a good everybody will remain patrick christys on gb news. the week is winding down, but i'm certainly not because there is a lot of news out there today . are lot of news out there today. are we about to be put back some form of covid lockdown .7 how form of covid lockdown.7 how about civil liberties on the bnnk about civil liberties on the brink of being stripped? there are calls, masks to go back home for travel and for mandatory testing to return the unions

without going bust . a general without going bust. a general strike has been spoken about, but it's looking increasingly like the government. just wait a little bit then will have go little bit then will have to go back work because they can't back to work because they can't afford to keep taking time off mental health crisis in it's emerged children's 25,000 emerged the children's 25,000 days were missed by nhs staff due to mental health just they show how tough the job is for should they tough enough tony blair captain i'm flushable well it's emerged that he's been discussing censoring the free press during his time in office with starmer looking to reinvent new labour. i can we trust the left to protect freedom of speech? get in touch. tv on gbnews.uk. will you go back to wearing a mask. will you submit to mandatory tests? should we ban chinese people from coming to the uk in light of the high cases in that country? and if all that is today's headlines headunes. all that is today's headlines headlines . good afternoon. it's headlines. good afternoon. it's 3:01. i'm rhiannon jones in the

gb newsroom the of elle edwards who was shot dead on christmas eve at a pub in rural paid tribute to their most beautiful and bright star. police have urged anyone with information to come forward in particular on the whereabouts . a dark coloured the whereabouts. a dark coloured mercedes in pub car park before the shooting . a 30 year old man the shooting. a 30 year old man from tranmere arrested on suspicion of . the 26 year old's suspicion of. the 26 year old's murder has been recalled to prison. a 19 year old woman from rock ferry has been bailed and a 31 year old man remains in custody sitting alongside dale's father, tim edwards , police read father, tim edwards, police read out family statement. she had this way about her, but as soon as he met her, he instantly fell in love with her. everyone that knew and met our knew how special she was . her life special she was. her life infectious. anyone who wasn't? what's around her? had a good time . she loved life. and so

time. she loved life. and so many amazing plans. the future. she was only just getting started . tributes continue to started. tributes continue to flood in for dame westwood, who died yesterday aged 81. a boy, george, describing her as , the george, describing her as, the undisputed queen of british fashion. the design unknown for her quirky style, became synonymous with 1970s punk rock dressing bands as the sex pistols, celebrities politicians and royalty . her representatives and royalty. her representatives say she died surrounded by her family in south london . family in south london. meanwhile brazil has begun three days of national in honour of football legend . pele. the 82 football legend. pele. the 82 year old had colon cancer and died yesterday at a hospital in, sao paolo. widely regarded the greatest footballer ever . sao paolo. widely regarded the greatest footballer ever. he's the only man to win the world cup three times as a player. on monday morning, pele's body will be moved to later stadium of his

club santos where the will be able to pay their respects . a able to pay their respects. a procession through the streets of sao paolo on tuesday will be followed by a private family . followed by a private family. former england goalkeeper shilton has paid tribute to the football legend as a gentleman and wherever he went he left a big impression you know and i mean fans just adored him you know as i say never had a weakness and you know to win three world cups was was you know incredible both . crane know incredible both. crane nightclub where 23 year old footballer cody fisher in a knife attack on boxing day has had its licence suspended. the decision follows an urgent meeting by birmingham city council after police said that serious management failings at the club. the suspension pending a full review hearing when decision will be made on whether it should be closed permanently . house price growth has slowed

sharply again this month to 2.8% as the market cools the autumn surge in mortgage rates. nationwide building reports pnces nationwide building reports prices fell 0.1% in december, the fourth consecutive monthly . the fourth consecutive monthly. the report puts the house price this month at just £260,000. property expert quirk told gb news thinks 2023 will see the housing market. market fluctuate . frankly, i don't see . the long . frankly, i don't see. the long term prospects despite again what those some headlines i would have you believe being actually particularly negative you know the market is actually pretty robust. normally and if you look at it from medium and a long term perspective , it will long term perspective, it will be fine. but but certainly it's taken a bit of a hit, but i think it's more sentiment related than there is economics related than there is economics related , even though, as you related, even though, as you rightly point out, the cost of a

mortgage, of course is increased prosecutors and romania have asked for a 30 day extension to the arrest of online influencer tate, who's been detained on suspicion of human trafficking and rape. the former reality tv star who was detained alongside brother tristan had his house raided in the capital, bucharest. the tate brothers have been under criminal since april , declined to have been under criminal since april, declined to comment, but their lawyer has confirmed their detention and firefighters in england dealt with 25,000 wildfires this summer. four times. last year's figure and the highest in at least a decade . services tackle boden, 50 wildfires a day at, the peak of the heatwave between june, august. earlier this week, the met office said 2022 was the uk's warmest year on record, with above average every month. apart from december this is gb news. we're bringing more as it

happens now though, it's back to . happens now though, it's back to. pa good afternoon, everybody. in our restrictions on travellers from china is unlikely to prevent new covid variants reaching the uk. the chairman of the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation has warned professor andrew pollard also it was very difficult to know whether any new variant emerged in china would actually have a significant impact in britain. yesterday defence minister ben wallace said the uk government reviewing whether to introduce covid restrictions . introduce covid restrictions. visitors from china . now there's visitors from china. now there's a lot to unpack here because i think a lot of people might not necessarily have much issue with the idea of placing restrictions on foreign visitors china but actually just think about where this ends and several including the us, japan italy and malaysia all. now testing on from china .

all. now testing on from china. is this how it starts people as is we end up back to where we. plus a norfolk hospital has reintroduced masks . hey we go reintroduced masks. hey we go for visitors in frightening throwback to 2020 so monday three mask wearing at a hospital in this country so should reintroduce draconian like travel kerbs and masks. after all we've got vaccines now we have got frankly more than enough people already masked up and hospitals surely have had time to actually get to grips with this situation . joining me with this situation. joining me now are former brexit mep ben habib and infectious disease expert dr. bharat pancholi and dr. brown. would you be in favour of reintroducing covid restrictions ? it patrick. there restrictions? it patrick. there is not one size fits all answer to that question. if you the question to me in a different way , which is dr. pant . with way, which is dr. pant. with respect to china opening up, do ihave

respect to china opening up, do i have concern ? my answers are i have concern? my answers are well not really. the united kingdom is significa partly in a better position . it's well better position. it's well immunised. we've got immunity and we know how deal with it and we are boosted. we're using good quality vaccines . therefore, at quality vaccines. therefore, at this point in time, i do not see wanting to do anything .just wanting to do anything. just like what? professor pollard has said in your report. like what? professor pollard has said in your report . now like what? professor pollard has said in your report. now i will ask by debate the same question , which, in case it wasn't clear enough, is what do you ever be in favour of reintroducing covid restrictions ? i never restrictions? i never reintroduce . there can be no new reintroduce. there can be no new honest answer to this. it must never happen again. if wants to understand the damage that lockdowns have done , they need lockdowns have done, they need to do is look at our national which is up 33. look at our tax take, which is up to post—world war two highs. look at the breakdown in our supply chains in the labour market which have given rise to inflation, which

is now at a 40 high cost of living crisis, strikes . and most living crisis, strikes. and most of all we have had excess deaths this year from cardiac arrest, cancer and other ailments went ignored during lockdowns because everyone was covid obsessed . and everyone was covid obsessed. and the other point i'd make on the on the very narrow point about whether we should introduce tests everyone will recall if they were paying just modicum of attention to was going on during lockdown that a new variant emerged somewhere in the world even though we were down you know we got it in this country pretty darn . and then lastly , pretty darn. and then lastly, you know, china has operate this ridiculous zero covid policy for three years and it's failed . three years and it's failed. well, it's not bad because it's telling that point. yeah, it's on exactly that point that i want to . get your take doctor. want to. get your take doctor. can you. because if there is talk of any kind of restrictions, whether or not it's with people coming over from china or not, it's the likes of italy and spain saying

they're to introduce they're going to introduce mandatory people mandatory testing people coming over china. i and we all over from china. i and we all know that that's a very, very slippery slope . and if we look slippery slope. and if we look at china the most draconian lockdown rules, people being welded into their own homes and it's running now, there's it's running rife now, there's no these restrictions. no point to these restrictions. they don't work . so, look , let they don't work. so, look, let me answer the rantings of this brexit mep and your attempt to ignore failings of brexit that has made the united kingdom poorer . let me move on to has made the united kingdom poorer. let me move on to one second. one second. doesn't just stop you there because actually you could argue that it was brexit that meant we got the first, we got the vaccine first in this country, were able to procure. yeah. so much so that the french actually had to make some right. which cost some offers. right. which cost british lives as well as ppe. so if we're going have if we're all going to have a proper brexit, you might as well have right. true at all. have it right. not true at all. and you should know better brexit or being a freer has not

enabled us to roll out vaccines faster or better. ppe. not true because it didn't take it did not all. not true. the cma was way ahead. oxford and astrazeneca were way ahead. we got permission for it faster. we got permission for it faster. we got it to market faster . we did got it to market faster. we did so much better. we did much better than eu that the eu cut up rough and tried to reinstate to that pernicious border that they going on about on the island of ireland. they tried to their own deal. i mean, come on, dr. keynes, it goes back on topic here and i concerned that maybe when it comes to the covid restrictions that you appear to be in favour of you did deflect towards brexit which i find quite strange just just get back to the idea that china having china has the most restrictions in the world doesn't appear to have worked . why should it even have worked. why should it even be a conversation here that we

should introduce any more? let me answer that. china bit for you. right. and unfortunately, china did really well when we did not the moderna vaccines or vaccines, for that matter. right. with its test trace contain policy, there were . contain policy, there were. very, very good. they knew what they were doing. remember, we had nothing at point having got the unfortunately china continued with its zero public policy. what means is the population is naive meaning they have never encountered the virus and when the population is such that they've never encountered the virus , it is like as if it the virus, it is like as if it were, 20, 2019. so unfortunately, what they should have been doing, which they haven't done , is immunise haven't done, is immunise extensively. immunise vulnerable population and use the better platform ming mmr and a vaccine that we used in the west . that we used in the west. unfortunately, china did not do

that. and then now suddenly they've done a u—turn and removed as a result. they've done a u—turn and removed as a result . course removed as a result. course biology is about the biology supreme. the case numbers will shoot up and the vulnerable people in china. unfortunately some of them will die. and this is a consequence of not having managed it properly. okay, ben . managed it properly. okay, ben. concerned. now i'm looking italy. i'm looking at spain and i'm at certain voices in this country who appear to be quite keen on the idea that we should either block chinese people from coming to this country or mandatory test them or in some cases even deport if they are told that they've got it and just arrived here, etc. now that in itself is one thing and i can understand actively wanting to stop coming into a country. maybe if they've covid, maybe, but concern is that this is how it all seem to start last time. and italy and france say did it or spain did it or portugal did it.then or spain did it or portugal did it. then all of a sudden britain becomes a pariah and we decide that we want to introduce

restrictions as well. you restrictions as well. do you think issue ? i think think that's an issue? i think it's a huge issue. i why would you wish to people at you wish to test people at airports if you're not prepared to go further down the line? and also social behaviour ? also restrict social behaviour? i what's the point of i mean, what's the point of testing if you're not prepared to take action in event to then take action in the event that you something ? the that you discover something? the whole whole point here is whole the whole point here is that and it's really interesting that and it's really interesting that good doctor made the case for herd because the people who originally argued for lockdowns that herd immunity couldn't be . that herd immunity couldn't be. but he said that one of the issues with china was that it down so hard that it prevent the virus from becoming endemic ? but virus from becoming endemic? but i would argue actually in respect to the chinese policy, it's rife in china, it's endemic china. we don't know what the death is because china produce any statistics on which we can rely, but we do know that the virus and this is endemic omicron was the beginning of the of it and the death was mostly restricted to people over the

age of 80, which is more than the life expectancy to and who are vulnerable. and we must do the kind of economic and health damage that was accrued to this and the developed world and indeed rest of the world, for that matter. i totally caring, regime inspired lockdowns. remember, lockdowns were invented in china and in the west. libertarian society democracies adopted it without even a second thought nonsense. we must never go down that road again . okay, dr. barratt, do again. okay, dr. barratt, do think that the british public will swallow any kind of restrictions into the time round unless ? there are fixed numbers unless? there are fixed numbers on we would have to hit this amount of deaths per day. we'd have this amount of cases have to hit this amount of cases day. we can't have chris day. we can't just have chris whitty dodgy data . so whitty and his dodgy data. so look . the united whitty and his dodgy data. so look. the united , if look. the united, if i understood your question that the united kingdom at this point in time is in a very good

position because of what we've achieved the vaccines. so we've achieved the vaccines. so we've a immune population or a population that has encountered virus through infections . so we virus through infections. so we are in a much place and as a of being in this much better place , i cannot see i cannot visualise suddenly saying we need to have restrictions because what they achieve. having said that if something completely little different something new something unexpected starts circulating. maybe it's a much virus rather than a source virus . that's than a source virus. that's a different game altogether and we would have to visit it a bit. but at the moment, respect to sars—cov—2 the situation in the west is much more stable. further using the moderna vaccines now a fine whatever to you about a baby now i with some interest actually steve brine mp who was chair of the health and

social care committee had this to say . his social care committee had this to say. his summing up once dust had settled on r waves, the coronavirus which i think is terrifying now we have every right to over not react. the lesson of years ago was that time is of the essence. i would argue that potential early. but the lesson of two years ago was massive financial loss, huge excess deaths . and crippling excess deaths. and crippling mental health crises . the mental health crises. the ruining of education for young people , all of this stuff people, all of this stuff i would argue that's the lesson, but i don't know what your views. well, i completely agree . the cost of lockdown was thinner mental financially, health wise and socially. and every respect, you know, we up our liberty to save our lives thatis our liberty to save our lives that is not that is not that is not what a democracy does . what not what a democracy does. what you do is you protect those are vulnerable. those fantastic great barrington declaration right at the 4000 leading

scientists epidemiology from across the globe leading institution who argued that only vulnerable and elderly should be protected we must never lockdown and barrett just made the very salient point that you need the virus endemic in the population you herd immunity. i don't care what they said back two years ago herd immunity. the only way you get over a viral infection and you do not achieve herd immunity distancing , immunity by social distancing, by lockdowns, by preventing natural course for the virus , natural course for the virus, those who are vulnerable, those who feel that they need to isolate themselves should do so. the rest us should get on with our lives . dr. barrow, i can see our lives. dr. barrow, i can see you're itching to get involved. that go on. i will give the very final word to you. then i was saying, look, you can't let saying, look, you just can't let a newly circulating virus to let rip when you don't know what you're dealing with. it is important , you're dealing with. it is important, you you're dealing with. it is important , you know, you're dealing with. it is important, you know, you don't create that that you could easily have avoided . hence the easily have avoided. hence the only restrictions . okay good only restrictions. okay good time to leave it by looks to

things. thank you very both of you. that is former brexit party mep ben abebe and infectious expert dogs have brought upon kenya just reacting to the latest speculation latest. well speculation many thought we might be on the brink of told wear masks of being told to wear masks again. be on the brink again. we might be on the brink of, being told to have some kind of, being told to have some kind of some of of restriction, some kind of travel restrictions. spain italy, already italy, they are already looking at people coming in from china, where cases are running rampant at people coming in from china, whe they're; are running rampant at people coming in from china, whe they're saying,1ning rampant at people coming in from china, whe they're saying,1ning we're nt and they're saying, well, we're either going to test your blocking in. is this blocking from coming in. is this how starts, because that's how it starts, because that's kind it started last kind of how it started last time. a quick point of time. just a quick point of order point that order actually on, a point that was earlier, i'm going was made earlier, i'm just going to now something it to quote now from something it was relation to whether was in relation to whether or not brexit when it came not brexit helps us when it came to procuring our vaccine, which dr. bharat, can you appear to suggest? didn't. suggest? they absolutely didn't. scientists at oxford university developed the astrazeneca vaccine and the british government ordered 100 million doses eu, doses in may 2020. the eu, by contrast, all members contrast, that all 27 members purchase doses collectively purchase the doses collectively and signing for and only started signing up for those august . those vaccines last august. astrazeneca operates a first astrazeneca operates on a first come, basis. come, first serve basis. therefore, brexit got the vaccines first. and i think

frankly , all we need to know frankly, all we need to know about that isn't there lots of you. i've been getting in touch with your thoughts on this. roger we should ban travel roger says we should ban travel from uk. well, the from china to the uk. well, the thing roger, this is thing is, roger, and this is what absolutely got you say what i absolutely got you say i am see what he's saying, but this is where we got to a bit of a sticky wicket isn't it. because start banning because do we start banning people even it people from china even if it looks though are looks as though cases are running rampant? have, by the running rampant? i have, by the way, you know, sympathy for the chinese government it chinese government when. it comes of the comes to the spread of the coronavirus. could coronavirus. i am they could have stop it have done more to stop it ripping through the world first time not the time round. not to say the chinese people, of course, should in any way punished should be in any way punished for but if saw banning for that. but if we saw banning people from china because people coming from china because of then all of of the cases that then all of sudden we start banning sudden do we start banning people france? start people from france? if we start banning people from germany, they start banning then they start banning us. and then if where we if we ride back to where we were. very finely, i don't were. john very finely, i don't see what the problem with the chinese coming to our country regarding. the visitors regarding. covid the visitors must covid one must take a negative covid one day fly to uk. day before they fly to the uk. if they arrive without if they arrive here without a negative they aren't negative test, they aren't allowed. sensible allowed. hey yeah. sensible solution, suppose

solution, but let's suppose there's marks there's even question marks over whether people be whether not people should be being so we have being tested for it. so we have a vaccine in this country now. we have lives allowed to. we have economy rebuild. do have an economy to rebuild. do we gb news don't uk a we give our gb news don't uk a very contentious issue and i'd love hear from on that. love to hear from you on that. you are with me patrick christys. coming up it's more christys. coming up as it's more than have been than 225,000 words have been lost the because mental lost in the because of mental health issues . oh nurses strikes health issues. oh nurses strikes now justified. this is one of the fascinating topics lots to unpack. lots to unpack. scottish mp christine jardine will be doing just that with me .

next did i, didn't we ladies and gentlemen lots of you been getting in touch with your thoughts on china and covid restrictions. joy says unfortunately , i still wear unfortunately, i still wear a mask in shops, buses ,

mask in shops, buses, supermarkets, not because of covid, but because of the real nasty viruses that going around. i asthma . i'd nasty viruses that going around. i asthma. i'd have to be i have asthma. i'd have to be really careful. really think really careful. i really think it's down to individuals that we know own bodies. i think know our own bodies. i think you're spot and you're absolutely spot on and this a really important this is a really important distinction thank distinction joy. okay. and thank you the for me, which you for making the for me, which is you doing that of is that you are doing that of your choice your your own choice and have your own volition. for very good own volition. i'm for very good reason. okay. absolutely. 100. i have a concern about it when all of a sudden the state starts . of a sudden the state starts. get telling you get involved in telling you that. on what we're that. now, based on what we're saying, back at it saying, we should be back at it with mask. you on. and with the mask. joy, you on. and i you the best of health as i wish you the best of health as and that's why everything that you've just that you've been saying just that dave that dr. dave says very quickly that dr. yard dr. barratt on trotting yard on dr. barratt on trotting out such a drivel, blaming everyone on brexit, everything on saying the did on brexit is saying the uk did not advantage. it came not have an advantage. it came to rollout. what to the vaccine rollout. what ferries convinced ferries stories has he convinced himself china ? well, himself of about china? well, that we go in fast. i do think i do think that china the government i say it's not the people has a huge amount to answer for when it comes to the spread of the initial coronavirus but now we we're

coronavirus but now we get we're moving on people because moving on now people because nurses striking workers nurses other striking workers demanding pay demanding inflation busting pay rises their rises will have to down on their demands . the union bosses demands. the union bosses admitted the new head of the trade unions congress, paul nowak, a compromise could nowak, said a compromise could be reached soon if the government joined at the negotiating table. but this is interesting. ministers confident that the unions will run of money by spring, which is what just a couple of months away now, isn't it really, with action costing millions , action costing them millions, pounds, every single strike day. meanwhile, scottish liberal democrat leader alex cole—hamilton accused the scottish government being scottish government of being pigheaded about. the scottish government of being pigheaded about . the issues that pigheaded about. the issues that impact health workers and this is another interesting it because figures obtained by the party reveal that nurses and midwives were forced to take more than 225,000 thousand 100,000 sorry days last year. so i want to say that because of mental health, as you so do these stark justify nurses walking on patients, so is a reasonable compromise need to be reached soon for the sake of our country. joining me now is lib

dem mp christine jardine . very dem mp christine jardine. very good to see you. i have got a wonderful period we're getting straight into it right now though. i suppose we let's start with start with the with the nurses start with the mental of for do mental health issue of it for do these health figures these mental health figures 225,000 days off due to mental health last year prove that need a whopping great big pay rise of over 90% that will kill their mental health problems. well that proves that we've got massive problems in the nhs and throughout the uk and what we needis throughout the uk and what we need is both governments to actually address the real issues because this is not a simple issue of nursing and midwifery staff throughout the united kingdom saying what, we want more money this this is a case and these figures show it quite clearly of the nhs staff being practically on their knees . practically on their knees. they're burnt out. you've just the last ten, 15 minutes talking about covid. yeah, these are the people who were at the during covid who got us that. and you

know , i think, deserve a bit know, i think, deserve a bit a break and a bit of a boost . i break and a bit of a boost. i have absolutely no qualms about seeing i support what the nhs staff are trying to do to try to bnng staff are trying to do to try to bring attention to the fact we have a major problem in the nhs in this country. have a major problem in the nhs in this country . yes, they are in this country. yes, they are underpaid. yes they deserve what we have for money. is this the right time to strike? not necessarily . but there is necessarily. but there is a serious that the government is just not tackling and neither does the scottish government . does the scottish government. okay. what would you pay them ? okay. what would you pay them? what would i pay? i don't think it's just about pay when things are much bigger issues, i guess i'll. ask you about the other stuff as well. christine, i've got to ask you know. come on. i've got to ask you. you said you support the strike action, stuff like that. you know, got this health crisis going this mental health crisis going on, give a on, right? you just give me a number. come for goodness number. come on. for goodness sake. not that simple. sake. it's not that simple. if it was simple, we'd be able

it was that simple, we'd be able to not. well, you to solve it like not. well, you must sometimes. and you got must have sometimes. and you got to have a percentage in mind. so if let finish, if if you could let me finish, if you you know, make it this you just you know, make it this simple or you don't simple either or you don't actually solve the problem. what the nurses have asked for is inflation. plus and i think inflation. plus 5. and i think what government should what the government should do, what the government should do, what government what responsible government needs down round needs to do is sit down round the and talk them about the table and talk to them about it, about how we improve the table and talk to them about it, working how we improve the table and talk to them about it, working standards,|prove the table and talk to them about it, working standards, theire their working standards, their of living, do we get away of living, how do we get away from situation we have from a situation where we have more than 225,000 working days lost in a year in scotland not the whole of the uk in scotland . and that's a figure that is rising . and so to say, well, you rising. and so to say, well, you know what you offer them, that's actually not what this is about. go on. and you talk to the nurses. yes. they're struggling. yes a lot of them are at foodbanks, but it's a problem that runs much, much part of that runs much, much part of that problem. right is about retention and recruitment of staff means that the current people are being overstretched has to do too much, which is down to the fact that there are now a lot of them are developing

mental health problems as a result of that. if the pay was better, you'd attract better, then you'd attract more people and you'd more people. and these problems would and maybe these problems would go why go away. and that's why i'm asking what you pay asking you. what would you pay them? i absolutely agree . them? oh, i absolutely agree. that the key that recruitment is the key because something like because we've something like 40,000 vacancies in the nhs up and down the country. and that's why the nurses are so straight. that's one of the reasons to not get a proper wage settlement get to a proper wage settlement . the government needs to sit down, talk to the nursing and come up with a strategy, not this blight. oh, no, we're not giving them that of money. you need to sit down and talk to them and come up with a solution. that's what a responsible government do. responsible government would do. and government and that's what this government isn't great. isn't doing. no, that's great. but you'd love to be in government, wouldn't you? and one might let's one day you might be. let's imagine is now. what imagine that day is now. what discussions. with discussions. are you having with the they say we want the nurses when they say we want a pay the nurses when they say we want a pay rise of around 19, what do you offer them ? first of all, you offer them? first of all, that's not what they've said. they've said inflation plus 5. and wouldn't have let it get

and i wouldn't have let it get to this situation as the first thing. i wouldn't have let it get to the situation put. nurses were badly paid and so many were so badly paid and so many of were having to to of them were having to go to foodbanks. i have foodbanks. i would have addressed in the first addressed that in the first place. then sit down with place. and then sit down with the how we the nurses and say, how we improve do we the to improve this? do we have the to do do the pay rise right away do to do the pay rise right away or have to face and what or do we have to face and what can we pay? you can we improve themselves? how can we make your situation better talk to them , situation better talk to them, listen to what they've got to see. i had a meeting a few weeks ago the head the tuc to ago with the head of the tuc to hear what have got to see. i think that that is what is wrong the moment i can't put a figure on it because not party to the actual negotiation going on at the moment. what i would say the moment. but what i would say is i would talk to them and is that i would talk to them and i would find a way of coming up with the figure which improved their which their situation and which the government to and government would commit to and then christine and all of you i agree with, but trying to pen people down to numbers is that before come up with any numbers you need to sit down and talk about it? look, i get all of

that in, christine. i really enjoy back and forth on enjoy our back and forth and on this and i love the fact this channel and i love the fact that you come on and we talk regularly about all host of topics right? that you topics right? i know that you are well—meaning. i also are very well—meaning. i also know a lot our viewers, know that a lot of our viewers, listeners now are going listeners right now are going to be going well, you we do want some kind of rough figure because the royal because in scotland, the royal college of have rejected college of nursing have rejected around seven and half% pay around a seven and a half% pay rise towards the lower end rise that towards the lower end of represent of the people they represent would equated to around would have equated to around 11 and half% rise. so we kind and a half% pay rise. so we kind of know why they are so realistic, know, are you realistic, you know, are you saying maybe christine saying that maybe in christine jardine world jardine hypothetical world where you're to you you're in, you would have to you would go around 10, would have go around the 10, wouldn't you . well, i would do. wouldn't you. well, i would do. and i mean, i don't know how to make this any clearer is that i would not let it get to the stage this is the problem that it's got to the stage that the point of one of the points which is about the situation in is quite about the situation in is quite about the situation in is that the snp said that they'd got round the table and, they'd talk to the nurses, they'd come up with a solution and a strike had been averted, said that in

the that's not the house of commons that's not the house of commons that's not the case. we have a strike. we have a strike scotland well, have a strike scotland as well, because of the combination of the nhs staff being underpaid , the nhs staff being underpaid, paid for, putting . the okay from paid for, putting. the okay from both . that is one of the things both. that is one of the things got to do . okay, all right, got to do. okay, all right, christine, i'm afraid the line's got a little bit dodgy there, but thank you very, very much. it's been to have you on the show. sorry, both scottish have dumped christine jardine now. not let's just not sorry about it. let's just move. seemed bit move. it seemed a bit repetitive, i am desperate repetitive, but i am desperate to. drill down to. try to actually drill down into people would offer into what people would offer nurses indeed any striking worker. because that's worker. because i think that's the at the the main point because at the moment party is moment political party is actually what they would moment political party is actuethem, what they would moment political party is actuethem, which1at they would moment political party is actuethem, which means! would moment political party is actuethem, which means thatlld moment political party is actuethem, which means that no offer them, which means that no is to end any time soon, is going to end any time soon, which means you might a general strike too all often i am strike and too all often i am told with respect to christine jardine, like, told jardine, who i do like, i told stuff which is i stuff like that, which is i would in time make sure would go in time and make sure we got to this situation. we never got to this situation. i my solution to this is to sit

down, talk and, hope that magically happens and magically something happens and that, with is that, to be honest with you is not answer, it? anyway, not an answer, is it? anyway, you're me. patrick christys you're with me. patrick christys on judi james breaks on gb news up judi james breaks down the in body language she down the in body language as she analyses meaning behind analyses the true meaning behind the prince the movements of prince boris johnson little mattie johnson and little mattie hancock. your hancock. but first is your latest headlines . and . it's latest news headlines. and. it's 335 on rhiannon jones the gb newsroom. the family is elle edwards was shot dead on christmas eve . a pop in wirral christmas eve. a pop in wirral has paid tribute. the most beautiful and bright star. merseyside police has urged anyone with any information come forward. a 30 year old man from tranmere on suspicion of the 26 year old's murder has been recalled to prison. a 19 year old woman from rock ferry has been bailed and a 31 year old man remains in custody sitting alongside father tim edwards merseyside, police read out the family's statement . she had this family's statement. she had this way about . but

family's statement. she had this way about. but as soon as he met her, he instantly fell in love with her. everyone that knew and met knew how special she was. her laugh was infectious . anyone her laugh was infectious. anyone who wasn't with around her had a good time . she loved life and good time. she loved life and had so many amazing plans for the future. she was only just getting started . crane nightclub getting started. crane nightclub where 23 year old footballer cody fisher died in a knife attack on boxing day, has had its licence . the decision its licence. the decision follows an urgent meeting by birmingham council after police said there'd been serious management failings at the club. the suspensions a full review heanng the suspensions a full review hearing when a will be made on whether or not should be closed permanently . tv online and whether or not should be closed permanently. tv online and dab+ this is gb news. don't go anywhere pantry. back in just a moment .

welcome back, everybody. we do have lot of putting the brakes here anyway. lots of you've getting in touch with your thoughts on nurses and the current strikes going on. jones says not all nurses were coping with covid were in departments which closed down. this is in relation to the fact that 225,000 working days were missed by nurses midwives. that was in scotland in the last year. as a result of mental health. now, of course, not diminishing anything health related whatsoever. far from they're saying that from it. but they're saying that is justification for them getting big getting a whopping great big pay rise. we all know that rise. look, we all know that money doesn't buy happiness, does it? although it might buy you. a holiday and frankly, you. well a holiday and frankly, maybe retention and maybe as well more retention and recruitment, suppose recruitment, which could suppose in to better in itself lead to better conditions in the. but steve says any manager tell you a pay rise is only short term fix.

nurses will just have a slightly better car. i'm finance or a better car. i'm finance or a better holiday myself before accepting their pay is the norm. they're moaning next year. what we need is more to reduce the pressure on nurses. but steve, i think it was steve wasn't it? i suppose this is where it's a and 999 suppose this is where it's a and egg situation, isn't it? because if you pay them all any more and to recruit more on them, retain more. so, you know, i can we wait for that week, carlos, if you got in touch. i haven't got the time, people. i haven't the time i'll time just for now. but i'll squeeze what we've used in line to them coming now. gb to keep them coming in now. gb views gbnews.uk because i'm views on gbnews.uk because i'm joined body language joined now by body language expert to expert judi. she's going to analyse body language of analyse the body language of some key players. some of 2022 key players. now they revolving door they installed a revolving door at this year. two at number 10 this year. two prime ministers were ceremony prime ministers were on ceremony yes, out of office yes, they booted out of office this. folks . thank you, this. is it, folks. thank you, everybody, for coming so early this . everybody, for coming so early this. morning in only a couple of hours. i will be in balmoral to see majesty the queen and torch will finally be passed to

new conservative leader . thank new conservative leader. thank you all very much. thank you . you all very much. thank you. goodbye. thank you . i cannot goodbye. thank you. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party . i have therefore spoken party. i have therefore spoken his majesty the king, to notify him that . i am resigning as him that. i am resigning as leader . the conservative party . leader. the conservative party. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has chosen. thank you . okay, david. thank you. okay, david. contrasting styles, contrasting styles was the course of i've just 44 days in the job. but what we learn from that past body language as they deliver their final words to the nation . here is jd joseph, language expert. what do you make of that? what were your takeaways from big bombastic boris? and let's be honest with you , quite let's be honest with you, quite timid trust, treacherous. you almost that happened . the almost forget that happened. the big bombastic boris was seething. i watched his body

language. he did the first start what he was doing. i did this. i did the rigging himself, all his achievements . and then you began achievements. and then you began to see the anger, seething anger . george utting not like actually or not like boris public, but you could see it was almost disbelief. what have you idiots with the message coming out of his body language and you kind of shuffled off but he'd lost that kind of you know. hasta la vista, baby. but i think he really thought this was a hiccup and he'd be back again quite soon, you know you will find out you've made a grave mistake in a minute. find out you've made a grave mistake in a minute . well, and mistake in a minute. well, and talking of grave mistakes , we talking of grave mistakes, we can see liz truss there next to him. what do you make of her resignation, as you said , hers resignation, as you said, hers was just weird. i mean, i don't she was the job for what days she was in the job for what days ? something on her body language. i don't know if she was trying to do stoicism and resilience but it came out was a weird smirk . resilience but it came out was a weird smirk. he smiled as though she was funny or very amusing,

as though you can just say from when she said, oh you know, the cheeks are getting there's so symmetric smile going on. she did have her family there. that was the only thing mean. i love the way that boris he got his wife out. well, boris johnson's signs boris johnson's family wouldn't on downing street what might be was the man that i might be that was the man that i remember. yeah. remember. yeah, yeah. stuff a football team as ever that but yeah also did ever see liz's letter that she used all right it was so symbolic it looked like you know jenga when somebody had it was all twisted and weird. it was it was about to collapse . okay. so those were to collapse. okay. so those were two of the prime ministers that we've got this here. now, let's move on to our current minister, rishi sunak, and have a look at his first speech as leader and see what the body language was like . like. good. like. good . i've just been to good. i've just been to buckingham palace and accepted

his majesty the king's invitation to form a government invitation to form a government in his name . invitation to form a government in his name. it invitation to form a government in his name . it is invitation to form a government in his name. it is only invitation to form a government in his name . it is only right to in his name. it is only right to explain why am standing here as new prime minister right now , new prime minister right now, our country is facing a profound and economic crisis crisis , and economic crisis crisis, right? well, your take on that. i just like the rest of the country. i think people were looking for strong at this point, inspirational . and he did point, inspirational. and he did this speech, which was pretty slow . he did another one. do you slow. he did another one. do you remember the address to the nation. yes. where it was a robot. more so than trust or whatever. and he does this thing where it's not he's an it's like me son. i'm addressing you right now. but i'm looking over there telling you things, you know, he should down the barrel of the camera. he should actually address us. i know what's happenedin address us. i know what's happened in the past. you know, i'm come i'm going to

i'm going to come i'm going to make crimes going. it's make changes, crimes going. it's communication. got number communication. i've got number one, eye contact. you one, lack of eye contact. if you remember other one that remember with the other one that he even off to he did, he even went off to remember he turned on you. remember when he turned on you. robots do this their eyes turn along with their bodies . that along with their bodies. that was very unusual. he kind was very, very unusual. he kind of does these little arm pumps to some animals at all. and it's not passion. it's almost it's always trying to rip himself up always trying to rip himself up a little. or do you know, you think what? it's just trying to muster a personality somewhere, possibly that i don't mind if you just stand there, doesn't move. if he's got great art, you know, if he's really going to have that charisma going and this misuse of the word , do you this misuse of the word, do you have a pet? how people who you've just been my prime minister i'm very humbled. no, you know , humbled is when you you know, humbled is when you don't get prime minister does don't get my prime minister does he? may . he was he? he does. he may. he was making oscar speeches. it was very when you should very strange when you should have connecting more with the people. yes. can't help but people. yes. i can't help but wonder or not that's wonder whether or not that's this culmination a this is the culmination of a lifetime's it is fair ,

lifetime's which if it is fair, i mean a lot of people will be well within, their rights of the lifetime ambition of becoming minister and achieved it. minister and he's achieved it. but you mean. but i get what you mean. there should more to it than should be a bit more to it than i've achieved. the top job, lads. not there to lads. i mean, we're not there to give him award. i know what you've won. of prime you've won. office of prime minister. tell it's minister. you now tell it's called science of sensation. called the science of sensation. it's not. it's not how it's you make people think. but listen and have felt oh thank and we should have felt oh thank goodness all be goodness it's all going to be all right. he just hadn't all right. and he just hadn't got that there on the. got any of that in there on the. no. well there are some no. okay. well there are some things going to go to things we're going to go to a bit later on with matt hancock. but before do that, i think we can have little look at prince can have a little look at prince harry, can we? prince harry's? oh, we can't. no, we oh, no. yeah, we can't. no, we car. we go. car. well, there we go. apparently there absolute apparently there is absolute carnage. okay carnage. go to hancock. okay let's not tiangco a former health secretary asking for forgiveness . well, as in the forgiveness. well, as in the jungle and all this was a classic play. it you know what as actually what i'm really looking for is bit of forgiveness . that's what i'm forgiveness. that's what i'm really looking for a oh my god.

i nearly cried . he's played i nearly cried. he's played a lot, collapsed a loop fiddle. so my note really is yes, this is my note really is yes, this is my phrase. oh, i just thought i watched it. i felt physically sick . i've worked on reality tv sick. i've worked on reality tv many years and you do get people can get in there and be something that they're not and maybe i just don't know so surely people aren't falling for this this this act of his fakest laugh i've ever seen on anybody but it's but the trouble is it was very manipulative and as it should have been because i don't know if you watch the whole thing when you're in there you cannot take one person and just push them away part because push them away the part because it you like bully its it makes you like a bully its face. yes. so they didn't know what to do and they had kind of hug him. it was incredibly. but he was actually saying while he was there, was boasting was in there, he was boasting about political things like the political pivot on, you

political pivot she has on, you know, oh this is how we got out of answering questions. this is how did well just how it and then he did well just experience a little bit before you came actually the you came on air actually the political pivot it just absolute and we know they're doing it but he boasted it still did it in he boasted it he still did it in there. well then he was there. well and then he was plugging his book. he was just in pushing his teacher out. so oh, that fantastic. the thing is, though, right actually quite enjoyed uncle in i very much enjoyed my uncle in i very much enjoyed my uncle in i very much enjoyed my uncle in i very much enjoyed my surprise in the in if you let me finish if you let me finish now one of my guests phil . gosh, that's terrible, isn't it. absolutely terrible. it rides on christine jordan apologise actually on reflection. but yeah i enjoyed the fact that he was just totally, unashamedly pulling out his shirt with his number, the back of it and fair play to the girls. he did all the challenges and you what if the public were stupid enough in many to go along the absolute lunacy in nursery. that was the covid restrictions and unreal and in lockdowns and believe every

single that chris whitty said and then maybe then the stupidity of to accept my apology, then he can only play what is in of him. tony, what is in front of him. tony, any other holidays by geneva and apologise many apologise right so many definitely needs to apologise is prince his reaction to it prince harry his reaction to it too. oh, this is good as well. his reaction, a text from his brother prince brother william, the prince of wales the netflix wine a wales during the netflix wine a thon. wales during the netflix wine a thon . the whole family is thon. the whole family is saddened . learn the full extent saddened. learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for harry and meghan. the issues raised , meghan. the issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning some recollections may vary they are taken very seriously , will be addressed by seriously, will be addressed by the family privately , harry and the family privately, harry and meghan and will always be a much loved members . what am i looking . wo loved members. what am i looking. w0 16 his brother. loved members. what am i looking. w0 16 his brother . wow wow 16 his brother. wow wow interesting attacks . sorry. oh

interesting attacks. sorry. oh all right. so what do you make of that was it was absolutely number one who has cameras in the kitchen. i mean, you know, they're not going be and you're going to be news assistants . going to be news assistants. that acting. i'm sorry. sorry but but he went in to child behaviour as he went into pseudo infantile holding out like kid hotel. oh i've cut my finger mummy and then he actually started to put his hands , his started to put his hands, his head and i don't know if you saw his, his whole top lifted up and he is barely like a kid wanting to be picked up for a cuddle and see you're really going to be sick. now all i'm saying that and she went out and she went maternal mode and goes in the a cuddle. so very odd cuddle. so we saw very odd interaction is little bit interaction it is little bit like this is just my like and this is just my personal view, not the views of anybody. it's a little bit like having seen what i've that he's trying to almost turn meghan markle into his own mother and

love her like that okay judy thank you very much judi james our body language expert . i hope our body language expert. i hope you have a wonderful new year. yes, fantastic. we're moving on from that now because you're with me, patrick christys right here and coming up, here on gb news. and coming up, what is the best to be what is the best way to be charitable? it wrong to only charitable? is it wrong to only charity out of guilt at christmas? do you give to money homeless people you see on the street? you you won't street? you worry you won't spend the right things spend it on the right things on that you anything? that chance you anything? buckley next. i'll buckley joins me live next. i'll be in just a couple of be back in just a couple of minutes .

well, lots of you've been getting in touch with your thoughts on wearing mask in case you just joining us. it's because it's looking like maybe, just maybe, we'll all to wear one again very soon. in fact, the hospital nottingham has decided make mandatory for decided to make mandatory for

people this people to wear masks there. this is of the fact that is in light of the fact that cases are massive surge in cases are on a massive surge in china and now we've had italy and we've had spain all saying that going to introduce that they're going to introduce some for the some of restrictions for the chinese around evils. and i'm worried there's going to be a slope. and that is exactly what gary just said. gary's been on the end. both thank you very much. he says, patrick, this is how it started last. it is indeed a slippery slope. i will not a mask ever again. that not wear a mask ever again. that gary, course you are gary, you of course you are within your wear a within your rights to wear a mask. you to. i just don't mask. if you to. i just don't want it to statement in want it to be statement in anyway the christmas and anyway over the christmas and new period, large numbers new year period, large numbers of. people take in charity of. people take part in charity work. they give donations and provide homeless people and refugees war torn refugees who have fled war torn countries. i safe place. but should charity work be done every christmas time ? or should every christmas time? or should we putting in more effort to we be putting in more effort to do all year round? joining me now is someone knows a lot now is someone who knows a lot about charity work. charity founder mba. founder and author nick mba. nick you very much. it's going to be a bit short and sweet. this one, my good man, i've massively and the rest

massively over run and the rest of the show. but yes, should we more charitable all year round, all people need to all year round people need to work out what they care about and what they want to do . most and what they want to do. most people who give a christmas really don't care if they're doing it to feed that guilt that trying to trying to get rid of that guilt all this such a festive period and the only people that benefit from this the huge charities all the drug stuff on the streets, you need to be a lot more careful how you give and you help people throughout the year okay a lot people donate we'll be looking now and going at times of quite tough year energy bills food etc. what would you say to them? could they still try to make sure that they give a little bit elsewhere? yes i want people to help. we all should be helping all the time. what annoys me is when we think one day a year we can do something that's going change the world. change someone's life, the truth . you

someone's life, the truth. you can do nothing today to change someone's life or to help. and there's nothing you can do. you're wasting your time. what you need to do is a small, local charity near you to do you agree with check out go to charities commission, make sure do good work and start making small donations to them on a monthly . donations to them on a monthly. that's the only way you can really help people . very lastly really help people. very lastly very quickly would you urge people then to go local with the charities, the charities that operate in your local community maybe you can reach out and touch the good they do as opposed to not that i'm disrespecting any other charity i don't really doing i don't really mind doing it with given what with this one. given what happened oxfam. happened in. haiti, oxfam. well, i disrespect to stop giving i will disrespect to stop giving money. these huge multi—billion multinational charities , because multinational charities, because all you're doing is you're paying all you're doing is you're paying of ceos assisting ceos. you just your money mostly goes to that find a small local

charity to your baby that . you charity to your baby that. you care about charity at home helped you improve local community. that's the most you can do and the most you should be doing. if everyone did that would live in the better world. stop paying the wages of millionaires to you to be better . absolutely. i couldn't agree . . absolutely. i couldn't agree. thank you very much, nick barclay. i am be just urging you urging us all to i need to do this myself. i need to be more charitable people, charitable trusts to find out a local charity and give them a few quid. it will make all of the difference. you will meet patrick christys up patrick christys on gb news up fleet street legend calvin mackenzie on the mackenzie weighs in on the revolut zation that everybody is least favourite prime minister pretty much tony blair considered gagging britain's free press is mackenzie on the battle royale . plus we'll have battle royale. plus we'll have more on the return of the covid hysteria as chinese cases. what does that mean for ? you before does that mean for? you before i though it is you with hello again aidan mcgivern here from the met office it was a

thoroughly soggy start for many of us this morning, but the rain eases this afternoon, further showers in the west and this is going to be mild for many , going to be mild for many, especially in the south where we've got this south westerly airflow across northern scotland. it's a different story. low pressure bringing colder and a feature in the colder air and a feature in the far north, bringing some persistent rain and hill snow dunng persistent rain and hill snow during the rest of friday to the northern hours north of the mainland. and then that snow reaching low levels overnight . reaching low levels overnight. but elsewhere, it's mild . and but elsewhere, it's mild. and after a brief interlude , drier after a brief interlude, drier weather, further rain sweeps in from the southwest overnight spells of wet weather on and off. england, wales southern scotland and parts of northern ireland showers well. ireland seeing showers as well. a coming from the a breeze coming from the south—west means that as we start it's 13 celsius start saturday, it's 13 celsius in south, it's cold in in the south, but it's cold in north scotland where north of scotland where it's also , 70 per hour also windy, 70 mile per hour wind clearing the wind gusts clearing the north—east scotland through north—east of scotland through the and snow the early hours and further snow andice the early hours and further snow and ice issues as we start the day for northern scotland, brighter for central scotland, some rain reaching, brighter for central scotland, some rain reaching , southern

some rain reaching, southern scotland during the afternoon falling as snow for the southern uplands and it's mild for much of england and. wales with rain on and off, along with a strong wind and temperatures of 13 or 14 celsius into new year's eve evening . spells of rain continue evening. spells of rain continue to move northwards and it looks 50993l to move northwards and it looks soggy across central parts of the uk . i soggy across central parts of the uk. i think soggy across central parts of the uk . i think southern areas the uk. i think southern areas turning drier for a time. the north of scotland also with some snow showers , places, but the snow showers, places, but the rain reaching the likes of edinburgh by midnight and pushing north into scotland falling as snow over the mild. meanwhile south with further showers for sunday a knee is day it does look a little brighter part but actually these as they come through will be heavy . come through will be heavy. they'll move through quickly and. it looks like later in the day it will be a bit drier across england and wales but further rain for scotland, northern ireland a drier spell on monday with some sunshine. further coming on tuesday .

further rain coming on tuesday. welcome back, everybody. here patrick christys on gb news. now the week is winding down, but i'm certainly not because there is a lot of news out there today. are we about be put back into some kind of covid lockdown and have our civil liberties been are calls been stripped? there are calls for go back home, for for masks to go back home, for travel restrictions and for mandatory return mandatory testing to return mental health crisis in our nhs . well, it's emerged that children 25,000 days were missed by nhs due to mental health. does this show how tough the job is or should they toughen up? tony blair on flushable. it's emerged that he discussed censoring the free during his time in office with starmer looking to reinvent new labour. i ask , can we trust the left to i ask, can we trust the left to free speech? and i always say walking into a food supply catastrophe. one of britain's most famous farmers straight talker , it's the housewives

talker, it's the housewives favourite is gareth wyn jones , favourite is gareth wyn jones, as he joins me to warn us against taking his ilk for granted. get in touch, gbviews@gbnews.uk will you go back to wearing mask? that's what i want to know. gb news gb news dot uk of that coming your way after latest headlines headunes. way after latest headlines headlines . patrick, thank you. headlines. patrick, thank you. is 4:03. i'm sanchez and the gb newsroom the family of 26 year old elle edwards was killed in merseyside on christmas have paid tribute to their beautiful bright star. police are continuing search and urge anyone with information to come forward. 30 year old man from tranmere arrested on suspicion of . the murder tranmere arrested on suspicion of. the murder has been tranmere arrested on suspicion of . the murder has been recalled of. the murder has been recalled to . prison. a 19 year old woman to. prison. a 19 year old woman from brock ferry has been bailed and a 31 year old man remains custody. sitting als father tim

edwards, merseyside police read out the family statement she had this way about her that as soon as he met her the you instantly fell in love with her. everyone knew and met al knew how special she was . her life was infectious she was. her life was infectious . anyone who wasn't with around her had a good time. . anyone who wasn't with around her had a good time . she loved her had a good time. she loved life and had so many amazing plans . the future. she was just plans. the future. she was just getting started . west midlands getting started. west midlands police been given more time to question two men arrested on suspicion . the murder of a 23 suspicion. the murder of a 23 year old man on boxing day , cody year old man on boxing day, cody fisher, died following a knife attack at the crane nightclub pub in birmingham. the venue , pub in birmingham. the venue, since had its licence suspended , with police saying that been serious management failing . serious management failing. another suspect also in custody , tributes continue to flood in

for dame vivienne westwood, who died yesterday at the age of 81. singer george describing her as the undisputed queen of british. tributes are also left outside of her home in london. dame vivienne was synonymous with 19705 vivienne was synonymous with 1970s punk rock dressing bands such as the pistols, celebrities politicians and royalty . her politicians and royalty. her representatives say . she died representatives say. she died peacefully, surrounded by her family . peacefully, surrounded by her family. brazil has peacefully, surrounded by her family . brazil has begun days of family. brazil has begun days of national mourning , honour of national mourning, honour of football legend who died yesterday , the age of 82. pele yesterday, the age of 82. pele had colon cancer and died in. widely regarded as the greatest football player . he widely regarded as the greatest football player. he is the only man to the world cup three times as a player . man to the world cup three times as a player. on monday morning, pele, his body will be moved to the urbano caldeira stadium this former club santos where the

pubuc former club santos where the public can pay their. former club santos where the public can pay their . a public can pay their. a procession the streets of sao paolo on tuesday will be followed a private family burial . former england goalkeeper peter shilton has paid tribute as a gentleman and. wherever he went, he left a big impression, you know, and i mean, just adored him, you know. you know, and i mean, just adored him, you know . as i say, adored him, you know. as i say, he never had a weakness really. and, you know , to win three and, you know, to win three world cups was was, you know, incredible . uk house price incredible. uk house price growth has slowed sharply again. this month to 2.8% as the market cools following the autumn surge in mortgage rates nationwide building society reports prices by 0.1% in december for the fourth consecutive monthly fall. the report puts the average price this month at just £260,000. property russell quirk told gb news he thinks 2023 will

see the housing market fluctuate . frankly, i don't see the long term prospects despite what those some headlines would have you believe being actually particularly negative. you know, the housing market is actually pretty robust. normally and if you look at it from a medium and a long term perspective , it'll a long term perspective, it'll be fine. but that certainly it's taken a bit of a hit, but i think it's more centre related than it is economics related, even though as you rightly point out, the cost a mortgage, of course, is increased . romanian course, is increased. romanian prosecutors have asked for a 30 day extension to the arrest of onune day extension to the arrest of online influencer andrew tate . online influencer andrew tate. he's been detained on suspicion , human trafficking and rape . , human trafficking and rape. the former reality tv star who was detained alongside his brother had his house ready in the capital, bucharest. the tate brothers have been under a criminal investigation since april. they've to comment, but their lawyer confirmed their

detention . firefighters in detention. firefighters in england dealt with nearly 25,000 wildfires this summer for times last year's figure and highest in at least ten years. services tackled more than 50 wildfires a day at the peak of the heatwave between june and august, when the temperatures reached as high as 40 degrees. earlier this week , met office said 2022 was the uk's warmest year record with above average temperatures every month. apart december this is gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens. now patrick, it is back to you . is back to you. well, it didn't take long, did it? despite two years of painful evidence proving that travel restrictions do nothing to , stop restrictions do nothing to, stop the spread of an airborne virus,

a in chinese covid cases has sparked hysteria among some governments. the us spain and italy have all re—entered phase covid kerbs against travellers china. and italian prime minister giorgio meloni is , minister giorgio meloni is, urging other eu countries to follow . yesterday, uk defence follow. yesterday, uk defence minister ben wallace said the government is reviewing whether to introduce covid restrictions on visitors from china. so have we failed to learn from past pandemic mistakes? well, should britain follow and reintroduce draconian on travel beyond throw goes against important distinction here. i know a lot of people might be looking at this now. go well, hang on a minute. china's got a massive spike in cases. should we not restrict travel from china? i can understand point view. can understand that point view. my can understand that point view. my be this my concern will be this a slippery and then when we slippery slope. and then when we to in other to see cases rising in other countries, that roll the countries, does that roll the wicket? to kind of wicket? a return to the kind of restrictions that we have. we've already got a hospital this already got a hospital in this country re, country that has mandated re, mandated mask wearing. i am just concerned that we fall back into

old habits when it comes to this stuff. try and answer all of stuff. to try and answer all of these burning questions, i'm joined this is joined now by gosh, this is a hard word say experts he's hard word to say experts he's not all vastly hugh pennington on the rights from political commentator candice holdsworth. great okay i will start great stuff. okay i will start with you under any circumstances, would you allow a return to any form of restrictions ? i would add my restrictions? i would add my instincts says no, i do not want to go , like you say, down that to go, like you say, down that slippery slope . and if we start slippery slope. and if we start testing imposing . to what end testing imposing. to what end and is that going to then embolden who'd like to have another lockdown ? because those another lockdown? because those voices are coming again and they're becoming loud again and saying mustn't under react. saying we mustn't under react. we be cautious . we've been we must be cautious. we've been down road before and we down this road before and we know it leads. hugh know where it leads. hugh pennington, bacteriology expert i will throw it over to now. my concern this would be that we a return to overly zealous precautions. your thoughts ? no,

precautions. your thoughts? no, we don't need to go. if anyone it's precaution. surely there are a lot of cases of covid running about the country at the moment. you nearly a million and a half people have been infected very recently and. the virus has got a little bit because of the winter but the most important thing, the really important thing, the really important thing to do is to get yourself vaccinated if you're in a high risk group , vaccinated if you're in a high risk group, you vaccinated if you're in a high risk group , you know, if you are risk group, you know, if you are elderly or if you someone, you know, immunocompromised , from know, immunocompromised, from the risk of that get vaccine gets the vaccine you in nearly all cases having a serious. most people when they covid don't have any symptoms at all and the other thing trivial and one of the concerns i have about that, though, is here is china now got a vaccine programme ? well, they a vaccine programme? well, they have, but it hasn't been very good. and the strange thing about china, okay, their vaccine isn't as good as the vaccines

we've been getting, but it's not bad. it's about as good as a flu vaccine . yeah a bit. but i think vaccine. yeah a bit. but i think the elderly in china who are the people most at the people who go into and not forcing the people die they've not taken up vaccine anywhere near well as possible people in this country and i don't know why that is but they know that's putting them at in china where they're virus has now taken off because they've all the restrictions pretty well all the restrictions pretty well all of them . and that's it mr. all of them. and that's it mr. harper , let me say i probably harper, let me say i probably can these people will be a little bit split on this at the same time as not wilfully wanting allow people into your country may well be coming from a country covid is absolutely ripping through there. who knows what kind of new strain there may or may not be. there is a principle to it as well, which is that it might pave way for a return to some very, very, very draconian rules where all you own because some elderly

vulnerable people might be saying just stop all chinese travel. why are you putting my life risk? i countries. yeah sorry today's call. yes i totally understand that perspective. if we look back to the beginning of 2020 people, did treat the chinese government's claims about covid with enough scepticism . they with enough scepticism. they accepted that what they were saying about there being no transmissibility , transmissibility, transmissibility, transmissibility between human beings not to impose travel restrictions on china and maybe if we done that if we look at the experience saas we could have controlled it early on. so i can understand why people are saying no take a strict with them and maybe it'll make them now and maybe it'll make difference but i think that one thing did learn though of thing we did learn though of whole what happened is whole two years what happened is we have to learn to live with . we have to learn to live with. we to learn to live with we have to learn to live with this . we will never go. zero this. we will never go. zero covid work unless cut covid will never work unless cut china off completely. i don't know how that would play out in the future and of people the future and a lot of people have said . i the future and a lot of people have said. i mean will the future and a lot of people have said . i mean will know have said. i mean he will know better he's a microbiome

better because he's a microbiome . i mean can't we ban . just i mean we can't we ban viruses there's only so much we can control them. well, he he will know china of the most will not know china of the most masked countries in living history and, one of the most severe lockdowns people getting welded into their own homes . welded into their own homes. some point they've got these horrific soviet internment camps. we here have a vaccine rollout, a very successful vaccine rollout. it would appear one of the better vaccines, if you can call it, that hospitals of our time to protect themselves. you would hope so. and i'm just wondering what restrictions actually work. i mean, we are in a situation now where best placed to just live with this thing. would you ever reintroduce any of restrictions no matter what ? no, i unless no matter what? no, i unless unless new strain appears, which is how horrendously virulent , a is how horrendously virulent, a bit like sars virus, which a lot more lethal than covid has been and shows because basically, you

could control cells by basically up people who had symptoms . that up people who had symptoms. that doesn't work with covid because lot of people transmit the virus before know they've got it and so on. so the all the control measures we earlier before we had vaccines, we're in a sense doomed to fail they may have reduced number of cases a bit, but they were doomed to fail because it was so good at getting pilot. and let's hope that the virus what we know as far as we know they the virus is the omicron virus in china which is less virulent and all the ones that have gone before and ones that have gone before and one the one thing we could be is checking the occasional chinese visiting the country to, get the virus from there to see if they've got a new virus. there's no evidence they have. and but meantime , you and i, i do take meantime, you and i, i do take your point . unless there was your point. unless there was some kind of rapid new strain and there's no need, i'm just

going to ask you this, even if there was some new strain that was even worse than any covid that we've ever seen before , now that we've ever seen before, now we know what we know about our response to , the coronavirus. so response to, the coronavirus. so the economic devastation, the mental health crisis caused, the damage done to our health service , the damage done to service, the damage done to children's education left, right and centre you take your pick, it has caused massive impact negatively in every single other aspect of life apart . just in aspect of life apart. just in the initial instance of trying to stop people got covid and actually there's question marks over how well it did even if we had a more dangerous strain on days, would you impose of those restrictions? i'm not restrictions? because i'm not sure actually work well , sure they actually work well, there was a really dangerous strain. i would look at what the great parents and declaration strain. i would look at what the greaproposed and declaration strain. i would look at what the greaproposed ind declaration strain. i would look at what the greaproposed i mean laration strain. i would look at what the greaproposed i mean they on strain. i would look at what the greaproposed i mean they said and proposed i mean they said that should do is we that what we should do is we should most should those who are most vulnerable and isolate them and give them much societal support as we can whilst letting everyone else with stronger immune systems go about their ordinary lives, preserve the economy at the cost of

children's mental health that they were of course demonise and they were of course demonise and they would shut down and no one listened to them. but i think that what they proposed is actually sensible. so that what they proposed is ac'thely sensible. so that what they proposed is ac'the event sensible. so that what they proposed is ac'the event of sensible. so that what they proposed is ac'the event of a sensible. so that what they proposed is ac'the event of a very1sible. so that what they proposed is ac'the event of a very rapid so in the event of a very rapid strain posed a threat to strain that posed a threat to the lives of elderly and vulnerable people i look vulnerable people, i would look at recommendations, which at their recommendations, which think and sensible think are moderate and sensible . if there is something that kicks off in the coming months or we to see or whatever, and we start to see our politicians and our professionals about professionals whispering about some or restrictions some of lockdown or restrictions . do you think that the british pubuc . do you think that the british public are owed chris whitty style slide shows with his , style slide shows with his, let's be honest with you, quite erroneous pretty much every time he to will them out. plus he tried to will them out. plus an economic cost benefit analysis do you think we now are owed as the british before we consent to any more restrictions we what we have to do what what the experts have to do if there's going to be any move back to restrictions is it come up with the evidence that the restrictions will go to work rather than the models shows they. so perhaps we if did this

this might happen they've got to be much clearer with the public for the public to accept mask wearing you know clarity crowded places like they've got be very very much clearer with the evidence and the ability to persuade the public that what they're suggesting what that wanting us to do is in our own interest it has to be in our own interest. that is, it has to be shown to before they do anything . it's got to be in our interests, in the round here, because, you know , looking at because, you know, looking at things like people's pockets, you know, with the finances of this nation, we were bailed out big time a lot of time. people are paying that back. can we afford to do that again? children's education, massive, massive mental crisis. it's such a abuse as we've a domestic abuse as well. we've been away for however been locked away for however long. can these can i ask you a question about the psychology of ruling class? brine , ruling class? steve brine, chairman of the commons health committee , was health minister committee, was health minister until 2019. he said , we have until 2019. he said, we have every right to over, not under

react . what's your reaction? i react. what's your reaction? i know i saw that . yeah, i saw know i saw that. yeah, i saw that. when you think back to where were this time last year when the data was coming out of south africa ? omicron that said south africa? omicron that said it was mild, it was moderate, it was manageable. this could be the of the pandemic this is the end of the pandemic this is positive. and had positive. and you had individuals not not individuals like that not not paying individuals like that not not paying attention, saying we know about it is bad. we need to go back into lockdown. luckily to bofis back into lockdown. luckily to boris johnson's credit, he took the leap of faith and said no and i think that's that's the spirit in we need to we need to go now one year later we should take the leap of faith we can manage this we don't need it. all right, look, both of you, thank you very much. countess with that political commentator on as well. on hugh pennington as well. professor at the university of aberdeen. i asked you for your views. loads been views. loads of have been getting touch views on getting in touch your views on this returning i asked this hysteria returning i asked whether or not quite simply you would mask and the answer would wear a mask and the answer overwhelm me appears be no, overwhelm me appears to be no, never will last time and i ain't starting this nonsense now,

rambo, got i've got my cat. rambo, i've got i've got my cat. no no. wear a mask, obviously. waste of time. i still got covid high . why would anyone go back high. why would anyone go back to wearing masks? they didn't appear to wear it last time and they seem to very popular in china and that's got them nowhere. yeah, i was kicked off our in you are just our inbox. in case you are just joining us, i'm wondering why we're well not we're racking up covid. well not my the government's my fault. it's the government's fault because it looks as though we are starting to consider restrictions covid restrictions for covid on what is ladies is happening in china. ladies and just cast your and gentlemen, just cast your mind because how it mind back because this is how it happened time is in china happened last time is in china it to get a bit tasty it started to get a bit tasty over there. then we started to block people coming in from china. all of a sudden china. then all of a sudden other european block other european started to block people in. all of a people coming in. then all of a sudden european countries sudden other european countries to minute, what's to go, hang on a minute, what's the in country? what's the case in that country? what's the case in that country? what's the that country? the case like in that country? and before you knew it, we were having our civil liberties massively, hugely, hugely concerned on the concerned that we are on the bnnk concerned that we are on the brink something else brink now of something else kicking when you've got kicking off. and when you've got people mr. well, people like mr. bryne, well, saying it's always to saying it's always better to overreact drought, no overreact than under drought, no way. no, it isn't. and if

way. isn't no, it isn't. and if you want overreact, then you can go somewhere else. you're go do it somewhere else. you're with christys on gb with me. patrick christys on gb news up as it's revealed mental health issues scotland's health issues cost scotland's nhs 25,000 days of work nhs children 25,000 days of work last year. oh nurses who abandoned patients to strike justified due striking nurses actually put more pressure on their struggling colleagues at nhs nurse . their struggling colleagues at nhs nurse. naomi their struggling colleagues at nhs nurse . naomi berry nhs practise nurse. naomi berry joins me live to give a view from inside the nhs. that's .

next welcome back, everybody. now lots of you have been getting in with your thoughts on china and restrictions. john says patrick. the truth is that very few people need to with zoom teams . people need to with zoom teams. is that so? yes. restrict travel or to any country of rest though

is a very slippery john. perfectly sensible good man . no perfectly sensible good man. no no problems at realistically where does end . so what where does end. so what government stands in front of you says you don't really need to travel that would need which have capped up it would appear is a very slippery slope isn't it because do you need to on houday it because do you need to on holiday do you need to leave house to go to the shops? do you need to socialise with people in person. well suppose you don't necessarily need to in a physical sense. won't die physical sense. you won't die if. but it'd nice if. you don't. but it'd be nice too. wouldn't it? and that is part human, you part of being human, as you know, john. anyway stephen says anyone ill should not anyone knowingly ill should not travel. no. to no to any form of lockdowns . chinese can screen lockdowns. chinese can screen themselves and we can do random checks prior to entry that i would suspect stephen is a relatively sense approach, which is why it will never happen . who is why it will never happen. who else do we go ahead? david says all means let the eu shut down. while we aren't part of that club any more. so you stay, say, for business. yeah you know it works. stephen i know. david even whoever you are. david

because we become pariah, we a because we become a pariah, we a pariah. they'd go, well, actually the uk is the only countries not researching this, so stop like he knows so then they stop like he knows it. so then almost just be it. so then we'd almost just be trapped country trapped our country anyway, which fine. it's a beautiful, which is fine. it's a beautiful, the worst places to be trapped, you we be out in you know. we could be out in slovenia somewhere, although slovenia or somewhere, although probably slovenia or somewhere, although protknow, we could seriously you know, we could seriously just end being a pariah and we'd be, you know, the kind of laughingstock europe. they're not shutting down. so inevitably, would inevitably, our leaders would make down as well. or make us locked down as well. or have those restrictions anyway . have those restrictions anyway. striking unions are running out of money and will have to back down over higher ministers down over higher pay. ministers have action is thought to have said action is thought to be costing unions millions be costing the unions millions of pounds. very strong day, with some increasing levies and some now increasing levies and turning public donations, turning to public donations, trying to their reserves. trying to top up their reserves. meanwhile figures obtained by the liberal reveal that the scottish liberal reveal that the scottish liberal reveal that the equivalent of more than 621 years were lost in nursing and midwifery across nhs due to health issues. last year alone . health issues. last year alone. so despite the risk to patients

, nurses who strong vindicate by statistics like or on nurses who walk out just piling more pressure onto their colleagues in exchange for a bit more cash. joining me now is nhs practise nurse naomi barry. naomi, thank you very much. great to have you on the i believe i'm just heanng on the i believe i'm just hearing it now. have you just finished work ? yeah, i've just finished work? yeah, i've just finished. patrick literally drove quick to parked up before coming on. so we have actually piled more onto an already overstretched nurse. it's honestly, i think, to how it's all right. well, vaguely . all right. well, vaguely. anyway, so let's deal with with the issue about the mental health situation and this was done about scottish nurses how is the mental health situation , is the mental health situation, nhs staff at the minute amongst nurses at the moment. it's never been brilliant patrick, it's never been brilliant and will say the pandemic and, the striking has made it worse . it striking has made it worse. it was going on prior to this as well and it just wasn't as

publicised as what it was before and not talked about as much. there's a stigma in the nhs, i think about mental health and how do you say to somebody, i mental health issues while trying to protect my patients as well . i think trying to protect my patients as well. i think that's trying to protect my patients as well . i think that's where well. i think that's where people i think some people some people i think some people some people would say well look when you sign up to job that is involving life and death and everything in between a lot of that pretty grim one would imagine very hours, very stressful . so the knock on stressful. so the knock on effects that will be potential . effects that will be potential. you know, you with your mental health. and do you think it's reasonable to that? you know, nurses should just deal with that ? no no, i nurses should just deal with that? no no, i couldn't even nurses should just deal with that ? no no, i couldn't even say that? no no, i couldn't even say had mental health issues. i remember when i qualified three years ago to move to a new practise, have things going on and it really hard to deal with and it really hard to deal with and if someone to me at that

point well you're a nurse expected you've got to get on with that i probably would have broke fortunately i assault the help that i needed and got where i am today but no definitely not. profession isn't going in going right. okay. i could end up with mental health issues. i've got to deal with that as a nurse because that's what's expected it. yeah, exactly . i expected it. yeah, exactly. i think that's absolutely fair enough. think that's absolutely fair enough . the burning question for enough. the burning question for me now is, does a pay rise help with mental health? so what you've got to look is the aspects of why the pay rise has been asked and why we looking at conditions within the nursing then. yeah, it will a positive impact towards health as well. and we can't blame those striking for an increase of mental health within the nhs. i don't think it's fair to put that on notice as. well, so what. so by that you mean because people will increase the burden on areas the nhs which might make some of the people

mental health wise, we blame those people striking for making their colleagues mental health worse. yeah yeah, yeah. mental health has always been a trick. it's always been there. whether with being you. no, there's been risks of mental health at oxford documents and a trainee gp killed themself a committed suicide. this was before any so anything so it's always been there we've just not it's been out in public knowledge as much so you do you think that and this is something i'm keen to drill down on do you think if nurses were given a pay rise of around 19% of and there no more recruits or anything like that so conditions basically stayed the same. but money improve . by the same. but money improve. by around 19. do you think we'd see fewer people going off mental health issues ? oh gosh , probably

health issues? oh gosh, probably not. no, i think the strike all the way is on money. there is a lot of talk, the conditions, the terms of pay, how many hours, the work working as well, monies, money. money doesn't bnng monies, money. money doesn't bring happiness. it doesn't all we know about everybody knows that. we know about everybody knows that . yes, it can help in terms that. yes, it can help in terms of helping with food, helping with mortgages etc, etc. but we also need to improve the working conditions that the rain and thatis conditions that the rain and that is one of the things that has come up as well. yeah. one of the big topics now just in strikes in general. i mean , strikes in general. i mean, there's so many of them going on, isn't there is hard to on, isn't there it is hard to narrow down to one. but what narrow it down to one. but what we're hearing several we're hearing that several unions saying, at least unions are saying, at least behind closed doors , actually, behind closed doors, actually, there's so long that we can there's only so long that we can strike for here because our members won't get paid for it so they will struggle already or they will struggle already or the unions themselves will run out of money which implies that a deal has got to be done at some point because otherwise the government will just wait. this thing out. and with absolute respect nurses. well gareth, you

know they've just get two or 3% or whatever it was that they wanted what number is a number that you would be happy for a nursing body to settle in terms of a pay rise. so you're not going to get the 19. it would appear clearly you want than the 5, supposedly, or 4. i think it is that you've been offered. is there a number in that you would you would go right, dale, you know, you cannot put a cap number on it. but if i expect if they came back with 18, every nurse will be like, yeah, absolutely fantastic not much wiggle room of you. you've gone straight, you've grown, you've dropped from 92, 80% to go high and i think if they came back with even 10% and working conditions may be a hard to say isn't that it is so hard and i my heart breaks them i'm just andifs my heart breaks them i'm just and it's so difficult them and it's a you see appreciation behind it as well . it's a you see appreciation behind it as well. i think i got i think probably want to feel

more appreciated as well as. i think probably want to feel more appreciated as well as . you more appreciated as well as. you know, getting a bit of a bump. and i do understand that. i think it's i think it's a difficult situation . a lot of difficult situation. a lot of patients, of course, are feel as though the quality of medical care for a variety different reasons has been a bit lucky in the last couple of years. and then to see people going on strike. so i can very much see both it. but thank you very, very much. it's great to have you on the show and i'll let you go. you've just off go. you've just come off shifting and shifting your political and i think deserve break. think you deserve a break. so there you thank you very, there you are. thank you very, very much. i would be great to have you on just discussing. yes. as well. of yes. is pay as well. and of course, mental health issues that. so loads of that. right. okay. so loads of people asking cover people have asking us to cover this. so we decided that we this. and so we decided that we were indeed going do it. it's were indeed going to do it. it's mackenzie tony blair and the mackenzie on tony blair and the reason why we're doing this is because revealed at because it's revealed that at top tony blair one eight accuracy rules for newspapers is all a bit orwellian. this can labourin all a bit orwellian. this can labour in the left be trusted to protect britain's free press because for a period of time new

labour which cares . starmer labour which cares. starmer apparently wants to reinvent new labour essentially wanted to censor now as news . cehsoi' how as news. censor now as news. patrick, thank you. this is the latest from the gb newsroom the family of elle edwards who was dead on christmas eve at a pub in wirral has paid tribute to their most beautiful and bright star merseyside police has urged anyone with to come forward . a anyone with to come forward. a 30 year old man from tranmere arrested on suspicion of the 26 year old's murder, has recalled to prison . a 19 year old woman to prison. a 19 year old woman from rock has been bailed and a one year old man remains in, sitting alongside . dale's sitting alongside. dale's father, tim edwards merseyside police read out the family statement she had this way about the decision as he met her, who instantly fell in love with her. everyone that knew and met our

knew how special she was . her knew how special she was. her life . infectious. anyone who was life. infectious. anyone who was with around her had a good time. she loved life. and had so many amazing plans. the she loved life. and had so many amazing plans . the future. she amazing plans. the future. she was only just getting started . was only just getting started. west midlands police have been given more time to question two men arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 23 year old man on boxing day. cody fisher died , boxing day. cody fisher died, following a knife attack at the crain in birmingham. the venue since had its licence suspended , with police saying that being serious management failings. another suspect also remains in custody . and brazil has begun custody. and brazil has begun three days of national mourning in honour of football legend . in honour of football legend. the 82 year old had colon cancer and died yesterday in hospital in sao paolo , widely regarded as

in sao paolo, widely regarded as the greatest footballer ever. he's the only man to win the world cup three times as a player . tv world cup three times as a player. tv and dab radio. this is .

gb news. welcome wonderful paper. lots of you have been getting in touch with your thoughts on. their search about the nhs . alan says search about the nhs. alan says removal middle management. this will free up money to give the nurses a better pay rise. malcolm privatised in the malcolm says privatised in the nhs the only real forward. nhs is the only real forward. take it out of the politicians , take it out of the politicians, david says. falls pay. the main reason nurses take many days off this is in relation to the fact that 225,000 days were lost in

scotland . days were lost in scotland. days were lost in scotland. days were lost in scotland as a result of nurses going duty mental health and midwives as. well, of course don't want to diminish any mental health issues whatsoever . and for many of us, many people watch listening to this will some form of will suffer from some form of mental in the past. a lot mental issue in the past. a lot of time off, though, isn't it is a lot of time off as the self—employed how many days they lose the view of lose a year that the view of david of course right loads more of you be getting in touch but i think we should just move it on a little bit. now keep those emails coming in now and i'm sure you will want to actually in it in touch on this because it involves tony blair, who is not exactly favourite chap for a lot of viewers, our on this of our viewers, our on this particular never newly particular channel never newly released the national released files by the national archives prime archives show that former prime minister private minister tony principal private secretary wanted secretary jeremy heywood wanted to regulate newspapers for the accuracy of their reports . accuracy of their reports. pearson is the rest, but began writing in 2001. heywood said assume it is unthinkable to , assume it is unthinkable to, impose accuracy regulation on, newspapers, no one their

industry would get away with the practise of making up stories that even most serious newspapers indulge in. despite is appeals for regulation on newspapers, accuracy . his newspapers, accuracy. his efforts were shot down by blair's and were branded suicide told to try so was this a draconian by labour to regulate what the newspapers were reporting? and in light of the fact that keir starmer apparently wants to reinvent new labourin apparently wants to reinvent new labour in one way or another. is it reasonable say that we trust labour the free press. joining me now is former sun editor kelvin . go ahead. thank very kelvin. go ahead. thank very much. given the fact that we were lied about weapons of mass destruction , something very destruction, something very dodgy happened when it came to dr. david kelly. and there was some really squishy backroom deals done with terrorists . it's deals done with terrorists. it's no wonder that labour wanted to clamp down on free press, is clamp down on the free press, is it ? n0, clamp down on the free press, is it ? no, no. clamp down on the free press, is it? no, no. but i. the real point that haywood was making , point that haywood was making, was that when he when they talked about when newspapers reported what the government was

saying . anybody who's been saying. anybody who's been around politics, actually either labour or tory will know within the government are there's more than one view. and what the government trying to do. so what the secretary state, the home office , the foreign office, office, the foreign office, they're trying to get one view, but then over there, there is somebody who sits around cabinet table, can't stay . the foreign table, can't stay. the foreign secretary thinks the whole is a complete idiot and actually views the prime minister as a complete dork as well. they briefing their favourite journalist to give a completely different view of that same policy. so the idea that somebody like heywood a very capable by the way and much loved civil servant who went on to become cabinet enormously bright and clever guy what he was trying to do was trying make sure that the government's view not you know noises off was the

one that was reported by but by the by the press. the difference between press and, for instance, your your own fact, your own incredible station, is that they don't have one collective view. you can either get the telegraph over , you can get excuse me over, you can get excuse me while i throw up the daily mirror over there, or you can have morning star or you can have morning star or you can have the sun or but there's a whole panoply . and if you want whole panoply. and if you want to have something to the left than the daily, then by the guardian. each one of them will be coming at a policy from a completely perspective. so the idea that some servant says, i'll tell you what the answer is, we will have quotes accurate , say, let's have accuracy within the government. do you think, though, that the left itself has a problem with freedom of speech because they seem to be the lovely, fluffy ones, but in name only , whenever ones, but in name only, whenever you say anything that goes against , you say anything that goes against, what they decide is the right . you can't right thing. you just can't cancel, you ? right. so

cancel, don't you? right. so let's be honest about this. i mean, there has been a very disturbing piece of analysis showing what exist in the free world. those that i read somewhere, there was only 6% of all the nations . the world were all the nations. the world were truly . and the issue about that truly. and the issue about that is both the right the far right and the left right, a free because they don't like it being put to them that what they're saying is either palpably untrue or completely bonkers and they want to crack down on it . and so want to crack down on it. and so being journalist in most of the world is a very, very dangerous occupation. yeah, sure. it is true that there's some in this country and i be an example of it can get things wrong. but that's because other people tell stuff which they is absolutely 100% true. alleged and then turns out to be 100% wrong. and i'm not sure what can be done

about that. we have libel laws in our country and we have laws to deal with that kind issue. but the idea that the it's only one government the end up hating the press, by the way that would be completely wrong. no no , be completely wrong. no no, absolutely. tony blair, of course, has a little bit of form for not being a massive front of media because he 98 he said we have a serious with the juvenile media the smallest decisions can become they become big headlines. they refuse substance of refuse report the substance of what . massive problems what you. massive problems there because he done did try to keep it secret that done with it secret that done deals with ira terrorists to them ira terrorists to give them immunity prison whilst of immunity from prison whilst of course we could actually retrospectively prosecute members forces members of our own armed forces at certain times years after they were accused of various different weapons of mass destruction and dogs to david kalikow kavanagh etchingham kalikow and kavanagh etchingham . but i think the other . yeah, but i think the other issue, of course, that he spent half his life very firmly of the rear end of rupert murdoch, he recognised that in period of time. so that was 97 and before

that that the popular press on your side was a good idea. so he he spent you know, he went out to it went out australia spoke at the news conference , was on at the news conference, was on the phone all the time to read about what do you think of this? what do you think of that? now murdoch you murdoch saying i'll tell you what think much of that you what i think much of that you are and so they had are right. and so they had a very close relationship right up until the point, of course , that until the point, of course, that he mr. murdoch, he suspected that mr. murdoch, that mr. blair was getting rather too close to his his third wife, wendi deng, because that will blow apart. and then he started against blair to the mail on sunday so low that there is no certainty about how things are going to work out between between between newspaper barons who have no power. and now, by the way, they have no power whatsoever . what rupert thinks whatsoever. what rupert thinks about about about storm and what he might think about rishi is of

no consequence. he can't deliver in the same way as for instance, in the same way as for instance, in my time when we had like four and a half million, we had like 12 million readers. it was enormous a powerful today the sun. so is four or 500,000. and actually, if it tells you to vote tory then it almost certainly the half a thousand people who buy the sun would probably vote labour. it's tony blair lucky to be still wandering the streets. do you think think ? well, i tell . you think think? well, i tell. you what. he said he's had a very good run. that's name is that very run and i, i think a clever guy and he saved the labour party from being completely, completely . he hasn't any completely. he hasn't any analysis of some of his decision making by the way. some, some could argue millions of lives. these aren't small decisions. you know , there's a lot of stuff you know, there's a lot of stuff that we don't . well, the weapons that we don't. well, the weapons

of mass destruction was a massive, massive error, which hangs his neck. i happen to be in dubai speaking on the same platform as abe right now. this was a laugh . so he stands up. he was a laugh. so he stands up. he stands up to give this speech you probably gave in doha about half hour earlier. anyway, he stands up and they any questions and the lady stood up and said, tell this. he said, why why is it that you are , a middle east it that you are, a middle east peace envoy when you started the war in iraq ? i they the entire war in iraq? i they the entire audience , many of them many of audience, many of them many of them arabs . oh, audience, many of them many of them arabs. oh, i'm audience, many of them many of them arabs . oh, i'm cheered . them arabs. oh, i'm cheered. yes. and it was a very point. and it made me it made laugh, but only legalistic humbled allies of alastair campbell. you know , the guy who drapes know, the guy who drapes yourself in an eu flag and preaches about morality you, wave all of this stuff through and some some would argue someone you don't mean, of course. some would argue things up rather a lot . and the up rather a lot. and the consequences of decisions cost however many tens of thousands ,

however many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of iraqi children their lives. and he says only up weapons of mass destruction and rolls his eyes at you. i mean, it's remarkable he i to get away with things i did year. colin mackenzie, did last year. colin mackenzie, the the sun. the former editor of the sun. right. you very much. right. thank you very much. okay. of you've been okay. lots of you've been getting your on getting in touch with your on this. says speech this. michael says speech is a myth the self serving myth for the self serving political and media establishment operates a policy of suppression by omission to pursue a new world order pursue there a new world order agenda. right. okay yes, of course. my puppet masters will here any moment. anyway, keith says the tories have put all the legislative in place for the left to silence any dissenting voices, to that woke agenda. you're with me on gb news. coming up , you're with me on gb news. coming up, always you're with me on gb news. coming up , always sleepwalking coming up, always sleepwalking into a food supply crisis in 2023. straight talk and fan favourite welsh hell farmer . favourite welsh hell farmer. it's a phrase you don't say very often gareth wyn jones, he was warned this before joins me after the break .

break welcome back, everybody. now food security must become our top priority in 2023. say the leaders of farming unions, the soaring costs at home and, the invasion of ukraine abroad threaten to undermine our food supply . nfu president minette supply. nfu president minette said the event of the past year have made the job of reducing food much harder throughout the world. since we left the eu the common agricultural policy has been replaced by the environment land scheme, whereby subsidies are given to farmers providing they reach high environmental targets. but some food producers , they've lost out due to bad deals which have given competitors like australia and new zealand unfair advantages set . is the uk sleepwalking into set. is the uk sleepwalking into a food crisis? joining me now is

welsh dairy and sheep farmer and possibly one of the most famous farmers in the land as gareth wyn jones. his very own brand, i believe has a pint of milk in front him. good stuff, gareth right. so you think the food food needs to be our top priority ? been my top priority priority? been my top priority this christmas . and i'm being this christmas. and i'm being told that that shouldn't have been the case. go and talk to me. those kind of i just want to one for you just in case everybody jumping on the bandwagon. i'm not a dairy farmer. i'm beef sheep. so that's fine . you can hear the that's fine. you can hear the noise of one of my milk being the sack outside that really speak carry on. yeah. so i came on your channel in the beginning of 22 and i said that we were sleepwalking into food . you sleepwalking into food. you know, we're seeing it with the 999 know, we're seeing it with the egg production in this country already and we'll see it a lot of other things if we're not

really careful. you know, we've had the axe had been made by saying how important food security in the uk. why don't just wake up and smell the coffee and listen to the people on the ground ? this is a global on the ground? this is a global problem. okay. because new zealand cutting down on production trees have been planted there. if you look at the netherlands, 3000 farms have been taken . the owners is now been taken. the owners is now due to the nitrate levels so—called . we see we see what in so—called. we see we see what in sri lanka massive , massive riots sri lanka massive, massive riots because there was food shortages. the only reason that they took away their artificial fertiliser, the pesticides. so this a global problem. so we look at our energy costs and the energy crisis where in we need to be to secure energy and food in this country and. we can do this. we can do it. but it takes

a lot of hard work and it does a lot of a lot of . absolutely lot of a lot of. absolutely a lot of a lot of. absolutely a lot of a lot of. absolutely a lot of people have been calling for stuff like this for quite a long time. a lot of people have been calling for supplies for quite a long time to be more self—sufficient as a country, but for and years and years, we've outsourced things like energy we've energy production, we've outsourced we've outsourced manufacture. we've loads of and we've seen loads of stuff and we've seen a you know, it was like a race to the bottom we thought, how cheap can we make a chicken? you know, and of a sudden you get and all of a sudden you get stuff imported from goodness knows we buying knows where. why are we buying in our veg from kenya in a load of our veg from kenya for example when could be for example when it could be grown a lot it is we grown here? a lot of it is we need to just get more patriotic about what we eat. our way. totally, totally. and we need to waste know, one third waste less. you know, one third of the food that it's is wasted in country . and, you know, in this country. and, you know, supermarkets need to paying a fair price to the farmers and the producers because, you know, we were 365 days a year to put food on people's tables and people are going to need farmer

every of the okay , every single day of the okay, think of that. you're going to need a dentist maybe once every six months. maybe you're going to need a doctor once a year , an to need a doctor once a year, an accountant once a year you know, accountant once a year you know, a lawyer if you're in the to do that every day . but current day, that every day. but current day, people need to realise, you know, we need to be pushing for food security in this country eating seasonal eating local eating seasonal eating local eating quality food. and we can build a better britain on our bellies by doing this you know will save millions on the nhs this process to condemn people about fermented protein and fake foods and these beyond meats whatever they are it's crap man you've got to eat proper good food sustainable food will come out of the ground all an animal you know and especially fed in this country. we've got a great climate to grow. grass to produce milk and to produce top

quality protein . eat it. let's quality protein. eat it. let's get behind british. yeah, it's good stuff. you've made me just want to go to war. fantastic. gareth wyn jones zara. excellent stuff. just filling you in about why we should be buying british growing, british eating something we can all get behind right. when we come back, we'll have more on the return of covid hysteria. chinese cases skyrocketed, apparently now we all need to pay the price for that well, no, not happening that as. well, no, not happening on conservative on my watch. conservative minister john redwood and former ministerjohn redwood and former of the sunday mirror, paul kuhn debate revelations that a tony blair aide wanted to get britain's press an explosive hour. britain's press an explosive hour . still britain's press an explosive hour. still to come easily a few explosions . pleasure. but before explosions. pleasure. but before we get stuck into that, it's your weather . hello we get stuck into that, it's your weather. hello again, aidan mcgivern here from the met office. it was thoroughly soggy. start for many of us this morning, but the rain eases afternoon. further showers in the west and this going to be mild for many , especially in the mild for many, especially in the south where we've got this south airflow across northern scotland. it's a different

story. low pressure bringing colder air and a feature in the far north, bringing some persistent rain and hills snow dunng persistent rain and hills snow during the rest of a friday to the northern north of the mainland. and then that snow reaching lower levels overnight . but elsewhere, it's mild after a brief interlude , drier a brief interlude, drier weather, further rain sweeps in from the southwest overnight spells of wet weather on and off. england, wales southern, scotland and parts of northern ireland seeing as well a breeze coming from the southwest means that start saturday, that as we start off saturday, it's the south, it's 13 celsius in the south, but it's cold in the of scotland where it's also windy 70 mile per clearing the per hour wind gusts clearing the north—east of scotland through the hours and further snow the early hours and further snow and issues. as we start the and ice issues. as we start the day for northern brighter for central scotland, some rain reaching southern scotland dunng reaching southern scotland during the afternoon falling a snow of the southern uplands . snow of the southern uplands. it's mild for much of england. wales rain on and off along with a strong and temperatures 13 or 14 celsius into new year's eve

evening the spells of rain continue to move northwards and it looks funkiest across central parts of the uk. i think southern areas turning drier a time. the north of scotland also dner time. the north of scotland also drier with some snow showers in, places, but the rain reaching the likes of edinburgh by midnight and pushing north into central scotland as snow over the hills mild. meanwhile, further south, further showers following for sunday and thursday. it does look a little brighter in pop, but naturally these showers as they come through will be they'll move through will be they'll move through quickly . it looks like through quickly. it looks like later in the day it will be a bit drier across england and wales, but further rain for scotland, northern ireland, a dner scotland, northern ireland, a drier spell on monday with some sunshine rain coming in on tuesday . tuesday. well a very good evening everybody is pondering here on gb news. and coming up is

china's covid madness about to spread to us? a gp and a barrister debate dynamo . our barrister debate dynamo. our strike is going to get worse or run out of stream and do you support them as well. we've got john redwood mp and former sunday editor paul colony to duke it out and has labour tempted to impose draconian on what newspapers can and can't report. new revelation suggests they came worryingly close. i'll put that to insider james matheson, but that your latest news . good afternoon news. good afternoon it's 5:01. i'm tatiana sanchez . the i'm tatiana sanchez. the newsroom the family of elle edwards who was killed in merseyside have paid to their most beautiful star. the 26 year old was shot at the lighthouse on christmas eve while celebrating with family and friends. police are urging anyone with information to

forward. a 30 year old man from tranmere arrested on suspicion of the murder has been recalled to prison. a 19 year old woman from rock ferry has been bailed and a 31 year old man remains in custody. sitting alongside owls, father tim edwards, merseyside , father tim edwards, merseyside, read out the family's statement she had this way about her that as soon as he met her who instantly fell in love , her. instantly fell in love, her. everyone that knew and met al knew how special she was . her knew how special she was. her life was infectious . anyone who life was infectious. anyone who was with around her had a good time. she life and had so many amazing plans for the future . amazing plans for the future. she was only just getting west midlands have been given more time to question. two men arrested suspicion of the murder of a 23 year old man on boxing. cody fisher died following a

knife attack at the nightclub in birmingham . the venue has since birmingham. the venue has since had its licence , with police had its licence, with police saying they had been serious management failings . another management failings. another suspect also in custody . suspect also in custody. tributes continue to flood in for dame westwood, who died yesterday aged 81. singer boy george describes her as the undisputed queen of british fashion. tributes are also being left outside of her south london home. dame vivienne was synonymous with 1970s punk rock dressing , such as the sex dressing, such as the sex pistols , celebrities, pistols, celebrities, politicians and royalty. her representatives say she died peacefully , surrounded by her peacefully, surrounded by her family family while brazil has begun three days of national in honour of football legend pele, who died yesterday, aged 82. pele colon cancer and died in hospital. widely regarded as the

greatest football player ever, he is the only man to win the world cup three times as a player. on monday morning, pele's body will be moved to the urbano. caldeira stadium of his former club , where the public former club, where the public will be able to pay their respects . a procession through respects. a procession through the streets of sao paolo on tuesday be followed by a private family burial. former england peter shilton has paid tribute as a gentleman and wherever he he left a big impression and you know and i fans just adored him you know as i say never had to wait in israel and you know to win three world cups was you know incredible . uk house growth know incredible. uk house growth has slowed sharply this month to 2.8% as the market cools following the autumn surge in rates. nationwide society reports prices fell by 0.1% in

december, the fourth consecutive monthly . the report puts the monthly. the report puts the average price this month at just over average price this month at just ove r £260,000. property expert over £260,000. property expert russell quirk told gb news he thinks 2023 will see the housing market. frankly don't see the long term despite again what those some headlines would have believe being actually particularly . you know the particularly. you know the housing market actually pretty robust normally and if you look at it from a medium and a long term active, it will be fine. but certainly it's taken a bit of a hit. but i think it's sentiment related than it is economics related , even though, economics related, even though, as you rightly point the cost of as you rightly point the cost of a mortgage, of course has increased . romanian prosecutor increased. romanian prosecutor have asked for a 30 day extension to . the arrest of extension to. the arrest of onune extension to. the arrest of online influencer tate, who's been detained on suspicion of human trafficking and rape. the

former reality tv star who was detained alongside his brother tristan had his house raided in the capital bucharest. the tate brothers been under criminal investigation since , april. investigation since, april. they've declined to comment, but their lawyer has confirmed their detention . and firefighters in detention. and firefighters in england , with nearly 25,000 england, with nearly 25,000 wildfires this summer for. last year's figure and the highest and at least a decade , services and at least a decade, services tackled more 50 wildfires a day at. the peak of the heat wave between june and august when temperatures as high as 40 degrees. earlier this week, the met office said 2022 was the uk's warm easter year on record with above temperatures every month apart from december . with above temperatures every month apart from december. this is gb news will. bring you more news as it happens now it's back to .

to. patrick now. restrictions on from china is in to prevent new covid variants from actually reaching the uk according to the chairman of the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation , vaccination and immunisation, professor andrew pollard also said that it was very difficult to know whether any new variant emerged in china would actually have significant impact in. britain prime minister rishi sunak's reportedly considering the return of covid travel restrictions for the first time since february. several countries, including the us, japan italy and malaysia are now enforcing testing on visitors from china. so should britain follow suit , reintroduce what follow suit, reintroduce what some would regard as draconian restrictions on travel? to debate this now joined by nhs gp team—mates dr. david lloyd ,

team—mates dr. david lloyd, political commentator frances hall . thank you very much, both hall. thank you very much, both of you. great to have you the show. frances, i will start you. i'm concerned that this is a slippery slope at the moment and that we are rolling the wicket as a country for more draconian and covid laws. this is how it started last time, is it? no yes it is. and also what happened last is that it was revealed the first travel restrictions were introduced in 2020. and i, i was acting for somebody judicially reviewed regulations that sage had never . travel restrictions reviewed regulations that sage had never. travel restrictions . had never. travel restrictions. it had said consistently that was no good evidence that they would do any good. and that was when, of course, we were at a stage in the where we had very serious levels of a type a strain of covid 19, albeit not necessarily nearly as serious as the government represented it. now we are a stage where we have the vast majority . the country

the vast majority. the country has natural immunity in addition to vaccines . and the reason why to vaccines. and the reason why china has had problems is because it's locked down for so long and restricted travel so long and restricted travel so long that it doesn't have that level of immunity. so they don't think we are under any greater risk. exactly look, is on the exact point that i'm going to just throw it over to dr. david now nhs, gp some people be looking at this now and saying, well, in china, i mean they're masked up constantly, aren't they? they seem be lockdown. people are being welded their own of flats. they've got own blocks of flats. they've got vaccine still we are, vaccine and yet still we are, they've got loads and loads , they've got loads and loads, loads of cases, restrictions work. why should we be imposing over here ? i mean, if you're over here? i mean, if you're expecting a debate between the two of us is going to be difficult, because i must say, i think is slightly premature to think is slightly premature to think about the lockdown. i think about the lockdown. i think we need to be ready to impose travel restrictions, but we're in a very different place than we were two years ago.

we've got a fantastic team of scientists who can analyse the of the pandemic very quickly. we need more accurate data from china to be absolutely sure well you're never going to get that . you're never going to get that. but i know that is the problem . but i know that is the problem. and so we've got a problem with not being totally truthful about what what variants they've got. they a terrible vaccine that doesn't give good protection. and as you say , has means that and as you say, has means that there are an lot of non immune people, whereas got the opposite. we've got lots of antibodies, lots of good vaccines and lots of good doctors , but it is a problem and doctors, but it is a problem and i do know how many people were admitted with covid to the nhs last week . no. yes how many last week. no. yes how many people were admitted with covid or as a result of covid airways plane has with a covid infection was last week admitted with acute covid infection. the whole nhs a frame of reference . i nhs a frame of reference. i don't know a few of the 10,000 and i think even that that was

158 and 508 people died of covid that's next week. so got it. we've still got a problem with our own covid, but i, we've got the tools to be able to deal with without restrictions. but that could, it could change tomorrow or next week or any week after that . and do remember week after that. and do remember i'm just an honorary gp . i'm not i'm just an honorary gp. i'm not someone working very high up in the well, if you do have the system. well, if you do have some medical knowledge and therefore direct relevance to this discussion, but i will talk about way for second. i'm about your way for second. i'm keen get your on one of the keen to get your on one of the big arguments icon i can remember reading a headline about a nepalese variant that we should terrified of that should all be terrified of that turned never exist and turned out to never exist and i'm naturally very sceptical i'm now naturally very sceptical about this idea of, well, we wouldn't a new more wouldn't want a new more dangerous variant to come into the uk, let's fast forward francis. let's say there is a new, more dangerous variant and it is more deadly and it is more transmissible. do you still not call for any covid restrictions? do you say we've got vaccine? we've seen economic impact of this. the impact on children's

health and wellbeing and educate and all of that stuff. let it rip . well, i think there are two rip. well, i think there are two issues here. one is that we have never before had any sort of virus . we are able to track and virus. we are able to track and determine different of variants , and we have that because of enormous amounts of resources enormous amounts of resources were enormous amounts of resources were pushed into determine knowing those sorts of variants which led to a very, very heavy tracking of each of the types of variants, while had travel restrictions. i don't think necessarily a sensible of our resources. i think makes for bad policy . i think it means that policy. i think it means that you have too much knowledge in one very specific area of one very specific virus. we have an all sorts of different viruses at the moment. have, as dr. lloyd know, serious types of flu which we have many in many winters and will continue to have and the reason it makes for bad policy is because it creates

this kind of the response that there is a kneejerk reaction to impose travel restrictions whenever there might be a new or different type of variant. i don't think it's good to give government that much data and press and the public that much for concern. frankly, i mean i'm inclined to agree with you and you've me nicely on to the next question for dr. david because dr. david when we look at things in the round now one of the benefits of having the initial blast of coronavirus could be as good was that we lived through it that know now some of the it and that know now some of the knock on effects of the reactions to it we had right now some of those effects are, you know, massive, massive cancer waiting and poor nhs waiting lists and poor nhs treatment as a result, all of these knock on effects right . these knock on effects right. knowing what we know now if something similar happened again might be about. so given what we're seeing in at the minute, would still recommend something like , a lockdown, knowing all like, a lockdown, knowing all the consequences, all of the side effects . well, every day

side effects. well, every day we're going every infection is different. every infection has different. every infection has different chances of infection . different chances of infection. it i'm afraid i'm, old enough to remember getting into spacesuits to stop people with swine flu . to stop people with swine flu. and that turned out to be absolutely nothing. but we did genuinely that that flu a higher mortality rate than ordinary flu. and so there were an awful lot of very worried people. you really can't make decisions and say that's what we're going to stick to in these circumstances. you've got to have a little bit of flexibility and i think the government doesn't need have the ability to legislate in lockdown if necessary order restricted from travel but know more now about covid. and i think what we also know is just how terribly prepared we were. the usa rated number one for pandemic pandemic preparedness before. and look what's they killed a million people and that showed how dreadful they were prepared to prevent the next. and we've got

to be flexible i got all of that i think that be a lot of people out there right now looking at their bank balance looking at their bank balance looking at the sacrifices they personally made, looking at the fact that their elderly grandmother or who had a care home and had dementia in a care home and they have see that they they could have see that they might lost might have died now lost precious that precious memories that child will into all because will later walk into all because there is no they're now sending that kid to school every single week because children did it mix and we look this bigger picture and we look this bigger picture and i think he's going to take one hell of a covid kick off to get people to do anything again. chris whitty and co might us. but can you but francis, can i ask you a question might seem a little bit woo , but i'm going to ask anyway woo, but i'm going to ask anyway because if i'm looking at the numbers china and if i'm numbers in china and if i'm starting to even starting to look at even a conversation now around well why maybe we should lockdown, maybe we this, should do we should do this, we should do that starting wonder there that starting wonder is there something more sinister something a bit more sinister going your view from our going on in your view from our political class? do they want us all locked out ? no. i genuinely all locked out? no. i genuinely think that certainly not. now i

do want to come back on this point about preparation, because what we did prepare for and we did know about in a number pandemic plans leading up to in our country which were updated frequently and also the updated most recently the pandemic. in october 2019 is how little evidence there was any efficacy for, any of the it's measures that were foreseen , which did that were foreseen, which did not include lockdowns , which did not include lockdowns, which did include things like isolation of contacts of . those people who contacts of. those people who had been infected . closures of had been infected. closures of schools and closures businesses. we knew the harms would outweigh benefits because we've done that preparation. we've done that work . we also knew far more work. we also knew far more about the virus in march, by march 2020, but many we had the adam and princess allowed us to evaluate the way in which that virus affected different age groups in the different categories of people . it's not categories of people. it's not like to say that were unprepared in the sense of knowing that

this was a very bad idea or part of looking , oh, go on and dogs of looking, oh, go on and dogs today. i'll just give you the final word on it. go on. what you said did 2020. we were extremely we didn't have the resources we didn't have the knowledge. we didn't have beginnings of anything to prevent it. i was working in a at top was running it to the top of it in my local area. i promise you it was one of the most frightening things ever lived to david just at that stage just just quickly yet what would you have nick going back in time ? would you do things in time? would you do things differently terms of the lockdowns i.e. would you not don't deliberately committee suicide in the way that we did did ? i honestly you in hindsight did? i honestly you in hindsight i would have i still await results of the investigations with interest. but honestly , it with interest. but honestly, it was a very, very tough time lockdown was absolute the most obvious thing to do at the time

. so sorry this is just is you got to love the news i'm just having something in my ear right now. stephen swinford in the times has just reported that it's like clay that the government is going to into juice mandatory covid tests for people arriving from china that is just right now . dr. david and is just right now. dr. david and then francis. dr. david your view the thing putting i think that's absolutely proportionate and the right thing to do. it's not restricting travel. we've got an idea about the variants that are coming from. china in our own and then we'll be able to respond because this is a fascinating development actually, if true, which seems to infant to be fairer is normally quite accurate. very accurate. it says francis accurate. what it says francis the concern for me that will be what we do with them so they what do we do with them so they test i mean we've test positive i mean we've already hotels full of already a load of hotels full of won't a reference what's won't make a reference what's going channel although going on in the channel although i hotels are already do i am hotels are already full do we put these people we can't quarantine them. do. just quarantine them. we do. we just send to china. well send them back to china. well understood. to the

understood. dr. to say the beginning before we this beginning of this before we this news it wouldn't news that it wouldn't proportionate or advisable to issue these sort of sort of restrictions. now i don't think it's proportionate and i don't think it's necessary we very small numbers of travellers china we have vast amounts of covid numerous different variants because we've had three years of evolution of this virus . it's now an endemic for us. we have to live with it. we have to live with all sorts of viruses. and going back to this point about lockdown the reality is that if you look at thousand 99, 2000, the death rate in that penod 2000, the death rate in that period of the of the peak virus in 99 2000, which we barely talk about it's very, very similar indeed to what happened in in next lockdown we don't talk about it because we didn't have the kind of economic a cultural and social catastrophe that was caused by lockdown. we didn't have a lot of that. but that is happens viruses they come happens with viruses they come in people get them and we build up immunity and go away. this is just am i am concerned . yeah, i

just am i am concerned. yeah, i am concerned. it goes important to emphasise a little more to understand this is literally just coming through live on ideology likely ideology doesn't yet it's likely to happen supposedly anyway that the government will introduce mandatory tests for people from china covid test. i am i hope i'm not sitting here in a couple of months time and thinking was what paved the way for to the testing everybody from every single country again and then it all hyped up again. i just i just terrible deja vu about it so by the time now let's test very few people coming from china identified genomically the variants are and to see we've got antibodies to them. i that's an entirely sensible thing to do i'm not proposing locking down getting it in as you you right wingers would quite like to do. i would like this be proportionate and that we stay on top of the bug the thing that we've got to we tend to be facile is yes to be fair it was

just a minor point of correction . dr. david it was supposedly most left wing countries in the world new zealand and canada who had the draconian restrictions. let us have . right, anyway, let us have. right, anyway, enough. and now test deep nhs, gp dr. david lloyd and political commentator francis just reacting gradually as it turned out to the latest information that just dropped to us, which that just dropped to us, which that supposedly anyway this government is likely to introduce mandatory testing for arrivals from china. good idea bad your views bad idea. your views gbviews@gbnews.uk . i can very gbviews@gbnews.uk. i can very much see both sides that argument i think you're argument actually i think you're with coming with me patrick christys coming up after labour mp on this up after labour mp said on this show yesterday this was a classic that he supports in a general strike. yeah, you supported a general strike . supported a general strike. should the public be throwing its weight behind the unions? we'll debate all that. i think the game is going to go. you can say it the government should just wait out .

well nothing a little bit of breaking rumour is that and gentlemen supposedly anyway the government is very likely to mandatory testing for coming into this country from china views on that because some people say okay this is a good we can identify any new variants quickly we can also stop. well any more cases than necessary from entering country. other people might say isn't how it all started. last time we started testing people and then it all started snowball from there in terms of covi restrictions and infringements on our civil liberties. lots of you've getting in touch on this gbv these are gbnews.uk. nick says real question is do you trust china to tell us any issues or share data? no but no, i absolutely do. and i think something that remarkably i think isn't spoken about anywhere near is how responsible chinese government are for where

we are now and where we were. before i find it in, difficult to believe that this particular virus started a wet market. it may well have done. that's the narrative i find it incredibly difficult to believe they didn't know more about it before. they managed somehow allow to get managed to somehow allow to get out across world and rip out all across world and rip through and all of this anything. the chinese government has lot to answer for has a hell of lot to answer for when to the reasons why when it comes to the reasons why we where anyway, robert, we where we are anyway, robert, says. why bother says. patrick why bother stopping ? china entering stopping anyone? china entering the virus considers the uk as a flu virus considers the uk as a flu virus considers the more powerful but still flu we exposed to it. we need to be exposed to it. let's continue building immunity. inclination immunity. robert my inclination is with you on that one, but is go with you on that one, but a people might think, well, a lot people might think, well, if there's more deadly if there's a new more deadly variant set there, the variant that set there, all the evidence that evidence suggests that it wouldn't from getting wouldn't stop it from getting into was anyway. so the into was anyway. so what's the point says don't point ben says if china don't supply the information about covid, as our covid, then surely as our borders closed flies . borders aren't closed to flies. i'm people coming from china's mainland goes on as well . mainland goes on as well. chinese have lied for years over covid cost us thousands of lives. true . it is rampant lives. very true. it is rampant that now to restrict access

until levels . i just don't see until levels. i just don't see levels obviously dropping over there. that vaccine is totally absolutely naff. i mean even worse than some of the other vaccines out there at the minute and they have had draconian lockdowns people wearing lockdowns of people wearing masks the dawn of time masks since the dawn of time over has over that and nothing has happened. don't see the happened. i don't see the situation in china getting any better. i just think he's going to of people having to to be a case of people having to learn live with this thing. learn to live with this thing. but it's christmas but now it's been a christmas chaos this with unions chaos this year with unions across board, walkouts across the board, walkouts on the far firmly the government. so far firmly resisting has paid. resisting the strike has paid. but thought the situation but if you thought the situation bad the conservatives bad under the conservatives just, mp khalid just, listen to labour mp khalid mahmood told yesterday on mahmood who told yesterday on this very show that he supported a general strike. look at this support the rights of the people to be able to stroke strike if they want to coordinate that, they want to coordinate that, they totally at will to do that. and if call that a general strike. yes because the people who work want to have the right sort of pay and conditions and they should be able to do that . they should be able to do that. well, that is baffling that. i'm

not quite sure he realise exactly, he said. but i'm delighted to be joined by conservative mp sirjohn and former editor of the sunday mirror o'connor grace of chops. you very much for joining me mirror o'connor grace of chops. you very much forjoining me , you very much for joining me, john redwood. i will start you shouldn't the government just wait it out because unions are on the brink of going bankrupt, aren't they? i think the government should judge case on its merits . i think the its merits. i think the different groups of workers are in different positions. they have different bargaining strengths and different degrees of common sense. and what they're asking think if you take they're asking think if you take the health. i've called for a proper manpower plan to be produced urgently . we've been produced urgently. we've been waiting for one for over a year from all these top to pay big salaries in the health service because need to solve the problem of too many agents workers with too many vacancies not being able to recruit and retain enough nursing staff and enough doctors. there's a pensions issue and a tax issue . pensions issue and a tax issue. quite a lot of the doctors

leading to early i think those problems working through and the government needs to sit down with its senior advisers and its senior managers ask those managers why is they allowed to get it into the current situation , what are they going situation, what are they going to do? where is the manpower plan to solve it? whereas if you take the railway the striking against themselves main against themselves their main problem that they don't have problem is that they don't have nearly enough fire paying passengers in. the passengers they do have only want to pay very or discounted fares. well, yeah, thinking yeah, i think current thinking now destroy that market even more and the government should not be paying to send anti trains around the country. well no absolutely not that they should, they should know to how pull bring you now. pull it. i'll bring you in now. former editor the sunday former editor of the sunday mirror, paul i couldn't mirror, paul carney. i couldn't help this help but whether or not this talk general strike is like talk of a general strike is like the last of a dice from the last throw of a dice from unions, you maybe realise that actually slipping actually leverage is slipping away this debate. away from them in this debate. lord, question whether tuc are lord, i question whether tuc are going to sort formally back a going to sort of formally back a general strike, but de facto general strike, but de facto

general strike, but de facto general strike . that's how it'll general strike. that's how it'll be by the right wing press and you know, and it will be something akin to a general strike. but but but for once, i agree with john one point to my surprise and that and that is that i think each dispute has to be at separately and the government are digging themselves into strange position. it was like a time war where it's showing a sort of ted heath strategy of governs britain the or the union barons which which really is an absurd situation it doesn't apply now and i'm sure john remembers that one of the first things that margaret thatcher did to give a pretty hefty hike to the public unions when she became minister . okay, john, i think people will be thinking actually a journalist right now is just

morally unconscionable the nafion morally unconscionable the nation is sending a load of money off to ukraine as people's energy bills are going through the roof we're paying off the pandemic. and then on top of that, if we want to i mean, the railways alone apparently cost us 30 million quid a day when they on i mean, what they go on strike. i mean, what do they want just do they want to do, just bankrupt the well, let's strike and it very and get themselves it is very worrying that many public worrying that so many public sector have seemed to be sector unions have seemed to be coordinating action. and that is a bad idea because they are striking against themselves and their families as well as against the rest of us . not many against the rest of us. not many private sector businesses or unions are involved this so that quite a lot of our importance. john like food provision is going ahead but it is extremely worrying that the public sector is in this situation paul go on we do look at look at they look at the economy maybe should mention one or both of his staff both his dealt both of you stop paul go well look john to john

look we have inflation of over 10. we have the average sector pay 10. we have the average sector pay rise of . 2.7. and that pay rise of. 2.7. and that follows a decade of austerity that's austerity and a lot of pay that's austerity and a lot of pay freezes in the public sector . while in the private sector, the average pay is now 6.9. so it's not surprising that the cost of living situation that these strikes in the public sector are going and public sympathy the health sector, i is it is still strong less so for the rail strike system even. but even there the government seem to have stepped in to almost sabotage a potential agreement which seemed to be close sir ten or 12 days ago now john, can i just put to you i mean, look, it's pretty i'm not exactly in favour of these strikes, so come on telly every day and criticise. and i but at the same time i can see the logic behind

the idea that we've got the money to lob a blank over to the ukrainians, but haven't got money for some of our own workers over here. i'm sure that the sums of money are very different, aren't they. i mean, yes we are after america being pretty generous and helping ukraine in its struggle for democracy and for independence of its country. but these are much smaller sums of money than we are talking about for any one of these major union settlements. and i there is general agreement. i think the union to a degree as well, that we cannot afford a 19% pay award for some of . the nurses . i for some of. the nurses. i didn't across you don't talk across me i'm suggesting something different which is that with with health need a proper manpower plan and that should include proper management increments promotions proper of the different jobs and tasks around quality , providing a more

around quality, providing a more interesting job for people think there needs to be some intelligent work through on all this so that we can respond to cost of living pressures whilst delivering more and better service . that must be what we service. that must be what we need. they managers to do poorly compromise that i think and i get the idea of how in negotiation works. don't get me wrong. however, there wasn't much negotiation taking place in scotland that where the royal college nursing offered college of nursing offered something that was around a seven a half% pay increase seven and a half% pay increase across the on average 11 and a half% for the people. the lower end of pay structure that end of that pay structure that they knocked out, rolling back and make me think that and that does make me think that maybe the unions don't want to negotiate. they've got the demands. stick to demands. they'll stick to it. i don't think that don't think don't think that i don't think i'm in scotland. i'm going i'm going in scotland. i'm going situation think that's situation i don't think that's the situation at and we're the situation at all. and we're getting strange from the getting some strange from the judge from the government about £28 billion the cost of settling these strikes. well a of many economists challenge that and

they're having to say that we have a progressive system that in fact, in reality it would with a pay rise as you would also get higher tax revenue and of course, a higher spending in in the shops. and the real cost of this is probably more in the region of 12 to 14 billion given that to you. but can i can i just i just add. sorry, chaps, it's just we are a bit pressed time and i appreciate both of you time. john it's only fair i. asked khalid mahmood yesterday, labour mp, whether or not he supported general strike. supported a general strike. he just okay, fair enough. just said yes okay, fair enough. in his . i've got to just said yes okay, fair enough. in his. i've got to ask you, john, as a conservative mp , if john, as a conservative mp, if a general strike is called and they give it a day, do you think they give it a day, do you think the government do anything to stop that ? well, of course the stop that? well, of course the government should do everything in its power to stop these strikes because they are deeply damaging to the public services, to economy to and all the to the economy to and all of the rest of i think we need rest of us. i think we need something something deals something for something deals because we need to do, if

because what we need to do, if you take railways as an example, is improve productivity and quality whilst paying quality service whilst paying more because they are delivering more. that's the kind of deal we need and that requires intelligent management from these senior managers who are paid fortune but have upset paid a fortune but have upset their staff and are not delivering the moment . okay. delivering at the moment. okay. all so you do you think all right. so you do you think then if they call the general. very lastly. sorry, i know i very lastly, john, i just want to drill down on this. they said if the tuc come out and say we're going to a general strike on right now, do you on this date right now, do you think should move on its think the should move on its negotiating position, whatever that them it should that is for of them it should say for the sake of the say right for the sake of the country grinding to a halt country not grinding to a halt for sake of the economic for the sake of the economic damage the round this we damage in the round on this we will goodness of our will of the goodness of our hearts to give you hearts go to and give you a better whatever. it is no better offer whatever. it is no of you give in to threats. so i also don't think two you see are bad enough or wrong enough to call strike. and call a general strike. and i don't think they'd be able to because vast swathes of the private sector are getting on with the jobs they need do.

with the jobs they need to do. they're saying extremely they're saying it's extremely well. look, both of well. all right. look, both of you, much. sorry you, thank you very much. sorry so to you. that poll so go back to you. that poll i just wanted to drill down a little bit with the tory, if that's all right. but like many polls, industrial disputes tend to compromise rather than to end in compromise rather than total victory total defeat. total victory or total defeat. but both we thank you very much, because john page, sir. redwood, that former editor of the sun sunday mirror sunday people. sunday mirror sunday people. sunday mirror sunday people. sunday mirror got me wrong. you owe me patrick christys. coming up a top up as it's revealed, a top blair aide inaccuracy rules for aide warns inaccuracy rules for newspapers. can labour and the left be trusted to protect britain's free press? that's coming this .

break welcome back. now newly released files , the national archives files, the national archives show that former prime the and flushable tony blair, principal

private secretary jeremy heywood wanted to regulate newspaper . as wanted to regulate newspaper. as for the accuracy of their reporting writing in 2001, heywood said, i assume it's unthinkable to impose accuracy regulations , newspapers, no regulations, newspapers, no other industry get away with the practise of making up that even our most serious newspapers indulge in. well, despite his appeals, the regulation of newspapers accuracy, his efforts were shot down by blair's advisers, were branded suicide , advisers, were branded suicide, though not, by the way, immoral or anything on it, just suicidal. it would be bad politics to try it so. was this a draconian effort by to regulate the newspapers regulate what the newspapers were reporting discuss this were reporting to discuss this i'm joined now by the spokesperson of the of the labour party is james. james, thank you very much looks slightly concerning to me case tom is looking to in some ways anyway recreate new labour would new labour have actually they had their way been pretty happy just censor the free press . yeah just censor the free press. yeah it's an interesting mubarak i

don't i don't think you're right in saying that keir starmer wants to recreate new labour in that i'm certainly not supportive of many aspects the new labour governments but i do support keir starmer as leader. but but regardless of that, i don't think we're at risk of press freedoms being imposed a labour government and i don't think this an exclusive issue in the labour party either. i mean we've in recent years boris johnson's government especially trying to curtail freedom of the press. i think whoever's in to be honest, it's in their best interests for themselves to try and keep as much out of the press as they can. so i don't think it's party political issue, but it is important we that we protect freedom of the press. you're absolutely right. i'm to get your i'm just intrigued to get your take blair issues, take on the blair issues, though, because am though, really, because i am amazed by tony blair, teflon tony, really, when you think about the issues he about some of the issues he faced and was it part of his time as prime minister? many good aspects . blair many things good aspects. blair many things that people could learn from. and hold my hands up

and i hold my hands up completely. i do think that things like of mass destruction , a variety of certain question marks around david kelly, which were not allowed to go into course and also secret backroom deals with the ira, which really gave terrorists quite literally get out of jail free card . i get out of jail free card. i think he's managed to get off quite with stuff like that. do you think that tony blair has got away with it ? i don't think got away with it? i don't think anything in particular. i mean, when it comes to tony blair as a leader, i mean, you know he's not my favourite labour leader of all time. far from it. i do think, you know, the iraq issue especially is still hugely polarised and not just in the liverpool but in the country. you know, many people were were thrilled with the new labour , thrilled with the new labour, you know, 1997 and my family especially and, you know, people in my community. so because it meant a huge amount and there was a huge a huge change made by

government and gordon brown's government and gordon brown's government as well. and, you know i do think there's a huge amount of growth, but like anything, there's always cons. i don't think the when it comes to accountability the press particularly what look at these new information released by the national archives if there's anything to be concerned about because jeremy heywood as we know wasn't a person he wasn't affiliated the labour party, he was a civil a hugely respected as well. yes indeed does the left itself a problem with free speech?i left itself a problem with free speech? i can't help but feel as though a lot of the tantrums that i've seen a lot the cancellations that take place appear to be done at the hand of the people towards the left of society i think people on the right tend to be a little bit more live and let live. it comes to freedom of speech your views and yeah, i think i think probably be inclined to say would be patrick but i'd do because as a proud left wing of

our self don't have an issue with freedom of speech marred by criticism of my views . i do criticism of my views. i do think in recent years there's a conflation of very hyper local woke individuals who often on politically if we're in any way trying shut down or cancel freedom of speech. i totally agree with you there cancelling anybody is nonsense . it's anybody is nonsense. it's nonsense and i don't think any genuine left winger who wants to be in government wants to pursue policies , change people's lives policies, change people's lives for the better , would agree with for the better, would agree with it in any way . yeah, i mean, i it in any way. yeah, i mean, i think i'm just looking at, for example the kind of nonsense that like j.k. rowling, i'm quoting now , they don't call it quoting now, they don't call it a turf to have to put up with onune a turf to have to put up with online people like that. i mean, there are various different groups out there as. there are various different groups out there as . we all know groups out there as. we all know when someone maybe tries to set up some kind of, oh, i don't know, new media company something they don't like something and they don't like the of let go wrong you the idea of let go wrong you need ban all your efforts need to ban all your efforts always them even always get them cancelled even down it was a train

down to people it was a train wreck it verging trains. wreck it was verging trains. years they stopped selling years ago, they stopped selling the because one the daily mail because one person that had person complained that they had to daily as they to look at the daily as they walked through car walked through the coffee car all so doesn't happen all day. so that doesn't happen with wingers this with right wingers in this country, it? i mean, it is country, does it? i mean, it is people on the left. there's a reason for that. would it's reason for that. i would it's because majority of, our because the majority of, our press media skewed in press and media is skewed in favour, it is. it's favour, right? it is. it's skewed in favour of the right. and that's because you know, there are a lot of people with conservative views in this country. is that right in country. right. is that right in that freedom to have the and, you know, to be represented, there representation there is less representation people left. and as a people on the left. and as a result you you hear them result you know, you hear them complaining complain complaining more complain more about. complaining more complain more about . but i complaining more complain more about. but i do think complaining more complain more about . but i do think when it about. but i do think when it comes to issues know like j.k. rowling , the gender it's rowling, the gender debate it's been hugely divisive. and i think the extremes on both sides that we've seen are hugely concerned and it's important for people to take a approach . final people to take a approach. final question very quick. what would bnng question very quick. what would bring back . question very quick. what would bring back. blair in regard to current government? absolutely

in a heartbeat, there isn't a single conservative prime minister that i've seen that i wouldn't rather tony blair. john, not saying a lot because like i say, i'm not as big as farm, but in comparison to this show or any day of the week. all right . i certainly agree or right. i certainly agree or disagree that one. james, always a pleasure. james massey. sun's easy to i suppose. easy for me to say, i suppose. president of the labour party, former of the chair former spokesperson of the chair of labour party. right. okay. it's the remarkable it's been the most remarkable year royal family that's year for the royal family that's lining a towards the end lining up a bit towards the end people. a remarkable year people. but a remarkable year for royal family living for the royal family in living memory even more memory annals. it got even more dramatic, literally. that's because broadcaster because lefty broadcaster channel 4 their channel 4 had their controversial prince andrew the musical. let's take a look it was the car crash royal interview that shocked the world. the royal highness. how do you that went? well oh, i nailed it i did everything right now comes the musical extravaganza of the year sees an unforgettable unmissable with just a whiff of i've not seen

before that's great speaking fictional retellings in the new prince harry is releasing his royal hatchet job titles spare. yeah there you go well silly well when the cold dies, at least we'll have some fireworks . and joining me to discuss whirlwind period for the royals is the former butler the king charles is grant. harold grant, thank you very much fantastic jacket i got mine always good always good additions that show i think sometimes it yeah did have you had a chance to catch any of prince andrew the musical . i watched first couple of minutes of curiosity . i realised minutes of curiosity. i realised that this was not the of music. so i decided to turn on just singing in a in a in a white house as before. we have a good shot available, have a of a couple of the things from this year do you think the royal family unfortunately becoming increasing more of a soap increasing any more of a soap opera not? is things like

opera or not? it is things like this channel musical or this channel 4 musical or whether the netflix stuff whether it's the netflix stuff you do know the reality as you know do know the reality as much. i think with the royal family there's always an interest there always has been always will be an interest that's their because that's to their benefit because at of the day we need to at the end of the day we need to be in the royal be interested in the royal family as the hub. royal family as the hub. the royal family as the hub. the royal family the soap box. it's great because , you know, because obviously, you know, they from any organisation that wants royal family what they're trying to do when it's anything negative, it's not the best thing in the world and it's quite difficult which they do live lives a of live the lives a kind of fishbowl if i say that because thatis fishbowl if i say that because that is the reality of working for the royal family. i'm aware of that is it's like. of that that is what it's like. it's it's not the most it's a it's not the most glamorous everybody it glamorous. everybody thinks it is yes you get to live in policies and castles and they have people myself look after them. but the is it can be quite a tough job and. i personally when i was a youngster i would think wouldn't it amazing to think wouldn't it be amazing to be royal family? no, be member of royal family? no, i wish on anyone because it's not the easiest. really isn't the easiest. it really isn't easiest job and are basically in

the media almost seven days a week, 24 hours a day. it can be like, yeah, indeed, i look normally at this point i would probably ask you, what's been your royal highlight royal low light the year. i think light of the year. but i think those questions are unto those those questions are unto themselves year, don't themselves this year, don't they, with everything that has gone the royal gone on. but will the royal family quite happy to the family be quite happy to see the back 2022, do you think think back of 2022, do you think think ? i it's a different patch ? i think it's a different patch . again, obviously, the lord is obviously the queen's death, which do not disappear for months now. you know , we're not months now. you know, we're not far off half a and i can't far off half a year and i can't believe that . i think believe that. i think with anyone lost the family anyone it's lost the family member that's part of wants to move into the new year. but the other part of it doesn't because you you don't want it to be you want you don't want it to be that since lost somebody that long since lost somebody that long since lost somebody that about and it's that you cared about and it's a difficult one. but next difficult one. but the is next year we've got quite a nation year is we've got quite a nation is a positive year and i think looking forward hopefully it will be a better them right now you former butler to king charles will he be charles how will he be approaching the coronation. can i i've i've got i just say i've i've got concerns by got concerns about

him that was gates i know he just lost his mum but it wasn't just lost his mum but it wasn't just peng there was else as well where got little bit, he where he got a little bit, he got a little bit with the got a little bit shirty with the member staff. was he ever member of staff. was he ever like that with you . no. never like that with you. no. never there was pang and there was a leak and pain at the desk where he was saying the proclamation . he was saying the proclamation. do you know, i watched never really felt for him because could understand the situation and honestly patrick and i i've never had to. this is my honest . i'm telling the truth . he . i'm telling the truth. he never ever in all the years i've watched from ever even raised his voice. he fantastic employer. so when i see those little sketches obviously what happened it does make me smile i can understand say situation but see it wouldn't have happened if i was still there. that's the reality. it i it does reality. it i think it does absolutely no way that would have been a leaky pen or no panel sealed close to him if he was still there . is that very was still there. is that very much that is that very much a difference between the

characters of king and prince andrew andrew ? do you mean from andrew andrew? do you mean from knowing them personally as to what we see in media kind of thing and you and your impressions are you said things like, you know, king charles never raised his voice and all of this stuff from from from various different reports maybe prince andrew is a bit different . it's my memory of prince andrew . he . it's my memory of prince andrew. he was upset ukraine i got on really well with them. he was always i mean, like everyone i've had the different stories and the different variations about his his moods and things that i never witnessed. not that for me to kind of say, oh, it's true, because i don't know it's true. as i said, i was maybe i was quite lucky that i was going with them. and king charles, i mean, king charles. i see. i like it when you see the funny side of things when you see him kind of being bit humorous and kind of being a bit humorous and jokey because very jokey because that's very much i remember i remember that humorous, very finely humorous, dorky side very finely . now the book spare will be

out. i don't think she spoke to you about what you made of this netflix drama. you may, of course recognise my voice from that drama. i'm yet to see the royalties was in it twice. they didn't ask for permission. i did , but anyway. and yes. so what do you what do you think about this book spare? will the royal family be bricking it? i think hollywood's going to be you any minute as as the because i think the. yes, it's going to be worried . we've just had the worried. we've just had the netflix documentary. we don't know what else that is could come out and the only positive is it's committing, which means that there is few months for the coronation. hope is it any kind of damage is done by it can be sorted before the coronation. i'm just hoping 2020 is a happier and better year. but not just royal family. i think he should swerve the coronation i think if he wants to take netflix tens of millions and he wants write a book about it and he wants to his own family that he wants to his own family that

he should swerve the coronation because also you can't trust him these days he might have a hidden with him anyway. hidden camera with him anyway. grant, very you grant, thank you very much. you and fabulous you have and your fabulous jack. you have and your fabulous jack. you have a wonderful new or hogmanay or whatever you all whatever you call it. you all right? right , whatever you call it. you all right? right, right. right? right, right, right. okay. you with me? podcast gb news. for any longer, news. well, not for any longer, actually. because actually. really? because i'm loving the loving you over now. so the emily carver . loving you over now. so the emily carver. emily, what do you got coming for us? great got coming up for us? great show. don't think be show. i don't think i'll be rushing to see prince andrew the musical. anyway, i don't if musical. anyway, i don't know if you early starts. she's you saw an early starts. she's the shadow equalities the shadow women and equalities minister . the shadow women and equalities minister. she made some rather bizarre that back families are five times more or less to be able to pay their energy . and able to pay their energy. and therefore this is an example structural racism that labour party will fix with new race, equality, law i don't know about you, but i think labour are getting away with not enough scrutiny. so i'm going to be putting the light back on them tonight because the family i've decided to join at dots in protest to not pay energy bills and so they stop being racist. thank you very much . emily

thank you very much. emily carver invite dewbs& co as carver that invite dewbs& co as ever doing an app so lonely, stellarjob. don't go anywhere. people to family for the next hour of your you won't hour of your lives. you won't regret it . hello hour of your lives. you won't regret it. hello again. aidan mcgivern here the met office. it was a thoroughly soggy start for many of us this morning, but the rain this further. showers rain eases this further. showers in the west and this is going to be mild for many, especially in the south where we've got this southwesterly airflow across northern scotland. it's a different story. low pressure here colder air and a here bringing colder air and a feature , the far north bringing feature, the far north bringing some persistent rain hill snow dunng some persistent rain hill snow during the rest of friday to the north, niles north, the mainland. and then that snow low levels overnight . but elsewhere levels overnight. but elsewhere it's mild and after a brief interlude drier weather further rain sweeps in from the southwest overnight spells of wet weather on and off england wales southern, scotland and parts of northern ireland seeing showers as well. a breeze coming the that as we the south—west means that as we start saturday, it's 13 start off saturday, it's 13 celsius south, but it's celsius in the south, but it's cold in north of scotland where

it's also windy mile per hour wind gusts clearing the north—east through north—east of scotland through the further the early hours. and further snow ice issues as we start snow and ice issues as we start the day for northern brighter for central scotland, some rain reaching southern scotland dunng reaching southern scotland during the afternoon falling a snow of the southern uplands . snow of the southern uplands. it's mild for much of england . it's mild for much of england. wales with rain on and off, along with strong wind and temperatures of 13 or 14 celsius into . the new year's eve evening into. the new year's eve evening spells of rain continue to move northwards and it looks saltiest across central parts of the uk . across central parts of the uk. i think southern areas turning dner i think southern areas turning drier a time. the north of scotland also with some snow showers , places, but the rain showers, places, but the rain reaching the likes of edinburgh by midnight and pushing north into central scotland falling as snow over the hills mild. meanwhile, further south with further showers following for sunday and thursday it does look a little brighter in pop but actually these showers as they come through will be they'll move through quickly and it looks like later in day it will

be a bit drier across england and wales, but further rain for scotland and northern ireland a dner scotland and northern ireland a drier spell on monday with some sunshine further rain coming in on tuesday .

right at 6 pm. that means it's time for dewbs& co. with me, emily carver. so coming up after labour made the rather bizarre claim that not being able to pay your energy bills is an example of structural racism. it time of structural racism. is it time we the labour party we gave the labour party a little bit more scrutiny as they gear up push for power? gear up for a push for power? and as two nhs hospitals band the majority of their visitors and instruct patients to wear masks on their wards. and instruct patients to wear masks on their wards . are we masks on their wards. are we being back into covid being nudged back into covid restrictions and as chaos mounts