand experience, i've actually been there on a variety of cases, including one of a sexual nature. but, you know, the jurors are faced with these cases. and when we look look back to 1991, the nurse beverley allitt, she killed a number of little babies. and since then , little babies. and since then, of course, we've had doctor harold shipman, you know, pillar of society and all that sort of thing. and the juries, they'll be told about lucy letby

background and what a nice person she is , and they will person she is, and they will weigh that up and they can be swayed by that, but they will not just say one of the implications. >> sorry to cut you off. mish a bit pressed for time. one of the implications is that the quality of maternity care in britain is so woefully awful that we have a catalogue of different maternity wards where babies die far , far, wards where babies die far, far, far too often. and if this was happening there, i think it was the countess of chester hospital. the, the, the implication could be that lucy letby could have been a very useful scapegoat to that. i'm absolutely not saying that's what i think, but i'm saying that for me, reading between the lines is what some of these people are saying. do you think there could be some truth to that? >> well, my understanding is that before she went on the ward , that before she went on the ward, there were fatalities and tragically, that happens in any hospital. but they shot through the roof or considerably higher. as soon as she went there or when she was there, and when on her watch. but this happens throughout the country and the

nhs, like a lot of other organisations, are terribly hard pressed and they do what they can. no system is perfect and the, the nhs, in fact, when they saw as a problem in that on that ward, they had her out. >> okay, hamish, look, thank you very very much. incredibly difficult thing to talk about. slightly bizarre thing. but this, this keeps rearing its head.the this, this keeps rearing its head. the procession of different high profile people keep bringing up hamish brown, the retired metropolitan police officer, now a spokesman for the cps, said two juries and three appeal court judges have reviewed a multitude of evidence against lucy letby. she's been convicted on 15 separate counts following two separate jury trials. we can confirm that accurate door swipe data was presented at the retrial. we've been transparent in clarifying this issue and rectified it for the trial. we're confident that this issue did not have a meaningful impact on the prosecution, which included multiple strands of evidence. it does beg the question why do so many people keep bringing this up? i'm not quite sure. but anyway, there we go. next in yvette cooper has pledged to detain more illegal migrants. do

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>> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight . a pakistani christys tonight. a pakistani man is now blamed for spreading the initial misinformation about the initial misinformation about the southport attack. what does this mean for those who blamed the far right and priority? >> and the first step is to set up the new border security command and to increase our law

enforcement. >> is yvette cooper lying about who labour will deport? >> plus, i don't want to increase taxes on working people and our commitment not to increase national insurance, income tax or vat. we stand by those commitments. >> feels like a big scandal as labour borrowed £3.1 billion more than expected last month to pay more than expected last month to pay off. the unions also , the pay off. the unions also, the seine sza stop the rip. >> stop the rip now find out what happened to those drug smugglers on my panel tonight is the director of popular conservatives, mark littlewood , conservatives, mark littlewood, political consultant suzanne evans, and author and journalist rebecca reid. >> oh, yes. and who said the germans don't have a sense of humour? get ready britain, here we go .

we go. is our home secretary unfit for the job? next . the job? next. >> good evening. it's 10:01. the job? next. >> good evening. it's10:01. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. five bodies have now been found inside the wreck of a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of sicily. the bodies of british tech entrepreneur mike lynch and his daughter hannah are thought to be among them. but formal identification has not yet taken place. sicily's civil protection agency says four bodies were recovered from the superyacht this afternoon, but one body remains inside the wreckage . remains inside the wreckage. this takes the death toll so far to six. one person is still missing and the search for them will resume tomorrow. police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was involved in a collision during an attempted theft of his van. west yorkshire police said officers were called last night following reports of a man found seriously injured in wortley, which is in leeds. the

victim was given emergency treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene . four people dead at the scene. four people who died in a house fire in bradford, including three children, have been named by west yorkshire police as 29 year old briony gawith and destiny, whose nine oscar, who's five, and aubrey bertel, who's just 22 months old. a murder investigation has been launched after the incident, which happenedin after the incident, which happened in the early hours of this morning on westbury road. police believe the fire was started deliberately and was domestic related . a 39 year old domestic related. a 39 year old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and was taken to hospital with critical injuries. the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying new intelligence officers to target people , smuggling gangs, target people, smuggling gangs, reopening immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire is also part of the plans, which will add 290 beds. home office minister seema malhotra says it's important to tighten the country's border security, but the conservatives

say labour are not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the boats . police have stopping the boats. police have named a man killed in his own home by his pet xl bully dog. the victim was david daintree. he was 53 years old and specially trained officers are now supporting his family. emergency services were called last night to a house at ashley court in accrington. accrington in lancashire, after reports of a dog attacking someone inside the xl bully was shot dead by police , who claimed the dog police, who claimed the dog still posed a significant risk to others. an investigation is ongoing and taylor swift has made wembley history as she became the first solo artist to perform at the venue eight times in a single tour. the pop superstar closed out the european leg of her eras tour yesterday at wembley stadium, with a packed show featuring special guests, as she broke the record previously held by michael jackson for his bad tour in 1988. with those other latest gb news headlines for now and

cameron walker more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to gbnews.com the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> round up, detain and deport illegal immigrants that's what new home secretary yvette cooper has just promised to do. well, do you believe the woman who held up a sign saying refugees welcome? close the bibby stockholm and scraps rwanda on day one? here's home office minister seema malhotra trying to sell this plan today , the to sell this plan today, the prime minister announced our first steps in which we would be bringing in the border security command and also taking steps to make sure that rules are enforced. >> that's why today's announcement is so important. we're announcing that we've got 100 new staff, specialist officers in the nca, boosting

numbers by a third to make sure that there is the capability we need to tackle those evil criminal gangs that are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. >> yvette cooper has promised to deport 14,500 people in the next six months. now for context, our homeland security editor, mark white estimates that there are roughly 1.2 million illegal migrants in the uk. what miss cooperis migrants in the uk. what miss cooper is conveniently not telling us, though , is that she telling us, though, is that she plans to deport people who are working illegally in britain or overstaying their visas to a country who we already have returns agreements with. the low hanging fruit , as it were. but hanging fruit, as it were. but this will do nothing to combat the channel migrant crisis. under labour, we now have no deterrent . in fact, we actually deterrent. in fact, we actually have a massive incentive. every single person who arrives illegally will be able to claim asylum under labour because they're ignoring it seems the illegal migration act. so will everyone on the backlog. so she says that she's going to increase capacity at detention facilities like campsfield house

and gosport. well, the left wing of her own party opposed this. mps like john mcdonnell , of her own party opposed this. mps like john mcdonnell, diane abbott, they signed a commons motion opposing the inhumane detention of migrants at these centres. so she's got a rebellion on her hands. there hasn't she? will yvette cooper go to war with the hard left? i'm not sure she will. oh, and apparently it will take about six months to increase the capacity by a few hundred. all right. well, around 15,000 channel migrants could cross in that time . she says that she's that time. she says that she's going to increase the number of people processing asylum claims, but they're still going to be subject to appeal. and then she will suddenly have to contend with the same leftie lawyers that labour have been cosying up to for years now. just to illustrate for you the psychology of some of the people who work as human rights or immigration lawyers in britain. earlier this week, an asylum seeker was sent to jail for stabbing his own lawyer. okay. and that lawyer then said he felt sorry for the eritrean who

stabbed him because he has completed five years of residency. being an asylum seeker from eritrea, and he would have been granted permanent residence. he said this incident has done a lot of damage to him as well. it's madness, isn't it? and we damage to him as well. it's madness, isn't it ? and we still madness, isn't it? and we still don't have anyone in charge of the new border command. why is that, i wonder? the home secretary can make a lot of noise about deporting people working in nail bars or car washes. but we have both sides of the sudanese civil war currently fighting each other in dunkirk. and trying to come across to the channel. and as it stands, she doesn't seem to have any plans to stop those boats. let's get the thoughts of our panel this evening. i'm joined by the director of public services, mark littlewood. i also have political consultant suzanne evans and author and journalist rebecca reid. mark, so 14,500 people, if indeed she manages to do it, that sounds okay, but as we've just seen, the actual practicalities of all of this, they don't seem to add up. >> yeah, i think that's right.

patrick. and actually, although that would be an advance on recent years , it's nothing like recent years, it's nothing like the sort of numbers we are regularly deporting 15 or so years ago. look, credit where credit is due, it is a baby step. i would say that in the right direction in that there has been a problem on capacity and enforcement and the previous conservative government needs to take quite a lot of the blame for that. but i think you hit the nail on the head in the end of your remarks there that if the present legal structures remain the same, this is largely for the birds, because the whole process takes forever. i've lost count patrick. now, how many times i've said on your show, why does it take 18 months to reach a decision? i'm not saying it can be done in 18 hours, but it can be done in 18 hours, but it should be done in 18 days. and unless we can streamline the legal process, there should be safeguards, obviously, but i don't think safeguards that require a year and a half on average, then really, i mean, this is a sledgehammer to fail to crack a nut. not much of a

sledgehammer either. so small step in the right direction. enforcement matters better administration, more capacity matters. but it's the legal system behind it that you've really got to fix. and there is no appetite to do that. >> the 18 month thing, the general answer, because i have asked the same question. i've interviewed people who work in this, and one of the reasons it takes 18 months is because they're very long forms, and they're very long forms, and they're generally filled up by people who are very overworked and understaffed. and if you make one error in the form, then you have then you can appeal it every single time there's an. we've all filled out forms online, right? like it's really to easy do one box wrong. and every time that happens, the whole thing starts again. >> but you're rather speaking to my case, rebecca, if one small, rather irrelevant box has been ticked wrong, we shouldn't go back to the starting point. we need a much more flexible, streamlined system. >> but i think sometimes we look at this and we make it this huge, like, slightly tin foil hat, like conspiracy theory thing. and it's not that it's, it's a bad it's a bad system. it's a terrible badly set up. it's a terrible badly set up. it's not good tech. and that some of this is just handling it

better. just processing it better. just processing it better. okay. yeah fine. >> but i'm saying it remains to be seen what they're trying, what they're actually trying to do about that. the numbers of people that they're looking to employ in there, i'm not really sure that equates to the amount of people needed necessarily in order to do it. certainly an improvement. well, it's more it's more than we had. so by definition, yes. but suzanne, i do wonder whether or not she's capable of dealing with the same leftie lawyers. i mean, ijust gave an example there of a lawyer there who had been stabbed by an asylum seeker. he was trying to help that guy has gone to prison and he still comes out and says, i feel sorry for this guy, because if he had not stabbed me, i could have let him stay in britain. i mean, this is the kind of people they're going to be dealing with how. >> now. >> yeah, it is quite astonishing, isn't it? and of course, you've got a whole huge illegal immigration legal system now, and that is a gravy train. i've walked past a lawyer's office in southwest london and i couldn't believe it. i saw they actually had in their shop window, as it were, a list of people who they were working for in immigration cases. and there were like 6 or 7 blackboards full of foreign names. and i was

gobsmacked. i thought, this is just one small legal practice in southwest london. it is an absolute racket . and i think absolute racket. and i think mark and rebecca are actually agreeing the whole system must be sped up, and it is a nonsense and a bureaucracy. that's happening should sort it out. but i think as mark says, this is a step in the right direction. but i think yvette cooperis direction. but i think yvette cooper is being a bit deluded. you know, she wants to deport 14,500 illegal migrants in the next six months, by which time, on current trends, 16,000 will have come over in small boats alone. and of course , that's not alone. and of course, that's not the whole. >> but if you don't do that, then you've got 30,000 more people that you guys didn't want here. like, it does seem like you're really determined not to be pleased by this. >> one thing that i will say is rhetoric, doesn't it? doesn't it doesn't do about it. >> nobody's doing anything. same with the tourists. >> but the thing is, it's not a deterrent to coming across the channel because the people who are coming across the channel almost to a man, are coming from countries, or at least claiming to we have no returns agreement. and what she's announcing here does nothing to stop that at all. >> well , there's two things

>> well, there's two things there. one of them is that that is one part of the problem. but one of the biggest demographics of people who come here come from vietnam, and that is still illegal immigration. and it's still a problem if you think that it's a problem. so low hanging fruit is not a bad thing to get rid of. why it wasn't done under the previous government. i understand, but if you can do it, do it. that makes sense. secondarily, in terms of the channel problem, that is a really, really sticky problem. that's been a sticky problem for a long time . but i'm telling a long time. but i'm telling you, the gangs are the place to really put your energy. if you can smash the gangs, then you really can stop the flow. and then it's about better negotiations with france because the france france are taking the word. i can't say. >> yeah, well, yeah, but they're not. >> they're not smashing the gangs. >> yeah, well no, but they've been, they've been in power for 49 days. yeah. >> but it was always a ridiculous thing to say. >> smash probably unachievable. no it's not, it's not a soundbite. it's a plan. 500 gangs spread across. >> i've interviewed people who work in cyber security whose main job is trying to do this, who under the previous government said there have been times where we literally could have got people and we didn't have got people and we didn't have the funding to do it. if

you don't invest in it, people can't do it. it's mostly cybercrime. >> but here's the essence of the problem. i'm sceptical about gang smashing. it hasn't really worked in the war on drugs, for example. i don't think it will work in the war on people trafficking either. what you've got to make sure is that what these gangs are selling is not a viable product, and at the moment it is a vaguely viable product. it's hugely i'm not sure you're right about that because you can die doing it. no, you can die doing it, but your chances, your chances, they're not very slim. >> very slim. rebecca, you can die doing it. >> but you've also got a very fair chance of being able to remain in the uk if you make it, if you can change the odds there, you don't need to smash there, you don't need to smash the gangs, you just put them out of business. >> but without a returns agreement, that's incredibly complicated. it's complicated. you can't just dump people on the side of the road and say, you can't. >> you can't. »- >> you can't. >> you can't. >> you need something like rwanda. >> the other thing you do not, which i don't think can be overstated on this at all, is the strength of opposition from within her own party and from the left that yvette cooper is going to come under when she tries to put more people in detention centres. >> this is a woman who made a virtue of shutting the bibby

stockholm. that was terrible. >> bibby stockholm was a liability, right? >> fine. well, some of these centres, some of these centres, they're expanding, they're expanding, historically burned down. they've had massive suicide rates. they've had riots in there as well. she cannot simultaneously claim that now a good solution to this is to put more people in detention centres like that. >> you run them better as well. you put more people in them, but you don't run them terribly. and also fundamentally, it doesn't matter if people on the far left of the party don't like it because they've got a staggering majority and they can afford to annoy a few people. can you explain one thing to me, which is that we currently have the illegal migration bill >> yes. and under that, anyone who enters britain illegally now cannot claim asylum . the labour cannot claim asylum. the labour party are yet to repeal that right. so are they breaking the law now by letting these people claim asylum? >> it's very i can't clarify that for you because as i've already said, the law surrounding this is so goddamn complex and not streamlined enough. but i think that the laboun enough. but i think that the labour, the labour government are trying to have it both ways. i agree with rebecca that john mcdonnell and diane abbott kicking off should not cause the

home secretary. too many sleepless nights, given the majority they've got, but i think they're going to have a narrative problem. is this government going to be serious ? government going to be serious? and if you like, tough on immigration and you know that is going to require some potentially really difficult decisions, not all detention centres will be perfect. bad things will happen in them. and labour mps and others will kick off about that aim to. or are they going to sort of do this, have their cake and eat it bit, which you say yes to asylum and no to economic migrants. >> if you need to be here, you should be here. >> and if you don't, you can't be. that's easy. >> clear. everyone can understand that. >> the thing is, immigration is now, for the first time in six years, the number one concern among the british electorate. if labouris among the british electorate. if labour is genuinely serious about this, they could just win another parliamentary term if they sort it out. but at the moment we're just hearing a lot of rhetoric. they still haven't even appointed the head of border security command, which i think is a gimmick , frankly, but think is a gimmick, frankly, but they've not done it yet. we had a lot of rhetoric about stopping the boats from successive conservative prime ministers. good luck to yvette cooper if

she can do it , she'll good luck to yvette cooper if she can do it, she'll probably. >> she's been in for like 49 days speculating on what 49 months are going to look like on what the future might look like. >> but as i say, number one issue again now hasn't been for six years. number one issue again, we've got to fix it. >> well, we'll have to wait and see. watch this space and clearly so many people will indeed be watching it with a very close eye. but coming up, i will bring you some exclusive tory leadership polling, actually, after i deliver the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. yes that should be one to watch. some quite interesting results there. but next again, another quite weird situation going on here. so a pakistani man is now being blamed for spreading the initial round of misinformation about the southport attack. right. what does this mean for those people who blame the far right speech union toby

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight we're only on gb news now. this is a slightly bizarre story, but an important one nonetheless. i feel a man in pakistan has been arrested and charged after allegedly spreading misinformation that fuelled the uk riots earlier this month. now, to according police in pakistan, farhan asif was linked to a website that gave a false name for the suspected southport attacker and reportedly suggested that he was an asylum seeker who arrived in the uk on a small boat. so this is actually the charge sheet now that's been issued by the

pakistani authorities. we here @gbnews have exclusively been given this charge sheet. now it does cast doubt. i think when you look at this on the theory that this was all a far right plot to whip up tensions from the start. all right. i'm joined now by the founder and general secretary of the free speech union , toby young. toby, thank union, toby young. toby, thank you very much. the fact that people have been jailed over spreading misinformation is , spreading misinformation is, some would say, chilling enough, but this makes it seem a little bit strange. it doesn't it? this is a man in pakistan who put something out online. and what's your take on this ? your take on this? >> yeah, i think it's interesting , the pakistani interesting, the pakistani authorities are accusing this guy and his news agency of being the first news source to identify the attacker as an asylum seeker, which we now know was false, but it does suggest that keir starmer's analysis,

his initial claim that these riots were organised by far right agitators, many of them from outside the areas where the disorder took place, was itself fake news. so one of the ironic implications of this, patrick, is that the prime minister himself may be may be guilty under the offence created by the onune under the offence created by the online safety act of knowingly publishing false information , publishing false information, which has a harmful effect. i mean, you could argue that by blaming far right agitators from outside the areas where the riots were taking place . keir riots were taking place. keir starmer effectively encouraged counter—protestors muslim counter—protesters for the most part, to form mobs to police areas to identify and attack people they thought were far right agitators from outside their area. so you could argue

that keir starmer's misinformation regarding who was behind the riots, contributed to a harmful outcome, and he could therefore be guilty of an offence under the online harms act. >> one thing that nothing will excuse is the fact that wherever this particular piece of misinformation came from, right, you should not then look at that and decide that you're going to go and burn down a migrant hotel. and i think that we can all agree with that. but it does for me, highlight this ridiculous idea that, you know, more social media clampdown or pinning everything on the far right is the answer here, because in the modern world it strikes me that you are never in a million years going to be able to stop a random bloke from pakistan putting something like that out there. he, by the way, apparently is trying to say that he got some of this information from somewhere that turned out to maybe be florida or russia. we don't know . but arresting we don't know. but arresting people in this country for looking at that information does just seem a little bit weird . just seem a little bit weird. >> i think it is a little bit

weird , and it's actually weird, and it's actually contrary to what keir starmer said when he was director of pubuc said when he was director of public prosecutions, in which he said, you know, we could use the full extent of the law to prosecute people for supposedly saying unlawful things on social media, but it wouldn't be in the pubuc media, but it wouldn't be in the public interest to do so because it would have a chilling effect on free speech. it would cause huge anxiety amongst people and inhibit them. and and stop them from, you know, saying perfectly lawful things on social media for fear of being arrested and punished. and i think that's what we're seeing now. he appears to have changed his mind. but yeah, it's typical, i think, of the government to blame misinformation and disinformation, social media. elon musk for the recent disturbances when you know that's not the real cause as any sensible person knows. and it's typical, actually, of how governments try and scapegoat the messenger whenever you have an outbreak of public disorder. so during the brixton riots in

2005, patrick, a pirate radio was blamed as the cause during the 2011 riots. which were much more serious than the recent disturbances we've seen. people tried to blame blackberry messenger , you know, it's messenger, you know, it's convenient for governments to blame the scapegoats rather than grapple with the real issue, which is, you know, seething pubuc which is, you know, seething public anger over uncontrolled mass immigration over the past few decades. >> look, there is there is also something that stands out to me about this, which is that let's just take at face value that this is a man who was running a pretty marginal news channel in lahore or somewhere like that, and there is this idea, now that he's been arrested for something like cyber terrorism, right? this is by the pakistani authorities who were unable to detect osama bin laden living about five miles away from their main military base. but this chap has tweeted something that some people in this country have latched on to. and then i will

say this again, some of them have gone on to do absolutely deplorable things. but that guy is now in custody with the pakistani authorities. and again, does this not all just seem a little bit much? >> it does seem a little bit much. and i think, you know, i looked this up beforehand and it looks as though under the prevention of electronic crimes act, which was passed in pakistan in 2022, this man could be facing 3 to 5 years in jail, for spreading fake news. and that law was passed in order to enable the political class to suppress criticism of their regime and it's looking increasingly as though britain, which used to be, you know, a model, a beacon of freedom and democracy, is now following in the footsteps of a country like pakistan with people being banged up in jail for, you know , banged up in jail for, you know, sharing memes on facebook. it's you know, this government has

taken a really sinister authoritarian turn over the last few weeks. and, you know, the free speech union. patrick has never signed up more members. we signed up more members in a single hour on thursday than we did for the whole of july. people are terrified now that they're going to, you know , get they're going to, you know, get a knock on their door from the police for something they've said on twitter or facebook. months ago , for the most part, months ago, for the most part, you know, they've been in touch with us. they've asked us about it because they're worried. these are mild criticisms of the government, you know, perfectly reasonable complaints about uncontrolled mass immigration. but they're now terrified that they're going to have their collars felt and may end up in jail for saying these things. it's having an unbelievably chilling effect on free speech in this country. and britain is effectively becoming more and more like pakistan by the day. >> well, and there appears to be, in this case, a slightly bizarre link as well, doesn't there? but toby, thank you very, very much as ever. that's toby young now he's the general secretary of free speech union.

i just want to make something very clear again. i'm not saying that it's right or okay to put misinformation out. i'm certainly not saying it's right or okay to look at any misinformation and then go and behave like a complete animal. what i am saying is, do you not think this is getting a little bit ridiculous, that a random bloke in lahore is now on cyberterrorism charges, and people who shared some of that information here are now basically being blamed for the entire riots. i just find that a little bit odd. but anyway, coming up, i'll bring you some exclusive tory leadership polling that exposes the disdain that tory members hold for their parliamentary party. so not great, is it? plus, i'll show you the dramatic escape attempt of these two uk drug smugglers. the seine sza . stop the rip, the seine sza. stop the rip, stop the rip now that's next. after bnng bring you the very first look

okay. welcome back everybody. i've got a big exclusive coming your way on the tory leadership election. but before that, here are your front pages . we start are your front pages. we start with the daily telegraph

alzheimer's wonder drug is given the go ahead. this is a game changing breakthrough. it can slow cognitive decline by up to 27%, apparently. and they also say labour jobs tax looms after £5 billion surge in borrowing . £5 billion surge in borrowing. let's go to the guardian now. uk. let's go to the guardian now. u.k. police threaten extraditions to tackle sextortion criminals . so extraditions to tackle sextortion criminals. so this is the national crime agency, apparently. is warning foreign cyber criminals that could seek to extradite them. they could seek to extradite them as part of a crackdown to the alarming numbers of young people being targeted for sextortion. this is blackmailing people over sexual images. apparently these gangs tend to be based in west africa. according to this report , and according to this report, and they are going to, extradite those people to the uk apparently. anyway. right. let's go to the daily mail. superyacht hope lost as divers find five bodies. yeah. look, i was actually on air earlier when this story was breaking, and.

yeah, tycoon mike lynch and his daughter are thought to be amongst those who were discovered in the wreckage of that yacht after a desperate three day search, let's go to the i. labour has no real plan to fix the uk sewage crisis . to fix the uk sewage crisis. feargal sharkey is warning. apparently he is saying that the government needs to have a clear and decisive strategy to save britain's polluted rivers. it is the classic, isn't it? now they're in charge. everything is their fault and even feargal sharkey is having a pop at you. so the daily express divers find bodies of tycoon and his daughter. so they have, yeah, they've they've gone off on that story again. they're desperately sad. now the metro here's one, freedom of the swiftie as taylor swift gives britain a £1 billion economic boost , an swift gives britain a £1 billion economic boost, an mp is calling for taylor swift to be given the freedom of the city of london. so there we are, an eclectic mix on the front pages. but i have teased you about this long enough. i'm going to hand over to our very own mark littlewood,

who is of course, on the panel with us tonight here in just a second or two, is going to run you through this in more detail. but we can exclusively bring you the latest tory leadership polling done by the popular conservatives. so robert jenrick and kemi badenoch remain neck and kemi badenoch remain neck and neck on 28%, while priti patel remains solid on 17%. mel stride tom tugendhat and james cleverly all polled under 5%, with members surveyed now in campaign cut through terms, the clear winner is robert jenrick, with almost 58% of panellists satisfied or very satisfied with this campaign, while all other candidates scored less than 40%. however, in a sign of growing discontent between the conservative parliamentary party and its own members, an overwhelming majority of 76% have little or no confidence in tory mps, putting the right to final candidates to the membership . mark, you're in part

membership. mark, you're in part responsible for this. go on. >> i am my outfit's responsible for this. we're trying to get to the bottom of what party members think about the leadership race. it's important to underscore that for your viewers. patrick, we're only asking conservative party members because it is they who will have the final say . the who will have the final say. the mps will cut it to down two out of these six, god only knows which two they'll pick. i was discussing with a former cabinet minister earlier today, and we were postulating that you might find all six candidates get about 20 mps each voting for them. so god only knows how they'll get it down to the final two. if you believe the betting markets, then the two that we have top of our poll, jenrick and badenoch have the best chance of winning. the betting markets say it's about 60% likely that it will be one of those two, but we'll see. but i think the interesting thing was this gap between the party membership and the mps, the 76% of our 500 or so members surveyed saying little or no confidence that the mps will

select the right two for the final ballot. that's when the members get a say. and this is what i think is going to happen. patrick. it's been a the campaign has not really caught light yet in fairness, we're still in the dog days of august. i think this will be a bigger political story in september. the conservative party conference will be in the midst of this. that will be a right jamboree with everybody trying to curry support. but once the mps have nailed it down to the final two, whoever they pick, whether it's pretty patel, kemi badenoch, jenrick, mel stride , badenoch, jenrick, mel stride, even those two are then going to have to appeal to the conservative party membership base. conservative party membership base . and here is, i think, base. and here is, i think, another interesting statistic from the poll. we asked these 500 tory members, what's the policy issue you care about most? and 55% said immigration, 24% said the economy . once these 24% said the economy. once these six mps have spoken to their 100 or so colleagues and two of them are left standing, they are

going to have to have a decent platform to appeal to the party membership on those two issues, right? >> well, there is quite a lot to digest there, i suppose. so, suzanne, i'll throw it your way first. what do you make of that then? do you think that the tory mps will make the right decision, whatever that is? >> well, it's very interesting, isn't it? because i think for a long time there's been a disconnect between a lot of the one nation so—called conservatives. some of us might call us the more wet liberal conservatives in mps and the kind of harder centre right mps, which mostly is the membership view. in my experience, most conservatives want low tax, small state, low immigration. and yet you seem to have a house of commons mps in the conservative party who don't really seem to be fully signed up to that, and a more kind of social democratic in their approach. so it will be interesting. and i suspect the parliamentary party may very well split. so you might get them plumping for, say , robert them plumping for, say, robert jenrick or pretty or kemi and

then tom tugendhat as well, who's who would represent that wing of the party. and then i think it will be a very clear cut decision for the conservative party membership. of course, if you get say, i think, i think most dream ticket for most conservative party members would be a choice between kemi badenoch and robert jenrick , because then whoever jenrick, because then whoever wins, i think the conservative party will be taken in a different direction. >> now, obviously, rebecca, i don't imagine you massively care. >> i mean, that never stops me from saying something. does it? >> no, but but, you know, i suppose the way to phrase this question would be who do you think would be worst for keir starmer? out of the candidates there? if you've just, you know, i mean, most annoying or most actually problematic because i think those two things are different. >> if i were a conservative voter, first of all, i would give myself a long, hard look in the mirror. but after i was done doing that, i would want somebody who was going to focus on getting the party match fit again. so really bringing in new talent, getting excited about it, finding what made us a good team back in the early days of

perhaps david cameron and re—embracing that what i want to avoid is somebody who's just going to pick on sort of scratchy headline culture war stuff, because i'm not sure that's actually going to make them any better or any richer as a party. >> okay. interesting point. you'll be, i don't know, surprised , possibly appalled, surprised, possibly appalled, rebecca, to know that many conservative party members agree with, you know, i think lots of conservative parties aren't awful. one of the things a lot of conservative party members seem to want is substantial reform of the party itself. this won't catch light with the electorate, who aren't really interested in what the constitutional protocols of the conservative and unionist party is. but if you want to appeal to the party membership, you are going to have to really turn around the tory party. we had all sorts of undemocratic fixes and cronyist practices and selecting. >> they were fighting fires, weren't they? >> so there wasn't time and space to look at that stuff. well, they had a year or so to select unbelievable. yeah. >> so i think democratic reform of the party and actually giving members more of a say in who their conservative candidate is

would help the party get match fit. and that's certainly what the members want. >> so just just to clarify, as it currently stands, according to your poll, the most popular two with the membership are jenrick and badenoch. and they are almost neck and neck. yeah. >> and priti patel not far behind. >> priti patel not far behind. right. all to play for. so there we go. well thank you very much for bringing us that fascinating stuff. but i also want to bring in now a dramatic moment that two drug smugglers tried to escape the police after being caught with no less than £37 million worth of cocaine off the coast of suffolk . get on, you coast of suffolk. get on, you and i get on. >> but no, let's wait . and i get on. >> but no, let's wait. in and i get on. >> but no, let's wait . in the >> but no, let's wait. in the water bath and watch it stand down. you've been warned. get cuffs on him . cuffs on him. >> so? so there we go. 55 year old bruce knowles and 31 year old bruce knowles and 31 year old dutchman ferhat. unpronounceable surname were

intercepted by border force near east sunak broads in suffolk. it's a tough one. theirs with 350kg of cocaine in the hull of their boat. they pleaded guilty at ipswich crown court yesterday and they are now facing a lengthy prison sentence. so there we go. so it does appear that border force can stop someone . someone. >> they can stop them. >> they can stop them. >> i found myself rooting for him. i thought if you want it that badly, get away. >> i think when he went, when he really kind of splashed himself over the side, the other guy was a bit half, wasn't he? he was like, i think i'm probably not going to get away with it. i'll have a run through the shoreline and then just for show, just for show. but the other guy really committed to it, didn't he? but 37 million quids worth of cocaine. but anyway, that's off the streets now to be replaced immediately by another £37 million worth of cocaine. but coming up, who said the germans don't have a sense of humour? a. yes. i will tell exactly what's going

there. but first i'll bring you some more of

welcome back to patrick christys tonight . welcome back to patrick christys tonight. i've got a couple more front pages for you. so here we go. so we're going to start this one with the times. interesting story on the times here. actually at the top of it, free movement for the under seconds in reset of eu relationship. so apparently ministers are prepared to allow young europeans to live and work in

britain as part of a wider reset of relations with brussels after brexit. i'm going to talk about that in more detail in a second. i'll just round off this paper review with the mirror, which is a desperately awful story, actually. mum and three kids killed in house blaze horror tributes to family as a man is arrested over the suspected arson attack . absolutely arson attack. absolutely devastating. and the picture on the front there is the young mother with three incredibly young children. so just such an such an awful story, i'll focus this one on what's on the times now, though. so free movement for the under 30s and a reset of eu relationships. apparently labour has reportedly insisted it has no plans to agree to a youth mobility scheme that could give young members of the eu the right to work in the uk for the first time since brexit. but government sources have told the times that ministers had recognised that they would have to give ground on this issue. all right. okay, so let's be honest, it's a bit squiffy on

the detail here, but do we think this is likely to happen free movement for the under 30s i don't know if it's likely to happen. >> i hope it doesn't. i think it's very weird to pick a particular cohort. eu citizens under the age of 30, and to have a separate immigration policy for them. our immigration policy, and whether you can live and work here should be based on the work that you're doing or the work that you're doing or the tax contribution that you make, or that you can prove that you're self—sufficient because you've got adequate wealth and you've got adequate wealth and you won't be relying on the state, a particular carve out for this particular cohort is not the way to. >> i also wonder if it would be reciprocal as well. >> it is one of the great unknowns it would have to be. >> but i totally agree with mark. i mean, it's an ageist policy to start it. start with, it's a complete ripping up the brexit contract that we had, no, i think this is an absolute absolute disaster, really. as mark says, you know, the under 30s are going to be people who are going to be on lower incomes, who are less likely to be able to contribute to the uk economy, are probably going to need some handouts in order to

be able to stay here. it's a complete disaster. and this idea that, oh, we've got no plans, say labour. well, how many times have we heard in all manner of things we have no plans. that is the political sign. that's the sign that they're thinking of. >> seriously, quite an interesting sentence in this article is under this move, eu citizens under the age of 30 would be allowed to live and work in the uk for up to three years with a with a reciprocal arrangement for the uk citizens. now it says this. this would bnng now it says this. this would bring the eu in line with countries such as canada and australia, which already have a similar deal with the uk. so i suppose when you look at it like that, what's the problem? >> yeah, and i think it's a really nice thing. i think i've got a lot of friends who are really, really heartbroken not to be able to live in countries that they particularly wanted to. however, i think there is a bit of a flaw here that we already have a problem with people not having enough babies, and if people leave to go to, let's say, live in amsterdam when they're 27, meet somebody, they find out how much better it is to have children in other european countries, which is true almost universally of other eu states. they will not come

back here and have more babies. and then that is going to be a whole new problem. >> and any points against that do you think that is that fair? >> well, i don't know. i think we have got a we have got a birth crisis, there's no doubt about that. and that needs to be looked at and one of them is a very strong argument made by some people that the reason our birth rate is so low is why we need immigration. i don't i don't think that follows at all. >> i think it's part of the housing crisis. damn near impossible for young people. >> that is also part of the problem is that people have fewer children now, but new builds tend to be three beds rather than four beds. >> so you literally move into a house which facilitates you having like a one bedroom for a child, because again, you don't have strict planning controls. >> i mean, housing is much, much cheaperin >> i mean, housing is much, much cheaper in europe. >> i genuinely formation much eafien >> if you made it easier to do extensions to people's houses, got rid of planning permission. people would have more babies because they'd have somewhere to put the baby united on liberalising planning laws. >> yeah, save the nation free movement for the under 30s in receipt of eu relationships. i just don't quite understand why they would allow us and why we would accept. i mean, what are we resetting? what better trade deals? i mean, is this is this

the other aspect of this would just be it's a back door. >> back door to free movement. >> back door to free movement. >> it's the first step in free movement. so then to become the under 40s, the under 50s, the under 40s, the under 50s, the under 80s, you know, the whole lot. so if you want free movement, this is a step back towards it. that was part of the reason for leaving. this is the worry that people like me who voted for brexit have long had, that there will be a stealth, moves piecemeal to get back in, but i think a lot of people would really like the right to live somewhere else and work somewhere else. >> i think if it's reciprocal and you can do it on a country by country basis, i think it's a really nice option to offer people. >> by the way, it could be unilateral. i don't think you need to make these things reciprocal. we could pick off nafions reciprocal. we could pick off nations that we were happy to unilaterally offer this to. we don't need to sign a treaty to bnng don't need to sign a treaty to bring this about. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. well, we'll watch this space, don't we? >> now, on a similar vein, the germans are coming. well, i mean, they're already here, actually, and their navy are causing quite a scene. one of the german warships made its presence known in london today by blaring out the darth vader theme tune as it advanced up the

river . theme tune as it advanced up the river. thames. and. >> one thing i will say about thatis >> one thing i will say about that is that it does appear to have divided a bit of opinion on the panel here. >> we had a bit of laughter and then we went, does that count as far right protesters? >> imperial stormtroopers? >> imperial stormtroopers? >> imperial stormtroopers? >> i suppose it does imply. why do you think you might have the need to play the darth vader? >> got a far right vibe, hasn't it? like like vintage, far right. like the original, far right. >> remember the nazis? >> remember the nazis? >> yeah, like the first wave of nazis. >> like a far left vibe, actually. i mean, either nazis or the nazis were far right. oh, come on, nationalist socialist party, rebecca, come off it. >> of course they were. they were state. they were absolutely totalitarian. they were. >> we'll be honest with you. it was supposed to be a light—hearted segment. we are. >> we are now currently having a massive row about the nazis and, you know, yet again, proof as to why why you should never bring up the war.

>> but apparently they always play >> but apparently they always play that song, which again, i think is weird. i'm just sorry i find this whole thing very weird. i must say. >> i find it quite funny. initially, a german navy spokesperson told the telegraph i won't do the accent. the commander can choose the music freely. the choice of music has no deeper message. >> all right, well, i, for one, am reassured . so there we go. am reassured. so there we go. >> who said the germans didn't have a sense of humour, one of the points of humour. >> it'sjust the points of humour. >> it's just a really weird sense. >> it's a weird one. >> it's a weird one. >> yeah. all right. okay, let's do today's greatest britain union jackass. right, mark? who's your greatest britain? >> please. >> please. >> i'm going to pick sven—goran eriksson, the former england manager. first foreigner to manager. first foreigner to manage an england national football team. he is sadly dying of cancer. but he is. he's actually doing so with an unbelievably phlegmatic and philosophical approach. there's a documentary coming out about him. he's got a smile on his face. look, when i go, i want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not scared and terrified like his passengers. as you know. but if you do have a long time to go, i'm not sure

i could come to terms with it as philosophically as he had. he's brought a lot of joy to the nation, and he seems to be going out in the best way possible. >> good luck to him. okay. all right. who's your greatest briton? >> please, sir. >> please, sir. >> mine is metropolitan police special constable ned donovan. he's also roald dahl's grandson. and he rushed to assist a tourist who was being robbed on westminster bridge but got beaten up in the process. unfortunately. but good on him for being a one man, mean, lean fighting machine attacking the criminals. shame though, on the bystanders . bystanders who bystanders. bystanders who didn't help him just stood by filming it on their phones, which is a sad indictment. i think, of 21st century britain. >> it's a classic of the genre, unfortunately, isn't it, rebecca? who's your greatest britain, please. >> mine is maria bannau as maria. i butchered her name, but she is the. she was the oldest person in the world until she sadly died this week. but she was 117 years old. and if you can listen to an interview with her, she's so great. she's so chill. she's like, i didn't do anything special. i just stayed alive. oh i love her. i think she's great. >> good stuff. well, you know

what? this is incredibly difficult to choose. actually, i have decided to go for ned donovan, the police officer who put himself in the line of duty, and. yeah so although any of them could have won, any of them could have won. right? so who's going to be your union jackass? >> i'm going for chancellor of the exchequer, rachel reeves. i'm sick and tired of hearing all this. we've opened the books and discovered new numbers. the numbers are in the public domain. anyway, she's now making the public finances much worse by signing off deals with trade unions without any reciprocation. i fear that we are just going to go further and faster down high tax, high spend, high debt under this regime. >> okay, suzanne. >> okay, suzanne. >> so it's the chartered institute of library and information professionals in wales. >> it is nice , but they have >> it is nice, but they have told librarians that they should avoid holding meetings in racist buildings. >> yes. they've made a list of dozens of buildings that they say have got links to slavery and colonialism and say they should be boycotted, racist buildings , absolutely stark buildings, absolutely stark raving bonkers. >> there we go. right.

>> there we go. right. >> go on then, rebecca. >> go on then, rebecca. >> right. the nation will be furious with you if you don't pick this one. alain delon, the actor who died in his will. he wanted his ten year old very healthy dog put down so that it could be buried with him. what? yeah, he wanted his dog euthanized so they could be buned euthanized so they could be buried together. >> so his dying wish was to kill his dog. >> perfectly healthy, gorgeous looking dog. actually >> very nice dog. >> very nice dog. >> sorry. that's not being honest. >> no, they were like, no, mate, you're dead. i'm not killing your dog. >> the family rejected it, apparently. so there we go. rachel reeves is today's union jack. how's that dog thing? >> oh, you don't love dogs. >> oh, you don't love dogs. >> thank you. thank you, thank you. i'll see you guys on a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> hi there. time for the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. an unsettled 36 to 48 hour period to come for many parts of the uk, a series of low pressure systems queuing up to arrive from the atlantic. one heading towards iceland, another

one containing the remnants of hurricane ernesto. that means, although it's a fairly typical area of low pressure that we see in the north atlantic at this time of year, it does contain air of tropical origins and a lot of moisture. all that moisture will be dumped over western scotland, northwest england, parts of wales and northern ireland overnight and the winds will pick up as well, with gales 50 to 60 mile per houn with gales 50 to 60 mile per hour. wind gusts around the irish sea coast first thing thursday, as well as the hills of north wales, northern england and southern scotland could cause some transport disruption dunng cause some transport disruption during the thursday morning period. drier towards the southeast, a lot of cloud around and a breezy start to the day. but the wet weather pushing into south—west england, wales and northwest scotland and having dumped 100 to 150mm of rain over the hills of western scotland, there's the risk of disruption dunng there's the risk of disruption during thursday morning, even as that clears away the risk of localised flooding. now brighter skies do return to scotland to northern ireland, although with a scattering of showers moving

in from the west, whilst the frontal system pushes southeast as a weakening feature. no more than a few dribs and drabs of rain. by the time it gets to south—east of england on thursday afternoon. otherwise sunshine late on across wales, the midlands and northern england. but the same can't be said for friday. a very unsettled start

>> good evening. it's just coming up to 11:00. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. five bodies have now been found inside the wreck of the luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of sicily. the bodies of the british tech entrepreneur mike lynch and his daughter hannah are thought to be among them. but formal identification has not yet taken place. sicily's civil protection agency says four bodies were recovered from the superyachts this afternoon, but one body remains inside the wreckage. this takes the death toll so far to six.

one person is still missing, and the for search them will resume tomorrow. police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery driver was involved in a collision during an attempted theft of his van. west yorkshire police says officers were called last night following reports of a man found seriously injured in wortley in leeds. the victim was given emergency treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene . was pronounced dead at the scene. four people who died in a house fire in bradford, including three children, have been named by west yorkshire police as 29 year old briony gawith and destiny, who was nine. oscar, who was five, and aubrey birtle, who was five, and aubrey birtle, who was five, and aubrey birtle, who was just 22 months old. a murder investigation has been launched after the incident, which happened in the early hours of this morning on westbury road. police believe the fire was started deliberately and was domestic related. the 39 year old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and taken to hospital with critical injuries. the home office has outlined

plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs, reopening immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire is also part of the plans, which will add 290 beds. home office minister seema malhotra said it's important to tighten the country's border security, but the conservatives say labour are not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the boats . police have stopping the boats. police have named a man killed in his own home by his pet xl bully dog. the victim was david daintree, who was 53 years old and specially trained officers are supporting his family. emergency services were called last night to a house in ashley court in accrington, lancashire, after reports of a dog attacking somebody inside the xl bully was shot dead by police, who claims the dog still posed a significant risk to others. an investigation is ongoing and taylor swift, she's made wembley stadium history as she becomes the first solo artist to perform

at the venue eight times in a