questions that you ask the questions that you really three till really answered. three till 6 pm. monday to friday on gb news. the people's channel. britain's news channel. i'm simon evans. join me on gb news for headliners at 11 pm. what's the scoop? i'll be joined two of the scoop? i'll be joined two of the country's top comedians. yes, right. so we take a look at tomorrow's newspapers tonight , tomorrow's newspapers tonight, which is chance of trouble if which is a chance of trouble if it's a big story we'll be covering it. spill some tea on him there will some fun him there will have some fun i wouldn't stick a like wouldn't stick a bank i like fall he didn't love me anyway headuneis fall he didn't love me anyway headline is every from 11 on gb news the channel britain's news . channel welcome along wonderful people you're with me patrick christys right here on news now coming up is , three years to the day since is, three years to the day since the uk officially left the eu,

our brexit backing prime minister said britain has taken strides towards taking advantage our independence. but feel we've never had a proper. our independence. but feel we've never had a proper . a poll never had a proper. a poll published by ipsos has found 45% of people think brexit is going worse than they expected. ups from 28% in june 2021, including just over one in four of those who actually voted to leave back backing that 2016 referendum feels like a lifetime ago that now doesn't say the whole point of brexit to take back control of brexit to take back control of our laws our borders and our money. throughout this show, i will be taking a deep dive into brexit. britain to see how we're doing on those key issues. well, as at the state the as looking at the state the union, it's not all brexit, union, but it's not all brexit, don't worry, they suggest it's also reflect more on the uncertainty when it comes to our health care with ambulance workers to walk out yet again also anyone got massive sympathy for consultants walking out only thought they were on an absolute watch. get a load of this as teachers. teachers are reportedly not going tell

reportedly not going to tell their own schools if they're striking tomorrow, which means parents jobs . a lot parents with actual jobs. a lot of the nurses , people like that, of the nurses, people like that, people who save lives, they will turn up at the school gates tomorrow. and not know if that kid will be allowed in. shocking stuff. touch with your stuff. get in touch with your thoughts, gbviews@gbnews.uk uk questions today . ladies questions for you today. ladies and your top and gents, what's your top priority now brexit? britain priority now for brexit? britain i want to know what's top of your list and what would you say to who still want a to people who still want a second referendum? gb gbnews.uk now though , if you had lost. now though, if you had lost. hello, good afternoon. i'm tamsin roberts in the gb newsroom. it's 3:10. the foreign has admitted the exit from the european union has been tricky. james cleverly was responding to a question in the house of commons over the impact brexit. his comment comes a day after the prime minister said was making huge strides since leaving the eu three years ago.

that's a recent poll suggesting that 45% of britons say brexit is going than expected. to gb news former business secretary jacob rees—mogg says it was the right decision to the eu. bear in mind though. we left three years ago, we remain tied in to european rules and regulations for a further 11 months. so it's only a little over two years. but in that two years we have avoided nearly 8000 new eu regulations and we've saved taxpayers . regulations and we've saved taxpayers . £191 billion purely taxpayers. £191 billion purely and simply by not being signed up to the eu's post—covid programme. even our fish are doing better though. so that was 63% increase in our catch of cod yeah 63% increase in our catch of cod year. so it's good for british fishermen , which we always fishermen, which we always promised brexit would be the uk's economy, meanwhile, is expected to perform worse than all other advanced economies this year as the cost of living crisis to hit households . the crisis to hit households. the international monetary fund

warned the uk's gdp will shrink by 0.6% in 2023 rather than grow as it had previously predicted . as it had previously predicted. it says the shrinking of the economy reflects the uk's high energy and financial conditions as high inflation. shadow chancellor rachel reeves says state of the uk economy proves imf's predictions are right well. if you don't want , look at well. if you don't want, look at the predictions. let's look the facts of what's happened in of uk growth , the average growth uk growth, the average growth for the uk economy has been just two thirds under the conservative that it was under the last labour government and the last labour government and the uk is . now the only major the uk is. now the only major economy to be smaller today than it was before the covid pandemic hit. that isn't predictions about what is to come that is the state of the uk economy . the state of the uk economy. after 13 years of conservative government , uk shoppers are government, uk shoppers are facing the sharpest increase in grocery bills on record after food price inflation rose to a

new high , according to market new high, according to market researcher kantar grocery price inflation was up 16.7. year on yean inflation was up 16.7. year on year, with prices rising fastest in products like milk eggs and dog food . the researcher also dog food. the researcher also warned that households now face an extra warned that households now face an extr a £788 on their annual an extra £788 on their annual shopping bill due to costs. thousands of units and ambulance workers across five services in england will strike on the 10th of february in a long running dispute over pay and staffing . dispute over pay and staffing. it comes as nhs consultants england announced today they'll hold an indicative ballot on taking industrial action . the taking industrial action. the british medical association says , although it's not a formal ballot, it represents a significant escalation , one the significant escalation, one the union says consultants are leaving the profession or cutting their hours due to significant pay cuts and, unfair pension rules. significant pay cuts and, unfair pension rules . police forces pension rules. police forces have apologised . relatives of have apologised. relatives of the victims of the hillsborough

disaster for what they described profound failings . the apology profound failings. the apology comes as a response to a report published in 2017 that looked into the experiences of the hillsborough families . police hillsborough families. police chiefs have promised a culture change. almost 34 years on, from the disaster, 97 football fans died a result of a crush at a match between liverpool and nottingham forest , april the nottingham forest, april the 15th in 1989. an inquest jury ruled in 2006 that they were unlawfully killed amid a number of police . a unlawfully killed amid a number of police. a £10,000 reward is being offered in the hunt. constance martin and newborn baby. police believe the 35 year old is sleeping rough along with her child and partner mark gordon , who is a convicted sex gordon, who is a convicted sex offender . the family were last offender. the family were last seen in east sussex on january the eighth. the ukrainian foreign minister says . ukraine

foreign minister says. ukraine receive 120 to 140 western tanks in the first wave of deliveries from a coalition of 12 countries. meanwhile, footage been released of ukrainian soldiers being trained on how to use leopard 2 battle tanks in poland. they've been supplied by germany to help support ukraine in its ongoing war with russia. it's expected to take up to five weeks before the cruise are ready to use the vehicles in battle . the princess of wales battle. the princess of wales says essential to know what's needed to help the future generation become healthy adults . launching her new early years campaign shaping us, the princess says she hopes to help people understand how early childhood affects later life and adulthood . vanity fair royal adulthood. vanity fair royal editor author katie nicholl says kate's hoping her lifetime project becomes part of the national conversation . i think national conversation. i think it's significant that she's used her first sort of big moment as the princess of to launch this

long term campaign. there is going to be screened in cinemas . you're going to see it on .you're going to see it on billboards where going to be talking about this. she hopes in the same way that we've all started talking about mental health. this is a gb news will bnng health. this is a gb news will bring you more news as it happens. now back to patrick . happens. now back to patrick. alright then. let's get stock straight in. we because today marks three years since brexit day. so this calls for a big brexit special. there is a brexit special. there is a brexit to almost every major national story and that's what we're going to do today. we're going to take you back to the initial wave of tub thumping patriotic optimism. look at the reasons behind why% voted to leave the european union. what people hope brexit would look like and assess where we are today how the economy doing.

it's being battered by covid in the war in ukraine. the latest imf figures are all about britain in recession . but we'll britain in recession. but we'll be giving you some reasons to be optimistic. not doom optimistic. it's not all doom and taking full of our and gloom taking full of our laws is the priority . could laws is the priority. could pulling out of the uk help sort both of those things on a similar note? immigration was a key factor in the brexit vote, yet we're seeing record levels of both legal and illegal immigration. all people living that post—brexit lives full of regrets. whether they voted to leave or remain basically asking whether or not you'd vote for brexit again if indeed you did the first time round, and what is the state the union is the state of the union post—brexit? we'll be going all over of over the uk. our team of excellent video journalists to see what the scots, the welsh and course the fair people of and of course the fair people of northern ireland have to say about the whole thing. but of course, we are nothing without you.the course, we are nothing without you. the people were the people's channel. so if we're getting news on getting gb news viewers on on the airways live on the telly to tell what they wanted from tell us what they wanted from brexit and talk about what they've got. brexit

they've actually got. brexit about taking control of our our laws and our money. so three years on, join me as we take a deep dive into brexit. let's now speak to brexit. mark francois we're going to kick start the show. ladies and gents, big brexiteer himself. the conservative mp for rally and work for mark. would you vote for brexit again ? i actually for brexit again? i actually want one and i, if you want a few advantages . i'm want one and i, if you want a few advantages. i'm just happy to rail some very quickly. russell and i'll make a note for when we get the remainers. i'll lay out if i could write. firstly free from eu bureaucracy, achieve one of the fastest vaccine rollouts in world. remember the first jab in the world was administered britain. secondly after the embrace of ever closer , we've embrace of ever closer, we've been able to pursue truly independent foreign policy. that means we've been able to really lead the west in terms of having

support for uk . thirdly we've support for uk. thirdly we've got dependent trade policy which you can't have within the eu . 70 you can't have within the eu. 70 trade deals including with australia and new zealand. negotiating more with countries the world, including in the and mexico. and of course we've got the awkward security deal to go with that as well. fourth, we're a highly bureaucratic common agricultural policy and the fisheries policy , which that . fisheries policy, which that. i'm going to cut in here. mark, just quickly and, just say, okay, a lot of people will say, well, hang on a minute. farmers they're up in arms. they're saying, you know, they're saying, you know, but they're worse brexit. no worse as a result of brexit. no change the way we support farmers. we now hold on to it through the complex cfp and took many fall for how difficult it is to get money of all right payments ice and then roll back

okay we're going to manage that farm to benefit not the sea alright mark i'll tell you what potentially potentially the eu has got involved and damaged microphone. you need to get a microphone. you need to get a microphone that's made in britain. we're going to try and fix it for a second you did sound a little bit like you don't want underwater that but we'll come back to you please stay where you are we you stay where you are we get you we'll you sorted now. okay. we'll get you sorted now. okay. it's right actually because it's all right actually because a recent poll by john hirst just the boston and lincolnshire yet remains constituency remains the only constituency the uk does not think it the uk that does not think it was wrong to leave the eu. not sure i quite believe that poll. but anyway run with it. but anyway we'll run with it. with is councillor paul with now is councillor paul skinner, council skinner, boston borough council leader from the only constituency that constituency supposedly that does a mistake does not think it was a mistake to the eu . i'm assuming to leave the eu. i'm assuming you don't think it was a mistake to leave the eu ? no, i don't to leave the eu? no, i don't think it was a mistake. good. why . well, there's a world of why. well, there's a world of opportunity out there and . i'm

opportunity out there and. i'm global events have actually caused . a bit of a hiccup, global events have actually caused . a bit of a hiccup , to caused. a bit of a hiccup, to say the least. the war in the ukraine has caused this problems with inflation and price of diesel which which costs every project. project have. i guess i'm just going to cut in and just ask, do you think that we absolutely made a hole solve it and only said something else and that would have been an arrow wouldn't say of it by putting theresa may in charge of it right at the beginning will be doomed to failure from. the start. had a lady there start. we had a lady there blazer. didn't in it, blazer. it didn't believe in it, but i don't think that would matter. that voted to matter. the people that voted to leave and think we should be leave and i think we should be staying a decision . there's lots staying a decision. there's lots of things come along and you know in the air and our area people are still believe that it was a good decision and i

certainly think it was . well, certainly think it was. well, some people will say we've never really had a proper brexit. i get this all the time in the inbox. i'm going to go into that inbox. i'm going to go into that inboxin inbox. i'm going to go into that inbox in a second. by the way, lives in just gbp is at gbnews.uk because. one of the big questions i'm asking people today yeah, whether today is yeah, alright, whether or vote for again, but or not you vote for again, but also what the nation's also what should the nation's top when it comes top priorities be when it comes top priorities be when it comes to from what i can see to brexit? from what i can see so far, those priorities, what they were when people voted to leave. our borders it's leave. so in our borders it's top the issue. had top of the issue. we've had record levels, legal and illegal immigration. record levels, legal and illegal immigration . and indeed we immigration. and indeed we haven't . areas like my own and haven't. areas like my own and the adjoining east lindsey have had quite a lot of the home office set up hotel which is obviously people's feelings . the obviously people's feelings. the home office have really consulted properly on these things and they've just set them up. but on the other i would

imagine they're pretty desperate as well. okay alright, so can i ask you, you a councillor and borough council, what ask you, you a councillor and borough council , what benefits borough council, what benefits has your local area seen from brexit or are they all still to come in the sunlit uplands? i would think the free trade part of it, yes, there's some disadvantages. i would with the extra paperwork as the eu try and on issues for being a not a trading partner but the thought that we can trade worldwide . i that we can trade worldwide. i think that's a positive advantage . okay. all right. fair advantage. okay. all right. fair enough. advantage. okay. all right. fair enough . councillor paul skinner, enough. councillor paul skinner, the boston council leader from the boston council leader from the only that does not think supposedly that it was a mistake to leave the european. i promise you i'll go to the inbox. i do shortly that email address again gbviews@gbnews.uk was top of your priority list when it comes to brexit. britain but notice

that stopping the boats to be although i'm assured that it's in no particular order bottom adversity soon current list of priorities. oh i suspect he might want to flip that one ladies in. just let me know what you think. also asking what you would say to people say, look, it's not going as planned. let's have a second referendum. i want to from you. to hear from you. gbviews@gbnews.uk, let's gbviews@gb news.uk, but let's take at economy gbviews@gbnews.uk, but let's take at economy now. take a look at the economy now. the as the economy, stupid, as minister, is how does accept minister, is how does to accept that brexit has added to the uk's economic woes after the imf warned the country will be plunged into recession this yeah plunged into recession this year. joining me now, who else is our economics and business editor it's liam halligan worth on the money . how catastrophic on the money. how catastrophic for our or otherwise is brexit very i don't think it's been particularly we haven't been paying particularly we haven't been paying massive annual contributions to the european every year have we. and actually for all the different gloom around today from the imf you know, everyone gets their forecasts wrong. the imf often

so we've actually grown up about the same amount as germany since 2016, even though because we had a tighter lockdown , our economy a tighter lockdown, our economy contracted more during of course it hasn't always been plain sailing . most economists who are sailing. most economists who are pro—brexit said that it would be like a kind of nike swoosh the beginning. it got down a bit because, you know, breaking things up is difficult and then the economy will grow more strongly. danger, i think, strongly. the danger, i think, for who did brexit for people who did back brexit and this government is obviously backed brexit general though of course is a wide range of opinion the tory party as opinion in the tory party as there across all parties . there is across all parties. danger is that the public heanng danger is that the public hearing about the downsides of brexit with enough of the upsides implemented in terms of less regulation , business less regulation, business friendly policies that the eu wouldn't instinctively but the uk now can. yes indeed. and i think it's people struggling to accept promises on the never, neven accept promises on the never, never. as time passes on, everyone's got a limit when it

comes to that kind of stuff. one of the reasons why i always love to talking you live is because you kind do healthy dose of you kind of do healthy dose of realism when it comes to these figures like the imf and. it's interesting, think, compare interesting, i think, to compare us i mean, we're us other nations. i mean, we're not that are we? not doing that badly, are we? really? know, i used really? we're you know, i used to work at the international monetary fund. i what goes monetary fund. i know what goes into these estimates. i think there's people there's a lot of good people working are under working there. so they are under quite of political quite a lot of political pressure come with pressure to come up with certain, you know, terms certain, you know, outcome terms all institution ones all all big institution ones where you got economists basically, what's where you got economists basicato , what's where you got economists basicato happen. what's where you got economists basicato happen. they hat's where you got economists basicato happen. they come under going to happen. they come under pressure and it guesswork. pressure and it is guesswork. however many econometric computer models you've got. but just that brexit just before that brexit referendum in the spring of 2016, before the referendum in june, the imf said that even voting to leave the treasury the same thing would lead to know a huge crash, a big recession . it huge crash, a big recession. it never happened. so forecasts on destiny and also we haven't heard so much today about, destiny and also we haven't heard so much today about , the heard so much today about, the fact that the imf confirmed that in 2022 the age has passed revised numbers show that the

british economy actually grew far faster than much of the rest of the g7 . we grew last year of the g7. we grew last year a 4.1. the eurozone average is 3.5. us 2. italy point 9. france 2.6. so these come and go. i think it is the case that we are suffering in particular as indeed the imf said today in its world economic outlook from rising taxes . as we get into rising taxes. as we get into a slowdown we're putting up that's a bit strange compared to the rest of the world and also patrick, some of the things we've discussed a lot over months, the fact we haven't got gas storage or energy security is a bit squishy , that's been is a bit squishy, that's been exposed by. the war in ukraine, squishy . that being a technical squishy. that being a technical economics term. i did want data all up to the fact that households and companies are paying households and companies are paying more for their energy than almost any other mainstream economy in europe and. that, of course, will slow down growth plus fact that a lot of our workforce haven't come back to

workforce haven't come back to work since. lockdown. yeah, and all these things are slowing things down. so we're going to need a lot . british innovation need a lot. british innovation and entrepreneurial to get the economy moving again. okay just very quickly, jim, could the headune very quickly, jim, could the headline been about britain growing 4.1% compared to the 3.5? and some people have chosen to focus on the negative ? i to focus on the negative? i think that's what a lot of journalists do, don't they? particularly when comes to brexit? look, brexit been plain sailing by any means. there's an awful lot of things that should have happened, haven't happened, and be , you know, a and it will be, you know, a pretty tough road . but i do pretty tough road. but i do think almost everybody is focussed on negatives from this imf report rather than the positives. liam, thank you. ever mate chairs liam halligan our economics and business editor with on the money. you're with me patrick christys on news. me patrick christys on gb news. coming up, top commentator has coming up, a top commentator has told gb news he believes it's highly the uk will pull out of a controversial human rights agreement despite . growing calls agreement despite. growing calls to ditch the treaty . those in to ditch the treaty. those in favour of withdrawal from the

european convention on human rights believe that brexit cannot realised while cannot be fully realised while the uk remains in the job essentially . it's two brexit essentially. it's two brexit birds in one stone. this next story because it talks about immigration and illegal and of course taking back control of our laws. so obviously lot of after you weather how again it's aidan mcgivern here from met office increasingly windy many office increasingly windy many of us through the rest of the day but particularly the north where there are also blustery showers, clear spells in the south, we've seen a cold front move through as a weakening feature . that is clearing feature. that cloud is clearing sunshine is returning across england and wales. but for scotland and northern ireland's tightly packed, i suppose north. westerly breeze bringing chilly and frequent showers . now the and frequent showers. now the showers are falling as snow about four or 500 metres over central scotland . but it's the central scotland. but it's the wind that is the main concern. as we head into the night—time with gales widely across northern scotland and for some exposed coasts of northern scotland, around scotland, especially around orkney louis, the north mainland, 60, 70, perhaps 80

mile per hour in places that could cause disruption. it's been a cold night or four celsius north, 5 to celsius in the north, 5 to 7 further south, although in the south will be a bright start to wednesday, having well, wednesday, having been well, a mixture clear spells and mixture of clear spells and cloudy some sunshine , cloudy overnight some sunshine, best of will be in the best of which will be in the south remaining into the afternoon, brightening in afternoon, also brightening in the of scotland, the wind the north of scotland, the wind and, the activity easing and, the showery activity easing in between an air of cloud and some outbreaks. for some outbreaks. rain for northern ireland, western west scotland northern england . a scotland and northern england. a chilly in north. chilly day again in the north. seven celsius. further seven or eight celsius. further 9 to 11 degrees. but the wind becoming less of an issue later wednesday. that wind tending to become lighter , although it will become lighter, although it will turn wetter once again across the northern half of the uk. some steady rain into scotland and northern overnight. northern ireland seeing a lot of cloud and a few spots of rain clouds thickening further south. well, and frost free night for the and so frost free night for the vast majority, although a touch of frost possible in the far of frost is possible in the far north the rain, then that north ahead the rain, then that rain linger across much of scotland through thursday, a

damp day to come the heaviest rain, though, for western elsewhere. lots of cloud cover . elsewhere. lots of cloud cover. think on thursday, some light rain over western hills. further south as well. but it is turning much milder. temperatures up the double figures widely.

welcome everybody. patrick christys here on gb news. the inbox has kicked off . it's a bit inbox has kicked off. it's a bit of a brexit special today. it's not the story in town, but three years since we properly left the vaiews@gbnews.uk , i will vote vaiews@gbnews.uk, i will vote brexit again. yes. yes yes. that's from lynn. and she says those that say brexit working, what do they expect? we've got a pandemic that flattened and trajectory . we've also had gary trajectory. we've also had gary on says brexit would have on he says brexit would have been fine if not have the

particular crop of politicians that we had in charge at the time. talking to politicians , time. talking to politicians, the foreign secretary says it would be fair assessment to suggest that the uk's exit from the european union has been tricky. james cleverly responding to snp mp thomas who questioned it and house of commons over the impacts of brexit. three years since the uk's withdrawal, one of the big sticking points has been the government and the european commission locked in talks to resolve the over post brexit ireland trade arrangements after the last few months. now there's also been problems in scotland of with hollyrood governing policy suggesting. scottish independence is the only to escape what they're calling unmitigated disaster of brexit. i saw a line earlier , which i i saw a line earlier, which i think is classic spin , from think is classic spin, from a chap called alan smith is an mp. their interesting he's usually got rather lot to say for himself refused to any questions of course on the agenda madness is taking place up there but independent in europe is now the scottish line independents in

europe. how does that quite work but anyway we'll let them attempt to bones about themselves. joining me now is our northern reporter dougie beattie and our scotland , tony beattie and our scotland, tony maguire. dougie will go to you first. know that ireland it doesn't quite look like the uplands minute. we'll see uplands at the minute. we'll see what's behind you. but what's going on behind you. but what's going on behind you. but what's the brexit latest what you are. well, we are still in brexit for want of a better explanation than anything we neither accident or state fact. we lost our mep in northern ireland on our night, caught by european regular actions and legal issues and have new meps democracy to say what can be done there. the to get goods in and out of nowhere and why i'm at the docks here most of these goods coming in at night. some of coming from the uk me and not they have to put in place a t s s forms . they are charter s forms. they are charter support services and last and 24 months that cost

support services and last and 24 months that cos t £318 million. months that cost £318 million. that' s £318 million. the british that's £318 million. the british taxpayer and of course £310 million. take that the r that couple days million. take that the r that couple day s £10 an hour that's couple days £10 an hour that's equivalent to 7300 nurses. i did a ride the uk and that's order that uk goods can travel through the uk . that in itself people the uk. that in itself people would never have believed that if you said that was going to happen when brexit happened and course the protocol is here to protect the integrity of this single market and those in the single market and those in the single market, and that includes the republic of ireland. so those it said that they brexit was going to work well and was going to work very well and the was going work in the protocol was going work in that place well. ireland has went into a recession. it's the first duty of the uk to do that. 72% of the jobs in northern ireland are funded by the public sector , so it should not sector, so it should not actually be in a recession then . was problems with prescription drugs and those fall very much

into the veterinary side of things as well. we're find that very hard to. keep in touch with the united kingdom with those medicare actions. and of course, that's coming up in the house of lords. so brexit for northern ireland hasn't worked and it's not going to work and those protocol talks that are coming up, of course , separating up, of course, separating northern ireland from the rest of europe economically and where you have economic integration you have economic integration you will have political integration ? well, that's integration? well, that's exactly that, dougie . and say exactly that, dougie. and say when it comes to the economic integration of many people, i think in plenty of cases, rightly so, feeling as a northern ireland was just syphoned off part of that deal and forgotten about. tony, i'm going of the border going to north of the border now. go up north. time to put your big coats on. tony maguire. that scotland did that in scotland. scotland did vote and think they vote to remain and i think they probably still to detonate, but they rejoin the european they want to rejoin the european union as well as independence once. i'm once. the scottish position. i'm a confused days with a bit confused days with sturgeon . for pat quinn and

sturgeon. for pat quinn and i think is the question when the wall is covered from from things being thrown at it see what sticks this week and certainly the latest that saw in an interview with anchors robertson and magazine has his view as with the snp government is to say that if we go then we don't need to yet another referendum join the eu . no whether or not join the eu. no whether or not that will work out that way, unfortunately for the snp government, things a habit of not quite working out the way that they were intended . and that they were intended. and certainly today here at holyrood been trying to get a feel from all of scotland's main political parties as to what you know, where they think they are three years later, you know , years later, you know, surprisingly anas sarwar of that scottish labour group , he's scottish labour group, he's blaming the conservatives down in westminster and the snp and the greens still calling brexit an abject failure. and then the

democrats, willie rennie released the statement today saying that he thinks that we all need to come together for a pragmatic solution . we are where pragmatic solution. we are where we are . one person. i did get we are. one person. i did get a chance to sit down today with was jemmy green of the scottish conservative . and let's hear conservative. and let's hear what he had to say. i don't believe the brexit vote has strengthened the case. independence. in fact, the day after that vote, the s&p were renouncing the result and calling for another rerun of the last referendum they lost in 2014. they've never really been very good at respecting the outcomes referendums in scotland and i'm afraid to say that i think people looked on at brexit and are now thinking, do we really want to go through all of that did you to that again? did you want to divide do you want divide our country? do you want to separate communities and families? there some families? i think there are some people to the day people who get back to the day job. they love the fact that brexit and all these constitutional simply constitutional issues are simply smokescreens and smokescreens for feelings and government . look, of you, government. look, both of you, thank very much. great to thank you very much. great to head to parts of . the uk, there

head to parts of. the uk, there are doubt reports dougie are no doubt on reports dougie beattie as though beattie does look as though he's about over by a truck about to get run over by a truck at any minute. you got to at any minute. so you got to safety dougie and scotland safety dougie and our scotland reporter as well . reporter tony maguire as well. you both very, very much. hopefully at some point in the show get to show we're going to get to wales. well, wales, absolutely wales. well, wales, i absolutely love think love the wales voted. i think i'm saying the i'm right in saying the proportion votes for proportion of leave votes for any of uk, but received any part of the uk, but received more money in eu subsidies. you love to see it. you're with me. patrick christys on gb news. coming a top legal coming up, a top legal commentator told gb news he believes it's highly unlikely the pull out the uk pull out of a controversial human agreement despite growing calls to ditch the treaty recently . one of the the treaty recently. one of the other, if not, frankly, the top elements. a lot of people wanting leave the european union was to take back control of our borders and our laws. and this hits both of those topics. the european convention on human rights is something that maybe we should be getting out of. what make of all of that what do you make of all of that and all taking it far? and all taking it too far? parents to out whether parents wait to find out whether or their children's school or not their children's school will be open tomorrow. will actually be open tomorrow.

teachers out in a teachers set to walk out in a dispute over pay, but they don't do people with do it. ordinary people with ordinary courtesy. it's ordinary jobs of courtesy. it's unknown need unknown whether or not they need to childcare, how to to arrange childcare, how to think though, the think now, though, is the headunes. think now, though, is the headlines . hello, it's 333. i'm headlines. hello, it's 333. i'm tamsin roberts . here's the tamsin roberts. here's the latest from the gb newsroom foreign secretary james cleverly admitted that the uk's exit from the european union has been tncky. the european union has been tricky . his comment comes a day tricky. his comment comes a day after the prime minister says britain making huge strides since leaving the eu three years ago. that's despite a recent poll suggesting that 45% of britons say brexit going worse than expected . speaking to gb than expected. speaking to gb news former business secretary jacob rees—mogg says it was the right decision to . leave the eu. right decision to. leave the eu. bearin right decision to. leave the eu. bear in mind though, we left three years ago, we remain tied to european rules and regulations for further 11 months. so it's only a little over two years. but that two years we have avoided nearly

8000 new eu regulations . and 8000 new eu regulations. and we've saved taxpayers 8000 new eu regulations. and we've saved taxpayer s £191 we've saved taxpayers £191 billion, just purely and simply by not being signed up to the eu post—covid rescue programme . post—covid rescue programme. even our fish are doing better though. so there was a 63% increase in our catch of last yeah increase in our catch of last year. so it's good for british fishermen which we always promised brexit would be the uk economy. meanwhile expected to perform worse and all other advanced economies. this the international monetary has warned the uk's gdp will shrink by 0.6% in 2023. rather than grow slightly as previously predicted. it says the shrinking of the economy reflects the uk's high energy prices and financial conditions. such as high inflation, shadow chancellor rachel reeves says the state the economy proves the imf's are right . and explain why the uk is right. and explain why the uk is still the only g7 economy that is smaller now than it was

before the pandemic . why is the before the pandemic. why is the uk the only g7 economy with its growth forecast downgraded year? why we at the bottom of the league table both this year and next year too? and can minister answer this ? why should anyone answer this? why should anyone trust , the conservatives with trust, the conservatives with the economy ever again police forces apologised to relatives of the victims of the hillsborough disaster for what they described as profound failings. the apology is a response to a report published 2017 that looked into the experience says of the hillsborough families . a hillsborough families. a cultural change has been promised after almost 34 years on from the disaster. 97 football fans died as a result of a crush at a match between liverpool and nottingham forest in 1989. an inquest jury ruled in 1989. an inquest jury ruled in 2016. they unlawfully killed amid a number of police errors.

lancashire police searching for a missing woman are appealing for a potential key witness to come forward. five year old nicola foley , last seen next to nicola foley, last seen next to the river wyre friday. she was walking dog. police say they are keen find a man who was walking a small white fluffy dog in the around the time nicola disappeared . he is described as disappeared. he is described as around years old and six foot tall tv online and dab+ radio this is .

gb news is. welcome back, everybody. now lots you've been getting in touch with your thoughts on. the three year anniversary marking , three year anniversary marking, the uk's exit from the european collins said, i voted to leave in 2016 and would do it again

even there was a referendum every single . the problem is the every single. the problem is the uk in. the uk is there is too many civil servants. well, maybe not for longer , because i not for much longer, because i think 100,000 of them are on strike but mps and the strike tomorrow. but mps and the media against the uk's media working against the uk's decision that was decision to leave and that was emphasised a little bit emphasised i think a little bit by statements earlier on by the imf statements earlier on today, call it, which appeared today, call it, which appeared to a picture doom and gloom to a picture of doom and gloom and horrible post—brexit britain being in massive recession , an being in massive recession, an economic nightmare, etc. did just lower down the fact that our economy as a whole has grown four point gdp's growth, 4.1% compared to 3.5% in the eu. that was of course left out of that rather conveniently wasn't say a little bit . and as well, i can't little bit. and as well, i can't help but notice that they're saying what the uk needs to do is to move away from this high tax, low growth economy that we've at minute. well, we've at the minute. well, didn't we a prime minister didn't we have a prime minister was out last year by a lattice who wanted to do exactly the same thing. quite make same thing. doesn't quite make sense laura says leaving sense to me. laura says leaving the was best decision the eu was the best decision this has made. we're

this country has made. we're currently process of taking this country has made. we're curre control process of taking this country has made. we're curre control of 'ocess of taking this country has made. we're curre control of our;s of taking this country has made. we're curre control of our;s of lawsg back control of our own laws and. it's only up from here. look, obviously voted for brexit. everyone knows that. what programme? however, what is this programme? however, i back on that i will just push back on that slightly is for how long can be in the process of doing stuff. i wanted to action. i wanted wanted to see action. i wanted to quicker action much to much quicker action and much firmer wanted to rip firmer action. i wanted to rip the band—aid and done the band—aid off and be done with short, sharp initial with it. short, sharp initial cut a bit of pain and. then cut and a bit of pain and. then after that, you're yes, after that, you're away. yes, i know. we were stifled by the coronavirus don't coronavirus crisis. i don't really the fact we've really buy the fact that we've been massively the war in been massively by the war in ukraine because always find something to hold back. won't something to hold us back. won't wait. want to things wait. but i want to see things done rather sharpish and think it's unforgivable it's absolutely unforgivable that years on that here we are three years on from our , quote unquote proper from our, quote unquote proper brexit and we've got levels of both legal and illegal immigration. both legal and illegal immigration . surely we could immigration. surely we could have done something about at least of those things. but least one of those things. but anyway, says, i'm old anyway, jim says, i'm an old age. jim i voted to leave age. jim and i voted to leave the european union. if another was to held today i'm to say was to be held today i'm to say i would probably choose to rejoin interesting this country has only got worse since brexit

and i'm struggling to see any other way out. jim so, it's added things have got worse for you i can understand what you're saying completely . jim one thing saying completely. jim one thing i will say, though, is the absolute disdain that you said, evenin absolute disdain that you said, even in old age pensioners , the even in old age pensioners, the elderly and the elderly treated with by a lot of the younger remainer it was say, well, we'll just wait this lot to just wait for this lot to shuffle and then shuffle off will we. and then we'll another referendum we'll have another referendum like matter. like yourjim. didn't matter. it's despite the fact that you lived in this country your entire your taxes your entire life pay your taxes your entire life pay your taxes your entire and all the young entire life and all the young people knew better. people thought they knew better. although, you are although, jim, maybe you now are admitting i don't admitting that they did. i don't know you vote for know you said you vote for remain chance again. remain given the chance again. i want know though from you at want to know though from you at home what your top priority for brexit britain. now, were brexit britain. now, if we were just starting, what would it be brexit britain. now, if we were just what ng, what would it be brexit britain. now, if we were just what would at would it be brexit britain. now, if we were just what would you ould it be brexit britain. now, if we were just what would you say it be brexit britain. now, if we were just what would you say to be brexit britain. now, if we were just what would you say to people and what would you say to people who a second referendum gb who want a second referendum gb views dot you k but views at gb news dot you k but this is a big one for us because look top of most lives i think was they voted was immigration when they voted for brexit and also taking control of our laws. and this one really hits both of topics. control of our laws. and this one relegallits both of topics.

control of our laws. and this one re legal commentatorpics. control of our laws. and this one re legal commentator has told a top legal commentator has told gb news that he thinks it's the uk will pull out of a controversial human rights agreement, growing calls to ditch treaty those in favour of withdrawal from the european convention on human rights say it blocked key uk legislation as a more robust policy towards our channel migrants, home insecurity and debt mount. why there's been taking a look at what leaving the eci are. could in recent days hundreds of people have arrived in uk waters on small boats as home office officials quietly plan for the possibility that up to twice the 5000 who crossed last could come in the year ahead . thought in the year ahead. thought deeply unpalatable for many is fuelling growing for the uk to withdraw all from a human rights treaty that critics believe is hampering efforts to introduce a more assertive immigration .

more assertive immigration. introduced the years after world war ii, the european on human rights was drawn up by the initial members of the then fledgling council on europe. it key protections to prevent those member governments abusing the fundamental rights of their people . but critics say there no people. but critics say there no need for the uk to still be tied to such a that it's ludicrous in a european court can make rulings against government policy post. brexit they cite the recent decision by the court in strasbourg to block a home office flight bound rwanda as part of a deal struck with the african nation to process asylum there. he's actually right. can ithank there. he's actually right. can i thank him for raising this a critically important but despite its many critics and indications by justice secretary dominic raab that he would willing to consider it legal commentator

joshua rosenberg thinks it's highly unlikely the uk will ditch the treaty . this doesn't ditch the treaty. this doesn't seem remotely likely. it was something that dominic raab floated towards the end of last yeah floated towards the end of last year. it's not been picked up by anybody else, certainly not part of the bill that's before parliament. and that bill itself seems to be going nowhere . it seems to be going nowhere. it was published last but hasn't yet had its first main debate. its second reading debate as it's called in the house of commons. the ecj critics believe the british of rights legislation still working its way through parliament could be turbo charged to take over from the european treaty. there's no doubt it would be complex, though as the ecj is woven into the very fabric of uk human rights laws . and there's another rights laws. and there's another major issue at play here . major issue at play here. despite the imperative deal more robustly with the likes of the

small boat crisis , the small boat crisis, the government is proud of the uk's record on human rights pulling out of the treaty would be seen by many as a major blow to britain's long position as a champion . human rights on the champion. human rights on the international stage, ditching ecj would put the uk in the same club as the only other two european countries not signed up to the treaty ? belarus and, to the treaty? belarus and, russia, mark white gb news. okay, well understand this is a massive topic for you , like john massive topic for you, like john says, what's top of his list of brexit priorities is immigration, immigration, immigration, immigration, immigration and i'm joined now by the money we're hearing over the top of that wonderful package that it's not once our homeland security at its mark thank you very much . no, thank you very much. no, i understand that we would be if we pulled these are in the we pulled out. these are in the same as and russia same club as belarus and russia but a fatal flaw in but there is a fatal flaw in people who say that's bad thing is that we're not belarus

russia. well, is i russia. well, this is yes. i mean, the uk over many years has built a reputation as being a champion of human rights right around world. those in charge, of course, are leading politicians cherish . that politicians cherish. that particular, you know, status within the world. they would not necessarily like to see us pull out of a treaty that is important for underpin those bafic important for underpin those basic fundamental rights. but you're right those who would like to see us exit this treaty say there is no need for the eu to have it, that of those protections can be enshrined and indeed they are enshrined within our law anyway that people's fundamental liberties absolutely will be protected . but what it will be protected. but what it would do coming out of the ecj china argue , is stop european china argue, is stop european courts actually in the licence transfer from blocking key

legislation . that's so important legislation. that's so important to the government legislation like putting on a plane towards rwanda . yeah, exactly. i'm just rwanda. yeah, exactly. i'm just having a look at the composition the ecj john now and i find it absolutely in infuriating that we have judges from slovenia, luxembourg places like this who are able tell us that we cannot put some people who we've deemed so not want in this country on a plane and get that plane to take off to rwanda. yeah, and that's the argument you're putting across the critics of the ecj are see is one of the fundamental reasons why they want to come out of this treaty and just make our old way in the world knowing that we can also protect the fundamental of individuals our nation. but will the prime minister , the home the prime minister, the home secretary, the justice secretary, despite seeing publicly that they would consider , if they had to, consider, if they had to, pulling out of the ecj, will

they actually do it. there's nothing to suggest that actually there's any any real serious intention to do that and that's what joshua rosenberg , clearly a what joshua rosenberg, clearly a seasoned committee issue on these issues, reads into it. there's nothing happening in parliament at the moment. we've got the so—called british of rights that's very slowly working its way through parliament, but that's not been updated in any way to. take in some of the fundamental principles and it would have to well , principles and it would have to well, something and doing something are two very, very different things. you considering going back on a diet? we both know it's not going to happen right? you know, that's the reality of it. i'll tell you right now. absolutely tell you right now. i absolutely won't. comes to the won't. but when it comes to the state of play regarding illegal immigration, a of people immigration, a lot of people i would for people who voted would say for people who voted brexit immigration specifically illegal immigration i could be wrong about this isn't it doubt or was top of the list and well what we've seen is record levels of both and illegal immigration. i'm way . yeah it was it was very

i'm way. yeah it was it was very high up there on the list of priorities that the had and that's why of course you now have a situation where with over 46,000 people who arrived across the english last year. you have the english last year. you have the prime minister putting handung the prime minister putting handling the small boats crisis as one of his government's priorities. but really you know, as we argue about whether we come out of the ashes or not you've got a situation now where the government is said it won't despite getting a ruling from the high court saying that rwanda policy was legal it won't put anyone on a flight to rwanda until all of the legal process has been completed in all of the courts so it's currently going to the court of appeal after that if it's found in favour of the government again the government we still won't put people on a flight to rwanda because of the potential it then goes to the supreme court . so goes to the supreme court. so what we're looking at with that particular issue is many, many

months potentially into next year before there's any kind of conclusion to that. and then, of course, in the year , if the course, in the year, if the weather's good , we could have weather's good, we could have many more of that last year. this year. and you brought, us, that wonderful story yesterday. wonderful i'm stretching it a bit there. but the story informative actually said about amount of pocket money essentially country essentially this country is giving people who are giving out to people who are currently our asylum seeker currently in our asylum seeker hotels etc. hotels channel migrants, etc. well, number of those well, it's number of those people doubles in a year. so does mark, thank does presumably. mark, thank you very i'm very much. about why i'm a security editor now. let's take a look at another big story this afternoon. tomorrow will be the biggest day of industrial action in a as hundreds of in more than a as hundreds of thousands of walk out in their separate for better pay jobs conditions mostly pay that it anyway school staff will be leaving classrooms empty and, taking to the picket lines after yesterday's ditch talks ended without resolution. i, for one, will looking for any spelling mistakes on those picket line placards. as it stands the

government is holding firm on its position that the uk cannot afford to give in to the demands of striking workers. but the joint general secretary of the national has defended not national union has defended not giving headteachers a warning of their intentions strike. they're saying it's very appropriate the plan is not to be disclosed. i think it's an absolute disgrace. joining me now is deputy leader of ukip and parent rebecca jane and socialist party industrial organiser trade unionist is organiser and trade unionist is rob williams. organiser and trade unionist is rob williams . thank you very, rob williams. thank you very, very much, rob . how on earth can very much, rob. how on earth can teachers say ? they're not going teachers say? they're not going to give notice whatsoever . to give any notice whatsoever. parents jobs. they've parents have got jobs. they've got jobs. and they you know, they're going to be dropping their kids off at school and. then haven't chance then they haven't got a chance to childcare because to arrange childcare now because of these nasty teachers. well, first of all, the teachers do give they give two weeks give notice they give two weeks nofice give notice they give two weeks notice because what the notice because that's what the law have to give law says. you have to give a fortnight's notice to take strike action . that's what strike action. that's what they've done. i mean, by the way i don't know, patrick, but the ed teachers support strike action actually ed teachers .

action actually ed teachers. i've got over the one dead in wales so you know, this is education. don't forget, 70,000 university staff are on strike. more than half a million workers are on strike tomorrow. why? are they on strike? because the cost living squeezed because of staff shortages , the pressure on shortages, the pressure on teachers . the way i know teachers. the way i know a parent , i'm teachers. the way i know a parent, i'm a grandparent and i support those workers. taking action because they're fighting for kids. education okay . i'm for kids. education okay. i'm going to i'm going to let i'm going to i'm going to let i'm going to i'm going to let i'm going to let rebecca jane do the heavy lifting on that one. rebecca, you've set up at the school gates tomorrow and you find out that the gates are locked. what do you do? well you know, happy . i'm know, i'm not happy. i'm generally not very happy . all generally not very happy. all the strikes that are going on because the penalised think because the penalised i think the people can't really the people that can't really do anything especially the anything it and especially the co—ordinator strike that currently obviously underway you hate in the wrong place is and then the other part of this is that you've touched on patrick

the about pay when the saying that they want to improve the situation how is paying these people going to actually improve situation we need to be reinvesting down at the bottom of the chain not paying who we've got already more so i'm not happy we have to take it on the chin but. we need to start finding better and more effective ways of doing this. yeah indeed. and rob, i'm so interested yesterday actually apparently average wage of a teacher is 42 grand a year. they're offered 5% the year before that . the fact is that before that. the fact is that when they go on strike tomorrow, there will be loads of parents at the school gates with kids and those parents are on less money than the people who are striking . how do you figure that striking. how do you figure that one out? well, first of all, obviously, not all teachers or anything remotely like that . but anything remotely like that. but the point is, isn't it? is that , you know, the parents would take those kids to school tomorrow rather, you know, many of them will be supporting workers taking action. they are workers taking action. they are

workers themselves . inflation is workers themselves. inflation is over 30. workers are pay cuts. and by the way , it is the people and by the way, it is the people that rob of we got because we keep working because why do you keep working because why do you keep well i hate whenever i says you seriously but what i hear people in the tories judging this a poll by how many people to that hall and as they drive past which is not quite mass pubuc past which is not quite mass public support frankly rebecca i'll throw it back your way. do you think that they should be banned from striking these teachers ? because if you were teachers? because if you were a parent, you were a nurse and you couldn't go to work , you had to couldn't go to work, you had to look after your little one. i mean, people might die. i understand the point that making and i don't i think when human comes into question, i don't think that strike should be allowed. the police not light strike. i don't think that nurses and ambulance workers should strike teachers. should be like strike teachers. yes, i do actually think that they should be allowed strike. but i that there has to be much rigorous procedures put in place

rules at this moment in because it's the coordinated strikes are really going to start damaging lives . and you know i just want lives. and you know i just want to pick up on the other point of you know we're talking inflation we're talking about the cost of living crisis . every single living crisis. every single person is affected and every single person cannot go on strike. it's a luxury of being in employment with in an industry that supports for me. rob, i'll give you the final word on this. what happens to a little bit of plucking national spirit, the nation suffering at the minute with the cost of living crisis and it's public servants have just downed tools . patrick there are two nations on that. there's nation of workers who will be nominated at the moment. there's another nafion the moment. there's another nation where tony forget put their tax returns in and gets fined. well, we get people who make out of covid crony capitalism and there's billionaires have gone up by a fifth during this period. there's two nations, the nations

of working class people in including not those are on strike, are struggling at the moment. and i you what's happening those people are going to keep fighting and we support them . both of you, thank you them. both of you, thank you very, very much. rob i always appreciate you coming on and fighting the good fight with us is the socialist party industrial organisation targeting itself. and of course the wonderful jane , who the wonderful rebecca jane, who is the deputy leader of ukip on for that discussion about parents left in the lurch tomorrow . a parent herself right tomorrow. a parent herself right now was absolutely flown by. you with me? patrick christys, right here on, gb news. but coming. we'll continue to look at brexit britain in three years on as i speak to someone is still fighting for the to rejoin the. you lost me got it. move on. forget rishi sunak's top five priorities. the home secretary suella braverman says is all about stopping the channel migrant crisis, warning the policy will be absolutely obliterated. they don't get to gnps obliterated. they don't get to grips what's been going on in

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it's 4 pm. you're watching and listening. me patrick christys on at gb news. coming up three years on, the prime minister says britain is taking huge strides in taking advantage of the opportunities opened up by brexit to address the challenges facing the country. but is he right to be so optimistic. a poll published by ipsos has found 45% of people think brexit is going worse than they expect it up sharply from 28% in june 2021, including just over one in four of those who voted to leave

in 2016 referendum. we're to tackle the positives and negatives of brexit throughout the show today as we look at how brexit has changed. economy, all laws , all borders and whether laws, all borders and whether there's any regrets out there. and of course , well, the future and of course, well, the future of the union. it's not all about brexit, though. don't worry, people will also reflect on more uncertainty when it comes to our healthcare system . ambulance healthcare system. ambulance workers are set to walk out getting dispute pay. getting a dispute over pay. apparently consultants , although apparently consultants, although as as i was concerned, they as far as i was concerned, they don't there'll be don't absolute wage. there'll be much out there. we'll much sympathy out there. we'll never anyway touch. we never anyway got in touch. we thought gbviews@gbnews.uk . okay, thought gbviews@gbnews.uk. okay, keep in. keep your views coming in. but before that your latest before that is your latest headunes. before that is your latest headlines . patrick, thank you headlines. patrick, thank you and good afternoon to , you. the and good afternoon to, you. the top story on gb news. the foreign secretary has said the uk's exit from the union has been tricky. james cleverly responding to a question in the house of commons over the impact of brexit. his comments come a

day after the prime minister said was making huge strides since leaving the eu three years ago. that's despite a recent poll suggesting 45% of britons say brexit is going worse than expected. speaking gb news, the former business secretary jacob rees—mogg said, however it was the right decision to leave the eu . bear in mind though, we left eu. bear in mind though, we left three years ago, we remain tied in to european rules and regulations for a further 11 months. so it's a little over two years. but in that two years we have avoided jointly 8000 new eu regulations and we've saved taxpayers eu regulations and we've saved taxpayer s £191 billion, just taxpayers £191 billion, just purely simply by not being signed up to the eu's post—covid rescue . even our fish are doing rescue. even our fish are doing better , though. so there was better, though. so there was a 63% increase in our catch cod last year. so it's good for fishermen, which we always promised brexit be . meanwhile promised brexit be. meanwhile the uk's economy is expected to

perform worse than all other advanced economies this year as the cost of living crisis continues to hit households . continues to hit households. that's according to the international monetary fund, which has warned the uk's gdp will shrink by 0.6. this rather than grow slightly , as it had than grow slightly, as it had previously predicted . it says previously predicted. it says the shrinking of the economy reflects the uk's high energy pnces reflects the uk's high energy prices and financial conditions such as high inflation. the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves . the state of the uk's economy . the state of the uk's economy . the imf's predictions right? well, if we don't want to look at the predictions, let's look at the predictions, let's look at the predictions, let's look at the facts of what's in terms of uk growth. the average growth for the uk economy has been just two thirds under the conservatives that it was under the last labour government and the last labour government and the uk is now the only major economy to be smaller today than it was before the covid pandemic hit . that isn't predictions hit. that isn't predictions about what is to come. that is the state of the uk economy.

after 13 years of conservative government government now tens of thousands teachers have joined the uk's largest education union to take part in strikes tomorrow. the national education union says , 40,000 education union says, 40,000 school staff signed up a fortnight. tomorrow is the first of seven days of strikes by. the union during february and march amid a pay dispute. union during february and march amid a pay dispute . the amid a pay dispute. the education minister, nick gift described the strikes as disruptive . it is disappointing disruptive. it is disappointing the any you you know has decided to go ahead with these strikes when. we are still discussing issues of pay and working and other issues very even yesterday we were having those discussions and strikes are disruptive to children's education particularly after two years of disruption during the covid pandemic. and it's just disrupting to parents and families as well . disrupting to parents and families as well. uk disrupting to parents and families as well . uk shoppers families as well. uk shoppers are facing the sharpest increase in their grocery bills on record

after food price inflation rose to a new high, according to the market research, a cancer grocery price inflation was up 16.7% year on year, with prices rising fastest in products like milk, eggs and dog . research has milk, eggs and dog. research has warned that households now face an extra hundred an d £88 on an extra hundred and £88 on their annual shopping bills due to rising costs costs . police to rising costs costs. police forces have apologised to the victims the hillsborough disaster for what they as profound . the apology comes in profound. the apology comes in response to a report published 2017 that looked into the experiences of the hillsborough families . experiences of the hillsborough families. police experiences of the hillsborough families . police chiefs have families. police chiefs have promised a culture change. almost 34 years on from the disaster 97 football fans died a result of a crush at a match between liverpool and nottingham in 1989. an inquest jury ruled in 1989. an inquest jury ruled in 2016 that supporters were

killed amid number of police errors . now a £10,000 reward is errors. now a £10,000 reward is being offered in the hunt for constance martin and her newborn baby. constance martin and her newborn baby . police believe the 35 year baby. police believe the 35 year old aristocrat is sleeping rough along her child and her partner, mark jordan, who's a convicted sex offender. the family were last in east sussex on january the eighth . and just lastly, the the eighth. and just lastly, the ukrainian foreign minister says ukraine will receive 120 to 140 western tanks in a first wave of deliveries from a coalition of 12 countries. meanwhile, footage has been released of ukrainian soldiers being trained on how to use leopard 2 battle tanks in poland. they've been supplied by germany to help support ukraine in its ongoing war with russia. it's expected to take up to five weeks before the crews are ready to use vehicles in battle .

to use vehicles in battle. you're up to date on gb news this morning's as it happens now from patrick . from patrick. today marks three years since brexit day this calls for a big brexit day this calls for a big brexit special doesn't say there is a brexit angle to almost every single major national news story. and that's basically what we've got to be doing throughout the show today. we're to take you back to the initial wave of that thumping, patriotic that tub thumping, patriotic optimism. the reasons optimism. look at the reasons behind britain voted to behind why britain voted to leave the european union and what brexit would what people hope brexit would look assessing where. look as well as assessing where. we are today how the economy doing. it's been battered by covid in the war in ukraine. the latest imf figures are all about britain in decline, but we'll be you some reasons to be optimistic whether or not those figures have been massaged while taking control of our laws taking full control of our laws . another priority could pulling

out help sort that out on out of the help sort that out on a similar notes? actually emma was of course a whopping great big factor in the brexit vote, yet we are seeing record levels of both legal and illegal immigration. i'll get into that shortly. oh that people living there lies now full of regret. we got loads of people out that voted for brexit. should vote remain if they have the chance to do it again. i want to know and whilst the state the union post—brexit will be going all over the today with our team over the uk today with our team of journalists see what of video journalists to see what the the welsh and the the scots the welsh and the people northern have people of northern ireland have to of course are to say. but of course are nothing without they nothing without you. they wonderful people. we'll wonderful people. so we'll getting gb news viewers and listeners the airwaves easy for me to say to tell us what they wanted from brexit and talk about what actually got. about what they've actually got. brexit course about brexit was, of course about taking control our taking back control of our borders, laws our money. borders, our laws and our money. so three years on, join me as we do dive into brexit do a deep dive into brexit brexit. we can cross live now downing street and speak to our gb news political editor darren mccaffrey . darren, you

mccaffrey. darren, thank you very much. brexit britain three years on is the big day. what's happening ? well, the debates not happening? well, the debates not overin happening? well, the debates not over in many ways, part trick it is politically in some ways settled in the sense that you've the conservative party, the prime minister and indeed the former prime minister, boris today talking about the benefits of breakfast of and of breakfast a breakfast of and indeed the future to come. you've got a labour party not really willing to engage too much on the subject in the sense that they don't open old wounds . also, their main mantra is to make brexit it's in some ways work better . but make brexit it's in some ways work better. but this is why i said the debate not over. you have had a shift in public opinion. no bully. quite a few people to now think that it was a mistake for britain to leave in 2016. however whether that's different from a whole lot of people wanting to rejoin eu because that's not necessarily where we're at. but the polls do show that. britain still remains pretty divided on all of this.

why is it because none of this is terribly straightforward? it's all pretty complex stuff as say. could almost get say. you could almost get everything galicia in british politics. they it politics. they look at it through prism of brexit. through the prism of brexit. ultimately so would be ultimately so that would be helpful. you look at the helpful. but if you look at the economy, the latest predictions from the imf some will point out that's driven by the that's largely driven by the pandemic fact pandemic largely driven by fact that we for on times over that we locked for on times over the space of two years and all that flew from that. also clearly, the war in ukraine and the energy crisis has not helped. global inflation is part of well. some of that narrative as well. some on would point on the other. they would point to beyond the bank of to the beyond the bank of england saying that there has been a massive on trade , been a massive impact on trade, adverse impact on trade, and also there are and have also that there are and have been a fall in the number of eu migrants, which is an impact the labour force, the number of people available for jobs labour force, the number of people available forjobs in people available for jobs in this it goes on and this country and it goes on and on and on and i suppose partially that's fundamental partially that's my fundamental point in this of a brexit. it's never going be settled. our relationship with europe is never going be settled because that's politics. that's that's just politics. that's democracy. clearly how we

democracy. and clearly how we deal with the partners, whether it's on defence, whether it's got to do with economics, will continue carry on. but i think the overwhelming from the public today is that brexit is on the back burner simply because we do not. i for most people want to live through those very, very divisive years after that vote in 2016. all the rousing parliament people i think the government and indeed politicians focus on the more immediate problems that face this country like industrial action , inflation and like the action, inflation and like the fact that yes we do somehow need to boost economic growth even if that means being outside the union in the sense that going inside iraq. well not going to be part of the narrative i don't think in the short term, at least. well, you say that. darren dowding, thank you very darren dowding, thank you very darren mccaffrey there. our political steps political editor, the steps outside street. but we outside downing street. but we have shrunk somebody down for him the european have shrunk somebody down for him is the european have shrunk somebody down for him is indeedhe european have shrunk somebody down for him is indeed a european have shrunk somebody down for him is indeed a top opean have shrunk somebody down for him is indeed a top priority. union is indeed a top priority. with me now is richard , leader with me now is richard, leader of the imaginative nine rejoin eu policy . there you go. fun

eu policy. there you go. fun stuff, right? well, look, why can't just accept democracy ? get can't just accept democracy? get on with get on with making britain a great stop pouring pounng britain a great stop pouring pouring petrol through a letterbox and striking out. well, let's start with that second point. you raise. why don't i make britain a great place? have no power to place? i have no power to actually do that. now, i'll vote to leave the european union was seven course, seven years ago. and of course, as we know, it's very controversial. lots of passionate, both sides. but things since things have moved since then. patrick, i say patrick, we've now as i say seven years on everybody, 25 in this country has now never had a say on their future and lot of those people are quite angry. and you're you said earlier on about let's talk about the positives the negatives. positives and the negatives. well, to start well, i'm going to start with some negatives and if i some of the negatives and if i can a selfish point can take a very selfish point view. today three years view. today marks three years since right to retire a since my right to retire to a sunny climate in spain was taken away. my brain exists on a plane and have to come back after every stage. so going to second. so brexit is what spain the map is that brexit has wiped our retirement opportunities off the map. i can longer go to map. while i can longer go to spain and retire, i could

before. i have back before. now i have to come back after six months because that's the now we've the rules. now that we've been i know plenty of people who've got properties out properties in spain and live out there and they become spanish. so want to a spanish so i don't want to be a spanish citizen. i'm a uk citizen. i'm very proud to a uk citizen, very proud to be a uk citizen, i'm to a uk citizen. i'm going to stay a uk citizen. i'm going to stay a uk citizen. i'm not going to change to a spanish citizen. i wanted those rights. been away. rights. they've been away. secondly, business. i have secondly, my business. i have the my business the right to take my business anywhere, in europe and anywhere, want it in europe and base there as base it there as long as i wanted to. now i cannot. now i would you have done that so that you have to pay in the you didn't have to pay in the uk? no, i wouldn't done that. so i didn't have to pay tax in the uk. whilst i'm not desperate to pay l uk. whilst i'm not desperate to pay i do believe that pay my taxes, i do believe that as a citizen you have a obugafion as a citizen you have a obligation the law. obligation to follow the law. so you have just as just you would have just just as just on a whim, just got your business and just moved somewhere in eu just, just somewhere in the eu just, just for the sake in any way for the sake it not in any way to avoid paying tax to avoid to avoid paying tax nor to avoid paying to avoid paying tax nor to avoid paying because an paying tax because it's an interesting move paying tax because it's an inte to ;ting move paying tax because it's an inteto .ing move paying tax because it's an inteto . business move paying tax because it's an inteto . business hong move paying tax because it's an inteto . business hong kong'e paying tax because it's an inteto . business hong kong in my to. business hong kong in 2003 i moved my business to new york in 2014. both cases york in 2014. in both cases i had great time. but the lack

had a great time. but the lack of freedom of movement forced me to that you to keep. interesting that you mentioned because as mentioned hong kong because as well we voted well obviously since we voted for nimble enough for brexit we were nimble enough to allow something like to be able allow something like quarter hong quarter of a million hong kongers to come and kongers to be able to come and live in the uk without having to have any kind of consultation whatsoever from could whatsoever from which we could have we could have have done anyway. we could have done patrick so done that anyway. patrick so on of the other of the some of the other negatives for us. so in terms of other negatives, my children have had rights taken away have had their rights taken away from to actually and from them to actually go and study the erasmus scheme study abroad. the erasmus scheme has the new has been scrapped. the new replacement is as replacement scheme is like as good many experience good and many people experience good and many people experience good many people already good because many people already experiencing it are talking about are much about how they are paying much more they expected more money than they expected to have on erasmus on have to pay on the erasmus on the turing scheme called the erasmus scheme was open to everybody. was a nice everybody. it was a nice flexible people to flexible scheme for people to join on and many, many people had on that. had great experiences on that. all of that is being done now. these are some of negatives these are some of the negatives but as say in a democratic but as you say in a democratic society , we balance it society, we need to balance it with positives. now i can't with the positives. now i can't see any positives from my point of box and said come out, of view box and i said come out, i in. do you get vaccinated

i am in. do you get vaccinated quicker than all european friends? in friends? you look so much in spain retirement. i don't spain on the retirement. i don't think did. no, i think the think i did. no, i think the vaccines would have been developed independently, irrespective they were they were they were as crucial because they were not as crucial because we all deal in myths calmly. we can all deal in myths calmly. but the is but the facts of the matter is that member of the that if we were a member of the european union, you would not have had your covid not true because because. no, no, because it is because. no, no, no, this not true. we're no, this is not true. we're talking about the 31st of january left, we january 2020. when we left, we didn't didn't actually leave didn't we didn't actually leave the in of the european union in terms of the european union in terms of the transitional arrangements the european union in terms of the transitthat arrangements the european union in terms of the transitthat arrangemyet; december that year. and yet those i find amazing is that france, which is still by way this a comment on the this is not a comment on the efficacy of the vaccine is just the about fact the point about the fact that the point about the fact that the did exist and people were inclined to take it and we were able it if it was good able to get it if it was good being part of the european being a part of the european union, why did france nick our vaccines route to the uk? oh, come it. this was a global come off it. this was a global pandemic. patrick had duty pandemic. patrick we had a duty as come together to as a planet to come together to develop mobile vaccine. develop a next mobile vaccine. well, think we have well, i'm sorry. i think we have a duty to vaccinate citizens globally, ours. we globally, but they were ours. we bought and therefore would bought them, and therefore would would vaccine? would you believe our vaccine? so had bought vaccine

so the uk had bought vaccine from it, it and as from a plant it, fund it and as they were about to enter the united kingdom, the french company. suggesting company. so are you suggesting that were not that citizens were not vaccinated result of french vaccinated as a result of french citizens being vaccinated? literally. but that was first, i've well, you i've heard of this? well, you need read the news little need to read the news a little bit more, you? when we bit more, don't you? when we decided that we going to help ukraine would argue ukraine and some would argue maybe stop world war maybe potentially stop world war three stop europe three in europe and stop europe falling matt falling into hands of matt barnes, vladimir, believe the barnes, vladimir, i believe the french the germans sent a french sorry, the germans sent a few helmets, actually few thousand helmets, actually sent didn't we? sent weapons, didn't we? i believe the response to believe that the response to ukraine been pathetic by all nations, the uk. so nations, including the uk. so the very fact that we still allow russian embassy allow the russian embassy to exist organising its exist in london organising its propaganda shows that we are serious about talking. i that but undeniably we dealt with the war in ukraine in a much more nimble way than any of the european union countries. in a way, i have to say, i do disagree that and i disagree with it because i think what we did was the very basic decent thing that we'd expect many people to do. i was very

disappointed with. of the disappointed with. some of the individual governors their individual governors and their attitudes with european union governments commission attitudes with european union governnbasic commission attitudes with european union governnbasic decent.1mission attitudes with european union governnbasic decent. well,on weren't basic or decent. well, the european union is not an organised nation that has at its disposal defence. it's still a collection of 27 individual countries that have their own individual. we want eu army individual. we want an eu army which were told, which which we were told, which i think would life a lot think would make life a lot better we did have. we were better if we did have. we were told, weren't don't worry. told, weren't we? don't worry. if stay in the european if you stay in the european union, tell you now, union, all i can tell you now, we're going to have eu army. we're not going to have eu army. well, actually, hang on minute they well seven after they do. well seven years after that we still don't an that vote we still don't have an eu personally. and again, eu army personally. and again, you not of everybody eu army personally. and again, you pro not of everybody eu army personally. and again, you pro eu, not of everybody eu army personally. and again, you pro eu, irot of everybody eu army personally. and again, you pro eu, i would everybody eu army personally. and again, you pro eu, i would like body eu army personally. and again, you pro eu, i would like to dy who's pro eu, i would like to see a united force for good in europe because think there are so problems rest of so many problems in the rest of the that a good liberal the world that a good liberal army of might right schiff's power, if you like , are trying power, if you like, are trying to persuade the chinese , trying to persuade the chinese, trying to persuade the chinese, trying to persuade the russian government and to a certain extent the american government to global to live up to global responsibilities be responsibilities would be a very, very effective goal in common with the chinese government over there, because the top of the eu the people at the top of the eu are elected either. but neither

are elected either. but neither are the top of the are the people at the top of the uk no, minute to uk government. no, the minute to be that a good and be fair, that a good point. and on that particular moment today, we can find on a point of agreement that we should a agreement that we should have a general it's going general election and it's going to leave it there. i must to we can leave it there. i must say, i've never thank you say, i've never saying thank you very, nothing like little very, very nothing like a little bit and forth is richard bit of back and forth is richard is leader of the rejoin eu is the leader of the rejoin eu policy right. well gb news is the channel. this the people's channel. and this show course nothing show is of course nothing without i want you that way. without so i want you that way. that's right. i want you to give your take on this gb news use juue your take on this gb news use julie i'm do good there are julie ford i'm do good there are now. took me by now. yeah you took me by surprise. thought going surprise. i thought we're going to break first, but to another break first, but i will start you julie. ladies first. how do feel about first. how do you feel about brexit on? well, i think brexit years on? well, i think three years on we should be over the bank only for it shouldn't waiting. mean deserves waiting. i mean it deserves i think it's just for me a real shame that it's taken this long i'm bit of a let's get stuff done kind of go i think probably would have wrapped up in a couple of weeks but for me i voted to leave the eu and i did that from what i believe was an

educated standpoint at time. i had a whole business in, france, so i was very aware the impact that might have on me , but i that might have on me, but i still don't regret . the decision still don't regret. the decision that i made, i just think it's a real shame that everything is taking i work in the taking so long. i work in the legal factory over here in the uk and for me my reason for leaving law, i think we a very good judicial system and i don't think we need to be overseen by another country to decide whether i do. yeah, i'll stop there, julie, because i want to come back to you. i know that's the point that is made quite a lot. i don't. the ease which we've dealt with will return to as well. the idea that people, luxembourg, slovenia, etc. would have what we can do have a say over what we can do in legal system over here. in our legal system over here. i think the crawl somewhat think sticks the crawl somewhat for lot of people brian i'll for a lot of people brian i'll throw it over to you. now, three years on from the big brexit, your take on where we are. your hot take on where we are. well, we? i mean, it's well, where are we? i mean, it's difficult to in some respects, patrick, but i think what we can say that we've had no great

benefits. so far. i don't see them economically . okay, there them economically. okay, there are other factors such as the pandemic pandemic. there have there has been a war there have been other factors. but brexit put us on a footing whereby we're able to withstand things any better. i mean, you very rightly pointed out about that the vaccines, but in terms of european countries. we are lagging in terms of in terms of growth. we will be the only country out of the g7 to not slow growth. it is interesting you say and i'm just by the way, i'm just going to caveat what i'm just going to caveat what i'm about to say, which is and i possibly should have raised this, although i didn't want to give inch with that. but you give an inch with that. but you do have the i am do still have the i am disappointed how has disappointed how brexit has gone. think we have our gone. i don't think we have our full brexit at or full throttle brexit at all or anything kind of anything like. the kind of brexit a lot of people who brexit that a lot of people who voted for it wanted. but just to pick you up the imf buried in their the uk had their the fact that the uk had performed in 2022 performed strongly in 2022 and anticipated 4.1. anticipated growing by 4.1. the eu grew as a whole by 3.5. so i

do get what you mean, which is that we are exactly entering that we are not exactly entering the sunlit uplands first, the sunlit uplands head first, but not potentially but it's not potentially all doom gloom. brian, i'll just doom and gloom. brian, i'll just stick it stick with you before i love it back julie's way. why do you think brexit hasn't exactly think that brexit hasn't exactly banged a lot of banged in the way that a lot of brexiteers like some people would because we had would say it's because we had a remainer in charge of the whole thing to begin with. i that's a good point. but but does not sum the whole up in an a in an the whole thing up in an a in an because defining what brexit was or would be or be is still beyond the realms of most people understanding. we're still actually debating what brexit is . so but that is really that's a really good point . and there was really good point. and there was really good point. and there was real consensus as such it was quite close . obviously there was quite close. obviously there was a there was a majority of people who felt that leaving the eu would be in our best interests and less than in the, in the

long run, perhaps will be. but we had no certainty that. and in terms of defining what brexit is , we're still talking about the northern protocol in relation to that , and northern protocol in relation to that, and there's still no agreement in place in terms of that. and until you get like that, which is pretty kind of baficin that, which is pretty kind of basic in terms of a deal, because you've got to have a border somewhere, well, we're not going to really announce the whole argument much whole argument very much further, are we? okay julie, final to you . i think i final word to you. i think i know the answer to this, but would you vote for brexit again if was another referendum today 7 if was another referendum today ? yeah, absolutely . stick by the ? yeah, absolutely. stick by the decision that i made to leave the i think the decision i made was the right one i just think echoing exactly what's just been said that the problem was when we went to the eu, nobody had a plan and nobody in stays in a job long enough , actually get job long enough, actually get a job long enough, actually get a job done . the politicians are job done. the politicians are moving posts left, right and centre and how can you expect to get anything to resolution?

you're not building relationships with your opposite number or anything like that, so of course it hasn't gone smoothly. it'sjust of course it hasn't gone smoothly. it's just a shame. but i wouldn't change my opinion at all. both of you, thank you very much. great. so how about to viewers listeners the viewers and listeners live the telly? news. all, telly? it's gb news. after all, we are the people's channel lost juue we are the people's channel lost julie and brian doogan. julie ford and brian doogan. i'll talk to you both see and take you're with take care. right. you're with me. christys gb news me. patrick christys on gb news coming top legal coming up a top legal commentator told gb news commentator has told gb news that he believes highly that he believes it's highly unlikely uk will pull out of unlikely the uk will pull out of a controversial human rights agreement calls to ditch agreement despite calls to ditch the treaty , those in favour of the treaty, those in favour of withdrawal from the european on human believe brexit human rights believe brexit cannot be fully realised, while uk remains in the eec. a sit.

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of voters in scotland to remain in the uk . no surprise, in the uk. no surprise, hollywood's governing parties have branded brexit and quote an, unmitigated disaster for the country snp external affairs secretary angus robertson said today. three years on from brexit the evidence is clear that it has been hugely damaging to the economy and has worsened the cost of living crisis . also the cost of living crisis. also suggested independence was the only way out . but they want an only way out. but they want an independent country in europe anyway heads to the ballots. this liberal democrat for edinburgh west is christine jardine , who joins me now. jardine, who joins me now. christine, how are you . i'm very christine, how are you. i'm very .thank christine, how are you. i'm very . thank you. how are you? yes well, thank you. right. so three years on from that day where was waving flags and you were probably crying into you tell you something like that. we all voted leave. sorry, we all actually got out the european union. how do you feel three years on, do you want to drag us back in in? well i mean, just

listening to what you were saying about the snp and you have to take the of your hats off to them and the way they managed to twist things off. you know, the snp really lift know, the snp didn't really lift much finger to keep much of a finger to keep scotland and the united in the european union. they actually spend more on a by—election in shetland , a scottish shetland, a scottish parliamentary by—election shetland which anybody who knows anything it will tell you has as anything it will tell you has as a population i think is about 70,000. but they spent more on that than they did on the referendum. so three years after brexit, they say oh, it's terrible. scotland's been dry. yes, scotland did , the majority yes, scotland did, the majority of people in scotland did vote to stay in, but that was no to the snp and on top of that, the argument they make about independence , anyone who was, independence, anyone who was, you know , paying attention to you know, paying attention to what the brexit campaign was seeing will notice the remarkable similarities between the reasons were given for

leaving the european union, for the reasons that the snp for the uk , i mean, which ones they want uk, i mean, which ones they want to. no, thank you. i'm very glad that you pointed out i'm currently agreeing with the liberal democrat right here on gb news on making the case that they all making for an independent scotland is the one pretty that they said would pretty much that they said would be for if we be an absolute shadow for if we voted to leave the european in if they tied themselves in knots north of border. do you think the problem with snp is that they say whatever it takes at they say whatever it takes at the moment for that is the only really that they are concerned . really that they are concerned. so you know if you say that you know leaving the european union would be the best thing for scottish independence , they will scottish independence, they will see that it's the best thing if you say it's the worst thing for scottish, then you know they will, they will they will go for that as well. but they just see what ever it takes in the moment they care about little else and people . scotland and we've people. scotland and we've become incredibly frustrated

cheated the majority because remember is the majority who still do not want independence. we've become a credibly frustrated with all they ever talk about and the cost of living crisis the energy the nhs in scotland in hospital as a state the nhs in the rest of the kingdom we have terrible ambulance waiting times as well. we have a teachers . what do the we have a teachers. what do the snp talk about independence . snp talk about independence. yeah they don't. well yeah . and yeah they don't. well yeah. and the hell that nicola the hell that nicholas sturgeon to have chosen remarkably to die on at the minute is the trans rights in prisons stuff the minute which i mean she was asked can't you say are some better must say this they are simply refuse to come on my ship so they don't call show up and i think it was evidence yesterday. why? because when you ask nicholas sturgeon very basic questions about gender identity and prisons , she gender identity and prisons, she just can't answer them because their ideology is telling to in.

can you just explain to me what the lib dems position in scotland then? so you don't want independence? obviously i'll take it. and you know . independence? obviously i'll take it. and you know. but independence? obviously i'll take it. and you know . but does take it. and you know. but does that put you in a bit of sticky wicket? because the vast majority of do want and want to read, sorry to rejoin european union, i mean sorry to rejoin the eu but to rejoin the european union, the vast majority of scots i think now recognise that leaving the european union, not what most people in scotland wanted . people in scotland wanted. that's where we are and rejoining european union as an independent scotland would be well nigh impossible because there are so criteria, the copenhagen criteria for joining the european union, which scotland is an independent nafion scotland is an independent nation wouldn't meet. now the european and the european union had its fingers burned once when greece's entry went all disastrously wrong. so they are no even more careful than they were in the past. and the

countries like spain and, france, who have a denmark as well as a belgium i beg your pardon? who have separatist regions , do you know they don't regions, do you know they don't to say to them, oh yes, of course you can have independence and stay within the european union. can you imagine what that might do in catalonia? the spaniards to see that? so for the snp to keep saying to people. oh it's fine , be an people. oh it's fine, be an independent scotland and we'll get back into the european union is just not it's not it's not realist is not fair and is misleading people. no. well, given some of the that have been doing the rounds north the border at the minute i think it's fair to say maybe they're not always living in the real world. thank you very much. world. but thank you very much. liberal democrat for edinburgh west, christine we west, it's christine who we managed actually normally managed to actually normally christine a back and christine i have a back and forth. us forth. it's rather pleasant us i suppose. . you been suppose. anyway lots. you been getting in touch with your thoughts the year thoughts? the three year anniversary marking the uk's exit the european union. exit from the european union. who've we got lucy. lucy who've we got now? lucy. lucy says those brexit isn't

says those saying brexit isn't working well, what do they expect? we've a pandemic and expect? we've had a pandemic and the invasion of ukraine the russian invasion of ukraine which completely flattened which has completely flattened the part of d says the economy part of d says i voted remain but would vote leave now day . i suspect you leave now day. i suspect you won't rare breed, but i'd won't be a rare breed, but i'd love hear from those love to hear from you. those ignonng love to hear from you. those ignoring the results of a democratic disgust me that democratic vote disgust me that we're going be and we're always going to be and losers . yes, the second losers. yes, the second referendum brigade were out in force. in fact, we did have only just a few minutes ago. actually, to be fair, i didn't hear disruption in our current battalions of spain, supposedly because brexit wiped the because brexit wiped off the map, but stephen map, supposedly. but stephen says oven deal says the fantastic oven deal left thousands of left us with thousands of existing eu laws. good point. the stephen un regulations, along with a disastrous ec membership , along with a disastrous ec membership, can't the uk have their own human right as well? yes, you would have thought so it all break for down when it does all break for down when they well, the only people they say well, the only people who europe are russia who won't in europe are russia and belarus. oh, that us in the same club. yeah it does. apart the that we're not russia the fact that we're not russia or belarus we've got or belarus and we've got absolutely nothing in absolutely nothing else in common pretty much. common with them. pretty much. so because we

so why would we. just because we could we wanted to run could do if we wanted to run roughshod over human rights. you're with patrick christys you're with me. patrick christys on up. suella on gb news coming up. suella braverman fellow braverman has her fellow tory mps that failing to stop the boats will lead an electoral wipe—out comes as the isa wipe—out it comes as the isa faces criticism since role in the uk law , with some believing the uk law, with some believing that withdrawal from the convention would way to convention would go some way to helping tackle the illegal channel crossings. well, we need any help we can get at the minute, don't we? we'll discuss that next. but first, it is time for latest headlines . for the latest headlines. patrick, thank you. the top stories on gb news. the foreign secretary, james cleverly has said the uk's exit from the european union has been tricky. his comments comes on a day after the prime minister said was making huge strides since the eu three years ago. that's despite recent poll suggesting britons are rather divided , with britons are rather divided, with 45% saying brexit is going worse than expected and 55% saying it's about the same as they

expected or better . speaking to expected or better. speaking to gb news former business secretary jacob rees—mogg said it was the right decision to leave eu. bear in mind though, we left three years ago, we remain tied in to european rules and regulations for a further 11 months. so it's only a little two years. but in that years we have avoided nearly 8000 new eu regulation ins and we've saved taxpayers . £191 billion purely taxpayers. £191 billion purely and simply by not being signed up to the eu's post—covid rescue programme. even officially better though. so there was a 63% increase in our catch of cod yeah 63% increase in our catch of cod year. so it's good for british fishermen , which we always fishermen, which we always promised brexit would be . the promised brexit would be. the uk's economy is expected perform worse than all other advanced economies this year , according economies this year, according to the imf. as the cost of living crisis continues . the living crisis continues. the international monetary fund , the international monetary fund, the uk gdp will shrink by 0.6% this

yeah uk gdp will shrink by 0.6% this year, rather than grow slightly, as in previous predicted. the shadow chancellor rachel reeves, said the new data the uk economy falling , other g7 nations. and falling, other g7 nations. and he explained why the uk is still the g7 economy that is smaller now than . it was before the now than. it was before the pandemic . why is the uk the only pandemic. why is the uk the only g7 economy with its growth forecast downgraded year? why are we at the bottom of the league table both this year and next year to . and can the next year to. and can the minister answer this ? why should minister answer this? why should anyone trust the conservatives with the economy ever again languishing police searching for a missing woman are appealing for a potential witness now to come forward . 45 year old nicola come forward. 45 year old nicola pulley was last seen next to the river wyre on friday. she was walking her little dog, willow. police say they're keen now to find a man who was seen walking

a small, white, fluffy dog . the a small, white, fluffy dog. the area at around the time, nicola. he's described as being around 70 years old and six foot tall . 70 years old and six foot tall. those are your latest news headlines? you're up to date on tv on dab plus radio with gb news, the people's. stay with us. back to a moment.

all welcome back. wonderful people. now has worn is critical. the conservative the small boat crossings in failure to do so will lead to electoral defeat. well yeah , you don't defeat. well yeah, you don't say. the home secretary says both her reputation and this government is on the line as she tries to get control the issue in her role as home secretary to complicate matters. rifts have now emerged in the tory party

over the european convention on human rights over the uk. over the european convention on human rights over the uk . some human rights over the uk. some punk band champions are calling for the government to leave. these are as it could help tackle the migration issues, but others fear that this could violate international law. barrister rebecca butler joins me now. great to have you on the show any second now that she is good stuff okay and a wonderful view behind as well. i say fantastic. it's almost come prepared, right rebecca? what leaving these shore actually breach . international which breach. international which means what you mean by international law you let's just take india for example. that's a country that complies with all international law obligations but it's not part of the cha and then you have, as i heard you mentioned before the break, there are countries like who out now disregard international law and they are members of the chl are. so you know i think that

the narrative has shifted too far to this sort of nuclear solution of whether we're going to stay in east china or not. i don't see that as the solution . don't see that as the solution. i see repealing the human act as a solution to the migrant crisis because the uk is always capable of , saying because the uk is always capable of, saying and justifying any its internal laws to . china by its internal laws to. china by saying we doing this for integrity of our borders and national security and those arguments actually will human rights reports to the eci are just just to say i think a lot of people are massively at the idea of someone from luxembourg or slovenia or wherever getting involved and saying no, you cannot deport this particular person from your country in view. how would repeal getting us out of the uk? i'll

repeatedly human rights have for example help solve what is top of a of people's lives, which is the channel migrant crisis . well the channel migrant crisis. well you mustn't conflate the eu with the us. it wouldn't be in brussels or luxembourg . it's brussels or luxembourg. it's actually the court in strasbourg . so it isn't an eu institute. but i mean, nobody france who has a much stricter asylum and migration than us. nobody accuses france of being in breach of all. the issue here, patrick, with with the greatest to all parties is politicians are too weak in uk we've had you know two and a half years of bofis know two and a half years of boris johnson who is just, you banging from one, one catastrophe to the next. rishi sunak having this sort of this feeling that he can't do any big manoeuvres for fear of his backbenchers. we need political will to get this through and the

policy is through and suella braverman is absolutely bang the money. and i'm afraid to say. i know it's toxic at the moment i think dominic raab in you know in his liberties bill was absolutely right to say that the human rights act needs be repealed. so you know, you have to look at what other charles signature trees do to protect their borders and you have to ask why british politicians are failing to do that best for the british populace . there is british populace. there is a difference. can i can i ask you that? do you think that too afraid of controversy ? do you afraid of controversy? do you think they're too afraid of their mates on the continent holding their nose and saying you're doing things differently to . because i thought that's to. because i thought that's what brexit was about. we were going to take control and to hell with the rest of you. yeah mean, but to be honest, the relationship between, for example, us and france is, you know, macron and boris was very tricky. liz truss really didn't

help matters at all. but now rishi more of a technocrat very much more like emmanuel macron is about centre that we have a better relationship with france andifs better relationship with france and it's critical for us that we do a good relationship with france because of a police thing the french coastline . however, the french coastline. however, france as much of a problem with ocean in the mediterranean as we have with the coastguard bringing the dinghies across. so whatever we've got in uk in terms of illegal migration. france has got least 3 to 4 times as the problem that we have now and those are going and aiming to go to france. so don't think that we have by any . oh no think that we have by any. oh no worse problem. oh no no to france. absolutely no. it's just the fact that we have kind of nature's moat around us that way. and it appears to be being breached. well, it has been

breached. well, it has been breached on a basis when the weather's not opposite. look and i that makes quite i think that makes it quite galling. rebecca, you very galling. rebecca, thank you very much. . and talking about much. as ever. and talking about the i can few the small boats, i can see a few small boats you that sure small boats behind you that sure they come across the they don't come across the channel. was the rebecca channel. that was the rebecca butler that joining us from a wonderful and some wonderful setting and some kind of well, now is our of boat. well, hey, now is our home security and it's home with security and it's a mile me in the studio mile wide me live in the studio mark you took your heart is not want to be here. marina oh look i'm from the north or i don't know boat. yeah, that's what i it all right anyway . right. so it all right anyway. right. so it's okay we're talking about boats what about the business about right. talking about boats still coming the. yeah still coming across the. yeah none today as far as we know. we're expecting actually the weather to start improving again as we get to the weekend as know the pressure really been taken off the government in recent months because of foul weather in channel this really only allowed a few days where it's been flat for the boats to come across in. any numbers we saw again the weekend, 189 people

came across the english channel. we're at almost 1200 so far this yeah we're at almost 1200 so far this year, not as high as time last yeah year, not as high as time last year, but when that weather improves partic , we know we'll improves partic, we know we'll be talking very significant numbers because the fact is that around around carli , even around around carli, even farther down towards berlin , farther down towards berlin, there are thousands of people , there are thousands of people, these makeshift camps. rebecca was on a boat. the french having a problem with the those charities that are helping take migrants across the mediterranean. well in recent months they've been coming across in their thousands in southern europe . they will work southern europe. they will work their way up eventually to northern europe because for many of them, the other to get to, you know, industrial like germany or they want to get to nonh germany or they want to get to north and france with a view to coming to the uk. north and france with a view to coming to the uk . yeah, indeed. coming to the uk. yeah, indeed. and as you've alluded , i think and as you've alluded, i think it's worth emphasising again you are expecting people in the now

as well are expecting this problem to get worse before it gets better in light of the suella braverman come out and said well hey, if we don't this out, we're doomed at the next election when it looks like they're doomed, doesn't was she stating and of stating the obvious? and of course the government has set itself up extent by seeing itself up to an extent by seeing that this is a top priority and that this is a top priority and that they will deal with the small boats crisis . well, we'll small boats crisis. well, we'll see what happens when the weather improves, because there's nothing that i've seen in what the policy currently that will actually make any really significant dent on the numbers coming across because as far as rwanda is concerned, it's not happening patrick. it's mired in court and the government is already said it won't put anyone on a flight until all of the court proceedings are done that be into next year before, we finally get a conclusion and that actually is good enough for the government to start putting people a plane. so in the meantime, people will come. then there's the other issue are you

dismantling the people's on the other side of the channel to be fair to the national crime , they fair to the national crime, they are improving and they are making some inroads in arresting and dismantling some of these gangs. but it's such a lucrative trade that there is always who are willing to step into the breach and do that work . there breach and do that work. there are many millions of pounds on a good week, but absolutely. i mean it is an incredibly, incredibly lucrative, disgraceful industries and just very quickly, mark, on this, just referring to the uk, someone's got touch about this and i think they've made a fair point actually as we could stay in the uk and just ignore going away. well many european countries actually do do just that. so. exactly what rebecca was saying about much more robust , they seem to be in terms robust, they seem to be in terms of their ability to actually rule in favour or ignore rules that against their self interest their national interest on some

key issues. so yeah, perhaps there is argument for our politicians to get a bit more of a backbone . thank you very, very a backbone. thank you very, very much about why all went for homeland security. and it's now lots of been getting in touch with your on this three year anniversary marking uk's anniversary marking the uk's exit from the eu. james says if bofis exit from the eu. james says if boris was still in office , this boris was still in office, this country would have seen the full effects of leaving the eu in mind. the majority of our politicians want stay the politicians want to stay in the european union, they do, european union, while they do, this more divide this creates even more divide unrest in the country. just what the politicians won. think the politicians won. i think it's difficult for me to try to hark back now and in 2016 and the couple of years the followed that think arguably more that but i think arguably more so ever in my lifetime so than ever in my lifetime anyway i noticed a much bigger disconnect between the general pubuc disconnect between the general public and the people in westminster and was over the european union. it seem as though the public had spoken and people were elected even . people people were elected even. people whose own constituencies voted for brexit were doing absolutely everything could to overturn the

democratic will of the people. one thing i will just push back a little bit if you'll let me jane about boris i've a fan of wrong will not boris but wrong will not bash boris but you we would have seen the you said we would have seen the full effects of leaving the eu. i mean, it was boris johnson's oven deal that oven ready brexit deal that we've you could argue that we've got. you could argue that maybe boris's maybe we did have boris's version of brexit anyway. there you go, helen. one more says the remote is never give up, do they? and time again tried they? time and time again tried to a case how brexit was a to make a case how brexit was a disaster and time. they will see how important the exit was for the people of this . i kind of the people of this. i kind of agree you really which is that i think, yes, we were cut at the knees by the coronavirus crisis. we knees, we cut off at the knees, frankly, by lot of people in frankly, by a lot of people in this alluded to, this country, as i alluded to, people westminsterthemselves people in westminster themselves doing everything they could to pull petrol through the letterbox of this nation. it struck match. of all struck a match. instead of all getting and trying to getting together and trying to make the best of brexit sure, do what it could, as some would say. i believe as long we say. but i believe as long as we are your views there as are out in your views there as well, as as are out well, as long as we are out there, at least we've got the opportunity to be a bit more,

haven't we? but i must say the clock ticking because it clock is ticking because it should lot easier it should be a lot easier than it is. it should be a easier is. it should be a lot easier than is for me to sit here than it is for me to sit here and rattle off make the for and rattle off and make the for case how brexit has been a great thing for this because look at the minute having to try the minute we're having to try to own way say, to stretch its own way some say, right, in downing right, maybe not in downing street, i said, it is street, as i said, that it is deeply concerning the ambulance workers will be striking again on february, unison on the 10th of february, unison announcement that fire services in england will be walking out means will one means that they will only be one day next week. when are they just workers aren't taking industrial action. continuing strikes are intended put huge pressure but pressure on the government but administration pressure on the government but admin inflation pressure on the government but admininflation pay rises above inflation pay rises requested are unaffordable lucy johnson as health and social editor at the sunday express . i editor at the sunday express. i think it should be health and social affairs. it is a hey don't hear often enough and you join me. thank you very much. okay so we were originally going to talk a little bit about consultants, and behold, consultants, but lo and behold, you these somebody you blink these days. somebody else now else goes on strike and now ambulance workers, they're back, striking again. i'm getting a little sick what's little bit sick of it. what's the latest ? well, we've got now

the latest? well, we've got now called coordinated strike action . so you've got over the next and particularly february the sixth, nurses and ambulances . it sixth, nurses and ambulances. it will be the biggest industrial action, the has ever seen . and action, the has ever seen. and it's a mass walkout. and over the next month, as you've said they'll only be one day when no one is striking. so we've already got about 88,000 people who have had a point months or operations, cancer as a result of the strikes and that's really where the pressure is . hospital where the pressure is. hospital flow is . not really apparently flow is. not really apparently being affected so much because less people going to hospital, but actually patients at home, many of whom , as you know, will many of whom, as you know, will be in a lot of pain and suffering . but be in a lot of pain and suffering. but i'm be in a lot of pain and suffering . but i'm just suffering. but i'm just struggling . see how this struggling. see how this actually makes anything better for them? what they are asking for them? what they are asking

for is unless they wiggle on this, which is just how much they have, it is an above pay rise, which then you would have to give the teachers. then would have to give. well, anyone who's striking , we cannot afford that. striking, we cannot afford that. we absolutely cannot afford that. what the government has said, it will try improve your working condition . announced its working condition. announced its plan earlier on didn't say you know i think it was 5000 more bedsi know i think it was 5000 more beds i knew ambulances virtual wards, etc. this was to be a strike over pay and conditions . strike over pay and conditions. actually, it's just about pay, isn't it? is. and you're absolutely right . once you absolutely right. once you i mean, the nurses , they go on mean, the nurses, they go on strike and they get a pay rise. other salaries like physio therapists, occupational therapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, they're all tied together in the same . all tied together in the same. so they will all receive the same pay rise. and i think even if they had a 10% rise in the nurses , that would mean we're nurses, that would mean we're shelling out another seven 8 billion to that whole band . so billion to that whole band. so and if that then copied with

other people other public sector who are on strike. yeah it will the country that said without wriggle room without negotiated thing at all. i think this nursing staff and ambulance staff , they really are feeling staff, they really are feeling like they can't do their jobs. they feel absolutely at the end of tether so i don't think they're doing this because they just don't think it's all about money. no, i do get the idea. just a quick one with you, because i originally was going to do a bit of a discussion now actually about a consultant supposedly thinking about taking action. now is one thing. people shout at that tv screens now going pat, you know, on the side of the workers patrick the poor nurse is they are angels. and i that i just don't think an above inflation pay rise is the way. however don't dare come at however don't you dare come at me i'm having look now me about i'm having a look now i'm a computer screen nhs consultant. doctors pay across the uk is going to starting

salary 82 and a half karen cry me a river cost of living crosses my backside lucy they can't go on strike surely well, there is a different argument with consultants. they do have weekends where they're either on call, but they have the ability to go and do their private work they do have a six figure salary after paid off their. they do have a six figure salary after paid off their . you know after paid off their. you know once once you're a junior doctor that's a different story but consultants are not in the same ballgame as nurses is a different story. and they have a platinum pension at end of it all. so there may be less public sympathy . they for consultants, sympathy. they for consultants, that's not to say they don't work very hard and i suspect when somebody in the nhs one of the 88,000 people who've had an appointment cancelled since his wave of strike started goes up and they go oh can i get my can i get my consultants appointments i think, oh no sorry . that bloke on 82 and

sorry. that bloke on 82 and a half thousand pounds is a starting salary is striking overpay in conditions so i'm afraid your hernia is going have to wait lazy. thank you very much. ever always much appreciated. will only be a matter of hours i imagine before talk you again. the amount talk to you again. the amount that on here. but we that you're on here. but we wouldn't way. wouldn't have it any other way. let's health and social let's these health and social affairs sun affairs editor at the sun express no last rites. okay so let's end the hour with some more of your views the third anniversary of brexit just a couple of quick martin says taking control of our borders and stopping the eu telling us what can and can't do is the what we can and can't do is the only i voted for brexit. only reason i voted for brexit. yet nothing changed feel so yet nothing has changed feel so let down. a lot of people feel let down. a lot of people feel let down. a lot of people feel very very let but very very let down. but i suppose the argument be as long as we're least we've got as we're out, at least we've got the chance to get it right today. what do you think? chase says just one more. now, if bofis says just one more. now, if boris advantage of his boris had taken advantage of his seat and left the seat majority and left the european in the first six european courts in the first six months. wouldn't have the months. i'm we wouldn't have the issues the northern ireland issues. the northern ireland protocol . yeah, i have got to protocol. yeah, i have got to wrap actually. but do agree

wrap it actually. but i do agree with on that. i think with you on that. i think we missed massive opportunity missed the massive opportunity right brexit when right at the start brexit when i've a few we just messed i've had a few we just messed around with theresa may and frankly know what was frankly didn't know what she was upset not coming up upset at she with not coming up look at brexit britain three years on you have been talking after be joined by after and i will be joined by the himself, mr. brexit the man himself, mr. brexit nigel farage and of that is nigel farage and all of that is coming your very coming your way very very shortly. some weather shortly. but now some weather again. mcgivern here again. it's aidan mcgivern here . the office increasingly . the met office increasingly for many of us through the rest of the day, but particularly in the where there are also the north, where there are also blustery showers, spells , blustery showers, clear spells, the south, we've seen a cold front here front move through here as a weakening . now that cloud is weakening. now that cloud is clearing sunshine is returning across england , wales. but for across england, wales. but for scotland and northern tightly packed, i suppose northwesterly breeze bringing and frequent showers. now the showers are falling as about four or 500 metres over central scotland . metres over central scotland. but it's the wind that the main concern as we head into the night—time gales widely across northern scotland and for some exposed coasts of scotland, especially around orkney louis,

the north mainland, 60, 70, perhaps 80 mile per hour in places that could cause disruption. let's make a cold night or four celsius in the north, 5 to 7 further south. although in the south it be a bright start to wednesday, having been, well, a mixture of clear spells and cloudy overnight some sunshine best of which south, which will be in the south, remaining into the afternoon, also brightening in the north also brightening up in the north of wind the of scotland, the wind and the showery activity easing in an area cloud and outbreaks area of cloud and some outbreaks rain for ireland, west rain for northern ireland, west and west scotland and northern england a chilly day again in england. a chilly day again in the north. seven eight the north. seven or eight celsius. further south, 9 to 11 degrees. but the becoming less of an issue later wednesday. that wind tending become lighter, although it will turn wetter once again across . the wetter once again across. the northern half of the uk, some steady into scotland and northern england overnight . northern england overnight. northern ireland seeing lots of cloud and a few spots of rain clouds thickening south as well. and so free night for the vast majority although a touch of frost is possible in the far north ahead the rain then

north ahead of the rain then that lingers across much of that rain lingers across much of scotland through a damp day to come the heaviest rain though for western hills. elsewhere, lots of cloud cover . think on lots of cloud cover. think on thursday some light rain over western hills further south as well. but it is turning much milder. temperatures up into the double figures widely.

well, it's just gone. 5 pm. you're with me. patrick christys . gb news. and coming up, it's three years to the day since the uk left the eu on brexit. pm said britain has taken huge strides towards taking advantage of our independence, but many feel that we've never had a

proper brexit. a poll published ,ipsos proper brexit. a poll published , ipsos has found 45% of people think brexit is going than they expected. but if you flip that on its head, that means that most people think that it is going rather well . so maybe we going rather well. so maybe we should be leading on that up sharply from 28% in june 2021, including just over one in four of those who voted to leave the eu in 2016. there is very much another on that stick. it isn't the whole point . brexit was to the whole point. brexit was to take back control of our our borders and our money and throughout this show i will be a deep dive into brexit. britain see how we're doing on all of those key issues, well as those key issues, as well as looking at state of the union. it's not all brexit that people don't worry know bits brexit don't worry know bits of brexit fatigue . we'll also reflect more fatigue. we'll also reflect more on the uncertainty when comes to our system. i'm our health care system. i'm built as workers are set to walk out a dispute over pay out again in a dispute over pay next friday consultants. so as far i can tell, i want to start a salary of 82 and a half grand. they're considering strike action as teachers are reportedly not telling own

schools if they're striking tomorrow, which means parents with will turn up at the gates and supposedly anyway not if they're going to have to homeschool kids. get in touch with your thoughts, vaiews@gbnews.uk questions for you today. pretty straightforward stuff, actually. what's your top priority for brexit? britain now going forward and what would you say to people who still want a second referendum gb views our gbnews.uk now though as he outlines outlines . patrick thank outlines outlines. patrick thank you you're gb news. and the top story today, the foreign secretary has said the uk's exit from the european union has been tncky. from the european union has been tricky . james cleverly was tricky. james cleverly was responding to . a question in the responding to. a question in the house of commons over impact of brexit. three years on. his comments come a day after the prime minister said britain was making huge strides since leaving the eu . that's despite leaving the eu. that's despite a recent poll . britons are divided recent poll. britons are divided in their on how brexit has

progress passed, with 45% saying it's getting worse and expected and 55% thinking it's about the same as they expected or . same as they expected or. speaking to gb news, former business secretary jacob rees—mogg , however, said it was rees—mogg, however, said it was the right decision to leave the eu in mind though we left three years ago, we remain tied to european rules and regulations for further 11 months, so it's a little over two years. but that two years we have avoided joining 8000 new eu regulations and we've saved taxpayer s £191 and we've saved taxpayers £191 billion purely and simply by not being signed to the eu's postcode rescue programme. even officially doing better, though. so there was a 63% increase in our catch of last year. so it's good for british fishermen, which we always promised brexit would be tens of thousands more teachers , joined the uk's teachers, joined the uk's largest educate asian union to take part in strike tomorrow.

the education union says thousand school staff signed up in a fortnight. thousand school staff signed up in a fortnight . tomorrow is the in a fortnight. tomorrow is the first of seven days of strikes by union in february and march amid a dispute over pay. by union in february and march amid a dispute over pay . the amid a dispute over pay. the education minister nick davies scribed the strikes as disruptive . it is disappointing disruptive. it is disappointing that the any you know has decided to go ahead with these strikes when we are still discussing issues of pay and working and other issues constructively even yesterday. we were having those discussions and strikes are disruptive to children's education particularly the two years of disruption during the covid pandemic. and it's just disrupting to parents families as well . tesco bought the as well. tesco bought the paperchase brand after the stationery chain fell into administration after over 50 years trading on the british high street. however supermarket's deal for the business will not include taking over any of the retailer's 106 shops. leaving the future of

over 800 jobs in doubt . police over 800 jobs in doubt. police forces have apologised . the forces have apologised. the relatives of victims of the hillsborough disaster for what they described as profound failings . they described as profound failings. the apology comes in response to a report published in 2017 that looked into experiences of the hillsborough families . experiences of the hillsborough families. police experiences of the hillsborough families . police chiefs have families. police chiefs have promised a cultural change almost four years on from the disaster . 97 football fans lost disaster. 97 football fans lost their as a result of a crush at a match between liverpool and nottingham forest in 1989 and inquests jury ruled in 2016 that supporter were unlawfully amid a number of errors. now supporter were unlawfully amid a number of errors . now lancashire number of errors. now lancashire police searching for a missing woman are appealing now for a potential witness to come forward . 45 year old nicola forward. 45 year old nicola bailey was last seen next to the river wyre on friday. she was walking her dog . police are now walking her dog. police are now saying they're keen to find a

man who was walking a white fluffy dog in the area around the time nicola disappeared . he the time nicola disappeared. he is described as around 70 years old and six foot tall . the old and six foot tall. the ukrainian foreign minister says ukraine will receive 120 to 140 west and tanks in the first wave of a series of deliveries from coalition partners from 12 countries. meanwhile, footage been released of ukrainian soldiers trained on how to use leopard 2 battle tanks in poland . they've been supplied by germany to help support ukraine in its ongoing war with russia . in its ongoing war with russia. it's expected to take up to five weeks before the crews are ready . use the vehicles in battle . . use the vehicles in battle. the princess of wales says it's essential to know what's needed to help the future generation become happy healthy adults. launching her new early years campaign called shaping us the princess says she hopes to help

people understand how early child hood affects later life and adulthood. kensington palace says the importance of early development will be a key focus , kate, for the rest of her life . vanity fair royal editor and author katie nicholl says kate's hoping her lifetime becomes part . the national conversation . i . the national conversation. i think it's that she's used her first sort of big moment as the princess of to launch this long term campaign. there is going to be screened in cinemas going to see it on billboards where all going to be talking about this. she hopes in the same way that we've all started talking mental health gb news more news as it happens now back to . happens now back to. patrick

today marks three years since day and boris johnson has urged people to shrug off all this negativity and gloom mongering about brexit amid dire economic . on the third anniversary of leaving the european union. those figures, though, have been quite selective only managed by some media outlet abc because if you do look at it in 2022, the uk economy grew by 4.1% compared to the eu 3.5, but that somehow lost in all of that doom , angry. lost in all of that doom, angry. we're going to take you back now to. the initial wave of tough thumping optimism. look at the reasons behind one person voted to leave the european union. what people hoped. brexit look like and assess where they are today? how is the economy doing? is it being battered by? covid still and the war in ukraine. those latest imf figures i alluded earlier. well they're alluded earlier. well they're all about britain in recession , all about britain in recession, but we'll be giving you some reasons to be optimist. taking full control of our was another top priority could pulling out these help sort that out on

another thing which linked to the eec actually is immigration. that absolutely 100% a key driving factor behind the brexit vote. yet we're seeing record of both legal and illegal immigration happen, taking out the national disgrace that we go all of our people . that all of our people. that post—brexit lounge is full of regret that. would you change your mind if you were asked to vote again now and what crucially as well is the state of the union, scotland wales, you know, the islands of this will be nipping over to all of those parts very, very shortly. but are nothing but of course we are nothing without though. wonderful we without you though. wonderful we are channel. so be are the people's channel. so be getting the viewers and listeners the airwaves. get yourselves on telly. i want to talk about why you feel as though we're to you. but who better to kickstart hour with speaking to the leader of uk is richard . richard, thank richard simmons. richard, thank you very much for coming in. of course, you obviously a massive, massive big, gutted about how massive, big, gutted about how it's turned out. not at all mean. we've got a fantastic platform opportunity patrick but

. unfortunately, this console powerless tory government has chosen not to advantage and where have you in terms of laws, money borders. yeah utterly failed you touched on it just there but they haven't controlled our borders . lawful controlled our borders. lawful immigration which is at record illegal immigration at record highs and yet compare slightly sortable with political will they haven't cut taxes they haven't cut vat they haven't cut environmental levies. and then on regulations which possibly should be the easiest , they should be the easiest, they still haven't cut thousands and thousands of daft absurd eu regulations that hinders growth. and so, look, it's it was the right decision when . i right decision when. i campaigned i've just coming back from hartlepool. people don't regret the decision what they regret the decision what they regret is utter failure to get going, get it sorted and make progress at the implementation of it. now, i am little bit reluctant to just rely on oh with a bit more and a bit more

will because could sound quite wishy washy . but actually when wishy washy. but actually when it comes to brexit with a bit more belief and a bit more will, we could have really flown out the trumps, got away. it's about leadership and it's conviction and.the leadership and it's conviction and. the bottom line is elected politicians who think they stood on a platform to get brexit done . you then got to drive it home. you've got to make sure your civil servants are going to do it and if they're not going to do it frankly, you've got to tell them to get of the way and bnngin tell them to get of the way and bring in people that will get it done. that's what leadership all about where these about and that's where these tory, tory ministers tory, these tory ministers utterly whole country utterly failed the whole country because they've allowed the civil to act civil servants to act as a massive blockage to this whole process . yeah. you said get the process. yeah. you said get the civil servants out the way they're, taking themselves out civil servants out the way theyway. :aking themselves out civil servants out the way theyway. several|emselves out civil servants out the way theyway. several hundreds out the way. several hundred thousand them on strong thousand of them on strong supposed country supposed labour in the country might bets. i was going to might run bets. i was going to say. going to say be say. i was going to say be difficult to tell whether some laws scrapped all in laws scrapped get it all in exactly it will be we'll be exactly yeah it will be we'll be properly then but just properly out by then but just tells little about for tells a little bit about for example, things that example, the things that are going the channel of

going on in the channel and of course legal immigration, netball, well. netball, aggression as well. what now to sort what can brexit do now to sort out both of those issues? well, the point that want the whole point is that we want a you an immigration policy that works us that works for our where we've got skill shortages until we can train our own people fine you bring in immigration we always have. we've always been a welcoming nafion we've always been a welcoming nation but we've got to get 5 million britons on out of work benefits back into work, into work. so you've to get higher net wages. that's absolutely critical. and look, reform is the only party with a clear six point plan that will stop the boats. you've got to leave the shore. you've got to declare a national threat. you've got to make it clear one will stay who comes here illegally? you'll pick up and take back all of the stuff you do under existing stuff you can do under existing laws and rules and regulations. if got the political courage, they haven't , they won't only they haven't, they won't only reform uk , we'll sort it out. reform uk, we'll sort it out. i love . what do you say? the boat love. what do you say? the boat is back. yes, i know. would pick them up and safely take them back to france, which you are

allowed to under existing laws. but they won't do focus on what works. it in australia. it's still working on australia. copy what they do . now we have that what they do. now we have that famous quote from michael gove in the to the referendum in the run up to the referendum didn't we all. had enough didn't we all. we've had enough of experts. well i actually to be honest you matthew be honest with you matthew come back i haven't back to bite me. i haven't enough experts ready we enough experts ready because we keep from imf who keep hearing from the imf who are about a lot of are persistently about a lot of predictions they about predictions that they have about one doing one one person is doing one recession and they bury in the figures that british grew figures that the british grew 4.1% which was by the 4.1% in 2022, which was by the way, use 3.5% faster way, than the use 3.5% faster than the united states , 2. then than the united states, 2. then they have the gall to tell us, well, you need to get off this high tax, low growth economy. we had a prime minister. look, she was flawed and the optics were terrible. way that she went terrible. the way that she went about. our business, don't get me wrong, have truss who me wrong, but we have truss who wanted go for gold, she wanted to go for gold, she wrote. she was the first person who talk about who started to talk about growth. about growth. i've been talking about growth. i've been talking about growth a year. you growth for over a year. you can't you out a crisis. can't tax you out of a crisis. you've got to grow your way out of a crisis. that means cut

taxes for the least well—off, the lowest paid. plans will the lowest paid. all plans will take 6 million people out of paying by take 6 million people out of paying by lifting paying any income tax by lifting the from half the threshold from 12 and a half grants. 20 grand, that's 30 quid a week. got daft a week. you've got to daft you've encourage small you've got to encourage small businesses, the engine, the driver our economy an driver of our economy an incentive to take to get out, to strive to work harder during the week that that's how you drive an economy forward it all requires the right and the right conditions and this conservative government that's i call them socialists. yeah you know, they're just like they're just like the red socialists. got to ask you, though, when people say and it is the easy lie that people we allow an audit wheeled out to me earlier on by a chap who literally was the party wants rejoin the eu when they wants to rejoin the eu when they 90, wants to rejoin the eu when they go, okay, what benefits is britain from the britain saying from leaving the eu? on from that vote. eu? so far we on from that vote. well first benefit saw an well the first benefit we saw an extra narrowly was the extra too narrowly was the vaccine because we were vaccine rollout because we were able to buy vaccines and roll it out faster. and so out first faster. and so literally brexit saved lives within those first few months.

that was remarkable . but what we that was remarkable. but what we haven't seen is the growth that would come from cutting taxes. we haven't seen higher net wages by controlling lawful immigration , basically got open immigration, basically got open borders in terms of all of visa policy and all of that stuff. is these deliberate political choices by this government that betray brexit? it's let us all down that's let's not forget we need to save the union with northern ireland which have been completely sold down the river the one actually we haven't got time for you and i. so by now we'll be talking that a little bit later on. but actually that is massive issue. richard, is a massive issue. richard, thank you very, very as thank you very, very much. as average at that leader of average at times that leader of reform what you make of reform uk. what do you make of that? gentlemen, your that? ladies and gentlemen, your views coming you always views coming in as you always do. that's why do. you never shine. that's why i you gbviews@gbnews.uk. i love you gbviews@gbnews.uk. but discussing, but as we've been discussing, one reasons people one of the key reasons people voted brexit take voted for brexit was to take back control borders and, back control of our borders and, our but today, a leading our laws. but today, a leading legal commentator has told gb news he thinks it's unlikely the uk pull out of a controversial

human rights agreement, despite growing calls to ditch that treaty. those favour of withdrawal from the european convention on human rights say it blocked key legislation such as a robust policy towards channel migrants basically no flights to undertaken after all, home insecurity there is a man once has been taking a look at what leaving the uk could mean . what leaving the uk could mean. in recent days, hundreds people have arrived in uk waters on small boats as home office officials quite clearly plan for the possibility that up to twice the possibility that up to twice the 45,000 who crossed last year could come in the year ahead , could come in the year ahead, but thought deeply unpalatable for many is fuelling growing calls for the uk to withdraw from a human rights treaty that critics believe is harmful efforts to introduce a more assertive immigration . assertive immigration. introduced the years after world war ii, the european on human

rights was drawn up by the initial of the then fledgling council on europe. it offered key protections to prevent those member governments abusing the fundamental rights of their people . but critics say there no people. but critics say there no need for the uk to still be tied to such treaty, that it's ludicrous judges in a european court can make rulings against government policy. post brexit, they cite . the recent decision they cite. the recent decision by the court strasbourg to block home office flight bound rwanda as part of a deal struck with the african nation to process asylum seekers there. he's absolutely can i thank him for raising this it's a important but despite its many critics and in the occasions by justice secretary dominic raab that he would be willing to consider it seasoned commentator joshua rosenberg thinks it's highly the

uk will ditch treaty. this doesn't remotely likely it was something that dominic raab floated towards the end of last year. floated towards the end of last year . it's not been picked floated towards the end of last year. it's not been picked up by anybody else. it's certainly not part of the bill that's before parliament and that bill itself seems be going nowhere. it was published last summer but hasn't yet had its first main debate. it's second reading debate, as it's called the house of commons . ecj critics believe british bill of rights legislation still working its way through could be turbo charged to take over the european treaty. there's no doubt it would be , though, as doubt it would be, though, as the is woven into very fabric of uk human rights laws. the is woven into very fabric of uk human rights laws . and uk human rights laws. and there's another major at play here. despite the imperative to deal robustly with the likes of the small boat crisis , the the small boat crisis, the government is proud of the uk's record on human rights pulling

out of the treaty would be seen by many as a major blow to britain's long held position as a champion of human rights on the international stage . the international stage. ditching the ecj would put the uk in the same club as the all the other two european countries not signed up to the treaty . not signed up to the treaty. belarus and mark white gb news och stuff right now with me are two gb news viewers. we've got miranda and we've got lee webb . miranda and we've got lee webb. great somebody. thank you very much taking . the time has come much taking. the time has come on the show and have your voices. it's important. we need a bit more of this in the news, if you ask me, leo start with you. we're focusing as both aware immigration of aware on the immigration side of to with . lee, you feel to start with. lee, do you feel let down on immigration, both legal and illegal in post—brexit britain , the illegal britain, the illegal immigration, yes, i feel very let down on that. and i think

that's just the government not having the backbone daca show as a bit of an excuse. so poland and hungary thereby out . they're and hungary thereby out. they're also in the eu and. they can they can actually manage them immigration policies pretty well and it you don't see loads of immigrants illegal going into them countries because their policies and we see that last year on the russian where polish troops were actually doing their job and kicking these people out so it's no reason why the other you know this country can't do it just a bit of backbone. well indeed my home security advisor made the point earlier on and lots of our other viewers in my inbox have not been shy of pointing out as well. we're under we could just ignore the uk we wanted to and indeed uk if we wanted to and indeed lot other countries do quite lot of other countries do quite a lot time under your a lot of the time under your views on whether you views on whether or not you like. we've been let down on the immigration side of things post—brexit . it i think you know

post—brexit. it i think you know what so it's a very controversial issue, isn't it? because on one hand, we can say let down and then we've this going on. on the second hand, it's actually never been any different. know rumbled on with this for years and years that the bigger and the more technology developed and the more ways into countries that are defined seem to the country defined, the more it keeps on happening. so where do we draw the line on that on that subject 7 the line on that on that subject ? you know, it will go on and to go on as long as people and we're in ireland, people move here. but it's straightforward. do you mind me asking, brandon? i'll just stick with you before i'll just stick with you before i go back to miranda. do you mind me asking which way you voted in the referendum? did you vote? i did, yeah. yeah. and i voted to you vote to stay and i'm i'm assuming you would vote that again, would you? now outwards. yeah. yeah, i would , outwards. yeah. yeah, i would, you know. do you, do you feel you know. do you, do you feel you do you feel vindicated in in your at the moment when you look

around lot of brexiteers feel as though we haven't had a proper brexit example. and i think what they really mean by that, i'm inclined to agree with that. by the way, i'm one of those people who doesn't think that we've had anything like the that anything like the benefits that we have done we'd have we could have done if we'd have gone initially. gone full throttle initially. but feel justified but we're. do you feel justified voting stay yeah, i tell voting to stay now? yeah, i tell you, i think it's all very well. it's like full service that we never going in full throttle do we? so a little bit, half tone. well, maybe, maybe not. i know . well, maybe, maybe not. i know. you know, that's what that's what we do . there are so many what we do. there are so many other that have come into play that people just didn't envisage . they really didn't. yes i work in hospitality . we lost an awful in hospitality. we lost an awful lot staff straight off food pnces lot staff straight off food prices in our has rocketed and this is something that people just didn't think about so. oh no it was quite a slave. slave. don't get out. no, it was going to have such a diverse effect across the board couple that

with two years of some sort of pandemic and it was a nightmare. well yeah i mean and be honest with everybody we can't just gloss that can we just don't not know. think if we'd have know. do you think if we'd have had boris johnson from the start so forget that the risk so forget that will the risk that was theresa may's premiership if we'd gone, premiership if we'd have gone, oh, he's a way to get around full throttle and alex had full frontal boris. plenty frontal boris. but plenty of people seen if you people have seen that. if you read full throttle, boris read papers full throttle, boris , the do you think we , at the start, do you think we would have got brexit done better and quicker? you know what, when boris won that election , he made this speech election, he made this speech outside downing street. he gave us all hope that we that are were going to take advantage of being brexit and okay, the pandemic came and that's interrupted supply trends. so because that's interrupted supply chains hasn't actually been brexit, that's got the lacking on the shelves actually been covid lockdown policy that's done that but that's right across the world it's happening right across the world in europe. you know all of our

economies are going to and that's across the world in europe as well. whether you're in eu not, it's brexit in the eu or not, it's brexit isn't to blame that's and i think what we need to be doing the government need to be doing now taking of a lot of advantages can have we haven't got with 27 other countries when we make a trade deal for instance when we've got tell data that's a massive in the world where you have and we can actually get a lot of things now we don't have all eu regulations for instance and i think i think we're too scared of offending we frankly don't mind about offending . i think we're too offending. i think we're too scared of what our in germany and some of the other eu nations care about and actually they don't get to hear about making noise of every now and again. i've got to go though, guys. i could talk to you both all day, but i'm sure it won't be long enough to talk to you again. underage and lee too. underage and lee webb, too. fantastic gb viewers here fantastic gb news viewers here with patrick christys. with me in patrick christys. coming going take coming up, we're going to take the out of the latest

the bones out of the latest economic brexit .

will all right welcome back now the international monetary has forecasted that the will be the only major economy shrink in 2023. the organisation predicted the uk would have the weakest among the g7 economies , but its among the g7 economies, but its forecasts have been to be inaccurate and past. joining me now is our economics business editor liam halligan with on the money . roy lamb now all is not money. roy lamb now all is not quite as it seems these figures, is it now the full cost patrick and forecasts on destiny. i think it's worth that on these imf figures out today. britain actually grew among the fastest among the g7 economies. all

economies in 2012 and in 2022. last much faster than the eu . we last much faster than the eu. we grew by 4.1, much faster than the us. this year though , the the us. this year though, the imf says we're going be hit by higher taxes. imf says we're going be hit by higher taxes . other countries higher taxes. other countries aren't raising their corporation tax as we are in april and also hit by higher energy costs . both hit by higher energy costs. both firms and households . because we firms and households. because we don't have that much gas or gas spot prices are higher that translate into higher bills , all translate into higher bills, all of us. so there are various reasons the uk is likely to go a little bit, but i do think the imf overarching i don't think the uk economy is going to shnnk the uk economy is going to shrink this year. the bank of england said would a few months ago. i said that would be far too gloomy and i predict on thursday when the policy committee announces next interest rate move, i suspect, the governor of the bank of england will be reining back on those previously gloomy forecasts have clearly influenced the imf forecasts

today. yeah, indeed. i mean, look, it plays into the hands course on this particular day, three years since we properly left the properly using notes, least easily. but it plays into the hands of people who say that we have remained at we should have remained at centre. but when you look at the eu's growth in 2022, three and a half% ask 4.1. i mean could half% ask 4.1. i mean you could argue we've the right thing argue we've done the right thing just that alone. it's just in that year alone. it's difficult say . economy is difficult to say. economy is made so different made up of so many different look. 8% of our gdp is our exports to the european union. it's by no means even the most definitive thing for the uk economy. what's been really defensive , the uk economy is defensive, the uk economy is that since we voted in june 16, we spent three years arguing about brexit then there was a transition period , you know, transition period, you know, pretty much the month we came out of the transition period left the single market and union proper. the covid pandemic started. since then we've had war proper for the war in europe proper for the biggest war since 1945. so not exactly as if it's been you a normal period . and it's very normal period. and it's very difficult to what brexit has

actually and hasn't done to the uk economy as nothing management consultants might say. you know, it's a journey , you know, not an it's a journey, you know, not an event. right. and it is journey. we really don't know. and i think there's been lots and lots of claim and counterclaim . but i of claim and counterclaim. but i would always say, as somebody who used to work at the imf remember always that the both the imf and the treasury said in 2016 that simply by voting leave would cause a huge downturn in the british that year. well, it didn't . the british economy didn't. the british economy actually did very well for the rest of 2016 and 2017. and despite brexit vote. yes, indeed. you mentioned enough management consultancies that you know we are where we are of course a bit of the flag policy . they want the sock puppet please of thinking and we'll be away may but no absolutely yeah when comes to where we i suppose yes reasons to be optimistic but i can't help but as is imf saying. well liz truss you know we were we were urging it to do

the tax cuts this quickly and then now it's very much a case of well hang on a minute, maybe taxing people a bit too much. they tried to have it both ways. i think there was obviously a problem when liz truss and kwarteng did the mini budget, tried to do too much, too soon. i think the most sort of i think even the most sort of free market advocates of trust omics acknowledge that and omics would acknowledge that and many them have having said many of them have having said that, we are the only major economy that's going to raise corporation tax into , a global corporation tax into, a global economic slowdown . and now the economic slowdown. and now the imf is saying that that's probably the wrong thing to do and think, in fact i think financial markets are more worried that the british government is sort of overdoing the fiscal squeeze at the moment rather than being profligate. so we've gone from one extreme to the other . yeah, that's a we've gone from one extreme to the other. yeah, that's a great lesson i love it because . it's lesson i love it because. it's just the economics of economic yoga. do that. we get lucky over that same i'll give our that it's a weird yes another instalment of on the money row with me patrick christys on gb

news. we've got a final flurry of brexit chat. the uk departed the eu some brexiteers hoped it might mark the start of the demise of the european. i want to have a look at the continent's i'm not just going houday continent's i'm not just going holiday this but ask how even has an eu spread through member states like some thought it would ? we could have discussed would? we could have discussed brexit without hearing from the man himself . that's right. i man himself. that's right. i hope he's got his union jack tie on mr. brexit. it's nigel farage about whether or not his brexit vision has been realised the full throttle barrage. but first is the latest headlines . is the latest headlines. patrick, thank you. good afternoon. the headlines gb news the foreign secretary says the uk's exit from the european union has been tricky james cleverly responding to a question in the house commons over the impact of brexit. his comment comes a day after the prime minister said britain was

making strides since leaving the eu three years ago. that's despite a recent poll suggesting are divided in their take on how brexit has progressed , with 45% brexit has progressed, with 45% saying is going worse than expected did and 55% thinking it was about the same or better. speaking to gb news former business secretary rees—mogg said it was the right decision to leave the eu . bear in mind to leave the eu. bear in mind though we left three years ago we remain tied in to european rules and regulations a further 11 months. so it's only a little over two years. but in that two years, we have avoided nearly 8000 new eu regulations and we've saved taxpayers . 8000 new eu regulations and we've saved taxpayers . £191 we've saved taxpayers. £191 billion purely and simply by not being signed up to . the eu's being signed up to. the eu's post—covid programme. even our fish are doing better though. so there was a 63% increase in our catch of cod last year. so it's good for british fishermen, which we always promised brexit would . let's just bring you an

would. let's just bring you an update on the 45 year old missing woman in lancashire who was last seen on the river wyre on friday. breaking news for you, coming to us from lancashire police who say they found key witness that they found the key witness that they were to come forward in were asking to come forward in a search nicola bruni. she search for nicola bruni. she went missing while she's work walking was found walking dog. her dog was found running around near a park bench where they also found her mobile phone updates from lancashire police coming through to us all the time. we'll keep you up to date that one. now, tens , date on that one. now, tens, thousands more teachers have joined largest joined the uk's largest education to take part education union to take part strikes tomorrow. national education union says thousand school staff signed up in a fortnight . tomorrow is the first fortnight. tomorrow is the first of seven days of strikes by, the union in february and march. amid a dispute over pay those are your latest news headlines . are your latest news headlines. the gb newsroom you are up to date on tv, online and to the plus radio. don't go anywhere . plus radio. don't go anywhere. back in a moment.

all right ladies and gents, you've got just about 10 minutes or so until the man nigel farage joins us live here on gb news. but also been discussing throughout the show today marks , three years since the uk's exit from the eu, some brexiteers thought i mean they hope that the uk's departure might be the start of a sort of domino collapse of the eu euroscepticism coursing through the veins of various different member states , but has anti eu member states, but has anti eu sentiment been realised and? has the uk actually paved the way for other countries to leave? joining me now is mark zino, geopolitical analyst . marco, geopolitical analyst. marco, thank you very much. what the state of play in the european union when, it comes to euroscepticism, does around various different pockets . it various different pockets. it yes the scepticism existed

brexit it will continue to exist brexit. how are the main question is what level of popular support does it have. and i think in terms that it will ebb and flow largely over time and that's largely upon factors at any given point of time, usually political economic security and. i think right now the factors that are driving much of the debate in terms of movements that eurosceptic will be things such as the immigration crisis , you know, immigration crisis, you know, the post covid fallout , economic the post covid fallout, economic fallout. going to have fallout. you also going to have the fallout of the ukraine and primarily an energy crisis . so primarily an energy crisis. so you see a lot of this playing the depends what period of given time certain time and you have certain countries where maybe countries where it's maybe stronger you look stronger than others you look particularly places like hungary, and different hungary, poland and different areas that once again it's dnven areas that once again it's driven by the debate. what is concerning the european union and different nation states at that given in time. i mean i'm trying to be honest with you amazed there isn't more overt euroscepticism on the continent

when look at some of the leaders. for example, ursula der leyen, who didn't exactly cover herself glory as germany's defence. she did she she made them train with broom handles instead of i mean, give that woman a job for goodness sakes, she can't manage a german army, but she can run a continent supposedly . yeah. i mean, many supposedly. yeah. i mean, many people, even the highest level of the european union, are often appointed by consensus. and you're not going can always always get the most qualified people . but i think always get the most qualified people. but i think in this sense, what's driving a lot of i'll see unity in europe. but this much of it has to do with the fear of the fallout of the ukrainian war. is that there's a lot of anxiety in, you know, this massive war, the worst war on the european taking place after the second world war. so i think that to driving much, if you can say that it's weakened to a sharp the level of scepticism has to do a lot of that but it's happened within a way and over time once again it'll be driven different factors it depends that given

point of time so i think it's fear and anxiety of the time. and then another important thing is money. the european and risk recovery package. a lot of are in a state of crisis. second obviously and brussels giving a lot of money. so for example, if you take italy, the current italian minister was very much critical of the european before taking power in late 2022. but yet she's created a very pragmatic relationship with the european union and much of that to do with the fact that italy is going to be the recipient of european money talks. marco money talks lot. mark, i thank you very much. sean so it's one vote. always a pleasure. marco markovich as you know, that geopolitical now look. emmanuel rather famously said that he wasn't to give the french wasn't going to give the french a when comes to leaving a vote when it comes to leaving the union because the european union because he thinks they'd vote to leave. so they that's democracy. it they go. that's democracy. it but arguably most french man that this that we've ever had on this channel, record was channel, charles on record was the generation the leader. france's generation frexit joins me now. great frexit group joins me now. great to have back on the show. to have you back on the show. what are the chances of france

leaving british leaving the eu? the british footsteps ? no, i'm in the footsteps? no, i'm in the britishvolt paves way because in france and many european countries is said it's not possible to leave the european union and actually the uk as true to the word europe that possible to leave the uk. so now many many of us across the continent are working to and democratic european union let's say you were talking shortly about the state mind in france. i mean there's a european country let's say that so far it's quite difficult because . it's quite difficult because. they are using ukraine war tilting that, you know , the tilting that, you know, the european union protecting the continent from one which is totally false because as you know and even as nigel farage as say they say that the european

union and that the expansionism as surely this ukraine and so is across that but it's important point which i do think that if britain itself as well how to respond in the way they initially did then you'll it might not have actually been protected from you can protected from war so you can look at it both those ways european union expansion might have bit of we're have caused a bit of we're seeing ukraine at minute seeing in ukraine at the minute as also if britain as well as but also if britain have got involved doors have got involved early doors and sent weapons as opposed to what germany sending some probably coloured helmets, then, you know, we might be in a different situation anyway is the sense the continent, though, that they want to do everything they can to punish for leaving . they can to punish for leaving. sure. or let's say they try to do it, but they are doing like with the mainstream media as they turn british papers way of leaving the european no they are using every single . it's a bad using every single. it's a bad fight in the uk to. using every single. it's a bad fight in the uk to . blame fight in the uk to. blame brexit. it's totally because of

course the uk is currently a suffering economically . let's be suffering economically. let's be realistic. it's quite the same across the continent and it has nothing to do with brexit. was the uk is currently suffering because you have a weak leader with rishi sunak but because many of what's british either so far it before the brexit and it's a you are suffering for you are electric mixed of gas so you suffer for the sanction towards russia the sky rocketing against the gas price does not seem to what brexit it was it was there before brexit. you as well suffering the inflation because of the confusion because the bank of england as the central bank has printed a lot of money. so it was before does nothing to do with brexit. let's say that the currency problems that you have in the uk, it's not linked with it was there before and if

you were in the eu you would have exactly the same. so exactly . and you mentioned and exactly. and you mentioned and you mentioned inflation one according to suella braverman as well be invasion given what we've been seeing going on in the channel as well and yet again nothing is would it be any better? as we remember the european would say, look, european union would say, look, thank i'm sorry, thank you very much. i'm sorry, short sweet, but have short and sweet, but we have to rattle through the end of rattle through it at the end of this show. charles and regal while the leader of france's generation frexit group. that is the ability to the extent of my ability to pronounce french ladies gentlemen. so you are very welcome have got back from welcome. have just got back from france a little holiday, france myself a little holiday, and course too like a lot and of course i too like a lot of people coming across the channel escape that channel was very to escape that war nation not let's go to war torn nation not let's go to mr. brexit himself. with me now is gb news presents nigel farage nigel great stuff now three years to the day since we actually officially quote unquote left the european union. how's it going for you ? well, how's it going for you? well, remember what a big night it because we've been through three

years of almost the entirety of the british establishment trying to reverse the result . they to reverse the result. they didn't accept the fact we voted to leave. we were all knuckle dragging. so the fact we in the end it over the line was a major achievement. and there are things that we've done in foreign such as signing the orcas pact things like that taking leadership on ukraine. you agree with the position or not? things that we've done that we couldn't have done as eu members , but for domestic policy members, but for domestic policy , for economic policy and in terms of borders i feel like on the 31st of january 2020, we moved house to a great, exciting new house with lots of new rooms and most of packing boxes are still untouched. so many of the things we could have done quite radical things from fisheries through to financial services . through to financial services. we just haven't done. and some say, well look , it was the

say, well look, it was the pandemic that got in the way. but you know what truth of it is the conservative never really believed in it. they haven't pursued it with the vigour that they ought to and they've left they ought to and they've left the ground open for a labour to take us much closer towards the single market. so overall got to be delighted we left was the right thing. but i am a little disappointed. yes indeed. i'm nigel just on that. we're looking at various different stats that appeared to show quite a lot of a horrible phrase so i'm going to use regret which makes you feel a bit sick saying it. but i can't help but wonder whether or not this was of the plan all along from those people who a slave in the who never wanted a slave in the first thought we first place. they thought we make a horlicks out of make enough of a horlicks out of this. eventually as you this. eventually those as you call knuckle dragging will call them knuckle dragging will come to their senses and we'll find in a massive globalist find back in a massive globalist perch that the european perch that is the european union. yeah. i mean, look, you know, if i was asked by a poll

tomorrow, am i disappoint by brexit, i'd say yes. so i'd being in one of those people, it doesn't mean though i want it reversed doesn't mean i think it the wrong thing to do so all about differing shades of opinion politically of course the status quo has been reversed . we've left the problem is we're not diverging quickly from it now some conservative will tell you well right at the moment you know we're in the middle of a piece of legislation that will get of a lot of eu laws , others will say if course laws, others will say if course of the last two years there are eu laws we haven't signed up to . all of that's true. but you go and ask five and a half million men and women running small businesses what, regulatory benefits. they've seen from brexit and thus the answer is zero. we haven't made the most of it because government hasn't truly believed in it. nigel thank you very much. as ever, you're on as well, aren't you?

do you want to give us quick heads up what's on the agenda ? heads up what's on the agenda? well, of course, we're going to be debating brexit, but also the imf , not exactly our friends . imf, not exactly our friends. and you know what? actually, for most of the last five years, we have been growing more quickly than the rest of the g7 . why the than the rest of the g7. why the big downturn and just how much is jeremy hunt getting wrong ? is jeremy hunt getting wrong? actually, i could be a long shot that nigel's hunky, very virtuous. nigel that will be on your screens a little bit later on this evening 27 till eight right now i want to look at whether these feelings this horrible what please let's try not to make this a thing ladies and gentlemen regret gonna grab the say buckets but that is yes it's got in my sookie here thanks brexit regret. yeah i think the nation grasped that but anyway, on its third anniversary with me now is dr. charles sadiq, former mep and nhs consultant . he believes that nhs consultant. he believes that the decision to leave the eu was a missed . why well, clearly it

a missed. why well, clearly it was a mistake. it cost the british 4% of our gdp approximately 100 billion a yeah approximately 100 billion a year. young people that no longer have the right to move freely around and seek work. people like of my generation can't retire so on the european continent and we've had a 50% hit to our trade with the european union and we haven't been able to create all these marvellous free trade agreements with the rest of the world that were promised. so brexit has been a huge con. it was a lie from the beginning and. we're still having to this lie still having to live this lie and i'm afraid both the conservative and the labour party still claim claim. it's going to work it's not going to work because it's just what we hope. this is always just when it comes to a few of the points that made there . i mean, that you've made there. i mean, the fact is that actually you really look at these stats. really do look at these stats. it better be in britain it much better to be in britain in last year than it has in the last year than it has been to be in the eu economies growing past, the three been to be in the eu economies grovalg past, the three been to be in the eu economies grova half% past, the three been to be in the eu economies grova half% young st, the three been to be in the eu economies grova half% young people three

been to be in the eu economies grova half% young people do ee been to be in the eu economies grova half% young people do have and a half% young people do have the right to live and work abroad. it'sjust the right to live and work abroad. it's just under a different system . so there is different system. so there is all of that you can still retire on the continent if you so wish it is just under a different system , isn't it? so are you system, isn't it? so are you actually just still a bit hurt that you lost ? no, not at all. that you lost? no, not at all. i mean, that's just true. freedom of movement is complete you can retire abroad if you're rich. you can't just go and live abroad easily. if you're an old age pensioner , you need to get age pensioner, you need to get all sorts of permissions. i live in european union. i'm in the european union. i'm living eastern europe living in all in eastern europe . i know only too well. what's it complicated for a brit it complicated is now for a brit to come and live or work in the country that reside in so i'm not particularly so that i lost i will carry on fighting to expose the lies and the false which were made. i'm afraid three, four or five years ago by the of nigel farage and. the idea that brexit is nothing to do with our economic woes just isn't true is clearly problem for british exporters . export

for british exporters. export their goods to the single market now and some people would argue that's we've not taken full opportunity that was out there . opportunity that was out there. course i will talk about those figures again that we have grown quicker than rates of the quicker than the rates of the european union and indeed the united states of america. can i ask is so appealing ask you, what is so appealing about an unelected about living in an unelected european under unelected commission? der leyen commission? ursula von der leyen did an absolutely job of did an absolutely candid job of being defence secretary in germany. she made the train with pretty handles. she's pretty handles. now she's in charge but of charge a continent. but of course didn't get to vote on course you didn't get to vote on that, did you? is that better than in the uk? than what got here in the uk? no, it's all it's also not true because the european commission is the meps is actually voted on by the meps . and didn't i voted on them . and i didn't i voted on them when i was a mep for 20 years i did not but i'm going to second how many million, how many of people live in the european union and they do not get to choose who ultimately is in charge of them. what you just said there is the of argument that someone might make if the chinese party. no, not at all. because once again, european union legislation is made by

directly elected and i was one of them for 20 years. and the council of ministers, who are ministers from the national member state governments, they're elected commission that doesn't take the people so okay. so if we just had a situation a bit like what we've got the, i'd say in the uk at the moment where our prime minister was not voted for by the british public but was just chosen by people in westminster. you think that would be okay , do you? because would be okay, do you? because that's what you're advocating for. i'm sorry the british prime minister is not directly voted on by the british public. he's a he's on by the he's voted on by the parliamentary majority. yeah, exactly. president in the exactly. or a president in the same way that the members of the european parliament voted for the of the european the president of the european commission. directly commission. it's a very directly analogous nobody voted analogous process. nobody voted rishi sunak. in fact, he wasn't even he wasn't even leader at the time . we had the last the time. we had the last general election. daresay what you're doing now is what a lot of people do they're on the

of people do when they're on the ropes you're not actually ropes and you're not actually really making much sense. oh, you what i'm you clearly. know what i'm talking the people, the talking about. the people, the european to, european union do not get to, for the people who are right at the europe the top of the europe commission. but of course, it's democracy, suppose, your democracy, i suppose, on your terms found my terms would say those i found my stay european union an stay in the european union an mep in many ways were more checks and balances, more democracy actually see democracy than we actually see in a elective dictatorship where you have a majority , the house you have a majority, the house of commons, where you can do more, less what you want. the european union has checks and balances and democratic scrutiny and by the european parliament and by the european parliament and of the commission and course they have been thrown out . they they have been thrown out. they were on the tracks onto . so the were on the tracks onto. so the idea that the eu is not democrat just doesn't stack i'm afraid okay. all right well unfortunately don't have time to keep arguing with you because. it's the end of the show, although i would absolutely love to the other show. you to have done the other show. you take 40. yeah, i'm sorry about that. haven't got time to to that. haven't got time to go to michelle you coming up, michelle and tell you coming up, but sure be great. but i'm sure it'll be great. she's over now. all i can

she's over that now. all i can say is it'll be fantastic. i've been patrick christys. i'll be back tomorrow 3 pm. back again tomorrow at 3 pm. take paper. how again? aidan take it paper. how again? aidan mcgivern the mcgivern here from the met office increasingly windy for many the rest of many of us through the rest of the but particularly the the day, but particularly in the north are also north where there are also blustery or clear spells blustery showers or clear spells in south. a cold front in the south. seen a cold front move here as a weakening move through here as a weakening feature. now cloud is clearing sunshine is returning across england and wales. but for scotland and northern ireland tightly packed days, the bars are bringing chilly and are breeze bringing chilly and frequent showers. now the showers are falling as snow about four or 500 metres over central scotland. but it's the wind is the main concern. as we head into the night—time and with gales widely across scotland and for some exposed coasts of northern scotland especially orkney louis, the north mainland 60, 70, perhaps 80 mile per hour in places could cause disruption. it's a cold night or four celsius in the north, 5 to 7 further south, although in the south it will a bright start to wednesday, having been, well, a mixture of clear spells cloudy overnight

some sunshine the best of which will be the south, remaining will be in the south, remaining into afternoon, also into the afternoon, also brightening north of brightening up in the north of scotland, wind and showery scotland, the wind and showery activity between an activity easing in between an area of cloud and some outbreaks. rainfall in northern ireland, southwest and ireland, west and southwest and northern a chilly day northern england. a chilly day again in the north. seven or eight further south, 9 eight celsius further south, 9 to 11 degrees. but the wind becoming less of an issue later wednesday that wind tending to become lighter, although it will wetter once again across the northern half of the uk. some steady rain in the scotland and northern england overnight. northern ireland seeing a lot of cloud, a few spots of rain, clouds thickening further as well. so frost free night well. and so frost free night for the vast majority, although a of frost is possible in. a touch of frost is possible in. the far north ahead of the rain . that lingers . much . then that rain lingers. much of scotland three thursday, a damp to come the heaviest rain for western hills elsewhere . a for western hills elsewhere. a lot of cloud cover, i think on thursday some light rain over western hills further south as well . but it is western hills further south as well. but it is turning much milder up into the double

figures widely.