most famous and most the most famous and most infamous west politician. yes neil parish. but before all of that, let's get you . hello that, let's get you. hello there. i'm out on strolling the gibb newsroom. three men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the shooting of. a high ranking officer in omagh . detective officer in omagh. detective chief inspector john caldwell was targeted by two masked gunmen while with son at a sports centre last night . he's sports centre last night. he's in a critical but stable condition in hospital. police say dissident group the new ira is the primary focus and they're now reviewing the threat level . 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 a father , husband and colleague

father, husband and colleague and a valued and active member of his local community. john's colleagues understand extremely distressed by last night's shooting. however they remain resolute and committed to bringing those responses able for this heinous crime to justice. well several nations are holding vigil this evening in tributes to ukraine almost a year on from russia's invasion. the eiffel tower in paris has been lit up in the colours of the ukrainian flag. in london, hundreds of people have gathered in trafalgar square to pay their respects with the defence secretary ben wallace and the actress helen mirren among those giving speeches. and national one minute's silence will be held at 11 am. tomorrow to mark the one year anniversary. three of the start of the war. and this breaking news just into us. disgraced singer kelly has been sentenced to an additional year in prison on top of the 30 years he's serving for an earlier conviction. he has received a 20

year jail term on charges relating to child enticement and for producing indecent images children. however, all of that will be served simultaneously alongside his previous sentence in june last year. kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted on racketeering and prostitution charges. he'll be eligible for release a around the age of 80 and a police are searching for a 33 year old hiker who's gone missing. climbing in glencoe. kyle sambrook from west yorkshire travelled to the highlands with his dog on saturday. they had been due to return on tuesday . however, he return on tuesday. however, he has made no contact with family or friends since he arrived in scotland . police are appealing scotland. police are appealing to anyone with information to come forward . tv online on dab come forward. tv online on dab plus radio this is gb news. now it's back to fresh .

it's back to fresh. yes we're next to a barrage of lies with a live audience who seems enthusiastic as ever. i guess are two big stories today. the first is that the asylum backlog has now hit 160,000. but in response to this, we learn that 12,000 people have been selected. it seems, almost at random. and those 12,000 will alter magically get refugee status by just filling in a ten page form without actually having to appear to have any hope, approving in many cases, what their identity is this way. i think lies disaster. if you give people amnesty who come to britain in the back of a lorry across the english channel, all that means is a lot more will come. the estimate for this year was 60,000. i'm guessing with today's news it'll be nearer another hundred thousand. and

keir starmer, who's having a very busy week, has set out his big priorities ahead of the next general election. yes keir starmer will secure the highest sustained growth in the g7 , make sustained growth in the g7, make britain a clean energy superpower, build an nhs fit for the future, make britain's streets safe , and break down streets safe, and break down barriers to opportunity. oh, and motherhood and apple pie and everything else you could ever wish for in the world. and often ask father christmas for each yeah ask father christmas for each year. but it never really happens. well, there's not much detail there. and by the way , no detail there. and by the way, no mention of the small boats from keir starmer either. but either way , either way, if you believe way, either way, if you believe the opinion he is at the moment in a very commanding lead. now i'm joined an jobson councillor , leader of the conservative group in exeter. , leader of the conservative group in exeter . and i wonder group in exeter. and i wonder and here are as a council a group leader with responsibilities. elections up in not that long a few weeks time. you must sometimes look at

the london headquarters of your party. i mean, what have we had in the last year? three prime ministers, four chancellor of the exchequer , five education the exchequer, five education secretaries . i mean, do you feel secretaries. i mean, do you feel let down by the national party? because you don't concentrate on what's going on nationally. i think there is always going to be a tension between anybody standing for local council, local government, either at district level as we are in next or county level in devon and hoping that westminster goes smoothly in those periods immediately before elections don't always happen , but it don't always happen, but it hasn't gone smoothly, has it ? hasn't gone smoothly, has it? that's about. so what we do is then we concentrate on the job in hand and the job in hand in exeter. i've got a wonderful team of candidates coming up in may that some really first class councillors and that is to deal with the issues really matter when we're out on the doorstep day in, day out asking people what they feel about , you know,

what they feel about, you know, the simple of life in many ways. but what people want a clean streets . they want to make sure streets. they want to make sure the lid happens to collected on time. they want to sort of feel that they are being listened to and that we can do and we do do. and it has proved over the years in exeter, which has not been easy for a long time for the conservatives , labour a strong conservatives, labour a strong hero . so, you know, but but by hero. so, you know, but but by being seen to be really pro active on behalf of the local residents of our individual wards where we do able to get things done, we can make that difference. that's what we call and i understand that fully and i think in many ways being a councillor can be a pretty thankless because very, very few people say thank you . a lot of people say thank you. a lot of people say thank you. a lot of people complain. but the truth is, in local elections, and i know this very well, having led national local election campaigns over the last 20 years, people still vote along national lines. and as head into these and you look these elections and you look towards next year , you know,

towards next year, you know, devon is a county. okay labour a strong here. they've got one of the plymouth seats they'll be eyeing the other plymouth seat, the other constituencies like nonh the other constituencies like north devon who of course, you know, long liberal tradition. i mean , everyone talks about the mean, everyone talks about the red wall and the vulnerability of the conservatives and the red wall. you're pretty vulnerable down here, too, aren't you ? if down here, too, aren't you? if there are no such thing any longer is an easy election . i do longer is an easy election. i do not believe that to be true . the not believe that to be true. the days when you could go into a constituency and you would know that it was a conservative constituency or a labour constituency or a labour constituency or a lib dem constituency or a lib dem constituency . they have passed. constituency. they have passed. people change. we know that there are people who will vote conservative for local candidates but would not vote conservative in a national election and vice versa. so we can do all i can is to make sure that we are seen we are visible, that we are seen we are visible,

that we are consulting with residents . we promote the issues residents. we promote the issues that matter to them and that's what we do . and tell me and you what we do. and tell me and you know, it's who the leader of your national party as. a final really easy question for you. who is your conservative prime minister boris johnson. well, liz truss or rishi sunak? well, i can give you a completely different answer because. i was honoured enough to be awarded obe and the prime minister, who who was prime minister at the time was sir john. who was prime minister at the time was sirjohn. so that's who was prime minister at the time was sir john. so that's the answer i'm going to give for that reason. well, jones, a bit over a wrinkle. think. was it a mistake to get rid of boris. i don't think there was any choice at the time. i think you'd like him back. i know that's not what i said. i said there was no choice at the time. no, there is now that. no, i don't think there is. we have prime minister at the moment and the minister, he's the best man we've got to have stabilise the economy in place and looks as though it

might now be stable if inflation can then start to drop . and the can then start to drop. and the worst of this is all food price inflation, but it's been inflation, but it's been inflation can start to drop and then interest rates can start to follow. we can get back down to the bank of england's target rate and i think we've got a pair of people there who know that that is important. i'm a great believer, the philosophy of keith joseph. he talked a lot about inflation and his his the things that he wrote back in the seventies. well very, very true then. and i was a big fan of keith joseph. i think he'd be mortified by jeremy hunt. but there we are. we beg to differ. and i thank you forjoining me on the programme. thank you. now the all over the country gb news have a network of local reporters and go around the regions and they cover important local issues. but once they have national implications too. well, here in the south—west of england, we have jeff moody, one

of our most energetic regional reporters. and geoff joins me now. good evening, geoff. very good to see you. what are you are energetic and i think is very important. i was and of course giving the stock conservative answers . and, you conservative answers. and, you know, she has to do that. if you got elections, if truth is i mean, know devon cornwall just down the a30, i mean labour even won a seat in cornwall back in 97. they'll be looking the other plymouth seat that they don't hold moment. lib dems hold the moment. the lib dems have north devon in the have held north devon in the past. held past. they've held north cornwall. had seats in cornwall. they've had seats in southern cornwall . do you feel southern cornwall. do you feel down here that the tories are in the blue wall? yes very much so. george eustice , another example george eustice, another example in camborne that looks like it could well go to labour too, and he's not going to stand at the next, so. no, that's campbell. and that was the seat that went labour back in 97. yes, it was labour 1085, wasn't it? yes yes, i think north devon safe . i i think north devon safe. i think slate st saxby is doing a very good job. she's very visible in north you see visible in north devon. you see a of her around social

a lot of her around social media, very active. but i do think , particularly in devon , think, particularly in devon, there's real problems for the conservatives and you've got to look why? what's going on? what is it? i don't think it's just about the national picture. i think that the conservatives what i'm hearing from people is that they've lost a sense of rural issues . for years, the rural issues. for years, the tories have been the one that understand the countryside they understand the countryside they understand the countryside they understand the alliance, they the communities, they farming, they understand . and i think they understand. and i think there's a sense coming through now that that's changed that that's. yes. i mean, they they want to rewild most of the country, don't they, which i'm not sure the farming community like, although i get the point. i get the point now. a big national it's coming here to national and it's coming here to north, not devon to north cornwall next saturday there was a protest against the migrant hotel the other day . knowsley hotel the other day. knowsley there've been other protests .

there've been other protests. there's one coming here, isn't there ? there is. to newquay there? there is. to newquay there's , a hotel in newquay that there's, a hotel in newquay that is housing a considerable number asylum seekers and people in newquay have been very, very about this for reasons that you've been highlighting in recent days, weeks and months . recent days, weeks and months. there's a massive sense that people don't feel particularly safe on the streets at the moment , that there was there was moment, that there was there was i was interviewing somebody that said the other day that they a single woman that was followed home, you know, and there is that big concern. but it's become a big political argument because we've got this protest coming up at the weekend on saturday. there's also a counter—protest , which they're counter—protest, which they're saying that they are protesting against fascism because, of course, anybody that protests is a fact. the potential concern and parents and grandparents who are going to go on to the streets of newquay this weekend been condemned, as i understand it, both by labour and the conservatives. yes as being far

right, cornwall, the right, also by cornwall, the leader cornwall council has leader of cornwall council has said these protests are abhorrent , they're bigoted and abhorrent, they're bigoted and they're racist . so that is they're racist. so that is a it's going to be a tinderbox because you've got these two you've got the people that are protesting . then you've got the protesting. then you've got the people at the counter—protest as well. and of course know looking at what happened knowsley last week or the week before . yeah, week or the week before. yeah, you can see how that can you can see how it's and you'll be there covering this live for this saturday. well yes, it's a huge issue. people are very concerned about it. the fact that these people been the fact these people have been the fact these people have been the fact these people been condemned people have been the fact these peoplethey've een condemned people have been the fact these peoplethey've even ondemned people have been the fact these peoplethey've even gone 1ned people have been the fact these peoplethey've even gone 1necto before they've even gone out to protest to there's protest, says to me there's a bit of a disconnect between our politicians, not at national but at local level , too, and the way at local level, too, and the way many, many people feel. jeff moody great stuff. keep up the good work. thank you very much indeed. be with you in indeed. i'll be back with you in a couple minutes. so we'll talk about and farming about world affairs and farming

well here in the south—west of england and of course, it's a big economy down here . dairying, big economy down here. dairying, particularly sheep grazing. these are very very big activities in this part of the world. so i'm very important that richard tucker, dairy farmer and nephew, council delegate for devon joins me this evening. welcome to the programme. it's been your national conference this week and interesting that a labour leader labour goes and speaks at a national conference and about rural issues talks about rural crime . interesting he also talks crime. interesting he also talks to you guys about the import of net zero and it and then he about food production and you know companies buy more british

food . richard talk about in your food. richard talk about in your view is the drive towards net zero and increasing food production are these two compatible? it's a tough one and we've got to massively growing population in this country globally and everyone to be fed food fibre fuel . so it does it food fibre fuel. so it does it doesit food fibre fuel. so it does it does it starts up if it's a bit hypocritical of us to say that we're going to import everything that we can't grow here and we're just exporting our problems, aren't we? yeah, but we're also we're also putting solar farms up, which is stopping us growing the food on land that we could grow food on shortly. no definitely shortly. yeah. no definitely it's but the mix got to it's in us. but the mix got to you've got get it in and you've got to get it in and we've pressured to we've we're pressured to look after environment we, after environment farmers. we, we destroy the farm and we want to destroy the farm and that's what we work with. that's what we've it over what we've create it over generations generations generations and generations and that's that's part that's that is that's part, part of solution well as a of the solution as well as a problem food production is problem but food production is ten extra billion on the planet in in ten years that's an extra

200,000 people a day need feeding and already we don't have tomatoes in our supermarkets. i mean i don't know why anybody wants to buy tomatoes in february anyway, but that's by the by. but it has put a bit a focus on food production. is he also the conservative government since brexit for this brexit have gone for this environment land management scheme and? the great boris stood up at the tory party conference two years ago and said, going to rewild 30% said, we're going to rewild 30% of the country, we're going to bnng of the country, we're going to bring back beaver, bring back . bring back beaver, bring back. so they seem to be keener on having beavers building dams in our rivers than production. i mean, what i'm saying to you is these environmental programs, these environmental programs, the net zero programmes, seems to be we're going further away from being a food producing or have i got that wrong ? no, i have i got that wrong? no, i think you're right. and it takes takes land resources of out of food production. you can't no. but is food under valued as well? and is has that been driving the empty shelves saw

it. we're seeing it with solid now but but if we as farmers a businessman at the end of the day and there needs to be a margin and if we're not getting that then we're not we're not going to produce. and we saw with eggs before christmas and now i'm just told now that they've just about producers just about in the last couple of weeks going being weeks actually got a going being paid price covers their cost paid a price covers their cost of production by the supermarket. but because that's the big gripe the big gripe from , dairy farmers in the , a lot of dairy farmers in the southwest the gripe has been southwest the big gripe has been you've not been getting fair money, making a fair money money, not making a fair money cost production. you if we cost of production. if you if we can't we can't producing can't if we can't keep producing it, we can't it's not that we're not going to produce it. we're seeing whatever we were told seeing it. whatever we were told that over 30% that we're experiencing over 30% inflation on farms which which sort of which the 10% that we're seeing in the public and try to put it 30. and that's that's huge. and it's extremely volatile and we've got and we just want some sort of consistency and some sort of the other big speaker that came to your him variant

your conference, him variant secretary to raise coffee and the of farmers in the room was that frankly she wasn't up to scratch she didn't make a lot of friends within the farming community i think is i love the diplomacy isn't it marvellous ? diplomacy isn't it marvellous? do with brexit we've got back control of the levers over british farming . have the british farming. have the government gripped them properly ? are we embracing brexit, britain as far as agriculture was concerned, what we to start with, we do need to actually acknowledge when markets broken and that's that's what's happening with the prices at the minute and why we haven't got and if we're lacking solid on the market the growers in this country of glasshouses they've had no no support in rising costs so they're they're just looking they're not going to run them can't blame them if they're not going to do stuff a lot so brexit if got there's huge

concern of a trade okay bringing bringing in food from other parts the country there's a huge concern among farmers and another few members that we can import stuff that can't from the standards that we high standards we work to in this country wouldn't be the same is theresa coffee clueless ? yeah this is . coffee clueless? yeah this is. the dear boy you take as long as you like it out through this question because i'm really enjoying this . she took quite enjoying this. she took quite a while to answer in the house of commons today, most so, yeah. now listen, it's alright. there's a lot less. it has a lot to learn . let's finish on a to learn. let's finish on a positive in a couple of sentences what in brexit britain does government need to do for british agriculture? we just need a direction. we need clear direction and clear vision of we want to go and what we need to do. we've, we're food producing country got a great climate here

for producing food and we want to produce food that is nutritious, healthy and environmentally sustainable for the people, this country and for anyone we can export to region. we just need an environment to do that. i wish you and the farming community all the very best, especially here in the southwest where it matters so much the economy. and thank much for the economy. and thank you tonight. here you for joining us tonight. here in gb news. thank in a in exeter on gb news. thank in a moment in a moment. it'll be far too far , but we'll take a.

break okay. it's time to barrage the barrage. yes. five people have been picked to ask questions. i've absolute no idea where

we're going with this, steve. far away . thank you, miles. good far away. thank you, miles. good evening and welcome to devon exeter. love the socks by way. couldn't let that pass. that comment, that very passionate . comment, that very passionate. if the camera can't see the. okay do you got. it's a question on the digital id that our former leader blair and some of his compatriots are all keen on pushing forward and i'm kind of wondering why he's getting involved now because as you know, he is very much an ex minister and she's he's left his mark on the country undoubtably. i know many people have mixed views, i think views in views, but i think the views in him probably, shall we say, him are probably, shall we say, not certainly not overly positive. certainly isn't. as as i'm concerned, isn't. and as as i'm concerned, you know, i'm worried about it. yes. i think it will lead to other. tony blair, of course, is now enormous business now running an enormous business empire. net empire. he has a personal net worth at least million worth of at least million pounds. he has perhaps some of the best connections with big government big business of government and big business of anybody alive in the world today. and he is pushing pushing

this mass agenda for big government and frankly, complete of our lives. we do to a certain extent, live in a digital age already. you know , we do a heck already. you know, we do a heck of a lot of stuff online. it's password protected. we understand that. but this plan is you would have on your phone your digital . owned and your digital. owned and controlled with the government on which would be 40 sets of criteria . your date of birth criteria. your date of birth your pair months your health records , your tax records, your records, your tax records, your credit records, your qualification nations, virtually everything . oh, i like having to everything. oh, i like having to that. i'm coming to that because blair said a couple of months ago we need a global digital id for all the that are to come . so for all the that are to come. so they're clearly planning what he knows that we don't know. he's is beyond me. the fact that william hague joined him in this. i mean, they don't oppose tweedle dumb and tweedle day and i'm afraid i feel that an incoming labour government will go in this direction . an

go in this direction. an existing conservative government will go in this direction. i not want the state having that of control over my life. i don't want to found myself outside by the law because some things happen. such as the vaccine i might have. i did take them, but i might have chosen to. not and i might have chosen to. not and i think when it comes to government, full digital id, i think at some not yet, but at some point we're going to have to fight the biggest battle we've ever fought for our individual personal liberty and freedom . and i'm going to be in freedom. and i'm going to be in that fight. steve, i you be that fight. steve, i hope you be to pushback. absolutely to the pushback. absolutely thanks. to the pushback. absolutely thanks . again next up is bob. thanks. again next up is bob. bob hello. thank you. i run a business of 12 people, ask smes are about to get walloped yet again by rishi and jeremy. should government legislate to force big business to pay sole traders and smes within a two week period of a legitimate

invoice? we are presently being held to ransom by late payment, yet , bob, held to ransom by late payment, yet, bob, this is a problem. you know , the big and the powerful know, the big and the powerful can play games with their cash flow, you know, and they're ahead of their own treasury department fools terribly clever because he's kept the money in the bank for an extra 48 hours or a couple of weeks or whatever it is. and they make a bit of a return on that and you get stuffed. look, i think late payments are a massive problem for smes and small businesses, but there's an even but i think there's an even bigger coming on bigger problem coming on the 15th march. think the fact 15th of march. i think the fact that this government now refuses to ir35 rules which are to look at ir35 rules which are so damaging to , so many so damaging to, so many self—employed people providing services. i think the fact that tax , tax your corporation tax is tax, tax your corporation tax is about to go up by 30, your dividend tax is about to go up by one of the quarter% and i tell what, bob, i know a lot of young business people, particularly younger business people who are going to lisbon, going to milan and going to

parts of europe where they're getting very, very good tax breaks. i just i just feel this government has no understanding , no connection with genuine entrepreneurs and people like you provide real jobs in you that provide real jobs in our well, small our economy. well, small business assemblies are supposed to be the engine room of the economy . and i remember must be economy. and i remember must be ten years ago, the chief executive officer of transco , executive officer of transco, who no longer exist , saying that who no longer exist, saying that they could make more money overnight on the money markets than by transmitting gas one place to another. yeah i think big businesses have a response ability to help in our dire situation today because they're making profits. we aren't. bob, i've listened to you gb news we listen to you. we're very much on the side. people like you and sole traders. i just watched jeremy hunt understood small business. fear that your business. i fear that your request not be met. i think request will not be met. i think that they understand ten years ago i wrote to mel stride , who's

ago i wrote to mel stride, who's now the tax i'm going to get into trouble here. he he wrote back to me saying we feel the businesses, small businesses i would like to negotiate own terms of payment with their clients. now if he thinks i can negotiate with clients. now if he thinks i can negotiate wit h £1,000,000,000 negotiate with £1,000,000,000 down, they don't . but they don't down, they don't. but they don't understand small business. they've lost connection. thank you, for your point, you made . you, for your point, you made. okay catherine . hello there's okay catherine. hello there's a of debate at the moment about cape forbes, his christian beliefs and how these affect our ability to lead that can come a little bit close to them. i can just say that again, if you don't straight in front of don't mind straight in front of it. there's a lot of debate at the moment about cape forbes is christian. yes. and hiv's a fact. the fact. our ability to lead the smp. d0 fact. our ability to lead the smp. do you think this might be more a backlash against traditional about family, more a backlash against trarexample, about family, more a backlash against trarexample, ratherbout family, more a backlash against trarexample, rather thanfamily, more a backlash against trarexample, rather than the ly, for example, rather than the right mp hold their own right of any mp hold their own personal and trusted to personal views and be trusted to

reconcile with those of reconcile those with those of their . look, you their constituents. look, you know kate forbes, as know we free and she has a very strong religious belief and she wouldn't have voted for gay marriage and she doesn't believe in sex outside of marriage. and she strong christian she holds strong christian views. perfectly entitled views. she is perfectly entitled to hold those views in a free country that is actually supposed to be a christian country. and she's not even trying to impose that upon everybody else . she's just everybody else. she's just saying that. she's saying how i feel. look there is a big agenda out there and it's an agenda out there to breakdown everything about our civilisation and the roots of the entirety of our civilisation and is our judeo—christian culture . but judeo—christian culture. but i've got some good news for you, catherine, and that is nicola sturgeon pushed it too far . the sturgeon pushed it too far. the male who was a double rapist who turned up in court wearing a wig i went to a women's prison, proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back. and i very much hope that kate forbes, tim farron and all of those people who are christians are

allowed a in public allowed to play a role in public life. i really do . thank jeremy life. i really do. thank jeremy . good evening, nigel. good evening . nice to see has the evening. nice to see has the time come for there to be a grown up conversation about where private health care and health care are. perhaps to how pension schemes work for those that may want to enter it . but that may want to enter it. but getting relief elsewhere so that they pay towards pension plan. you know i have to and of to relieve pressure on the nhs do you know what jeremy the first show i did for gb news back in july eight months ago more than 18 months ago a first show i did i said private health care will boom in this country because the nhs backlogs are becoming too big and rather than we now demonise people, oh, he's got private health. isn't it terrible? rishi sunak you know, do you have private health cover? have you been to a

private . well, i did once, but private. well, i did once, but i didn't really mean i mean what i get is unbelievable . what he get is unbelievable. what he should be saying is, yes you know what? my wife and i very fortunate. we're well—off , we're fortunate. we're well—off, we're able to have private health insurance , were able to go to insurance, were able to go to private doctors and surgeons. and every time we do that, we relieve pressure on who can't afford to have private the whole debate jeremy on this is wrong we will never get to grips the nhs for the population exploding the way that it is unless we people to take out their private schemes and we give them actually a degree of tax relief and encourage to do it. i believe in that hundred% i think you're dead right. believe in that hundred% i think you're dead right . yeah, thank you're dead right. yeah, thank you. i do . i do. you're dead right. yeah, thank you. i do. i do. i you're dead right. yeah, thank you. i do . i do. i do. okay and you. i do. i do. i do. okay and finally, sue. hello could the gp news presenters and reporters start a new political party with authentic principles and hopefully somewhere in the centre? right. i can't recognise

the party of that ilk at the moment. they all seem center—left mixed green. yes, there's a lot, there's a lot of green about isn't that. there really is and some of it of course very well intentioned but kind of why are we making everything so expensive for ordinary people and ask them, put heat pumps on their homes and else when between china india easier and you know china indonesia they're going burn 8 billion tonnes of coal this year it seems almost terrible terribly self—destruct so if everybody on gb news if all the presents on gb news left for the political party, there'd be no gb news so i don't think that would necessarily be a great idea. but i do thing and i hope you agree that whilst people who present programs on gb news have their own opinion , as i think we their own opinion, as i think we allow people from the left from allow people from the left from all across the spectrum to come on this channel and have a fair say, open, honest debate. and i think we're doing well with that

almost end to. right. well richard tice, is reform is you know, is plugging that gap and making progress. one poll this week put him on 10. so, you know , can at times for people , can feel at times for people of a small c conservative disposition that it's all rather depressing. but i just think our political class have become even more out of touch than they were before brexit and something will give sue something will change. ihope give sue something will change. i hope so. maybe you'll be part of it. well, maybe you've a head start, though, haven't you, with jacob rees—mogg ? michael jacob rees—mogg? michael portillo? yeah. wow well, as long as i just hope the management aren't listening to this, otherwise the station will be go. so you. thank you very much indeed. thank you, everybody. and in a moment, it'll be time . talking points. it'll be time. talking points. i'm to be joined by a man who has become the most famous the most infamous politician public figure of the south—west in the last or so. neil parish will in the hot seat in just a moment.

well now, for the best part , the well now, for the best part, the show undoubtedly it is talking with our new gp, talking pint glasses, which you can get on the website online , which after the website online, which after this interview neil parish may well choose not to do . i don't well choose not to do. i don't know. welcome to the programme. neil parish . now. know. welcome to the programme. neil parish . now . third neil parish. now. third generation farmer. dairy farming . dip your toe a little bit into local politics being a councillor. i've been. suddenly you and i arrive at the same time in brussels and strasbourg as members of the european parliament. me from ukip, you from the conservative party . i from the conservative party. i love having lunch . the members love having lunch. the members

dining room in strasbourg is quite different to getting up at 3:00 in the morning. is about the cows, isn't it? yeah. when i first got elected, they picture on a bale of straw and they sent me up and down the escalators, strasbourg to bolero, you know. and so i had been sort of plucked from the farm straight into the european part it, into the european part of it, but it quite like that. but it wasn't quite like that. but it was different, as you know. was know. of course, it was fascinating in end, chairing an agriculture committee 27 agriculture committee with, 27 countries, you try and countries, you know, you try and please some farmers in one one county you try and please farmers across seven countries and seven different systems very very interesting and a great challenge and i enjoyed it even though very difficult i remember on the first day there listening to you and you did in with quite a strong eurosceptic frame of mind didn't you . definitely, mind didn't you. definitely, yeah. mind didn't you. definitely, yeah . did you stay that way yeah. did you stay that way throughout ten years? because a lot of people a lot of people go and they become intoxicated by

the chauffeur driven cars, the expensive is the mep's lifestyle . did you become more pro—european in that time? but a little bit perhaps , but i little bit perhaps, but i thought i managed to keep. but now i managed it. no i but seriously i did also manage to keep the scepticism because although when it came to the referendum i voted remain and campaign remain. but but i still something happens you nearly don't know, but i can still understand why people didn't want the rules, the regulations and everything with it. but as as i was concerned , sort of as i was concerned, sort of farming in this part of the world, there was no doubt that was within you know, the european system . the farming was european system. the farming was literally split 50, 50, wasn't it? i mean, poppy, i think i think farmers were roughly voted in a very similar way to everybody. and i would argue with farmers sitting around a table if you though, table if you vote, though, breakfast be worse off and breakfast will be worse off and they'd and say, they'd roll their eyes and say, you're probably but we're you're probably right, but we're voting for it anyway. so that was end the argument. but

was the end of the argument. but i think you know what we need to do what i am do now is i mean, what i am is a democrat and in the end of the day, i lost the argument. we got, but we are not making brexit work. we're producing brexit work. we're not producing the be doing. we the food should be doing. we are not actually borders not actually our borders properly. we not actually looking sounds of all for looking at the sounds of all for me we are not we are not me now we are not we are not looking the food and the imports that comes from europe and yet they're checking all of ours. you know, we're not going to get the sorted out in the protocol sorted out in northern ireland unless we actually a little bit of actually do a little bit of checking ourselves and. don't worry, i was saying this in parliament before left. parliament before i left. i mean, you know when i chaired mean, as you know when i chaired a select to come to a select committee to come to the prisoners, that we will come to parliament, to you leaving parliament, i promise. you might. did you promise. i you might. did you ten years as an mep ? i got this. ten years as an mep? i got this. absolutely seat , you know, safe absolutely seat, you know, safe tory country tibbets and jonathan massie , conservative jonathan massie, conservative majority. you in parliament did what you done on the european parliament. you got involved in agriculture rural affairs. i'll give you credit for one thing, you stuck to that great role.

you only got involved and spoke publicly that you publicly about things that you actually it's actually understood. and it's a shame is rarity . what? shame that is a rarity. what? it's rarity because actually it's a rarity because actually you had career before going you had a career before going politics. you knew about something , most importantly, to something, most importantly, to know very much all to me. and it was all going swimmingly now for you. was all going very well, you. it was all going very well, and you probably could have stayed mp for that stayed on as the mp for that constituency as long as you'd wanted. and then wanted. in effect. and then these rumours started to swirl in the media that somebody might have been watching in appropriate on their phone in house of commons. i wasn't sure it was true, but in the middle of all of this, you were interviewed on gb news by our political editor, darren mccaffrey. i want to remind you that interview, if i may. well, we're going to show chief whip is looking into them that from a female minister about another conservative frontbencher watching on his on his phone. conservative frontbencher watching on his on his phone . i watching on his on his phone. i mean, frankly , whoever it is,

mean, frankly, whoever it is, i mean, frankly, whoever it is, i mean, surely they would have have the whip removed, wouldn't they?i have the whip removed, wouldn't they? i you know, i don't think there's necessarily a huge culture here, but i think it does have to be dealt with , does have to be dealt with, deau does have to be dealt with, dealt seriously. and dealt with seriously. and i think, you know, that's what the whips will do in our whips office . well, that was neil office. well, that was neil pansh office. well, that was neil parish being interviewed saying whoever it is when they catch the culprit , they've got to come the culprit, they've got to come down. i want to nail. that was not your greatest moment, was it? no, it wasn't. i you know, i was in denial and, you know, if i could replay and not have done that, i do it a thousand times. you know, i wouldn't you said it was an error. yeah, it was a total error. i took the right decision . i laughed. if you decision. i laughed. if you fessed up earlier , could you fessed up earlier, could you have saved your career? i don't think so. i think it was they were sort you know, it was it was the wrong thing to do, the wrong place to do it. and it was the absolutely the right to go. but, you know, have i it you

know, would i have apologised i do and reserve oddly so. but like i said what i want to do now as you move into 23 is yes, i made a terrible mistake. i mean, how did you how did you i, i can assure you i've had some pretty tough times with the press over the years repeated times with the press . and i times with the press. and i always thought at the end of it all and you know, some of the stuff they wrote was completely untrue. some of the stuff they wrote was unfortunately true . wrote was unfortunately true. but you always think about it. all right. listen, you know, i've put my head over the parapet in public life. i can deal with it . yeah. but the deal with it. yeah. but the impact on the family is i think, quite difficult , impact on the family is i think, quite difficult, isn't impact on the family is i think, quite difficult , isn't it? impact on the family is i think, quite difficult, isn't it? and if there was one hero of the piece whose , definitely my wife, piece whose, definitely my wife, she's only about five foot tall, but my goodness me, you know, she is the terminator. and she said she said about me that i every emotion in her in our whole body have, you know , as

whole body have, you know, as i have, i've had that effect upon her. but the one thing i've done is never bored her and said, oh, i'm sure of that. is never bored her and said, oh, i'm sure of that . so i don't i'm sure of that. so i don't want to ask some the things i said. so you know, i huge tribute to say because she supported me through all my political career and it was one which it was actually a political career where i did work very hard for my kids and for farming and food . so, you for farming and food. so, you know, it's a stupid way and a very bad way to finish. but like i said, can i say now in public , if i hadn't had my wife's support through it and what we do have even now , all being do have even now, all being well, is mother would always say a good marriage and in many ways thatis a good marriage and in many ways that is more important than a political , however painful it political, however painful it might be to leave it behind. you could, neal, just going back to the farm and just carried on farming you obviously love doing. yeah i do anyway but you

decided not to hide under a you decided not to hide under a you decided in fact you were arguing quite passionately on political issues earlier is there a second coming of neil parish in politics. i will have to see. but i would i would hope there might be. will people forgive me? i don't know. and i have to you know, i have to ask that all sincerity. but i think, you know, that the producing food you've got you've got the ukrainians being invade by putin. you know, it's not russia is putin. you've got you need food you've got north africa. there is starving if you're not careful because get their wheat from the ukraine we need to produce more food we can have a good environment. we want to get you know i want to i want to somehow or i want to create revolution where we actually have home rule for the devon and somerset might even talk to the. cornish but i'm also that that will be voted deliver that but seriously i think you know we've not had a fair deal in the west country for years. and i'm not

just saying this now because i made it part of it. i said it when i was in parliament. i used to say many a debate. i said that many of the civil service and many of the government think that is the west and that bristol is the west and there nothing it. you there nothing beyond it. you know , we all the way from know, we all the way from bristol to the veto, of course, was a very long time, long was a very long time, a long way. and is a great way. and devon is a great county. is a great county. somerset is a great county. somerset is a great county. we've got great counties of west country. and of the west country. and i think, you know , we deserve think, you know, we deserve better. think we need to better. i think we need to deserve on education and deserve better. on education and health. we also need to have that great food because, you know, people to part the know, people come to part of the world tourists. they like to world as tourists. they like to eat dark green tea. you do. eat our dark green tea. you do. and we want to make. sure. we put this the cream on the scones as well don't ever have them on it. that's usually when we go down to cornwall to do a show at newlyn which. so they'll disagree very strongly. and carol, mary and i disagree hugely . final thought? real in hugely. final thought? real in your cap, robert mugabe banned

your cap, robert mugabe banned you from zimbabwe. very, very well. doddie aid neil patrick. oh, that old bad boy like my analysis of the election, you know his corruption, his forcing people to vote. and of course, you know , a country and of you know, a country and of course before i left putin did actually ban me from russia as well. well i had a couple of. but on that note, neil parish was like, thank you for coming on. talking about, you know, okay. on. talking about, you know, okay . we are very nearly done , okay. we are very nearly done, but we're going to finish. we have dairy farmer called philip greenaway and he is going to sing for us, take me home , sing for us, take me home, country roads, take it away away . from . take . home to . from. take. home to i. love west virginia . i'll do my.

. from. take. home to i. love west virginia . i'll do my . take west virginia. i'll do my. take home. you know . and my man . home. you know. and my man. round lines lay in stranger. to dark and dusty painted on sky. this detains . two moonshine this detains. two moonshine dumps in my country road . take dumps in my country road. take it home to the place . i belong it home to the place. i belong southwest the so called . take me southwest the so called. take me home come . to i will boys in the home come. to i will boys in the morning she calls me the radio reminds of my home far away then

driving down the road i can feel that i should get back in exeter . exeter country you . take home . exeter country you. take home to the place . i simplicity and to the place. i simplicity and love far . me . to the place. i simplicity and love far. me . home country you love far. me. home country you own . to . the i belong south—west own. to. the i belong south—west so popular so take me home come you . you know .

you. you know. hello there i'm great you has welcome to your latest broadcast from met office over the next few days high pressure remains firmly in charge . we will see some rain charge. we will see some rain pushing south over the next 24 hours. but jemmy settled picture is what will see. and we can see that high pressure on the synoptic charts to just the west of us the moment, allowing of us at the moment, allowing these to slowly these weather systems to slowly push south. but every we in nature said the rain should be light and patchy. the rain already across scotland, northern england, as head through evening time, through the evening time, clearer further south, clearer skies further south, particularly southern particularly central southern parts of england and wales will temperatures tumbling here minus one celsius will lead one minus two celsius will lead to frost under the to a patchy frost under the cloud and patchy elsewhere, holding well above freezing. holding up well above freezing. but it doesn't mean a cloudy start to friday morning across central and northern parts of , central and northern parts of, the uk brightness limited the uk early brightness limited to the far south and through the day . this weather slowly day. this weather system slowly pushes way southwards. we will see patchy rain along it at see some patchy rain along it at times, but it will brighten up

behind this, particularly across northern scotland northern england, scotland and then on across northern then later on across northern ireland, we could see one or two showers rolling down the east coast on quite a keen northerly breeze. here to breeze. temperatures here 7 to 9 degrees, under the cloud degrees, but under the cloud further 11 or 12 as further south, 11 or 12 as a high. this weather system into the evening pushes its way southwards. we see clearing skies it , southwards. we see clearing skies it, particularly in skies behind it, particularly in the will continue to in the west. we will continue to in the west. we will continue to in the early hours to one or the early hours to see one or two showers filtering in across the we'll see a bit of the east. so we'll see a bit of a split with temperatures as we head the night time, —1 head towards the night time, —1 to —4 across some western holding up above freezing with that freeze across the far east . but it does mean a bright start saturday for many of us, the best of the sunshine across central and western areas, though cloud across the east does filter in more as we head through bubbling up through the day, bubbling up into afternoon 1 2 into the afternoon 1 to 2 showers possible still . these showers possible still. these moving inland, perhaps moving their way inland, perhaps a bit wintry over the a little bit wintry over the higher of england, higher ground of england, northeast scotland, temperatures feeling saturday feeling chillier on saturday into sunday. a lot of dry weather to come over the next few days around average. see you

welcome back. i'm karen armstrong in the gb newsroom. the prime minister will tomorrow urge world leaders move faster and supply ukraine advanced weaponry to give it a decisive advantage on the battlefield . advantage on the battlefield. rishi sunak is expected to use a meeting which . president meeting which. president volodymyr zelenskyy will attend virtually to call for a longer range weapons to be sent . range weapons to be sent. ukraine now . earlier this ukraine now. earlier this evening, the united nations in a motion to call for moscow to end hostilities and they call for lasting peace in ukraine. it's a year on from when russia launched its invasion in the country and china abstained from that vote amid suggestions it's considering supplying lethal weapons to russia, which the head of jens stoltenberg has

warned against. we seen any suppues warned against. we seen any supplies of lethal aid from china or to russia, but we seen signs that they are considering and maybe planning for that. and that's the reason why the united states and other allies been very clear warning against that . and china should, of course not support russia's illegal war. a blatant of international law . war. a blatant of international law. ukraine's allies have war. a blatant of international law . ukraine's allies have been law. ukraine's allies have been preparing mark one year of the war with russia. the eiffel tower was lit up earlier in the colours of the flag, as was the eu headquarters in brussels in london, hundreds of people gathered in trafalgar square , a gathered in trafalgar square, a national one minute silence will be held at 11 am. tomorrow. three men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the shooting of a high ranking