. >> welcome back to gb news tonight with me, christopher hope. tonight with me, christopher hope .ome shocking news for hope. some shocking news for you. now, labour's plans to release 2000 prisoners next month to ease jail overcrowding could see those convicted of violent offences and even manslaughter freed . in one case, manslaughter freed. in one case, a teenager, lawson natty, was sentenced to two years and eight months and he'll be released early. it's been reported that he's also a foreign national. the victim, 14 year old gordon gault, died after sustaining wounds from a machete. his mother, john barrett, said this is his unnecessary death was devastating . the ministry of devastating. the ministry of justice has said that anyone released will be strictly monitored on licence by the probation service, but if criminals like this can walk free, the streets in in barely three weeks time, it begs the question why have, of course, been so keen to jail? keyboard warriors for putting posts on facebook after the riots around the country following the southport killings? joining me

. >> good evening i'm christopher hope.gb news political editor filling in for nigel farage who can't be with us just now. he's stuck in clacton but have no fear, he's on his way to us. so do stay tuned. we'll get his response to keir starmer being asked about him in the press conference in 10 downing street earlier. now earlier, the pm addressed the nation after days of protests escalated across the country following the southport knife attack. let's take a listen. >> i can announce today that following this meeting, we will establish a national capability across police forces to tackle violent disorder. these thugs and mobile, they move from to community community and we must have a policing response that can do the same . can do the same. >> now, the prime minister has agreed that a new police unit aimed at targeting violent disorder will improve the gathering and sharing of intelligence across the uk on known extremist troublemakers. yesterday's nationwide disorder , yesterday's nationwide disorder, sparked by the killi

hope. political editor, christopher hope . 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

. >> good evening i'm christopher hope.b news political editor filling in for nigel farage who can't be with us just now. he's stuck in clacton but have no fear, he's on his way to us. so do stay tuned. we'll get his response to keir starmer being asked about him in the press conference in 10 downing street earlier. now earlier, the pm addressed the nation after days of protests escalated across the country following the southport knife attack. let's take a listen. >> i can announce today that following this meeting, we will establish a national capability across police forces to tackle violent disorder. these thugs and mobile, they move from to community community and we must have a policing response that can do the same . can do the same. >> now, the prime minister has agreed that a new police unit aimed at targeting violent disorder will improve the gathering and sharing of intelligence across the uk on known extremist troublemakers. yesterday's nationwide disorder , yesterday's nationwide disorder, sparked by the killin

welcome to the camilla tominey show with me, christopher hope , while camilla christopher hope, while camilla is on a well—earned break. it's been a week full of strike announcements. labour's been plagued by its union paymasters. according to the new shadow home secretary, james cleverly, so is the government dealing well with the government dealing well with the pressure from the unions.7 richard tice. the deputy leader of reform uk will be here to share what he thinks on this. plus, after a week of tens of thousands of a—level students, they found out whether they're going to university. i'll be speaking to former minister of state for school skills, apprenticeships and higher education, robert halfon, about why he thinks his party was wrong to insult those doing mickey mouse degrees. i'll be joined too, by alan halsall, who dominic cummings claims played a critical role in securing brexit and that if he'd not acted as the official responsible in electoral law for vote leave and the pro—brexit campaign may well have been lost. defence editor for the evening standard, robert fox, wi

i'm christopher hope.cellor, rachel reeves , has chancellor, rachel reeves, has quietly binned the previous tory government's plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs, according to treasury documents unearthed by the telegraph this week . labour the telegraph this week. labour has reversed the freeze on whitehall recruitment and no longer intends to reduce the civil service headcount to pre—covid levels. this is despite the overall size of whitehall, swelling from 480,000in 2020 to 280,000in 2023, up by 100,000 since the brexit vote in 2016. it comes as ms reeves has been telling departments to find £3 billion in efficiency savings. is this the right call? joining me now is my panel, gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, an associate commentator at the telegraph moutaz ahmed, is it moutaz ? is it moutaz? >> is it? >> is it? >> it's not. it's unwinding all of those efforts to cut the size of those efforts to cut the size of the literally the size of the state by people like jacob rees—mogg, remem

welcome back to gbn tonight with me, christopher hope.give pay rises to millions of public sector workers looks like it's coming home to roost. the treasury borrowed £3.1 billion in july, according to the office of national statistics, well above the £100 million anticipated by the watchdog, the office for budget responsibility . office for budget responsibility. that led the obr to say the following that the 3 billion difference was driven primarily by higher than forecast consumption spending by government departments, which appears related to strong growth in public sector pay. darren jones, he's number two in the treasury. he said that the borrowing figures underlined the tough decisions that are needed tough decisions that are needed to fix the foundations of our economy. and separately, treasury sources told the guardian to expect tax rises at the october 30th budget later this year. now, former chancellor kwasi kwarteng is with me. kwasi, are you surprised that spending more on pubuc surprised that spending more on public sector pa

i'm christopher hope.ncellor, rachel reeves , has chancellor, rachel reeves, has quietly binned the previous tory government's plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs, according to treasury documents unearthed by the telegraph this week . labour the telegraph this week. labour has reversed the freeze on whitehall recruitment and no longer intends to reduce the civil service headcount to pre—covid levels. this is despite the overall size of whitehall, swelling from 480,000in 2020 to 280,000in 2023, up by 100,000 since the brexit vote in 2016. it comes as ms reeves has been telling departments to find £3 billion in efficiency savings. is this the right call? joining me now is my panel, gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, an associate commentator at the telegraph moutaz ahmed, is it moutaz ? is it moutaz? >> is it? >> is it? >> it's not. it's unwinding all of those efforts to cut the size of those efforts to cut the size of the literally the size of the state by people like jacob rees—mogg, reme

welcome back to gbn tonight with me, christopher. hope you've beenin me, christopher. your well lot, in touch with your views. i asked you to let me know what you do to stop your boss bothering you out of hours, fred says, i've had phone calls from my boss while laying in a&e. richard says even some of us at the bottom in quotes prefer to take responsibility too, and be kept in the loop. not often i agree with nigel, but he has it spot on tonight. one of your unnamed says story, same as usual. those who are more flexible will climb the ladder. those who don't won't. and the fourth viewer says a person unprepared to deal with an office work out of hours would most likely not be the sort of person to find themselves in that position in the first place. right? moving on. after weeks of uncertainty of who is going to take on donald trump today, the democrats will unveil their candidate to beat the former republican president, donald trump, kamala harris, at the democratic national convention in chicago will be unveiled later tonight. it's running from today until thursday.

welcome back to gbn tonight with me, christopher. hope you've beenin me, christopher.ur well lot, in touch with your views. i asked you to let me know what you do to stop your boss bothering you out of hours, fred says, i've had phone calls from my boss while laying in a&e. richard says even some of us at the bottom in quotes prefer to take responsibility too, and be kept in the loop. not often i agree with nigel, but he has it spot on tonight. one of your unnamed says story, same as usual. those who are more flexible will climb the ladder. those who don't won't. and the fourth viewer says a person unprepared to deal with an office work out of hours would most likely not be the sort of person to find themselves in that position in the first place. right? moving on. after weeks of uncertainty of who is going to take on donald trump today, the democrats will unveil their candidate to beat the former republican president, donald trump, kamala harris, at the democratic national convention in chicago will be unveiled later tonight. it's running from today until thursday. no

hope , has editor, christopher hope, has some breaking brexit news for you.but you should okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight . now it's time christys tonight. now it's time to bring you the very first look at some of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. before i take you all the way to berlin . so the all the way to berlin. so the independent. well, here we go. it all starts. we will turn the corner on brexit and fix relations with the eu. the prime minister is in germany now, and he's going to head to france for a quote once in a generation opportunity to strive for genuine , ambitious partnerships genuine, ambitious partnerships with europe. these are his words as he puts the uk on alert for a painful budget . and i've got painful budget. and i've got more detail for you on this shortly. the guardian time for the uk to turn a corner on brexit, says starmer, he is apparently going to be signing within the next six months a deal with german chancellor olaf scholz focusing on defence on trade , on immigration. this is a trade, on immigration. this is

hope , has editor, christopher hope, has some breaking brexit news for you.it, but you should okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight . now it's time christys tonight. now it's time to bring you the very first look at some of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. before i take you all the way to berlin . so the all the way to berlin. so the independent. well, here we go. it all starts. we will turn the corner on brexit and fix relations with the eu. the prime minister is in germany now, and he's going to head to france for a quote once in a generation opportunity to strive for genuine , ambitious partnerships genuine, ambitious partnerships with europe. these are his words as he puts the uk on alert for a painful budget . and i've got painful budget. and i've got more detail for you on this shortly. the guardian time for the uk to turn a corner on brexit, says starmer, he is apparently going to be signing within the next six months a deal with german chancellor olaf scholz focusing on defence on trade , on immigration. this is a trade, on immigration. this

hope.the political editor christopher hope. the former home secretary did not hold back when it came to talking about the rwanda scheme. you won't want to miss what she had to say and is your right to speak freely, being taken away. i'll be speaking to one legal eagle who thinks he has the solution borrowed from the united states of america. is it time for a british free speech act? and on a—level results day, several uk universities are facing the risk of closure as funding dwindles. we ask what's the point of going to university and can you learn more in the real world? well, we'll also discuss harry and meghan's visit to colombia. they arrived in the last few minutes and here is live footage of them as we speak on what is definitely not a royal tour. state of the nation starts now . state of the nation starts now. throughout, i'll also be joined by an eclectic panel gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson and conservative peer lord goodman. as ever on the programme, let me know your thoughts . gbnews.com/yoursay is

editor christopher hope.the political editor christopher hope. the former home secretary did not hold back when it came to talking about the rwanda scheme. you won't want to miss what she had to say and is your right to speak freely, being taken away. i'll be speaking to one legal eagle who thinks he has the solution borrowed from the united states of america. is it time for a british free speech act.7 and it time for a british free speech act? and on a—level results day, several uk universities are facing the risk of closure as funding dwindles. we ask what's the point of going to university and can you learn more in the real world? well, we'll also discuss harry and meghan's visit to colombia. they arrived in the last few minutes and here is live footage of them as we speak on what is definitely not a royal tour. state of the nation starts now . state of the nation starts now. throughout, i'll also be joined by an eclectic panel gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson and conservative peer lord go

>> good evening, i'm christopher hope , gb news political editor, hope, gb news political editor, standing in for sir jacob rees—mogg on state of the nation tonight. it's nine days since those dreadful stabbings in southport and still protests continue across the country . continue across the country. tonight i'll be interviewing a senior government minister and a close ally of sir keir starmer about the government's response. i'll also be speaking to leicestershire's police and crime commissioner, rupert matthews , about the disorder in matthews, about the disorder in our towns and cities with leicester being one of the key places affected . and in light of places affected. and in light of the criticism by the pm of the pm, by the owner of x or twitter, elon musk, i'll be joined by the man at the centre of the row whose online posts were shared by the billionaire state of the nation, starts right now . right now. i'll also be joined by my panel. the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop , and the assistant tessa dunlop, and the assistant editor of conservative homes website , william atk

christopher hope, gb news political editor.se to the riots of the killings of three children in southport last week. and you've been getting in touch with your views. ian takes issue with your views. ian takes issue with me. he says about me, you keep saying tweets, am i a luddhe keep saying tweets, am i a luddite or just failing to keep up with modernity? it's x for goodness sake. well, ian's not blowing me a kiss. it's called x twitter. but i would say that not the entire, not the entire world knows what a tweet is. but perhaps that's just me. ian john says chris can't help wondering if the number of suspected protests were accurate. he thinks the number was inflated to make it look as though the government and police had quelled the rebellion. if not, then the intelligence was extremely poor, which is worrying. now moving on. the chancellor of exchequer, rachel reeves , is in north america, and reeves, is in north america, and she's indicated that there may be a big change to come to the pension system . on a visit pension s

>> a picture of christopher hope.ell, i will show him a picture of christopher hope, everyone. because i want to assure you that we take your voice seriously. here's christopher hope in the rose garden. we tried very hard. ladies and gents. can you see him? he's got his hands up. we tried very hard indeed. to put a question. there you go. look at him. god loves a trier. that's christopher christopher, hand up there. we tried to get your voice, your questions put to the prime minister we were not successful. keir starmer stood in the rose garden berating people that broke lockdown rules. do you remember that? simultaneously, within a blink of an eye, i went to a journalist that was suspended for breaking lockdown rules. but we didn't get a look in. but don't you worry everyone. we will never give up. we'll keep trying to get your voice heard. but for now, that's all gents. thank you. thank you to each and every one of you at home. i'll see you tomorrow night. night >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of wea

because, christopher hope. christopher, this is the big question of course, before huw edwards arrest, it's a different conversation. but as far as we know, the senior people within the bbc knew of a an arrest on serious grounds of huw edwards and continued to pay his salary for months . for months. >> tom and emma, that is right and good afternoon. yes, the meeting will happen over the phone between lisa nandy. who's the culture secretary, and, and tim davie, who's the bbc director—general. lisa nandy, of course, has got her duties supporting team gb at the olympics in france. so it will be a phone call or a zoom call, not in person. this meeting, i understand from very senior bbc sources i've spoken to very recently what they what they say to me is there were aware of the arrest last november, but they couldn't do anything until the charging decision was made. and by the time he was charged, of course, huw edwards had left the bbc, but he was paid that £200,000 figure of tax of licence fee payers money. and t

christopher hope, gb news political editor.se to the riots of the killings of three children in southport last week. and you've been getting in touch with your views. ian takes issue with your views. ian takes issue with me. he says about me, you keep saying tweets, am i a luddhe keep saying tweets, am i a luddite or just failing to keep up with modernity? it's x for goodness sake. well, ian's not blowing me a kiss. it's called x twitter. but i would say that not the entire, not the entire world knows what a tweet is. but perhaps that's just me. ian john says chris can't help wondering if the number of suspected protests were accurate. he thinks the number was inflated to make it look as though the government and police had quelled the rebellion. if not, then the intelligence was extremely poor, which is worrying. now moving on. the chancellor of exchequer, rachel reeves , is in north america, and reeves, is in north america, and she's indicated that there may be a big change to come to the pension system . on a visit pension s

political editor, christopher hope. a what an interesting few weeks or so it's been. i mean, i went away for a very briefly and it was i was in portugal. it was on the news, you know, i was hearing it from abroad , people being the from abroad, people being the southport attacks. yes. >> and all just then all of this has happened, of course, the business with elon musk and keir starmer and. >> yeah. and now here in the uk we're now talking about a potential of 100 rioters and a potential of 100 rioters and a potential 30 counter protests. where are we with this? >> well, we're day. we're day eight or day nine now, 16 or so. towns and cities affected by troubles across england. and of course, we saw some in belfast this week, hundreds of arrests, people being jailed , summary people being jailed, summary justice, people being imprisoned very quickly after the being arrested for trouble, for trouble around the country doing what the prime minister says. it's a huge test for his leadership. i think we've got a government t

hope.she political editor christopher hope.ks to shape the future of the conservatives. >> first of all, reform is a reform is not the conservative party. no it's a political party that stood against the conservative party in the general election. >> it's a company, not even a party, but we'll leave that to one side. >> that's for others, for not me. on top of that, we lost a lot of colleagues. good public servants. so i think it's just not right. it isn't right. and, you know, he's he's a leader of a political party. so, you know, they'll do what they do . and they'll do what they do. and we're in the process now of electing a new leader for our party, rebuilding our party. and if i may say so, my complete mantra for the future of our party is going back to being, you know, the authentic conservative party that we've always had been. i think that got lost in translation. you've mentioned the 4 million people that voted for reform and rightly so. it's important to recognise that a lot of them were disillusioned. a lot of them s

i mean, the tories have got a point there, christopher hope.can remember christopher hope and you can point out if i'm wrong on this, but i seem to remember a certain sadiq khan promising the same thing when he was elected in 2016. and, well , that elected in 2016. and, well, that ain't happened, has it ? ain't happened, has it? >> no it hasn't. i mean, i think the problem is here. you've got a new government coming in on on goodwill . you know, they've won goodwill. you know, they've won a landslide majority and they want to get the country working again. so they've struck these pay again. so they've struck these pay deals with the doctors, with pubuc pay deals with the doctors, with public sector workers or that was recommended of course, for the public sector workers by the various pay review bodies. and now with the train drivers, they want to show that we can get things done. but there are no strings attached, no productivity gains required. that's what the tories were asking for. so while yes, it's quite easy, as we all know , quite easy,

hope. political editor, christopher hope .opher, it's hope. christopher, it's interesting the candidacy of robert jenrick seen as a bit of a dark horse by some, but recently the bookies have said his odds are fairly good. >> hi, tom. hi. am. that's right. yeah. welcome to newark, where the first of six launches takes place in this conservative leadership campaign. those candidates kemi badenoch dame priti patel, mel stride tom tugendhat, james cleverly and today, robert jenrick. and we're here for gb news in mr jenrick's newark constituency. and you're right. yeah, he's seen as being had the, the third most favourable, according to a yougov poll out today behind james cleverly and tom tugendhat. that was a poll of 2024 tory voters. he said overnight that the party has a mountain to climb. well, believe me, more than a mountain to climb there at base camp. looking at everest at the moment, this party. but there we are. he knows the challenge. they've got. we've heard overnight from suella braverman on gb news political podcast,

tonight i'm joined by gb news political editor christopher hope . so, editor christopher hope. what that means in engushis that's. what that means in english is that the pm chairs a group of his senior advisers in a room called the cabinet office briefing room. cobra lord hermer has arrived. just in the past five minutes. he's the attorney general. we're likely to see the pm there. pictures. i think of yvette cooper there. the meeting will be held to reflect on last night. the pm is pleased with last night. of course there were meant to be 160 protests last night . only 36 took place. night. only 36 took place. minimal disorder, only a handful of arrests, according to the national police chiefs council, 20 gatherings tonight, we're told, three counter—protests, the pm has said today we're not giving up on our efforts. what he won't do is talk about the future, about why these issues are happening. let's not even go anywhere near the violence that is to be condemned across the board. but there is a concern about immigration that many believe. certainly in our gb news online post

hope.the political editor christopher hope.ry did not hold back when it came to talking about the rwanda scheme. you won't want to miss what she had to say and is your right to speak freely, being taken away. i'll be speaking to one legal eagle who thinks he has the solution borrowed from the united states of america. is it time for a british free speech act? and on a—level results day, several uk universities are facing the risk of closure as funding dwindles. we ask what's the point of going to university and can you learn more in the real world? well, we'll also discuss harry and meghan's visit to colombia. they arrived in the last few minutes and here is live footage of them as we speak on what is definitely not a royal tour. state of the nation starts now .

thank you very much, christopher hope. love you, choppen christopher hope. love you, chopper. you, but the sentence we've been talking about, are they too harsh? we've seen in the last 20 minutes. jordan parlour was sentenced to 20 months in prison for what he wrote on facebook. and daniel mcguire was handed two years and two months in prison after spitting at police in plymouth, i'm struggling with this as a woman on the grounds that sort of like sexual assault and rape in london, certainly under the met police, barely even, you know, get prosecuted. i mean, no one really bothers, do they? so i'm curious as to find out what's going on with this sentencing. so joining me now is a criminal defence lawyer, paul britten. paul, good to see you. thank you very much for joining me this afternoon. now the obvious question that i want to ask is how comes you know that the justice system has been on its knees for a long time? you know, things take years to go through the courts in particular, as a woman, i'm concerned about sex crime. suddenly, overnight, we not only have prison cells,

christopher hope, thank you very much.up to date on all things political, but we're joined now by our national reporter, charlie peters, who is on the ground in birmingham , charlie, because in birmingham, charlie, because in birmingham, charlie, because in birmingham last night, there were some shocking scenes . were some shocking scenes. >> shocking scenes indeed. emily. because this pub here was descended on by a masked mob. many of the people attacking this location were armed. we saw machetes and knives being brandished by the mob that came down here, predominantly south asians, who moved from a location about half a mile away. marching on to this pub where a karaoke night was being hosted last night here at the clumsy swan pub in yardley, where people had to barricade themselves in here as the mob descended, we saw the assistant manager had her hand injured due, due to the attempt to block up the door with some furniture . up the door with some furniture. and i just want to take you around briefly, if i can, into the

. >> well, he sat down with our political editor , christopher political editor, christopher hope, inclusive chat on immigration. >> how do we finally, once for and all, deal with this issue of big let net immigration? would you like to apologise for seeing those big numbers come through? absolutely. look, absolutely. >> and you know, we've all got to stand on our record. >> is it wrong then to allow, you know, 1.2 million to arrive in two years legally? >> no question . absolutely no >> no question. absolutely no question about it. because what we've got to do is we've got to make sure immigration is at a level that the british people and the british society. >> and what's your level can integrate? >> well, look, i'm interested in the levels that we saw between 1990 and 2010. then it was what is that? it was about 100,000, roughly 120. i mean, you know, there isn't an exact number because it's going to depend on what you need. >> tens of thousands, isn't it? >> tens of thousands, isn't it? >> but look, that's the ballpark figure we're looking at right? that's the sort of area you're

well, christopher hope's interview covered a good deal of ground with the former home secretary.from the tory leadership race to why we lost the general election to failing the electorate. on the issue of immigration. so joining me now to discuss this is my most intellectual panel. gb news is senior political commentator nigel nelson and the former adviser to boris johnson, lord moylan. daniel, i'm going to come to you first with this amazing chart that suella made that we campaigned as right wingers and governed as socialists. that's a terrible failure and indictment. >> well, it's a it's a very stark way of putting it. but the truth is, when you do look at what government was doing and broadly having got brexit done, and if you like, having got covid out of the way, it's very difficult to distinguish between what they were doing and what sir keir starmer's government is currently doing. and one of the interesting things about starmer is how desperately unradical and, and conservative in some ways he is when in in radical action is probably what the country needs to address. som

well, christopher hope's interview covered a good deal of ground with the former home secretary.om the tory leadership race to why we lost the general election to failing the electorate. on the issue of immigration. so joining me now to discuss this is my most intellectual panel. gb news is senior political commentator nigel nelson and the former adviser to boris johnson, lord moylan. daniel, i'm going to come to you first with this amazing chart that suella made that we campaigned as right wingers and governed as socialists. that's a terrible failure and indictment. >> well, it's a it's a very stark way of putting it. but the truth is, when you do look at what government was doing and broadly having got brexit done, and if you like, having got covid out of the way, it's very difficult to distinguish between what they were doing and what sir keir starmer's government is currently doing. and one of the interesting things about starmer is how desperately unradical and, and conservative in some ways he is when in in radical action is probably what the country needs to address. some

actually no. >> well, we're joined by our political editor, christopher hope.or her to not apologise for the net migration figures ? migration figures? >> hi, nana. hi. hi, ben. that's right. it's interesting , isn't right. it's interesting, isn't it? but you've got these different candidates trying to tack left and right as they try and appeal for support from, say, 120 or so tory mps to get through to that final two. of course, there are six candidates to be tory leader to replace rishi sunak. that goes to down four in the first week of september and then two after the party conference. and what you've got here is priti patel saying why should we apologise for net migration at record levels and over well over a million arriving in just two years, based on the on the government's points based system, because it came after the borders were closed during covid. it comes with a war in ukraine, people fleeing ukraine coming here, those from hong kong coming here. let's not apologise for this. we can't do without nurses and doctors. and that to me is a clear appeal

hope.nightfall. >> jacob rees—mogg isn't here today. i'm back in for him. we've got dan hodges on the issue of the tackling the far right, as the government calls it. is it the far right or not? and is it far right to be against immigration? nigel nelson, our senior political commentator, and paul goodman, lord goodman, of course , they'll lord goodman, of course, they'll be on the panel. we'll hear from also, they'll be discussing the labour councillor who said, cut your throat to when you hired him earlier, and craig mckinley, barnet mp. it'd be a great show. >> excellent. very good indeed. thank you everybody. i'm off for the next couple of weeks. i'll be back with you before the end of the month. thank you. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb. news weather on. gb. news >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news, weather update brought to you from the met office. the grey weather will unger office. the grey weather will linger across the sou

so until then, it is gbn tonight with christopher hope this evening. you through the next hour. i've been emily carver. this is dewbs& co >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. very good evening to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office . plenty of the met office. plenty of showers as we go through tomorrow, and some blustery gusty winds too. but before then there's a lot of cloud. there's a lot of rain because of a frontal system that's already made its way in from the west. and as we go through the next 12 hours or so, it's going to continue to push east and southeastwards, bringing quite a wet story across many parts of england and wales for a time. with that rain feeding into the southeast as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning behind it, there will be some clear skies around, but also some showery bursts, especially across parts of scotland. temperatures not dropping a huge amount. in fact, in the southeast it is going to be another warm night, some p

hope.nightfall. >> jacob rees—mogg isn't here today. i'm back in for him. we've got dan hodges on the issue of the tackling the far right, as the government calls it. is it the far right or not? and is it far right to be against immigration? nigel nelson, our senior political commentator, and paul goodman, lord goodman, of course , they'll lord goodman, of course, they'll be on the panel. we'll hear from also, they'll be discussing the labour councillor who said, cut your throat to when you hired him earlier, and craig mckinley, barnet mp. it'd be a great show. >> excellent. very good indeed. thank you everybody. i'm off for the next couple of weeks. i'll be back with you before the end of the month. thank you. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb. news weather on. gb. news >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news, weather update brought to you from the met office. the grey weather will unger office. the grey weather will linger across the sou

well, to discuss this further is gb news political editor christopher hope.t about nigel farage then? >> well, we're asking them, emily, so we're asking them what? >> you're stirring it up. >> you're stirring it up. >> yeah, sorry about that. >> yeah, sorry about that. >> it's your fault. stirring it up. >> it is august. no, i mean , i >> it is august. no, i mean, i think part of the conversation the tory party must have with itself is what to do about farage. it's. it's a problem they've had for about 10 to 15 years now. how to respond to the kind of people who like him, like what he talks about. i'm intrigued that all six candidates say there is no future for farage in the tory party. the reform uk party, such as it is, is actually a company in which there are 15 shares. eight of them are owned by farage. he could easily wind it up overnight and merge it with the tory party if he wanted to. he's not going to. he said it's of no interest to me whatsoever today of what the tory candidates think about me. but, you know, the old. the former leader, rishi sunak,

political editor christopher hope to explain. christopher hope to explain.at on earth is going on here? >> so that's a clip from sir keir starmer back in 2022. and to be fair to the tory government, they did bring in the energy price cap of 2500 on average bills after that. and there has been a degree of taxation on all oil and gas companies. but politics is about a choice, as sir keir starmer said. and this labour government now is now they're in power, have made a choice to remove the £300, winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners and make it means tested . so they're it means tested. so they're trying to get a further 800,000 to sign up to these pension tax credits to ensure they can get money to help them with the fuel bills. it comes, though, that £300 comes though, as we are going to see the average fuel bill go up by £149 from october. that's a bill which many, many families and pensioners can't afford. and that's why the tory party has been making making some hay out of this. tom tugendhat on chopper's political podcast a podcast i do for gb

hope . man christopher hope. >> net migration has gone about 2 million over four years.too much. i mean, many would say it is too much, but you can put context to it and i think it's too lazy, if i may say so. >> i think it's really quite sloppy just to go around, you know, the merry go round on this in the sense that students we shut down, don't forget, during the pandemic our borders were effectively closed. there was no travel. what about all those international students? they came in after the pandemic? are we saying that they should not have come into the country? >> so what their families there, didn't they? on your watch, the system? >> actually, no, no. you have to again, which students brought their families? look at the categories and the criteria. i do think, you know, put the facts and the context around this. and one final point to make points based system, the brightest and the best. i was the one that put a skills criteria to it. you don't come to our country through the points based system unless you're sponsored, unless you're paying you're sponsored, un

hope . man christopher hope. >> net migration has gone about 2 million over four years.s too much. i mean, many would say it is too much, but you can put context to it and i think it's too lazy, if i may say so. >> i think it's really quite sloppy just to go around, you know, the merry go round on this in the sense that students we shut down, don't forget, during the pandemic our borders were effectively closed. there was no travel. what about all those international students? they came in after the pandemic? are we saying that they should not have come into the country? >> so what their families there, didn't they? on your watch, the system? >> actually, no, no. you have to again, which students brought their families? look at the categories and the criteria. i do think, you know, put the facts and the context around this. and one final point to make points based system, the brightest and the best. i was the one that put a skills criteria to it. you don't come to our country through the points based system unless you're sponsored, unless you're paying you're sponsored,

christopher hope has more. >> it's keir starmer versus elon musk about who how to police the riots in this country. but who's right . right. >> and the manchester airport attack. remember that just a few weeks ago. well, the man at the centre of the fight with the police are going to give a live update on their legal action against the police later this morning. you will not want to miss that. >> and happy news. another gold for tb team gb as keely hodgkinson wins the 800m race. paul coyte has more . paul coyte has more. >> i'm getting greedy when it's coming to gold. they keep coming in. keely hodgkinson hodgkinson yesterday with 800m, i won gold in the cycling . more chances in the cycling. more chances with the 1500 metres later tonight . tonight. >> i have a confession. as you know, i'm not glued to sport normally but i decided to watch keeley hodgson because she'd been so well trailed and i know what a fantastic athlete she is. i switched on too late. i've missed it . however, i watched it missed it. however, i watched it on catch up without knowing the results so i still got ver

but thank you, christopher. hope our political edhon christopher. hope our political editor.s is, elon musk. because he's been very, very vocal on x previously twitter about all these riots that are going on across the uk. it comes also at the same time as the prime minister. he's saying he wants social media companies to have responsibility to stop disinformation online spreading on their platforms. so we're now joined by former conservative mp miriam cates . conservative mp miriam cates. miriam, we've also heard a lot of this from yvette cooper, the home secretary. she's talking about how social media companies must be responsible for shocking misinformation that has escalated the riots. she's talking about deliberate organisation of violence on social media. i mean, what could the government actually do here? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> well, that's a very good question. >> and the root of this problem is that when social media was invented, when it started to become ubiquitous, the united states decided that social media companies were not publishers . compan

that is, of course, christopher hope. our political edhon christopher hope. our political editor. speech in the next hour. plus, i'll be asking the former culture secretary, sir john whittingdale is coming in to the studio in a couple of minutes . studio in a couple of minutes. time to talk about the bbc and huw edwards. but i'll ask him who he's backing for. the leadership of his party. but next up, harry and meghan are back. they're planning a world toun back. they're planning a world tour, but do we want them representing us here in the uk? i'll get reaction from britain's most fearless royal biographer r angela levin. the knives are out. we'll do next. busy show today, the former culture secretary, sir john whittingdale, live in the studio in a couple of minutes on the bbc crisis and huw edwards. but first, last week we brought you the story that prince harry won't bring his family to the united kingdom over safety fears after the government downgraded his police protection. however, the couple are set to visit colombia now, which is famous for its armed drugs cartels. both th

christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor. also a question that keir starmer has dodged in the past. so it would have been good. that's a shame. but he will persevere. he will persevere absolutely tenaciously. >> but let's get more reaction . >> but let's get more reaction. now. we're joined by media commentator paul connew . paul, commentator paul connew. paul, this was an interesting pitch from an incoming prime minister. to some extent, he still sounded a bit like the leader of the opposition . opposition. >> well, not not really. i mean, i'm sure critics are going to call this a doomsday speech. i would i would term it a brutally candid speech, and i'm sorry that you didn't get to ask the question from gb news, but compared to rishi sunak, starmer takes many more questions and awkward questions. sunak always gave the impression that he would. he limited the number of questions and gave the impression he resented even being questioned . being questioned. >> is that true, paul? >> is that true, paul? >> is that is that true?

the lovely christopher hope. christopher. keep watching that that that shot of mark rowley and i'm just i'm just wanting to punch something. to be honest with you, i've never seen anything so ridiculous in my life. but there was a cobra meeting this morning. so bring us up to date on what the great and the good leading us out of this mess of decided. >> well, as mark white was saying, the question they're asked of mark rowley was is the two tier policing? is are the police treating violence and troubles from different community groups differently? that's what some people say on on twitter social media hashtag two tier care has been trending all weekend, and the rest of it and well, frankly, he should have answered the question that was a pool microphone available for him to speak into. and secondly, it's almost a comment on the question is to fling it to the ground mic drop moment. and there's no need for that. i mean, why i don't know why he's done that now. we don't even know if mark rowley was in this cobra meeting. we kno

christopher hope, our political editor there in westminster. gb news presenter and former conservative mp sirjacob conservative mp sir jacob rees—mogg. sirjacob, conservative mp sir jacob rees—mogg. sir jacob, thank you very much indeed forjoining us, there is a concern that labour have come into power and they've decided that in order to end the strikes, they will deliver very generous pay offers to the trade unions . it would appear that, unions. it would appear that, once you give a very generous pay once you give a very generous pay offer, funnily enough, more demands follow . demands follow. >> yeah, that's absolutely right, >> it's kipling's poem about the danegeld. >> if you pay the danegeld, the dane doesn't go away. and they've given this enormous pay off to the doctors, to the junior doctors. well the nurses settled at a much more reasonable level . the nurses are reasonable level. the nurses are bound to come back for more. why wouldn't they? when you see this largesse being given to the pubuc largesse being given to the public secto

christopher hope is in berlin .berlin. >> sir keir starmer is here in berlin to discuss a new treaty with the german government. but is he starting to unwind that vote from the 2016 brexit? >> would he'd love to of course. and is there trouble in paradise? because prince harry is to go on a 2000 mile trip without his wife? we'll have the latest . latest. >> and a vaping crackdown, i hope so. britain's top doctors are demanding a total ban on all flavoured vapes to tackle what they call the e—cigarette epidemic. we've been calling it that for a while to certainly have. >> and apparently 1 in 2 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people say they're being bullied or harassed at work. well, have you experienced this or witnessed this in the last 12 months? >> now, it's not funny being bullied in the workplace is a bad thing. of course, we all agree that's not good. >> i'm just very sceptical of these surveys. it's by the tuc who do they ask? who do they talk to? >> the thing is, i think it's a bit strange. i find this real

he sat down with our political editor, christopher hopein political editor, christopher hope in thisat. >> on immigration, how do we finally, once and for all, deal with this issue of big let net immigration? would you like to apologise for seeing those big numbers come through the door? >> look . absolutely. and you >> look. absolutely. and you know, we've all got to stand on our record. >> was it wrong then to allow, you know, 1.2 million to arrive in two years legally? >> no question. absolutely no question about it. because what we've got to do is we've got to make sure immigration is at a level that the british people and british society. and what's your level can integrate? well, look, i'm interested in the levels that we saw between 1990 and sort of 2010. then it was what is that? it was about 100,000, roughly 120. >> and police have now caught two of the three dogs that were on the loose, which were believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham, west midlands police say the 33 year old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs,

i mean, christopher hope chopper throwing punches, that's what it sounds like., it's quite interesting that response, isn't it really. i wonder if he's tough enough for the job. >> i think i imagine he's been asked about migration. i imagine he has been asked about certain decisions that he will very much say, that wasn't me as home secretary. that was people before me as home secretary, which may well be true , because which may well be true, because when he came in, he did bring in some measures to bring down illegal migration. but whether or not collective responsibility, though. >> yes. >> yes. >> well, there is that exactly because he was foreign secretary. when those other decisions would have been made and yeah, i don't i mean, whether or not voters actually split hairs like that is , is questionable. >> but this is what's so difficult really for any of these tory leadership candidates in this campaign. is trying to point out what was wrong with the previous tory government, but also defend your own personal record of someone but also defend your own pers