by good afternoon, friends is patrick christys here and you're with me at three what's on the menu today is this is britain about have an open border with terror hot spots it looks like rishi sunak's to remove the asylum seeker backlog is to just wave tens of people through leaked plans appear to show that there will be no to face interviews just a questionnaire and these will go to people coming from places like afghanistan syria and it's expected at least 95% of them will indeed be through. well, it's being called an asylum seeker amnesty and we are obviously going to be talking about that rather a lot on this show. it's the right back. three men have been arrested under the counter—terror remarks after a police officer was gunned down front of children in northern. now, if you've got a blistering with your husband or wife today , you're not the only ones i will be revealing. what city in the uk has the highest of divorce and what people argue about i'll give you a clue about most.7 i'll give you a clue . i've got few of them right

. i've got a few of them right here studio. i think on here in the studio. i think on and gb news could be about to be the home of boxing. that's right. we can confirm that we are in talks to host a boxing match between political heavyweights. deputy chair of the tory party, lee anderson, an annoying remainer , steve bray. annoying remainer, steve bray. that's right . seriously, people. that's right. seriously, people. i've put my name forward to be at least a ringo in all of this. but get your emails coming in. vaiews@gbnews.uk should we interview every single asylum seeker before let them live here? and as well crucially , here? and as well crucially, which two political figures should fight the undercard of lee anderson and steve rae ? lee anderson and steve rae? vaiews@gbnews.uk. but right now he's got headlines. we've got to . patrick thank you. good afternoon. it's 3:02. your top stories from the gb newsroom. three men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder . suspicion of attempted murder. the shooting of a high ranking officer in omagh. detective

inspector john caldwell , inspector john caldwell, targeted by two masked gunmen while with his son at a sports centre night. he's in a critical, stable condition in hospital . police say dissident hospital. police say dissident groups new era is the primary focus and they're now reviewing threat level. chief constable simon byrne told reporters a colleague is fighting for his life. clearly as an organisation we are utterly shocked and angered by last night's brazen and calculated attack , john is a and calculated attack, john is a father, husband and colleague and a valued active member of his local . john's colleagues are his local. john's colleagues are understandably extremely distressed by last night's shooting . however, they remain shooting. however, they remain and committed to bringing those responsible for this heinous crime to justice. well, former police ombudsman for northern ireland, baroness nadeau , told ireland, baroness nadeau, told gb news this , will bring back

gb news this, will bring back memories of all that's happened previously in the region . the previously in the region. the shooting of mr. caldwell is something exceptional, though , something exceptional, though, and it seems. it seems to be connected with the fact that he's a police officer. and that means that every police officer who got up this morning and put their uniform will have reflected. every police going out to work will have reflected . what does this mean to me and their children and their spouses and their parents the siblings, everyone be saying what's going on? the number of asylum seekers waiting for an initial decision on their claim has hit 160,000. that's the highest since records began.the that's the highest since records began. the figures come as the home secretary tells in an exclusive interview that nothing's ruled out when it comes to tackling illegal immigration. comes to tackling illegal immigration . more than 45,000 immigration. more than 45,000 people across the channel in small last year, which suella braverman as unacceptable . braverman as unacceptable. speaking to liam halligan. she said she understands why people are frustrated with hotels

housing asylum seekers . it's housing asylum seekers. it's clear that we have an unsustainable situation in towns and cities around our country whereby because of the overwhelming numbers of, whereby because of the overwhelming numbers of , people overwhelming numbers of, people arriving here illegally and our legal to accommodate them we are now having to house them in hotels and that is causing understand double tensions within pressures on resources . within pressures on resources. and you can watch full 22 minute interview with the home secretary on the gb news youtube . sir keir starmer has outlined his vision for the country. if labour were to win the next general election . launching his general election. launching his party's five national missions, the labour says the uk needs to be more competitive. the economy , highlighted as a top priority and he promised to be tough on crime. sir keir says plaster politics is holding everyone back. politics is holding everyone back . the pattern is always the back. the pattern is always the same. distracted by the short

term obsessions that westminster . held back by a cynicism which uses low trusted as an excuse to narrow ambitions blinkered the potential of an active government. setting the direction we learn from crisis after crisis. always reacting . after crisis. always reacting. always behind the curve . a always behind the curve. a sticking plaster . never a cure sticking plaster. never a cure for people have been arrested after a huge flag was painted outside the russian embassy in london . hundreds of litres of london. hundreds of litres of yellow and blue paint were poured onto the road , poured onto the road, representing the country's colours across 500 square metres. protest group , led by metres. protest group, led by donkeys, has claimed , saying the donkeys, has claimed, saying the massive marks the first anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine, which is two more. and tributes have been pouring in for football commentator john motty motson, who has died aged 77. gary lineker him as

england's voice of football for generations he became synonymous with the beautiful game during his distinguish 50 year career with the bbc, he covered ten world cups, ten european champions, ships and, 29 ea. champions, ships and, 29 fa cup finals , retiring from the cup finals, retiring from the organisation . 2018. this is gb organisation. 2018. this is gb news bring more as it happens though, it's over to you, patrick wright. lots to go out . and we wright. lots to go out. and we start with the government's latest plan to tackle the massive migrant and the asylum seeker backlog . with around seeker backlog. with around 160,000 people currently applying for asylum in this country , which is costing me and country, which is costing me and you reported 2.1 billion quid a yeah you reported 2.1 billion quid a year. authorities desperately need to clear that backlog and we are awaiting what we have

bated breath to see what rishi sunak grand plan would be. well it's essentially to wave them through. it would appear this is what the government is proposing , going to scrap face to face, interview with thousands of asylum seekers and ask them to fill in a questionnaire . so it's fill in a questionnaire. so it's about 12,000 people. and this is interesting as well from afghanistan , syria, eritrea, afghanistan, syria, eritrea, libya and yemen who have applied for asylum in the uk and are waiting for. a decision will be eligible . the policy being eligible. the policy being launched today by home office. now bear in mind as well that around 90% of people from afghanistan and syria are already granted asylum once they actually apply for it. and some 95% of people are tipped according sources, be waved according sources, to be waved through if plan goes ahead through if this plan goes ahead . it does lead me to ask the question, have we got an question, have we now got an open with afghanistan on open border with afghanistan on syria, the plans aim to syria, but the plans aim to speed the process for people speed up the process for people from typically from nations that typically have a high grant rate. as i've just said, the questions here almost write themselves, don't they? is this do this massive security risk? do feel as though seriously, we

have an open border through the back of a better back door, for want of a better with places like afghanistan and syria, which clearly i mean in the case of one of them is definitely run by terrorist organisation and in the other one part it is. one at least part of it is. joining me now deputy leader joining me now is deputy leader of rebecca jane. rebecca. of ukip, rebecca jane. rebecca. thank fear that thank you much. do you fear that we're to have an border we're going to have an border with terror hotspots that fear it ? we have it for goodness sex. it? we have it for goodness sex. this is absolutely ludicrous. so there's no security, there's no interview. there's questions. and then what you get is a free pass to come in and you've got free health care, housing, money, the locked . this is money, the locked. this is currently restricted to five countries potentially , but there countries potentially, but there are plans to actually make it bigger as well . so rishi sunak. bigger as well. so rishi sunak. his plan is actually welcome everybody to england. he has no problems . well, stand on the problems. well, stand on the beach. give everybody a cup of tea as they come. and actually one thing that we will pick up once again is that of all asylum seekers who claim to be children, 70% turn out to be

adults. and we have no criminal checks. and this is why further criminal actions then and obviously we are giving a heck of a lot of money for our people that we don't even have . well, that we don't even have. well, what rishi sunak will presumably say to this is we currently have a backlog of around 150 to 160000. it's costing you , me and 160000. it's costing you, me and the taxpayer around 2.1 billion quid a year. maybe if just got them to fill in a question around, not a face to face. it will reduce that they can start work and pay tax instead of well, the taxpayer pay for them. yeah. and that's not going to happen , as they always say, you happen, as they always say, you know, there are no checks . it is know, there are no checks. it is an absolute mistake of . rishi an absolute mistake of. rishi needs to be getting proper serious crack down on government can't be trusted it to have this in their hands. can't be trusted it to have this in their hands . what we're now in their hands. what we're now going to see unfold is that we're going to have more crime. we're going to have more of a hold on our security . we're

hold on our security. we're going to be ploughing into education. we don't have the to , money be able to defend what is happening and rishi sunak is putting this country in position of absolute detriment . and it's of absolute detriment. and it's a danger to our children , to a danger to our children, to adults, to absolutely everybody . when you look at of the countries in play here , countries in play here, afghanistan, on syria, for example , mean afghanistan under example, mean afghanistan under the thumb of the taliban and syria. yeah, it's been isis hotspot. host of a goodness knows what are the terror groups for frankly as long as i can remember now why do you think there is even a question of the fact that should potentially fact that we should potentially wave through without wave people through without interview, just filling a ten page questionnaire , exactly 40 page questionnaire, exactly 40 questions and you've got a free passis questions and you've got a free pass is absolutely they should not be happening and you know rather than , you know what we've rather than, you know what we've got a massive backlog. so here you go. 95% of money need to be getting so far. the reason they're coming here is because

we are absolutely a soft touch and we need to be sending out a stronger message and a stronger instead of saying 95% to be a command to england , have all of command to england, have all of our resources. command to england, have all of our resources . what you should our resources. what you should be doing, rishi say get back in your boats. enough you go. this is not our problem . we need to is not our problem. we need to be sending it elsewhere and we need look after people in need to look after our people in our first. rather than our country first. rather than actually ploughing more money. we don't have into something that already completely out of control. that's exactly why we've got the highest record in years . why do you that? we years. why do you that? we accept so many of them? because the other solution me on this will be to employ more people to work our home office or our immigration processing centres to try to deal with the backlog that way. that is what i think many people anticipated that rishi sunak would do, which is to try to get more people involved in the processing system to make sure that we can process these people. it would appear,if process these people. it would appear , if these claims are appear, if these claims are true, that opposite is going to

be the case. they're almost going to make lenient. going to make it more lenient. yeah, of course they are making they're just making it they're not just making it lenient. making it free. lenient. they're making it free. perhaps, you know, not only that, one actually that, only one person actually has from another country has to come from another country and all rest of the and then all the rest of the families can come on them families can come on with them as well. obviously, you as well. yeah so obviously, you know, would be at least know, it would be at least a starting point if we decided to invest a bit more into the invest a bit more money into the bank and the process bank system and the process is because not that's because let's not forget, that's archaic. bit like the archaic. a little bit like the rest of our country, but for me, this one very clear purpose that we need having here. stop we need to be having here. stop this stop everybody coming is to our for at least five our country for at least five years. but is years. let is recover. but is recovery and policing this recovery and policing this recovery health care system. let's look after the country first rather than going back . i first rather than going back. i don't know what i'm doing. so you know what? let's just have a big ole free for all and hope for the best. it's ridiculous we're going to see big arrests in, crime, and it's going to cost more money. rishi, cost us even more money. rishi, you completely of you are completely out of control and need to get a control and you need to get a grip . rebecca you very grip. rebecca thank you very much. there is the much. rebecca jane there is the deputy of ukip just

deputy leader of ukip just reacting to this clearly rishi sunakis reacting to this clearly rishi sunak is to say here it sunak is wanting to say here it appear you i would the appear is i told you i would the backlog pretty much to zero. this the that he intends this is the way that he intends to it at in part at least in to do it at in part at least in part. we have around 160,000 people reportedly on an asylum seeking a waiting list. according to these reports, around 12,000 of them are from countries with a high acceptance rate. and countries rate. and those countries include yemen , syria and include libya, yemen, syria and afghanistan. they will essentially be given a questionnaire to fill in and not a to face interview. how do a face to face interview. how do you feel about that at home? ladies and gentlemen. vaiews@gbnews.uk on in vaiews@gbnews.uk later on in the show, i'm going be the show, i'm going to be talking to human activists. they appear to the mind that appear to be of the mind that we're basically we've got due process or accepting an amount of people anyway . a lot these of people anyway. a lot of these people are of modern as people are victims of modern as well. the other side of it, of course, is this is a soft touch and it might actually encourage more people to get here because they stand a better they know they stand a better chance in. want chance of getting in. i want your views throughout this gb views sticking views gbnews.uk. but sticking with topic anyway, with this similar topic anyway, the has published

the home office has published its quarterly migration figures which provide an overview of what call irregular what they call irregular migrants who come to the uk now. these include those arriving these do include those arriving on boats the on small boats across the english, there's rather english, but there's rather a lot to it than that. on to lot more to it than that. on to pick this fine toothed comb. we're going over to dover in kent to speak on gb news, south—east england. reports south—east of england. reports rae addison thank you very rae addison rae, thank you very much. you just want to see some of figures. what do they of these figures. what do they really us? please yeah. really tell us? please yeah. good afternoon, patrick. well, what we're seeing from the home office today with these figures being released is a 60% increase in irregular migration in from 2021 figures to last year in 2020 to 41, to go all the way back to 2018, it's a 50,000% increase when there were just 299 migrants who crossed the channel. this so—called irregular migration to the uk in 2021, it was just over 28 and a half thousand and last year it

was just under 46,000 and migrants . they arrived last year migrants. they arrived last year in 1109 small boats . 87% of in 1109 small boats. 87% of those passengers on the boats were male and 20% were from afghan histon and 8% from albania. though made up 48% of the total. now though, of the albanians that came to the uk last year, one in eight were referred as possibly being victims of human trafficking. and they have to go through a two stage process to that 90% passed the first round of checks. although i have to say of the second round of checks, that number drops considerably down to around 55. now, i've been asking here in dover what they think of these latest stats . i don't think we have a top of that clip, but that we go. so i

think what i was hoping to do, little bit of a vox pop. there was some people about what they think about those latest stats, but we'll have to wait and see, i'm afraid. but look, thank you very, very it's to very, very much. it's great to obviously you the show just obviously you on the show just to this through of to run this through some of those that that was those numbers that that was actually a insight actually quite a stark insight i think insight the think is insight into the irregular levels of migration, a 60% in it. now, look, 60% increase in it. now, look, we are going to move on from this shortly, but i just want to get views coming to the get your views coming to the fore this gbviews@gbnews.uk get your views coming to the fore thwants'iews@gbnews.uk get your views coming to the fore thwants'ie\.knowbnews.uk get your views coming to the fore thwants �*iei. know exactly uk elizabeth wants to know exactly what are going what the 40 questions are going to be. 40 also questions this is the which the news that we led with, which is that asylum are from certain anyway, around 12,000 of them are to given are going to be given a questionnaire instead of a face to interview. i don't to face interview. and i don't know this really end? know where does this really end? because have an because if we do have an acceptance already around 90% acceptance of already around 90% when coming when it comes to people coming afghanistan now , afghanistan and syria now, clearly there are huge amounts people be genuine from people who will be genuine from afghanistan and syria. we all know what those countries are like. we know kinds of like. we all know the kinds of people are in charge of them people who are in charge of them and groups, etc. so and the terror groups, etc. so simple of fact, there

simple matter of fact, there will be a lot of refugees, asylum seekers from those countries, but when it comes to the we don't seem to the fact that we don't seem to background checks background security checks on a lot don't know who lot of people, we don't know who a of people are. would it a lot of people are. would it not be a natural additional security and indeed, not be a natural additional securithing, and indeed, not be a natural additional securithing, and iianything other thing, get into anything you interviewed jobs. you get interviewed forjobs. i mean, someone at least checks your id. when you to go your id. when you want to go into for goodness sake. into the pub for goodness sake. we want to a deck of at the we want to buy a deck of at the local. shouldn't we maybe be doing little more our doing a little bit more with our borders? now got an open borders? have we now got an open borders? have we now got an open border with some countries that are known terror hotspots. are known for terror hotspots. we you latest on we will bring you the latest on that when we get and that as and when we get it. and i to hear from you on i do want to hear from you on it. i have to laugh, says peter. do we really think that parliament intends to solve the backlog immigration? backlog of illegal immigration? i'll what, peter i'll tell you what, peter had hoped. hoped, that we were hoped. i had hoped, that we were going get manpower and, going to get more manpower and, immigration officers people immigration officers and people doing and checking doing the backlogs and checking as big grand , it as opposed to the big grand, it would appear to me anyway , least would appear to me anyway, least for rishi sunak to clear the asylum seeker is to asylum seeker backlog is to basically just go let's have an amnesty and start again. but the problem with that is if you have

an amnesty and people know that you're have an amnesty, you're going to have an amnesty, then people going to then more people are going to try that dual try and raise through that dual route be seen route and it remains to be seen what the illegal immigration figures to be for the figures are going to be for the year i suspect won't year ahead. but i suspect won't be particularly good. we're moving on to northern now, though, men have though, where three men have been after a police been arrested after a police officer shot in omagh officer was shot in omagh night. detective inspector detective chief inspector colwell be fighting colwell is said to be fighting for and is in for his life and is in a critical but stable condition. it allegedly shot by two masked men in front of his son and other youngsters as he houses houses a football session at a local club. northern ireland's political leaders, including sinn fein and dup, have issued a joint statement to condemn the shooting. but gb news is northern ireland reports that dougie beattie is in omagh us now. dougie, look, thank you very, very much. you bring very, very much. can you bring us to date, please? and this us up to date, please? and this disturbing incident. us up to date, please? and this disturbing incident . yes, well, disturbing incident. yes, well, it was last night, about 8:00 that the this is policemen who are off duty policemen . of are off duty policemen. of course, you he wasn't a policeman night. he was a

father. and he was here with his son. they were doing their local here with the youth club and a football match. and of course, this john was one of the coaches involved in that as many fathers are . at about 8:00 that coaching are. at about 8:00 that coaching session came to an end. he walked out of it, out of this arena, behind into the car park there . unfortunately, two gunmen there. unfortunately, two gunmen were waiting for him. they fired at him repeatedly . were waiting for him. they fired at him repeatedly. he was putting stuff into the boot of the car at the time. his young son running the front of the car . and unfortunately, they had him multiple . there was the him multiple. there was the miracle of all of this is. him multiple. there was the miracle of all of this is . there miracle of all of this is. there was so many children and coming to collect those in the car park at the time , bullets had at the time, bullets had ricocheted , hitting other cars ricocheted, hitting other cars in the car park. ricocheted, hitting other cars in the car park . the forensic in the car park. the forensic officers still behind us night examining the vehicles. it's they're taking very, very close look at those bullet holes, etc, that's in it. and you can imagine if pilcher ricocheting , imagine if pilcher ricocheting, going everywhere, it is nothing short of a miracle that we

weren't looking at children being shot here . but this was being shot here. but this was very much a and an execution attempt on this officer . very much a and an execution attempt on this officer. he is a very senior police in northern ireland and heads a crime squad that many looks at, i suppose. organised crime . so he was taken organised crime. so he was taken to altnagelvin area hospital and thank god some of the people behind actually came to his aid and administered first aid and managed to keep him alive until the ambulance arrived and took them to the galvin hospital where he is now stable but still critical. this time itself of omagh, where about three major said it of course was known as one of the worst terrorist atrocities ever in the uk in 1990. at that bomb that hit here three months after the good friday agreement was signed, there's this tide in particular, his picture . it's a lovely place his picture. it's a lovely place to visit , but it has its ghosts. to visit, but it has its ghosts. and today you could feel it in the community here . you can feel

the community here. you can feel it in people coming past that they remember that it brings it back to them and they have the likes of this on their doorstep. once is not not very comforting at all. and the police service here are doing their best to bnng here are doing their best to bring whoever . it was to justice bring whoever. it was to justice that go on over the next few days and until eventually that comes to an and dougie thank you very very much dougie beattie that bringing is bang up today when it comes to that disturbing case. bring you info as case. we'll bring you info as and we get it, of course. and when we get it, of course. right. okay, look. coming up, ladies and gentlemen, i've got it for you. circus star. it all for you. circus star. he's on a mission. actually of them, to be precise. and they are bold. are you intrigued are bold. yes. are you intrigued 7 are bold. yes. are you intrigued ? okay. i be back to ? well, okay. i will be back to tell all very , very shortly. tell you all very, very shortly. don't make .

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okay. welcome back. now, before today, you might have been clueless as to what labour would actually offer if they won the next general election. but fear not, faye. no because sir keir starmer, while it is an enlightened as all like the dalai lama and his speech today the labour leader has pledged to make the uk the fastest growing economy in the g7. now it sounds , but can he actually deliver ? , but can he actually deliver? he's also gone vague on how he wants to have a zero carbon electricity system by 2030, which i'm sure will you all the marginal seats and of course he also wants to have a dig at the tories as well he's rattled off things improving the nhs things like improving the nhs and here's what and much, much more. here's what keir had to say, devoid keir starmer had to say, devoid ofideas keir starmer had to say, devoid of ideas that clapped out that divided two week to challenge the their party, which the vested in their party, which hold britain back to close in on themselves , to think big for our themselves, to think big for our country. britain needs leadership with ambition belief in the possibility of the future hunger to on the big challenges . this is the for case a new and

a new way of governing britain needs both with britain will get both . all right. well, there we both. all right. well, there we go. that was starmer. he's rolled his sleeves up so, you know, he means business. but joining me now is political strategist and former adviser to tony it's john mcternan. tony blair. it's john mcternan. john, you very much. john, thank you very much. sustained highest growth in g7. i could have been listening to liz truss then. good night . no, liz truss then. good night. no, because there's no mad ideas . because there's no mad ideas. it's like saying tax and spending loads of money at the same time. no spooking the markets. labour the party of sound money. labour the party is sound. finance he has made it clear every labour spending promise will be matched with details . how we will pay for details. how we will pay for things . and the thing is, after things. and the thing is, after the wasted decade of 20 tens, when no part way through a

second lost decade under the tories , we had to switch tories, we had to switch government. so we could switch to growing. all right, government. so we could switch to growing. all right , john, i to growing. all right, john, i can hear people at that tv screens now going that we might have had a wasted decade, but that was because the tories had to clean easy finance a mess that labour left them with. but now you're saying labour, the policy of sound money and sound finances. i think people. absolutely right so but how because i mean the track record isn't great is that like where we'll be inheriting an economic mess which many many of your viewers , listeners are paying viewers, listeners are paying higher mortgages was called the at risk premium. the result of the trust and quoting budget. you know and the tories can't run from the fact that they have put britain in this terrible situation keir's been clear rachel reeves clear. it will take a decade to sort this. it will be hard work first. but the commitment is very strong to making us the fastest growing economy in the g7. and your viewers and your listeners know

there's nothing lacking in britain in. talent is the lack of talent in the government. that's the problem. okay. so he's already asking a second term, so he's already judge me in ten years time. but people want results now. i think john. and people look , they'll get and people look, they'll get immediate results , a labour immediate results, a labour government, but there's no point in trying to fool people people know it has taken 12 years to wreck this country. it going to take time to rebuild it. wreck this country. it going to take time to rebuild it . okay. i take time to rebuild it. okay. i mean, i think look, john, to be fair, it wasn't this country hasn't just been wrecked in the last the last ten years as countries ask the improving the nhs thing. i mean some of these are particularly vague. i do say that the sense as well the rishi sunak a five point plan that you could condense into. so they're both right. but they are both at it, right. but they are the improving system. the improving the nhs system. i mean i mean, how is he actually going to do that? because he doesn't to give doesn't really want to give nurses and people proper pay rise. that's not to rise. that's not going to

happen. daresay labour happen. i mean, i daresay labour , i mean, the nhs is supposed to be that sacred. is he just going to to slaughter sacred to have to slaughter that sacred except to set two things that are really clear already. one is they're going to use money from they're going to use money from the from the non—dom . as the from the non—dom. as a non—dom, they're going to pay more which think is a more tax, which i think is a good thing. maybe his good thing. maybe rishi. and his wife think that, but think wife don't think that, but think it's not right. john, how it's just not right. john, how how much does the opposition on increasing british doctors and british nurses jump? how much money is how much money is that? what what just what does what taxing non doms more actually . taxing non doms more actually. well to find out where we are when we're in treasury. we've got a commitment to 20,000 new new doctors and nurses out there already and. you know, they've been given a figure i by jeremy hunt when he refused to raise that raise the taxation so we're talking about we're talking about billions. i get that but just want drill down into this because non—dom . yeah all right. because non—dom. yeah all right. they won't pay all of their tax over here. they'll be abroad.

that's kind of the definition it i that but they i understand that but they will also have significant business interests significant interests in a significant wealth here. they will be wealth here. and they will be paying wealth here. and they will be paying they paying every time they get a monthly paycheque, they will be paying monthly paycheque, they will be paying numbers paying for umpteen numbers of people our nhs . and people already in our nhs. and if you want to tax them even more, they might just move away. complete early and we won't get any of that money at all and if you want to do that without being to tell anyone being to actually tell anyone what figure that what the figure is that it's going raise, might go, going to raise, people might go, well, actually that is unfunded. you just told me everything was costed it's not is costed a minute ago. it's not is it proposal in the it i said every proposal in the manifesto will costed but manifesto will fully costed but there is manifesto will fully costed but there i s £1.7 billion that can there is £1.7 billion that can be raised the non—dom tax be raised by the non—dom tax reform far as far as i can reform as far as as far as i can remember . reform as far as as far as i can remember. the point there's remember. the point is there's also to reform also a commitment to reform access primary so access to primary care. so we actually the full range of actually use the full range of people who can you services people who can give you services and treatment so you don't have to go to your gp as the only in you can pharmacists is you can use. pharmacists is pharmacies. much more creatively. they're already used . the vaccination programme for vaccination against covid in the

booster programme . there's lots booster programme. there's lots of ways we can actually make the system work better, more efficiently in a way that is more friendly towards the patients. there's of improvements we can make in the nhs that can improve efficiency and productivity and that's the key about isn't it more, key about this isn't it more, getting acute saving money getting more acute saving money or even more for less, just just one last one. nowhere in this big mentions it say big mentions does it say anything about either or anything about either legal or i mean, you're obviously an adviser under tony blair. some people would argue started this whole mess . yeah, well, look , whole mess. yeah, well, look, tony tony blair and i'll never apologise for this. tony made britain such a booming economy such a attractive to be the greatest country in the world. of course, people want to come and live and work here. it's a great country. was a great country under tony blair. the country under tony blair. the country under tony blair. the country under keir starmer. but people want to come and live or work in britain and they should be bring skills they be welcome to bring skills they have. stopping the have. but on on stopping the boats, going see this boats, we're going see this yean boats, we're going see this year, no way that this year, there's no way that this government can stop boats

because to because they've got to give illegal migration and channel a way to come to britain legally. and needs to be because and that needs to be because there are refugees of a strong association with our country through history. recent events . through history. recent events. they should have a right to come into it. surely labour wants into it. surely if labour wants are the when red wall back are in the when red wall back he's put illegal his top he's got to put illegal his top five priorities and he's not done that john the red wall is back. done that john the red wall is back . the red wall done that john the red wall is back. the red wall is done that john the red wall is back . the red wall is back when back. the red wall is back when we get 50% of the country saying that we're to vote labour, the entire country becoming a red wall again . the blue wall has wall again. the blue wall has gone red. london's got red. the north—west has gone red. the north—east has gone red. the predictions are the daily telegraph had a prediction with the tories having fewer seats than the snp. i think the problem at the moment is the government just need to get out of the way of the new labour government, keir said his plans today there'll be more detail dunng today there'll be more detail during let's during the year and let's hope there's election this there's an election during this yeah there's an election during this year. all right. always enjoy our and forth. thank you our back and forth. thank you very mccain their very much. john mccain and their former advisors, blair,

former advisors, tony blair, political well as political strategist, as well as strong do strong stuff. do you agree do you or with a of you agree or disagree with a of that gbviews@gbnews.uk well, that gbviews@gbnews.uk? well, here's okay. here's a question. okay. here's a do live in a question do you live in a divorce capital of the uk ? we're divorce capital of the uk? we're going to talk about all things relationships . find well relationships. find out as well what the lead cause of rules in home actually is. i've got to clue for you. i've got a few of them right here in the studio. but first, a select satellites. we're really . patrick, thank we're really. patrick, thank you. it's 330 for your top stories . the gb newsroom three stories. the gb newsroom three men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the shooting of detective chief inspector john caldwell and no , he was targeted caldwell and no, he was targeted by two masked gunmen while he was with his young son at, a sports centre last night in a critical but stable condition in hospital. police say the primary focus is on dissident republicans. the new ira and they're now reviewing the threat

. the number of asylum seekers waiting for an initial decision on their claim has hit 160,000. that's highest level since records began . the figures come records began. the figures come as the home secretary gb news in an exclusive interview that nothing's ruled out when it comes to tackling. indeed immigration. more than 45,000 people cross the channel in small boats last year, which suella braverman describes as unacceptable . well, speaking to unacceptable. well, speaking to liam halligan , she also said she liam halligan, she also said she understands why are frustrated with hotels . asylum seekers . with hotels. asylum seekers. it's clear that we have an unsafe sustainable situation in towns and cities our country whereby because of the overwhelming numbers of people arriving here illegally and our legal duties to accommodate , we legal duties to accommodate, we are now having to house them in hotels and that is causing understandable tensions within communities pressures on local resources . and you can watch

resources. and you can watch full 22 minutes interview with the home secretary, the gb news youtube. the home secretary, the gb news youtube . channel sir keir youtube. channel sir keir starmer has outlined his vision for the country. if labour were to win the next general election , launching his party's five national missions, the labour says the uk needs to be more competitive. the economy was highlighted as a top priority and he promised to be tough on crime tv online and to be plus radio. this is gb news. go anywhere, patrick be back in just a moment moment. okay, people, i want go to the inbox and then tell you what i've got coming your way shortly. so lots of you have been getting in touch with your thoughts and. the story were thoughts and. the story we were leading which that leading on today, which that some seekers to some 12,000 asylum seekers to the uk being considered for the uk are being considered for status without any of face to

face interviews are currently obviously a process, but obviously is a process, but there's a massive backlog. there's also a massive backlog. we've about hundred we've got roughly about hundred and 50,000 people awaiting it . and 50,000 people awaiting it. and clearly everyone's aware of the issue with hotels , the cost the issue with hotels, the cost to the british taxpayer running into the region of around £21 billion a year. so rishi sunak got on a soapbox and he said , got on a soapbox and he said, i've got my five plans here, which you can condensed three. but there we go. one of them is to stop the small boats. he also wants to reduce the asylum seeker backlog to much zero. so he's got to find a way of either imports or deporting around 150,000 people. and as we all know we seem to be allergic to deporting anyone in this country. so he's got to find a way clearly of allowing them to stay. and it would appear now that what he's going to do is remove the interview process. i know face interview know face to face interview and he's going to present people with something a ten page with something like a ten page booklet of a variety of different which different questions, which they can and some can then answer and some somewhere, probably a computer i would imagine will decide whether these can

whether or not these people can have the privilege of in have the privilege of living in britain. other britain. so the other interesting of is interesting aspect of this is that these countries include places already places an already high acceptance and those countries include , places like afghanistan include, places like afghanistan and syria afghanistan of course, being literally run by the taliban in syria, pretty much up for whoever the most for with whoever has the most guns , bombs. so is it actually guns, bombs. so is it actually a reasonable thing or do we now essentially have an open border ? two terror hotspots , ? two terror hotspots, gbviews@gbnews.uk that email address and jim's got on it, gbviews@gbnews.uk that email address and jim's got on it , jim address and jim's got on it, jim says, seems like there's no point even needing a passport to come to this country. i can understand the home office is inundated with claims, but no face to face interviews seems like . i'm like a recipe for disaster. i'm inclined agree with you that inclined to agree with you that jim. janine says. so they hope that these asylum seekers will help crisis. we help with employment crisis. we have thousands across have tens of thousands across the year alone and the channel last year alone and we're to we're still struggling to fill the well, is another the jobs. well, this is another to because they're saying to it because they're saying at the people get jobs the minute people can't get jobs because they're in the asylum process. they were process. so once they were allowed out into society, they could get jobs and taxpayer could get jobs and the taxpayer might stop paying for might have to stop paying for them. really keen

them. but i would be really keen to the numbers on this to see the numbers on this because if people coming in are in refugees, in genuine, genuine refugees, genuine, then genuine, genuine seekers, then i would it would take them quite a while to , get onto the while to, get onto the employment ladder. imagine they'd able to necessarily they'd be able to necessarily pay way they'd be able to necessarily pay way initially and pay their own way initially and we could understand that we could all understand that obviously people have come obviously if people have come from nothing at all fleeing something terrible . something absolutely terrible. but also mean that but that does also mean that the taxpayer actually to foot the bill and not let's be honest, this if we just take everyone at face value as well, which i think not a lot of people are inclined to do. michelle says this government is handing the country to whoever enters we voted get britain voted brexit to get britain back. not britain. back. this is not britain. this government a clue. government hasn't got a clue. well, will feel today well, how do will feel today then? on particular then? just on that particular note you've for me, note that you've raised for me, that which is that that michelle, which is that rishi grand stop rishi sunak's grand plan to stop the asylum seeker backlog , some the asylum seeker backlog, some would to be just would argue appears to be just to make it easier for people to waved through, which much waved through, which isn't much of a master plan, is it? keir starmer's issued these big five promises from promises today. we heard from a former to tony blair former adviser to tony blair earlier that and starmer's

earlier on that and starmer's top five plans and promises his pledges don't improve or include, i should say, anything include, i should say, anything in to migration. he's got highest growth got making britain a clean energy superpower , improving the nhs superpower, improving the nhs reforming the justice system , reforming the justice system, raising education standards so you go but obviously nothing about from what i could tell anyway. anyway, about migration illegal or legal time for one more. before i tell you what. coming up, john says , do we, the coming up, john says, do we, the british taxpayer, gets a question on whether or not thousands of migrants should let in interviews. my in without any interviews. my concern is that this is pretty obviously a recipe for disaster, and that's if we play the tape forward on this . at what point forward on this. at what point is the government if the government's really asked at the moment several questions like how adults are there studying in schools in secondary schools, how many fully grown adults are that pretending to be children in schools obviously can't answer otherwise wouldn't be in those schools, but they don't know a huge amount at the time. and then you say, well, how many

people have committed a terror offence or a murder or something? you now maybe something? are you now maybe even name even under a false name or a different name and they don't know. we know the criminal know. do we know the criminal backgrounds of people? backgrounds of a lot of people? and say, well, we don't and they say, well, we don't really know. and this, i think, is to get people is enough to get people quite angry. keep your views angry. but yes, keep your views coming. are going to move coming. and we are going to move on you've got loads on now because you've got loads coming you can't coming your way. you just can't keep prince out of the keep prince harry out of the news. right. now, of news. that's right. now, of course, meghan just want course, him and meghan just want to alone, don't they all to be left alone, don't they all actual different secretary has slammed prince now you slammed prince harry now and you love say i will also be love to say i will also be revealing where the highest divorce rate in uk is so . if divorce rate in the uk is so. if you had a blistering row with your or earlier on that your or wife earlier on that fear, no, you are not alone . it fear, no, you are not alone. it is you and countless others. and also i bet you can't guess what the top reason for a domestic argument is. it's not what you think, but it's how you into .

all right. okay not content with alienating to completely different continents . now harry different continents. now harry and meghan while they're at it again because the defence secretary is the latest person to weigh in, i'm publicly criticised. everybody's favourite prince military man, ben has said that prince harry boasting about 25 taliban fighters, undermines the nature of the army as a team game. well, the duke of sussex has already received a barrage of criticism revealing these details and. he's even been mocked by taliban leaders. i do actually think that was some elements of humour in the fact that prince harry managed to unite both taliban ban on unite both the taliban ban on ordinary of the british ordinary members of the british in their visceral disdain for him. following his release of that book spare or as i'm calling it, where as south park did, let's get the views of former senior military intelligence officer and co—founder independent co—founder of the independent defence authorities, philip ingram . be a thank you very ingram. be a thank you very much. he's nice to have some i would argue proper name royalty on the show given the individual

that we're about to talk about but yes now ben wallace is has waded in now saying that it undermines harry boasting undermines prince harry boasting about fantasy about how many taliban fantasy slot undermined and the slot it has undermined and the military. do you think it has now? not in the slightest. and ben wallace clearly hasn't read the context it in the book because , you know, he prince because, you know, he prince harry put it in the right sort of context. prince harry is a second a vigil. he's clearly got post—traumatic disorder. what he needs help. he doesn't this sort of criticism for and ben wallace to put himself in a position where in effect is picking on one veteran in is sort of undermines ben wallace's credibility as the secretary for defence in. the same interview he goes on to criticise johnny mercer. they minister for veterans puts him down by just describing as a junior veteran with , only 12 staff, whereas ben with, only 12 staff, whereas ben have asked to look after 224,000

people. i think that puts ben wallace's personal study into context rather than johnny mercer or prince harry. well, let's the angle that actually because i think a lot of people are a bit bored about talking overtly about harry although we will return to him in a second but in veterans issue now i've been banging on about it for a long we covered yesterday long time. we covered yesterday on that mercer on this show that johnny mercer wants veteran by the end wants to end veteran by the end of the year. i think that's cause they can all get behind then is here overtly took out prince harry who is a veteran and appears to have cast some shade on to johnny mercer. i mean think own defence mean you think our own defence secretary doesn't care too much for veterans ? i personally for veterans? i personally believe he doesn't care too much for veterans because, you know, he's putting all of the effort in. it doesn't really to care for four people. he's a very, very good, statesmanlike politician . he's very good in politician. he's very good in the international stage . he's the international stage. he's very good at projecting his image out. but when it comes to marking his report card inside minister of defence, you just have to see debacle after

debacle after debacle you've got the army with, with its ajax and fighting vehicle that's costing the taxpayer fighting vehicle that's costing the taxpaye r £5.6 billion for the taxpayer £5.6 billion for nothing being delivered. you've got red arrows and u2 pilots having to be sacked , the having to be sacked, the commanding officer being removed from post and nothing's happening at the of the raf you've got hms prince of wales with severe problems all delivered ben wallace's time and ben wallace is sitting there smiling and trying to deflect things by criticising prince harry, criticise ing. johnny mercer i've got a minute. i mean do you think that maybe you and prince harry should team up, call for ben wallace to resign? do you want ben wallace to resign? well, i'd happily team up with prince harry and suggest that ben wallace actually focuses on doing his job a little bit more internally and looking after the people in defence, because it's clear he's not doing that and part of looking after people in defence is looking after veterans and making sure that veterans uk is

in a to look after them because that comes his remit. johnny mercer unfortunately doesn't have control of it and i think if it was given to johnny mercer to after the veterans in to look after the veterans in the get a much the country, we'd get a much better . i mean, it's better service. i mean, it's fascinating stuff, to be honest with you. mean, do you think with you. i mean, do you think that might been out that wallace might have been out on if? it wasn't on his backside if? it wasn't for that there was for the fact that there was already war when they latest already a war when they latest reshuffle happened. well, i know he could well have been, but what is needed is that statesman like peace studies that very, like peace studies that is very, very he's very good at very good at he's very good at going into ukraine and dealing with a european partners and doing the wider diplomatic stuff . but, you know, he's not he's not good and he's not good at getting his staff to sort what needs to be done inside. the mod itself. i'll just ask you one last one. we will return to the prince stuff being. prince harry stuff being. honest, though, should prince harry revealed how many harry have revealed how many people even spoken people he killed or even spoken about ? i spoke a lot of about? i spoke to a lot of people in the armed forces say that's not done thing. it's that's not the done thing. it's a and be fair, i the

a taboo. and to be fair, i the taliban have all put all the facts. why around him and presumably anyone british as well. it's not really the done thing. i took it as a part of a cry for help, part of a selfless programme for him. and actually it's those senior military people openly him that have put a bigger target on his back and polarised the taliban more than what he said in the book. they wouldn't have known about it if other people having a moat and false horror this is false horror to say this is terrible. don't think terrible. i don't think it really one way really matters one way or another. i have on good another. i have it on good authority that the taliban are afraid to prince harry's are audible book and i no doubt would have been is he is massive in kabul massive. and thank you very much philip. in kabul massive. and thank you very much philip . philip, in kabul massive. and thank you very much philip. philip, i in kabul massive. and thank you very much philip . philip, i hey, very much philip. philip, i hey, hey, hey . is it because they say hey, hey. is it because they say the former us military intelligence officer and co—founder of the independent defence authority, copies of prince harry's book where were flying the shelves in kabul. ladies and gentlemen , it really ladies and gentlemen, it really was that explosive read new figures published by the white us have revealed that the uk's

top regions for divorce right now this is that okay so tina just under half of couples get divorced now somebody who's just got engaged. this doesn't. well, but at least i don't live in norwich which is apparently top divorce city. so he's got a divorce city. so he's got a divorce rate of 12.8. but that is higher, probably the national average and reasonable behaviour is the number one reason for people getting divorced and he's never reasonable behaviour, is it? to be fair, adultery being responsible for around 14% of marriage break ups and the average uk divorce rate and this is i was talking about is is what i was talking about is estimated at 42. so 40% nationally. and if you believe you read here, let's just round up 13% of people in norwich will be divorced got some interesting stats here as well about age range of this but i'll go into that shortly. i also to reveal to you the top reasons why people argue in the home. but i'm joined now by divorce coach sara davison . thank you very sara davison. thank you very

much . i mean, this is this sara davison. thank you very much. i mean, this is this is this is pretty bleak. i mean, as somebody who is about to get married, will you just advise me not to? well, you know . no, not to? well, you know. no, absolutely. no, this isn't for everybody there. people listening. if you don't panic , listening. if you don't panic, really doesn't matter if you do live in one of these areas. honestly, if you have a good relationship, got good relationship, you've got good communication, you're going to be those people that be it's for those people that all communicating and those are all communicating and those are all problems . that's where all problems. that's where you can learn from this and maybe do something now to avoid that . can something now to avoid that. can i ask before i talk about some of the rules at home? what does a divorce coach entail? i mean, what do you what do you do ? what do you what do you do? yeah, it's an interesting sighs, right? patrick i help people to cope better with any kind of break ups. so the emotional rollercoaster that you go through, and also the practical challenges that you face. so maybe becoming single again, moving home, becoming a single parent, confident issues, especially if you're coming out

of a toxic relationship as well. how to take your power back, recover learn the lessons from the past. so that you can go on and move forward, be happy again. okay, now , got a list again. okay, now, got a list here of . the top reasons why here of. the top reasons why there are roles in the home. okay. and number is not turning the lights out after you've left the lights out after you've left the room. apparently number two is not wiping down services surface it even i should say so. yeah they're turning the lights out. i think i can definitely to leaving wet towels lying around 17. what to watch on the tv. i can believe , although the can believe, although the argument is altered if they just tv news. to be fair how should people try to make sure frankly that they with the best one in the world don't require your services and don't get a divorce without one of them just turning into an absolute doormat. absolutely you i think it's about communication that everybody's different and it's about your differences, not to sweep them under the carpet and not allowing things to fester.

hopefully, if you say to your partner. i find it irritating that you're dropping your on the floor then in a healthy relationship that other person should then respond to that by making effort at least to have a little more often than not. so again , working together, i think again, working together, i think that's the basis of any good relationship , getting that relationship, getting that communication, you're not allowing those problems to be swept under the carpet because thatis swept under the carpet because that is the biggest challenge. i see, patrick, with people coming to this is a lot of to me saying this is a lot of issues, a lot of years i didn't want to it up because want to bring it up because i don't like conflicts i to don't like conflicts i want to avoid that. so i've said nothing. now , you know, it nothing. but now, you know, it could be one small thing that breaks camel's back. so again, addressing issues, planning around . now norwich , the around them. now norwich, the highest divorce rate compared to any other area in the uk with a staggering 12.8 were rounding out 13% following norwich got hastings and then blackpool with both 12.1. i mean i don't to cast aspersions on any of those

places i don't know whether waking up in norwich, blackpool hastings has got anything to do with fact that you want a with the fact that you want a new the average length new life. but the average length of uk at time of divorce of in the uk at time of divorce is 12 years. it's a bad run, a 12 year marriage considering you've probably been dating for a few years before that as well. and the uk divorce age average for women is 43.9 and for men it's 46.4. i've got a producer here actually remain nameless. he's just turned 46 and a half years old, although he never married. so i suppose he's out of that because you wouldn't know now. but he's not the age when. people decide, look, i still got a better life in the old dog. i'm sick of the way you breathe in the night. i'm going to sandra from door to it with sandra from next door . well, yes , could be. i mean, . well, yes, could be. i mean, there's all sorts of reasons that happens. but i think that this happens. but i think you know what you say, ten, 12 years, you change a lot in that penod years, you change a lot in that period of time. you're the same person went into the person that went into the marriage had kids marriage often if you had kids as the dynamic will have

as well, the dynamic will have shifted will change time. shifted and will change time. that time, you know, you're talking about, you know, again, you're getting that where you're getting to that age where you're thinking right. what's next? approaching what's next? i'm approaching 50. what's life to look like? so a lot of people do realise wait their life. if kids leaving again that can big part of when people can be a big part of when people break up called empty nest when they leave the kids leave. i go off to university and get jobs. then suddenly left staring across that table with someone thinking . what actually do we thinking. what actually do we have in common that was used to do all the things to the kids now what do we do? so again, this many reasons but you this so many reasons but you know going with sandra from know going off with sandra from next know take next door maybe you know take the think that through the time to think that through because quite often the grass isn't greener lovely sara isn't greener lovely so sara thank very much i thank you very very much i really that sara davison really enjoyed that sara davison is divorce coach just reacting is a divorce coach just reacting to the terrible news the people of that yes look around of norwich that yes look around you now the people of norwich the you attend a the next time you attend a policy. the people policy. okay see the people there. you just know that there. well, you just know that 13% of you are not going to be a couple in the next. but we

always like to keep it like our on news. don't mind. on gb news. we don't mind. i can't believe i'm saying these words. and gentlemen , gb words. ladies and gentlemen, gb news be about to be the news could be about to be the home box. and yes, your home of box. and yes, your favourite in to favourite tv is in talks to bnng favourite tv is in talks to bring you a fight between two true political heavyweights . true political heavyweights. more ways than one brave brexiteer lee anderson and the protesting ramona steve, pray tell, which somewhere on they could settle their differences in the ring. so rivalry between lee anderson and steve bray hit new heights last when the tory mp stole steve bright heart. what i did like about steve bray fighting back is that he kept a in his mouth the whole time while he did it. this is a fight. this is a fight. two absolutely legends, though, isn't that the fight could take place on the river thames case. it'd the thriller by the it'd be the thriller by the river west. it's the river next to the west. it's the jungle of rumble in the west. there's the jungle and experts are already building it. yes that's right. thriller on that's right. the thriller on the i want know the river. but i want to know this afternoon. which major this afternoon. okay which major political do want to political figures do you want to see? head to head a boxing see? go head to head in a boxing match. need undercard. okay?

match. we need undercard. okay? i mean, i, i you know, me people . you know, i'm. i'm a lover, not a fighter. i've offered to be the emcee. i even offered my services as a ringo because it's a modern world and i could identify as a woman for the day, presumably. i think most people will be hoping doesn't go beyond round one. otherwise you have to see with see me walking around with a placard a bikini but placard wearing a bikini but that i want to know who you that week i want to know who you think be on the undercard think should be on the undercard for lee anderson. steve bray, which match, which which is a boxing match, which we are apparently now actually doing here on gb that we doing here on gb news that we got moving on now, here's got right. moving on now, here's what coming up for you what i've got coming up for you lovely of lovely people. other side of this short break with this very short break with around 160,000 people waiting to find out if they will be granted asylum. going have a hot asylum. we're going have a hot debate on whether not the debate on whether or not the government's essentially government's idea to essentially wave of them through and wave a load of them through and potentially give us an open border couple terror border with a couple of terror hotspots good idea. hotspots is indeed a good idea. i'll see you in a couple of minutes .

a . a. it's a . it's 4:00, gentlemen. you a. it's 4:00, gentlemen. you always patrick christys right here on gb news. and i've got a big hour coming your way. is britain about to have an open border with terror hotspots? it looks like rishi sunak's masterplan to remove the asylum seeker backlog isn't wave. tens of thousands of people through leeds plan show there will be face to face interviews just a questionnaire which something that's lovely isn't it. and these will go to people from afghanistan and syria, which is expected to garner at least a 95% acceptance rate. i mean, it is being called an asylum seeker amnesty . and i can understand amnesty. and i can understand why moving on is the ira. back. three men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was gunned down in front officer was gunned down in front of kids in northern ireland.

we'll bring you more from our exclusive interview with suella braverman and as well, the home secretary. out she's braverman and as well, the home sec some out she's braverman and as well, the home sec some very out she's braverman and as well, the home sec some very very she's braverman and as well, the home sec some very very harsh1e's braverman and as well, the home sec some very very harsh words got some very very harsh words for the police that will kick off at gb news. could be about to be the home of . we can to be the home of. we can confirm that we are in talks for an actual boxing match between two political heavyweights and. more ways than one. definitely see chairman of the tory party, liam neeson and annoying remain a protester. steve bray so yes, this is actually thing that's happening. get your suggestions. we should fight on the undercard coming in. we've already had farage versus blair and i think we'll have to speak to the big guy anyway. so keep those coming in. email me gb views. a gbnews.uk. look, one serious one. should we interview every single asylum seeker to face before we let them here? less serious . two people do you want serious. two people do you want to see fight the actual undercard of lee anderson ? steve undercard of lee anderson? steve bray. anyway. gb views the gbnews.uk now is the headlines and armstrong . i. good afternoon

and armstrong. i. good afternoon to you . it's a bit of pass form to you. it's a bit of pass form out armstrong in the three man have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the shooting of a high ranking officer in omagh. detective chief inspectorjohn officer in omagh. detective chief inspector john caldwell was targeted by two masked gunmen while he was his son at a sports centre last . he's in gunmen while he was his son at a sports centre last. he's in a critical stable condition in hospital . police say the hospital. police say the dissident group, the new ira is the primary focus and they're now reviewing the threat level. chief constable simon byrne told reporters a respected colleague is fighting for his life clearly as an organisation. we are utterly shocked and angered by last night's brazen and, calculated attack . john is calculated attack. john is father, husband and colleague and a valued and active member of his local community. john's are understandably extreme distressed by last night's shooting . however, they remain

shooting. however, they remain resolute and committed to bringing those responsible for this crime to justice. a former police ombudsman for northern ireland, nuala alone told gb news this will bring back memories a darker time in the history of the province. the shooting of mr. caldwell is something exceptional though, and it seems it's seems to be connected with the fact that he's a police officer and that means that every police officer who got up this morning and put their uniform on a will is reflected . every police officer reflected. every police officer going out to work will have reflected. what does this mean to me and their children and their spouses and their parents? the siblings. everyone will be saying, what's going on the number of asylum seekers waiting for an initial decision . their for an initial decision. their claims had 160,000. that's the level since records began . the level since records began. the home secretary has told gb in an exclusive interview nothing is being ruled out when it comes to tackling immigration. more than

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bringing people of all generations together . people who generations together. people who share a love of reading . gb news share a love of reading. gb news will bring you more as it happens, but now it's back to . patrick okay, i've got lots to get through and we start this hour with the government's latest plan to tackle the massive migrant backlog. now it's not much of a if you ask a lot of people currently there are more than 160,000 people applying for asylum in this country, which is costing me and you, everyone, we know. a reported costing me and you, everyone, we know. a reporte d £2.1 billion a know. a reported £2.1 billion a year and the authorities desperately to clear that backlog. rishi sunak because i can get hot on it, he said. i want to stop the boats as the only bit of jeopardy that he had in his five point plan to condense into points and stay on to the boats. i'm going to to stop the boats. i'm going to clear asylum backlog. clear the asylum seeker backlog. everyone was like, oh rishi.

well to do it? are well are you going to do it? are you going to more staff there? you going to find a way of managing facilitate more managing to facilitate more people the asylum people to check the asylum seeker what seeker backlog? no. what he wants scrapped face to wants. it was scrapped face to face interviews with thousands of asylum seekers ask of asylum seekers and ask them to fill a questionnaire to fill out a questionnaire instead. thought that instead. and it's thought that about from about 12,000 people from afghanistan syria, eritrea, afghanistan, syria, eritrea, libya yemen who have already libya and yemen who have already appued libya and yemen who have already applied for asylum in the uk will be eligible under the policy being launched from the home office. a couple of major issues with this, which is that we already apparently have around 90% rate around a 90% acceptance rate with people from afghanistan on syria, a is expected, according to some reports , rise to 95% if to some reports, rise to 95% if indeed this questionnaire system is brought in would lead me to ask the question, have we got an open border with afghanistan and syria? the plans aim to speed the people from the process for people from nafions the process for people from nations typically have high nations typically have a high growth rate , i've said. growth rate, i've just said. joining is the director joining me now is the director for centre of migration and for the centre of migration and economic stephen wolf . stephen, economic, stephen wolf. stephen, have we got an open border with two terror hotspots ? well,

two terror hotspots? well, you've got an open border. if this policy is going to go with what it says with five countries, afghanistan , syria, countries, afghanistan, syria, eritrea libya as well as the yemen. and, of course, each of those countries have their own political issues. there's and then there's people who are fleeing war and torture as well. so they're going to be mixed into the whole. but what it does mean very clearly , is the mean very clearly, is the concerns i expressed on your show about , rishi concerns i expressed on your show about, rishi sunak's policy just a few weeks ago, was that his plan to the backlog would that we'd have clearing people through without any proper checks. and here is today proof that for 12,000 he's seeking to clear them straight away without face to face and. that's an open border with these countries. it's a failure of our system to monitor people properly . and it monitor people properly. and it will only bring problems in the future, unfortunately. but look , you know, the idea was that once say notwithstanding that

saying, oh, he's going be strong on immigration, but on illegal immigration, but actually quite possibly actually this is quite possibly the policy we've ever the weakest policy we've ever had it. well it's worse than the labour policies in 2000, 2001 and 2002. well had over 135,000 people allowed into the country at that time . they opened the at that time. they opened the doors on a similar strategy. so if the those people in the home office, then they were doing it now you wouldn't any difference. it's very weak. it's very danger to allow this to happen. and all it will do now is send incredible message to the people smugglers . massive message is . smugglers. massive message is. give us your money. you're in. yeah. and that is message, isn't it? so rich, you see that wants to implement something according to implement something according to reports that would basically help a load of people help to wave a load of people through the time as through at the same time as wanting to stop the boats. well why would the boat if why would the boat stop if people think long as they can people think as long as they can get there, in. well

get there, they're in. well there won't be any stopping of there won't be any stopping of the boats. now what will see the boats. now what we will see is increased intensity to is an increased intensity to have routes that are used have those routes that are used from afghanistan . i've seen from afghanistan. i've seen drone footage of open back lorries being piled with people in afghanistan and paying the taliban $50 to get their first part of that trip across. the borders into turkey and then the bases in turkey expanding to get people here to the uk . that's people here to the uk. that's what's going to happen. stephen chris very consciously can't ask you on that because a lot of people will have just picked up on what you said and be on what you said there and be thinking, hang on a thinking, well, hang on a minute. the taliban the minute. if the taliban the actual taliban is helping to get people first leg of people on their first leg of their to the uk, what their journey to the uk, what does that about some just does that say about some just some of the people who might be over here ? well, we won't be over here? well, we won't be able to know who they are, but it's obviously we've seen dangerous arrive in the dangerous people arrive in the uk . we have unfortunate uk. we have the unfortunate murder in bournemouth recently from an afghanistan who claimed asylum . we've had the terror asylum. we've had the terror attempt in liverpool from somebody and of course also the

murder of the mp. so there are going to be bad actors who are. there will also be some decent people, too. as we know, patrick, you've seen that and you've heard that yourself . but you've heard that yourself. but what does mean is that there what it does mean is that there is involvement with those in afghanistan, is involvement with those who are on the people's smugglers. there are those involved in the drug trafficking, trade or profiting from getting people from those countries. and this policy will just give them more as a big ploy. stephen, one of the big annoyances for the british public, the cost to the taxpayer, public, the cost to the taxpayer , £2.1 billion a year taxpayer, £2.1 billion a year roughly. it is currently costing us with this asylum seeker backlog and the government will probably argue, well, if we clear that backlog that it stops costing taxpayer money. the costing the taxpayer money. the theory being that these people are live and work are then to go and live and work around britain . how likely is around britain. how likely is it, do you think these people will be working on self—support within a couple of years . well within a couple of years. well be clear about this. that number

of point 1 billion. i don't recognise in any way, shape or form. patrick it's much too low. just fees that we pay for housing to the free mexico and clear clare homes ltd is 2 billion a year for that ten year policy. then we have 6 million a day on hotels, which is another 2 billion. then we have 350 million just for those who receive less of the income that we the asylum on a we give to the asylum on a weekly basis. that's and a half billion. then we've got the legal fees, we've got legal legal fees, then we've got legal aid, we've got border aid, then we've got the border force, the costs force, then we've got the costs in home office, the health, in the home office, the health, the education, costs, and the education, the costs, and our is around 8 our estimates is around 8 billion and is billion a and there is absolutely no way allowing these people to and work in low people to come and work in low paid which of them paid jobs, which most of them would do in, the building would do in, say the building industry, taxis or , even if you industry, taxis or, even if you get them into retail, is ever going to repay those sums of money at it's nonsense. no. and i just don't see how this stops any time soon. stephen can i just finish with a slightly off

phil question before we move to on harrison? he's got some on rory harrison? he's got some really numbers on really interesting numbers on different immigration figures . different immigration figures. well, i don't i was amazed about this, as you probably are, as well. we are apparently going to host a fight between lee and steve bray here , gb news on both steve bray here, gb news on both parties. they're pretty keen on it. yeah, on both parties seem pretty keen on it. i've offered to be the. well, either a ring girl or a of the amnesty. let's ready to rumble guy. we won't look. we won't. we won't ? look. we won't. we won't? suggestions for people who should be on the undercard. who would you like to see each other from the political . world well , from the political. world well, i would definitely to see a battle between sturgeon and nigel farage. oh, get back of the net. yeah, exactly. although i think sturgeon, if he see david starkey face such a good sport as well. thank you very much. well director of the centre for migration and

economic prosperity right back to slightly more serious matters economic prosperity right back to sland.y more serious matters economic prosperity right back to sland we|ore serious matters economic prosperity right back to sland we are serious matters economic prosperity right back to sland we are sticking�*natters economic prosperity right back to sland we are sticking withers now and we are sticking with that topic of migration because the home has published the home office has published its migration figures its quarterly migration figures which provide overview of which provide an overview of what call irregular what they call irregular migrants , who come the uk, migrants, who come to the uk, including arriving small including those arriving small boats the english boats across the english channel. and with us now to mull over ruminate on these over two ruminate on these figures going figures we're going live to dover speak with our gb news dover to speak with our gb news south—east england. reporter south—east of england. reporter ray the latest ray anderson, who has the latest ray. yes. thank you very much. what are the latest? what's going . on hi, patrick. well, going. on hi, patrick. well, we're seeing a 60% increase in the number of irregular migration migrants who've travelled across the channel to the united kingdom since 2021 and 2022 and 2021. it was just over 28 and a half thousand and last year it was just under 46,000 people. if you go all the way back to 2018, only . 299 way back to 2018, only. 299 migrants made that treacherous crossing at that time. so last

year we had 1109 small boats make that journey to the kingdom from france , 80, 87% of their from france, 80, 87% of their passengers were males. and 20% were from afghanistan . and 28% were from afghanistan. and 28% from albania. so those two countries making up the vast majority, 48% of those who came here. now, one in eight of all of the albania and migrants who made that journey year were referred possibly having trafficked. human trafficking, victims of human trafficking . victims of human trafficking. and there's a two stage process to that to check validity. 90% passed the first check, but far only 55% have passed the second round of checks, although it has to be said that the vast majority of those who were referred are still to receive that second assessment. now of course, with this dramatic

increase from 2021 to 2022, i've been speaking to people here in dover to get their reaction to the stats , to understand why the stats, to understand why they're making that treacherous journey. why they feel the need that they have to put themselves and their family risk and sort of help out the root cause of the problem rather than just counting the numbers who come across successfully or who don't even come across successfully . i even come across successfully. i don't understand why so many men , no families, but obviously on their own, all coming here. they not they're not fleeing war. a lot of them . and they're just lot of them. and they're just economic migrants, actually . i economic migrants, actually. i just think shows the conditions they be living in and how difficult it is to get asylum overin difficult it is to get asylum over in the country . there's two over in the country. there's two countries on our asylum list . we countries on our asylum list. we allow over and so i just think it shows i mean the danger of crossing into conditions and

what they're paying to cross. just shows the desperation of them and how difficult must be where they are. and i think we need to set up a better immigration system . so patrick immigration system. so patrick we know from stats released earlier well that . there's earlier well that. there's 166,000 and my grounds on the asylum claim backlog. the rishi sunak back in december said that he would eliminate over of that number and get it all by the end of the year . number and get it all by the end of the year. remains to be seen whether he manages to achieve it . yes. thank you very much, ray . artist in there who's been out there about for us in dover reacting to those latest figures go out today. when it comes to that kind of stuff, isn't there really, which is the news essentially people are going to be? well waved through. that's the argument . people going the argument. people are going to asylum here to be applying for asylum here and being given a face to and not being given a face to face interview. those are from countries such as afghani stan and in the and syria. lots of people in the in box about that. get your

views in gb views at views coming in gb views at gbnews.uk. think that gbnews.uk. do you think that everyone who applied asylum everyone who applied for asylum here an here should be given an interview really. we're interview really. but we're moving from that for moving away from that for a minute we're going go minute because we're going to go to northern ireland where three men arrested on men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a officer was after a police officer was shot in night . detective in omagh last night. detective chief inspector john caldwell said fighting for life said to be fighting for his life and is a critical but stable and is in a critical but stable condition. he was shot by two masked men in front of his son and other youngsters . masked men in front of his son and other youngsters. he masked men in front of his son and other youngsters . he helps and other youngsters. he helps out a football session . a local out a football session. a local football club. northern ireland's political leaders, including sinn fein and the dup, have issued a joint statement to condemn the shooting . but with condemn the shooting. but with us is gb is northern us now is gb news is northern ireland dougie beattie. ireland reporter dougie beattie. he's in omagh. dougie, thank you very the latest ? very much. what's the latest? well attack was a very targeted this . john caldwell was a very this. john caldwell was a very accomplished police officer. the squad that he had it up took on many, many high profile cases. and you think about this, this was very targeted. they knew

exactly when he would be vulnerable, when wouldn't be carrying. has personal protection weapon with him. and of course, that was he was here with his son being a family man at about 8:00 last night. the training session behind us here at the youth centre was over. the young children were coming out to meet their parents in the car park behind . and at that car park behind. and at that point , when car park behind. and at that point, when mr. car park behind. and at that point , when mr. caldwell car park behind. and at that point, when mr. caldwell was going the boot of his car to put equipment into it, his son was just at the front of his car to bus. man came out of the shadows and got him down. they fired multiple times at him , heading multiple times at him, heading to him many times. multiple times at him, heading to him many times . he was so to him many times. he was so very lucky that the people here ran to his first. he said to him that possibly could have saved his life. it was then that he was transferred to hospital where he is stable, but critical. the man is fighting his life over as a time, of

course has had its in the past. in fact , it is a beautiful area in fact, it is a beautiful area , but it is the scene of the worst ever terrorist atrocity on british isles. and that was in 1998 when terrorists struck . but 1998 when terrorists struck. but you don't you can't help but feel this was a much more targeted and precise attack at the at the man himself, dougie. thank very, very much. dougie beattie hayes, live there in northern ireland. us following the shooting of that police officer . the shooting of that police officer. right. i've the shooting of that police officer . right. i've got the shooting of that police officer. right. i've got a the shooting of that police officer . right. i've got a lot officer. right. i've got a lot more coming. your way. our economic and business editor liam halligan. he sat down for an exclusive interview with home secretary suella braverman. stay tuned because honestly, we've got an unseen from this. there was some material that hit nigel farage's cutting room floor last night. picked out we're going night. we picked out we're going to it. i'll just get to run with it. i'll just get your suggestions coming in people which two people as well. but which two politician do you want to see fight on undercard of the fight on the undercard of the fight on the undercard of the fight apparently fight that are apparently hosting lee anderson and hosting between lee anderson and ramona? steve bray? my favourite

one so far is penny moulton versus angela rayner. there's one non—police angle suggestion which is meghan versus which is meghan markle versus prince. as on, and i think we can agree we'd love to see can all agree we'd love to see vaiews@gbnews.uk see the tech .

welcome back. wonderful people. now earlier this week, our economic and business editor liam halligan sat down for an exclusive interview with home secretary suella braverman and williams spoke the minister about the case of former police officer david carrick, who's beenin officer david carrick, who's been in jail for life after this month after pleading guilty to 48 rapes. we've got a little clip from that now believe it's unforgivable. and that's it was right for the met commissioner to be very forward leaning in his apology to the victims and actually to the broader public

for the shattering of confidence that cases like david carrick or even white cousins brought about . and i think what we need all to do now is look forward. we need to ensure that we rebuild confidence . i know the met confidence. i know the met commissioner, sir mark rowley , commissioner, sir mark rowley, wholly understands challenge and is not shying from the enormity of that challenge . it's about of that challenge. it's about reviewing data and ensuring that we root out any officers who are not fit to wear badge. it's about improving standards that apply about improving standards that apply to vetting and recruitment , and it's about ensuring that ultimately the public have confidence in our police . you confidence in our police. you know, i'm pleased to say that liam halligan actually joins me now, our economics and business edhon now, our economics and business editor. and liam, it was a wide ranging interview that wasn't focusing anyway. on focusing in that clip anyway. on response to some elements of the police i was the police force. yeah, i was the home secretary in our office , home secretary in our office, the home office for half hour.

it was her first full sit down interview as home . we talked a interview as home. we talked a lot about the northern ireland protocol, very much at the top of rishi sunak in—tray at the moment, about the small boats issue, which you've been covering patrick and you as covering, patrick and you as listeners can see the whole interview on are channel and the gb news app . but what you've gb news app. but what you've done this afternoon is you've picked out some parts the interview that are less newsworthy . also very, very newsworthy. also very, very interesting . so i quizzed the interesting. so i quizzed the home secretary about the tragedy . nicola bulley of course , . nicola bulley of course, constabulary has been accused of releasing inappropriate information about nicola when she was still feared lost . she was still feared lost. family are obviously very worried about her. now of , worried about her. now of, course, unfortunately a body has been found and the home said she wanted to not on the lancashire constabulary behaviour about that because an internal investigation was undergoing and she did want to prejudge . but

she did want to prejudge. but then i asked her about david carrick. as you say, the metropolitan officer who's been given six life sentences because of his behaviour in the police behaviour which some police officers have said since was happening in plain sight and the home secretary said that public confidence in the police had been her shattered by this scandal. she called on the head of the met's mark rowley, who of course replaced dick to study ship. and she said she was aware that was studying the ship but pretty still pretty strong words there for what is biggest and most important police force at a difficult time. i'm absolutely strong stuff and no doubt the police will listening very, very clearly. what was her general mood and demeanour lightly. and there's rumblings earlier on in there's rumblings earlier on in the week about her considering position, for example. what was she like? did she seem quite settled to you? well, just to

give an interview at a time like this , when there is such this, when there is such contentiousness around the northern ireland protocol, a lot of the tory backbenchers, especially the european research group, which she used to chair , group, which she used to chair, are concerned about the ongoing role for the european court of justice in northern ireland. northern ireland staying within the eu single market. that's a court which our own home secretary politicised and expansionist grabbing power in. her words as a lawyer. she's by that ongoing situation post—brexit . she was basically post—brexit. she was basically in this interview firmly warning the prime minister that i said, would you resign ? she said, this would you resign? she said, this is not the time to talk about raising land. but then she proceeded to talk to me about the last time she resigned on brexit when she was a junior brexit when she was a junior brexit minister in 2018. suella braverman comes across as a very, very nice , very gentle very, very nice, very gentle

woman is as hard as nails when it comes to the issue of constitution no law, and particularly brexit she did used to run the irg. she is the only so—called spartan , the cabinet, so—called spartan, the cabinet, the spartans were the 28 tory mps . he repeatedly voted theresa mps. he repeatedly voted theresa may's deal. three times in a row. jacob rees—mogg he wasn't a spartan. ian duncan—smith , but spartan. ian duncan—smith, but he wasn't a sports and boris johnson he wasn't a sports. and the spartans, the real hard core of the lga and i think history will judge without the spartans brexit in this simply would have not happened . and she is the not happened. and she is the flag bearer for. not happened. and she is the flag bearer for . those people in flag bearer for. those people in the government, rishi sunak has to have her in the cabinet in order to keep that part of the tory party under control, a part of which at of the tory party which at a whim they had to remove the prime minister power. well, yeah, and in fact was part of yeah, and in fact it was part of the tory policy. it was at least behind the scenes making noise earlier week. did ask earlier this week. you did ask her bit as well, didn't her a little bit as well, didn't you i think about the channel boat as well, and hotels,

boat as well, and the hotels, the backlash taking place the public backlash taking place there. her there. and i thought her response to that was quite interesting, actually. it was course boats issue is course the small boats issue is a big deal she had a really big deal when she had to it, you know, she had to stand it, you know, she had a 90 minutes stand up row with liz truss was prime truss when she was prime minister liz truss minister because liz truss was trying push to her ease trying to push to her ease immigration controls in order to boost suella braverman when no way. and she up, you know, resigning from office , being resigning from office, being kicked out partly in the know the final moments of liz truss's premiership. but even worse she said , i got her back as home said, i got her back as home secretary. six days later because he knew he had to have her in there to some of the backbenchers. how under control it is power and the home is about to lay a bill before parliament which does toughen up immigration. for parliament which does toughen up immigration . for instance, it immigration. for instance, it proposes that if you arrive here undocumented that you are immediately deemed illegal. no chance of you being classified as an asylum seeker. the lords

will push back against that. of course they will. that sort of erm enclosed chamber of legal aid . and so what suella aid. and so what suella braverman wants to do, she wants to keep on the table, the nuclear option of leaving the aca altogether, leaving the jurisdiction of the strasbourg court. the issue of course for many people a sacred text which of course british lawyers and mps drafting it in the shadow of the second world war. we were the second world war. we were the first country to ratify it . the first country to ratify it. only belarus and russia in the council of europe countries , all council of europe countries, all signatories to the hr. she's got the stomach to leave the chl if it means that she solves the small boats problem . the small boats problem. the question is, has the prime minister. well this is thank you very much. and by the way, in case you're wondering you can watch that full interview there is 22 minutes long as with so other problem as i've been talking about that's available on our gb news youtube channel. i mean there's always a clip of it all over twitter to it as well all over twitter to make sure get on that.

make sure that you get on that. and i tell him i was loving the way you described suella braverman sparse hard braverman as a sparse and hard as all of this, given as nails and all of this, given the that are currently the fact that are currently trying to the undercard for trying to plug the undercard for the gb news fight that apparently covering which is lee anderson bray. anderson versus steve bray. maybe see coming anderson versus steve bray. mtegypt see coming anderson versus steve bray. mtegypt she's see coming anderson versus steve bray. mtegypt she's how see coming anderson versus steve bray. mtegypt she's how does see coming anderson versus steve bray. mtegypt she's how does a e coming anderson versus steve bray. mtegypt she's how does a coffining to egypt she's how does a coffin nail you very much liam nail thank you very much liam halligan always halligan now you can always a business is that right? business side is that right? maybe god. face to face interviews they could out interviews they could be out questionnaires be in questionnaires they could be in for asylum seekers. questionnaires they could be in fo bid asylum seekers. questionnaires they could be in fo bid to asylum seekers. questionnaires they could be in fo bid to cut asylum seekers. questionnaires they could be in fo bid to cut the asylum seekers. questionnaires they could be in fobid to cut the soaring seekers. a bid to cut the soaring backlog. debate backlog. we're also debate that's few . yes. where do that's in a few. yes. where do you stand on that we've got an open door policy with open door policy now with a couple of terror hot spots around i mean around the world? i mean it wouldn't surprise it wouldn't surprise me what it surprised you up next right surprised you but up next right now it's not just the without armstrong . it's 432. good armstrong. it's 432. good afternoon to you on armstrong here in the gb newsroom. detective chief inspector john caldwell remains in a critical condition , being shot in omagh condition, being shot in omagh last night . condition, being shot in omagh last night. the dup leader, sir jeffrey donaldson . political jeffrey donaldson. political leaders in northern ireland are a clear message of unity in

their condemnation of last night's and their support for the police . three men have been the police. three men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after john caldwell was attacked by masked gunmen with his young son at a sports centre , say the primary sports centre, say the primary focus is on dissident republicans, the new ira and they're reviewing the threat level. the number of asylum seekers waiting for an initial decision on their claim hit 160,000. that's the highest level since records began . the level since records began. the figures come as the home secretary tells gb news in an exclusive interview . nothing's exclusive interview. nothing's been ruled out when . it comes to been ruled out when. it comes to tackling illegal immigration . tackling illegal immigration. more than 45,000 people crossed the channel in small boats year, which suella braverman describes as unacceptable. speaking liam halligan, she also says she understands why people frustrated with hotels housing asylum seekers. it's clear that we have an unsustainable in towns and cities around our

country whereby because of the overwhelming numbers of people arriving here illegally and our legal duties to accommodate them , we are now having to house them in hotels and that is causing understand double tensions within communities, pressures on. and you can watch the full 22 minute interview with the home secretary on the gb news youtube channel. the queen consort has appeared to speak out against the censorship roald dahl books as she launched a project today. the new club aims at bringing together people who share a love of reading . and who share a love of reading. and camilla, who was joined by king charles at clarence house, told a room authors industry figures to remain unimpeded by. those who may wish to kerb your freedom of expression. it's first public appearance since recovering from covid tv online and dab, plus , this is gb news. and dab, plus, this is gb news. now back, patrick

wow . we're going to debate this wow. we're going to debate this question next. okay. we've got two great guest lined up . you do two great guest lined up. you do not want to miss it. and that question is whether or not we should interview every single asylum that wants to come into the uk because well, from where i'm sitting it looks lot like rishi about to a lot of rishi sunak is about to a lot of people through indeed even people through and indeed even introduce an open door system with to least two terror hotspots. how does that make you feel? big debate coming your way very shortly shortly .

okay, welcome , everybody. back okay, welcome, everybody. back to our top stories today. now face to face interviews for thousands of asylum seekers could be scrapped in favour of home office questionnaires in a

bid to cut the soaring backlog of cases, which is definitely one way to try to cut the backlog, isn't it? the plans aim to speed up the process for people from nations that typically crime typically have a high crime rate, might surprise rate, although it might surprise which are . it which nations they are. it includes afghanistan and syria, of are known terrorist of course, are known terrorist hotspots and. so there are currently more than 160,000 outstanding asylum claims and have been questions raised over the prime minister and home secretary's claims that channel are gaming the system. well, it does come as and this is interesting as the home office announce that 85% of all small boat migrants modern slavery claims those people who come over here on the channel on small boats claiming be victims of modern slavery. 85% of their claims are found to be legitimate. well, joining me now is former chief immigration officer at the uk border force, kevin saunders . and i've got kevin saunders. and i've got human rights campaigner. fraser mclean stuff, by the way . mclean great stuff, by the way. thank you very, very much. kevin, with you. do you kevin, i will with you. do you think that rishi sunak gets

think that if rishi sunak gets his way and we don't have interviews asylum seekers that we essentially have the best of an open door policy with some known hotspots ? well, i've got known hotspots? well, i've got to say , patrick, when i when i to say, patrick, when i when i was first told about this, the small thing i had to check, it wasn't the 1st of april, quite honestly i was , i suppose a honestly i was, i suppose a little bit surprised that we're where we're operating this policy. and i've spent the rest of the day getting trying to get stuff out of the home office. and in the end, i've got 28 pages about , and in the end, i've got 28 pages about, which is incredible . absolutely incredible . and . absolutely incredible. and some of the figures that are being bandied around are just plain wrong . i see. but 95 some plain wrong. i see. but 95 some media outlets , 95% of these media outlets, 95% of these people get asylum, which is actually totally . less 8% get

actually totally. less 8% get asylum. the others get something called humanity , care and called humanity, care and protection because we can't remove them. so, you know, it's nonsense for some of these figures to be quoted because i just plain wrong. and this modern slavery business is under threat, under review because this is being totally absolute mishandled. a complete mess. it's modern slavery of business. all right, fraser i'll i'll bnng all right, fraser i'll i'll bring you in quite a lot. if he's there. your views. yeah, well, it shouldn't come as any surprise because this is the government's fault. those us in the human rights sector, i think , probably been misrepresented to an extent. we want a bureau of structure that works really . of structure that works really. and this hasn't worked for some time . home office's budget in time. home office's budget in 2018 was 25% less in terms of day to day spending in terms as it was in 2010. and this is the result. it's an organisation suella braverman that cannot handle current pressure. yeah but should say no interview

people face to face. fraser. i'll stick you on this. should it be a case of we now send a questionnaire around to a lot of people from afghanistan and syria and say, do you want to come here? and basically, i presume if they answer yes and they much in. fraser they pretty much get in. fraser i people do have massive i mean, people do have massive about yeah, they do. about this. yeah. yeah, they do. i think, to be honest, it would be ideal if we everyone the same the fact feels have to the fact the feels they have to do is just indicative of do this is just indicative of how much the home office is struggling under their leadership. and comes from leadership. and it comes from funding comes poor funding and it comes poor ministerial governments from suella braverman and robert jenrick took jenrick. they took responsibility for. a number of young people in hotels. 200 of which gone i was which have gone missing. i was at briefing by kent police at a briefing by kent police yesterday us that already yesterday they us that already some those children have been found forced to work in cannabis farms. so you know it comes back to good governance and it comes back to a lack it under this back to a lack of it under this government phrase, just government phrase, you just don't sorry go back don't know. sorry i will go back to but i'm just to governance but i'm just too aware of a point that you've made there. i don't want to

forget that are definitely forget that there are definitely children. yeah, so of children. fraser yeah, so of 200, 188 or something, we're all being a vast majority where young men under , the age of 18, young men under, the age of 18, and we know that because there's issues isn't there with certainly example you know, adults being put in schools recently do we absolutely know that these people go missing from hotels are indeed children . i thought well that's what the police told me. so have to ask them i think can police are a trustworthy source but there we are. phone of alright kevin i'll pick up back on you now because well raised something well you've raised something that really heard too that i hadn't really heard too much before. figures much about before. the figures when, bandied around when, it's been bandied around about 95% being granted asylum more. 85% the people who are more. 85% of the people who are coming across the channel now, who being modern who are being granted modern slavery their claims slavery basically their claims have been found to be legitimate. to be legitimate. you appeared to be disputing kevin that disputing them. kevin that about. it's it is odd . it's about. well it's it is odd. it's wrong . basically wrong . if you wrong. basically wrong. if you actually dig into the figures, you'll find about 8% actually

get asylum others get leave to remain it's called humanitarian protection because they've here they've thrown documents away we noidea they've thrown documents away we no idea who they are or where they've come from and therefore we can't them . so we're stuck we can't them. so we're stuck with those killings. and so that stuck in in in the and we have do something i'm going to grant asylum so we have to get on this thing called humanitarian protection . kevin, can i just protection. kevin, can i just ask you what kind of questions? are people asked in an interview and what kind of questions would you expect to be asked a question? so if i've just arrived from afghanistan on a dinghy across the channel that dry and you know i'm going to i would i would traditionally some point have been interviewed by someone presumably what kind of thing i be asked. right. thing would i be asked. right. well, through a whole

well, they'll go through a whole pile things. now, pile of things. i'll ask now, you know name, address, where you've from , your religion you've come from, your religion , why you you've to the uk, what's caused to leave your home country? where are your family . country? where are your family. why why have you come? and they've stayed at home. you know why is dangerous for you, but for not them. i things are all things along along that line . things along along that line. okay and because my mind just don't understand why we have to now devote this time to a question. now, why can't we get more people maybe to, to, to actually interview these people ? i that would seem, well, ? i mean, that would seem, well, basically basic. you've got basically basic. what you've got to is , we're only to remember is, we're only interviewing people who arrived before the borders, the nationality act into force. and that was what 2020 something of june last year. that was what 2020 something of june last year . so we're june last year. so we're interviewing the people from afghani still on eritrea, libya, sierra syria and the yemen who

we, you know, we know that we're going to be with. so we can we can we can do it by paper, basically . fraser, i'll bring basically. fraser, i'll bring you back in. there are all those figures on there that say 85% of people who are coming over the channel who claims to be victims of modern slavery are actually successful in. that application, what do you make of that? because i think some people do find it quite hard to believe that someone paid somebody that if someone paid somebody thousands pounds travel thousands of pounds to travel somewhere that would be the somewhere that would ever be the victim of modern slavery. well, this is the debate has this is this is the debate has been completely lost. it was just lost in the last answer that given there. you asked that was given there. you asked about slavery immediately was the given the answer was given asylum. they're different. the matters a very small proportion of people coming over are being referred to for slavery claims. the tories have said a lot of these claims are being fake. the statistics that came out about modern slavery referrals this morning denied , that claim put morning denied, that claim put a huge dent it which means the new

modern slavery laws that were brought in two weeks ago are now already obsolete, not they were legitimate in the first place. so already debate has been totally muddled . i mean, it's totally muddled. i mean, it's pretty governance and it's deliberate blurring of the rhetoric to tarnish anyone who, for whatever reason is coming in. okay. just clarify, both of you before, because i've got to move on. so it's pretty much a yes or no answer this, but i just wanted to make sure we've got this clear. we have got very much two sides on this debate. so we've obviously the former border force angle that we've got, rights angle and got, the human rights angle and as far as i know, what neither of you think is a particularly good scrap a face to good idea to scrap a face to face and introduce face interview and introduce a questionnaire, that questionnaire, is that is that so when comes to our borders. so when it comes to our borders. yeah. so you see that yeah. so right. so you see that it's too both sides of this it's much too both sides of this argument policy, i is argument this policy, i think is fascinating. both of you, thank you very much. but the government what? well, you're not wrong. you're not wrong. we be agree. thank you be it. we all agree. thank you very you. right. very much both of you. right. okay. former chief okay. that was former chief immigration officer uk border force kevin saunders and human

rights mclean. rights campaigner fraser mclean. hello. i will hello. it's i it anyway i will probably bit more of that probably do a bit more of that on show. but sir keir on in the show. but sir keir starmer has us all of his starmer has told us all of his plans for our great nation and he's them his five he's calling them his five missions he's he's aiming he's calling them his five missine he's he's aiming he's calling them his five missine wantse's he's aiming he's calling them his five missine wants to he's aiming he's calling them his five missine wants to make|iming he's calling them his five missine wants to make using high. he wants to make us fastest growing economy in the g7 the police and g7 and reform the police and justice our streets safe justice to make our streets safe again. labour leader also again. the labour leader also criticise current government criticise the current government for sticking plaster for their sticking plaster politics on called the politics approach on called the conservatives clamp down. have a quick listen shall we. devoid of ideas that clap out that divided two week to challenge the vested interest in their party which hold back too close in on themselves to think big for our country . britain needs country. britain needs leadership with ambition , belief leadership with ambition, belief in the possibilities , the in the possibilities, the future, hunger to take hold in the big challenges . this is the the big challenges. this is the case for change a new government , case for change a new government a , case for change a new government , a new way of governing . , a new way of governing. britain needs both with labour . britain needs both with labour. britain needs both with labour. britain will get both right join

is former labour adviser it's scarlett maguire . scarlett, scarlett maguire. scarlett, thank you very much great to have you the show. yes, there you go. well, what do make give us i he's aiming us i mean, he's aiming relatively isn't saying relatively high. isn't saying certainly the economic one to please i was listening please everyone. i was listening to it live and he was base basically saying that it was pretty much did say all pretty much did say you're all going written under labour going to be written under labour government. think government. yeah i mean i think what said is we've we've got to change is what's happening at the moment isn't good enough and actually instead of having as he calls it, sticking possible to policies that will just us through to the next three months is we've got to look we've got to look to the future and we've got to actually have some serious aims. and the first one about economic is that we are going to grow faster than any other country in the oecd . now other country in the oecd. now to do that , you've got to you've to do that, you've got to you've got to invest . you've got to got to invest. you've got to have you've got to have good business, but you've also got to have good public. i mean, it is highly and at last we've got

somebody who says, no i'm not talking about tomorrow. i'm talking about tomorrow. i'm talking about tomorrow. i'm talking about when i get into power. and actually, the ten years. well, yes right, well, well, in way it is, scarlett. but i he's basically saying if you wait a decade if you hang for on ten years, you'll see the results of the things that i'm talking about today. and people don't want that. so hold on. what he's saying . we can talk what he's saying. we can talk about what we're going to do when we get in. we can talk about the first days right ? we about the first days right? we can show that we're a government that's going to but actually what you want to know is that we're a that has a long term plan and it's frankly about we had a long term plan instead of, you know, changing prime minister all the time. what we need. minister all the time. what we need . yeah the only way you fix need. yeah the only way you fix the economy is to do it long term. the only way that you can you can sort out, you know , the, you can sort out, you know, the, the greens is to do it long term . you can't go on saying this .

. you can't go on saying this. this will make it better. this will make it a bit better. he says he wants actually to look at it in the future. so what the answer is he actually thinking long? because i think if he was thinking term, he wouldn't thinking long term, he wouldn't want actually alienate all want to actually alienate all rich people, which is what he appears because appears to be doing, because he's to say, oh, we'll tax he's going to say, oh, we'll tax the non—dom to high have a well tax people are way up the tax people who are way up the ladden tax people who are way up the ladder. well they ladder. all right. well they will the country and will all leave the country and then will have any of the then we will not have any of the tax all. they when he tax at all. they so when he talks about things like fixing our nhs well solution to that from item before a from an individual item before a former tony was former adviser to tony blair was to tax non—dom to help fund our nhs, nowhere near nhs, which is nowhere near enough then they will nhs, which is nowhere near encleave. then they will nhs, which is nowhere near encleave. and then they will nhs, which is nowhere near encleave. and when then they will nhs, which is nowhere near encleave. and when iten they will nhs, which is nowhere near encleave. and when it comes' will nhs, which is nowhere near encleave. and when it comes to ill all leave. and when it comes to the education system, he wants to make it harder for people to go private school, go to private school, essentially actually essentially mean these actually aren't long term solutions. oh, hold get this hold on. let's get this straight. the at the moment the non—dom, which is means that people who don't who live here but don't pay tax . right and but don't pay tax. right and they pay 30,000, quit . that's

they pay 30,000, quit. that's all they have to do. and what we're saying and frankly, the americans have been doing for decades, if not centuries, is if live here, you pay your taxes here and i'm that straight and i'm lots of people want to live here . the very rich really like here. the very rich really like living in london, right. here. the very rich really like living in london, right . and the living in london, right. and the thing about private schools is all they're saying is , is that all they're saying is, is that private schools not have a tax break, is that private schools should pay vat just like any other business. and that's all they're saying. they're not saying don't send your children to private school. and frankly, the private school fees have been going up massively this and the pupils have coming down, i mean, an awful lot of people over the last years can no longer afford to send their children to private school because the fees so big, because a lot of them is about attracting the children non toms. okay mean the private school i went to was around 40% kids on either a bursary half or

full bursary so be fair. that's not true, is it ? there there not true, is it? there there are. there are there bursaries. but actually lot of a lot of kids if we're saying is. sure you want to send your child to private, that's fine. but we think that doesn't mean your school should have tax break is your schools should pay taxes just like any business and that money needs to be spent on . on money needs to be spent on. on the 93% of children who do not go to private school where we really, really to make to make the schools better to introduce more drama more football more to come i'll no scarlets saturday not going to make know going to solve our education system by introducing one. sorry would you mind just putting knife down and do some interpretive for me please? mean, come off it. please? i mean, come off it. it's to it's not going it's not going to it's not going to happen. is it hold on. the problem with our education system carrying system is not boys carrying knives right the problem one of the problems of our education

system is it's actually too system is that it's actually too narrow. it's too focussed on the academic . what you want to do is academic. what you want to do is you want to give more kids an opportunity to shine. and so you do want syndrome. there's nothing wrong with dance and drama . education isn't just drama. education isn't just about learning academic things. education not just about getting getting to oxford and cambridge . education is about understand learning and education is the beginning . learning and education is the beginning. it learning and education is the beginning . it should be beginning. it should be a beginning. it should be a beginning of something and not say, oh well, you're not bright enough to do all of so really you're a failure . it's actually you're a failure. it's actually most children have some talent and that talent is not necessarily going to get the talent out. all right. and that's they'll start is that's going to be the big the big the big labour plus scarlett thank very much always a pleasure we could have spoken day about these places scarlet maguire is full life advice that full of life advice is that right? okay even the queen

consort. moving on is giving a take on a so—called sensitivity . readers editing the words of author roald dahl. we touched on this last week. she's been this last week. now she's been hosting lovely gathering when this last week. now she's been hostappearedzly gathering when this last week. now she's been hostappeared to gathering when this last week. now she's been hostappeared to wade ring when this last week. now she's been hostappeared to wade into when this last week. now she's been hostappeared to wade into then she appeared to wade into the row about roald dahl, which to go well with the audience . go down well with the audience. and as we were reporting about the that some words the fact that some words have been roald dahl been cancelled in roald dahl that call august, that you couldn't call august, is he was now just is group facts. he was now just enormous. would rather enormous. i would rather be called than enormous, i think. but me now is someone is but joining me now is someone is definitely need are definitely need the fat are enormous walker i'll enormous is coming walker i'll roll. reporter carl, what did camilla yes camilla have to say? yes joachim? patrick yes. i mean, she seemed to take a very she much seemed to take a very strong on free speech and strong stand on free speech and against cancel culture . let's against cancel culture. let's just take a little look of what said. please keep doing so and please remain true. chill calling unimpeded by those who may wish to kerb the freedom of your expression or impose limits on you imagination writes yet, patrick, this is quite

unexpected because clearly this comes very soon after in fact , comes very soon after in fact, it was the end of last week, the telegraph revealed, that a number of words and phrases roald dahl, children's books had been changed, say , for example, been changed, say, for example, this i think you actually said august is bleep no longer fat, that now is no fat . mrs. twit is that now is no fat. mrs. twit is no longer fearfully ugly. the speech the queen consort was giving today was in of a lot of very distinguished authors in this country and clarence house. she was celebrating two years of her reading room which is an instagram like online community encouraging more people to read but i think it was very the fact for someone quite as high profile as the queen consort clearly in a position of power as as consort to his majesty the king. he was also watching the and living in clarence and i think was quite a statement. she was very careful not to specifically to roald dahl. yeah. however i think it was very much implied. and you have

to draw the conclusions. she is very much free speech. the queen consort. she's in favour of free speech and not being cancelled for perhaps slightly offensive words . yeah. good god, this is words. yeah. good god, this is the kind of that we want them to make. thank you very much. as even make. thank you very much. as ever. come and walk in our royal reporter bringing you bang up to date with camilla's stand for free we do got free speech and. we do have got about left. so we do about a minute left. so we do have some news, huge news. have some huge news, huge news. gb could the home of boxing gb news could the home of boxing yes your favourite channel is in talks to bring you a fight between two true political heavyweights. brave brexiteer, lee anderson and protesting remainer? you can't tell side. we're on it. can't you see they could settle their differences the ring both parties bang up for this they've been giving us a taste they've been teasing it for quite a while now they've numerous scraps lee anderson of course hit new heights when he nixed hat. steve bray nixed bray's hat. steve bray didn't to actually spill didn't manage to actually spill a single little bit of ash from his cigarette that whilst was his cigarette that whilst he was desperately claw his desperately trying to claw his cat fine could take cat back, the fine could take place thames river thames

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yes hello it's 5:00 we are live at five for you all with me. patrick christys here on gb news and this what i've got coming up in the next thousands of asylum seekers are to be sent home. office which could used to decide their claims in a bid to help cut the soaring backlog of cases. could this affect creates an open door the uk and countries which by the way include afghanistan syria. well the backlog to be sorted and it's thought 160,000. but does the government need to take this drastic action? i'm going to be listening to the views of you

wonderful our viewers on. this ad is the only right back. three men have been arrested now on suspicion of attempted murder of detective chief john caldwell after he was gunned down yesterday evening in front of children in omagh . defence children in omagh. defence secretary ben wallace has weighed in on criticising prince harry following his admission about killing 25 taliban fighters and he said that it undermine the nature of the army as being a team game. was speaking to a retired british army officer about all of that and as ever, i want to hear what you think on the big of the day. what do you about the fact that the government doesn't really want to interview 8000 people? it and come for it would and come here for afghanistan and from syria. gbviews@gbnews.uk also make you get your suggestions in for who should be on the undercard of fight that gb news is in serious serious talks to host between lee anderson and steve bright. yeah i'm in believe that i did have a word in the office

apparently it's a thing and we are doing it so there you go who do you want to see? fight each on the undercard of big lee anderson and wenjing state. right vaiews@gbnews.uk. but now is when is guidelines that when armstrong . good it is 5:02 let's armstrong. good it is 5:02 let's get you up to date with the latest from the jb newsroom. three men have been arrested on suspicion of, attempted murder following the shooting of a high ranking omagh , ranking officer in omagh, detective inspector john detective chief inspector john was targeted by two masked gunmen while he was with his son at a sports centre last night. he's in a critical but stable condition in hospital . police condition in hospital. police say the dissident group, the new ira is the primary focus and they're now reviewing the threat level , chief constable simon level, chief constable simon byrne reporters a respected byrne told reporters a respected colleague fighting his life. colleague is fighting his life. clearly as an organisation we are utterly shocked and by last night's brazen and calculated attack , john is a father,

attack, john is a father, husband and colleague and a valued and active member of his local community. john's colleagues are understandably extremely by last night's shooting . however, they remain shooting. however, they remain and committed to bringing those responsible for this heinous to justice. former police ombudsman northern ireland baroness nuala olo until gb news. this will bnng olo until gb news. this will bring back disturbing memories of the past . the shooting of mr. of the past. the shooting of mr. caldwell is something exceptional though and it seems it to be connected with the fact he's a police officer. and that means that every police officer who got up this and put their uniform on will as reflected every police officer going out to work will have reflected what does this to me and their children and their spouses and their parents the siblings, everyone will be saying what's going on. the number of asylum seekers waiting for an initial decision on claims had 160,000. the highest since records began.

the highest since records began. the secretary told gb news in an exclusive interview . nothing has exclusive interview. nothing has been ruled out when it comes to illegal immigration . more than illegal immigration. more than 45,000 people crossed the channelin 45,000 people crossed the channel in small last year, which suella braverman has described as unacceptable . described as unacceptable. speaking to liam halligan, the home secretary says she understands why people frustrated with hotels being used as temporary accommodation . it's clear that we have an unsustainable situation in. towns and cities around country whereby because of the overwhelming numbers of, whereby because of the overwhelming numbers of , people overwhelming numbers of, people arriving here illegally and our legal duties to accommodate them , we are now having to house them in hotels and that is causing understand double tensions within pressures on resources . and there are all the resources. and there are all the details if you want to watch that full interview with the home secretary is on the gb news youtube channel. sir keir starmer outlined his for the country. if labour were to win the next general election ,

the next general election, launching his party's five national emissions. labour leader the uk needs to be more competitive of the economy was highlighted as a top priority and he promised to be tough on crime. sir keir says sticking plaster politics is holding everyone back . the pattern is everyone back. the pattern is always the same. destroy acted by the short term obsessions fixate westminster held back by a cynicism which uses low trusted politics as an excuse to our ambitions. blinkered to the potential of an active government setting the direction we learn . from crisis to crisis we learn. from crisis to crisis . always reacting. always the curve. a plaster. never a cure . curve. a plaster. never a cure. four people have been arrested after a huge ukrainian flag was painted outside russian embassy in london. the country's were spread across what, 500 square metres using hundreds of litres of yellow and blue paint. a

protest group led by donkeys has claimed . they say massive flag claimed. they say massive flag marks the first sign of history of russia's invasion of ukraine. glowing tributes have been paid to the legendary commentator john motson , who died at the age john motson, who died at the age of 77. gary lineker described him as england's voice football for generations known as motty . for generations known as motty. he became synonymous with the beautiful game during distinguish 50 year career with the bbc covering ten world cups, ten european championships and 29 fa cup finals. the ten european championships and 29 fa cup finals . the sheepskin 29 fa cup finals. the sheepskin coat another item that set out from the crowd. he retired to organisation in 2018 and the queen consort has to speak out against censorship . roald dahl against censorship. roald dahl literature. she lodged book project in london today. camilla made her first public appearance since recovering from covid to launch her book project as a

charity. now urged authors to remain true their calling unimpeded . those who may wish to unimpeded. those who may wish to kerb the freedom of their expression or impose limits on their imagination , please keep their imagination, please keep doing so. and please remain true to your calling unimpeded by those who may wish to kerb the freedom of expression or impose limits on your imagination. freedom of expression or impose limits on your imagination . and limits on your imagination. and this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. but right now, back to . now, back to. patrick all right. we've got so to get to. let's get cracking we and get stuck into the government's latest plan to tackle the massive migrant backlog. more than 160,000 people are applying for asylum in this country, which is costing me and you. i

reported which is costing me and you. i reporte d £2.1 billion a year and reported £2.1 billion a year and i think that's quite a conservative estimate. the authorities desperately need to clear backlog . so what's clear this backlog. so what's the government doing about it all when we have more people processing claims? maybe we processing the claims? maybe we could to deport could make it easier to deport people at. they are proposing to scrap face to face interviews with of asylum seekers. just ask them to fill out a questionnaire and then publish. uncle, welcome to britain . it's thought to great britain. it's thought that 12,000 from that some 12,000 people from afghanistan which is of course, run by the taliban in syria, have no isis hotspot. and any of the terror groups hate you. eritrea, libya, yemen and wonderful parts of the world. they've applied for asylum in the uk and they are waiting for a decision and they will be eligible under new policy launched the office . launched by the home office. just fill out a questionnaire. no to face interview no face to face interview whatsoever. if they pass whatsoever. and if they pass a rumoured 95% of them are expected . then they can come and expected. then they can come and spend rest their lives in britain. the plans aim to speed up the process so people from nafions up the process so people from nations that typically have a high grant and as love made

high grant rate and as love made wonder whether or not and not just may lots of people we just as hands up and say we as hold our hands up and say we currently border currently have an open border system with countries like afghanistan and syria. so this is a good job. the eu isn't set. earlier on i caught up with the director of the centre for migration, economic prosperity , migration, economic prosperity, stephen wolf, he feels that stephen wolf, and he feels that this proposal only this proposal will only encourage illegal . i won't encourage more illegal. i won't be any stopping the boats. now what we will see is an increased intensity to have those routes that are used from afghanistan. and i've seen drone footage of open back lorries being piled with people in afghanistan paying with people in afghanistan paying the taliban $50 to get their first part of their trip across borders into turkey and. then the bases in turkey expanding to get people here to the uk and that's what's going to happen. it will increase rapidly. okay, there we go. so those are the views of stephen with a view experts on today. gb news, though, is, of course, the people's channel. and i wanted to your on because it to get your on this because it

will ordinary people like you will be ordinary people like you who brunt whether or who bear the brunt whether or not this is a good policy. rishi sunak up didn't say and he sunak stood up didn't say and he said to stop the small said i'm going to stop the small boats. okay. so you think that by allowing people to have a life in country, by virtue of filling a questionnaire, we filling out a questionnaire, we already that we do already know that we don't do extensive background checks. you know, , i slipped know, just look, i slipped through the net. there was that chap murdered. chap who was murdered. two people wasn't and have people in serbia wasn't and have been for drug dealing in, been done for drug dealing in, norway managed to norway and italy. he managed to make over here and then make his way over here and then he someone to death. so he stops someone to death. so we're exactly the we're not exactly hot on the background checks. an background checks. that's an issue. but if we then let people in where come live, in where they come and live, should be doing more should we actually be doing more to protect our security? is it time that we just completely reveal rishi reveal essentially what rishi sunak's stop the sunak's grand plan to stop the asylum seeker backlog to reduce that from the around 160,000 people who are on it. it not actually to do anything about making it more difficult to come here by introduce tighter deportations games or anything. now it appears to be to just wave people through . there you wave people through. there you go. i've sorted it, ladies and

gentlemen. well, we view gentlemen. well, we have a view on how. it's alan mcneely from grimsby is a regular on the channel. alan are a gb news channel. alan you are a gb news view. what's your take on rishi proposed plan anyway to just let people from afghanistan and fill out a questionnaire and then suppose be 95% of them can come here and live here for the rest of lives cut often and pass it on. on the surface, it just seems to be absolutely ludicrous . but it depends, i suppose, who they target within this group of 12,000. is it women and? children? is it families ? does children? is it families? does that change the dynamic in some way? that suggests that the young men are growing with no checks , then they have checks, then they have definitely lost the plot? i was really impressed that in the two people you had on before the break, they were talking the immigration figures and the fact that maybe 14% of the people actually get asylum. the remainder get leave for being by this protection act. a lot

surprise me at all because we've no of figuring out who these people are. why does it concern you more if it's all young men as opposed families or women and children ? what is it about that children? what is it about that the that bothers you? do you think ? well, the question is , think? well, the question is, actually, who are they? what are they here for? and what's purpose? yeah they come they come for criminality . are they come for criminality. are they potential terrorists ? somebody potential terrorists? somebody coming into the country to create disruption and may harm death without knowing who they are, or at least trying to find who they are? we've no way actually knowing that at all. the couple, the home office have is the common practise where they throw all their documents away . that's why so many are away. that's why so many are granted this protection in the survey in. a few like smoking sands, because we don't know who are. what gets me , alan, right. are. what gets me, alan, right. is that you would expect to do an interview , if you want a job

an interview, if you want a job at tesco's you would if you ever travelled to america the border force. there is pretty i mean you can have an actual passport , can definitely know who you are, they can definitely have a look at all of your background checks and you still get held up by border force. it feels like you're interrogated, but you're being interrogated, but as stands the as it currently stands under the alan, could come from a alan, you could come from a country that is literally being run the taliban and you would run by the taliban and you would not actually be interviewed at any point by a human being. it would appear , if you want to would appear, if you want to actually come stay here and actually come and stay here and do think that, that do you think that, frankly, that a massive risk for people it's a an incredible risk. a massive risk for people it's a an incredible risk . we just do an incredible risk. we just do not know what the background of these people are , whether the these people are, whether the fast track or that they slip into the system under the trafficking rules . you don't trafficking rules. you don't really know who these people are. and a lot of the trafficking issue is people being trafficked into, the country. surely the human thing to do would be to take back to

where they were profit from because they obviously didn't want to come if they were tried. so the first thing to do would to be return them to their families in their country of. but doesn't seem to so i but that doesn't seem to so i think major risk, a major think it's major risk, a major security risk. and i think that we will live to regret this in the remember it only takes person to absolute mayhem . you person to absolute mayhem. you don't have to have an of terrorists. you have to have a dozen. well, i know that they could do all that line. alan oxley, stephen wolf, that gave us a fantastic line earlier on why he said he says he says that he's seen evidence and videos that the taliban are loading onto the back of open lorries and. that should be a massive concern to anyone, i think, shouldn't it, realistically? i mean, if the taliban willing to let these people go, it would imply that they , you know, imply that maybe they, you know, may giving some orders , may be giving them some orders, for of course, for example, which, of course, is, one would hope, just the absolute of absolute absolute minority of people . nonetheless, it's still

people. nonetheless, it's still rather a large risk, i think, to take is and say, alan, when it comes to whether or not the taliban essentially actually sending people over here, i we don't really want to leave ourselves. why do to the ourselves. why do open to the argument now alan would that whilst people running whilst these people are running asylum they're asylum seeker backlog they're probably a hotel and they're probably a hotel and they're probably contributing towards the £21 billion a year bill for the £21 billion a year bill for the taxpayer, whereas if we then let them out and, say, yeah, you can go and get a job and pay into the system that would be a good thing for the british taxpayer. do you buy that? do you think that actually that is a thing? it would the a good thing? it would the argument would get argument would be it would get them the wage bill, as it them off the wage bill, as it were? well would it get them off a wage bill? would they actually get out there get job or get out there and get a job or would release allow them to would we release allow them to work they just and work and then they just and claim unemployment benefits or simply disappear into the black economy , which must be economy, which must be absolutely massive this country. so i can understand the reason why they don't want to let them work. i can also see the argument that, yes , we got the

argument that, yes, we got the my working got the paying into the system . so i'm not really . the system. so i'm not really. sure one way or the other what might be best thing. there are my initial thoughts . they should my initial thoughts. they should be arrested . be the team. yeah be arrested. be the team. yeah the scottish policy having the think about if come here illegally you will not have the right to stay . but illegally you will not have the right to stay. but i would strengthen the policy would say if you come here illegally you will be arrested . the sentence will be arrested. the sentence for that entering country illegal will be ten years of prison . if you want to put your prison. if you want to put your application at low fine, go ahead. but it will not be processed through. you've served sentence. and then once you've served your sentence. we're going to get you out of the country to somewhere else because not going to stay because you're not going to stay . so they've got the right idea, but there a of the but there need be a lot of the right to come here. that's going to be to easy get. the reality of the unfortunate reality, alan, is that you are partly going to be presented at the next election with

next general election with a choice between two major parties, one of whom, keir starmer, his starmer, announced his top priorities and priorities today. and within those appear that those it would appear that migration legal or illegal those it would appear that m nottion legal or illegal those it would appear that m not one legal or illegal those it would appear that m not one of legal or illegal those it would appear that m not one of them.il or illegal those it would appear that m not one of them. and illegal those it would appear that m not one of them. and another is not one of them. and another person in the chamber rishi sunak who his grand plan is plan for people off the for getting people off the asylum be to asylum seeker appears just be to say welcome why you want say hello. welcome why you want to leave, is a fascinating to leave, which is a fascinating way doing it . to leave, which is a fascinating way doing it. i'll just stay way of doing it. i'll just stay with you all for one set because i'm putting you on the spot. this is a difference altogether. as you may have been hearing interest, appears is interest, it appears that is going an boxing match going to host an boxing match between landis and steve bray . between landis and steve bray. okay. who do you to see on the undercard of anderson versus bray ? who do you want to see bray? who do you want to see fight each other in our political world or try who i think should be backup fight? yeah, yeah . oh, well the backup yeah, yeah. oh, well the backup fight should definitely be our. and who else have we got now just go for somebody from the snp trying to run any over snp

on charity from the snp and on you rhiannon fair enough. there we go. i'm sure there'll be a market for it. thank you very much, alan. great stuff. oliver daly left from grimsby . yes. and daly left from grimsby. yes. and you did. you did right. you did hair right. we are hosting a boxing match. right? okay. gear now, gentlemen. very now, ladies and gentlemen. very much story. that's much so. serious story. that's because three men have been arrested suspicion, murder arrested on suspicion, murder after a police officer was shot in night. detective in omagh last night. detective chief caldwell is chief inspector john caldwell is to be fighting for his life. apparently and is in a critical but , stable condition. was but, stable condition. he was allegedly shot by two masked men in front of his son and other youngsters as he helped out at a football session as a local club. northern ireland's political leaders, including sinn and the dup, they've sinn fein and the dup, they've issued a statement issued a joint statement condemning the shooting, but me now is john laverty, who's the nice editor at the belfast telegraph. thank you very much, john great to have you on the show. well, there will be course, in rather depressing course, in a rather depressing circumstances. do we know course, in a rather depressing cir

o'clock last night when a dci caldwell who works part, who does voluntary work as a football coach , was putting his football coach, was putting his gear away in the car along with his little son, when three men are sorry, two men approached him. two gunmen. and basically gunned them down in front of his head and in front of lots of other people. two apart. and there was nothing between people around there. that was the time that this leisure centre complex was being. people were leaving for the night. their parents. there were lots of kids there. we've been actually a few of the kids went head in the bushes that they would get shot, too. i mean, the one thing of it as as a that john is with us and thank goodness he adds and i think 99.9 99% of the people in northern ireland are praying that he makes a full recovery because that was a horrific,

horrific incident. can give me a little bit of context about , little bit of context about, john caldwell, because he is very much a name in the world policing in ireland disney. very much a name in the world policing in ireland disney . yes, policing in ireland disney. yes, he is. i mean , jewel has been he is. i mean, jewel has been a police, a serving police officer for over 26 years. he started just before the good friday agreement was signed. and he worked his way up . and he has worked his way up. and he has beenin worked his way up. and he has been in our quite a lot recently . he's been dealing with another horrific murder and ultimately the political situation, the murder of a pregnant woman. and john was one of the people who was investigating the there do a good too much on it but they've they they they have somebody in court from that gosh okay good it's good . goodness gracious.

it's good. goodness gracious. and look it as it's a difficult one because they've been arrested , as you well know, arrested, as you well know, which is massively limited the scope, what we're really allowed to of and we don't to say, of course. and we don't want speculate anything want to speculate on anything like. have a fair like. but there have been a fair fears of some kind of new or a new i.r.a. involvement, as it were , mean that is obviously were, mean that is obviously a concern, i think, for the wider community in northern ireland, isn't it ? well, it is because isn't it? well, it is because these people have no , you know , these people have no, you know, these people have no, you know, the support for them. if you call it the real ira, the new ira, the ira, all this sudden , ira, the ira, all this sudden, republicans no support , at all. republicans no support, at all. i mean , you can see, you know, i mean, you can see, you know, northern irish politicians don't agree on, but they they've agreed over a little over the last 24 hours about their utter abhorrence and condemnation of this of this cross despicable crime. and a throwback to the bad old days , you know , i'm old

bad old days, you know, i'm old enough to remember when this sort of thing was happening day in daily, but there's a whole generation of people now, northern ireland this does not happen. and enough the last time something as serious as this happened was kosovo care and omagh. the scene the scene a little time, the 11 to 11 years ago when gospel carol was murdered with a car bomb. yeah john, look. john thank you very much. and hopefully we'll speak to you again soon, although hopefully not under such bleak circumstances, as i said, john laverty, that nice editor at the belfast telegraph, that was speaking to us after three men were arrested on suspicion of attempted after police attempted murder after a police was omagh last. right was shot in omagh last. right next we are going talk about prince harry because in government a big beast as well has accused him of boasting about many people he killed in afghanis down on saying that this poses a security threat. so i'm going to be talking all about that. and another royal has stood up for speech. it's about time , isn't it? all of

about time, isn't it? all of that coming your way very, very shortly shortly .

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interview. this idea is utterly ridiculous . interview. this idea is utterly ridiculous. david from dangerous and solves nothing though be all these charities on care for calais and dozens of lawyers queuing up to fill these forms and for them to ensure their accepted. talking of the lawyers yesterday were going quite big on old shamima begum case on the old shamima begum case when she was refused to when we after she was refused to have citizenship have a british citizenship reinstated. found out reinstated. and what i found out was fascinating about. reinstated. and what i found out was was fascinating about. reinstated. and what i found out was was the ascinating about. reinstated. and what i found out was was the legal|ting about. reinstated. and what i found out was was the legal angle.)out. reinstated. and what i found out was was the legal angle. you've that was the legal angle. you've got there. this got the lawyers out there. this is over this isn't over. is not over this isn't over. absolutely and you've got actual members , our actual intelligence members, our actual intelligence services coming out and services who are coming out and saying, privately , saying, well, privately, privately, he's a just a catalogue of absolutely horrific , horrendous stuff that shamima begum involved in the things that we know about us, like sewing suicide bombers , their sewing suicide bombers, their suicide vests in a way that meant that they couldn't go out without themselves up without blowing themselves up and that have of and that would have led, of course, to deaths of, course, to the deaths of, however people. but however many other people. but the fact that they could have actually put herself actually put begum herself forward. she have done forward. so she have done a video link interview. she could have given almost like a character witness for herself and these lawyers presumably

didn't even think that the person that they were shilling for would have been safe to protect her reputation . so protect her own reputation. so it me to the conclusion it leads me to the conclusion that that she that they don't think that she could trusted to her own could be trusted to put her own side forward to get there. still, they're to and do still, they're willing to and do whatever they can to let this woman back into country. woman back into the country. remarkable it absolutely remarkable isn't it absolutely remarkable when go remarkable is that when you go into lawful andrea says, into the lawful as andrea says, this encourage more this will only encourage more people to over illegally. people to come over illegally. we to as people as we need to be as many people as possible. i really worry for the future and i'm glad i'm at the latter stage of life and it latter stage of my life and it out. i mean, to fair, that is out. i mean, to be fair, that is pretty grim that we've seen the lines that . you would rather be lines that. you would rather be dead than the britain dead than see the mess britain is about become. so there you is about to become. so there you go. this of course, in go. this is, of course, in response the fact that response to the fact that several just to, several people will just be to, told fill a questionnaire and told fill in a questionnaire and not to face not given a face to face interview in light of the fact that rishi sunak's other priority is stopping boats priority is stopping the boats to boats. how on earth to stop the boats. how on earth will it the boats if people will it stop the boats if people can told by the people can be told by the people smugglers, if you set foot on british you say you're british soil and you say you're from afghanistan syria, from afghanistan or syria,

there's that you there's every chance that you won't able it won't even be able to do it interview. how on earth do we prove it here people are. gordon from yorkshire says, can prove it here people are. gordon fronit. yorkshire says, can prove it here people are. gordon fronit. thousands re says, can prove it here people are. gordon fronit. thousands of says, can prove it here people are. gordon fronit. thousands of so—called see it. thousands of so—called asylum in star asylum seekers in four star hotels sat with feet up on their latest iphones, up all their family and friends saying, you need your overhead need to get your cells overhead , get free room, free , get free hotel room, free food, free medical care. it's absolutely wonderful . i mean, food, free medical care. it's absyothery wonderful . i mean, food, free medical care. it's absyother side1derful . i mean, food, free medical care. it's absyother side oferful . i mean, food, free medical care. it's absyother side of this . i mean, food, free medical care. it's absyother side of this is mean, food, free medical care. it's absyother side of this is once n, the other side of this is once they go the hotel rooms is where do actually end up putting these people? we've local people? we've seen local councils into own councils digging into their own coffers time as rise coffers at the same time as rise in tax of course, to now in council tax of course, to now build or rent for build new homes or rent for people. but i mean, this is we're talking 160,000 people, an asylum seeker backlog mean it is pretty pretty staggering stuff thatis pretty pretty staggering stuff that is of course that needs a face to face interviews for thousands of asylum seekers could be scrapped in favour of question as to that was question as i want to that was on questionnaire but on the questionnaire but immigration lawyer and a conservative will conservative councillor will go head just few head to head in just few minutes. so is what i've minutes. so this is what i've got coming up. you're as got coming up. you're wales as well immigration lawyer and well and immigration lawyer and a conservative councillor. i'm going head to on going to go head to head on that. it's our big of the day

loads. you have been getting in touch can i just ask as touch and can i just ask as well. cheeky little plug well. another cheeky little plug for news. it out for you gb news. it turns out well quite possibly be a fight. genuinely between liam anderson and steve bray. i check behind the scenes this is on so i want to know who you think should be on the undercard of anderson versus bray. my favourite one so far is suraj versus blair gb views of gb news .uk. when i was you had lost that when armstrong . it is 530. good evening to you from the gb newsroom dup leader jeffrey donaldson says political leaders in northern ireland are sending a clear message of unity in their condemnation . last in their condemnation. last night's shooting and, in their support for the police. three men have been arrested on suspicion of, attempted murder after chief after detective chief john caldwell was attacked by masked gunmen while with his young son at a sports in oba. he remains in critical condition. police say . the primary focus is on

say. the primary focus is on dissident republicans. the new ira and they're now reviewing the threat level level number of asylum seekers waiting for an initial decision on their claim has reached hundred and 60,000. the highest level since records began.the the highest level since records began. the figures come as the home secretary has told in an exclusive interview. nothing's been ruled out . it comes to been ruled out. it comes to tackling illegal immigration. more than 45,000 people across the channel and small boats last year suella braverman described that as unacceptable . and that as unacceptable. and speaking to liam halligan , she speaking to liam halligan, she understands, she says, why people are frustrated with hotels asylum seekers. it's clear that we have an unsustainable in towns and cities around our country whereby because of the overwhelming numbers of people arriving illegally and our legal dufies arriving illegally and our legal duties to accommodate them we now having to house them in hotels that is causing understandable tensions within communities pressures on local

resources . and you can see that resources. and you can see that full with suella braverman the 22 minute version on the gb news youtube channel, the queen consort appeared to speak out against the censorship of roald dahl books. she launched a book today. the new club aims at bringing people together who share a love of reading. camilla who was joined by king charles at clarence house, told her room of authors and literary figures to remain unimpeded . those who to remain unimpeded. those who may wish to kerb your freedom of expression. it is her public appearance since she's recovered covid tv online and dab+ this is gb news. now it's back to . patrick okay. next up, lined a really spicy debate about our top stories. the government's controversial plans sort out the

asylum seeker backlog. yes, they're going away through. apparently, there's going to make you out a questionnaire. they don't actually go to interview so that we go on just to top it all off some of those countries are actually literal terror hot spots does that make you feel safe do you think that the government is prioritising british people? i'll see in just a couple of minutes

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joking . we are seriously as joking. we are seriously as a news channel in talks to host a boxing match between lee anderson and steve bray . that anderson and steve bray. that was the news that brought this morning. there we go. anyway, welcome back . the defence welcome back. the defence secretary is the latest person to publicly criticised everyone's favourite prince military man ben wallace said that prince harry boasting about slots in 25 taliban fighters , slots in 25 taliban fighters, undermines the nature of the army as a game. well, the duke of sussex has already received a barrage criticism for revealing these details , and he's even these details, and he's even been mocked by leaders, which i think you know what? he's being mocked by ordinary people on the streets, american cartoonists andindeed streets, american cartoonists and indeed the taliban, who have managed to almost alienate absolutely everybody from every angle there. but joining me now is tim cross, is a retired is tim cross, who is a retired officer. tim, thank you very much. is there any truth to what ben just said as prince harry under mind the military now by doing this? or is ben wallace just not always talking about . just not always talking about. no, no . ben wallace knows

no, no. ben wallace knows exactly he's talking about. he's a very capable secretary. and he's right . i a very capable secretary. and he's right. i think it's three or four issues here. one is, to be honest, i haven't got a clue how prince harry thinks that he's killed a certain number of people. most casualties are caused at a distance. he was a helicopter firing into crowds or was suspected taliban casualties. i but not all of them are killed quite lot of just wounded. i mean, the normal rate, about three or four killed and wounded others will seem to have been hit. but actually just lying down and protecting . so lying down and protecting. so there's sorts of issues there's all sorts of issues about how he thinks he knows how many casualties caused . but ben many casualties caused. but ben wallace, his point is absolutely right. supported by right. he's being supported by all of people who are all sorts of people who are enabung all sorts of people who are enabling him to go into combat from the people alongside him at the there and others who the front there and others who are supporting the helicopter squadrons sustainability, are supporting the helicopter squlogistics sustainability, are supporting the helicopter squ logistics . sustainability, are supporting the helicopter squ logistics . and stainability, are supporting the helicopter squ logistics . and yomability, are supporting the helicopter squ logistics . and you know, , the logistics. and you know, they're part of a team and we don't keep we don't keep a

record scores the casualty figures are notoriously unreliable all the things coming out of ukraine, frankly, are almost quite meaningless. they're all exaggerated. you only go to any campaign to see casualty figures that are being, you know , thrown around to know you know, thrown around to know that they're just they don't reflect reality. and i'm afraid prince harry's lost the plot here. he was actually a very popular officer, i have to say, and a very good pilot. but i think this is thing that think this is the thing that crosses way. had individual crosses way. i had individual on earlier basically earlier on who was basically saying that what what in saying to me that what what in his view, we're witnessing here is prince suffering with is prince harry suffering with ptsd and potentially to ptsd and potentially going to a self—sabotage phase . and when it self—sabotage phase. and when it comes to reveal how many people self—sabotage phase. and when it you at least think you've killed, i mean, that's absolutely not the dumb anyway, is it? i mean, do you think more to it than meets the eye? do you think we are potentially watching a watching harry having a breakdown well, i don't know. breakdown? well, i don't know. i've never met prince harry. i've never met prince harry. i've met many members of the royal family and had the privilege of meeting quite a lot of a lot time. but

of them, a lot over time. but i never met personally with harry. i he's suffering i don't know what he's suffering from not. ithink i don't know what he's suffering from not. i think lost from or not. i think he's lost his way. i worry for him. i worry that he's surrounded by bad. i think , you know, these bad. i think, you know, these last few years has definitely last few years he has definitely gone astray and am therefore, you know, i'm concerned that he would write this sort of stuff. he seems to think he's surrounded by enemies. clearly, he doesn't like the media much other when he wants to use other than when he wants to use the media in order to pass his own messages around. so think own messages around. so i think he's pretty and i'm sorry he's pretty lost and i'm sorry for that. know, for him, for that. know, i for him, i wish he would pull himself and, you crack on with a you know, crack on with living a normal life best he can to normal life as best he can to like his as much as like his family as much as anything on on on that note. just just quickly , finally, just just quickly, finally, i mean, ben wallace is perfectly within his rights to wade into this of. has harry's comments actually made it more likely that we're going to see attacks against our military or our public. because if it does then well harry's lives at risk with his comments. how many taliban fighters he's slotted for. i've

people say that that's the case. i don't don't go along with that. to be honest. the military always under threat from all sorts of things. part of what we do. but i regret that we've opened up this debate again to be to honest the best thing be to be honest the best thing that is that that i think happen is that prince harry could just get a slide away just get on with slide away and just get on with his raising these issues. his life raising these issues. again, don't it's again, i don't think it's particularly i don't think it's adding threat frankly, adding to the threat frankly, because i'm and i will move because i'm not and i will move on. you very much, tim. on. thank you very much, tim. thatis on. thank you very much, tim. that is retired army officer. great takyi. alright, great steph takyi. alright, tim. right on top story right now more on our top story face face with thousands of face to face with thousands of asylum scrapped in asylum seekers be scrapped in favour office favour of home office questionnaires in a bid to cut soaring backlog cases ? well, soaring backlog of cases? well, the plans aim to speed up the process for people from nations that high crime. process for people from nations thatyou high crime. process for people from nations thatyou might high crime. process for people from nations thatyou might be high crime. process for people from nations thatyou might be surprised 1e. process for people from nations thatyou might be surprised to but you might be surprised to know those nations are. know which those nations are. they include afghanistan don. they include afghanistan don. they they include they include syria. they include yemen. and yemen. they include libya. and thought that there are currently more than 160,000 outstanding asylum claims. by more than 160,000 outstanding asylum claims . by the way, that asylum claims. by the way, that doesn't mean that they're really great asylum claims as people who processed. who haven't yet been processed. and questions

and there's also been questions raised prime minister raised over the prime minister and claims that and home secretary claims that channel are the system channel migrants are the system because comes as though it because it comes as though it was announced that 85% of all small boat migrants claiming to be victims of modern slavery were found to have their claims as legitimate . which is hardly a as legitimate. which is hardly a surprise, is it? joining me now is the conservative councillor and former special adviser . it's and former special adviser. it's claire pearsall and uk immigration . it's hard job sam immigration. it's hard job sam bungle. thank you very great to have on show. clare have you both on the show. clare we'll start with you. was this particular question asking just give us an open door immigration with two terror hotspots . it with two terror hotspots. it does a little bit desperate and it does feel as though the questions going to be heavily weighted. i think we need to understand more for home office as to what the questions are back to do, what information is going to be ascertained and what information they have on the individual the place. we individual the first place. we need to understand the identity. we need to know where that person has actually come from. and i'm sure that

and i'm not sure that a questionnaire laid out is going to provide that . whereas a face to provide that. whereas a face to provide that. whereas a face to face interview absolutely would. so i can see why they want to cut the backlog. i can see why they're looking at doing something to solve this problem. but it just feels a little bit desperate. and i don't it's actually going to help anyone at all. haj up i'll bring in now uk immigration lawyer singh bango would earn a face to face interview provide more security interview provide more security in terms of who will attend. do you think? yeah, of course. i also gives an opportunity to determine whether a person is telling truth as to where they come from. often, interpreters are used to deduce dialect . in are used to deduce dialect. in the case of, say well, a lot of pakistanis used to claim to be afghans because they lived the border. and we had a lot of kenyans claiming to be somalians . but in fact, the interpreters would then pick up hold on, their is a bit different their accent is a bit different they don't sound as if they're from push them from afghanistan, push them further. them further. and i would ask them questions asked and it

questions would be asked and it would be worked out that they weren't from the area so filling out questionnaire. actually, out a questionnaire. actually, this the past this used to happen in the past it be called a f a self it used to be called a f a self evidence form. it replaces the interview process. this is purely because drive down the backlog and. whereas welcome any attempt to drive down a backlog created by the government and the home office in the first place. what it shouldn't come at the expense of deciding which genuine claim and which isn't. and it shouldn't be a pr stunt to say in a year's time just before an election. oh, look at this. i've managed to reduce the backlog by 10,000. when in the way you've done it is very questionable. yeah i mean clare just, know , absolute just, you know, absolute nonsense it. who wants to nonsense isn't it. who wants to stop the boats at the same time as introducing policy. i'm as introducing a policy. i'm frankly, i mean i would imagine would boats . so it would encourage boats. so it will encourage more boats. i think they're going to come the only way to asylum is to physically be in united kingdom. it feels like policy made on the

heath. it's not thought through . and also the surrounding steps . it are not thought through. so if you're going to look at 12,000 claims, you're going to decide those. there will inevitably be a very high rates of acceptance . what's going to of acceptance. what's going to happen with those ? i'm not sure happen with those? i'm not sure . the communities they're currently living in have the room. there isn't the surplus housing stock. where are the surplus jobs going to come from now that they're allowed work? so all of these things is one thing at a time, not a whole approach to it which encompasses every pause and that's what an immigration system should be. it shouldn't just be done in piecemeal. you know, i'd literally not understand how much you see that can have brass neck this does off and go, neck if this does off and go, oh, look , i've managed to clear oh, look, i've managed to clear the asylum seeker backlog without deport and just waving them all in of it seems a bit odd. maybe anyone do that. i think that's not a solution , but think that's not a solution, but it is a solution. but i think it's the right. what is it hard job can i can i ask you about

the sort of 85% of people are who claim modern slavery and come being come the channel are being granted modern slavery they're being accused gaming the being accused of gaming the system again. are we just waving these people through as well? because bothered to because we can't be bothered to fight ? no, i think it's been fight it? no, i think it's been grossly the official home figures today have come out and they've actually said that only 7% of total applicants claim to be victims . modern slavery and, be victims. modern slavery and, out of them, 85% are assessed. and then agreed. so, in fact , and then agreed. so, in fact, you know, if we look at the one, 100,000 people claim asylum , 100,000 people claim asylum, then out of them, only 7% claim an out of sight out them, 85. so whereas were first previously told by the office. so definitely it was alleged that there were large numbers gaming there were large numbers gaming the system. that's not actually true. and once again that's another politically motivated stunt to try and say, well, we're going to cut down the we're going to cut down on the modern slavery laws hasn't been spoken how we going to spoken about is how we going to

stop the gangs ? are we to stop the gangs? are we going to stop the gangs? are we going to stop the gangs? are we going to stop the boats and in fact, don't you think that it's going to be selling point for the to be a selling point for the gangs now to say? yes, you know, well, you claim asylum in the well, if you claim asylum in the uk, you have to is fill uk, all you have to do is fill out form examination to work. out a form examination to work. there's face there's not even to face interview. you're to have interview. you're going to have the is going up the right this is going to up the right this is going to up the right this is going to up the right for the marketers. are you going to make more? you know, it's almost saying know, it's almost like saying drug dealers saying to drug users well, they're going to be users, well, they're going to be easily available drugs on easily available now. drugs on the to is fill the street you got to do is fill out form and you'll be able out a form and you'll be able get drugs. and this exactly get your drugs. and this exactly what's to happen. not what's going to happen. it's not going it. you've got to going to stop it. you've got to look root cause of the look at the root cause of the people. it's the gangs you're not going the gangs. not going to stop the gangs. there's no investment or infrastructure to stop the gangs. there's no elite units to go out and catch these gangs, we can go out catch drug can go out and catch drug dealers. we can go out and kill osama can get saddam osama laden. we can get saddam in, holed up in the middle of a muslim. yeah, we can't use muslim. yeah, but we can't use gangs are using the same route. i'm with you. you but this is what speculation. it's what fuels speculation. it's stuff this. there's some stuff like this. there's some

kind suggesting kind of an attempt suggesting this but it fuels this by the way but it fuels speculation doesn't it hasn't got people got a sinister undertone. people do incredibly hard to do find it incredibly hard to that we are unable to go and topple these that are out topple these gangs that are out there. i have a wonderful email in here from from rick who says, there. i have a wonderful email iram re from from rick who says, there. i have a wonderful email iram willing, from rick who says, there. i have a wonderful email iram willing, free rick who says, there. i have a wonderful email iram willing, free of ck who says, there. i have a wonderful email iram willing, free of charge,says, i am willing, free of charge, into view assess 160,000 into view and assess 160,000 outstanding . and he outstanding applications. and he says it says he'll do it in a month. well i think rick might have bitten more than he could chew but my is this chew there. but my point is this cloud, give you the cloud, i'll give you the final word on surely would be a word on this surely would be a better solution to actually employ more people to assess these than it will be to these claims than it will be to two. well, i would imagine mean we might now potentially have people assessed a people assessed via a questionnaire a computer , for questionnaire on a computer, for goodness based on their goodness sake, based on their answers, cloud mean. this is a copout, isn't it ? good. answers, cloud mean. this is a copout, isn't it? good. i'm saying this . you need more saying this. you need more people to make decisions. otherwise it is merely a tick box exercise and the criminal gangs are going to look at the five countries that are going to get the most accepted and the business model is going to say you need to claim that you are

from one of these five countries. so now need face countries. so now you need face to face interviews. absolutely and you need to crack down on the criminal. but this, again, just a little bit like a pubuchy just a little bit like a publicity stunt . we are in publicity stunt. we are in election periods. coming up . so election periods. coming up. so you why they're grasping you can see why they're grasping straws. i love both straws. well, yeah, i love both of you. thank you very, very much claire pearsall. that is tory councillor and former special adviser on the uk law at heart saying bong go and you what? we don't see debates on this ladies and gentlemen we've had rights expert we've had a human rights expert we've also a uk immigration lawyer also had a uk immigration lawyer we've stories on as we've a couple of stories on as well. what is fascinating is well. and what is fascinating is that no one from either side thinks that this is a good and they all agree they all agree that is less safe . there's that this is less safe. there's not even any dispute on that. normally human rights were great. pipe down. and they say absolutely everybody see this idea this now they're idea even this now they're saying actually, look there's no way justify this because way you can justify this because . don't know who a . basically, we don't know who a lot people are and why lot of these people are and why on would give them on earth would we not give them some of verbal interview some kind of verbal interview so that managed to unite that you go managed to unite

people disdain for people and their disdain for this if indeed it ever this policy if indeed it ever happens. gbviews@gbnews.uk keep your in, okay? your views coming in, okay? because i want to know what you think about who should be on the undercard for our gb news scrap which we're having lee anderson and we've some and steve bray. we've got some cracking suggestions here. angela proving angela rayner is proving popular, right popular, not for the right reasons, but then, you know, whatever office and whatever she the office and moving on that office for moving on that the office for students proposed new rules students has proposed new rules mean university lecturers would have relationship that have log any relationship that they have with students. okay i impersonated university lecturers we're allowed to sleep with students but it says more about university than about my university career than does the move is does anything else. the move is hoped to tackle sexual misconduct on campus after a voluntary scheme trialling . the voluntary scheme trialling. the move ineffective over move proved ineffective over years. like so many universities already banned lecturers from having relationships students. joining is , political joining me now is, political commentator and students , adam commentator and students, adam mcgovern. thank you very much for being such a good sport. i will not ask the obvious question. of course, that would be were you surprised, be rude. but were you surprised, as i was, to know that lecturers are allowed to actually sleep

with to be honest , yes with students? to be honest, yes i and i'm surprised at this i was. and i'm surprised at this take know it's taken this long something like this to be proposed and think it's best proposed and i think it's best for lecture is actually taking advantage of students it's incredibly and very weird. in a position of power . incredibly and very weird. in a position of power. your job is to teach the students and you'll complete your . you know very complete your. you know very poor sort of relationship that you have , which is to educate you have, which is to educate the students being, you know, not trying to get into relationships with them. so i surprised it's taken this long to actually here. yeah, indeed. i you don't ever get the old whiff of on campus. do you do you ever see that? because in arm is to me i didn't any it when i was at university, but i would probably wasn't the target market for a lot of my university lecturers. i think it was pretty obvious. but yeah, i mean, is it a thing does it happen?i mean, is it a thing does it happen? i mean, i'm surprised as because having because we've been having you know, the know, again we've had the university . i'm very surprised university. i'm very surprised how the lecturers are even the

students in the first place a majority of the education has been over zoom. so first of all i'm very surprised with how this is taking place. but nevertheless, it is a problem. it's not something i've personally seen on campus. i know for my university they use consent training, which i don't think many people actually participated in or found beneficial at all. but is more like a virtue signal. oh, we've done our bit we've taught the students. this is what consent means, rather than actually tackling the problem at hand . so tackling the problem at hand. so i think but that respect , a lot i think but that respect, a lot of that was platitudes. it was actually good to see some proper policy being put forward and keeping students from very dangerous relations shifts where lecturers or, you know , someone lecturers or, you know, someone evenin lecturers or, you know, someone even in a position of power , even in a position of power, would be in a position to take advantage of students. yeah, i split the offices actually, because did hear quite a few people saying that they they were they were well they were all too aware of that between students and electronics , which students and electronics, which was a remarkable insight,

students and electronics, which was a remarkable insight , the was a remarkable insight, the lives of some of our colleagues here. but, yes, i mean, if here. but but, yes, i mean, if you you as a student you were you if you as a student find that someone, know, find out that someone, you know, sitting to, next like has managed to get top grade and then it also emerges that they've been sleeping with the professor. i mean , you will professor. i mean, you will presumably have a thing or two to say about that. yeah, i think anyone would know. i'm not sure if this is the case. other universities, but i for my universities, but i know for my with the how it works with the marking how it works it's anonymous so that would that wouldn't necessarily be obvious if that take place but i'm sure some university is it's definitely a thing that happens andifs definitely a thing that happens and it's probably happened before and would definitely be unfair that if paid you know however however much are in debt to and then you've got someone who's just happens to be relationship with the lecturer and then just getting the benefits of that. i don't think that's necessarily fine. i think for all the great with that, i must say, was shocked when i read story this morning. read this story this morning. but we go. thank you very but there we go. thank you very much. to great you on the show, as always. governor is a

as always. anima governor is a political commentator and a student that is reacting to student and that is reacting to the that lecturers now must the news that lecturers now must log shifts with log relations shifts with students. that students. i'm amazed that they're allowed sleep with them anyway, with you. anyway, to be honest with you. but so they introduced but can so they introduced a voluntary and was voluntary scheme and it was ineffective? yeah, course. ineffective? yeah, of course. because to because he's going to voluntarily that they had voluntarily say that they had a one with the one night stand with the student. moving on student. but anyway, moving on from about relationships from a story about relationships it's about divorce, it's one about divorce, it's a window the future of all of window into the future of all of their students into the top uk areas of marriage breakdowns have the number areas of marriage breakdowns havestar. the number areas of marriage breakdowns havestar. no the number areas of marriage breakdowns havestar. no rate the number areas of marriage breakdowns have star. no rate with the number one star. no rate with a whopping 12.8. the published by the owners also reveal around 42% of all marriages end in divorce. so we go. with me now is harry benson, research director at the marriage foundation . harry, i hope you're foundation. harry, i hope you're not divorcing divorcing . are you not divorcing divorcing. are you divorced? oh no , no, because i divorced? oh no, no, because i work for the marriage foundation . i was it wouldn't work. 36 years, six kids, skin of teeth could go. this is a now. but seriously, it must absolutely depress the living heck out of you that you've got 42% or whatever it is of marriages

breakdown. now, i mean, do you think people just go into it for the reasons? what what's the wrong reasons? what what's going they're not going on? why they're not sticking well i mean, sticking with it? well i mean, a lot of this data you're talking aboutis lot of this data you're talking about is old data. and also, it doesn't actually reflect the divorce rate at all. we're talking about norwich or whatever. a lot of these seaside towns have got what seems to be very high proportion of divorce people. that's not the divorce rate. it'sjust people. that's not the divorce rate. it's just a lot of people been divorced at some stage. are clearly older . been divorced at some stage. are clearly older. but been divorced at some stage. are clearly older . but the actual clearly older. but the actual what's happened to divorce rates in the last 25 years is that they've gone down to early 1970s levels. so we're now to where we were in sort of early seventies, just after the big divorce law reform happened in the late sixties . so divorce rates were sixties. so divorce rates were really low at the moment, actually. all right harry, i'm going to have to ask you, because i've i've recently got engaged and i've read things like this and i think what's what's the point people are falling out over the regular the top row in the home is apparently whether or not

someone's left a light on in a room and stuff . frankly, i do room and stuff. frankly, i do all the time. so just please just sell marriage to harry. why should i through the should i go through with the thing? so psychology, marriage is fantastic when you married, you do two things. one is you make a decision about your future. so you're sending a huge signal about what your intent is. you're removing any kind of lingering ambiguity, any kind of uncertainty in the relationship . the second thing is you then go and stand up until everybody about it and cut you on the head and say, great, patrick, that's and say, great, patrick, that's a fantastic decision because you've chosen one person and you said, no to all the other people, which is a huge and those two things, if you want to commit to making a decision about it and then telling all friends, that's the way it works. that's psychology of marriage. and there's a reason why we societies have been plug have regulated marriage. so all these years perhaps it's still a good story. well go , thank you. good story. well go, thank you. oh, there we go. good stuff,

harry you harry balance in that research directs that marriage foundation selling marriage to a divorce right. see you divorce. right. i will see you in bit on bucket p.m. in a bit on bucket 3 pm. tomorrow. take it .

hello. good afternoon . welcome. hello. good afternoon. welcome. surprise, surprise. it's me, nana. acquire michelle in dewbs & co now coming up in the show after messing up the processing of asylum seekers by basically not processing them, creating a backlog in the tens of thousands with a wait in the region of 18 months and with a 95% approval rate. to be honest , we might months and with a 95% approval rate. to be honest, we might as well just let everyone through. well, i'm joking. but it seems that isn't, in fact, a joke because the government are doing just this new fast just that with this new fast track a sort of asylum track plan. a sort of asylum seeker amnesty of some 12,000