will fight for the british who will fight for the british people and show how our values offer solutions and challenges to britain as we face them today. now i want to address our amazing party members, our incredible grassroots activists, some of whom have joined us today from around the country. you are the heart and soul of our party, and for over 30 years since the late, great cecil parkinson recruited me to join that cause, i have been proud to be a grass roots conservative and to campaign across the country with you come rain or shine, in good times and in bad, you pound the pavements and knock on doors and deliver leaflets . you raise the funds to leaflets. you raise the funds to fight local campaigns and you come face to face with the electorate doing your best to persuade them to put their cross in the box of conservative candidates standing for election from the bottom of my heart, i thank you for everything that you do under my leadership. you will no longer be taken for granted. i will give you back

control of your party and i have a plan for my first 100 days as leader to get the central party that cchq working for you. i will empower you with more say over the policies we develop. drawing upon your expertise and ideas that you have, i will put in place a process for an elected chair of our party, and i'm going to reform the controversial and unacceptable parliamentary candidate selection process, which saw candidates . candidates. which saw candidates imposed upon local associations parachuted down because they were chosen favourite. what cchq will do is to support the vetting, the training and the development of candidates. support you all to recruit the brightest and the best to put themselves forward, to stand for

our great party and support local associations in target seats to select the candidates you want within the next two years, so we can lead our conservative communities back in that fight, back for our party. but our fight back is more than just winning back the seats at the next general election. under my leadership, our party will fight to win seats across every level of government, and that starts next year with the local elections. we have some brilliant leaders in local government champion conservative values and i know because i've worked with them around the country from county councillor kevin bentley, you heard from him earlier on to baroness teresa o'neill in bexley to our elected mayor in teesside, ben horsham. they have all been at the forefront of delivering services to local communities , services to local communities, giving pride and hope to the places they live and to the people they serve . my heart wept people they serve. my heart wept to see the loss of so many hard working conservative councillors and local leaders over the last

two years, thousands of dedicated public servants who we all know within our local associations, delivering conservative values for their communities, now no longer able to do so. i promise you this that under my leadership, we will once again become the largest party local government . but. >> that's not all. >> that's not all. >> we will campaign to hold the seats that we have campaigned to win back the seats that we have lost. and i will not stop at campaigning to get conservative councillors elected. i know the incredible work that our conservative police and crime commissioners do. we have some here today like roger hirst , here today like roger hirst, alison hernandez, rupert matthews, caroline henry , david matthews, caroline henry, david lloyd and andrew snowden, who is now one of our mps. i've seen what they have done to recruit more police officers to fight crime and support the victims of crime. we lost too many of them in may's elections, and i'm going to campaign to get

conservatives back into those roles . roles. and here in london, we will work tirelessly to get a conservative mayor elected to our great city once more . i want to put to an once more. i want to put to an end sadiq khan's high taxes, his soaring crime rates, his war on motorists and the rotten governance that's taking place across our great capital city. and it is because we are the conservative and unionist party that under my leadership, we will support colleagues in wales and in scotland to get them ready to fight the elections in the senate and the scottish parliament in 2026. now, i was in scotland last week and i cannot tell you how much damage the divisive and the corrupt nationalists have done to that

proud nation while they have obsessed over independence and campervans , scotland has campervans, scotland has suffered with failing educational standards in what was once a great system. scotland has the highest rate of drug deaths in europe, and scotland has the highest tax levels than the rest of the united kingdom . the people of united kingdom. the people of scotland deserve better and we will offer them a brighter future . and in wales, people future. and in wales, people have suffered for 25 years under labour rule , a self—serving labour rule, a self—serving labour rule, a self—serving labour government that starmer has boasted will be the model that he wants to follow in england . with public services england. with public services performing so poorly in wales, with welsh businesses battling government burdens, bureaucracy and outright hostility to enterprise and a self—serving labour government only interested in spending £120

million of taxpayers money, increasing the size of the senate and giving wales more politicians. we will work . i politicians. we will work. i will work with our party in wales to expose the failure of laboun wales to expose the failure of labour. now to our members. wherever you are, across our union, i say this support me to be our next leader and i will turn our party into a professional, competent, election winning machine. i'll make you proud again to wear our blue rosette and go out there and campaign for our great . party. now, i've spoken to our mps and to our party members, and i want to our party members, and i want to speak to the british people in me. you have a leader who understands the challenges of our country, and i will guide you through them . i will never you through them. i will never promise you what i can't deliver ,

promise you what i can't deliver, and i will never tell you what i think you may want to hear, because it sounds easy or simple to deliver what i will offer you are credible and compelling plans for the future of our country , one which is anchored country, one which is anchored by our shared conservative and british values. that is why i will always fight for your freedoms. free speech, free enterprise and the freedom to keep more of what you earn and to live your lives. how you choose. that's why i will always champion innovation over regulation , technology over regulation, technology over taxation when it comes to improving our energy security. and that's why i will always stand up for law and order and strong border controls. that's why i will always support people across britain to have their say about the future directions of their community, and that is why i will always promote choice and opportunity over state control in me. you have a leader who offers you experience and strength, and who has spent

their life fighting and winning battles . you do not get to stand battles. you do not get to stand here in my shoes if you have not faced down adversary, dealt with setbacks and got through some difficult times, you might even say that those experiences have given me a core of steel. and in me you have a conservative leader motivated by values and a lifetime of public service. for my record of public service did not begin in may 2010, when i was elected member of parliament for witham. nor did it begin when i worked with william hague to put the fire back in the belly of our party. after 1997, it began more than 40 years ago, working in my parents shop, serving customers on the shop floor, helping in a small family business at the heart of their local community, and being sent out on my bike by my father to deliver groceries to and check on regular customers who may not have been seen for a while. i am proud of the public service i gave 40 years ago, as i am of the public service i have given

in one of the great offices of state public service is not just a phrase or a soundbite. for me, it is ingrained in every fibre of my being , from working on the of my being, from working on the shop floor to being a proud mother, to standing up and representing the part of essex that i stand in, and to put in our national interest first in government. i will always give committed and dedicated service to our country and under my leadership, the conservative and unionist party will serve every part of the united kingdom with professionalism. we will work with humility to earn back your trust and we will be one united team with one voice promoting our shared values, serving our nafion our shared values, serving our nation and we will unite to win. thank you everybody. thank you . thank you everybody. thank you. >> well, you were just watching and listening to dame priti

patel launching her tory leadership campaign. quite a slick operation there. quite a confident performance talking a lot about how important campaigning is, how important uniting the party is. the parliamentary party, the membership, the country. et cetera et cetera. she wants to get the party back to its winning ways. apparently she's also got merchandise on sale, t shirts . pretty for the job. shirts. pretty for the job. unite behind pretty. unite to win baseball caps to on offer for those who are interested. so that was pretty patel launching her leadership campaign. there now you are watching. good afternoon britain. just with me emily carver this afternoon. tom will be back next week. but joining us now is our political reporter , katherine forster, reporter, katherine forster, who's been listening in to that campaign launch. catherine, your thoughts? catherine, your thoughts? catherine, your thoughts . thoughts. >> yes. good afternoon emily. well, quite rousing, wasn't it? and certainly went down very, very well in the hall. and she managed to paint quite a positive picture , despite the

positive picture, despite the fact that, of course, the party was decimated at the last election. and, you know , she election. and, you know, she said that the conservatives are the greatest political party in the greatest political party in the world now, certainly they have up to now been the most successful . but of course, it successful. but of course, it won't feel like that to them at the moment. i thought it was interesting just how much time she spent talking about the work that the grassroots do , the that the grassroots do, the membership. she's very, very popular with them and very keen on promising them that if she becomes leader, she will listen to them more. she will build up local government, she will give them more power. she says that they will get to elect the party chairman. she also said that, she would reform the parliamentary party selection process because there was a lot of anger, in the run up to the last general election, how quite a number of conservative

candidates seem to be parachuted in from on high. richard holden, who managed to take basildon and billericay in essex by 20 votes, there was a lot of anger there. he was not their chosen candidate. so a real play to the members and she's popular with the members and not much really. on what she would do in terms of her vision for the country if she becomes leader. a lot about sort of internal processes, etc. and of course, she's saying she's going to return to clear conservative values and freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to spend your money as you will. she highlighted her experience, her record, both in government, of course, as home secretary, but also in the department for work and pensions and in

differed as well. and also the fact that, sure, her parliamentary career began in 2010, but saying that she'd started as a public servant some 40 years ago and going out on her bike to check on people, connected with her parents shop. so i think it went down very, very well in the hall. she's currently not one of the favourites, but i do think, too, that this leadership contest is pretty open in a way that perhaps previous ones have not been. >> yes, it's interesting what you say about her going down so well with the membership. that really is her strength , isn't really is her strength, isn't it? when she's surrounded by members in the party, she's very good at talking to them, very good at talking to them, very good at, you know, encouraging them to get out there and fight for her party she made. we may have to interrupt you, catherine, just because christopher hope is there in the room, and he may well be asking a question very shortly, but he made she made a few pops at the

labour party. of course, keir starmer accusing him of launching a nasty financial assault on pensioners. she also made little pop at the reform party, a non—conservative shade of blue, which occasionally pops up at election time. she called the party so equal opportunities , the party so equal opportunities, equal opportunities. >> yes she did. i noticed that line. she talked about colours and that non—conservative shade of blue. obviously an oblique reference to reform worth saying of course, that, you know, she gets on very well with nigel farage, and of course it was largely because nigel farage came along with reform reform took so many votes that the conservatives ended up with as few seats as they did, because if you add together the vote share for conservatives and reform, that totals more than the vote share of labour. but she has made it clear that

there's no way under her leadership that she will be welcoming nigel farage into the conservative party and of course, nigel farage has said he wants nothing to do with them and he wants to destroy them, so, so that's interesting. but yeah, lots of digs to at labour, the new labour government and one of the most one of the phrases that struck me most , she phrases that struck me most, she accused him of trash talking britain. she mentioned the speech in the rose garden the other day. she said it was feeble. it was pitiful and rot and corruption. she talked about the cronyism and allegations and she did manage, despite the fact that the country doesn't feel in a good place to many people at the moment and didn't when the tories were in power. and that's largely why they lost and painted a positive vision of britain, saying, you know, i don't recognise this downbeat assessment of labour. i see a

great country, you know, we're not called great britain for nothing. the vaccine rollout were world leaders in al, in fintech. look at our athletes, how well we did. and she was good, i think, at giving a positive vision. i was at a tom tugendhat event yesterday. now not directly comparable because it wasn't his launch event, but he did say a lot of, you know, we i realised that we got this wrong and we got that wrong and we got the other wrong and an apologising for that. and there wasn't much of that from her. she seemed to want to sort of move on, but yes, she's popular with the members, but of course it will only be at the point that the numbers are whittled down to the final two, that the members will get a say. now will mps let her get to that point? >> yes. very interesting indeed. how this contest is going so far. christopher hope is in the

room for us, our political edhon room for us, our political editor. he'll be putting a question very shortly for priti patel. i don't know what he's going to ask, but i imagine it might be about her record in office, perhaps at the home office. lots of you getting in touch to say that priti patel, didn't you didn't allow very high levels of immigration into this country . high levels of immigration into this country. perhaps high levels of immigration into this country . perhaps she wasn't this country. perhaps she wasn't as effective as she might have liked to have been in that position. that is something that people will criticise her for. people who moved to reform at the election, but also those who voted for other parties, saying actually, when she was in office, priti patel spoke a good game but did she actually deliver? did she actually deliver? >> yes, and i think that's a valid criticism because she has all got this experience, which is potentially a strength, but it's also a weakness, particularly around the levels of net migration, because it was under her and boris johnson that having left the european union, where we were told, you know, we couldn't control migration because of that, the brexit vote to take back control , because of that, the brexit vote to take back control, including of our borders, and who would

have thought that the numbers would go through the roof up to three quarters of a million only a year or so ago? absolutely unprecedented in our history. now, that was a direct result. >> i'm just going to have to butt in there. sorry, katherine forster. we're just going to head over back to the room where christopher james, christopher hope gb news you're seen as the most right wing candidate of the six candidates to replace rishi sunak. >> you're proud of your grassroots conservative base, but you won't apologise for record net migration under your government's watch. you didn't vote against the smoking ban when you had a chance to. how can you reconcile and win back reform voters from that position? and if you were prime minister would you remove a portrait of tony blair? >> margaret thatcher is going straight back on the rule. let me just let me just get that on the record. first of all. well, look, number one, i'm not going to play that game of soundbite politics. you've just heard me also give a speech about freedom and conservative values and

beliefs. and chopper, you know, when it comes to freedom , it's when it comes to freedom, it's freedom as to how we live our lives. you've also seen what i've said in recent days around the smoking ban. what that is going to mean, actually for businesses, for pubs and hospitality sector. i think just before the general election, i was spending a lot of time with the hospitality sector, not just in my own constituency but elsewhere. the other point, just to say on this issue is that we've got a government that wants the police, the very people that should be policing our streets to be policing beer gardens and things of that nature. in my view, we need the police on the streets, not in beer gardens. they need to be doing their job. and, you know, this is exactly where we need to unpick this awful labour government . bbc harry, thank you. >> harry farley from bbc news. you talk about losing the confidence. >> okay. well there you go. christopher hope putting his question on priti patel's record on immigration. how is she going to win back reform voters? also on whether she'd remove tony blair from the wall there and

also a question to on. well tobacco plans. and she said police should be on the streets not policing beer gardens. so there you go. we're going to catch up with christopher hope very shortly after the break. and also we're going to reflect on the astounding number of non—uk nationals who are neither in employment nor looking for in this country. how does that

right. so shortly we are going to be crossing to christopher hope, who was in the room, who put that question to priti patel at her leadership campaign launch. priti patel swerved some of those answers on her record on immigration when she was in the home office. she did make a joke about her putting margaret thatcher straight back up on the wall. i also want to tell you that we're going to be discussing a story about jess phillips, labour's jess

phillips. apparently she told an audience that she received preferential treatment in an nhs hospital in birmingham because of her stance on the gaza ceasefire. so we're going to be getting to that shortly as well. but now we have got a new record in the united kingdom. currently, there are 1.6 million migrants living in britain who are unemployed or not actively looking for work . now, are unemployed or not actively looking for work. now, this has been estimated to be costing the taxpayer £8 billion. this comes as the institute for government is asking labour to consider loosening immigration policy to meet ambitious housebuilding targets. so is it time to bring in skilled migrants to fuel angela rayner's housebuilding boom? well, joining me now is international security and border control expert henry bolton. i mean, henry, some of these figures out today are quite shocking. they come from the centre for migration control. they're saying that a record number of non—uk nationals in this country are neither working nor looking for

employment, and that it could be costing us billions and billions of pounds. your take? >> yeah. i mean , it is shocking, >> yeah. i mean, it is shocking, but what we're really talking about here are people who were not born in the uk. now, of course, that that's sort of that's an immigrant community. but they may have come over as spouses, as dependants and so on of people who have got work visas or other other, other visas or other other, other visas to , to another reasons for visas to, to another reasons for for, a leave to remain in the united kingdom . but the largest united kingdom. but the largest part of this element is the pakistani and bangladeshi community. and in fact, they also have the largest proportion of women who are not economically engaged at the moment. so there are all sorts of issues to unpack here. but the bottom line is that when you let somebody into the united kingdom, you give them leave to remain, particularly if they bnng remain, particularly if they bring with them dependants and

they've got children and so on. you are inevitably going to end up with a proportion of those people who are not economically , people who are not economically, engaged or are not available for work and not looking for work because their old age, they enter old age or they whatever. now, the question that needs to be asked is a as a result of that, are we are we bringing too many, giving too many people leave to remain in the united kingdom? i would argue that we are, and secondly, at what point does do we actually say because, for example, in denmark there's a very strict rules on when the reason you've been given a leave to remain ends, you leave the country in the united kingdom, our rules on that are a lot more lax liberal, if you like. and so most people who end up coming here to work end up staying and then becoming economically inactive. so there's a whole lot to unpack here. but the ultimate

thing is that , again, we have thing is that, again, we have paid a supervision, superficial approach to planning our immigration policy. we have not thought through any of it thoroughly. i mean, henry robert, not me . robert, not me. >> i mean, henry robert bates, the research director at the centre for migration control, he's quoted in the media today saying there is no reason for us to continue handing out so many long term visas when we are currently having to bail out over a million migrants who are already in britain not working . already in britain not working. this is the very definition of a ponzi scheme, and we will only compound the problem if we do not change course soon. however, a government spokesperson has said it's incorrect to apply an average cost to migrants out of work. estimates need to take into account individual circumstances. most education and welfare costs are not applicable to working age migrants who are not students, so there's clearly a disagreement here on how we analyse these statistics . analyse these statistics. >> that disagreement i'm on, look, you know, i read that a

statement from the government on this and the home office on this. i mean, you know, it's vacuous, it's meaningless. it's, you know, it's just wallpaper. it's trying to put people off. you've asked somebody asked for a statement, and they've been given one. it's meaningless. look, the bottom line is that this country is paying a huge amount to support immigrant communities who have ultimately entered this country in order to be economically active, or they have come in on the basis that they are associated with somebody who is going to be economically active. now, the left will argue that the open borders brigade will argue that these people are all contributing to the national economy. that's that's utter. that's for the birds. that's rubbish. some are, but a great many aren't. and we have to factor that in. you can't just come up with some sort of wallpaper type of, of, of statement from the home office and expect this problem to go away. it will not. it's costing us a fortune. and sir keir

starmer has made it very clear that he's concerned about a black hole, which in the economy left by the conservatives, which frankly, is a black hole of his making, not the conservatives. just a quick just a quick to it. >> just a quick word from you on the headline today that essentially, angela rayner is being urged by yet another left wing think tank to bring in more skilled migrants in order to boost housebuilding. they've got these targets. so your thoughts on that, >> look , we should be training >> look, we should be training our own people if we've got people out of work, run schemes to teach them to to be be brick, bricklayers or plasterers or plumbers run that sort of thing. we used to do that in this country 40, 50 years ago. it was normal. we don't do it anymore. why not? and just. emily, just, if i may, just one other thing. i think one of the biggest headunes i think one of the biggest headlines at the moment is germany saying that they are going to probably significantly , going to probably significantly, significantly rein back on benefits for migrants that have entered germany through another eu country . now, if they do eu country. now, if they do that, then this country will

become an even greater magnet for economic migrants moving through the european union. to us, we must not sit here and do nothing. we have to do the same. if we do nothing or do not cut back, we are going to be the number one magnet in europe for economic migrants. >> yeah, henry, it's interesting to see how attitudes are shifting over on the continent towards border control. germany hardening up, sweden hardening up. denmark. of course, two very interesting to watch. henry bolton, thank you very much indeed. international security and border control expert henry bolton. let me know what you think. we heard from yvette cooper that what we need is more people training to be brickies. we need more people training to be construction workers, electricians, etcetera , electricians, etcetera, etcetera. yet you have think tanks urging angela rayner to use the lever of migration again to build the houses that we need. your thoughts gbnews.com forward slash your say, after

the news headlines, we're going to be talking about whether, you know, we've seen a reunion between the feuding brothers in oasis when it comes to oasis, could we see the same when it comes to william and harry? they've been together recently . they've been together recently. >> very good afternoon to you from the newsroom. 1231 exactly. and the top story this lunchtime, a 13 year old boy has died in what detectives are calling a tragic stabbing on the outskirts of birmingham. a murder investigation is now underway after the teenager was found at a property in oldbury yesterday afternoon. he was treated by paramedics at that house but sadly died at the scene. the west midlands force say there haven't been any arrests so far . a woman has been arrests so far. a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child in swansea. police were called to a home in the town last night and a 41 year old, who lived with the child is currently being

questioned in bridgend . questioned in bridgend. detectives there say they aren't looking for anyone else involved , looking for anyone else involved, as we've been hearing in the last half hour or so. dame priti patel has officially launched her conservative leadership campaign. she's promising to revive the party with clear goals, and she says a future on a focus rather on the future. the former home secretary also denounced sir keir starmer's recent speech as feeble, pitiful and dishonest, criticising his approach to the trade unions, criminal justice to and the economy. priti patel is one of six candidates in the running to replace rishi sunak, including james cleverly, kemi badenoch, mel stride robert jenrick and tom tugendhat, while speaking in london moments ago, she declared the conservative party as the greatest in the world. >> under my leadership, i will bnng >> under my leadership, i will bring our party experience and strength and i will get us back to winning ways . but before to winning ways. but before i say more about my offer to members of parliament, my plans

to empower our loyal and dedicated party members, and my commitment for our party to serve the nation and the british people with professionalism and integrity, and the government has said it won't impose a four day working week, but does support flexible working options. >> labour says it's focused on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days. not, though, reducing total hours. the conservatives have criticised proposals claiming that businesses are concerned about potential costs . those are the potential costs. those are the latest headlines from the newsroom. for now, i'm sam francis, back with you at 1:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts

>> welcome back. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain with me emily carver. now the prince of wales and the duke of sussex have both attended the funeral of their uncle, but apparently it wasn't the harmonious reunion that many had hoped for. it's reported to have been a tad frosty between the two of them, as they sat separately and did not talk. now, this is reportedly the first time in a whole year that the pair have been seen in the same room together. now, harry did say, or at least his sources, those close to him did say that he wasn't going to turn up to this funeral. one of the concerns was security, but joined now by former royal correspondent for the sun, charles rea. charles, we've seen, you know, we've seen the oasis brothers get back together, end their feud. but apparently this was all rather frosty. they may not have even spoken to each other at this funeral. >> well, the oasis brothers had a frosty relationship for a great many years, and i suspect that william and harry are going

to have an even frosty relationship for a good few years yet. i mean, for people to call it a reunion, hardly that. i mean, they were at the same place. it was a funeral. they sat at the back. as i understand it. they didn't look at each other. they certainly didn't talk to each other. it doesn't bode well for the future of any hope that there's going to be any reconciliation. and you're quite right , any reconciliation. and you're quite right, emily. at the beginning of the week, when william, when harry was spotted at the airport, there was a big thing made that he was coming to new york, to attend a un climate change meeting, which doesn't happen until next week. in any case, but his people were giving indications as well that he wasn't going to attend the funeral, so we all thought, yeah , funeral, so we all thought, yeah, let's, you know, he's done doing the right thing. he's taking any, possibility of friction away from a funeral. now, fortunately, he surprised us

all, he's gone to the funeral. he's paid his last respects to his uncle , and, that's it. now, his uncle, and, that's it. now, harry will be back on a plane again, i'm assuming, and heading straight back to the states. >> must have been very awkward to be sat at a funeral to attend a funeral and not even share a word. obviously no hug, not even a handshake, no exchange of anything. it's all terribly sad, isn't it? do you think the whole british public have just let go of prince harry at this point ? of prince harry at this point? >> i think you're right. and i think it is very sad. there is no question about how how sad it is. but you know , harry's only is. but you know, harry's only got himself to blame for all this, given what has gone on in the past, i'm not going to go through the whole rigmarole. we all know what what he said and what he did and what you know what. >> all the catty comments in that book, all the catty comments, you know, on netflix. >> he was disrespectful to catherine as well in, in, in various guises. that's not something a husband forgets

about. you know, in the great scheme of things. so it's what i would like to know is i'm assuming that there was a drink after, you know, a little bit of after, you know, a little bit of a wake. you know, somewhere, did they both go to that or did they both make their diplomatic withdrawals? i mean, i don't know, but we now we do know that there were definitely both there. >> yes . well, thank you very >> yes. well, thank you very much indeed. charles rea, former royal correspondent for the sun. always great to chat with you. thank you very much indeed . now thank you very much indeed. now we're going to move on to something very different indeed , something very different indeed, because ed miliband has reportedly bowed to greenpeace, refusing to fight a climate lawsuit brought against two of britain's biggest north sea oil schemes. now the energy secretary says he won't fight the climate lawsuit against rosebank and jackdaw, two of britain's biggest north sea oil projects. this decision will put both schemes on shaky ground and at serious risk of being scrapped altogether. so has he

thrown these two companies essentially under the bus? well, we're joined by senior lecturer in sustainable construction and climate change, john grant. john, explain what's happening here. >> well, you know, you said bowed to greenpeace . greenpeace bowed to greenpeace. greenpeace have done this legal challenge because the government had kind of promised it to us that they were going to attempt to meet these 20, 30, 20, 40 and ultimately zero carbon at 2050. and you can't keep expanding your oil and gas extraction industry if you're going to make those zero carbon challenges and you know , so it was it was you know, so it was it was legally , you know, questionable. legally, you know, questionable. and so, you know, this government is now accepting that that the challenges that it's going to meet will be much easier to be met without extracting yet more oil and gas, which, you know, in terms of the benefit to the uk, probably the workers, but the companies themselves, their profits and

everything are going a great deal everything are going a great deal, a great deal of distance elsewhere. and, and in fact, they're fighting for us to even ask them with the profits that they were making. >> john, should they sent a letter, john should a sensible secretary of state be be siding with greenpeace, greenpeace, some people consider quite an extreme charitable organisation with quite extreme positions when it comes to climate change. >> i mean, no thought to the lost tax revenue, the lost jobs, the lost energy . the lost energy. >> well, yeah, that's why i said , >> well, yeah, that's why i said, you know, that this is a legal challenge that that he can see is legally and morally the right argument. and we are currently by tiny increments, pushing our planet further. and further towards a, you know, oblivion and the idea that we can somehow

make more profits with oil and gas and that will assist us in transitioning when we should be visiting and using the huge amounts of resources. amounts of resources. >> amounts of resources. >> john, this is what i don't understand. >> if you don't want to use oil to, you know, fuel your home or fuel your car, i mean, what about all the other products? you know, the oil is used for whether it's detergents, fertilisers , paint, plastic, all fertilisers, paint, plastic, all of these products , they need of these products, they need this resource, do they not, john grant. >> it's a good point, but plastics are important for oil and for fertilisers. and natural gas is used for those, but from my point of view, what we need to focus on is the carbon emissions from burning this material . so yes, there will material. so yes, there will always be probably a small amount of oil and gas used in those points , but it is the those points, but it is the burning element and the release of the carbon dioxide of which this will put a part of the 40

billion tonnes of carbon dioxide that we release every year into our atmosphere. but we need to pull back on and as you were saying, the loss of revenue we have an enormous resource in terms of wind and hydro waves , terms of wind and hydro waves, tidal, that we should be pivoting those extraordinarily skilled workers that work in the nonh skilled workers that work in the north sea for oil and gas to sustainable. >> and i know, you know, you have union people saying, you know, where are all these green jobs we've been promised all these green jobs for years and years and years, and they aren't coming. people also questioning this big gb energy move from ed miliband. it's not actually going to supply any energy. it's just going to funnel billions of taxpayers money into projects that the government chooses are the best. whether they'll get that right is very . questionable that right is very. questionable indeed.john that right is very. questionable indeed. john grant, i'm sorry. i'm going to have to leave it there. but always great to talk to you. always good to talk to you. sorry about that. senior lecturer in sustainable construction and climate change. we could talk. we could talk all

afternoon about all of this stuff, couldn't we? let me know your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay. i do worry that ed miliband is so ideological in this crusade towards net zero that he, you know, shies away from some of the realities we're faced with. but anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show. we are going to talk about jess phillips, who is a appeared to boast about the fact that she received preferential treatment at an nhs hospital in birmingham . at an nhs hospital in birmingham. guess why? because of her stance on the gaza ceasefire. go figure. and also this margaret thatcher portrait removed by keir starmer from the thatcher room inside number 10. is he really that petty. stay tuned

well good afternoon britain. welcome back. it is now 1248. and the prime minister, sir keir starmer, he's coming under fire after reports he's removed a

portrait of one of his predecessors, margaret thatcher, of course, from downing street. he's said to have found the painting commissioned by gordon brown unsettling. is this fair enough? it's his room now, is it? or is this pure ideological pettiness? well, we're joined by criminal barrister and former conservative mp jerry hayes. i mean, what do you make of this? it wasn't too long ago that when, when keir starmer was looking for us all to vote for him, he was writing in the papers a heaps of praise on margaret thatcher for the meaningful change she brought to the country . what's happened? the country. what's happened? >> oh, it's insane. >> oh, it's insane. >> it's petty, spiteful, unnecessary. >> and for heaven's sake, it is the thatcher room who's pictured you. >> you're meant to put up there. and of course, the trouble with starmer is he doesn't know how to read the room. there are a lot of people of all parties who still, even when they disagree with her, realise that she was a great prime minister and she deserves to have that photo. but of course, you know, she he

probably doesn't want to be reminded of what she actually did. she believed in sound money. she didn't make promises that she couldn't possibly afford, the other thing is, of course, she democratised the trade unions. now, maybe it's the trade unions who don't want to be reminded of margaret thatcher, who stopped the wildcat strikes, who stopped these people taking over the country. >> so you think maybe mick lynch has had a word? >> oh, absolutely. but more than a word, i suspect. i mean, mick lynch has just had an inflation busting pay rise . the doctors busting pay rise. the doctors have had to pay, a pay of an inflation busting pay rise. i mean , it is really, really very mean, it is really, really very bad news. and i think it's going to rebound on him as well. is it going to be exiled from number 10 downing street? i doubt it, but it's stupid and unnecessary. he hasn't made a very good start. i mean he's really upset

and understandably 10 million pensions and i don't think yeah, i mean it's i mean jerry, what does this tell us about the man though. >> this is what i'm interested in. what does this tell us about keir starmer the man. because to me it seems as though this is pointing to a very ideological, perhaps petty also perhaps a little control. freakish. >> yeah, i think, i think , >> yeah, i think, i think, emily, you summed it in three, actually. petty control. freakery. what's the point? i mean, don't forget gordon brown when he was prime minister he commissioned the work. and in 2009, he actually invited margaret thatcher to unveil it. and he was hardly a thatcherite fan, but he believes in the dignity of office. i'm not entirely sure that starmer does, but you're right, it is a window into the mind of this man and he's only been in office. well, admittedly, it's longer than liz truss, which is not terribly difficult. but the fact is, it

doesn't look good. it looks petty and nasty and unnecessary. >> jerry, does it look sexist, too? does this look misogynistic? are the feminists going to be up in arms about this? in that respect ? this? in that respect? >> well, you know, can you imagine it the other way round? if someone in the foreign office removed a picture of, you know, a female foreign secretary, oh, gosh, i can't remember her name now. she's still in the party, margaret beckett, everyone say it's sexist. it just don't you don't rewrite history. and this is the problem. and i don't want to go into the wokery argument particularly, but this is the problem with the modern starmer . problem with the modern starmer. labour mind. they want to rewrite history. we don't like thatcher. we don't approve of her. let's cancel her. well, she won't be cancelled. >> yeah. i mean , in the past >> yeah. i mean, in the past there have been, you know, people on the labour side of politics who have spoken very ill of margaret thatcher. there's a lot of hatred, isn't

there? perhaps keir starmer does actually share that even though he said some positive things about her in the past in the run up to the election anyway. >> well, he did he in fact, in the run up to the election, he admired her for her sense of mission. those were his words. so in other words, he's doing it for a purpose. he's doing it for a purpose to appease the left wing of the party, because he knows his majority is based on sand, i think is what we need to do is have a decent conservative leader to do something about this . well, you can't actually this. well, you can't actually do too much except explain to people this is the sort of guy you've got in number 10. >> well, thank you very much indeed. jerry hayes, criminal barrister, former conservative mp. great to have you to on discuss this. lots of you getting in touch. paul says does starmer have a problem with strong women? carol says i'm no thatcher fan, but by god, she deserves a place in in number 10. tom says if you were an ex—miner, i think you'd say starmer removing thatcher's picture as the only good thing he's done since taking office.

well, there you go. a little bit of balance there. it does seem awfully petty to me, but i guess the counter is his room. now, if this picture was particularly unsettling for him, then i guess why can't he take it down? it's a it's a free world. or is it, you know? or does this room belong to us? actually, this thatcher room at number 10, is it ours? you should keep her up and he just says, well, i won't read that one out. it's a little bit too rude. but coming up after the break, this is of course, good afternoon, britain. we've got lots more. we're going to be checking in on christopher hope, who's been at the priti patel leadership launch, and find out the gossip from behind the scenes. stay with . us. the scenes. stay with. us. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hey! hope you're having a good day. here's your latest met office weather update for gb news. there will be plenty more

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>> good afternoon britain. it's 1:00 on friday the 30th of august and you're with me. emily carver now. dame priti patel is the latest candidate to take command of the tories , vowing to command of the tories, vowing to unite and revive the conservative party. but would she get your vote? and workless migrants, according to a new report. record numbers of migrants living in britain are not working, potentially costing taxpayers an estimated £8 billion, with almost 1.7 million non—uk nationals either unemployed or classed as economically inactive because they're not looking for a job and two tier nhs. labour's jess phillips reportedly claimed she received preferential treatment at an nhs hospital in birmingham because the doctor happened to agree with her stance on a ceasefire in gaza , and four day ceasefire in gaza, and four day week workers could be given the right to demand a four day week as part of a package of measures

championed by angela rayner. now, angela rayner has been spotted elsewhere . spotted elsewhere. now, when i say angela rayner has been spotted elsewhere, i mean, i beat her on the rave scene in ibiza. i think we can show you a little clip of her. there she is. boogieing behind the dj there with a bottle of water. they're dancing around. i think it's a bottle of water. anyway, she seems to be having a fantastic time. this is on denise van houten's instagram andifs denise van houten's instagram and it's making the papers. angela. she's well known to be a bit of a party goer, a bit of a party animal. i mean, some people are saying she should be doing such things. you know, when the prime minister is delivering a speech about how our country is going to get worse before it gets better? a bit of a doom laden pitch to the country . angela, is there having country. angela, is there having an absolute whale of a time. so

yes, raving in a dj booth in ibiza, making the most of the summer recess before it's all go next week. please do send in your thoughts. gbnews.com forward slash your. say every right to dance the night away. or should she be focusing on more serious matters back at home? but it's your headlines now with sam francis . now with sam francis. >> emily, thank you very much indeed. and good afternoon to you. 1:02. and the top story this lunchtime. a murder investigation has been launched after a 13 year old boy was stabbed to death at a house in the west midlands. the teenager was treated by paramedics but sadly died at the scene in oldbury yesterday afternoon. no one has been arrested so far and police have called his death an absolute tragedy. local youth worker darius rehman told us he's in shock. >> i'm feeling really sad and i

don't know whether to blame ourselves or our service or our government. are we failing? it's going to be really sad for the family as well to live with that. their child is not normal and for the community as well, it's going to have a very affect on the whole of the community that it's actually come to our doorstep now because you hear about it in other areas . about it in other areas. somebody's been stabbed, some child has been stabbed, some man has been stabbed . today it's has been stabbed. today it's happened at our doorstep in our area, on our street . area, on our street. >> news from wales and a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child in swansea. police there were called to a home in the city last night. a 41 year old who lived with the child is currently being questioned in bridgend. detectives say at this stage they're not looking for anyone else involved . and a anyone else involved. and a mother has pleaded guilty to stabbing her ten year old daughter to death in the west

midlands. jaskirat kaur admitted to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility after the child was found with fatal wounds at their home. they shared in march. prosecutors accepted today. the 33 year old's plea and the court heard there were no disputes over the facts. she has been described by her school as a bright a happy and fun loving girl. dame priti patel has officially launched her conservative leadership campaign this afternoon, promising to revive the party with a focus on the future. the former home secretary also denounced the prime minister's recent speech, calling it feeble , recent speech, calling it feeble, pitiful and dishonest, and criticised sir keir starmer's approach to trade unions, criminal justice and the economy. well, she is one of six candidates in the running to replace rishi sunak and speaking in london earlier, she declared the party is the greatest in the world. >> under my leadership, i will bnng >> under my leadership, i will bring our party experience and

strength and i will get us back to winning ways. but before i say more about my offer to members of parliament, my plans to empower our loyal and dedicated party members and my commitment for our party to serve the nation and the british people with professionalism and integrity . integrity. >> the government says it won't impose a four day working week, but that it does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused instead on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days, not reducing total hours. the conservatives have criticised proposals claiming businesses are concerned about the potential costs . ministers the potential costs. ministers have admitted that government funded childcare support for children aged over nine months comes with significant challenges. eligible parents in england will be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare a week from monday, a plan inherited from monday, a plan inherited from the conservatives but the

department for education claims around 85,000 more places will still be needed to be able to extend that support to 30 hours a week from next september. well, baroness jacqui smith told us this morning that it will be an enormously difficult job to make it work. >> we've been really knuckling down since we got into government , boosting up the government, boosting up the recruitment campaign for , for recruitment campaign for, for example, do something big, which encourages people to come into the childcare workforce making sure that we've got apprenticeships in place for people developing the new t level in early years education thatis level in early years education that is actually very popular and successful and enabling more people to be trained and it's why we'll be working between now and next year with early years providers, with local authorities to make sure that those places, as far as we can do are there for parents in the us kamala harris has defended changing her mind on some of her key policies since becoming the democratic presidential nominee. >> speaking in her first major

media interview since announcing she was running for the white house, the vice president told cnn last night her values, though, haven't changed. it comes as a new poll suggests she has a four point lead over donald trump. >> we have set goals for the united states of america and, by extension, the globe , around extension, the globe, around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. as an example , that value has not example, that value has not changed my value around what we need to do to secure our border. that value has not changed. i spent two terms as the attorney general of california prosecuting transnational criminal organisations, violations of american laws regarding the passage, illegal passage of guns , drugs and human passage of guns, drugs and human beings across our border. my values have not changed. >> and finally, abba have demanded that donald trump's presidential campaign remove any videos featuring their songs. the group claims hits including the group claims hits including the winner takes it all and dancing queen were used at an event without their permission

for the republican team have insisted they do have a license for the songs. those are the latest gb news headlines for now, time to head back to emily. i can hear her singing a few of those abba tunes for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> all right. welcome back. you're watching or listening to good afternoon britain with me emily carver. now while angela rayneris emily carver. now while angela rayner is raving it up in ibiza, dame priti patel is the latest tory mp to launch her leadership bid. now, a little bit earlier, she spoke in central london. she wants to get the conservatives back to winning ways. >> under my leadership i will bnng >> under my leadership i will bring our party experience and strength and i will get us back to winning ways. but before i

say more about my offer to members of parliament, my plans to empower our loyal and dedicated party members and my commitment for our party to serve the nation and the british people with professionalism and integrity . integrity. >> right. well, joining me now is our political editor, christopher hope, who was there at the event. and he also asked at the event. and he also asked a question. i mean, christopher, just first things first, the hospitality at this event was quite good. you had your mango lassi. i saw you posting, that's that indian smoothie drink. you also had a huge amount of merchandise on sale . merchandise on sale. >> that's right, t shirts and signs and hello emily from heart of westminster. this is the beginning of a very busy , i beginning of a very busy, i would say, ten days for the tory party when i think five of the six leadership campaigns to replace rishi sunak are going to launch several more . monday and launch several more. monday and tuesday, of course, robert jenrick launched his in newark a few weeks ago. today was dame priti patel, and she and she

gave quite a rousing speech setting out her, her views and her how she would approach being the tory leader , setting out her the tory leader, setting out her values more than any actual real detail. she was asked about. would you restore the winter fuel payment to millions of pensioners, which you wouldn't ask that . i asked her for gb ask that. i asked her for gb news why she wouldn't apologise for record net legal migration on behalf of her party. no apology either. i think she's quite interesting. she's tacking more into the centre for the most obviously right wing candidate . she's moving very candidate. she's moving very centrist. maybe that's because that's where the parliamentary party is. but with me now is tom pursglove . he's a former pursglove. he's a former conservative immigration minister three times in that role, and he's also an adviser on the campaign for priti patel . on the campaign for priti patel. tom pursglove, why won't you why won't your your candidate apologise for record net migration? >> well, i think that pretty deserves great credit actually, for transforming the framework of immigration that we have in this country, responding very directly to the message from the

referendum that we needed to end free movement, she did the heavy lifting that meant that ministers like me could then get on the front foot and bring those numbers down. we announced at the back end of last year those policies that are delivering results, we are seeing month on month, legal migration numbers falling. all of that is at risk with labour, of that is at risk with labour, of course, who are now dismantling key planks of that. but it simply wouldn't have been possible without the heavy lifting. those hard yards that pretty did putting in place the legislation and delivering on that policy. >> so the past year means you have got fully net migration, which will be confirmed in figures next month, almost certainly. but for the previous 13 years, your government fought and won elections on a promise to cut migration and didn't do it. and that drove lots of supporters towards reform uk. wouldn't saying sorry helped deal with that issue? >> as i say, i think that actually we got it on this issue and of course for many of those years that we were in office, we were subject to eu free movement and that simply meant that we couldn't control our borders in the way that we can now. but what it was all about, what the

promise of brexit always was, and that pretty has always understood and got and got to gnps understood and got and got to grips with in practical terms, was about delivering that ability for the uk and the uk government to set its own migration numbers, deciding who can come here. it's actually her legacy that's allowed us to deliver that change. i would actually be urging the labour government to stick to our plan and keep bringing those numbers down. >> well, they've dropped rwanda, and that's a big part of their plan to tackle illegal migration. no pledge there to restore the winter fuel payment to 10 million pensioners who are now worried about being warm this winter . this winter. >> our position is really clear on this. we don't think the government should scrap it in the first place, and i know that conservative mps and that the leadership in the house of commons are taking forward efforts in parliament to try and stop labour from doing this. i would urge labour mps to do the right thing by their constituents to not support their government in ending that winter fuel payment. i think there are many vulnerable elderly people on low incomes who need that support. i'm proud of our record in having sustained that. i think it was a

gordon brown initiative that actually the labour government introduced, but they shouldn't do this in the first place. but we will fight that every step of the way. >> so yes or no, a tory government would restore the winter fuel payment if it wins the election in 2028, 2029. >> our position is that we believe that elderly people should have that winter fuel payment, so that's a yes. we believe that people should have that winter fuel payment. >> she talked about sidebar issues distracting the party. what does she mean by that? >> i think the point she was making, and i heard this on doorsteps up and down the country , not just in the country, not just in the election, but prior to that, but in my own constituency in corby and east northamptonshire, people saying that we spent too much time arguing amongst ourselves and not focusing in on delivery and actually in areas where we had delivered . and i'd where we had delivered. and i'd argue that, for example, getting those legal migration numbers down was a good example of this. we didn't get the credit for that because people had stopped listening to us. so what i found really encouraging about today was the energy, the enthusiasm in the room, the fact that there was this real positivity, but also a recognition that we have got to change, that things do

have to be different as we move forward. we do need to have that unity. and i think that britain is the best person to deliver that and is the answer to tax the right and try and win back those lost voters for reform or stay centrist and maybe try to attract them back to you . i attract them back to you. i remember giving an interview in the days before the general election. i was asked about whether we needed to move to the left or to the right. i actually don't think we need to do either of those things. i think what we need to do is, as mrs. thatcher used to famously say, we need to focus on the common ground. we need to be where the majority of the british people are . i think the british people are. i think we actually our values align in large part with the british peoples, but they were frustrated with us and that was reflected in the votes that were cast. what we've now got to do is fight the battle of ideas all over again. we can't be complacent about that and reassert our values. listen to the public and have a policy offering that responds to their ambitions. and i genuinely think that pretty is the best person to do that. she's got a long history, a long tradition in the conservative family. i think the response that you see from the members is brilliant. when she's out and about on doorsteps,

connecting with people, you hear it as well. and that's what she's got to offer. >> well, tom pursglove, thank you for joining >> well, tom pursglove, thank you forjoining us >> well, tom pursglove, thank you for joining us today on gb news. that's tom pursglove, the former immigration minister, explaining exactly why priti patel wasn't going to say sorry for a record net migration over the past years of the tory government. >> very interesting indeed . >> very interesting indeed. christopher. just one quick question. i'm just looking at the guido fawkes who's backing who, the definitive tory leadership spreadsheet. priti patel, she's got a bit of an uphill battle on her hands. it does look like robert jenrick has the most backers as it stands within the parliamentary party. is that is that right? yes. well, there we go. >> yes, i think that's right. thatis >> yes, i think that's right. that is right. but what we have at the moment, emily, is around 70 or so tory mps who are yet to publicly declare. so there's a lot to play for. i think next week we're seeing votes looking forward into next week around wednesday. and then the following monday go to from six to 5 to 4 candidates and then those five, four candidates go

into the party conference where they'll be grilled by the base and a final vote by mps. after that party conference in early october will give you two final candidates to go to the grassroots, with a result on the 2nd of november. still some way to go. it won't be sunny by the time that happens. >> okay, so the grassroots get to choose between the final two. very interesting indeed . very interesting indeed. christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor. thank you very much. and for that interview with tom pursglove. now, now to some very serious news. west midlands police have started a murder inquiry after a 13 year old boy was stabbed to death near birmingham. now the boy died in what detectives are calling a tragic stabbing on the outskirts of birmingham. he was treated by paramedics but sadly died at the scene. now gb news west midlands reporter jack carson joins us now. jack, tell us what has happened and where we are . happened and where we are. >> well, this investigation is still very active here in sandwell , in in oldbury, we're sandwell, in in oldbury, we're in lovitt avenue where police

say and confirmed they were called at 4 pm. yesterday afternoon to those reports of the stabbing of a 13 year old boy, as you were mentioning , boy, as you were mentioning, paramedics who arrived on scene were unable to save him. today we've seen the opening of this murder investigation that westbourne has come. police confirmed this morning was taking place. we've seen numerous forensic officers going in and out of the property as those investigations start. we've also seen members of west midlands police and investigating officers go door to door to try and get a picture, really, of what exactly happened here yesterday. people who we believe are close family of the boy and also local residents have started to lay flowers now also at the door of the property in tribute to that 13 year old boy who local residents have told us was one of twins . darius raymond, who's of twins. darius raymond, who's a local youth worker here, was here this morning. he's laid some flowers. he spoke to us a little bit earlier . on.

little bit earlier. on. >> feeling really sad and i don't know whether to blame ourselves or our service or our government . are we failing? it's government. are we failing? it's going to be really sad for the family as well to live with that. their child is not normal and for the community as well . and for the community as well. it's going to have a very effect on the whole of the community that it's actually come to our doorstep now because you hear about it in other areas. somebody's been stabbed , some somebody's been stabbed, some child has been stabbed, some man has been stabbed. today it's happened at our doorstep, in our area, on our street. >> you can hear there from danus >> you can hear there from darius the shock that this community is so obviously in. we've had that shock repeated to us multiple times. people that have lived here for a long time really shocked at this incident. and what happened here yesterday afternoon. detective superintendent shaun edwards

from the west midlands police homicide team, said in a statement this morning that it's tragic that a young life has been lost. they confirmed that specialist officers would be supporting the family and they said that they've got detectives working flat out to find who is responsible to and bring them into custody. >> okay. thank you very much indeed. jack carson, our west midlands reporter. their horrific story, 13 year old boy stabbed to death there. now we've got a lot coming up, including angela rayner. she's been raving in ibiza, but she's also been working on this big package of workers rights. and it could include a four day week, or at least the right for any employee to demand a four day week. what do you make to that? gbnews.com forward slash your say? it's the break now though

okay good afternoon britain you're with me emily carver. now workers could be given the right to work just a four day week under new government plans to increase flexible working. now deputy prime minister angela raynen deputy prime minister angela rayner, she's apparently championing this as part of a new law in consultation with trade unions and businesses. now, if enacted, this new law would mean that employees still have to work full hours to receive full pay. but they could ask. they could demand to compress their contracted hours into a shorter working week. so potentially five days work. but into a four day week. and they'd be allowed to demand this from day one, presumably. joining me now to discuss this is gb news, political reporter katherine forster. catherine this is a big package around workers rights that are angela rayner has been working on for months. if not years. is this a serious proposal ? is years. is this a serious proposal? is this years. is this a serious proposal ? is this a years. is this a serious proposal? is this a serious proposal? >> well, we're going to get this

draft bill probably next month and there's lots in it. so yes, it is quite radical, the ability to switch off after hours, greater protections as soon as any probationary period is over. and this, right to request a four day working week rather than a five. now, i think it's worth saying that, you know, although some businesses will be very concerned by this. of course, this is not going to apply to anybody. by all means, if you're a teacher , you know, if you're a teacher, you know, if you're a teacher, you know, if you're a teacher, you know, if you work in hospitality or whatever, there's many, many jobs that have to be done on the days and hours that they have to be done. and there is not that flexibility . but whereas at the flexibility. but whereas at the moment workers have the right to request flexible working , request flexible working, employees don't have to give those, you know, but now it will be that they will need to accommodate things like

compressed hours, as they call them, unless it is, quote , not them, unless it is, quote, not reasonably feasible. now, the government's argument is that we have lots of worker shortages, lots of people who've left the workplace after covid and haven't come back, and that actually, if you simply do the same amount of work just in fewer days. so example, rather than doing 9 to 5, five days a week, you do er 8 to 6, four days a week. you're not losing any work. the money would be the same . what is the problem. same. what is the problem. they're saying that that will encourage people back into the workplace and people get then more time with their families. it reduces commuting costs, childcare issues, etcetera, etcetera. they say that it's going to actually make us more productive and that can help with growth, which we hear over and over again is their number one mission. but of course, there will be concerns with

businesses. >> yeah, absolutely. thank you very much indeed . katherine very much indeed. katherine forster, our political reporter, based there in westminster. it does seem a little bit authoritarian. the government wanting to get involved in your employment contracts to this degree. anyway, we're going to move on because labour's jess phillips, now she's reportedly claimed she received preferential treatment at an nhs hospital in birmingham because the doctor happened to agree with her stance on a ceasefire in gaza. now this was all said at an event called an evening with jess phillips, and she described an episode from her trip to a&e, suggesting that it may not just be policing, which could be guided by a two tier approach. people are now talking about a two tier nhs. well, joining me now is journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth. benjamin, thank you very much indeed . what a thing very much indeed. what a thing to say. >> i mean, i think jess phillips is known for her characteristic honesty, and this is particularly honest. >> so what she said at this evening with jess phillips was that she thinks she was put

towards the queue, the front of the queue, because she was the member of parliament in the first place. and then when she saw the doctor , it turned out saw the doctor, it turned out that he was of palestinian descent and commented on her views. so she resigned from labour's shadow frontbench in order to support a ceasefire. and he apparently, you know , and he apparently, you know, recognised that and said that he agreed with her and she felt that, you know, the two things together, being a member of parliament and her particular politics got her speedy service in the nhs, which, you know, clearly isn't appropriate . but i clearly isn't appropriate. but i would suggest that she was telling this story to point out a problem of how hard it is to get seen by a doctor. >> yes, but she revealed quite a lot about how perhaps some of our clinicians are behaving when it comes to political issues like gaza , which of course is like gaza, which of course is hugely controversial. i just worry that if you happen to walk into that hospital, into the a&e department and you had a little israel flag on, you might be pushed to the back of the queue. >> i mean, there have been serious questions about this. there was a doctor who became

high profile for doing several interviews where he was talking about hamas and israel in ways that were highly inflammatory, and he worked as a doctor in the nhs. there have been several examples of cases like that, and i think it should be a concern. you know, it's a question about where do you draw the line with politics and personal opinion. you know, the health secretary wes streeting has said that if somebody is racist or abusive to a member of staff, then they should be refused service. now, that's a difficult one to judge because obviously that's inappropriate behaviour. nobody should be subjected to it at work. but also, you know, health care is so fundamental, you know, where do you draw the line on people's attitudes? i think the idea that doctors are talking about politics in that context just strikes me as inappropriate in the first place. you know what? if someone is a transgender patient now, the doctor may be very supportive ideologically or not supportive ideologically or not supportive of that, but that's not what they're there to do. they're there to discuss a medical question. >> it just seems absolutely crazy that jess phillips would first admit to this. and not

call it out. it seems like she was almost boasting about it. >> i mean, to be fair, you know, she was obviously an a&e because she was obviously an a&e because she was obviously an a&e because she was quite unwell. i think she was quite unwell. i think she said her lips had turned blue, so clearly something had gone quite wrong. so maybe at that point you probably don't really want to be an mp. you just want to be healthy, right? i think the reason she's highlighted this is to we can't have an nhs where, depending on your position on gaza, you're treated more quickly or more slowly. >> i mean , that's absolutely crazy. >> i mean, it probably is crazy, but i mean , we are seeing this but i mean, we are seeing this a lot. you know, businesses increasingly take a view on contentious issues. the ice cream brand, another end of the scale. ben and jerry's has been heavily opinionated on lots of political things, and it can drive people to consume those products. but should we be surprised that this might affect other areas? we come to work to discuss politics, but i'm not sure that's really what you want a doctor to be doing. >> yeah , i don't want to know >> yeah, i don't want to know what my nhs doctor thinks about a gaza ceasefire, to be honest. nor do i want to know what they think about illegal immigration or climate change. i think that needs to stop at the door when

you're working with the entirety of the population, who will all have completely different views on absolutely everything . on absolutely everything. benjamin, i also want to draw your attention to what angela rayner's been doing recently. she's been having a great time in ibiza. i think we can show a clip of her at the dj booth or behind the dj booth. she's got a bottle of water. i think it is. i wouldn't want to suggest it's anything else. there she is, keeping hydrated, dancing around. this is on denise van houten's instagram page, she's having a wonderful time now. this was about the same time as keir starmer was delivering that utterly miserable speech to the nafion utterly miserable speech to the nation , where he told us nation, where he told us everything is going to get worse before it gets better. well, if angela rayner looks like it's only going up. >> yeah. i mean, i don't know how happy keir starmer is going to be that she was doing this. it's not new. we've seen similar videos like this when she was in opposition. you know she famously you know there's talk of smoking being banned in pub gardens. and angela rayner is a smoker. there's some actually quite glamorous photographs of her that have been going viral. so we know yes, we know that she

is someone that has a great lot of fun, but there's a real question here that the tone of the labour government is that times are going to be hard. people with the broadest shoulders take the biggest weight. keir starmer has said and so when rachel reeves is doing cuts to winter fuel allowance and likely some form of tax rises in october, does it really fit to have someone going out there and having this much fun? i would imagine that keir starmer was less than impressed when this video crossed his desk. >> well, i must say that lots of you have been getting in touch at home about all of this. some of you seeing the sunny, sunny side, the funny side of it , side, the funny side of it, others saying it's a it's not quite what she should be doing, she should get back and sort the country out if it's in such a dire state, as she suggests , it is. >> the former prime minister of denmark, helle thorning—schmidt. she was she was known as gucci helle because, which is obviously slightly sexist, but she wore very glamorous and expensive clothes, and she would go out clubbing . she's. there go out clubbing. she's. there was a video recently of her dj ing at a massive place in denmark. so you know, there is precedent for senior labour

politicians to be ravers. i do think that a country that's comfortable with itself wouldn't mind that a politician has a saturday night like everybody else does. >> i mean, maybe it actually suits keir starmer quite nicely. he comes across as very boring and managerial to some of the public, whereas angela rayner can perhaps, you know, get some young people on side. >> i don't know how many grandmas go clubbing in ibiza on the weekends. >> quite a few i imagine, really , >> quite a few i imagine, really, i don't think, i don't think in my family i've seen it. >> but you know, i it is also in another way. it's nice to see, you know she's, she's, she's not particularly old but she's certainly middle aged. you know, a woman like that going out there, living her life, having a sense of humour, having a sense of fun. >> you know, i don't know, rosa doesn't agree. she says. angela angela rayner's behaviour on houdayis angela rayner's behaviour on holiday is an absolute disgrace. how unbecoming of a deputy prime minister completely lacking decorum in public. there should be an official investigation into her behaviour. as someone else says, no class, no decorum. definitely not the manner to be a deputy prime minister of this

country. politicians are a sham , country. politicians are a sham, not a patch. on years gone by, i reckon you would have seen margaret thatcher doing that back in the days. >> i think i very much doubt it. but, you know, i think she's she's clearly quite glamorous. i think it appeals to some people. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think she is. and also she's got a bottle of water. so it's not like she's off her face. i think many of us on our third night in benidorm have probably done things that we wouldn't want our workplaces to, to know about . to know about. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed. benjamin butterworth , journalist and butterworth, journalist and broadcaster. now, in relation to the jess phillips story we were talking about, gb news has reached out to university hospitals birmingham nhs foundation trust. we're yet to hear a response, but we will get it to you as and when we do here. this is good afternoon britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show apparently. apparently there's going to be even more tube strikes despite the union involved already receiving a pay offer of up to £70,000. we'll have the latest after the news headunes.

headlines. >> very good afternoon to you. just after 1:30. and the top story from the newsroom this houn story from the newsroom this hour, a 13 year old boy has died in what detectives are calling a tragic stabbing on the outskirts of birmingham. a murder investigation has now been launched after the teenager was found at a property in oldbury yesterday afternoon. he was treated by paramedics but sadly died at the scene. the west midlands force say there haven't been any arrests so far. midlands force say there haven't been any arrests so far . a been any arrests so far. a mother has admitted to killing her ten year old daughter in the west midlands in march, jaskirat kaur pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of shay kang on the bafis manslaughter of shay kang on the basis of diminished responsibility that was at wolverhampton crown court this morning. she'll be sentenced on the 25th of october. dame priti patel has officially launched her conservative leadership campaign, promising to revive the party with clear goals and a focus on the future. the former home secretary has also denounced sir keir starmer's recent speech, calling it

feeble, pitiful and dishonest, criticising his approach to trade unions, criminal justice and the economy. she's one of six candidates in the running to replace rishi sunak, and speaking in london earlier, she declared the conservative party is the greatest in the world. >> under my leadership, i will bnng >> under my leadership, i will bring our party experience and strength and i will get us back to winning ways. but before i say more about my offer to members of parliament, my plans to empower our loyal and dedicated party members and my commitment for our party to serve the nation and the british people with professionalism and integrity , reports that integrity, reports that businesses will be forced to accept workers demands for a four day working week. >> have been dismissed by the government this morning, labour said it's focused instead on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days, not though, reducing total hours, but the conservatives have criticised any proposed changes to work

arrangements, claiming businesses are concerned about potential costs and ministers have admitted that government funded childcare support for babies aged nine months or over comes with significant challenges. eligible parents in england will be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare a week from monday, a plan inherited from monday, a plan inherited from the conservatives. but the department for education claims around 85,000 more places will still be needed if that support is to be extended to 30 hours a week from september next year. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with a full update at 2:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report .

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>> right. okay. welcome back to. good afternoon britain with me emily carver. it is now 140 and tube drivers apparently are preparing to go on strike after rejecting a pay offer which would have raised their salaries to almost £70,000. now, london underground staff have been offered a 3.8% pay rise by tfl. however threats of fresh strikes come after mainline rail drivers

were handed a double digit pay rise by the government. so is what we're seeing. the train drivers on the main lines, they've been offered their inflation busting pay rise. now tfl want it to. will these strikes ever end? we're joined now by travel correspondent for the independent, simon calder . the independent, simon calder. simon, you offer one bunch of train drivers a big fat pay rise, and then the others come along asking for the same. >> what a surprise. >> what a surprise. >> yes . and of course, there is >> yes. and of course, there is no love lost between the two different unions here. aslef, the train drivers union. as you say, got a very decent 15% rise. now they would say it didn't actually keep tabs with inflation, but it does mean that they effectively went from kind of £60,000 to getting on for 70,000. the transport for london at london drivers who are , at london drivers who are, basically paid pretty much the same salary because it's tricky

with the national train drivers because they all get lots of different rates, but they are getting a rise, which i think is going to take them to £69,650. so just a shade short, that was the pay rise offered. the rmt union, which represents almost all true drivers, said that's not good enough and they're waiting for a suitable offer which is going. obviously i would say if they can agree on one, it's going to take people to above £70,000 and it's a difficult, stressful job that requires lots of training. but of course there's lots of other people in difficult, stressful pubuc people in difficult, stressful public service jobs that require lots of training. so teachers, paramedics , nurses might say, paramedics, nurses might say, £70,000 seems to be about the going rate. and that would be quite interesting for the public finances. >> i think i, as simon, our our tfl workers by and large underpaid in your view. i mean the train drivers 70 k that

sounds like a pretty decent salary. clearly there's demand for more than that . but what for more than that. but what about the other workers? >> it's a huge spread generally in any transport undertaking. it's people like the cleaners who will get the lowest pay. and then it's across a fairly broad spectrum, i'm not sure that there's a you know, i think there's a you know, i think there's a you know, i think there's a lot of competition for a lot of jobs, both at tfl for and national rail companies, which kind of indicates that they are relatively well paid and of course, the train drivers, both nationally represented by aslef, who, by the way, have . just last night the way, have. just last night called off a strike due to start this weekend, and the rmt, representing the tube drivers, have kind of said, well, this is what we expect. and the other thing which i think both unions now believe is that they have proved that the tube, the national rail services, are simply too important to be

allowed to be on strike. and so therefore they're saying, okay, well, we're going to strike until we get what we need. and the train drivers, i don't think will be coming back for more for a while. but the rmt rail, workers who actually settled about 18 months ago, sorry , about 18 months ago, sorry, after about 18 months. so, really at the start of this yean really at the start of this year, they will now be thinking, hang on, aslef got, 15% pay rise. rmt members working for the tube driving trains are getting 70,000. what about me? and. well, guess who's going to be caught in the middle? it's the poor old passenger and the poor old taxpayer. what a surprise. >> absolutely. we'll get hit again in the pocket. and these unions do have a lot of leverage. they can bring us almost to a standstill, particularly tfl in london. that would be disastrous to have long term strikes on that facility. but thank you very much indeed . but thank you very much indeed. simon calder there outside

waterloo station. i believe, in central london. thank you very much indeed. now i must bring you before the break. i must bnng you before the break. i must bring you a bit of breaking news. if you were hoping to send your children or grandchildren to eton college, you're going to have a big bill there. apparently going to pass on the full cost of the 20% vat that labour are bringing in to parents. so get this, it's going to go from £53,000 a year to send one kid to eton to 63,000, more than 63,000. now i hazard a guess that there aren't actually that many brits who can afford that many brits who can afford that for their children. you'd have to earn , what, about have to earn, what, about £130,000 to be able to send to even make that much money just for one school year, i imagine it will mean that actually it will be a lot of rich foreigners who send their kids to eton college as a result of this policy . does that really make policy. does that really make things more equal? i don't know, but yes , eton college £63,000 but yes, eton college £63,000 a year because of that vat charge.

this is good afternoon , britain. this is good afternoon, britain. we're on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show including would you fancy being weighed at work? this is a potential new nhs outreach scheme to try and get us all healthy and make sure that we you know, are not going to suffer from a heart

welcome back. you're watching listening to good afternoon britain. it is now 149 now more than 130,000 people in england will be offered free workplace health checks in the next six months. this is all part of a new nhs pilot scheme. now workers will provide information used to determine their risk of developing cardiovascular disease, which can cause heart attacks and strokes. now health experts think the checks will free up appointment times and cut waiting lists. but how do you fancy being weighed at work? well, we're joined by tam fry, chair of the national obesity

forum, tam. can you imagine this in the workplace? apparently they're targeting over 40s and particularly male dominated industries. can you imagine people lining up for their their in—house health check, their health mot and being weighed in the office and all that? >> well, they do that in japan as a program to prevent all these problems, and that works perfectly satisfactorily. they've been doing it since 2008. so if they can do it in japan , they can do it here. and japan, they can do it here. and particularly mentioned in the times today are the jaguar land rover occupational health that has actually put £15 million per year into looking after its employees. so therefore i think it's a very good idea. but what should happen is that the government actually is too late at the age of 40. it should start much earlier. >> oh really? what age do you think it should start at? >> well, in my view , it should >> well, in my view, it should start with children. because if

children grow overweight and they are now something like 20% of children who are obese by the age of five, they will continue to grow through their teenage years and into adulthood. and they will then pick up other conditions triggered by obesity. and therefore, you've really got to start very early and make sure that the children are as trim as possible with the right education and the parents need educating as well. and then you will prevent this huge problem which we have in this country. >> you know what? i agree with you. i think this could actually be quite a good idea. i know from personal experience that there are a lot of men in particular who won't go to the gp as often as maybe they should. they won't always get their health checks as and when they should. they may not eat also as well as they should . if also as well as they should. if you go to work one day and you get everything checked out for free, it could, you know, save a life and also save the nhs money down the line, i suppose. >> yeah , precisely. so this is

>> yeah, precisely. so this is all that you have to remember that obesity is an entirely preventable condition. and therefore if you address the problem of obesity early enough and you can cure it at an early age when children are most receptive to good idea , good receptive to good idea, good ideas and good teaching, then they will learn how to eat properly, exercise properly, and eat in moderation as well . eat in moderation as well. because we're overeating by about 20% and they will then finish up going into adulthood in a trim condition. >> the only thing, the only thing i disagree with you there is that i'm not sure. >> i think children probably predominantly get their eating habhs predominantly get their eating habits from their parents, and you can't really have the nhs going into people's homes or the government going into people's homes and dictating sort of what parents put on the plate, i think i think it happens there rather than necessarily, you know, in society at large. >> well, if i could say that, in fact, the government has a policy or the previous

government had a policy of family hubs, and that was a throwback from the sure start children's centres, which were developed in the labour administration during the noughties. and those were the places where you could actually educate parents in cooking, food selection and how to feed their children so that in fact their children so that in fact their children could learn at the best age of to what do and then grow into it as they grow older. >> all right. well, thank you very much indeed . tam fry, chair very much indeed. tam fry, chair of the national obesity forum. great to get your thoughts on this one. i think it's actually probably quite a good thing. i mean, the headlines are saying, you know, do you fancy being weighed at work? i imagine it's not going to be mandatory for that. but i think if you're getting your blood pressure checked, you're getting your measurements done, you're getting other tests done for free at your workplace. can't be a bad thing, really, can it? as long as it's efficient and doesn't cost too much, i don't see what's wrong with that idea, but let me know if you think it's an awful idea.

gbnews.com/yoursay we've got lots more coming up on today's show. we're going to be checking in with everything that's happening in westminster , and happening in westminster, and we're going to take a little look at the weather first. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hey, hope you're having a good day. here's your latest met office weather update for gb news. there will be plenty more fine weather to come as we go through the end of today, and into tomorrow, but do watch out for some thundery showers . first for some thundery showers. first off though, high pressure still firmly in control which is why it's been so settled today and it's been so settled today and it's why it will continue to be settled as we go through the next 12 to 24 hours. for most of us, some cloud through this

afternoon, but a lot of that will actually clear away as we go through this evening and overnight away from the southeast. that is here. we are going to see a bit more cloud pushing its way in, and perhaps 1 or 2 showers developing as we head towards dawn, as well . head towards dawn, as well. otherwise, where we have the clear skies, it is again going to be a bit of a cool night, temperatures perhaps holding up slightly higher than last night, but nonetheless there could be some pockets of mist and fog first thing tomorrow morning as we go through tomorrow morning, then starting off in the southeast. and like i said, a bit more cloud here with a few showers to watch out for a brighter picture further west, but it is going to turn cloudier later. meanwhile, across central parts, a sunny start to the day and similar for northern ireland and similar for northern ireland and into northern england and across scotland. but there will be a few pockets of mist and fog here and there. these should clear quite quickly as we go through the day, because the sun does still have some decent strength behind it, even though it is going to be the last day of meteorological summer. otherwise, as we go through the day staying pretty sunny across the northern two thirds of the country. further south, a bit more cloud building . and with

more cloud building. and with that, there is the risk of some thunderstorms kicking off. they're going to be pretty isolated, so you'd be unlucky to catch one. but nonetheless, the risk is there. temperatures are going to be reaching highs of around low , possibly mid 20s around low, possibly mid 20s towards the south, a few degrees cooler than this further north. chance of a few more showers kicking off as we go through tomorrow evening and overnight. there could be a little bit impactful for some places with some intense rain, perhaps even some intense rain, perhaps even some hail mixed in, and then the showers could become a bit more widespread, particularly across central and eastern parts. on sunday. and then some more wet weather to come as we go through early next week . early next week. >> by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

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carver now. dame priti patel is the latest candidate to take command of the conservatives, vowing to unite and revive the party. but would she get your vote? and workless migrants ? vote? and workless migrants? according to a new report, record numbers of migrants living in britain are not working, costing taxpayers an estimated £8 billion, with almost 1.7 million non—uk nationals neither working or classed as economically inactive because they're not looking for a job. two tier nhs. labour's jess phillips reportedly claimed she received preferential treatment at an nhs hospital in birmingham because the doctor happened to agree with her stance on a ceasefire in gaza . stance on a ceasefire in gaza. bye bye maggie. sir keir starmer has reportedly taken down a portrait of margaret thatcher from downing street, from the thatcher room, no less. only weeks after moving in, describing the artwork as unsettling, less than a year ago, he heaped praise upon thatcher for bringing meaningful change to the uk and royal

reunion. it's been reported that the prince of wales and duke of sussex have both attended the funeral of their uncle , lord funeral of their uncle, lord fellowes, placing them in the same room for the very first time this year. i think this story about jess phillips is absolutely huge, so jess phillips, labour's jess phillips in birmingham, she goes to an a&e for urgent treatment and she's given preferential treatment, according to her claim at this event that she was doing her claim that she got preferential treatment because her doctor happened to be palestinian and happened to appreciate her stance on the gaza ceasefire . so now there are gaza ceasefire. so now there are concerns that perhaps we have a bit of a two tier nhs system here that if your doctor agrees with your politics, you may well get better treatment in our national health service. what do you make to that? we're going to

be speaking to the person who wrote up this report in the daily mail today. it is quite shocking, actually. so what would happen if i just turned up with a little israeli flag? would i be, you know, left to wait a little longer? is that really the state of modern britain? get your thoughts in gbnews.com/yoursay. we've also got a lot else to be discussing as well, but let's get to your news headlines with sam francis . news headlines with sam francis. >> emily, thank you very much indeed. good afternoon to you. 2:02. and the top story this houn 2:02. and the top story this hour, a murder investigation has been launched after a 13 year old boy was stabbed to death at a house in west midlands. the teenager was treated by paramedics at the scene but died at the scene in oldbury yesterday afternoon. no one, they say, has been arrested so far, with police calling his death absolutely tragic. well, local youth worker darius rehman told us he's in shock. >> i'm feeling really sad and i

don't know whether to blame ourselves or our service or our government. are we failing? it's going to be really sad for the family as well to live with that. their child is not no more. and for the community, as well, it's going to have a very affect on the whole of the community that it's actually come to our doorstep now because you hear about it in other areas . you hear about it in other areas. somebody's been stabbed, some child has been stabbed, some man has been stabbed. today it's happened at our doorstep in our area, on our street in wales. >> a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child. there. police were called to a home in swansea last night. a 41 year old who lived with that child is now being questioned in bridgend. detectives say they are not looking for anyone else . a looking for anyone else. a mother has pleaded guilty to stabbing her ten year old daughter to death in the west midlands. juskowiak admitted to

manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility after the child was found with fatal wounds at their home in march of this year. prosecutors accepted the 33 year old's plea at the court and heard that there was no dispute over the facts. she has been remembered by her school as a bright, a happy and fun loving girl. dame priti patel has officially launched her conservative leadership campaign today, promising to revive the party with a focus on the future. the former home secretary also denounced sir keir starmer's recent speech as feeble, pitiful and dishonest, criticising his approach to trade unions, criminal justice and the economy. she's one of six candidates running to replace rishi sunak , and replace rishi sunak, and speaking earlier in london, she declared the conservative party as the greatest in the world. >> under my leadership, i will bnng >> under my leadership, i will bring our party experience and strength and i will get us back to winning ways. but before i say more about my offer to

members of parliament, my plans to empower our loyal and dedicated party members, and my commitment for our party to serve the nation and the british people with professionalism and integrity . integrity. >> the government says it won't impose a four day working week, but that it does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused instead on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days, not reducing total hours. the conservatives have criticised any proposals, claiming businesses are concerned about potential costs . concerned about potential costs. ministers have admitted that government funded childcare support for babies aged nine months or over does come with significant challenges. eligible parents in england will be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare a week from monday. a plan inherited from the conservatives. but the department for education claims around 85,000 more places will be needed to be able to extend

that free support to 30 hours a week from september next year. well, baroness jacqui smith told us earlier that it will be an enormously difficult job to make that work . that work. >> we've been really knuckling down since we got into government, boosting up the recruitment campaign for, for example , do something big, which example, do something big, which encourages people to come into the childcare workforce, making sure that we've got apprenticeships in place for people developing the new t level in early years education. thatis level in early years education. that is actually very popular and successful and enabling more people to be trained. and it's why we'll be working between now and next year with early years providers, with local authorities, to make sure that those places, as far as we can do are there for parents in the us. >> kamala harris has defended changing her mind on some key policies since becoming the democratics democratic party's presidential nominee. speaking in her first major media interview since announcing she was running for the white house,

she told cnn last night her values haven't changed. and it comes as a new poll suggests she has a four point lead over republican donald trump. >> we have set goals for the united states of america and by extension, the globe , around extension, the globe, around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. as an example , that value has not example, that value has not changed my value around what we need to do to secure our border. that value has not changed. i spent two terms as the attorney general of california prosecuting transnational criminal organisations. violations of american laws regarding the passage illegal passage of guns, drugs and human beings across our border. my values have not changed, and abba are demanding that donald trump's presidential campaign remove any videos that feature their songs. >> the group's claimed hits, including the winner takes it all and dancing queen emily's favourite, were used at an event without their permission, but the republican team insists they have a license . those are the

have a license. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'll be back with you for one more update in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is 208 now. that's quite funny actually. that story that abba are kicking off over trump using their songs in the rally. this happened so much, doesn't it? with the republicans. i can't remember, but there was definitely another band or another artist that wrote to trump demanding the same stop using my music. anyway, let's get back to westminster because dame priti patel is the latest tory mp to launch her leadership bid. she spoke earlier in central london and she wants to get the conservatives back to winning ways under my leadership, i will bring our

party experience and strength and i will get us back to winning ways. >> but before i say more about my offer to members of parliament, my plans to empower our loyal and dedicated party members, and my commitment for our party to serve the nation and the british people with professionalism and integrity. >> well, joining me now is our political editor, christopher hope. political editor, christopher hope . christopher, thank you hope. christopher, thank you very much indeed. priti patel, she sounded she sounded quite confident, didn't she ? chris confident, didn't she? chris >> yes. yeah. hi, emily. yeah, i think she did. well, i'm still here outside the venue where priti patel was a few hours ago, announcing her plans to be tory leader. yeah she did, i think she said she wants the party to speak with one voice. she said we need the british people as our compass. she said we owe bofis our compass. she said we owe boris johnson a great deal. he motivated the grassroots. he was a true leader, i think interesting also about net

migration. she was asked about that. she said context does matter in terms of record immigration figures. she said it's too lazy to speak about about numbers earlier. that was my question to her. and here's here's what she had to say . here's what she had to say. you're seen as the most right wing candidate of the six candidates to replace rishi sunak. you're proud of your grassroots conservative base, but you won't apologise for record net migration under your government's watch. you didn't vote against the smoking ban when you had a chance to. how can you reconcile and win back reform voters from that position? and if you were prime minister would you remove a portrait of tony blair? >> margaret thatcher is going straight back on the rule. let me just let me just get that on the record. first of all. well, look, number one, i'm not going to play that game of soundbite politics. you've just heard me also give a speech about freedom and conservative values and beliefs and chopper, you know, when it comes to freedom, it's freedom as to how we live. our lives. you've also seen what i've said in recent days around the smoking ban, what that is going to mean, actually, for

businesses, for pubs, the hospitality sector. i think just before the general election, i was spending a lot of time with the hospitality sector, not just in my own constituency, but elsewhere. the other point, just to say on this issue is that we've got a government that wants the police, the very people that should be policing our streets to be policing beer gardens and things of that nature. in my view, we need the police on the streets , not in police on the streets, not in beer gardens. they need to be doing their job. and you know , doing their job. and you know, this is exactly where we need to unpick this awful labour government. >> i mean, christopher, she completely avoided answering that question. how is that going to go down with the party faithful ? faithful? >> yeah, i don't know. i mean, we look at those 4 million voters to reform uk. we know that the failure to control legal and illegal migration was, was one of the main causes of that polls regularly put migration at the top level, and i'm intrigued by someone like priti patel not wanting to say , priti patel not wanting to say, look, we've got it wrong. we failed to deliver on the promise

through four elections and i will get that better, she says . will get that better, she says. it's a context issue she talks about we need doctors and nurses. she almost defends that record and i wonder where that whether that might change going when this this this contest goes to the base. we're going to see mps in parliament whittle the number of candidates down from six and to five, six go to five on wednesday next week. the following monday it goes 5 to 4. and it may be that changes plan. it may be that people like priti patel are talking to quite a quite a moderate base in the parliamentary party, and they don't want to hear people apologising for mass net migration. someone like suella braverman, if she was standing, she would be saying not on my watch, i'm sorry. and in fact other candidates have said the same thing. so it's intriguing that she won't do that . she that she won't do that. she clearly doesn't want to do easy answers here. she wants to make sure that that that she can't get committed to things she can't stand stand for if she if she wins the leadership. emily. >> yes, it's interesting though, because it's clearly about how

you do it because robert jenrick has a huge amount of support in the parliamentary party, and he's been talking a lot about immigration. but thank you very much indeed, christopher. hope our political editor in westminster. that's how it goes. it's politics, i guess. but talking of immigration, we've got a new record in this country currently. there are 1.6 million migrants living in britain , migrants living in britain, unemployed or not actively looking for work. so apparently this is costing the taxpayer an estimated £8 billion. now this all comes as the institute for government is actually asking labour to consider loosening immigration policy to meet their ambitious housebuilding targets. so i guess, is it time to bring in skilled migrants to fuel angela rayner's housebuilding boom? and what do you make of those figures of people in this country? non—uk nationals simply not looking for work ? well, not looking for work? well, joining me now is former immigration minister kevin foster. kevin, let's start with that figure. 1.61.7 non—uk nationals in this country, unemployed or not looking for

work . what is that about? work. what is that about? >> well, it's a pretty dramatic number to say the least. and whilst will always be exceptions, like the spouse of a premier league footballer who's come here on a sportsperson visa, are unlikely to be looking for a job. yeah, unlikely to be looking for a job down the local job centre today it is , and also job centre today it is, and also speaks to what we also need to do around things like integration as well. because if people have come, particularly if they've come as a dependent of someone to the uk, and if they don't pick up english, which is probably the biggest barrier to entering the employment market, you know, we're not doing anyone any favours by them, not actually being able to integrate into society here. >> yes, it may be that quite a large part of these figures are women who have never worked or who have never sought work, and that probably is an issue with integration , as you say. robert integration, as you say. robert bates, the research director at the centre for migration control, who i believe has published this report. now, he said he's he's put it very strongly. he said there's no reason for us to continue handing out so many long term visas when we are currently having to bail out over a million migrants who are already

in britain but not working. this is the very definition of a ponzi scheme . would you share ponzi scheme. would you share that sentiment? >> i think it's got a lot to be said for what's just what's been said for what's just what's been said there. and the views they're expressing is that whilst we've got a base of people where it's not just the numbers we're talking about here of foreign nationals, but also amongst our own population as well, and we do need to have more of a focus, particularly just touched construction. and, you know, i've still got scars on my back from my own time as immigration minister, where every sector that had had a recruitment issue would, you know , perhaps rather than look know, perhaps rather than look at things like terms and conditions, wage rates , training conditions, wage rates, training schemes, you know, apparently a visa was going to be the magic solution to all their problems. you know, we need to really focus on actually, we have people in this country who are not in gainful employment or could be in more gainful employment than they are if they had skills and think and actually focus on them, rather than seeing migration as the go to solution. >> but kevin, why when the pubuc >> but kevin, why when the public told successive governments over and over again that they wanted to bring immigration down, did

governments and the home office, the treasury, always, always pull that lever of mass immigration? >> well, a lot . again, you'd >> well, a lot. again, you'd have certain sectors, but also we also have to reflect lobbying from sectors. well bit of that. but also you'd for see example ukrainians was pretty touched on everyday ukrainians and hong kong nationals, people who retained a british identity post the hand back then finding themselves being persecuted by president xi. which ones are those? would we have told not to come? so that's certainly made a big chunk. but again, it is about how we really link up and, you know , if i was waving my you know, if i was waving my magic wand, i would say we should have a department of labour that links up, you know, demands in the labour market with immigration policy, with skills training, because it's been very easy in the past for sectors to lobby for a sector based department for changes in visas. but if things go wrong, it's the home office either trying to remove people or deal dclg the local government or dwp. the benefits department that end up picking up the bill. >> i mean , people are always >> i mean, people are always

told by very worthy academics and commentators and politicians to mostly on the left, that immigration is always a net benefit for our economy. >> well, surely these figures of the number of non—uk nationals living in this country and not working sort of flies in the face of that . face of that. >> yeah, it's not always a net benefit. you have to have some control. so, for example, bringing in some very highly skilled people into our industry or into things like the nhs is going to is going to have a benefit, but just allowing very large migration as an alternative, for example, to a sector investing in training, looking at its terms and conditions. when we had all the arguments around truck driver visas and it was very obvious that the sector needed to do a lot more around things like getting women into employment because it was 99% men. it was a staggering figure to still have 50 odd years after we passed sex discrimination legislation that a sector which did not require huge physical strength still had like a 99% male employment rate.

and that reflected poor terms, conditions, lack of investment and failure to focus on developing home grown staff and instead hoping that it would always be a sort of pot of cheap, available labour at the end of an immigration rainbow. so it is not always positive to have large amounts of migration. it can push wages down and give people an alternative. so that's where i think these figures really need to refocus. the debate is how do we have that strategy for the uk labour market? i mean, people i mean, i'm sure there are people watching this who are absolutely furious to think that not only their hard earned cash taxpayer money is being spent on millions of people who millions of brits who aren't working for various different reasons, but then to also find out that it's paying for, you know, potentially billions of pounds a year for out of work migrants, too . out of work migrants, too. >> i mean, who is this serving? not the british public? no. >> well, people rightly, you know, we always accept that if someone's paid their bit into society, who for example, if you've been here, let's say

five, six, seven years working in something like our nhs, paying in something like our nhs, paying tax and paying national insurance, and then something happened, we may have a very different view to if someone had arrived in the last year or two, and then suddenly looks to access public public services . access public public services. and as i said, there will be some in that figure of non—economically active will be people who, for an obvious reason, aren't looking for a job. as we touched on wags of a footballer won't be looking for a cleaning job. part time, but it is right that there is that social contract that that our welfare system is there to help people who have contributed in that social contract that has long been broken. >> kevin. kevin foster, thank you very much indeed , former you very much indeed, former immigration minister, thank you very much. thank you. let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay now, following the attack on a swedish chef near notting hill carnival earlier this week, a director of a prison rehabilitation company has been remanded into custody after being charged. now joining me now is our national reporter , now is our national reporter, charlie peters. charlie, can you update us on this case? >> yes. so omar wilson, aged 31,

has been remanded into custody after appearing here at westminster magistrates court earlier this afternoon. he's been charged with grievous bodily harm, having been arrested in the early hours of wednesday morning from an address in east london. now, the court heard that nato, a 41 year old swedish national chef based in dubai but was on a business trip to london, was attacked on the queensway in west london after 11:20 pm. on the outskirts of notting hill. carnival. the prosecution said that mr nato had suffered catastrophic brain injuries. several bleeds on the brain and multiple cardiac arrests. he remains in a critical condition in a london hospital, but mr omar wilson, the 31 year old, as you said, emily, a director at a prison rehabilitation company, has been remanded into custody next to appear at southwark crown court on september the 27th. he spoke only here at

westminster to confirm his name and address, wearing standard issue. grey custody tracksuit. he did not give an indication of a plea which the district judge here took as an indication of a plea of not guilty. but he'll next appear on september the 27th. the prosecution also showed some cctv footage of the attack on monday evening, with some members of mr eberechi eze family leaving the courtroom as that was played. but mr omar wilson , a 31 year old remanded wilson, a 31 year old remanded into custody next to appear for a plea and trial preparation on september the 27th at southwark crown court . crown court. >> so much for keeping us up to date . charlie peters, our date. charlie peters, our national reporter outside westminster magistrates court. thank you. now we've got lots more coming up on today's show. get your thoughts in on that past interview that we had over those immigration numbers, the number of people who simply aren't looking for work in this country. a very odd indeed, but

we've got lots more coming up, including margaret thatcher, keir starmer doesn't like the look of her. she's unsettling in the thatcher room in number 10, he's apparently ordered it to go down. it's off the wall. he doesn't want to see it. what's all that about? after the

break. right. welcome back. it's 225. you're watching and listening to. good afternoon britain. now, angela rayner or should i say angela rayner or should i say angela raver has been caught in ibiza. she's been behind the dj booth. she's been dancing and singing along to the lyrics. she's got her red dress on, she's got her water in her hand. keeping her hydrated. she's got huge crowds cheering. i'm not sure if they're cheering at her, but they're certainly cheering at the music and how lovely it is. lots of you have been getting in touch about this one.

actually. some of you don't have a sense of humour on this one, perhaps for good reason , avid perhaps for good reason, avid says, oh, you've got a sense of humour actually, david, you say rayner's stealing theresa may's dance moves lol , simon says, dance moves lol, simon says, what on earth is she doing? celebrating, getting a job she has no right to hold. oh, all right then get back and sort this country out. it's falling apart. i really cannot believe this, the great burdizzo says it's a bit of an old lady dance, maybe she's just waiting for a dancing bear to appear. right. okay. and, lots of you are saying she should get back to work . considering keir starmer work. considering keir starmer has painted such a bleak picture of the country, he gave that, pretty miserable speech to the nafion pretty miserable speech to the nation where he told us all things can only get worse before they get better . but angela they get better. but angela rayneris they get better. but angela rayner is clearly living it up, raving in ibiza with her celebrity pals. so there you go . celebrity pals. so there you go. just a little, a little clip for you. perhaps you're enjoy it. anyway, in other news, the prime minister is coming under fire because he's removed a portrait of one of his predecessors,

margaret thatcher. of course , margaret thatcher. of course, from downing street. he's said to have found the painting commissioned by gordon brown unsettling. yes, unsettling. is this fair enough, or is this pure ideological pettiness? well, we're joined by former conservative mp neil parish, neil, what does this tell us about the man? >> well, i just wonder whether he whether the prime minister is feeling a bit insecure because, i don't know why he finds a picture of margaret thatcher looking down at him unsettling . looking down at him unsettling. i mean, i don't think margaret thatcher would have worried about any other prime ministers from history looking down on her, so i do find it quite strange. and of course, especially because it was sort of commissioned after maggie came to tea with gordon brown when he hadn't long been prime minister. back in two thousand and seven. so for me, it's a very odd thing to do, especially i think i think it probably came out of the thatcher room as well, did it? i don't know, it did, yes. i think i mean, i think it's all, you know, i mean, it's strange that, you know, when you have a, when you

have a room named after a prime minister do you do actually expect pictures of that prime minister to be on the wall? and i just wonder why he finds it so unsettling. and also, you know, i mean, maggie was , you know, i mean, maggie was, you know, she was loved by many or perhaps hated by others, but she was in her time. i believe, a very great prime minister that actually changed britain. so why he, you know, i mean, gordon brown obviously had her to tea because he wanted some of her magic to rub off on him. but obviously keir starmer, now that maggie has passed on and doesn't even want her picture on the wall. >> i mean, it's interesting you note that she changed britain because that's in fact what sir keir starmer said in the run up to the election when he presumably was courting traditional tory voters to vote for him. he was writing in the papers how thatcher is in some ways an inspiration . she made ways an inspiration. she made meaningful change for this country and the like. so there

you go to hear that he's now taken down her portrait in the thatcher room of number 10 is slightly bizarre , but neil, she slightly bizarre, but neil, she is a very controversial leader, a controversial figure in our political history. there is a lot of hatred as well as love for her and respect out there in the country. i mean, is it a surprise that a self—proclaimed socialist leader of this country might want to rid his home now of this image ? of this image? >> well, it's not necessarily his home. is it really the you know, the number 10 is very much that of the country and of the prime minister of the day. and so i mean, ijust think prime minister of the day. and so i mean, i just think it's quite bizarre because like i said before, the election, he was pretending to be the sort of biggest tory around, wasn't he? have no fear. vote for me . i'm have no fear. vote for me. i'm not a socialist. and when he gets into power, most of you know, recognising that and giving the unions more money immediately and now looking at sort of working time and all of these times, his flexibility of working all these things are

socialism and to sort of take a picture of margaret thatcher down. i mean, i have to say it's pretty petty stuff, to be honest with you. and i think maggie would probably be actually impressed. the fact that she unsettled him, i imagine if she's watching this from up above, some will say down below, but i will say up above, then i think she must be quite amused by it , because i think she must be quite amused by it, because i think it's just a silly thing to do. and i think, you know, i go back to my original comments, is the prime minister insecure because that's the only thing i could suggest, because i don't know about you, but i, i don't get very unsettled by pictures on a wall, whoever they are, so i just find, like, i find it amusing, but i also find it a little bit hurtful, for many. all right. others would sort of, you know, say with glee. yes. take her her picture down, but are we going to go round and sort of find all the prime ministers of history that we haven't liked? and are we going to take all their

pictures down? i mean, it's sort of almost symbolic of, of our woke society. so perhaps maggie has become you know, it doesn't suit the wokeism, dare i say it in keir starmer. so, yeah, i think this will be debated long and hard and, i just feel disappointed. but also sort of slightly amused. and also, i think , like i said, i think the think, like i said, i think the prime minister must be suffering from insecurity already. >> all right. well, i'm sure he'd disagree with that assertion, but neil parish, former conservative mp, thank you very much indeed. lots of people getting in touch who who probably do agree with that. i mean , graham said he's from he's mean, graham said he's from he's saying could the picture of maggie just make starmer feel inadequate ? i mean, i don't know inadequate? i mean, i don't know i don't know what the answer is here, but it certainly seems petty at best. i don't know what at worst. anyway, this is good afternoon britain. we're on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show , including up on today's show, including jess phillips , essentially she's jess phillips, essentially she's claiming that she received

preferential treatment on the nhs because she supported a ceasefire in gaza . ceasefire in gaza. >> very good afternoon to you. just after half past two and a recap of the top stories this hour, recap of the top stories this hour , detectives in the west hour, detectives in the west midlands have begun a murder investigation after a 13 year old boy was stabbed to death at a house in oldbury. the teenager was found with injuries yesterday afternoon and was treated by paramedics, but sadly died at the scene . police say died at the scene. police say they haven't made any arrests so far . a mother has pleaded guilty far. a mother has pleaded guilty to stabbing her ten year old daughter to death in the west midlands. jaskirat kaur admitted to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility after the child was found with fatal wounds at their home in march. she'll be sentenced on the 25th of october and a woman has also been arrested on suspicion of

murder after the death of a child in swansea , police were child in swansea, police were called to a home in the town last night. a 41 year old who lived with that child is being questioned in bridgend. detectives say they are not looking for anyone else . dame looking for anyone else. dame priti patel has officially launched her conservative leadership campaign today, promising to revive the party with clear goals and a focus on the future. the former home secretary also denounced sir keir starmer's recent speech as feeble , pitiful and dishonest, feeble, pitiful and dishonest, criticising his approach to trade unions, criminal justice and to the economy . she's one of and to the economy. she's one of six candidates running to replace rishi sunak . the replace rishi sunak. the government has said that it won't impose a four day working week, but that it does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused on compressed hours, instead allowing employees to work longer over fewer days. not though , reducing fewer days. not though, reducing total hours. the conservatives have criticised any proposed changes to working arrangements, claiming businesses are

concerned about potential costs . concerned about potential costs. and the foreign office says it is worried about the risk of instability in the occupied west bank. it's calling on restraint from israel, which says it has killed a hamas commander there. the idf says it was targeting a terrorist cell, while the militant group has not yet commented those are the latest headlines. for now, i'm sam francis sophia wenzler. we'll have your next update in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash

>> good afternoon britain. it is >> good afternoon britain. it is 237 and we've got lots more 237 and we've got lots more coming up on the show. but we coming up on the show. but we are going to introduce martin are going to introduce martin

daubney because he's up at daubney because he's up at 3:00. martin, what have you got in store for us? >> the figure that shames britain £8 billion a year. the bill for unemployed immigrants in the country gone through the roof. an astonishing failure of statecraft

roof. an astonishing failure of stayou aft roof. an astonishing failure of stayou can get of the it, you can get out of the country. if we had a sensible government, they might run the country like that. they might also supply us with the ethnicity and the nationality of taxpayers and those on unemployment benefits. that data isn't available in britain. it isn't available in britain. it is in denmark. i wonder why? what are they afraid of? what have they got to hide? it's time for a full and frank conversation about the perilous state of dependency britain and our immigration dependency. that's all coming up 3 to 6 pm. >> well, i'm sure you'll have a frank conversation on your show. thank you very much indeed . thank you very much indeed. martin daubney. he's up at 3:00, as always, but in other news, labour's jess phillips reportedly claimed she received preferential treatment at an nhs hospital in birmingham because the doctor happened to agree with her on the stance on a ceasefire in gaza . now, speaking ceasefire in gaza. now, speaking at an event called an evening with jess phillips, the labour mp described an episode from her voted for a ceasefire. this was describediing that just voted for a ceasefire. this was described am that just voted for a ceasefire. this wasdescribed an episode;t voted for a ceasefire. this trip to a&e , which suggests that wasdescribed an episode from her mp described an episode from her trip to a&e , which suggests that trip to a&e, which suggests that trip to a&e, which suggests that it may not just be policing it may not just be policing which could be guided by a two which could be guided by a two

tier approach, but the nhs. i tier approach, but the nhs. i mean, i do worry what this tells mean, i do worry what this tells us about what's going on in some us about what's going on in some of our institutions. anyway, of our institutions. anyway, we're joined now by showbiz we're joined now by showbiz reporter stephanie takyi. now, reporter stephanie takyi. now, stephanie, you wrote this story stephanie, you wrote this story for the daily mail today. it's a for the daily mail today. it's a very important story. it's very very important story. it's very shocking. jess phillips, shocking. jess phillips, speaking openly at this event. speaking openly at this event. tell us exactly what she said . tell us exactly what she said . tell us exactly what she said. >> well, emily, i was totally tell us exactly what she said. >> well, emily, i was totally flabbergasted when i attended flabbergasted when i attended this event, which jess had done this event, which jess had done to promote her new book. to promote her new book. >> and then she did talk about >> and then she did talk about this medical emergency she had this medical emergency she had where clearly she had breathing where clearly she had breathing issues, but i was really shocked issues, but i was really shocked when she mentioned the fact that when she mentioned the fact that when she mentioned the fact that when she mentioned the fact that when she turned up to this when she mentioned the fact that when she mentioned the fact that when she turned up to this hospital in birmingham, number hospital in birmingham, number one, she was given preferential one, she was given preferential treatment because she said who treatment because she said who she is as an mp. she is as an mp. >> but the second thing, which i >> but the second thing, which i found really distasteful is that found really distasteful is that she had this encounter with this she had this encounter with this palestinian doctor who she says, palestinian doctor who she says, you know, kind of pushed her up you know, kind of pushed her up to, tend to her because she had to, tend to her because she had voted for a ceasefire. this voted for a ceasefire. this

wasn't something that just wasn't something that just said in a very tongue in cheek manner. she was being quite serious about it. and the reason why i have put this story out there, because i think we're now in this state with the nhs, where people cannot get appointments to see their doctors. and then the fact that she says because she has voted for a ceasefire, it means she got seen to earlier than anybody else, which i think is a discredit to this doctor because i'm sure as a doctor you want to treat someone regardless of their political beliefs. and i feel like she's actually throwing palestinian doctors in there in the nhs under the bus because, you know, there are many of them who do work for patients who do have any kind of political beliefs. >> well, i think you're absolutely right. the nhs, one of its founding principles is that, you know, no one should have preferential treatment. everyone should be treated the same, have the same access to the services. just hearing that anyone, based on their political stance, particularly to do with

a foreign conflict, would be, you know, pushed forward for quicker treatment is just outrageous . we have gone to the outrageous. we have gone to the nhs trust for comment. we haven't yet heard back. i imagine there's probably an internal investigation that may well come from this because it is truly shocking. i just wonder, stephanie, that if someone came into that hospital and met that doctor and was wearing an israeli badge, potentially they might be pushed to the back of the queue. >> and i think this is what the scary thing is about this story. and i think, you know , jess and i think, you know, jess phillips was quite tactless making such comments because, you know, it's a very sensitive issue where wherever you stand in between the israel and hamas debate, but you want to know whether you're jewish or not, that if you were going to the nhs and you're meeting the doctor regardless of whether they're palestinian or not, that they're palestinian or not, that they will help you. so i think it's been a big let down from someone like jess phillips, who's supposed to be representing the labour government, to say such comments, which are tactless and will rightly so, promote

backlash. >> yeah, and she's probably got her going to get herself into some trouble for speaking. so openly like that. it may well be the truth, but politically, an absolute nightmare for the labour party. >> it is. and we did try to contact her yesterday before i went to print with the story. we did try to get a comment from her and the home office, but so far we haven't received anything back. you know jess phillips, she's quite a controversial character. she doesn't mince her words, so she's someone i know she will stick by this. and, you know, hopefully eventually she'll come out and say what her intentions were about saying that to a public audience. >> and it shows how much this, this foreign conflict is affecting , well, community affecting, well, community relations in this country , that relations in this country, that depending on what side you are on in a foreign conflict, you could potentially in some areas of this country, in some hospitals treated by some doctors and clinicians, be treated very differently depending on what side of it you're on. i mean, it is so

worrying to the maximum , but worrying to the maximum, but it's almost a good thing that we've heard this, that it's a very good thing that you've put this out and brought this to light, because people should know. >> yeah. and i think that's what the sad thing about this, because i feel like it just stokes up division more, you know, you know , everyone whether know, you know, everyone whether what side you are of this conflict . nobody wants to see conflict. nobody wants to see that. you know, it has an effect and how you're going to be treated because of having your views. i'm all for freedom of thought, and i think regardless of what you feel or think, you should be able to go to a doctor anywhere in this country and be seen not just because you voted for a ceasefire or not. >> yes. and that's why i think it's quite important that nhs workers don't wear political badges or affiliations, just so that it at least appears to be totally neutral, because every person walking into a hospital or walking into a gp's office, walking into whatever it is related to the nhs should feel as though they can just be themselves and they will not be

judged by the clinician. that's looking after them. stephanie takyi thank you so much for bringing us that story. stephanie there, who's written in the mail on what jess phillips had to say at this ticketed event. it was an evening with jess phillips, and she clearly has been perhaps a little too honest for her own good. when it comes to this. but essentially preferential treatment in an nhs hospital in england, in birmingham, because of your that . you can't

can't work like that. you can't work like that. otherwise people feel ostracised. she goes to on say jess phillips should reflect on the fact that the shows cronyism, corruption, etc. etc. lots of you getting in touch. please do keep your thoughts coming in on that one. it truly is a shocking story and i'm very glad stephanie takyi has brought that one to light in the daily mail today. as i said before , gb mail today. as i said before, gb news have reached out to the foundation trust involved. we are yet to hear a response. this is good afternoon britain. we're on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including whether whether this royal rift perhaps has been fixed between prince william and harry. they were seen at a funeral together, a funeral that harry wasn't intending to show up to. more on that after this

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so do with their families. so they do keep very much to themselves. >> i don't know about that, jack. prince harry hasn't always kept his cards close to his chest. i mean, he's written a whole book about all of his awful experiences in the in the royal family. >> now, of course, granted, he he did do the book. i think with that, we can surmise that what he's probably done is he wanted his side of the story to be, to be heard. and, as we've seen with the with the book coming out on paper , he's, he's he's out on paper, he's, he's he's not adding anything more in. i don't think he wants to add any more fuel to, to any fires . more fuel to, to any fires. he's, he's come to, to share in, in saying farewell to family members and, and see family members and, and see family members and, and see family members and who knows after after the event maybe they did go back to anmer or maybe they went to sandringham and have had private chats and conversations behind, behind closed doors . behind, behind closed doors. but, as, as opposed to sort of being right in front of

everybody, i don't think they want the world and his wife to start sort of saying, oh , this start sort of saying, oh, this is what they said, and that's what they said. so maybe, maybe silence is better in public at the moment. >> yes. perhaps they'd prefer the headlines to say frosty. they didn't talk to each other then. they're actually to be headunes then. they're actually to be headlines describing exactly what they said to each other . what they said to each other. better to stay schtum. but i think that's probably wishful thinking , to think that they had thinking, to think that they had a meeting separately and privately and a nice chat and a get together, probably . get together, probably. >> jack, i do hope they did. i think, you know, we all want to see the family back together to where they were when, when, when, when prince harry first, first met meghan and everything was happy and the four of them all got on fantastically well. i think, that's where i think the country wants it to go back to. but i don't think we can go back.i but i don't think we can go back. i think we can maybe go forward and try and settle some some arguments that i suppose

have have come along. but i'm still rooting for harry. i do i do wish him well and i do hope that we can get get them back to, to where they were in, in some kind of peace. >> that's what i hope for. but perhaps it's a bit hopeless, i don't know, but as someone who's worked for king charles, how do you think he's taking all of this? >> i think he'll be pleased to know that. that harry has come out to, to go and be with, with family at, at funerals, i know it's not obviously the king's family, but he was he was married to into the family. so it is nice to see that, it's nice to see that that hasn't been forgotten with within both both of the of his sons. so i don't think i think he'll be quite happy in that, knowing that they were at least together and, and let's see, let's hope that he also meets with his father and maybe he can mend some bridges there as well . some bridges there as well. >> yes. and the battle for the home office security still rages on. i think he's lost his appeal on. i think he's lost his appeal on that one. harry has so far,

but jack stokes, really to great speak to you. former senior gardener to king charles, no less . thank gardener to king charles, no less. thank you very much indeed, from gloucestershire. well, that's it for today. thanks for watching. good afternoon britain, i will be back with tom pinto as well. tom harwood that is so don't go anywhere because martin is up next. have a wonderful weekend . next. have a wonderful weekend. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hey, hope you're having a good day. here's your latest met office weather update for gb news. there will be plenty more fine weather to come as we go through the end of today and into tomorrow, but do watch out for some thundery showers . first for some thundery showers. first off though, high pressure still firmly in control, which is why it's been so settled today and it's been so settled today and it's why it will continue to be settled as we go through the next 12 to 24 hours. for most of us, some cloud through this

afternoon, but a lot of that will actually clear away as we go through this evening and overnight away from the southeast. that is here. we are going to see a bit more cloud pushing its way in and perhaps 1 or 2 showers developing as we head towards dawn. as well. otherwise, where we have the clear skies, it is again going to be a bit of a cool night. temperatures perhaps holding up slightly higher than last night, but nonetheless there could be some pockets of mist and fog first thing tomorrow morning as we go through tomorrow morning. then starting off in the southeast. and like i said, a bit more cloud here with a few showers to watch out for a brighter picture further west, but it is going to turn cloudier later. meanwhile, across central parts, a sunny start to the day and similar for northern ireland and similar for northern ireland and into northern england and across scotland. but there will be a few pockets of mist and fog here and there. these should clear quite quickly as we go through the day, because the sun does still have some decent strength behind it, even though it is going to be the last day of meteorological summer. otherwise, as we go through the day staying pretty sunny across the northern two thirds of the country, further south, a bit more cloud building. and with

that there is the risk of some thunderstorms kicking off. they're going to be pretty isolated. so you'd be unlucky to catch one. but nonetheless, the risk is there. temperatures are going to be reaching highs of around low, possibly mid 20s towards the south. a few degrees cooler than this further north. chance of a few more showers kicking off as we go through tomorrow evening and overnight. there could be a little bit impactful for some places with some intense rain, perhaps even some intense rain, perhaps even some hail mixed in. and then the showers could become a bit more widespread, particularly across central and eastern parts on sunday. and then some more wet weather to come as we go through early next week. by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

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