gb news. >> it's 3 pm. it's patrick christie's >> it's 3 pm. it's patrick christie's is gb news. and we go in with the latest on the nigel farage banking saga. yes that's right. were any rules and regs broken? what the relationship broken? what is the relationship between cootes and indeed the british press? in other news, the falklands are british. okay we fought a war over it. we won that war. the european union is apparently intent on calling them las malvinas. i don't know about you , but i think that is about you, but i think that is incredibly offensive. what's going to be talking about this tobias ellwood, should that tobias ellwood, or should that be has had an be mullah ellwood has had an absolute pr disaster from going to afghanistan. and essentially in a roundabout way anyway, praising the taliban . i think we praising the taliban. i think we might have a little clip . might have a little clip. >> happened here

>> all that's happened here since 911. this is a very different country in deal. >> i look forward to his trip to somalia. i don't know about you or north korea. anyway in other news, i'm also going to be talking a lot about this as well. another hammer blow for people who think that electric vehicles all round good vehicles are an all round good idea. they might not be anywhere near as green you think. near as green as you think. patrick christie's dup . news patrick christie's dup. news loads on today. get the emails coming in thick and fast. vaiews@gbnews.com. do you feel offended by the european union seeming intent on calling the falkland islands last malvinas? but yes, right now it is your headunes. headlines. >> very good afternoon to you . >> very good afternoon to you. it is 3:00. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the illegal migration bill has been given royal assent by the king, so it has become law. it gives the

home office a duty to remove people who arrive in the country illegally to their home country or a safe third country, and that includes unaccompanied children when they turn 18, people who arrive here under the new laws will be banned from entering the uk and will not be eligible for settlement or citizenship except in limited circumstances. so alla braverman , the home secretary, says the government will focus on ensuring the law becomes operational , ensuring the law becomes operational, including appealing to supreme court regarding to the supreme court regarding the of rwanda for removal the safety of rwanda for removal and asylum processing strikes by health workers could end up costing hospitals many billions of pounds. that's to according matthew taylor, the head of the body that represents nhs organisations who says they're on red alert for the next 48 hours. a senior doctors walk out over pay . he says health leaders over pay. he says health leaders are deeply concerned by the impact strikes are having on the ability to reduce waiting lists, improve staff morale and patient satisfaction . consultants have satisfaction. consultants have rejected the government offer of

a 6% pay rise . health secretary a 6% pay rise. health secretary steve barclay says they've listened to the bma's demands. >> the average nhs earnings of a consultant after this pay rise will be £134,000 a year. and on top of that , 20% of their salary top of that, 20% of their salary goes into their pension, which means they'll be able to earn when they retire by the age of 65, tax free up to £60,000 a yeah 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year. the number one ask of the bma was for pension tax reform, and we listened to that as we acted on it. and in addition, we've also accepted in full the independent pay review body recommendations . recommendations. >> now up to 20,000 rail staff are on strike over job security and pay, causing disruption and cancellations across many services. it's the first of three days of industrial action. it will affect 14 train companies in england and may also have an effect in scotland and wales. members will also

walk out on the next two saturdays, the 22nd and the 29th of july. drivers in the aslef union additionally are banned from doing overtime this week. general secretary of the rmt mick lynch says he's hopeful fresh talks with network rail will mirror the progress. he's making with the london underground . underground. >> let's get try and get a deal cooked up, but we can try and get back round the table. we're doing with london transport doing that with london transport right about what's going on right now about what's going on in london underground. we've been conciliation been in acas, the conciliation service all week. so if we can get the same atmosphere where people are trying to work towards some solutions, perhaps we on national rail. we can do that on national rail. i'm london i'm hoping that maybe london underground will come up with some proposals that are steps forward and we can consider that. do that on that. but if we can do that on both parts of the railway, if you can maybe get some progress. >> mortgage rates have fallen for the first time in months for first since may, both to first time since may, both to and five year fixed rate deals are down 0.02% on average . are down 0.02% on average. that's according to moneyfacts , that's according to moneyfacts, the financial information company. lenders have factored

in better than expected inflation data that was released earlier this week. however, those figures are still higher than their peaks during last year's mini—budget supermarkets should be doing more to display pnces should be doing more to display prices clearly as they are currently preventing shoppers from finding the best deals. the competition and markets authority has found retailers could be hampering people's ability to compare products . the ability to compare products. the watchdog is warning supermarkets to make the necessary changes or risk facing enforcement action, andifs risk facing enforcement action, and it's calling on the government to tighten the law around pricing displays and rush has imposed restrictions on the movements of british diplomats due to what it is calling london's hostile actions as diplomats, with the exception of the ambassador and three other senior diplomats are now required to give five days nofice required to give five days notice of any plans to travel beyond a 75 mile radius. britain's diplomatic representative was summoned to moscow to be reprimanded for

what moscow said was support for the terrorist actions of ukraine and for the obstruction of russian diplomacy in britain . russian diplomacy in britain. and voting is well underway in the three by elections that are taking place in england today. the three seats are in london, uxbndge the three seats are in london, uxbridge and south ruislip in nonh uxbridge and south ruislip in north yorkshire. that's selby and ainsty and in somerset, somerton and frome and they've been held by the tories since 2019. polling stations closed at 10:00 tonight and constituents who want to vote will have to bnng who want to vote will have to bring photo id with them . five bring photo id with them. five whale sharks have been rescued after becoming trapped in fishing nets in waters off indonesia and papua new guinea . indonesia and papua new guinea. underwater footage shows the divers cutting away the nets and pulling them off, helping the whale sharks to be freed from the nets they were stuck in. now, every year, millions of marine animals are either killed or injured due to discarding fishing nets, so—called ghost

nets. the whale shark is the largest species of fish. it is on the red list of vulnerable species . so some good news there species. so some good news there to leave you with more as it happens throughout the afternoon. now it's over to . patrick >> the falkland islands are called the falkland islands . called the falkland islands. they are british. the people on the islands want to be british. we fought a war over them and won . we they are ours. but the won. we they are ours. but the european union, which of course includes such international powerhouses as luxembourg, which is basically the size of a haemorrhoid on a continental prolapse, appears to want it to be called las malvinas. now of course, i completely understand how the european union's member states might be confused about the concept of winning a war and what that means is it might be worthwhile having that explained to europe, of course , to them. europe, of course, would be german if it

would be speaking german if it wasn't it of course wasn't for us. it is, of course , the belgian politician, charles michel, who piped up, saying the uk is not part of the eu. they are upset by the use of the word malvinas and if they were in the eu, perhaps they would have pushed back against it. those waffle it. short memories. those waffle baking chocolatiers, haven't they ? the british army they? the british army ultimately suffered a death toll of around 60,000 in belgium dunng of around 60,000 in belgium during world war i. the australians 10,000. canada 4750. new zealand almost 2500. south africa 510. i am sure his great grandparents didn't mind the british or us laying claim to overseas territories then, did they? it's also worthwhile noting that when putin invaded ukraine, it was britain who stepped up with hardware and weapons while the germans pontificated over sending some helmets . perhaps they were helmets. perhaps they were concerned that there'd be a typo in every single man named helmet would to going the front would end up to going the front line. and of course, we couldn't have not after have that, could we not after what last time they what happened the last time they tried to fight russians just tried to fight the russians just a in 2013, the a reminder that in 2013, the falkland islands referendum

99.8% of islanders voted to be part of the uk family again , i part of the uk family again, i understand that that continent cabal of questionably corrupt on the eu gravy train might not understand the concept of democracy , but in britain we democracy, but in britain we certainly do . they don't like certainly do. they don't like elections in the eu. do they? or referenda for that matter . on referenda for that matter. on a serious note, though , calling serious note, though, calling the falkland islands, las malvinas is a huge of malvinas is a huge mark of disrespect to the 255 british military personnel who died fighting argentinians and fighting the argentinians and all those who were wounded, both mentally physically. mentally and physically. rishi sunak said it was a regrettable choice of words by the eu, but it regrettable at all. it it wasn't regrettable at all. it was deliberate. it was deliberately it is deliberately insulting. it is also incredibly petty , and it's also incredibly petty, and it's that kind of backstabbing, snivelling, snidey behaviour that made brits want to leave the european union. now it goes without saying that i would never be that petty or insulting. i would never be that childish. i would always seek to take the higher ground and not retaliate in any way, just in case i offended our european

friends. no matter what part of the onion wearing siesta , taking the onion wearing siesta, taking cheese, munching, clog loving , cheese, munching, clog loving, quite often surrendering bit of the continent they happen to come from . email me come from. email me gbviews@gbnews.com i will have a lot more when it comes to the fact that the falklands are very much british and always will be in just a tick. but on to the latest between nigel latest dispute between nigel farage bank. and it's farage and coutts bank. and it's alleged the chief executive alleged that the chief executive of sat of coutts parent company, sat next to the bbc's business editor at a dinner the night before he published a story claiming that the gb news presenter was debunked for commercial that commercial reasons. now that claim , of course, well frankly claim, of course, well frankly has debunked , hasn't it, as has been debunked, hasn't it, as false and described as concerning by the banking watchdog, i am joined now by gb news political reporter olivia utley. olivia coutts and their wider family of banks are bang in trouble over this well, absolutely. >> this story gets murkier and

murkier the more we hear. now it seems to be the case that coutts not only decided to de bank as they call it, nigel farage for political reasons, which is incredibly illiberal and actually there's a possibility that it could be illegal given that it could be illegal given that some of the some of the reasons that they gave for de banking are protected under banking him are protected under the equalities act. question of illegality and certainly very illiberal indeed. but then. coutts also tried to cover up what they'd done. so dame alison rose, who's the ceo of natwest , rose, who's the ceo of natwest, which is the parent company of coutts bank, sat next to simon jacques, who's the bbc's business editor at a glitzy gala dinner the night before simon jacques published a story saying that the only reason that nigel farage had been removed from from coutts roster was that he didn't meet the threshold of funds that coutts dumas needs that customers have now. nigel farage always said, well, that can't be true, that it's been a long time since i reached that

threshold. are of threshold. there are lots of customers reach that customers who don't reach that threshold had threshold. they've never had a problem now. but problem with it before now. but the bbc were determined to pubush the bbc were determined to publish the financial the bbc were determined to publistublishedthe financial the bbc were determined to publisipublishedth we're going to be having >> and we're going to be having a this show a look later on in this show about discrimination in general.

whether crosses that whether or not this crosses that threshold and not just in banking , because, look, let's be banking, because, look, let's be honest mean, i don't honest with you. i mean, i don't think me or people think or me or most people watching or listening this watching or listening to this show ever even be able to show will ever even be able to identify where coutts is on a map, let alone be one the map, let alone be one of the people who's allowed into it. but are risks for me of but there are risks for me of other companies refusing to somebody custom potentially because they don't like their views or potentially because they don't what they've they don't like what they've tweeted and tweeted about something and i think get more think that could get even more sinister if this actually is the reality going on reality of what's going on behind scenes . behind the scenes. >> and think >> well, absolutely. and i think that that nigel that the problem is that nigel farage claims that he's been turned banks as turned down by other banks as well. i've spoken to other well. and i've spoken to other individuals been turned individuals who've been turned down from down for various banks from holding they haven't holding an account. they haven't been but they believe been told why, but they believe it's for political reasons. and of day age, of course, in this day and age, having a bank account is absolutely essential. you know, once if you wanted once upon a time, if you wanted to, could store all your to, you could store all your money under mattress. money in cash under a mattress. now, plenty of places money in cash under a mattress. now, don't plenty of places money in cash under a mattress. now, don't take lenty of places money in cash under a mattress. now, don't take cash of places money in cash under a mattress. now, don't take cash at places money in cash under a mattress. now, don't take cash at all. :es money in cash under a mattress. now, don't take cash at all. so which don't take cash at all. so it's a question of it's not just a question of whether farage can hold a whether nigel farage can hold a bank accounts with coutts. it's whether political

whether people with political views, which might seem unsavoury to a certain segment of population , can hold of the population, can hold a bank account at all now. >> absolutely. and it is a concern because like i said before as well, you know, it's not just banks, it's everything . diatribe there . and after my diatribe there about european union and about the european union and would airline for would a continental airline for example, don't example, decide that they don't want to europe, where, want to fly me to europe, where, of course, am going at the of course, i am going at the weekend, very, weekend, but thank you very, very olivia utley right. very much. olivia utley right. i wanted to have little look wanted to have a little look behind the curtain of coutts. what's like there? what's it really like there? what's it really like there? what's the culture like there? and that i am and in order to do that i am joined now by oliver lewis , who joined now by oliver lewis, who is cootes employee. is a former cootes employee. oliver thank you very, very much. to have you on the much. great to have you on the show. what's like behind the show. what's it like behind the scenes then? then have scenes at coutts then? then have they got a political bias? is that representative of the banking industry as a whole? do youwell , the first thing to >> well, the first thing to remember is that it is a very old organisation, you know , i old organisation, you know, i mean older than the bank of mean it's older than the bank of england, so seriously old organisation. >> and to change anything takes forever . and so

>> and to change anything takes forever. and so i, i worked in the chief executive's office for almost two years, 2013 to 2015. i would not have said it had a political culture then, but one thing i find very interesting is that alison rose was then the division head of coutts coutts was in something called the wealth division. alison rose was appointed to look after the wealth division and then she was obviously later appointed to be group chief executive when it was renamed natwest, obviously formerly was rbs. so i wouldn't have said there was a political agenda as such. but alison rose was always very ambitious. she was. it was quite clear that she had her eyes on top job. and had her eyes on the top job. and in of this story, you know in terms of this story, you know , does know coutts , she really does know coutts very she was very well because she was responsible for it before she was executive. was chief executive. there's always coutts always this mystery about coutts because its age older the because of its age older the bank of england, you know, it's got mystery of it got this mystery of who it banks, who its clients are and i think she always has liked that. >> look why should >> okay, look oliver, why should your average joe on street your average joe on the street who will never accumulate enough

wealth to go anywhere near coutts why should we care ? coutts why should we care? >> well, the first thing to say there is that coutts has about 100,000 customers and many of them don't qualify for an account . but if you apply account. but if you apply today's rules about eligibility , they wouldn't qualify and yet the bank continues to bank them. so what i found interesting about the farage story is why they should suddenly decide that, well, we've got probably about 30 or 40,000 clients who don't qualify , but they're happy don't qualify, but they're happy to keep 39,999 and then decide, well, actually nigel farage, we're going to boot out the largest client segment is staff. so the single largest group of accounts are held by staff, hardly any of whom would actually qualify for an account. but i mean more broadly i left coutts to write a book about george orwell, big , coutts to write a book about george orwell, big, big figure in terms of totalitarianism , in terms of totalitarianism, cancel culture. so i went around the world visiting everywhere he lived, called the orwell tour. and one of things that i and one of the things that i think so relevant about

think is so relevant about it, orwell, that he warned us orwell, is that he warned us what would like if what society would be like if you gave too much power to certain institutions and to certain institutions and to certain behaviours and values. orwell used to speak of unpersons, so the ministry of truth would cancel people because their views counter because their views ran counter to what was accepted by the totalitarian state. now we teach 1984 on our schools. we warn our students, you know , this is what students, you know, this is what can happen if you give too much power to your state. and yet we have organisation after organisation which includes now coutts bank and the banking system deciding who to one person and who they would agree to keep servicing based on their political views. i mean it really is terrifying . really is terrifying. >> yeah, it is very, very chilling and even some of the statements in nigel farage coutts files such as we acknowledge completely that there nothing there was absolutely nothing criminal mean they criminal, that those i mean they are charge of, i would are in charge of, i would imagine least most his imagine at least most of his money. so they will better than anybody able anybody have been able to see whether you know, putin whether or not, you know, putin was giving him backhanders or anything, course he anything, which of course he wasn't. and so they can

acknowledge nothing was acknowledge that nothing was actually wrong, actually going wrong, but they were whether actually going wrong, but they we not whether actually going wrong, but they we not but whether actually going wrong, but they we not but they whether actually going wrong, but they we not but they would |er or not it was. but they would have ideally placed to have have been ideally placed to have hit back and gone. this is hit back and gone. well, this is absolute of course, the hit back and gone. well, this is absoliconcern of course, the hit back and gone. well, this is absoliconcern that )f course, the hit back and gone. well, this is absoliconcern that i course, the hit back and gone. well, this is absoliconcern that i would 3, the hit back and gone. well, this is absoliconcern that i would have, other concern that i would have, oliver, put all your oliver, is once you put all your assets something or you put assets in something or you put all your somewhere and all your money somewhere and then values of a then the norms and values of a society then society change and then potentially values potentially the norms and values of and of that corporation change. and you then don't match those norms and values . you are in a massive and values. you are in a massive position of personal weakness because you have them because you have given them everything and then everything that you own and then you their mercy. just you are at their mercy. just frankly, whichever way the wind blows . blows. >> well, you mentioned the illegality , which i also i mean, illegality, which i also i mean, iused illegality, which i also i mean, i used look at of pep i used to look at a lot of pep reports, so pile would on reports, so a pile would be on my i would i would read my desk. i would i would read them before discuss them them before i then discuss them with chief executive. with the then chief executive. gentleman rory tapner. gentleman called rory tapner. and there would be people whose banking relationship we were ending, who were applying ending, people who were applying for account we would for an account and we would decline the reasons decline them. and the reasons given would be, you know, i don't know there an arms dealer or the source of funds is just not acceptable. there is some

form of illegality involved . form of illegality involved. nigel farage is obviously, you know , to our knowledge not to know, to our knowledge not to ask you on that. >> oliver, can i, can i ask you on— >> oliver, can i, can i ask you on that? sorry to cut across you, but i, can i ask you on you, but can i, can i ask you on that without naming people, obviously, but some of the clientele coutts, i imagine clientele of coutts, i imagine over the years been some over the years have been some rather characters . rather fruity characters. >> yeah, obviously i couldn't comment on any, any particular account relationship, but i mean the main account, the, the most profitable people to bank for any bank including coutts are celebrities who of course are very liable to, to tweet something ridiculous or silly. i mean think of elton john this week he's in the press defending kevin spacey. you know that would be considered to be grounds unpaid worsening grounds for unpaid worsening somebody you know cancelling them if you like so celebrities and also i mean one of the most profitable groups, again, for any banking organisation are partner in law firms, partners in pwc , partners in, you know, in pwc, partners in, you know, the big accounting accountancy

firms . so, you know, they are firms. so, you know, they are big. but i mean, that's relatively boring business. yeah, most of the a lot of the people who bank with coutts who no longer qualify but who are still saying well yeah fine keep your account, you know , your your account, you know, your political views are acceptable. we're you. we're not worried about you. many of them are sort of asset rich cash, poor , so a lot of rich cash, poor, so a lot of aristos in huge castles , holes aristos in huge castles, holes in the roof, that sort of thing . and so that's probably most of coutts banking base. interesting i wonder what they'll do now is really interesting just seeing how how the bank mean. this is really cutts's worst nightmare . really cutts's worst nightmare. it hates publicity, it hates being in the news and it really does. being in the news and it really does . we were always told not does. we were always told not something you do personally the bank's reputation. so so precious. and now to be in the unrolling news like this, it's their worst nightmare come true. yeah, absolutely. >> look, oliver, thank you very, very much. really appreciate you coming on. oliver is

coming on. oliver lewis is a former employee. yeah, former coots employee. yeah, this will absolutely be coots. his won't it? his worst nightmare, won't it? and of it all, and just the idiocy of it all, i think really to actually know that submit that somebody could submit a subject again, subject access request again, i do broaden this out do want to broaden this out because of this because over the course of this show, having a at show, i'll be having a look at more discrimination in general, whether or not this crosses the threshold. this now threshold. but will this now roll companies as roll on to other companies as well? is it actually a massive roll on to other companies as well’:to. it actually a massive roll on to other companies as well’:to. it athatlly a massive roll on to other companies as well’:to. it athat ana massive roll on to other companies as well’:to. it athat an airlineive leap to say that an airline company might not want to fly you because of you abroad because of your political for example, you abroad because of your poli'that for example, you abroad because of your poli'that or for example, you abroad because of your poli'that or any for example, you abroad because of your poli'that or any for exoflple, you abroad because of your poli'that or any for exof just like that or any kind of just shop they might kind like that or any kind of just sh blacklist they might kind like that or any kind of just sh blacklist you they might kind like that or any kind of just sh blacklist you from might kind like that or any kind of just sh blacklist you from getting (ind of blacklist you from getting on the ladder from the property ladder or even from just doing your weekly shop. and i sound i know that might sound far fetched, big fetched, but actually how big a leap really ? and leap is that really? and especially it comes especially when it comes to historic as if historic tweets as well. if you find out that you can't do your tesco's weekly shop, for example, tweeted example, because you tweeted something european something about the european union seven years ago, well, you know, to know, i don't really want to live in that world, but coots has the following has released the following statement not coots policy has released the following sticlose nt not coots policy has released the following sticlose customert coots policy has released the following sticlose customer accounts>licy to close customer accounts solely the of legally solely on the basis of legally held political personal held political and personal views, an views, decisions to close an account not taken account are not taken lightly and involve a number of factors, including commercial viability, reputational considerations and legal and regulatory

requirements. well, there we go. now the european union has insulted the 255 british servicemen who died in the falklands war by calling the british overseas territory. islas mald vinas, in a treaty . islas mald vinas, in a treaty. see, i think this is an absolute shocker. patrick christys on gb news

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have to to see believe where senior tory mp tobias ellwood or should that now be? mullah ellwood praises the taliban and i will tell you why electric cars aren't quite as environmentally friendly as eco warriors would have you believe. but first, the european union has sparked a fresh row over the falkland islands by referring to the british overseas territory as islas malvinas. the eu agreed to a request from argentina to use the word malvinas in a treaty with 33 latin american countries . argentina claims that countries. argentina claims that he has a right to the islands, but in a 2013 referendum, m 99.8% of residents voted to remain an overseas territory of the uk. there is also, of course , the small matter of us fighting a war over the falkland islands and winning that war. but of course that is something that our european friends would know nothing about. i'm joined by gb home and security by gb news home and security editor white. mark, i don't editor mark white. mark, i don't want rishi sunak to pussyfoot around to come around this. he's got to come out what this is a out and admit what this is a deliberate act of provocation on. >> yeah, he has, or at least his

official spokesman described this as regrettable language, but it's not regrettable language. it is, as you see, very provocative to describe the falklands islands by the name malvinas, which is , of course, malvinas, which is, of course, what argentina refers to the group of islands as. but the people who actually live in these islands, who voted back in 2013 by 99.8% to remain part of the uk family refer to their island group as the falklands , island group as the falklands, not the malvinas, but of course in this agreement, after this meeting that took place , this meeting that took place, this summit between these latin american countries and the 27 eu members , as they described it, members, as they described it, as as islas or islas malvinas slash the falklands, not even the falklands slash islas malvinas , but very deliberately malvinas, but very deliberately

not just putting the malvinas in, but putting malvinas ahead of the falklands . there is no of the falklands. there is no doubt that that is provocative. >> yeah. now 100. it is provocative and it's yet another example of the kind of slippery , backstabbing snidey behaviour of the european union that meant so many decided that they so many brits decided that they wanted that cabal , i wanted to leave that cabal, i think. the argentina think. really. but the argentina ians, are they claiming this is some kind of moral victory? well yes, indeed. >> i mean, the president of argentina has alberto fernandez , has said that this is a triumph and it is tacit support, he says, from the international security for argentina's goal of reopening negotiations over the sovereignty of the falkland . and sovereignty of the falkland. and now britain says it is absolutely no intention of doing that , that that referendum back that, that that referendum back . in 2013 was all that they needed to assure them that the people that live in those islands want to remain british. and in fact, in 2016, just three

years after that referendum, the argentinians seemed to accept that they could agree to disagree, entered into an agreement, a pact that with the british government to enhance the relationship over energy and science and shipping and fishing and even the identification of their own service personnel who were killed in the conflict act that they ripped up in may of this year because they want to open these sovereignty talks. they're not going to get anywhere near, according to james cleverly , our foreign james cleverly, our foreign secretary but now, of course, we'd thing boots first into this conversation . ian, are the conversation. ian, are the european union giving the islands that recognised falklands name of the malvinas and just ratcheting up the pressure? >> they can agree to disagree all they want, but they decided that they wanted to have a go on

the falkland islands and we fought them for it and we absolutely battered them and then they had to surrender and then they had to surrender and then that's then they left. so that's usually good indication usually a pretty good indication of agreeing disagree. but of not agreeing to disagree. but actually really actually saying, we're really sorry we lost a war, sorry about this. we lost a war, which again, is a strong indication owns a bit of indication of who owns a bit of land, but when it comes to the 255 british military personnel who lost their lives, let alone all of those who suffered horrific injuries, both mental and physical, i think this is a massive slap in the face for them by the european union. >> yeah, there's no doubt >> ian yeah, there's no doubt that is deeply insulting to that it is deeply insulting to the memories of those 255 service servicemen . also the service servicemen. also the three islanders who died of course . and yes, i mean you course. and yes, i mean you refer to, of course, the war. there is no way that argentina could ever mount any kind of military campaign again. it is a basket case in terms of its own military . we criticise the uk military. we criticise the uk for its military spending, but actually, you know, in

comparison to argentina , there comparison to argentina, there is no comparison. comparison to argentina, there is no comparison . and in fact is no comparison. and in fact the falklands islands now are very well defended in comparison to what they were in 1982. we have a very significant large military base there and the airport there is a squadron of typhoon fighter jets . so there typhoon fighter jets. so there is a royal navy military presence there, as well as about a thousand full time military personnel there. so it could absolutely only defend the islands until support came from britain . there is no there is no britain. there is no there is no no imaginable way that argentina would ever mount another military campaign. would ever mount another military campaign . so what military campaign. so what they're doing is mounting a war on the diplomatic front and they are eliciting the help of our closest neighbour, the european union. well, it's like that japanese soldier on the island who refused to accept the who refused to accept that the war over. who refused to accept that the wari over. who refused to accept that the wari mean,er. who refused to accept that the wari mean, it's done. everybody >> i mean, it's done. everybody else anyway. else has surrendered anyway. mark, very much. mark, thank you very, very much. mark, thank you very, very much. mark homeland mark wight, our homeland security get views

security editor. get your views coming this coming in on this gbviews@gbnews.com. there's some strong you strong stuff in the inbox as you can imagine. i'll go to that shortly. get this, are shortly. but get this, girls are banned going school in banned from to going school in afghanistan. prevented banned from to going school in afghtworking. prevented banned from to going school in afghtworking. i prevented banned from to going school in afghtworking. i mean, prevented banned from to going school in afghtworking. i mean, prebe1ted from working. i mean, let's be honest , that's not that honest, that's not all that happens to over there happens to them over there ehhen happens to them over there either, one senior either, is it? but one senior tory has praised the taliban tory mp has praised the taliban . that's right. mullah ellwood, step forward. he now says he regrets it. i am looking forward to walking tour somalia to his walking tour of somalia just before we get stuck right into korea. but right into north korea. but right now, it's rory it's your headlines with rory stewart . stewart. >> thank you very much, patrick. >> thank you very much, patrick. >> the illegal migration bill has been given royal assent by the king, meaning the legislation has become law. it means that people who come to the uk legally will not have a right to stay and will be liable to be either be returned to home country or relocated to a safe third country. >> the nhs is on red alert for the next 48 hours. a senior doctor walk out after rejecting

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on . on. gb news. >> well, now to some extraordinary comments from tory mp tobias ellwood, who has, it would appear , praised the would appear, praised the taliban. his role as chair of the influential defence select committee is now under threat after he said afghanistan had improved since the taliban retook power in 2020. one. >> all that's happened here since nine over 11, this is a very different country in built. it feels different now that the taliban have returned to power. >> well, it may be hard to believe, but security has vastly improved. >> corruption is down and the opium trade has all but disappeared. highlands distribute electricity to the cities . solar panels are now cities. solar panels are now everywhere , powering irrigation everywhere, powering irrigation pumps, allowing more crops to grow . grow. >> it's the music for me . grow. >> it's the music for me. i think it's the music hashtag.

visit afghanistan . yeah. all visit afghanistan. yeah. all right. okay. i mean, the taliban, where do you even begin? really? tobias ellwood has apologised for his comments and has deleted the video from his twitter feed . but four his twitter feed. but four members of the defence select committee no committee .have submitted a no confidence motion, and i am not surprised . i mean, i do really surprised. i mean, i do really look forward to the number he tries to do where he stood in front of some kind of like chinese industrial complex with smoke billowing into the air as he's saying that this is a good thing our environment and thing for our environment and china have really turned a corner. joined trevor corner. i'm joined now by trevor colt, who afghanistan colt, who served in afghanistan with the british army. trevor, thank you very much. look, i'm obviously poking a bit of fun there at tobias ellwood. i don't know whether or not you find what quite funny what he says quite funny or whether you take it a lot whether or not you take it a lot more frankly more seriously. frankly >> all, patrick >> well, first of all, patrick and to your team, thank you very much having on again. much for having me on again. >> appreciate it. >> i do appreciate it. >> i do appreciate it. >> you know what? >> um, do you know what? whenever this morning, whenever um, this morning, i woke this, um, i've got a woke up to this, um, i've got a guy 9°t woke up to this, um, i've got a guy got few guys at the guy i've got a few guys at the mod retired generals send mod, retired generals that send me messages . me messages. >> and spoke to dave this

>> uh, and i spoke to dave this morning and member your morning and a member of your team, can't get my team, and i can't get my head around why would such around why tobias would say such stupid stuff he's saying there in that afghanistan's in the video that afghanistan's safe wearing safe while wearing a flak jacket, bullet—proof vest . jacket, a bullet—proof vest. that's how serious. >> so , um, the fact that he says >> so, um, the fact that he says that he's praising the taliban and i know how dangerous it is out there , many there's many out there, many there's many veterans still suffer from those effects. >> now, you've got to remember that tobias, let's be honest, retired as a captain from the royal green jackets, but he's a his unit was amalgamated into the rifles regiment, the rifles regiment lost 66 soldiers in afghanistan . and up until today, afghanistan. and up until today, over 30 of his members of his unit have taken their lives from suicide. and he's praising the people that put this pressure on his men. i find it utterly disgust thing. and afghanistan's not a safe place. don't get me wrong . i'm sure he let people wrong. i'm sure he let people know that he was arriving and it was all safe for him to walk around. but it's certainly not safe us. it's certainly not safe for us. it's certainly not safe for us. it's certainly not safe the locally employed safe for the locally employed contractors we had out contractors that we had out there. that's still fear. i

mean, you've got to burn them. and the taliban are chased down and dozens , if not and killed dozens, if not hundreds workers that worked hundreds of workers that worked with and the coalition with isaf and the coalition forces . and i it stunning forces. and i find it stunning that he says this. this is a guy who basically retired as a captain who's now a colonel in the reserves who heads up a bngade the reserves who heads up a brigade called 77 brigade, which job it is to get rid of misinfo formation and disinformation. but at the same time, padraic to bias ellwood blocks and gets rid of any veterans who criticise or say anything to fix our veterans community. here we have a guy who is praising our enemy at the same time giving away serve purposely built service accommodation to taliban to iraqis, to afghans while our own men and women sleep on the streets. this is a guy this is a guy, padraic, in my opinion, should resign as the chair of the defence select committee as

he is no longer representing of our nation and our military assets. >> you some point anyway . they >> you some point anyway. they quite literally looked the taliban in the eye. do you believe that there is any chance that they are now a reformed bunch. >> patrick they went back to the way they are. the answer is no. they went back. you know, we went out there because well , went out there because well, let's be honest, we went to afghanistan because of what saudi did. america we saudi arabia did. the america we didn't go to saudi arabia. but yeah, know who worked didn't go to saudi arabia. but yeahout. know who worked didn't go to saudi arabia. but yeahout. but know who worked didn't go to saudi arabia. but yeahout. but know iwentrorked didn't go to saudi arabia. but yeahout. but know went to (ed that out. but so we went to afghanistan. our job was to originally poppy originally destroy the poppy fields. destroy fields. we didn't destroy the poppy fields. we didn't destroy the poppy the poppy fields because that's the afghans income. we afghans major income. we couldn't replace it. we out couldn't replace it. we were out there basically just looking good the media, getting good in the media, getting destroyed by the taliban, having no support. and in the end no real support. and in the end of not a single person of the day, not a single person who killed our and women was who killed our men and women was prosecuted. we then do . biden prosecuted. we then do. biden then handed them all the military might in the world, left behind our back. and now we're saying how good they are. the taliban are ruthless killers

that murdered many, many people. i remember going on patrol and not my patrols, but there was patrols where some of our british soldiers were shot in the back by afghan police. >> wow. well there you go. that sums it up. and also, what i would say is if tobias ellwood really believe then really does believe that, then anybody across the anybody who comes across the channelin anybody who comes across the channel in a dinghy saying that anybody who comes across the chanare in a dinghy saying that anybody who comes across the chan are from iinghy saying that anybody who comes across the chanare from afghanistan, that they are from afghanistan, surely just them surely we can just send them back, according back, because according to tobias, in tobias, it's a lovely place. in fact, thinking about fact, i'm thinking about going there by the looks fact, i'm thinking about going th

trevor koehler, who served in afghanistan british afghanistan with the british army. it's that kind of army. and it's that kind of insight, it? are we insight, isn't it? are we realistically expected to believe taliban has believe that the taliban has radically , that radically reformed, that corruption some corruption is down? i mean, some of partners of their major trading partners include and russia, who, include china and russia, who, by the way, moved straight in after decided after sleepy joe biden decided to everyone out. donald after sleepy joe biden decided to you yone out. donald after sleepy joe biden decided to you know, ut. donald after sleepy joe biden decided to you know, all donald after sleepy joe biden decided to you know, all right.d after sleepy joe biden decided to you know, all right. say trump, you know, all right. say what you like about the guy he wanted to make america great again. joe biden absolutely made the again . now, the taliban great again. now, eco tell us that eco activists tell us that electric cars are the future, but that they're not quite as good for the environment as campaigners make out. i will tell you exactly why. very, very shortly. patrick on gb

on gb news, the people's. channel right then. >> so electric vehicles. okay, but before that. before that, i was just going to tease what i've got coming up. actually, i'll have the very latest on the coutts scandal coutts banking scandal as pressure the boss pressure mounts on the boss of natwest. it's part of natwest. now it's all part of the isn't it, for his the family, isn't it, for his treatment of nigel farage? yes and summer discontent and the summer of discontent is continuing. began continuing. senior doctors began a 48 hour strike from 7:00 this morning. it'sjust a 48 hour strike from 7:00 this morning. it's just two days since junior doctors returned to work following a five day war walkout. let's speak now. oh, yes, to our london reporter lisa hartel, who's at a rally at bma house in central london. lisa, what's going on? where you are ? what's going on? where you are? >> hello. yes, well , it's been >> hello. yes, well, it's been in a room just upstairs. we keep heanng in a room just upstairs. we keep hearing cheering there's a gathering of people, different people speaking. so it's a gathering of all the doctors

coming together to discuss what we'll discuss in a moment with my guests. but first, i'll just go through the latest. so last week, the government 6% week, the government offered 6% pay week, the government offered 6% pay medics . week, the government offered 6% pay medics. this has pay rise to medics. this has been , well, rejected by been called, well, rejected by the bma because they said insulting is what they said it was , because they say that was, because they say that consultants have had a 35% pay cut since 2008. when you take into account tax and pension contributions and of course, inflation. so i'll bring in the guest now. so i'm with tom dolphin, who's an anaesthetist consultant . that's a mouthful consultant. that's a mouthful from you there. thank you so much for joining from you there. thank you so much forjoining us. just tell much for joining us. just tell us a bit about what's going on here today. so what's happening is we've got a gathering of consultants doctors from consultants and doctors from all across london who've come here to trade unionists to hear other trade unionists speak, to people from bma speak, to hear people from bma speaking and also to their speaking and also to share their own experiences. speaking and also to share their owr they've inces. speaking and also to share their oerhey've hady. speaking and also to share their oerhey've had people >> they've had people standing up and, know, to the up and, you know, talking to the meeting how meeting and explaining how things and things are, where they work and they've lots of stories to they've had lots of stories to tell shortages of tell about the shortages of staff know having staff and, you know, having to cover colleagues, cover for absent colleagues, cover for absent colleagues, cover don't cover for colleagues who don't exist people can't exist because people can't recruit all that kind of

recruit to post all that kind of thing. we've been hearing thing. so we've been hearing about this afternoon. about that this afternoon. >> take us more into about that this afternoon. >> detail take us more into about that this afternoon. >> detail of take us more into about that this afternoon. >> detail of why ke us more into about that this afternoon. >> detail of why the|s more into the detail of why the consultants are going on strike. it's you've been it's the first time you've been on strike in ten years. obviously thousands people on strike in ten years. obvichad thousands people on strike in ten years. obvichad theirsands people on strike in ten years. obvic had their appointments,a have had their appointments, cancelled, operations postponed . so it's obviously having a huge people . huge impact on people. >> yes, we're sorry >> well, yes, and we're sorry for none want to be for that. none of us want to be on much rather be on strike. we'd much rather be at you know, go to at work. you know, you go to medical to help people. medical school to help people. the we're going on strike the reason we're going on strike our pay has been by success the reason we're going on strike ou below1as been by success the reason we're going on strike ou below inflation by success the reason we're going on strike ou below inflation lawards. ss of below inflation pay awards. each for many, many years. each year for many, many years. it's now down in value by more than a third. and it's basically reached the point where it's affecting recruitment and retention and we see retention in the nhs. and we see the opportunity is now here for us to make a stand and say this can't we've got people can't go on. we've got people being recruited by being recruited actively by australian hospitals, by new zealand, canada, even over the border in ireland you can double your salary if you go there. people are responding to that and they're leaving the nhs. that's not sustainable. >> because were >> well, yeah, because you were telling you were approached, telling me you were approached, weren't respect. weren't you, in that respect. so just us will

just tell me, tell us what will happen you don't actually. happen if you don't actually. what would you like to the government to propose? the 6% has been rejected . what would has been rejected. what would you think the bma, the consultants all accept ? consultants all accept? >> well, we said that we want our pay restored to the value that it had in 2008 and that means that it's got to be a start. so 6% this pay award from last week isn't even isn't even a pay last week isn't even isn't even a pay rise. it's actually a pay cut again for another year. and it's of the biggest it's actually one of the biggest ones had long time. it's actually one of the biggest on thank you so much, tom, for joining thank so joining us today. thank you so the dates for two other dates where the consultants are going on strike are the 24th and 25th of august, but they do have a mandate that lasts until the end of december. not

of december. so they're not ruling strike ruling out further strike action, though they that action, though they say that they this can they really hope that this can be avoided. they really hope that this can be avoi lisa, thank very >> so, lisa, thank you very much. hartle, who is at much. lisa hartle, who is at a rally appears to taking rally which appears to be taking place bma house in place inside bma house in central i think central london, which i think might be the definition of an echo well echo chamber. is it as well interesting when talk there interesting when they talk there about all, they never about about it all, they never bnng about about it all, they never bring up amount of medical bring up the amount of medical negligence to negligence claims they have to pay negligence claims they have to pay year. it's pay out each year. it's fascinating but fascinating that, isn't it? but anyway, if you listen to the hype, the debate between hype, then the debate between electric petrol and electric vehicles and petrol and diesel a battle diesel cars really is a battle between good and evil. it between good and evil. but it turns out that it's not quite as simple government simple as that. the government is banning the sale of new petrol diesel cars from petrol and diesel cars from 2030. its pursuit net 2030. in its pursuit of net zero. know about that, zero. we all know about that, don't our electric don't we? but our electric vehicles are really as eco friendly as campaigners claim. after all, they get through huge amounts of electricity and much of britain's electric supply comes, you guessed it, from fossil fuels. ross clark has written extensively on this subject and he is author of subject and he is the author of the book not zero, and he joins me now. thank you very much. our evs . actually that good ?

evs. actually that good? >> well , what evs. actually that good? >> well, what is good about an electric vehicle is it doesn't have an exhaust pipe. there are no you know, noxious emissions being emitted where it is driven i >> -- >> so if you're trying to clean up the air in a city centre for example, electric car is a much better thing than a than a combustion engine car. >> but, um , if you're looking at >> but, um, if you're looking at sort of overall carbon emissions , cause there's two things. firstly, you have to bear in mind how the electric city was generated and at the moment and for the foreseeable future, i mean 40% of our electricity last year was generated by fossil fuels. now we use gas as a backup for intermittent renewables , wind and solar. so renewables, wind and solar. so we are very, very reliant on that sort of fossil fuel backup for electricity generation. but the other factor is the emissions during the manufacture

stage of a car. now you look at a car, it's made a large quantities of steel , plastic and quantities of steel, plastic and in the case of electric cars, of course, there's these huge great batteries and when you put all that together, the emissions that together, the emissions that come from the manufacturing process of an electric car are typically sort of 40, 50% higher than a manufacturer than the emissions from manufacture of a petrol and diesel equivalent car. so i mean, you have to drive a certain number of miles before before you can say, you know , the electric car is , you know, the electric car is, you know, the electric car is, you know, i'm having a look at net reduction or i'm having a look at some of the details here like like particle pollution, for example. >> so tyres and brakes produced 2000 times as much particulate pollution as a car engine. so there we go. the co2 produced dunng there we go. the co2 produced during manufacturing. so a volvo xc40, which is powered by fossil fuels , 14 tonnes of co2 for

fuels, 14 tonnes of co2 for a polestar, two electric car, 24 tonnes of co2 apparently. so that's bad. the battery manufacturer, i mean eight kilograms of lithium apparently. i mean, the human cost 60 to 70% of the global supply of cobalt comes from the democratic repubuc comes from the democratic republic of congo, where of course is mined in difficult and dangerous conditions is often by children . so i'm not being children. so i'm not being funny, but this isn't particularly great, is it, in terms of the eco lobby ? terms of the eco lobby? >> no, it's not. and, you know, i mean , the advantage of i mean, the advantage of electric cars in reducing carbon emissions , but, i mean, you emissions, but, i mean, you know, a target isn't to reduce emissions . it's to eliminate net emissions. it's to eliminate net emissions. it's to eliminate net emissions by 2050. and it defeats me to see how electric cars are really going to get us to that stage of a limit because of the emissions in the manufacturers . you first got to manufacturers. you first got to decarbonise the steel production

decarbonise the steel production decarbonise all plastics production. how do you do that? >> well, just outsourcing it. we're just outsourcing it. we'll just go. well, look, we are we are net zero. yeah, fine. all right. but we'll just make other countries do more. and then the planet benefit. planet doesn't benefit. meanwhile, we all have to pay through and it's just through the nose. and it's just one big con. anyway one big, great, big con. anyway thank very, very great thank you very, very much. great to have you on the show. ros clarke there, the author not clarke there, the author of not zero 50,000 twice around zero 50,000 miles twice around the distance that the equator is the distance that electric would to electric cars would have to travel to the carbon travel to match the carbon footprint, apparently of a petrol model. remarkable now, the coutts's decision the row over coutts's decision to nigel bank to close nigel farage's bank account that is rumbling on the boss of the company's parent company is facing mounting pressure . we've got all of that pressure. we've got all of that coming your way and much, much more patrick more right here with me, patrick christys gb news. we are, of christys on gb news. we are, of course, channel. course, britain's news channel. >> brighter outlook with boxt >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. hello again. on. gb news. hello again. >> it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast scattered showers once

again across the uk. but sunny spells between those showers spells in between those showers ease overnight and it's going to be a cool night. we've got this northwesterly flow across northwesterly air flow across the country at the moment. low pressure scandinavia the pressure over scandinavia, the high atlantic. high pressure over the atlantic. but weather staying clear but weather fronts staying clear for the time and that for the time being. and that means although there are means that although there are scattered showers around , scattered showers around, they'll fleeting, they'll be they'll be fleeting, they'll be disappearing into the evening and clear spells will break out fairly widely. still some showers pushing into northern ireland. northern and eastern scotland and perhaps northwest england and wales. but otherwise away from the showers. temperatures dipping into the single figures, perhaps even the mid to low single figures for some sheltered parts of northern scotland. so certainly a cool some might call it a chilly start to friday, otherwise plenty of sunshine from the word go. but cloud will build through the morning. and once again, those showers will get going again. they'll be hit and miss. not everyone get showers, i not everyone will get showers, i think driest towards the southeast , but those showers southeast, but those showers will be frequent across will be most frequent across northern parts of northern england, parts of

wales, eastern scotland, and then longer spells of rain arriving the end of friday arriving by the end of friday into northern ireland. a sign of things to come the weekend. things to come for the weekend. saturday sees spells of saturday sees those spells of rain across much of the rain spread across much of the country, northern country, avoiding northern scotland and southeast england for being . but an for the time being. but an unsettled weekend in store with wet breezy weather followed wet and breezy weather followed by showers later sunday and into monday . a brighter outlook with monday. a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on .

gb news. >> it's 4 pm. is patrick christys. it's gb news. and what a load of bankers that lot at coots really are. but it's not just about coots, is it? no absolutely not. i'm going to be taking a look at whether or not any company , any brand ever can any company, any brand ever can decide not to take your custom because they don't agree with your political views. are we entering orwell's 1984? in other news, yes. harry and meghan plain stupid. i mean, this kind of hitch hiking grift is very rarely seen. but apparently they wanted to fly back on air force one with sleepy joe biden after the queen's funeral, but they were knocked back. so even a man invisible cognitive decline doesn't want to know them. will

also be talking about this as well. we've got a beautiful little video to play you, which we'll be doing later on. now, just oil have well frankly just stop oil have well frankly got their own got a taste of their own medicine. group called just medicine. a group called just stop everyone off. yeah. have decided to essentially ruin just stop oils day. i am absolutely here for it. we'll be playing you a clip of that wonderful stunt a little bit later on and get load of this. do you get a load of this. do you remember football is remember all the football is constantly the knee. by constantly taking the knee. by the time a football match starts, taken knee. starts, they've taken the knee. they've kind weird they've done some kind of weird gesture everything else. the they've done some kind of weird gestu flags everything else. the they've done some kind of weird gestu flags comething else. the they've done some kind of weird gestu flags come out] else. the they've done some kind of weird gestuflags come out and e. the they've done some kind of weird gestu flags come out and thena pride flags come out and then amazingly, at some point we might bit football. might get a bit of football. well, mean, jordan well, yeah. i mean, jordan henderson supposed to henderson was supposed to be an lgbt wasn't he? he lgbt ally, wasn't he? well, he might to saudi might be now moving to saudi arabia, a country where last time i checked you couldn't really be gay. is this just massive hypocrisy ? and should we massive hypocrisy? and should we just stop all this virtue signalling nonsense in football? patrick christys . gb news. yes. patrick christys. gb news. yes. we'll get your views coming in

thick and fast. gb views and gbnews.com. there's rather a lot to go out there, so without further dither and delay, it's your headlines. >> thank you very much, patrick. i'm rory smith in the jp newsroom . the illegal migration newsroom. the illegal migration bill has been given royal assent by the king, meaning the legislation has become law. the bill means that people who come to the uk legally will not have a right to stay and will be liable to be returned either to their home country or relocated to a safe third country. the home secretary , suella home secretary, suella braverman, says the government will now focus on appealing to the supreme court regarding the safety of rwanda for removal and asylum processing strikes by health workers could end up costing hospitals billions of pounds. that's according to matthew taylor, the head of the body that represents nhs organisations who says they're on red alert for the next 48

hours. a senior doctors walk out over pay, he says health leaders are deeply concerned by the impact strikes are having . impact strikes are having. consultants have rejected an offer of a 6% pay rise and health secretary steve barclay says they have listened to the bma's demands. >> average nhs earnings of a consultant after this pay rise will be £134,000 a year and on top of that 20% of their salary goes into their pension, which means they'll be able to earn when they retire by the age of 65, tax free up to £60,000 a yeah 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year. the number one ask of the bma was for pension tax reform, and we listened to that as we acted on it. and in addition, we've also accepted in full the independent pay review body recommendations up to 20,000 rail staff are on strike over job security and pay , causing job security and pay, causing disruption and cancellations across many services. >> it's the first of three days

of industrial action affecting 14 train companies in england , 14 train companies in england, which may have a knock on effect into scotland and wales. members are also walking out on the 22nd and 29th of july. additionally drivers in the aslef union are banned from doing overtime this week . rmt general secretary mick week. rmt general secretary mick lynch is hopeful that fresh talks will reflect the progress he's making with london underground . underground. >> and let's get try and get a deal cooked up, but we can try and get back round the table. we're doing that with london transport right now about what's going in london underground . going on in london underground. we've acas, the we've been in acas, the conciliation service all week. so if we can the same so if we can get the same atmosphere where people are trying towards some trying to work towards some solutions, perhaps do solutions, perhaps we can do that national rail. i'm that on national rail. i'm hoping london hoping that maybe london underground will come up with some proposals that are steps forward we can consider forward and we can consider that. but if we can do that on both parts the railway, if both parts of the railway, if you we can maybe some you like, we can maybe get some progress . progress. >> mortgage rates have fallen

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or injured due to discarded fishing nets. the whale shark is the largest species of fish and is on the red list of vulnerable species . it says gb news will species. it says gb news will bnng species. it says gb news will bring you more as it happens. now though, back to . now though, back to. patrick well , harry now though, back to. patrick well, harry and meghan just cannot stop mugging themselves off, can they? >> like absolute hitchhiking grifters? they wanted to fly back from the queen's funeral on air force one with joe biden. sorry what? sleepy joe said no. apparently or at least his carer did. even a bloke exhibiting signs of senile dementia doesn't want to know them. did those environmental loving charlatans really want to take a long haul flight on the world's largest private jet? now the cynic in me would say that harry and meghan wanted to use the queen's death

as a way of networking with american elites . but surely american elites. but surely they are not actually that awful. can you imagine, though, being the arrogant thinking that you can just call up the president of the united states asking to hop on board his plane? who do these two think they are? i mean, laying the world's greatest ever monarch to rest was depressing enough. but being trapped in an airtight , enough. but being trapped in an airtight, glorified tin can with whinge and ginge for eight hours would probably be enough to tip anyone over the edge, wouldn't it? what would they even talk about? acting career ? about? meghan's acting career? i'd feel 30s harry is i'd feel about 30s harry is massive daddy issues now. that's enough material for a round the world cruise. talking of harry's book where apparently you can't actually give it away these days , as holiday season approaches, tourists would rather read the small print on the back of the sun cream lotion than soak in his dribbling self—pity lie on the beach. the online tour operator said it has received many discarded copies of the duke of sussex's autobiography from resorts in spain, turkey

and greece. the company's chief customer officer said that her team had, quote, never witnessed anything quite like it. so his bookis anything quite like it. so his book is quite literally going spare. i've got an idea for all of those unwanted copies , of those unwanted copies, though. what we can do with them, just stack them in a field somewhere in southern spain and let the global warming he claims to care so much about. encinas rate them . well, we will be rate them. well, we will be returning to that story a little bit later on. vaiews@gbnews.com we'll have more on that. but yes, matt is more serious i think now, this the latest think now, is this the latest dispute between nigel farage and the bank? okay. what the coots bank? okay. yeah. what a yeah. a bunch of bankers. yeah. yeah. and that the chief and it's alleged that the chief executive coots, parent executive of coots, parent company next the bbc's company sat next to the bbc's business editor at a dinner the night before he published a story claiming that gb news presenter debunked for presenter was debunked for commercial reasons that claim has now been exposed as false and described as concerning by

the banking watchdog. there is rather a lot to go at here, including crucially , whether or including crucially, whether or not there is any actual discrimination taking place here, whether or not coots itself is going to be in loads of hot water with the fca, the financial conduct authority, and whether or not this is something that's going to be taking place in corporations right across society. i understand that when people hear things like wealth accounts and they think, accounts and coots, they think, well, why does that bother me? i don't really know. right. don't really know. yeah right. the it matter. the principle of it does matter. of does. the idea that of course it does. the idea that you for you can just be cancelled for having political and lied having political views and lied to and potentially some kind of leaking at bbc. leaking has gone at the bbc. i get in most people's get that. but in most people's day that never day to day life that will never touch if you went into touch them. but if you went into a shop they refused your a shop and they refused your business they business because when they tapped card, it tapped your credit card, it flashed up that you, for example , the european , hated the european union or you in the net you didn't believe in the net zero you didn't think zero agenda or you didn't think that should have an open that we should have an open border , then border policy, then that is a problem. and i'm not actually sure far away from sure we are that far away from that. sure we are that far away from that . gb news political reporter that. gb news political reporter olivia now. how olivia utley joins me now. how much could coots really

much trouble could coots really be here? well it sounds like be in here? well it sounds like coots really quite coots could really be in quite a lot of trouble, according to the financial authority, the financial conduct authority, the bank , the code of bank regulator, the code of conduct , bank regulator, the code of conduct, banks have to treat people fairly and consistently. >> now it seems like there's quite a lot of inconsistent see in the way that coots has been treating its customers. for treating its customers. so, for example , coots has had, as example, coots has had, as previous customers , mean, previous customers, i mean, we're bit far into we're going a bit far back into history the head of the history now, but the head of the mafia in in the 90s was money laundered $200 million through their coots account . right. and their coots account. right. and that all seemed to be okay last yeah that all seemed to be okay last year. that do you remember that scandal with the then prince charles that his fund and that took £1 million from a from a saudi qatari investor and it was all very murky indeed that was all very murky indeed that was all done through coots right . all done through coots right. they allowed the now king's fund to do that. we also had general pinochet was a was a coots customer. he was responsible for the death of 3000 people. so i think there is a case

interesting where their values lie on these things, isn't it? >> well, yeah. >> well, yeah. >> so i think, you know, there could be a case to be made. we'll have to what happens. we'll have to see what happens. i looked into the i haven't looked into the exactly the financial exactly how the financial conduct code works, conduct authority code works, but that there but you could argue that there has you has been in consistency. you know, previously coots doesn't seem to discriminate against people it doesn't like. presumably doesn't like presumably it doesn't like general of general pinochet because of their views. so their political views. so why have they decided to pick on nigel farage? there's also a question mark. i mean, no more than a question mark over whether there is a possibility that they could have broken the equalities act because under the equalities act because under the equalities act, gender critical beliefs, that's a trans exclusionary feminism. it can also be called people who don't believe that you can that you can change your gender. that political belief is protected under the equalities act. and one of the reasons why coots has specified that it didn't want nigel farage as a customer was that he retweeted so—called that he retweeted a so—called transphobic ricky transphobic tweet of ricky gervais is now nigel farage could make the argument that he

was simply expressing his gender critical beliefs, which are protected , or that he found protected, or that he found something funny or that he found something funny or that he found something funny. exactly but there argument that you there is an argument that you cannot discriminate against someone of specific someone because of specific philosophical beliefs , one of philosophical beliefs, one of which is gender critical beliefs. so it could be that coots gets into quite a lot of trouble, but you say, it's trouble, but as you say, it's bigger there could bigger than coots. there could be other banks are be well be other banks that are doing we know doing the same thing. we know that jeremy hunt was turned down for account he was for a monzo account and he was never so banks are never told why. so banks are turning people down all the time and really interesting turning people down all the time an see really interesting turning people down all the time an see what really interesting turning people down all the time an see what happens eresting turning people down all the time an see what happens when|g turning people down all the time an see what happens when the to see what happens when the government introduces new laws which that have to which say that banks have to explain why they're turning people down. what comes out of the olivia thank you the woodwork? olivia thank you very, much. very, very much. >> utley there are >> olivia utley there are political reporter. well, look, viewers, and viewers, regular viewers and listeners viewers, regular viewers and liste on s viewers, regular viewers and liste on yesterday's program, that on yesterday's program, we heard a uk candidate heard from a reform uk candidate called mark howarth, who worked in banking for 25 years. he was part of jack carson's wonderful people's panel in birmingham. i'm delighted say that he i'm delighted to say that he joins now. good stuff. yes, joins me now. good stuff. yes, great to have you on the show.

have the banks been infiltrated by a few woke idiots and they are now cancelling people ? are now cancelling people? >> well, i think the thing that i said yesterday on the people's panel was very much about my experience, which was i started to see this creeping into the creeping into the bank. >> i was very senior at the bank for 25 years. >> the bank that i worked for. and i think when you're encouraged to go on pride stuff and go on non conscious, unconscious bias courses , i unconscious bias courses, i started to find that quite uncomfortable . uncomfortable. >> and i'm not suggesting for one reason that while i was at the at the bank that i work for that they you know , didn't open that they you know, didn't open people's accounts because of their political views. >> but i did start to see that the whole kind of diversity obe and woke agenda was starting to creep in and you can see it now when you look at, you know, you look at you look at coots and i

think it was a couple of weeks ago and it was all branded up with, uh, with rainbow flags. >> it was et cetera. >> it was et cetera. >> and the point point >> and the point and the point i was making yesterday at the people's people people's panel was people aren't interested in that. >> customers want to know what their are, what the their savings rate are, what the interest is on their interest rate is on their mortgages customer mortgages and how's the customer service. interested service. they're not interested in what their stonewall rating is, but they trumpet that type of thing . of thing. >> something to really >> like it's something to really be . be proud of. >> yeah, exactly. and what >> yeah, no, exactly. and what perks you get as well. that's quite basics quite nice. just the basics around comes with using around what comes with using that we don't need all that product. we don't need all the bells and whistles, like whether support the whether or not you support the pride whether or not you support the pnde or whether or not you support the pride or anything pride agenda or anything along those but there those lines at all. but there does appear to be an infiltration not just with banks. it's visible with banks. it's very visible with banks. it's very visible with banks where all banks because that's where all your that is your money is and that is massively important and you can't go on without that. can't really go on without that. but companies we've but other companies, we've seen things example , things like wix, for example, which like a diy which is just like a diy hardware store that decided that they sponsor float they wanted to sponsor a float at kind of pride rally and at some kind of pride rally and say that , you know, anyone who say that, you know, anyone who thinks that women are women and men men basically isn't

men or men basically isn't welcome a wix store, welcome in a wix store, for example . there's of example. and there's loads of examples taking place examples of this taking place right and i just wonder if right now. and i just wonder if we weeding out the. well, we start weeding out the. well, you don't align with our brand's values thing , then that is values thing, then that is a very slippery slope because any company that decides that you don't align with their values can say, we don't need your custom and it can block you from society . society. >> yeah, and i think that's the danger with all of this, really. >> i mean, you know, these companies are forgetting actually they're there for. companies are forgetting act|they're they're there for. companies are forgetting act|they're there ey're there for. companies are forgetting act|they're there toe there for. companies are forgetting act|they're there to makee for. >> they're there to make a profit . profit. >> e“- @ there to make profit. >> there to make good >> they're there to make good customer service for their customers. but they're not there to preach to us. they're not there to tell us what we need to think and what we need to do and what need think about, what we need to think about, etcetera . etcetera. >> and that's thing that i >> and that's the thing that i find disturbing about all find quite disturbing about all of type of stuff of this type of type of stuff really. and i just sort of think to myself, you use wix to myself, you know, you use wix as an example. plenty of as an example. there's plenty of examples . examples. >> you into >> when you go into a supermarket, you know, there's little only a month for everything. now

>> so whether it's a pride month, whether it's a black black history month, i think this month is south asian, south asian, sorry, heritage month . asian, sorry, heritage month. >> is it you know, at the end of the day, you know, i'm married to somebody that is from south asian heritage. >> bet she doesn't even know >> i bet she doesn't even know that this exists. >> , no. >> no, no. >> no, no. >> i mean, look, you know exactly . i >> i mean, look, you know exactly. i imagine you'd already the benefit for you with that, though, right? is you can you can maybe just about forget a birthday or maybe valentine's day day. but day because that's one day. but you've whole get you've got a whole month to get this better not. this right, mate. i better not. you've a whole month get you've got a whole month to get this there's no this right. so there's no there's no excuse now. absolutely. is culture, absolutely. is the culture, though, just though, in banks actually just really mean, really hypocritical? i mean, i've few mates who really hypocritical? i mean, i've in few mates who really hypocritical? i mean, i've in the few mates who really hypocritical? i mean, i've in the banking mates who really hypocritical? i mean, i've in the banking sector who really hypocritical? i mean, i've in the banking sector and work in the banking sector and i would politely suggest that their moral compass not their moral compass is not necessarily great. their necessarily that great. their values appear to centre around going out and getting absolutely steaming and potentially doing something just something else other than just drinking and yeah, living the high life really. i wouldn't really say that virtue signalling was at the forefront of agenda. that

of their agenda. so in that sense, it just complete sense, is it all just complete hypocritical rubbish? it hypocritical rubbish? anyway, it is, yeah. >> because the thing is , the >> because the thing is, the problem with this is it's driven from the top and, and as we've seen with the natwest group, you know, she's obviously a very woke individual who obviously controls coots . controls coots. >> and the thing is, if you want to get up on the ladder and you challenge these, what's the word that you challenge this narrative of the chances are that you won't get very far. >> now, i was fortunate enough that i was high enough up sorry, high enough. >> up high enough up. sorry to actually not really care whether i went any further at all. but you know, people that are looking to get on the ladder and climb up, if they start to challenge this narrative, then they'll probably find themselves not far. not getting very far. >> is the other thing. it's >> this is the other thing. it's one about customers, it's one thing about customers, it's another thing about these major massive employers. and i would say the goes right say that the same goes right across public sector. if across our public sector. if you're in teaching at the moment and openly and you happen to be an openly conservative, you know, how does that stand you in good stead,

for example, when you're looking for example, when you're looking for ? cetera. for promotions? et cetera. similarly nhs, what for promotions? et cetera. similain' nhs, what for promotions? et cetera. similain' variety nhs, what for promotions? et cetera. similain' variety ofis, what for promotions? et cetera. similain' variety of other|at about in a variety of other employers at the moment? do you adhere to their brand valley? so forget about whether or not a bank can actually shut your wealth which let's bank can actually shut your we honest, which let's bank can actually shut your we honest, very which let's bank can actually shut your we honest, very annoying let's bank can actually shut your we honest, very annoying and; be honest, is very annoying and it a good to zone it is a very good point to zone in but as saying, in on. but as i keep saying, effects people because effects very few people because normally people are never going to amount of money. to see that amount of money. right. other right. but it is the other stuff. you're in work stuff. if you're just in work and job and that company and in your job and that company that you for is saying, that you work for is saying, we're celebrating black history month like a picture month today, we'd like a picture with all of staff where with all of our staff where you're all taking knee. is you're all taking the knee. is that and go, that all right? and you go, well, don't want to well, i don't really want to take the my family's never take the knee. my family's never really had any issues with the old slave trade and old slave trade stuff and everything. well then what happens time the happens the next time the promotions you know promotions come around? you know it's for is it's not happening for you. is it? and this is the kind of the not so subtle censorship of people. society. people. right across society. now, . now, i would argue. >> exactly . >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> and i think that's one of the problems you know, if you to use your example, patrick, that if your example, patrick, that if you ask people, you

you were to ask people, you know, particularly a couple of years ago during lives years ago during black lives matter, take the knee , matter, if you take the knee, you know, the vast majority of people don't want the people don't want to take the knee. >> but if you were in a situation in at that time in particular where you refused, you'd probably be branded as racist . and, you know, from my racist. and, you know, from my experience since when i was working, as i say at the my previous employer , you know, i previous employer, you know, i don't think anybody in that place would call me racist because i actively promoted it. um, ethnic minority is being promoted and i still speak to quite a lot of them now around , quite a lot of them now around, you know, how they get in on it, etcetera, etcetera. but if they'd have come to me and said, would take the knee, say would you take the knee, i'd say , not because i don't , no, i'm not because i don't believe it. also i don't believe in it. but also i don't believe in it. but also i don't believe in it. but also i don't believe in taking the knee to anybody. >> but also half the people in this story that we're going to cover little bit later on. cover a little bit later on. footballers wearing cover a little bit later on. foo rainbow wearing cover a little bit later on. foorainbow armbands wearing cover a little bit later on. foo rainbow armbands right aring cover a little bit later on. foorainbow armbands right .ring the rainbow armbands right. or taking knee games or taking the knee before games or participating another form participating in another form of circus that has happened before. they kick a ball they can try and kick a ball into back net, you into the back of the net, you

know, saudi arabia, know, go into saudi arabia, aren't load money? aren't they for a load of money? what's rights what's the human rights situation like over there? what's the women's rights situation? what's the gay rights situation in the stadiums that will doubt have been built by will no doubt have been built by slaves? those slaves? what colour were those slaves, we slaves, for example? and then we end up in a situation where they just sorry, not just go, oh, sorry, they're not the morals that i want. the kind of morals that i want. look, very, look, mark, thank you very, very much. catch up much. it's great to catch up with again. and i believe with you again. and i believe i do. actually. i believe i do actually owe a pint as well actually owe you a pint as well because would buy you. because i said i would buy you. you me a pint, but you owe me a pint, but unfortunately, you're in birmingham there birmingham and i'm not. so there you take you go. right. okay, mark, take care. is reform care. mark out there is reform uk candidate now right loads. still have still to come coots have released the following statement though this though and it's important this it policy to close it is not coots policy to close customer solely on the customer accounts solely on the bafis customer accounts solely on the basis of legally held political and views. to and personal views. decisions to close not taken close an account are not taken lightly involve a number lightly and involve a number of factors, commercial factors, including commercial viability and reputational considerations and legal and regulatory . as regulatory requirements. as good. you can get loads more good. now you can get loads more on that story on our website, gbnews.com. it is the fastest growing national site growing national news site in the country, course, the country, which of course, you all know about now is the best for big opinion and best place for big opinion and all breaking news and

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online gb news. britain's news. channel >> i've got some footage for you very , very shortly of some just very, very shortly of some just stop oil activists being interrupted by a new protest group which is fan flipping tastic. but there are calls for the labour party to pay for the damage caused by just stop oil. so there we go. and after spending years taking the knee and wearing rainbow armbands , i and wearing rainbow armbands, i will ask just how hypocritical are the footballers who are being paid millions to move to saudi arabia? i mean , the answer saudi arabia? i mean, the answer there is very. but there go. there is very. but there we go. but even harry and meghan's but even by harry and meghan's standards, story standards, this next story is truly it's emerged truly remarkable. it's emerged that couple of hitchhikers that the couple of hitchhikers they tried to blag a lift back

to the united states after the queens funeral on air force one. the duke and duchess of sussex wanted to fly home with joe biden last september, but their request was turned down. even a man exhibiting all the signs of senile dementia doesn't want to know them. it said that the white house were worried about damaging relations with the royal family. yeah. all right. i'm joined now ingrid seward, i'm joined now by ingrid seward, who editor chief of who is the editor in chief of majesty magazine . ingrid, thank majesty magazine. ingrid, thank you much. i mean, you very, very much. i mean, this remarkable story , this is a remarkable story, isn't who do they think they are? >> well , i are? >> well, i think we have to put the story into context. i know what you feel, patrick. i know what you feel, patrick. i know what you feel, patrick. i know what you feel. >> i'm trying to be a little bit middle of the road, a bit fairer. i am sure that the i know that harry and meghan are pretty friendly with the bidens , especially mrs. biden, because she supports his invictus games and, you know, she's she's the mother of a veteran and she's very big into her warrior games . so they have kind of become

pretty friendly. >> but whether or not harry and meghan would would, you know, be great both enough really to try and hitch a ride on air force one. i mean, anyone would love to go on air force one, but surely they must have thought this isn't very clever. you know, we've just come back from , um, you know, harry's grandmother's funeral. i know that they , you know, because that they, you know, because they're not part of the royal family they can be political, but how everyone would see it would be that it was a, you know, a huge opportunity to put themselves out there. you know, and get a huge amount of publicity. and i just the concern would be, ingrid, wouldn't it be that stupid? >> yeah. because. because the stupidity would come from appearing as though you might be using your own grandmother's death to try to curry favour with american elite. with the american elite. and that's a horrible it ? >> 7- >> it's a 7 >> it's a horrible ? >> it's a horrible look 7 >> it's a horrible look . and i >> it's a horrible look. and i do agree with why you feel so

strongly about it. patrick i do. but i just think we've got to be a bit fair on them here. a little bit fair on them here. i mean, you know, we don't know the story. we but it looks the whole story. we but it looks really bad. they haven't, really bad. and they haven't, you know , funnily enough, their you know, funnily enough, their archwell who are very voluble, normally haven't come out and said this story is absolute rubbish, which i'm very surprised. >> no , exactly. exactly. and you >> no, exactly. exactly. and you mentioned , you know, oh, gosh, mentioned, you know, oh, gosh, could they really be that stupid ? and i think you think, well, that that non speed car that was that non high speed car chase around new york, wasn't there fast and the spurious there the fast and the spurious and there numerous and then there was numerous different things the different things like the netflix . then there was netflix saga. then there was harry's book. and actually you think may may maybe, maybe they can be that stupid. do you think they're all right the moment they're all right at the moment , harry meghan, i mean, , harry and meghan, i mean, look, don't look, obviously, you don't want to necessarily speculate about people's lives too much people's personal lives too much , but there's a of stuff , but there's a lot of stuff going at moment going around at the moment about meghan own meghan being pictured on her own all time . all the time. >> no, i think they're absolute fine. i think, you know, harry's where he wants to be. i mean, of

course they're always to going be rumours if they're not always together, there's going to be rumours and there's a lot of people that would like to think that through that they're going through troubles . troubles in their marriage. maybe but we have maybe they are, but we have absolutely no real evidence to suggest they might be. i think it's because things have gone badly for them recently . they badly for them recently. they didn't get nominated for an emmy in the netflix drama harry and meghan or actually , sorry, meghan or actually, sorry, meghan or actually, sorry, meghan and harry. they didn't get nominated for that . and then get nominated for that. and then their spotify deal fell through . so, you know, so hollywood is a really tough place. so you're either super up there or you're just nowhere at all. and i think they're probably suffering from they're probably suffering from the latter at the moment. and people are seeing that really the only thing that they've actually offered in a positive way is their insight into the royal family. i mean, spare sold more than any other book in the first week. i think it sold 3.2 million copies in the first

week. and you say it's washed up on the beaches of spain. now i don't know. >> well, yeah, well, apparently so. i mean, but this is the thing. i bet now wishes thing. i bet harry now wishes that sold that many that it hadn't sold that many copies people copies because so many people either to either read or listened to the audiobook and audiobook version of it and thought good grief, what are you really and he managed really on about? and he managed to annoy absolutely to kind of annoy absolutely everybody. i mean, poor everybody. i mean, that poor lady ultimately revealed lady who was ultimately revealed as the person that he had a bit of behind a pub just of a romp with behind a pub just going about her yeah, just going about her life. yeah, just going about her life. yeah, just going about her life. yeah, just going about her life. go on. you going about her life. go on. you go . go. >> i honestly find it very strange that harry's ghost—writer or indeed editor didn't take, you know, look at some of some of the information harry put in that book and thought, this is not going to make the book any better and it's going to hurt a lot of people. and it's, you know, it's very personal of course, very personal and, of course, people find out people are going to find out who it we're stupid. the it is and we're not stupid. the first thing anyone's going to do is find out the is try and find out all the names of people that are names of the people that are unnamed. now indeed angry. >> you very it's >> thank you very much. it's always chat to always a pleasure to chat to you. ingrid who the

you. ingrid seward, who is the editor of the wonderful editor in chief of the wonderful majesty magazine . good stuff. majesty magazine. good stuff. look, i mean, i do find it remarkable that harry and meghan supposedly would go, oh, can we just hitch a ride? sleepy joe? well, no, absolutely not. i'm sorry. and again, these bunch of eco warriors wanting to take a trip on what would be i think maybe, maybe be the world's largest private jet. it's just staggeringly hypocritical, isn't it? but loads more still to come between now and 5:00. find out why the labour party is under pressure to pay for the damage that just stop oil did to a government department building. and yes, we will be showing you as well this great video of a new protest group that is rising up against just stop oil and making them feel some of the misery that they are inflicting onto all of us. but right now, it is your headlines with it is your latest headlines with rory . rory. >> thank you very much, patrick. the illegal migration bill has been given royal assent by the

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plenty of sunshine from the word go. but cloud will build through the morning and once again those showers will get going again . showers will get going again. they'll be hit and miss. not everyone get showers, everyone will get showers, i think towards the think driest towards the southeast , but those showers southeast, but those showers will frequent across will be most frequent across northern of northern england, parts of wales, east and scotland. and then longest spells of rain arriving by end of friday arriving by the end of friday into northern ireland. a sign of things for the weekend. things to come for the weekend. saturday sees those spells of rain across much of the rain spread across much of the country, northern country, avoiding northern scotland and southeast england for time being. but an for the time being. but an unsettled in store with unsettled weekend in store with wet and breezy weather followed by showers later sunday and into monday . a brighter outlook with monday. a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on gb news as. more minister once labour now to pay more minister once labour now to pay for the damage caused by just stop oil.

>> i'm not surprised but here's something that will bring a smile your face. just stop smile to your face. just stop oil have finally been stopped so some of their protesters were given a taste of their own medicine in london. this morning. they were encircled by a counter protest group calling themselves now prepare for anybody who's easily offended . anybody who's easily offended. there is a naughty word that i'm about to say. so if there are any children around, cover their ears, send them to bed , or just ears, send them to bed, or just let them listen to it because they're it one they're going to learn it one day. is the name day. anyway, this is the name of the group. stop everyone the group. just stop everyone off. right? apologies if you're offended by the language, but that group is called that is what the group is called . just stop oil . okay, so just stop oil protesters were also out in force yesterday , though, and force yesterday, though, and now grant is calling on grant shapps is calling on labour for the damage labour to pay for the damage that they've caused . activists that they've caused. activists threw orange paint over the walls and windows of the energy security department. shapps wrote starmer and wrote to sir keir starmer and said that as labour is the political wing of just stop oil, then the opposition and not the taxpayer should the bill. taxpayer should pay the bill. essentially receiving essentially labour are receiving money oil they're

money from just stop oil they're happy then just happy to do that. then just stop. goes and does stuff happy to do that. then just stopthat goes and does stuff happy to do that. then just stopthat .|oes and does stuff happy to do that. then just stopthat . and and does stuff happy to do that. then just stopthat . and shouldn'tstuff like that. and shouldn't the labour to clean it up? labour party pay to clean it up? i'm joined now by harry phibbs, who's government who's the local government editor home. who's the local government editorthank home. who's the local government editorthank you home. who's the local government editorthank you very, home. who's the local government editorthank you very, veryie. who's the local government editorthank you very, very much. harry thank you very, very much. well i grant shapps has well i mean, grant shapps has got hasn't if got a point, hasn't he? if labour receiving money from labour are receiving money from a that many might a group that many people might regard terrorists , then regard as eco terrorists, then shouldn't the labour party be partly clean partly responsible for the clean up operation ? up operation? >> it has got a point . it's the >> it has got a point. it's the mr big in this is a is a man called dale vince, who's very significant funder of the labour party. he's given them £1.5 million and we don't know how much money's given to just stop oil because they don't have the same rules of political party has. they don't have to publish all but it's all the details, but it's generally accepted that he's he's main kind of moneybags he's the main kind of moneybags behind just stop oil. so it's an astonishing thing isn't it, that we've got this this organised nafion we've got this this organised nation that is an actively , you nation that is an actively, you know, involved in trying to motivate people to commit crime

and somehow somehow it's able to just carry on doing so. i mean obviously the individuals involved involved should be held to account . but i do also involved involved should be held to account. but i do also think any group involved in incitement in organising criminal activity , you know, why aren't there funds being sequestrated? so i think probably legally it would be just stop oil rather than the labour party. but it's a it's a perfectly fair point that grant shapps makes that the labour party are taking money from, from the same person whose funding just funds criminal. >> but he's not i think actually, you know, what i think needs to happen is people need to stop saying that this guy is funding, just stop oil. he's funding, just stop oil. he's funding he funding criminality. he is funding criminality because these out these people are going out and committing right? committing at crimes. right? they and so if i would they are. and so if i would honestly have expected i mean, not that i'm that way inclined, but i had a of money and but if i had a load of money and i to give that money to i decided to give that money to a group of people who were going

to out and commit crimes, i to go out and commit crimes, i would i would would have assumed that i would find on the wrong side of find myself on the wrong side of the law as well. but apparently that's not a situation. how do you respond to this wonderful group people just stop group of people called just stop everyone managed to everyone off who've managed to go and to stop just stop oil go and try to stop just stop oil and them a taste of their and give them a taste of their medicine by encircling them a medicine by encircling them in a road . road. >> e absolutely road. >> absolutely fantastic. >> they're absolutely fantastic. the only thing is that , i mean, the only thing is that, i mean, what would be much better would be if it wasn't necessary for us to engage in these these sort of magnificent vigilante efforts. because what should be happening is , of course, that the police is, of course, that the police and courts should be dealing and the courts should be dealing with these things robustly . just with these things robustly. just to to mention a lesson from to just to mention a lesson from history . i don't know some of history. i don't know some of the older viewers might remember in the 1970, there was the garden house hotel riots in cambridge, because we had a lot of these there now ageing hippies in the first generation of hippies. they were causing a lot of disruption. then and there was a man called justice melford stevenson, who said to them, look , you're not going to

them, look, you're not going to be indulged because you're middle class protesters. i'm going to treat you as criminals. you smash up this hotel, you are going to prison, you're being deported. you are not going to be given special indulgence or treatment. but, you know, because because your middle class protesters and that immediately , once those once immediately, once those once those harsh penalties were passed, that immediately changed the situation . and there was the situation. and there was very little trouble after that. so that's really what we need is proper action rather than rather than, you know, the police just standing by on the other side . standing by on the other side. >> it's the embodiment of entitlement and privilege , this entitlement and privilege, this lot. okay. so many of them are middle class. they've middle to upper class. they've got funds coming out of got trust funds coming out of their backsides. this lot, they would probably never to their backsides. this lot, they woul

that. excuse me? you've just painted building orange. painted this building orange. but go. right. thank but there we go. right. thank you very much, harry. harry phibbs who local phibbs there, who was the local government of government editor of conservative talking government editor of conse|the ve talking government editor of conse|the environment talking government editor of conse|the environment . talking government editor of conse|the environment . okay.|g about the environment. okay. talking about the environment . talking about the environment. but i'm going to be joined in just a second liam just a second anyway by liam halligan, is, course, our halligan, who is, of course, our economics and business editor. now, on in show, i now, earlier on in the show, i spoke about the drive to give us all electric vehicles. another big towards big part of the drive towards net zero, of course, is wind farms. now, just oil. no farms. now, just stop oil. no doubt be listening very doubt we'll be listening very closely at this point. there's doubt we'll be listening very close a at this point. there's doubt we'll be listening very close a huge s point. there's doubt we'll be listening very close a huge setback there's doubt we'll be listening very close a huge setback onzre's doubt we'll be listening very close a huge setback on that been a huge setback on that front think we can front today, and i think we can all that's they rest all agree that's may they rest in but joining me now is in peace, but joining me now is liam halligan, economics and liam halligan, our economics and business editor on the business editor with on the money . what's going on with wind money. what's going on with wind farms in the economics of net zero is very contested , heated. zero is very contested, heated. >> and there are two sides to every story and it's not the fact that renewable energy is always cheaper or immediately leads to cheaper bills for households and firms. it doesn't. we generate some days

4,050% of our electricity from renewables , and yet all our renewables, and yet all our electricity is linked to the spot price of gas for all kinds of crazy reasons in my view. so even though renewables are getting lots and lots of subsidies , is it isn't feeding subsidies, is it isn't feeding through into cheaper electricity. and what's just happened, patrick, just in the last couple of hours is it's been announced that the swedish company vattenfall , which is one company vattenfall, which is one of the major offshore wind companies in the world, it's got this huge project off the coast of uk , the norfolk boreas of the uk, the norfolk boreas wind farm. it's designed to power . 151.5 million british power. 151.5 million british homes. if you think there are about 30 odd million households, that's a pretty chunky amount . that's a pretty chunky amount. it's meant to have 140 turbine cars. it's planned well, it's just been cancelled and it's just been cancelled and it's just been cancelled because vattenfall, a swedish company, are saying that their costs are going through the roof because the supply chain issues, because of the costs of the steel and all very complex components to make these wind farms.

all very complex components to make these wind farms . and it's make these wind farms. and it's saying now that the so called contracts for difference . yes. contracts for difference. yes. that's the price for the electricity they generate that the government guarantees them in to order give them the incentive to invest all the money and take all the commercial risk. the swedish company is saying that the contracts for difference now, it's not generous enough to make it's not generous enough to make it worth their while to build this very complex wind farm. now, two things spring to mind. the first thing, patrick, on the one hand, i kind of get it because steel and all the other stuff has got a lot more expensive on the other hand, you know, we've just a very, know, we've just seen a very, very sophisticated and wealthy indian conglom's great tata, you know , extract attract and win know, extract attract and win whatever verb you want to use. half £1 billion on the british government in subsidies in order to build a giga factory down in the west country is it the case now that because other companies can see that the british government needs these political wins, it needs to have some good

news to announce ? well, that's news to announce? well, that's when clever business people can say, well, you can write the headuneif say, well, you can write the headline if you want, but we're going to make you pay for that headline. i mean, is that is what is going on here now, vattenfall, extremely vattenfall, the extremely reputable company , reputable swedish company, they're that, they're going to deny that, right. this right. but i've been in this business a long time. i don't dende business a long time. i don't deride their denial in any to any degree at all. but a lot of what these big companies do, they hold guns to government's heads. and when they know the government's in need of good political news, then they're government's in need of good politicto news, then they're government's in need of good politicto start, then they're government's in need of good politicto start trying they're government's in need of good politicto start trying to ey're government's in need of good politicto start trying to extract going to start trying to extract subsidy. is that what's going on here? i don't know . but it'll be here? i don't know. but it'll be interesting to see how many headunes interesting to see how many headlines this makes because this reality . yeah, the this is the reality. yeah, the economics of net zero is extremely complicated. these these renewable energy facilities are very , very facilities are very, very expensive. and we've just seen proof of that with the cancellation of one of britain's most prestigious renewable projects. >> fascinating stuff , liam. >> fascinating stuff, liam. thank you very, very much. liam halligan there. our economics and business editor. now, not that long ago, liverpool footballer jordan

that long ago, liverpool footballerjordan henderson spoke of the lgbt spoke up in support of the lgbt community. he an ally , community. he was an ally, apparently, but he's close apparently, but now he's close to saudi arabia, to moving to saudi arabia, where he paid £700,000 a week he could be paid £700,000 a week just how hypocritical are these people? remember that when the premier league stars and they all start taking the knee and they put the rainbow laces on and they've got the rainbow armband then. oh, sorry. armband and then. oh, sorry. hello is that arabia? hello is that saudi arabia? yeah. how much? all right, i'll see you in a tick. patrick christys gb news, britain's news

radio. right? >> loads more still to come . and >> loads more still to come. and very shortly i'll be talking to the expert view of a man whose job it is to hold banks to account. as we do not let off coots, but we often talk about stonewall and lgbt rights on this show, not usually, though, about how they've infiltrated football. now, every season the premier league has a rainbow laces campaign, which the players and the club embrace. thatis players and the club embrace. that is , of course, despite not that is, of course, despite not a single premier league footballer coming out as openly 93v- footballer coming out as openly gay. and check out a tweet now from december 20th, 20 where liverpool captain jordan henderson tweeted a photo of himself wearing a rainbow armband with the message football is a game for everyone, no matter what. great stuff, very inclusive . well done,

very inclusive. well done, jordan. you massive trans and gay ally. but now henderson is said to be close to moving to saudi arabia, where he will be paid, reportedly £700,000 a week. well, if he moved to saudi arabia, he will be just the latest in a stream of premier league players who have signed multi—million pound deals to move to the middle eastern country . i am joined now by country. i am joined now by talksport legend mike parry . talksport legend mike parry. mike, thank you very much . look, mike, thank you very much. look, the next time that i have to endure, what can only be described as a parade of woke activity, they'll take the knee. then there'll be something rainbow infused and there'll probably be a blue heart for the nhs . and then eventually someone nhs. and then eventually someone will try and kick a football into that flipping goal over there and collect their millions of pounds shall i just of pounds a month. shall i just write off because of pounds a month. shall i just write just off because of pounds a month. shall i just write just going 3ecause of pounds a month. shall i just write just going to :ause of pounds a month. shall i just write just going to sells of pounds a month. shall i just write just going to sell their they're just going to sell their values river to move to values down the river to move to saudi some point? saudi at some point? >> . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> let me bring you right up to date , patrick. date, patrick. >> everything you've said is right. all old

right. you know, all the old lgbt rainbow laces and all that, that's great. until as you've just pointed out to your millions of viewers and listeners that you get offered 700,000, £700,000 a week. but the latest update, which you may have not have found out about, is that marco silva, who is the manager of fulham, who only three years ago was sacked by everton for not being very good, has been offered for £40 million on a two year deal to manage a saudi arabian football club. that's £20 million a year. now, when those sorts of figures are introduced into the equation , introduced into the equation, believe me, all your principal pals, all your rainbow laces, all your hopes and desires to change the world for the better, go woof right out of the window, believe me. right out of the window. you've already told us about jordan henderson. £700,000. and they rainbow armband. he was wearing . it all

armband. he was wearing. it all started, you know, really with theicon started, you know, really with the icon of football in this country, david beckham, before the qatar world cup of a year ago, two years ago. and it should have been played. he accepted a deal which is reported to be £10 million a year over 15 years to promote football in qatar. many would say that the rules and regulations of life in qatar are even more onerous than they are in saudi arabia. but let's not make any mistake about what is happening. saudi arabia , with happening. saudi arabia, with its huge wealth , is its huge wealth, is sportswashing the world. they've bought golf . they've literally bought golf. they've literally bought golf. they've literally bought golf. they've literally bought golf complete . they're bought golf complete. they're now trying to buy the best premier league football in the world, which of course is here in the united kingdom. it's throughout europe and they will do it because at the end of the day, patrick, who was the famous, um , movie star, who was

famous, um, movie star, who was the famous movie star, i've got my principles . and if you don't my principles. and if you don't like them , i'll find i'll find like them, i'll find i'll find i'll find some more. >> yeah , it's exactly the way. >> yeah, it's exactly the way. exactly but this is the. >> i'll tell you something, patrick. i'll tell you something. i'm not being a hypocrite. if somebody offered me £700,000 a week for principles, i've got, i might have to ditch them. >> yeah, but. yeah, but also, i mean, i don't. i don't know, mike, but i've never seen you taking the or parading taking the knee or parading around rainbow armband on around with a rainbow armband on and that and telling everybody that they need a certain and need to behave a certain way and that football a game for that football is a game for everybody. you everybody. so actually you wouldn't of wouldn't be that much of a hypocrite. up hypocrite. you'd just end up being really, really wealthy. and that's absolutely fair enough. the thing enough. but this is the thing now, look at the lives now, i look, i look at the lives of who next time they of people who the next time they all knee before game. all take the knee before a game. i just right, stop it, i just think, right, stop it, get up, kick a ball around, because actually it means nothing if you nothing to you. i think if you paid league footballers paid premier league footballers enough a enough money, they would burn a rainbow agree . the other >> yeah, i agree. the other issue i've got with it all is that i've been a huge football fan all my life. i'm a

shareholder of everton football club. my club for 70 years. okay. and i'm a season ticket holder there. but some great footballing talent in this country are going there not just for the money, but for the fact that they can't get a job here now. so, stephen gerrard, for instance, steven gerrard, magnificent footballer , a man magnificent footballer, a man who led football to the champs league trophy. okay, but after having not too successful a career in the english premier league, aston villa got sacked , league, aston villa got sacked, has decided to push off to saudi arabia . i think it's rafiq that arabia. i think it's rafiq that he's managing and al—rafiqah the team that he's giving jordan henderson £700,000 a week to play henderson £700,000 a week to play for. he's decided why? why bother trying to pursue my career in the uk? exactly. it's a really, really dangerous situation. >> absolutely. mike parry, thank you very, very much. the talksport legend himself, they're just waiting in. i've always thought that this lot were a bunch of hypocrites. but you know what? it just seems

like enough, aren't like they're rich enough, aren't they? money do you need they? how much money do you need ? really? but there we go anyway. to as anyway. loads. still to come as well. looking to blow anyway. loads. still to come as wellid looking to blow anyway. loads. still to come as wel lid off looking to blow anyway. loads. still to come as wel lid off the looking to blow anyway. loads. still to come as wellid off the uk's;ing to blow anyway. loads. still to come as wellid off the uk's banking.ow the lid off the uk's banking industry mounting now industry mounting pressure now and the latest is that potentially nigel farage is about to get a whopping great big apology from natwest and coutts fantastic stuff. i coutts and co fantastic stuff. i will have all of that and much, much more, including the latest on meghan well. on harry and meghan as well. of course. yes i will be course. and yes i will be talking about loads more stuff which i promise you'll be more excited than some the things excited than some of the things we in last patrick we did in the last hour. patrick christys news channel. >> the temperature's rising boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello again, it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office. with the gb news forecast that scattered showers once again across the uk but sunny spells in between those showers ease overnight and it's going to be a cool night. we've got this northwesterly air flow across the country at the moment. low pressure over scandinavia, over scandinavia, high pressure over the , weather fronts the atlantic, but weather fronts staying for the time

staying clear for the time being. that means that being. and that means that although scattered although there are scattered showers around, they'll be fleeting . they'll be fleeting. they'll be disappearing into the evening and clear spells will break out fairly widely. still some showers pushing into northern ireland. northern and eastern scotland and perhaps northwest england and wales, but otherwise away from the showers. temperatures dipping into the single figures, perhaps even the mid to low single figures for some sheltered parts of northern scotland. so certainly a cool some might call it a chilly start to friday, otherwise plenty of sunshine from the word go plenty of sunshine from the word 9° ' plenty of sunshine from the word go , but cloud will build through go, but cloud will build through the morning and once again, those showers will get going again. they'll be hit and miss. not everyone will get showers. i think towards the think driest towards the southeast, those showers southeast, but those showers will be most frequent across northern parts of northern england, parts of wales, scotland , and wales, eastern scotland, and then longer spells of rain arriving by the end of friday into northern ireland. sign of into northern ireland. a sign of things come for the weekend. things to come for the weekend. saturday spells of saturday sees those spells of rain much of the rain spread across much of the country, avoiding northern scotland and southeast england for being . but an

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gb news. >> it's 5 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news. and what a bunch of coots. yes, could nigel farage be about to get a grovelling apology from natwest, from coots, from these people we're hearing rumours, so make sure you stay tuned because that could break whilst we are live on air on this show. yeah. in other news though, the falklands are british. the falklands are british. the falklands are british. the falklands are british. many do british. how many times do we have fought a war have to say it? we fought a war over falklands. that over the falklands. we won that war. wars work. why war. that's how wars work. why are the european union desperately trying to say desperately now trying to say that argentina still have a claim them? they don't. claim over them? they don't. we're the living of we're kick the living out of them them packing. in them and send them packing. in other oh harry and meghan, other news. oh harry and meghan, the ultimate grifters . aren't the ultimate grifters. aren't they stupid? they really plain stupid? apparently tried to get on apparently they tried to get on air one with biden to air force one with joe biden to fly back from the queen's funeral and sleepy joe said no. even a bloke exhibiting all the signs of senile dementia doesn't want to be their friend. and finally, women in sport finally, should women in sport get pay finally, should women in sport get pay to their men? it's get equal pay to their men? it's a question that's reared its

head again in light of the women's that's taking women's world cup that's taking place i will be place at the moment. i will be speaking to a female mma fighter live on air patrick christys . gb live on air patrick christys. gb news. well, potentially, potentially, potentially . a potentially, potentially. a little bit of news coming your way about some kind of apology for farage, which for nigel farage, which i imagine would taste sweet like honey. anyway. vaiews@gbnews.com now those are your . your headlines. >> thank you for much , patrick. >> thank you for much, patrick. i'm rory smith in the gb newsroom . the illegal migration newsroom. the illegal migration bill has become law . it will bill has become law. it will prevent people from claiming asylum in the uk if they arrive through unauthorised means. the government also hopes the changes will ensure detained people are removed either to their home country or to a third country. the home secretary, suella braverman, says the focus is now on appealing to the supreme court to make rwanda one of the countries people can be

sent to strikes by health workers could end up costing hospital bills billions of pounds. hospital bills billions of pounds . that's according to pounds. that's according to matthew taylor. the head of the body that represents nhs organisations. he says they're on red alert for the next 48 hours. a senior doctors walk out over pay . he says health leaders over pay. he says health leaders are deeply concerned by the impact that strikes are having. consultants have rejected an offer of a 6% pay rise. the health secretary , steve barclay, health secretary, steve barclay, says they have listened to the bma's demands. >> the average nhs earnings of a consultant after this pay rise will be £134,000 a year and on top of that, 20% of their salary goes into their pension, which means they'll be able to earn when they retire by the age of 65, tax free up to £60,000 a yeah 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year. the number one ask of the bma was for pension tax reform, and we listened to that as we

acted on it . and in addition, acted on it. and in addition, we've also accepted in full the independent pay review body recommendations , up to 20,000 recommendations, up to 20,000 rail staff are on strike over job security and pay , causing job security and pay, causing disruption and cancellations across many services. >> it's the first of three days of industrial action affecting 14 train companies in england , 14 train companies in england, which may have a knock on effect into scotland and wales. members are also walking out on the 22nd and 29th of july. rmt general secretary mick lynch is hopeful that fresh talks will reflect the progress he's making with london underground . london underground. >> let's get try and get a deal cooked up that we can try and get back round the table. we're doing that with london transport right now about what's going on in london underground. we've been conciliation been in acas, the conciliation service all week. so if we can get the same atmosphere where people work people are trying to work towards solutions, perhaps towards some solutions, perhaps we that on national rail. we can do that on national rail. i'm hoping that maybe london

underground will come up with some proposals that are steps forward and we can consider that. if we can do that on that. but if we can do that on both parts of the railway, if you we maybe some you like, we can maybe get some progress rates have fallen progress more rates have fallen for the first time since may, both two and five year fixed rate deals are down 0.02% on average. >> that's according to financial information company moneyfacts. but those figures are still higher than their peaks during last year's mini—budget at superman's assets are not displaying prices as clearly as they should, preventing shoppers from finding the best deals. the competition and markets authority has found retailers could be hampering people's ability to compare products. the watchdog is warning supermarkets to make the necessary changes or risk facing enforcement action. it's calling on the government to tighten the law around pricing display. to tighten the law around pricing display . voting pricing display. voting continues . in three by elections continues. in three by elections taking place in england today.

all three seats in uxbridge and south ruislip, selby and ainsty and somerton and frome have been held by the conservatives since the last general election in 2019. an polling stations closed tonight at 10:00 and constituents are being reminded to bring photo id with them . to bring photo id with them. parents who fail to pay child maintenance will face tougher sanctions after new laws were passed today . the child support passed today. the child support enforcement act was passed by a private members bill. the department of work and pensions fines will now be able to impose tougher penalties on non—paying parents, such as forcing the sale of property and taking away passports and driving licences through a quick and simple administrative process . it's due administrative process. it's due to the new law families will be paid faster and unpaid child maintenance can be claimed through the dwp instead of applying to court. five through the dwp instead of applying to court . five whale applying to court. five whale sharks have been rescued after

becoming trapped in fishing nets in ocean waters off indonesia and papua new guinea. underwater footage shows the divers cutting and pulling away the so—called ghost nets and gently freeing the whale sharks. well, every yeah the whale sharks. well, every year, millions of marine animals are either killed or injured due to discarded fishing nets. the whale shark is the largest species of fish , and it's on the species of fish, and it's on the red list of vulnerable species . red list of vulnerable species. this is gb news we'll bring you more as it happens. now though, back to . back to. patrick well , well, well, well. well, well, well, well. >> there is rather a lot going on with this nigel farage coutt's bank scandal and it's alleged that the chief executive of coutts, parent company, sat next to the bbc's business editor at a dinner. the night before he published the story,

claiming that the gb news presenter was bank for commercial reasons. of course, what's a staggering, staggering coincidence? that would be that then that individual decides to come out and tweet that nigel didn't have the funds for a bank account. isn't it? account. remarkable isn't it? how things just how are these things just happened? but happened? coincidentally but that now been exposed that claim has now been exposed as and described as as false and described as concerning banking concerning by the banking watchdog. but there is more . watchdog. but there is more. there is much more. i'm just going to read out a headline now. natwest ceo preparing to apologise to nigel farage over coutts banking fiasco. we understand that this may well happen after close of play today, so that would probably mean if indeed it does happen in about about 22 minutes time, which we will of course bring to you live here on this show. jon sopel , formerly of the bbc, sopel, formerly of the bbc, a man who used his newfound freedom from the bbc to go and sit to next emily maitlis, formerly of the bbc, and a couple of other people formerly of the bbc, and to interview people like tony blair, who of

course, you know, is a very establishment figure anyway. right also right basically, he's now also apologised to nigel farage. so it's thick fast. it's coming in thick and fast. here through this whole it's coming in thick and fast. here is through this whole it's coming in thick and fast. here is gb through this whole it's coming in thick and fast. here is gb newsigh this whole it's coming in thick and fast. here is gb news politicalvhole mess is gb news political reporter olivia utley. good grief. actually might grief. there actually might be about to say sorry. >> yeah, i mean, alison rose has been under a lot of fire today. >> she is the ceo of natwest. and as we've discovered, she's sat next to simon jack, the business editor of the bbc, at this gala dinner. and the next day, simon jack published this story, which has now proved to have been false, saying that the reason why coutts debunked, as they put it, nigel farage, is that he didn't have enough funds is to hold a coutts account . now is to hold a coutts account. now if alison rose shared that information with simon jack, there are quite a lot of problems there. firstly, as nigel farage, bank manager, essentially she shouldn't be sharing details about his financial situation kind of thing that if you were to cook again, just hypothetically here, sue for you might end up earning enough money to open a coutts account . well, exactly . so

account. well, exactly. so obviously she, she shouldn't if indeed she did share any private information with simon jack, she shouldn't be doing that on, on purely sort of ethical grounds . purely sort of ethical grounds. then also of course did she lie. i mean from the coutts dossier which nigel farage has seen which nigel farage has seen which has been published in large excerpts from the telegraph today, it sounds very much as though coutts were using the nigel farage as the excuse of nigel farage as a mortgage fixed rate coming to an end in order to terminate their relationship with him because and this is a quote , his views and this is a quote, his views don't align with with the bank's brand essentially . so first she brand essentially. so first she disclosed information she shouldn't have disclosed seemingly. secondly, she appears to have lied . should she be able to have lied. should she be able to have lied. should she be able to keep her job? i mean, there to keep herjob? i mean, there are those who are saying that she needs to apologise and then there are those who are saying peter bone, pretty influential peter bone, a pretty influential conservative backbencher, is saying should go in saying that she should go in front the treasury select front of the treasury select committee and answer some questions about whether coutts is whether it's is still a bank or whether it's a of project for social

engineering. >> though , the >> presumably, though, the values of natwest and stuff would incorporate openness and transparency and honesty. one would have thought. i mean those would have thought. i mean those would be the kind of pillars, the core pillars by which you would build any virtuous organisation. so i mean, she should, she should welcome , i should, she should welcome, i think, as much scrutiny as possible. >> well, yes. and of course, another big problem for alison rose is that although coutts is a a private bank, natwest is a is a private bank, natwest is partially taxpayer funded. it was bailed out by the labour government in 2009. think , and government in 2009. i think, and the taxpayer owns , i think it's the taxpayer owns, i think it's something like 36% of natwest. so in some respects, you know, this is a taxpayer funded organisation and should it be able to discriminate against people because of their political beliefs? well a lot of people are pretty outraged about that. also these political that. well, also these political beliefs mainstream i >> kl k— k for example, brexit, >> so, for example, brexit, i mean, we had a referendum on that and more people voted for brexit voted remain. that's brexit than voted remain. that's why some way, shape or why we in some way, shape or form got brexit done. and the pushback against net zero that

has of traction has loads of traction immigration. well, i'm sorry, but at the last however, many general british general elections the british pubuc general elections the british public voted for a party public has voted for a party that has actually wanted to put. yeah wanted to put lower migration on the agenda. i'm just going to go back to olivia before i go to my next guest here who will be cameron perry, who is, of course, the ceo of tally money. i'll come to you in a second. cameron. it's been some of little development. some kind of little development. do little bit of do we think a little bit of breaking news? >> government acted >> the government has acted very, very quickly on this. nigel has been praising nigel farage has been praising the conservative government and today ministers have announced just that they will make it just now that they will make it harder banks close harder for banks to close accounts banks will accounts with people. banks will have to explain why they're closing so closing accounts, people. so this ahead . this is all reached ahead. >> really good stuff. this is coming conclusion now in a coming to a conclusion now in a sense nigel farage. we will coming to a conclusion now in a serbringing gel farage. we will coming to a conclusion now in a serbringing you farage. we will coming to a conclusion now in a serbringing you morez. we will coming to a conclusion now in a serbringing you more onie will coming to a conclusion now in a serbringing you more on that ll be bringing you more on that breaking just keep breaking news. also, just keep your peeled your eyes and ears peeled because we are expecting apparently anyway, form apparently anyway, some form of hopefully quite grovelling apology farage. very apology to nigel farage. very shortly, but without further dither . cameron perry dither and delay. cameron perry joins ceo of joins me now, who's the ceo of tally who offer

tally money who offer competition to traditional high street banks . thank you very street banks. thank you very much. mean, do you think he much. i mean, do you think he will actually get an apology? >> but i think the >> he might do, but i think the problems with the fractional reserve banking system and fiat currency run a lot deeper than this. >> it is not that surprising. but but scary to some degree that somebody can be de—platformed as a citizen being able to operate with their livelihood or operate in a normal way in society through this kind of coercion. yeah. >> and so one of the things we did when we looked at what we built with tally money as a standalone own monetary system thatis standalone own monetary system that is asset based , so it's not that is asset based, so it's not fractional reserve or debt based , but also about the values that it stands for. >> i mean, frankly, you cannot say , well, you certainly don't say, well, you certainly don't believe in freedom of speech and the right of peaceful assembly if you think it's okay to cut off somebody means to exercise those rights. >> yeah. but also then potentially lie about it and all

of this i mean, actually to try to this is this is really where it all crumbles down for me with a lot of this kind of ideology. right. because it's all very well and good to say, because it's skin deep. it's all very well saying, oh, this it's skin deep. it's all very w

what they think, but it's complete hypocrisy , you know, complete hypocrisy, you know, for what they're doing. >> and also they're lying hypocrites, because as we know, they've been lying, doing it . they've been lying, doing it. that's just not right. i mean, we should just kind of call it as it is and just talk to me a bit about the ideology and the infiltration of it just in in in the world that you operate in anyway, because i said this earlier on, i don't mind saying it again. >> you know, i've met quite a few who are younger and few people who are younger and a bit up and coming in the in the banking industry and in money in general. i've got to be perfectly honest with you. i wouldn't necessarily associate a core woke values with the way that they choose to behave, certainly at the weekends. and i mean, is there a really big woke culture going in banking at culture going on in banking at the moment, is it just a few the moment, or is it just a few people the top? people at the top? >> well, that's good question. >> well, that's a good question. >> well, that's a good question. >> look, we actually stand >> i, i look, we actually stand to compete fundamentally against the fractional reserve banking system. so italia is a standalone thing where you just own asset. we all walk

own your asset. we all walk around with a little supercomputer our being around with a little sup smartphone. our being our smartphone. >> have property rights. >> we have property rights. >> we have property rights. >> unit of tally is a >> every unit of tally is a milligram of gold. that's what you own. it's a custodial relationship . so there's with relationship. so there's no with the bank or the banks unsecured creditor banking actually is a system, is a lending system. we just don't do that. some just don't do any of that. some lending is not a bad lending in society is not a bad thing, too much debt is thing, but too much debt is obviously so i'm obviously terrible. it's so i'm not i'm not engaged or engrossed with the with what traditional mainstream banks are doing . but, mainstream banks are doing. but, you know, on the surface. well there are certain things that i do know. and the regulations and the guidelines and things around when you you know, there are things such as fraud, money laundering, financing laundering, terrorist financing , they're the big three where banks ourselves under an emi banks and ourselves under an emi licence are required to block an account until you get to the bottom of that and maybe even close the account. and there are also tipping off regular lines around which means you you around this, which means you you can be in a position where you can't inform customer why can't inform a customer for why their is being closed. their account is being closed. that's clearly not going on

here. one of ways you can here. one of the ways you can tell because they offered him tell is because they offered him an account after bit of an account after a bit of pressure. so natwest an account after a bit of pressurthim so natwest an account after a bit of pressurthim accountjest yes offered him an account back? yes so, yeah. anyway but there's a lot of a lot of hypocrisy to all this. >> if somebody was looking to use your, your service and they had some political views that you personally didn't agree with , you know, would you ever feel comfortable blocking that? no no, absolutely not. >> i don't care if you're nigel farage jeremy corbyn. jeremy hunt. it matters not i believe that people should be able to access the money that they earn with their time and they should have the right to that. the legal right to that money. and i think we've got some structural problems in the current system that not the and that that's not the case and it's not just regulation. there are legal you don't you're not the of the money the legal owner of the money that you think you have in banking. you've lent the banking. you've lent it to the bank. you pay. you bank. that's what you pay. you interest. there's interest. yeah. so there's just some that are some things like that that are not in banking not very transparent in banking and know, frankly, and people, you know, frankly, have things to worry have better things to worry about in their lives. so they're

not concerned it not too concerned until it becomes a problem for them. but yeah, this problem's yeah, this this problem's not going if you think going away. i mean, if you think about what the advent of central bank currencies, which bank digital currencies, which is governments are sort of is what governments are sort of around world pushing is what governments are sort of around you've d pushing is what governments are sort of around you've even;hing is what governments are sort of around you've even got] is what governments are sort of around you've even got less towards, you've even got less less a line or layers of defence against this kind of behaviour. >> yeah, i do find it absolutely astonishing really that we're in astonishing really that we're in a situation now where somebody can so for such a can so and so for such a schoolboy way be caught out as well because you that there well because you know that there are access are these subject access requests least cover your requests and at least cover your tracks for goodness sake. i mean, preferably don't do it at all, but cover your all, but at least cover your tracks you are going to tracks if you are going to do it. just say it. look, can i just say a massive thank you for coming massive thank you for you coming into and thanks very into the studio and thanks very much for having me. no, no, be absolutely great have on absolutely great to have you on and your insight as well and to have your insight as well as there the as cameron perry. there is the ceo money. okay i do ceo of tally money. okay i do have bit of breaking have a little bit of breaking news to bring you now as i understand it, news to bring you now as i understand it , the treasury. understand it, the treasury. yeah, first things first. the treasury is going to be making it harder for banks to actually

cancel their customers. but i do believe that we have some breaking news which i can bring you on an apology from natwest . you on an apology from natwest. right. okay. which i can just read for you now. so natwest have actually apologised. i will read the full thing for you now. ihave read the full thing for you now. i have it in front of me here. so dear mr farage, i am writing to apologise for the deeply inappropriate comments about yourself made in the now published papers prepared for the wealth committee . i would the wealth committee. i would like to make it clear that they do not reflect the view of the bank. i believe very strongly that freedom of expression and access to banking are fundamental to our society and it is absolutely not our policy to exit a customer on the basis of legally held political and personal views to that end, i would like to personally reiterate our offer to you of alternate banking arrangements at natwest . this is, by the way, at natwest. this is, by the way,

from alison rose, who is, of course , the top dog at natwest. course, the top dog at natwest. she goes on to say, i fully understand yours and the public's concern that the processes for bank account closure are not sufficiently transparent . customers have transparent. customers have a right to expect their bank to make consistent decisions against policy , against publicly against policy, against publicly available crimes area. and those decisions should be communicated clearly and openly with them within the constraints imposed by the law. i will just finish off this statement. now. this is off this statement. now. this is of course all just been sent to nigel farage from the chief executive officer of natwest group to achieve this sector wide change is required. but your experience highlighted in recent days has shown we need to also put our own processes under scrutiny too. as a result , i am scrutiny too. as a result, i am commissioning a full review of the process for how the decisions are made and communicated to ensure that we provide better, clearer and more

consistent experience for customers in the future. if you are just joining us, i'm wondering why i'm reading this off a laptop is because it is just dropped in my inbox right now. the to now. this is the apology to nigel farage from the ceo. of course, i will finish off. course, i will finish it off. the reporting to the review will be reporting to me at natwest group ceo . and me at natwest group ceo. and finally, the fca's finally, i welcome the fca's reviews of regulatory rules associated with piccadilly. sorry, politically exposed pensions or persons , and we will pensions or persons, and we will implement the recommendations etcetera . anyway, that is a etcetera. anyway, that is a essentially quite grovelling apology from the of apology really from the ceo of the natwest joining me in the natwest group. joining me in the natwest group. joining me in the is liam the studio right now is liam halligan, and halligan, our economics and business liam, so business editor. yes, liam, so this literally just landed business editor. yes, liam, so thicase literally just landed business editor. yes, liam, so thicase anybody just landed business editor. yes, liam, so thicase anybody couldn'tied business editor. yes, liam, so thicase anybody couldn't tell. in case anybody couldn't tell. and is an apology from the and this is an apology from the ceo of natwest farage. ceo of natwest to nigel farage. >> was >> well, we knew this was coming, quickly, the coming, but so quickly, the political pressure must have been intense for a major clearing bank with 19 million customers to literally , you customers to literally, you know, bash out an apology and spread it around the country's the world's media, because the world is watching this so quickly shows that the powers that be, if you like, write to

the top of government, must have been furious at this. and i think this is so interesting. i was sitting here yesterday morning, shapps was coming was sitting here yesterday morninggrant shapps was coming was sitting here yesterday morninggrant shappss was coming was sitting here yesterday morninggrant shapps , was coming was sitting here yesterday morninggrant shapps , you coming was sitting here yesterday morninggrant shapps , you know,g through grant shapps, you know, somebody high up in the tory party. this is a bloke nigel farage has spent his entire aduu farage has spent his entire adult life winding the tory adult life winding up the tory party and grant shapps said, this is completely be outrageous. this is totally unacceptable. and even john sopel of the bbc has apologised . yeah, so this whatever you think of nigel farage, this is a slam dunk nine dart finish for him because he wasn't even going to talk about this. i talked to him before he talked about it. he was weighing up the pros and cons. well, of course. but he's been absolutely proven right. and people from the and people from across the political wherever political spectrum, wherever they think of nigel farage, some of to have to do of them are going to have to do it gritted you of them are going to have to do it to gritted you of them are going to have to do it to accepted you of them are going to have to do it to accept he you of them are going to have to do it to accept he was you of them are going to have to do it to accept he was treated have to accept he was treated badly you to accept badly and you have to accept that some of our major institutions have gone down this woke wormhole . woke wormhole. >> yeah, 100. i mean, there's so much to this, really. and actually, it does more than just

prove that he was treated badly. it also actually really completely vindicates if completely vindicates him if anything was needed in that regard. comes things regard. when it comes to things like cetera. like russian money. et cetera. because literally stated because they've literally stated in statement cuz there was in their statement cuz there was absolutely no evidence of anything underhand whatsoever. they've record of his they've got a record of his accounts. got a record they've got a record of his aciallnts. got a record they've got a record of his aciall of. got a record they've got a record of his aciall of his got a record they've got a record of his aciall of his money,yt a record they've got a record of his aciall of his money, pretty:ord of all of his money, pretty much. they've got everything there. he's out of this there. so he's come out of this doubly like roses. doubly smelling like roses. >> show that for >> it just goes to show that for some though some people, even though a series accusations have series of accusations have been disproved in a of law, as disproved in a court of law, as this whole kind of russia calls brexit thing has been disproved, it doesn't stop people who hate certain people who hate brexit. putting it in an internal document in a professional context when they're working for what should be a very grown up and highly regulated institution for long in country, for too long in this country, people played the man and people have played the man and not ball. we've got to start not the ball. we've got to start arguing concepts and arguing about concepts and issues not having these sort of tribal issues not having these sort of tribil issues not having these sort of tribi will just reiterate for >> i will just reiterate for anybody who's just joining us, that news is that and that breaking news is that and i am reading this now, it is an email that's been to nigel email that's been sent to nigel farage from alison rose, who is

the group chief executive sorry, chief executive officer natwar test group writing to apologise for the deeply inappropriate comments about yourself. obviously in relation to nigel made in the now published papers preparing for the wealth committee, she says. i believe very strongly that freedom of expression and access to banking are fundamental our society , are fundamental to our society, is absolutely not our policy to exit a customer basis of exit a customer on the basis of legally held political and personal views . to this end, personal views. to this end, i would like to personally reiterate our offer to you of alternative banking arrangements. on say arrangements. she goes on to say that there's going to be a big review this, and no doubt review into this, and no doubt at point the future at some point in the future there action taken there will be some action taken and seen much and we've ever seen much like this. very, very this. no this is very, very unusual get a bank to change unusual to get a bank to change its tune, to turn on a sixpence , a major in titled powerful bureaucracy outside of massive market pressure happening and financial collapses, this is almost like a sort of reputational collapse, isn't it? >> absolutely. and i wonder, i

have to say, how long this ceo can last because she has overseen this. she has overseen this culture. this is somebody who , when she took over at who, when she took over at natwest , said that she was going natwest, said that she was going to make the climate the central pillar of my leadership when actually the central pillar of her leadership should be within the law making a return to her shareholders, giving her customers a good service and above all, treating customers fairly for years , the fca and fairly for years, the fca and its predecessors, the financial conduct authority , she has had conduct authority, she has had this treating customers fairly agenda. nigel farage was not treated fairly and it's only because nigel farage is nigel farage and he can get some lawyers. absolutely. he's got all his financial , political, all his financial, political, media savvy . all his financial, political, media savvy. how many of the rest of us are being done a disservice by institutions in this country without our knowledge ? knowledge? >> yeah, exactly that. and that is the thing. because is the thing. as well, because people don't they, people hear a lot, don't they, about the idea of wealth account and they name coots

and they hear the name coots being they being bandied about and they think, well, that's never going to me and that's fair to affect me and that's fair enough. in this enough. most people in this country like that, it is resources like that, but it is not a giant leap to go from a company like a bank to, i would argue, street stores and argue, high street stores and other our economy other elements of our economy where well, i don't where they can go, well, i don't like you very much. you do not augn like you very much. you do not align with our values. and align with our brand values. and then know you are then before you know it, you are cancelled olivia cancelled as a person. olivia utley now, our utley joins me now, our political olivia, political reporter. olivia, politically , this is a politically speaking, this is a massive win for nigel as well. >> an absolutely >> oh, it's an absolutely massive nigel it massive win for nigel and it just proves how good nigel farage is at dominate the media cycle for days on end. but it is astonishing , as liam said, just astonishing, as liam said, just how quick the reaction to this has been. we've got this letter from ceo of group. from the ceo of natwest group. i mean , 19 million customers and mean, 19 million customers and today as well, 20 minutes ago, we had a reaction from ministers saying that they are going to make it more difficult by law for d bank customers for banks to d bank customers they don't like. now alison rose and this letter very clearly distances herself from from this document has been document which has been published. that

published. she says that it doesn't reflect views the doesn't reflect the views of the bank, but will that be enough? because there are there because there are those there are conservative are plenty in the conservative party who are party and outside of it who are now well, fair enough, now saying, well, fair enough, but buck with but but the buck does stop with you. the ceo of the you. you are the ceo of the organisation , so will be organisation, so will she be hauled up front of the hauled up in front of the treasury might hauled up in front of the tre sorty might hauled up in front of the tre sort of might hauled up in front of the tre sort of over might hauled up in front of the tre sort of over for might hauled up in front of the tre sort of over for nigel might be sort of over for nigel farage, but it might not be over. >> oveh >> £5.25 million. she got last yeah >> £5.25 million. she got last year, right ? she >> £5.25 million. she got last year, right? she paid for working for a company that's 40% owned by taxpayers . in the midst owned by taxpayers. in the midst of this cost of living crisis . of this cost of living crisis. and there's something else here. look to give an organisation a banking licence is a licence to print money. it is literally a licence to print money. and there are so many disruptor banksin there are so many disruptor banks in this country who aren't being given banking licences because there's, you know, the establishment and boys club establishment and old boys club and the right and and they're not the right and proper fit person, yada yada, yada. desperately need yada. we desperately need competition in our financial services so ordinary services industry. so ordinary people a better deal . and people get a better deal. and it's indicative of a lack of competition that senior executives feel that they can spend their time droning on

about inclusivity rather than actual commerce. and there should be with a banking licence, a universal service obligation. so pretty much anyone in this country can get a bank account because it's not just political . we suspect just political. we suspect people in the eyes of the banks like nigel farage, who aren't getting bank accounts . how about getting bank accounts. how about if you're a window cleaner who takes cash or you're a bricklayer or you're you're trying to run a small business out the back of a van bank accounts taken away accounts are being taken away from people the in from people all the time in increasing numbers. there are almost 2 million people in the uk without a bank account. uk now without a bank account. and banks on the one hand and as banks on the one hand withdraw banking facilities and then cash , we're going then withdraw cash, we're going to end up with loads of people who a modern who cannot function in a modern society . society. >> well, that is it. now, as part of apology, she goes part of this apology, she goes on to say that they will be reporting to her as ceo. i think that might be wishful thinking if, indeed if indeed there is going to be some kind of resignation there potentially. some would think some people would think that there be as well. this

there should be as well. this review will be reporting to me as she as natwest group ceo. now, she goes say, welcome the goes on to say, i welcome the fca's of regulatory fca's reviews of regulatory rules associated with politically exposed persons. what she doesn't mention is whether or not she's potentially broken gdp . ah, and the bank has broken gdp. ah, and the bank has by by revealing it would appear maybe to the bbc of some things about nigel farage, his personal circumstances and that could be very serious in itself. my point being this isn't really yet, is it? well look, and i know olivia has followed this closely as well. >> we've all been following it closely. we now know that she was next to simon jack, was sitting next to simon jack, the bbc reporter who broke what is now known story that the reason farage had his account removed was because he didn't have enough cash. you know, a story which led the london metropolitan elite into spasms of joy . oh, it wasn't because of joy. oh, it wasn't because you're politically suspect , you're politically suspect, nigel. it's because you're not wealthy enough. yeah we know. simon. jack, the bbc business edhoh simon. jack, the bbc business editor, sat next to alison rose at a dinner just before that party. that that that was that

story. story broke. a bbc correspondent dinner, no less . correspondent dinner, no less. it's hard the way it's actually written. if you go back to how he actually wrote the piece and you know he's a very experienced journalist. he's a very bright man. him long man. i've known him for a long time, it's written. it time, but it's written. it doesn't say, said coote . it's doesn't say, said coote. it's right. nigel farage got done in because he didn't have the money to say cuz it said, said someone familiar with decision familiar with the decision making. it was. it was a form of words that had enough wiggle room so it read as if, oh, this is a sore story. and he's the bbc business editor. of course it's true. but if you actually look at mechanics the look at the mechanics of the language, that language, something that news journalists know journalists really know all about , there's wiggle about, there's enough wiggle room may be some room that there may be some deniability. yeah absolutely. >> i don't know if there's been any response really from nigel yet. olivia haven't seen. yet. olivia i haven't seen. >> him up. >> let's ring him up. >> let's ring him up. >> should ring him >> yeah, we should ring him up. i we might hear i believe it's. we might hear from i believe it's. we might hear froroh, he's just texted me very, >> oh, he's just texted me very, very, very shortly. very, very, very shortly. >> yes, i mean, the >> but. but, yes, i mean, the political response initially to this vast , really, wasn't this was vast, really, wasn't

it? had sunak it? because we had rishi sunak getting involved, jeremy hunt getting involved, jeremy hunt getting although we getting involved, although we did have keir starmer did not have keir starmer throwing his support behind major mistake nigel farage it's throwing his support behind mvery mistake nigel farage it's throwing his support behind mvery trickyze nigel farage it's throwing his support behind mvery tricky momentzarage it's throwing his support behind mvery tricky moment forge it's throwing his support behind mvery tricky moment for keir 's starmer. >> this because we did have, you know, there were figures from the left weighing in and saying, i disagree with everything that nigel for, nigel farage stands for, but i am worried about free speech am worried about the free speech angle. keir starmer felt angle. keir starmer clearly felt that members and that his own labour members and of his own labour members of course his own labour members are important him today are very important to him today of the by—election of all days with the by—election taking this week, yeah, he taking place this week, yeah, he clearly felt that it would annoy them too much if he was seen to in any way take the side of nigel farage. as liam says, nigel farage. but as liam says, that could well turn out to be a mistake, given that nigel farage so comprehensive being so very comprehensive being proved right and we now have this grovelling apology from alison . should he not alison rose. should he not be standing defending free standing up there defending free speech to be our speech if he wants to be our next minister? speech if he wants to be our nexwell, minister? speech if he wants to be our nexwell, indeed,ter? speech if he wants to be our nexwell, indeed, liam, you said >> well, indeed, liam, you said that was a massive mistake. >> it a mistake. there that was a massive mistake. >> people nistake. there that was a massive mistake. >> people both ke. there that was a massive mistake. >> people both ke. the there that was a massive mistake. >> people both ke. the left re that was a massive mistake. >> people both ke. the left and are people both on the left and right of our politics, okay? who all is being on all they care about is being on the same side as their friends,

right? they don't care right? they don't actually care about the substance of the argument. far too much of argument. and far too much of british politics. and frankly , british politics. and frankly, the classes like the british media classes like this. i will back you because you're a nice person and we work for the same newspaper or or whatever it is. but the public whatever it is. but the public what the public wants to see is politicians looking at arguments and coming a decision. aside and coming to a decision. aside from tribalism, aside from party politics, what is the right thing to do and say? and that's why i must say i really admire what grant shapps did. he was literally the story was breaking. he read the story pretty much live on air and he said, that's absolutely outrageous. you know, in defence of somebody is his sworn of somebody who is his sworn political who's mission political enemy, who's mission in life is to destroy the conservative party. and for keir starmer to not be a grown up and to worry more about what he's really hectoring, hard left backbenchers are going to worry about him rather than worrying about him rather than worrying about england and about what middle england and ordinary decent people are going to labour and tory voting to think. labour and tory voting because clearly this is mad. some of closest remainer some of my closest remainer friends. in touch with

friends. i've been in touch with them. this outrageous . what them. this is outrageous. what a shame. it's nigel. i have to back him, but i'm backing him. yeah. >> now if you are just joining us again, i will emphasise this is an apology. now to nigel farage the group chief farage from the group chief executive officer of natwest group. alison rose, who has sent an email to nigel saying, dear mr farage, i am writing to apologise for the deeply inappropriate comments about your self made in the now published papers prepared for the wealth committee . these the wealth committee. these were, of course, the comments saying that he was, know, saying that he was, you know, essentially xenophobic and racist all sorts. i mean, it racist and all sorts. i mean, it went on and on and on. i'm worse and worse, actually. i would like to make it clear that they do not reflect view of the do not reflect the view of the bank. so slightly bank. okay. so slightly distancing herself. there somewhat, she distancing herself. there som sustain she distancing herself. there som sustain that she distancing herself. there som sustain that for she distancing herself. there som sustain that for remains she distancing herself. there som sustain that for remains to she can sustain that for remains to be i believe very strongly be seen. i believe very strongly that freedom of expression and access are access to banking are fundamental society, is fundamental to our society, is absolutely our policy to absolutely not our policy to exit a customer on the basis of legally held and legally held political and personal this end , i personal views. to this end, i would personally would like to personally reiterate offer to you of reiterate our offer to you of alternative banking arrangements

at natwest . i fully understand at natwest. i fully understand yours and the public's concern that the process is for bank account closure are not officially be sufficiently transparent . customers have transparent. customers have a right to expect their bank to make consistent decisions against the publicly available criteria , and those decisions criteria, and those decisions should be communicated clearly and openly with them. now, one of the things that she is doing here is almost quoting here actually is almost quoting what is part of the regulation , what is part of the regulation, which is fascinating given that the accusations that they broke some of those regulations to achieve wide change achieve this sector wide change is again, if you look is required. again, if you look at that, not saying that her bank and banks and group needs to change them , it's sector to change them, it's sector wide. so it's very much a wide thing, sector wide change is required. but your experience highlighted in recent days has shown that we need to also put our own processes under scrutiny too. a result, i am too. as a result, i am commissioning a full review of the cuts process for how these decisions are made and communicate . basically, there's communicate. basically, there's going be full review . so going to be a full review. so apology and full review and

offer whether or not he takes it remains to be seen of new banking arrangements with natwest. you natwest. olivia, i'll bring you in on this because nigel has had to a heck of a lot over to weather a heck of a lot over the his political the course of his political career. incredibly broad shoulders incredibly big shoulders and incredibly big kahunas, some would say as well. now this is another situation where frankly, a load of mud has been lobbed at him. unsubs intiated and he's had to weather it. and again , he's come out and it. and again, he's come out and one really, how long is it before people just accept that nigel farage actually has quite mainstream views? it's quite popular and isn't some kind of inherently evil weirdo with a load of stuff that needs to hide? >> well, i actually think that coats has done nigel farage a massive favour here without meaning to , because that dossier meaning to, because that dossier which has now been published in full, literally says there was nothing. there was nothing substantive to back up allegations that nigel farage had been involved with russia

for example. it literally says we couldn't get any mud to stick , but we still don't like the guy, so we're to going get his bank account. so nigel farage. so has essentially proved so coats has essentially proved nigel farage completely innocent of against him. so of all charges against him. so pretty useful . good day for pretty useful. good day for nigel farage. day for nigel farage. good day for farage. >> i mean, i said i said on the breakfast show yesterday that my pet media pet dog understands the media more than coutts's pr department because they've managed to turn in a highly divisive figure like nigel farage. and for many people, they will just never accept isn't a highly accept that he isn't a highly divisive figure. but they've turned you know, turned him into you know, someone fast becoming a someone who's fast becoming a sort national it's sort of national treasure. it's completely ironic. and actually, you know , nigel caused you know, nigel caused controversy . i wouldn't say he controversy. i wouldn't say he loves it, but he thrives on it. and he's really good when it comes to controversy. but it does strike now that i think does strike me now that i think there could be fines for coots here. i think certainly here. i think they're certainly going be in front going to be in front of a commons select committee . this commons select committee. this is beginning this is just the beginning of this story , not the and again, story, not the end. and again, you hand it to farage. you have to hand it to farage. he's the that the he's the guy that lit the touchpaper has been

touchpaper here and has been proved right. >> this is important now for us to not get bogged down to actually not get bogged down in and saying in what is an apology and saying there will a let's be there will be a review. let's be perfectly honest. alison rose the chief executive officer at natwest group. everybody at coutts and quite possibly a lot of other people as well, will be desperate for this to be it. and for it to go away. but it won't. >> but even in her letter, right, even in advising right, even in who's advising this person, even in a letter, there's defiance, oh, you there's defiance, right? oh, you can have an offer of banking facilities at natwest right . he facilities at natwest right. he wants an account with coutts because that's who he was banking with before you know, all apps, all all his all his apps, all his phones , everything's plugged all his all his apps, all his phorhis, everything's plugged all his all his apps, all his phorhis couttsthing's plugged all his all his apps, all his phorhis coutts account lugged all his all his apps, all his phorhis coutts account and ed all his all his apps, all his phorhis coutts account and he into his coutts account and he doesn't just want personal doesn't just want a personal account, wants a business account, he wants a business account, he wants a business account because you, you account because if you, if you have of relatively have a sort of relatively sophistic life and she's not giving account giving him a business account and him just and she's not giving him just give guy what he wants . if give the guy what he wants. if you want chance of moving on you want any chance of moving on within the next five years, give the what wants. but even the guy what he wants. but even in there being in that letter, there being defiant. it's up to them . defiant. yeah, it's up to them. it's they can have that it's not. and they can have that advice for free.

it's not. and they can have that adeeah,�* free. it's not. and they can have that adeeah, bute. it's not. and they can have that adeeah, but this is not going >> yeah, but this is not going to this isn't going to be to be it. this isn't going to be it. ridiculous. you it. it's ridiculous. like you said, nigel what said, just give nigel what he wants. just. he might said, just give nigel what he wa away, just. he might said, just give nigel what he wa away, right? just. he might said, just give nigel what he wa away, right? forst. he might said, just give nigel what he wa away, right? for goodness|ht go away, right? for goodness sake, just give him what he wants and it might all away. wants and it might all go away. but i mean, but there we go. olivia. i mean, look, be doing look, nigel will be doing his show, way, we show, which, by the way, we should obviously urge you to tune into about an hour and tune into in about an hour and 20 minutes time. >> i think the running order is changing as we speak. >> he's supposed to be doing a farage at large somewhere. >> heard still at lunch, >> i heard he's still at lunch, actually. so >> so, yeah, farage will be having a very large lunch, i think. and which is of course not uncommon. it must be said, but olivia this will be, but yeah. olivia this will be, of course, a political vindication for him well. and vindication for him as well. and you know yet something you know, yet again something that him in good stead that stands him in good stead going and it does, i going forward and it does, i think, highlight again how actually if you decide to have these very bizarre woke values and then try to force them on people , well, it can massively people, well, it can massively backfire as well. >> absolutely. and i think what's quite interesting, as we've said, i mean, the government has responded so

quickly. and think quickly. and i think it does reflect quite well on the conservative party. and there are those who say that, you know, general election know, in a general election next yeah know, in a general election next year, people in westminster year, most people in westminster seem sure is seem pretty sure that it is going to be a labour majority. the only glimmer of for the the only glimmer of hope for the conservatives that keir conservatives maybe is that keir starmer his ilk perhaps starmer and his ilk perhaps aren't very tough on these sort of culture war issues . well, of culture war issues. well, that's sort of been borne out in the last few days. keir starmer remained silent while rishi sunak quickly. sunak acted very, very quickly. so it's pretty so i think it's a pretty good day conservatives as well. >> it is now . well. >> it is now. liam yes, well. >> it is now . liam yes, what >> it is now. liam yes, what could happen now? could nigel could happen now? so could nigel go and try and report them to the fca ? i mean there are the fca? i mean there are questions, so, nigel's got questions, so, so nigel's got various make. various decisions to make. >> has the option of >> okay. nigel has the option of and i'm not a lawyer, i'm certainly not his lawyer, but as a journalist looking on and somebody who obviously knows him as we all know him, he's our colleague. he can go to the financial ombudsman and indeed the dispatch box at pmqs yesterday say that was what rishi sunak suggested is available to him. it was a very strong answer from rishi sunak

condemning cootes, saying it was wrong. that's a really big deal. obviously the home secretary, suella braverman, said what cootes had done was, quote, sinister here, really powerful language , and he could go to the language, and he could go to the financial ombudsman . but if he financial ombudsman. but if he goes the financial ombudsman goes to the financial ombudsman that he that may complicate anything he does. that may complicate anything he does . if that may complicate anything he does. if wants that may complicate anything he does . if wants to take legal does. if he wants to take legal action. look, this it strikes me as a non—lawyer, but as a journalist , this 40 page journalist, this 40 page dossier, which i've read from cover to cover twice , it's cover to cover twice, it's a lie. it's libellous, it's highly libellous. you can you don't need to write something in a newspaper to libel somebody. you just write something just need to write something that than or people that more than 2 or 3 people have access to . and i'm sure have access to. and i'm sure many people were in on that. >> ask you the bank about this now. nigel tweeted this about >> ask you the bank about this nothour nigel tweeted this about >> ask you the bank about this nothour ago. l tweeted this about >> ask you the bank about this nothour ago. heveeted this about >> ask you the bank about this nothour ago. he says,i this about >> ask you the bank about this nothour ago. he says, a his about >> ask you the bank about this nothour ago. he says, a facebook an hour ago. he says, a facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by natwest and now now he says, sharing tips and how to lodge a subject access request. now, this actually goes, i would argue, gone from the personal issue for nigel farage. there

was the wider public sentiment, of course. but hang on a minute. if they can do this to me, they can do this you and then can do this to you and then potentially the reality about possibly the thousands of people that they have done it to, this is massive . is massive. >> so what is a subject access request ? a subject access request? a subject access request? a subject access request is when somebody or usually their lawyers requests all the information you've got on a person. right. and that will include any credit checks the bank has done any discussions. there's been written or otherwise on whether or not they can have an account. and it is a very , very, very and it is a very, very, very serious offence . when you've got serious offence. when you've got a subject access request or when you think you might be getting a subject access request to delete anything. mean it's a criminal anything. i mean it's a criminal offence to do that and, and that's why cootes, you know , that's why cootes, you know, they're a very reputable bank. let's be clear, one of let's be clear, this is one of the premier banking brands let's be clear, this is one of the world. tr banking brands let's be clear, this is one of the world. that'sing brands let's be clear, this is one of the world. that's whyirands let's be clear, this is one of the world. that's why there was absolutely once nigel absolutely no option. once nigel put request in, they had to put that request in, they had to give him the document that he didn't existed. right. didn't even know existed. right. so that is now so the fact that there is now a facebook group with tens of

thousands of people thinking about subject access requests, that west is not going to be able and so able to delete anything. and so it easily be inundated it could easily be inundated with subject access requests, some which could involve some of which could involve fines. i mean, this could become existential , this become a existential, this could become a financial risk. i don't want to overegg this any way, but and overegg this in any way, but and i'm just thinking aloud i'm not. i'm just thinking aloud here. if they have tens of thousands of subject access requests, staff need to requests, the staff they need to process that is a financial liability. but the potential fallout, if they're now seen and the law could be about to change as well. but they're now seen to have been done some some something wrong to someone like nigel farage. other people will be concerned. >> think you there is >> you think you think there is a this could be a chance that this could be existential for. >> well , i'm existential for. >> well, i'm not saying it's going to bring down the, you know, one biggest banks know, one of the biggest banks in what i am saying is in europe. what i am saying is this is certainly going to be a major managerial headache, at least for one of britain's major banking companies , which extra

banking companies, which extra complication is 2/5 owned by the taxpayer . taxpayer. >> yeah, no, indeed. and it is interesting, this i'm just reading some more here from nigel farage, the coots executive who handled my account is a remainer, who judged a diverse city prize, says nigel camilla stole the banks md and head of private clients describes herself as a remainer and expressed concerns about the climate crisis and attended cop 26 for coots . camilla stole once 26 for coots. camilla stole once said that she sees coutts's role as being more than just a bank. well, i might not be. it might not even be a banker. no, of course it will continue to be a bank. but olivia, this is again, people taking a political ideology and coming up against the man in the shape of the wrong man in the shape of nigel farage. nigel was on this show he said, look, you show when he said, look, you just shouldn't start a fight with the strongest guy in the pub. was right that. >> well, yeah, absolutely. and it interesting to it will be really interesting to see of see what comes out of the woodwork in coming and woodwork in the coming days and weeks know, as weeks because, you know, as we've farage is able

we've said, nigel farage is able to do this because he is a man who how take the who knows how to take on the media. he knows how on media. he knows to how take on the he's the establishment. he's got enough lawyers. enough well—paid lawyers. he he's this he's in control of this situation . now stepped situation. but now he's stepped forward and sent this subject access request to natwest and got satisfactory result got such a satisfactory result for it. i think we will see quite a lot of people , less quite a lot of people, less prominent people , ordinary prominent people, ordinary members of the public who have been turned down bank been turned down for a bank account reasons that they account for reasons that they don't thinking well, don't understand. thinking well, hang a minute. if nigel can hang on a minute. if nigel can contest then so can i. so contest this, then so can i. so i think this might be the end of it for nigel farage, but it won't for everyone. won't be for everyone. >> know what? it's more than >> you know what? it's more than just the banks, though, okay? because is because what's happened here is managed from managed to unite people from pretty all sides of the pretty much all sides of the political spectrum. it's also actually in apology actually drawn in apology from the of john sopel, who as the likes of john sopel, who as many would regard as being an establishment type. establishment media type. i understand that that simon jacques apologise. he jacques is yet to apologise. he may may well not may well not do. he may well not feel he has okay. but feel like he has to. okay. but there is that side of things as well. liam, is i think, well. and liam, this is i think, another great thing. nigel is drawn out into into the open

what is clearly happening behind the scenes at major banks and i dare say it most major companies anyway, within banking or not this kind of stuff, but also i think drawn out certain elements of the media who couldn't wait for the idea that nigel was broke and he was having his accountant. he's really shown a lot people up here. lot of people up here. >> what he's is >> i think what he's done is shine not just on, you shine a light not just on, you know, a corner of our lives, which is the banking sector though. and increasingly important again , i important corner, again, i repeat, cash is removed from repeat, as cash is removed from society, i mean, this is also a huge win for the gb news who's don't kill cash campaign as well. but it just shows that across many of our institutions , there's this march of approved values and views largely on the centre left . and if you don't centre left. and if you don't have them, then you can be cancelled and your life and your career can be threatened . that's career can be threatened. that's completely outrageous . and until completely outrageous. and until this point, many people on the left said, oh, culture wars , all left said, oh, culture wars, all this woke stuff, you're just making it all up. it's just means kind. why can't you

means being kind. why can't you be kind? was that coote's dossier know that coote's dossier kind know that coote's dossier kind know that coote's dossier could have been written by bunch of maoist students ? by a bunch of maoist students? this was student journalism. it was . and yet it was written by was. and yet it was written by what's meant to be the most pukka bank in the financial services capital of the world, reinforced by people in the media people regard as being media who people regard as being absolutely completely and absolutely 100, completely and utterly kosher all the time, as indeed jon sopel actually said indeed jon sopel actually said in his apology as well, he was saying wasn't he, that oh i'm sorry, will teach me to sorry, that will teach me to just believe all the words. >> he blamed >> and he blamed it, he blamed it bad bbc reporting. well it on bad bbc reporting. well it's great. when they it's great. i love it when they eat alive, don't you? it's great. i love it when they eat stay alive, don't you? it's great. i love it when they eat stay with alive, don't you? it's great. i love it when they eat stay with me,, don't you? it's great. i love it when they eat stay with me, both �*t you? right. stay with me, both of you. believe can bring in a you. i believe i can bring in a oliver lewis and really changed his gender. then get me his gender. then i'll get me a kids wouldn't it? kids account. wouldn't it? so oliver , spoke earlier oliver lewis, i spoke to earlier on, i've got an olivia in the studio next to me. i've got an oliver the line. so there oliver down the line. so there we go. you are, of course, a former employee. what do you make apology ? now oh, make of this apology? now oh, we'll never know. we'll never

know. he's obviously very happy about it. >> frozen him into submission, obviously very happy. shocked obviously very happy. so shocked that you call him olivia. i know. look i'm just going know. yeah. look i'm just going to statement now. to read out the statement now. >> of natwest, alison to read out the statement now. >> who of natwest, alison to read out the statement now. >> who has natwest, alison to read out the statement now. >> who has apologisedilison to read out the statement now. >> who has apologised to on rose, who has apologised to nigel the nigel farage for mishandling the closure i'll closure of his account. i'll paraphrase you, she says. paraphrase it for you, she says. we're sorry. don't want we're very sorry. we don't want anyone cancelled the right to freedom of expression speech freedom of expression and speech is for is actually a major thing for our going to be an our bank. there's going to be an internal review. they also welcome sector wide review as welcome a sector wide review as well, which will be interesting , won't it? but you were actually, i think, hit the nail on the head there, liam, when you were saying that actually this 40 page document that nigel farage has had and then the furore afterwards proves 100% that cancel culture and culture wars exist in britain. >> it does. it does indeed. and i wonder what olivia thinks of this. but for me, this is a really important moment for the conservative party . i agree with conservative party. i agree with her very much that they've come out this looking quite good . out of this looking quite good. but encourage the but will it encourage the conservative party to actually tackle these culture war issues? keir starmer is frozen in the

headlights. he's looking flat footed for the first time in months. he can't even stand at the despatch box and say , look the despatch box and say, look what happened to nigel farage is wrong because he knows that would incense the hard left of his party. even though it would make rest of the make most of the rest of the country. no, it's true. remainers leavers. all sides remainers and leavers. all sides say that's the right thing to say that's the right thing to say because it's just objectively true. >> you know, it just. just it's dead easy. don't agree with dead easy. i don't agree with nigel absolutely nigel farage and absolutely everything would radically different what different people. but what happened wrong. happened to him was wrong. i mean, i'll just say the last bit of that sentence, everyone has to of qualify the that to sort of qualify the fact that they been they think nigel farage has been done hard by hard done by with saying, i'm not his best friend. but yeah , exactly. and but yeah, yeah, exactly. and olivia just pick up on what liam was saying there. i mean, this is evidence evidence was even is evidence if evidence was even needed. the culture needed. yes that the culture wars and people wars are real and people are having lives affected. and having their lives affected. and in some cases unequivocally ruined them. ruined as a result of them. >> yeah, one thing >> yeah, i think one thing that's really interesting, which we haven't yet talked about is the coote's only the fact that coote's not only didn't see a problem internally

with debunking nigel farage because of his political beliefs, they were actually naive enough to it all in naive enough to put it all in writing in a massive fake document. >> yeah. and the very fact that they that suggests me they did that suggests to me that everyone in around the pr table team all thinks in a very similar way, has a very similar worldview and, and can't even conceive of the idea that other people think differently to them, which shows just what a hill the conservatives have to climb. mean , rishi kemi climb. i mean, rishi sunak kemi badenoch have been setting badenoch they have been setting new for trans new regulations for trans guidance in schools, etcetera , guidance in schools, etcetera, but when the institutions themselves that they're dealing with, beliefs are so, so with, they're beliefs are so, so entrenched that it's quite hard. >> you know what cracks me up about all of this is the relentless conversation that people about people have to suffer about unconscious these unconscious bias and these microaggressions and all of that, and how we need to re—educate ourselves. and then you've load of people you've got a load of people who will slap it on paper and will just slap it on paper and 90, will just slap it on paper and go, there's nothing there's nothing about you . nothing proven about you. >> so you write a stasi >> so you can write a stasi style on somebody, but you style memo on somebody, but you know, to go for

know, you have to go for unconscious bias training . yeah, unconscious bias training. yeah, yeah, 100. >> but this is the hypocrisy of it all. will there now be other banks? do you think, absolutely. bricking it at the moment? >> well, i don't think mark cootes has a sort of certain place in in the british psyche , place in in the british psyche, doesn't it? it's the it's the sort of bank for posh people and you know, not everyone can get a bank account at coutts because you need to have several million quid in cash which is obviously a very, very, very high bar. but i olivia's right. what i think olivia's right. what this, what this reveals is, is a, is a, is a class of people all very, very highly paid . all very, very highly paid. people don't work particularly hard in many cases who think that they're so insulated and the rules so don't apply to them that they can put stuff on paper that they can put stuff on paper that will never see the light of day. and they can never be called out for it. well it has seen the light of day and they are out big time are being called out big time and this major opportunity and this is a major opportunity , a major test for both the tories and labour. can labour

realise that this woke stuff really annoys the vast majority of people in britain? and can the tories realise that this is one area where they have a natural advantage and they need to start making hay? >> yeah. i mean look. well i suppose the big question will be to see whether or not this has any impact going into the by elections we'll elections whatsoever. but we'll have see about that. have to wait and see about that. can i just read out a statement now? was from can i just read out a statement now? so was from can i just read out a statement now? so this was from can i just read out a statement now? so this was was from can i just read out a statement now? so this was earlier m coutts. so this was earlier today, i think, wasn't it? they cootes. back right so cootes. coots hit back right so they said a decision to close an account not taken lightly account are not taken lightly and involve number of factors and involve a number of factors including viability including commercial viability reputational considerations and legal and regulatory requirements. we recognise the critical importance of access to banking. became clear banking. when it became clear that our client was unable to secure facilities secure banking facilities elsewhere and as he has confirmed publicly , he was confirmed publicly, he was offered alternative banking right in a nutshell. coots absolutely not saying sorry, not really admitting they offered him that alternative banking five minutes before the start of his show where he first revealed

this story and they only offered him a personal account and not a business account and not at coutts, only at natwest . and coutts, only at natwest. and this is it. and for all of this fanfare now about the fact that the of the natwest group has the ceo of the natwest group has come out and apologised to nigel farage, actually i don't think it's really good enough. is it because this is not what he wanted? >> no, they should . they should >> no, they should. they should at the very least return him to the and say the state the status quo and say the state he right . with those two he was in right. with those two bank accounts of coutts imagine the changing his for the hassle of changing his for anyone it's a hassle to change your bank account so they should take him back to the status quo ante. and then i imagine the conversation will start about reputational damage , reputational damage, compensation, inconvenience , compensation, inconvenience, physical stress, etcetera etcetera. >> yeah. no indeed , indeed. >> yeah. no indeed, indeed. >> yeah. no indeed, indeed. >> and that's why i think that letter is massively undercooked. it's that letter belies that. coutts still think that they have some control over the situation and they don't now and again olivia just to come back to it now, i mean nigel farage

as a political figure and as a campaigner is unlikely to let this go until the matter has been resolved to his absolute satisfaction . satisfaction. >> well, absolutely. a quick glance at his twitter shows that he is not going to be letting this go any time soon. and as i say, yeah, i think it'll be really interesting to see. now, nigel farage has come forward and won in way. there will and won in this way. there will be people with less of public be people with less of a public profile emboldened to profile who feel emboldened to do that could do the same, and that could cause massive headache cause a massive headache for natwest . but but for other banks natwest. but but for other banks who i mean, we know this who i mean, we know that this happens jeremy happens pretty regularly. jeremy hunt, chancellor of the hunt, the chancellor of the exchequer, down for a exchequer, was turned down for a monzo account, doesn't monzo account, and he doesn't really other really know why. how many other people have there who have people have there been who have been for bank been turned down for bank accounts and who just thought, oh, fair enough, just oh, well, fair enough, i'll just change now change bank accounts and who now think, a minute, i'm think, hey, wait a minute, i'm going to question that. >> i say am one of a >> and can i say i am one of a very, very small number of people nigel about people who talk to nigel about this story broke. this before the story broke. okay. so i can tell you hand okay. and so i can tell you hand on was genuinely in on heart, he was genuinely in two minds about whether or not he would do this . i'm sure he'll

he would do this. i'm sure he'll be saying this later, but just to corroborate it, i hold no candle for him as a reporter. i'm telling you about a conversation i had. he was genuinely . he was genuinely concerned. he was embarrassed. right. he was worried about reputation. a lot of the reason did this was to of the reason he did this was to prove a so people less prove a point. so people less powerful him would get powerful than him would get better treatment. i just wanted to make that. better treatment. i just wanted to ino,3 that. better treatment. i just wanted to ino, it'sat. better treatment. i just wanted to ino, it's a. better treatment. i just wanted to ino, it's a it's a fantastic >> no, it's a it's a fantastic point to end on. and to reiterate well nigel reiterate as well that nigel farage live on this very farage will be live on this very channel at 7 pm, 7:00 until eight. look whatever plans you might have had this evening, just cancel them, okay? stay gb news, because from 7 pm. until 8 pm, nigel farage will, of course, be revealing all. it's a victory for nigel in part at least. but up next is emily carver in for dewbs& co >> the temperature's rising . >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello again . it's aidan >> hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office. with the gb news forecast scattered showers once

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in the published papers that we've seen. so a massive win for nigel farage, a huge pr disaster for coutts natwest and the ceo herself who took