channel happy channel happy friday. everybody are with me. patrick christys on it. gb news island is the final show of week and it's a biggie. we're covering all bases. gb news is scene data revealing the sheer number albanians crossing the number of albanians crossing the channel to victims channel who claims to be victims of slavery? i'll give you of modern slavery? i'll give you a little bit of a teaser. the number of them has risen by more than 40% in a year rishi sunak is up in scotland , keir starmer is up in scotland, keir starmer is up in scotland, keir starmer is in northern ireland will you in what's said ? it looks in on what's been said? it looks like sunak might soft on

like sunak might go soft on bonkers laws and bonkers trans laws and university lecturers . well university lecturers. well that's striking the nhs still in crisis, even though it's definitely a crisis. but the economy unexpectedly grew a little better in november . i little better in november. i went a chicken dinner out and of course we've also conducted our wonderful people's poll. thank you, everyone took part and you, everyone who took part and now many of you now and apparently many of you one lady hussey to be one lady susan hussey to be reinstated by the palace after the and goes following the old and goes following a scandal as you can tell it's an all action friday show for you today. ladies and gents, i want today. ladies and gents, i want to hear from on two things to hear from you on two things today. two things. okay. gb views gb news don't uk should we refuse all asylum applications from albania and should lady susan hussey get her job back gb susan hussey get herjob back gb views lgbt is uk but now it's your hard times . good afternoon your hard times. good afternoon it's woman. it passed three i'm rhiannon jones in the gb newsroom manchester footballer benjamin mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape

and one count of sexual assault . it follows a six month trial at chester crown jurors couldn't reach verdict on one count of rape and, one of attempted rape . the prosecution sought a retrial on those counts, which has been scheduled forjune has been scheduled for june scotland will gain new green freeports the sites in edinburgh and inverness are part of a £52 million fund to drive growth in the country. ministers say also create 75,000 jobs and bring in almost create 75,000 jobs and bring in almos t £11 create 75,000 jobs and bring in almost £11 billion worth of investor mint. the announcement follows private talks held last night , prime follows private talks held last night, prime minister rishi sunak and, scotland's first minister, referred by nicholas sturgeon as constructive labour leader sir keir starmer. sturgeon as constructive labour leader sir keir starmer . the leader sir keir starmer. the time for action on the northern ireland protocol is now delivering his key speech at queen's university in belfast. sir also promised his party will remain a good faith guarantor of the good friday agreement . he's

the good friday agreement. he's urged the prime minister to recognise past mistakes. andrew issues over the post—brexit trading arrangements . but i say trading arrangements. but i say to the prime minister , if there to the prime minister, if there is a deal to do in coming weeks , do it. is a deal to do in coming weeks , do it . whatever political , do it. whatever political cover you need, whatever mechanisms in westminster you require. if it delivers for our national interest and the people of northern ireland. we will support . the time for action on support. the time for action on the protocol is now . economy the protocol is now. economy grew by 0.1% between october and november last, despite it the soaring cost of living . the soaring cost of living. the office for national statistics recorded slowdown in growth, though after a 0.5% increase the previous month . it says the previous month. it says the economy was helped by people filling the pubs to watch the world cup. chancellor jeremy hunt says the government has a clear to halve inflation year

and get the economy again . and get the economy again. police say a 28 year old woman who died after dog attack in surrey yesterday was walking a number of dogs at the time. the incident happened at graveley hill in cator when a second woman was taken to hospital. but police say her condition isn't life threatening. so police has detained a total of eight dogs and detectives say keeping their owners up to date with the investigation. no arrests have made . a pensioner has been made. a pensioner has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for the rape and murder of a teenager. nearly 50 years ago. it's the oldest double jeopardy case in england and wales. dennis mccrory was sentenced at huntingdon crown for the sexual assault and murder of 15 year old jackie montgomery in, her home in islington in north london back in 1975. mccrory was 28 at the time, had been cleared of the

murder, but a swap from jackie's was retested decades later and showed 1000000000 to 1 match with his dna . forensic scientist with his dna. forensic scientist lisa bottom says a very unique set of circumstances led to mccrory's conviction . i think mccrory's conviction. i think he's quite unique. i've not seen it in a case file before. it may have been the procedures that were in place in laboratory in 1975. i'm not aware that it is unique for me. i've not seen exhibits being stored on the file that to be retained and preserved as they were . so to be preserved as they were. so to be able to use that is for evidence. and nowadays . 22 year evidence. and nowadays. 22 year old connor chapman has appeared at wirral magistrates charged with the murder of elle edwards. the 26 year old was shot outside pub in wirral on christmas eve . pub in wirral on christmas eve. mr. chapman has been remanded in custody and will appear at liverpool crown court on monday . he has also been charged with

two counts of attempted murder and possession of a firearm . and and possession of a firearm. and and possession of a firearm. and a builder who described himself as a psychopath with conscience has been sentenced to two life terms for murder of two escorts. mark brown found guilty of murdering leo wear and alexandra morgan in 2021. they went missing six months apart. the 41 year old killed the two women at a remote farm near st leonards in east sussex after meeting them through an escort. he'll serve a minimum of 49 years and tributes continue to pour in fairly . tributes continue to pour in fairly. marie tributes continue to pour in fairly . marie presley, elvis fairly. marie presley, elvis presley's daughter, who has died at the age of 54. a warning . the at the age of 54. a warning. the following contains flashing images . it's understood the images. it's understood the singer suffered a cardiac at her home in los angeles. singer suffered a cardiac at her home in los angeles . michael home in los angeles. michael jackson's latoya jackson and duchess of york have both paid tribute. her death comes just days after she attended golden

globe awards where actor austin butler took home the best actor award for his portrayal of her elvis . this is we'll bring you elvis. this is we'll bring you more as it happens. now over to you, patrick. yeah friday. everyone is already pumped up in that inbox gbviews@gbnews.uk . in relation gbviews@gbnews.uk. in relation to me asking you whether or not you we should turn back all asylum applications from . asylum applications from. albania and it's in light of this story more than half of modern claimants arriving by small boat across the english channel are albanian. that's according to the latest government figures by migration watch, uk it found that in the first half of 2022, people from the eastern european nation accounted for most modern

slavery from those who arrived in the uk via small boat in marks an exponential increase in albanians claiming to be victims of the crime so low contact in 2021. they accounted for just 11. now course is over 50. that a dramatic increase. joining me to this is former director general of border force tony smith cbe. i will start , if you smith cbe. i will start, if you don't mind, by asking you the same question. i'm asking our viewers now, listeners to in on gbviews@gbnews.uk uk, which is whether or not we should be turning all asylum claims. albania. your views. i think that's a big ask. albania. your views. i think that's a big ask . patrick. is that's a big ask. patrick. is they all at all it should be discredits it because you know no two cases the same but i think it's worth saying that a very significant number of arrivals from albania do have, in my view, a prima actually claim for asylum or for rights or for being victims. trafficking, either, for that matter . so i trafficking, either, for that matter. so i think there is a case that they should be processed in a different way .

processed in a different way. they should be processed much more quickly than they being more quickly than they are being now. and you know, should be detained when they arrive here . detained when they arrive here. and the home office should put a task force on to processing those cases really, really quickly and demonstrates that those that would come behind them , actually, this going them, actually, this isn't going to work. you're going be to work. you're going to be locked up. case is going locked up. your case is going to be very, swiftly. and be very, very swiftly. and before you'll be back in before you it, you'll be back in tirana i that's the best tirana. i think that's the best deterrent all. and think deterrent of all. and i think there's strong case for there's a very strong case for that countries like albania that in countries like albania who are not renowned, actually, you persecuting groups you know, for persecuting groups of nationals on grounds of of their nationals on grounds of well, been, you know, well, this has been, you know, religion. point . do religion. this is my point. do know several other know that several other countries albania is countries across albania is a completely country. i don't see much reason why we do the same. we also know, of course that way that slavery laws , that the modern slavery laws, which to much which is subject to much contention , potentially to contention, potentially need to be because potentially be changed because potentially people them as kind of people are using them as kind of legal loophole as a way of getting the uk and being getting into the uk and being granted leave to remain. how easy would it be for me claim that i was a victim of modern

slavery? i've travelled here from albania . well, of this is from albania. well, of this is the problem, patrick. of course could do that. i mean, anybody can do that. and this is the problem with . the border right problem with. the border right now is that people when get within jurisdiction, can within the jurisdiction, can claim things. then claim all kinds of things. then it's within jurisdiction it's not within jurisdiction of the the greeks who in the office of the greeks who in the office of the greeks who in the force deal with. the border force to deal with. it be remitted to a it has to be remitted to a caseworker and those caseworkers are , frankly, with backlogs are over, frankly, with backlogs cases. so that's the problem. i wouldn't say there are never going to be victims of trafficking coming from albania. there will be patrick because it's international organised crime and i'm afraid there are victims of trafficking, but certainly not in my estimation in this number. so we need to reform the process . we need we reform the process. we need we can do this and we did when i was in the uk border agency where these cases will be dealt with really swiftly and if with really very swiftly and if found on meritorious, i found to be on meritorious, as i think of them will be, then those people be returned swiftly to albania who have already agreed with us to take them back

. and even if they are victims of trafficking, that albanians have offered to give them protection upon their return . so protection upon their return. so don't follow that. if you're a victim of trafficking, got to stay in your destination country. so there's a lot that could be done i mean, homeless are looking this i think are looking at this i think we're to see action we're beginning to see action now slowly albanians and now very slowly on albanians and i'm that will accelerate i'm hoping that will accelerate quite now . yeah quite quickly now. yeah and a lot is being spoken about about workers morale at the minute we've strikes left right and we've got strikes left right and centre that were some centre i'm aware that were some form force strikes the form of border force strikes the run christmas but what is run up to christmas but what is the morale amongst border the morale like amongst border force were out the force staff who were out in the channel well, i'm one of them. patrick at heart i were there for 40 years and i'm still friends with great many of them. and i know it's hard to accept that , you know, they should be that, you know, they should be going on strike. i don't actually think it's a matter of principle. they want to go on strike, but they've been offered 1% so a pounds. i think 1% and so on a pounds. i think and pay been falling and the pay has been falling back long way over the last

back a long way over the last since i retired. so i think there is something in the claim that they should be rewarded better. do difficult and better. they do a difficult and dangerous job many, many circumstances . i dangerous job many, many circumstances. i do dangerous job many, many circumstances . i do sympathise circumstances. i do sympathise with them , but i think what we with them, but i think what we also need to do, patrick, is, as you look , the process is you say, look, the process is that they're being forced to deploy down in kent on the engush deploy down in kent on the english channel. we've got to break this model where human smugglers can simply get somebody into jurisdiction , the somebody into jurisdiction, the border force, and we are disempowered , if you like, from disempowered, if you like, from removing them instantly because we can't. i think we need find a way of getting removals again, getting detention going again, and let them use the powers that they in law. now, that's a they have in law. now, that's a really good i'm glad really good point. i'm glad you've so you it you've raised it. so if you it your way would border force staff in the channel have more power to remove people immediately can you tell in the vast majority of cases pretty much straight away or have a very good idea whether or not someone's genuine and would you want the power to be able to

remove them immediately how would that . so the key to that would that. so the key to that is a very quick assessment of case, patrick. and you said you saw that. could you claim to be a trust traffic ticket? you could. anybody can claim these things? and they're encouraged , things? and they're encouraged, patrick, because they know if they do claim these things and it disempower us from removing them from the we them instantly from the we didn't claim any of things didn't claim any of those things we'd straight back we'd send you straight back subject a document we'd send you straight back subjyou a document we'd send you straight back subjyou know a document we'd send you straight back subjyou know the a document we'd send you straight back subjyou know the albanianent and you know the albanian government don't want government they don't want documents. that's another problem getting but problem getting people up. but they've to focus on removals they've got to focus on removals and got allow the and you've got allow the officers to assess these claims really quickly and the case workers 24 seven get these cases around quickly and let's start seeing removals because swiftly. what where our borders comes in removing people from territory will deter others. but as you know, patrick, you know well we've not been removing anybody halfway. and i think the albanian cohort gives us a really good opportunity to do that. if we can get resources together in our act together .

together in our act together. now, eventually sunak has made some bold claims and his five point plan, which you can easily condense down into three points the only bit that contained any jeopardy for him was in what jeopardy for him was in to what was on in the channel was going on in the channel he has he to stop the has said he wants to stop the boats and remove our asylum seeker backlog , but he's also seeker backlog, but he's also said judge me by my actions. so we to take him at face value if this time next year or in two years time we still have an asylum backlog and we still have small boats coming across. he will have but reading will have failed, but reading between lines here between the lines here it sounded spoke to one sounded i spoke to one conservative mp yesterday actually live this if actually live on this show. if we his natural we take to his natural conclusion and boats still conclusion and boats are still coming in record numbers in a couple of years time i think there's going to be of a push from conservative mps who are worried about losing their to turn the boats back. now there's lot of legal issues about this , lot of legal issues about this, but in a moral sense how would you or border force staff failed the you think if in a couple of years time you are given

instruction that you can turn these boats back ? a lot depends these boats back? a lot depends on what you mean by turning them back patrick i know we have tried to do that actually on the water. we did test a number of things dan o'mahony did that we officers out that we did a number of exercises a very flimsy vessels often containing vulnerable people. nancy worthy i don't think we, want anyone to drown. dewy i don't certainly want anyone to drown . i think we want anyone to drown. i think we have obligations under the law safety law of the sea not to allow to drown. but we do allow people to drown. but we do need very closely with need to work very closely with the think seeing the french. i think seeing new initiatives we've got to initiatives there, we've got to try to get the to french continue to move with us and the eu on a returns agreement that stop the boats. if we can persuade french not just on the beaches but in their territory or waters to interdict and return and we can help them with that. we have joint patrols. we let our cutters into that. there are all these things can be done political agreement. but i'm not a politician. i think this is a challenge for the minister and

the home said how can they build that with that relationship with the french the eu to stop the french and the eu to stop the boats? because that's the only way to stop for sure. way going to stop it for sure. we can reduce it there are things we do but stopping it things we can do but stopping it well, money's not getting. well, the money's not getting. and thing. and and this is the thing. and money, be working money, doesn't it be working and we a rather we are giving them a rather large quantity of it. and i don't suspect perhaps there's a bit the black hole is bit like the black hole is already just along already just chugging along more. probably going more. it is probably not going to actually make much of a difference. there's got to be that political as that political will. and as you've rightly there, you've rightly said there, i think to try to find think we have to try to find a way, convince macron and that way, convince macron and co that they to know of they for some reason to know of these leaving that shores these boats leaving that shores and heading directly to us. tony, thank you very much . annie tony, thank you very much. annie smith, cbe, former director of uk border , reacting to the uk border, reacting to the latest numbers which we were bringing you here released by the government on border migration watch uk revealed see here here gb news here again by us here gb news which that the number of which is that the number of people who are claiming people albania who are claiming to slavery has to be victims of slavery has absolutely surged in the last yeah absolutely surged in the last year. it's now more than 50% of all people claiming modern

slavery across there in the uk asylum. sorry migration watch. you should say a saying that they've identified a massive loophole. we're going to be returning to that throughout show. asked you to comment show. i've asked you to comment in light of those gbviews@gbnews.uk whether or not you should now you think we should now rejecting all asylum applications from albania and a lot of you, like philip says , lot of you, like philip says, all of the albanians should be returned within 36 hours. the variety comments on that, i'll go to them shortly, but i'm just moving now. i want to talk about ritchie sunak and keir starmer because outside because they ventured outside the bubble today. the westminster bubble today. yes they've gone to visit scotland and northern ireland respectively. and prime respectively. and the prime minister nicholas minister met with nicholas sturgeon to areas of sturgeon to discuss areas of possible collaboration . he's possible collaboration. he's also the areas around also confirmed the areas around inverness the river forth inverness and the river forth have been awarded green freeport status. so good news for those areas. keir starmer on the other hand, urged the prime minister to minds and resolve northern ireland protocol dispute. i still began the year, still not sitting, which is a massive problem, even if maybe quite a

lot of people sitting where i am in london at the minute. it doesn't seem that way. it really is. the labour leader said now's the to put northern ireland above a brexit purity counts and it's important not to mispronounce any of words. gb news is political reporter utley has been in inverness and this he's commenting on rishi sunak's visit that's up to scotland. she's got the latest for us rishi sunak has certainly been on a charm offensive in scotland . his predecessor, liz said that nicholas sturgeon an attention seeker and the best policy was to ignore her. she didn't visit scotland at all. well, sunak has taken a very, very different approach. he's been up here for the last two days and he is at pains to say over and over again how cordial and constructive his meeting with nicholas sturgeon has . on top of that, of course, has. on top of that, of course, the purpose of the visit is the two new freeports in scotland, one in inverness and one in edinburgh . that' s £52 million of edinburgh. that's £52 million of funding for green start plus all sorts of tax . try and bring

sorts of tax. try and bring investment to those areas. scratch the surface though, and are a little bit more complicated of course. rishi sunak and nicholas sturgeon disagree on pretty much all of the most important issues facing the most important issues facing the uk and they've both had to see each other this morning on the nhs. nicholas sturgeon has said that we seems to have no plans to put any more money into the nhs to prevent any , which is the nhs to prevent any, which is pretty thinly veiled criticism and where she's sort of got his own back by saying that both london and edinburgh should be focusing relentlessly on the issues which matter most to the people of the uk, i.e. not in dependence. the other issue which is causing massive controversy , is the gender controversy, is the gender recognition scotland uk government is deeply worried about the act because of the ramifications it could have in england and is in fact threatening block it altogether, which would be unprecedented and the snp is saying that it's a

question of democracy. and if westminster starts blocking acts voted by holyrood then devolve administration means nothing . administration means nothing. all yeah, and it's not a final point actually that olivia made there about things being decided in hollyrood and westminster potentially blocking the review, returning with interest later on in the show because that was not rather bizarre trans law that came into force or was coming force anyway, north of the border , which essentially, as border, which essentially, as far as i can tell, means that men could enter women's faces even have been convicted even if they have been convicted of different of, various different sex crimes. we're to be talking a little bit about that on because it looks as though rishi sitting out might have gone soft on that. know that anger that. i know that will anger a lot people quite close to lot of people quite close to having conservative having the conservative party actually one actually coming back, being one of them that won't go that of them that won't go down that i suspect it go down that i suspect it won't go down that well with a lot you as we'll be talking about that a later talking about that a bit later on concerning signs if sunak has gone sturgeon. and gone soft on sturgeon. and joining is gb news, joining me now is gb news, northern reporter at northern ireland reporter at dougie beattie dougie. great to have thank very, very have you. thank you very, very

much. a still a month much. you are a still a month for us case, tom urged. for us the case, tom urged. rishi to step away from the rishi not to step away from the brexit cult some people that brexit cult for some people that might mean relinquishing might just mean relinquishing control the kingdom. just control of the kingdom. just talk to me about going on that . talk to me about going on that. well it is an interesting position for him to take. he spent yesterday here at stormont to the parties trying to get these institutions back up and running because of course, unionists do not recognise the protocol they not recognise that the law is being set outside the eu and even things like the free port that's been sat in scotland, couldn't actually happen here because it's not under eu law . the northern under eu law. the northern ireland has gone into a recession and has 72% of its populace in the public . so it populace in the public. so it should be here. it and protect it from the worst of any recession. but is it going into recession? well, goods here are going up very fast . and that's going up very fast. and that's probably because we have a protocol. but keir starmer, of course, speaking this morning in

queensland has said he would give cover the risks you knock if he needed from the erg because if was a deal coming with the eu that that he may needit with the eu that that he may need it that that keir starmer is really well it could be read that keir starmer looking to augn that keir starmer looking to align with the eu which brings back to where he was in the last elections that cost him rather dearly . so what he's talking dearly. so what he's talking about here in northern ireland may have ramifications on the mainland and how those seats in the red wall go . he also spoke the red wall go. he also spoke about legislation that is going through the house of lords here at moment. it's to protect those british, to stop them, continue being brought back to court and a question and answer session, he said if he was the pm, he take that off the books immediately . unionists and immediately. unionists and loyalists then me if that can be done that way will he then take away the ira's letters of comfort that stop security forces and police men and families finding out what

happened , their loved ones. so happened, their loved ones. so he has come . happened, their loved ones. so he has come. he's happened, their loved ones. so he has come . he's tried to be he has come. he's tried to be with everybody else . i mean, with everybody else. i mean, that was a complete storm here. gmb's cleverly arrived on wednesday. sinn fan weren't allowed to meet him because of political etiquette over not being able to meet the leader of the opposition before actually meet the new government and place . had varadkar. he place. we had leo varadkar. he arrived here and of course he's the new york and the republic , the new york and the republic, ireland and of course, how he off his negotiations was he pulled pictures of an ira attack on a border post and said would happen. and of course, unionists that so that was back in thousand and six. and of course, keir starmer in his speech also that london and dublin to work closer together and stop this against one another and of course dublin is the eu london is britain. and if they're to go to negotiate the need to negotiate from a from a level playing field, not as opposed to being friendly with other of there has to be cross—border

cooperation. there always has to be we live in an ireland and we've enjoyed that for many many years you must think that years but you must think that keir starmer is going away from here thinking. this is a lot more complicated than thought here thinking. this is a lot m

crimes for things that happened 2530 years ago. you remember one of those servicemen died and of course he said if it makes it through the house of commons, he wouldn't think twice taking it off the legislation books . so off the legislation books. so that will cause him problems in the red wall as well . but a lot the red wall as well. but a lot of those servicemen actually from. yeah that fascinating thank you very much dougie beattie there i northern ireland reports i've got loads coming way. keep your emails coming in gb views . gbnews.uk two way. keep your emails coming in gb views. gbnews.uk two big issues i'm asking you , do you issues i'm asking you, do you want refuse any asylum want to refuse any asylum applications from albania and should lady susan hussey get her job? more after the .

break we ask this now for the people's poll time. we're talking about that so—called royal racism . so that so—called royal racism. so last year , the late queen's lady last year, the late queen's lady in waiting lady susan hussey resigned and after she asked black charity work and goes forlani was known as marlene where she was really from. well latest gb news people's poll has found that 42% of you say that she should allowed to return to work just. 24% say she shouldn't be allowed back . we can all work be allowed back. we can all work out this a little bit in the middle there of the old nose. but the most of you really said yes, you should be allowed to come back. in that sense. so is it worth noting that lady it is worth, as i should say, the lady has since met and goes has also has since met and goes forlani personally apologise forlani to personally apologise too nice too apparently had a nice constructive also constructive meeting. but also in poll i had a mostly in the poll i had a mostly negative view of prince harry and one third of the public said they are proud of the royal

family. so it's quite a lot to unpack. joining me now is gb news royal cameron news royal reporter cameron walker. cameron thank you very much. to have you back on much. great to have you back on the we're not the show and nice we're not talking a book time talking about a book this time for moment. so 42% of for the moment. yes. so 42% of people, which was more than any other group of people in that poll, want lady susan poll, they want lady susan hussey job back. yeah hussey to get a job back. yeah if you remember, it was a meeting at buckingham palace where personally where lady susan personally apologised fulani at the apologised ngozi fulani at the time buckingham palace described the meeting as full of warmth and under standing for lady susan to offer her sincere apologies for any distress caused. now since then, we have had a lot of allegations , a lot had a lot of allegations, a lot of other distractions with the burke etc. but there's also been i'm not going to go into too much details, but there been allegations made against. sister space, which is the charity ngozi fulani , is the boss of ngozi fulani, is the boss of particularly to of finance , particularly to of finance, says. so there's all these question marks , morals and question marks, morals and ethics and, whether someone's for want of a better for once, for want of a better for once,

for a very very someone's kind of asking about where she is from or what you really from was that really. surely that could have been a harmless comment. yes clearly the argument is. but it was unconscious bias rather than. it was unconscious bias rather than . ladies in the house didn't than. ladies in the house didn't know what she was saying. she's now been educated and therefore why should she lose her job? all why should she lose herjob? all of this. buckingham palace did , of this. buckingham palace did, take the action. well, they didn't say . take the action. well, they didn't say. the take the action. well, they didn't say . the action lady didn't say. the action lady susan has resigned and people are asking why the buckingham palace reinstate palace take action and reinstate her. yeah, absolutely. a lot of you have been getting in touch with this. the vast majority people in my inbox here right now. yes. saying that she should be even diana is be reinstated even if diana is saying that she should be offered job. but as you offered a job. but just as you can them to shove so can tell them to shove it. so now you go down thinking the lady, still take lady, susan, should still take the high ground on. this one of them, course, she did resign them, of course, she did resign initially. was under initially. maybe she was under a lot pressure for just lot of pressure that for just the sake clarity as well. the sake of clarity as well. it's just to say all it's important just to say all of these are allegation of these things are allegation still to scrutiny, still subject to scrutiny, growing. essence, when growing. and in essence, when comes space, is

comes to sister space, which is ngozi fulani the ngozi fulani charity, the scrutiny how they scrutiny is over. how they managed to receive a lot of money in charitable funding and where that money was spent. so that's what that is. that's basically what that is. but you think lady but come on, do you think lady susan want job back? susan would want the job back? well, she was the late queen's lazy . i'm waiting for over 60 lazy. i'm waiting for over 60 years. she's also prince , years. she's also prince, godfather. so clearly godfather. so she's clearly very, very close to the royal . very, very close to the royal. it wouldn't surprise me if she gets invites to the king's . gets invites to the king's. that's happening in may . gets invites to the king's. that's happening in may. but i mean, patrick, she had the job for 60 years when the queen was still alive some people might ask whether or not she would like to retire at this and just live out the rest of her life without all the palace pressures that come job. however it's that come the job. however it's clearly was was using her clearly she was was using her role following queen's death to be one of these official hosts . be one of these official hosts. this reception which the queen consort was , which is where she consort was, which is where she made the comments, i think it's perhaps up to her rather than anyone else, whether or she wants come back. absolutely. wants to come back. absolutely. well, a little well, let's just return a little bit harry. also in the poll

bit to harry. also in the poll turned out most people had turned out that most people had a negative view of prince a most negative view of prince harry. it's fair to harry. i think it's fair to say this book backfired and in this book has backfired and in the of the british, it the eyes of the british, it looks that way. obviously people's poll to suggest people's poll seems to suggest that prince harry is not winning favours with the british public. the yougov poll yesterday found him lowest level ever in him at his lowest level ever in terms of popularity with the british , if you remember british public, if you remember well in the book describes the british people as being credulous, i.e. they will take anything that's written in the press as facts and not question it. prince harry clearly has a huge war at the moment against the british press. he clearly does not like what is written about him. some of accusing him and some other journalists have been on beat for a long time or accusing of having this tunnel vision and the only thing, the negative stories written about him. the time when him. whereas at the time when they of the they were working members of the royal and his wife, royal family, him and his wife, there quite a lot of there were quite a lot of positive stories well. yes, positive stories as well. yes, absolutely. thank absolutely. cameron, thank very much come walker much as ever. come on, walker there are roller coasters whizzing through couple of elements people's power elements of all people's power.

thank everyone thank you very much, everyone who's will who's been getting in touch will be returning throughout be returning to this throughout the show. you all the course of the show. you all know that email address now gbviews@gbnews.uk. i've been asking the key ones asking you one of the key ones is, you think lady c's, is, do you think that lady c's, nessie, be welcomed nessie, should be welcomed back into fold? yes she into the royal fold? yes she should get a job back and. i was disgusted at being hung out to dry royals and that is from dry the royals and that is from day. he after 60 years of day. he says after 60 years of service, she was treated so badly inclined to agree badly and i'm inclined to agree with much with you, dave. thank very much everyone. keep views everyone. keep those views coming in thick and fast. you're with patrick christys on gb news now. it acceptable for the now. is it acceptable for the prime have private prime minister to have private health cut? you seem to think so and yes, again, i am reassured by your soundness and your our people's poll. about 53% of you think that is okay for to go private after he admitted to using independent health care of course is why not you know is it wealthy man and if it takes the burden off the so be it. burden off the nhs, so be it. we'll be discussing all of the opfions. we'll be discussing all of the

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gasping every time that . gasping every time that. people's poll music anyway. back to the gb news people's poll and rishi sunak has admitted that. he's used private health care in the past it used to be didn't the past as it used to be didn't it used to be like people that they'd drugs in the past they'd done drugs in the past now whether or not they've now is whether or not they've used health care anyway. used private health care anyway. it's criticism from those who, say official should be say elected official should be using national health using the national health service. it to you. service. so we put it to you. the people, to see what you think and 3% of you said that it was totally or slightly acceptable for the prime minister use private health care. just 27% of you said it was unlike sensible. with me now is stephen dorrell, former secretary of state for health. to discuss these results . to discuss these results. stephen, thank you very much. do you have private health care . you have private health care. good afternoon . i'm sorry, do

good afternoon. i'm sorry, do you have private health care? i didn't hear the question one more time. the answer , i'm not more time. the answer, i'm not insured, but i have used private care. i think the prime minister have been very straightforward that. have been very straightforward that . he has have been very straightforward that. he has been he has used private care. seems to me a straightforward choice for a free citizen in a free. yes, exactly . why on earth do you exactly. why on earth do you think that was it? 27% of people think that was it? 27% of people think it's unacceptable for a prime minister to go private . prime minister to go private. well, if i may say so , patrick, well, if i may say so, patrick, i don't doubt what your view is on this, but you did, in introducing this piece , use the introducing this piece, use the word admit . introducing this piece, use the word admit. now, i don't have to admit that i have used private health care or that my children with educated. that's not a matter of admission. it's a matter of admission. it's a matter of admission. it's a matter of straightforward choice as a public official, when i was an elected public official, i'm now very active , concerned as now very active, concerned as a liberal democrat , the liberal democrat, the development of public policy , development of public policy, i'm strongly in favour of high quality education services , high

quality education services, high quality education services, high quality health services . but quality health services. but what kind of a free society it where a free citizen can use their own money for foreign holidays or mass bars, but can't use it for education services or health services ? it's nonsense. health services? it's nonsense. of course, people should be free to use these services , but it to use these services, but it shouldn't be used to undermine their commitment to the delivery of high quality public services. well, i think it's a complete red herring. you're right about using the word admit, which is why made bit of a joke, why i've made bit of a joke, because they to have to say because they used to have to say that about didn't that about drug use, didn't they, back the day. do you to they, back in the day. do you to ever having a little puff or a cannabis joint or anything like that it's a do you that and now it's a do you admit. do that when admit. do you admit that when you your hernia done, you you got your hernia done, you use bupa? mean, it's amazing use bupa? i mean, it's amazing isn't the way that we've isn't it the way that we've fallen as a society into that? but in use of yeah you're but in use of words. yeah you're correct. thank you for correct. and thank you for pulling on there you pulling me up on it. there you go. corrected. when it go. i stand corrected. when it comes the debate, me play comes to the debate, let me play devil's advocate here. is there a school of that says if you are devil's advocate here. is there a selected that says if you are devil's advocate here. is there a selected representative)u are devil's advocate here. is there a selected representative of are devil's advocate here. is there a selected representative of the an elected representative of the people, you should live in the

worst house on street, send your kids to the worst, comprehend of school in your area. only use the local hospital only , travel the local hospital only, travel by public transport so that you have a real grasp of what normal people to go through on a daily bafis. people to go through on a daily basis . well, you ask the basis. well, you ask the question, is there a school of thought holds those views? i'm sure i'd call it a school of thought. there may be people who to whom that feels right and i'm not one of them. what there are two arguments here. one is about the choice that individuals in the choice that individuals in the use of their own money. and the use of their own money. and the second, equally important point actually is that i think in the public's services, we should be aspiring to deliver the best we can with the resources available for population of this country. now one of the things that quite often happens is that people look at new ideas being developed , private services say developed, private services say hang a minute, they can have it

, they pay for it. why can't we have it? on the national health or maintain schools and other pubuc or maintain schools and other public services ? and is there public services? and is there not a slight misconception here when it comes to private health care because honestly that wouldn't private health care if a lot of medical staff a lot of whom claim to have absolute out and out solidarity comrade with people on the lines people on the picket lines outside a&e departments ambulance stations i mean they refuse to work in the private sector they and just work in the nhs but they don't . well in nhs but they don't. well in fairness to individuals, people can make their own choices as individual employees as well as individual employees as well as individual citizens services. and there are certainly many, many people who work the health service who choose not to work in the private sector. so you shouldn't assume that everybody it. but there definitely are significant numbers of people, particularly doctors who work in that private sector, as well as working in the public sector. and the person who set up the structures . let me make this

structures. let me make this point, patrick, because the reason system exists is because that's how that's how the health service was set up by that old capitalist inaya and bevan in 1948, he understood that is by having free exchange between the pubuc having free exchange between the public and private sectors that you have the available to the pubuc you have the available to the public sector and the comparison between what's available in the private sector and what's available in the public sector. yeah absolutely. and people could argue that it's rishi sunak's duty, if he's got the money, let's be honest with you. he absolutely has. in order to try any burden can off try to take any burden can off the nhs, which might be quite nice. you a former secretary nice. but you a former secretary of health. i'm just of state health. and i'm just wondering time would wondering your time would it have easier for you have been a lot easier for you if every single medical professional this country who decided they wanted to go and work private instead was they have the right to do it. it decided that goodness of their hearts they wouldn't they would focus their entire energy on our beloved nhs . well that would

beloved nhs. well that would obviously have transferred resource out of the private sector into the public sector. but that employment is a free relationship , say this but that employment is a free relationship, say this is a free society just as consumers have the right to use that resources to make it fit to buy services in health care and education as in health care and education as in other things. so each of us as individuals have a right to what we choose . they do what we choose. they do absolutely . my only concern absolutely. my only concern would be in this current particular time of crisis, if we are up a lot of people and a lot people in the medical profession and a of them are then going abroad thing increasing numbers of junior doctors going to australia question marks the australia big question marks the way about what happens to the student which student loan that well which i think be a little bit think might be a little bit cheeky but instead of maybe directing anger directing everybody anger towards government , would towards the government, i would say direct at say don't direct any anger at all. gently lean on all. but maybe gently lean on a few people who deciding to few people who are deciding to go the private sector of go into the private sector of medicine help in medicine as opposed to help in the thing that they seem to care

about, about so much, about, to care about so much, which is are just i put which is are are they just i put it the other way round. i think that it's up to the this the whole point about the competition between public and private sector that i was describing that the public sector should be seeking to deliver services that are as good as those that are in the private sector and equally it should be developing its ability to offer competitive terms so people want to come and work in pubuc people want to come and work in public sector. you can't you can never compel people to where they don't want to unless . they don't want to unless. you're prepared to stand over them with a gun and get knocked. but no, no of course not. i certainly wouldn't condone anything that but it is interesting a huge of interesting if a huge of people are not working are deliberately not working that sector despite training in that sector despite training in that , it doesn't exactly that field, it doesn't exactly help pressures. stephen help with the pressures. stephen thank thank you much . thank you. thank you very much. thank you. we could thank you. thank you. we could talk day, but while we can't talk all day, but while we can't say, stephen doyle, that secretary state for health secretary of state for health just the results just discussing the results of the shock,

the people's poll, shock, horror, majority you horror, the vast majority you apparently couldn't give a whether or what see don't whether or not what see don't get medical care from get his medical care from someone private or whether it's just and i think just his nurse. and i think that's fair right that's absolutely fair right now. grief . i'm i don't now. good grief. i'm i don't know to . how say this it words know to. how say this it words will not escape my mouth because i'm so used to the doom and gloom trump yourselves in. ladies gentlemen we've only ladies and gentlemen we've only got think i've got got to go. but i think i've got some good the uk economy some good news. the uk economy grew 0.1. it's a win and grew by 0.1. it's a win and i take it 0.1% between october and november to data published by the office of national statistics. the figures represent the growth in gdp for the uk in that period and experts say the slight rise was supported . the technology sector supported. the technology sector such as technology . there was such as technology. there was also a strong showing by pubs and bars . by also a strong showing by pubs and bars. by the also a strong showing by pubs and bars . by the way, we're and bars. by the way, we're going to a bar saying i'll keep you posted on that. i mean, a boost from the world cup in qatar. here to talk about all this is our economics and editor liam halligan with you on the money we're in the money, not.

but we got to take out good news where can get it these days. patrick there was contrary most economists predictions. they of course, the dismal scientists . course, the dismal scientists. there was an expansion in gdp in november official according to the office for national statistics, gdp is of course the sum total of all transact regions, goods and services , our regions, goods and services, our economy. let's have a quick at the numbers in more . economy. let's have a quick at the numbers in more. in november, uk gdp up there by 0.1. a 10th of 1. manufacturing though, fell by 0.5. i read too much into that. manufacturing is very volatile. it shifts around from month to month, depending on really productions. when end services though the real engine room of the british economy they were up nought 2% in november compared to the previous month. and here we go here is the world cup kicking in food and beverage services , plus 2.2% as so many services, plus 2.2% as so many of us, of course , had parties of us, of course, had parties and food and wine. as a result of watching the world cup . so

of watching the world cup. so this is pretty good news . that this is pretty good news. that does mean that probably in the second, the third quarter and the final quarter 22, so the last six months of 2022, a recession , when you get two recession, when you get two consecutive quarters of contraction, think we're probably going to escape that now. so all those headlines about recession is inevitable . about recession is inevitable. it may be that they've turned out not be true. i don't want to break up the past too much. one might get a lettuce out again, but the go to growth and stuff, i mean, they were could we have really just gone for growth time on what liz truss was saying. it depends on how you do it. i certainly think that it's wrong to be raising corporation tax of april from 19 to 25. i think that's anti—growth. i think particularly small or medium sized enterprises will suffer. they've been suffering during lockdown. i think that instead removal of 6% of their margins will condemn a lot of them to a history . and so you end up

history. and so you end up raising a tax rate and end up with less revenue. yeah, and i don't actually think a lot of the financial markets were particularly worried about that liz saying we're going to keep corporation at 19. but talking about liz truss she gets hard time of a lot of people but she make the very important statement while she was campaigning to be tory leader and a lot of people were saying we can't growth. we have we can't go growth. we have economic invoices, indeed, economic invoices, indeed, economic talk was an octave lower. economic forecasts are not destiny. that's what she said and she was right. not destiny. that's what she said and she was right . and i said and she was right. and i actually think it's worth pointing now that energy prices are starting to come down. wholesale gas, wholesale prices gas, they're all now lower than were before the war in ukraine started in february 2022. and we're even starting to see a little bit of a downtick some of our household bills and there's an investment bank called investec that does put some pretty decent forecasts . they're pretty decent forecasts. they're now predicting that that price cap, which of course government

said it's not going to go above £3,000 for the average household. so the government would then have to pay lots of money to subsidise energy to keep the average bill at £3,000. investec now saying in july because wholesale gas and oil pnces because wholesale gas and oil prices are coming down. the energy average energy bills will be way below the price cap owed . £2,478 rather tha n £3,000. so . £2,478 rather than £3,000. so that energy subsidies won't actually cost the money government any money. it's all yeah, and that's a lot about what the financial markets worried about when they dissed liz truss and kwasi kwarteng mini budget. we're always retrospect, we are always right. although you were actually right at the time, which is point. i did actually say at the time i, don't reckon this is going to cost much money at all, but what do i know? i'm just the economics and business editor of gb news. he's only on the money. isn't a you go. all right. well, thank much. again, thank you very much. again, our economics business experts economics and business experts could even say so the good could even say it. so the good news comes to my well,

news is, comes to my head. well, anyway, something might anyway, so something that might gone the gone to someone's head the campaign we go is campaign real ale. here we go is friday has announced its pub of the year winner naming the best pub in the country voted for by its members and it's the tamworth tap staffordshire and it's been revealed as this year's located in the shadow of tamworth castle. wow doing what? all good local journalists and reporters do when he sees a pub story. hey straight on it is gb views. west midlands reports the jockey ossett, who i hope can still struck a sentence together because as i understand, you've been there since they opened this , especially for you. how this, especially for you. how are you ? i'm very well, patrick. are you? i'm very well, patrick. ihave are you? i'm very well, patrick. i have to say , it's not just i have to say, it's not just good beer that this place is judged on as well. camra who are the campaign for real ales chose pub as their favourite pub the best pub in the uk for all kinds of reasons. they judge things on things like decor on atmosphere, on the beer as these beams

behind me date back to the 16th century and chewed at times in the beer garden , like, like you the beer garden, like, like you said in the shadow of tamworth castle that the walls there are norman and saxon. so it's the history that this place brings , history that this place brings, but also the impact that it's brought to its community. and i spoke to the owner george greenaway about it felt to win the award incredible absolutely ecstatic . i've just been ecstatic. i've just been immensely of the achievement of obviously myself and the whole team and ultimately the whole time really it was never to be a pub. it was only going to be a little microbrewery with the taphouse appearance . so to taphouse appearance. so to actually have got to this stage and persuade it into becoming, you know, a centre of hospitality in the town by the townsfolk has been it's been incredible really so this place only opened five years ago is an empty premises before it

initially started as just the microbrewery by a couple of tanks but now got 800 halls and one of them pulls the ale that they brew on site here. and i have to say patrick it's very, very good. well i was going to say and jack , as i understand it say and jack, as i understand it anyway , this is your last hit of anyway, this is your last hit of the day because like i said, you were at the pub so early so you can stop pretending to just sip that bed now and actually actually say off for as john thank you very, very much chuckles in the west midlands reports in a what they do it reports in a pub what they do it isn't going to do it i don't quite bottled it is bottled it anyway. he's got a job today and anyway. he's got a job today and a career to protect. unlikely you're patrick christys you're with me. patrick christys on news to come in the next on gb news to come in the next houn on gb news to come in the next hour. got all sorts of hour. we've got all sorts of today. course, going today. we are, of course, going today. we are, of course, going to giving you the latest to be giving you the latest data, shocking data, when it comes amount of albanians comes to the amount of albanians coming across the channel claiming slavery. i've claiming modern slavery. i've got your way and got all coming your way and much, more that much, much more as well. that question gbviews@gbnews.uk . do question gbviews@gbnews.uk. do you lady susan hussey you think lady susan hussey should job back ? the vast

should her job back? the vast majority of you say yes and that's the result of our people's political. all of that absolutely lies as well. but i'll see you in two. hello alex deakin here with your latest weather update, the met office. the weekend is going to start mild and fairly. the weekend is going to start mild and fairly . it will turn mild and fairly. it will turn dner, mild and fairly. it will turn drier , brighter, but also much drier, brighter, but also much colder through the weekend and into next week with the potential for a bit of snow in places as well . tonight, though, places as well. tonight, though, it's all about the rain moving in again to western areas that have saturated ground. so this extra rain is likely to cause further . we have extra rain is likely to cause further. we have met extra rain is likely to cause further . we have met office further. we have met office yellow warnings in place, most of the uk turning soggy. the start a of snow start of saturday a bit of snow on the hills as that rain moves across scotland. chilly this evening, but dawn as the rain evening, but by dawn as the rain arrives, temperatures actually on it start in on the rise. it will start in the double figures. so the south in double figures. so mild wet start for most on saturday morning. something a bit brighter for northern ireland for a time. and the rain elsewhere will be pulling away to so it will turn to the east so it will turn dner to the east so it will turn drier through the late morning and into afternoon. we may well

see sunny spells see some sunny spells developing. very wet . the developing. stay very wet. the far north of scotland, plenty of showers to western showers coming in to western scotland with gusty scotland and northern with gusty winds and, snow on the hills, but brighter skies further south. temperatures actually dropping the dropping again through the afternoon the colder air afternoon as the colder air moves in. very windy and wet on saturday evening across northern, we have another yellow warning in place here. the potential for flooding and from the strength of the winds the wet weather in scotland turning more and more to snow at lower levels. by the time we get to sunday, the showers across the far north, although they'll fade through , sunday is through the day, sunday is overall drier , but still some overall a drier, but still some showers in west , north—west showers in the west, north—west england, wales and northern ireland where there will be some snow on many places snow on the but many places further and south generally dry on sunday but pretty cold especially with the wind temperatures a touch below average certainly lower than i have been for most of this year. the colder air that in place as we go into monday and tuesday with frost and ice returning the

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by welcome back, everybody , with me welcome back, everybody, with me patrick christys right here on gb news is just going forward i'll come with you for the next 2 hours and we're rattling through it this friday people, we'll be giving the very we'll be giving you the very latest on. the small hbos crisis has now emerged to half of all modern slavery claimants who came small. oh, you came here on the small. oh, you guessed it. i'll bailey. can guessed it. i'll bailey. and can the government a grip the government get a grip on the channel crossings? have own channel crossings? i have own poll twitter as well poll running on twitter as well . whether or not we should be stopping asylum applications stopping all asylum applications from albania, your votes

from. albania, get your votes coming in on that and the uk economy grew . that's right. you economy grew. that's right. you heard it grew through heard me. it grew through october. november a blow to the doomsayers, the gloom is predicting non stop decline. our economy business editor liam halligan will be here to break down what it means for the money in your pocket and get university lecturers back on strike and asking for more cash. we've got a teacher going head to head with a student. it's just you don't get this anywhere else. people are going to ask whether or not students are getting for money, whether getting value for money, whether or lecturers need to or not so as lecturers need to stop lazy and get back to stop being lazy and get back to work. and i want to hear your thoughts on the topics thoughts on all of the topics that we're talking about today. thoughts on all of the topics thatine're talking about today. thoughts on all of the topics thatin touch,.king about today. thoughts on all of the topics thatin touch, vaiews@gbnews.uk. get in touch, vaiews@gbnews.uk. the one, really. and we're the big one, really. and we're going be teeing off on this going to be teeing off on this is whether you think we is whether or not you think we should just all asylum should just stop all asylum applications it applications from albania. is it just a country, in your just a safe country, in your view? gb views gbnews.uk never view? gb views gbnews.uk i never would you going as well. would to get you going as well. is lady hasty should she is lady susan hasty should she got back at people's got a job back at the people's results? of you think results? and most of you think she views. news uk she should? gb views. gb news uk now though she had lots . good

now though she had lots. good afternoon. it's been a past four. i'm out. i'm in the. manchester city footballer . manchester city footballer. benjamin mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at. chester crown court. jurors couldn't reach verdicts on one kind of rape. and one of attempted rape. the prosecution has sought a retrial on those counts and that has been scheduled for june . counts and that has been scheduled forjune . scotland scheduled for june. scotland gain two new green freeports the in edinburgh and inverness are part of a £52 million fund to drive in the country. ministers say they'll also create 75,000 jobs and bring in almost say they'll also create 75,000 jobs and bring in almost £11 billion worth of investment . the billion worth of investment. the announcement follows private held last night between the prime minister sunak and scotland's first minister referred to nicholas sturgeon as control of labour leader sir

keir starmer. control of labour leader sir keir starmer . the time for keir starmer. the time for action on. the northern ireland protocol is now . delivering his protocol is now. delivering his key speech . queen's university key speech. queen's university in belfast . key speech. queen's university in belfast. sir keir also promised his party remain a good faith guarantor of the good friday agreement. he's urged the prime minister to past mistakes and resolve issues over the post—brexit arrangements. so i to the prime minister , if there to the prime minister, if there is a deal to do in coming weeks, do it whatever political cover you need , whatever mechanisms in you need, whatever mechanisms in westminster you require , if it westminster you require, if it delivers our national interest and the people of northern ireland, we will support you the time for action on the protocol is now . the economy grew by 0.1% is now. the economy grew by 0.1% between october and november, despite soaring cost of living. the office national statistics recorded slowdown in growth, though , after 8.5% increase. the

though, after 8.5% increase. the month. it says the economy helped by people going to pubs to watch the world cup. chancellor jeremy to watch the world cup. chancellorjeremy hunt says the chancellor jeremy hunt says the government has a clear plan to halve inflation this year and to get the economy growing again . a get the economy growing again. a pensioner has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for the rape and murder of a teenager. nearly 50 years ago, in the oldest double jeopardy case in england and dennis mcgrory sent to sit huntingdon crown court for the sexual assault and murder of 15 year old jackie montgomery in her home in north london in 1975. mcgraw was 28 at the time, had been of the murder, but swallowed jackie's body was retested a decade later, showing a dna match . a third man has a dna match. a third man has been charged with the murder of a 23 year old amateur footballer in a nightclub on boxing day . in a nightclub on boxing day. west midlands police say 18 year old regan anderson will appear at birmingham magistrates later

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website. he will serve a minimum of 49 years and continue to be paid to . lisa marie presley paid to. lisa marie presley elvis presley daughter, who died at the age of 54. awarding the following contains some flashing images. it's understood the singer songwriter suffered a cardiac arrest at her home in los angeles yesterday. and michael jackson's sister, latoya jackson , and the duchess of york jackson, and the duchess of york have both paid tribute. her death comes just days after she attended the golden globe awards, where actor austin took home the best actor award for his portrayal of her father . his portrayal of her father. this is gb news. we'll you more as it happens . now it's back to. as it happens. now it's back to. pat yeah well the latest of figures for the madness is taking place

. the channel have dropped, and you guessed it, it's not really, because more than half of modern slavery claimants arriving small boat the english channel. boat across the english channel. albanian confirmation is back to what a lot of us thought was going anyway. that's according to the latest figures and they've been analysed meticulously by migration watch uk it found that in the uk and it found that in the first half of 2022 people from the eastern european nation accounted for most modern slavery claimants. that's among those arrived in the uk via small boats across the channel. it comes in the week that rishi sunak vowed they'll make it harder for people to come to the uk illegally that they won't be allowed to stay apparently and hard for to use modern hard for them to use modern slavery laws to remain in the country. joining me now, i'm very to say so, is very pleased to say so, is someone was involved in someone who was involved in analysing government analysing those government figures, he's figures, and that's jeremy. he's a at migration a researcher at migration watch uk. much. uk. jeremy, thank you very much. great to have you on the show. lots to. firstly though, it would appear as though a loophole being used essentially. yes absolutely. so the reason albanians focussed on is because

there are all sorts of who do make modern slavery claims or are referred. but the thing with albanians , they come from what albanians, they come from what is clearly a safe country. it's a nato member that trying to join the eu. they're a signatory to. the european convention on, human rights. so that makes it very clear that something is going wrong when half well over half of the people claiming to be modern slaves are being referred from country. you referred off from country. you know, spoke former head know, i spoke to a former head of border force earlier on of uk border force earlier on and he was saying to me that actually it's quite easy to modern slavery. well, what what is a what is modern slave, what's the actual definition or orindeed what's the actual definition or or indeed the terminology that you would have to do to try to pass yourself off as a modern slave. so there are various categories, such as trafficking, which can involve someone being trafficked into the country for certain purposes. on this forced laboun certain purposes. on this forced labour. so someone coming from albania as a specific example, could be in theory manipulated into working on, say, cannabis

farm in the uk. into working on, say, cannabis farm in the uk . and in that farm in the uk. and in that sense maybe they could be a genuine modern slave. but the thing is in that case is that if they need protection , it they need protection, it shouldn't necessarily be in the uk where they've been having entered legally, it should be back in albania. yeah, well think a lot of people would agree the numbers agree with that and. the numbers are stark. i it's around are stark. i that it's around a 42% increase, something like that from the year before, something that presumably unless we get to grips with this will be rise again . how would be set to rise again. how would you go about stopping this? sunak has spoken about reforming the modern slavery. yes we welcome this speech and i it was december about these reforms he wants to do. and they sounds great on, the face of it. but of course , it's one thing to talk course, it's one thing to talk the talk. it's another thing walk the walk and international human rights laws and the ones that the uk is specifically made up for itself and the modern slavery ones particular are very difficult reform. you have to be very careful not to overstepped the and walk that very fine

the mark and walk that very fine line. it's an interesting one and it a big debate this is and it is a big debate this is a big discussion for a lot of people. at the same time as people. at the same time as people don't want someone who's genuinely trafficked here people don't want someone who's gejustely trafficked here people don't want someone who's gejust be trafficked here people don't want someone who's gejust be deportedfficked here people don't want someone who's gejust be deportedfficke�*toiere to just be deported back to albania if there is a and i think it is a reality that there is a loophole here that is being used and abused by a load of people who aren't actually modern slaves in order to at the taxpayers expense here and taxpayers expense live here and work here or do whatever not work here or do whatever not work here or do whatever not work here in many then is it worth actually closing that loophole altogether , even if loophole altogether, even if some unfortunately do some people unfortunately do suffer as result? and i've suffer as a result? and i've been a parliament, which is. should all asylum from should we refuse all asylum from albania? so far, 95% of people say yes . do you stand albania? so far, 95% of people say yes. do you stand on albania? so far, 95% of people say yes . do you stand on that? say yes. do you stand on that? should we refuse asylum applications from albania ? do applications from albania? do you think it's a little bit hard , say, because of the joint asylum backlog that i'd the large influx of albanians is , large influx of albanians is, you know, added to substantially that makes it hardest know how many are actual genuine claimants from the end point of the process . however, of those

the process. however, of those that have been processed, most of them do get refused asylum and, do get returned to albania if possible so, it would certainly be more . but there certainly be more. but there might be a case for certain cases. receiving protection . and cases. receiving protection. and i think he speaks to what a soft touch britain is , as just touch britain is, as just generally now really. and yes , generally now really. and yes, was pleased with rishi sunak's five points, which you can obviously just condense down into, which is basically the economy, the nhs, illegal immigration. i was slightly concerned about , immigration. i was slightly concerned about, keir starmer, because i spoke a former labour party special adviser on this show he was say show yesterday and he was say adamantly the vast majority of people they just care about what price loaf of bread is at the shops. so people do care about that. but i think people also care, jeremy, about their local hotel being commandeered the hotel being commandeered by the home or whatever home office or serco or whatever and resources. the royal borough of windsor them for example, to find of windsor them for example, to fin just find £1,000,000 this year just to people who are at to deal with people who are at least claiming anyway to be children. on that in their

children. and on that in their social system and the social care system and the taxpayers money that is being drained when it comes to what's on in the channel is vast, isn't it? absolute and this does have a clear effect on cost of a very clear effect on cost of living so forms effect in living it. so it forms effect in the taxes pay money is being spent on housing legal immigrants instead of social services like you say on businesses as big knock on effect hotels are employing as many people as they could because they can just, you know, let off a of staff and keep on a skeleton crew to house these these migrants. and then that also has a knock on effect on tourism and other businesses. the so the economic effects the line so the economic effects massive and i think that has been rather underexplored. do you politicians are you think our politicians are trying mask a lack of trying to mask a lack of political or maybe even ideological ill will to deal with this with well, i suppose technical details saying, oh, you know, we've got to go through all of these to fix the law. so it would really everything that can in your everything that we can in your opinion someone at opinion as someone who's at migration watch uk looks at these numbers devastating on a daily through them

daily basis, goes through them with a tooth comb . could with a fine tooth comb. could this if had someone in this be sorted if had someone in power who really wanted to sort it? well, in theory any government can do almost anything. it of course, we sign up to numerous international laws over the past 50, 60 plus years that muddied the waters quite a lot, made things quite. but ultimately the british government is sovereign and does have the power to do these things if it so wishes. it's just got to decide whether it really wants to. okay. i'm going to of you on the spot to kind of put you on the spot slightly. i want to slightly. how i don't want to make turn it into too much of make it turn it into too much of a migrant bay sweepstake a channel migrant bay sweepstake but numbers going to but the numbers are going to come course of this year come in the course of this year we report gb news i we report today on gb news i think we had exclusive images anyway of the first known groups , people who made their way across the channel in 2023. are you expecting to be an increase? another or not? another record year or not? i reckon so. the more that come, the see that they can. the more see that they can. okay, fair enough. clear. and concise. very concise. thank you very, very much, to have on much, jeremy. great to have on the show. absolute pleasure jeremy of migration watch jeremy hobson of migration watch the out migration watch

the research out migration watch uk reacting to numbers uk reacting to those numbers i will recap them for you very quickly if you're just joining us which is now more than 50% of those to be victims of those claiming to be victims of modern entered modern slavery who entered the uk across the uk by small i.e. across the channel are albania. that's in relation course to another relation of course to another massive record influx of people across the channel last year. supposedly on what figures you read, 2% of entire read, around 2% of the entire male population albania is male population of albania is now here , which might now currently here, which might mean quite time to mean it's quite a good time to still be man in albania, but we'll leave out there. lots of you been getting in touch you have been getting in touch with on small boat with your on the small boat crisis on the continent crisis. williams abbott said williams tony abbott has said australia boats of australia turn back boats of immigrants by transferring them to seaworthy boats. why don't we do lack of political do that lack of political courage potentially as? well, also convincing the french also about convincing the french to back as well we to take them back as well we heard earlier we, from heard earlier didn't we, from that of uk border that former head of uk border force just that need force who said just that we need to to convince the to do more to convince the french actually keep and french to actually keep them and clearly about money. clearly isn't just about money. clearly there has to be some political will need to try political will do we need to try to as a matter of urgency, to find as a matter of urgency, some appeasing french

some of appeasing the french in something completely non migration something migration related, something that macron that just makes emmanuel macron very indeed . and then very happy indeed. and then hopefully use that as an hopefully he use that as an incentive to try to keep hold of incentive to try to keep hold of in france and not pass them on. i will say that my disdain for what the french are doing in this regard very, very this regard is very, very limited i suspect that a limited because i suspect that a lot who watch this lot of people who watch this show watch this and show and watch this channel and listen as well, listen to this show as well, would if they were living in calais and they were french, be quite happy to wave out across the they? so the channel, wouldn't they? so kind have it both kind of can't have it both ways. i think need to be realistic i think we need to be realistic in of we would maybe in terms of what we would maybe want be doing if we were want to be doing if we were french. but diana, we need to return all albanians. you've arrived here illegally and return other illegal return all other illegal immigrants to you iraqis immigrants to now you see iraqis desperate to and desperate desperate to say and desperate to clear to us. jim he to make it clear to us. jim he says, by what we see. says, judging by what we see. well to say stopping well he wants us to say stopping boats across also as boats coming across and also as well that asylum well reducing that asylum backlog, asylum backlog, nullifying the asylum backlog, nullifying the asylum backlog, actually, and making it very clear to people that if you enter the illegally, you do not get to stay all the while. that was the day over yet to see any

fines take off rwanda. we're yet to hear of any more deals being done with various different other countries or south other african countries or south countries. it countries. they will make it work. their yet to actually see solid it comes to suella solid when it comes to suella braverman constructive braverman being in constructive conversation is when it comes to using various different shipping containers disused cruise containers or disused cruise ships for offshore processing. so i suppose it's a case of will believe it when we say david says, if tries to use the anti slavery law, how come they can afford to spend thousands to come the and this is come over to the uk and this is why a loophole. many people why it's a loophole. many people would it a loophole would regard it as a loophole certainly people at certainly the people at migration it as migration watch uk it as a loophole because if pay someone a load of money in order to a shed load of money in order to you somewhere on they take you there that is that slavery is that even human trafficking i mean it is technically human trafficking but isn't it a little bit like an uber for illegal immigration and i think that's what you're trying to say, david, which say, david, that which is actually. claim actually. how can they claim that? suppose they can that? well, i suppose they can say, i didn't really know say, well, i didn't really know as i was doing or i was forced to it or they've got my family

member hostage i haven't member hostage or. i haven't paid yet. when i get paid them all yet. when i get here, got to them a bit. so here, got to pay them a bit. so it's a of a slippery, but it's a bit of a slippery, but clearly the message gone out clearly the message has gone out to the fine people of albania. if you do decide to come here in to the fine people of albania. if small,» decide to come here in to the fine people of albania. if small, you:ide to come here in to the fine people of albania. if small, you canto come here in to the fine people of albania. if small, you can sayome here in to the fine people of albania. if small, you can say that here in to the fine people of albania. if small, you can say that iare in a small, you can say that i a victim of human trafficking. i was the of slavery. i'm was the victim of slavery. i'm speaking as i do will speaking as i often do and will be doing on as well. be doing later on as well. specialist in immigration law and asylum law. what say and asylum law. what they say when go through the normal when you go through the normal asylum if get asylum process, if you get rejected then can claim rejected then you can claim modern human modern slavery, human trafficking. course trafficking. and that, of course means go into this means that you go into this bracket. 2023 bracket. but yes, in 2023 i suspect a lot of you would hope see makes good on see you see that makes good on his promise get your coming in because to ask you that because i wanted to ask you that big question the poll on my personal twitter the moment is 95% maybe get some 95% but maybe we can get some chlorine particular poll chlorine in that particular poll and you think as well. and see what you think as well. gb at gb news dot uk. do gb views at gb news dot uk. do you we should stop all you think we should stop all asylum applications from albania plenty of other countries? regard as totally safe regard it as totally safe country, on now country, but moving on now because minister because the prime minister and man to the prime man who wants to be the prime minister been getting out minister have been getting out and today. rishi sunak has

and about today. rishi sunak has been where he's been in scotland where he's announced opening two announced the opening of two new green freeports the labour green freeports and the labour leader, starmer , while leader, sir keir starmer, while he's in belfast, where he's he's been in belfast, where he's urged to get urged political leaders to get back months. he's also back just four months. he's also called minister to called the prime minister to help resolution. the help find a resolution. the running northern running dispute over northern ireland process . joining me now, ireland process. joining me now, he's back for more is gb news is northern ireland reporter dougie beattie dougie great to have you on the show. thank you very, very why is it so? very much. now, why is it so? what? why should people sitting like me now and cushy studio, warm studio , metropolitan warm studio, metropolitan liberal elite london . why should liberal elite london. why should i care about northern ireland? protocol . a well, a number of protocol. a well, a number of reasons . and first of all, first reasons. and first of all, first of them all is that these are british citizens living in ireland? it is part of the uk and of course would you like to see any other citizens. i mean would you like to see liverpool annexed laws of the eu and cap there and have no democ racy to say how your laws could change

because that's exactly what's happened. because that's exactly what's happened . northern ireland this happened. northern ireland this border down the irish sea and of course every lorry that comes to northern ireland full of goods sold from mainland uk. well it goes back with goods from here and when it comes to agriculture with food anywhere from 12 to 20% of britain's food that sets the table. that's why be worried. there's also a unusually large amount of young men and women here that join the armed forces and the uk and fight for britain. there is quite a lot of benefits to northern ireland and quite a lot of benefits to uk for northern ireland being . that is a really ireland being. that is a really good trading system . i mean, the good trading system. i mean, the dairy products that come out of northern ireland are huge. the irish dairy sector is worth about irish dairy sector is worth abou t £6.8 billion per year and about £68 billion per year and that's just on butter and milk alone . so you start to look at alone. so you start to look at that and think well, where's this going to go ? who's getting this going to go? who's getting this going to go? who's getting this money? and who's getting

this money? and who's getting this product? well, of course the protocol states that we are stuck inside the eu and unionists are saying, well , unionists are saying, well, what's the sense in sitting in this house behind us? because we legislate for anything, because you're getting economic union ni with the eu. in other words , with the eu. in other words, they are saying that all our trade laws must be , in alignment trade laws must be, in alignment with the republic of . well then with the republic of. well then it's not too long before you get political unity. so therefore here has grind to a halt. and that also that we are now having ministers etc. coming from britain and having direct role in northern ireland. but there is there's been i suppose a push towards better relations with dubun towards better relations with dublin because of we are on an island here and the cross—border trade is very, very important too. there's about trade is very, very important too. there's about £5 billion goes between the republic , goes between the republic, ireland and britain every year. but that is now becoming smaller after brexit. so all these

feeding into the middle and it is argument of where the border is argument of where the border is . should it is argument of where the border is. should it be in the irish sea or should it be in the repubuc sea or should it be in the republic of ireland? so at the start of last week, the government said we have decided to have green, lyons and lines. so any green that come in, they're sharing that data with they're sharing that data with the eu to say well this is what's coming and it's going to stay in northern it shouldn't be and with a c m checks. but of course that has to do the same paperwork . and that's t. s paperwork. and that's t. s paperwork. and that's t. s paperwork. it costs a lot of actually stopping a lorry and looking what's inside. it doesn't take as long as you can imagine filling in export forms, coming from britain, mainland uk and in northern ireland. very simply , if you were making say, simply, if you were making say, i don't know poppadoms in manchester and you were wanting to put them into northern ireland, would you do all the paperwork for 2% of the uk. would it be worth your while when it's high volumes and small amounts? would you do all that work? the answer to that is no and that's what's happening in northern ireland. we have got

our emptying of goods our shelves emptying of goods and there's less competition . and there's less competition. and this week what we are now have had is that we have found out that northern ireland is the of the uk that is going into recession. if you take it recession. now if you take it that 72% of the jobs in northern ireland are inside the public or dependent on the public sector , dependent on the public sector, we should be very sheltered from the effects of recession, but instead of that, we're not. what's the difference . the what's the difference. the difference is that goods in price of it are going up. why? it's harder to get goods and. and keir starmer has been over a year trying to sort that out. and speaking of the parties behind us , dougie, expertly done behind us, dougie, expertly done as . i have in my government. as. i have in my government. thank you very, very much, dougie beattie. that is northern ireland reports , just outside ireland reports, just outside stormont. i tell you what, let's do them all day. fantastic, right. okay we're moving on. you're with me. patrick christys on gb news. now, coming up, i've got news for you. i know got good news for you. i know it's the uk economy it's not the. the uk economy grew a whopping nought point % in

grew a whopping nought point% in november year. could this november last year. could this be the start of an upturn? we're certainly hailing it as one, but it might not be. we'll get latest from gb news economics and business liam halligan. keep your in thick and your emails coming in thick and fast well, albania fast. well, on the albania situation , that people's poll situation, that people's poll result vast majority of you result the vast majority of you apparently want lady susan hussey fulani hussey of the ngozi fulani scandal to her job back in scandal to herjob back in buckingham palace. i'll be back in just sec .

but it's not all doom and gloom, ladies and gentlemen, the uk economy grew between months of october and november, according to newly released figures by the owners increased by owners the uk's gdp increased by 0.1. it's a win and a shock and says basically who predicted, of course, that it would shrink by

0.3% in the month of november. so, yes, it is very much a win. can we really trust all these economic forecasts. joining me now is our economics and business editor. i mean, you definitely trust definitely can't trust liam halligan all the money . halligan with all the money. money i demanded policy papers. they demanded everything confetti. but now here we are. it's just you and i and some good news is relatively good news, as were saying in the last houn news, as were saying in the last hour. let's expand the discussion, but let's just go through numbers this through the numbers first. this is uk gdp growth , domestic is uk gdp growth, domestic product, all the sum total of goods and service transaction is in the economy in november compared to the previous month it was up point 1, not a lot, but a of people were predicting a steep decline. manufacturing did fall down 0.5% though that's a very volatile metric services were up point 2. we are of a service dominated economy. but here's the kicker food and beverages services up 2.2%

because of all the celebrating when came to the world cup . and when came to the world cup. and captain, if harry kane in school without penalty. i think i 10% gdp growth would be fine now would be all right we'd be millionaires uk would be right we'd be the fifth biggest economy against instead of the sixth. because i wonder if you have that weighing his mind as he steps outside. anyway, carry on. it is it is serious point. on. it is it is a serious point. there has been an awful lot of economic doom and gloom out there and. the consensus forecast economists i was looking at it yesterday before these numbers came out this morning, thought there would be a 0.2% drop in gdp in november. actually a 0.1% rise. that's a big mess. and we did contract in the third quarter of 2022. gdp paid july, august, september. and if you have to consecutive quarters of contraction, that's called a recession. it now looks as the october, november, december number, the december number will come out next month . these things take time.

there's a lag. lots of sums to add up all the transactions in the economy , but it now looks as the economy, but it now looks as if the final quarter of 2022 we won't see a contraction so we won't see a contraction so we won't actually see a recession in the second half of last year. we know we may get one in this yean we know we may get one in this year, but you know it was nailed on most that there was going to be a recession when liz truss and kwasi kwarteng did the mini budget. oh my god, there's going to a recession. it now turns to be a recession. it now turns out won't be. and out there won't be. and not a little bit of good news, patrick, over oil prices. now are below where they were are way below where they were when invaded . when vladimir putin invaded. ukraine february 2022 as our wholesale gas prices and we are now starting to see some fall in energy bills at least some fall in the projected rise in household energy bills . there's household energy bills. there's an investment bank called investec and they are predicting that the energy average energy in july . will £2,478 a year from in july. will £2,478 a year from

, the year, july to the following july . but that's way following july. but that's way below th e £3,000 price cap that below the £3,000 price cap that the government was talking about. and if the government doesn't have to pay on subsidising prices to keep the cap place, then that huge bill for subsidising energy as some of us predicted it would completely disappears . so this completely disappears. so this may actually give the government extra money in this year 2023, when i'm. there's no money. that's not money because energy pnces that's not money because energy prices are now coming down. they may actually be a little more for money nhs workers. yeah education, maybe it's ease the strikes and these kind of arcane economic concepts inflation and energy prices they actually drive and determine politics in my view. well, it isn't my view. it's just the fact. and that is thatis it's just the fact. and that is that is the issue we're seeing here in the uk where the economy is slightly looking up. it's a of light , patrick, because you'd of light, patrick, because you'd say when so much. stephen gloom out early we've got to take our

good news with 100. and even today i'm still reading the odd headune today i'm still reading the odd headline know, there's headline like you know, there's an exodus of millionaires from this minute. this country at the minute. people to go into people are going to go into arrears comes their arrears when it comes to their mortgages and i mean, mortgages and stuff. i mean, should we be massively concerned about the exodus millionaires, should we be massively concerned abcexample,)dus millionaires, should we be massively concerned abcexample,)diindeed onaires, should we be massively concerned abcexample,)diindeed onaireis? for example, if indeed there is? i we should be i do think we should be concerned about entrepreneur not investing. and i do the rise in corporation tax from 19% where it currently is to 25% in april. that's now . i do think that will that's now. i do think that will lead to less investment. i do think that will lead to less revenue than if you kept the tax 7 revenue than if you kept the tax ? it is at 19% because i think some businesses will fold because the extra corporation tax after lockdown will consign them. unfortunately to history. for many entrepreneurs , running for many entrepreneurs, running small or medium sized enterprises , that corporation enterprises, that corporation tax rise will be you know the last straw , as it were, and if last straw, as it were, and if there is investment strike, you could also get more unemployment. so we do need be concerned about these things in my view . and just very finally

my view. and just very finally now house, i alluded to them earlier, but people care massively about this for obvious reasons. it was to potentially have a property market crash in people's house prices going down. the value of homes going down. the value of homes going down. your on that? down. your views on that? i think will be local think there will be some local sized fall in house prices . sized fall in house prices. think in the end there's fundamentally a national level . fundamentally a national level. a grotesque shortage of in this country population has been rising hugely and we're not building homes nearly enough so many even are natural demography, let alone the fact that a lot of people come to this country every every is very complex relationship between and house prices a lot of immigrants for instance build homes that we need but when we're not building those homes, of course there is a of extra pressure on our housing supply. a of extra pressure on our housing supply . and the reality housing supply. and the reality is, patrick if house prices do fall , start to fall a little fall, start to fall a little bit, you'll get investors , bit, you'll get investors, buyers who will come in. we do need to be concerned that a lot

of households , as interest rates of households, as interest rates go of households, as interest rates 9° up of households, as interest rates go up and there's still a little bit of white go, i think interest rates will peak at about four or 5. they're currently three and a half, maybe four and a quarter a lot of people have to remortgage from a fixed rate and that ends that that's it goes to a new fixed rate, much rate because they might have got a one or 2% rate. now it'll be like four or five. i think there will unfortunately be mortgage arrears and mortgage defaults . arrears and mortgage defaults. and for any family involved, that a tragedy. liam, thank that is a tragedy. liam, thank you very much. initially, some good news, though well, folks initially didn't to spoil initially didn't want to spoil it. they might look at it. no, no. they might look at the economics business the economics and business editor money write. editor with on the money write. so i've still got lowe's coming away . of i did the away. of course i did the results fantastic results of that fantastic people's found. think people's poll found. you think that susan , you remember that lady susan, you remember she was the one who got into a little bit of hot water when it came to ngozi fulani. otherwise known as marlene had labour there she to be there go. she wants to be allowed back or you think she should back. is i've should be allowed back. is i've said that so yes you. think that she should allowed to take

she should be allowed to take her now she was her job back now she was a member of the buckingham palace staff long time staff for a very, very long time very our dear like we very close to our dear like we whether or not she would want to go back i suppose after being unfairly backed the monarchy unfairly backed by the monarchy is but we're unfairly backed by the monarchy is to but we're unfairly backed by the monarchy is to be but we're unfairly backed by the monarchy is to be discussingt we're unfairly backed by the monarchy is to be discussing and re unfairly backed by the monarchy is to be discussing and this going to be discussing and this is one as well is an interesting one as well make you stay tuned for make sure you stay tuned for this because university lecturers go on lecturers have voted to go on strike for 18 days between, february march. february and march. given my attendance was back at attendance when i was back at university, will be university, which will be a shock they have shock to you, they could have gone strike for a year and i gone on strike for a year and i wouldn't have noticed. but they right walk out or. will it right to walk out or. will it just lead more tuition fees? just lead to more tuition fees? what to get to the what decided to do is get to the bottom of this is for a student, i the lecturer on this i guess the lecturer on this debate. so they're going to have a very very shortly before all of it goes your latest of that it is goes your latest headunes. of that it is goes your latest headlines . it is for 33. headlines. it is for 33. i married armstrong in the gb newsroom. manchester city footballer benjamin mendy been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at chester court. jurors couldn't reach verdicts on one

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there is that sound coming. only one thing. it's time for the gb news people's poll results . news people's poll results. they've revealed that 42% of people say the queen's lady in waiting, lady susan hussey , waiting, lady susan hussey, should return back to work . should return back to work. whilst only 24% of people say that she should not return to. now these results have emerged since susan hussey sacked or since susan hussey was sacked or quit. fine line really isn't . quit. fine line really isn't. last month after she asked black british charity boss and

forlani, otherwise known as marlene hadley, where she was really from. we all remember that story that was up at the time. there was outrage at the time. there was outrage at the time. a lot of people at the time. a lot of people at the time thought that lady susan as it was unfairly and now we have the to prove it. so the results to prove it. so joining break through this joining me to break through this is news, his royal reporter is gb news, his royal reporter is gb news, his royal reporter is walker. cameron, 42% is cameron walker. cameron, 42% of public, which was is cameron walker. cameron, 42% of hybrid public, which was is cameron walker. cameron, 42% of hybrid than public, which was is cameron walker. cameron, 42% of hybrid than any.ic, which was is cameron walker. cameron, 42% of hybrid than any other|ich was is cameron walker. cameron, 42% of hybrid than any other little as a hybrid than any other little bracket. we that think that bracket. we have that think that she allowed to work if she should be allowed to work if she should be allowed to work if she i think a sign maybe she wishes. i think a sign maybe that the palace was, dare i say, a bit quick to act. a little bit too quick to act. well, lady susan was lady well, lady susan hussey was lady who queen's a former who was the queen's a former queen's in waiting more queen's lady in waiting for more than she's also prince than 60 years she's also prince william's godmother and still is. so clearly she's very very close to the family, which is why it would have been a really hard decision buckingham palace to if they did indeed kind of encourage horses encourage its late season horses to think this lady, to resign. think this lady, susan's reason for resigning was to stop the media onslaught, sort of it was happening and following this palace reception where it if then said on twitter

what would happen to her and her experience and then did the media rounds. yeah she even appeared on this channel. she did so although interesting thing on the show. but yes, yes, yes. it goes if there was yes. and it goes if there was a meeting in december, ngozi fulani and lady susan hussey where lady sees an apology for any distress caused buckingham palace described the meeting as one of warmth and honesty ending but no you're right the people spoke. the people have spoken. gb news is that they want her reinstate it. do you agree? judnh reinstate it. do you agree? judith has been on. thank you very much. i've been calling for the emails throughout on this because i remember when it all kicked initially so many of you were out getting were reaching out getting in touch our gb views or touch in our inbox. gb views or gbnews.uk 0h, touch in our inbox. gb views or gbnews.uk oh, this gbnews.uk saying, oh, this is a disgrace, this is out of order and this is it. i can't imagine that lady susan would want to go back. what she says that back. what she says was that inqu back. what she says was that insult been insult and i think has been brought to light. well, and certainly, as space, certainly, as sister space, which charity of ngozi which is the charity of ngozi fulani, now coming under fulani, is now coming under scrutiny by people , the charity scrutiny by people, the charity commission over maybe how they

procured all of their funds and, exactly they spent the exactly how they spent the mobile the charity mobile will leave the charity commission diligent commission to do that diligent work would not want to work that we would not want to end hot water with. end up in hot water with. marlene hadley course or whatever chooses use whatever name she chooses to use today. part of a wider today. and it is part of a wider context royal family and context for the royal family and another of that poll as another part of that poll as well show that harry's net has dropped, it, since his dropped, hasn't it, since his book? has. and the book? yes, it has. and the echo's yougov poll, which echo's the yougov poll, which came yesterday, found came out yesterday, which found that popularity , that prince harry's popularity, the is at an all the british people, is at an all low. let's again, it's pretty much second week running. that's has happens prince harry in book describes the british as credulous and in other words that means they will take anything the media says as facts and perhaps gullible is another way of saying it which probably has not gone down too with the british public. prince harry has a massive war against british press at the moment. he sees that the british press treats him unfairly and making up lies against him clearly that's been disputed by many journalists who have been working on the beat for a good number of years. but

it show, i think, that the british public, according to this poll , seem pretty tired of this poll, seem pretty tired of prince harry's complaining. they see as exactly and i was having a conversation with a friend of mine from sparks online which is a good publication people should probably read every now and again. we are not on our gb news website course. and he made a really, really point. it was thomas made really good thomas lacey made a really good point he said what find point and he said what you find with people who believe with a of people who believe that of course that there of course above everyone reason why everyone else is the reason why the the tabloid press is the general the tabloid press is because they don't like the people read the tabloids. and that is and that actually is people and indyref actually prince harry i is demonstrating the disdain that he actually feels most people gullible editors read these rags. they are not intellectually equipped to actually have the right views. this and actually think maybe he's exposing himself to be everything that he claims he's not is actually frankly out of touch with people and not a fan of people. that's all he thinks is was elitist and actually them. so not a great time for good old prince harry that i

thought issued a really interesting interesting little comment comment which was you know therapy doesn't work for everyone , she said. i don't everyone, she said. i don't know. she maybe alluding to know. she was maybe alluding to it him there, kate and it to him there, but kate and william carrying on and william they're carrying on and they're shoulders they're putting their shoulders to and working to the wheel and just working normal. yeah, they're very much i them in liverpool i was with them in liverpool yesterday. the engagements i visited as we visited a hospital as we mentioned they were mentioned yesterday, they were very calm and very much keeping calm and carrying. ambushed by carrying. they were ambushed by a couple journalists at both a couple of journalists at both engagements. to where engagements. they went to where they well prince they were asked how well prince william asked have you william was asked have you read the book, sir? i think there was another heckle as well. were met with journalists met with the journalists were met with the journalists were met with i think with silence. so i think the palace's strategy is very much keeping on and not keeping calm carrying on and not drawing attention to and their popularity will and popularity ratings will and kate's to that. so they're kate's speak to that. so they're very above in the very much above harry in the gate indeed a lot of our viewers are getting in touch right now on this, saying they think on this, saying that they think the should really put the palace should really put their down and their foot down on this. and reince state susan in some reince state lady susan in some anyway. george, this isn't the royal family should absolutely offer a job back. however

georgia also says that she thinks lady susan should tell them to put that job where the sun doesn't shine of how sun doesn't shine because of how she treated. i'm sure she was treated. i'm not sure she was treated. i'm not sure she would do that. she's, of course, too classy. a lady coming. you much. coming. thank you very much. come get our overall come on. we'll get our overall reports. now we're on reports. and now we're moving on to a big debate. ladies and gentlemen, because the university and college union general joe general secretary, dr. joe grady, clock as grady, has said the clock is as over 70,000 members of staff across 150 universities are set to walk out for 18 days across february and march. just to reiterate those figures , that reiterate those figures, that because it is a law, 70,000 members of staff across 150 university fees are set to walk out for 18 days across february march. this comes as the ucu executive committee rejected a pay executive committee rejected a pay offer of up to 5. that was deemed not enough . despite this, deemed not enough. despite this, the uk represents university , so the uk represents university, so the uk represents university, so the offer is actually worth up to 7% with a minimum of 5% for anyone earning up to £51,000. how people who've got sympathy

for paramedics or ambulance staff a for cleaners on our railways, for example, will be at this figure, i dare say, of people earning up to £51,000 wanting a pay rise, more than five or indeed 7. the thinking is really the best use of taxpayers money. i'm not sure or indeed anyone's , frankly. so is indeed anyone's, frankly. so is this really the time university staff to walk out for 18 days of the big loses? you know, there's actually the students online directly , the taxpayer as well directly, the taxpayer as well for paying the student loans because into this because political rob political commentator rob abraham and abraham joins me now and lecturer and national secretary of as look and why and of momentum as look and why and joins me you very much joins me thank you very much both great have you on both of you great to have you on the now room we just the show. now room can we just get thing corrected. oh, get this thing corrected. oh, you a student? a student. you a student? i am a student. my you a student? i am a student. my third year of university graduate in just a few months. okay. all how do you okay. all right. how do you react this news then? react to this news then? lecturers strike. lecturers could go on strike. will on strike. i mean, 18 will go on strike. i mean, 18 days. know, this year days. and, you know, this year is so, so much. we've is already so, so much. we've got remember many other got to remember how many other strikes that they've already had throughout few. mean,

throughout the past few. i mean, i'm in third year of i'm in my third year of university the moment. go university at the moment. i go to school of to the london school of economics and i've had my first year of university characterise by lockdowns where essentially lecturers have to lecturers didn't really have to show much. a lot of show up to do much. a lot of them use recordings lectures them use the recordings lectures from year. didn't from previous year. so didn't really much in that really have to do much in that they had to mark exams they just had to mark the exams .then they just had to mark the exams . then my second year of university was characterised by strikes after strikes after strikes. and then now again we're my year strikes we're seeing my year of strikes again. honestly , i'm pretty again. so honestly, i'm pretty livid. enough. i will bring livid. okay enough. i will bring you in now . of course. look at you in now. of course. look at who is the lecturer. our national secretary of momentum . national secretary of momentum. what do you see? so will you be going on strike? i will be putting a discourage a lot of lecture by i'm a member of some academic support at my university and yes i will be because i mean lots of people across our country and those sorts of sectors the pay of university workers has been going backwards and conditions have been backwards for a really long time , since 2009, with long time, since 2009, with a 25% real terms pay cut use of

casual contracts is work rates are through the roof . and so, are through the roof. and so, you know, i have a lot of sympathy for our students, but this is bad for staff and really bad for students as well. overworked staff are on casual contracts and don't have the don't have the time to give students proper feedback supports class sizes of far bigger than they were a few years ago means that students are getting a worse deal than used to and on top of that last year our pensions cut by a third so you know this is these are serious serious issues i think we working university see my pay go backwards for the extent see my pensions by that extent and i don't that we should have to kind of sit back and take that i do think we need to take some action to address that. and i do think by doing so we can get the investment, the university sector would things sector that would improve things for well . okay, very for students as well. okay, very good. about time. my question is, start ? i mean, is, when does it start? i mean, you know, we've had these

strikes successively do strikes successively and i do understand the pay cuts understand that the pay cuts have everybody is have difficult, but everybody is a we're in the middle a pay cut. we're in the middle of cost living crisis and of a cost of living crisis and our students bearing brunt our students bearing the brunt of strikes . there's not of these strikes. there's not that clearly not putting any pressure university pressure on the university administration. change administration. so the change tactics stop students because we are ones are facing this are the ones are facing this stop hurting . are the ones are facing this stop hurting. is are the ones are facing this stop hurting . is the message stop hurting. is the message out? how do you feel about that? okay well, i mean, to us that question about when does it stop, i it stops when stop, i mean, it stops when employers around and give employers turn around and give us pay settlement and us a decent pay settlement and a decent settlement other decent settlement. the other issues and 5% isn't enough. it's not lot when your pay has been effective. people are cool to the past . can effective. people are cool to the past. can i ask what you want ? yeah. it might be easier want? yeah. it might be easier looking as well to actually find out what it is that you want. money moneywise. yeah. and i think that's a really important point because what we were asking inflation for us 2% or asking is inflation for us 2% or 12, whichever is higher the total of that pay settlement is £1,000,000,000. the surplus surplus in the sector is about

3.5 £15. so the money is there is university bosses want to actually offer a decent pay supplement for staff. and on the pensions issue in by the body of pensions issue in by the body of pension trustees are in figures they could reverse cuts of last year and still money left over in the pension pot so are get your get your side it i think the other side of it and this what i'll defer to reem on now is reem whether or not you feel that your lecturers deserve a pay that your lecturers deserve a pay rise. well i think i think we all working hard. but when we're thinking the past we're thinking about the past three years that they've had, you they a lot you know, they had covid, a lot of lecturers at least used of my lecturers at least used lecture recordings the previous yeah lecture recordings the previous year. so they actually weren't doing . they doing this entire idea. they were working . conditions are were working. conditions are really, really difficult . i'm really, really difficult. i'm sorry, but how is your working conditions in a lecture hall? very difficult. i think all the people in across the united kingdom have had even more difficult conditions, had difficult conditions, have had to deal with it even even more difficultly. i that when we're thinking the way that thinking about the way that the of crisis hurt

of living crisis has hurt everyone the university everyone. the university lecturers bearing brunt lecturers are not bearing brunt of the cost of living crisis. there are all the people that are and students there are all the people that are really and students there are all the people that are really bearing and students there are all the people that are really bearing the nd students there are all the people that are really bearing the brunt dents there are all the people that are really bearing the brunt of 1ts are really bearing the brunt of these strikes. i do have to it to you look , i know you're not to you look, i know you're not a lecturer, by the way. i do have to put it to you there who? to put it to you there as who? when we going through when we were going through lockdowns, actually myself did lockdowns, i actually myself did decide because in decide to retrain because i'm in shock over work dried up. shock over the work dried up. let's something about trump. let's be something about trump. perhaps the perhaps again, we may, but the work up. i'll retrain. so work dried up. i'll retrain. so i decided to do another degree. and mean an epic and i mean was an epic, epic waste of money in terms of what i saw. i i have to put it to you that the general perception that lecturers a pretty cushy lecturers have a pretty cushy gig and certainly don't deserve 12 rise , that may well 12 cent pay rise, that may well be perception but this is be the perception but this is not just about lecturers for the first about first point this about university workers throughout the sector and many of them very low paid and very insecure contracts and. i think what we've seen over recent is universities student numbers going up massively, staffing numbers not that. so work rates

go the roof. and as i say, that's bad for as much as it's bad for the staff as well. it's not really asking for a big pay rise . it's about asking for rise. it's about asking for a little of remuneration . pay pays little of remuneration. pay pays going backwards by. as i say, a quarter it's thousand loan and is going backwards even faster this year with inflation running as it is , 80% above inflation is as it is, 80% above inflation is , asking for a huge pay rise . , asking for a huge pay rise. the majority of people in this country are not anything. naval inflation is inflation , as we inflation is inflation, as we know, as a result of various government policies has been increase, has been on the rise quite difficultly for the past year. quite difficultly for the past year . we now see that inflation year. we now see that inflation halve over the next year hastily. but i don't understand . you think that 2% above inflation is not a huge ask? of course it is the majority of hard working people in this country are not getting that kind of pay rise. so why do lecturers deserve it? well just so what can i just add to that? because i've got i just want to upset little which. yes,

upset a little bit, which. yes, well, that point is dare well, on that point is dare i say, is this part of a wider picture from quite a radical militant left wing union that same strikes in other areas and just want to help to chip in and do that but now now . well do that but now now. well i think the action that seen in the university sector in recent years reflects the conditions in the sector. people don't choose to give up 18 days worth of pay in the early part of next year. so we're not going to get paid for being on strike. so that's not that's not a kneejerk reaction. people don't do that. i reason they do it because the situation's got so bad that they feel to see some feel they have to see some action and that's actually true that people in, other sectors are suffering there's lots are suffering and there's lots of across our economy of people all across our economy who very deserving the pay who are very deserving the pay rises. isn't about rises. now, this isn't about them one. them not getting one. unfortunately many of us are being forced into strike because our employers are unwilling to give the pay rises that we give us the pay rises that we need and deserve, not just cost of the crisis. i mean the financial reported recently that

if wages everybody in this had continued on the pre financial crash trends , then they'd be crash trends, then they'd be nearly 50% higher. now than they were than they are at moment. so those people across this country getting a massive pay for all over the place. and that's why we're seeing, you know, this is i mean if the economy's not particularly great, then yes, thatis particularly great, then yes, that is the thing that i stretches across the wider society just throw society as well. i'll just throw youri society as well. i'll just throw your i know we're a bit pressed for time on this, but could see this maybe being slightly self defeating a little bit like the rail strikes. if people know that be a rail that there could be a rail strike moment they don't buy strike any moment they don't buy a season ticket, then, well if you places a self cycle, you drive places a self cycle, do now people are do you think now people are going be looking going to be looking at university thinking just university and thinking i just won't well, won't bother going? well, i think what we'll see at the think that what we'll see at the moment is this whenever we know that there's going be that there's going to be strikes. we won't go to strikes. we just won't go to university, going university, we're just going to stay really go to stay at home. you really go to university? would still university? i would still recommend people go to university. all of the university. despite all of the strike the teachers strike action, the teachers that ihave strike action, the teachers that i have that not of the ecb

i have that are not of the ecb have been phenomenal they've always my lectures always turned up to my lectures and they've always been fantastic and tired fantastic teachers and my tired to, you know, allow to have to, you know, allow us to have free within free conversations within the class. those that are class. those are those that are the to be a little the ucu that tend to be a little bit more militant, tend to bit more militant, that tend to be, know, little more be, you know, a little bit more aggressive towards, know, aggressive towards, you know, more right wing views. if i were to espouse them the class to espouse them in the class those i, i what those lectures, i, i know what it's to think that know it's going to i think that know when seeing the amount of when we're seeing the amount of strikes we have, students strikes that we have, students need that is worth to need to know that it is worth to university and that we have to push back these strikes. all right. of you, you right. look, both of you, you very much could on with very much we could carry on with this a very long time. this for a very long time. i appreciate it. thank you so much. is, of course, much. that is, of course, remember now political remember him now is political and lecturer and national secretary of momentum. can i just as well, just on the just say as well, just on the look, you coming on. look, thank you for coming on. we not been if we have previously not been if people not super people have not been super supportive necessarily from groups such as momentum, etc. so it's to actually it's nice to actually have someone we have someone on so we can have a proper that we look at proper debate that we look at the right, your views on the right, okay so your views on university strikes off university strikes kicked off in the mark says 150 the inbox gb views mark says 150 unis the uk. what would be unis in the uk. what would be the i must say, mark, i do

the move. i must say, mark, i do think what about that 150 think that what about that 150 universe is in the uk? what we need them all for you guys, you can like, oh, i don't know can study like, oh, i don't know if still can, but could do if you still can, but could do harry potter studies back the harry potter studies or back the underwater was that underwater basket. was that common distilling common trope brewing distilling at basketball university? although given although to be fair, given the hospitality although to be fair, given the hospitaisy although to be fair, given the hospitais quite lucrative brewing maybe is quite lucrative brewing and i know and distilling i don't know maybe just a snob hey there maybe i'm just a snob hey there we go but let's let's just carry on for that email half of on for that email get half of them go bust and reopen old them to go bust and reopen old polytechnics, more polytechnics, which much more real work to the nation's future. i can't wonder future. i can't help but wonder whether have whether or not universities have had it a bit too good for a bit too long, given the massive amounts student debt that we amounts of student debt that we all says something all have. and ali says something that think all be that i think we might all be thinking, which is it's a political of discontent. political winter of discontent. yes. or yes. alice, i wonder whether or not now who's in any not anyone now who's in any union decided that they want union is decided that they want to trigger on some form to pull the trigger on some form of strike action once going to be this high is debt be this high when is the debt going loaded in their going to be loaded in their favour? this much harder now anyway may patrick christys anyway with may patrick christys on it coming the on gb news lost it coming the next had the next hour. loads if had the first hours done. i'm going be

first 2 hours done. i'm going be talking about the albanian immigration figures. it's going to get your head to be difficult to get your head those, tell you. and also those, let me tell you. and also the on goes the forlani scandal should lady hussey have should lady susan hussey have her pve should lady susan hussey have her i've all of herjob back. i've got all of that way. i'm much, that coming your way. i'm much, much with all so much more with all five. so whether hello alex deakin here with your latest weather update from met the is going from the met office the is going to mild and fairly wet it to start mild and fairly wet it will turn and brighter but will turn drier and brighter but also much cold through also much cold the through the weekend and into next week with the for a bit snow in the potential for a bit snow in places as well tonight, though, it's all about rain moving it's all about the rain moving in to western areas. in again to western areas. that's saturated so that's have saturated ground. so this likely to this extra rain is likely to cause further . have cause further. we have met office yellow warnings in place. most of the uk turning soggy by the saturday. a bit the start of saturday. a bit snow hills as that rain snow on the hills as that rain moves scotland. quite chilly this dawn the this evening, but dawn as the rain arrives actually be on the rise. so start in the south, in dubun rise. so start in the south, in dublin figures. so a mild wet start for most on saturday morning something a bit brighter for for northern ireland a time and the rain elsewhere will pulling away. okay you're right. so stressful. yeah. so it

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welcome back. wonderful people . welcome back. wonderful people. is patrick christys here on gb news and it's very nearly 5:00. and let's take you right the way through six, shall we? be through six, shall we? will be giving latest on the giving you the latest on the illegal crisis. more illegal migration crisis. more than of small boat than half of all small boat models. claims outcome. models. slavery claims outcome. shock from albanian nationals that comes in the same week that rishi sunak's. he would it rishi sunak's. he would make it tougher for people to the uk illegally to exploit slavery laws to remain in the uk. can the government get a grip with what's going on in the channel? and asking you well and i've been asking you as well whether you we should whether or not you we should stop asylum from now bailey stop all asylum from now bailey a gbviews@gbnews.uk we'll be speaking to an immigration lawyer on that very, very shortly and the artist of the

year nominees for the 2023 brits awards are all male. why is this issue you ask? well, i'll tell you, because it's the organisers opted to make category gender neutral . was this the right neutral. was this the right move? is just the massive, massive backfiring woke deb and you hate to say it . we'll be you hate to say it. we'll be debating that later in the hour. let me know your views as i have. and rishi visited scotland today what's been today and had what's been described with described as cordial with nicholas . you've nicholas sturgeon good. you've got a feel for the avenue . he got a feel for the avenue. he might have a better relationship with the first minister in boris johnson tory prime johnson did but a tory prime minister a nationalist minister and a nationalist leader ever really leader in scotland ever really got they get got along and should they get along anyway? i'll speak to a former snp councillor that next as he emerges that may rishi sunak gone soft when it sunak has gone soft when it comes to sturgeon's laws. and i want to hear focus on all of this obviously we're talking about gbviews@gbnews.uk all that is coming your way. but now here's your latest . good evening here's your latest. good evening

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you more as it happens, but now it is back to . it is back to. patrick well, let's get stuck straight into this final hour , shall we? into this final hour, shall we? the latest government figures show that more than half of modern slavery claimants arriving by small boat across . arriving by small boat across. the channel are albanian to migration watch uk now it found that in the first half of 2022 people from albania for most modern slavery from those who arrived in the uk via small boats. now it's a marked a marked increase in those who claimed modern slavery a year before. in 2021, that accounted for just 11% this time round. it's way above the 50% mark. joining me now in the studio is uk immigration lawyer. it's her job van gogh hunt thank you very much great to have you on the show. this just now evidence show. is this just now evidence of people wising up to of more people wising up to legal loophole that needs

closing. yes definitely evidence of attempting to do it. of people attempting to do it. it's not really succeeding in the numbers that perhaps people might is. so if we look might think it is. so if we look at 21, only 78 claims will actually accepted as opposed to being . and if we look at 2022, being. and if we look at 2022, up until june, only 38 had been accepted. so the numbers are massive modern slavery. so not really been in the hundreds that it's been accepted or in the thousands. but with the claim happens is it gives them less chance of them being removed a first time round and so it sort of delays the asylum almost puts it on hold now. explain that to our viewers and listeners because this is a counter argument that, we hear a lot where it talks about, well, actually, it's only a small number people are number of. people who are actually but actually accepted, fine. but there process here. there is delaying process here. and the longer people and of course, the longer people are country. okay are in the country. yes. okay more taxpayers that is more taxpayers money that is wound up, but also as well, maybe chances they end up maybe chances they will end up staying anyway. well, staying here anyway. well, initially, it's a lower sort standard proof it does my standard of proof and it does my sort someone to take sort of allow someone to take advantage initially, but

essentially with the claims not being granted in hundreds of thousands, a very thousands, it's not a very successful. but the meantime successful. but in the meantime , it does sort of allow a person be released into the community and then subject to them signing on regularly . there's and then subject to them signing on regularly. there's a and then subject to them signing on regularly . there's a lot of on regularly. there's a lot of centres where a have to report weekly or monthly, almost like they would do to a police station where on bail, on immigration bail. so it is the government identified it as a loophole and obviously rishi sunak's talking about it and he's made point out of it in his five point plan that he's going to close down to some extent and stop the abuse. and it's just any system really where a loophole, whether it's a tax loophole, whether it's a tax loophole, an immigration loophole, an immigration loophole , a legal loophole, loophole, a legal loophole, people will try and use it and they will. and dare i say, though, the longer that people are in this country, the higher chance there is of them absconding. this would be a concern for people. so if they do have to report back, you're saying they fair enough. but saying they do. fair enough. but one might decide to not one day they might decide to not and could be out and and then they could be out and take their chances. living out

rightly immigrant rightly as an illegal immigrant yet. could that yet. but they could do that anyway don't detain anyway because we don't detain everyone who comes in. so the 4000 who came in last year, 45,000 detained 45,000 we've hardly detained even them. so the even a thousand of them. so the community, they abscond any community, they can abscond any time. on time. significant figures on that, way, because that, by the way, because i'm very figures if very rarely see any figures if ever any figures now i'm ever see any figures now i'm waiting for these to drop of people who have absconded or get well just we only need to look at the people who have been detained the people detained and then the people who've and do the math. who've come in and do the math. so ithe who've come in and do the math. so i the people being returned so got figures on that. yeah. and gone from pre the and that's gone from pre the tory government which was during labour times believe it or not that we say was weak on immigration with the labour government actually sending back 33, 34,000 people a year. right. and as soon as the conservatives come out with that number certainly dwindled to the hundreds and especially in recent times. so problem is with removals and processing claims quickly and even after people been told no, because we know a lot of get refused but inability

to remove these people you see that because hang his hat on getting this immigration this asylum backlog i should say down to basically no and stopping the small boats . the other promises small boats. the other promises that he made there about reducing nhs waiting times or waiting lists probably waiting lists that probably should happen anyway. the inflation that should go down anyway . so the, the little anyway. so the, the little window of jeopardy rishi sunak has allowed himself for us to actually him is this so it actually him on. is this so it comes to actually reducing the asylum backlog, stopping people claiming a modern slavery quote unquote loophole could mean for faster deportations , which would faster deportations, which would maybe take the pressure off . maybe take the pressure off. this is on a about people deliberately in and out. i don't it's going to make a difference in the that we're talking about i don't really think that until we get a removal in order right that we're going to any that we're going to have any sort of we're going to see headway in this . the key is to headway in this. the key is to a fast track system to deal with claims quickly in about 7 to 10 days and then look to remove people on a 12th if they can.

you can you just design that process for us. yeah, right. okay. so what would happen is say in an ideal or what used happen when i first started my job, someone used to come in, they used to be detained at doven they used to be detained at dover, they'd be sent to a fast processing centre, be processing centre, used to be one in west london , one in west london, harmondsworth heathrow harmondsworth right now heathrow airport if they came in on airport yeah. if they came in on a monday, their screening interview be the same day interview would be the same day their asylum would be on a wednesday. and for that time they get they detained. they'd get a decision friday. then that detention centre actually had a cool bill in. yeah. so a judge used to sit there daily. so if someone appealed , the hearing someone appealed, the hearing would be heard the week after all the time. while asylum seekers detained if the clients the right asylum sent seeker is refuse then what would happen is ? they'd get removed because the airport is right opposite there and that not happening now. no, they've abandoned that fast track system and the safe list countries as we heard about these were a list of countries which were designated safe you'd

have to ask a conservative as to why they've abandoned that but in wisdom they have decided to abandon and that sort of slowed whole system down the backlogs gone up. we've got we've got a few years ago , you might few years ago, you might remember they found this warehouse with files just sitting there collecting dust in a warehouse not even the home office in the send off site, but that's that's the situation that's been built could forced it to use if we re—introduce courts fast track over processing to fast track people and fast track their removals reintroduce a more strict list of countries that there would be massive uproar from your typical times in politics and virtue signals left, right and centre in. some elements of the legal community as well. why they would say this is inhumane they just things like words fast just hear things like words fast track court and save track deportation court and save countries and they assume that ruining people's human rights. i wonder you've gone to work for this stuff. no long as the process is fair. no one has no cause for complaints. the complaints come, patrick, when

decisions aren't fair. so 50% of decisions aren't fair. so 50% of decisions in challenged the home of citizen challenge are deemed unfair by judges. of citizen challenge are deemed unfair by judges . so the judges unfair by judges. so the judges say it's not the right decision. that's because the staff making those i'm of decision are not qualified enough. we know that the home staff are supermarket staff brought in from there just to stop gap year gap students are not going to make a correct decision about complex human rights forgive me this is rights forgive me on this is that decide or not that hard to decide or not someone is a genuine asylum seeker really? seriously it shouldn't take a year to a claim or two years to decide the time. it should take about half a day. a day, maybe a two days, just a massive gap that we've gone from a year where they 50% of the time saying, gets it time you're saying, gets it wrong to i mean, you reckon you could a day. it's how could do it in a day. it's how inept the home office is. right. we've seen and it's not just that look at about the that we look at what about the possible we had during possible ruckus we had during the can't even get how hard can it issue a passport to it be to issue a passport to somebody who's already four passports right . why

passports in the past right. why is it taking six months? the driving licence is driving licence fiasco is everything home office touches it ruins it's even it just ruins it's even difficult for genuine citizens to get out of the country , can't to get out of the country, can't get in. i can't. i'm afraid of the. thank you very much. great to have you on the show. insight i think as immigration lawyer hard bongo what do you make of that ladies and gentlemen just in relation to the latest round of figures which show that 50% of figures which show that 50% of claiming modern slavery of those claiming modern slavery in now are in this country right now are albanian, light, of course, albanian, in light, of course, of numbers albanians of record numbers of albanians coming channel, coming across the channel, is it a we a legal loophole? how do we solve that hard? i've got a plan. maybe they should listen to but on now. we're to him. but moving on now. we're moving the prime minister moving on. the prime minister has leader nicholas has met with leader nicholas sturgeon he got feel for the sturgeon he got a feel for the government order to hold government in order to hold talks economy and talks about the nhs economy and legislation in scotland legislation passed in scotland last make it easier to last month to make it easier to change this is change gender. now this is important. we'll that important. yeah. we'll want that smile because that smile of our face because that is important issue is a massively important issue that at length here. that we covered at length here. we're going to delve back into it that said, to have been it now that said, to have been a robust exchange on scottish independence, this comes as rishi travelled

rishi sunak has travelled to scotland confirming scotland after confirming the creation free creation of, two new green free ports, which is to improve trade for we go. so for scotland. there we go. so now joining me is former snp, glasgow city councillor austin shendan. glasgow city councillor austin sheridan . great to have you back sheridan. great to have you back on the show. thank very, very much. so these this meeting was supposedly cordial. i mean , supposedly cordial. i mean, rishi sunak's ever going to get on nicholas sturgeon well, on with nicholas sturgeon well, i should be called to either leave arctic in good faith . rest leave arctic in good faith. rest assured that it's up and a working relationship. the nexus it and of course my call to them job best border package welcome west ham would remain part of the united kingdom. well i would say it's probably more and rest assured i'm just because obviously you know welcome ministers in the past few years and people in scotland unhappy and people in scotland unhappy and people in scotland unhappy and people in scotland happy about it and about block in scotland great teachers so a fact that the prime minister has to tread carefully i think that this issue about as a result of

do you think that rishi sunak might actually in a way i would argue be throwing women under the bus but by maybe waving scottish trans laws , ones that scottish trans laws, ones that caused so much controversy in hollyrood the other way, he gives a way of trying to appease . no, it wasn't so it should not.to . no, it wasn't so it should not. to be fair, that was a decision. it was sitting in scotland's parliament by, scotland's parliament by, scotland's legislators and you know, it was msp, some of part is important. the conservatives know, it was msp, some of part voted in favour of reform and it's not just something that scotland's looking at the welsh labour minister mark drakeford , labour minister mark drakeford, has said that he would like to see some of our legislation introduced in wales that was seen as in fact the westminster government surprise, surprise for the rest of the uk . what do for the rest of the uk. what do you say that actually? but when it comes to public opinion on this nowhere as popular this nowhere near as popular amongst public as it turned amongst the public as it turned out to with various different out to be with various different snp or msps should snp campaigns or msps i should say locked in say. people who were locked in that chamber. i am that holyrood chamber. i am quite intrigued to get your is

this inverse see on did decide this inverse see on did decide this was hell he wanted die this was hell he wanted to die on i his constitutional on i used his constitutional some saying duty to veto some are saying duty to veto this new scottish law which would allow the recovery allow trans people to self—declare their gender, therefore enter a women's spaces men spaces even if they are a convicted rapist, for example. i don't think that you would find that you would have the mass public support north of the border to a huge constitutional issue out of that . the issue that . is this really the issue that nicholas sturgeon was to pick a battle on and you don't need to have gender recognition such have gender recognition as such sort to access , you know, single sort to access, you know, single gender spaces . that's something gender spaces. that's something that can already be done under right to choose and ten the outdated form doesn't entrance and if is some way about being able to change the sex on your birth certificate but you don't need a certificate to go to tell toilet for example that's just ridiculous and as i said at the end of the day it's not westminster, but it shouldn't be for best, you know, and the fact that, you know, the fact we even

have that for actually just have that for it actually just to show that you know they can tweak it no disrespect to the westminster system has for you know for democratic choices but i know westminster on the interest needs unless it reverses it could play scotland we know and that no interested in democracy and over and over the course of time as i say the moment you know they have to run ad because this often back then what i think in the longer term going to realise that they're making a very grave mistake and not just not to be able to come to the table to actually argue for what they believe. and it's pathetic. i'm just having pathetic. okay i'm just having a little look here . some of nicola little look here. some of nicola sturgeon's and the snp's records when it comes to various things like education nhs public like education in the nhs public services in general, you could argue really also overspending on operating costs, income tax, etc. realistically, do you think scotland would survive if it was independent ? scotland would survive if it was independent? i mean, what currency would you use ? i mean, currency would you use? i mean, of course scotland survive. the

question, patrick, is we be better off. i mean , i don't better off. i mean, i don't think there's any dispute that we would survive. absolutely. i didn't believe that we would be better off. i think the public sector under nhs philosophy challenges us as every single nhs across the whole of the uk under and under the second administration, but course it's not just about, you administration, but course it's not just about , you know, the not just about, you know, the pubuc not just about, you know, the public spending as such , it's public spending as such, it's our spending priorities. so for example, where do we want to and our share of the money entered in nuclear weapons? well that's not something i wouldn't want to do. other places, that money, that resource and to elsewhere. so yeah so been able to make fundamental decisions and i believe that scotland is more than capable of doing that . and than capable of doing that. and to answer your question on the currency and i said that we would want two years of our own scottish pound with the transition to that and soon as we possibly could . okay. we possibly could. okay. alright. do you think that there's a lot of virtue signalling north of the border that i mean nicholas sturgeon

isn't actually particularly full when it comes to things like the asylum seeker hotels that people south of the border in england and increasingly now i see wales as having to with. do as well having to deal with. do you that you could do you think that you could do a bit more. it's easier for us just pontificate. how isn't it now. i i think the fact now. i think i think the fact that always more of and that there's always more of and that there's always more of and that can be done. but that that can be done. but i fundamentally i think that we can all agree and that the asylum system and the united is broke and not is the tories watch what it's disgraceful and the way that people have been treated and you know an effect and people have tried to come to the table what solutions as some to show on on there feels like at the state level and in one policy at the money that that has cost it you know and tories in the scottish parliament got i'm not sure which to try and suggest and you know not to enforce scottish democracy, that's a waste of money at one when the district hundreds of millions of on a system millions of pounds on a system that hasn't know that hasn't

taken one person of the country do you think any concerns and we'll be right as she said to try to make the next general election vote one singular about independence use that as a mandate to therefore then go on and try push even more for and try to push even more for twice in a generation independence referendum when in reality vote nicholas reality vote for nicholas sturgeon vote . things sturgeon is also a vote. things like views on green policies like her views on green policies , her views trans issues, her , her views on trans issues, her views on frankly absolutely other i agree joining other anything. i agree joining the european not the european union. it's not just scottish independence, is it . mm. well i'll be honest it. mm. well i'll be honest here, patrick, i'm sceptical about the westminster election as a facto referendum . i believe as a facto referendum. i believe that the scottish parliamentary election may actually be best suhed election may actually be best suited and to have and i forgot to do that in december because it would be an objection in scotland registered to consult and followed by scottish people, but also by a 16 year old to something close to vote and there were actually ministers we use our westminster son franchise. then they franchise. then when they had that so it is a

that vote in 2014. so it is a very dangerous that have to be debated of the going to debated the of the snp going to have conference and and have a conference and march and i certainly that viewpoint i certainly hope that viewpoint somewhat role be put somewhat their main role be put forward consult because i think is a westminster election could potentially muddy the waters and it might not focus remains on the question and the way that we would talk. great to have on the show i must say thank you very much . snp, glasgow city much. snp, glasgow city councillor austin sheridan . his councillor austin sheridan. his views on the sunak versus sturgeon meeting also wider issues there when it comes to now trying to ease his relations with nicholas sturgeon. i know you're with me, patrick cassidy on gbs. coming up, britain is in the of a millionaire the midst of a millionaire exodus . 12,000 individuals it exodus. 12,000 individuals it assets in cash . more than exodus. 12,000 individuals it assets in cash. more tha n £1 assets in cash. more than £1 million left the uk since million have left the uk since 2017. now crimea river, you might say. how can this relate to me? well, actually, it points to me? well, actually, it points to something else. doesn't say we do need if we're going to be successful, have people successful, to have rich people in country. we need to be in this country. we need to be attractive to people. so attractive to wealthy people. so

why leaving? what why are the rich leaving? what does say. that's all coming does that say. that's all coming your very shortly. but your way very, very shortly. but i we have the i believe we may have the weather hello, i'm weather for the. hello, i'm speaking with your latest weather update from the met office. weekend going to office. the weekend is going to start fairly wet . it start mild and fairly wet. it will turn drier and brighter. also much colder through the weekend and into next with the potential for a bit of snow in places as well. tonight, though it's all about the rain moving in again to western areas that have saturated ground. so this extra rain is likely to cause further problems. we have met office warnings in most office yellow warnings in most office yellow warnings in most of the uk turning soggy by the start saturday. a of snow start of saturday. a bit of snow on the hills as that rain moves across scotland. quite chilly this evening, by dawn, as this evening, but by dawn, as the arrives, temperatures the rain arrives, temperatures actually it will actually be on the rise. it will start south in double start in the south in double figures. wet start for figures. so a mild wet start for most on saturday morning, something a bit brighter for northern a time . the northern ireland for a time. the rain elsewhere will be pulling away to the east, so it will turn through the late morning and into the afternoon. we may well sunny spells well see some sunny spells developing, staying wet across

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by okay byy people, oka by okay people, make sure you keep getting in touch with your views on frankly anything but the big issues been talking about earlier on we're going to return to you later on. do you think that lady susan hussey be that lady susan hussey should be allowed her job back or allowed to have herjob back or some back the palace. it some job back in the palace. it says our gb news powell says our gb news people powell that think that she that many people think that she should reinstated some should be reinstated in some capacity buckingham capacity or at buckingham palace's rather palace's after cops it rather unfairly . my view from marlene unfairly. my view from marlene had laid the vast majority of the british passes which is lapped up all of that nonsense, didn't asking what you didn't they also asking what you think or we think about whether or not we should accepting any asylum applications from albania as well. gbviews@gbnews.uk all those i'm going those ones. later i'm going to be talking brit as

be talking about the brit as well what culture just in well as what culture just in itself alive. they got rid of the gendered categories now the gendered categories and now shakara are shakara it's just men who are winning awards supposedly but something on something to take off on first is one stage uk was the is at one stage the uk was the number one destination on the planet for foreign direct investment and millionaire entrepreneurs to invest the country due to generous tax breaks and soft migration . breaks and soft migration. however, a series of tax increases , political uncertainty increases, political uncertainty and, allegedly a tightening of migration , have pushed those migration, have pushed those millionaires . apparently, that's millionaires. apparently, that's according to analysis by. migration consultancy henley and partners, which showed the uk suffered a net outflow of 12,000 wealthy individus all those with assets in cash of more than $1 million since 2017, 1500 individuals leaving in 2022. it's a pittance really. why we should care, why we should care about this is. the head of pubuc about this is. the head of public policy at the iea , it's public policy at the iea, it's matthew lash nortje. thank you very much . why is this news ? very much. why is this news? well, look, i think it's news

because the uk is in a global race to attract the world's best, brightest and wealthiest and although i think you're right, a lot of people raise their eyebrows when you talk back, you know, as very much these are the kind of people who actually one of your country and other are going to other people who are going to work create jobs pay work hard invest create jobs pay taxes. they're also kind of taxes. but they're also kind of people who are very mobile, who are to different are responsive to different political extremely political trends, extremely responsive tax responsive to the kind tax system unfortunate it's a system and unfortunate it's a bit of a sign here. the fact that the uk has lost 12,000 millionaires since 2017. a huge loss for the exchequer because those are 12,000 fewer people paying those are 12,000 fewer people paying very high levels of tax. but it's just a loss for the society at large and the kind of productive, wealthy place we want to be doing business. turning into a country that hates rich people . look, i think hates rich people. look, i think there's always a sense of kind class conflict and class warfare can come out in politics. but i do worry there's been just kind of move after another, which really undermines the uk as a

place for millionaires, for people who want to, who are wealthy or want to create . we've wealthy or want to create. we've got a less generous system coming in after 2017. we've the continuation of the 45 page tax rate which we know is barely any revenue , does discourage people revenue, does discourage people from sitting up in the uk because very high level of inheritance tax probably higher than most other developed except perhaps france and japan so in australia for example, there's no inheritance tax in the us inheritance tax doesn't start until you've got a much higher level of wealth. i think on top of that, you've got a question about what is the uk's is the uk this high tax , high inflation, this high tax, high inflation, low growth economy ? why would low growth economy? why would you want to come see? why would you want to come see? why would you want to base yourself here and put all those things together and perhaps no surprise, although disappointing that millionaires are that these millionaires are leaving the country. yeah, but i think when you look at it that way don't you as well, which is that if you are wealthy in this country at, least one half the political you could political spectrum, you could argue now wants to tax

argue all of it now wants to tax the daylights out of you the living daylights out of you when enter kind of when we enter some kind of economic crisis, have a prime economic crisis, we have a prime minister says, on, minister who says, oh, come on, let's go growth, let's get let's go for growth, let's get out this by growing the out of this by growing the economy, she well, frankly, economy, she goes well, frankly, politically it or politically decapitate it or castrated you castrated or whatever way you want dress it up. she's out want to dress it up. she's out now and then the next thing is the wealthy have to basically pay the wealthy have to basically pay out the do pay to get poor out of the do do. and you start to look at it and think also, well, you and you think also, well, you can your to school and can send your kids to school and they come back says is they come back and says is starting a bit starting to look a bit socialist. look is i mean and socialist. it look is i mean and the truth is that in some respects, our tax system is already very social. it's overall very progressive. and the taxpayers the top% of income taxpayers pay one of all income tax, one third of all income tax, just as one one example. and that proportion over that proportion has gone up over last decade. i think this last decade. but i think this isn't just about what is the priority is it growth? is priority here is it growth? is it better off or it making everyone better off or is disparities? is is it reducing disparities? is it it reducing inequality ? it is it reducing inequality? because i can tell you that 2000 people uk will make people leaving the uk will make the on paper a more equal the uk on paper a more equal place. there will be fewer rich people and poor people and

therefore there'll be less gap between rich the poor. but i don't think we will be any better off for as a result. we rich people on here , we actually rich people on here, we actually want. just final question, matthew , would you do if you had matthew, would you do if you had a million quid, what would you spend it on on? i mean, i would like to a house. maybe, like to buy a house. maybe, maybe a small apartment maybe a small little apartment in it's probably about in london, a it's probably about what really to what it would really get to these you get it, these days. you could get it, you could get covered the stairs for that big matthew dream for that dream big matthew dream bank how bank fantastic. so how did pubuc bank fantastic. so how did public the public policy that the iea matthew just explaining matthew let's just explaining why really actually should genuinely that millionaires genuinely care that millionaires live don't live in britain. we don't necessarily to kind necessarily to be the kind of country just necessarily to be the kind of cotone just necessarily to be the kind of cotone because just necessarily to be the kind of cotone because it just necessarily to be the kind of cotone because it is just necessarily to be the kind of cotone because it is a just necessarily to be the kind of cotone because it is a bad just necessarily to be the kind of cotone because it is a bad sign. do one because it is a bad sign. just a couple of emails very quickly before we move on now i wanted dip back in to wanted to just dip back in to one the things that popped one of the things that popped off in the inbox. off massively in the inbox. we're to returning we're going to be returning to it the of this show. it towards the end of this show. but it's about lady susan hussey. remember her? she was a woman was unsung. ramona is woman who was unsung. ramona is the the royal family in the best by the royal family in life well asking life so well asking marlene hadley fulani or hadley or ngozi fulani or whatever to use whatever names decides to use today from numerous today where she from numerous times a poll, people's

times now a poll, the people's poll gb news said poll that we've gb news said that vast majority of you that the vast majority of you would like her reinstated patrick lady hussey should patrick yes. lady hussey should given back. she should given herjob back. she should also an from also given an apology from buckingham palace and not from john. is actually not john. and that is actually not an uncommon view . john. and that is actually not an uncommon view. i'd john. and that is actually not an uncommon view . i'd love to an uncommon view. i'd love to hear from you on all of this. and yes, the vast majority you in the inbox as well saying that lady susan hussey should be reinstated role over. reinstated in some role over. another, help feel another, i can't help but feel like too quick to like we were too quick to condemn and. way the condemn her and. the way the media lapped up on goes media just lapped up on goes along line as she along this line as well. she must hoping that it all must now be hoping that it all goes away. she accepted some form of apology from lady susan hussey. people hussey. think a lot of people think should have been her think it should have been her doing the apologising, but i suspect it to go away suspect she wants it to go away because of she shot because all of a sudden she shot to prominence and now the charity is rather charity commission is rather interested sister space interested in sister space and so should coming up, so it should be. coming up, remember oscars too white. remember the oscars too white. well, artist of the well, nominees artist of the year at the 2023 brit awards are they're all male it's obsessed a lot of but should it that's because wanted to pander to the old non—binary crew and it's not that we should have gender

neutral here neutral categories. well here we go. men. we'll go. now they're all men. we'll that surely now the slightest news . it's 532. i'm out news. it's 532. i'm out armstrong in the gb newsroom manchester city footballer mendy has been found not guilty . six has been found not guilty. six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault . it follows a six sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at chester court. jurors couldn't verdicts on one count of rape and one of attempted rape. the prosecution has sought a retrial on those which has been scheduled for june. which has been scheduled for june . police say a woman who june. police say a woman who after a dog attack in surrey yesterday was walking a number of dogs . the time of the of dogs. the time of the mauling. the incident happened at gravely hill in katrin . a at gravely hill in katrin. a second woman was taken to hospital but has since been discharged . a total of eight discharged. a total of eight dogs have been detained . surrey dogs have been detained. surrey police and no arrests have been made. scotland gained two new green freeports , edinburgh and green freeports, edinburgh and inverness as part of a £52

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okay, people we've got two big topics to see right through to the end of this show. now we're to talk about the gender neutral

britain awards. right. and a big royal row. let's start with the neutral brit awards. well in the first ever gender neutral brit awards , basically all the awards, basically all the nominees are men. so last year , nominees are men. so last year, best male and best female categories were scrapped and replaced with a single , which replaced with a single, which critics at the time warning the decision could be the detriment of female . the nominees for best of female. the nominees for best are stormzy harry styles, george, ezra fred again central say i know my back anyway to give that thought so they stop to touch tatchell lgbtq activist and director of the tatchell foundation. and well, we've got debbie. it is transgender teacher and, journalist. i believe we've got at least of those people with me right now. have we had some of them big council to be nice. we brought one of them up. either of them. yes anyway so yes lovely stuff. anyway so there we go. well we're going be interested to see how at least one of them reacts that we go. peter. peter won the lottery if he want to. if we broke up

first. peter, thank very first. peter, thank you very much. you not think that much. do you not think that maybe proves that actually, maybe this proves that actually, by to the by deciding to ditch the gendered category, up gendered category, you end up with taking over ? well, with just men taking over? well, certainly. i think it's sad and quite outrageous that no woman artist has been nominated for artist has been nominated for art of the year to have an all male list is just unconscionable given the many tremendous female artists in the music . so that's artists in the music. so that's artists in the music. so that's a big no no. having said that , a big no no. having said that, they began the gender neutral last year and adele won, beating all the men , and deservedly so . all the men, and deservedly so. and this year there lots of other women nominee in other categories , no excuse for not categories, no excuse for not nominating them in. the artist of the year. but there are lots nominated in other categories. international artist of year. you've got beyonce , say, lizzo you've got beyonce, say, lizzo and taylor swift in the category of singer , the year you've got

of singer, the year you've got eliza rose and kat burns , the eliza rose and kat burns, the best new artist category. we've got sawayama minnie web and wet leg, the female duo . and in leg, the female duo. and in fact, in the big race for nominations , the artist with the nominations, the artist with the most nominations, all nominations are harry styles and wet leg. who are performance group . okay well i do get i group. okay well i do get i wonder i believe maybe we can bnngin wonder i believe maybe we can bring in debbie haines and that was well, a transgender teacher and journalist. yes. that got debbie tough is another debbie because tough is another one to point which is it's one to point here, which is it's not really the that not really about the fact that year there happened to be no female artist named in the best artists group. it is more case of the fact that as far as i can tell, just because sam smith came out as non—binary, they decided to change the whole thing . well, yes, this is what thing. well, yes, this is what it's all about, isn't it? you know, we can say, well, last year adele won it. so this year they've made sure a man's going to win it because it's fair that

way. what's happened is we way. but what's happened is we used categories, and used to have two categories, and now only got one. all now we've only got one. so all the artists to compete the artists got to compete together it just seems to me together and it just seems to me together and it just seems to me to be bizarre that because when it comes sing in artists and female are different and complement each other rather than compete against each other. and why , you know, why have we and why, you know, why have we done this? well had some census that's released last week which said that there were 30,257 non—binary people in england and. wales, which represented one in 1600 people and for that they've changed the categories and two into one. and i just wonder what other group of one in 600 would be able to change the categories? the brit award it's quite bizarre . so why are it's quite bizarre. so why are non—binary people so special? well, they're not more special anybody else, but they are in britain. well, they are. they're very they've revolutionised, they've revolutionise the way they've revolutionise the way they judge things just as far i'm concerned, literally for one person in sam smith . well,

person in sam smith. well, that's one way of looking at it from a feminist point of view, you can argue that it's sexist to have male and female categories that artists should be judged on alone and not on genden be judged on alone and not on gender. so that's a very strong case to. have just an artist the year rather than a male artist and female artist. but i take the point that we have to challenge the underrepresented station of women in music awards andindeedin station of women in music awards and indeed in other awards ceremonies. it's absolutely right that many great women singers get the profile and the awards that they deserve. i don't think we therefore have to say that let's stick with the strictly male female categories . maybe there should have been a new category invented. keep male and female have a non—binary category as well . smith would category as well. smith would win every year. three non—binary artists , would you? debbie i'm artists, would you? debbie i'm not being funny, but by that logic we should have a patrick christys and i've come out with that every single year as long as we have a debbie hit in

category as well. no, i think i think we're missing the point here. why not? two here. i think. why not? two gender neutral categories but want appeal to people of the want to appeal to people of the male not to speak for the male sex, not to speak for the female sex probably not. female sex then? probably not. debbie but it's cool statistics on a friday and brain at this point in the week is scramble told me through that so we have told me through that so we have to you want to gender neutral categories tell me who . yes it's categories tell me who. yes it's the piece of it's the fact that we've moved from sex to gender we've moved from sex to gender we used to have sex so one female people want female people and we move to gender categories which means something different. okay i see what you guys do again. sorry i must say i find it hard to keep a picture of you doing a betterjob than me of keeping up with all of this stuff. i know some people say there's a wind, a point to this even still, ones that, even still, even ones that, which flipping year which is every flipping year from going this from on we're going to have this controversy aren't. did. we controversy aren't. we did. we really mess. it such really need to mess. was it such a desperate peter? were a desperate thing, peter? were people banging the door people really banging the door say cannot have bass man,

say we cannot have bass man, bass woman really no , you're bass woman really no, you're right. there was no great huge demand for a change. but then again , the judges, the governing again, the judges, the governing body, decided that they wanted to be inclusive . and obviously to be inclusive. and obviously it was very unfair for sam smith to be excluded last year because he now identifies as non—binary and he is a great artist. and you know, he's one many awards and deservedly . so i agree and deservedly. so i agree somewhere along the line there has to be some compromises, but we must not let women's represent nation fall off the edge as a and as i said , if you edge as a and as i said, if you look at the overall categories of which about a dozen different awards women are very well represented , there are some represented, there are some really great artists. i'm a huge fan of. cat byrne's an so yeah they deserve to win. i hope they will win in that category. yeah. and i don't debbie to be anywhere near enough of a music buff to maybe maybe all of the

people nominated for best artist year who happened to be men, maybe they are by far and away the best artists in britain at the best artists in britain at the moment. okay, i don't know. i honestly don't know that. but maybe they are . but it makes it maybe they are. but it makes it very easy debbie i suspect doesn't see it for i suppose you're more vocal feminist voices of this world to say here we go, this what happens when you open it up in this sense it tramples over women's rights . tramples over women's rights. well, yes , we're here. three well, yes, we're here. three males. this debate on women's rights again, put one sex, one sex has to lose out. if only awarding one category. then one sex is going to lose out. neither the they they go from one to the other every year or somebody's going to lose out. it seems to me such a such a bizarre thing to have done and an unhelpful thing to have done. an every year. the brit awards are going to get overshadowed by this debate because if even this debate because even if even if sexes are nominated, if both sexes are nominated, only sex can win . yeah. only one sex can win. yeah. debbie, just stick with you

debbie, i'll just stick with you on. one. now, do you think on. this one. now, do you think that sam smith is a bit too entitled? because he has decided that he's known binary now the brits have to change. i mean, it does seem a little bit of a big deal that doesn't it really can't. you just live with their decisions. and if british if the brits want to be inclusive , they brits want to be inclusive, they could have had a category says this is two male people and four non—binary people who were to use lingo assigned male at use the lingo assigned male at birth. that's the way we can do it. we include in that we don't need to merge the two groups and put the representation the put the representation and the awards that they're giving peter as well though i suppose there is a certain irony here is in that final word to you about about whether not this is excluding two women etc. i daresay that's the amount of people who are on the british judging panel by the way, apparently panel of the apparently judging panel of the brits basically brits is massive. it basically to people in the to involve most people in the world of showbiz reporting right across uk. now say that across uk. now i dare say that represents in the demographics

of the showbiz of people in the showbiz reporting quite reporting world, it's quite representative lgbtqia+ representative of the lgbtqia+ community. i think that's a relatively fair assumption to make. so actually you could make. and so actually you could that there's going that this really there's going to no male intention to be no male intention whatsoever maybe. they just have chosen people for chosen the best people for awards . well, we don't . and i awards. well, we don't. and i certainly think there are i think might have a good idea. faiza has been on up for artist of the year. no doubt about it. but i think that the awards is about the best artist . it's not about the best artist. it's not about the best artist. it's not about the best male or it's about the best male or it's about the best artist. and women of show like adele they can compete with men and they can win or because they've lost. both of you, thank you very much for picking us. through that particular minefield of that we'll be all again at we'll be doing it all again at some point next week was peter tatchell, our lgbtq and director of peace tatchell of the peace tatchell foundation, debbie hayes, foundation, and debbie hayes, transgender teacher and journalists yes journalists just reacting to yes again, of again, the prince of wales decided things, some decided to do some things, some would needlessly . but in would argue needlessly. but in response, awards is response, the brit awards is that nominations reflected that the nominations reflected of all backgrounds in a wide

breadth of music genres. whilst this disappointing, there were no nominations in the no female nominations in the artists of the year category , we artists of the year category, we also recognise that 2022 also have to recognise that 2022 so few a high profile artists in the cycle with major as was the case in 2021. there we go right we're moving on from that absolute now how it's how the gb news people . are. good good. news people. are. good good. i want you to finish the show with this because i think he's right. keep raising this and banging the door , railing against the the door, railing against the dying light , they say, dying of the light, they say, because this week the gb news people poll found that the majority believe majority of the british believe that susan hussey should be that lady susan hussey should be allowed to return to work. we allowed to return to work. we all remember lady susan hussey. allowed to return to work. we all the amber lady susan hussey. allowed to return to work. we all the latezr lady susan hussey. allowed to return to work. we all the late queen'susan hussey. allowed to return to work. we all the late queen's lady hussey. allowed to return to work. we all the late queen's lady in|ssey. it's the late queen's lady in waiting. she waiting. she resigned after she asked black british charity asked a black british charity boss why she was really from. but when asked whether she'd now be allowed to return to work, she should be allowed to return to work 42% of the public said she should, and just 24% said

that she should know among the over 65. even more of you want an answer it said that 62. and that chimes in with an email that chimes in with an email that i have actually just had from the wonderful sandra . he from the wonderful sandra. he says, patrick, my brain is scrambled by all of woke nonsense. i'm in my seventies, not it, sandra. you're not don't get it, sandra. you're not don't get it, sandra. you're not . 30 i get to not alone. i'm 30 not. i get to either book the figure. it goes down to just 21% people who down to just 21% of people who think lady susan hussey think that lady susan hussey should allowed back work . should be allowed back to work. buckingham palace when you look at the to year olds and that at the to 24 year olds and that is a concern it, because is a concern isn't it, because that's group of who that's the group of people who are forward that are coming forward hope that they oldies soon enough they will the oldies soon enough to findings the poll to discuss findings of the poll i'm joined by former royal butler harold grant, we butler grant. harold grant, we ask good to have you back the ask good to have you back on the show. my man. you very, show. my good man. you very, very always looking. you're very much always looking. you're in setting which is very in a regal setting which is very suitable you. think suitable for you. do you think lady susan should be to lady susan hussey should be to continue working in some capacity of the capacity at the palace of the patriot? thank you mine? absolutely. i mean, i think you may have always agreed on this. this point that it was with the

greatest respect. it was slightly blown out of proportion . i think this poll does go to show that's what i've enjoyed. people think interestingly, i also supported friends from ethnic backgrounds and they all agree as well and i have had nobody come up to me and say that it was wrong sorry it was wrong that she lost job over this. so i'm to see this is the findings. i'm yes. i think she should do it. this is lady. it was with the queen, but there are many, many, many decades, in fact, when wrote to the queen as a child, i think mentioned to you the lady wrote you this was the lady that wrote back on behalf of the back to me on behalf of the queen. so i've known for her a long, long, long, long time. so i see her in some i would like to see her in some shape or form, go back to the palace. yeah. and i think in light of palace and royal light of palace and the royal family taking , a little of family taking, a little bit of a beating in recent times. you've had harry's book, you've the had harry's book, you've had the ongoing regarding him ongoing scandal regarding him and had this and meghan. you've had this ngozi fulani saga and the palace hasn't really gone on the front foot with any of this. they did recollections may very thing

when initial harry and meghan truth bombs with oprah dropped you had here lady susan hussey being carted out immediately we're not anything from the palace in relation to what harry and meghan have said or harry said in his book. is this an opportunity for the palace to draw a line in the sand now and say, you know what, lady susan hussey, you your job but we're not to take any this not going to take any of this nonsense anymore. see i've nonsense anymore. we see i've got patchy it because i got a fairly patchy it because i always see susan i see always see lady susan i see the lady again the palace lady again at the palace i believe a little while ago and that would have been i think that would have been i think that would have been i think that would have been planned by the mean susan in order the palace mean susan in order to show to completely you know can a clean slate that's very clear to discuss that obviously apologies which was important as well and can move forward and i think the lady in question would also agree that i think she wanted to move forward from it because in her life quite difficult. i know lady susan , i difficult. i know lady susan, i think it would be nice for everyone is that as we always say, you know, you learn from things. i still think it was all

misunderstood, but we all led things. and not just listen and move forward . as i said, i would move forward. as i said, i would like to see i i can't help like to see i just i can't help but wonder when see people, but wonder when i see people, when i see vast swathes of society giving in to a lot of the white brigade in to a lot of these virtue signalling it's never enough is never enough. they want keep going and they always want keep going and pushing pushing pushing. pushing and pushing and pushing. and the palace and i think unless the palace puts kind metaphorical puts some kind of metaphorical wall worry for the wall up. now, i worry for the future of the royal family as an institution yeah i agree. institution grant yeah i agree. patrick i think the palace obviously wants to do things the right way. i mean, you know, it's really important that they get it right. there is no for error. that's the reality. you know when a different the different are different monarch things are very and the kind of very different and the kind of mistakes which is why i think they've careful as you they've been careful but as you said kind of also kind of got said it kind of also kind of got to kind of, as you said, put the up and make it very this up and make it very clear this is what they're prepared to is what what they're prepared to say, and sometimes say, what to do. and sometimes it's say something, then it's best to say something, then not say something occasions. not say something on occasions. exactly stand up and have a look

at public opinion. well, because i think likes of i think when the likes of marlene rock up as marlene hedley rock up as accusing , stuff like accusing people, stuff like that, it's interesting to know a bit about who they as bit more about who they are as well. you much. well. thank you very much. quite, harold. you. former quite, harold. thank you. former royal amazing royal butler and an amazing chap. resplendent chap. look at it. resplendent now we've got your views in inbox gb news inbox. we love to say gbviews@gbnews.uk , john? say gbviews@gbnews.uk, john? yes. it's about lady susan hussey. i don't think it's fitting to her in the we fitting to her in the way we sees it. decades of dedicated this unceremoniously this country unceremoniously booted as a result of comments made someone who frankly made to someone who frankly can't what name. she can't even decide what name. she wants to be killed in any given day way lovely lady was day the way this lovely lady was shown appalled by the shown notes appalled by the windsors over windsors she served for over years. deserved better . years. she deserved better. shame royals is a strong shame on the royals is a strong view. class lady susan view. the class says lady susan should from dysfunctional should retire from dysfunctional palace, pension . i'm palace, enjoy her pension. i'm not sure she would have got not so sure she would have got a, because i don't a, by the way, because i don't think she actually think she was actually necessarily for jobs necessarily paid for the jobs that doing. one more that she was doing. one more quick michael says poor quick one. michael says the poor old in her eyes. she old dare is in her eyes. she shouldn't be working. yes, true. maybe she should put her feet shouldn't be working. yes, true. maybutshe should put her feet shouldn't be working. yes, true. maybut he should put her feet shouldn't be working. yes, true. maybut i thinkuld put her feet shouldn't be working. yes, true. maybut i think thatyut her feet shouldn't be working. yes, true. maybut i think that she er feet shouldn't be working. yes, true. maybut i think that she should up. but i think that she should

be given something ceremonial in dotage celebrate. what dotage to celebrate. what a wonderful life she maybe wonderful life she had a maybe a little apology as well little bit of an apology as well thank you very much everybody has tuning up next is has been tuning in. up next is dewbs& co with michelle dewberry, who's in dewberry, who's right here in the studio. got for us the studio. what you got for us show? patrick. a show? hello, patrick. yeah, a little do you know little quiz for you. do you know what word means? and i get what this word means? and i get points. save up, pronounce this right. you paris? every right. you ready, paris? every day a phobia. dunno, day a cat. try a phobia. dunno, but i i caught that one but i think i caught that one tonight. rapper we'll tonight. rapper well, we'll have a there's there's a shot. there's that. there's chemist for that and a lucian i think but we'll talk about that after after this go you got to tell me what it is i well know you that's what dewbs& co. if you that's what dewbs& co. if you to know what it is, you want to know what it is, i account so they're both in addition that where do the things i want talk to things i want to talk to everyone about tonight's is gasps boilers probably phased everyone about tonight's is gas in boilers probably phased everyone about tonight's is gas in boilnext robably phased everyone about tonight's is gas in boilnext robably iniased everyone about tonight's is gas in boilnext robably in thej out in the next decade in the race for zero. i want bold race for net zero. i want bold net box going to be net zero box it's going to be quite costly . do you it's quite costly. do you think it's all should the uk be all worth it? should the uk be leading that fight? also, 24 leading at that fight? also, 24 hour anything and everything and ambulance that's what a paramedic has called the ambulance usage the moment

apparently we're taking the mic when it comes to using these things so pondering do you reckon we should find that misuse the nhs. reckon we should find that misuse the nhs . yes, i want to misuse the nhs. yes, i want to talk about that and always quickly the home office tweet i saw that posted an albanian working illegally on a building site. i want talk about that and yesterday patrick, one of my viewers, carol, she said what a success mean. and i carol, what a great question . so i'm asking a great question. so i'm asking it tonight. oh, fun tastic. well, people you can ask it but if people are watching they'll be looking at it won't they. they'll be at. oh no they'll be looking at. oh no you're. off beeping you're. heading off beeping stop. right? thank stop. you all right? thank you very michelle very much. yes robert michelle dewberry with you, of dewberry will be with you, of course, a wonderful show. that's going to be, the way, finding going to be, by the way, finding who misuse the nhs. think i'm who misuse the nhs. i think i'm in them think i right? in favour them think i am right? thank much. have been thank you very much. have been watching of watching me over the course of the i've been patrick the week i've been patrick christys. am actually off next christys. i am actually off next week enjoy my week going away to enjoy my birthday to just let you birthday and to just let you know that because it means you can send me all the well—wishes and birthday birthday and birthday cards and birthday presents office right

presents into the office right here gb thank very here at gb news. thank you very much, everybody. will see you much, everybody. i will see you whenever back for whenever i get back up for houday whenever i get back up for holiday alex deakin holiday evening. i'm alex deakin and latest weather and this is your latest weather update office . update from the met office. we'll start this weekend's mild and but will end with the and wet but will end with the likelihood of frost and ice and the possibility of a bit of snow to boot . at the moment, low to boot. at the moment, low pressure systems and weather fronts are coming in from the southwest , bringing the wet southwest, bringing the wet weather also reasonably mild weather and also reasonably mild conditions . it's a bit chilly conditions. it's a bit chilly out there right now, but as rain pushesin out there right now, but as rain pushes in from the west, temperatures actually rise through the night. the rain through the night. but the rain could further issues. could some further issues. there are warnings place and are flood warnings in place and the and we have a the environment. and we have a met in for met office warning in place for that rain across western england and. wales, as i said, temperatures actually rise through the night. so we start the in the south and double digits. we also start with quite a bit of rain and it will be as well the winds picking up the night. a wet and windy saturday morning for many tending brighter quickly in brighter quite quickly in northern ireland, but more showers in and into showers coming in and into western where there'll western scotland where there'll be snow hills. but

be some snow on the hills. but brightening most of brightening up for most of england during the england and, wales during the day. afternoon sunshine, day. so some afternoon sunshine, it'll turn colder through it'll also turn colder through the day. so temperatures actually dropping through the afternoon generally 5 to 7 afternoon and generally 5 to 7 celsius for most temperatures dropping further on saturday night . the winds whipping up night. the winds whipping up across northern ireland. more rain here. so have rain to come here. so have another office yellow another met office yellow warning in place across northern ireland for saturday night. the winds strengthen and further ireland for saturday night. the windsasrengthen and further ireland for saturday night. the winds as wellhen and further ireland for saturday night. the windsas well and and further ireland for saturday night. the windsas well and soi further ireland for saturday night. the winds as well and so we'llier ireland for saturday night. the winds as well and so we'll will north as well and so we'll will see a bit more in the way of snow coming to down low levels across northern scotland by sunday overall sunday morning. overall sometimes a brighter sometimes a drier and a brighter day much of eastern day saturday for much of eastern england. there will be showers further snow across the further west, snow across the mountains of north wales and a little bit in the hills across northern ireland, too. but say generally drier and brighter for most sunday, but also colder temperatures to get much of a 4 to 8 celsius along the south coast. the winds picking up in the far southwest and the potential for a bit more wet weather on sunday night, monday morning and as it turns colder , morning and as it turns colder, does bring the risk of some

snow. keep up to with the snow. keep up to date with the met weather warnings this met office weather warnings this weekend .

hello there at 6:00 on michelle dewberry and this is dewbs& co the show where we'll get into some of the things that have got you talking now net zero or the uk with pioneering at the front of it some would say and rightly so. but if you have got a gas boiler you might be in a little spot bother because what's spot of bother because what's going be banned? apparently going to be banned? apparently in decade if the in the next decade if the government has its way, you will, for is this kind will, for that is this kind of what you up for? do you what you signed up for? do you sit there and think about global warming and think, yeah, banning my way or my boiler is the way forward or is it going a little bit too is it all going a little bit too far and we