visas, but decrease in work visas, but that's at 286,000. that is still a city. the size of newcastle in just one year, and with small boat arrivals up since the election, can the labour party ever take back control of our borders? in a short while we'll be joined by nigel farage for his take. next up is labour eyeing up a return to freedom of movement with the european union. well, under this new proposal, under 30s will be free to work or study in the uk , to work or study in the uk, which critics say would drive down wages and swamp our universities with foreign students. and of course, send net immigration spiralling. next, a wonder drug that can ease alzheimer's in 27% of sufferers has been approved for use in the uk today but controversially rejected by the nhs on the same day. on the grounds of cost of £20,000 per patient per year. now, with private patients able to access this wonder drug. is this yet

more proof of a two tiered health service ? was the show health service? was the show always a delight to have your company? we've got so much to talk about today. the immigration figures are out. the politicians are trying to put a positive spin on it because work visa numbers are down. but let me tell you this 286,000 in a single year arriving a city the size of newcastle, does that to you feel like we're taking back control of our borders and there's more . asylum cases have there's more. asylum cases have tripled in the past year to a 40 year high. i put it to you again. does that feel like a government that's taken back control ? also, sir keir starmer control? also, sir keir starmer is dancing with brussels talking about reopening freedom of movement to the under 30s. remember the last time plasterers, brickies , truckers, plasterers, brickies, truckers, students, hospitality workers swamping the british job market? does that feel like a government taking back control of our

borders? next we've got nigel farage to put those questions to him. get your views across the usual way, gbnews.com/yoursay. but now it's your headlines with cameron walker . cameron walker. >> martin. >> martin. >> thank you. it's 3:02. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. >> now a hunt for two dogs is underway after a 33 year old man was found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham. >> west midlands police says the man is thought to have been attacked by at least one dog, which may have contributed to his death. officers were called to hereford close in rubery yesterday to reports that a number of dogs were loose. two dogs were seized at the scene by officers. police are now looking for two other dogs. they believe may have been at the address at the time. it's not clear which of the four dogs was responsible for the attack. three police officers have been hurt after being attacked at manchester airport. the incident happened

yesterday morning when police were reportedly investigating an abandoned car at terminal two. three people were arrested, with one man reportedly tasered. greater manchester police have confirmed they are investigating and have said assaults on officers are unacceptable and we will not hesitate to take action should any criminal offences be found . the government has found. the government has released their quarterly migration stats. legal migration is down whilst illegal immigration remains steady . one immigration remains steady. one figure shows afghans make up the biggest nationality crossing the engush biggest nationality crossing the english channel on small boats. there were close to 1900 asylum applications in the so—called legacy backlog that were still awaiting an initial decision at the end of june this year, around 76% of withdrawn applications in the year to june were classed as implicit withdrawals , meaning the home withdrawals, meaning the home office chose to withdraw the application. shadow home secretary james cleverly has been speaking on today's figures. >> well, the time that i was responsible for our immigration policy, we've seen very dramatic

improvements in the figures . we improvements in the figures. we have seen applications reduce, we have seen the grant rate come down, we have seen the removals increase, small boat numbers come down, illegal arrivals come down. this is what i achieved when i was home secretary because i made the difficult decisions. and sadly, what we have seen since labour have taken over is that they are reversing a number of those decisions. they are easing the visa restrictions that i put in place . place. >> three people have now been arrested after the death of a delivery driver fatally injured dunng delivery driver fatally injured during an attempted theft of his van. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder, while a woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. 42 year old claudio carol condor was killed as he attempted to stop the theft of his van in leeds on tuesday evening. officers found the victim was unconscious when they arrived and he was given emergency treatment, but

ambulance staff but were unable to save him and he was pronounced dead at the scene. figures from the business and technology world have paid tribute to mike lynch after the tech moguls death was confirmed today. he was among the dead after a superyacht sank off the coast of sicily this week. the search has resumed for the remaining person, who is still missing . the fifth out of six missing. the fifth out of six bodies in total so far was recovered from the wreck and brought ashore this morning as rescue efforts are continuing into a fourth day. now the italian coastguard has confirmed that the sixth and final person has is a woman. six people, including mike's 18 year old daughter hannah, were unaccounted for after the vessel sankin unaccounted for after the vessel sank in the early hours of the morning, the italian coastguard says a decision on whether to raise the sunken yachts from the seabed is not on the agenda, but that it will be hundreds of thousands of teenagers have received their gcse results, with a slight drop in the

proportion of top grades awarded from last year. more than a fifth of entries were awarded the top grades , slightly down on the top grades, slightly down on the top grades, slightly down on the 22% last year, but higher than in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic. prime minister keir starmer said in a post on x, formerly twitter. congratulations to those receiving their gcse results today. you've done an incredible job and a drug found to slow down. alzheimer's has been given the green light for use in britain, experts say the drug lecanemab, which is the first of its kind, has been shown to slow down the disease by almost 30%. the ruling means it can now be prescribed to private patients before a decision is made on whether to offer it on the nhs will. those are the latest gb news headlines . will. those are the latest gb news headlines. for will. those are the latest gb news headlines . for now will. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm cameron walker. more in half 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 gb news. >> dot com. forward slash alerts .

>> dot com. forward slash alerts. >> dot com. forward slash alerts. >> thank you cameron. now let's get cracking because the long awaited figures on legal and illegal migration to the year to june 2024 were released this morning with the number of work visas issued falling by 11% to still an incredibly high 286,000. although this figure is still over double 2019 levels. and meanwhile, the number of detected arrivals by illegal immigrants fell by 26% to over 38,000, with over 81% of those arriving via small boats. now, this all comes as reports suggest that the government is planning also to relax freedom of movement rules with the european union to allow more young europeans under the age of 30 to come and live and work in the uk, with a reciprocal agreement for young brits to have easier access to the european union. now to me that

sounds like the opposite of brexit. let's cross over to clacton on sea now and speak with gb news. reporter ray anderson, who's with a man who no doubt will have a few strong opinions on this. ray. you're with nigel farage. over to you . with nigel farage. over to you. it's written in the wind. >> yeah. good afternoon. martin, i'm here with the leader of reform uk and clacton mp, nigel farage. he's here at the clacton airshow. nigel events like this give you the opportunity to speak to the local people. what are they saying to you about these immigration figures? >> well , i these immigration figures? >> well, i mean, they're just negligible declines from all time record numbers, i one of the biggest things is housebuilding. everywhere you go within this constituency, there's 50 new houses here, 100 new houses there. we're told from a labour government. those targets from central government will double. so the impact on an area like this have just the new houses, which by the way, no more gp surgeries, no new roads is really, really big. so people are unhappy and they feel that

in the brexit referendum and in voting for boris, they voted for all of this to be brought under control and they frankly have been ignored. and that's why they voted for me here. that's why they voted reform. >> one of the comments we've been receiving is this figure that we're hearing about how many billions of pounds is spent deaung many billions of pounds is spent dealing with illegal migration to the uk? people are saying that the roads, and they wonder if that money could be spent in a better way. here in the united kingdom. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> javert was saying he met a bloke the other day in ipswich, just up the road. 22 year army veteran living rough on the streets. and he said, well, how can it be that a bloke like that that's got a few mental issues , that's got a few mental issues, ptsd issues is on the street and somebody crosses the channel and gets put in a four star hotel. it's the sense of unfairness. it's the sense of unfairness. it's the sense of unfairness. it's the sense of injustice. and it burns very , very strong. and it burns very, very strong. and if yvette cooper and keir starmer think they can brush

this issue under the carpet, they're wrong. >> one of the concerns as well, local residents have said to us, is that they have concerns about waiting lists at the nhs and availability of getting a dentist, an nhs dentist. but then if you look at these figures, these numbers, we know that the number of health and social care work visas have gone down by about 26% for legal to immigration the uk. and so do you think that we are seeing the wrong kind of areas being reduced for migration? >> well, look, i mean, the point about health and social care health is we've capped the number of people going to medical really aren't training enough doctors. >> so we rely on imported doctors. >> what kind of madness is that? and the same for nursing . we've and the same for nursing. we've made nursing an unfashionable profession . we've not encouraged profession. we've not encouraged people. we've made them go to university to get degrees before becoming nurses. god knows why. and so we take nurses from africa and places where they probably need it, even more so

no, no, i think what these figures tell you through all the different sectors , whether it's different sectors, whether it's skills with engineering, whether it's medical profession or care, is we need to be training our own people to do these jobs . and own people to do these jobs. and i say that with 9.4 million people of working age in britain, simply not working when it comes to illegal migration to the uk. >> labour is keen to stress that they are clamping down on that. something like 100 new national crime agency investigators, also financial penalties for businesses who hire illegal migrants and the possibility of prison as well. is that enough? and if it's not enough, what would reform do? >> i've heard it all before. >> i've heard it all before. >> priti patel said all the same things. if you employ illegal migrant workers, we'll find you. you may go to prison. massive penalties for smugglers, life imprisonment, none of it. and you could put 1000 new enforcement officers in place. but if the european court of human rights stops you deporting

people, what difference does it make are very clear that a country is not a country without controlling its borders. and you'll never do that with an activist foreign court in strasbourg which, remember, stop that plane taking off to rwanda back in 2022. we are clear that is the first step. >> can't let you go without asking you about these labour plans to potentially relax freedom of movement rules with the european union , to allow the european union, to allow young people to come and live and work here, and our young people vice versa, to go and live and work in, in europe. what's your response to those plans? >> some of our young people will go to live and work in europe, but many, many more from europe will come and live and work and settle full time here. and many of them may be lovely people, but our population explosion is the biggest social problem we face in britain. whether it's housing here in clacton, whether it's access to gp's or dentists here or anywhere else, a 10 million increase in the

population since blair came to power has devalued the quality of life of everybody. it can't go on. >> nigel martyn's got a question he's going to ask via me. so martin, take it away. >> yeah. so the figures today show that the asylum cases granted have tripled in one yeah granted have tripled in one year. a 40 year high. my question to nigel is , will this question to nigel is, will this get any better under the labour party or not i don't know. >> martin saying that the asylum cases have tripled in one year. he's asking, will this get any better? >> so what we saw in the figures this morning was the productivity of the home office civil servants literally collapsing in the year up to the general election, just not processing cases. therefore, as martin rightly says, the waiting list gets longer, but labour will wave a magic wand. martin. they'll solve all of it. they'll let everybody stay. >> nigel, thank you very much for your time. i really do appreciate it. we've been here all day getting the views of local people. of course, labour

have been keen to say home secretary yvette cooper saying that they're taking strong and clear steps to boost border security and ensure that the rules are respected and enforced. and many people do see these. this decrease in legal immigration as a positive step . immigration as a positive step. >> thank you, ray addison, and thank you to nigel farage there in clacton. superb stuff. now joined in studio by a political correspondent, olivia utley . correspondent, olivia utley. olivia nigel in fighting form there and i guess the point is this james cleverly was doing the rounds earlier because of course, these are figures from the conservative regime, almost from a previous life time ago, trying to claim that these were a victory because they're slightly down. but the bottom line, two figures that stand out to me, it's still in one year, a city the size of newcastle and that's just the work visas, let alone the student visas , 286,000 alone the student visas, 286,000 work visas and the asylum cases tripled to a 40 year high. do you think that the labour party

understands the magnitude of this issue, and will actually do anything about it? the tories didn't. now they're in power. have they got the appetite to tackle this? >> well i think that's a really, really good question. over the election campaign, it seemed a little bit as though keir starmer would rather talk about anything apart from immigration. on illegal migration, obviously he's put an end to the rwanda scheme, which, let's just remember, was not up and running by the time rishi sunak left office, came into all sorts of difficulties between when boris johnson first started talking about it in june 2022 and when the election was called in june 2024, there had been no migrants actually sent to rwanda. that said, you know, there was in the minds of ministers and in the minds of ministers and in the minds of ministers and in the minds of quite a lot of officials, too. there was a route to that rwanda plan working, and keir starmer has thrown it out. there are those who are saying, did he throw out the baby with the bathwater? because it doesn't really seem as though he has a alternative plan for illegal migration, particularly apart from

increasing the number of caseworkers in the home office, which might well be necessary. when we look at these statistics today, it does seem as though the asylum system essentially ground to a halt in the year before the election on legal migration. i mean, the numbers the numbers are down. and yes, you can say that they are still double the numbers in 2019. it isn't an all out victory by any means, but james cleverly is making the point that those numbers have decreased by about 26% on. it must be said , record 26% on. it must be said, record highs last year, but that is because of changes that the conservatives brought in and those changes were not allowing care workers and students to bnngin care workers and students to bring in their dependants when they come here. what is labour going to do about that policy? by going to do about that policy? by the sounds of it, they're going to try and keep it in place. but is labour committed enough to getting our own sort of home grown workers in the nhs and care sector? because if this policy is going to work, we will need to replace those people who

were coming over here because that drop is very, very significant on work and social care visas. we will have to replace them with brits. now. >> olivia, i'd like to ask you about the idea that's been touted now , i think 3 or 4 times touted now, i think 3 or 4 times in recent weeks, and that is the return of freedom of movement in the european union. now, i know that you speak to labour ministers and they will vehemently deny that this is going to happen, in which case, olivia , why does the idea keep olivia, why does the idea keep getting floated out there? are we being nudged or being fluffed up for this to be feathered in a back door? betrayal of brexit? >> i think it's a really good question. i mean, you could say no smoke without fire. the labour ministers i've spoken to have said that they are, that they are not planning to introduce a freedom of movement deal , but the introduce a freedom of movement deal, but the idea does keep coming up and we know that keir starmer does want to reset britain's relationship with the eu. what he wants is a veterinary deal, so that food coming over from the uk to the eu and vice versa isn't subject to so many checks. and he wants

some sort of science and research agreement with the eu. now. in exchange, the eu have said that they would like to see some sort of freedom of movement. and one option that seems to be on the table is a is a deal whereby brits between the ages of 18 and 30 could go to an eu country for up to four years to work, volunteer , study, etc. to work, volunteer, study, etc. and in exchange, eu citizens between 18 and 30 could come over here. now obviously that would be very, very controversial among brexiteers because one of the key reasons for brexit was to stop that freedom of movement. and this and this would essentially sort of bring it in again by the back doon of bring it in again by the back door. does keir starmer i mean, i reckon that instinctively he would quite like to go for this proposal if it would get him what he wants with the eu, but would he be willing to, to push ahead with it, when obviously it would be seen as very controversial and would give a lot of fuel to the conservatives? fire. >> okay, olivia utley. thank you. excellent stuff. now joining me to discuss this further and dissect those figures. i'm joined by the

former director general of the uk border force, tony smith. tony, an absolute pleasure to have you on the show today. you've been very vocal in terms of the labour party's plans to tackle all of this. we saw legislation yesterday , the legislation yesterday, the promise of 14,000 deportations before the end of the year. do you think that there's a direction of travel there where that's even possible? is that going to happen? have you got any faith that today's figures will get any better under the labour party ? labour party? >> well, i think, martin, i think if we can strip some of the political rhetoric away from this, it is politically toxic debate and look at it in, in a kind of a neutral lens. >> these figures aren't bad, actually , whichever way you cut actually, whichever way you cut them, because if you are interested in immigration control, there has been a significant drop in some forms of legal migration, notably the social care sector visas and their dependents, those visas are significantly down, there are significantly down, there are still very high levels , as

are still very high levels, as you say, of worker visas. >> that is that is a you know, that's not anywhere near what it used to be. but the general mood is that legal migration, they have got a bit of grip. remember, this is june 23rd to june 24th. so when we're to talking politicians about it, it was under the conservatives that these figures are reflecting themselves, but i think they probably left it a bit late, really, >> because, you know, they also presided over record levels of migration on their watch. so i guess james cleverly is right to say, well, yes, some of the things he, he put in place were beginning to work. but i mean, i'm afraid it's rather late in the day for them in terms of the election. i mean, on the illegal migration front, let's be really clear about what's happened with the small boats is, yes, the numbers are down year on year. thatis numbers are down year on year. that is mainly because of the initiative we spoke about before on albania. martin, where there was a specific effort and, you know, with an albanian task force to come to an agreement with the albanians that anybody coming by small boat would be

returned. and they were and that worked. and that was a targeted intervention against a specific group of people , which were group of people, which were actually causing us quite a lot of them were causing a serious problems in terms of, you know, safety and security as well as immigration. so there are things that can be done. i mean, i think the big difference, martin, which i've been saying ever since the labour announcements of yesterday, is the abolition of the rwanda scheme, because i felt that was a really, really bold effort by the uk. it's only ever been done before by the australians, in my knowledge, and i've been in this game a long, long time where you can actually say to somebody, no, you're not going to be admitted into our asylum system at all. we're not going to even listen to an asylum application from you because we're going to pass legislation, which means you can go to another country and they will consider your asylum application, and you can stay there . you won't be sent stay there. you won't be sent back to a war torn country. and i thought that was a really bold initiative. but of course, the legal obstacles that cropped up for 2 or 3 years for the last government, there were so many opponents of that plan that it didn't come to fruition. so that leaves us in a place, martin,

where we can remove some of the boat people to source, as we did with albania. there are other cohorts like turkish people, vietnamese. i think you know more and more of these top ten cohorts. i'm looking at bangladesh, india , these are bangladesh, india, these are countries that i know we can remove people to. we can consider their asylum claims quite quickly and send them back there so they need to be told that's what they're pinning their hopes on for. i think for their hopes on for. i think for the higher removals figures they've set. but for places like iran, iraq , sudan, syria , iran, iraq, sudan, syria, afghanistan, where are they going to go? martin? are we just going to go? martin? are we just going to go? martin? are we just going to give them all asylum here? because they probably would qualify if they can get it . would qualify if they can get it. but if we do that, well, how many more are going to come? and i think these are all imponderables that we're not yet really seen. we've seen green shoots of what labour are going to do, but we haven't really seen, you know, time really to seen, you know, time really to see how this is going to bed in and whether or not this is going to make any real difference to, to make any real difference to, to the intake of irregular migration to the uk. >> excellent stuff. you know, an absolute font of knowledge. tony

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welcome back. your time is 328. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. the uk health regulator rejects a drug that could slow down alzheimer's finance later in the program. about that . now five bodies have about that. now five bodies have been found by divers searching

the wreck of the luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of italy this week. tech tycoon mike lynch's body has been identified, but his 18 year old daughter hannah is still sadly missing. and joining us now from sicily is the local journalist alessandro arena. welcome to the show. alessandro, in terms of the ongoing mission out there, what can you tell us? we have five bodies been recovered and have been identified. but the missing piece, tragically , is mike piece, tragically, is mike lynch's daughter. what's the latest ? latest? >> the latest is that the researcher ? first of all, thank researcher? first of all, thank you for inviting me. and good afternoon to everybody. there are no news at the moment because from the morning when mike lynch was identified, they are still trying the divers to search for the body of hannah. but the research at the moment has got no news. they are still trying and trying and trying, but it's very difficult because maybe she is in one of the cabins that hasn't been found in

the in the released and right now the weather is good, but there are anyway no news about it. maybe to today is very difficult to conclude the positively. this research and tomorrow there will be more news about it . about it. >> and alessandro there are fresh revelations into how it was possible that this superyacht was sank the way it was. the designer of the of the yacht said they were built to be unsinkable, and there are rumours now that there may be an investigation, perhaps even followed by a lawsuit into how this boat went down so easily. there are rumours it was high in the water. its keel wasn't set right. do you know anything about that ? about that? >> it's a very. it's very strange what happened because the weather conditions were really bad. the whole night here in sicily. there were bad weather conditions . but it's weather conditions. but it's very strange that about such a big boat went down like this.

while the other one, which was next to it, didn't have any problems. so maybe many people talk about a human mistake and it's a hypothesis really possible. but there are investigations about it. it won't be easy at all. and i think that it's something that will take away a really long time, because there are there are no news right now about could have could have happened. and the everybody both authorities and the media themselves are moving , are themselves are moving, are moving in the fumbling in the dark maybe. >> and alessandro can we expect any kind of formal press conference? do you think, from the police in the united kingdom, by now, the police would have addressed the media to give information that hasn't happened yet? do you think that will happen ? will happen? >> i don't think so, because there are many things that have have to be shown again . and at

have to be shown again. and at the moment we just, like i said before moving on hypothesis. so it means that the police doesn't have certain elements . and this have certain elements. and this means also that much and much time has to has to pass for discovering something that you can tell to the media. we move about with what we see. so if we go to porticello, as i did in the last days, and there is somebody who speaks to us, we will get some information. but an organised event in which police or fire department or coastguard talk to , to the whole coastguard talk to, to the whole media is, is really difficult at the moment. >> okay. it's a very unusual, very different from how it will be in the uk. thanks forjoining us and giving us that full update there from the coast. alessandro arena, thank you very much. your local journalists now coming up, we'll have a gb news exclusive on reform uk to bring you. we'll be hearing from the

chairman of the party. the party seems to be getting organised. that's coming later on in the program. but first it's your headunes program. but first it's your headlines and here's cameron walker . walker. >> thanks, martin. it is 332. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. police are urgently trying to find two american bulldog type dogs, one of which may have been attacked. a man found dead in the back garden of his home. west midlands police were called to rubery, on the outskirts of birmingham, in the early hours of yesterday after reports that a number of dogs were loose. officers say they believe the 33 year old man may have been attacked by at least one dog, but none of the animals are believed to have been from a banned breed. two dogs were seized at the scene, but police are looking for two others, believed to have been at the house at the time . three police house at the time. three police officers have been hurt after being attacked at manchester airport. the incident happened yesterday morning when police were reportedly investigating an

abandoned car at terminal two. three people were arrested, with one man reportedly tasered. greater manchester police have confirmed they are investigating and have said assaults on officers are unacceptable and we will not hesitate to take action should any criminal offences be found . the government has found. the government has released their quarterly immigration stats. legal migration is down whilst illegal immigration remains steady. afghans made up the biggest nationality crossing the english channel on small boats. there were close to 1900 asylum applications in the so—called legacy backlog that were still awaiting initial decision at the end of june this year. three people have now been arrested after the death of a delivery driver fatally injured during an attempted theft on his van. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder , while a suspicion of murder, while a woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. 42 year old claudio karol condor was killed as he attempted to stop the theft of

his van in leeds on tuesday evening. officers found the victim was unconscious when they arrived and he was given emergency treatment by ambulance staff, but was pronounced dead at the scene. tributes have been paid to mike lynch after the tech moguls death was confirmed today. tech moguls death was confirmed today . he's among six people today. he's among six people confirmed to have lost their lives so far after a superyacht sank off the coast of sicily this week. another body was recovered from the wreck this morning and brought to shore as rescue efforts to locate the missing sixth person continues. the italian coastguard has confirmed she is a woman. mike lynch's 18 year old daughter, hannah, was among those unaccounted for after the disaster . well, those are the disaster. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm cameron walker. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly

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welcome back. time is 339. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. let's bring you a cracking gb news exclusive now . cracking gb news exclusive now. yes, on the back of their election success with the party winning their first five seats in parliament, reform leader nigel farage has decided that now switching from a nationwide plan to a local party structure is the way forward to increase democracy in the reform party to and explain this and to bring us more on this exclusive is our political editor, chris hope, who joins me now in the studio. chris, another sensational exclusive with the reform party. tell us more. yeah. >> this matters. this is kind of below the line. it's what you do in a closed season, a football club before the big signings take place during the season. zia yusuf is the reform uk party chairman. he's given £200,000 to the party. he's the new chairman in there for five weeks. he is behind the scenes to drawing up a new constitution for the party. now this, this, this matters because currently reform uk, it was set up so quickly by

nigel farage to take advantage of the concern about the tories, etc. and brexit. and so it became a vehicle for the election is only a company with about 15 shares in it. the majority controlled by nigel farage. members don't have any real say over who runs the party, and in a democracy you have to have the right, the right of members to kick out a leader who, if they want to kick that person out. so i asked zia yusuf this earlier and he said, of course it will. it will allow members a new constitution, will allow members to throw out the leader, whoever it is, richard tice ben habib or nigel farage, whoever leads that party, very important. he also gave an indication of the scale of ambition with the reform uk. he's had meetings this week of 70 branch chairs, one another 70 coming up soon 200 branch chairs appointed by the september party conference next month. and he reckons they can beat labour and form a government in 2028 2029. here's what he had to say. >> this party is no longer a pressure group, right? this is a serious political party. we are

going to be a formidable force in british politics. we're going to be durable. we're going to be here to stay. we're going to be using modern technology. and most importantly, we're going to be helping to manifest and convert all of that energy and support into victory at the ballot box. there are so many labour voters, even this year, who are non—graduate, working class people who work really, really hard, who essentially already can see just how much keir starmer's government are actively working against their interests. and look, reform of the natural home for those voters . voters. >> that's zia yusuf, he's the uk for reform uk party chairman. reminds me very much of the high calibre of candidates who signed up for the brexit party. you're smiling because you're one of those two. i forgot martin, but they were interestingly a different calibre of individual who signed up for the brexit party back in 2019. he does seem impressive to me and he appears to be giving a degree of professionalism. again, a very low base, by the way . just five low base, by the way. just five mps for the party that means they get, by the way, 350 or so

thousand pounds of short money annually from the state that will help fuel research and other work by this this new party. a long way to go. i mean, i mean, he thinks they can beat the tory party next election, in fact, labour next election. i think that is a very , very long think that is a very, very long shot. but you are seeing a party here. they're planning 2000 candidates at may's local elections. they're getting ahead of the game. the tories don't have a leader until november the 2nd. and it seems that reform uk is using that sort of fallow time post—election to really go for it. >> now, chris, as well as having that democratic right to decide what goes on the party. the other key, key thing we talk about all the time is having the ground game, the structure , ground game, the structure, knowing where your vote is, the tiresome shoe leather, the hard work that it takes to knock on doors. not glamorous, not glamorous to get people on local councils of course, we've got that coming up in may. we covered the story earlier this week of that council, the triple in wales , flipping into reform. in wales, flipping into reform. is this the beginning? do you

feel of a party realising this is hard work? but they've got to get serious and they've got to start now. it's the boring plumbing to make the bath run properly. >> you know, it's the boring stuff behind the scenes. they're doing it now straight off the election to try and show they are going to try and be a serious party. ben habib, the former deputy leader who currently seems to have fallen out with the leadership. he has no real relationship with richard tice, nigel farage and others at the top of the party. he says having on the back of this interview on gb news that ran out earlier, he says, you know, thumbs up on, on, on twitter. and here's to yusuf nigel farage and richard tice. so ben habib buys this and he's a big critic of the party internally that matters. and i think it you know, whether it works or not, they are trying to build on on the support in last month's election. two polls since then have shown a swing from labour to reform of 3 to 5 points. reform are now ahead of the tory party, who are becalmed on 20 points. so you know , early on 20 points. so you know, early days, but they are doing they are, they are walking the walk. they're not allowing last month's election to be a flash

in the pan. >> martin and what was interesting about that poll, you mentioned that the was it a six point swing? that was one of them. one of them was from the labour vote to direct the reform vote. now nigel farage the reform party has said they're going to take this battle to the labour party and we saw those riots, the social unrest in seven of the most disadvantaged areas of britain. also with the seven highest asylum seeker levels. they're all labour seats. there's been a lot of criticism and today the throwback to open borders with the eu freedom of movement of the eu freedom of movement of the under 30 labour asylum, not really under control. do you think we're starting to feel that the working class, the red wall votes as it was in 2019, might be reconfiguring voting for labour and switching to reform? or is that too much of an ask? well, that's too ambitious, but that did happen in the last election. >> we did see, you know, a number a lot of labour voters go across more tory voters, but a lot of labour voters going across to the reform uk party.

the problem remains with reform uk is it's a start—up. it doesn't know where all the voters are, but the mainstream parties know where their voters are from, where they live, and they go back to them on the four year cycle, checking you're going to vote labour or tory? yes we are. and so it carries on. this party has no idea. on the ground data. and that's why having these local chairman matters and that's why having 2000 candidates at the council elections next may matters. when you start to put your tentacles into the bedrock of these local seats, you find out where the voters are and when that happens, you can get them out. >> chris, it's a fantastic exclusive and let's talk about it more in the next hour. thank you very, very much. brilliant stuff now still to come. should students turn to apprenticeships as gcse results fall? because unlike chris, i don't think plumbing is boring. but first, the uk health regulator rejects a wonder drug for alzheimer's. found out why in just a moment. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's almost 10 to 4. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. a life changing alzheimer's drug will not be given to nhs patients as watchdogs have warned it is simply too expensive. now the drug was recently given the green light to be used in the uk, with experts claiming it was the beginning of the end for the disease. but the uk's health regulator has claimed that the benefits are just too small to justify the significant cost to the nhs . and to discuss this, the nhs. and to discuss this, i'm now joined by the associate director of evidence, policy and influencing mark macdonald. mark, welcome to the show. so this drug sounds astonishing. it sounds like a clear breakthrough of a condition that's affecting more and more brits and more and more and more brits and more and more people throughout the western world, as we age. tell us about this drug. is it lecanemab? tell us how it works, and then we'll get on to why you think it was turned down by the nhs ? nhs? >> well. hi, martin, thanks for

having me on this drug. i mean, it's a defining moment because for the first time, we've got a drug which has been deemed safe and effective by one of the uk regulators. the mhra, to be deployed to patients. so it's a really defining, exciting moment. it's off the back of decades of research. what the drug actually does. this one is target and breaks down some toxic plaque that can develop in the brain cells of some people with alzheimer's disease, and it targets that to such an extent, andifs targets that to such an extent, and it's a relatively modest extent , that it slows down the extent, that it slows down the progression of the disease. and it's really exciting because it's really exciting because it's the first ever drug which has been demonstrated and then approved , which slows down the approved, which slows down the progression of alzheimer's disease, which as you said in your intro, devastates the lives of so many people in this country. >> yeah. there are estimated 982,000 people in the uk now living with dementia, according to the alzheimer's society.

that's set to increase to 1.4 million by 2040. now, this drug isn't suitable for everybody. there can be some side effects , there can be some side effects, but mark macdonald, it does seem an astonishing breakthrough. and that brings us on to the thorny matter of the nhs turning it down. now you can access this drug if you're a private patient . drug if you're a private patient. it's about £20,000 a year, if i'm correct. but the nhs has ruled that too expensive. mark macdonald, do you think that's a short sighted policy? because end of life care is very, very expensive. that will only increase in terms of the social care costs. so in your opinion, in a cost benefit analysis , in a cost benefit analysis, should the nhs have given this drug the green light? >> well, dementia is a really costly disease area right across the board over and above the potential patients that this drug would have helped treat , drug would have helped treat, look, the regulators have to weigh up lots of stuff across a number of criteria. the situation in this country is that we have a taxpayer funded

system and taxpayers require value for money. so we are in the unfortunate and, yes, disappointing position where we have one regulator suggesting and confirming that the drug is safe and effective and therefore likely to be used in the private sector to some extent, and for not the vast majority of people who could have been eligible. and we're really clear. that's disappointing. that suggests a system that is not yet set up to deliver these kind of really, groundbreaking, innovative new treatments to the people who deserve and should expect them. that's disappointing. >> and mark macdonald, the situation will be the same as it ever was. and that is effectively there'll be two tiered healthcare. those who can afford to have this in the uk now will have the possibility of doing that, because it's now fully tested, fully greenlighted, and those who cannot afford it will simply deteriorate on and on. it underlines that feeling, does it not, that we have a seemingly two tiered health system?

>> well, health inequalities and ineqtuin >> well, health inequalities and inequity in healthcare is rife within dementia and probably the most stark example is that a third of people never get diagnosed at all with dementia and diagnosis could and should be the key that unlocks good quality care, support, certainty that people should morally expect when they are living with what is the uk's biggest single cause of death. so yes, there's the inequity that this has inevitably produced, given that the regulators have come to two separate conclusions. but i would say , look, go back to what would say, look, go back to what i said at the beginning. this is a big step. it is an exciting moment. these regulatory decisions are hard. there's lots to weigh up, and it's reflective of what is a new world in disease. and we can expect more to come online in the years ahead. >> okay. thank you very much. we have to leave it there. mark mcdonald, thank you for your

expertise . superb stuff. now expertise. superb stuff. now don't go anywhere because after the break there's lots more analysis on those all important immigration figures. a city the size of newcastle came last yeah size of newcastle came last year. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel, but now it's time for your. weather. >> but a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> hello, very good day to you. here's your latest gb news weather update coming to you from the met office. storm lillian is going to batter some parts of the uk overnight, bringing some very wet and windy weather, particularly to northern parts of england. but through today we do have a cold front making its way southeastwards, bringing a bit of cloud and a bit of rain for some before it clears away. as we go through into this evening. elsewhere, some bright or sunny spells developing behind this system. also a scattering of showers, particularly across parts of northern ireland,

northern and western scotland. 1 or 2 showers, perhaps for western parts of england and wales as well. now temperatures are going to be a little bit on the low side, low 20s towards the low side, low 20s towards the south, a few degrees lower than this further north, and feeling cooler than this in those strong winds, albeit they are going to ease for a time as we go into the afternoon . still we go into the afternoon. still clinging on to some cloud and a bit of rain across the far southeast as we go through this evening, but that will eventually clear away a brighter picture across central western parts of southern england and across the midlands and wales, as well . largely fine and dry, as well. largely fine and dry, with some sunshine here turning cloudier, wetter and windier across northern ireland as storm lillian starts to make its approach. meanwhile, it's going to be a showery evening across some parts of northern england and much of scotland, particularly towards the west. the feature that is then storm lillian does make its way in as we go overnight, initially bringing some wet weather to northern ireland, but then that heavy rain spills in across parts of scotland, northern england and across wales as well. and it's the winds that we do need to watch out for. gusts of around 80mph, perhaps in some exposed spots, could cause some

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news, broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, immigration data shows an 11% decrease in work visas, but that's still an

astonishing 286,000. last year. and that's still a city the size of newcastle. and with small boat arrivals up since the election, can the labour party ever take back control of our borders? and on the same issue is the labour party eyeing up a return to freedom of movement with the european union? well, under this new proposal, under 30 will be free to work or study in the uk, which critics say would drive down wages and swamp british universities with foreign students. we should also, of course , send net also, of course, send net immigration soaring. what do you make of that? and next, a wonder drug that can ease alzheimer's in 27% of sufferers has been approved for use in the uk today , approved for use in the uk today, but controversially, this has also been rejected by the nhs on the same day, on the grounds of cost of £20,000 per year per patient , but with private patient, but with private patients able to access it. is this yet more proof of a two tiered health service ? all

tiered health service? all coming up in the next hour ? what coming up in the next hour? what was the show? always a pleasure to have your company. also a sensational gb news exclusive from our political editor, chris hope.the from our political editor, chris hope. the chairman of reform uk has promised that the party will have democratic structure, including the ability to remove the leader if so desired , and the leader if so desired, and the leader if so desired, and the party is getting serious about its ground game and organisation across the country, promising 200 regional organisers by their conference in october is this the beginning of a political movement to challenge the big two at the next general election? get in touch gbnews.com/yoursay national headlines with cameron walker . walker. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon . it is 4:02 o'clock. afternoon. it is 4:02 o'clock. i'm cameron walker in the gb

newsroom. police are urgently trying to find two american bulldog types, one of which may have attacked a man found dead in his back garden. west midlands police were called to rubery, on the outskirts of birmingham, in the early hours of yesterday after reports that a number of dogs were loose. officers say they believe the 33 year old man may have been attacked by at least one of the dogs, but none of the animals are believed to be a banned breed. two dogs were seized at the scene, but police are looking for two others, believed to have been at the house at the time. three police officers have been hurt after being attacked at manchester airport. the incident happened yesterday morning when police were reportedly investigating an abandoned car at terminal two. three people were arrested, with one man reportedly tasered greater manchester police are investigating. they've confirmed and have said assaults on officers are unacceptable and we will not hesitate to take action should any criminal offences be found. new figures show legal migration to the uk is down

whilst illegal immigration remains steady. afghans make up the biggest nationality crossing the biggest nationality crossing the english channel on small boats. there were close to 1900 asylum applications in the so—called legacy backlog that were still awaiting an initial decision at the end of june this yeah decision at the end of june this year. shadow home secretary james cleverly says the reduced figures is to down the tories. >> this is what i achieved when i was home secretary because i made the difficult decisions and sadly, what we have seen since labour have taken over is that they are reversing a number of those decisions. they are easing the visa restrictions that i put in place . in place. >> three people have been arrested after the death of a delivery driver fatally injured dunng delivery driver fatally injured during an attempted attempted theft on his van. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder, while a woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. 42 year old claudio karol condor was killed as he attempted to stop the theft of his van in leeds on

tuesday evening. officers found the victim was unconscious when they arrived and he was given emergency treatment by ambulance staff, but was pronounced dead at the scene. tributes have been paid to mike lynch after the tech moguls death was confirmed today. tech moguls death was confirmed today . he's among six people today. he's among six people confirmed to have lost their lives so far after a superyacht sank off the coast of sicily earlier this week. another body was recovered from the wreck this morning and brought to shore as rescue efforts to locate the missing sixth person continues. the italian coastguard has confirmed she is a woman. mike lynch is an 18 year old daughter. hannah was among those unaccounted for after the disaster . among those unaccounted for after the disaster. hundreds of thousands of teenagers have received their gcse results, with a slight drop in the proportion of top grades awarded from last year. more than a fifth of entries were awarded the top grades , slightly down on the top grades, slightly down on the top grades, slightly down on the 22% last year, but higher than in 2019, which was before the global pandemic. than in 2019, which was before the global pandemic . gb news has the global pandemic. gb news has spoken to students in derbyshire who received their results earlier today. >> we're really happy with them .

>> we're really happy with them. not everything is what i need to get into. sixth form. so happy overall. >> yeah, i'm really proud of myself. it's all worked out well. i tried so hard, so i'm just so pleased i got everything i wanted, i just so pleased i got everything iwanted, i got just so pleased i got everything i wanted, i got a six in biology, which i wasn't sure i was going to get so i can carry on doing it at sixth form, which is what i wanted. so. yeah, well, i think they've done pretty good, passed everything. >> so that's pretty good and doing a bit better in english. but what can you do? >> a drug found to slow down alzheimer's has been given the green light for use in britain , green light for use in britain, but it may not be rolled out on the nhs because it costs too much. the charity alzheimer's research uk has urged the health secretary to step in, describing the news as deeply disappointing and warned it would only be available to those who could pay privately. the new wonder drug is the first treatment of its kind to be licensed for use in great britain, and has been shown to slow down the disease by almost 30%, with those of the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm cameron walker. now

it's back to martin for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you cameron. now we've got some breaking news for you here. according to reports coming in, jermaine jenas has been sacked by the bbc and taken off air from both match of the day and the one show. following a complaint about inappropriate behaviour. and this has been reported by the daily mail and the sun. a source in the express, and they say that the bbc have launched an immediate internal investigation after concerns were raised about the former england player, and he was quietly removed from the broadcaster's official channels. sources say the star will fight to clear his name and we'll bnng to clear his name and we'll bring you more news as we get it. now moving on. the long awaited figures on legal and illegal immigration to the in

the year to june 2024 were released this morning with the number of work visas issued falling by 11%. but that's still at just over 286,000. and that's still double the figure of 2019. and a city the size of newcastle in just one year now. meanwhile, the number of detected arrivals by illegal immigrants fell by 26% to over 38,000, with 81% of those arriving on small boats. now, this comes as reports suggest that the government is also planning to relax freedom of movement rules with the european union to allow more young europeans to under 30s to come and live or work or study in the united kingdom with a reciprocal agreement for young brits to have easier access to the eu, which sounds like the opposite of brexit. now let's cross over to clacton on sea now and speak to gb news reporter ray addison ray. earlier on the show, you with nigel farage, he had a somewhat frosty reaction

to all of these figures. bring us up to speed as he pulled up and over, bob is subjected to. >> well, here in clacton we've got the clacton air show underway. despite the windy conditions, you can see thousands of people come here to enjoy this event. we've had the chance to talk to them, and the general consensus seems to be that although legal immigration is down slightly, people in clacton believe it's still too high. they believe it puts a strain on public services. and when it comes to illegal migration, there are concerns it simply costing the taxpayers too much money. billions of pounds, and that that could be better spentin and that that could be better spent in places like clacton on things like the roads and the nhs and so forth. i got the chance, as you said, to chat to clacton mp and reform uk leader nigel farage. this is what he had to say about those numbers. >> i've heard it all before. priti patel said all the same things . if priti patel said all the same things. if you employ illegal migrant workers, we'll find you. you may go to prison. massive penalties for smugglers. life imprisonment. none of it.

penalties for smugglers. life imprisonment. none of it . and imprisonment. none of it. and you could put 1000 new enforcement officers in place. but if the european court of human rights stops you deporting people, what difference does it make? are very clear that a country is not a country without controlling its borders . and controlling its borders. and you'll never do that with an activist foreign court in strasbourg which, remember, stop that plane taking off to rwanda back in 2022. we are clear that is the first step. >> can't let you go without asking you about these labour plans to potentially relax freedom of movement rules with the european union to allow young people to come and live and work here, and our young people, vice versa, to go and live and work in europe . what's live and work in europe. what's your response to those plans? >> some of our young people will go to live and work in europe, but many, many more from europe will come and live and work and settle full time here. and many of them may be lovely people, but our population explosion is the biggest social problem we face in britain. whether it's housing here in clacton, whether

it's access to gps or dentists here or anywhere else. a 10 million increase in the population since blair came to power has devalued the quality of life of everybody. it can't go on. >> well, nigel, there initially responding to the point that i made that labour are pledging to introduce around 100 new investigation officials for the national crime agency and also fine business owners or potentially imprisoned business owners who employ illegal migrants. then, of course, he was commenting on this idea from labour of allowing freedom of movement for the under 30s across the eu, from the uk to there and vice versa. and there's scepticism here in clacton about how we could plan and protect our public services, housing, resources, nhs dentistry as well. if we don't know how many people might be in the country in the next month or week or year. i also got the chance to chat to local business owners as well here. this is

jason smedley. he's the owner of the royal hotel right here on the royal hotel right here on the beach front. and vicky hart, who's the complex manager for that hotel. this is what they had to say. >> time is going to tell. we're early days. still, it can't get any worse than what it has been because we're at the maximum capacity that we can allow to come in. so it's just a matter of time to see if they're actually going to keep dropping. that's the that's the key part. we need to make sure the figures are constantly dropping. >> so vicky obviously these numbers are coming down. but we need workers for the tourism industry. we need workers for health and social care as well. so do you think this is actually a positive step or are there negatives here too? >> it's a positive step. >> it's a positive step. >> but also when do we actually start to see a change and an impact in this, especially not so much clacton because it's not a high population populated area , a high population populated area, but more so london and areas around that . around that. >> it's when we see lower waiting times in hospitals when people can actually get houses and be seen to quicker. >> so yeah, it's let's wait and

see really, if you like, for those workers as well. >> despite those concerns that you've been hearing there from those business owners, from nigel farage, as well, home secretary yvette cooper has said we're taking strong and clear steps to boost our border security and ensure the rules are respected and enforced. that's certainly the message that labour is trying to drive home, that these numbers are down and they are taking action. >> superb stuff. thank you very much. excellent reporting there. ray addison at clacton on sea. now to continue the conversation. i'm now joined in the studio to dissect these figures with the former labour mp denis macshane. denis, always a delight to have your company. so on the one hand, there are some good news. 11% down to 286,000 for work visas. but that's still a city the size of newcastle. it's still double 2019. these are conservative figures, of course, so let's not have a pop at the labour party. this was on the conservative party watch. i guess my question

to you is do you think there's any appetite in the labour party to try and get these figures down? because small boats have been on the up since the general election? >> i think there's an appetite. there's an appetite in every country in europe. there was an appetite in the united states and they elected a president, donald trump. you remember he promised to build a wall to stop all the mexicans coming in. >> not an inch of that wall was ever built. >> well, we've had 11 million come in in the regime is the problem. >> that is the problem. >> that is the problem. >> we all want fewer immigrants, but we all want more dentist care workers, nurses, people to help us when we get old. >> i mean, nigel farage was looking rather wizened then. he'll need help before long, you know, to walk around and be in his chair and we are not producing babies in this country. that's a problem all over the west. there's not a baby boom. it's a complete baby shortage. so what are we going to do? >> well, start having more kids. but that's i've had four, so i've done my duty by britain.

your bit. let's get back to the asylum. figures. so astonishing figure today. asylum. figures. so astonishing figure today . a 40 year high. figure today. a 40 year high. the highest figure since we began recording 68,000 cases granted to remain in the uk. that's tripled in one year. and yvette cooper's plans to introduce more migration migration officers for faster process. and that can only mean one thing, dennis. it means even more people having the right to remain because there's scant evidence so far of any appetite to deport , despite the fact to deport, despite the fact yesterday we heard 14,000 deportations before the end of the year. do you think that's likely? >> look, again, i agree with you. james cleverly is home secretary. last year, let in 654,000 people from pakistan, nigeria, india and the philippines, many with dependants. this is a conservative home secretary, james cleverly , and he just james cleverly, and he just opened the doors to not anybody who wanted to come here. it was to replace europeans basically on asylum seekers. again i agree

with you. we can't send people all the ukrainians who've been granted asylum back to be butchered by putin. i expect we're getting a lot now from the palestine mideast area because of the war in gaza. we can't send them back to that hellhole, and that's a nightmare. there's so many places in the world that are just breaking down, thanks to social media, thanks to iphones, everybody can see a better life, whether it's in canada or britain or ireland or all the other countries in europe have got exactly the same migrants that come in then. >> is what you're saying a better life? >> well, not a better life. >> well, not a better life. >> not genuine asylum seekers, just those who want a better life. >> i mean, gaza, ukraine, sudan, eritrea. i could rattle through a lot of countries, a lot of them coming from france. we destroy . i don't think we've had destroy. i don't think we've had boats. i don't think we've had any any asylum seekers from france. >> they're all arriving via. >> they're all arriving via. >> oh, you mean small boats. >> oh, you mean small boats. >> they're coming in. yes, they're coming into france. many more are coming into france than into england . trying to stay

into england. trying to stay there. a number who've got english, i mean family here, contacts here, who've got the language skills. been told there's a job for them in the black labour market, which we don't control at all. other countries have id cards, much tougher trade union rules, much tougher trade union rules, much tougher workplace inspections. we have none of that in this country. so we've got the softest, most open, unregulated labour market in europe. there is an area now. there's a labour government that's supposed to be supporting, you know, the british workers. i hope they will take tough action on that. and tell the bosses, stop hiring people who've got no right to be here. >> denis macshane only a former labour party mp could say the answer to solving asylum is more unions. thank you very much for joining us in the studio. now we've got more on that breaking news story. we brought you a short while ago. and former footballer jermaine jenas has been sacked from presenting the one show and also the match of the day show. the former premier league player, 41, has been removed from the bbc one evening

programme following an internal investigation by the corporation because of alleged complaints about his behaviour. the sun has reported. a bbc spokesperson said we can confirm that he is no longer part of our presenting line—up. the ex spurs midfielder is understood to have instructed lawyers as he battles to clear his name and is not, and it is believed that he is, quote, not happy with this decision. now to discuss this further, i'm joined by the former bbc head of religion and ethics, aqeel ahmed akil. welcome to the show. a serious situation has emerged here seems to have been dealt with swiftly. can you tell us more ? more? >> unfortunately, none of us know more about this because obviously, you know, i'm speaking now purely in a personal capacity . we don't know personal capacity. we don't know what's happened. what we do know is there's been something very swift, as you say, many, many people often complain that the bbc takes too long, but an investigation has taken place . i investigation has taken place. i don't know the ins and outs of it yet. i'm sure we will find out. jermaine jenas is defending

himself robustly as well, but the bbc wouldn't have done this if they didn't feel pretty confident that they had something to do, that they were correct. so i think what we have to do is wait to see what happens. but i think, you know, for once, you know, i think we have to say they've been very swift in dealing with something. and the process has been has taken place. and now another process has to take place. jermaine jenas has to be given the opportunity as well to appeal against this incident as well . well. >> and as said here, he's jermaine genius is not happy with the decision. he's instructed lawyers . so now we'll instructed lawyers. so now we'll be going through a lengthy process, a legal process behind the scenes. i'm assuming as somebody yourself with extensive experience of working at the bbc, and this will now be very methodical, very time consuming. and in the meantime, jermaine jenas will be removed from our screens. >> yeah, that's exactly what's happening. i mean, i think obviously a complaint will come once the complaint was originally made, there would have been an investigation and that investigation would have taken quite some time anyway, and that would have been behind the scenes. i imagine what

jermaine jenas is suggesting is that obviously speaking to his lawyers, that he's not been happy with that internal investigation, and he now is now going to be taking it further to clear his name, which is entitled to do you know , because entitled to do you know, because obviously if he believes he's innocent, then he has that opportunity to do that. but the investigation would have taken place. what this will do obviously, is, you know, jermaine jenas has the right to do that. and the bbc obviously have to defend themselves. so there will there will be time and a cost element to this. but he won't be back on screen until this has been resolved, and you know, as far as the bbc is concerned, it has been resolved because they've acted swiftly, they've investigated and acted swiftly and found him guilty . swiftly and found him guilty. he's saying that he's not guilty. so then he obviously will now appeal . so it's just will now appeal. so it's just like a normal kind of process that any of us would expect to have if we felt we were in that situation and we felt we were innocent. you know, i mean, if jermaine jenas feels he's innocent, he has to appeal against the decision that he thinks is incorrect. >> is there anything significant? do you believe, akil in the fact they're using the word sacked, you may expect somebody to be suspended or

removed from duty while an investigation is going on, but the word sacked seems to have more finality to it. it seems to be more of a conclusive move. >> well, i led to believe that they've had the investigation already, haven't they? and actually that they have found him guilty of whatever allegations have been made against him. so in that sense , against him. so in that sense, you know, it's not a it wouldn't be you know, it wouldn't be dunng be you know, it wouldn't be during an investigation. the investigation has happened. he was taken off her. i think, dunng was taken off her. i think, during that period. i think the investigation has been has gone, has been concluded and yet you're right, it's strong words. but effectively what they're saying is, is that he has been dismissed. he's been dismissed, sacked. whatever whatever word you want to use because they have felt they having done the investigation, that whatever he was accused of doing, he was guilty at least of something, of being caught doing something that they felt was inappropriate and not in line with the job that he had, something which you know, if we were to look at other kind of instances, you know, that may have happened recently with bbc or any kind of, you know , itv or whatever it

of, you know, itv or whatever it may be with particular with, with presenters, on air presenters, you know, we've all want to see an investigation take place. and when you get the chance to see that go through to the end, we want to see a result. if somebody is guilty, then they're found guilty. but also under law, if they feel that they the person who has been found guilty has to have the opportunity, want to defend themselves. and then secondly, if they've been found guilty , if they've been found guilty, appeal against that as well. if they feel that they're innocent. >> and as you said, there have been criticisms before of these processes taking too long and presenters going on to receive a rather large salary while this process is ongoing. so in this instance, the action has been swift. and of course it's important to point out that jermaine jenas has said he's contesting this. and so is there any indication of how long this process may take? you know, the bbc, how does it go from here? >> well, it's not really a bbc process now is it ? because i process now is it? because i think it's a case of if he's talking to his lawyers, it's then of course he's then going to be taking he's going to be complaining against what the bbc

is internal process has come up with. so now it becomes a it becomes it goes to the courts as opposed to become a civil case as opposed to being or maybe may take them to a tribunal and say and take them in terms of constructing, you know, unfair dismissal, etcetera . so it's not dismissal, etcetera. so it's not so much that, you know, i'm presuming initially what will happenis presuming initially what will happen is i'm sure his lawyers would get in touch with the bbc. the bbc would probably say, look, we had a robust investigation and this is what we found. and then it's up to him, then to see whether or not he wants to go through the civil courts or actually to take it to an industrial tribunal , which i an industrial tribunal, which i presume is the most likely place. and that in itself can take quite some time. one, because of the backlog and two, because of the backlog and two, because of the backlog and two, because of obviously, the nature of the beast. it takes time to get into court. and of course, whilst you're in that particular tribunal, it doesn't often it doesn't, it doesn't get wrapped up in a few hours. >> yeah, thank you for that. and it's important to point out, of course, we haven't heard an account or a statement from jermaine jenas. here he is denying this. he's saying he's

contesting it. he's not happy about the decision. so of course we must in the fullness of time make sure we give a full and balanced take on that . but thank balanced take on that. but thank you for that clear and concise analysis there. that's the former bbc editor of religion and ethics, akil ahmed . thank and ethics, akil ahmed. thank you very much. now, five bodies have now been identified, including tech tycoon mike lynch. but the search for his 18 year old daughter continues after after the bayocean superyacht sank off the coast of sicily, where latest on that next. i'm martin daubney

welcome back. time is 427. i'm martin daubney on gb news. police have issued an urgent appeal for two dogs. they believe are responsible for a fatal attack that left the man deadin fatal attack that left the man dead in his garden. officers were called to a property in rubery in the early hours of thursday. two dogs have already been seized, but two other dogs believed to have been at the

scene are still missing, while west midlands police say they believe the dogs are american. bulldog types. and join me now for a full update. is gb news. west midlands reporter jack carson. jack two dangerous dogs on the loose. tell us more . on the loose. tell us more. >> yeah, well this rapidly investigation now well underway as police are scouring this area of rubery and hereford close and surrounding housing estates to try and find these two dogs, they believe are involved in this attack on this 33 year old man who was found dead in the garden of the house that you can see behind me. >> you were mentioning mine. they were called in the early hours to reports of a number of dogs on the loose. that's where they then found the victim, who they then found the victim, who they confirmed to have died and were able to seize two dogs. it's two other dogs that police confirmed in a press conference

today. they're still in the process of looking for. they have got neighbouring police units. we've already seen another police van just in the last five minutes. do another scour of this particular housing estate. they've had the drone unit as well, of west midlands police involved to try and find these dogs and this urgent appeal that they've put out , appeal that they've put out, saying to people, if you see sites of the dogs, one of them, they've already released a photo of online. it's a brown american bulldog type dog with a white stripe down its chest. the other, they say , is black. other, they say, is black. they've issued this urgent appeal to members of the of the of the public to say if you see this dog or the black dog, they're also talking about to call 999 immediately, do not approach it. and also similarly asking people that if they have heard stories of families, friends who have possibly taken in any loose dogs in this area to call them immediately, so of course they can investigate those inquiries. this investigation does continue . the investigation does continue. the body of the 33 year old man, the

police confirmed today is in the process of having a post—mortem examination in order to establish particularly that, of course, the type of death they do involve. they do believe at this moment, at this stage, those dogs were involved in the attack. the police calling this tragic mainly because the gentleman who was found dead at the house here behind me was not living at this address. it's thought that the dogs were that of family and friends. no previous, any previous information that they previously attacked anyone at this stage, they say there is no information to say these dogs weren't well looked after. but as i said, martin, that investigation that search for those two dogs very urgently underway here. >> thank you, jack carson, for that update in rubery. two dangerous dogs on the loose. thank you very much. now coming up, we'll have a gb news exclusive on reform uk to bring you. we'll be hearing from the chairman of the party and they're getting serious , he they're getting serious, he says, about democratising the party and mobilising the troops

for the 2029 election. that's an exclusive from chris hope. that's all coming up later in the program. but first, it's your headlines with cameron walker . walker. >> good afternoon. it's 430. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom and we have some breaking news to bring you. the bbc presenter and ex—footballer jermaine jenas has been sacked from presenting the one show and match of the day after alleged complaints about his behaviour. janiece was reportedly removed from the prime time bbc one programme, the one show, following an internal investigation by the corporation. a bbc spokesperson said we can confirm that he is no longer part of our presenting line—up . in other news, three line—up. in other news, three police officers have been hurt after being attacked at manchester airport. the incident happened yesterday morning when police were reportedly investigating an abandoned car at terminal two. three people

were arrested, with one man reportedly tasered. greater manchester police are investigating. they've confirmed and say assaults on officers are unacceptable, and we will not hesitate to take action should any criminal offences be found . any criminal offences be found. new figures show illegal legal, even migration to the uk is down whilst illegal immigration remains steady. afghans make up the biggest nationality, crossing the english channel on small boats. there were close to 1900 asylum applications in the so—called legacy backlog. that's. we're still awaiting an initial decision at the end of june this year. the family of morgan stanley international bank chairman jonathan bloomer and his wife, judy , have and his wife, judy, have described them as incredibly incredible people and an inspiration to many following their deaths in the sinking of a luxury yacht in sicily. tributes have also been paid to mike lynch after the tech moguls death was confirmed. today. he is among six people confirmed to have lost their lives so far after a superyacht sank off the coast of sicily this week.

another body was recovered from the wreck this morning and brought to shore and rescue efforts to locate the missing sixth person continues. the italian coastguard has confirmed she is a woman. mike lynch's 18 year old daughter, hannah, was among those unaccounted for after the disaster . well, those after the disaster. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now . i'm cameron walker. for now. i'm cameron walker. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts

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know who's in charge here? and also, crucially, members have no legal way or no enforceable way to remove a leader, whether that's nigel farage or richard tice or lee anderson or rupert lowe , anybody. and that is lowe, anybody. and that is a problem, i think. and this guy called gilles youssef's come in. he's given £200,000 to the party. he's the chairman. he's made clear he wants to democratise that party, as farrell said he would do to gb news on the eve of the election last month. he made very clear we want to bring in more people. they had a meeting of 770. sorry party branch chairmen in london this week , 70 more than the 200 this week, 70 more than the 200 appointed by the party conference. but crucially, the changes to the constitution. while it looks a bit boring, are really, really important because they give powers to members that aren't there already and earlier. this is what you had to say to me outside parliament. >> look, we of course understand that members need to be given a democratic , a set of rights in democratic, a set of rights in our constitution that is what we are working on. you know, that

that constitution, by the way, is an incredibly important document. you know, we are chartering a course to be the party of government in this country in 2029. so that document must be fit for purpose today for the next year, but also for when we're in government. and so we have to get that document right. >> and will that document, when we see it, allow members to remove the leader in this case, nigel farage? that's what all parties must have the right for. members to remove a leader. of course, it will. of course it will. there we have it is the use of saying that reform uk members will be allowed to remove the leader that matters, not because it's farage or anybody, because you have to have that that right as members of any political body to remove the boss. >> a lot of people have been critical of this, including ben habib , who was formerly in the habib, who was formerly in the inner sanctum. he came on this show in fact, and was saying, this is what needs to be done. it put a few noses out of joint. but a lot of the party's critics, as well have been saying if we if they don't get this into shape, then it will allow them to be attacked. is this a move towards the party

getting serious about the 2029 general election? it was on tuesday , wasn't it, that we saw tuesday, wasn't it, that we saw them outside here. they'd been to a big get together and they do seem to be taking the, the shoe leather, the hard work of doing the ground game, winning council seats , dealing with council seats, dealing with wheelie bins, with potholes, with organisations with local branch structure. none of that is sexy, but it's essential they do. >> that guy ben habib, the former, deputy chairman, deputy leader , sorry, who has has no leader, sorry, who has has no real relationship now with the top brass at reform uk, he says in response to that interview on social media this afternoon. here's to sir nigel farage and richard tice. sir ben habib gives it his his seal of approval. the idea that the use of has got 2300 councillors to fight for reform uk in next year's election, 3000 applicants for those roles. he is trying to build in a tentacles to eat into the bedrock of these seats around the country. the problem

reform uk has got is they don't know where all the voters live. the lib dems, tories, labour, they know where the supporters are because they've knocked on doors for decades. reform uk haven't got that. they got away with it with a very busy air war, a social media war, last month's election. but in order to become the next party of government and that's what the user says. however outlandish that might sound, that is quite outlandish, to be honest with you, with you, they think they can win the election in 2028, 2029, and this is how they're going to start. >> what was fascinating about the general election that's just gone past is that it took like eight over 800,000 votes per seat for reform versus about 25,000 votes per seat for the labour party. this scattergun approach, firing votes into the thin air, if you like, not knowing where their vote is. whereas the liberal democrats netted 70 plus seats by targeting seats . martin by targeting seats. martin by knowing where their vote is. so this is the prelude, is it not to getting that data, getting the ground game and knowing where their vote is? it's a party getting serious. they are

getting serious. >> but whether they can get serious in five years, i don't know. they are only five mps. they get £300,000 or so from state money a year to do research and to develop a structures within their party or on research grounds . i think on research grounds. i think they've got a chance here, but i think it's a very long shot the way we have our first past the post system, it is built against these challenger parties, but they have a good crack at it. >> is there a danger? and we saw this when jeremy corbyn was elected as the leader of the labour party. when you open your membership to getting rid of leaders or electing new leaders , leaders or electing new leaders, a lot of people join who are mischief makers. a lot of conservatives suddenly became labour members to try and upset the apple cart. do you think that that's one of the risks of doing something like this? you know, trouble causers can come in to try and cause these votes to go in a direction that may harm the party. >> it's called entryism. and we did see that with ten hag members, with ed miliband brought those those ideas in. and that allowed, of course,

corbyn to emerge . there will be corbyn to emerge. there will be ways to stop that happening and there'll be probably i have no idea . and in fact, yousef won't idea. and in fact, yousef won't tell us. there might be a majority of mps in parliament, plus councillors with a certain number of members can get a vote of no confidence. i have no idea. but when we look very closely at that detail, when it comes out. but they do recognise that at the beginning, frankly, it's recognising the problem. and i think reform uk do recognise there's a problem and they're dealing with it. and that to me is their growing up as a party. >> and was there any mention or would it be worth asking them in the future? would this allow members also to have an influence on policy? the kind of things that an ordinary democratic policy would have? we need to have a policy formation that involves the membership. is that involves the membership. is that something they may entertain? >> again, he won't write the constitution on live on gb news much as i wanted him to. when i asked him earlier. but no question, that's an idea. and the idea of having a mandate, say, for the chairman to be elected . that's what some elected. that's what some candidates in the tory leadership election are looking

at. don't forget, with the labour party, angela rayner, the deputy leader, is elected by members. so the idea of having an elected voice at the very top of the party by members is something which i'm sure other parties are looking at. i'm not sure though, if reform are doing it yet. >> what's your take on zigi yusuf? he's been very successful in business before he got into politics. he comes across well. do you think that's what the party needs? someone like him? >> well, i was impressed by him. and i've been around the farage project going back to about 2012. it has definitely professionalised it started really with the brexit party movement in 2018, 2019. very good candidates came on board then. you were one of them. martin. i'm not saying you were one of the very good candidates, but around you there were other good candidates. i'm joking, of course, but there were very good candidates around then, and i think that there's professionalism around farage, his team is important. the trick is weeding out these bad apples, vetting these candidates and, and branch chairman much better. i mean, privately he knows jolly well as a yusuf. there are loads of people out there to bring down this party. they are

worried about the threat that they have got against the main parties, reform and the tories, and labour. he knows the pressure that is on them and they're going to get their vetting right. if that gets right, you've got a chance. >> and of course, that's precisely the kind of thing that a local branch structure will allow to happen, because they're much more subdivision of labour, much more subdivision of labour, much more subdivision of labour, much more application of risk. >> it all starts with the councillors. if they can get some of these 2000 councillors elected in the local elections in england next may, they could be in business. >> great exclusive chris hope and superb food for thought. thank you very much for bringing that to me here on the show. now moving on. should teenagers be urged to go down the apprenticeship route because all university degrees really overrated? well, i got one fat lot of good it did me. stay tuned. i'm martin daubney on gb news business news

channel. welcome back. your time is 449. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. it's been a day of excitement and trepidation for hundreds of thousands of teenagers in england, wales and northern ireland as they open their gcse results . the their gcse results. the proportion of students receiving the highest grades has fallen compared to last year, but remains higher than before. the covid 19 pandemic. well, joining me now is the founder of finding your feet, corinne hutton , your feet, corinne hutton, m.b.e. welcome to the show, corinne. absolute pleasure to have you. so it's a day, one of those days in your life where good news comes in a brown envelope. later in life, bad news tends to come in a brown envelope from the taxman. the results are slightly down on before, but nevertheless. tell us more about the progress of students across britain today . students across britain today. >> well, yeah, i tell this morning they were expecting it to be an improvement this year and it turns out not to be, but i just wanted to add my argument to it that i didn't make

university. >> i had to wait a year to do the course that i wanted, and i didn't want to waste a year. >> so i went out and got a job and passed all my exams, went out and got a basic job, and worked my way up, so for me, i remember this conversation a few months ago, i met a girl, who i'd worked with, when she'd finished her university degree, and she came to work for me. and the job that i was in at the time, she was two years older than me, and i was her boss. and she pointed out to me saying, you know, it really stuck in my teeth that you were my boss and you were younger than me. and i remember that specifically thinking it didn't matter. it didn't matter that i didn't go to university. i went off and i worked, and i worked myself up quicker. so, do not fret, guys, today. >> yes, absolutely . absolutely >> yes, absolutely. absolutely right. corina, i've never been asked about my gcse results o—levels as they were back in my day showing my age and a lot of kids these days are probably eyeing up apprenticeships as a better route. data out today showing the first five years

after apprenticeship can often pay a after apprenticeship can often pay a lot better, particularly if you pursue things such as engineering and building. so education is not the be all and end all, is it? >> no it's not, and i'm going through exactly that with my 16 year old son, you know, whether he should stay on and further his education or, can he do that in a college whilst earning or can he go and work in an apprenticeship and learn that way? and, you know, i got a degree whilst working, surely that's far better while you're earning and paying your taxes and having money to spend as well. there's got to be better. but a degree is needed for certain jobs. of course , but certain jobs. of course, but it's also worth pointing out that of course, a lot of working class kids. >> i came from a coal mining community back in my day, i received a full grant. i didn't have to pay for a university. i don't think, corey, that i go to university these days faced with the monumental amount of debt that you rack up at university , that you rack up at university, people like me wouldn't have made it. and i wonder how many kids across working class

communities across britain are facing that same barrier now. they simply don't have the financial means to go to university, and it's that barrier that keeps the best working class talent out . working class talent out. >> absolutely. i agree, the student loans, the rent on your apartment is just horrendous . so apartment is just horrendous. so again, if you need it, you need it. you've got to do that. if you really know what you want to do at that age, that's one thing. but how many kids at 16 do i know my son doesn't? i know i didn't, and you know, i know so many people that are not in those careers that they thought they wanted mine. for example, who'd have known i'd be running a charity? >> superb stuff , inspiring >> superb stuff, inspiring stuff. and you're absolutely right. you know, my son starts his gcses next year, so i've got all of this to come, but well done to everybody out there today who did do well. if you didn't do well, don't worry about it. there's plenty of other things to do with your life as opposed to just simply go to university and end up massively in debt. thank you very much for your time. and joining us today, corinne hutton, mba, founder of finding your

feet. now, those of you who've been getting in touch so far, and especially you're big on the topic of those migration figures out today, let's go for a couple here, tess says this 268 286,000. beg your pardon? work visas in the space of one year, as you said, martin, that's a city. the size of newcastle. i don't feel like we've taken back control of our borders. this isn't what we voted for in brexit. and miriam adds this on the asylum figures, which i announce are triple what they were last year, an all time record high of 40 year high since records began, 68,000 cases of granted the right to remain. miriam says i can't see this getting any better under the labour party. do they have the labour party. do they have the will to stop asylum? do they have the will to return, or will the charities and the ngos and the charities and the ngos and the civil service once again get in their way ? thanks for those in their way? thanks for those views. now we'll have more on that breaking news story.

football star jermaine jenas has been axed by the bbc. i martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel. but before all of that, here's your weather and it's alex burkill . it's alex burkill. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello. very good day to you. here's your latest gb news weather update coming to you from the met office storm lilian is going to batter some parts of the uk overnight, bringing some very wet and windy weather, particularly to northern parts of england. but through today we do have a cold front making its way southeastwards, bringing a bit of cloud and a bit of rain for some before it clears away. as we go through into this evening. elsewhere, some bright or sunny spells developing behind this system. also a scattering of showers , scattering of showers, particularly across parts of northern ireland, northern and western scotland . 1 or western scotland. 1 or 2 showers, perhaps for western parts of england and wales as

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news, broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, the bbc confirms that jermaine jenas has been dropped from the presenting line—up over reports of workplace misconduct. sources

say the star will fight the allegations to clear his name . allegations to clear his name. and today's immigration data shows an 11% decrease in work visas. but a 286,000 that's still a city. the size of newcastle. just last year alone, and with small boat arrivals up since the general election, can the labour party ever take back control of our borders? talking of which , is labour eyeing up of which, is labour eyeing up a return to freedom of movement with the european union? well, under new proposals , under 30s under new proposals, under 30s would be free to work or study in the uk, which critics say would drive down wages and swamp our universities with foreign students. plus, of course, it would send nets immigration spiralling . spiralling. well, the show always a pleasure to have your company so astonishing figures out today

truly makes you think. have the lunatics taken over our asylum system? 68,000 granted the rights to remain in the uk. that's triple the previous year and a 40 year high. and politicians are actually claiming victory today. 11% down in work visas. but it's still 286,000 people allowed to come legally to work in the uk last year alone. and that's a city the size of newcastle. do you think that is taking back control of our borders? and talking of which, if sir keir starmer's plans, which seem to keep coming around with alarming regularity, even though they deny them to have some kind of freedom of movement, deal with the eu for under 30. we know what that would mean, don't we? we saw it before. the under 30s brickies , plasterers, labourers, brickies, plasterers, labourers, truck drivers , pub workers, truck drivers, pub workers, factory workers, students all over again. is that what you voted for at brexit? do you think that is taking back

control of our country? get in touch gb news. com forward slash your say the usual way national headunes your say the usual way national headlines with cameron walker . headlines with cameron walker. >> good afternoon. it's 5:02. i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. the bbc presenter and ex—footballer jermaine jenas has been sacked from presenting the one show and match of the day after alleged complaints about his behaviour. genus was reportedly removed from the prime time bbc one programme the one show, following an internal investigation by the corporation. a bbc spokesperson said we can confirm that he no longer. he is no longer part of the presenting line—up. his agency, mick saatchi, no longer represents him . the family of represents him. the family of morgan stanley international bank chairman jonathan bloom and his wife judy, have described them as incredible people and an inspiration to many following their deaths in the sinking of their deaths in the sinking of the luxury yacht in sicily.

tributes have also been paid to mick lynch after the tech moguls death was confirmed earlier today. he's among six people confirmed to have lost their lives so far after a superyacht sank off the coast of sicily earlier this week. another body was recovered from the wreck this morning and brought to shore as rescue efforts to locate the missing six person continues. the italian coast guard has confirmed that person is a woman. mike lynch's 18 year old daughter, hannah, was among those unaccounted for after the disaster . police are those unaccounted for after the disaster. police are hunting up to three dogs on the loose, which are believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham, west midlands. police were called to rubery on the outskirts of birmingham, in the outskirts of birmingham, in the early hours of yesterday after reports that a number of dogs were loose. officers say the 33 year old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs, was found dead in hereford close yesterday with dog bite marks in injuries. two dogs were seized by police at the scene , seized by police at the scene, which also which are both believed to be american

bulldogs. but the breeds of the other dogs are unknown. new figures show legal migration to the uk is down, whilst illegal immigration remains steady. afghans make up the biggest nationality, crossing the engush nationality, crossing the english channel on small boats. there were close to 1900 asylum applications in the so—called legacy backlog that was still awaiting an initial decision at the end of june this year, the shadow home secretary, james cleverly, says the reduced figures is down to the tories. >> this is what i achieved when i was home secretary because i made the difficult decisions and sadly, what we have seen since labour have taken over is that they are reversing a number of those decisions. they are easing the visa restrictions that i put in place. >> three police officers have been hurt after being attacked at manchester airport. the incident happened yesterday morning when police were reportedly investigating an abandoned car at terminal two. three people were arrested, with

one man reportedly tasered. greater manchester police are investigating and have said assaults on officers are unacceptable . three people have unacceptable. three people have now been arrested after the death of a delivery driver fatally injured during an attempted theft on his van. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder , while a suspicion of murder, while a woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. 42 year old claudio karol condor was killed as he attempted to stop the theft of his van in leeds on tuesday evening. officers found the victim unconscious when they arrived and he was given emergency treatment by ambulance staff, but was pronounced dead at the scene . a drug found to at the scene. a drug found to slow down alzheimer's has been given the green light for use in britain, but it may not be rolled out on the nhs because it costs too much. the charity alzheimer's research uk has urged the health secretary to step in, warning it would only be available to those who could pay be available to those who could pay privately. the new wonder drug known as lecanemab. even

the first treatment of its kind is to be licensed for use in great britain, and has been shown to slow down the disease by almost 30%. the national institute for health and care excellence, which provides national health advice, says the benefits are too small to justify the costs and hundreds of thousands of teenagers have received their gcse results, with a slight drop in the proportion of top grades awarded from last year. more than a fifth of entries were awarded the top grade, slightly down on the top grade, slightly down on the 22% last year, but higher than 2019 before the pandemic . than 2019 before the pandemic. and those are the latest tv news headunes and those are the latest tv news headlines for now. i'm cameron walker. more in half 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 gb news. >> com forward slash alerts . >> com forward slash alerts. >> com forward slash alerts. >> thank you cameron. now the

long awaited figures on legal and illegal migration in the year to june 2024 were released this morning, with the year to june 2024 were released this morning , with the latter this morning, with the latter going up now. this comes as reports suggest the government is planning to relax freedom of movement rules with the european union to allow yet more young europeans to come and live and work in the united kingdom. well, let's discuss this further now with our homeland security edhoh now with our homeland security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show. so james cleverly has been parading around today trying to claim this as a victory. of course, these are historic figures from these are historic figures from the conservative party's tenure. but, mark, when you dig a bit deepeh but, mark, when you dig a bit deeper, the fact of the matter is 286,000 work visas were granted last year alone . that's granted last year alone. that's a city the size of newcastle and the asylum cases have tripled in one year to 68,000. a 40 year high. mark the politicians might try and spin this all they like, but is this really a country

taking back control of its borders ? borders? >> well, listen, there's a lot to drill down into. james cleverly is right to an extent that the figures are going down, but it's a modest victory at best. and i'm not exactly sure it's worth crowing about , it's worth crowing about, because if you take that 286,000 work visa, add into that families, dependants and student visas. the combined total of the visas. the combined total of the visas granted over the last year to june was 1.2 million, just over 1.2 million visas that were granted . and then just on the granted. and then just on the work visas, if you take the 286,000 work visas and then add into that the fact that they've taken family and some dependants over as well, then that takes you to more than half a million visas just work related visas,

432,000 student visas were issued. that's slightly down. again, that's due to the fact that quite a number of students have had restrictions put on the dependants, family members that they can take over. so it's down about 14% or so. so it's going down. he is correct, but it's modest in comparison to the absolutely huge numbers that we've seen for years now with immigration and what we don't have, of course, are the office for national statistics results, which will come out later in the yeah which will come out later in the year, which will then tell us what the net migration figure is. so, okay, 1.2 million visas have been issued. how many people left the country and you might find that. well, we know over the last year we were talking three quarters of a million people were net, migrants in this country. it'll

have dropped down a bit, but it will still be extraordinarily high. i would say more than half a million by the time we get those ons figures , martin. those ons figures, martin. >> astonishing stuff. 1.2 million visas. mark white. well done. you've been through this data all throughout the day to really drill into it. it's so, so important. we cross examine this data. the politicians, as i said, they've been trying to spin this as a victory. mark white a lot of people will look at that and say, 1.2 million visas. granted, that doesn't feel like we're stemming the tide anytime soon. >> no, there are definite issues to be addressed in terms of what our legal migration figures are, and we've yet to see really what this new labour government will do in terms of its policies with regard to visa applications and visa visas that are granted at the end of the day. i mean, there are these reports of course, in the times today

suggesting that the government is seriously considering, a system whereby those under the age of 30. so we're not even talking 18 to 21, they're classed as young people, but under 30 is a significant old chunk of the workforce who would effectively be given free travel within europe if this was to come off, it would be a reciprocal agreement where, people from this country under the age of 30 could travel to the age of 30 could travel to the european union to work or study, and then people from the european union could travel to the uk. now, certainly, of course , some people from the uk course, some people from the uk will go, but as we've seen in the past, many more people from the past, many more people from the european union, from those poorer countries in southern europe, from eastern europe will come to work in the likes of the hospitality industry. so i think if this scheme was ever put into practice, the numbers coming

versus the numbers leaving here would be significantly more mark white. >> superb analysis, very sobering data. there thank you very, very much. and a lot of people will be looking at that and wondering, is this what i voted for in brexit in 2016 and every election since? now let's cross over now, live to clacton on sea and speak to gb news reporter ray addison, who earlier in the day was with nigel farage. ray, give us some analysis of what people in clacton are telling you about this data . this data. >> well good afternoon martin. yes, we've come down to clacton today for the air show. it's taking place right now. thousands of people have come to the town to look at the spitfires and the helicopters flying overhead. and it's given us the opportunity to talk to local people and get their views. and the general feeling the consensus is that although legal immigration has come down somewhat, i believe it's around 11%. people here in clacton believe it's still too high. it's putting a strain on public

services. they've mentioned examples where themselves, their friends and family have been unable to get housing while they've been waiting for long penods they've been waiting for long periods of time, and also waiting to get on register of a dentist , or also long waits waiting to get on register of a dentist, or also long waits in there for the nhs with emergency services and the like. when it comes to illegal migration, we know that those numbers seem to be pretty steady. however, there's a fear that it's costing there's a fear that it's costing the taxpayer billions and billions of pounds every year. they believe that that money could be better spent on things. just simple things like potholes and the like, just to make the everyday life of people who live here in clacton a little bit better. now labour is saying they're getting very tough on illegal migration. they're saying they're introducing another 100 national crime agency investigators and also introducing tougher policies for businesses so they could get fined if they hire illegal workers. or they could even do a little bit of bird as well. i

got the chance to talk to the leader of reform uk and the mp for clacton , nigel farage, and for clacton, nigel farage, and i put to him that labour is getting tough on immigration. >> i've heard it all before, priti patel said. all the same things. if you employ illegal migrant workers, we'll find you. you may go to prison. massive penalties for smugglers, life imprisonment, none of it. penalties for smugglers, life imprisonment, none of it . and imprisonment, none of it. and you can put a thousand new enforcement officers in place. but if the european court of human rights stops you deporting people, what difference does it make? are very clear that a country is not a country without controlling its borders, and you'll never do that with an activist foreign court in strasbourg, which , remember, strasbourg, which, remember, stop that plane taking to off rwanda back in 2022. we are clear that is the first step. >> i can't let you go without asking you about these labour plans to potentially relax freedom of movement rules with the european union to allow young people to come and live and work here, and our young

people, vice versa, to go and live and work in europe . what's live and work in europe. what's your response to those plans? >> some of our young people will go to live and work in europe, but many, many more from europe will come and live and work and settle full time here. and many of them may be lovely people, but our population explosion is the biggest social problem we face in britain. whether it's housing here in clacton, whether it's access to gp's or dentists here or anywhere else, a 10 million increase in the population since blair came to power has devalued the quality of life of everybody. it can't go on. >> so quite a lot of scepticism there from nigel about that concept of freedom, of movement for the under 30s across the european union . and that's been european union. and that's been echoed by the people that we've spoken to here. they say, well, if you don't know how many people are coming into the country on any one day, month, yeah country on any one day, month, year, how can you plan, how can you resource for that? of course, as i said , labour, course, as i said, labour, though very, very keen to stress

home secretary yvette cooper saying that they're taking strong and clear steps to boost border security and ensure that the rules are respected and enforced. i think people here in clacton need a bit more convincing in the whole suburbs up there . up there. >> ray addison great reporting all day from clacton on sea. thank you very much for that update. now for more reaction on this story. let's speak now to the research director at the centre for migration control, rob bates, who joins me in the studio . rob just struck me as studio. rob just struck me as astonishing. when we look at those numbers at mark white just analysed 1.2 million visas granted in total last year. this was on the conservative party's watch. it's important to point out this isn't a labour issue. this was a conservative issue and yet we had james cleverly doing the rounds earlier, claiming some sort of victory because 11% down but 11% down from a massive total. it's still 286,000 work visas granted in one year alone. what's your take? >> well, i mean, we're fiddling at the margins.

>> if we start going on about the 11% and ultimately what the conservatives are trying to claim as a victory is them undoing a lot of the damage that they inflicted on the country in they inflicted on the country in the first place. it's their fault that we entered into this system of mass migration with the health and social care visa route, the graduate visa route as well. both of these have inherently compounded the problem that we are facing with this mass migration crisis. i think james cleverly is obviously trying to make hay of this in his in his leadership bid, his ill fated leadership bid. and i think what we'll what we'll see is the conversation in the conservative party stagnate and almost accept that this was was a victory and it was a triumph of conservative nous. i think it was far from conservative now. so i think as we were just hearing from ray there, you know, the people of clacton are thoroughly fed up with the mass migration betrayal that has been inflicted on them over the last 20 years. repeatedly, we've been promised that the numbers are going to come down, come down to the tens of thousands , maybe lower. and of thousands, maybe lower. and instead we seem to have had a system for the last few years with 500 or 600,000 net. the figures today suggest that it will probably stay around about 400 to 500,000 for the

foreseeable future, and i don't see what labour party are planning on doing that will actually bring that down any further or even even more to the point, on the same day there's another rumour of a freedom of movement deal with the european union for the under 30s . union for the under 30s. >> now we saw what happened last time hospitality workers, students, plumbers , decorators, students, plumbers, decorators, truckies coming in and taking working class jobs. it's an astonishing thing to put out on astonishing thing to put out on a day like today. you can see in your figures there of the small boats arrivals, afghans make up 18%. iranians 13% vietnamese, ten turkey, ten turkey. i mean, it's not an unsafe country . it's not an unsafe country. syria nine. now you can see that list there. rob bates a lot of those are from countries that we simply cannot return them to because they will claim or their human rights may be affected if they go. so the small boats arrivals seems to be something, no matter what yvette cooper says. can we actually send any of these people home? >> no. well, we can't send them home as long as we remain a member of the echr, it will be

incredibly difficult to actually send anyone effectively home. obviously yvette cooper has been making the right noises while trying to make the right noises talking about deportations, but the 100 staff that she's recruited seems infinitesimally small number given the scale of the problem. you know, the backlog now is at a record high of 118 odd thousand and as far as i can decipher what the labour party have actually offered thus far is to deal with that crisis is an effective amnesty to those who have entered the country. we have about 90,000 people in this country that were earmarked as being eligible for deportation to rwanda, yet they remain in this country. they remain taking up those four star accommodation places . they're costing us £5.4 places. they're costing us £5.4 billion a year while we have you know, pensioners worrying about the winter fuel allowance being cut and this ominous sounding black hole, well, if it's that ominous, a black hole, let's do something to address the asylum backlog, which is a huge, huge white elephant that we get nothing out of and actually ends up enticing more people to make those crossings across the channel. okay rob bates, superb stuff as ever. >> of course , yvette cooper has >> of course, yvette cooper has promised to deport 14,000 by the

end of the year. let's see what happens. rob bates, always a pleasure. thank you. now police have issued an urgent appeal for two dogs they believe are responsible for a fatal attack in birmingham. but first, more on that breaking news story. jermaine jenas has been sacked by the bbc, we can reveal i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 524 on martin daubney on gb news. more on the breaking news story this hour. and former footballer jermaine jenas has been sacked from the bbc. from the corporation's presenting line—up. the former premier league player has been removed from the one show and also match of the day as we understand. reports suggest it comes after an internal investigation into workplace misconduct, and a bbc

spokesperson has said we can confirm that he is no longer part of our presenting line—up. now sources suggest that mr jenas wants to clear his name and let's get the thoughts now of the former bbc journalist danny kelly. danny, welcome to the show . so a startling the show. so a startling revelation. the bbc seems to have taken very swift action, and the word is an ambiguous. he's been sacked. >> yeah, and it takes a lot to get sacked at the bbc nowadays. i wonder, martin, whether there's some timings involved here. there's a brand new boss of bbc sport and don't forget, in the last 3 or 4 weeks, the bbc has come in for some justifiable stinging criticism as to why they didn't sack huw edwards when the metropolitan police actually went to the bbc and said, look, this is what we've arrested him for and what we're investigating. him for now, we don't know what inappropriate behaviour or workplace conduct actually means. it could be something as relatively low level as talking to somebody in a certain manner,

demeaning them almost workplace bullying. >> but i don't think the bbc would sack him for that. they'd probably send him on a course. so naturally we're going to speculate as to what it is indeed that he's been sacked for. what does workplace conduct and inappropriate behaviour actually mean? curiously, though, i heard in the intro, martin, that jermaine jenas is keen to have his side of the story told, he's actually currently on the radio broadcasting on a commercial rival, so it's going to be fun seeing jermaine jenas trying to get out of the global studios at 7:00 when his show is off air. and of course, you know, until we find out why he's being binned off martin, obviously the internet is awash with speculation, but i just remind you, you know, the bbc do not sack people lightly , so it's got sack people lightly, so it's got to be something significant . to be something significant. >> and of course, of course, danny, let's not do that speculation. we don't want to get into any trouble. he has said that he's going to try and clear his name. he contests this and also the huw edwards case quite separate thing. but

nevertheless, in terms of procedure , danny kelly, you procedure, danny kelly, you know, bbc procedure and i think the swiftness of this action says something and also reports coming through danny kelly that a giant mural of the match of the day presenters at the salford manchester media city hq has been taken down with jermaine jenas image on it. so it seems to be that they're taking this rather seriously. >> he's also been dropped by his agents martin as well, so the next 1220 four hours will be incredibly telling. >> the fact that if the news that you're reporting and it will be correct, the fact that they've removed his image from a building and the fact that his agents have removed his image from their website, that does indeed lead people into a direction that we will need to know until he comes out or until the bbc actually issue a press statement to say, this is why we've sacked him, then i think, unfortunately, there will be lots of speculation out there,

£190,000 a year presenting two different shows. also had a lucrative contract with bt sport for their motor racing and also, i believe a lot of people believe, martin, that he was being , if you believe, martin, that he was being, if you like, the darling of the bbc was being groomed to take over gary lineker's job for understandable reasons. >> you know, lineker's got 12 months left of his contract. jermaine jenas is a terrific sports reporter, although some people say devoid of personality. but that's an opinion that people may vary with. but nevertheless, you know, if they were grooming him to take over lineker, this is going to put the bbc in a sticky situation. >> okay. danny kelly, former bbc journalist, thank you very much for your analysis on the situation around jermaine jenas. thank you very much. been sacked by the bbc. now moving on. police have issued an urgent appeal for two dogs they believe are responsible for a fatal attack that left one man dead in his garden and officers were called to a property in rubery in the early hours of thursday. and two dogs have already been

seized. but now two other dogs are believed to have been at the scene are still missing, while west midlands police say they believe the dogs are american bully type dogs. and joining me now for a full update is gb news west midlands reporter jack carson. jack, welcome to the show. you're there in rubery. what's the latest ? what's the latest? >> well, the police going for these two, but actually the comments that inspector leanne chapman from west midlands police dog unit made in the press conference that was . looks press conference that was. looks potentially that they are in the process of looking for unsure whether . whether. >> okay we've got some audio issues with their jack carson. you're breaking up rather badly. would try and get back to you later in the show. if we can. now a lot of you have been getting in. a lot of you have been getting in touch with your comments throughout the show,

particularly around the astonishing immigration figures out today . mark white boiled out today. mark white boiled down those figures. you have to go through these figures very meticulously to get the true stories, not the press release from the government or the home office. an astonishing 1.2 million visas issued in the last year to be in the uk. that's the total of the work visas, the student visas, the accompanied people coming with them, family member visas, an astonishing amount of people. 1.2 million and the work visas alone. we revealed on the show totals 286,000 work visas. that is a city the size of newcastle. do you think that is taking back control of our borders? 68,000 cases of asylum being granted the right to remain tripling in one year. that's a 40 year high. do you think that is taking back control now coming up, we'll have a gb news exclusive on reform uk to bring you. we'll be heanng reform uk to bring you. we'll be hearing from the chairman of the party on the bids to make the party on the bids to make the party more democratic , and even party more democratic, and even the right to remove the leader. that's all coming up later on in

the programme. please don't miss that. but first, here's your headunes that. but first, here's your headlines with cameron walker . headlines with cameron walker. >> martin. thank you. it's 530 i'm cameron walker here in the gb newsroom. figures shown to gb news revealed that the number of visas issued to work dependants was down 50% between april and june of this year, compared to the previous three months, 35,603 work dependant visas were handed out in the last quarter, compared to 71,583 between january and march. that's a fall of over 35,000. the bbc presenter and ex—footballer jermaine jenas has been sacked from presenting the one show and match of the day after alleged complaints about his behaviour. jenas was reportedly removed from the prime time bbc one programmes following internal and internal investigation by the corporation . a bbc the corporation. a bbc spokesperson said we can confirm that he is no longer part of the

presenting line—up. meanwhile, his agency mick saatchi, no longer represents him . the longer represents him. the family of morgan stanley international bank chairman jonathan bloom and his wife judy, have been have described them as incredible people and an inspiration to many following their deaths in the sinking of a luxury yacht in sicily. tributes have also been paid to mick lynch after the tech moguls death was confirmed today . he lynch after the tech moguls death was confirmed today. he is among the six people confirmed to have lost their lives. another body was recovered from the wreck this morning and brought to shore as rescue efforts to locate the missing sixth person continues. the italian coastguard has confirmed she is a woman. mike lynch is 18 year old daughter hannah was among those unaccounted for after the disaster . among those unaccounted for after the disaster. police are hunting up to three dogs on the loose, which are believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in the back garden of a property in birmingham , west midlands. in birmingham, west midlands. police were called to rubery avenue on the outskirts of birmingham in the early hours of yesterday after reports that a number of dogs were loose.

officers say the 33 year old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs, were found dead, was found dead in hereford close yesterday with dog bite marks. injuries. dog bite injuries two dogs were seized by police at the scene, which are both believed to be american bulldogs. but the breeds of the other dogs are unknown. a drug found to slow down alzheimer's has been given the green light for use in britain, but it may not be rolled out in the nhs because it costs too much. the charity alzheimer's research uk has urged the health secretary to step in, warning it would only be available to those who could pay privately . the new could pay privately. the new wonder drug is the first treatment of its kind to be licensed for use in great britain, and has shown to slow down the disease by almost 30%. the national institute for health and care excellence, which provides national health advice, says the benefits are too small to justify. the costs were those of the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm cameron walker. more in half an hour for

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movement, the return, the potential return. that's been mentioned by the labour party and lily, i think sums up things rather neatly here, says i wasn't a fan of brexit, but that's how democracy works. people voted to control our borders and this should not be ignored by a government. tanya says this i'm starting to feel that our politicians simply don't care about how we voted, and i really think the country is heading for a democratic meltdown. wow well, thanks for all of your comments. we've got

soon. welcome back. your time is 538. we're in the final furlong. let's bring you now a cracking gb news exclusive. yes. on the back of their election success, the reform party winning their first five seats in parliament. reform leader nigel farage has decided to switch from a nationwide plan to a local party

structure to try and drill in more democracy. to explain this and bring us more is our political editor, chris hope, who joins me in the studio. so chris, five seats were won at the last general election, but it took over 800,000 votes to get each of those seats as a thing of scattergun. there's a feeling the party was in desperate need of organisation and democratic organisation. tell us more. >> to be fair, nigel farage gets this and he told us for gb news on the eve of election interview with me, me with him in essex, he said, made it very clear i needed to democratise. he saw what was coming and what did happen was 4 million people voted for this party. just five mps. at the end of the day that that's not great because labour are able to target areas much better and get more mps, of course. so he said he would democratise it and give power to more people. he needs to do that as a private company. reform uk, he owns eight of the company's 15 shares. the new idea we're revealing today, broken by zia yousef, the reform uk's chair,

as chairman is to give members a much bigger say and, crucially, they will be allowed to have a say over the leader in future. currently farage, right or wrongly, is untouchable by members in the future. in a shake up to the party's constitution. and this matters. people can get can get rid of him . and what will mean if this him. and what will mean if this happens? it will be announced next month at the party's conference, is that it will attract other members to join. even mps might come across that they can see democracy in action. but earlier i spoke to mr yousef outside parliament and this is what he had to say. >> look, we of course understand that members need to be given a democratic, a set of rights in our constitution. that is what we are working on. you know, that that constitution, by the way, is an incredibly important document. you know, we are charting a course to be the party of government in this country in 2029. so that document must be fit for purpose today, for the next year, but also for when we're in government and so we have to get that document right. >> and will that document, when we see it, allow members to

remove the leader in this case, nigel farage? that's what all parties must have the right for members to remove a leader. of course, it will. of course it will. there we have zia yousef saying, of course it will allow members to remove nigel farage now farage himself. we haven't asked him, but i'm sure he'll be happy with this. he knows this party has got to grow up, and that involves being a full have a formal structure. ben ben habib, who's the former deputy leader of reform, he's been critical of this. he says this party has got to get get with it. you can't have this party that wants to win the election by the way, in 2028, 2029, a massive long shot. but that's the that's what they want to do. you can't have that happen and have a party leader who is insulated from any challenge internally. and in fact, ben habib has said on twitter or x shortly after this interview aired on gb news. here's to sir nigel farage and richard tice and thumbs up. so he if even the critics internally are supportive, this is the right track. >> in fact, ben habib was sat in that very seat on this very show airing these concerns. they've been addressed. the party seems

to be growing up. and of course, we all know you know, you know, the democratic groundwork, the structure, the wheelie bins, the potholes, the councils, the local branch meetings, the boring, the shoe leather stuff has to be in place. we can't have a situation for any political party. the same number of votes for the liberal democrats netted 70 plus seats and reform five seats there. if they have any chance of success, which as you say, is a long shot, they need to be doing this kind of ground. >> they've had success in a limited way. they had a very good air war. they had a good social media war of the election last month, but they have no idea where anyone lives, no data on that. so labour, labour, lib dems, tories, they have decades old data of where the voters live. they know that that's that's a reform vote or that's a lib dem voter. that's a tory voter. they can just knock them up as they bang on the doorbell and knock on the door every, every four years and get them out to vote. but and what this party needs to do is, is to dig

down like, like japanese knotweed to get into the kind of tory, of a ground. >> yeah, a nice little metaphor. is there another potential hazard here? and that is we've seen before, if people can join a party and influence getting rid of the leader or influence the next leader, we might see a lot of people with ill intent getting in. as we saw in the ed miliband years, £10 for a vote. boof. jeremy corbyn gets in. >> yes. and there will be some, some, some, some, some ways to stop this happening, when i interviewed yusuf earlier, for gb news, he wouldn't write or even disclose this detail on the channel even disclose this detail on the channel, but we will see detail of that emerge next month. and i fully expect there'll be thresholds of a certain number of mps to, to, to force a vote of mps to, to, to force a vote of no confidence or councillors or even of, of members. you need to have that those, those limits to have that those, those limits to ensure you have a degree of stability for the leader looking at the tory party, they're in a similar mass at the moment, but at some point we're going to see

some evidence of this party growing up and that's what it needs to do if it wants to have any chance of going further at the next election. >> as you said. chris obe a mountain to climb. but zia yusuf, are you impressed with him as an individual? >> i was, and i've met a number of these people around. nigel farage, in recent years . i can farage, in recent years. i can think back a decade or so. more than that, to the guys around ukip when nigel farage ran that and it was a bit of an amateur houhit and it was a bit of an amateur hour, it professionalised, i think post the referendum with the brexit party being set up, there were some, some very good candidates. you were one of them, martin. i won't say if you were a great candidate, but you're a colleague of mine. i'll be nice about. i'll be i'll be nice about you. but they were very good candidates on the brexit party and they've taken that into reform uk. they've got, forgive me, 2000, candidates, two, 2300 candidates that are going to put up for the may local elections, 3000 applications, 75 000 members. this party is going places. whether it wins the election next time round. that is a very, very long shot, chris hope.

>> excellent exclusive as ever. now ltns have raked in £3 million in the last few years. they could be going nationwide. we're debating that next. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

welcome back. 547 the final final furlong. now we've got a juicy debate rocking up for you. now the controversy over 20 mile an hour speed limits is intensifying across the uk as guess what, the labour party signalled its support for expanding these zones and also ltns. today we're asking all these speed limits a necessary measure for public safety, or are they a hindrance or even a cash cow to simply milk drivers dry? well, joining me now to discuss this is the founder of fair fuel uk, howard cox. and also the former editor of labourlist, peter edwards . labourlist, peter edwards. gentlemen, welcome to the

studio. let's start with you, peter, as it's a labour party idea , sir keir starmer said it idea, sir keir starmer said it should be up to local councils. it seems that that the transport secretary has agreed. tell us why you think these are a good idea . yeah. idea. yeah. >> we've got to keep separate 20mph zones and low traffic neighbourhoods. >> and it's the latter, which tend to be more controversial. but we know if you have the misfortune to be in an accident as a pedestrian, with every additional ten miles per hour on the speed of the car , you're the speed of the car, you're more likely to lose your life. >> and about 1700 people a year lose their life on the roads . lose their life on the roads. >> about 20,000 more are seriously injured. this to me, seems like a proportionate measure to tackle something that should concern us all, which is road deaths and road accidents. >> howard cox, of course, came in in wales as a blanket limit. it was detested 70% people objected to it and in fact they did a big u—turn on the limit there. tell us why you think 20 mile an hour limits are a bad thing? >> well , there are a number of >> well, there are a number of reasons why. i mean, wales have

actually had an epiphany. it's a labour government over there as well. and louise hague is going against that. i just don't understand why she's doing this now in a belfast study, a university of belfast university study, they did a three year study, they did a three year study and there was no demonstrable difference between 20 and 30 miles an hour in terms of accidents, deaths, any of those sorts of things. and the interesting thing about this is if you drive at 20 miles an houh if you drive at 20 miles an hour, you emit more nitrogen dioxide than you do at 30 mile an hour. >> so it's more polluting. it's more polluting because of course, you're slowing down. you're in a lower gear. so, so two, two, two fatless there, peter. and to contest your information about the impact on road safety. and also if it's more polluting, surely that's a double whammy. it's a bad idea. >> well, you've got to keep, as i said, keep separate these different things. you know, i firmly believe and i've seen countervailing studies, that the speed of the car which hits you has an effect on your chances of surviving, but that's a 20mph zone. >> there's a there's a broader debate on on the low traffic neighbourhoods, which have been very controversial. >> and you know, for people who don't have one at the end of their street, that's where a

busy road is, is, is shut and there's often a tree or a cup of couple of visually attractive devices put there to stop people going down it. and i can understand that because it's disruptive and it doesn't reduce car usage. >> but there's a risk that it use. >> it moves it to the outskirts of towns where perhaps poorer folk live. so you might have poorer folk being exposed to more fumes, but that's low traffic neighbourhoods. >> i'm convinced that 20mph zones will save lives. >> okay, we just heard from howard cox. why do you think that's not the case? my broader point is this. it always seems to be working class motorists that hit the hardest. it won't affect people who work from home any of this. it won't affect the lower class. it won't affect those who cycle. it won't affect anybody who lives in westminster, but it will affect people who are dependent on their cars and how? it seems to me that they're always the ones feeling the pinch. well, i've been campaigning for 15 years, as you know, fighting on fuel duty. >> we're still one of the highest taxed nations in the world in terms of motorists. the simple thing is that the i predicted and i forecast very, very much in all the campaign, i did for mayor and also as an mp,

i said there will be huge anti driver policies coming from this labour government, and i'm afraid it's purely a cash grab . afraid it's purely a cash grab. that's all they're doing. >> oh no it's not a cash grab. we can disagree on principle and that's absolutely fine. >> but i'm convinced this has saving lives at the heart of it. >> no it's not okay. >> no it's not okay. >> well gentlemen, we have to leave it there. a fantastic debate, howard. peter, always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining me in the studio. forjoining me in the studio. now, ministers are reportedly drawing up plans to allow young europeans to live and work in parts of britain as part of a wider reset of relations with brussels after brexit, despite labour repeatedly insisting it has no plans for a youth mobility scheme. however, labour sources told the times that ministers privately recognise that they have to give ground to issue, to prevent tory blocks. now to discuss this, i'm joined by former conservative mp and jacob rees—mogg, gb news presenter, of course. state of the nation seven till eight. jacob, i'm assuming you'll cover this on your show. this to me feels very much like a rollback on brexit.

>> oh, i think that's absolutely right. i think that you've seen a number of signs that the labour party wants to roll back on brexit, that going back to free movement of people , just as free movement of people, just as the figures are showing that the conservative policy on migration was bringing numbers down, is a betrayal of what people voted for in the last election. then you have rumours they want to bnng you have rumours they want to bring olly robbins back as cabinet secretary, and he was the cheese eating surrender monkey of the brexit negotiations. so i think you're seeing quite clearly that labour never liked brexit and is now looking to try to reverse it. >> jacob, the thing i love about you , you're always absolutely you, you're always absolutely sit on the fence with your opinions. do you think people have a right to be concerned? back in the days of the brexit referendum, sir jacob, you know as well as i do. i spoke to working class people all across britain brickies, plasterers , britain brickies, plasterers, labourers, truck drivers, factory workers , hospitality factory workers, hospitality workers. those are the ones most impacted by the freedom of movement of young people under

30s into britain. and it seems to me that history might be about to repeat itself . about to repeat itself. >> you're absolutely right. free movement of labour was most damaging to the standard of living of the least well off people who were well—to—do benefited from free movement of labouh benefited from free movement of labour, but the least well off found that entry level jobs, their first job, was harder to get, and the pay was lower. free movement of labour excess migration lowers wages, and that is obviously particularly difficult for the least well off in society . in society. >> superb, sir. thank you very much for joining >> superb, sir. thank you very much forjoining us. of course, much for joining us. of course, state of the nation with sir jacob rees—mogg from your magnificent pile there in somerset, 8 to 9 pm. tonight, exclusively on gb news. thank you very much for joining us back with state of the nation. now don't forget it's dewbs& co next with michelle dewberry. that will be one not to miss. then of course 7 to 8. it's gb news tonight and that's with my colleague chris hope gave us a fantastic exclusive today about reform uk planning more democracy, planning more

structure, even the ability to vote nigel farage out as leader, could that come back to bite them on the behind as miscreants get involved to try and influence the vote? that's for another time. that's your weather with alex biryukov a fantastic evening . fantastic evening. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> hello, very good day to you. here's your latest gb news weather update coming to you from the met office. storm lillian is going to batter some parts of the uk overnight, bringing some very wet and windy weather, particularly to northern parts of england. but through today we do have a cold front making its way southeastwards, bringing a bit of cloud and a bit of rain for some before it clears away. as we go through into this evening. elsewhere, some bright or sunny spells developing behind this system. also a scattering of showers, particularly across

parts of northern ireland, northern and western scotland. 1 or 2 showers, perhaps for western parts of england and wales as well. now temperatures are going to be a little bit on the low side, low 20s towards the low side, low 20s towards the south, a few degrees lower than this further north and feeling cooler than this in those strong winds, albeit they are going to ease for a time as we go into the afternoon. still clinging on to some cloud and a bit of rain across the far southeast. as we go through this evening, but that will eventually clear away a brighter picture across central western parts of southern england and across the midlands and wales as well. largely fine and dry, with some sunshine here turning cloudier, wetter and windier across northern ireland as storm lillian starts to make its approach . meanwhile, it's going approach. meanwhile, it's going to be a showery evening across some parts of northern england and much of scotland, particularly towards the west. the feature that is then storm lillian does make its way in as we go overnight, initially bringing some wet weather to northern ireland, but then that heavy rain spills in across parts of scotland, northern england and across wales as well. and it's the winds that we do need to watch out for. gusts

of around 80mph, perhaps in some exposed parts , could cause some exposed parts, could cause some significant disruption because of the wet and windy weather. it is going to be a mild night if not a bit warm for some of us, some places staying in the mid to high teens celsius, but a very unsettled start to the day tomorrow. watch out for those strong winds could cause some disruption, particularly on the roads, but the feature does clear away towards the east as we go through the afternoon. some showers following in behind across northern parts and these could be a little bit heavy at times, but further south it's looking like it's going to be a largely fine afternoon. see you later. bye bye. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather

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ask you a simple question. do we need a youth mobility scheme with the eu? yes or no and a wealth tax on your home? should there be one? let's look at it. also, a story that literally stopped me in my tracks today. a convicted child rapist is avoiding going to prison where he should be, according to one judge, because you guessed it, overcrowding, well , maybe if you overcrowding, well, maybe if you stop putting people in prisons because of facebook posts and the like, you might be able to lock up the people who really do need us, need it in order to keep us safe. your thoughts? all that and more with tom berwick and ben habib till seven. but first. >> good evening. it's 601. i'm cameron walker here in the newsroom, and we have some breaking to news bring you. a

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