2000 more pubs are threatened with closure . how on earth are with closure. how on earth are we going to save the great british pub without which our country would not be the same.7 but before all of that , let's but before all of that, let's get the news. we're polly middlehurst . nigel, thank you. middlehurst. nigel, thank you. and good evening to you. our top story at 7:00, mi5 director general says he's profoundly sorry that the security agency didn't prevent the manchester arena bombing following the inquiry into the attack . the inquiry into the attack. the report found the security service failed to act on critical intelligence relating to suicide bomber salman abedi . to suicide bomber salman abedi. it also found it could it could have been arrested at manchester airport four days before he went on to kill 22 people at the ariana grande concert. a lawyer for the families spoke outside the inquiry . for the families spoke outside the inquiry. he said the victims had been failed at every level . had been failed at every level. it is clear that salman abedi

should have been referred to prevent . it is clear that the prevent. it is clear that the education system needs to be more vigilant in picking up signs of radicalisation . it is signs of radicalisation. it is clear that didsbury mosque turned a blind eye to extremism in its midst. sirjohn's report today contains many lessons we must heed every one of them and make the necessary changes urgently . well security minister urgently. well security minister tom tugendhat says mi5 has made change since the attack . i know change since the attack. i know that all of us are working to make sure that the improvements that need to be made are made. already more than 100 changes have been done and no doubt this report will highlight others . report will highlight others. the home secretary and i support mi5 in the home secretary and i support m15 in making those changes. meanwhile, officials in syria believe they have enough evidence to convict shamima begum if an international

criminal tribunal is set up. following a visit to kurdistan , following a visit to kurdistan, the labour mp lloyd russell—moyle said authorities there asked him for a tribunal to be established to try. also, thousands of former isis fighters and their families . fighters and their families. shamima bagan was 15 when she left london to join the islamic state terror group . here, police state terror group. here, police investigating the death of a missing baby who was found in brighton last night say the newborn may have been dead for some time . the remains were some time. the remains were found in woodland close to where constance martin and mark gordon were arrested on monday. the couple evaded authorities for more than seven weeks and refused to give any information on the location or the welfare of their baby . they are being of their baby. they are being held on suspicion of gross negligence, manslaughter . and negligence, manslaughter. and nhs leaders have welcomed a government decision to invite all health unions involved in strike action to further talks. the health department says it

will discuss what is fair and reasonable , but that planned reasonable, but that planned industrial action must be called off first. the royal college of nursing began intensive discussions with the government last week over pay. but unions representing junior doctors described talks with the health secretary today as a facade and said action would go ahead later this month . that's all from me this month. that's all from me for now. i'm back in an hour. more now from shah . more now from shah. well, the daily telegraph lockdown leak story is now in day two. and the big stories today, well, the first was that we decided we'd make kids wear face masks in school because nicola sturgeon gym had gone ahead and done it first. and bofis ahead and done it first. and boris johnson said, we can't we don't need the fight. we don't need the rules. so our poor kids

were made to go to school for some period of time wearing face masks. big story masks. but the really big story that's come out overnight is that's come out overnight is that matt hancock was absolutely desperate to close the schools . desperate to close the schools. if we go back to january 20, 21, despite the fact that very, very few people who were young were getting ill with coronavirus, hancock feared kids going back to school would mean there'd be an intergenerational spread. so gavin williamson , who was the gavin williamson, who was the education secretary, was absolutely opposed to the schools being closed . in the schools being closed. in the end, hancock won and the schools were closed . and actually for were closed. and actually for a lot of our youngsters, two years of normal education and two years of normal social interaction. well, lost. so i'm asking you tonight, were we right to close the schools? give me your thoughts. farage at gb news. .uk i think it was an absolute disaster. is there anyone there that we have? an increasing number of kids

genuinely suffering from not just mental problems , but social just mental problems, but social problems too, and very behind in terms of academic development at schools. it was just awful in my opinion. so you know, i may not like the way all these emails have been leaked . i may not have been leaked. i may not approve of it, but it is giving us some very powerful stories. and interestingly , yesterday i and interestingly, yesterday i read out a statement that had come from matt hancock and his team defending what had happened in the care homes, saying that telegraph hadn't quite got it right. was what the hancock right. that was what the hancock county say on this row county had to say on this row about closing the schools. we have not heard a word from matt hancock and his team. other than to they're going to wait for to say they're going to wait for the inquiry . what on earth is the inquiry. what on earth is that inquiry going to be? well, joining me now is catherine forster gavin , who's political forster gavin, who's political reporter . catherine, i can see, reporter. catherine, i can see, you know, from right across politics are media people saying , well, whilst they're quite enjoying these telegraph stories, is there any news ?

stories, is there any news? because i hear that the inquiry, the covid inquiry have spent nearly £1,000,000 so far of taxpayers money and not yet interviewed a single british government minister. is there any hope or prospect to this might get speeded up ? honestly, might get speeded up? honestly, nigel, i would say don't hold your breath because keir starmer, the labour leader, asked in prime minister's questions for a commitment from the government that the inquiry would be concluded this year. that was not forthcoming. of course, the prime minister's spokesman says this is independent. you know, they will take the time that they need. but course in other countries but of course in other countries these inquiries into lockdowns have long since concluded. sweden, for instance , that was sweden, for instance, that was wrapped up last year. france and germany, they were already done these and got them out of the way. and in many ways it's in the government's interests to let drag on as long as let this drag on as long as possible. i mean, it could potentially years and that,

potentially be years and that, of course, is why isabel oakeshott, the journalist who's leaked all these whatsapp messages, saying she's done messages, is saying she's done so she's saying it's in so because she's saying it's in the interest for this the public interest for this information now . information to come out. now. yeah, two other stories while you're there in the westminster, but it's two other stories. firstly boris johnson coming out and saying he may not be able to vote for rishi's deal. i've noficed vote for rishi's deal. i've noticed we've been covering this for the last couple of nights, but i've noticed in the newspapers increasingly people saying that actually the prime minister has oversold the windsor framework agreement . i'd windsor framework agreement. i'd like a quick thought on that. and what boris may do and how big the rebellion can be, but also astonishing that so great at the neutral independent civil servant that carried out the inquiry as to what happened in number ten downing street with the policies we now hear is after become chief of staff for sir keir starmer's, labour party . what does that mean for civil service neutrality . yes,

service neutrality. yes, incredible news about sue gray wasn't hurt. she had a high position in the cabinet office as a civil servant up to today. when she said she was resigning, she was told to go with immediate effect as of course she would be, because she's now going to be keir starmer's, chief of staff and leader of the opposition. now keir starmer wants somebody with massive experience of government, which of course sue gray has. they really said that they've got very little government experience in the shadow cabinet , but really of course this does mean that lots of people will now be saying, well, what about civil service impartiality? if she's gone off to join labour now wash really impartial over the partygate allegations which help to bring boris down and talking about boris johnson. yes, i was at his speech, he has come out and been very critical really of the prime minister's deal really of the prime minister's deal, said that it was basically

similar to what liz truss had been offered last year, that the eu were graciously unbending to let us do things in our own country. but still being under their laws. and that's really he said it was going to be a drag on, a drag on on divergence. and what was the point of brexit if we couldn't go off and do our own thing? so it will be interesting to see what effect that has, although he did say he'd find it very difficult to vote for, that was an implication , obviously, that implication, obviously, that he'd vote against it. but he also said he could see the way the wind was blowing, that he understood that people wanted a deal and that they would have to hope that it worked . catherine hope that it worked. catherine foster, thank you very much indeed. and boris johnson there, isuppose indeed. and boris johnson there, i suppose we can say really sitting on the fence. he's rather good at doing that before he makes big political decisions. he does like to see which the wind is blowing which way the wind is blowing back to the schools story. he was clear to me about this row

that took place between hancock and williamson. is that the decision to take to close the schools this was more of a political decision than it was a scientific decision because scientific decision because scientific opinion was genuinely split it on the issue. we've been told from the start the government would follow the science. i don't think matt hancock was following the science at all. well, i'm joined by christine cunliffe, who's the principal of elves, osgood, and christine , you know, i have to christine, you know, i have to say , you know, for you, they're say, you know, for you, they're running a school. say, you know, for you, they're running a school . when you see running a school. when you see this school boy style squabble that was going on at the beginning of 2021, and there you are responsible for kids in schools as so many other thousands of people like you were. how does it make you feel 7 were. how does it make you feel ? well, it was actually quite disbelief. this morning when i saw it. but to be quite honest, you're not surprised. i mean, i do remember that time when some schools came back for one day and then they were out again as well. that

well. and the heartache that caused the children. you know, it's just not on in to see those messages. we're trying set an messages. we're trying to set an example to children to be leaders the future . now, what leaders of the future. now, what does message that send does what message does that send to young people ? yes. in to our young people? yes. in terms of leadership, quality is i mean, really, i have to say, right through the pandemic , it right through the pandemic, it was more like followership than it was leadership. and clearly , it was leadership. and clearly, what these emails reveal is there were an awful lot of political battles going on as well. christine i think they were absolutely wrong to close the schools in 2021. i think they were absolutely wrong to make young children wear face masks. it was absolutely dreadful. but you tell me , as dreadful. but you tell me, as somebody directly involved in education, do you think great damage was done to our young people over that two year penod? people over that two year period? and if it was , can it be period? and if it was, can it be remedied ? i think hindsight is a remedied? i think hindsight is a wonderful thing . covid was wonderful thing. covid was complete . well, it was complete. well, it was a nightmare for everyone. and i

think, you know , i believe, you think, you know, i believe, you know, the decisions were made at the time what they thought was the time what they thought was the right thing to do, but it was the wrong thing to do. and i think we need to learn about this, you know, especially if we were to another pandemic, were to have another pandemic, which be, know, which could be, you know, literally around literally just around the corner. the corner. we have to keep the children in school. the damage is extensive in all age groups. i mean, it doesn't matter how young children were. i mean, imagine children who never started that reception year and they're coming into year one and two haven't had that two and they haven't had that nurturing. but also older children. in my own son didn't take his a—levels. it had a huge far reaching effect on them . and far reaching effect on them. and we're still seeing that now. we're seeing it without attitudes, with attitudes, we're seeing with behaviour we're trying to behaviour. we're still trying to catch up and you and the catch up and you know, and the children really have suffered and think going to see and i think we're going to see this for decades , for decades , this for decades, for decades, goodness me. so i'm going to give you an opportunity here. christine, would you like to send a message to matt hancock on behalf not just of your school, but of educationalists across country ? remember,

across the country? remember, it is the watershed . i would is before the watershed. i would like please to keep like you please to try to keep it. course. and i'm it. of course. and i'm a headteacher, so i definitely will keep it clean. i would say these are children's lives . these are children's lives. these are adult lives that you're playing with. and if ever we have a pandemic, i hope we learn from it and that we have people with the right qualifications and experience in the right place to lead our country into the future . country into the future. christine thank you for being so diplomatic for joining christine thank you for being so diplomatic forjoining me diplomatic for joining me tonight on gb news. thanks, christine . they're laying out christine. they're laying out clearly , you know, she thinks clearly, you know, she thinks they could be damage to our young people. this could go on actually for decades. i find that really pretty depressing. well. at about huffpost ten tonight, we'll find out what tomorrow's front page in the daily telegraph is going to be. ihave daily telegraph is going to be. i have no doubt, as daily telegraph is going to be. i have no doubt , as these next i have no doubt, as these next few days go by, we will find out the extent to which government chose to try to frighten us. ministers used the coronavirus act to but impositions for our

liberty and our freedoms that they didn't even dare do during they didn't even dare do during the second world war. there is a lot more to come out over the course of the next few days. i'll be back with you in a couple of minutes .

welcome back. for those that didn't listen to me last night, yes, i am in new york city. hence what you see behind me. i was supposed to be in washington, dc, but the flight was cancelled, so i came here instead. i'll be in dc. tomorrow . now, some of your tomorrow. now, some of your thoughts coming in. was it right to close the schools? nick says no . sweden had the right idea . no. sweden had the right idea. but what is not being talked aboutis but what is not being talked about is the flawed model is the same model that is being used for climate change. and these messages prove they do indeed fudge the data to suit their

agenda. gosh, nick, you're even more cynical than i am . michael more cynical than i am. michael says hindsight is a wonderful thing. yeah, michael, i get that. of course. of course . it's that. of course. of course. it's easy to look back and criticise . but i think what today's revelations show is the extent of the political battle that was going on within cabinet, not a scientific one, to deal with the disease. and that i think, is what genuinely shocks people. and just think of those kids , as and just think of those kids, as christine said, those kids that went back to school for one day and without and then told the schools were closed. all of that was disastrous . another viewer was disastrous. another viewer says no students lost social skills. academic skills and became fearful, apathetic and hopeless. currently, they don't see much of a future for themselves, and they lack the skills to navigate life's challenges. well, i have to say, i. i i, for one, do genuinely think this did huge, huge damage to young people. and i'll take

one more. tessa says, easy to say no. two years down the line , all the government were doing was trying to save lives. even if they made mistakes. wouldn't we all have done the same? tessa i'll be honest with you . when i'll be honest with you. when that first lockdown came and i had friends in milan in northern italy telling me what was happening in their hospitals , happening in their hospitals, what was happening in their communities , i was pretty scared communities, i was pretty scared of what was coming down the track, and i had no objections to the first lockdown whatsoever. we didn't know what was coming down of this. but by the time we get to early 2021, we knew that the only people that died with coronavirus on their death certificates were people with an average age of 83, which is higher than normal life expectancy in the uk. and or in many cases, people who were suffering from very bad health pre existing heart conditions or extreme obesity.

we knew by that time that people that caught it got over it pretty quickly and yet we kept going back into repeated lockdown. so i'm not speaking on this with hindsight . i was i this with hindsight. i was i have to say, by the time the second and third lockdowns came, i was completely opposed to what the government was doing. and i was watching what was happening in indeed what was in sweden and indeed what was happening florida under happening in florida under governor ron desantis. i might mention him in just a moment. now terrorism or more accurately , our counterterrorism strategy has come under some really pretty strong scrutiny . but last pretty strong scrutiny. but last couple of weeks, we've just had the manchester inquiry, the third inquiry into that horrendous suicide bomber who killed 22, mostly young kids at that concert . i don't have to that concert. i don't have to say the report just tells us about failure after failure. salman abedi was not referred to the prevent programme and m15 are being pretty frank in saying that he should have been. but

even if he had been referred to prevent. we learnt last week from the shawcross report that even prevent doesn't seem to be working properly and bizarrely only you know, 80% of the referrals to prevent are for right wing extremism . whereas in right wing extremism. whereas in reality 80% of genuine police time dealing with terrorism comes from the islamic threat . comes from the islamic threat. and perhaps because of all of this , our home secretary suella this, our home secretary suella braverman has said the political correctness is actually stopping us from rooting out dangerous islamic terrorism. is she right 7 islamic terrorism. is she right ? i have a sense that maybe she is . major ? i have a sense that maybe she is. major general chip chapman , is. major general chip chapman, head of counter—terrorism at the ministry of defence . what i have ministry of defence. what i have no doubt have a better a much more informed opinion than i do. good evening . welcome to the good evening. welcome to the program . i mean, all of these program. i mean, all of these reports , it seems to me, are reports, it seems to me, are pretty . i mean, suella, is she pretty. i mean, suella, is she right to say that it's political

correctness or frankly, cowardice ? that means we're not cowardice? that means we're not deaung cowardice? that means we're not dealing with the problem properly? well, i don't think she because, of course, if you're a practitioner in in counter—terrorism, you follow the threat , not any political the threat, not any political correctness . and it doesn't correctness. and it doesn't matter if it's left wing, right wing, northern ireland terrorism or fourth one. no left and single issue terrorism . if it single issue terrorism. if it stacks up that it's from any of those groups, that's what you follow. and that's why, for example, 66% of those in prison are from the islamist persuasion, 27% currently from the right wing. and the remainder from those left and single issue terrorists. it's also not really true that prevent would have helped. in the case of abedi . so for the case of abedi. so for example , he was 20 when the example, he was 20 when the statutory statutory imposition came from the safety and security act in 2015, which gave schools and universities on the nhs a mandatory statutory requirement to refer people they

thought was vulnerable. i don't think he was in that system, so that wouldn't have helped. even though prevent has been in from 2003. so i don't think the thing is necessarily broken and we've got to be really careful on how we look at this. but you follow the not the ideology . the threat, not the ideology. that's what they do. now, in the case of abedi and the manchester attack, you have to then go back to what was said afterwards . so to what was said afterwards. so about a week after we of course, at the london bridge attack , as at the london bridge attack, as at the london bridge attack, as a result of that, the deputy director general of m15, it was actually ken mccallum at the time. now the director general led and operational improvement review. did we get things wrong? and from the reports too that which would probably feed in to the report. sirjohn saunders today they said they got two things from the first one was they could have potentially stopped him at a port or the ports philosophy that supports airports stations under airports train stations under a schedule seven. the second one is abedi in 2014 was a close

subject of interest. he was a subject of interest. he was a subject of interest from january 2014. he fell off the radar to become a close subject of interest. in july 2014, the most amazing thing really is that using big data , machine learning using big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence since they had picked him out from 20,000 close objects of interest and were going to reinvestigate him and actually put him on the radar for a meeting. but that was going to happen nine days after the attack. so he was on the radar . attack. so he was on the radar. it wasn't in a timely fashion. but like all these things we have to remember that sort of being on the radar is not the same as if you're on the priorities ization grid and there are people who at the time were far higher than him, which they prevented . as were far higher than him, which tiresult prevented . as were far higher than him, which tiresult of prevented . as were far higher than him, which tiresult of these evented . as were far higher than him, which tiresult of these operational as a result of these operational improvement reviews of which there were 104 recommendations. the key thing about when they were implemented in 19 is, are were implemented in 19 is, are we safer today? because of course , sadly, it is six years course, sadly, it is six years on from manchester. i would

argue we are safer today. it's largely lone actor attacks . largely lone actor attacks. they're very difficult to stop . they're very difficult to stop. but they are large plots are largely gone now. so, for example to put some figures on that 2019 two were killed, 2023 killed, 2021 one killed in terrorist attacks. so the heyday , terrorism has gone . are they, , terrorism has gone. are they, of course. norden ireland related terrorism. we saw that horrible attack on the past nine policemen in northern ireland last week . i know that's last week. i know that's a really good, very good. i actually quite encouraging explanation of where we are with things because we don't hear about the good news. we don't hear really, do we, about the attacks that are foiled. we hear about when it's gone wrong. about it when it's gone wrong. one thought is that one final thought is that celebrating talk about celebrating when did talk about grievance and this grievance narratives? and this was specific. i think was was very specific. i think was saying that if we investigate and look and start to criticise aspects of extreme islamism this gets taken by some elements of the media wrongly as being an

attack on everybody of the muslim faith. hence this grievance narrative and what she was really saying is that when it comes to that particular terrorist threat, she thinks we're soft peddling, but you clearly don't agree with that . clearly don't agree with that. well, there's always been a strong prevent prevent narrative. and that was really why it took so long for shawcross to prevent report to come out . prevent is a good come out. prevent is a good thing. it's to stop vulnerable people being drawn into radicalisation. if you were already radicalised, you wouldn't go into prevent. you'd be in, pursue and be looked at by counter—terrorist command and mi5 . so by counter—terrorist command and m15 . so prevent isn't broken. it m15. so prevent isn't broken. it needs to be supported. and that was one of the things today that was one of the things today that was actually said by sir john saunders that the police welcomed and thought prevent was a good thing . it a very, very good thing. it generally need generally works. we need to support it. but there is a lobby of who think that it is of people who think that it is focussed on the islamic community. it is not. it's focussed on all of those who

seek to do harm to the uk of whatever persuasion . chapman whatever persuasion. chapman thank very much indeed for joining us this evening on gb news. well, sticking with a fairly similar theme by what the farage moment from today , and farage moment from today, and you may have heard about this case, but it's a school just outside batley in yorkshire and it involves a boy and those four boys. one of the boys had a copy of the koran and a copy of the koran got dropped and trodden . koran got dropped and trodden. it didn't get burned or set fire to. it was some of the sort of wilder reports suggested . but wilder reports suggested. but this was an improper bully was lads larking about but this was taken to be causing a terrible terrible grievance and we finished out with four boys being suspended from the school. one of the mothers has spoken out, making it clear that her 14

year old didn't have any malicious intent . intent. but malicious intent. intent. but these boys aren't currently at these boys aren't currently at the i just wanted to muse on something. can you imagine if somebody from whatever faith had brought a bible, the holy bible into school and the bible had been dropped, trodden on or damaged in some way? do you think those kids would have been suspended? i don't. it does show a very mixed sense of priorities in what is supposed to be or at least used to be a christian country. we'll take a break. back with you and .

take well, let's do a happy story. let's do something that really thrills me and cheers me up now. of course, we know we must neven

of course, we know we must never, ever criticise. never, ever. never, ever criticise. never, ever . meghan never, ever criticise. never, ever. meghan and harry, that's a terrible mistake. and if you're a jeremy clarkson and you write something rude about them as in the sun newspaper, even when you've apologised, you fine announced last night that he will not be doing after the next one any more serious of who wants to be a millionaire . no, wants to be a millionaire. no, no, no, no, no. if you criticise this couple, you get in trouble because they seem to have quite deep support in the liberal media establishment. but anybody who watches this show regular listens to it, will know . i listens to it, will know. i think their behaviour has been absolutely disrespectful to our late queen and despicable towards his own brother and indeed his father , who of course indeed his father, who of course is now king charles iii. they moan like crazy, didn't they , moan like crazy, didn't they, about being put into nottingham cottage after they were first married. it was so small. oh you know american stars coming to visit them couldn't believe the terrible conditions they were being forced to live in. oprah

winfrey said it's so small. gosh, i'm sure you're all really pitying them living there. but the queen came to the rescue and gave them frogmore cottage. now frogmore cottage are five houses knocked into one and £24 million was spent for the duke and duchess of suffolk to have it decorated to their heart's desire . so really, they've been desire. so really, they've been having their cake and eating it because they'd be living on the west coast of america , making west coast of america, making vast amounts of money from the book and from netflix and everything else, slagging off the royal family, the cupboard wealth, virtually everything about our country, but able at will to come back to frogmore cottage with the king has acted . and i don't always agree with everything we king says. as you know. but he's kicked them out. he wants the keys back. yes. they will not have frogmore cottage anymore. i think will go to andrew . who for him. and it

to andrew. who for him. and it must be horrible for him really to have to leave a 30 room home. but hey, he's going to go into frogmore cottage. well maybe i'll be a bit light hearted about this, because i do think actually there are deeper, perhaps even constitutional consequences from this . and i'm consequences from this. and i'm joined by ralph rafe heydel—mankoo , royal commentator heydel—mankoo, royal commentator and gb news favour it. ralph some people have suggested that this is revenge coming from king charles. if it is revenge, i have to say, i rather like it. yes well, about time. i'm sure many will say. and i'm sure that, you know, cries of finally could be heard ricocheting around the kingdom, you know, as the british public heard about the british public heard about the king's decision , decisive the king's decision, decisive decision, i should say , to give decision, i should say, to give the duke and of duplicity their final and final just desserts and to evict them. you know, the king's been extraordinarily patient and tolerant. i think we can all agree and, you know,

much like a good christian monarch would. i think he was hoping that there would be a prodigal son moment where. his wayward return. but, prodigal son moment where. his way'know, return. but, prodigal son moment where. his way'know, after return. but, prodigal son moment where. his way'know, after all return. but, prodigal son moment where. his way'know, after all therrn. but, prodigal son moment where. his way'know, after all the temper you know, after all the temper tantrums from this tantrums we've seen from this cry—baby and and his cry—baby and this and his delusional drama queen of a life, it appears that it was the public, you know, spare harry's vulgar memoir that issued this vile on camilla vile attacks on queen camilla that was the final straw for his majesty . and the thing is, the majesty. and the thing is, the king and the royal family aren't allowed to actually rebut or respond these. there's allowed to actually rebut or revileld these. there's allowed to actually rebut or revile nonsense these. there's allowed to actually rebut or revile nonsense from se. there's allowed to actually rebut or revile nonsense from the there's allowed to actually rebut or revile nonsense from the sussex a vile nonsense from the sussex what the king has done here. actually i was thinking about it is sort of the equivalent of a government declaring a diplomatic grata diplomatic persona non grata when ambassador is declared when an ambassador is declared persona non grata, they lose their their their and they lose their privileges and they have to leave the nation. and that's essentially the king has essentially what the king has done prince harry, because done to prince harry, because this quite amongst this is actually quite amongst a stroke. practical reality is stroke. the practical reality is that he's not only evicted from frogmore by losing frogmore, they've actually lost their royal roles, which we've discussed constitutionally and essentially potentially been evicted from britain, because if

you if you lose frogmore harry has now lost his domicile status from the uk and what that means the constitution only hears that he can no longer be a councillor of state and a councillor of state is a very constitutional role which means when the sovereign, the king currently is incapacitated or abroad , there incapacitated or abroad, there are four senior royals who can fulfil certain functions of . the fulfil certain functions of. the role of the king and prince harry has been one of those councillors of a state without any uk domicile. he's been very publicly and unceremoniously stripped of that. but also the other thing is by losing frogmore, he's now lost the windsor castle estates royal protection police officers and security detail , which protection police officers and security detail, which means that he now feels that his only safe space in the uk has been denied him. and we've heard them say repeatedly and it's been reported , he said, by his reported, he said, by his supporters , like amid scrutiny supporters, like amid scrutiny over the past couple of days, that they now may limit their number of trips to the uk if they would actually come to the coronation will see her. so by

losing frogmore they've lost their role and potentially their royal role and potentially they've been evicted from britain . yeah, no, absolutely britain to. yeah, no, absolutely right . as i say, there is an right. as i say, there is an important constitutional point there, and thank you for putting that very clearly to everybody. let's focus for a minute, let's just focus for a minute, if we can, on the coronation. it's about weeks away, but it's about nine weeks away, but it really is coming very, it really is coming up very, very quickly upon us, as i understand it, an invitation has been extended to. harry and his wife meghan . but they have said wife meghan. but they have said they will only come to the coronation if they give it an apology . i can't believe this, apology. i can't believe this, but this is what i'm told. if they're given an apology by william , kate and the king, is william, kate and the king, is that where we are ? yes. so the that where we are? yes. so the invitation hasn't yet been confirmed as being sent or received , but we're expecting received, but we're expecting this happen. but you're quite right. you know, i don't know what life is like on planet sussex, but they seem to live in this alternative reality where up is down and left is right. is

quite inconceivable that you would , you know, launch a hail would, you know, launch a hail of abuse and attacks upon your nearest and dearest and then expect them apologise. and you have to really ask, what are they apologising ? you know, they apologising? you know, harry should be lucky and meghan should be concerned. was lucky that they're even getting an invitation to this great ceremonial event. invitation to this great ceremonial event . and, you know, ceremonial event. and, you know, unfortunate i think the problem is, if they do accept this invitation, a lot of the a lot of the media attention, which should be on the most important ceremony and constitutional event, i'll country has the first coronation in 70 years. all focus should be on the king and i just hope that we don't get this side distraction of harry and meghan and that ongoing or their ongoing fracas you know turning the coronation into coronations three two or something. because i can see that. i get that . well, i hope that. i get that. well, i hope they don't come if they do, they'll be booed in the street. i know, because i'll be queuing outside to boo myself. but you said coronation is all about

said the coronation is all about the king. but a final , final the king. but a final, final thought, i may. well, i've thought, if i may. well, i've got you. you know, we have learned over the last few days that camilla absolutely will not be the queen she is going to be the queen and what i found interesting about that statement was they didn't appear to be any pushback against the idea at all. do you think she's actually managed to win despite a pretty rocky start over the hearts and minds of the british public ? i minds of the british public? i think absolutely right. i mean, it must be said that queen camilla became queen, the moment, that her husband acceded the throne. she was queen consort with a small q and a small c, but there's no official title of queen consort she is officially the queen. and what the palace has done very, very cleverly i think very cleverly and i think very correctly, is they've allowed the public to get used to the idea of the queen camilla in stages. so of course, we first heard the queen say that she hopes the public will hopes that the public will

accept miller as queen accept the miller as queen consort. and then of course, to avoid having to queen avoid confusing having to queen so close together, queen elizabeth and queen camilla. quite frankly, i think we've had for period references for this period references to the consort, though the queen consort, even though she queen. and then she is really queen. and then from coronation, will from the coronation, we will finally drop consort and finally drop the consort and regard as queen. and yes, regard her as queen. and yes, this has been a long process over the past 20 odd years of getting to know queen camilla and everyone who's met her will say that the same thing, that she was extremely funny to , down she was extremely funny to, down very the sort of rolls very unlike the sort of rolls you would expect. the key task for the royal family of the monarchy is to impart that same feeling for the feeling we now have for the queen camilla around the commonwealth they commonwealth realms where they don't so well, and don't know her so well, and where she still is an unfamiliar figure. and unfortunately, 25 years diana's death , years after diana's death, whenever there's royal tour of whenever there's a royal tour of canada diana brought up yet canada, diana is brought up yet again after a quarter of a century . i just find that too century. i just find that too bad people will see her for the woman she really is . ralph, woman she really is. ralph, thank you very much indeed for

joining us tonight. as usual, informative and entertaining to now, folks , but a breaking news now, folks, but a breaking news i said to you earlier on that the daily telegraph will be getting ready for their next big headlines. well, one of them that's popped already that'll that's popped up already that'll be in tomorrow's newspaper seems to involve me. headline is to involve me. the headline is can we lock up the pub hooligan nigel farage asks hancock's team . team wanted to take action against brexiteer. what he tweeted video of himself at a pub after travelling to attend a us. pub after travelling to attend a us trump rally . alright. okay. u.s. trump rally. alright. okay. here go. i'm going to fess up when first lockdown came, i thought , all when first lockdown came, i thought, all right, i will accept that this vile corona virus act has gone through the house of commons, giving ministers powers we've not seen since the time of mediaeval kings. i didn't like it, but i obeyed it. but what i saw locked down after lockdown. what i saw

his steria surrounding the number of times we all had to get jabbed. when i saw a media earning so much money out of advertising that there was almost no room for debate or criticism . when almost no room for debate or criticism .when i saw almost no room for debate or criticism . when i saw matt criticism. when i saw matt hancock standing up there and saying things like this , is an saying things like this, is an order, you stay at home? i thought as the months went on, the hell with you. this is absolutely ridiculous. you're telling me i can't even go . i telling me i can't even go. i can't even go on my own. i can sit on a beach somewhere and fish. this is crackers. and frankly , i began to just not frankly, i began to just not comply . and did i go visit comply. and did i go visit elderly relatives that i shouldn't have done under the law? yes i did. and i bet many of you did, too. did i meet the odd person for a drink in the garden? but we weren't allowed to. yes, i did. and i bet many of you did too. and that particular picture, what i had been to america , i was supposed

been to america, i was supposed to quarantine, i think for days . and was i what? i was photographed that day. the pubs open. had i reached the full 14 days. well it was a bit nip and tucki days. well it was a bit nip and tuck i think probably i hadn't quite reached that. i but you know what, whatever i did, whatever i was doing when i, when i was out there breaking these ludicrous, i always made sure i used hand sanitiser. i always kept my distance from people. i don't have to say, you know, bad laws. bad laws make people lawbreakers . so there we people lawbreakers. so there we are. i fully confess , if you are. i fully confess, if you think the worse before it . i'm think the worse before it. i'm sorry, but i just don't like tyrannical government. i don't like little pipsqueak guys like matt hancock telling me how i should live my life on that note, we'll take a .

break so i'm going to be at cpac, this big conservative conference for the next couple of days. and of course, the star attraction is going be donald trump. he going to be donald trump. he comes every year and comes every single year and speaks grassroots speaks to grassroots conservatives just as ronald reagan before him. the reagan did before him. the trumps will. they just never bother because they rather bother because they would rather to establishment out and to establishment to go out and meet great unwashed meet the great unwashed ron desantis won't be there tomorrow. he's governor florida. my tomorrow. he's governor florida. my guess is that he probably is going to have a run and i guess he does want to take. on donald trump too early but we did learn something about desantis over the course the last couple of the course of the last couple of days through the times newspaper, doing a big interview . what interesting was . and what was interesting was it's time i've really it's the first time i've really heard i mean, i've met him heard him. i mean, i've met him before, but it's the first time i've out publicly i've heard him come out publicly saying a big supporter of saying he's a big supporter of brexit. he views brexit and brexit. he views brexit and brexit is rather like the founding fathers of america . founding fathers of america. when they broke away from us. but he's comment on how brexit's

been applied. really interesting , he says. my impression based on what we get here, is that the conservative party hasn't been aggressive at fulfilling that vision as they should have been, and that maybe they'll get punished in the next election . a punished in the next election. a result that, i do think that, result of that, i do think that, you know, there's been some disappointment from what i can tell , that hasn't been done tell, that it hasn't been done more aggressively. well, here here seems to be ron has his finger very much on the pulse of uk politics. whilst he may be a state governor, he's running florida very well. and that means and yes, of course, i'm a friend and supporter of donald trump. you all know that. but it does at least mean the republican party. i've actually got some quite good people to choose from far better than the democrats now worried about the closure of pubs, the one closest to my house closed just a few weeks ago. we're told there are 2000 pubs on the verge of closing. it worries me because not just that they community hubs, but every pub is a

parliament. it's in pubs where we openly debate things and think about things that often have our minds changed. how serious is this and what can be done? well, simon cleary is the landlord of the plough in great chesterfield in essex . simon chesterfield in essex. simon twofold really . number one i chesterfield in essex. simon twofold really. number one i am seeing it you know , living in seeing it you know, living in kent not that far south of the river from you number one, how bad is this crisis? but number two, is that anything jeremy hunt can do in the budget on the 15th of march that might help to alleviate the problem ? for alleviate the problem? for nigel, it's very bad. and before we talk about that, can i just go back to your previous point about lockdowns and lockdowns , about lockdowns and lockdowns, horrendous for pops . we had no horrendous for pops. we had no income for nearly eight months. we ended up with a bounce back loan of £25,000. we're not paying loan of £25,000. we're not paying back on a monthly basis and i don't know if your

producers told you this, but we're actually giving up. we're leaving this part in eight weeks time to quote some. well spoken before a reject . but i've spoken before a reject. but i've spoken to you before . we were talking to you before. we were talking about what may happen . bills, about what may happen. bills, let me give you some figures , let me give you some figures, nigel. our gas bill in 2022 for january was £438, including the spindly environmental charge and v8. so our gas bill that we received for january this year. was £2,370. nearly five times as much. and that there it is right there. i'm lost the additional history that we how we veg and it's just not sustaining the bone and is with great regret that we're going to be leaving this pub in eight weeks time. well simon, i didn't know that. and yes , i have spoke to you and yes, i have spoke to you before about these problems. and i'm well, i'm very , very, very i'm well, i'm very, very, very

sorry to hear that. i genuinely am sorry to hear that . i is the am sorry to hear that. i is the pub trade finished in this country now? it's not there. it's very location, location, location like anything else on the big pub coast. put their support behind them . managed support behind them. managed houses tending to the released properties. i think are going to suffer worse . and the other two suffer worse. and the other two things that are coming up, suffer worse. and the other two things that are coming up , the things that are coming up, the budget, as you know, nigel, is the of march and your question about what jeremy hunt's do is i think there is very prevalent so at the moment we want to reduce business rates which is a hangover from covid, which should be welcome. what's jeremy hunfs should be welcome. what's jeremy hunt's going do with business hunt's going to do with business rates? don't know the energy rates? we don't know the energy relief scheme comes to an end on the 31st of march. is it going to extend that now? he did say at the end of last year there will be provisions made for a particular structure or affected businesses , but there's no major

businesses, but there's no major meeting on the balance of that. nobody knows what that actually means. i know from speaking to my contacts in the pub industry that people are very, very worried . and indeed japan on worried. and indeed japan on what jeremy hunt decides on the 15th of march is going to affect big companies like the company where with greene. king. we don't have a problem with that bickering. king they treat this reasonably well, as it's always been here, but they're looking at to at problems. it could amount to tens of millions of pounds in the time . simon thank you the short time. simon thank you very much for being a regular guest with me here on gb news. i'm desperately sorry to hear what's happened to your pub. i really really mean that and really i really mean that and good luck with whatever you choose to do next. thank you. thank you. not to lay off folks, that's modern britain . that's that's modern britain. that's modern britain. that's what's going on. time for a quick barrage. the barrage, mick asks me, does the country need a parent? unions no action can be taken against schools which seek

to poison the minds of children they teach. well, i thought what was happening yesterday with that drag queen telling 11 year old kids there were 73 genders, that piece of that girls can take a piece of skin their arm make skin off their arm to make a fake sexual organ. i leave it at that was sick. i'm in america here. they have elected school boards parents can actually stand for school boards and fight back against this stuff. it is a sight. harder in the united kingdom to do that. so maybe whether a parent's unions the answer i don't know . but the answer i don't know. but what i do know is apparently more of a voice. well, we'll see what that telegraph piece of my confession does. i don't suppose the long arm of the law is going to find me here in america. i'll be back with you. hopefully on monday. but for now, i'm going to over to jacob to hand you over to jacob rees—mogg . well, thank you very rees—mogg. well, thank you very much, nigel. i'm sure everyone enjoyed your programme hugely. we've got some really exciting stuff coming up over the next hour we're going to be looking at sue gray defection from at the sue gray defection from the independent civil service to

the independent civil service to the socialist party just undermine the whole idea . an undermine the whole idea. an independent civil service . and independent civil service. and doesit independent civil service. and does it mean that her report into boris johnson that brought him down is invalid? we're also going to read from fantastic mr. fox . but now the weather . good fox. but now the weather. good evening. my name rachel ayers and welcome to your latest weather update from the met office . so as we go towards the office. so as we go towards the end of the week, there's not much change with it being another rather day tomorrow with some and this is some showers around. and this is all due to high pressure that we've dominating uk we've seen dominating the uk weather over the last week or so. it's not going anywhere for another as we go another day. but as we go through weekend into through the weekend and into next might just start next week, we might just start to see change. but looking to see a change. but looking through this evening, it's quite a cloudy with plenty of a cloudy night with plenty of cloud around for central and eastern areas and will eastern areas and this will spread southwest through spread southwest was through tonight becoming increasingly tonight so becoming increasingly cloudy there will be some clearer spells . scotland west clearer spells. scotland west wales and south—west england where we could just see a patchy frost to start. so be a rather

cloudy start for many to end week, but we will start to see some sunny spells developing down eastern coast throughout the day, particularly as we get the day, particularly as we get the afternoon. so that will be some sunny spells around for some sunny spells around for some but only thicker bits of cloud. we might just see the odd light shower as well into tomorrow, but temperatures will be feeling pretty pleasant in the sunshine and around average for the of year and with for the time of year and with clare end of the day on clare espoused end of the day on friday we might just see a touch of frost forming quite early across some centres and eastern areas. but cloud will swiftly move in from east once again. so by the time we start saturday, frost will mostly be across scotland and higher ground over england and wales. so just patchy frost to start the weekend there . otherwise as we weekend there. otherwise as we go into saturday we draw attention to this band of showers to the northeast it's going to bring showers down northern on east and coast through saturday and these could be wintry over some higher ground as it marks a change.

some more northerly winds bringing, some colder weather across the whole of the uk. by the time get through to next the time we get through to next week. rest of the week. but for the rest of the weekend, some sunny spells around, but wintry showers starting show hand too. starting to show their hand too. and

gb news. good evening . a moment on gb good evening. a moment on gb news headliners . but first, news headliners. but first, let's bring you up to date with the latest top. and today , the latest top. and today, director general said , he was director general said, he was profoundly sorry that the security agency didn't prevent the manchester arena bombing . an the manchester arena bombing. an inquiry into the attack has the security service failed act on critical intelligence relating to the suicide bomber ? abedi it to the suicide bomber? abedi it also found he could have been arrested at manchester airport four days before he went on to kill 22 people at the ariana day concert. a lawyer for the families said the victims been failed at every level . it families said the victims been failed at every level. it is clear that salman abedi should

have been referred to prevent . have been referred to prevent. it is clear that the education system needs to be more vigilant in picking up signs of radicalised zation . it is clear radicalised zation. it is clear that didsbury mosque turned a blind eye to extreme islam in its midst . blind eye to extreme islam in its midst. sirjohn's report today contains many lessons we must heed. every one of them and make the necessary changes urgently . well, in other news urgently. well, in other news today, a couple has been with gross negligence, manslaughter after a baby's remains were found in a woodland in sussex. constance marten and mark gordon have also been charged with concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course justice. the couple went missing in january and were arrested on tuesday. they're now due to appean tuesday. they're now due to appear. crawley magistrates court tomorrow . now further court tomorrow. now further leaked whatsapp messages by matt hancock suggest the former

health secretary's