gb news. well. >> hey, very good afternoon to you. >> how are you doing? it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. >> on today's show, does misery upon misery await the nation? well, sir keir starmer braces the public for hard times ahead as he lays the foundations for a brutal budget. he says he'll clean up the country like he cleaned up the riots. but are you convinced? and next up, it was carnage at the notting hill carnival. police arrests three people in relation to the stabbing of a 32 year old woman at the carnival, with over 330 arrests in total for offences including sexual assaults and

attacks on police officers. yet it was mostly peaceful and paul durant, the 78 year old blackpool grandad, is now 24 days into his hunger strike over broken britain. you may recall i had him in this studio last week. well, today paul will exclusively tell gb news once again how he has endured two sickening, unprovoked attacks in recent days by guess who pro—palestine protesters given aggro to a pensioner who's a patriot. i'll speak to that intrepid pensioner later on the show , and greater manchester show, and greater manchester police has announced it will not take part in next year's gay pride march. i'll be joined by a campaigner who claims that this is a long overdue victory for common sense policing, and that's all coming up between now and 6:00. once a show, always a delight to have your company. what a topsy turvy world we live in. things can only get better,

we were told before the election. now brace yourselves. hard times ahead. difficult choices , lots of pain tax rises. choices, lots of pain tax rises. would you have voted for that ? would you have voted for that? and mostly peaceful, wasn't it the notting hill riot? there was a huge clampdown on the riots . a huge clampdown on the riots. post southpaw. anybody was sent to jail for seemingly anything facebook posts. but yet we saw the huge outpouring of carnage at notting hill and it seems there's no comment from the prime minister today. no comment from sadiq khan. are we living in a parallel universe of two tiered britain? send your views and post your comments by going to gbnews.com/yoursay. cracking show ahead . but now it's tatiana show ahead. but now it's tatiana sanchez with your headlines . sanchez with your headlines. >> martin, thank you very much and good afternoon. the top stories. the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but he says the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in

downing street this morning, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse in the uk before they get worse in the uk before they get better and next week's return to parliament, he says, will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure. the prime minister also reiterated economic growth is the government's top priority . the government's top priority. >> i promised that we would get a grip on the problems that we face and that we would be judged by our actions, not by our words . by our actions, not by our words. i said before the election and i say it again really clearly today , growth. and frankly, by today, growth. and frankly, by that i today, growth. and frankly, by thati do today, growth. and frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour government . this labour government. >> this comes as the prime minister faces pressure over accusations of cronyism as conservatives demand an investigation into recent civil service appointments. speaking

earlier on gb news shadow science and technology secretary andrew griffith suggested it was hypocritical for labour to talk about trust in politics. >> in particular, he promised to introduce new levels of transparency and integrity. and yet what we've seen week by week over the last few weeks over the summer is revelations about labour appointments to the civil service, the independent civil service, the independent civil service these aren't just the normal special advisers that all governments make political appointments to. these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that . time as that. >> international news now , >> international news now, israel's military says it's rescued a hostage who was kidnapped by the hamas terror group on october 7th. the idf says 52 year old khalid farhan al shadi is in a stable condition and is being transferred for medical checks

at a hospital following a complex operation in southern gaza. the hostages families forum said in a statement. his return home is nothing short of miraculous. it said he endured 326 days in captivity back home. a man has been charged with murder after officers stopped him at notting hill carnival. detectives had previously issued an appeal to locate kamaal williams, who was wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 53 year old in stoke newington. he'll appear in court tomorrow and that's as three men have been arrested over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at the carnival , old mother at the carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day on sunday with her young child when she was attacked. the metropolitan police says. it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it is unclear if they were known to her. in total, just over 330 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of

offences, including violence , offences, including violence, sexual assaults and attacks on police officers . president police officers. president zelenskyy says ukraine has successfully run a test of its first ballistic missile. it comes after russia's launched around 200 drone and missile attacks at ukraine overnight. at least five people have been killed and dozens injured due to those strikes, which are believed to be a response to ukraine's incursion in russia's kursk region. meanwhile, volodymyr zelenskyy said it was vile and claimed the attack had targeted civilian infrastructure . targeted civilian infrastructure. in the uk, from today, the nhs iii helpline will now offer mental health support to adults and children in crisis. mental health support to adults and children in crisis . local and children in crisis. local health systems previously had their own separate phone lines, which took about 200,000 calls per month. it makes the nhs in england one of the first countries to offer such a support service for mental health issues, as well as physical ones . mark zuckerberg physical ones. mark zuckerberg

has admitted that facebook and instagram were wrong to censor posts about covid during the pandemic, and he was wrong to bow to pressure. he says in a letter to a us committee investigating online content moderation, mr zuckerberg said senior white house officials repeatedly pressured the company after joe biden was inaugurated in 2021. he said that facebook made some choices that it would not have made today . and after not have made today. and after lots of speculation , british pop lots of speculation, british pop band oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split . so sally can wait. they split. so sally can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by a soul sudes we're walking on by a soul slides away . slides away. >> liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis long awaited reunion with a worldwide tour next year . oasis, worldwide tour next year. oasis, who released their chart topping

album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced the series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff. local people in manchester are excited about the news. >> yeah, very excited. it's going to be interesting to see how long it lasts for though, because you never know with us. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> i'm going to try for tickets on saturday. >> excited about it but probably won't get tickets. >> i'm going to get me to try and get on it for me as well. but yeah, i'm buzzing me. i'm a massive oasis fan. i've seen liam gallagher a few times, but together, man, it'd be sick. >> yeah, and those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me 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. >> thank you very much, tatiana. now the prime minister has

warned us all that the october budget is going to be quite painful, full of optimism. as always . sir keir starmer also always. sir keir starmer also said that things are worse than they ever imagined because of they ever imagined because of the economic black hole left by the economic black hole left by the tory government. but don't worry, apparently the pain will be in the short term and worth it in the long run. honest, governor. let's hear what sir keir had to say earlier on. >> those with . should bear the >> those with. should bear the heavier burden. the mess should have to do their bit to clean it up.and have to do their bit to clean it up. and that is why we are strengthening the powers of the water regulator and backing tough fines on the water companies that have let sewage flood our rivers, lakes and seas . flood our rivers, lakes and seas. but just as when i responded to the riots , i'll have to turn to the riots, i'll have to turn to the riots, i'll have to turn to the country and make big asks of you as well to accept short term

pain for long term good. that difficult trade off for the genuine solution. and i know that after all that you have been through , that is a really been through, that is a really big ask and really difficult to hear. big ask and really difficult to hear . that is big ask and really difficult to hear. that is not the big ask and really difficult to hear . that is not the position hear. that is not the position we should be in. it's not the position i want to be in, but we have to end the politics of the easy answer that solves nothing . easy answer that solves nothing. >> well, are you finding that very reassuring? well, joining me now to discuss it is our political correspondent, katherine forster. excellent to have you back after a well—deserved break, a well—deserved break, a well—deserved month off. it was staccato. i thought it was soben staccato. i thought it was sober. it was. it felt like he had a lot of weight on his shoulders. the lexicon of painful big asks long term pain. a lot of people catherine may have felt they were voting for change in a positive sense of

blair sense a things can only get better since the change it seems we've invited in sounds like a world of pain. >> it does. and labour, as in 1997, came in with a huge majority. but i don't think there is or was with the people that voted for this labour government in any way. the same optimism that there was under blair. there was a real feeling, as you say, things could only get better. a positivity and optimism . now, sir keir starmer, optimism. now, sir keir starmer, is very sensible, very serious, works very hard and has sold them on bringing change. but i mean, anybody that voted for change thinking that things were going to change anytime soon is going to change anytime soon is going to change anytime soon is going to be very, very disappointed. and i think what's very clear now from the tone of thatis very clear now from the tone of that is they are laying the groundwork for the budget at the end of october, which he said himself is going to be painful.

and really the picture he painted in that speech to me was of a broken britain. now he's saying, of course it's all the conservatives fault. just as , conservatives fault. just as, you know, the coalition government back in 2010 came in labour didn't. labour held them, didn't they, with that note saying there's no money left. but again they made tough decisions, austerity etc. and they blamed it for years and years on the labour party. and now we're seeing the same situation, only that, you know, the parties have reversed. and i think all the hard choices that are clearly coming are going to be put back at the conservatives door over and over again with some justification. but of course , it wasn't the course, it wasn't the conservatives fault that covid happened on their watch. it wasn't the conservatives fault that we had russia invading ukraine, but i think it was quite canny to put it in the rose garden , the scene of the rose garden, the scene of the crime, if you like, as he wanted

to remind people, dominic cummings non—apology after breaking lockdown rules. the scene of the parties , the broken scene of the parties, the broken swing. et cetera, et cetera. but it was quite gloomy, wasn't it? and it does beg the question what taxes are going to go up? >> i've had a cup of tea in that garden. john major's wife poured it for me in the 97 election. we were invited in in that time where the conservatives were desperately trying to save their government, it failed. but the optimism oasis are coming back. the energy of 1997 was so, so different to now, and it struck me as well that sir keir starmer talks about the riots and he mentioned how he said the riots had exposed a deeply unhealthy society. a lot of us, catherine, were hoping, expecting, praying for conversation about potential causes of those riots, the social discord. why did they happenin social discord. why did they happen in the same way we saw in the aftermath of 2011, in tottenham , that didn't happen tottenham, that didn't happen today. in fact, once again, he

was talking about this being fuelled by populism , doubling fuelled by populism, doubling down on this notion that the conservatives and the right wing fuelled this uprising. so if anybody was looking for any kind of soothing of the brow on that front, that didn't happen either today. >> no, it didn't. and i went to the lobby briefing for journalists with the prime minister's spokesman after that. and i asked what work the government was doing to address the underlying issues. of course, there's no excuse for setting fire to an asylum hotel. of course, that's terrible. of course, violence is not justifiable, but nevertheless, large numbers of people in this country feel that they have simply been abandoned, that nobody cares about them is listening to them, that they haven't got the opportunities. i mean that to be honest, is largely why boris johnson managed to get that big 80 seat majority. because he said, look, i get it. i'm going to level up,

etc. and i think a lot of those people who lent their vote to bofis people who lent their vote to boris johnson, you know, many of them then were fed up with the conservatives. but it doesn't feel at the moment like labour have the answer for those people ehhen have the answer for those people either. and the prime minister's spokesman simply said to me, you know, we're going to get growth, we're going to get opportunity. well, growth is going to take time. if it was easy, it would already have been done. opportunity. all of these things, and if any of this stuff was easy, would have already been done. so i think, yeah, i didn't get a sense of beyond them acting swiftly to lock people up them really looking in a soul searching way about some of the underlying causes. >> catherine was excellent . it's >> catherine was excellent. it's great to have you back. thank you very much. now joining us now is the former adviser to david cameron, phillip blonde. phillip, welcome to the show. so things are going to be painful. things aren't going to get better. they're going to get much, much worse. conservatives had 14 years at the helm. and a

lot of conservatives no doubt yourself included, must be looking at keir starmer in that rose garden now thinking wow, there's going to be a long five years ahead. >> well it was pretty. >> well it was pretty. >> i mean i agree with that analysis. >> i mean, i think that the conservatives failed to transform the economy and i think your correspondent, as she was speaking earlier, was quite right. what is most missing is a long term analysis of where the problems are. the economic problems are. the economic problems of the country come from and what they are. we are now lagging behind in terms of wages and remuneration for ordinary people. behind all of our peers, we're becoming the poor man of europe again. and that's largely because we financialized the economy and our productivity started to drop before the financial crisis and after the financial crisis. it hasn't recovered. we've flatlined and there's nothing.

what i worry about for labour, i think their analysis that it's bleak is right. i think that the conservative party didn't so much leave a black hole as make assumptions that departments would be able to cut, which everybody talked about at the time, which they can't. but what i think is most kind of stark is it doesn't look as if any of the plans that labour has in place are sufficient to meet the task that labour itself has acknowledged. it doesn't look to me like there's a really competent growth plan waiting in the wings, that we probably are happy to pay a price for. so my sense is things will only get worse . woi'se. >> worse. >> philip, you've been a former adviser to a prime minister. when you hear things in that rose garden, that historic scene , rose garden, that historic scene, like things are going to be

painful . we've got no other painful. we've got no other choice. there are big asks, long term pain for sorry, short term pain for long term gain. big asks those with the broadest shoulders will have to carry the weight. what does that mean? we're being feathered up here for brutal tax rises. what do you think that will entail ? you think that will entail? >> i think it will entail a whole range of tax rises outside of the commitment not to raise tax on ordinary people, so it won't raise tax on income tax, vat, and all the standard national insurance. so it means all the additionals like inheritance tax , wealth tax, inheritance tax, wealth tax, capital gains tax will be taxed. they may well bring in pensions within the inheritance tax regime or indeed the capital tax regime. so i think you're going to have all sorts of increases, in untaxed activity or asset

holding, to, to make, to make it all stitched together. but the problem is and i repeat it again, is the conservatives didn't have a solution to our productivity crisis on our economic flatlining and labour don't appear to have a solution ehhen don't appear to have a solution either. that's why i think it's genuinely bleak . we are all all genuinely bleak. we are all all human beings are to prepared pay a short time term price if there's a long term gain. but what worries me is , is there what worries me is, is there a long term gain? i don't see it. and as a result, i think that we could continue to flatline or worse. philip. >> philip, could i interject? it's worth pointing out that asset holders are also ordinary people. and there's this thing that no working people don't include, don't count people who work if they're very well off, you know, ordinary people don't count. if you've got assets that have saved, put that to one side. i want to talk to you about the so—called culture war

issues. we keep hearing about. no conversation has precipitated following the riots in the seven most deprived towns across england following what happened in southport. there's been no analysis, no engagement with communities. as we saw post 2011. and today, sir keir starmer had the opportunity to address that. instead, he talked about the populism being the backdrop for it. do you think he's making a mistake here by kind of putting the book down hard on these communities, failing to engage with them, totally ignoring, by the way, what happened in notting hill over this weekend? there was great upset and crime there. that seems to be on a different page. do you think there's a mistake to be made in not acknowledging the ordinary concerns of working class people in britain who feel left behind ? in britain who feel left behind? >> oh, very much so. i mean, i think this is all meat and drink for nigel farage and reform. i mean , the shift towards the mean, the shift towards the conservatives that we saw as the result of the brexit referendum

andindeed result of the brexit referendum and indeed of boris johnson's unfulfilled promises to level up, that will only shift again. and you can see it in the absence of a visionary conservative leader, you can see that all going to reform labour don't have even, an unfulfilled plan to level up. you know, this this is what is worrying. so i do think that the evidence is really quite compelling for them being a two tier political and policing and criminal system , policing and criminal system, and those who enforce that, that two tier system do so for the sake of what they think is social peace. but what they're actually doing is further polarising society. if you look at america, during the black lives matter riots and how it was termed largely peaceful, we're not we're on that track to sanction forms of disorder and

unsanctioned forms of disorder. and once the greatness of britain, why we've survived and why we've defeated some of the greatest kind of political evils in recent modern history, is because we had broad consensus across the country that consensusis across the country that consensus is now highly fractured. it's polarising. and when it polarises, if we get to the american situation, then we're in a very situation and we're in a very situation and we're on the way there. so. so i'm i'm afraid your fears are have have real foundation. martin. >> excellent comment . as ever, >> excellent comment. as ever, phillip blonde is an absolute pleasure to have on the show and i think we're actually already there. we're already at the stage of mostly peaceful demonstrations or protests or carnivals when it's one particular group having them. philip blonde was a delight to have you on the show. please come back on soon. excellent.

now still to come find out how our heroic boys in the raf are living it. it will shock you in conditions no doubt . they'll be conditions no doubt. they'll be described as inhumane. if they're asylum seekers. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. your time is 326. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. later in the show i'll be speaking to paul durant. he's the 78 year old pensioner from blackpool on a hunger strike. we got an astonishing development in that story, but before that, soldiers at an raf base have said that their accommodation is in an unliveable condition and gb news can reveal that troops posted to raf benson in oxfordshire are living in squalor amid leaking pipes and rat infestations. well, our national reporter charlie peters has his exclusive story and

joins us now. charlie peters astonishing squalor that our boys are forced to live in, perhaps will be deemed unfit for habitation if they are asylum seekers. tell us more. >> well, martin, the soldier that spoke to gb news with this information about this accommodation, said that they wanted it to be condemned. they said it wasn't fit for any person and you've shown some of the photos there of the accommodation at raf benson, which is a frontline station for the raf. it's where operational and support squadrons are based. but for those listening on the radio, it shows soaked floors in a mixed accommodation area. pipes have been bursting, there have been significant leaking issues, have been rat infestations on the ground floor, according to the soldier posted into that accommodation block. and the toilets aren't working , the heating isn't working, the heating isn't working, the heating isn't working, the heating isn't working, the hot water regularly falls away, and this is just a small example of a much wider issue. earlier this year, a

commission found that it would cost up to £4 billion to sort out the backlog of repairs required by the defence infrastructure organisation. dio some soldiers referred to it as d i know because they put in requests and they hear nothing but martin, as you alluded to, many analysts i spoke to and commentators when i raised this issue yesterday in building the story for today , they said, and story for today, they said, and they referred to the double standards as they put it, between accommodation that soldiers are expected to stay in and those that asylum seekers and those that asylum seekers and illegal migrants crossing the channel. rikki neave referring to how plush hotels are put up for those crossing the channel £8 million a day are being spent on that, but soldiers in this appalling accommodation are just expected to put up with it. they're expected to soldier on. >> yeah, you're exactly right, charlie. and for example, if amnesty international or care for calais got a whiff of this behaviour, if it wasn't the bibby stockholm or somewhere like that , you know, damn sure like that, you know, damn sure

as mustard charlie peters, this would get shut down. and yet, as you say, our boys and our girls in the raf, the army are expected just to crack on with it. it's not fair. >> it is an extraordinary situation. and obviously the press have to receive this information on condition of anonymity from soldiers. they're not permitted to speak out. obviously, soldiers can't unionise they rely on ministers fighting their case and they're seniors and their leadership to make sure that this stuff gets fixed. but all too often we hear these complaints from soldiers pointing to this shoddy squalor. squaddies in squalor in these accommodation blocks, which demonstrate that these fixes aren't occurring. this particular base at raf benson, this accommodation block, is also a transit accommodation block, so soldiers are just being posted to that location for training and for short term courses are expected to live alongside troops who are posted there permanently, which is not an ideal situation to say the least. but a statement has been

received from the mod on this. a spokesperson told me that the new government is committed to improving the state of service, housing. as part of our drive to renew the nation's contract with those who serve our government's first king's speech. committed to the creation of a new armed forces commissioner to be a strong independent champion for service personnel and their families, and help improve service life well , at the same service life well, at the same time that that statement was issued and while all these accommodation concerns go on, the fact of the matter remains that the british army is now at its lowest level since the napoleonic era. some 300 years ago, just 72,000 or so active personnel in the british army. this is an raf base, but this is an army soldier posted there sending us this information. when you see accommodation like this, i have to say i think it's hard to understand why people

are so confused by the retention crisis in the british military. >> charlie peters, another cracking exclusive. make sure you keep up this superb work. thank you very much for joining us on gb news. now there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00, including should the notting hill criminals be dealt with as fast as the rioters. but first, it's time for your news headlines, and it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but he says the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in downing street this morning, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament, he says, will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure . years of populism and failure. the prime minister also reiterated economic growth is

the government's top priority. shadow home secretary james cleverly has accused the keir starmer of rolling out dishonest policies following today's speech. >> the first step. >> the first step. >> israel's military says it's rescued a hostage who was kidnapped by the hamas terror group on october 7th. the idf say 52 year old khalid farhan ali kadi is in a stable condition and is being transferred for medical checks at a hospital following a complex operation in southern gaza. the hostages families forum said in a statement. his return home is nothing short of miraculous. it said he endured 326 days in captivity . a man has 326 days in captivity. a man has been charged with murder after officers stopped him at notting hill carnival. officers stopped him at notting hill carnival . detectives had hill carnival. detectives had previously issued an appeal to locate kamaal williams, who was wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of 53 year old derrick thomas in stoke newington. he'll appear in court tomorrow. that's as three men have been arrested over the

stabbing of a 32 year old mother at notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day on sunday with her young child when she was attacked. the metropolitan police says. it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it's unclear if they were known to her. in total, 349 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of offences including violence, sexual assaults and over 60 attacks on police officers . and finally, police officers. and finally, after lots of speculation, british pop band oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split . so sally years after they split. so sally can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by her soul sudes we're walking on by her soul slides away . slides away. >> liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis long awaited reunion with a

worldwide tour next year. oasis who released their chart topping album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced the series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff . and those their tour in cardiff. and those are the latest gb news headlines . are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez and more from me 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. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. >> the pound will buy you $1.3225 and ,1.1844. the price of gold is £1,903.16 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8356 points. >> cheers britannia wine club

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channel. welcome back. your time is 338. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. in the last hour, the metropolitan police have confirmed that 61 of its officers were assaulted at the notting hill carnival. this is breaking news which included kicks, punches and even some

officers being spat at. they also revealed that a total of 349 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for offences ranging from drug possession, sexual assaults and robbery. well, here to tell us more is gb news home and security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show. so now the arrest tally, the crime tally is still going up . mostly peaceful. they are up. mostly peaceful. they are described as by a broad range of the media and to my knowledge, mark, correct me if i'm wrong. i haven't seen any condemnation of the violence yet from the prime minister or the mayor of london, sadiq khan, in stark contrast to what we saw of the riots across the seven most deprived towns across britain. tell us more. >> well, indeed, we know of course, it's carnival. it's an event that the politicians, of course , want to celebrate and course, want to celebrate and encourage . so there often is encourage. so there often is a reluctance to come out and condemn any violence for, you

know, fear of upsetting communities. and as far as notting hill carnival is concerned, we see levels of violence year after year. this has been a particularly violent yeah has been a particularly violent year. there is no doubt, with those eight stabbings across the weekend for people who were in life threatening condition. now down to three after one person stabilised . but they include stabilised. but they include a mother, 32 year old woman who was with her young child on sunday of all days family day. it's described as it's meant to be more peaceful, but she got in the way of a dispute between two rival gangs and was stabbed and critically injured . and of critically injured. and of course, you mentioned there the number of police officers, the tally of injured officers has now risen to 61 and including

the kicks and the punches and the kicks and the punches and the spits were some officers who were headbutted as well. absolutely dreadful. the kind of violence that has been roundly condemned when it's happened in other towns and cities across england in recent weeks, with the prime minister and others lining up to show us just how quickly justice would deal with those involved in such aggressive acts against members of the emergency services , but, of the emergency services, but, you know, in saying that about one issue of violence in communities , then surely you've communities, then surely you've got to be consistent and also then call out what has happened at the notting hill carnival. but as you say , martin, nothing but as you say, martin, nothing from mayor sadiq khan other than posting over the weekend on x where he praised notting hill carnival for bringing together communities, you can see that

posting on your screen now. so nothing in the hours and days since that initial post to reflect the fact that his own officers, because remember, as the mayor of london, he is the crime police and crime commissioner for the capital. so nothing to reflect that 61 of his own officers were assaulted while going about their duty and trying to keep people safe. the carnival and nothing of course, from the prime minister, who held an expansive news conference in downing street this morning and told us during that conference all about what he was doing to ensure that the violence we have seen in towns and cities of recent weeks would be dealt with robustly. but again, no mention of what was happening just a few miles away from his own doorstep, mark white has just been pointed out to me by an eagle eyed gb news

viewer that sadiq khan has just tweeted. >> he's tweeted about a memorial to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, a stark reminder of the role that the uk and london played , that's the uk and london played, that's another comment from the mayor not a dicky bird about this unrest. a serious question now though. mark white we revealed yesterday the cost of the policing operation around notting hill last year was 11.75 million. that included £5.5 million. that included £5.5 million mark white on police overtime , because of course, overtime, because of course, this happens over a bank holiday weekend . mark white was 7000 weekend. mark white was 7000 coppers put on duty this year. you'd expect that this is going to be even more expensive. and it's worth pointing out, is it not mark white that the local, the, the event itself doesn't pay a the, the event itself doesn't pay a penny towards this? >> no . and of course, >> no. and of course, a comparison probably is best served with looking at what happens with football matches. and of course , we've had and of course, we've had football hooliganism roundly

condemned over the years. and the fact that police have to spend an awful lot of time and effort ensuring that football matches are peaceful affairs, while football clubs , even while football clubs, even though they've been criticised for not providing enough money to policing, do at least pay for policing within the stadia and also in the immediate environs around football stadiums, where they will pay police for that service, there is still a wider cost of policing football matches that is borne by the police service, but as you say, compare that to notting hill carnival with 7000 officers on duty, many more than would ever be on duty, even for a very busy football weekend in the capital, with seven premier league clubs and countless other lower division clubs, they would still never have 7000 officers devoted

to policing. all of those matches at the same time. but notting hill carnival does not provide any financial recompense to the metropolitan police. for the police and the overtime that is expended on keeping people safe at that event and mark white we talk all the time about two tier policing and a lot of accusations of that, of course, following the aftermath of those riots, brings me on to this astonishing story out today. >> perhaps the people of notting hill will just be able to say, sorry, a new report today , mark sorry, a new report today, mark white saying that 147,000 people accused of serious offences , accused of serious offences, including sex crimes, violence and weapons possession will simply be allowed to say sorry instead of going to jail. please tell me this is an april fool's joke. >> well, these are community resolution orders. it's slightly more complicated than just an apology , but it does , require apology, but it does, require police to get the approval of

victims. for instance , to try to victims. for instance, to try to ensure we're told that those who are committing an offence are first time offenders. that the offences are low level offences, such as anti—social behaviour . such as anti—social behaviour. but i'm not sure that's completely borne out with the facts that we're getting through of very significant rises in the numbers of violent offences that seem to be dealt with via community resolution order, rather than a criminal sanction. a prosecution that may lead to a fine or even perhaps jail, depending on how serious it is, also knife possession , 77% also knife possession, 77% increase in the number of community resolution orders that have been handed out for people caught carrying knives at a time when we have record levels of knife crime in eight force

areas, including the metropolitan police, where they recorded almost 15,000 knife crime offences last year , you crime offences last year, you would think that perhaps the real, logical path to be going on is not to invoke a community resolution in such cases, but perhaps to have a tougher sanction to try to deter people from carrying these deadly weapons in the first place. >> mark white an astonishing round up there . thank you very, round up there. thank you very, very much. and we'll see you again in the next hour. brilliant thank you. now moving on today. it's got to be the day, you know this is going the oasis return . hooray! i'm in oasis return. hooray! i'm in wonderwall and all the rest of it. look on a serious point. i think this story is bigger than music. it's about a return to working class swagger. i'm martin daubney on gb news business

channel. so sally can wait. she knows it's two. whoops. sorry. welcome back to the show. 350 at the time, this is martin daubney on gb news now. you probably got it . gb news now. you probably got it. oasis are back after a lot of speculation, they are officially reunited. nearly 15 years after the two brothers grimm split up. they'll play 14 uk shows maximum. let's speak to now to an old pal of mine, james mcmahon, who hosts his own podcast and used to be the editor of kerrang! as well as a bigwig on the nme. jim, i'm so sorry about my torturous singing there, but then again, you weren't ever the biggest fan of oasis, were you? >> oh mate. behave. i was, i was, i was a sensitive, wilting indie pop flower. >> but when it came to oasis, all, all, all bets were off. >> this is the greatest day of. >> this is the greatest day of. >> this is the greatest day of. >> this is the greatest day of the last 15 years. >> i feel like normality is about to return. i'm over the moon.

>> superb. do you think that there's more to this? like people have been through their own lives. a lot of people have separated . oasis have been a separated. oasis have been a kind of continuum in their lives. they're looking to this reunion as an emotional get back to a former time, a greater time. the emotional swagger of the working classes, something that's been missing for a long time. i think this is bigger than music, jim . than music, jim. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and i think that you only have to see the reaction from many of my peers, as the reflection of how elitist and detached media has, you know , detached media has, you know, look at the look at the channel they're having the conversation on, right? so you're fully aware of what i'm talking about, but that has extended to the music press. and i think you only have to see the reaction of people who do what i do to this news to see that we're talking about a media that is very out of touch with what the common people, which i say in the most affectionate way possible, actually feel about things. i feel like when you speak to actual people on the street, not

that i've been out on the street today, but you know, when you see social media and such like then i think you see people who are so excited and it isn't just nostalgia, it's that these songs still speak to people about their lives. they speak to regular people about their lives. i read this fantastic article the other day about how the working classes , they only the working classes, they only really had football. now, you know, there's so much wrong with the towns and the cities of the north of england . they've got north of england. they've got music as well. and this there's no one has come along in the last 15 years that embodies that working class spirit. like oasis. i feel like oasis aren't just a band who have good songs. they're not just a good band from the 90s. they are a band that inspire aspiration in people. they're about being bigger, making your life better about being a rock and roll star. and i can't think of anything that britain needs more in 2025 than that . in 2025 than that. >> you know, i'm i'm actually stunned here because you're absolutely bang on the money. jim. i think you're exactly right. there's so much snobbery

around the working classes, around the working classes, around the working classes, around the music , around their around the music, around their lifestyle, around their towns, around their politics, everything about them and the comfort blanket of music has been kind of taken away. football is being eroded as this kind of nefarious pursuit of the knuckle draggers oasis, the theme tune to our childhood , is theme tune to our childhood, is now back to reunite us again. james mcmahon i thought that was poetic. absolutely serious. i'm being serious. that was brilliant, mate. thank you very, very much. are you going to go ? very much. are you going to go? how many times do you want to 90, how many times do you want to go, mate? >> well, the phone has been popping >> well, the phone has been popping off today. i'll tell you a story very, very quickly. i've beenin a story very, very quickly. i've been in hospital recently. i haven't got time, mate . haven't got time, mate. >> come back tomorrow. let's do it again tomorrow. it's time for the end of this hour. superb. now moving on. great manchester police has announced it will not take part in next year's gay pride march. is this a victory for common sense? i'll be back soon. now your weather with alex burke . burke. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar. sponsors of weather on gb

news. >> hello again. here's your latest gb news weather update coming to you from the met office. a bit of rain to come through the next couple of days, and a little bit of cloud at times too. but towards the southeast it's actually looking largely fine and here it's going to be pretty hot because we are ahead of this frontal system that's lying across us, and it's this front that's brought a fair amount of rain and will continue to do so through this evening and overnight across parts of northern england, into the west midlands, across wales, maybe southwest england, seeing a bit of rain too. towards the northwest there'll be some showery rain around and some of this could be a little bit on the heavy side across parts of scotland, but in the southeast here it's staying largely dry. we have some warm air and so temperatures here not dropping a huge amount despite the fact that there will be some clear skies . so a pretty fine start skies. so a pretty fine start for much of the midlands, parts of east anglia and southern southeastern england on wednesday morning across the southwest. watch out for some

mist and fog patches and a bit of rain around two. also some rain for parts of wales and northwest england first thing and some further showery rain feeding into western parts of northern ireland and western parts of scotland as well. further east across both of scotland and northern ireland. it's looking drier or there could be some showery bursts around, more showery rain then feeding its way across parts of its way across parts of northern ireland and western feeding its way across parts of northern ireland and western scotland. as we go through the scotland. as we go through the day , and we still have a front day , and we still have a front day, and we still have a front lingering across some parts of day, and we still have a front lingering across some parts of northern england pushing into northern england pushing into the midlands. perhaps, albeit the midlands. perhaps, albeit this front doesn't look like it this front doesn't look like it will bring much widespread rain, will bring much widespread rain, it just could bring some heavy it just could bring some heavy outbreaks for some of us towards outbreaks for some of us towards the south southeast of the uk. the south southeast of the uk. it's looking largely dry , some it's looking largely dry , some it's looking largely dry, some bright sunny spells and with it's looking largely dry, some bright sunny spells and with that temperatures higher than that temperatures higher than today likely to get into the today likely to get into the high 20s. highs of around 28 or high 20s. highs of around 28 or 29 celsius, perhaps some showery 29 celsius, perhaps some showery rain then continuing across rain then continuing across particularly scotland as we go particularly scotland as we go through the end of the day on through the end of the day on wednesday. but a lot of that wednesday. but a lot of that then does clear through as we go then does clear through as we go overnight, and then there's overnight, and then there's plenty of dry weather to come as plenty of dry weather to come as we go through the end of the we go through the end of the

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reign . is reign . is with details about his father's reign. is this an with details about his father's reign. is this an with details about his father's reign . is this an olive branch? reign. is this an olive branch? no more salacious gossip. is it sense at last, from the ginger prince harry and paul durant's the 78 year old blackpool grandad is now 24 days into his heroic hunger strike of what he calls a broken britain today. paul exclusively tells gb news how he has endured two sickening, unprovoked attacks in recent days by guess who? pro—palestine protesters harassing a 78 year old grandad in blackpool. i'll speak to the intrepid pensioner on the show a little bit later on. and greater manchester police did not take part in next year's gay pride march, and i'll be joined by a campaigner who claims that this is a long overdue victory for common sense policing. and that's all coming in between now and 6:00. want to show a

pleasure to have your company? paul durant, for those who remember, came into the studio about a week ago. 78 year old pensioner on a hunger strike over illegal immigration, two tier policing and the trampled feeling he believes the working classes in britain have 24 days now. is that hunger strike he's been harangued by protesters twice in recent days while out on the streets of blackpool, doing his peaceful protest, an astonishing state of affairs when a pensioner is picked on by much younger , aggressive people much younger, aggressive people supporting the palestinian cause, does this do any favours for their cause? we'll speak to him soon on this show and also the pride march has been

him soon on this show and also the pride march has bethe top >> martin. thank you. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but he says the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in downing street this morning, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and next week's return to parliament, he says, will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure. the prime minister also reiterated economic growth is the government's top priority. >> i promised that we would get a grip on the problems that we face and that we would be judged by our actions, not by our words, i said before the election and i say it again really clearly today. growth and frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour

government . government. >> this comes as the prime minister faces pressure over accusations of cronyism as conservatives demand an investigation into recent civil service appointments. speaking earlier on gb news shadow science and technology secretary andrew griffith suggested it was hypocritical for labour to talk about trust in politics. >> in particular, he promised to introduce new levels of transparency and integrity . and transparency and integrity. and yet what we've seen week by week over the last few weeks over the summer is revelations about labour appointments to the civil service, the independent civil service. these aren't just the normal special advisers that all governments make political appointments to. these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters . so and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that deputy prime minister angela rayner says it was horrific to see the damage

done to the dagenham tower block that caught fire yesterday . that caught fire yesterday. >> everyone was accounted for and no injuries reported after a major incident was declared following the fire in east london, over 100 people were evacuated from the building , evacuated from the building, with two people taken to hospital. angela rayner says the london fire brigade has launched a full investigation . a full investigation. >> that's horrific to hear that and i know that the london fire brigade have already started an investigation. i don't want to pre—empt that investigation , but pre—empt that investigation, but we've got to make sure that people have fire escape routes. >> it's an obligation. it's a legal obligation. i'll be meeting the health and safety executive and the building safety regulators tomorrow to ensure that everybody is aware of their obligations, their legal requirements to and ensure that people do have that safety route and to make sure that those alarms and those systems that have been put in place are there to make sure that people are safely out of buildings and that they're aware of the fire if one happens and what happens in those circumstances ? in those circumstances? >> israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu congratulated the hostage who was held by the hamas terror group since the 7th of october. following his release, he says the entire people of israel were moved by his being freed. israel's military rescued 52 year old khalid farhan ali kadi, who is in a stable condition and is being transferred for medical checks at a hospital following a complex operation in southern gaza, the hostages families forum said in a statement. his return home is nothing short of miraculous. it said he endured 326 days in captivity . a man has 326 days in captivity. a man has been charged with murder after officers stopped him at notting hill carnival. officers stopped him at notting hill carnival . detectives had hill carnival. detectives had previously issued an appeal to locate kamaal williams, who was wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of 53 year old derrick thomas in stoke newington. he'll appear in court tomorrow. that says three men have been arrested over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was

attending the family day on sunday with her young child when she was attacked. the metropolitan police says it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it's unclear if they were known to her. in total, just over 349 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of offences, including violence , offences, including violence, sexual assaults and 60 attacks on police officers . president on police officers. president zelenskyy says ukraine has successfully run a test of its first ballistic missile. it comes after russia's launched around 200 drone and missile attacks at ukraine overnight. at least five people have been killed and dozens more injured due to the strikes, which are believed to be in response to ukraine's incursion in russia's kursk region . meanwhile, kursk region. meanwhile, volodymyr zelenskyy said it was vile and claimed the attack had targeted civilian infrastructure and after a lot of speculation, british pop band oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split . so sadly ,

years after they split. so sadly, can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by as. >> liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis long awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025. oasis, who released their chart topping album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced the series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff . local their tour in cardiff. local people in manchester are excited about the news. >> yeah, very excited. it's going to be interesting to see how long it lasts for though, because you never know with us. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> yeah, i'm really happy. >> i'm going to try for tickets on saturday. >> excited about it but probably won't get tickets. >> i'm going to get me , ma and >> i'm going to get me, ma and dad to try and get on it for me as well. but yeah, i'm buzzing me. i'm a massive oasis fan. liam gallagher a few times, but together, man, it'd be sick. yeah those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm

tatiana sanchez. >> more from me 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 . forward slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. now some breaking news for you now. and deputy prime minister angela rayner has been visiting the scene of a major high rise fire in dagenham. as you can see on your screens, there 45 engines and around 225 firefighters responded to the blaze in east london, with more than 100 people having to be evacuated, with two taken to hospital. and this is what the deputy prime minister had to say. >> i mean, it's incredibly horrific to see the flats and to see the level of damage, but it's also heroic to see the front line emergency workers that were first responders here on the scene in the middle of a

bank holiday, early hours of the morning, making sure that they got everybody out safely, and then looking at how they could get the fire under control. >> i'm incredibly grateful for the firefighters, the emergency services and the local authority that did everything they could to ensure that people were out of the building. >> residents have told us that there were no fire alarms that they could hear. >> it was only through their neighbour's efforts that they got out, and when they came to get out of the area here, one of the gates, their escape route was padlocked. what do you make of that? do you believe that account? >> and what will you do about it? >> i mean, that's horrific to hear that. >> and i know that the london fire brigade are already started an investigation. i don't want to pre—empt that investigation, but we've got to make sure that people have fire escape routes. it's an obligation. it's a legal obligation. i'll be meeting the health and safety executive and the building safety regulators tomorrow to ensure that everybody is aware of their obligations, their legal requirements , and to ensure that requirements, and to ensure that people do have that safety route and to make sure that those

alarms and those systems that have been put in place are there to make sure that people are safely out of buildings and that they're aware of the fire. if one happens and what happens in those circumstances ? those circumstances? >> that's worth mentioning. it's seven years on now from the grenfell disaster, and there have been a succession of housing. ministers. colleague @gbnews just told me during a freedom of information act, it came out that over 300,000 people are still at risk from dangerous cladding . and after dangerous cladding. and after this latest fire, horrific information there. angela raynen information there. angela rayner, conveying that escape routes were padlocked shut. angela rayner is now the housing minister after years and years and years of the book being passed. let's see. and let's hope that she does. finally, something about this astonishing, neglectful situation. now moving on.the neglectful situation. now moving on. the prime minister has warned us all that the october budget is going to be quite painful, full of optimism as always. sir keir starmer also said that things are worse than they ever imagined because of

that economic black hole left by the tory government. £22 billion the tory government. £22 billion the size of that black hole. but don't worry, because apparently the pain will be in the short term and worth it in the long run. let's see what he had to say a little bit earlier on those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden, and that's why we're cracking down on non—doms. >> those who made the mess should have to do their bit to clean it up. and that's why we're strengthening the powers of the water regulator and backing tough fines on the water companies that have let sewage flood our rivers, lakes and seas. but just as when i responded to the riots, i'll have to turn to the country and make big asks of you as well to accept short term pain for long term good. that difficult trade off for the genuine solution .

off for the genuine solution. and i know that after all that you have been through, that is a really big ask and really difficult to hear. that is not the position we should be in. it's not the position i want to be in, but we have to end the politics of the easy answer that solves nothing . solves nothing. >> well, a lot of people at that last general election were told we can turn a page, have a fresh start. does it feel like a fresh start. does it feel like a fresh start to you? joining me now to discuss this is our political correspondent katherine forster. catherine, the words there were very sombre , painful, big asks very sombre, painful, big asks long term gain for short term pain. the broadest shoulders having to pay the most. no easy answers. this was a sombre a sober and a rather doom laden speech. >> it was really. i mean, labour have got this huge, huge

majority and we always knew that things were going to be difficult for them coming in. they admitted that, but now they're saying that things are dramatically worse than they could ever have imagined, that there's a £22 billion black hole in the public finances. and basically they have heavily implied that come the budget, taxes are going to have to rise. now, that is going to be difficult given of course, they didn't want to dwell on this . didn't want to dwell on this. understandably, during the election campaign , neither the election campaign, neither the conservatives or labour. this is something that the institute for fiscal studies got very exercised about, saying, look, there's going to be the cuts to pubuc there's going to be the cuts to public services tax rises or you're going to have to break your borrowing rules or some combination. nobody wanted to talk about it before , and lo and talk about it before, and lo and behold, now we're told things

are so much worse now . fair are so much worse now. fair enough, some of this money, the office for budget responsibility apparently didn't know about, but they did know that things were going to be difficult. so now we've got a government that came along saying they had no plans to raise taxes on working people, but it looks very much like they are now okay. they're not going to raise income tax. they're not going to raise vat except on private school fees. they're not going to raise national insurance. but capital gains tax is paid by plenty of working people. inheritance tax is paid by plenty of working people. we don't know what the tax rises are going to be, but it sounds inevitable that they are coming. and i think what he's doing here is laying the groundwork for very painful choices coming down the line. >> and there's also been quite a lot of scandal recently about cronyism, cronyism, about

parsers for glasses from a big labour donor. he was asked about that earlier. right. >> yes. he was, one of the things that he said in the rose garden was that he's determined to restore honesty and integrity to restore honesty and integrity to government, but he was asked by several journalists about a variety of jobs to people in the civil service, people that had had close labour links or conservative donors. the one you referenced, lord alli, who was given a pass to downing street and he really did not want to discuss it. let's take a look now at what he had to say when he was asked about that. >> look, andy, most of these allegations and accusations are coming from the very people that dragged our country down in the first place. so you'll forgive me if i take that approach to it. we are going to fix the foundations. we've got to do it at speed. and i'm determined to

have the right people in the right places to allow us to get on with that job. i'm enormously aware of how big a task this is and how we have to move at pace, and how we have to move at pace, and that's why we're getting the best people into the best jobs. but i'm not really going to take lectures on this from the people who dragged our country so far down in the last few years . down in the last few years. thank you . thank you. >> so what we had there and another journalist asked >> so what we had there and anotherjournalist asked him another journalist asked him later and we had similar was basically look at how awful the tories were. and let's face it, of course labour have got this large majority, largely because so many people were cross with the conservatives. rather than that there's an overwhelming enthusiasm for them. but he didn't answer, nor did the prime minister's spokesman. i was at the lobby briefing later. they were questioned over and over again. the specifics about some of these appointments. so i think it's all very well. they've made this big play saying we're going to clean up politics. but i think this is problematic. we're not even two months into this new

administration . administration. >> katherine forster. excellent stuff. and let's continue this chat now because i'm joined by the former labour adviser, matthew talbot. matthew, welcome to the show. an absolute delight to the show. an absolute delight to have you on milestone. big, big fan of yours. we're expecting positivity . we're expecting positivity. we're expecting positivity. we're expecting change. turn a page a fresh dawn. and today didn't feel like a fresh dawn. it felt like the rain clouds are gathering over the country and in particular those who earn the most. this is a return to old school socialism, is it not? there's going to be a huge tax raid on the wealthiest and historically we know what happens there. matthew. they clear off abroad . clear off abroad. >> god, i wish it was a return to socialism. i don't think that's quite the case. >> i did think it was interesting when he said, you know, it's we're going to we're going to go after people, not go after, but we're going to we're going to tax people that can sort of well afford it. >> it reminded me of a speech hugh gaitskell gave as labour chancellor just hugh gaitskell gave as labour chancellorjust after hugh gaitskell gave as labour chancellor just after the war, in which he said, you know, we need to reward the people that have, that have helped us through this war. >> so we're going to tax those

who have got the big incomes and reward those on the little incomes, because they're the ones that can well afford it. i think it's interesting that he almost is doing that a little bit, he's he's obviously going to be looking at tax rises in the budget. that's obviously what he's put forward. he's committed again today to cuts to the winter fuel allowance. and therefore public sector pay. workers are getting a reward. but when it's those that are the broadest shoulders bearing the heavier burden, as he said, it makes me wonder are we going to see a rise to corporation tax? are we going to see rises to capital gains? does that mean he's going to u—turn on the two child benefit cap so that families aren't stuck in poverty? i'm not really sure whether that would be the case. and i suppose you know, it remains to be seen what rachel reeves does on budget day. >> matthew, you're a working class lad like me. you come from towns that have experienced some unrest over recent times. huge frustrations those communities feel. they tell us all the time here on gb news about uncontrolled immigration, a feeling of being left behind that levelling up never

happened. they voted for things like brexit. this gentleman on the screen, sir keir starmer, tried to stop that and when they complained and stood up, a lot of them were jailed rather sheepishly. and today we heard more from sir keir starmer on those riots, saying they exposed a deeply unhealthy society. but rather than engaging in any kind of understanding or conversation about the frustrations in those communities instead. sir keir starmer doubled down on this talk of populism fuelling it. matthew talbot, do you think we should have less of the dictatorial whip cracking from the prime minister? and how about listening and engaging, just like we saw after the riots in 2011? >> yeah, so i think i think you're right, in part, i think politically he'd be wise to continue what he's doing. and i'll explain why i agree with you. i joined the streets in solidarity in 2020 with black lives matters protesters, and i felt it was the right thing to do. i think from that we had a

discussion with ourselves as a society in politics and in media on why do people feel like this, how did we get to this place, and therefore what can be done for us to maybe get to a point of better racial equality and better community cohesion? and, you know, we listen to people. i think it's right, right that we did. whether anything's come out of that will be, you know, judgement for another time. i do therefore think and i don't think the two situations are directly comparable, but people obviously feel a certain way . obviously feel a certain way. now. i disagree with the way people go about it. there's obviously racist elements to that. when you're trying to go into hotels and set fire to them, that isn't the case for everybody. that was there. and i think we should have a discussion on why people feel the way they do. how have we got to this point and therefore what can we do going forward? politically, though i think keir probably is right in not talking about it necessarily or opening up that conversation , because up that conversation, because whether it be germany in 1930s places like london in the 1950s

and even the 1980s with the national front of the bnp, the far right always do very well in poor economic circumstances. so therefore, if he continues to put forward, you know, a platform of potential change investing in public services and putting more money in people's pockets, you would hope a lot of that ill feeling does go away more naturally. and he obviously avoids the very awkward conversations that he might not want to have over immigration. >> matthew, i think a lot of people were with you on that conversation there until you mentioned 1930s germany and the far right, and isn't that the problem with people from the political left at the moment? it's like we were just about to have a fruitful conversation there about the frustrations the, the, the immense anger. like it or not, that has been expressed. you said you sympathise with that anger dunng sympathise with that anger during the black lives matter protest, but there's been no political sympathy for the anger expressed during the recent riots. and i totally agree with you. no one is saying that you

should set fire to things or bash up coppers. that's the wrong approach. but that comes from a position of feeling disenfranchised, of feeling ignored. and when you answer back, just getting sent to prison, i put it to you again. do you think, do you think, matthew torbett that keir starmer is just being a bit too hardline and we need to. i think it's vital we have those conversations . conversations. >> i think it's vital and to be clear, i'm not necessarily drawing a parallel to 1930s germany. i know it's very easy to pull on things like that and call people nazis and racists and fascists and whatever else . and fascists and whatever else. that's not what i'm doing. but what i was doing is trying to draw the fact that 1930s germany was in the doldrums economically, and it allowed somebody like hitler to come to power and say, look, i'll give you all full employment. we need to get the. and picked his own scapegoat. the only similarity at the moment is i think there is an element of scapegoating , is an element of scapegoating, but it shows that the far right do well in poor economic crisis. and i think, listen, it might have been nice if keir would have been nice if keir would have stood up and said, look, and i'm speaking directly to those of you that were involved,

i won't, i won't, you know, put up i won't, i won't, you know, put up with any sort of lawbreaking and abusing the police and setting fire to citizens advice bureau. it'sjust setting fire to citizens advice bureau. it's just totally mindless. but i hear you, i know people are frustrated. and actually, if you want to play politics with it, you can say because you've been ignored for 14 years by a conservative government, i want to put people first. i want to build back communities. i want to level up, you know, whatever term you want to give , so maybe that's maybe to give, so maybe that's maybe that would be wise. but i'm hoping and i'm sure he's hoping that over the next five and maybe ten years, if they invest in public services , they invest in public services, they invest in public services, they invest in people, reward people with with their money, that money in their pockets. and that can quell a lot of the anger that's out there. >> and matthew torbett, i really, really think we need to have a serious conversation about immigration and what that's doing. the seven most disenfranchised communities across britain with the highest proportion of asylum seekers. that's where the riots occurred. these events are not unconnected. matthew talbot expansive conversation, always a delight. please come on again. thank you very, very much for

joining us today. now, an olive branch from prince harry. at last we'll find out why next. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

welcome back. it's 428. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. prince harry is finally set to bring out the paperback edition of his memoir , spare, but without any memoir, spare, but without any more updates from its hardback format. so is the duke of sussex offering an olive branch as princess kate and his father battle with cancer? well, jeremy hunfs. battle with cancer? well, jeremy hunt's . well, this would be, hunt's. well, this would be, i think, the first decent decision that prince harry has made in a long time. there are a lot of conversations that we've had on this channel about would there be more salacious content ? be more salacious content? because ordinarily, when a paperback edition of a hardback comes out, there's an addendum. there salacious extra content thrown in. there's updates. now,

don't forget that updated period would have been when the king andindeed would have been when the king and indeed catherine, were struggling with cancer. so to discuss this now, i'm joined by the former senior gardener to king charles dad, jack stokes. jack welcome to the show. delight to have you on. i think a lot of people, jack will be breathing a sigh of relief that the paperback edition doesn't have anything more salacious in there. what's your thoughts? >> i think he's pretty much said what he wanted to say in the in the initial book, hasn't he? >> and it was quite a difficult one. i think , when he left, he one. i think, when he left, he i think felt he wanted to be heard. he wanted everybody to know his side of the story and whenever he tried to speak, i think that it was all met with very much negativity . so hence very much negativity. so hence i think that he decided , i'm going think that he decided, i'm going to write this book. i'm going to let everybody know my opinions, my feelings and my thoughts,

>> well, you know, a few years on now, having obviously written it, having it come out, having had different things happen with with family, different things happened with different friends, things have moved on. >> things have moved forward. >> things have moved forward. >> and i don't think he needs to write anything more or add anything more. you know, we've seen it all now. we've heard his side of the story. we've we've seen everything that the press has to say . has to say. >> and jack, you you appear to be a sympathiser towards prince harry. do you think he gets too much of a hard time? do you think he's a misunderstood prince? and are you hoping there could be a family reunion ? could be a family reunion? >> i do hope that they will at some point be some kind of reunion of sorts. i don't think we can go back exactly to where we can go back exactly to where we were, however , he's he is an we were, however, he's he is an amazing person. i was lucky enough to know him personally

when i, when i worked, when i worked there, i thought he was he was a great, great, great person. happy to chip in and do everything that everybody else would, would do staff wise. you know, he he's the kind of down to earth person that that we would all like and warm to, and i think that you know with, with what happened with the book, it did sort of change people's opinions and changed people's minds over him. >> but if we remember back to the wedding, which which i was there, but a lot of people saw that on, on screens, you know, a lot of other people were lucky enough to go. >> he, he wanted everybody to, to join in in the wedding. >> i remember you know, he was inviting different people that that he didn't even know that came to the wedding. there was some amazing people that were lucky enough to go that even we sort of got to, to see and chat to, and they were just so thrilled to be there. and the press at the time were very much for him . and, you know, for, for

for him. and, you know, for, for the cause of this new amazing royal family that we've got meghan markle coming into the family and, and everything was really positive . but, you know, really positive. but, you know, somewhere along the line, i think , the rift started think, the rift started happening and i'm not sure if it was perhaps partially to do with the press, you know, sort of going, let's pip meghan and kate together and see if we can come up with some kind of fight that we can then, put out in the press. and maybe it went wrong. and so somewhere along the line, because harry suddenly said, no, you're not going to do that to me. you did it to my mum and you did it to sarah ferguson at the time, i think that it was. and he sort of thought not again. so i do, i do warm, warm to harry. yes, but again, you know, all the family are lovely. they're all they are all amazing . all they are all amazing. >> well, jack, you know, we're going to have to get you back on again because i haven't been able to ask you about your fascinating job. former senior gardener to king charles. but look, the gallagher brothers have had a dramatic reunion. could there be a windsor

brothers reunion? i think the whole nation would like to see that at another time . jack, that at another time. jack, please come back on the show. fantastic guests . jack stokes, fantastic guests. jack stokes, the former senior gardener to king charles. thank you very, very much for joining king charles. thank you very, very much forjoining us and have a fantastic afternoon. now, lots more still to come between now and 5:00, including greater manchester police will not take part in next year's gay pride march. common sense policing at last i'll be joined by the man who's forced that campaign forward. but first, here's your headunes forward. but first, here's your headlines with tatiana sanchez . headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you. the top stories the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but he says the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in downing street this morning, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better and he said next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in

our society after 14 years of populism and failure . the prime populism and failure. the prime minister also reiterated economic growth is the government's top priority. shadow home secretary james cleverly has accused sir keir starmer of rolling out dishonest policies following today's speech. policies following today's speech . deputy prime minister speech. deputy prime minister angela rayner said it was horrific to see the damage done to the dagenham tower block that caught fire yesterday. everyone was accounted for and no injuries reported after a major incident was declared following the fire in east london. over 100 people were evacuated from the building, with two people taken to hospital. angela rayner says the london fire brigade has launched a full investigation. a man has been charged with murder after officers stopped him at notting hill carnival. detectives had previously issued an appeal to locate kamaal williams, who was wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of 53 year old derrick thomas in stoke newington. he'll appearin thomas in stoke newington. he'll appear in court tomorrow. that's as three men have been arrested

over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at notting hill carnival, which left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day on sunday with her young child when she was attacked. the metropolitan police says. it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men , but between two groups of men, but it's unclear if they were known to her. in total, 349 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of offences including violence, sexual assaults and over 60 attacks on police officers . and after lots police officers. and after lots of speculation, british pop band oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split , nearly 15 years after they split, so sally can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by. a soul sudes we're walking on by. a soul slides away. >> liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis

long awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025. oasis, who released their chart topping album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced a series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff . and those their tour in cardiff. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me 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 . forward slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. now, if you want to get in touch with me, you know what to do. go to gbnews.com/yoursay. i'll read out the best of comments a little later the show. i'm martin daubney

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back. time is 439. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. greater manchester police did not take part in pride events this year, with officers being ordered not to wear rainbows on their uniforms. now, historically, officers from the force have played an active role in the parades, but now they say they want to focus on professional standards. it is some common sense policing at last. well to delve further into this story, i'm proud to say i'm joined by the founder of fair cop, harry miller. harry, welcome to the show. always an absolute pleasure. now, before we get on to the decision about manchester police , can you outline to us police, can you outline to us here @gbnews why you think the pride movement has no place in policing? well, there's a number of reasons, martin. >> first and foremost, pride itself says that it's political. it's based in the in the in the stonewall riot. stonewall was a riot . pride stonewall riot. stonewall was a riot. pride is stonewall riot. stonewall was a riot . pride is political. and riot. pride is political. and anything that touts itself as being a political movement, the

police should stay very far away because the police are not allowed to pick sides, they're not allowed to show support to anything that has a political element to it. so that's the number one reason that i don't want them marching in there. the other thing, of course, is the police pick and choose which groups they are prepared to march with and which groups they're not. i'd have a little more sympathy with the police, were they to choose to march alongside a load of pasty fat white men with their builders bombs and their beer bellies hanging out, waving their union jacks and singing sweet caroline? but they won't do that because it would give the impression that they were supporting a far right movement. well, equally, they shouldn't be marching along with people waving rainbow flags and intersectional flags and all the rest of it. why? because it suggests support for a political movement . pride suggests support for a political movement. pride is suggests support for a political movement . pride is political. movement. pride is political. the police have no place in pride whatsoever. it's as simple as that. >> so, harry, to the manchester

decision, we're seeing pictures on our screen here of a number of senior police officers waving proudly their pride and their progress flags. there we go . progress flags. there we go. that's the trans flag. a lot of people, harry, would say that this makes the police hard to take seriously . how are we meant take seriously. how are we meant to be fearful? and i think maybe that's a good thing, to be slightly afraid of. the coppers. if they're waving a trans progress flag in your boat race. harry miller have manchester made the right decision? and as the founder of fair cop, i know you've been campaigning on this for a number of years. do you think this common sense might catch on? >> yeah, it's definitely catching on. and the reason it's catching on. and the reason it's catching on. and the reason it's catching on is because fair cop has said that it will sue any force that marches in pride. stephen watson, the chief constable of manchester, is a very sensible chap. if you remember, when the blm taking the knee thing was all going on, he was asked whether his officers would take the knee and he said he would take the knee

to the queen, to, to god and to mrs. watson. but other than that, officers have no place taking the knee to anybody. so he is an eminently sensible chief constable. if only more chief constable. if only more chief constables were like that. but whilst chief constables insist on marching in pride, then fair cop will continue to say we will look at taking you through the high court, because what you are doing is unconstitutional. it is a breach of the code of ethics. it demonstrates that you have fear of some groups and favour towards other groups, and we're simply not having it. so next up on our hit list is the chief constable of northumbria, vanessa jardine, who last month marched not only with trans flags and pride flags and all the rest of it, but she marched alongside a bunch of people who were singing free, free palestine intifada. don't deny it . stonewall was a beep beep it. stonewall was a beep beep riot. now, i don't know about you, martin, but i don't want my chief constable marching in, marching alongside anybody who's

doing that. because yet again, it is political, it's divisive, and potentially it's encouraging violence. do we really want that? martin i think not. and therefore the safest place for police officers to be is right. away from these police , from away from these police, from these pride marches. because otherwise we're going to be there and we're going to take you to the high court. it's as simple as that. >> harry miller, i think you've hit the nail on the head. the problem is, once you take any side, then it opens the door for the politicisation of the police force . as you say, there is force. as you say, there is often a great crossover of the lgbtq movement and the pro—palestine movement. the black lives matter movement. but of course, the patriotic movement , that's the side that movement, that's the side that they would never take. and as a consequence , the police are consequence, the police are caughtin consequence, the police are caught in the crossfire. we also see different types of policing, perhaps at the notting hill carnival versus what we saw at some of those working class protests across those towns with the most asylum seekers. recently, harry miller , recently, harry miller, fantastic work. thank you very, very much for joining

fantastic work. thank you very, very much forjoining us on the very much for joining us on the show. any legal cases coming up? make sure to keep us up to date. we'd love to get you back on again. that's harry miller, the founder of fair cop, on the return of common sense to policing on the matter of pride . policing on the matter of pride. now, as we all know by now, unless you've been living on mars oasis or reuniting crack open the champagne on martin daubney on gb news, britain's

today is todayis gonna today is gonna be the day that they're gonna be the day that they're gonna come back for you. sorry. they keep telling me to sing for you. i know you're sick of it by now, but the point is this. you must know that they are back. the oasis brothers, the gallaghers are back. after a lot of speculation, they are officially reuniting a long, long 15 years after they split. and they will play now some 14 uk shows next summer. now he's back. james mcmahon , who hosts

back. james mcmahon, who hosts his own podcast and used to be the editor of kerrang! magazine and worked on the nme bigwig, joins me now. jim, we were just getting warmed up in the last houn getting warmed up in the last hour. i had to get you back in. you spoke beautifully. i felt very movingly of how this is more than music. it's a working class, coming together moment. a quick blast on that. and then you're about to tell us a story. weren't you ? weren't you? >> yeah. well, i was just. yeah, well, sorry for that . i, well, sorry for that. i, i imagine i caused your producers a bit of a headache. i, you know, i'm from south yorkshire. i'm from doncaster. like, when i was growing up, i was into music. i got into it at an early stage, but i, i remember hearing oasis and i remember hearing live forever my town. not a lot going on. i mean , obviously, you going on. i mean, obviously, you know, doncaster has the greatest football team in the world has ever seen. but apart from that, not a lot going on. failing industries, a lot of depression industries, a lot of depression in the town. and i remember heanng in the town. and i remember hearing live forever and i remember thinking, these people understand me and i want my life to feel like this record sounds, and i've kind of always felt like that. and what i was going

to tell you was that i've been in hospital for until a week ago, the last 47 days. i'm going through some treatment , some through some treatment, some cancer treatment, and i got a whisper, as music journalists do, that this was probably going to happen. and when i'm lying there in the bed and i'm thinking all sorts of things, i'm thinking how long my life is going to be now. i was thinking about, i want to see oasis again. i want to feel like i did when i was a kid, and i genuinely cannot think of another band that would make me feel like that. and i know that iused feel like that. and i know that i used to work. you know, before i used to work. you know, before i was a music journalist, you know, working class kid from up north. i worked in factories, i worked night shifts. i've met so many people in my life that have had oasis tattoos or oasis lyrics etched into their skin for life . i can't think of for life. i can't think of another band that have that command , that kind of commitment command, that kind of commitment and devotion from. and i say this with the infection in the world, common people. so i don't know, today feels like a very momentous day. and i feel like i just wish it was next summer already, to be honest.

>> well, jim , that's very, very >> well, jim, that's very, very moving. so i had no idea. i hope you're getting better. there, there, mate. you know, we i'm going in the right direction here i am talking to you. >> you know, a week ago i was in hospital, so i'm taking that as a positive sign. >> and i think, you know, jim, you've you've hit the nail on the head about a lot of people from those forgotten, trampled down, rainy , dismal working down, rainy, dismal working class areas. and i count myself in that you know, i grew up in a coal belt, and a lot of us had to move out of our areas to find any hope, and oasis were that embodiment. they were our generation's beatles, the working class kids made good the embodiment that you could make it if you had talent, if you had swagger, if you never took no for an answer. and that is why i think so many of us. jim grew up with this band and we shared their aspirations. some of us made it. a lot of us didn't. but the point is , they gave you that the point is, they gave you that belief to fight on and now they're back a lot of people have been through a lot of life changes, have been through marriages. they've been through divorces, they've grown up, they've had kids. but jim ,

they've had kids. but jim, you're absolutely right. we can all just get back together and, you know, not be sad. old farts reliving our youth. but actually to get onto a spiritual plane where we can just express ourselves again and just just as you say, live forever in that moment . moment. >> i mean, i mean, you are forever. i'm going to call you gandhi forever. forever. i'm going to call you gandhi forever . now, forever. i'm going to call you gandhi forever. now, martin, i think that i mean , it's not think that i mean, it's not going to be old dudes. it's going to be old dudes. it's going to be kids. if you see that crowd that leeds and reading festival this weekend, that's kids, because they look at liam and they go, our lives. we've been told that everything about our lives is crap. we've been told that we can't do this. we can't say that we can't be this . we've been told like the this. we've been told like the young people have a fear instilled in them. and then they see liam on stage looking like the dogs, and they go, i want a bit of that. and that's the same as what i wanted when i was 15. and i think that i'm so excited that this generation is going to get to see this band and fit and

feel like i did when i was 15. this is an oasis song called do you want to be a spaceman? and it's basically it's sung by noel it's basically it's sung by noel. it's an early b—side, and it's basically about noel, the protagonist who frames himself as in his town he meets someone ten years on that he used to knock about with, and he goes , knock about with, and he goes, you remember you wanted to be a spaceman and like, now you're married. you've got how many kids? your life's banal and i when i hear that song, which i was listening to several times this morning, my eyes well up and i think i want to feel like that forever. and i want kids to feel like that because i think that that will make this country better. i feel that will make the culture of this country better. if we can make kids dream again and not so frightened of what they say and how they dress and what they do, and i we need the 90s back, man. and it's not the 90s. so let's get oasis to drag some of that spirit into the present day . spirit into the present day. >> james, i'm quiet here because you're getting me all choked up, mate. you look a lot of people

listen to this. jim are going to love what you're saying. how can they hear more of what you got to offer? how do they get to your podcast? >> oh, listen, i've got a podcast called the james mcmahon music podcast, it's been dormant while i've been in hospital for the last two months, but i'm just about to put a load of new episodes up and, yeah, looking to be back, back, back. so come and check. come on, come on, check me out. >> james mcmahon , absolute >> james mcmahon, absolute pleasure to speak to you. we've got to do this more often and hopefully we'll go and see oasis together. maybe we'll try and get tickets at the same gig. thank you very, very much. it's good to see you well and back on your feet. good lad, top lad. thank you very much. there's a new way to get in touch, but don't worry about that, because. breaking news. in the last few moments, the ministry of justice has confirmed that only 100 spaces are left in male prisons in england and wales. an astonishing admission. stay with us for more on that. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel now as your weather with alex burkill . with alex burkill. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

on gb news >> hello again. here's your latest gb news weather update coming to you from the met office. a bit of rain to come through the next couple of days, and a little bit of cloud at times too. but towards the southeast it's actually looking largely fine and here it's going to be pretty hot because we are ahead of this frontal system that's lying across us, and it's this front that's brought a fair amount of rain and will continue to do so through this evening and overnight across parts of northern england into the west midlands, across wales, maybe southwest england , seeing a bit southwest england, seeing a bit of rain too. towards the northwest, there'll be some showery rain around and some of this could be a little bit on the heavy side across parts of scotland, but in the southeast here it's staying largely dry. we have some warm air and so temperatures here not dropping a huge amount despite the fact that there will be some clear skies. so a pretty fine start for much of the midlands parts of east anglia and southern southeastern england. on wednesday morning. across the southwest. watch out for some

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gb news. >> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 5:00 pm and welcome to you. it's 5:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, does misery await the nafion? show, does misery await the nation? sir keir starmer braces the public for hard times ahead as he lays the foundations for a brutal budget. he says he'll clean up the country like he cleaned up the riots. but are you convinced? and we've got some breaking news. there are only 100 spaces left in male prisons across england, and wales, 100 spaces the closest

the system has come to running out of spaces . where will they out of spaces. where will they put all those notting hill rioters ? and walking back into rioters? and walking back into fashion, will the world's senior darts tour announces that walk on girls will make a return to televised darts for the first time in six years, after they were banned due to mealy mouthed feminist campaigners got them out of a job and another exclusive from gb news, paul durant's the 78 year old blackpool grandad is now 24 days into his hunger strike over broken britain. today, paul will exclusively tell gb news how he has endured two sickening, unprovoked attacks in recent days. by guess who? pro—palestine protesters. i'll speak to the intrepid pensioner coming up . coming up. soon. of the show. always a pleasure to have your company. so as we

just heard there, breaking news only 100 spaces left in our prison system. in for men, that is, in england and wales. and that gives the government something of a quandary. we've seen how many arrests, over 349 arrests at the notting hill carnival. where will these people go to jail? and we know that early release is coming on september the 10th, some 1500 set to be released. and then another 2000 in october, 5500, actually in total, are being let out of jail early. earlier on today, a story came out that you'll be able to say sorry and avoid going to jail for some serious offences, including sexual offences. the prison system is busting at its gills. what on earth are we going to do about it? get in touch. gbnews.com/yoursay national headunes gbnews.com/yoursay national headlines this tatiana sanchez .

headlines this tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much. and let's start with that breaking news that the ministry of justice has confirmed that only 100 spaces are left in male prisons in england, and wales. it comes as the number of people sent to prison has reached record levels in july, the government set out legislation to reduce the amount of time inmates must spend in jail before they're automatically released from 50% of their sentence to 40% in a bid to manage overcrowding in other news, the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful. but he says the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in downing street this morning, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better. and he said next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure. the prime minister also reiterated

economic growth is the government's top priority. >> i promised that we would get a grip on the problems that we face and that we would be judged by our actions, not by our words, i said before the election and i say it again really clearly today. growth and frankly, by that i do mean wealth creation is the number one priority of this labour government . government. >> this comes as the prime minister faces pressure over accusations of cronyism, as conservatives demand an investigation into recent civil service appointments. speaking earlier on gb news shadow science and technology secretary andrew griffith suggested it was hypocritical for labour to talk about trust in politics. >> in particular, he promised to introduce new levels of transparency and integrity. and yet what we've seen week by week over the last few weeks over the

summer is revelations about labour to appointments the civil service, the independent civil service. these aren't just the normal special advisers that all governments make political appointments to. these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters . so and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that deputy prime minister angela rayner says it was horrific to see the damage done to the dagenham tower block that caught fire yesterday. >> everyone was accounted for and no injuries reported after a major incident was declared following the fire in east london, over 100 people were evacuated from the building , evacuated from the building, with two people taken to hospital. the london fire commissioner, andy roe, says firefighters tackling the blaze faced the most dangerous conditions you can imagine, after what he says was a very significant building failure. angela rayner says the lfb has launched a full investigation that's horrific to hear that and

i know that the london fire brigade are already started an investigation. >> i don't want to pre—empt that investigation, but we've got to make sure that people have fire escape routes. it's an obligation. it's a legal obugafion. obligation. it's a legal obligation . i'll be meeting the obligation. i'll be meeting the health and safety executive and the building safety regulators tomorrow to ensure that everybody is aware of their obligations, their legal requirements, and to ensure that people do have that safety route and to make sure that those alarms and those systems that have been put in place are there to make sure that people are safely out of buildings and that they're aware of the fire. if one happens and what happens in those circumstances ? those circumstances? >> in other news, a man has been charged with murder after officers stopped him at notting hill carnival. detectives had previously issued an appeal to locate kamaal williams, who was wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of 53 year old derrick thomas in stoke newington . he will appear in newington. he will appear in court tomorrow. that says three men have been arrested over the stabbing of a 32 year old mother at notting hill carnival, which

left her in a critical condition. the woman was attending the family day on sunday with her young child when she was attacked. the metropolitan police says it appears she became caught up in the middle of an altercation between two groups of men, but it's unclear if they were known to her. in total, 349 arrests were made over the carnival weekend for a range of offences including violence, sexual assaults and 60 attacks on police officers . israeli prime police officers. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has congratulated the hostage, who was held by the hamas terror group since october 7th. following his release. he says the entire people of israel were moved by his being freed. israel's military rescued 52 year old khalid varne ali kadi, who is in a stable condition and is being transferred for medical checks at a hospital following a complex operation in southern gaza. the hostages families forum said in a statement his return home is nothing short of miraculous. it said he endured 326 days in captivity and after

lots of speculation, the british p0p lots of speculation, the british pop band oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after they split . so sally can wait. they split. so sally can wait. >> she knows it's too late. as we're walking on by. a source. >> liam and noel gallagher are getting back together for oasis long awaited reunion with a worldwide tour next year. oasis, who released their chart topping album definitely maybe around three decades ago, announced a series of dates kicking off their tour in cardiff. those are their tour in cardiff. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me 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. code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts .

>> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. now the prime minister has warned us all that the october budget is going to be rather painful. full of optimism as always. sir keir starmer also said that things are worse than they ever imagined because of the economic black hole left by the conservative government. but don't worry, apparently the pain will be in the short term and worth it in the long run. i know we should all be very, very grateful to discuss this. i'm joined in the studio by our political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, the speech earlier on today in the speech earlier on today in the rose garden at downing street was sombre. it was sober, and i think it was rather doom laden, painful , and i think it was rather doom laden, painful, big asks, and i think it was rather doom laden, painful , big asks, short laden, painful, big asks, short term pain, long term gain. were being buttered up for painful tax rises, aren't we? >> i suspect we are . and it was >> i suspect we are. and it was incredibly gloomy, wasn't it,

for a prime minister that won a massive majority less than two months ago? and i think really, you know, labour won a huge majority last in 97. but the contrast could not be greater . contrast could not be greater. there is none of that feeling of optimism. there's none of that excitement. i mean, we saw it in the election campaign too. it's not so much that labour won this. they won it largely because the conservatives people were very, very fed up with. but now we are hearing now we knew it was going to be difficult. they did say so, but they didn't want to dwell on it. neither the tories or labour before the election. but now we're hearing that things are much, much worse than they knew . and there is than they knew. and there is pain coming. and i think what it's doing is laying the groundwork for really difficult decisions that rachel reeves, the chancellor, is going to take in the budget and almost certainly tax rises now, they're not going to raise national

insurance. they're not going to raise vat except on schools income tax. but there's plenty of taxes that they can raise. and, you know, they said they had no plans to raise tax on working people. but no plans. doesn't mean it's not going to happen. and it's very difficult to see given the state of public services , given the lack of services, given the lack of money, how are they going to fix things without large amounts of money and where are they going to get them from? so yeah, very gloomy, nothing to look forward to in the short term or certainly doesn't sound like it . certainly doesn't sound like it. >> catherine. another problem which the government has inherited is cladding. the cladding scandal. so we saw a fire in dagenham in east london yesterday. mercifully, nobody killed in that, but 100 people were evacuated and this is now a problem in the in—tray of the new housing minister, angela raynen new housing minister, angela rayner, the deputy prime minister. seven years on from

grenfell, we found out from one of our staff @gbnews there are still 300,000 people still at risk of this cladding scandal, but they can't blame the conservatives anymore. do you think this is something that the new housing minister, angela raynen new housing minister, angela rayner, and the labour party will make a priority considering, though they are absolutely broke? >> well, we will see, won't we? but it almost beggars belief, doesn't it, that seven years on from grenfell, where over 70 people died, that this cladding is still on buildings now ? is still on buildings now? michael gove, the former housing secretary did make various attempts. there were very various battles fought, but you know, housing is big business. these property companies, these developers, the buck is always passed to somebody else. we know that the cladding on grenfell was only to be used on buildings of a certain height. we now know that it was put on many , many that it was put on many, many other buildings that it

shouldn't have been on, and yet it's still there . nobody has it's still there. nobody has been prosecuted. everybody blames somebody else and we see it again and again, don't we? whether it's the infected blood, the post office, hillsborough, all of these scandals where ordinary people are failed massively. by the state and governments do not get these things sorted . things sorted. >> and returning briefly, if we could, to the keir starmer speech earlier on, i was struck by the fact he didn't seem in a placatory mood talking about the riots , the social unrest that we riots, the social unrest that we saw across the uk. there's been no move towards a more expansive reconciliatory conversation from some of those working class communities that were impacted. the seven most deprived areas in britain, the seven highest areas for asylum seekers where those riots broke out, rather than there being a conversation about how can we understand the back story . instead, it was talking

story. instead, it was talking about a fuel of populism that drove this talk about a deeply unhealthy society we learned a few moments ago. there are only 100 places left in the male prison system. there seems to be no appetite for keeping these kind of people out of jail. >> well, i asked the prime minister's spokesman at the lobby briefing about this. what work specifically the government, were doing to address. obviously the violence has to be dealt with. that's indefensible . but but the indefensible. but but the dissatisfaction, the sense of people who feel that nobody cares about them, that they have no opportunities, that they have no opportunities, that they have no prospects, that no one is listening. and i was told that, you know, they're going to deal with this by getting growth, spreading opportunity. et cetera . spreading opportunity. et cetera. et cetera. it's all very easy to say, but of course, you know, it was a large driver of the brexit vote, people who felt that things were not working for them. it was a large driver of bofis them. it was a large driver of boris johnson getting that big majority, promising to level up. but there's so many parts of the

country that people just feel totally forgotten and that nobody cares. >> absolutely right . katherine >> absolutely right. katherine forster excellent as ever. thank you very much for joining us forster excellent as ever. thank you very much forjoining us in the studio. let's return now to that breaking news that we just learned that the ministry of justice has confirmed that only a mere 100 spaces are left in male prisons in england and wales, an astonishing revelation. and here's tell us more. is gb news home and security editor, mark white. mark, welcome back to the show. we've been talking all of the show until this point about the huge number of arrests at the notting hill carnival. 349 and now and a story earlier on today as well about people can simply say sorry to avoid jail. maybe they knew that this news was coming. an astonishing admission mark. only 100 spaces left for men in our creaking prison system . system. >> well, certainly with regard to the community resolution, that's quite separate, really, to those that they're expecting

to those that they're expecting to send into the prison population. but clearly they are also taking drastic measures with regard to trying to reduce that prison population as well. you'll remember that just last week we got the news that the police service across , much of police service across, much of the north of england was going to start this emergency measure of holding to on those arrested, not sending them to the courts to try to relieve the number of people within the prison estate. well, clearly, it's got way beyond that now, with just 100 spaces. that is not in the slightest workable because it can just take, not even a busy weekend, but just a busy weekday night in any city for 100 extra prison spaces to be taken up. if these people then are remanded

in custody. so we are really now at the limit. there is no more capacity and as such, the government needs to come up with very urgent and drastic actions. now in the space of , very urgent and drastic actions. now in the space of, a month or so, we were expecting this new 40%, policy to come into place. thatis 40%, policy to come into place. that is that if you serve just 40% of your sentence in custody , 40% of your sentence in custody, then you're entitled, providing you're not a serious, violent or sexual offender to be released on, probation, basically at the moment, it's 50% of your sentence, and then you get to serve the remainder of your sentence back in the community on the proviso, of course, that if you reoffend, you're taken back into prison to serve the remainder of your sentence. back in custody . but the government in custody. but the government has now reached the decision and

made the decision that that should be reduced to 40, which will free up thousands of additional prison places that are badly needed. but of course, it's very controversial because the net result of that is you are sending thousands of convicted criminals , some convicted criminals, some despite what they say, who may well pose a danger to the public back onto the streets and at the very least , even if they don't, very least, even if they don't, pose a direct danger to members of the public, then many of those people going back onto the streets will be what they call recidivist. they will be repeat offenders, because that is the pattern , a very significant. in pattern, a very significant. in fact, the majority of people who are released from prison within are released from prison within a year or two go on to reoffend and probably end up back in the prison system as well. so a significant proportion of those that are releasing will go back

into the community and re—offend . into the community and re—offend. it's highly controversial, but it's what the government sees as probably the only solution to a present crisis , which is so over present crisis, which is so over logged that it will just grind the whole of the criminal justice system to a halt and mark white when you look at 100 spaces left, i mean, there are over 200 people who've received a custodial sentence after in the wake of those protests and riots we saw after southport and look at the arrest tally after notting hill mark white 61, police officers assaulted eight stabbings, three of those nearly fatal, 49 weapons seized, including two firearms mark white 349 arrests. >> at this rate , mark, the >> at this rate, mark, the prisons will be filled by tomorrow night. if we're not careful . careful. >> yeah, i mean, that 100 mark is just insignificant. it doesn't make any odds. the fact

is, if you go beyond about a couple of thousand, from capacity, you're in serious trouble . because, as we say, it trouble. because, as we say, it only takes a busy weekend somewhere for there to be a lot of arrests , such as at the of arrests, such as at the notting hill carnival for and many of those people to be remanded in custody , be remanded remanded in custody, be remanded in custody until their hearing to really just stoke it up to complete capacity. so the fact that we're 100 short makes no odds. we have reached capacity. there is no more room in the prison estate and all the while more and more people are being arrested because that's the daily process of law and order in this country , right across in this country, right across the country, minute by minute , the country, minute by minute, police are making arrests. they go to in the police prison or the police cell system to begin with until a court appearance . with until a court appearance. and then, depending on the serious nature of the indictable offence that they're accused of,

they will go into the remand system hundreds every day, enter the roman system. so we are in a deep crisis now. the government, as i say, has announced this 40% system to come into, process in about a month's time. i think they're going to have to bring that forward. and just get that working immediately because, without it, the criminal justice system grinds to a halt. but i say that it's easier said than done because you can't just turf out thousands of prisoners onto the street. martin, you need the backup, wraparound services that any prisoner being released requires the probation hostel that they may go into in the first instance, the probation officers who are tasked with keeping an eye on these individuals to show that they're on the straight and narrow, they're not back in re—offending . they're not back in re—offending. it's a mess. >> and, mark, we learned last week that they were going to

start using prison cells to hold actual prisoners. so police becoming prison wardens, they're not trained to do that. and the actual prisons themselves aren't equipped for long term stays. and i want to ask you this, mark, as well as releasing people early, do you think we might see a return to a system of downgrading offenders so we don't jail them in the first place? so we talk about today there's a clampdown on shoplifting. well shoplifting is de facto legalised. now they can talk tough all they like. what other crimes may be downgraded to avoid a custodial sentence. and what message will that send out mark white to those offending . if criminals know offending. if criminals know they won't get banged up, where's the incentive to not offend ? offend? >> yeah, i think it's inevitable that that will happen, martin. and that would signal a schizophrenic approach to the criminal justice system, because you'll have the government and those in charge of law and order

saying , on the one hand that saying, on the one hand that we're going to get tough, we're getting tough on the rioters. we're getting tough on the shoplifters. we're getting tough on the sexual offenders. all manner of crimes they're getting tough on. but on the other hand, those in the judiciary and the criminal justice system are being told that there is logjam within that system, within the prison service, and that actually , if they can avoid actually, if they can avoid sending someone down the road of a prison sentence and go for a community option instead, or a fine, that should be the road to go . and you're right, it sends go. and you're right, it sends out a very worrying message that although the government might say, on one hand, we're being tough in practice, they're being very weak . very weak. >> mark white excellent analysis as ever. i'm joined now by gaynor bell, a knife crime campaigner , after her son stefan campaigner, after her son stefan was stabbed to death more than 20 years ago. gaynor, welcome to the show. you may have overheard some of that conversation there.

100 spaces left now, before we reach capacity in british prisons in england and wales alone. and a story out today which i know will concern you, gaynor. which i know will concern you, gaynor . more than 147,000 people gaynor. more than 147,000 people accused of offences including possession of weapons and violence, will simply say sorry and be given community resolution orders rather than going to jail. gaynor, what's your take on that? >> i'm just devastated and appalled, >> i'll try and keep this as brief as possible. the colony who killed my son has just been on a parole after 20 years. >> because he committed another offence. i don't know what it is. i'm presuming it's violence, but basically, he's committed so many crimes, and he's going back on the streets. >> he has brown hair in the battery, letting him out. >> but this is just going on and on. i've worked with young people and, you know, they used to get sentenced if they were carrying a knife. it's got to somehow stop. all this has got to stop . it's going on and

somehow stop. all this has got to stop. it's going on and on and on until somebody actually puts a stop to it, you know, to and say the same that if you say sorry , you can get off of this. sorry, you can get off of this. how ridiculous are we going to see more and more knife crime as it goes on? we really are. you know, i think i always say and drum us in. it's got to start as education. but you know, they've known the prisons are for full many years, and i'm not a racist in any way, but, you know, there's a lot of foreigners in our prisons are taking up. they should be sending them back to their own countries to have the sentences there that would free up the prisons. you know, it's just ridiculous saying our prisons are full and we haven't got room for them. you know, i just find it ridiculous . just find it ridiculous. >> it's astonishing. gaynor bell, every time i talk to you, there seems to be a fresh injustice pulled upon you . thank injustice pulled upon you. thank you very, very much for your work. we have a brief here today, but let's please talk again soon. gaynor bell, thank you very, very much for joining us now, oasis, on

a return. more on next. but first, simon martin daubney

welcome back. it's almost 529. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. after much, much speculation. oasis are officially reuniting nearly 15 years after the gallagher brothers split. let's find out more now. from gb news, north—west of england reporter sophie reaper. >> well, it's finally time for fans of oasis to stop crying their hearts out because after 15 years, they've been given everything they ever dreamed of. that's right. liam and noel gallagher have announced this morning that they will be reuniting for a tour next summer. 14 dates manchester, london, dublin, edinburgh and cardiff. so there is a lot of excitement now. we're here outside the boardwalk club in

manchester, where in 1991 a very young oasis performed their first ever gig to not the audiences of thousands that we were used to seeing them perform in front of, but instead in front of dozens of people and tickets, well, tickets would have cost around £3, which, according to the bank of england, these days, is around £6.68. so i imagine people this time, if they're going to go for tickets on saturday, will be paying tickets on saturday, will be paying significantly more than that. paying significantly more than that . however, that is not the that. however, that is not the concern of a lot of people here in manchester and i'm sure nationwide, if not globally. the real concern is going to be whether people can actually get a hold of tickets all together. they're going to be like gold dust. now, earlier on, we spoke to people here in manchester to ask if they're going to be going for tickets and how nervous they are about their ability to obtain them. >> absolutely brilliant. >> absolutely brilliant. >> best news of virgin? >> best news of virgin? >> well, 15 years. >> well, 15 years. >> i'm buzzing. i'm a massive oasis fan. i've seen liam gallagher a few times, but together, man, i'd be sick.

>> yeah, my boyfriend is very, very happy. he said it was. you're not that bothered. i don't care that much. >> it'd be great if you got tickets. >> big fans , i'd say my brother. >> big fans, i'd say my brother. >> big fans, i'd say my brother. >> definitely more so. but i'd try and get tickets to go thinking they might need some money. >> do you reckon that's what it's for ? it's for? >> you know, that's what my first thought was. >> well, there we are. that is the question on everybody's lips. will there be more dates added? there's 14 dates as it stands, but the gambler in me thinks that perhaps they will end up adding more, especially if that site crashes on saturday as people go to try and get tickets of, let's be honest, the gig of the century oasis are back together and people are very, very excited. in fact, it wouldn't surprise me if today there will be a lot of champagne supernovas all over the uk . supernovas all over the uk. >> a final pun sneaking in. there's manchester, of course. it's raining the boardwalk. i've had some tasty nights out down that place in the past. there's lots more still to come . between lots more still to come. between now and 6:00. i'll be joined again by the hunger striker,

pensioner paul durrant , who will pensioner paul durrant, who will tell us about his bad experiences with some pro—palestine protesters in blackpool. that's coming soon. but first, as your headlines with tatiana sanchez . with tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much. and we start this bulletin with some breaking news that two men have been charged with murder and attempted murder over a house fire in bradford west yorkshire police says 44 year old mohammad shabir and 25 year old mohammad shabir and 25 year old callum sunderland have both been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder over that fire. that killed a mother and her three children, 29 year old briony gawith and her three children, nine year old five year old oscar and 22 month old aubrey, died after their home was reportedly deliberately set alight last wednesday . in other alight last wednesday. in other news, the ministry of justice

has confirmed that only 100 spaces are left in male prisons in england and wales. it comes as the number of people sent to prison has reached record levels. in july, the government set out legislation to reduce the amount of time inmates must spendin the amount of time inmates must spend in jail before they're automatically released from 50% of their sentence to 40% in a bid to manage overcrowding, the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but he says the country will have to accept short term pain for long term good. during his speech in downing street this morning, sir keir starmer warned things will get worse before they get better . and he said they get better. and he said next week's return to parliament will not be business as usual. he also addressed the recent riots , saying they showed the riots, saying they showed the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure. the prime minister also reiterated economic growth is the government's top priority and deputy prime minister angela rayner said it was horrific to see the damage done to the dagenham tower block that caught

fire yesterday. everyone was accounted for and no injuries were reported after a major incident was declared following that fire in east london, over 100 people were evacuated from the building, with two people taken to hospital. the london fire . but commissioner andy rowe fire. but commissioner andy rowe says firefighters tackling the blaze faced the most dangerous conditions you can imagine, and he said very significant building failures were found. angela rayner says the lfb has launched a full investigation and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me 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 . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . cheers,

financial report. cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> thank you. now hundreds of you have been getting in touch with your saves throughout the show. and i've got one here from eileen superboy. she says this about sir keir starmer's speech earlier on in the rose garden at downing street. hard times ahead. unless, of course, you belong to a public sector union, in which case you'd be laughing all the way to the bank while the rest of us struggle to pay for your inflation busting pay rises. eileen superb point. that's my favourite part of the show. i'm joined by michelle dewberry, the queen of prime time political debate . michelle time political debate. michelle dewberry 6 or 7. what's on your show ? show? >> well, of course, there's only one real main story in town , and one real main story in town, and thatis one real main story in town, and that is keir starmer's speech this morning. >> so of course i want to unpick this. i've got matt goodwin keeping me company. >> he's not happy at all, by the way, that no focus whatsoever has gone on many people's

primary concerns, which is about the uncontrolled immigration in their area. so i want to look at that, also as well, i caught your singing earlier on martin the oasis. it made me think to myself, you know, we need to find a karaoke bar somewhere before this massive reunion takes place . takes place. >> i'm definitely up for that. i think you've probably got a much , think you've probably got a much, much better voice than me, but i think you're dead right. michelle, about that speech earlier on, a lot of people felt it was unfair to say, oh, it's all about populism. it's all about 14 years of tory rule. no attempt to engage with the working class communities. michelle, that suffered those protests. >> exactly. and this is the thing . when you look at the gb thing. when you look at the gb news inbox, you've got to give it a i want to give christopher hope a bit of a medal because god loves a trier and christopher hope. he was in the audience. martin his hands up, no messing around, trying to pitch a question. not for himself, but of course on behalf of every single gb news viewer out there, did we get listened to again today? no, we did not. will we stop trying? no, we will not. we will continue .

not. we will continue. >> well, the labour government might avoid the difficult questions. i know that you won't. michelle dewberry 617 dewbs& co simply unmissable . dewbs& co simply unmissable. make sure you tune in. if you want to get in touch, simply go to gbnews.com forward slash say and i'll try read out some more of your messages. a little

welcome back. time is 540. you're on the final furlong. even with me . final furlong. even with me. martin daubney on gb news now. between now and the end of the show , we'll be discussing show, we'll be discussing whether walk on girls are strutting back into fashion because the world senior dogs tour has confirmed that the walk on girls will make a stunning return to televised doors after they were banned six years ago by mealy mouthed feminists who said it was sexist. now we have some breaking news in the last hour on, the ministry of justice has confirmed that there are now only a mere 100 spaces left in

male prisons in england and wales, an astonishing admission, and they've released the following statements to confirm that the new government inherited a justice system in crisis and has been forced into taking difficult but necessary to action ensure that we can keep up. locking up dangerous criminals and to protect the public. staff across the whole criminal justice system are working incredibly hard, and the government will continue to support them before the changes come into effect. onto the 10th of september. now that day, there , the 10th of september is there, the 10th of september is highly significant because that is the date earmarked for the first set of prisoners to be early released on the new law of having to only serve 40% of their sentence. so this it seems, the statement is going out in admission of the fact that there will be a whole chunk

of people released early on september 10th, and then a further chunk on october the 22nd. we learned from a criminal barrister last week on this show, 5500 prisoners are set to be released early over the coming months, and we learned today there are a mere 100 spaces left. that says to me a system creaking at the gills, a system creaking at the gills, a system where early release is becoming something of a new norm with only 100 spaces to go, where will they put the people? let's just go through some of these numbers. astonishing numbers about the arrests at the notting hill carnival. we broke earlier on today on the show, 61 police officers were assaulted over the notting hill carnival weekend. eight stabbings, three of them almost fatal. 49 weapons were seized, including two firearms. two guns were seized at that festival. 349 arrests across that festival alone, 200

people were jailed in the wake of the protests and the riots across britain. 200. there's only 100 left and there's 349 arrests, including 61 officers assaulted at the notting hill carnival. where are these people going to go? will they end up in prison, or will they end up with a slap on the wrist? what do you think? i know what i think, and i think the system is broken. it seems to be to many people getting in touch with this show to be two tiered, straight to jail for a facebook post, straight to jail if you happen to be even at one of the riots. if you had the wrong opinions about immigration in the country. but it's okay to get off. we heard today there's an attempt to say sorry for violent crimes, including knife possession , including violent possession, including violent crimes, a community disbursement order coming through. is that what you think should be happening with our with our justice system? i suspect not going to its usual ways. to all of which, let's read out a few

of which, let's read out a few of your comments before the end of your comments before the end of the show. we've had absolutely hundreds so far today. and on that topic of jails, beverley says this. so let me get this straight, martin. murderers, rapists , martin. murderers, rapists, violent criminals and illegal immigrants will get three meals per day and heating through the winters while our british pensioners, who have paid all their working lives will freeze and starve. how is that fair, beverley? they're of course talking about potential tax rises in keir starmers speech earlier , saying very, very hard earlier, saying very, very hard decisions will have to be made and a lot of people feeling quite put out about the fact there's been a cut to the winter fuel allowance for old age pensioners, which is now means tested. a lot of them are confused about to how do that, or perhaps even too proud to do so. and also we covered earlier on a story about a raf base, deemed uninhabitable for our servicemen. and yet the same conditions would be considered to be not fair for, illegal

immigrants. for example, on the bibby stockholm that would have been deemed unsafe . now, coming been deemed unsafe. now, coming up, a change of pace. walk on girls or to return to dance? is it sexist? send your views and post your comments by going to gbnews.com/yoursay. i'll be back soon on martin

channel. welcome back. now a 78 year old grandad from blackpool is 24 days into a hunger strike protesting against illegal immigration and the state of britain. he was recently harassed by a pro—palestine protester in the street in blackpool. let's take a look . blackpool. let's take a look. free. free palestine. >> free, free palestine. >> free, free palestine. >> disgusting . let's speak now >> disgusting. let's speak now to the man himself, paul durrant. paul, welcome to the show . so we had you in the show. so we had you in the studio. you told us about your hunger for strike what you

called a broken britain. you've been bravely and resolutely carrying on, and now you've had this abuse. and i understand also there was another incident pulled around where you were harangued in the street. tell me what's going on and why you think you deserve this. >> people basically are not, they don't like me flying the israeli flag , israeli flag, >> the flag that i fly is me, israeli, me, ukrainian, and the save the children flag. and they don't like me doing it. mark >> but, paul, you're perfectly entitled to do so. and you're you're putting this forward is it's an apolitical movement. you believe the country is broken 24 days in. paul, i've got to ask you this. a lot of people have been getting in touch with gb news since you first came in. they're concerned about your health and now you're knocking on a bit. i'm not being funny when i say that. are you okay? >> okay. at the moment, yeah. >> okay. at the moment, yeah. >> and i'm going to plod on with

what i'm doing. i need to get the government to listen. they're not going to do nothing unless they listen to me. it's wrong what they're doing , the wrong what they're doing, the all these people coming in day after day, week after week , it after day, week after week, it really is not good. mr farmer. you've got to stop it . they're you've got to stop it. they're not. they're not, they're not even sending them back. we cannot hold our breath . you cannot hold our breath. you know, it's that bad . know, it's that bad. >> and paul aside from the fact we're seeing this, this idiot here giving you hassle on the street and another one i understand was screaming in your face yesterday morning. tell us about some of the more positive feedback you've had from citizens in blackpool about your brave hunger strike. >> the people that come and contact me are okay. they're

good people and they care about the country. but what what is really happening is they're not getting a say. nobody is fighting for the old people and the young children. he still hasn't done nothing. he still made no , statement about what made no, statement about what he's going to do to help people. it's all about what he's going to do to take money off old people and the rest of the country . and we want to know country. and we want to know what is going on with keir starmer, because we honestly , we starmer, because we honestly, we can't believe what is happening to our country. it is a disgrace what you're doing to it. >> okay, paul duran, thank you very, very much forjoining us very, very much for joining us on the show. and you stay safe out there, mate . keep your out there, mate. keep your strength up and keep in touch, and let's do all we can to promote you here on gb news. an absolute pleasure to speak to you, paul duran. thank you very much. stay safe there in blackpool. now a change of pace now because walk on girls are

set to make a return to televised darts for the first time in six years for october's world seniors match play. but is this a welcome return to political incorrectness or a mistake? well, joining me now to discuss this is the creator of the world seniors darts store, jason francis. jason, welcome to the show. so they were the darts girls, the walk on girls. they were given the job a few years ago. that was a victory for feminism. but i've always felt that these girls were a bullseye ,—,—,,— felt feminism. but i've always felt that these girls were a bullseye with darts fans. tell us why with darts fans. tell us why you're bringing them back , you're bringing them back , martin. >> i mean, we're delighted to martin. >> i mean, we're delighted to that charlotte and daniela are that charlotte and daniela are coming back to the world senior coming back to the world senior dans coming back to the world senior darts tour. >> we've listened to the fans . dans coming back to the world senior darts tour. >> we've listened to the fans . >> we've listened to the fans. we get accused so much of not >> we've listened to the fans. we get accused so much of not listening to people , since the listening to people , since the listening to people, since the listening to people, since the world seniors tour has started, world seniors tour has started, there's been lots of fan groups there's been lots of fan groups and forums, and they campaigned and forums, and they campaigned for a certain player to come for a certain player to come back. we know that they want to back. we know that they want to see the old favourites on the see the old favourites on the seniors tour, but more and more seniors tour, but more and more of them were asking, bring back of them were asking, bring back

the girls, bring back the the girls, bring back the sparkle. we're in the sparkle. we're in the entertainment business, martin. >> jason, i totally agree , and i >> jason, i totally agree, and i was very disappointed when they were axed. the first time oasis are returning . the darts girls are returning. the darts girls are returning. the darts girls are returning. the darts girls are returning. jason, are we seeing a beautiful movement? a retro movement back towards common sense entertainment for the working classes? and if you don't like it, el tufo . don't like it, el tufo. >> well, isn't it great? >> well, isn't it great? >> i mean, it's

>> well, isn't it great? >> i measoit's >> well, isn't it great? >> i measo the first stop is >> well, so the first stop is the world seniors darts match play the world seniors darts match play at the york barbican. >> that's october the 4th and fifth, and the girls will be there both days. then we're in sunderland on the eighth and 9th of november, and then in february it's the big one. the world senior darts championship . world senior darts championship. back at the famous circus tavern from the 20th to the 22nd of february. so get on dart shop tv and you can come and see the girls. >> jason france is absolutely magnificent . a bullseye with magnificent. a bullseye with fans i'm sure. superb. thanks for joining us on the show. always a pleasure. now that's it from me. dewbs& co is up next. i'll be back tomorrow at 3 pm. and also brace yourselves for the return in the studio at 7 pm. the return of nigel farage. he's back. he'll be live exclusively on gb news. i'll be back at 3:00 on martin daubney. this is gb news. now it's your weather with alex burkill. have a cracking evening . a cracking evening. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of

weather on gb news >> hello again. here's your latest gb news, weather update coming to you from the met office. a bit of rain to come through the next couple of days, and a little bit of cloud at times too. but towards the southeast it's actually looking largely fine and here it's going to be pretty hot because we are ahead of this frontal system that's lying across us, and it's this front that's brought a fair amount of rain and will continue to do so through this evening and overnight across parts of northern england, into the west midlands, across wales , maybe midlands, across wales, maybe southwest england. seeing a bit of rain too . towards the of rain too. towards the northwest there'll be some showery rain around and some of this could be a little bit on the heavy side across parts of scotland, but in the southeast here it's staying largely dry. we have some warm air and so temperatures here not dropping a huge amount despite the fact that there will be some clear skies. so a pretty fine start for much of the midlands parts of east anglia and southern southeastern england. on wednesday morning. across the southwest. watch out for some

mist and fog patches and a bit of rain around two. also some rain for parts of wales and northwest england first thing and some further showery rain feeding into western parts of northern ireland and western parts of scotland as well. further east across both of scotland and northern ireland, it's looking drier , although it's looking drier, although there could be some showery bursts around , more showery rain bursts around, more showery rain then feeding its way across parts of northern ireland and western scotland. as we go through the day and we still have a front lingering across some parts of northern england pushing into the midlands. perhaps, albeit this front doesn't look like it will bring much widespread rain, it just could bring some heavy outbreaks for some of us towards the south southeast of the uk, it's looking largely dry, some bright, sunny spells and with that temperatures higher than today likely to get into the high 20s, highs around 28 or 29 celsius. perhaps some showery rain then continuing across, particularly scotland as we go through the end of the day on wednesday. but a lot of that then does clear through as we go overnight, and then there's plenty of dry weather to come as we go through the end of the

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tonight we will debate the prime minister's speech. and i'm asking, what did you make to it? that's all to come. but first, at 6:00, news headlines . at 6:00, news headlines. >> michelle, thank you and good evening. the top stories. while the prime minister has warned

the prime minister has warned the october budget will be painful, but he says