>> kira rudik. and here we go. is your tax bill going up to pay for illegal immigrants? next. >> good evening from the gb newsroom. it'sjust >> good evening from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 9:00. your top story this hour. the prime minister has confirmed a ban on outdoor smoking is being considered because of the huge burden smoking puts on the nhs and the taxpayer. according to what the sun newspaper says, a secret whitehall papers. ministers are considering making it illegal to light up in outdoor restaurants, playgrounds and outside nightclubs and stadiums. hospitality bosses say new restrictions would cost jobs, but sir keir starmer insists action is needed. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over

80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. thatis every year because of smoking. that is a preventable death. it's a huge burden on the nhs and of course it's a burden on the taxpayer. so yes, we are going to take decisions in this space. more details will be revealed, but this is a preventable series of deaths and we've got to take the action to reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer. >> meanwhile , the prime minister >> meanwhile, the prime minister has said he discussed resetting relations during a meeting with french president emmanuel macron in paris today. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders focused on a new treaty expected to take six months to finalise. illegal migration was also on the agenda as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs. it follows news that over 20,000 migrants have crossed the engush 20,000 migrants have crossed the english channel into the uk this yean english channel into the uk this year, with hundreds arriving just yesterday. in other news, a man has been charged after a top

chef who worked with gordon ramsay was left fighting for his life at notting hill carnival. police found muzzy netto unconscious on the street in queensway before paramedics arrived. police have now confirmed 31 year old omar wilson will appear in court tomorrow in relation to the attack. he was charged with causing grievous bodily harm . a causing grievous bodily harm. a teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a 15 year old girl to death in the street. hollie newton suffered 36 knife injuries after an attack in hexham in northumberland. that's in january of last year. the court previously heard hollie had told a friend just hours before being stabbed that the youth was basically stalking her. a 17 year old boy, who cannot be named, admitted a charge of manslaughter but denied murder, claiming his mind went blank that day and he had only intended to take his own life. and train driver strikes at london north eastern railway have been called off following

last ditch talks between union and company officials. more than 20 days of strikes were planned on weekends in the next few months, after the union claimed there had been a breakdown in industrial relations. but aslef said strike action is now suspended and drivers will report for duty as normal. the development follows meetings between the union and the company . those are the latest gb company. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> com forward slash alerts . >> com forward slash alerts. >> com forward slash alerts. >> good evening. it looks like your tax bill will go up so we can pay for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. labour keep telling us about this financial black hole. now it turns out that a large chunk of that is the bill for illegal immigrants.

and that problem is set to get worse, not better . the home worse, not better. the home office has been massively overspending when it comes to illegal immigration over the last three years. the home office estimated it would cost the taxpayer £320 million to handle asylum , border control, handle asylum, border control, visas and passport operations. it costs 7.9 billion. that's an overspend of £7.6 billion. whoopsie. the initial estimates of this year's cost are roughly £6.4 billion. but just look at the numbers coming across the channel now and the total lack of a plan to deal with them. we've had 7000 arrivals since keir starmer became prime minister, more than 20,000 this yeah minister, more than 20,000 this year. the queue in calais is getting bigger, not smaller. there's no deterrent anymore, so every single person who arrives will be able to claim asylum, then appeal, then appeal again. we're going to have to build new sites to accommodate these people. the actual cost of this is going to be eye—watering. so when sir keir starmer says this, i will be honest with you, there

is a budget coming in october andifs is a budget coming in october and it's going to be painful. >> we have no other choice, given the situation that we're in. those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden to accept short term pain for long term good. that difficult trade off for the genuine solution . genuine solution. >> and then rachel reeves says stuff like this. >> we were left with £22 billion black hole for this year in the pubuc black hole for this year in the public finances. those are the numbers . and that was spending numbers. and that was spending covered up by the previous conservative government. >> what they're not telling you is that a large chunk of that black hole is to pay for illegal immigrants. another large chunk of that is the £31 billion labour borrowed to pay the unions , by the way. but when unions, by the way. but when this miserable budget lands and there are tax rises, there's no winter fuel payments for some pensioners. capital gains tax will probably go up . so you

will probably go up. so you don't get much of a return on your investments. inheritance tax will probably go up, won't it? so the money that your loved ones or you have worked all your lives for to pass down to the next generation is just ripped away from you just so we can give it to people who have come to britain illegally. sir keir starmer he can go around europe and shake the hands of as many european leaders as he wants . european leaders as he wants. maybe he should press the flesh of a few british people and see how they feel about that. let's get our thoughts on my panel tonight. we've got gb news superstar is nana akua. we've got conservative peer lord bailey and former labour party adviser matthew laza nana. i will start with you on this. you know, do we have to be a bit honest here, or do they have to be a bit honest now and start telling us? well, there's one thing that your tax bill is going to go up. inheritance tax, capital gains, whatever happens happens. but actually quite a lot of that is going to go to our asylum system. >> well, i mean, first of all, they came in and said, oh no, we're not going to have the

bibby stockholm. we're going to kick everybody out of the hotels. we're going to not use the army bases. there literally is nowhere to put these people, i think they need to start answering questions because as far as i've seen, the labour government have not answered questions. they're not answering. if they're asked what they're going to do about it. in fact, in the big speech that he gave the other day, he didn't mention immigration, which is the big topic, right now. it is clear that it is going to cost this country an absolute outand out fortune. there is, as you said, no deterrent. and also the fact that they are simply they've got rid of rwanda. so they're just going to repeat the mistakes of the last government. i don't see anything positive coming out from the. >> keir starmer was pleading on us to, you know, abide by the social contract. look, if you've got the broadest shoulders then you know you can pay a bit more. now look honestly, you just pay a bit more now and it's for the greater good. well, actually, hang on a minute. if six point something billion, dare i say, even nudging £8 billion of that is to go for people who have literally just arrived here illegally across the channel or by other means in the back of a lorry. i don't think the vast

majority of the british public will consent to that. >> but there's two things i think we should focus on. firstly, when he said he wants to be honest, if he really was going to be honest, he'd tell us he had no plan all through the election period. he was accused of that. turns out it was true. if you look at what the, the chancellor was saying that she didn't know about the hole in the budget. that's an utter lie. we have the budget of office responsibility. what were they doing? they know where every penny is. it's all public finances because they're in the pubuc finances because they're in the public and also the biggest addition to that cost is the decision she's made since becoming chancellor, i.e. the union stuff. well, that and the winter fuel and the winter fuel payment as well. and what's stunning. they said they there was a suspicion that they weren't really saying what they planned to do. that suspicion has come true. now, there's no doubt we're in a tough place. but all through the election, they didn't mention that tough place. >> so, look, matthew, i know you disagree with a lot of what's been said. now, i will put it to you that, you know, when this miserable budget arrives in october, we find out exactly what damage it's going to be. there is going to be a large chunk of people's tax revenue thatis chunk of people's tax revenue that is going to go to either paying that is going to go to either paying your union mates or,

crucially, illegal immigrants , crucially, illegal immigrants, or should i say, your union paying or should i say, your union paying your union mates. >> patrick actually means paying teachers, nurses and the people who deliver our front line pubuc who deliver our front line public services on which we all rely. and the wage that they deserve. and that was set by an independent pay review body going up to pay for legal immigrants. but absolutely. look in terms of this is an absolute disgrace. the tories told parliament they were going to put £300 million in the asylum budget. and in fact, when the ifs today has found that there was a black hole, not one that was a black hole, not one that was known about. this is the independent, respected institute of fiscal studies that has support across the is respected across the political spectrum. it found that there was there is this huge black hole of billions. and yes, that is going to have to be paid for because the tories ran up that bill. james cleverly, who was home secretary, who didn't apologise today, he should have been on his knees apologising for this. he said so what we need to do is we need a system that works, that doesn't, that people are processed quickly, where people are processed quickly, and people who shouldn't be in the country are sent back.

>> we would all agree with that. what is that system? because we're not hearing the answers here. all you're doing is what keir starmer keeps doing. the tories did this. they did that. and then he he does a whole summary of what's happened. then there's no answers to there is none because well the first thing to do is to actually process people, which wasn't happening under the tories, whereas they were sitting they were sitting in hotels at the expense of the taxpayer . expense of the taxpayer. >> and it's been a national disgrace. >> can i just say one thing? the tory government couldn't stand and say what a good job they did. they did not do a good job. they definitely could have. we can agree on that. let's be clear about that. but also what's important is that job was made infinitely harder by the labour party and people on the left campaigning against every single idea that the government came up with. and that pushed the bill as well . and i go back the bill as well. and i go back to the point that labour have no plan. >> but the tory party did have a majority and actually they were fighting themselves. so, you know, i agree they did a terrible job, a terrible i wouldn't sit here and tell you they did a good job, but the worry is now labour have been given this responsibility and have no plan , and it isn't good

have no plan, and it isn't good enough just to say the tories did terribly. >> what are you going to do for the country? >> what are they going to do? >> what are they going to do? >> do you mean the plan on immigration or the plan on immigration? well, i mean endless plans and we're going to discuss in the next hour. are there too many plans? are they going to spend less than the conservative government before them? >> that's what we want to know. what are they going to do different? >> well, rachael is rachael has asked rachel reeves has asked every department to find savings. i think there's a danger that she becomes the iron chancellor. but we have to sort out this migration mess. we have to start having the key thing is to start having the key thing is to send people who aren't back who shouldn't be here, which is why the yvette cooper home secretary has been an emphasis on repatriating people when their asylum claims have failed. and we've seen some flights already, but we need to see a lot more. >> so you're going to let them come here, and then you're going to deport and then. no. >> well, because we're working internationally, that's why the new cross border police force, that's why smashing the gangs. patrick will laugh when i say that. but it takes time because you want fewer people arriving. and we need to work together with europe, which is why you've seen him talking to macron and schultz over the last few days . schultz over the last few days. >> sunak sarah le brocq working

together with germany on this is literally working together with the people who created this mess. what angela merkel did to the continent of europe is an absolute disgrace. and we can never go back from it. that woman deserves a huge amount of criticism for that. but just to talk about the social contract now, okay, between ordinary, hard working british people and the government. right. and when you look at now the tax bills, we all know the tax bills have been astronomically high already. they're going up again. it's going to be a miserable budget, okay. and you're going to see things like inheritance tax probably go up. people who've worked all their lives for it. and a huge chunk of that money now is going to go so that people who have just arrived in britain can, can live in nicer conditions. and that i'm sorry, but i can see i'm not encouraging any. i can see protests about that. >> well, i'm just sick to my back teeth of it. i've had enough. but i know if i go and protest, i'll be probably called a racist and then i'll be locked up simply for being part of any sort of protest. if anything bad happens whilst i'm there. look, i genuinely think that the british people have a right to

get an answer from the labour government as to how they're going to spend the money and where that money is going to go. and i'm sick and tired of all the fact that we are funding appeals. i think maybe you could appeals. i think maybe you could appeal once and then if you fail your asylum, we should not have to fund it. it's the whole legal system behind it as well. what are the labour party going to do to change that, to stop this repeated appeal? appeal appeal. what are they going to do? we want to know. not smashing the gangs. they're already here. >> i think the financial burden coming for the country needs to go wide and that immigration is one thing, but the labour go wide and that immigration is government has to explain how it's going to have this very high level of public service and how it's going to pay for it. they made great, great arguments about the high level of the tax burden, where they are absolutely going to add to that. now and they can't have it both ways. i believe we should lower the tax burden or they believe we should have all of these services. there's a tough nut for them to crack, they say the latest from the nhs, for example, is and you know, it's approaching that time of year again isn't it? >> winter crisis. but they say that right. if you give us just

another £3 billion right, we might be able to get a handle on on the waiting list. i think most people in britain would rather give the nhs 4 or £5 billion. and not give. what's it going to work out as £8 billion for illegal immigration? >> i don't think anybody would disagree with you, patrick, and that's why we need an asylum system that works , that doesn't system that works, that doesn't pay system that works, that doesn't pay people to sit in hotel, that doesn't pay for people to sit in hotels for month after month, which sends people back who shouldn't be here, which sees fewer people arriving on our shores because we've taken international to action do that, processes people quickly and sends people home who shouldn't be here. >> you're just doing what keir starmer does, listing all the things that we need, which everyone would agree with. >> well, that's what they're going to do. they've only had seven weeks now with absolutely no solutions, seven weeks. >> so what? it's irrelevant. what are they going to do about it? >> you need to make your mind up. one minute you say you've done more than the last government did in the whole of its. >> i think that wasn't a wise one. line of his or you've only had seven weeks. >> the point here is right. look, i want the labour government to succeed because this is a pivotal time for this

country. we've already seen riots in the streets where people are disgruntled about the social contract. we are very worried about the cost going forward. i want to see them succeed, but what they're going to have to do is admit that we're about to see labour austerity or the country goes unden austerity or the country goes under. there isn't to add to that because we've got to pay for the bills that you left us with. >> you can't blame the conservative party >> we can when they left a massive deficit. >> yeah. all right, guys, lovely start. well done. coming up, sir keir starmers popularity has plummeted to a near record low in damning new polling. and he hasn't even raised taxes yet. can also point out it's quite impressive considering he hasn't even got an opposition either. but is it all unravelling for the prime minister already? conservative mp greg smith joins me live shortly. plus, the great british public react to starmer's mooted ban on smoking in pub gardens. >> why are you taking all my privileges away and spoiling my life? my enjoyment ? because life? my enjoyment? because that's all i've got is some cigarettes . cigarettes. >> i tackled the nanny state. i would actually go as far as to say authoritarian madness at

ten. but up next, a shocking new figures reveal that firefighters were called out to help move an obese person every four hours last year. should the fire bngade last year. should the fire brigade help obese people in non—emergency situations? okay, actress tina malone goes head to head with tv personality lizzie cundy. it's live in this next lovely

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up. has the rot begun to set in for sir keir starmer? those popularity ratings are pretty dire, aren't they? considering he hasn't got an opposition as well. but first, should the fire brigade help obese people in non—emergency situations? it's time now for the head to head . time now for the head to head. all right. jaw dropping new data is today shown that the fire service were called over 2000 times last year to help free morbidly obese people from their homes. that figure is nearly five times higher than it was ten years ago, when there were 422 such rescues. and it also means that the fire brigade is now dealing with one obese person every four hours. that comes after the cost of treating people obese people on the nhs ballooned to an astonishing £98 billion at the end of last year. that's remarkable, isn't it? it also emerged earlier this year that severely obese adults are twice as likely to call in sick

at work. so tonight i am asking should the fire brigade help obese people in a non—emergency situation? okay. and should obese people as well actually maybe be made to pay to use the fire service? let me know what you think. go to gbnews.com/yoursay. tweet me @gbnews make sure you vote in our poll. going head to head on this now are the actress tina malone and broadcaster lizzie cundy both of you? great to have you on the show. thank you very, very much, lizzie. i'll start with you. why not? what do you think about this? should. should? should the fire brigade go to help people in a non—emergency situation who have, you know, got stuck on the loo or something? >> no, no, patrick, not at all. and i think this is very worrying. i mean, it costs £417 for every call, i think it's a real worry. and i think, you know, they they should be charged because they may think twice about actually calling if it's non—emergency. >> okay . tina would you, would >> okay. tina would you, would you charge people. would you make people pay if they have to

get get winched to tesco's or something. >> okay. sorry i'm really nervous. first live interview i've done since my husband's suicide 24 weeks ago. so forgive me if i. >> no, that's all right. just take your time. there's no pressure on anything, >> i think what we've got to remember is nobody wants to be fat. i was a big, fat bird. if i'm allowed to say fat and beard, for 22 years, i were. i've lost 12 stone, £4. i was a size 32. i'm now a size eight. and nobody wants to be fat. and i think if you look at it in the way that it's an addiction, it's not something people choose to do for example, if we were to look at somebody who's drunk and alcoholic misbehaving in the pubs, we go after the licensee. if we have drug addicts, we help them, we support them in hospitals or whatever , and we go

hospitals or whatever, and we go after the drug dealers . so what after the drug dealers. so what i would say is, if you are that big that you need help from the fire brigade, who is enabling you ? because i'm quite sure you? because i'm quite sure domino's or justeat don't run up domino's orjusteat don't run up the stairs and deliver your pizza or whatever to your bedroom if you stuck in there. so how? who is enabling you to get that food? why don't they just feed you some salad? i mean, you know, they're not going to run after you, are they ? going to run after you, are they? if you're so upset that you haven't served them a burger. >> oh, right. >> oh, right. >> okay. i kind of worry about that. >> okay. i kind of worry about that . and also the stigma of that. and also the stigma of being a big fatty. right. and it's i agree , some of us weren't it's i agree, some of us weren't born with it. you know, i wish i looked like lizzie, but i don't, you know, and i struggled with self—esteem and bullying and what have you. but what i would say is nobody wants to be fat. but it's the most obvious addiction. you don't look at somebody and see drug addiction or see alcoholism or see

gambling, but you see it because it's so i'll come. >> i'll come back. i'll come back to you, lizzie. i'll bring you back into helped. all right. i'll bring you back in there . i'll bring you back in there. because, lizzie, i get the idea that that maybe people need to be helped a bit if they've got a genuine problem. but i do think maybe some people are just a bit lazy with it. what do you think, lizzie? look we've got to be responsible for what we put in our mouths. >> it's costing the nhs, i think £6.5 billion. a massive strain. 1 in 5 children are obese . 1 in 5 children are obese. that's 23% of all children are so overweight, it's going to have a massive impact on their life, their health. it is so unhealthy, not just for your body. these bad fats , but for body. these bad fats, but for your brain. it's so dangerous , your brain. it's so dangerous, patrick. but that's a completely different that's a different conversation . but if they're conversation. but if they're charged, if they are charged for at that call, they may think twice. they may think about it

and look at their lives. i agree with a lot of tina saying, you know, people need to be educated. they need help . you educated. they need help. you know, it starts with the parents schooling, everything else. and the government, i think like cigarette packets. you should put a warning on on takeaway food like they do. and what it does to your lungs smoking. i know the government's obsessed with that, but look at what it actually does to you. make might make people think it might be ringing and charging and you know, thinking, i know i'll phone the fire services willy nilly. we can't do that. yeah. >> i mean, tina, can i just ask you, you know, look , i think for you, you know, look, i think for want of a better phrase, it would be quite a tough thing to swallow if you had a fire at home. and, you know, the disaster happened , right? and disaster happened, right? and actually, it emerged in the cold light of day. the next day that the local fire brigade had been you know, winching someone off the loo. and it was anonymous. they're not having a heart attack. we're not calling about someone who happens to be really obese and is having a medical emergency, someone who's

basically stuck in bed. yeah, i don't really know if that's if that's okay. is it? you know, those 2000 calls we had to we would have to look at them individually. >> if it is that somebody is so huge that they can't get from the living room to the took on the living room to the took on the toilet for example. i mean, i don't know what the you know, the individual cases are, but what i would say is that what i'm trying to say is it's not particularly a choice all the time to what you put in your mouth. it's a situation or whatever takes you to that. i don't know, a bad upbringing. i agree with lizzie about education, with children and about that is a completely different argument. that is , the different argument. that is, the parents are to blame. but if you're an adult and you are that big, you can't move. who is enabung big, you can't move. who is enabling you to eat that food to supply that food? so if you're going to find anyone, find me an enabler. >> tina , you've got to be >> tina, you've got to be responsible for yourself. you're

an adult. you're responsible for what you put in your mouth. and i'm sorry, but if somebody smokes and they get lung cancer and we don't go to them one at a time, if somebody smokes and they're dealt with lung cancer. >> stop, stop, both of you, stop, stop, stop. i'll go, lizzie. and then i'll let tina come back, and then we'll wrap it up. so go on. lizzie, what was that? >> what was trying to say is we really have to be responsible. how we look after our bodies and what we put in our mouths. we can't just blame other people or blame adverts. we need to. yes, we need education. we need to look at ourselves. but we can't just, you know, let these people call the fire services willy nilly, costing us absolute fortunes. we can't go on like this and they do need to be charged. i'm sorry. some may not like that and i have huge sympathy. if you are obese or a family member that is obese. and i know the heartache that goes through , and a lot of it is to through, and a lot of it is to do with mental illness and a lot of other people sadly eat because they're unhappy, and that needs to be looked into and just very finally, tina and we

are a bit pressed for time. >> look, with respect, you know, you you refer to yourself in quite negative terms earlier. i don't think that was that was justified. you know, you certainly do look great now. but my point is that you you did something about it. you took you took personal responsibility so well because to for i had my health. >> and i agree totally with lizzie in terms of we all have to be responsible to a degree, but it's psychologically an issue. it's a huge issue, pardon the pun, but we need to address in this country. >> all right. look, both of you. thank you. thank you. >> short term problem. patrick, look, it's a short term solution to charge them. it's a long term problem. we need to look at it. i really do, because obesity is out. >> i think we're i think we might be, you know, beating the americans. now i don't mean any disrespect to the americans, but that's not that's not one it's not one aspect that we wanted to beat. >> they gave us mcdonald's, didn't they? so that's the problem. >> it's all our fault. all right, guys, thank you very much. and look, lizzie, brilliant to have you on lizzie cundy there. and also tina. hey.

thank you very, very much. great to see you again. you're welcome back any time. tina malone there actress as well. right. okay. and look who do you agree with. should the fire brigade help obese people in non—emergency situations. right. so sarah says obviously if they are needing to go to hospital then they should help if necessary, but otherwise they need to be charging for unnecessary call outs. that would put an end to it. shazzer on x says there shouldn't need to , but they do. i have to, but they do. i have a relative in this job and his stories are really heartbreaking. gosh, without him and his colleagues, these people and his colleagues, these people and yes, they've got themselves into this state. i know, but they would just die in their beds. janet says it's not the fire brigade's job to hoist morbidly obese people out of their room. they could be a major fire while this is happening. those obese people need to take responsibility for themselves. we never used to have these morbidly obese people a few folk that were a bit plump. that was it, right? harking back to a different time, your verdict is now in 20% of you think that the fire bngade of you think that the fire brigade should help obese people in non—emergency situations, 80% of you say they shouldn't. coming up as keir starmer continues his eu loathing tour by meeting emmanuel macron while

refusing to rule out a youth mobility scheme that is apparently back on the table now by the way, it wasn't yesterday. now it is back on the table anyway . grief. is he going to, anyway. grief. is he going to, what is he going to do about that? reform uk spokeswoman and former tory minister ann widdecombe. she's live shaun bailey plus which famous footballer was spotted belting it out at karaoke last night ? it out at karaoke last night? >> because this world is you , >> because this world is you, ladies. and none of you . ladies. and none of you. >> oh, gosh. there's that. i'll give you a clue. >> his goal scoring was a lot better than his singing. yes, i'll reveal all a bit later, but first, after a botched response to the riots, there was a cronyism scandal. handouts for his union paymasters. is it any surprise at all that a new poll shows starmer's popularity plummeting ? conservative mp greg joins me live and

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up, ann widdecombe is going to give her verdict on what keir starmer's tour of the eu means for brexit. but first, some more bad news for the prime minister because his approval rating has plunged to a record low of —16. that is remarkably a drop of 27 points from his post—election high of plus 11. so, according to a more in common survey, which is a company that does surveys almost two thirds of voters think the

government is more interested in serving its own interests than those of the ordinary people. and yougov polling has also revealed that only 23% approve of the labour government, so far. that is the same as theresa may's government in 2017, but not quite as low as the final throes of rishi sunak's tenure . throes of rishi sunak's tenure. and he hasn't even raised taxes yet. and he hasn't got an opposition. and parliament isn't sitting . so are things already sitting. so are things already beginning to unravel for keir starmer? i'm joined now by conservative mp greg smith . conservative mp greg smith. greg, thank you very much. so i mean it's all gone a bit pete tong for keir hasn't it. >> yeah it's even surprised me how quickly the wheels seem to be coming off this labour government. but i mean we were all staggered that almost the first thing they did was mess around with pensioners taking away the winter fuel allowance . away the winter fuel allowance. we were then having to pick our jaws up off the floor as they offered these eye—watering pay rises to please their trade

union masters. then they managed to get themselves embroiled in a scandal in downing street around labour donors getting passes . labour donors getting passes. the bad news seems to keep on coming. i mean, i'm not sure whether they'd even contemplated that they could win the election, whether they came into this with a with a plan at all, because it seems to be jumping from pillar to post. the obr called them out when rachel reeves tried to pretend there was a 20 billion black hole. even the obr have said, actually, no, you saw the figures in january. actually, no, you saw the figures in january . i just don't figures in january. i just don't know what they're playing at because actually the national interest, we're stuck with this government for potentially another five years. we need them in the national interest to succeed, to pull their finger out and actually sign some sort of grip and get on with doing things that the country actually needs, not what either their union paymasters need or that their blind ideology demands. >> it's quite funny because when bofis >> it's quite funny because when boris was under the cosh a bit, he was criticised quite comically for, you know, nipping off to kyiv. you know, i'll just go over there. i mean, storm was

already doing the european tour. i mean, i do wonder when he'll be back, actually. but, look, you mentioned there that the obr, you know, basically called them out. i mean, the ifs, to be fair, have clapped back on that and said, no, there is a black hole and it's on that that i do want to discuss what's going on now, because labour has been warned to not repeat the, quote, woeful budgeting of the home office asylum costs that is set to leave around a £4 billion deficit in treasury spending plans. so the ifs, the institute for fiscal studies said the department has spent around 2.6 billion more than it had budgeted for asylum, border, visa and passport operations. i think that's in the last year alone. so obviously the tories are to blame for this absolute farce, though, aren't they? and there's no indication that labour are going to cut those astronomical costs, are there. so you know, i mean you guys do have to shoulder a little bit of the burden don't we? and do we not have to acknowledge now that taxes are going to go up to pay directly for illegal migrants? >> well, we had a plan that was going to clamp down on illegal migration. we were frustrated. me, patrick, you know, it frustrated me. we've talked

about this before, the length of time it was taking to get our legislation through, to get it through the courts, to actually get flights off to rwanda. of course. again, another thing, the labour government did within days of entering office was scrap the only deterrent we'd put on the statute book in the form of the rwanda partnership . form of the rwanda partnership. but they've done nothing else. there seems to be no other plan out there, no other action. and the boats keep coming every single day. and of course , single day. and of course, that's going to cost british taxpayers an enormous amount of money. what i'd rather see the government doing is actually clamping down on the people smugglers operating in the engush smugglers operating in the english channel, actually signing partnerships. if it's not rwanda, okay, it's not rwanda, but there are other countries out there to ensure, that those coming . how did it that those coming. how did it you see the thing are actually processing a safe third country. >> i mean, the thing is, the thing that makes me quite confused, right, is if actually the conservatives had been a bit more honest over the course of the last three years when there was an overspend of something like 7.6 billion on migration and illegal migration, i should say, then actually i think more

people. dare i say it, more people. dare i say it, more people on the left and the refugees welcome brigade might have looked at that and gone . have looked at that and gone. actually, you know what? we really do need some kind of fast track deportation scheme here, because that money is money that could very easily be spent on housing or on anything else . housing or on anything else. frankly, i do wonder why the tories kept that from us. why do you think that was ? you think that was? >> i'm not sure that we ever kept that that away. i mean, i remember debates in the house of commons that were clearly showing the cost of hotels before we started to close the asylum hotels down. i think the figure hit £7 million a day at one point, which was clearly, utterly unacceptable. i had one in my own constituency and i fought very hard to get that shut down because it was damaging the local economy of the town. it was taking away a vital resource that businesses use, that tourists use , that use, that tourists use, that visitors use at the university used on a daily basis. and we had that open clarity about what it was costing our solution was to ensure that we could process those asylum claims in a safe third country. the courts

thwarted us. there clearly needs to be further action taken to ensure that we could get flights off to a safe third country, rwanda or otherwise. but what this government has done is just scrap the lot. >> yeah, i mean, look, when i'm looking at this, this so—called painful budget that we're going to get in october, we're seeing pensioners being traded off, it appears, for union paymasters. we're seeing no plans really to deal with illegal immigration. dare i say it? no plans to deal with legal immigration. an issue with legal immigration. an issue with us potentially getting back into the eu by the back door. all of this stuff. and i look around now and i think, goodness gracious me, if only we had a proper opposition. so, you know, when's that coming. when's that going. because this is this is, you know, kind of an elected dictatorship, metaphorically speaking. at the moment. >> well, look, i'm going to do my bit in the house of commons to call out this government, to hold them to account. i was already doing that in the weeks after the general election when we were sitting in july. but of course, we've just had a massive kicking in the polls. we just lost very, very badly. although labour didn't win by big numbers

in terms of vote share, they only got this majority on 33% of the vote. and what we've got to do is we've got to be a good professional clinical opposition. but we've also got to earn the right to be heard again. and the first step in thatis again. and the first step in that is electing a new leader. and we are into that process now. we'll be narrowing those candidates to down four in the sitting weeks. in september, party conference, the final four will be put to the test in front of members. and you guys in the media and many others before we come to a new leader on the 2nd of november. yeah, we're in an interim period at the moment. i've got two shadow roles and i'm getting stuck into those until the 2nd of november, and it'll be up to the new leader then to form the full opposition with everybody just quickly as well. >> sorry, because we're a bit pressed for time, but i mean, i do wonder whether or not the new tory leader's manifesto is being written for them, because it's actually just do the opposite of whether keir starmer is doing. i'm assuming that you would not want to ban smoking anywhere near a pub garden .

near a pub garden. >> no, i mean, this is just crazy talk coming out today. i mean, i don't know whether it's all it's the first signs of the red meat being dangled to the ideological lefties on the backbenches of the labour government, who are starting to get a bit fidgety. but mine. what on earth is that about? i mean, we've already got some really draconian anti—smoking legislation from the last government, as well as this one, which which i voted against at second reading, by the way. but we've got you know, a plan to stop people smoking in the open air. yeah, this is covid restrictions all over again , restrictions all over again, isn't it? it's nuts. >> yeah, well, i am inclined to agree with you on that, but i have a vested interest. but anyway, greg, thank you very, very much. it's greg smith there you take care. the conservative mp right now coming up funsponge keir starmer deals a hammer blow to hospitality as he confirms plans for a pub garden smoking ban. punters aren't happy. >> why are you checking all my privileges away and spoiling my life? >> my enjoyment ? because that's >> my enjoyment? because that's all i've got is some cigarettes.

>> you're going to hear more from glynis, but next the pm is in paris and his eu tour is continuing apace. but after he left the door wide open for a free movement deal for under 30s, do you trust a single word keir starmer has to say? uk spokeswoman anne whitaker on

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now keir starmer met with french president emmanuel macron in paris today as he continued his whistle stop tour of the continent to reset relations with the european union. macron and starmer reportedly agreed to deepen bilateral relations , but number bilateral relations, but number 10 have been conspicuously light on the detail. and there's been mixed messaging from our prime minister himself to starmer, said this just yesterday. >> but we do not have plans for the youth mobility scheme. but we do have plans for a closer

relationship between us and the eu. as part of that , white said eu. as part of that, white said right then, i can reveal to you that straight after that press conference, he refused to actually completely rule out an eu youth mobility scheme to reporters nearby. >> so there you go. what's going on there? i'm joined now by reform's justice and immigration spokeswoman. it's ann widdecombe. ann, are we getting free movement, do you think? >> well, i think certainly it's on the horizon. i don't know how quickly he will actually do it, but i've always said there are two ways of trying to unstitch brexit. one, he's not going to do, which is the formal way of trying to rejoin the eu. we're not going to do that. the other is the much more insidious way of just bringing back measures which we had under the eu , such which we had under the eu, such as, for example, free movement. >> so yeah, it's there, it's hovering so it's hovering. >> and would that be such a bad thing. you know, would it, would it actually if it also meant

that we had, you know, fewer customs checks or if it also meant that we were, you know , meant that we were, you know, maybe able to ease a little bit of red tape and eu regulation. what do you think? >> well, one of the reasons why so many of us campaigned and voted for brexit was that we wanted control of our own borders. we wanted to say who came on, what terms they came, what benefits they could get if they were here and what qualifications they needed . we qualifications they needed. we wanted to be able to stipulate all of that. now you can't do that in a free movement agreement and our young people can already come here to work, to study, to do all those things for travel, you know, they just need visas. they can still do it. and in my view, control of our borders was paramount . our borders was paramount. >> okay. there's one line from starmer yesterday that actually worried me quite a lot. and it was in amongst his saying, you know, we need to really guard against the rise of a far right party in britain. now what he also said was basically

progressives of europe need to unite. and i thought, well, hang on a minute, it's progressives that have got us into this mess, isn't it? it was progressives who threw the borders open. it was progressives who decided to instil all of this ridiculous diversity and inclusion stuff. it's progressives that mean that we have police officers dancing the macarena at gay pride. i mean, do we really need progressives of europe unite? >> well, i mean, all the things that people now worry about in this country, including, for example, free speech, which we used to take utterly for granted and now can't, all the things that people worry about are, in fact the result of progressive, so—called progressive measures. nothing actually very progressive about it. i mean, going back to a point where you can't say what you think. i mean, the next thing is we'll be back to the inquisition. you know, it's not progressive at all. it's regressive, but it's dressed up as progress. >> well, you've hit on a point there which actually does feed into something i'm going to be talking about rather a lot when we when we hit the 10:00 hour, which is about whether or not

keir starmer actually is an incredibly authoritarian man on a bit of a power trip with a huge majority and no opposition. and we've had quite an interesting insight into the psychology of keir starmer recently. we had it both after the disorder that we saw in the wake of the southport incident. we've got it now, dare i say it, with the smoking ban as well? do you actually do you think we should be a bit afraid of sir keir starmer ? keir starmer? >> well, i would be afraid of any government with the size of his majority, because effectively he can do what he likes, and so long as his backbenchers go along with him, then, you know, he is all powerful. so i would always be rather wary of that situation. but yes, i think his instincts are pretty authoritarian. and the smoking ban is just one example of that. but i think his instincts are that if he thinks something is right, instincts are that if he thinks something is right , then it must something is right, then it must be done. and that is the exact reverse of how democracy works. >> i think there's also a personality question, isn't there really, and whether or not

he is actually, you know, the times that he was telling us, reminding us in the run up to the election that he used to be the election that he used to be the he used to be the prosecutor . the he used to be the prosecutor. for me, that's starting to look a little bit more sinister now in the cold light of day. i know keir starmer will disagree with this. he'd say that the public voted for him in large numbers. he would say that he stood on a manifesto and that actually he's just doing his best to fix the mess that was left behind. and i you know, i appreciate that. but i do wonder if everything we've seen from keir starmer so far is actually very good for news reform. >> oh, i think undeniably reform will benefit from the complete absence, for example, of any plan. whatever i mean, any plan whatever to deal with the small boats which are still arriving on a daily basis. he's ditched the rwanda scheme, which wasn't actually working, but nevertheless was some sort of a deterrent. he's effectively said we don't need a deterrent. well, okay. here, what are you going to put in its place? and the answer to that is absolutely nothing. yes. that will play into reform's hands very well,

but i'd far rather we had a government that actually was committed to sorting things out than we have to spend the next five years pointing out to the nafion five years pointing out to the nation that they're not doing that. >> i can't help but wonder whether there are some people, you traditional conservative voters now, who are looking at this and, you know, 6 or 7 weeks on or whatever we are from starmer coming to power, seeing everything that we've seen and thinking, oh, goodness gracious me. if we had actually all just voted tory and not reform, then this bloke would have nowhere near the level of power he's got now. how would you respond to that? >> an i would say you had a very short memory, but they had a very short memory. just think of the unholy mess that the conservatives were in. voting for the conservatives was voting for the conservatives was voting for a continuation of that mess. and i don't believe that the votes for reform were protest votes. they were votes. that said, there is a certain type of britain that we want to see, and reform alone is offering it, and we are still alone in offering . we are still alone in offering. >> all right. well, look, anne, thank you very much. it's always a pleasure. that's the wonderful

ann widdecombe. now, a reform spokeswoman. coming up, we do talk a bit meghan markle, actually, because she's outrageously claimed that she uses her quotes global spotlight to sell clothes and that that is a good thing for the world. giving up on changing the world than have we, meghan or not. but next, as keir starmer confirms plans to ban smoking in pub gardens , small parks outside gardens, small parks outside football grounds is our authoritarian prime minister actually just ushering in a depressing nanny state? stay tuned . tuned. >> for that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office friday. it's going to be a cool but sunny start to the last day of the week and a settled day more widely across the uk as high pressure builds

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radio. >> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys. >> tonight we will use it to deliver to change restore service and respect to politics. tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country. >> tread lightly on our lives. well, now we've got this. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. >> is starmer an authoritarian on a power trip? and i think this woman speaks for the nation. >> why are you taking all my privileges away and spoiling my life, my enjoyment? because that's all i've got. you see my cigarettes ? cigarettes? >> you're going to hear a lot more from glennis. but is it any wonder that keir starmer is absolutely tanking in the polls? also tonight ? also tonight? >> the bulk of the bullying and abuse that i was experiencing, it's not catty. it's cruel.

>> so meghan markle is now apparently using her royal title to make money from jewellery and fashion lines. should she be stopped? on my panel tonight it's gb news star nana akua. tory peer lord bailey and ex—labour party adviser matthew lazaro. and which footballer has been caught going for it at karaoke ? cause this world is you , karaoke? cause this world is you, labour seat. >> and i know you hear. >> and i know you hear. >> oh! get ready britain, here we go . we go. is sir keir starmer drunk on power and out of control? next . power and out of control? next. >> good evening. from the dv newsroom. it'sjust >> good evening. from the dv newsroom. it's just gone 10:00. your top story this hour. the prime minister has confirmed a

ban on outdoor smoking is being considered because of the huge burden smoking puts on the nhs and the taxpayer. according to what the sun newspaper says, a secret whitehall papers. ministers are considering making it illegal to light up in outdoor restaurants, playgrounds and outside nightclubs and stadiums. hospitality bosses say new restrictions would cost jobs, but sir keir starmer insists action is needed. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. thatis every year because of smoking. that is a preventable death . that is a preventable death. it's a huge burden on the nhs and of course it's a burden on the taxpayer. so yes, we are going to take decisions in this space. more details will be revealed, but this is a preventable series of deaths and we've got to take the action to reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer . taxpayer. >> meanwhile, the prime minister has said he discussed resetting

relations with the eu during a meeting with french president emmanuel macron in paris today. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders focused on a new treaty expected to take six months to finalise. illegal migration was also on the agenda as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs. it follows news that over 20,000 migrants have crossed the english channel into the uk this year, with hundreds arriving just yesterday. meanwhile conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has pledged to introduce a legally binding annual cap on net migration of 100,000 if he becomes leader. delivering a speech on public services this afternoon, the former security minister said high levels of population growth fuelled by immigration could not continue . immigration could not continue. >> conservative party, under my leadership will commit to a legally binding annual cap on non—british annual net migration of 100,000. we cannot sustain

the hundreds of thousands. it is today. >> now a van driver has been convicted for smuggling a group of migrants in a hidden compartment who were found banging and screaming for help as they were slowly starved of oxygen. jurors at lewes crown court unanimously found anas al—mustafa, a father of two, guilty of trafficking seven people in a specially adapted van on board a ferry to newhaven. crew members on the ship used an axe to free the migrants after hearing their pleas for help. the 43 year old will be sentenced next friday. nine children and two adults have been taken to hospital after a chlorine leak was reported in a northwest london swimming pool. the london fire brigade said. everyone active sports centre in welby will be remaining closed until further nofice remaining closed until further notice , and teenage swimmer notice, and teenage swimmer poppy notice, and teenage swimmer poppy maskell created history with britain's first gold of the paris 2024 paralympics. the 19

year old's time of one minute and three seconds broke the world record by a third of a second, and she won the race. prime minister sir keir starmer tweeted to congratulate miss maskell on her fantastic achievement. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> the nation is now waking up to the idea that keir starmer might be a man with a dangerous authoritarian streak, who is drunk on power. he won't stop the boats, he won't stop knife crime, he won't stop rampant drug use in the streets. he won't help homeless brits. he won't help homeless brits. he won't provide better accommodation for our armed forces. no, he's going to criminalise smoking in the park

or out the back of the pub. that's of course, when he's not got the police arresting 11 year olds, isn't it? when he was elected, he told us this. >> we will use it to deliver change, to restore service and respect to politics. tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country. >> he was going to tread lightly on our lives. then last night, the front page of the sun emerged and it was revealed that he was planning on banning smoking in pub gardens, small parks , outside nightclubs and parks, outside nightclubs and near football grounds. so the prime minister then confirmed that he's actually seriously considering this. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. that's a preventable death. it's a huge burden on the nhs, and of course, it's a burden on the taxpayer. so yes, we are going

to take decisions in this space. more details will be revealed. >> it is the most authoritarian thing possible for a leader to say, i'm doing this for your own good. rubbish. even people on the left think it's rubbish. ian dunt, the notorious left wing journalist, tweeted banning smoking in outside spaces. the worst kind of prurient, hectoring, interfering, puritanical bs. no health base it to it, just a flat out act of social control. smokers do not really cost the nhs a load of money. there is a figure doing the rounds that it costs the nhs around £17 billion a year. that figure comes from a pressure group called action on smoking and health that wants to ban smoking. smokers often pay far more in tobacco duty than they cost the state in healthcare. numerous studies back this up, one from the new england journal of medicine. smoking cessation would lead to an increased healthcare costs. a study from finland. smokers lifetime healthcare costs were ,4,700

less than non—smokers. the netherlands lifetime health expenditure was highest amongst healthy living people and lowest for smokers . this is the kind of for smokers. this is the kind of policy that can only be dreamt up policy that can only be dreamt ”p by policy that can only be dreamt up by someone devoid of a soul and a social life. it will kill the nightlife industry . it will the nightlife industry. it will kill pubs. for anyone watching this, by the way, who doesn't smoke? fair enough obviously, and thinks that this is okay from starmer. it's smoking in wide open parks that's banned for our own good. now then it will be a limit on the amount of calories that you can buy in one shop at the supermarket. then it will be no takeaways after midnight, then it will be goodness knows what else. that is the trajectory. if keir starmer goes ahead with this, it will be political suicide. here's a prime example of what will be said in every single pub all over the country. >> and it's the cigarette taxes that keep the country going. and now it's big. does he not want people to have a life?

everything he's already taught me £200 eating allowance away. do you know what i mean? and not just me. and now he's clamping down on this. what is wrong with the man? why are you taking all my privileges away and spoiling my privileges away and spoiling my life? my enjoyment ? because my life? my enjoyment? because that's all i've got is some cigarettes . what else is he cigarettes. what else is he going to do to cripple us all? what do you know? we'll be paying what do you know? we'll be paying for fresh air soon. >> he probably thinks she's a far right lunatic. over the last few weeks, keir starmer has revealed his true self to the nation, hasn't he? he's tanking in the polls. he's to down —16 in the polls. he's to down —16 in the polls. he's to down —16 in the approval ratings, around 9.5 million people voted for labour at the last election, out of a population of 70 million. okay, many might think that he is an out of touch, authoritarian control freak. let's get our thoughts. my panel gb news presenter nana akua conservative peer lord bailey and former labour party adviser

matthew lars. look, sean, i'm going to start with you on this, if that's all right, and just ask you directly, you know, do you think that keir starmer is a dangerous authoritarian? >> look, what i think is he's a man who feels like he can just make a rule. and it's and it's best for us. but it takes away all of our agency. we know what's best for us. we've had enough controls around smoking now to confine smoking to those who are really committed and want to do it. they know it's a decision for an adult to make. if you really want to save the nhs money, you should look at obesity. 30,000 people die from obesity. 30,000 people die from obesity. it leads to high levels of diabetes. diabetes is the single greatest cause of blindness in the country. the cost is huge, far bigger than a smoker could ever cost. but the reason he's picked smoking is because it's low hanging fruit. they're an easy target and it sounds good at the dinner parties he goes to, whereas really he should be concentrating on the health of the country. and that starts with obesity. we've just overtaken the americans in the proportion of us that are overweight. >> nana can i just say, what the heckis >> nana can i just say, what the heck is this doing on his radar? we've got a knife crime epidemic. we've got a knife crime epidemic. we've got, you know, a massive,

massive issues when it comes to illegal immigration. we've got all sorts of financial mess, all of that stuff. and he's there. he thinks it's a great idea to ban smoking in pub gardens. >> well, this is just smoke and mirrors, isn't it? he's trying to what he's come up with is an answer to something. where there wasn't really a problem. so he's come up with that. so we're all talking about this instead of looking at the knife crime epidemic, as you said , all the epidemic, as you said, all the other things that they could be handung other things that they could be handling as a labour government, they're not. look, i used to smoke and then somebody told me in my 20s and somebody said to me, look, you carry on with that, you're going to get lips like an anus. and that put me off. excuse me. apologies if anyone's upset with that, but i just. and i thought to myself, thatis just. and i thought to myself, that is the end of my smoking. >> i'm never going to get that image out of my mind now. >> it is. i was like, oh no, no, no, i got it, i got it, and i gave up there and then i think this is pretty disingenuous. look, if you really wanted to stop smoking, you could ban the thing altogether because there are no health benefits to whatsoever. but they're not. so this is just a way of. >> okay, matthew, i put it to you. right. so i smoke. i'm much

healthier than keir starmer. i ran six k this morning. you're also 30 years younger than him. fine but i'm sorry, but i am much older. i do, i will not take lectures in health from that man. >> will you take them from anybody? >> yes, i will, i would. if keir starmer was the picture of health, then i absolutely . but health, then i absolutely. but he's not. >> he does play football so he can run it. i mean he's, he's, he plays it poorly. look i'm sorry matthew but i'm not. >> look, look right as that man got to tell me or anyone that i couldn't walk outside my flat, walk into an empty park and have a cigarette. >> no no no no no. i was only joking. because remember when theresa coffey and ken clarke were health secretaries? people, you know, people people wouldn't take lectures from them because, you know, ken clarke was smoking, you know, and he. and he likes a pint. look, i think this is a daft policy. i suspect it will be gone within the week, i think it's sort of overtook the government. and, i mean, i think it was unwise to give the clip that he did, which did sound patronising and hectoring. >> false. can i just say it is also false, the idea that that smokers cost the nhs a huge

amount of money every single yearis amount of money every single year is not true. >> and also i mean the optics of giving, of lecturing people about smoking in a pub garden from the courtyard of the elysee palace was not lost on me with my former labour comms hat on. hello fellow members of the working. yes you know, down the dog and duck in donnie , can i dog and duck in donnie, can i just say that? >> actually, look, i would be to happy see smoking banned altogether. i'm not saying, you know, but i get it that you want to smoke patrick with somebody who is a health expert. i can tell you now, there literally is no benefit. if it were brought out today. smoking would not be allowed. but a new thing. you know, the most important thing about this, all joking aside, it's what he's not concentrating on. >> we have a knife crime in this country that is punishing particular communities to the death of their children. that's where his focus should be. because no matter which community you're from, that would be what you'd want your pmqs speaking about, this sounds like the kind of conversation they're having around the dinner

tables in posh places in london. >> it's subterfuge. it's trying to smoke. don't look over here. look over there. i mean, we've got a massive immigration problem. he won't answer questions about that, though, will he? but this is what he's coming up with for us. it's a bit like rishi sunak when he came out with his one. >> well, i think i think now possibly matthew, one of the damaging things for keir starmer in all of this is that regardless of whether or not this comes to fruition, if you scrap it and by the way, we've got the front pages in about 15 minutes and it's not it's not good. >> no, good. > no, no , good. >> no, no, no, good. >> n o, no, no i , good. >> no, no, no, i mean, it's not ifs— >> no, no, no, i mean, it's not it's not a great day. they've had better 24 hours. >> we've now seen the inside of his brain haven't we. and actually it looks well, we're not sure it came from him. >> one of the papers says that it's a sue gray idea. the >> he's an idiot. >> he's an idiot. >> he's an idiot. >> he's the pm, he's the pm. it all comes from him. >> i think the well, it ultimately ends with him. it doesn't all start with him. i mean, yes, he's the one who has to make the decisions. >> 158 seat majority. >> 158 seat majority. >> let me say on this, on this, on on this issue of is he an authoritarian generally i think the i think the answer is that this may be a useful there may be a silver lining to this cloud ,

be a silver lining to this cloud, which is this may be a shock to the government to remind the government that it needs to restrain, it needs to restrain any any nanny state instincts, and it needs to remember the words that keir said so eloquently on downing street that you need to tread lightly on, on people's lives. >> thomas. i don't want him treading on my life at all. and secondly, you cannot deny your nature if you're authoritarian, it will come out again in some form. >> he's going to do a triathlon with an iron man with patrick in my mouth the whole way. >> no, but one of the things i was thinking about, about this and this is, is how do you enforce it? okay. so can see and i know i've been trying to think about how would you. because if you're going to roll this out you're going to roll this out you're going to have to have some level of enforcement. so are you going to end up with what, like smoke wardens, like your traffic wardens? the other aspect to it, and i'm not trying to go down some kind of conspiracy theory rabbit hole here. i just can't see any other way of doing it, is that you would have some kind of facial recognition technology in a park or something, and you'd get a fine through the post if you're not allowed. >> well, i think you're i think you're thinking this is i mean,

let's face it, one of the reasons this looks daft is because it's not just makes the government look authoritarian, it makes the government look out of touch. let me just finish, because, because, because at the moment, if you go into a lot of parks across the country, you will see what's the what's we wafting across the smell of weed. so, so that's not being enforced at the moment. and people know that. so it makes the government look like idiots because the public know it's not going to be enforceable. >> this is also literally the last straw for the entertainment industry. they don't need this. they've just come out of covid and everything else like that. look, i don't like smoking. i hate the vaping. i agree, when the smoke comes out of me and people sit out there and go, well, if you don't like it, you can go, because i'm outside and you know, so i don't like that. i would if it was me, i'd ban it altogether. but i just think, frankly, that this is just a ridiculous idea. it's not going to work. >> the real the real problem here is do you remember when rishi sunak had his smoking ban that's coming back? he was pilloried by members of the labour party. i'm sure keir starmer was. no. >> they all voted for it. every single labour mp voted for it. >> i'm sure they were to told because this was coming along. my point being, if that's ridiculous, so is this. >> but sean, can i ask you a

question? if so, the sunak style smoking ban, which is which is the age limit. so increasing the age limit year by year. so people born now, will you vote for it if it comes to the lords, even if the rest of the party do neither of those two things work? >> neither of those two things. you're going to have this bizarre thing where my 14 year old son will never be able to smoke at my 17 year old daughter would be. it's weird. it doesn't work well. you have to get rid of it. >> he was trying to, but you have to allow people a certain level of freedom and autonomy. >> if you're going to ban smoking, there's a lot of other things you should ban before that. >> i can tell you, when they see those headlines, they'll be thinking, maybe we'll be a bit less nanny state in our policy discussion. >> i think there is. i think there has been a big concern here about keir starmer, and i think rightly so, you know, 11 year olds being arrested, whatever it is they might have done, you know, but 11 year olds being arrested, i mean, the doors kicked in and you've got, you know, some we're sending the stormtroopers around to that, to the lady in the park. >> what about what about, you know, is patrick, you know, it boils down to government is much harder than it looks. fair

enough. that's what it boils down to. well, here we go. >> i'm glad i'm not doing it. anyway, another good start. thank you very much. coming up, i'll have the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. plus what famous footballer has been caught going for it at the old karaoke hostess world issue? >> and i know you . >> and i know you. >> and i know you. >> oh, it's a bad day out. i'll reveal who that is very, very soon, in case you can't already guess. but first, meghan markle claimed that she's using her self—styled global spotlight to flog clothes and jewellery. so, as the duchess of sussex got any relevance anymore, is she just a low rent kim kardashian? stay tuned for the editor at large and the mail on sunday. charlotte griffiths, who's got the inside track? she's going to join me in the studio

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up, i've got the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages , and i am newspaper front pages, and i am in a couple of minutes time. they're about to tell you about some remarkable harry and william news that has just landed. will get a bit more detail on that. and then i'll bnng detail on that. and then i'll bring it to you. but first, meghan markle has found another use for her global spotlight. she's promoting designer brands while the runaway royal turned qvc saleswoman has invested in a handbag brand called sesta collective. using her recent trip to colombia to flaunt one of her £568 purses. the recent investment comes after her own brand, american riviera orchard,

ran into trademark issues. speaking to the new york times, she said this fantastic quote it says are times where i know there's a global spotlight and attention will be given to each detail of what i may or may not be wearing. then i support designers that have really great friendships with or smaller up and coming brands that haven't gotten the attention they should be getting. that's one of the most powerful things that i'm able to do, and that's simply wearing like an earring. well, joining me in the studio now , joining me in the studio now, let's go to more detail on this. is the editor at large at the mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths. charlotte, thank you very, very much. and should meghan be allowed to be using her royal titles in order to make money from things like fashion brands etc. >> well, this is exactly why the queen said you can't be half in, half out because she probably foresaw problems like this coming down the line, because the problem isn't so much her using her fame and her royal associations to promote a brand, because actually catherine does do that. she promoted catherine zariadres earrings and made catherine zorayda an overnight hit. but the problem is meghan

using that word the global stage. because meghan has used her connections to the royal family to create pseudo royal tours, and on the royal tours to promote handbags that she's invested in and that's where it's really complicated, because she's meeting the vice president of colombia, wearing a handbag that she's invested in, and previously she's worn this sesta handbag brand for lunch with cameron diaz, where she got papped cameron diaz, where she got pappedin cameron diaz, where she got papped in california. i think that's also okay because she's just being papped in california, possibly on purpose. but when you're present, when you're, you know , presenting to columbia know, presenting to columbia your association with the royal family and with britain on the world stage, and also flogging a handbag, qvc style, that's where it's just embarrassing. >> kim kardashian style. so it's influencer style, isn't it? so when she was not arguably helping to prop up some quite despotic regimes like nigeria and colombia, where there's big controversies there, you know, she's she's now essentially a brand ambassador, an influencer. >> she's she's always been an influencer to be fair to meghan, she was an influencer before she

met harry. but what's what she's doing now, which is slightly ambiguous, is she's saying, well, i'm only promoting sort of brands with a women focus or good wellbeing focus. you know, this is a brand made in africa. so she's kind of trying to be altruistic, but it's actually kind of painting a confusing picture because the kardashians are just really open. they're just like, we are flogging ourselves. please give us for money stuff. whereas meghan's like, well, actually, you know , like, well, actually, you know, i'm an extended member of the royal family. i'm a duchess this is, you know, that's where it's just it's too confusing. and there is an association with the british royal family. >> right. well we can now get you some breaking news. and this is just lending to us as of a few minutes ago at the mirror is reporting that prince harry and prince william secretly reunited at his uncle's funeral after the duke made a secret visit to the uk. so harry reportedly flew from his us to home join william at the service for lord robert fellowes, reuniting with his brother and of course, the

future king, prince william. well, it's huge news coming after the daily mail's diary editor richard eden revealed that sources told him that harry's decision not to give any interviews for the paperback relaunch of spare proves that the duke is desperate for royal reconciliation. well, at face value this looks like, oh, okay, well, maybe they they they actually did reconcile, but actually did reconcile, but actually it's not necessarily not necessarily the truth, is it? >> i don't think william and harry spoke to each other at this funeral, but it's a really big deal that they were in the same room. they're in the same county. they're in norfolk together for this funeral. and lady jane fellowes is obviously diana's sister. so it was quite likely harry was going to come, but it's somehow still quite surprising because the war between them is so intense that there was some talk before the funeral that actually harry wouldn't come in case it overshadowed the funeral. but they've managed to do it undercover. i mean, it's the first we've heard of it. so that's pretty well, i suppose. >> look. hey, good for him, right? i mean, he obviously felt strongly enough about this that he wanted to go and in his mind,

do the right thing. they kept it completely under wraps. so in that sense, good for him . the that sense, good for him. the other side of it, i will point out, is, you know, for all of this fanfare about him not necessarily being safe in the uk and the gaze of the publicity, i mean, he has just proven that he basically can come and go from the uk without anyone noticing quite easily. >> yes, because he would have thought he'd be flanked by his normally huge security detail. he can't go anywhere with all the security he needs because he's always in danger. so obviously he wasn't, you know , obviously he wasn't, you know, flanked by a cavalcade on this occasion because he slipped in and out . but occasion because he slipped in and out. but it occasion because he slipped in and out . but it does go well and out. but it does go well with what richard eden was saying in the daily mail was there's a lot of mood music at there's a lot of mood music at the moment that he is trying to extend an olive branch or not step on any landmines. you know, the fact that he didn't publish any additional information in his book is actually quite a big deal his book is actually quite a big deal, because he could have used this as an opportunity to throw more mud, basically at the royal family. and everyone was expecting him to, and probably even he was expected to when he signed that deal with the book publishers who have been pushing him to write another chapter.

it's really important to publishers that he does, but he didn't. and so, you know, the mood music we're hearing is that he is trying at to last make amends. >> well, that is interesting. so one eyewitness at this funeral has told the mirror, we never saw them speak to each other, and they kept their distance . and they kept their distance. so, you know, that's that's where it is. but i suppose at least they were in the same room as you were saying. and that is maybe, maybe a step towards some progress. i mean, it would be absolutely remarkable, though, wouldn't it? i mean, i don't i don't know how that happens. how on earth could there be a why would harry do you think be desperate for a royal reconciliation? how could he possibly do that? and square it with meghan? >> well, that's the thing. he is stuck between a rock and a hard place because he's got william, who's actually a very stubborn character, and meghan, who's well , character, and meghan, who's well, basically also a very stubborn character, you know, and he is kind of caught in the middle of these great forces in his life. i think charles is softening and, you know, open to the idea of a reconciliation. but i think, harry, i think he's potentially the novelty has worn

off a bit. you know, he's realised he's quite isolated over there. he hasn't spoken to some of his friends for years. and he needs to find a way to get back into the royal family. and you know, not letting off huge landmines by writing rude things about them in a book is somewhere to start. and it could be a great many years before he even thinks of coming over here or reconciling. but it's got to start somewhere, hasn't it? >> i wonder if william knew it would be an interesting subplot to all of this, wouldn't it, if harry just emerged through the back of the church doors? you know , we'll have to wait and see. >> i think it's likely william knew william. >> he knows everything. all right, well, look, thank you very, very much. and thank you for enlightening us a bit more as well with that, that breaking news that harry and william have at least been in the same room at least been in the same room at the same time for the first time in quite a while. but charlotte griffiths, editor at large at the mail on sunday, coming up, the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages, keir starmer smoking ban is dominating. he's managed to unite both the left and the right in outrage. so well done sir keir and my panel will give you their views on that. plus post office world issue . post office world issue. >> david and i know you .

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welcome back to patrick christys . welcome back to patrick christys. tonight i am holding in my hands the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. so let's do it. the metro. we're going to start with pubs fury at starmer's outdoor clampdown . stub out this cigs clampdown. stub out this cigs ban plan. they say the independent starmer's smoking ban plan has pubs and clubs fuming banning smoking in pub gardens, outside restaurants , gardens, outside restaurants, sports grounds will mean closures and job cuts as the hospitality industry. the pm, though, says we've got to take action to reduce the huge burden smokers put on the nhs. can i just say he's going to have to start proving this huge burden at some point, by the way. but anyway, the daily telegraph, he's taking you on in the

triathlon. that's after he's taken me on a triathlon. the daily express has sir keir sounded death knell for our pubs with a picture of nigel farage having a pint and a fag outside a pub today. and it's nanny statism, says the express. let's go to the guardian. gosh, this is remarkable. starmer has clashed with pub firms over plan for outdoor smoking ban. they say that it could do serious economic harm. the guardian also goes off on eu working on fresh mobility plan for the uk. so they knock on the story of the last couple of days a bit. so this is the latest developments in our eu reset. it says eu member states are working on an updated proposal for a youth mobility scheme with britain, after an earlier paper by the european commission was rejected out of hand by labour in april. so they are they are working on it. it's happening. right. so there we go. let's go to the front of the telegraph workers to get the right to demand a four day week. so the tories warn of compressed hours planned for staff to leave businesses

petrified. let me go into a bit of detail on this and then we'll discuss. so it says workers are to be given new rights to demand a four day week in a law planned for this autumn, which is now ish, isn't it? soon, next couple of months, the telegraph understands the system of compressed hours, which lets an employee work their contracted weeks hours in four days rather than five, will be included in the package of new workers rights. it will form part of a law being championed by angela raynen law being championed by angela rayner, the deputy pm, in close consultation with the trade unions as well as businesses. right, okay. nana good idea or not, four day week. >> well, this has just come from people who only work 9 to 5, who don't really understand anything. it feels like a really old fashioned, backdated policy that has obviously been created by civil servants because they do normal nine to fives, and i remember jacob rees—mogg trying to get a lot of them back into the office. they didn't want to do that. obviously it's something i think they have to offer a level of flexibility, but it was not enshrined in law. but this will mean that an employer now has the control. i

just think that the labour government are putting together things that will completely destroy growth in the economy in every way , shape and form. the every way, shape and form. the cigarette ban, if they go with that or the thing not smoking outside, destroying the outdoor industry and the pub industry, this will destroy employment industries because employers will not want to take on employees. why would you want to take somebody on who can demand that? oh no, i have to work four days. that's not even reasonable. >> this is angela rayner's brainchild. >> there's a couple of things i'd say. firstly, britain has had a very, very long standing, poor level of efficiency, you know, of productivity . and this know, of productivity. and this will do nothing to change that. and if this is a government serious about growth, they have to look at our productivity. i cannot believe the deputy prime minister got this past the chancellor. if this chancellor is serious about growth, if she if she wants to be taken seriously in any way by businesses, she she simply can't do this. and when that article talks about the businesses they've been working with, i'd be very interested to hear which

business sectors or individual business sectors or individual business people they've been working with. who said a four day week is a good idea for their business? because for most businesses, that spells death. and the most important thing, labour always claim to be for the working man or woman. working class people, blue collar people. there's a lot of blue collar jobs where that simply will not float. so those people lose their jobs or those jobs will be given to a in a completely different country . completely different country. how are labour squaring that with their supposed history? all right . right. >> okay, matthew, do you want to come back to that? i mean, the key line. well, one of the key lines for me in this is that it's apparently been drawn up in consultation with the unions. you know, the other aspect of this is that this appears to be angela rayner's baby. you know, starmer has got to give her something. is this it? >> no. i mean, look, there's a there's a key problem with the telegraph article, which is it says the workers have the right to demand a four day week. that's not true. it is to will to be request a four day week. any. so two things. one, this is

not let me finish. now it's we're not talking about, people doing fewer hours. we're talking about some people who may wish to do the same number of hours over a fewer number of days, i.e. doing a very long days. frankly, in the industry we work in, people tend to work 10 or 12 hour days and do fewer of them per week. so, you know, it's that sort of it's that it's that and they would have the right to ask for that. and if an employer doesn't think it will work for their business, the employer can say, no . say, no. >> let's be clear if that that detail i accept is a very important one. it is if you could request as opposed to demand, you'll simply be told, no, it's as simple as that. >> and most businesses will say no, but some businesses will say, but the point is, the why that's important do that already how. >> now. >> but they probably they can in many cases can. >> but you don't have the legal right to request. it means that you have the right for the employer to have to give them an answer. why? >> it's important that labour has said this or not, because it demonstrates to the markets, to employers, to people who generate wealth. they haven't got a scooby.

>> the truth of the matter is quite a lot of firms do this, do four day weeks. they tend to be kind of the more, you know , the kind of the more, you know, the sort of start ups that, you know, and things like that with, you know, ones with posh coffee machines in the corner. i don't think it's going to be a major thing, but it gives it gives you the right to ask your employer and have that could be disruptive. >> well, where did you hear that? it's not a demand that employers can make. no, no, i'm just asking. hang on. i'm asking you. where did you hear that? it's not a demand, because that's what the article says. and i know angela rayner has been working on this sort of thing for a while. she was trying to get rid of the, the gig economy. so just explain to me where it is that it says that it's not a prerequisite. and because the policy because because the policy because because unlike the telegraph article, which has got its own agenda, the policy mirrors the fact that you've been able to or you've been about the right to ask for flexible, flexible working. >> which is already enshrined. and so this is an extension of that of an existing. >> but it doesn't mean anything. if you could have read this exactly. this is the problem. this is it becomes government by by decree. if and press releases, if you could already

do that. what exactly are we changing? >> you're changing because at the moment you have the right to work flexibly, which is general . work flexibly, which is general. you know, it would make that specific. you have the right to ask for four days. >> all right. well, hey, look, you know, there'll be some people out there now who think, you know, the compressed hours thing could work well for them, and i can. >> i can see that. all right. there'll be other people who think this is realistically going to be people working from home friday afternoon off. >> sounds fun. >> sounds fun. >> everyone will do monday to thursday, won't they? and then you never get a moment off. >> you see. »- >> you see. >> you see. >> you see. >> you see it in london. you know, i'm i'm a martyr. the thing is, what i will say about this is just quickly is i always feel a bit squiffy talking about these things because i, i am one of the few people who is genuinely very lucky to do a job, which is also their hobby, right? like i this isn't work for me. this is just great. i can't believe i actually can't believe i'm allowed to. probably not for long, but anyway, well, earlier we thought you might not. i mean, i would choose to do this generally, so i'm not really equipped to say, well, you know, you should, you know. >> yeah, but it wouldn't work here. it wouldn't work if you if you said to the boss. oh, you know what i want. i'm only going to do four days a week. i can

only do these days. is there, i think, patrick, you might be. i wouldn't be much longer. i used to temp. i patrick. >> i used to say nothing about the boss class here. >> i used. i used to temp, i used to temp. i end up sweeping up, actually doing cleaning. i did not like that. and if i thought i could compress my hours, i would have compressed. >> yeah . i'm hours, i would have compressed. >> yeah. i'm not. yeah, hours, i would have compressed. >> yeah . i'm not. yeah, that's >> yeah. i'm not. yeah, that's true. just because i don't want to compress my hours doesn't necessarily mean i will be allowed to compress them, i suppose. but anyway, now we've been teasing this throughout the show. which which footballer was caught doing karaoke in a pub ? caught doing karaoke in a pub? this might give it away in plymouth last night. we can now reveal it. >> well, you barely have a future. you better want to be free. because this world is you leaving and i know you . you. hey leaving and i know you. you. hey it's wayne rooney. >> there you go. can i just say, why has he gone acapella

confidence. >> he. >> he. >> he's confident . he's confident. >> he thinks he sounds good. unfortunately, i sense a second career. >> someone needs to have a word with him and just say, look, wayne, you know it's not for you, mate. fantastic striker, fantastic bloke. not. you're not going to be on x factor anytime soon. good for him though. you know. charity for single christmas. >> charity single. would have to be charity. you'd have to give it away. yeah. but anyway. right. coming up as yet another labour bigwig speaks out against starmer's vat raid on private schools, does the controversial policy have any benefits? >> my panel are going to be talking about that soon. i've got more of you from pages as well, including. it appears that keir starmer has done something incredibly disrespectful to margaret thatcher. stay tuned

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. more front pages for you. and there are some belters here. let's do it. we go to the eye. anyone who, follows tommy robinson on twitter will have known this story was coming out about him at least two days ago. but anyway, tommy robinson's plan to use sikhs, jews and hindus to turn people in the uk against islam. this is the eyes words, of course. they say that he laid out plans to attract sikhs, jews , hindus and members sikhs, jews, hindus and members of the black community to a uk against hate rally across the country or rallies it says here. that's according to secret details obtained by the eye, he says he's going to unite the uk against jihad, which is interesting. really because the eye makes it sound like they think that islam and jihad are the same thing. so i don't know if they've maybe dropped a bit of a clanger there. but let's go

to the daily mirror, terror swoops the talk of jihad. terror swoops the talk of jihad. terror swoop saved thousands. cia chief says that fanatics had planned to massacre tens of thousands of people at the taylor swift concert in vienna. now we're going to go over to the times. now, this is an interesting front page workers to be weighed in the office for a health mot middle age are going to be targeted , apparently in drive to targeted, apparently in drive to cut heart attacks. we'll return to that. but i'll just tell you about the daily mail as well. gesture of astonishingly petty vindictiveness against a political giant by the prime minister. outrage as starmer removes margaret thatcher's portrait , so removes margaret thatcher's portrait, so apparently this is the 100 zero zero £0 painting that's been taken down from can i just say, the thatcher room? all right, he said he found it unsettling, look, let's just go with fatty's being weighed in the office then, because, sean, you've actually bothered to read into this, and it's not quite as it seems. >> no, i think this is an excellent idea. so you're smoking bans a load of nonsense. but this that does health mots for middle aged people at work is great. it's preventative work. this will save lives. it

will save the nhs a bundle of money. it's exactly the kind of thing we should be doing. and as matthew rightly pointed out, this is what lots of posh people do. they get a health mot this i would roll this out universally across the country, catching health concerns early is how you survive them. how we save money. so basically, apparently 130,000 middle aged people will be offered free health checks in their workplaces over the next six months. >> so that includes, 20, 20 minutes it takes involving weighing staff, measuring blood pressure, cholesterol, see if they're at risk of type 2 diabetes or heart attacks. i think it's hard. >> well, no, it does sound like a good idea , but what's the a good idea, but what's the follow up? oh, yeah. no, you've got this, that and the other. then how long have you got to wait before you even see anybody about it? this is the problem with it. it sounds wonderful. it's a great idea, but perhaps they need to start investing in they need to start investing in the back end of it as well. go on then. what have you got? short, short. >> cut the gp and go straight to the pharmacist. actually get something done. if you can get a diagnosis in that position and they tell you what you need to take, go straight to the

pharmacist. that's where the official well this this actually i think is a genuinely good thing as far as i can see. >> i mean, look, i'm sitting back and letting others praise the government. more, more, more detail may emerge, but i'm struggling to see how i would have thought that even when people talk about the spiralling cost of the nhs, when you think, well, i'd be perfectly happy to pay my well, i'd be perfectly happy to pay my tax so that everyone in the uk, basically who's at work, gets a health check. >> yeah, for people who are working, say yes, i agree with you working people, it'd be less tax, you'd be paying less tax in the long run because of that . the long run because of that. absolutely. yeah. and that's the key. >> that's the key thing. >> that's the key thing. >> people's lives will be saved because of that. they might find a little lump or they might find something. you know what i mean? that you miss yourself, which we're quite bad at in this country. people don't like to go to the dogs. you know, i've had things, particularly men absolutely need to go to the doctor for. but if someone turns up at my place of work, well, particularly men, men are wait often when it's too late to act. >> and if you're in a health situation, you have a qualified person speaking to you. it bnngs person speaking to you. it brings all of your health needs because yeah, that's the key thing is just going into workplaces. >> it does depend on how in—depth this is. i mean, you're talking as though it's some real

serious, in—depth thing. it might just be we just where you take your blood pressure and do and check your this. and that's not really going to tell me. >> bloods from bloods. >> bloods from bloods. >> well if they're going to do bloods yes. but i doubt they will. they're not the major. >> the major, the major health battles this country has. bloods are a good start to fighting. >> they're actually going to do blood tests. i really hope so. it also gives me blood tests on those, aren't they? though? >> they're meant a chance to talk to talk to a health professional, which they may not have gone into their gp surgery for years and they might raise something else. there's a little bit going on there. yeah. >> or you know, i'm struggling a bit mentally at the minute. male suicide is a big thing. but, yeah. or can i just can i just whizzes on. sorry i just because because there is a big story on the front of the daily mail, and i've got a feeling it might come up when we do today's greatest britain and union jackass. so let's do that then. let's do that thing we do every night. there we go. right the daily mail have obviously gone in on this now, i don't know, i couldn't possibly guess about this. nana. who's your union jackass >> well, it's got to be. it's got to be meghan markle. yeah. and these, these handbags and things that she's wearing because she's in the spotlight. and the handbag, by the way, was over £500. so it's not as if

anyone could afford this thing. so she's going to highlight things when she goes on her faux royal tours and other engagements to help to promote things that she's probably invested in, which is i think is a bit the question that i wish i'd asked you, nana, was who's your greatest britain? all right. well, because you asked me a union jack. that's right. you asked the correct question. >> why don't we go crazy and do it in reverse order? why don't we order the person running the greatest? >> my greatest britain. there's got to be margaret thatcher. of course. she's amazing, iron lady. how dare sir keir starmer remove her picture in the thatcher room. what is he thinking? what a petty little man, matthew. >> so i've actually been. i've been asking sources in downing street about this . i mean, i street about this. i mean, i thought it was from the flat, but no, it seems it's from the thatcher room, which is confusing. yeah, i think from the flat it was legitimate to take the picture down, but he's spoken. he's praised mrs. thatcher as a strong leader before, and obviously her picture will remain on the stairs where all the pictures of the former pms are. it's just he finds apparently, he finds this particular picture unnerving. it's called the thatcher room.

>> nobody else did. >> nobody else did. >> maybe we can put a different picture of thatcher in it. jealous? >> jealous. it will never be a keir starmer in this picture. >> it's not. i don't think it's the greatest picture of mrs. t £100,000 as well. oh it won't be obviously it will just go back into the government collection ready for the next tory pm when commissioned by gordon brown i didn't realise this. >> remember when gordon brown ianed >> remember when gordon brown invited mrs. mrs. t to number 10 for a cup of tea? oh, there you go. well, there you are, so, yeah, apparently starmer has taken it down because he finds it unsettling. it's another kind of power play though, isn't it? >> oh, it is , isn't it? >> oh, it is, isn't it? >> like it's another little sign, another guy is. >> well it's one of the great things when you, when you were a minister or even an adviser, they all get to go and choose, go to the government art collection and pick which pictures represent them and choose them. >> so i'd go absolutely wild with that. i'd be like, right, where's attila the hun? >> you know, i'd get pictures in from the beano . there you go. from the beano. there you go. >> yeah, they're probably they're great. great dundee business. all right. thompson. >> so, so let's go on. so go on. so— >> so, so let's go on. so go on. so it's great we're on great britain here. >> so my greatest britain is glynis essex from newcastle for her message to keir starmer over

his possible smoking ban. i think she spoke for most of the country about where she thinks he's headed and his popularity, when she said he'll probably end up charging for us air. i think she really got their rock on. >> glenn, as here you are again. >> glenn, as here you are again. >> why are you checking all my privileges away and spoiling my life, my enjoyment? because that's all i've got is some cigarettes . cigarettes. >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. >> but i would implore you to go back. we played it at the top of the 10:00. >> she's the new brenda from bristol, who captured the nation's imagination and her show on gb news starts on monday . show on gb news starts on monday. management have said she's good value. she won't work. she took a five day week. i'm not going to win. so i don't know why i'm bothered, just not bothered. it's rachel reeves . it's rachel reeves. >> you're not going to win. you're not going to win. >> let's be fair. >> let's be fair. >> let's be fair. >> let them do it. as the respected independent institute for fiscal studies vindicates their claims that the tories did leave a massive black hole in the asylum budget. >> all right. >> all right. >> okay, so today's winner of the greatest britain is glenis

lindsay and glenis. fantastic okay, so what i do now know your union. jack carson. sorry that was my fault earlier. it's meghan markle for grifting. is that right? well that's right. >> grifting that's a strong term. >> grifting that's a strong term. >> some would say meghan would deny. >> some would say meghan would deny . right. okay, sean, who's deny. right. okay, sean, who's your union jack? >> my union jack arts is the quango innovate uk for pouring £500,000 of taxpayers hard earned money into researching plant based meats. and it's not so much this research, but we have a prison crisis . we have a have a prison crisis. we have a knife crisis. we're talking about ridiculous smoking bans. the government has to relieve itself of spending money on these ridiculous, endless things. if we're going to research meats of this kind or plant based meats, there's no such thing as plant based meat. private companies do that. they're private. that is not something we should be spending taxpayers money on. they should also private companies. >> they presumably are. there's a fortune to be made and we should be focusing on the on the very tough social issues we have now. >> so it's not just about innovate, it's about what the

government allows its money to be spent on. >> good stuff. go on then. >> good stuff. go on then. >> i've got a little bit higher chance than i had with rachel reeves. it's my union jack asses because it's the plural is britain's vice chancellors, as the bosses of britain's universities are taking the you know what? they're accepting bumper pay rises as they make serious cuts. 66 universities are making redundancies or taking cost cutting measures, and the bosses of 43 of those got a pay rise, some up to 26%, taking pay packets over 400 grand. >> don't let him win . don't let >> don't let him win. don't let him win. >> let him win, let him win, let him win, let him win. >> all right i've gone for meghan markle. oh no. that was your best chance of winning right guys thank you very much . right guys thank you very much. yeah. another really really good show tonight. that's all down to you guys. and it's all down to you guys. and it's all down to you as well at home if you're listening on the radio or watching us on youtube or whatever it is you're doing, it's headliners. next, i'll see you tomorrow at 9 pm. >> for a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news .

on gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office friday. it's going to be a cool but sunny start to the last day of the week and a settled day more widely across the uk as high pressure builds in from the south and west. that will boost low pressure out of the way . so after the rather the way. so after the rather unsettled day across parts of scotland, it will slowly turn dry as we head into friday. but still a few showers to come through this evening, particularly across the far north of scotland. the northern isles in particular, where there's a brisk westerly breeze. elsewhere, though, a settled and calm night to come. clear skies across the board, the temperatures falling away lower than they did last night. we could be down to 3 or 4 degrees rurally many towns and cities in single figures. and as the sun comes up, a little later, at the moment, it will feel a little bit fresher. when you step out on friday morning. there could be some mist and fog around as well, particularly across parts of the west country. we're really in wales. some areas around the pennines as well could see some fog. first thing,

a few showers still across the west of scotland, but it's particularly the northern areas of scotland where there's a risk of scotland where there's a risk of some showers. there won't be as heavy as they will have been today and they should ease as we head towards lunchtime and into the afternoon, as well as that as high pressure becomes more dominant, bringing many of us a fine day, and i think the best of the sunshine for most of us will be through the morning a bit more cloud will develop into the afternoon, but it will still feel warm enough in the sunshine, with light winds quite widely. a slightly warmer day than today to come tomorrow. highs of 24 or 25 degrees across south and eastern areas of england. temperatures in the high teens, low 20s quite

>> good evening from the gb newsroom. headliners is up next. but first your headlines. the prime minister has confirmed a ban on outdoor smoking is being considered because of the huge burden smoking puts on the nhs and the taxpayer. according to what the sun newspaper says, a secret whitehall papers , secret whitehall papers, ministers are considering making it illegal to light up in outdoor restaurants, playgrounds and outside nightclubs and stadiums. hospitality bosses say new restrictions would cost jobs, but sir keir starmer insists that action is needed . insists that action is needed. >> starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. that's

a preventable death. it's a huge burden on the nhs and of course it's a burden on the taxpayer. so yes, we are going to take decisions in this space. more details will be revealed, but this is a preventable series of deaths, and we've got to take the action to reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer . on the taxpayer. >> in other news, israel has agreed to a series of humanitarian pauses in gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio. that's according to the world health organisation. it's understood the campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the gaza strip, and will begin on sunday. a hamas official says they welcomed the news. a teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a 15 year old girl to death in the street. hollie newton suffered 36 knife injuries after an attack in hexham in northumberland in january of last year. the court

previously heard hollie had told a friend