very happy boxing day, everybody. you are with me, patrick christys on gb news. now, normally we drive a heavy goods vehicle through . the day's goods vehicle through. the day's news, 110 miles per hour between three and 6 pm. here. but today it's boxing day. so what's going to take things a little bit differently .7 i've decided along differently? i've decided along with wonderful team here to with my wonderful team here to pick four big news topics the strikes royals, nhs and immigration. we're going to stick to . we're going to pick stick to. we're going to pick apart all the different angles there various times the there at various times of the show brafman wants

show for example, brafman wants to it harder for immigrants to bnng to it harder for immigrants to bring families . the if bring their families. the uk if the hiring white men and the nhs hiring white men and people who appointed them have to he also spends to explain why. he also spends millions of pounds a day on prescribing items shampoo , prescribing items like shampoo, shampoo and the nhs. all of this despite the fact that we keep heanng despite the fact that we keep hearing taxpayers are hearing about how taxpayers are helping support our helping enough to support our beloved health service anyway . beloved health service anyway. anybody else find it hilarious that border force officers going on strike our airports more efficient and we will pick upon king charles this christmas speech. but we're it in a slightly novel way. okay because throughout the course of the show , i will be joined by show, i will be joined by panellists, which doesn't normally happen , as rachel says. normally happen, as rachel says. why what? because trying to rely on guests turning boxing on guests turning up on boxing day as easy day is apparently about as easy as flying neptune. so from as flying to neptune. so from boxing day special, we will be joined by brexit backing , tough joined by brexit backing, tough talking seriously sound. ben habib and rabid leftie dennis mcshane could vote in the labour party . be so mcshane could vote in the labour party. be so pleased to 24

mcshane could vote in the labour party . be so pleased to 24 we've party. be so pleased to 24 we've go 3 hours. yes i was going to say yes. an unusual christmas gift, but i on the last anyway they will both be delivering that alternative speeches as well . you'll get to be king for well. you'll get to be king for a day, chaps you got to be king for that. but of course, is a day relaxing as day for day relaxing as well? a day for overeating, cuddling , loved overeating, for cuddling, loved ones on sofa, getting ones on the sofa, getting absolutely smashed on baileys wine, normal wine , spirits just wine, normal wine, spirits just getting i'm say that he smashed relic anyway it's a day to be lazy some weirdos go swimming first thing in the morning for a massive . but what happens massive. but what happens throughout the course of this show i want you , you lovely show i want you, you lovely people to send in pictures of how are spending boxing and how you are spending boxing and the of the okay gb use out the lazy of the okay gb use out gbnews.uk email address. the lazy of the okay gb use out gbnews.uk email address . are you gbnews.uk email address. are you out and about with your family ? out and about with your family? you're curled up in a ball on the set with your dog your the set with your dog in your lap. surrounded food why lap. you surrounded by food. why extra be awarded if you extra points be awarded if you include gb news and tv in your picture on animals of course. can't go wrong animals. the can't go wrong for animals. the packs. you show me what

packs. oh make you show me what you're doing with . your you're doing with. your leftovers . news topics today leftovers. news topics today strikes royals , nhs, strikes royals, nhs, immigration, everything else. boxing day related. now those tonsillitis headlines headlines . goo tonsillitis headlines headlines. goo radisson in the gb newsroom. police have named a woman who was killed in a merseyside pub shooting on christmas eve as edwards. the 26 year old, was taken to hospital , later died. taken to hospital, later died. four men have also been treated for gunshot injuries. officers the search is continuing for gunman, but it's not believed to have been targeted. attack jose police say a 10th person has now died as a result of an explosion at a block of flats earlier this month . 73 year old cathy month. 73 year old cathy mcguinness died in hospital on christmas day. the blast which happenedin christmas day. the blast which happened in the early hours on the 10th of december, destroyed the 10th of december, destroyed the in st helier. ms. lived in an adjacent adjacent building.

an inquest will open this friday before being adjourned while an investigation continues . at 40 investigation continues. at 40 people are believed to have died as a result of a severe arctic freeze that continues to grip much of the us and canada. officials say the worst hit area is the city of buffalo in new york state amid the snow ice and freezing temperatures. thousands of flights been cancelled and more than 150,000 homes are still without power . russia's still without power. russia's defence ministry say three of its military personnel have been killed after a ukrainian drone was shot down over . an airbase was shot down over. an airbase hundreds of miles . the ukrainian hundreds of miles. the ukrainian border. the kremlin says they were hit by falling debris in russia's south—east. the second attack on military this month and raises concerns among russians . ukraine can get past russians. ukraine can get past moscow's air defences. keith has commented on the incident.

moscow's air defences. keith has commented on the incident . the commented on the incident. the uk's rail networks are at a standstill today as members of the rmt union hold strike action over pay . hundreds of trains over pay. hundreds of trains usually run on boxing day, but they've all been cancelled . the they've all been cancelled. the aa is warning of traffic jams of more than 50 million and cars expected on uk roads. 20,000 eurostar passengers have been forced to make alternative plans as it's cancelled all services to london, paris, brussels and amsterdam . travel expert simon amsterdam. travel expert simon calder says the strikes are destroying the rail network. 1 million people like me who don't have a car or access to a car, who have to travel by rail and to be told come back middle of january . good to be told come back middle of january. good enough. the rail, i think, have completely misjudged . the government is misjudged. the government is completely misjudged. it the passenger and, the taxpayer are caught up in this of this kind of ideological row . and it's of ideological row. and it's absolutely is doing is destroying the rail railways . destroying the rail railways. the uk health security agency

will stop publishing covid 19 data early next month . the chief data early next month. the chief data early next month. the chief data scientist says no longer necessary as country is now living with the disease . data living with the disease. data had been published weekly during the peak of the pandemic and every two weeks since april this year , officials say covid will year, officials say covid will still be monitored and shoppers are expected to spend less in the sales today as the cost of living continues to rise . new living continues to rise. new research by barclaycard payments found that the average intends to bu y £229 worth of items in to buy £229 worth of items in the post—christmas sales. that's 4% less than last year. the study also found that some shoppers to use reselling sites to buy or offload unwanted gifts. despite that, industry analyst springboard says the latest data obtained today shows footfall is actually higher than year. footfall is actually higher than year . this is gb news. footfall is actually higher than year. this is gb news. we'll bnng year. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as. it happens. get straight back to .

get straight back to. patrick well, a very happy boxing day, everybody . hope you had everybody. hope you had a fabulous day with your family or your wherever your friends or wherever yesterday and settling in. yesterday and just settling in. so let's you company all the way through pm today going through until pm today is going to different . to be a little bit different. our normal format our normal rolling news format it boxing day after which it boxing day after all which means that winding down having a bit fun as we recover from bit of fun as we recover from eating way much yesterday i finished at about 1:00 this morning and started again when i got up in the night for some and then. so anyway, enough about me joining today is former brexit party mep ben habib and former labour for europe dennis macshane. look, he's going to be great because we're going to pick apart various different news topics. there's going to be rounds it'll just like rounds alone. it'll be just like christmas . there'll few christmas. there'll be a few arguments way maybe, arguments along the way maybe, maybe little bit of maybe a little bit of overdrinking in the breaks, and then of course, after that,

we'll all get on shake hands, go home. all sounds good. so home. okay. all sounds good. so what did you . yes, before what did you. yes, before christmas. had a very quiet christmas. i had a very quiet day home. i've got an day at home. i've got an octogenarian father, not grandfather . father, and i octogenarian father, not grandfather. father, and i had lunch with him and basically watch telly and. i went for a run. i went for a run. i went a run. i went for a run. i went a run. you know what was outside to try to burn off the christmas dinner or do you just do that every single day? i knew i have to do it. it's, you know, mental health. so i should let you and denis, you do for denis, what do you do for christmas? what is your christmas? what is your christmas routine ? family second christmas routine? family second daughter's expecting baby. second grandson february . second grandson in february. husband one of my son to other adults was . their family's adults was. their family's choir. she's nesting. she's getting ready. she's bird flu dose. a week before . fabulous, dose. a week before. fabulous, great food walk around peckham rye and the hills around there . rye and the hills around there. it's it was great but nice swear this will count food what should good food movie with daniel

craig i didn't really clock this is give it up craig james bond and he's playing some idiot american detective with a weird southern drawl accent which he can't do so it's quite fast paced. but thing is, i suppose you could argue you don't want to get typecast, but once you've bombed then it's very hard. yeah, yeah, it is . right. well, yeah, yeah, it is. right. well, we will continue with a variety of different christmas related shots throughout the course of this year . shots throughout the course of this year. look, am absolutely this year. look, i am absolutely dead to get you public , you, dead to get you the public, you, as our listeners will be watching online. whatever you're doing gbviews@gbnews.uk . okay. doing gbviews@gbnews.uk. okay. what say is a what i want to say is a few things like i want to say how utterly lazy being today. i want to that belly out, to see you that belly out, massive chocolate wrappers everywhere, leftover food , empty everywhere, leftover food, empty glasses, bread, whatever , glasses, bread, whatever, whatever, extra points , animals whatever, extra points, animals in pigs and on the tv. so bear that in mind. also what you're doing with your leftovers. if you had a bit of family. oh, that's basically anything that you to look at on the you think to look at on the telly. it. gb news gb news

telly. gets it. gb news gb news dot uk because the best place to be is isn't it? that's always been right now as i'm watching this show, believe or not, this show, believe it or not, because people the because thousands of people the country are facing chaos. so i was going to say it's a mick lynch have a day off, but is the point is they as britain's railways down the railways have shut down for the second row normally, second day in a row normally, services are just on services are halted just on christmas day. but this year is a nice special edition for us. it's been extended to boxing day courtesy the strike action being staged by, the rmt union. so is this a step too far ? the unions, this a step too far? the unions, should they really be targeting christmas ban? i mean , is this a christmas ban? i mean, is this a step too far? really do you think right now is happening now ? it is happening just you . ? it is happening just you. well, i think they have made a mistake. you know, i had great sympathy for the rmt back in june and generally for public sector, who effectively had their wages squeezed over 12 years of inflation. and i think they've had rises of around 5% over the 12 years to this year , over the 12 years to this year, whereas inflation, including the latest spike, has been 35. so

big squeeze on their ability to buy goods . and of course you've buy goods. and of course you've also had incredibly loose monetary supply which has pushed up the cost of housing. so you've robbed people of the ability of getting on the housing ladder. so in many ways they've they've they've been you know, they've they've been you know, they've the proverbial chucked on them from great height for long from great height for a long time. i great sympathy time. so i have great sympathy earlier but i think earlier this year. but i think the rmt is overplaying its hand. yeah, mick lynch his rhetoric, his becoming increasingly ideological and, anti—conservative and. what he needs to do is really stick to his core duty in life , which is his core duty in life, which is to do the best for his union members and i don't think he would achieve that by going on strike at this time . yeah, yeah, strike at this time. yeah, yeah, i agree. and also the impacts it generally, i mean, i get that it is massively for people depending on where you in depending on where you are in the country. about more of the country. what about more of an those shops, an impact? i know those shops, local businesses, i'm we local businesses, i'm sure we will economic will looking at economic spreadsheets the spreadsheets at some point, the estimate about 30 million estimate was about 30 million quid it cost us. quid a day it might cost us. we'll have to wait and see. but i on road morning.

i was on the road this morning. dennis so we back here. dennis so we flew back here. flew back from just not sure that this strike , aside from that this strike, aside from costing the country money, is having of an impact. having much of an impact. but what day what i really loved earth day tomorrow far i can tell? tomorrow as far i can tell? london simply empty. i london yes, you simply empty. i ordered to come up from pimlico a cab early to get here for you . as we got here in. we got here so fast the driver so it's completely empty maybe tomorrow because it's a double day, isn't it? so tomorrow is also boxing day, baby. that's the shopping might start and gets a bit tastier, but as the forecasters got it wrong, what do you think about the point that benn made there about mick lynch his overbearing public support ? i overbearing public support? i think initially people were quite keen to support the move to be seen support them. but isn't it interesting , dennis? i isn't it interesting, dennis? i don't know. maybe you know something about the more left wing popular they wing ego, the less popular they make. well, you know, as i keep trying to persuade , didn't find trying to persuade, didn't find anybody in the labour party say i've got left wing , let me now i've got left wing, let me now

make lynch is a lovely blooded irish irish but got the gift of the gab and the gift of the gob. yeah, but he's also got members who voted by themselves in margaret thatcher era. let's all help out secret. but it's not the old days you please go up and order. people are from strike so we'll wait and the governments obviously play very, very hardball . and what's break very hardball. and what's break the strike hopes maybe the next policy might fall below 50 per said. we don't know, we don't know. but i fascinated yesterday. yeah gobsmacked sell off far go on when the cheers he said the prince of wales king charles highlights nurses he doesn't say anything about strikes no i got the message was so great. do you think message was clear? i thought he was actually quite fastidious in the way he avoided . you know, you way he avoided. you know, you could almost interpret his

championing of the public services is you know we you're vital you should doing your job vital you should doing yourjob you could take that you could of course you he means it and he says it. and we also know sunak the richest head of government in the world has also been the highest content . and you saw highest content. and you saw that weird exchange just before the food bank. yeah the food bank was with . it was weird. i bank was with. it was weird. i didn't think was mean or ill intentioned. i think it looks by the way, i would urge everyone to go out and watch this clip because it looks for me anyway a lot worse written down than it did watching the video. i personally but it was still incredibly i mean , look, he's incredibly i mean, look, he's dishing if you've not seen it, our prime minister, who just happens to be fabulously wealthy, was . a soup kitchen, wealthy, was. a soup kitchen, a homeless shelter. you asked about whether not about his own business and wanted to go into

finance . right. and obviously, finance. right. and obviously, you know, that was much to forgive me as an old john on the radio, i repaid tension suit up is of mr. sunak sorry the private he's going down picking up you know a bit of a bit of toast would you like some black pudding . the judges say yes, he pudding. the judges say yes, he had so very politely. i mean really so is a very polite i think probably a nice well but you know man . yes. and then try you know man. yes. and then try to keep the concerned lady the guy 9° to keep the concerned lady the guy go off leave its food low he has to keep nattering to and says what what he's doing off the camera. well what kind of business are you in and the says well him no i'm homeless. yeah and then poor old rishi, instead of changing the subject, moving on to the next person to serve , on to the next person to serve, says, oh, what kind of business would you like to be? a did you see ? the man is quite clever. so see? the man is quite clever. so he how do i humour this idiot ? he how do i humour this idiot? oh, i'll talk about his. i like to go into fights. oh really? i was in finance ria with . was in finance with ria with. he's probably got one standard stock question , a load of city

stock question, a load of city party do's and that's interesting. yeah think you're right. he fell into automatic conversation mode and it informs you about the kind of people with whom he rubbed shoulders on a regular and frequent basis. they're all kind of businessmen or financiers. they're all kind of businessmen or financiers . yeah, part of me or financiers. yeah, part of me doesn't that . i mean, it is doesn't mind that. i mean, it is tied into it. i think he's he's obviously got brains , all obviously got brains, all of that it would be nice that stuff. but it would be nice to that happy mixture of to have that happy mixture of someone who's very good with the numbers quite human numbers and also quite human though we did have someone before that who people argue with we just want it with to humans. we just want it all. and when we should, we should expect the best from our leaders. the hell not, ben? leaders. why the hell not, ben? just dragging, kicking and just just dragging, kicking and screaming in a very loose sense to mick lynch. how can i tell up even main topics of the even more the main topics of the day the strikes day make lend the strikes christmas should mick lynch be to show us how we celebrate christmas because a lot of people won't be able to see their families . people won't be able to see theirfamilies . i'm people won't be able to see their families . i'm with that. their families. i'm with that. no, i just got a name reveal revealed the guest list . how

revealed the guest list. how much in every item cost . yeah. much in every item cost. yeah. you'll find me. yeah, yeah , you'll find me. yeah, yeah, yeah.i you'll find me. yeah, yeah, yeah. i mean, make it's a shame because mick it seems to me like mick is using this as a bouncing ball to go into some kind of political career, you know, from the left and he's using it as an opportunity to trash the tories is a perfectly valid thing to do . on if you're public . on if you're a public commentator on politics or you're in politics, but he has a very specific job and his job is to get the best deal for. his union he would gain much he union and he would gain much he would retain much more sympathy from the public if he stuck to, you know, his corp job. yeah you know we take the royal college of nurses by you've got a real i don't know whether you agree with this but i get a real impression that they are genuinely reluctantly on strike they tried everything they could . they talked to government, they flagged this months ago. this is the first strike ever in their history. the this is the first strike ever in their history . the government their history. the government wasn't listening. it still refuses to negotiate and i agree

the 19% before you get that, the demand that they made , you know demand that they made, you know , outrageous . but demand that they made, you know , outrageous. but i demand that they made, you know , outrageous . but i feel there's , outrageous. but i feel there's a real reluctance , the nurses to a real reluctance, the nurses to doing what they're doing because the government listening and my sympathy, , is much sympathy, therefore, is much more them. and if they could more for them. and if they could look across to them and see the way managing way they're managing their campaign, might campaign, you know, he might gain for warranty. gain some tips for warranty. well, that's at least two staff. so one of our main topics of the day, be day, which is going to be strikes reason why i was strikes and the reason why i was slightly reluctant initially anyway straight with anyway to lead in straight with that said, that was because like i said, i what unless something directly affects me i become a lot less interested in the election just. i cheshire down here i drove from cheshire down here today and to be honest we the roads this business roads were closed. this business of the that million of the warning that million people i mean somewhere in the country but i didn't see that right before i was so there's that other big one as that but the other big one as well really apart from the christmas will come christmas stuff, which will come on suella braverman. on to a suella braverman. interesting of this interesting timing of this i thought really because this came out far as i can see anyway, out as far as i can see anyway, just after midday today. so no

one's really in a puff middle of it. people knows we're looking at the news. are they so the government has drawn up blueprint for reducing immigration that would target foreign make it harder foreign students make it harder foreign students make it harder for them to their spouses for them to bring their spouses to uk. increase the minimum to the uk. increase the minimum salaries for companies employing these workers essentially in a well and quite a direct way it's supposed to try to reduce the overall numbers and reduce the what's seen anyway. and as a student loophole, when are you out of this to the wonder flights which may now actually take off the told the i really thought the talk of at least the talk of a p&o ferry somewhere in the channel as an offshore processing centre and reducing use of hotels plus now maybe this good grief could the conservatives allowed to get to gnps conservatives allowed to get to grips with immigration they could use of course prince of wales a giant new aircraft spent 230 died on its last since it was launched. in other words about , two thirds of its last

about, two thirds of its last days in the dry , so badly built, days in the dry, so badly built, so maybe she could park all of her albanians up there. the opfics. her albanians up there. the optics . so tell us the optics of optics. so tell us the optics of actually putting them on a unusable here but i and i talk about these things you do about ben wallace careful patrick as as opposed to a piano ferry , a as opposed to a piano ferry, a waterslide and a rod stewart lookalike comes on those things have an easy the more we get to gnps have an easy the more we get to grips with that but no i don't get any regrets with it i mean the honest answer is getting to gnps the honest answer is getting to grips that that's legal we're talking about. yeah. yes. getting to grips with with families of people who starting in the united kingdom is so basic. it's a bit like one of the five points that rishi sunak put forward to deal with the illegal migration across the channel. you one of his five points is we're going to stop putting them up in four star hotels. really, it's tough part of then you come of your deterrent then you come to uk and you're not going to the uk and you're not going to the uk and you're not going to i mean to get five star service. i mean if that's the extent british

political will i think we've lost before we started . look i'm lost before we started. look i'm a great fan of suella braverman then, yeah. sabella absolutely gets it. she's as bright as a button , well—educated and love button, well—educated and love her ideology. but the is not allowing her to do what she needs to do . and so whether it needs to do. and so whether it needs to do. and so whether it needs to do. and so whether it needs to i mean, she does up she speaks very plainly. she described it as an invasion which offended a lot people which offended a lot of people but reality is we are this but the reality is we are this is a soft invasion of our southern or southeastern borders . if dennis is going to puncture all the trouble . but the trouble all the trouble. but the trouble is day this is it late september fed very simply is i cut my teeth in politics under the oars shadow of a great man i didn't see a great many did call they don't pal. well, he was saying is the swell of brazilians parents. your who brought you in from pakistan when were 15 that

they should be 30 they should be doing wrong, by the way. well my mother and my mother that they they should tell you, if you i'm afraid that's who i've got strong views this 80 you distinction between mothers and fathers they should be repatriated i'm very glad we face down enoch powell the suella braverman of his day and said to rishi sunak's parents , said to rishi sunak's parents, you're welcome. i don't think it's fair this was as bad as you say he was. he was worse. and i don't think it's fair to . don't think it's fair to. compare suella braverman to enoch powell. suella mer . he enoch powell. suella mer. he wishes to bring immigration under control and to stop immigration both tougher , immigration both tougher, legitimate, admirable. do is this i do they say, oh, people hold though because we've got loads coming away. yes, we are still going to be picking up on strikes. the latest the immigration as well. and join me through i will be brexit party having people bright spots happy people if i'm dennis mcshane

well former labour minister for europe your europe but a lot of your pictures have already in pictures have already come in thick . most of you thick and fast. most of you being quite lazy apart from a particular you sent some particular you sent me some pictures chopping wood pictures of him chopping wood you see in cumbria been you love to see in cumbria been on. you very much. and on. thank you very much. and we'll on we'll get your picks on the screen but what's he going screen soon. but what's he going for? swim in the freezing cold for? a swim in the freezing cold sake ? no, me neither but that is sake? no, me neither but that is what thousands of people across the country decided to do this morning in one of britain's more barmy traditions . we will speak barmy traditions. we will speak to who took plunge to someone who took the plunge this morning segment that this morning in a segment that needed rather a lot of convincing to do, because i would imagine that have gone swimming morning swimming this morning and now we'll completely we'll be home completely dry and i'll in that study. but there i'll be in that study. but there we well, to work we go. well, try to make work after is looking after the weather is looking chilly there. mix of clear spells and scottish in details of england this evening seeing a of england this evening seeing a of heavy showers and then clear spells temperatures around 5 to 7 celsius for those staying breezy along the coast. i think it's the wind chill skies clearing then this evening for many in the south—east of

england , most places dry, though england, most places dry, though perhaps a few light showers in the east. a rather chilly evening further across to west in wales with scattering of showers there and breezy along the coast. that particularly temperatures around 4 to 6 cells is plenty dry weather. boxing day evening for the midlands but the risk to some showers rather cold again temperatures there down to three or four degrees. wind staying light, rather breezy this evening and across northern parts of england and further blustery showers coming . the showers indeed falling asleep or snow over the high ground at so on the cold, an icy side for many a blustery boxing day evening for scotland , sleet day evening for scotland, sleet and snow, i'm afraid some tricky conditions as a result developing at times with the ice on untreated surfaces, particularly around freezing and icy evening to come to for northern ireland sleet and snow showers add to the mix turning cold with temperatures tumbling

towards freezing and the winds blustery around the coasts . so blustery around the coasts. so cold and frosty night for many ice in the north. mild, wet weather moving into the west later . that's how it's shaping later. that's how it's shaping up overnight into tomorrow morning .

well, how are you spending boxing day already some wonderful pictures are coming in. lots of cats of dogs, bizarrely a champ in the north—east chopping wood . and north—east chopping wood. and then on our sofa in cumbria , we then on our sofa in cumbria, we will be going sees pictures throughout the course of the show i'll make sure we'll bring you some up . we've got a team of you some up. we've got a team of people beavering away behind scenes you the telly . scenes to get you on the telly. vaiews@gbnews.uk can only vaiews@gbnews.uk you can only see what you're all doing, enjoy your christmas presents, maybe with bubbly . probably with a glass of bubbly. probably haven't been going swimming there in freezing

there have you? in the freezing cold because ? well, let's be cold because? well, let's be honest that would be honest with you. that would be ludicrous. but is what thousands of people across the uk did this morning and boxing day wild swimming . and joining me now is swimming. and joining me now is leslie potty who did a swim of swanage bay this morning. she's the founder of world does charity which hosted the swim as well and it was founded in honour of her late son. we cannot believe i believe before i go to sleep, i think we might have some footage. this one is playing. we've got a hey, there you go . so this is gosh, this of you go. so this is gosh, this of people. wow yeah. so you get it all running the sea and goodness gracious may strange. i think that's the you've got to do it isn't it. they actually just straight and don't mess around fippy straight and don't mess around tippy toes know they try to get france to every yeah yeah that would be true i think we'd have probably led the show without doubt. probably led the show without

doubt . this, probably led the show without doubt. this, to be fair may have not been the case right. well i'll bring you i'll bring you back leslie. leslie, firstly back in. leslie. leslie, firstly , very, much for , thank you very, very much for joining had joining us. and i you had a wonderful christmas. did you? yes, it was quite nice . thank yes, it was quite nice. thank you very much. so. okay, tell us a little about why you do this one. because for me now , i'm one. because for me now, i'm just quite a fat, lazy northern mass of a man and i would like to just be wallowing my own filth normally at this time on, a boxing day surrounded by goodness knows what. but people like yourself , lesley, you're like yourself, lesley, you're proactive. you up, you go swimming in the sea. why well, i find it actually cold water swimming has been really useful with. my mental health. and also it gets me up in the morning i adore and it does set you up i know people can't believe it unless you start doing it you can't imagine how great it does make you feel it's completely but it's but it's start if you want to go all year round . want to go all year round. better to start sort of a by

april time make my time and then go right the way the year rather than starting now is not quite so good . no than starting now is not quite so good. no i'm than starting now is not quite so good . no i'm lucky it was so good. no i'm lucky it was still looking at wonderful images there actually of people around the swanage area. i believe. and how long do you actually stay in the water? do you just stay in until everything goes numb? oh, yeah . everything goes numb? oh, yeah. you get like a tingling feeling on your skin , but you can still on your skin, but you can still be stay in a bite. so they say one minute for every degree. so we stay in about 10 minutes. normally, something like that . normally, something like that. this time of year. but as the year goes on, we switched. i have i have a friend of mine who goes swimming in the serpentine every single morning religiously without fail and says to me that is unbelievable. for her mental health and also physically. so like sciatica a variety

different ailments like that i suppose you say she absolutely swears by and lastly i understand that mental health as indeed of course cold water swimming but mental health is very close to your heart. swimming but mental health is very close to your heart . yeah, very close to your heart. yeah, absolutely. i'm obviously the charity hashtag will geddes was set up in memory of, my son. well, paddy and we young people with mental wellbeing through activities so we try to encourage them to get outside to different things be a bit more sporty just to not be sandals. mm hmm. certain do not take the patrick christys approach to life. get yourself up, get yourself out and going . go and yourself out and going. go and do go and do activities and swimming and but you know, this is i thinking this i was watching that video there of like thousands of people running into thinking it's just on one beach at one time and one town of the uk right across it. people are going i mean my, my ,

people are going i mean my, my, my other man, i've got more than two mates right. but lives aberdeen and i have and he and he goes it goes every single new year they're in the sea. it's a really big thing. this actually is a massive hobby. cold water swimming isn't it. is a massive hobby. cold water swimming isn't it . yeah. it's swimming isn't it. yeah. it's become really big. not me where i'm a part of a group swanage that's about 70 ladies ranging . that's about 70 ladies ranging. from 20 to 80. that pretty much in every day . goodness gracious in every day. goodness gracious me . well, it's fantastic to me. well, it's fantastic to have. now, if people do want donate and it is for such a worthy cause any charities are worthy cause any charities are worthy cause any charities are worthy cause of course. but the does charity is one that's especially close to your heart. yes bishop. because everybody's heart as well and really is aimed, as i understand any way, trying to help , especially trying to help, especially younger people, overcome mental health problems. and this is actually , i think, promoting actually, i think, promoting direct way of doing it from , direct way of doing it from, what you've said, which is to go while swimming or go cold water swimming and not physically

house, but also help to raise for money people well. for money other people as well. so people lob a few quid so how can people lob a few quid your way where you can to a website we've got a donation page on the justgiving page. so any any donations really welcome . we've raised over 265,000 pints since december 1919. so wow we're doing really well. and with massive support. so any we're always grateful for even just a pound always helps even just a pound always helps even just about and that website as far as i understand it is will does dot co.uk that writes that's yes that's correct . got that's yes that's correct. got that's yes that's correct. got that right. okay. there we go. well, look, good luck to yourself. and thank you very . yourself. and thank you very. you've fully warmed now, by you've been fully warmed now, by the way. you do look you look the way. you do look you do look as though you're quite cosy, actually, that which imagine actually, that which i imagine was different this was a very different story this morning. i'm a lot morning. yeah. no i'm a lot warmer now. it wasn't too bad, just tips my fingers were a just tips of my fingers were a bit , but. well

bit cold today, but. yeah. well quite quickly with the mulled wine . there you go. right well, wine. there you go. right well, crack on anyway. have another couple on us. and thank you very, very much. have a great time. all right. you go . time. all right. there you go. thatis time. all right. there you go. that is the wonderful, wonderful lesley you did lesley pattie that you did a swing swanage beach it's swing of swanage beach mean it's all good cause ? well, it's all for a good cause? well, it's all for a good cause? well, it's all very, very , very good all for a very, very, very good charity. goodness charity. i mean, goodness gracious me, ben, you ever gracious me, ben, have you ever gone water swimming? well, gone cold water swimming? well, i've out of you know, i've jumped out of you know, i've jumped out of you know, i've been in a sauna and then gone cold water for gone into ice cold water for a shock. but isn't she wonderful. wonderful lady, you know, taking a really positive approach to deaung a really positive approach to dealing with mental health issues. get people out there, get them exercising, you know , get them exercising, you know, it's just the best of british. i thought embodied dennis. i was going to go to you, but i'm fortunate . i'm going to have to fortunate. i'm going to have to go to the news headlines. i have a slight problem earpiece. apparently, people have been telling me for at least 5 minutes now that i'm way over in brazil and in the channel having to sorry about to shut entirely. so sorry about that. everybody you are with me.

patrick on up . patrick christys on gb news up. you king's speech . oh, you heard the king's speech. oh, there it's been a go there you go. it's been a go because ben is going to be viewing his alternative king's speech. for speech. he gets to be king for a day. he regal paul is going to be talking you be talking about you the wonderful people. i get your pictures seeing pictures coming in. i'm seeing lots lots of nice lots of animals lots of nice lots of animals lots of nice lots of animals lots of nice lots of leftovers as gbviews@gbnews.uk the lazy of the best when it comes to the pictures of what you've been getting up to today. now getting up to today. but now i think maybe the think maybe it's just the headunes. think maybe it's just the headlines . it's 336 is the headlines. it's 336 is the latest from the gb newsroom. police have named a woman who was killed in a merseyside pub shooting on christmas eve as elle edwards , the 26 year old, elle edwards, the 26 year old, was taken to hospital. but later died. four men have also been treated for gunshot injuries. the search continues for the gunman . jose police the search continues for the gunman .jose police , a the search continues for the gunman . jose police , a 10th gunman. jose police, a 10th person has now died as result of an explosion at a block of flats in st helier earlier this month. 73 year old cathy mcguinness

died hospital on christmas day . died hospital on christmas day. an investigation is underway into what caused the blast . at into what caused the blast. at least 50 people are believed to died as a result of a severe freeze that continues to grip much of the us and canada . much of the us and canada. officials say 25 people have been killed in the city of buffalo in new york state. those of you watching television could see live images. now it's minus nine degrees . that is a wind nine degrees. that is a wind chill of around —15 across the us and canada. thousands of flights have been cancelled and more than 150,000 homes are still without power . russia's still without power. russia's defence ministry says military personnel have been killed after a ukrainian was shot down over. an airbase hundreds of miles from ukrainian border. kremlin's says they were hit by falling debns. says they were hit by falling debris . it's the second attack debris. it's the second attack on a military site this month. kyiv has not commented on the incident . the uk's rail networks

incident. the uk's rail networks are at a standstill today . are at a standstill today. members of the rmt union hold strike action over pay one. hundreds of trains usually run on boxing day but they've all cancelled. eurostar also cancelled. eurostar also cancelled all services to london , paris, brussels and amsterdam . meanwhile, the aa has warned of traffic jams with more than 50 million cars expected on uk roads . we're on tv online and on roads. we're on tv online and on dab plus radio is gb news patrick. we'll be back in just a moment .

welcome every day. happy boxing day. you're all playing absolute bunder day. you're all playing absolute blinder without king's speech. what do you make it that all out the king's speech. but what the government really be focusing on in 2023, of course , show we're

in 2023, of course, show we're going to be doing our own version of a christmas speech . version of a christmas speech. but our very own ben habeeb has put together an alternative king's speech outlining his priorities for the year. take it away . i'm priorities for the year. take it away. i'm standing in this exquisite chapel of st george at windsor castle , so close to windsor castle, so close to where our late queen mother is laid to rest . christmas is laid to rest. christmas is a point in. time for those of us who have lost loved ones. but this christmas is if may say so, especially poignant . our late especially poignant. our late queen was loved by a great many, not only in the united kingdom, but across the commonwealth beyond. her passing is the end of an era. she was born when we as a nation had an empire. within empire, modern democracy was born. slavery was abolished . and the modern concept of human established. and through it, we exported british values ,

it, we exported british values, equality, tolerance and kindness . it is no accident our little island set the language framework for international law , commerce. our late also lived through perhaps some of the greatest sacrifices the nation ever made in world war ii. we will fall from alone in the defeat of the, but without the part we played . there can be no part we played. there can be no doubt that the war would have a lot longer and its outcome would have been far from certain . from have been far from certain. from the ashes of the war was established, our welfare state and some of the pre—eminent pubuc and some of the pre—eminent public service in the world. nothing in life is perfect. there is, of course , always room there is, of course, always room for improvement. there is, of course, always room for improvement . but we should for improvement. but we should be proud of our front emergency and all the services they have delivered for the country through thick and thin. particular out the last few years . particular out the last few years. during the particular out the last few years . during the post—war years. during the post—war penod years. during the post—war period , my mother provided the period, my mother provided the stability to make the transition from to modern state. was the glue between the old and the new. and we can all take pride in her legacy. a united kingdom

where peoples of all ethnicities, cultures and religious beliefs are welcomed as king. i'm head of the of england. and today is one of the holiest of christian days a day when light came into the world. jesus stood . for all of jesus stood. for all of humanity. his light enriches all our lives . and it is his our lives. and it is his teachings that underpin our values and give us guidance in difficult times. this is not the easiest of christmases for. but it is a day when we can celebrate our faith. the succour it provides and look forward with optimistic aspiration . i with optimistic aspiration. i wish each and every one a very merry christmas and prosperous year ahead . oh. oh. oh and year ahead. oh. oh. oh and bnngs year ahead. oh. oh. oh and brings tears to the eyes of fellow good mike as well. oh oh. but a reaction . you'll rewrite but a reaction. you'll rewrite now. oh, no, no. say no, no, no

. i— now. oh, no, no. say no, no, no . i just think. oh, my goodness , if nigel farage or any of the bad anti—european had spoken like that in last 20 years, we all would have voted him. so i guess say bellerby should be. i mean, it was just from the heart . i took start from king charles speech ended pretty much where king charles ended and i just thought i'd give my view of the of the importance of reconciliation and bringing harry and meghan back together to . the positive of the royal to. the positive of the royal family yeah, well, there was an implicit crack at harry and meghan and if you picked it up, i'd go and i talk about how we're, you know, very welcoming and, all ethnicities. i'll and, all ethnicities. and i'll go and, all ethnicities. and i'll 9° ' and, all ethnicities. and i'll go , no. and, you know, we all. go, no. and, you know, we all. yeah. and we should celebrate that. and we'd come from behind where. well exactly, exactly. i think i'm a great example of i mean, multiculturalism was going well, just say multiculturalism. i think is a word that's been yet. you know we multi—ethnic

and i you know felicity's coming together and my father was punjabi . my mother was born punjabi. my mother was born think in huntsville if i haven't got it wrong in east and west london . and you know, i'm the london. and you know, i'm the progeny of the empire, if you like , you know. well, it's funny like, you know. well, it's funny what it's produced in a jam. you're very safe . wants us to you're very safe. wants us to know yours is going to come later. so i think . yeah, i does. later. so i think. yeah, i does. it is it is going to come a little bit later on. it is. but yeah, i thought it was fantastic . mean, you know what it was as well. it was christmas speech. i gather to a huge gather there's a lot to a huge amount but for my what amount say but for my money what i have a christmas i like to have a christmas speech was if come away feeling uplifted , proud to be british uplifted, proud to be british and optimistic about the year ahead whilst recognised some of the some of the key things that maybe could have better maybe could have gone better within and within the year just gone. and i think you did all of that. i don't think king charles was all right as well i don't right it us as well i don't completely agree with that i was i absolutely off i was absolutely knocked off my checks the queen's checks been watching the queen's it's overall about decades that sorry the christmas message is

rather well decades that i care to admit this was one that actually dealt with today's problem was the queen for example during the covid era and we will meet again yes she could find the heartbeat of the nation as needed, but never really anything in a very, very serious way. yesterday it was in your face our nurses. we know how the government's treating them. well, he didn't say that she didn't say it almost explicitly didn't say it almost explicitly didn't decide not to do . he didn't decide not to do. he didn't decide not to do. he didn't say anything . this trust, didn't say anything. this trust, except dear, oh, dear, don't you again. he didn't say anything about this. no the nation got the message , the distrust. how the message, the distrust. how did liz truss get trashed in that speech ? and so i think that speech? and so i think i think her majesty the old fashioned queen's speech. she's invented a new one. i don't know how you feel this year. there was lot he stood up. he up. yes. yeah, right . there was lot he stood up. he up. yes. yeah, right. there is a lot to unpack here. listen, gentlemen ,

unpack here. listen, gentlemen, we're going to be returning to speeches. lot of love speeches. ben lot of love flowing including lynne flowing in, including from lynne . in lynne. . you've got a fan in lynne. fabulous speech. that was ben harvey's alternative . king's harvey's alternative. king's speech, for day we'll speech, the king for a day we'll return a little bit return to that a little bit later on with later on out with the counterpart, dennis macshane . counterpart, dennis macshane. does presumably obey does the senate presumably obey king charles giving while his property to the poor property it to house the poor and but have to say well and stuff but have to say well that's wrote we'll that's a bit you wrote we'll have to say okay all right now how are you recovering from christmas day maybe left on a festive film ? a lot of people festive film? a lot of people have been getting in touch. wonderful pictures coming in, by the will get an airing the way. they will get an airing shortly. all love shortly. but die hard, all love actually from your actually, what i know from your films, might even be mad films, you might even be mad enough that swim. we enough to take that swim. we heard all about that , but lots heard all about that, but lots of will be heading south of you will be heading south high street as britain shops slash prices after slash their prices after christmas. i want to help christmas. today i want to help you make the most of these boxing bargains. i've got skin in the game , baby, because my in the game, baby, because my birthday falls back in the middle of january, which means there's still enough time if you're there to me cut you're out there to get me a cut price gift and post it to the gb

news office time for 15th of news office time for the 15th of january. now is january. joining me now is deepak on who knows deepak tailor some on who knows a thing or two about getting the most for your money. the founder of stuff and latest of latest free stuff and latest deals which to be fair are deals uk which to be fair are both incredible google of all things. i what you did that may that's not just a rack is it you must get a lot of web traffic on the back of that but anyway they are websites helping are two websites helping shoppers less . what shoppers get more for less. what are the deals? hit me. come hey, patrick, how are you . all right. patrick, how are you. all right. happy christmas, by the way, i a good christmas . merry christmas. good christmas. merry christmas. yes, very, very good christmas. and yes boxing day to day. there's lots and lots of deals . there's lots and lots of deals. john lewis have launched really big, 50% off sale. top names include , reese hobbs, ted include, reese hobbs, ted baker's , for example, ted shoes baker's, for example, ted shoes at john lewis are down £66, £410, ten back a tote bag. the half price today and the women's ankle boot. so that reduced .

ankle boot. so that reduced. dow n £265,465 down t 0 £82 today. down £265,465 down to £82 today. so there's a wide variety of stuff. but there's also retailers like wayfair debit bean retailers like wayfair debit bear, who all of them launched big sales today. bear, who all of them launched big sales today . wow. i tell you big sales today. wow. i tell you what, though , is especially what, though, is especially gutting anyone who bought ted baker shoes a couple of days ago. anything from race , for ago. anything from race, for example, because now they realise that if they just held fire a little bit maybe post—christmas but blame the oh sorry i won't be able to see you on the day because of the strikes so i'll see you the week after. you could get everything now do now for half price you. how do you do you have you find all these do you have to manually trawl through websites so the community that websites so the community that we run latest deals is actually like a community site which where people actually post and find their own and they vote them up and down depending how often how good they are . so we often how good they are. so we don't actually well, i actually post deals on them myself, but we community of we also have a community of people, people people, over 2 million people who post deals who actually post deals themselves. do you take and just

you as well, doesn't it? because today a massive day with the sales tomorrow will be as well. and then there's the january sales isn't when is the best to get sales, is it actually today or it just that does the value for money slowly slide off over the course of the month ? well, the course of the month? well, actually, the golden rule of sales is actually to reset . and sales is actually to reset. and the product you want beforehand actually know the price history. so not actually a specific day. you should be looking for and you need to make sure that you know when it's going to be cheapest. so kind of use tools and platforms to track the price them. the worst thing you can do is actually kind of do spontaneous where you think you're getting a very good deal but you might not be in your find out a bit later. oh i see right so just because something on a tag says , you know it was on a tag says, you know it was 500 quid, now it's 200, it might have been massively overpriced at 500 to begin with and muggings like me over here, walk

say the things are they're saving 300 big ones and actually i've well i've just mugged myself off having a i've got to ask you what was the best deal you've ever got got ? the best you've ever got got? the best dealis you've ever got got? the best deal is actually something i got for free, funnily enough. so say coke a few years ago, we're giving away coke a few years ago, we're giving awa y £170 unde r £70, giving away £170 under £70, electric toothbrush . and i think electric toothbrush. and i think they have 9000 to give a go one just because it was first come, first serve. so it was a crazy promotion. they were running on their facebook page. if a few years actually years ago, but actually fantastic. and to people like you, i mean, when you really think about the amount of money that you must saved people over the many years the course of how many years you've been doing this, someone probably quite lot, probably you quite a lot, actually now and final question before i get go i can't before i let you get go i can't help in top of my help but notice in the top of my screen when i look at you, it says thailand. you in says thailand. do you live in thailand ? you in thailand? are you based in thailand? are you based in thailand? good thailand? did you got a good deal to thailand? deal on a holiday to thailand? how work ? and then how does it work? and then actually, funnily enough, thailand actually just my

honeymoon. that's very short. so you are something . my honeymoon. you are something. my honeymoon. so you are on honeymoon right now now ? i want a honeymoon now now? i want a honeymoon right now. yeah, we flew a few days ago , got married in the days ago, got married in the summer, so . and i'm just sorry summer, so. and i'm just sorry you're talking to me on. your honeymoon? yeah. i'm very happy that no one else to talk to that mcshane on that honeymoon, you know all or any other day? oh we were tagging along, so. wow that was a joke. yeah, i resist it. i i'm sorry. i'm sorry. is high off of his christmas speech , but off of his christmas speech, but i'll tell what i will let you get back to your honeymoon . get back to your honeymoon. right, because i suspect someone's to be very, very annoyed with you if you spend any working on your honeymoon andindeed any working on your honeymoon and indeed , talk to me that. and indeed, talk to me that. thank you very, much . very thank you very, very much. very busy can again someone does busy and can again someone does really want to talk to him. can i ask what's the website again? read out us read your website out for us that deals

that people can get best deals as the best deals. the website latest deals that are the uk and if you run for your stuff, it be latest free stuff but go to uk. okay, fantastic. look thank you very much and happy honeymoon my good man. tell you that i found our latest stuff and latest our latest free stuff and latest deals uk got out with our specials and it right okay well so throughout the show but ask you to send in pictures. yes well we've done it it's only pictures of what you've been up to . i did say the lazier to today. i did say the lazier the better madeleine has been on the better madeleine has been on the rise. madeleine's been all season lazy but it is nice on with the pictures boxing sea swim . she's in langland bay swim. she's in langland bay gower in south wales . it doesn't gower in south wales. it doesn't i'm sure it's sure it's colder than look so yeah. so i'd highly it up so madeleine was in this weather before it started hailing user on twitter apparently is a centres another image we believe i think there's one that yes this boxing day

john ross seems to be enjoying the football there's a fry up that's a great photo that is a fantastic . there's a tree next fantastic. there's a tree next to the telly. yep brilliant. billy. billy. our next images from almondbury. thank you, by the way, that's for just all. from almondbury. thank you, by the 'she'shat's for just all. from almondbury. thank you, by the 'she's walking just all. from almondbury. thank you, by the 'she's walking a st all. from almondbury. thank you, by the 'she's walking a dog, .. from almondbury. thank you, by the 'she's walking a dog, jack, and she's walking a dog, jack, in park . dad, and she's walking a dog, jack, in park. dad, come on, irene . in park. dad, come on, irene. she mentioned mentioned earlier. someone. someone pictures of them chopping wood . oh, yes. them chopping wood. oh, yes. here joan, using his spare time box. dave goodies. i hope no one bought you an axe for christmas job, because if they did, that says a lot about you says a lot more about you anyway, right . thank very anyway, right. thank you very much. sending much. everybody's been sending them positive them and all remain positive because lots to come because on gb news lots to come in the next hour, our big news stories day and also as stories of the day and also as well, of you go shop well, more of you will go shop right take it easy. okay. right now. take it easy. okay. it's looking chilly there. mix of clear spells and scattered showers in details southwest of england this evening, seeing a mixture of heavy showers and then clear spells . temperatures then clear spells. temperatures around 5 to 7 celsius for most, staying breezy along the coast. i think the wind chill skies clearing then this evening for

many parts , the south—east of many parts, the south—east of england, places dry, england, most places dry, though, perhaps a few showers in the east, a rather chilly evening, then further across to the west wales with scattered showers and breezy along the coast. that particularly temperatures 4 to 6 celsius. plenty of dry weather, boxing day evening for the midlands but the risk to some showers rather cold again temperatures there down to three or four degrees. winds thing like that rather breezy this evening and across northern parts of england and further blustery showers coming the showers indeed falling asleep or snow over the high ground at times . so on the cold ground at times. so on the cold and icy side for many a blustery boxing day evening for scotland further , sleet and snow, i'm further, sleet and snow, i'm afraid some tricky travelling conditions as a result. developing at times with the ice on untreated surfaces, particularly temperatures around freezing and icy evening to come to northern ireland. sleet and snow showers to the mix turning

cold with temperatures tumbling towards freezing and the winds blustery around the coasts. so and frosty night for many ice in the north. mild, wet, windy weather moving into the west later on. that's how it's shaping up overnight into tomorrow morning .

welcome back, everybody. it's just gone 4:00. you're with me . just gone 4:00. you're with me. patrick christys on gb news. now, normally this show is all about news, news, news one and the but since his day, the news. but since his day, we're doing slightly we're doing things slightly different . and i've picked out different. and i've picked out four big topics of the day strikes royals, the nhs and immigration . we'll just be immigration. we'll just be sticking to them a little bit. we'll be picking through the different angles on each other. course going to

course show that. i'm going to be former brexit party be joined by former brexit party mep and deliver of mep ben habib and deliver of great king speeches and former labour minister for europe dennis macshane . he's to dennis macshane. he's about to deliver speech in deliver a great king's speech in the we did hear the first hour. we did hear about alternative version to about his alternative version to the one that king charles did yesterday. our it'll yesterday. it's our dad. it'll be dennis will be rocking the mike throughout show, mike anyway, throughout show, i want to send him pictures of want you to send him pictures of how are spending boxing day. how you are spending boxing day. send them in. jb is our gb news dot uk. we've had dogs broadcast , we've got booths, we've got food . we we want to all food. we just we want to all people, we want it all. but before i get all of stuff before i get all of that stuff likes his news. it's 4:01. i'm randerson in the gb newsroom police have named a woman who was killed in a pub shooting on christmas eve as elle edwards . christmas eve as elle edwards. the 26 year old was taken to hospital but later died. four men have also been treated for injuries. officers say the search is continuing for gunman,

but it's not believed to have a targeted attack . jose police say targeted attack. jose police say a 10th person has now died as a result of an explosion at a block of flats earlier this month 73 year old cathy mcguinness died hospital on christmas day . the blast which christmas day. the blast which happenedin christmas day. the blast which happened in the early hours on the 10th of december, destroyed the 10th of december, destroyed the building in st helier mcguinness lived close to that site. an inquest will open this friday before being adjourned while the investigation continues . at at least 50 people continues. at at least 50 people are believed to have died as a result of a severe arctic freeze that continues to grip much of the us and canada . officials say the us and canada. officials say 25 people have been killed in buffalo , in new york state. buffalo, in new york state. those you watching on television can see live images of the city now blanketed in snow. it's minus degrees there and there's windchill of around —15 across the us and canada. thousands of flights have been cancelled and more than 150,000 homes are

still without power . russia's still without power. russia's defence ministry say three of its military personnel have been killed after a ukrainian drone was shot down over an air base hundreds of miles from . the hundreds of miles from. the ukrainian border. the kremlin's says they were hit by falling debnsin says they were hit by falling debris in russia's southeast. it's the second attack on military this month and raises among russians that ukraine could get past moscow's air defences . kyiv has not commented defences. kyiv has not commented on the incident nor the uk's rail network, so at a standstill today as of the rmt union hold strike action over pay . hundreds strike action over pay. hundreds of trains usually run on boxing day, but they've all been cancelled . the air is warning of cancelled. the air is warning of traffic of more than 50 million cars expected on uk roads. 20,000 eurostar passengers have been forced to make alternative plans as it's cancelled all services to london, paris, brussels and amsterdam. travel experts calder says the strikes are the railways . if 1 million

are the railways. if 1 million people like me who don't have a car or access to a car, who have travel by rail and to be told come back middle of january isn't good enough. the rail, i think, have completely misjudged . the government is completely misjudged. it the passenger and taxpayer are caught up in this middle of this kind of ideological row and it's absolutely all it's doing is destroying the rail, railways . destroying the rail, railways. the uk health security will stop publishing covid 19 data early next month . chief data scientist next month. chief data scientist says it's no longer necessary as the country is now living with the country is now living with the disease. data had been published weekly during the peak of the pandemic and every two weeks since april this year. officials say covid will be monitored in and shoppers are expected to spend in the sales today as the cost living continues to rise. new by barclaycard payments that the average customer intends to buy

£229 worth of items in the post—christmas sales . that's 4% post—christmas sales. that's 4% less than last year. the study also found that some shoppers expect to use reselling sites , expect to use reselling sites, buy items or offload unwanted gifts. despite that, industry analyst springboard says the latest data obtained today shows footfall is actually than it was last year . this is gb news. last year. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as happens. let's get straight back to . patrick ike , it's boxing day and that ike, it's boxing day and that means time to crack open a bottle of bubbly stick on a christmas classic and then gorge to your heart's content on crisps, cakes , leftover turkey. crisps, cakes, leftover turkey. if you were lucky enough , get a if you were lucky enough, get a turkey player to remortgage your in order to do that this year beef whatever is it's you not the show i've been send

the show i've been you to send in pictures of what you've in some pictures of what you've been to so far. today the been up to so far. today the same journey was chopping wood earlier. this is great. by the way, sir, can i just say before we go, these pictures, it really just show what it tells me first bunch. oh gb news viewers are we've had some people who have just got their bellies out. a dog priced out prostrate on the in front of the mulled wine everywhere. rob, we've got someone been out chopping wood. someone's swimming in hailstorms somewhere in wales. i mean, it isn't it? it makes you wonderful people. so john off of chopping wood right has also said in this picture where this whole has been. picture where this whole has been . yes john fantastic stuff been. yes john fantastic stuff and so john been boxing day chopping wood and hugging horses. all right, now we go . horses. all right, now we go. our next image comes from kitty and a cat does not confuse me for a second. i will go on. and i did say that would be bonus for anyone who sends in a picture includes gb news. in the

shot we have we have that two animals and gb news you're a christmas tree away from perfection gets a anyway they are watching me apparently kissy great taste absolutely great taste is what you're watching on the that right i think that's it for the pictures for now but we'll try to try dip in and out of this throughout the course of the shows to make sure that you get them coming . just want to get them coming. just want to know you're on boxing know what you're up to on boxing day, because as we've day, really, because as we've just chopping just seen from jonny chopping and getting your and strokes also is getting your chills said chills out with our cat said somebody me absolutely something viewable in the box earlier there there is a as a world of stuff you can do on boxing day people activities on towards the right joining me today is former brexit party mep you better babe and former labour minister for europe dennis mcshane . even in europe dennis mcshane. even in the breaks have been getting on rather well. i was concerned it was going to break out into some kind of boxing day slash christmas dinner. ask you , know

christmas dinner. ask you, know horror show. but now at last , horror show. but now at last, it's been all right. we're going to talk about serious stuff now a little bit more serious devices on of the show devices on top of the show is basically for news topics basically i've for news topics and everything else we talk about would boxing day or about would be boxing day or christmas of christmas related and a bit of a laugh, news laugh, but of those for news topics is the nhs because it's been revealed the royal hospital trust in north london placed a requirement on staff justify themselves if they hire a white for a job over someone from an i minority background. the daily mail reports employees have write to the trust's chief executive on how they scored the non applicant. they're also required come up with suggestions on how the candidate can improve the next time . so can improve the next time. so i want to ask if this is just more time wasting what curry that needs to be stamped out of national health service? dennis mcshane , i will start with you mcshane, i will start with you as . we've got strikes and as. we've got strikes and questions of affordability and people hired as directors of lifting . for 150 grand a year

lifting. for 150 grand a year and all of this stuff. do we really need to waste time and resources justifying why they've hired a white bloke for something or a white woman? i look at the modern fully at story, typically daily mail, one hospital royal fred hampstead, where half more than half of all the inpatients are people in the wards are of different ethnic backgrounds . now i think one of backgrounds. now i think one of the best things the right have donein the best things the right have done in britain in the last ten years has been to complete the change the culture of the government in cabinet labour didn't really do it. yeah david cameron, boris johnson, theresa may well lists of what she called i've the promises i preferred that is sorry you're being council whilst denis macshane reshuffles he doesn't mix shuffle and we saw to his microphone ben i'm going get your take on this well let's just talk about work for a second what in my mind is the ostensible championing of minority rights to the detriment

of the majority . that's how of the majority. that's how i see work. and i use the word ostensible because actually in the pursuit of championing minority , i think what they do minority, i think what they do is great to everyone, including those minorities . so here you those minorities. so here you have a fantastic work story in the pursuit of presumably ethnic neutral recruitment. they're actually positive discrimination and i'm sure they're encouraging you through the review to turn away perfectly good . why? away perfectly good. why? because, you know, if let's say let's say you hired me , you'd let's say you hired me, you'd have to then go to and to justify to justify . i'm already justify to justify. i'm already prejudiced against you. are and so in the pursuit of equality , so in the pursuit of equality, they inculcate prejudice. and that's got be wrong and we've got to stop progressive . we've got to stop progressive. we've got to stop progressive. we've got to stop it . there's no place got to stop it. there's no place for progressive discrimination . for progressive discrimination. and everything needs to be a meritocracy . we need to be meritocracy. we need to be ethnically blind . we need to be

ethnically blind. we need to be blind to people's religious beliefs by and large in the workplace of course, unless it's leading hate crimes and we've leading to hate crimes and we've got to be blind sexual preferences . we want the best preferences. we want the best people in the country doing the jobs at which they are the best. all right fair enough. now, dennis, i believe you back in the room . hope so. that sounds the room. hope so. that sounds good not being shouted out. yeah, that's great. good. but this the nhs then as we this is the same nhs then as we want. we want to function . want. we want it to function. got 7 million people it. just got 7 million people on it. just waiting list you've people waiting list. you've got people who having to go to be who would be having to go to be paid out for medical negligence. we our we locked down to protect our beloved nhs. i i look at beloved nhs. i know. i look at this. if you hire a white guy you've go tribunal or you've got to go a tribunal or woman . and this one is £65 woman. and this one is £65 million a year of prescriptions such as and shampoo look, such as bread and shampoo look, i don't know about shampoo at tool baby . very easy for us to tool baby. very easy for us to be smart and cocky and clever and woke i expect that quite a lot of people with hair and other health problems out of hospital who to begin with need some kind of special medical shampoo. i don't know. i'm not

an expert fairy. your hair looks wonderful . you joe biden's got wonderful. you joe biden's got far more than i have. so it's. and it's an endangered species we're looking at the evolution , we're looking at the evolution, man but one of the first big things i did as a very young president was actually just 1970s, was to analyse the number of battered women journalists of colour, not what we called them . yeah. on the bbc and, itv. it was before gb news was invented . how many were there ? zero. and . how many were there? zero. and until actually identify you can't solve it now i think i'll what you solving . what do you what you solving. what do you solve? what are you sorry. the fact is monochrome britain we haven't been monochrome britain a long long time i welcome i wish labour had got as far as i said the tories did after 2010. ihope said the tories did after 2010. i hope the tories all clear through meritocracy. i mean that may not be evidence in the form of government they've delivered. i personally don't think some of

the budget suella braverman about where to go spend . your about where to go spend. your bar rover. i know that's political discussion but i'm glad that we've the on the policy and the private chancellor for cabinet in britain that was dogged by a conscious woke but i think it was it was very much well i then i'm in favour of it i hoped i would hope and expect that actually cream floats to the top of top of the milk bottle and that you get the best leading the country we need the best if there white whatever colour there white whatever colour there i couldn't care less as long as i the best. just to clarify on the archie that so you think that sort of problem at home security tree has only got the job. no i'm not i'm not saying that for one. maybe i know, i know. i know. she could be white. any colour you like . i be white. any colour you like. i just think she's the wrong person for that job. but i do generally think it's been a huge british breakthrough. politics

so our political class is the one that most reflects who they should compare to, or germany or any other european. well then can i ask this ? does it go too can i ask this? does it go too far ? because if i just look now far? because if i just look now at ethnicity, facts and figures was this is on the government website and it says here that 82% of people in england and wales white 18% belong to a black asian mix or over ethnic group. so 18% of that whatever percentage will be, say, black, but then when you look around at not necessarily the cabinet, it dependsin not necessarily the cabinet, it depends in cabinet, obviously, but you know, advertising advertising, it's a great of all of this stuff. yeah oh, oh, i think minorities are saying this for that quote if that makes yeah. disproportion represented at points right . well because at points right. well because i think it's this it's this you know we've got we've become obsessed with the promotion of minority rights at exclusion of the majority and think it is no

but then it's right i see it like saying like say that because it merits i can't i'm really trying to rattle through my to very far sort of rather horrid takes showing the moroccan team with the world bailey white and the french team nearly all black that because those footballs got there all their talent good to royal and that would be my thing is this is where it falls down for me because if you look at the nhs just walk into it you know i department whenever i've been in the really accused course the now really accused course i'd say much more than a team the national average of 18% much more and the nhs are already people of an ethnic minority backgrounds . why would we need backgrounds. why would we need to have a for some kind of tribunal every time there's of higher white. i've been reading bell stories as a historian i study terrible of jews coming to britain . the 1930s, all because . whe

britain. the 1930s, all because. whe big comparing of over because without done so much work on racism in this country this was a great overpaid it wouldn't to do column seem for if you ask those about you in the by being but it's by these truthful i just say i would go check with the royal or the nhs all this little story before getting up on the high for getting carried away . we wouldn't want to get away. we wouldn't want to get carried away. lopez we you i'm enjoying this. we really enjoyed this, actually. very this, actually. thank you very much. been much. everyone who's been getting got getting in as well. we've got loads more from wonderful loads more from our wonderful two dennis and ben two palace, dennis and ben have babe and we've been talking a lot about the royal free hospital in london and we also have a comment from them now . we have a comment from them now. we go a royal free london spokesman said, we are committed to having diverse workforce and we to ensure all candidates, irrespective their ethnicity of equal opportunity , is to work at

equal opportunity, is to work at the free london. that is in relation to how we initially started talking, which is which is the fact that apparently they're going to have essentially like a worse certainly explain why certainly need to explain why they've chosen hire a white they've chosen to hire a white person over an ethnic minority . person over an ethnic minority. i just read. person over an ethnic minority. ijust read. did person over an ethnic minority. i just read. did you person over an ethnic minority. ijust read. did you see person over an ethnic minority. i just read. did you see the dupuchyin i just read. did you see the duplicity in the statement? if you go to beginning , it you go back to the beginning, it talks they committed talks about how they committed to having a diverse workforce. yeah you cannot commit a yeah you cannot commit to a diverse workforce unless you've got progress of discrimination. you can't do it because otherwise it just to take you out to this conclusion that you might gallo job application maybe all the best candidates will white then you go will walk white and then you go on the it and on to read the rest of it and they're what they they're trying justify what they know be inherently know to be an inherently unsustainable proposition which debug the any notion that they're getting the best of the best, irrespective that, well, you can't you can't aim towards that to a diverse workforce ethnically diverse workforce, irrespective of ethnicity to say of mutual exclusive and i say that to any woman this i just sit around there would be

incredibly good executives they naturally arrive on the board of companies. it's the last or 40 years we have had sorry positive describing asian here in europe the break most democracies look at the dictatorship countries the world putin she body or tall autocracy fact case of modi and the women just all well again , i the women just all well again, i disagree, dennis. i mean i think we need to do is remove barriers to opportunity for all people we need to ensure education is fundamental available across all ethnicities . and by the way ethnicities. and by the way a lot of the disadvantaged people in this country all poor white white. well this is getting lost having now as you get lost but we will returning our beloved. it's become very serious . we will returning our beloved. it's become very serious. i think that will be retained . think that will be retained. beloved. elaine, just a little bit later on i did say if you're just joining us right now is boxing day i've come on to boxing day and i've come on to being serious nice but being a bit serious is nice but we going pick we decided we're going to pick four for news four loose teams for our news topics and everything else is

going be pictures. going to going to be pictures. dog's wearing christmas hats. so that's that was one that's good. yeah that was one of them, which the the of them, which is the nhs. the other one i'm loathe to touch on, railway . on, but i have to is railway. okay. so apparently britain's railways are shut down for the second day in a row. well, not apparently that's apparently they have and that's to rmt union led who of to down the rmt union led who of course, was not telling same christmas. definitely not. it just happens to be there's just a christmas tree on there. a christmas tree on out there. there is christmas trees in front me and but this just front of me and but this just coincidentally , these trunks are coincidentally, these trunks are all taking christmas all taking place over christmas . have called . air strikes have been called as a running dispute as part of a running dispute about pay and conditions with these caused travel these strikes caused travel misery for i want to ask if the unions have too much power. joining me to discuss this. yes the same people as we've had all shows so former brexit party mep behave and former labour minister delirious over europe dennis mcshane wonderful. i think i just saw you on the last topic i'll start with you on this topic now dennis unions too much power should they on i suppose between the lines there

is whether not should is whether not they should be allowed strike as allowed to go on strike as opposed all these strikes are happening on the margaret thatcher's legislation harping on it you have to stress this point that they're not deciding mick lynch can't call those out on strike. he's got to get votes of ordinary and janes at supporters going which might cheer you up a bit and that's why i think to some extent you're just a little hint of desperation in some a mix up. yeah he needs get on to do india when i was young you had the big mouth trade do leaders all the television all time ordering their members out on strike that doesn't happen now and that's a problem for the government they are not taking on pat cullen, the lovely irish belt who does in charge of the royal of nurses. they are taking on nurses. they're taking on ordinary post is the people who kept us going during the covid pandemic treated with contempt .

pandemic treated with contempt. i've had no christmas cards like none of us for four days. i don't mind . i think those bad don't mind. i think those bad there every morning and women sorry 365 days a year just there every morning and women sorry 365 days a yearjust as sorry 365 days a year just as cold going for a early morning swim are are to keep the nation together . why it's the royal together. why it's the royal mail and think again for the government don't even sit down the table with them and talk a few things through is just that's the old tory arrogance that's the old tory arrogance that's come back with a bag but it is no longer the light weight of the nation . castiel arthur of the nation. castiel arthur scargill and other big mouth . scargill and other big mouth. the government is in a very weak position. i do wonder , ben, when position. i do wonder, ben, when it comes to the railways , for it comes to the railways, for example, whether or not actually the government has played or is playing a bit of a blinder because public support and sympathy for the rail workers is dropping and mick lynch appears to be becoming increased . more to be becoming increased. more desperate. he is and his language is becoming more extreme, and thereby he's losing

more support and it becomes a bit of a self—fulfilling , you bit of a self—fulfilling, you know, problem for him, which what the government's obviously hoping . but, you know, hoping for. but, you know, dennis really points dennis makes some really points with which i'm to agree, which is that this is a sector that's broken across the board . you broken across the board. you know, if we had mick lynch eyes on striking and everyone on his own striking and everyone else happily at work know, that would be a different debate. but the vast majority of public servants have been on strike or are going on strike. and i mean, some of them going on strike actually improves, the service available, said, at the available, as you said, at the beginning show with both beginning of the show with both the which the full force, which is hilarious, presumably hilarious, and the presumably illegal migrants crossing the channel because they haven't got their them in. their taxi service them in. margaret hoover yeah, but that aside know, i think there is a genuine here. i think the tories have been very slow to engage, still refusing engage and pat cullen is not mick lynch and, and you know they've got to get round a table and sort this out i think mick lynch, you know he

could have, he could have done a better earlier, the government could have done a better deal earlier. but everything went their silos. it's become politicised , people have become politicised, people have become intransigent . mick lynch his intransigent. mick lynch his political now hangs in political future now hangs in the balance and you see this the balance and you can see this thing slightly out of thing just gets slightly out of . do remember hearing of ben . do you remember hearing of ben a week or two ago? probably today what i tried is one of those ministers, i don't know their names any longer who said that pat cullen is challenging her in a mick lynch , her in a mick lynch, patronising, deep . this probably patronising, deep. this probably steve barclay arrogant, stupid and i thought sod i've done strikes you want to keep your strikes you want to keep your strike running a lot longer keep in selsey open like mick lynch thatis in selsey open like mick lynch that is two days left over troy the rag tag of bobtail so give this brexit observation of brexit well now giving us spikes but what is one thing i did think was interesting? i will go to the weather in just a second. now is to kind of go your point alluded to that should bring it alluded to that should bring it all you which

all together both of you which is fact that we have is about the fact that we have got different issues got multiple different issues in multiple different areas now that which you that has to know which way you address up. that ultimately has to fault of a government to to be fault of a government to an extent when you issues an extent when you have issues across. so areas and then allowing it to become a situation where there are so many different, i mean, pretty a general strike wasn't quite not far off that in itself a failure of negotiation or political tactics as well . so there is a i tactics as well. so there is a i think i saw a very are nigel farage tweeted britain broken and was like yeah well you you broke don't finish the boy so many oh didn't get like the brazier the one thing is that it was those it was just it made me laugh it made me laugh well there there was there was a there was a bizarrely there there's a cpr out this morning saying one of the reasons the united kingdom is ahead is not powering ahead economically is because they're not of brexit freedoms . not taking of brexit freedoms. well, let's talk about williams is believe that nonsense. is always believe that nonsense. oh, what that was oh, i tell you what that was very what i'm actually so very brave. what i'm actually so i gun so it's you all i jumped the gun so it's you all have a budget crisis on tv is

coming do you tucking coming up what do you tucking into yesterday's turkey into today yesterday's turkey maybe a tube of pringles . we'll maybe a tube of pringles. we'll speak to nutritionist to get all of the dos and don'ts on christmas leftovers. good grief. that good get a bit . that good get a bit. of

a oh, welcome back, everybody would try to cling on for christmas for a little bit longer and many of our traditions revolve around food don't they? certainly the way i don't they? certainly the way i do it , maybe don't they? certainly the way i do it, maybe you're sick of don't they? certainly the way i do it , maybe you're sick of the do it, maybe you're sick of the classics. so you turkeys, you mince pies, you stuffing, maybe ditch the christmas pud and go for chocolate cake instead . is for chocolate cake instead. is also common to spend today regretting finishing that entirely box of chocolates or having that third helping of roast potatoes. i must the damage that did see christmas

dinner that i was . joining me dinner that i was. joining me now to discuss of the things boxing day is monica price . boxing day is monica price. monica yeah. it's good to see you anyway . well, happy you anyway. well, happy christmas. how will you do anything good yesterday , i did. anything good yesterday, i did. thank you so much. hello, patrick. hello to your guests. yes, i had a lovely christmas. thank you. and like many people were eating the leftovers of our christmas dinner. and it's a wonderful time of year. patrick, you i spoke you you know, i spoke to you yesterday a lovely yesterday and i had a lovely christmas dinner by way, but it's all, you know, looking at what you've eaten and to boxing day, actually, there's a day when lots of people start to think their food , what think about their food, what they've eaten and what they'd like and try and like to change and to try and get along to sort of make some healthier choices . they it's healthier choices. they can it's a but now, a difficult one, but now, monica, monica, we placed her so much so obviously in the breakfast there with the wonderful ellie costello salad we've again we've got. do that again tomorrow thinking tomorrow as well. i was thinking of you. i was i was thinking of you the whole time, monica,

because i was i went back home. right. loading my right. and i was loading my plate for a third time. i thought monica is going to be really hungry i mean, now she's going to be really angry with me. decided i was going me. so i've decided i was going to leave that day. how know how much damage come one day do he really if i'm good so a lot of people watching this we think it is or i'll make it up if i'm good now for next five days. good now for the next five days. does that the natural equilibrium out. equilibrium work itself out. yeah it's really okay to have a day when you when self indulge. there's nothing wrong with that. but it's having, having the sort of peace of mind to say actually, okay that was that day. but now i'm going to make some healthier choices . i mean, some healthier choices. i mean, boxing say boxing day, as i say traditionally it's a day when we think going the think about going perhaps to the shops. think about going shops. we think about going hunting , we think about going to hunting, we think about going to a football show, we think about going to the races . these were going to the races. these were all traditional boxing day that all traditional boxing day that a people do actually a lot of people do actually start to look at their health. and because of covid.

and i think, because of covid. and i think, because of covid. and people more and more now are looking health. that's looking their health. and that's a good thing. so you a really good thing. so if you have overindulge yesterday, that's fine berate yourself, but just to yourself, you know what? now i'm going to some choices and i always think education, if you educate somebody about foods, then you empower them to make good choices. i agree with you, because i absolutely love my food. alright really, really do. and i also stopped on the old al boozer. right. so that only see now as a way of me feeling happier is to just eat those eat too much. now i need to obviously phase out and gradually just start to behave like a normal right. but at the moment i'm eating loads and not that sorry but there are a lot more i reckon dead calories in booze than there are in food is it is it better for me to be eating and not drinking . 6 to 8 eating and not drinking. 6 to 8 kilos and not drinking? that's a very good question. but no, it's about doing specific what's

going on is moderation in both. now, you'll be pleased to know if you are if you like champagne or fizzy drinks. so something something there's actually less calories in a sparkling drink. so only 100 calories, for example , a glass of champagne. example, a glass of champagne. whereas if having a baileys or uqueur, whereas if having a baileys or liqueur , you can have sort of liqueur, you can have sort of hundred and 80, 200, 300 calories in a glass . now, as a calories in a glass. now, as a nutritionist, i don't normally at calories, but at this time of yean at calories, but at this time of year, it's always good to let people know . yesterday we spoke people know. yesterday we spoke about 7000 calories on average dunng about 7000 calories on average during that christmas day. that's from of breakfast or the puddings or everything we've eaten all sweets, all the cakes and a little bit more. so if we did that day for the rest of the yean did that day for the rest of the year, you would put on about stone of oh . a oh this is a stone of oh. a oh this is a challenge i've got to do it try and do it . patrick challenge i've got to do it try and do it. patrick gain 20

challenge i've got to do it try and do it . patrick gain 20 stone and do it. patrick gain 20 stone in a i'm a challenge executive so you've got to say to yourself look you know all about your health healthy important you know it's taught us one thing it's about looking after our health. so, you know, obesity lead to higher risk of heart disease , diabetes type two, high disease, diabetes type two, high blood pressure . all of these blood pressure. all of these things are putting enormous on the nhs already and we're already seeing, you know, millions pounds going in to type two diabetes for example , two diabetes for example, because, you know, people are getting heavier people are getting heavier people are getting fatter, people are becoming more obese at a very early . so that's why i becoming more obese at a very early. so that's why i think it's education is about letting people know and then them taking an informed you can't it's that old saying you can lead that horse the water but you can't make them drink. but if you if you teach people and educate them on how to have a lifestyle then that's that's all you can do really that's what i like to do really that's what i like to do right funds fasting and i

can't remember what you said to yesterday, but it will leave my what's on your left over many today i've been getting wonderful to send in of. wonderful people to send in of. there's degree of there's a varying degree of success of the leftovers in some households be said. but households, it must be said. but what's leftover today? what's on your leftover today? leftover is we've got gammon and turkey . slice up the turkey turkey. slice up the turkey slice at the gunman and we're actually going to make a stir so you can have rice , noodles and you can have rice, noodles and lots bowls, all of your leftover can go into that and, try and eat something green. so throwing in the spinach, you know, some nice ginger, some tamari which is a really good spice for you to have. and those sort of things are really get you want a healthy diet so it's not it's not about think not sometimes about i think i said yesterday what you can it's about the portion sizes so again just this year just say to yourself i'm actually going to start eating just a little bit less and you will be amazed at that difference how how amazing that difference how how amazing that and the difference you'll see in your in your body. monica thank you very, very much .

thank you very, very much. monica price, a nutritionist extraordinaire, incredibly tolerant lady as well, putting out with me for two days on the bounce while i try and drive an hgv through healthy thing. but thank you very, very much . rise. thank you very, very much. rise. okay. please keep. yes please keep your views in your emails. coming now go to the panel and we've got the king's speech. it was most watched programme on uk tv yesterday, around 8.1 million people tuned in to watch charles speak. we'll have the lights on that. what do you make of it? we're also going to have another important royal message . you important royal message. you tell you quite literally tell me what you quite literally get this the bbc. ladies and get this on the bbc. ladies and gentlemen dennis macshane, gentlemen, dennis macshane, political legend is going to deliver alternative christmas speech. deliver alternative christmas speech . are not going to want to speech. are not going to want to miss this. people okay. but first is the latest headlines . first is the latest headlines. 4:35 on radisson in the gb news. police have named a woman who was killed in a merseyside

shooting on christmas eve as . shooting on christmas eve as. elle edwards, the 26 year old, was taken to hospital but later died. four men have also been treated gunshot injuries. the search continues for the gunman .jose search continues for the gunman . jose police say 10th person has now died . a result of an has now died. a result of an explosion in a block of flats in st helier earlier month. 73 year old kathy mcguinness in hospital on christmas day . an on christmas day. an investigation is underway into exactly what caused the blast . exactly what caused the blast. at least 50 people are believed to have died as a result. at least 50 people are believed to have died as a result . a to have died as a result. a severe arctic freeze continues to grip much of the. and canada officials say five people have been killed in the city of buffalo. in new york state . buffalo. in new york state. those of you watching on television can see live images of the city. it's minus nine degrees there and there's a wind chill of around —15 across the us canada, thousands of flights have cancelled and more than 150,000 homes are still without power. russia's defence ministry

say three military personnel have been killed after a ukrainian drone was shot down over an air base hundreds of miles from ukrainian border. the kremlin says they were hit by falling debris. it's kremlin says they were hit by falling debris . it's the second falling debris. it's the second attack on a military site this month. kyiv has not commented . month. kyiv has not commented. the incident . the month. kyiv has not commented. the incident. the uk's rail networks are at a standstill today as members the rmt union hold strike over pay hundreds trains usually run on boxing day. they've all been cancelled . eurostar also cancelled all services to london, paris, brussels and meanwhile the air has warned of traffic jams with more than 50 million cars expected on uk . we're on tv, expected on uk. we're on tv, onune expected on uk. we're on tv, online and on 80 plus radio. you're watching the channel gb news patrick coming right back .

okay, welcome back, everybody thank you very much for all of the love people, their love here in the inbox make . sure you keep in the inbox make. sure you keep it coming. i do enjoy the fact that we've got you on now. you know different know various different living rooms country rooms up and down country it's great yesterday king great to see but yesterday king king your king charles invading your living room didn't delivered living room didn't he delivered his royal christmas his first royal christmas message st george's chapel in windsor and it was the most watched programme christmas day apart from the gb news show with myself and ellie costello did rather anyway and more than rather well anyway and more than 8 million people tuned in to see the deliver speech, the monarch deliver speech, which highlighted their struggling cost living struggling with cost of living crisis. pressure on crisis. the pressure on emergency services and praised those donating to charities . st those donating to charities. st george's chapel is also where the late queen is laid to rest . the late queen is laid to rest. king charles spoke of the many messages of sympathy and love he received after her death. we didn't say, though, as much as what he did, and that's what it of teach you is the bits that you committed really here to

discuss it is royal commentator caroline aston . we've got our caroline aston. we've got our panellists, we're bringing them in go caroline in as well. let's go to caroline now. carla what do you make of this i ask you this speech? can i ask you something actually quickly on this? up. how this? he was stood up. how significant that i think he significant was that i think he against the perfect backdrop for his first speech, we're so used to the figure of the queen sitting a desk and then all the analysts look at whatever photographs on the desk beside her to read subliminal messages. well, this was a neutral background . he looked directly background. he looked directly attested . it was like watching attested. it was like watching him standing in front, even animated christmas card , animated christmas card, wonderful choral music and i think an ideal first outing. and of course, so many people it because of course they were watching history the last we had a king's speech was 1951, when the queen's own father spoke his , voice hoarse following cancer surgery and of course he was to die not long after that. at the

beginning of february. so here we were, an historic outing. and his words , i think, must have his words, i think, must have struck a chord with many people in these grey not exactly tinsel days that we're living through the moment. well, no. and he's got a lot coming up because we'll have the coronation and there'll be even more fallout from whatever harry and meghan do next, harry's book and all of this stuff. and there's been a lot controversy. andrew still lot of controversy. andrew still alive and, all of this stuff that has been going on and will go around the scenes. right. but obviously king now obviously king charles now had the to done the the opportunity to just done the and think tried to teach and i think tried to teach us a little more himself, little bit more about himself, despite he's despite the fact that he's literally been around for yonks, teach because teach him about himself, because he's least he's always been at least a couple behind the queen couple of steps behind the queen when like, when. it came to things like, you praising the you know, praising the nhs, pubuc you know, praising the nhs, public people who keep public workers, people who keep the going, he said . do the country going, he said. do you got that right? you think he got that right? because backdrop of because there is a backdrop of strikes taking place, isn't that 7 strikes taking place, isn't that ? yes, i think he was thinking people though of the backdrop of support we normally have , of support we normally have, of course, is prince of wales. he

was criticised for being far too political, but writing that perhaps shouldn't have been written , lobbying for things and written, lobbying for things and no , of course as monarch he no, of course as monarch he knows he's got to follow. in his mother's consort , the two mother's consort, the two monarch footsteps , i think he monarch footsteps, i think he struck the right note . a word of struck the right note. a word of thanks for everybody been helping us throughout the year the emergency services. okay we have the strikes there. but goodness me, they have done fabulous through the long period of the pandemic and doing their best under difficult circumstances . and i think his circumstances. and i think his majesty was really keen make them know that he he's visible he's following his mother's max in that he has to be seen to be believed. and myself he comes across as a man of humility and understanding and able to communicate myself. i thought his first outing this year as king in the aftermath of his mother's death when he spoke us all with the grief of the nation as well as his own personal grief grave on his face, he

struck a good chord. then i think that his first outing, the official king's speech. well, he didn't let us down. i thought it was great. yeah i think i know. actually, i'm reading a hard copy of it now. i've seen it a couple of times, just visually and audibly. it's interesting seeing it written down actually, and it looks lot shorter and it looks a lot shorter written down than it felt in something that can't really something that you can't really into. the script was the little kind of looks away from the camera and look, look curled up at the corner of the mouth every now and again. i suppose what i'm saying is the very human element of it, which i did think actually gave us of actually gave us more of a glimpse earlier into him. you described it as as almost like a talking christmas card . and talking christmas card. and i suspect people want suspect that's what people want really course , all really. well, of course, all love to have a christmas card and for the king from the king than the first one if he wants to get delivered this year with, all strikes carry all the strikes but carry on anyway. there was one anyway. well, there was one coming to all that nothing coming to all of us that nothing get way of. and fact get in the way of. and the fact that over 8 million people watched that was

watched it shows that that was a great expectation but as great deal of expectation but as i watched it i was thinking to last christmas when so many commentators remarked on how very frail the queen was looking she was having mobility issues. she had had those mysterious preliminary investi occasions in hospital and. then we know that they conserved a strength as much as they could, and we had the appearances at the jubilee . the appearances at the jubilee. and then, of course, diminuendo , a sudden death , doing her duty , a sudden death, doing her duty right up until end. and i think i'm sure the king would have been extraordinarily moved as he recalled in that speech to us remembering , his mother, and remembering, his mother, and making particular mention of her great faith and that wonderful singing of a little town of bethlehem. it was all perfectly pitched, in my opinion . but no, pitched, in my opinion. but no, of course, the piece of movement will increase as operation golden continues to give us a coronation in may , and we will coronation in may, and we will wait to see how very different will be to this extravaganza.

back in 95, i hope it is a solid extravaganza. i can completely get carried on idea that it would want to be a shorter time frame . i think that's fair frame. i think that's fair enough. we do live in a and maybe a bit more of a cross wall wallop generation now, unfortunately, also , frankly, unfortunately, also, frankly, i think 3 hours is probably a bit long. the first around. long. the first time around. anyway, it, sacrilege anyway, dare i say it, sacrilege of that. but maybe of it to say that. but maybe was. show age out. was. maybe i'll show my age out. focus any of than focus on any of more than 10 seconds tick tock or seconds if it's a tick tock or whatever. actually i do whatever. but actually i do think shorter think that may be shorter engagement, hope that's engagement, but i hope that's the want the only cutback i don't want to see the cutbacks. it is see any of the cutbacks. it is not it's the. not the talisman, it's the. well, long and well, we've waited long and i would i would happily and also as idea if he's as well the idea that if he's got focus on the fact got a pop focus on the fact there is a cost of living crisis. well, if he just crisis. well, even if he just keeps of the crown jewels keeps some of the crown jewels locked away, he's still so locked away, he's still got so bad give them to bad he doesn't give them to charity he might well charity because he might as well save thank save them anyway. carla, thank you much . caroline aston, save them anyway. carla, thank you is much . caroline aston, save them anyway. carla, thank you is a much . caroline aston, save them anyway. carla, thank you is a royali . caroline aston, save them anyway. carla, thank you is a royal commentator.on, save them anyway. carla, thank you is a royal commentator. that who is a royal commentator. that great stuff right now we were discussing there a christmas speech from from a king, from royalty and what how its legacy

will echo through eternity . and will echo through eternity. and we feel we respond to by getting denis macshane to do his version of a christmas speech . okay so of a christmas speech. okay so denis if you were king for a day this is of course former labour minister for europe a very own denis mcshane he's put himself the shoes of our monarch and together an alternative speech outline his priorities for. the year. outline his priorities for. the year . why denis, my fellow year. why denis, my fellow, my dear subjects , happy christmas dear subjects, happy christmas to one. and all this is by first christmas message as your king, the king to speak to was my grand father, george, the 60 did so when the british empire seemed to be a tunnel where there always snow of colour living in britain , london barrie living in britain, london barrie into the royal family. my dear

brother grew up in that world and i think she made it. no, the to adapt to changes over the last seven decades like her great predecessors queen queen victoria she made a europe an immigrant in the case of queen victoria he came from and for my brother my beloved late father he came from greece to become my father i a proud i am proud i am a quarter european now i want the monarchy to go further and as it was to begin of my mother's reign of the years followed to become a young monarchy again not an old one asking everyone now then, where do you come from ? next year i'll do you come from? next year i'll be 75 three score and tell the biblical of about. i hope to live until the same age as my brother. my father and i'm happy to lead a contented life with my second wife. but brit said our

country needs new leadership from top to bottom so next year in consultation parliament and with you all i will seek to quietly retire and let new generation take over . prince generation take over. prince william and harry are ready by to take over. i do not want will prince george wait until they are over 60 year old bed before prince william serves his country as monarch? i would also seek rejuvenate the royal family there'll be no more duty and other titles had to dodge three generations just by the chance of being to a parent with some something to a long forgotten third or fourth saddle daughter of a monarch . the luxury grace of a monarch. the luxury grace and favour and apartments will be put at the service of the people for traditionalists and respect tradition as much as the next. this may come as a shock, but the current old thinking that governs our country needs

to change. and i hope younger, rejuvenated monarchy can show the way forward . i count on your the way forward. i count on your support as i try to make the monarchy fit for the 21st century an a britain that can get back on its feet after recent years. oh, dennis macshane will not answer . well macshane will not answer. well done. macshane will not answer. well done . as it was , i must say. done. as it was, i must say. i'll give you that. i'll you that. so in case you are just joining and you think there's been some talk in remarks somebody revolution . okay so somebody revolution. okay so dennis macshane has not launched a military junta to buckingham palace? no. alas well, we were asking our wonderful panel to do is to basically come up with an alternative course. you got the drill. you don't think so, dennis ? fascinating. i mean, you dennis? fascinating. i mean, you said you love tradition much as the person i have the same the next person i have the same time, as not waiting for time, dennis, as not waiting for our king to become a to have a coronation before he was essentially killed his essentially killed off his monarchical . and you monarchical career. and you wanted to do away with . well any

wanted to do away with. well any royal grace i'm favour. oh it's a bold do really think king charles did abdicate you know it's not a question of abdicated but the sun is a bell . it's not a question of abdicated but the sun is a bell. i mean the present popes had role in saint peter's on a wheelchair really is he's saying some daft things. i don't want charles. i skate with charles. i unlike the queen who's kept her perfect condition , charles is a great condition, charles is a great sports pole . i mean, if i did sports pole. i mean, if i did 5 minutes of polo, my body be wrecked for about five months. he stole that he's pushed his body off until the limits. and i really think before long and i i'm speaking about with the problem hip problem myself but sabre a bit younger that really do we want on a stick we him i really do i do think william i know william to have to wait another 25 years to i suppose is isuppose another 25 years to i suppose is i suppose it's more about just the natural order of things as

opposed to what might necessarily be best. yes i'll be the natural of mediaeval things. patrick i mean, very easy question. i myself, we sold all the fabricated for the christmas service. yes, windsor does go to church every sunday. the queen did. i don't know. dennis i in a second. i mean it's quite important was the head of the church of england we it holds her plaudits and also have just said god you said to whose you throw me out was . yeah, exactly. throw me out was. yeah, exactly. just quickly quick response for some pictures. well, it was an interesting speech. i wasn't expecting that. no i was expecting any of that. no i was in action and i started off, you know , it started off well. know, it started off well. i thought a bit like saying it was was the world cup started. i mean, it was on the shane madley , it was read writing the constitution set up with the united kingdom, read it was trashing the government. it was bringing a kind of short term

conservative leadership feeling to the monarchy. well, i think he would, if he were to abdicate, be the serving monarch in history edward the sixth? i think it was is the is the shortest now with nine a couple of years a couple of years . but of years a couple of years. but i thought it was interesting. i it was really interesting. dennis yeah, it was conversation. dennis and that's what here okay. and what we're here for. okay. and i was forward a dukedom . was looking forward a dukedom. on was just about about time just about got time us a bit of you now liz jones when you wonderful people because throughout the day i've been asking you to send your pictures you're boxing sent you're spending boxing jill sent this in she says she's this in yes. she says she's spending it with her family in their christmas jumpers. a fantastic christmas jumpers. i eileen sent in this photo . oh, eileen sent in this photo. oh, it's over . it's over. eileen sent in this photo. oh, it's over. it's over. husband clive with a book and that looks like a fantastic i was a stone fire the fireplace and clive looks like he's having it out while it's on page the sense in

this image his family. oh love love because you may save was sending this picture of his dog i got new crop so i guess a lovely stuff ladies and gentlemen thank very much for allowing me into your front range for a period of time. massively appreciate you tuning in on boxing day. i hope keeping it lazy today and that it suitably lazy today and that maybe something maybe you've got something rather a and rather nice in a glass and you're there your family. you're there with your family. you sending in you enjoy it, keep sending in all of your boxing day plans. the you, the better you the lazy you, the better if you possibly gives the gbnews.uk possibly can gives the gbnews.uk get twitter at gb news. get us on twitter at gb news. i have got a little bit of news topics afterwards . mostly today, topics afterwards. mostly today, people will just have to . kate people will just have to. kate is out that mix of clear is looking out that mix of clear spells , scattered showers in, spells, scattered showers in, details south—west of england this evening seeing a mixture of heavy showers and then clear spells temperatures around 5 to 7 celsius for most staying breezy along the coast, adding to the wind chill skies clearing in this evening for. many parts in this evening for. many parts in the south—east of england , in the south—east of england, most though , perhaps

most places dry, though, perhaps a few light showers in the east, a few light showers in the east, a rather chilly evening. then further across to the west wales with a scattering of showers there and breezy along the coast , particularly temperatures around 4 to 6 celsius. plenty of dry boxing day evening for the midlands , but the risk to some midlands, but the risk to some showers , rather cold again. showers, rather cold again. temperatures there down to three or four degrees. winds like those rather breezy this and across northern parts of england and further blustery showers coming in. the showers indeed falling sleet or snow over the high at times. so on the cold, icy side for many , a blustery icy side for many, a blustery boxing day evening for scotland and further sleet and snow, i'm afraid some travelling conditions as result developing at times with the ice on untreated surface , particularly untreated surface, particularly temperatures around freezing and icy evening to come to for northern ireland, sleet and snow showers add to the mix turning cold with temperatures tumbling towards freezing and the winds blustery around the coasts . so

blustery around the coasts. so cold and frosty night for many ice in the north. mild, wet, windy moving into the west later on. that's how it's shaping up overnight into tomorrow morning .

when very good evening, everybody. happy birthday , st everybody. happy birthday, st stephen's day. yes, it's just going 5:00. you will meet patrick christys on gb news on an average this is one story an average day this is one story after another. it's high tempo, full news. but today is boxing day. so we've slowed things down little bit. i've picked the four big hitting stories of the day and we'll be dipping out of and we'll be dipping and out of the strikes have shut the rmt strikes have shut down the rmt strikes have shut down the rail network. a the country's rail network. a rousing speech. the nhs, rousing king's speech. the nhs, now in a brand new immigrant

action plan. so we will be talking all those, especially talking to all those, especially in this this part the in this hour, this part of the business chef business under the chef throughout show throughout course of the show will joined by brexit will also be joined by brexit party barnaby and former party mep barnaby and former labour minister for journeys mcshane. they'll be battling out later in my christmas quiz on the biggest news stories of the yeah the biggest news stories of the year. they asked me to look forward to a 545 throughout this show. i want to send me pictures of how you're spending day. get them coming in gbviews@gbnews.uk them coming in gbviews@gbnews.uk the lazy , the better more booze, the lazy, the better more booze, the lazy, the better more booze, the better , more animals the the better, more animals the best. it definitely got a picture my mug angle tv if you can just prove you're can just to prove you're watching. all watching. i've got them all coming gbviews@gbnews.uk. but coming in gbviews@gbnews.uk. but before that actually headline . go before that actually is headline. go radisson in the gb newsroom. police have named a woman who was killed a merseyside pub shooting on christmas eve as elle edwards . the 26 year old elle edwards. the 26 year old was at the lighthouse in wallasey village with her sister

and friends when she was shot . and friends when she was shot. she was taken to hospital but later died . four men have also later died. four men have also been treated for gunshot wounds. a for the gunman is a search for the gunman is ongoing . jose police a search for the gunman is ongoing .jose police say a search for the gunman is ongoing . jose police say a 10th ongoing. jose police say a 10th person has now died as a result of an explosion at a block of flats earlier this month , 73 flats earlier this month, 73 year old kathy mcguinness died hospital on christmas day. the blast which happened in the early hours of the 10th of december, destroyed the building in st helier. ms. lived nearby. an will open this friday before adjourned while the investigation . at least 55 investigation. at least 55 people are believed to have died as a result of a severe arctic that continues to grip much of the us and canada. officials say 25 people have been killed in buffalo , in new york state. buffalo, in new york state. those you watching on television can see live images of parts of the city. now it's minus degrees there and there's windchill of around minus. there and there's windchill of around minus . across the us and

around minus. across the us and canada, thousands of flights been cancelled. more than 150,000 homes are still without . buffalo officials say of those who've died were found in snowbanks . the erie county snowbanks. the erie county department of health medical examiner's office confirmed through last night, 13 individuals who had died as a result of the blizzard died in a car dying outside from exposure. died in a snow shovel or cardiac event regarding the snow blowing . were found in a home. i have the very sad news to report that in addition to the 13 confirmed deaths yesterday , the erie deaths yesterday, the erie county department of health medical examiner's office has confirmed in additional 12 deaths . staying with deaths. staying with international news , russia's international news, russia's defence ministry say , three of defence ministry say, three of its military personnel been killed after a ukrainian drone was shot down over an airbase hundreds of miles from the

ukrainian border. the kremlin says they were hit by falling debnsin says they were hit by falling debris in russia's southeast region . it's the second attack region. it's the second attack on military sites this month and raises concerns among russians that ukraine can get past moscow's air defences . keith has moscow's air defences. keith has not commented on the incident. the uk's rail networks have been at a standstill today as members of the rmt union hold strike over pay. hundreds of trains usually run, run on boxing day, but they've all been cancelled . but they've all been cancelled. 20,000 eurostar passenger were also forced to make alternative plans as it cancelled all services to london, paris, brussels , amsterdam. the aa brussels, amsterdam. the aa warned of traffic jams across uk with more than 15 million cars expected . on the. the uk health expected. on the. the uk health security agency will stop publishing covid 19 data early next month. the chief data scientist says it's longer necessary as the country now living with the disease. data had been published weekly , the

had been published weekly, the peak of the pandemic and every weeks since april this year. officials say covid will still be monitored and shoppers are expected to have spent less in sales today as the cost of living continues to rise. new research barclaycard found the average customer intended to buy £229 worth of items in the post—christmas sales. that's 4% less than last year. post—christmas sales. that's 4% less than last year . study also less than last year. study also found that some shoppers expected to use reselling sites , buy items or to offload unwanted gifts despite that, industry analyst springboard says the latest data they obtained shows that footfall was actually higher than last year. this is gb news bring you more as it happens. but let's get back to patrick .

back to patrick. okay. welcome back, everybody . okay. welcome back, everybody. whether you were planning on travel, travelling by us now again you know what? i'll start , you know, seeing everybody, whether or not you are planning to by train or to travel by plane, train or automobile did you manage to get over christmas year? over christmas this year? thousands travel thousands of people have travel disruption thanks to ongoing rail and border force strikes and weather and the chaos is still not over. usually hundreds departures on 26 december after the christmas date shut down, many travellers have been forced to cancel or make alternative as industrial action continues . industrial action continues. joining me now are three people who've had their own struggles this christmas. this show, this channelis this christmas. this show, this channel is all about you are wonderful people . our audience wonderful people. our audience and delighted to announce i've got dr. certainly moodley are rensburg. allan and lee harris all on the line at the same time .thank all on the line at the same time . thank you very, very much. great to have you all on the show. i will start with you, dr. se. so did you manage to get

s.e. so did you manage to get home? i can see a christmas behind you, which implies to me that you managed to get to where you wanted to go. is that right ? yes. good evening, you wanted to go. is that right ? yes. good evening , patrick. ? yes. good evening, patrick. thank you so much for me on and merry christmas to you and happy boxing day . yes, we've we boxing day. yes, we've we managed to get to some places, but had to scale down a lot because of the travel arrangements with the strikes and with obviously the snow that appeared . so we had to change appeared. so we had to change our plans. we did manage. to spend christmas in milton keynes in essex and with some family and friends in oxford as well . and friends in oxford as well. okay. and still planning , okay. and still planning, celebrating and for family wedding in brighton , the 31st of wedding in brighton, the 31st of goes to well i'm that you had a good time even if it was slightly slightly scaled back here to nice i'll take it in order alan. alan happy christmas. alan how are you ? how christmas. alan how are you? how many christmas parties? good afternoon to you. fine, thank you . you had a nice time. have you. you had a nice time. have you. you had a nice time. have

you been ? have you been. have you been? have you been. have you been? have you been. have you been? have you been. have you been affected in way getting to where you need to go to or people not being able to get to you? it just just good you? or was it just just good times around the mcnealy it's sort of affected me personally perfect. but it has affected my wife . she had to leave work wife. she had to leave work early in order to get home. and now, of course, she's going to be delayed in getting back going to london, because of the strikes are going on at strikes that are going on at the moment then be moment. and then she'll be further delayed when she has to come up january because of come up with january because of the strike starting the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. i think striking those impacted her quite a lot means that by the time we get through the week of january, she'll have lost both work of course. she's only paid for the days that she works. so she is so happy about that. at the end , the day. but that. at the end, the day. but personally, it hasn't affected , personally, it hasn't affected, but it has an impact upon her quite dramatically . what do you quite dramatically. what do you say the island just before go to lay if we're being honest , mate, lay if we're being honest, mate, how has it affected you? because

if she loses eight days from work, i imagine that was work, i would imagine that was me downsizing on the me i'd be downsizing on the present little bit . well, at present a little bit. well, at the of the day , i mean, who the end of the day, i mean, who pays? guess it would be very pays? i guess it would be very me and that way. but it's really for her because she it means that she's not at work. someone else has to do hard work for her. but if she's not there, she doesn't paid. so there's a big impact . absolutely. i wouldn't impact. absolutely. i wouldn't want to diminish at all. and the thing is a very real, very , very thing is a very real, very, very real impact. leigh i was here loving that hardly loving that is leigh harris. there looking very festive and so, i mean, how have you been affected? it's alright. look, i just was here, i was told about the millions, 3 million people on the to this man sailed from cheshire man. i sailed back from cheshire to paddington . it took me to paddington. it only took me about 2 hours and 45 days to the quickest ever got anywhere about 2 hours and 45 days to the quick anyway, ever got anywhere about 2 hours and 45 days to the quick anyway, carry ot anywhere about 2 hours and 45 days to the quick anyway, carry on. nywhere about 2 hours and 45 days to the quick anyway, carry on. in nhere about 2 hours and 45 days to the quick anyway, carry on. in fact,�* . but anyway, carry on. in fact, you inconvenience you are more of an inconvenience . you know, i consider myself lucky because i don't need to get trying get to work. get used to trying get to work. but in a couple of days, you know, we were going to take our

daughter ice skating in bristol the way get to bristol the best way to get to bristol was especially as was the train, especially as they have this new clean air charge , bristol. but we just charge, bristol. so but we just decided to stay local over . and decided to stay local over. and luckily we can drive see some family but we are also going to go to london but we put off as well but we do you know, i genuinely do consider myself because we don't need to get the train these strikes going train. these strikes are going to disproportionately negative heavily impact sorry, have a disproportionate negative impact on working class people. well, your economy is already amongst things from from lockdowns and inflation , you know, all made inflation, you know, all made worse by. hunt's kind of high tax defeatist recession, embracing budget. but know they said they were going to target christmas and they are they said they weren't going hold they weren't going to hold country's ransom and they and you , people can't get to you know, people can't get to work. small businesses as well. i think it's so restaurants are standing empty. i think it's so restaurants are standing empty . yeah and it's standing empty. yeah and it's but it's a really interesting

little microcosm of british society that we've got up here because i'd say we had certainly that in the middle of something a little bit more scale, a little of an inconvenience, little bit of an inconvenience, perhaps quite similar to lay perhaps quite similar to you lay as but conveys nothing to as well, but conveys nothing to you then alan as well you major. and then alan as well as his wife . her is actually as his wife. her is actually really the like the really through the like the ordinary working people , you ordinary working people, you know, to actually get know, struggling to actually get to . think this is to work. and i think this is kind bit of a kind of maybe a bit of a representation just going to representation i'm just going to do file and see if do a quick file out and see if that's all with guys that's all right with you guys and you've had for and find out what you've had for your today , what your leftovers today, what you've eaten. so was the source of boxing day food for me is of as much interest as what we're making calls on the day was itself saturday i'll start with you have you been you what have you been stubbornly with today . i'm stubbornly faced with today. i'm so asked that because so glad you asked that because i wanted to mention included my mind and i do happy doctors kitchen and i listened to veronica that was actually really amazing advice and i have we've had leftovers so we had leftover curry about two chicken

leftover curry about two chicken leftover brioni chicken brioni we had roast lamb and also the some of the salads that the leftover and desired so we've had all our leftovers and a very lazy boxing day patrick and we've been keeping us entertained with your amazing line up . now there you go. well, line up. now there you go. well, i can only thank both mcshane and habib , but thank you very and habib, but thank you very much for that. i'd much love to you and all the family. very grateful for tuning in it. i'll tell you what, that menu sounds absolutely exquisite. alan what's been tickling your tastebuds? this boxing day thing all they data so far? patrick i have the porridge this morning . have the porridge this morning. keep me warmed up . the good keep me warmed up. the good lady's downstairs currently concocting , i'm sure. delicious. concocting, i'm sure. delicious. we of ingredients that would been leftover from the you have your life are your life easy you've got the good lady downstairs cookie the mail you're unashamed about europe

you're unashamed about europe you're on the telly . team—mates you're on the telly. team—mates you're on the telly. team—mates you know it's all fine. it's all fine, right ? let you go on, fine, right? let you go on, mate. what is that? what you stuff in your face with today? i did what you did, patrick. i literally ate all of the christmas dinner, not just at the i just kept going throughout that entire day, finished the entire off. and today we've got the hope. when fantastic it. well, to all of you, thank you very, very much. thank you for taking the time to come on show today to come the channel today and to come on the channel and first place, and tuning into the first place, which get details which is why can get you details and on and i wish you and call you on and i wish you all and all of your families a very happy christmas a very very happy christmas and a very happy so thank very happy christmas and a very hapjvery so thank very happy christmas and a very hapjvery everybody. ank very happy christmas and a very hapjvery everybody. stuff. you very much, everybody. stuff. great there you go. great stuff. right there you go. that was the pilot. couple of people pointing out in inbox. it just look if i'm constantly just look as if i'm constantly crying. want quick crying. i want to make a quick point of rather point of order of a rather annoying, eye, which annoying, scratchy eye, which means i have means now that i have a permanently eye. but permanently watery eye. but there go anyway, just in case there we go anyway, just in case people i getting people thought i was getting totally about totally emotional about christmas dinner. is that something or do you get emotional of emotional about is the state of our becausewell a problem? has drawn blueprint drawn up a brand new blueprint for adding immigration

for ridges adding immigration into the uk. her proposal that would make it harder for students to bring their partners the country. it's also been reported draft proposals will increase the minimum threshold for british citizens applying for british citizens applying for a family visa. so the amount of money that they would be on a salary in order for them to be able to bring their family over. this important the this is important, the conservatives, for while have at least pretended it's almost evenly about mcconnell . there's evenly about mcconnell. there's been talk about offshore processing , there's been talk processing, there's been talk about everyone . there's about flies to everyone. there's been deals with the been talk about deals with the french. and now think french. and now i think potentially in the wake of the actual census, the dropped legal immigration, important distinction that legal immigration illegal immigration or illegal immigration or illegal immigration , did appear immigration, which did appear to show that in several show anyway that in several cities now the demographics fundamentally changing. yeah. okay, that's one thing also okay, that's one thing but also the number of people on student visas and, how easy is it is to use those visas to help bring your family on board as ? well, your family on board as? well, and that is an area that they are trying to up now to reduce, one the overall

one would imagine the overall net migration figure. so what am to i ben habib and dennis mcshane think of the home secretary plan? better be . well, secretary plan? better be. well, it's tinkering at the edges isn't it. you know, but i comment on it. there are two aspects to immigration. there's legal and then there's the illegal aspect and people are slightly older will remember cameron said he would get net legal immigration to 10,000 a year this year we had 1 million new my legally enter the united . 504 new my legally enter the united. 504 account those that left that is the biggest net migration we've had into this country in any even had into this country in any ever. it's a remark of failure in government policy and we talked about this point plan that the conservative party would introduce and they did for either qualifying as legal migrants , but then they dumbed migrants, but then they dumbed down the number of points in the salary scales in order to get people in. so you still people in. so you are still seeing unskilled coming into the

country and you marry that up with a tax system that punishes you for working and can get almost as much on as you can by working actually in some cases more . you've got a broken labour more. you've got a broken labour market, you've got aspiration being stripped away from people and you've got an inability get british workers into , british british workers into, british jobs working for britain . and jobs working for britain. and thatis jobs working for britain. and that is the fundamental problem . so i'm afraid as much as i admire suella, she's tinkering at the edges and we need a much bigger sledgehammer to crack this. not so as long as we have a million people or whatever coming in every single year and, we are not doing things , we are not doing things, building houses of which we just got and building houses are just going to have to be on the green. i'm sorry. they are. i am. no of the idea that we're going be slapping a load going to be slapping a load of concrete monstrosities , the concrete monstrosities, the countryside, the same countryside, but at the same time , i do also want places for time, i do also want places for people houses people to live. so houses increase the numbers of gp's increase in the numbers of gp's practises. school places, for

example, this stuff , we kind of example, this stuff, we kind of can't have it both ways . suella can't have it both ways. suella braverman my reading braverman from my reading between the lines, here is she's decided it be lot harder decided it would be a lot harder to build a load of houses, load a practises stuff , the gp's a gp's practises stuff, the gp's practises, a of practises, build a lot of schools she's just schools instead. she's just trying numbers trying to cut the numbers of league immigration, league all immigration, net migration . good luck to her. migration. good luck to her. frankly it is so much rubbish. the big increase is because the government and i know fans of the government gave us pledge . the government gave us pledge. the people of hong kong to save face communist oppression. they could come here to ignore the shameful afghanistan shame that was in boris johnson . shameful. was in boris johnson. shameful. theidea was in boris johnson. shameful. the idea that we having made so much money of hong kong should now handover hong kong to the gulag. no body in britain sitting at this or anywhere else, should be advocate that the second lot huge surge ukrainians like it less than most other countries in europe but just as in 1939, my father ,

but just as in 1939, my father, 40, came here because . he took a 40, came here because. he took a bullet and actually a bullet in his shoulder as a young polish army officer, he wasn't told stay there. he was told cover jov- stay there. he was told cover joy. the coming fight for democracy now! now other things are doing . the government's are doing. the government's recruiting people in pakistan they did nigeria to fill it offering their children here to come to britain to do the work that until two or three years ago was dubbed by thousands of european doctors. okay you don't like europe ? it was six and like europe? it was six and a half million. so european union member states citizens were given settled status. they were that's good. but that wasn't they go on, you know, it's a bit of a ponzi scheme just continuously taking people in to say what is what historically is a ponzi is to pretend that you could grow an economy without workers dig leaks out of freezing lincolnshire soil now in january without ships it's sturdy again . it's you and me,

sturdy again. it's you and me, ben. what the know we've got to upskill , we've got to automate. upskill, we've got to automate. that's a first world where first world country. we're not a third world country. we're not a third world country. we're not a third world country and altered by trades on unskilled, cheap and has the time come to this what is this going to be a little bit of a line in the sand about where solar goes. right. well, we're still obviously going to have immigration got have immigration but we've got this of in here have immigration but we've got this with of in here have immigration but we've got this with thisf in here have immigration but we've got this with this amount in here have immigration but we've got this with this amount of here have immigration but we've got this with this amount of jobs. have immigration but we've got this 'try1 this amount of jobs. have immigration but we've got this 'try t01is amount of jobs. have immigration but we've got this 'try to train1ount of jobs. have immigration but we've got this 'try to train1ourpeople»s. let's try to train the people that as opposed to that we've got as opposed to make it work relentlessly, do it tomorrow paying it off . but tomorrow by paying it off. but let's do that outside chris christie's you you could do it tomorrow by increasing wages but for reducing taxes all you can reduce taxes but then you say you need more schools built doctors and you're going to do it alphabetically . money trusts it alphabetically. money trusts now what's it is she told us about an aspect here that maybe is quite safe territory because let's say that know our friend from someone is of concern or whatever comes over for a university degree and during

that time. in that degree decide i mean this is a bit of a thing. when i was at university i not have had any dependents , you have had any dependents, you know, not just because i was a physical mass, but also because the i was contributing the economy i was contributing now for. even if i have got the kind part time job you maybe kind of part time job you maybe will do it. university could have supported people it's have supported people and it's not . and why not sensible. and it's why it's not. not is it not. but it's not true, is it the only do that someone is aren't as a whole and as a whole load is rubbish. load of dependents is rubbish. i completely agree. so she she's trying to that then. that's trying to stop that then. that's right. it's a minimum minimum prerequisite. i'm amazed worthy of a public analysis. we actually have a little bit of discussion between you be in bed an oxford and cambridge university where of course doris brought it outsurance. we didn't have any undergraduates so the whole don't children but britain's did have the best research institute which is our universities we cut down a bit because of brexit so minimum there'll be no more you say, oh,

not necessarily, not necessarily . 28 grand with scholarships . i . 28 grand with scholarships. i think we just need to set out . i think we just need to set out. i know my 12 brother already. what comes out with give me recipes. i've had that for all my life step before bed. why? why this is such a try to do it. it just kicks not quite working. if doing a phd why do you to bring your family in. you come to this country do your phd, make it make an informed in the knowledge of your family's not coming in. yeah it's in that case.i coming in. yeah it's in that case. i mean, professor says we actually i'm sorry . and then if actually i'm sorry. and then if we want them to stay because , we want them to stay because, they're in a particular field that we want build or grow. that we want to build or grow. then invite them to make then we can invite them to make an application on behalf of their family or, you know, they can get employment can they can get the employment that you were describing the job, minimum wage . yeah. it's job, minimum wage. yeah. it's required the budget. i'm required so much the budget. i'm sorry bed we get it on so well we all get why is the right time to kick off make it out so you

get the old brexit low we hate families we hate you never say you say you can't bring in your . but why not. no i say you can't bring in your your you're doing a you're doing a pr for a year or so. have you done. i've done a pitch to you. if you don't do it , done a pitch to you. if you don't do it, don't talk to chris paul don't do it, don't talk to chris paul. you want terrifying. oh so , i'm not you know look i'm not i mean all the other things i be looking at, for example arguably visas for a large number of countries, i can cite one brazil one of the biggest countries in the world where people could come in visa free and then they disappear into the market. do we need to look at that? that was a massive issue that was proposed of david cameron blocked all of that. of david cameron blocked all of that . in other words, it was that. in other words, it was a call to say bring visas for brazilian workers to stop breaking jobs. don't take your jobs. listen, i agree with

himself . any do you at least himself. any do you at least we've got introspection . yeah, we've got introspection. yeah, i'm going to wetherspoons. i'd like to see . you know the like to see. you know the routine. it's lovely . and dental routine. it's lovely. and dental hygiene . is, i guess, hot hygiene. is, i guess, hot weather. well the of was food's wetherspoons it is full of people pulling pints. yeah who had got sturdy english man can we get real that. we've never day one but if there's a loophole that in the will not from day one that can't be right at some point the domestic labour broke and i know having looked at the numbers in a fair amount of detail but it just doesn't pay to work in the united kingdom paying know a massive problem and that's a massive problem and that's a massive that's the biggest problem we face country problem we face as a country that's going huge the that's going to be huge the biggest got to pay to biggest for poor got to pay to work i don't buy that but work fine i don't buy that but if you cut benefits going to have rishi sunak to get our shifts. i deserve the benefit . i shifts. i deserve the benefit. i didn't take the benefits. i see it's important. we've got to

create an society where the work gets more. but you price to pay £20 a day at our full dress like right right you're not what you get for a period of well i subminimum wage this is what. yeah what it all comes out now is that right. you always pay patrick christys dvd is coming up out of the royal family. get themselves inside at christmas do they watch die hard and themselves and many charities will speak to lucy higginson from the horse and hound as well about what the monarchy up to when santa comes to that is after .

welcome back everybody right we all have our family christmas

pastimes and traditions, don't we? sharing carrots left out for some chinese reindeer , christmas some chinese reindeer, christmas jumpers all around grandpa, or maybe falling asleep in front of the telly. but what about the royals? how do they keep themselves amused at christmas ? themselves amused at christmas? joining me now is lucy higginson , the former editor of horse hound. lucy, thank you very much. great have you on the show. okay. i compliment you as well. horse and hound. is it a fantastic fantastic thing that fantastic, fantastic thing that exists but that while the royal christmas traditions because all seem to centre around them we look at king charles obviously the from have long waiting and waiting waiting for the waiting and waiting for the speech speech happens. waiting and waiting for the speec do speech happens. waiting and waiting for the speec do they speech happens. waiting and waiting for the speec do they do peech happens. waiting and waiting for the speec do they do .eech happens. waiting and waiting for the speec do they do . well happens. waiting and waiting for the speec do they do . well iappens. waiting and waiting for the speec do they do . well i think s. what do they do. well i think i'm sure they all enjoy a family meal just as we do. i think they're different to are regular christmas traditions is the sort of things like the boxing day shoot , which is of things like the boxing day shoot, which is a big thing at sandringham . it's still going sandringham. it's still going strong all accounts . so not strong by all accounts. so not everybody obviously goes pheasant shooting on boxing day, but is a really big day in

but it is a really big day in the field sports calendar. i suppose because all these animals, if you've got horses and dogs , they don't know it's and dogs, they don't know it's christmas. they still need exercise . and so big day exercise. and so it's a big day in horse racing . it's a big in the horse racing. it's a big day in the hunting calendar and it's shooting it's a big day in the shooting calendar. so today i imagine they will all have enjoyed hopefully great weather at for a for a pheasant shoot . can i can for a pheasant shoot. can i can i ask you views in this increasingly modern woke world? how is the idea of going a pheasant shoot and fox hunting ? pheasant shoot and fox hunting? i mean, this debate happens every single year, doesn't it? but going to do it again but we're going to do it again on know, it. on the last you know, do it. doesit on the last you know, do it. does it them relatable. the royal family do they just not care it's their do what they want . well people don't often want. well people don't often greatly understand the sports . greatly understand the sports. obviously fox hunting has illegal for many years now. all the old hunts in britain are all faithful to doing sort of

artificial hunting, laying, laying trails , setting hounds laying trails, setting hounds off to follow those that that's what's been going on all around britain today and pheasant doesn't have the same range of criticism and nor should it because it's providing birds are written and go into the food chain afterwards . that's chain afterwards. that's actually a great way of eating a roast bird besides being a huge contributor to the economy and it does an awful lot for conservation as well people think that being interested in field sports is at odds. think that being interested in field sports is at odds . a lot field sports is at odds. a lot of the conservation interests that the family but actually shooting and conservation go very much hand—in—hand and are why we have the pretty countryside we all enjoy with lots of hedges and strands of trees and little foxes and things. that's all because hunting shooting . hunting and shooting. absolutely. and i am concerned that there's potentially a bit of a loss of tradition in this country , variety of different country, variety of different aspects of this. and so it'd be nice to see the royal family upholding some of their traditions well, just traditions as well, just

sportsmen, they're a little bit lazy, know, quick lazy, you know, quick conversation the around conversation around the around the old dinner table. do you think this for the royals? i mean, obviously, harry and meghan weren't and she famously didn't go shooting though either which isn't it for which is remarkable isn't it for an think know an american to think they know a thing or about shooting but they would yeah but prince would go and yeah but prince andrew maybe an appearance andrew maybe made an appearance look i suppose in a way it's like family, you know, everyone's dodgy uncle. i everyone's got a dodgy uncle. i think christmas is for all families a time set aside differences isn't it? and let the role a coaster of the traditions that we all ascribe to just rule the day and not dwell on petty politics. i think that's what we all love about christmas . we all love the christmas. we all love the routines. we all love of us who go a church or a carol go to a church or a carol service . those who go to watch service. those who go to watch boxing meets, you know, hundreds of thousands of people, whether they do trial hunting or not, have gone to a local town to see the hunt come out. we kind of

fall on those there comforting those traditions . yeah and it's those traditions. yeah and it's good family time and we definitely all need to put one foot in front of another after eating many thousands eating far too many thousands of calories yesterday. so i think in many ways, the royal family is much like us. i'm sure, you know king charles is know the king charles is renowned as a massive walker. so sure, if nothing else, he's been for a big walk today. but yeah, yeah, you're quite right. but most christmas tables have got a junk or somebody around the table who's had some friction of some kind . but it's about some kind. but it's about setting those things aside. so it's funny actually , just the it's funny actually, just the other day i was driving and someone spotted me in my car. they went, oh, christie's you massive walker. i don't know , massive walker. i don't know, what do they mean? what do they mean? what it is. mean? and now that's what it is. look, thank you very much. great hobby on the show. lucy atkins , hobby on the show. lucy atkins, that former editor of horse and hound running a series in royal traditions . we're going to be traditions. we're going to be talking about i want talking all about that. i want to know your traditions, though. they are in and they are coming in thick and fast. we're fast. you love to say we're going get pictures up very

going to get pictures up very shortly. to cram going to get pictures up very shcthough, to cram going to get pictures up very shcthough, in to cram going to get pictures up very shcthough, in the to cram going to get pictures up very shcthough, in the nexto cram in, though, in the next 25 minutes. because minutes. also, because the boxing the boxing day hunt is one of the uk's more controversial traditions as calls for a crack by welfare groups by hunting animal welfare groups who claim that there is epidemic of illegal fox hunting. they've got a point . are they? are they got a point. are they? are they just being killjoy is trying to undermine one of our greatest traditions ? i've got traditions? i've got a spokeswoman for peta on that pizza. pasta. and you say pasta , but first, it's time for your latest . 5:33. here's latest. 5:33. here's latest. police have named woman who was killed in a merseyside pub on christmas eve as , elle edwards, christmas eve as, elle edwards, the 26 year old, was at the light in wallasey village with , light in wallasey village with, her sister, when she was shot. she taken to hospital, but later died . four men were also treated died. four men were also treated gunshot wounds. the gunman is still at large . a 10th person still at large. a 10th person has now died as a result of an

explosion at. a block of flats on the island of jersey earlier this month. 73 year old kathy mcguinness died in hospital on christmas day after she was injured by the blast in st heuen injured by the blast in st helier. an investigation underway . at least 50 people are underway. at least 50 people are believed to have died as a result of a severe arctic freeze that continues to much of the us and canada . officials say 25 and canada. officials say 25 people have been killed in the city of in new york state where they've experienced temperatures of nine degrees. thousands of flights have been cancelled and more than 150,000 homes are still without power . russia's still without power. russia's defence ministry say military personnel have been killed after a ukrainian drone was shot down over an airbase hundreds of miles from ukrainian border. the kremlin says they were hit by falling debris. it's kremlin says they were hit by falling debris . it's the second falling debris. it's the second attack on the on a military this month. kyiv is commented on the incident on tv online and on dab+ radio . this is gb news

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more. and yes there we go on is watching she has her gb news mug again. they want me to tell you that it's available to buy onune that it's available to buy online only skin or something anyway it's available to buy onune anyway it's available to buy online and that lovely stuff . online and that lovely stuff. and that is me and that we have some gb news people also some gb news people who also watch actually the show watch tv news actually the show earlier lovely stuff. earlier on. so lovely stuff. happy boxing everybody . happy boxing day, everybody. great to see what you're all doing. chill now. relax doing. just chill now. relax i having wonderful time . thank having a wonderful time. thank you sending of you so much for sending all of in. moving out because in. right. moving out because the is facing calls to crack down on a hunting loophole after figures suggested that hundreds suspected illegal incidents took place last five weeks. this, by the way , is fox hunting. not the way, is fox hunting. not anything . okay. and the reason anything. okay. and the reason why we're talking about is why we're talking about it is because boxing because the famous boxing day hunts league against cruel hunts the league against cruel sport there were 303 sport said there were 303 combined hunting combined incidents of hunting havoc and illegal fox hunting between the first november and the 7th of december. so focus on same england and same was banned in england and wales under the hunting act in

2004 and came into force in 2005. and actually reminded me, i was talking a little bit earlier off air actually about what time. this must what a simpler time. this must have because i can really have been because i can really remember hunting was great. remember when hunting was great. i don't just going to secondary school. it was great being the news agenda. everything was hunting. now, i'm sorry, i don't think even make page 30 think it even make page 30 of the mail but there go the mail actually. but there go hounds to a scented hounds are allowed to a scented cloth so trail hunting. but they're not allowed to a fox limb from limb me to discuss this further i'm delighted to welcome sasha camilli, senior pr coordinator at pizza so she's very much come on just complement you as well on the on the pizza christmas advert showed humanised version showed a very humanised version of and made me feel of a turkey and made me feel absolutely for what i did last night but when it to the fox hunting side of things what do you make of it i mean is this a british tradition and actually a few dead in the grand scheme of things there's nothing to does it really need to for people to dedicate their life to, stop it . i think you so much for having

me and thanks for the compliments on our christmas is good advert . how compliments on our christmas is good advert. how plain and simple it's cruelty to animals that's what it is if we had people going out into the countryside and the same thing to dogs and cats we would not be calling it sports or tradition we'd be calling it animal abuse and foxes just a 17th and capable of fear and pain as the companion animals who we share our homes with. and it's shameful . there are still people shameful. there are still people who get enjoyment from watching them being ripped apart by dogs to be fair, i normally don't like banning things , and i like banning things, and i normally don't like . i look, i'm normally don't like. i look, i'm not i'm not on the big pro vegan lobby , stuff like that. i've got lobby, stuff like that. i've got to that you know the idea of enjoying chasing a fox around the countryside ripping apart without it dogs, to be honest without it dogs, to be honest with you , i don't get it. with you, i don't get it. i don't see why it necessarily needs to be done. but suppose

people say it's a valuable of british tradition and it is technically a sport. do you think that maybe there's something british about it . something british about it. well, you know, there's so many amazing parts of british tradition. it's such a rich culture that did not involve seeing dogs chasing a fox for hours. sometimes animals rupture their internal organs. hours. sometimes animals rupture their internal organs . and when their internal organs. and when their internal organs. and when the hounds corner they come out and fox sometimes are able to just list on that. you just on not just on that i've just thought this well hang on a minute. if there wasn't a fox to rip limb from limb, you rip limb from limb, then you wouldn't and wouldn't need all dogs. and actually to dogs die so actually then to dogs die so they never get born in first they never get born in the first place. a little bit like place. it's a little bit like old isn't it? old vegan argument, isn't it? what cows what if we don't need cows because tofu ? because we're all eating tofu? then we wouldn't as many then we wouldn't have as many cows they cows to begin with. would they actually so what actually stopping life so what about sasha . the dogs about the dog, sasha. the dogs are also treated quite awfully when they're considered no

longer useful for when they're too old, then they're sometimes killed , sometimes discarded . and killed, sometimes discarded. and let's not forget that often these are not treated as a company animals that we share our homes with the often living kennels and hunters often view them as just equipment. basically and not as the individuals that they are. so dogs are getting a great out of this either. it's all around cruel pastime. however you choose to look at it, you can't just say i get what you mean . just say i get what you mean. the dogs do always seem quite happy to be out on hunt from what i can gather. but having said that, it is harder to communicate with a dog than it is a human itself. so i've got to what for to ask what you have for christmas oh, had christmas dinner. oh, i had a lovely vegan wellington. i had some vegan and a lovely cheesecake from cashews and fruit. oh, good stuff . okay. do fruit. oh, good stuff. okay. do you have to be a vegan to work at peta peta ? well, it's not

at peta peta? well, it's not a required and that's set in stone, but many people who join peta are obviously interested in animal rights. peta are obviously interested in animal rights . many of them are animal rights. many of them are already vegan . they join us and already vegan. they join us and some become vegan along the way because of all of them information that they learn along the and if you care about animal rights, it's logically follows not to support an industry that torments and exploits them by the billion you don't have a mr. taste . don't have a mr. taste. absolutely not. so many amazing opfions absolutely not. so many amazing options days that really there's nothing that you really have to up on. you can have pizza burger wellington's . like i just wellington's. like ijust mentioned there's shrimp there's all things so no not really got all things so no not really got a i used to own absolutely but to be honest it's sometimes and you're going to hate me for saying this actually. i'll go into shops and i look at the into the shops and i look at the vegan section and look at the other meat and i think, yes is a

choice. but that choice would be like on holiday to mark all the old days, you know , i think old days, you know, i think i know what i'd rather go, but it's alright. and you know what l, it's alright. and you know what i, need to educate myself more on this sasha, because if i'm being honest with a few exceptions , whatever i have exceptions, whatever i have really delved into , well cooked, really delved into, well cooked, well prepared, vegan meal, i have absolutely loved it. so i'm just being rather bigoted. but i would go, so thank you very much . subsequently, the senior pr coordinator pets at right okay the time has come and gentlemen because i am joined by former brexit party mep ben habib. i'm dennis mcsherry. we've been stalwarts throughout course stalwarts throughout the course of hour boxing day of this three hour boxing day marathon , and the only person marathon, and the only person who's so far. who's eaten a mince pie so far. me, you two. i me, neither of you two. i thought they were display. thought they were on display. you them . well, you can actually eat them. well, i honest with you. is i did, to be honest with you. is it is old. it says an old pie. you don't even have a glass of water nothing. it was anything but it's time for something a little different. little bit different. it's boxing tomorrow boxing day, after all. tomorrow reliably informed be reliably informed that we'll be back on the throttle news back on the full throttle news agenda. this i thought, agenda. so this i thought, why don't do little bit

don't we just do a little bit a quiz? it's been a big year for news three prime ministers, the tragic our beloved tragic death of our beloved queen. invasion of ukraine. tragic death of our beloved qwant invasion of ukraine. tragic death of our beloved qwant to invasion of ukraine. tragic death of our beloved qwant to take lasion of ukraine. tragic death of our beloved qwant to take asion of ukraine. tragic death of our beloved qwant to take a look>f ukraine. tragic death of our beloved qwant to take a look back aine. tragic death of our beloved qwant to take a look back atie. tragic death of our beloved qwant to take a look back at it i want to take a look back at it all test my panel's all and test my panel's knowledge now on the head. yeah just it on the headline as of 2022 with christie's christmas quiz. hey right now no one to bother to i thought was expecting a rocket to go off there or but now alas we're on a budget . question there or but now alas we're on a budget. question number one chaps are any no cheating. please no cheating. no question number one, how many was liz in office before announcing her resignation as prime minister? how many days was liz truss ? you how many days was liz truss? you can play along at home, right? i'm going to start with barnaby. first. i say around 40 days. well you've got to be more specific than 40 days. all right . well, she's promised a 47 day rosie day chanel we to see the queen, know the king. the king .

queen, know the king. the king. she even took off for the kinks a little do or did, don't you. yeah. so let's give that maybe for six days. 41 days, 41 days. she lasted 44 days. there you go. you were the next one. you jettison. she's one nil. macshane at the moment . jettison. she's one nil. macshane at the moment. thing stands right. there we go . well, stands right. there we go. well, i mean, do you think she went too soon? i think she shouldn't have gone . i think the bank of have gone. i think the bank of england should have backed up. it should have given us support and she should have stuck out. well, she ousted us so badly because was defendants rated by the treasury in the of the treasury in the bank of england. undoubtedly, course england. undoubtedly, of course it reducing the 45% it was handed reducing the 45% tax rate was a step to too far too early but was defence rated but that's a is it not because you do a lot of people who rightly or wrongly talk about a deep state and they talk about all these things now they can sometimes bracketed as conspiracy theories , everything. conspiracy theories, everything. i don't want us to go down the full david rabbit hole here, but

if the bank england has the if the bank of england has the power because it doesn't particularly some things just defend straight a prime defend a straight a prime minister and chancellor and move it on and replace them with someone with , an ideology someone with, an ideology completely different. that's a concern. it is a big concern. i don't think it's conspiracy theories much as it is that the state is now a vast organism. and what do organisms do they move protect themselves ? if move to protect themselves? if you cut taxes, you're threatening organism. okay, fair enough. threatening organism. okay, fair enough . next question. next enough. next question. next question, chaps . boris johnson's question, chaps. boris johnson's government marred by scandals that eventually him to resign. what the straw that finally broke the camel's back, was it a of groping against deputy chief whip chris pincher b the parties and scandals say cutting birthday cake during lockdown or day using rishi sunak's paper for too many times . janice, i'll for too many times. janice, i'll start with you on one of the opfions start with you on one of the options it was booze and the why dunng options it was booze and the why during lockdown lying about it.

parties that also didn't down too well. what was the final that you've got to remember? i know there was a lot, but that was a final thing. so you're going. oh, absolutely. this endless lies, even rumours. rishi sunak, who resigned , rishi sunak, who resigned, whether he resigned knowing he's , got a prime minister two months later, we don't know . but months later, we don't know. but it was just finally. months later, we don't know. but it was just finally . so there is it was just finally. so there is so many you can tell before it's over , just to remind you of the over, just to remind you of the options. over, just to remind you of the opfions.so over, just to remind you of the options. so we've got all the options. so we've got all the options. doug discuss any. well, is the final trigger point was chris pincher pincher by by name and pincher by nature and i think that's what that's what bofis think that's what that's what boris johnson a few months beforehand and that's what for him and the answer is hey yeah if one by one all baby mcshane this one legend does it go down to the so that we go it was bofis to the so that we go it was boris right to go i, i think do you think on reflection he still done he still scores very highly. people are asked whether or not. you think he'd like to have ? or would have him back? or would boris handle this particular situation

better? public think do better? the public think do still like him. you look disgusted . question no, no. i'm disgusted. question no, no. i'm very fond of boris personally, but i mean. trump right to go. oh you know, not to have his fingers off from the keyhole . fingers off from the keyhole. and boris johnson was very things i was sure when he came into the car was brilliant speak on television. have i got news for you? great journalist , great for you? great journalist, great speakers. the party, absolute in the house of commons. he had nothing but contempt for parliamentary and possibly a blow out. i can understand that though because for me i get a lot of people wrecking the standard procedure and way of doing things always seemed constitutionally incapable of sticking to whatever that is, but spending it, which is low, kind of running time quite. kind of running on time quite. a lot. false ? former love lot. true or false? former love islander dr. alex george was the of controversy at the start of the year for saying we all have the year for saying we all have the same 24 hours in a day and this is the former love island the dr. alex george. did he say

that yes or no? no who is alex? well, he's a former know. what doesit well, he's a former know. what does it really matter? i said you're right. one guy who follows ? it was molly—mae. yes, follows? it was molly—mae. yes, yes , that was river solent. of yes, that was river solent. of course, none of that will smith. hey, we go. this is a one. will smith was banned from the oscars for ten years after slap chris rock, after his years at this this year's edition of, rock, after his years at this this year's edition of , the this year's edition of, the awards ceremony, he did win an award. but what film did he win it for in a king richard b men in black women of the movement de suicide squad dennis mcshane which film did will smith win oscar for? was it king richard men in black reloaded, women of the movement for the suicide squad c of suicide squad you're going suicide squad mcshane's on suicide squad with lost latin or king richard ace king and it is king richard ace king and it is king richard in which he played

the father of serena and venus williams. by the way, i can't just say this is fantastic because i get to audition to be the host a game . let's be the host of a game. let's be honest. it's of the easy honest. it's one of the easy money right . all these money is right. all of these people only tv , tv people that you see, only tv, tv all day . good. oh, all day, every day. good. oh, well, what does the computer say 7 well, what does the computer say ? there are about a million twitter for that. it's twitter pop for that. it's madness anyway. i'm madness anyway. anyway, i'm not better in mbappe made history this year . better in mbappe made history this year. becoming the first footballer to scored three goals in the men's football cup final and not going to win the tournament. how many people , tournament. how many people, including mbappe, have scored a hat a world the hat trick in a world cup? the nearest guess wins. how many other than mbappe has scored 102 world cup final, but oh my goodness. 555. dennis mcshane to serve and the answer is one because it was a cool geoff hurst no i make it so neither you get points for that but i make it i make it to one. habeeb yeah, absolutely it's 312 babies

make interesting call it to . all make interesting call it to. all right , we've got one more right, we've got one more question. no, we've no. so obviously ben habib is just what question . yeah, that's what you question. yeah, that's what you got there . go, go said. well, got there. go, go said. well, i have been obviously more a year for news out and i thank you very much everybody who has been getting in touch if you could hope for one thing this year one particular area of policy to get absolutely nailed sorted what would be next move removing would it be next move removing the threshold for tax for lopez is removing the threshold tax for lower pay up to take it up to 25,000 up. yeah fair enough and. trusting stuff yourself the german it's called flag of a single subversive for what it means old age care insurance bought it in 1995 as a result there's no with people with dementia without so i was with all the rest of it they get lot it really really . okay right it really really. okay right both of you thank very, very much. up next is with nana akua who is in the studio with us right now, i believe yes good

stuff. what's going on? he turned yellow. well, i mean, look, the king's it was his first ever address. the first time he's ever done it over the christmas. and he talked he mentioned it talked about social care. he kind of talked about those kind of workers . and did those kind of workers. and did he sort of cross the line? did go too far. we'll be discussing that. plus, hunting at moment, fox hunting. it's a big day it's boxing day and a lot of people are really into that our own very own nigel farage is actually a hunt as speak. but actually on a hunt as speak. but do you think perhaps they need to tighten up laws because to tighten up the laws because these do you feel these poor foxes do you feel sorry them and we'll be discussing stay at home dads because on the because apparently on the increase that's all coming up that's interesting now what well is going to be a cracker of a show now thank you very very much and thank you very much, ben habib, mcshane. ben habib, dennis mcshane. i've been will been patrick christys. i will see it easy, see you tomorrow. take it easy, people. okay looking chilly out there. makes clear and there. makes clear spells and scattered in details. scattered showers in details. southwest of england this evening. seeing a mixture of, heavy showers and then clear

spells temperatures around 5 to 7 celsius for most staying breezy along the coast, adding to the wind chill skies clearing in this evening for many parts in this evening for many parts in of england, in the southeast of england, most , perhaps a few most places dry, perhaps a few light showers in the east, a rather chilly thing. then further across to the west wales with scattering of showers there and along the coast, particularly temperatures around 4 to 6 celsius. that's plenty dry weather. boxing day evening for the midland lads but the risk to some showers rather cold again temperatures. risk to some showers rather cold again temperatures . down to again temperatures. down to three or four degrees. wind staying light those rather breezy this evening across northern parts of england and further blustery showers coming . the showers indeed falling asleep or snow over the high ground at times . so on the cold ground at times. so on the cold and icy side , many a blustery and icy side, many a blustery boxing day, evening for scotland. further and snow i'm afraid some tricky travelling as afraid some tricky travelling as a result developing times with theice a result developing times with the ice on untreated surfaces, particularly temperatures around

freezing and icy evening to come to for northern ireland. sleet and snow showers at the mix turning cold with temperatures tumbling towards freezing and the winds blustery around the coasts. so cold, frosty night for many ice in the north. wet, windy weather moving the west later on. that's how it's up overnight into tomorrow .

hello. good evening and welcome to dewbs& co with me on a quest. so yesterday, of course , it was so yesterday, of course, it was not only christmas day, but also king charles's first christmas address, the nation. he talks of community and a selfless dedication so that see sussexes

on the list. but he