but is it going to with turkey. but is it going to be throwing more money at it and with turkey. but is it going to be 1gettingi more money at it and with turkey. but is it going to be 1getting anyre money at it and with turkey. but is it going to be 1getting any resultsey at it and with turkey. but is it going to be 1getting any results like it and with turkey. but is it going to be 1getting any results like weind not getting any results like we had with french? or will had with the french? or will also be asking whether not also be asking whether or not the on the bibby the migrants put on the bibby stockholm barge should more stockholm barge should be more grateful. is your grateful. but how safe is your data as well? too shocking data breaches today, one in northern ireland frankly ireland and one that frankly affects us here when it affects all of us here when it comes the electoral roll and comes to the electoral roll and the electoral register will be analysing all of that. in other news, be talking news, i'm going to be talking about well. been about this as well. we've been pred about this as well. we've been ripped the civil service, ripped off by the civil service, the bill in its the wage bill is in its somewhere in the region of £17.5 billion. we've employed more billion. now we've employed more people service in people in the civil service in the few years than we've the last few years than we've got in the entirety of the british army. but is it efficient ? is it just the blob efficient? is it just the blob and finally, harry's a happy chappy again. i wonder why. oh, yeah, he's big in japan, of course, without meghan by his side. and it comes on the day that the royal website is removed. hrh titles. so lots removed. his hrh titles. so lots to go out today. join me patrick christys on . gb news gb views.

christys on. gb news gb views. gbnews.com is that email address? do you think that people on the bibby stockholm barge should be grateful that we are giving them this accommodation? but right now it's your headlines. >> patrick thank you very much and good afternoon. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. the french prime minister is visiting the site of a fire that killed 11 people early this morning . the fire broke out at a morning. the fire broke out at a houday morning. the fire broke out at a holiday home for disabled people and was quickly extinguished by firefighters. president emmanuel macron described the situation as a tragedy . the uk data as a tragedy. the uk data watchdog is investigating a major data breach by the police service of northern ireland. a spreadsheet containing statistical information on the police force and thousands of its officers was mistakenly available online for around three hours before being taken

down. assistant chief constable chris todd apologised for the breach but said it does not pose an immediate security risk to any staff . 41 migrants have died any staff. 41 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the italian island of lampedusa. local media reports say four people who survived the wreckage told rescuers they were on a boat that set off from tunisia and sank on its way to italy. it also said the boat that was carrying 45 people, including three children. a surge in illegal people smuggling gangs is to be tackled by a new deal struck between the uk and turkey. it will see the turkish national police speed up the process of returning turkish nationals who come to britain via illegal channels. nationals who come to britain via illegal channels . turkey is via illegal channels. turkey is often used as a major hub for people smuggling gangs due to its geographical location and reports suggest many vessels used to cross the english channel originate there . a trend channel originate there. a trend on tiktok is encouraging. people in london to steal from shops on

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patrick >> well, come along, i'll start with a little bit of breaking for news you. the police service in northern ireland have now declared a critical incident in relation to a data breach that saw thousands of their serving officers named on line. of course, this comes amid a backdrop of seismic trouble in northern ireland in relation to security services. i will have more on that for you in a minute or two. but that is the breaking news that police service in northern ireland have declared now a critical incident in relation that data breach . relation to that data breach. but we do kick start the show today with the latest on the bibby stockholm. but another couple of migrant story roundups. i wanted to go in on this and see what you think. i don't think that some of the illegal immigrants housed on the bibby are grateful bibby stockholm are grateful enough. from enough. one chap allegedly from afghanistan has compared to afghanistan has compared it to a floating alcatraz . well, a floating alcatraz. well, a couple of points on that. firstly the run firstly the taliban run afghanistan. they execute and torture people, women are beaten with sticks, people are stoned to and with the possible

to death. and with the possible exception of tobias ellwood, everyone it's a horrific everyone knows it's a horrific place. secondly he alcatraz didn't let its residents get onto buses to nearby towns, not enforce a curfew. give them a buffet , a tv room, a computer buffet, a tv room, a computer room or a pool and games room. now, if he really is from afghanistan, then let's be honest , afghanistan, then let's be honest, we're almost definitely going to let him stay here permanently anyway. quite possibly living at the taxpayers expense forever here. i mean, is there any recognition at all for there any recognition at all for the sacrifices of the british taxpayer, residents, and taxpayer, local residents, and indeed this government that they are to help these are making to help these people out? we have our own homeless. we have our own vulnerable and needy, they're not getting needy, and they're not getting that barge, are they? we have seaside towns decimated seaside tourist towns decimated by hotels. we have by migrant hotels. we have hundreds of millions of pounds worth investment. not worth of investment. not happening now in certain areas. we have public safety being compromised . now the media is compromised. now the media is tripping over itself to say how inhumane and cruel britain is. but you could very easily compare moeen ali flip that on

its head . and £6 million plus its head. and £6 million plus every single day access to a rigorous legal appeal system, great medical care . we will put great medical care. we will put your kids into our education system. we even put a few adults in schools as well, just for good measure. vast swathes of the charity sector devoted entirely to making their lives better. the british public are not actually rising up, despite millions of people's lives being impacted. we are not turning boats we're actually boats back. we're actually towing to shore and if you towing them to shore and if you have a look at what's happening under the united nations in places where by the places like turkey, where by the way, now huge numbers of men are actually coming from on small boats. they have shanty town camps that are not fit for human habitation , that have been there habitation, that have been there for decades. the absolute joke in all of this is that the very reason that they all want to come here to britain is because we offer more and are more welcoming than basically any other country that, in my view, should be the story. that's what should be the story. that's what should be the story. that's what should be being reported and

people who make it to britain and are put in accommodation, whether it's hotels, barges or brand new luxury flats , should brand new luxury flats, should be blooming grateful actually . be blooming grateful actually. give us gbnews.com those are my views. of course. i do want to hear from you, but in relation to the news that broke today, which is about us doing some kind of deal with turkey, it's after we are supposedly now in talks with the germans to try to help manufacture and help stop the manufacture and the of boats. we the transportation of boats. we know that lobbed a heck of know that we've lobbed a heck of a of money the french and a lot of money at the french and got very little in return. joining us now is our home and security mark white. joining us now is our home and securi'what's mark white. joining us now is our home and securi'what's markonhite. the turkish? >> well, the turkish deal is really just about enhancing the work that the national crime agency , other law enforcement agency, other law enforcement agencies are doing to try to go after the people smugglers and disrupt what they're doing in terms of pushing the boats across to the uk. there's no

silver bullet to this, and that's why it's really a multi pronged approach that the government has embarked in. and these immigration on raids or these immigration on raids or these raids against the people smugglers have been ongoing for a number of years. we've got some footage which we can show you of some recent arrests that were made. now these are german law enforcement officers rounding up the kingpins of a people smuggling operation . that people smuggling operation. that was very significant indeed . was very significant indeed. there were raids in germany. there were raids in germany. there were raids in germany. there were raids in belgium, the netherlands and in the uk , all netherlands and in the uk, all unked netherlands and in the uk, all linked to a gang that was so plving linked to a gang that was so plying boats for the english channel and getting , of course, channel and getting, of course, these channel migrants to go on these channel migrants to go on these boats and in other raids, we got pictures of the component parts that included life jackets that you can see. there are thousands of life jackets. also

so other component parts for the boats , including outboard motors boats, including outboard motors and the like. now, these boats are being, for the most part , are being, for the most part, out assembled in turkey. are being, for the most part, out assembled in turkey . and out assembled in turkey. and then from turkey, they're being put into to packed up into boxes effectively and then transport it via the road network from turkey right up through europe to germany and in germany . to germany and in germany. again, the assembled and they are sent to north—west france . are sent to north—west france. for final assembly in the dunes before they rush to the water. and of course, we've all seen the shots of them running towards the sea and everybody piling on the boats to the uk. so these immigration in stroke, people smuggling raids are happening, but the authorities clearly want to step them up to go after the people smugglers. turkey is a hub and it's not just a hub for the component

parts that are being made for the boats there, but also for the boats there, but also for the people that are coming across just at the beginning of the year, turkey was ninth on the year, turkey was ninth on the list in terms of the countries that are represented on the small boats, 127 people were taken off. the small boats headed for the uk from turkey in the first few months of the year . in since april, the first few months of the year . in since april , that number . in since april, that number has absolutely taken off. now 1400 turkish nationals were on those small boats crossing the engush those small boats crossing the english channel. they've gone from ninth in the list to the second most represented country in the small boat. so you can see it's a hub for people coming across . and i want to just show across. and i want to just show you in our audience a tiktok video . so i'll describe it for video. so i'll describe it for the viewers . you can see this is the viewers. you can see this is young one young man showing his passport there. he took a flight from erbil in in iraq to turkey

, then went across to greece, serbia . yeah. and then up serbia. yeah. and then up crossing the english channel in westminster. we've just got to play westminster. we've just got to play it one more time. so you see that. but that's him with his passport flying to turkey on the ferry , then across to greece the ferry, then across to greece from greece, he goes up to europe through serbia, then from serbia through italy, and then eventually ends up in northwestern france on the boat and arrives there in. >> and now that final picture is him looking at a big ben. >> yes. and he's part of the asylum system there, waiting for asylum system there, waiting for a decision on whether he will be accepted for asylum coming from erbil in iraq. >> okay . all right. and just >> okay. all right. and just quickly, in terms of turkey, do we have some kind of returns agreement with them or not? because i mean, can you actually claim genuine asylum from turkey ? >> well, enum— h mean , it is >> well, i mean, it is predominantly a safe country. of course, it's a nato member. and

there is an agreement that has been worked on. now with the british and turkish governments to try to return those who are coming from turkey back to that nation. the slight complicating factor is, of course, that many of those coming across from turkey claim at least claim to be kurdish turks . yes. and we be kurdish turks. yes. and we know that there are big significant issues with the those that kurdish element within turkish society and human rights abuses. so that's a complicating factor. it doesn't mean that everybody coming across are kurdish , but some across are kurdish, but some claim to be kurdish and are not, and some genuinely are are turkish kurds. >> i mean , the irony, of course, >> i mean, the irony, of course, was that i can remember david cameron, i think, talking about if turkey joined the european union, then we would be flooded by individuals and it by turkish individuals and it might have i might just be happening now. but mark, happening anyway now. but mark, thank much. mark white thank you very much. mark white there, our homeland security edhon editor. i'm moving this along

now british army now with a former british army officer, bolton, joins officer, henry bolton, who joins me. very much. me. henry thank you very much. a lot the british public, lot of the british public, i think, will feel incredibly jaded by the hundreds of millions of pounds that we've tossed with little tossed at the french with little tossed at the french with little to the inability of to no return. the inability of our european friends and their security services to stop the manufacture transportation manufacture and transportation of boats. we also know of these boats. we also know that migrants are kept in shocking camps, un camps as well. in turkey. that doesn't get anywhere near the amount of criticism compared to boats like the bibby stockholm , for the bibby stockholm, for example. why is it going to be any different now if we lob a load at the turks ? load of money at the turks? >> it's not in itself. patrick and just one thing on the bibby stockholm that i'd like to mention, having watched your sort of introduction to this, the boats vessels similar to the boats or vessels similar to the boats or vessels similar to the bibby stockholm have been were for years to were used for years to accommodate british servicemen and women in falkland islands. >> nobody complained that >> nobody complained about that . complain. nobody . they didn't complain. nobody else . it was else complained. it was just, you know, accommodation , you know, it was accommodation, it was practical. it was clean and and it was it was and tidy. and it was it was functional, is all you

functional, which is all you need safe. no, this need and it's safe. but no, this isn't to going have huge isn't to going have a huge impact in itself. if isn't to going have a huge impact in itself . if there are impact in itself. if there are five major routes, if you like, that come into the southern and south eastern flank of europe in terms of people smuggling and migration . there's the west migration. there's the west african route . there's the african route. there's the western mediterranean route up through morocco and algeria. there's the central route which comes up through libya. then there's an east african route which comes up sudan and the horn of africa up through egypt . and then you have the eastern mediterranean route, which is what we're talking about now. the turkish angle of it. and those predominantly those are predominantly people from syria , from iraq, iran, syria, afghanistan, some from central asia and on. but what as asia and so on. but what as i understand it, because the information on this agreement is a little bit scant at the moment , but as i understand it, the part of this agreement is to set up a training centre for that where the brits are going to help the turks to develop the

techniques to deal with transnational organised crime and people smuggling through turkey. but in my experience, having done this myself, having worked with other countries , worked with other countries, that's not going to have a big impact. there are all sorts of reasons for that. they're institutional, they're cultural , they're related to corruption and so you actually have to embed intelligence and law enforcement officers in the agencies of the countries that you're working with. yes train them. yes, provide them with some equipment and some specialist surveillance equipment and so on. but you've actually got to have people hands operationalworking hands on operational working with these people as we as we did until 2006. and tony, tony blair. blair pulled the funding on it, but it's not just turkey. these are long, long routes involving many countries . and involving many countries. and nine times out of ten. but for disruption to be effective, you've got to act concurrently in a coordinated manner across a number of countries. i've led operations across seven different countries at the same time, single operations hitting organised crime networks. in all

seven countries simultaneously . seven countries simultaneously. that's what you've got to be able to do. so where are the agreements with greece , with the agreements with greece, with the repubuc agreements with greece, with the republic of northern macedonia, with kosovo, serbia , with kosovo, with with serbia, with kosovo, with with serbia, with bulgaria, with the romania , with with albania? in this regard ? and there aren't any regard? and there aren't any what we're doing, again, is we're taking we're looking at an opportunity, quite rightly , with opportunity, quite rightly, with turkey get in there and start turkey to get in there and start building the relationships that we effective. we need to make this effective. but still no strategic but there is still no strategic overview and framework for deaung overview and framework for dealing with the push factors coming, encouraging people to move the methodology , the move the methodology, the organised crime along which that by which they're moving along the entire routes and the pull factors as to why they come to the uk. that needs to be one overarching strategic national framework that involves every home office, foreign office transport. it's a cross governmental effort here and in my efforts in other countries , my efforts in other countries, i've worked with them and said, look, you've got to get the

whole of the cabinet around the table on this every government department has a role to play in making work work and making this work from work and pensions, health care, education, the whole lot. if you don't that , you education, the whole lot. if you don't that, you end up fire don't have that, you end up fire fighting and going after individual low hanging fruit such as, well, this is it. >> i mean, this is it. all >> i mean, this is it. it's all very well good. i mean, it's very well and good. i mean, it's great we are least great that we are at least trying make the french do trying to make the french do something. great we something. it's great that we are looking the germans and are looking at the germans and saying, can you help are looking at the germans and sayir being can you help are looking at the germans and sayirbeing a can you help are looking at the germans and sayirbeing a migrant)u help are looking at the germans and sayirbeing a migrant boat lp are looking at the germans and sayirbeing a migrant boat hub stop being a migrant boat hub turkey again, if we can stop it very close to source, as it were, before they get onto the continent of europe. but what we are pull are not reducing is the pull factor itself. long as factor in itself. as long as britain remains the place where you the best treated and you will be the best treated and you will be the best treated and you the most luxuries. you will have the most luxuries. as here as someone who arrives here illegally, they are going illegally, then they are going to keep coming. so we could be helping ourselves bit more. helping ourselves a bit more. but you very much. but henry, thank you very much. it's pleasure. great to it's always a pleasure. great to have the right at have you on the show right at the it as well. henry the start of it as well. henry bolton, there, border control expert, former armed forces, etcetera. this etcetera. loads more on this story website, story on our website, gbnews.com. fastest gbnews.com. it's the fastest growing site in

growing national news site in the country. i've got all the best opinion and best analysis, big opinion and the news. and in the latest breaking news. and in fact, that, a reminder of the fact, on that, a reminder of the news just few minutes news i broke just a few minutes ago.the news i broke just a few minutes ago. the police service of northern ireland has declared a critical incident after the personal 10,000 personal details of 10,000 officers staff were officers and staff were published online. and amazingly, it's emerged that tens of millions of voters across the uk so quite possibly all of us actually could have had their information accessed by hackers. when you add that to the long list of other potential data breaches, i am asking how safe is our data patrick christys on gb news,

8 pm. on. gb news. >> well, in just a few moments time, i will have confirmation that henry has finally been stripped of one of his titles and the whitehall blob keeps getting bigger. i will have some eye—watering figures on the civil service. i also went out and about a little bit earlier on to meet some civil servants to ask them about whether or not the public is being ripped off by their wages and perceived inefficiency. interesting inefficiency. quite interesting responses there, for which i will to you shortly. will bring to you shortly. but now shocking data breach. now to a shocking data breach. in not one, of in fact, not one, but two of them that have now come to light . a moment, i will tell you . in a moment, i will tell you about details tens of about the details of tens of millions voters that could millions of voters that could have accessed hackers millions of voters that could havetargetedcessed hackers millions of voters that could havetargeted the ed hackers millions of voters that could havetargeted the electoral:kers who targeted the electoral commission but first, the news that i broke at the of the that i broke at the top of the houn that i broke at the top of the hour, the police service of northern has called northern ireland has called a critical incident after personal and employment data of 10,000

officers and staff was published online. it followed a freedom of information request, seeking the number of officers and staff at all ranks and grades across the organisation . the data was organisation. the data was mistakenly put online for around three hours. the names and roles of all police and civilian personnel along with where they're based, was exposed so why does this matter? well, of course, more than 300 police officers were murdered in northern ireland during the 30 years of violence known as the troubles. and the most recent attack on a police officer was as recently as february when detective chief inspector john caldwell seriously injured caldwell was seriously injured in a shooting in omagh . i'm in a shooting in omagh. i'm joined now by gb news northern ireland dougie beattie ireland reporter dougie beattie with the latest. dougie, thank you much . i mean, it you very, very much. i mean, it is now officially a critical incident . incident. >> well, it was a critical incident. you would have imagined that as soon as they found out that it happened. now, as we said before, it wasn't as

bad as it could have been. there could have been or there could have been addresses and telephone emails telephone numbers, emails on that thankfully there that list. thankfully there weren't. but anybody interested in terrorism, it wouldn't take them too long to actually piece it together where these officers do live. and of course, the chief constable, he's on holidays and he is returning from his holidays early tomorrow. tonight to face the policing board . tomorrow, the policing board. tomorrow, the policing board. tomorrow, the policing board. tomorrow, the policing board is a political unit that was set up under the good friday agreement to hold the police service of northern ireland to account to those politicians. well, of course, the irony of that is the politicians in northern ireland at this minute in time are not sitting. so the chief constable has decided that he wants to know exactly what happened. so did the policing board and they could actually take him out of his office. the problem being with this, of course, is that that's not really his problem. his problem is the policing federation, the outfit that actually represents the rank and file officers and they have not

been happy in this last couple of years . there has been quite of years. there has been quite a lot of friction between the chief constable and rank and file officers. it started, of course, with the bobby storey funeral, the republican funeral dunng funeral, the republican funeral during covid when the police locked well , it was sinn fein locked well, it was sinn fein had a massive funeral in the middle of covid regulations. officers weren't happy with that. then there was two officers disciplined on the lower ormeau road as they were enforcing covid regulations , and enforcing covid regulations, and thatis enforcing covid regulations, and that is still in a judicial review at this minute in time. there have been various television interviews with the chief constable has spoken about this chaplain inside the force and discipline and how long it's taking to get it to its actual end game means that these officers are being held out for a very long time. the policing federation has a scheduled meeting tomorrow afternoon , and meeting tomorrow afternoon, and that's where, for the first ever time, a chief constable of

northern ireland could actually face his own ranks up against him as opposed to political decisions in northern ireland. and let's not forget , in amongst and let's not forget, in amongst that data was the civilians that also worked for the police force of northern ireland. so as much as we must watch the policing board tomorrow, my eyes personally will be on exactly what the policing federation is doing and what they will be asking of the chief constable in return to put this right . return to put this right. >> dougie, thank you very , very >> dougie, thank you very, very much. i mean, you've expertly explained what sounds like, frankly , quite a dangerous mess frankly, quite a dangerous mess taking place over there. hopefully there are no repercussions to this mistake other than potentially disciplinary action being taken and precautions to make sure it doesn't happen again. but dougie beattie, i will chatting to beattie, i will be chatting to you again a little later on beattie, i will be chatting to yo the|ain a little later on beattie, i will be chatting to yo the show. little later on beattie, i will be chatting to yo the show. now, later on beattie, i will be chatting to yo the show. now, look, :er on beattie, i will be chatting to yo the show. now, look, as on in the show. now, look, as promised the second massive promised to the second massive data mentioned data breach that i mentioned a few ago, this one is few moments ago, this one is possibly less serious but does affect more people. so it's the details tens millions of details of tens of millions of voters could have been

voters that could have been accessed hackers who targeted accessed by hackers who targeted the electoral commission. i'm joined now by our political correspondent olivia utley . correspondent olivia utley. olivia, thank you. so just outline exactly what has happened here, cause i know a lot of people will be quite worried that their very personal information will just be out there aether now. there in the aether now. >> essentially, it's >> well, so essentially, it's the scale of which is the sheer scale of this which is the sheer scale of this which is the between august 2021 the problem between august 2021 and october 20th, 22, hackers had access to the electoral database . so that means that the database. so that means that the names and addresses of around 40 million voters were available to whatever this group of hackers were. now worryingly, it that was happening for 14 months without the electoral commission realising and this all ended and nearly a year ago. but we're only just hearing about it now. so the story sort of broke in august 2021, if you like, and we're only just hearing about this is absolutely shocking. >> i mean, for a lot of people, for example, bank fraud for example, when bank fraud takes and the banks takes place and the banks sometimes don't notify them about so it can happen

about it. so it can happen again. to me again. that happened to me right? so i didn't my right? so i didn't change my bank then two weeks bank details. and then two weeks later, hacked my later, i got hacked again and my finances took a bit of a battering. so the electoral commission good commission is very good at digging out perceived digging people out for perceived voter irregularity and often voter irregularity 80s and often they're to wrong about they're found to be wrong about doing it comes to doing that. but when it comes to actually protecting million actually protecting 40 million people's and then telling people's data and then telling the people about it , they are the people about it, they are asleep at the wheel , it does asleep at the wheel, it does seem a little bit as though for at the time when the at least the time when the hackers actually hackers were actually accessing the material, hackers were actually accessing the material , the electoral the material, the electoral commission does like it commission does sound like it was the wheel. was asleep at the wheel. >> argument not >> its argument for not notifying immediately notifying the public immediately when was discovered when the breach was discovered was that it wanted to tighten its own security systems before its own security systems before it sort of alerted the hackers, as it were, to the fact that the hack had been spotted. so that's the reason why it didn't tell us any sooner. but it's also pretty worrying how the electoral commission don't seem to have very much information at all about what happened. about exactly what happened. they can't tell us how many people had their data hacked. they say it could be up to 40

million and they can't say whether or not that information was downloaded. so they know that it was available online to these hackers for a 14 month period, but they can't say whether or not do we know who the hackers are? well, we don't know for certain, but we've had one heads gchq one of the former heads of gchq has he suspects that has said that he suspects that it is russia. right russia obviously have bit of prior obviously have a bit of prior for interfered in elections and he thinks that the hack was so sophisticated and so well hidden, the fact that the electoral commission couldn't get hold of it for 14 months shows just how clever it was, suggests that russia might be behind it. >> the irony would be, of course, is the electoral commission did a lot of investigation into whether or not the russians had hacked the brexit result absolutely no brexit result to absolutely no avail. not long after avail. and then not long after that, been getting that, if they had been getting hacked russians hacked by the actual russians for about 14 months and then not realising it, i mean, there is a joke there somewhere, but for joke in there somewhere, but for the ordinary woman the ordinary man and woman on the ordinary man and woman on the could this the street, what what could this mean in terms of the information? so it's your name

and that what and address, is it is that what we're at here? we're looking at here? >> your name and address >> it's your name and address and commission and the electoral commission have this is have made clear, and this is obviously true, that a lot of that information would have been in pubuc that information would have been in public domain anyway. so that information would have been in potential domain anyway. so that information would have been in potential doma here yway. so the potential issue here is really having all of that really that having all of that data in the same place in one single database means that the hackers could potentially cross—check that database against another database and start to work out facts about the habits and lives of people whose data was hacked. i mean, as hacks go, it isn't too dangerous . as for now, because dangerous. as for now, because as the electoral commission have also made clear, because our voting system is so paper oriented and you do have to still go to a polling station committing voter fraud in the uk is much harder than in other countries. so danger is countries. so the danger is hackers using this information along other information in along with other information in conflation other conflation with other information using that for information and using that for nefarious purposes, essentially , this isn't too damaging in itself . it's the fact that itself. it's just the fact that russia was able to do that. if it russia, they pretty it was russia, they were pretty worrying. it was russia, they were pretty

wordefinitely. olivia thank you >> definitely. olivia thank you very, very much. olivia utley there political there are political correspondent come correspondent lows still to come between three between now and 4:00, three years after quit as a years after harry quit as a senior he's finally senior royal, he's finally official . he lost senior royal, he's finally official. he lost hrh senior royal, he's finally official . he lost hrh title official. he lost his hrh title . i've also got news of a social media campaign urging people to rob an oxford street store . and rob an oxford street store. and yes, find out what happened. when i went and met some civil servants asked them about servants and asked them about their in just a tick. but their wages in just a tick. but now, your headlines with ray now, as your headlines with ray addison, i'm thanks patrick. >> 3:33. our top story a data breach that revealed details of thousands of police in northern ireland has been declared a critical incident . a spreadsheet critical incident. a spreadsheet containing stats on the force and thousands of its officers was mistakenly available online on for around three hours before being taken down. it's understood it was the result of human error following a legitimate freedom of information request, the prime minister of france is visiting the site of a deadly fire that killed 11 people early this

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of weather on. gb news. >> well, at long last, prince harry has finally had his hrh title stripped from the royal family website . buckingham family website. buckingham palace has ditched his title onune palace has ditched his title online three years after it was agreed that he would lose it following the megxit deal, it took nearly as long as brexit to enforce that, didn't it ? this enforce that, didn't it? this latest blow comes as harry and meghan see a slump in their popularity polls. although he's big in japan, harry's been in japan and he's all smiles on his own. in fact, he said that he'd happily live there if they'd have him. i would personally like ask the japanese like to ask the japanese consulate if they would accept prince harry and therefore maybe block him from ever coming back here. but joining me now is royal broadcaster and commentator rafe commentator ralph rafe heydel—mankoo. has it heydel—mankoo. ralph, why has it taken royal taken so long for the royal family harry's hrh family to strip harry's hrh titles website ? titles from their website? >> yes, you may well ask that , i >> yes, you may well ask that, i must say yes. >> with regards to japan, you know, in the 80s, you may well remember every that had

remember every band that had failed in europe and america used to say , well, we're big in used to say, well, we're big in japan. >> and seems as if that's the >> and it seems as if that's the same sort of line that harry's now perhaps going by now perhaps going to take by saying that wouldn't mind saying that he wouldn't mind moving there. >> yes, it's taken three >> but but yes, it's taken three years for to happen. years for this to happen. >> large update. it's not >> it's a large update. it's not just for harry and meghan's hrh that we've some changes here. >> there were 74 references to the queen still as being the current reigning monarch on the website. >> many references to the king still being prince , the prince still being prince, the prince of wales to the queen being duchess of cornwall to william and kate, still being duchess of cambridge. so this is a larger overhaul. i mean, they really do need to keep their website in shape. need to keep their website in shape . i've noticed the shape. i've noticed over the years, some great howlers. these ones aren't that bad . it's just ones aren't that bad. it's just a failure to keep up with it. but the past they've ranked but in the past they've ranked the realms the the commonwealth realms in the wrong of seniority. wrong order of seniority. they've the wives they've suggested that the wives of edward prince of prince edward and prince charles, he then was, weren't charles, as he then was, weren't princesses. so there have been some howlers on there . so these some howlers on there. so these aren't bad. but aren't that bad. but yes, finally updated and suppose

finally updated and i suppose meghan will be slightly peeved by all of this because i'm sure the fact that official the fact that the official website family was website of the royal family was still styling her as hrh must have given her some comfort and probably caused some confusion in california, where event organisers would have been looking to the website for guidance and perhaps have been calling her hrh for longer than she should have been. >> yes, and i very much doubt that she ever corrected them, of course. but should meghan and harry calling harry now stop calling themselves and duchess harry now stop calling th

issue new letters, patent or to make a formal declaration rather than embarrass them so publicly . he's very kindly just suggested that they don't use them. and they had agreed to that. now, whether we'll see a formal stripping of those hrh is should they decide to launch any more attacks on the monarchy or behave inappropriately further, that remains to be seen. but in terms of their titles of duke and duchess of sussex, unfortunately the king has no power over that. it's it would require an act of parliament to strip them of those titles. and given the mess that we're in with migrants and everything else , i don't think there'll be else, i don't think there'll be much , much patience to dedicate much, much patience to dedicate parliamentary time to that issue. >> no . even if it would go down >> no. even if it would go down rather well with the public, actually, i think. but look, ralph, thank you very much for your time. we certainly don't mind using up as of that as mind using up as much of that as possible here on gb news. that is royal broadcaster, commentator favourite, is royal broadcaster, comm rafe or favourite, is royal broadcaster, comm rafe heydel—mankoo. te, ralph rafe heydel—mankoo. the pictures in pictures coming out of harry in japan. happier on his japan. he looks happier on his

own, he? just me really, own, doesn't he? just me really, that thinks that it's kind of old mean, we'll old smiley harry. i mean, we'll know if it's really the old smiley harry if we see him hitting bars of downtown hitting the bars of downtown tokyo few time, won't tokyo in a few hours time, won't we? civil service has we? but the civil service has grown by almost a quarter in just seven years. we now have a wage bill around £17 billion. wage bill of around £17 billion. 520,000 employed 520,000 people employed in our civil employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in the employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in the lastloyed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in the last fewd more people in the last few years alone to our civil service than we've got in the entirety of our british army. than we've got in the entirety of our british army . yet is it of our british army. yet is it just bloated , inefficient and just bloated, inefficient and the blob i went out and about earlier to on chat to some civil servants and politely asked them what they made of the wage bill. the responses were, as you would expect , but it will be a good expect, but it will be a good watch. i'll be playing that to you a matter of moments. you in just a matter of moments. patrick

company right through until 7:00 this evening. gb news is the people's channel. britain's watching . watching. >> well, at 4 pm, i will have the latest on the government's plans to solve the migrant crisis by throwing a load of money at the turkish government. but there's also some shocking news of two data breaches that are northern ireland are left the northern ireland community shocked and indeed, the and rest of the community and the rest of britain but get this britain as well. but get this the of civil servants has the number of civil servants has risen almost a quarter since risen by almost a quarter since the referendum in 2016, and the eu referendum in 2016, and the eu referendum in 2016, and the figures obtained by the taxpayers alliance also show a huge increase in the wage bill for the civil service. this show that between march 2016 and march year, civil service march this year, civil service employment from . employment increased from. 418,000 to 520,000. so that

means more than a 100,000 extra staff have been taken on since 2016. and that rise alone outnumbers the entire regular forces of the british army . forces of the british army. there's been an 88% rise in the number of officials receiving more than £100,000 and is estimated now that the civil service pay bill has risen . from service pay bill has risen. from 11.5 billion to 17.8 billion. if you happen to read this story in the times, they estimated that at around 15.5 billion. but once we get into those kind of numbers, who really cares? i suppose i went to central london earlier to ask some civil servants how they felt about being called the blob and if they were grossly overpaid and they were grossly overpaid and the public had a right to be angry. are you a civil servant? yeah do you think we got value for money? no comment. taxpayers don't have a right to be asking questions . the taxpayers ripped questions. the taxpayers ripped off by the civil service. do you think people say it's bloated, inefficient ? inefficient? >> i haven't given it any

thought . thought. >> do you work in civil service? i do. >> okay. some of your colleagues apparently. >> sorry , i'm not prepared to >> sorry, i'm not prepared to comment . comment. >> no. >> no. >> is it justified ? >> is it justified? >> is it justified? >> i'm afraid i can't talk. so a quick question. >> £15.5 billion a year for civil servant. is it value for money? >> of course not. because the more we pay them, the more there are of them earning ever higher salaries. >> taxpayers ripped off by the civil service wage bill. 15.5 billion. is it is it unfair to people to say that the civil service is bloated and inefficient ? our taxpayers are inefficient? our taxpayers are being ripped off by our civil servants. >> civil servants. >> civil servants. >> comment you are £15.5 billion a year. the wage bill. can i ask you ladies a quick question, please? so the civil service wage bill, 15.5 billion, do you think that's value for money then? no yes. you see, richard tice making a sneaky appearance in one of the vox pops there. the leader of reform uk rushed to weasel his way in. didn't see, but there we go. no, the vast of people vast majority of the people there who are indeed civil

servants shockingly not want servants shockingly do not want to joined now by to comment. i'm joined now by caroline slocock, is the caroline slocock, who is the former private at 10 former private secretary at 10 downing thank you very, former private secretary at 10 dowimuch. thank you very, former private secretary at 10 dowimuch. do thank you very, former private secretary at 10 dowimuch. do the|ank you very, former private secretary at 10 dowimuch. do the taxpayersery, former private secretary at 10 dowimuch. do the taxpayers have very much. do the taxpayers have a to think the civil a right to think the civil service is grossly overpaid, inefficient , service is grossly overpaid, inefficient, and service is grossly overpaid, inefficient , and frankly, service is grossly overpaid, inefficient, and frankly, we're all being ripped off? well i mean, that's your view, is it, patrick, or do taxpayers have a right to be concerned about that 7 right to be concerned about that ? do you think that's incorrect ? >> 7- >> yeah, 7 >> yeah, obviously, taxpayers do have a right to be concerned about all of how their money is spent and the civil service is part of that. but i think that this report is distorting things slightly. and also, you need to look at efficiency in the round. i mean, what what opinion polls suggest is that the public are very concerned about the government not delivering on what it says it's going to do . what it says it's going to do. and therefore, civil services are really important. part of how you deliver things is that why is that why it might be more

of a problem that at one moment in time we had more than 1 in 10 civil servants off with long covid? i don't know if those figures are correct. you where have you got them? yeah, but even from the cabinet office as well. >> okay. >> okay. so >> okay. so you >> okay. so you know, >> okay. so you know, i >> okay. so you know, i don't know what the general figures are in the general population, but , you know, it's not my job but, you know, it's not my job to, you know, i mean, i'm just not in a position to comment on. >> well, look, are we getting value for money from the civil service? i mean, we have now employed more of them in the last few years than we have in our entire british army. for example. we've got an 88% increase in the numbers of them on 100 grand year or more. i on 100 grand a year or more. i mean, do you feel like your life has more efficient? we has got more efficient? have we seen efficiency at all for seen any efficiency at all for this people? mean, this amount of people? i mean, what looking at, what the what we're looking at, what the results? could i perhaps be results? well could i perhaps be given a chance to comment? >> you know, i think that you need to look at the overall curve of the number of civil

servants in 2016, which is when this is measured from they were at an all time low, the lowest since world war two. and government has changed dramatically since world war ii. and margaret thatcher, for whom i worked, and john major. and, you know, her wish was to reduce the size of the civil service to and be very efficient on behalf of the taxpayer. never reduced it to levels. it was it to those levels. it was reduced to those levels because of austerity. after that period, the period which risen, the period in which it's risen, we've brexit, which involves we've had brexit, which involves a whole new set of responsibilities from negotiating trade deals to increases in border staff. and we've had covid, which has had you know, needed enormous amounts of work to be done incredibly quickly . and more incredibly quickly. and more recently we've had the eu retained bill, which requires the civil service to review all of eu laws, 4000 laws in a very short period of time, and then i think 600 of those are going to be repealed . so, you know , the

be repealed. so, you know, the government has given it extra things to do and the people have seen the impact of that. we've, you know, we've left the eu, we survived the covid epidemic . and survived the covid epidemic. and you know, jacob, jacob rees—mogg was very, very critical. >> in fact, he said that the civil servants were lazy and didn't actually spark a bonfire of eu laws. they didn't in any way, shape or form repeal enough, he said they were dragging their heels. there is a perceived work from home culture in there as well, and a variety of different courses, things like conscious inclusion, microaggressions. a microaggressions. we have a series champions such as a series of champions such as a race, faith and belief champion. i just wonder taxpayers want i just wonder if taxpayers want things like, you know, passports , driver's licences, the asylum backlog being dealt with before all of that woke stuff . all of that woke stuff. >> well , i all of that woke stuff. >> well, i think it is certainly true that what they do want, you know, civil servants to deliver the civil servants who are delivering some of these

frontline services will not be working from home. i think that as someone who has worked from home for one day a week when i was a chief executive and more recently have been able to work at home because of the use of onune at home because of the use of online services is incredibly efficient. it allows many civil servants that i have meetings with or have back to back meetings all day. they don't even have that little watercooler moment that jacob rees—mogg to have because they're too busy actually working . i know he doesn't have working. i know he doesn't have a computer and has to have everything printed out for him. okay, but that's i'm sure you don't have everything printed out for you because it's not the most efficient way to work, is it? so times change. >> , absolutely. look, thank >> yes, absolutely. look, thank you very, very much, caroline . you very, very much, caroline. great have you on the show. great to have you on the show. caroline slocock, that former private 10 downing private secretary at 10 downing street, an street, right to an extraordinary story the extraordinary story about the state today. i'm state of britain today. i'm going us straight to going to lob us straight over to paul hawkins, our national

reporter is on reporter who i believe is on oxford where the police oxford street, where the police are concerned about the potential massive potential for massive civil disobedience. paul, what on earth happening ? nothing earth is happening? nothing >> nothing has been happening for about 45 minutes. we got here about 3:00 after essentially what happened . there essentially what happened. there was a video posted on tiktok . it was a video posted on tiktok. it went viral, said that people need to get down to jd sports and robert. the police have issued a dispersal order till tomorrow. the mayor of london has people not to come has urged people not to come down and crime. down here and commit crime. q the extra police officers . q the the extra police officers. q the three vans there are three police vans there are police on horseback as well. t.k. has put extra people on t.k. max has put extra people on the there, and then the door over there, and then large crowds have gathered to ask us what is happening. and we're telling them that nothing repeat , nothing we're telling them that nothing repeat, nothing is happening . repeat, nothing is happening. for paul . for paul. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. paul hawkins. there are national reports there. apparently apparently there. apparently apparently there was supposed to be a call for mass disobedience. and as paul, for mass disobedience. and as paul , as for mass disobedience. and as paul, as expertly said, there clearly nothing is happening. and he certainly seems happy to

be there, doesn't he? right. okay loads more coming okay i've got loads more coming up the next hour. the uk has up in the next hour. the uk has signed turkey and signed a deal with turkey and it's latest attempt to solve the migrant crisis. i wonder if nothing is happening there ehhen nothing is happening there either. we'll have out. either. we'll have to find out. won't is patrick won't we? this is patrick christys on gb news. we are of course, britain's news channel. i'll see you in a tick for another rip roaring hour. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. solar proud sponsors of weather on. gb news. hi solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. hi there. on. gb news. hi there. >> it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office. with the gb news forecast , sunny spells for many forecast, sunny spells for many of us during the rest of the day feeling warmer than it has for some time. and then with the increased humidity , we've an increased humidity, we've got an increased humidity, we've got an increased fog increased chance of some fog overnight end wednesday, overnight as we end wednesday, there'll be some patchy cloud around for much of scotland, some light showers for the west of scotland brisk wind for of scotland and a brisk wind for the far north. also a fairly breezy out towards the south—west 1 or 2 showers possible for cornwall by the end of the night. areas of cloud and

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gb news. >> it's 4 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news. should migrants on the bibby stockholm barge actually be more grateful to be there ? it's emerged that to be there? it's emerged that some are, but some are comparing it to alcatraz. last time i

checked, you weren't able to come and go from alcatraz. whenever you wanted. lee anderson is also in hot water as well for confirming that the conservative party have failed when immigration. as when it comes to immigration. as the deputy chair, that's not gone down well in some gone down that well in some quarters. in other news, will quarters. in other news, i will be discussing of this as be discussing all of this as well. two shocking data breaches be discussing all of this as vioi'ie two shocking data breaches be discussing all of this as vioi'ie affectsycking data breaches be discussing all of this as vioi'ie affects as ng data breaches be discussing all of this as vioi'ie affects as manyta breaches be discussing all of this as vioi'ie affects as many as)reaches be discussing all of this as vioi'ie affects as many as 40 ches . one affects as many as 40 million on the electoral million people on the electoral register. the other one threatens the lives of basically every police officer in every single police officer in northern so not a great northern ireland. so not a great day really. i'm also day for data, really. i'm also going to be discussing this topic we being topic as well. are we being pred topic as well. are we being ripped off by the civil service? £17.5 billion is the wage bill. now employ people in the now we employ more people in the civil in the last few civil service in the last few years alone than we have in our entire british army, which i think is a shocker. and let's be honest, what are we getting for it? massive work from home culture. at point, culture. at one point, apparently them was apparently 1 in 10 of them was off long covid, believe it off with long covid, believe it or finally, i'll be or not. and finally, i'll be discussing as well. yes, discussing this as well. yes, that's well hospitals now that's right. well hospitals now are to posedly. some are crumbling to posedly. some are crumbling to posedly. some are onto the are leaking sewage onto the wards and there are chemical

leaks as well . and i believe leaks as well. and i believe i have time for one more. that's right. prince harry happy without meghan. big in without meghan. he's big in japan. it. miss ni will japan. bless it. miss ni will see tiles in see him hitting the tiles in tokyo. we'll really if tokyo. then we'll really know if the harry's but yes, the old harry's back. but yes, he has been stripped of the hrh titles on the royal website. not before only took three before time. it only took three years. christys. gb years. patrick christys. gb news. i can't wait for the footage of prince harry's big night out in tokyo. i don't know about you, but there we go. look, i'm leading in, of course, with whether or not the migrants on stockholm barge on the bibby stockholm barge should frankly be grateful for everything been everything that they've been given. gb views and gbnews.com. but now it is your but right now it is your headunes but right now it is your headlines with . ray headlines with. ray >> good afternoon . 4:02. >> good afternoon. 4:02. >> good afternoon. 4:02. >> our top story, the prime minister of france has visited the site of a deadly fire that killed 11 people early this morning. the blaze broke out at a holiday home for disabled

people and was quickly extinguished by firefighters. president emmanuel macron described it as a tragedy . described it as a tragedy. >> the uk data watchdog is investigating a major data breach by the police service of northern ireland. >> a spreadsheet containing stats on the force and thousands of its officers was mistakenly available online for around three hours before being taken down. >> assistant chief constable chris todd has apologised for the breach but says it does not pose an immediate security risk to any staff . 41 migrants have to any staff. 41 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the italian island of lampedusa . italian island of lampedusa. local media reports saying that four people who survived the wreckage told rescuers that they were on a boat that set off from tunisia and sank on its way to italy. >> it also said the boat that was carrying 45 people included three children. >> a surge in illegal people smuggling gangs is to be tackled by a new deal struck between the

uk and turkey. >> under the agreement, the turkish national police will speed up the process of returning turkish nationals who come to britain via illegal channels. turkey's often used as a major hub for people smuggling gangs due to its geographical location , and reports suggest location, and reports suggest that many vessels used to cross the channel original at their two young men were led away to a shop rumoured to be the target of tiktok organised disorder on london's oxford street. there's a heavy police and security presence on the popular shopping street after rumours of a planned disorder on social media. a trend on tiktok has been encouraging people in london to steal from shops today. spokesperson for the mayor of london told gb news that anyone who's seen social media content encouraging them to commit crime around oxford street should ignore it . strikes street should ignore it. strikes by staff at gatwick airport will cause disruption during the bank houday cause disruption during the bank holiday weekend as workers

announce fresh walkouts . it's announce fresh walkouts. it's part of an ongoing dispute over pay- part of an ongoing dispute over pay. the unite union saying that around 230 workers, including ground handlers and those who assist passengers , will walk out assist passengers, will walk out for eight days from august 18th and then again from august 25th. fewer homes are to be built by a major construction firm due to a sharp slowdown in the property market. bellway told shareholders that it expects completions to decrease due to weaker order numbers and low reservation rates, but there is some good news on the way for those with a mortgage. several of britain's biggest lenders have cut their interest rates today. let's take a look. nationwide has cut up to 0.55% off of its fixed rate mortgages. tsb has slashed around 0.4% from selected five year fixed rate products , and hsbc has cut rates products, and hsbc has cut rates on its residential mortgage range by 0.2. meanwhile, the bank of england's base rate

remains . at 5.25. a british man remains. at 5.25. a british man is among five people who have been shot dead in violent protests in south africa. the 40 year old reportedly a doctor who was a tourist in the country , was a tourist in the country, was a tourist in the country, was killed in cape town last thursday . it's believed that thursday. it's believed that he'd taken a wrong turn when a group approached the vehicle and shot him. unrest began after minibus taxi drivers announced a week long strike there . online week long strike there. online medical company babylon health is at risk of collapsing unless it finds a buyer. babylon's gp at hand service is available 24 hours via smartphones. it's funded by the nhs and became the first gp provider to build up more than 100,000 patients. the us listed company has struggled after a business merger fell through. it says the uk part of its business is still successful and sustainable, but it will struggle to continue unless a solution is found . and finally , solution is found. and finally, a search is underway for a missing pelican after it escaped

from blackpool's zoo. the 14 week old bird took to the sky on friday afternoon after it was startled by a flock of gulls . a startled by a flock of gulls. a spokesperson for the zoo said that as the little bird had only just grown its adult feathers, its wings have not yet been clipped. they've assured people that pelicans are docile creatures and there's no threat to the public. well this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now let's get back to . patrick to. patrick >> well, we start this hour with the latest government plan to crack down on the criminal human trafficking gangs and the surge of the number of illegal immigrants travelling to britain. the uk struck a deal with turkey to focus on coordinated efforts to disrupt the supply chains and dismantle the supply chains and dismantle the people smuggling gangs. this comes as the tory's deputy chairman, lee anderson , said chairman, lee anderson, said that his party had failed on

immigration city and make excuses to anyone . excuses to anyone. >> excuses to anyone. >> this is out of control. where the you know, we're in power at the you know, we're in power at the moment. >> i'm, as you say, the deputy chair of the conservative party. we're in government and we have failed on this. there's no doubt about it. >> you know, we've said we're going it. it is a failure. >> well, i mean, he is just saying what everyone thinks, isn't he really? and that is one of things you get when of the things that you get when you get normal which lee you get normal people, which lee anderson just anderson basically is just a normal going into normal bloke going into politics, is that get politics, which is that you get quite comments like quite unguarded comments like that. comments that that. the kind of comments that no would had chairs no doubt would have had chairs being all over the being thrown all over the conservative headquarters conservative party headquarters and left, and tvs being smashed left, right and centre. but he's not wrong. not to you wrong. he's not lying to you about and that's that really. about it and that's that really. but is our home but joining us now is our home and security editor, mark white. mark, much. mark, thank you very much. firstly we're lobbing a load of money the turks. are we, to money at the turks. are we, to try to stop the of illegal try to stop the flow of illegal immigration fact immigration despite the fact that appear now that that it does appear now that increasing on increasing numbers of people on small actually turkish ? >> 7- >> yes. 7— >> yes. well, 7_ >> yes. well, in 7 >> yes. well, in terms of the money that's going to turkey ,

money that's going to turkey, they've how much , but they've not said how much, but we know, of course , that we know, of course, that controversially. france is getting half £1 billion over the next few years for the efforts that it next few years for the efforts thatitis next few years for the efforts that it is undertaking along the beaches of north—west france to stop the boats from coming out. the government says said probably that there would be money. of course , going up the money. of course, going up the turkish, but it's not about the money. we're told. it's all about better cooperation with law enforcement partners , as in law enforcement partners, as in turkey, about setting up this academy effectively to help train turkish law enforcement on in how to deal and disrupt these people smuggling gangs. in how to deal and disrupt these people smuggling gangs . well, people smuggling gangs. well, any academy like that is obviously going to take money. and you're probably looking at several million pounds of extra investment in turkey. >> one of the concerns that i would have is that british taxpayers money has now been spentin taxpayers money has now been spent in albania , is being spent

spent in albania, is being spent in turkey . it's spent in albania, is being spent in turkey. it's being spent in albania, is being spent in turkey . it's being spent with in turkey. it's being spent with the french. it looks as though we're going to work with the german government to try to stop the transportation of boats. why is trying pay to is britain trying to pay to solve europe's migrant crisis ? solve europe's migrant crisis? >> well, i mean, i think other european countries would argue that they are also investing in trying to stop migrants because having a problem in their particular countries. but the difficulty, of course, with europe is they have open borders in a sense. once you get over that border into europe and they are controversial , many of the are controversial, many of the frontex countries that are bordering on the likes of turkey are trying to secure their borders. but once you're in europe proper, then you can travel quite freely around the european union. but but i think the problem is in terms of the money that the british government is throwing at this ,

government is throwing at this, it's a multi—pronged problem. there is no one single solution to stopping the small boats coming . actually, that's not coming. actually, that's not true. you know, the small boats could be stopped tomorrow if france decided that it would allow the uk to return boats to its country. it's never agreed to that. i don't think it ever would. but it would absolutely stop the problem because then there is no business model for there is no business model for the people smuggling. >> there is an argument if everyone sent across is immediately then returned back to france . to france. >> that is the only there isn't. >> that is the only there isn't. >> there is an argument, the only actual solution that would stop this dead in its tracks. >> so bearing in mind we've not got that you have this multi—pronged , multifaceted multi—pronged, multifaceted approach , there is a case to be approach, there is a case to be made for the fact that instead of spending money, billions of pounds on literally everything else , if we said to emmanuel else, if we said to emmanuel macron, name your price for

allowing us to return people to your country, and we just paid that, it might actually save us money. yeah, well, regardless of money. yeah, well, regardless of money to the french president, actually, you would think that there is an imperative for him anyway to do something that stops these communities being blighted by by the hundreds of thousands of people that head to areas around the city of dunkirk and calais and boulogne and other areas there that see these migrant camps popping up in the in the woodland around these towns that see thousands of migrants , you know, regularly migrants, you know, regularly wandering in and out of their town. there is significant issues with crime in these areas as well . so you would think as well. so you would think actually that just from the imperative of trying to do something to ensure that the people of west france don't have to see this constant influx of

thousands of asylum seekers , thousands of asylum seekers, migrants trying to get across the channel then perhaps you agree to this deal with the uk . agree to this deal with the uk. you allow the uk to return the boats to your shores and within weeks the model is broken. >> okay, mark, thank you very, very much. mark white there. our home security editor, initially talking a bit about what's talking to us a bit about what's been going on in turkey. watch that space when it comes to it, but also providing solutions as well, don't get well, which you don't get on. many other channels. so many other news channels. so fantastic think. fantastic to think. >> probably >> emmanuel macron is probably going listening too much going to be listening too much to but he's a regular to me, but hey, he's a regular viewer, apparently brit loves thisso we go .joining me >> so there we go. joining me now, though, is conservative mp for ipswich and vice chairman of the sense group. it's tom the common sense group. it's tom hunt. tom thank you very, very much. can i ask you first things first about a question? i've got i've got running my inbox at i've got running in my inbox at the moment of me here, the moment in front of me here, which whether or not the which is whether or not the illegal migrants we've on illegal migrants we've put on the stockholm barge should the bibby stockholm barge should actually be grateful for everything doing everything britain is doing for them.

>> um , well, i mean, i think >> um, well, i mean, i think that they've been illegally entered our country and you know, my view is they should be immediately detained, deported and banned from ever coming here again. in that sense. >> yeah, i think they should >> so yeah, i think they should be the fact that be grateful for the fact that they've got got a bed, they've they've got a got a bed, they've got a roof over their head. um, yeah , yeah. yeah, yeah. >> i mean i guess they ought to be. >> but look, i mean ultimately we've got to get veranda policy delivered alongside illegal delivered alongside the illegal migration actually delivered alongside the illegal migrideporting actually delivered alongside the illegal migrideporting large tually delivered alongside the illegal migrideporting large numbers of start deporting large numbers of these individuals to a safer country . country. >> okay, leon , listen, >> okay, leon, listen, obviously, last night on gb news, the deputy chair of the conservative party did say that the conservatives have failed when it comes to illegal migration and the migrant crisis. do you agree with that? >> well, i mean , clearly the >> well, i mean, clearly the boats are still coming . boats are still coming. >> but i think there's also i think it's important to realise that this is a complex issue. >> i think we've got a prime minister who's very determined to sort it. >> i think, you know, we could see a situation turn around quite if we the

quite quickly if we get the outcome we want from a supreme court, flights court, we can get those flights going rwanda. going to rwanda. >> situation can change >> the situation can change quite but clearly, quite dramatically. but clearly, the know, the boats are the you know, the boats are still coming. we can argue whether there's slightly less than there have been if we than there would have been if we hadnt than there would have been if we hadn't taken actions hadn't have taken the actions we've they're still we've taken. they're still coming. yeah, in that coming. and so, yeah, in that sense, we haven't to sense, look, we haven't got to where to get to and it's where we need to get to and it's not enough for me to say that the labour would be worse the labour party would be worse or the labour party voted or that the labour party voted against everything we're looking or that the labour party voted ag do. .t everything we're looking or that the labour party voted ag(we're verything we're looking or that the labour party voted ag(we're inything we're looking or that the labour party voted ag(we're in government.looking or that the labour party voted ag(we're in government. people or that the labour party voted ag(looking government. people or that the labour party voted ag(looking forvernment. people or that the labour party voted ag(looking forverito ent. people are looking for us to deliver. um, yeah, we're not where we um, so yeah, we're not where we need to be on this at the moment, but i'm confident that if we can the grand scheme if we can get the grand scheme up running, we can up and running, we can, we can create deterrent and be successful. >> but what we need is a deterrent. anyone who says that we can stop these boats without a deterrent, talking nonsense. >> and i think you >> okay. yeah. and i think you raise a good there about raise a good point there about a lot of people. anyway, when i talk to people say, well, you know, can't know, unfortunately, you can't really on now really say hand on heart. now that the labour party are going to anything. much worse, to do anything. not much worse, really, situation really, because the situation that at the moment,

that we've got at the moment, you mentioned about you mentioned there about deterrent. end of the deterrent. we are the end of the line when it comes these line when it comes to these migrants walking through europe. line when it comes to these migcan't walking through europe. line when it comes to these migcan't wa anythingyugh europe. line when it comes to these migcan't wa anything aboutjrope. line when it comes to these migcan't wa anything about oure. we can't do anything about our geography reason geography but the reason why they come here is they want to come here is because they are treated better here than they are much here than they are pretty much everywhere it about everywhere else. is it about time? you think, the time? do you think, that the media highlighting media started highlighting that fact as opposed to saying how awful dreadful actually are? >> it's interesting. when i knock to knock on doors and i talk to constituents about issue, constituents about this issue, i think the word that often comes up is many of them want us to be a fair and reasonable and compassionate country, but they often we've become often feel like we've become a soft and it's difficult soft touch and it's difficult for me argue that we haven't for me to argue that we haven't become touch. become a soft touch. >> i think we have become a soft touch and i think that's part of a of problem. in a part of a problem. but in terms media, i mean, terms of the media, i mean, i had an extraordinary debate on bbc yesterday with the chief executive of care for calais and an extraordinary debate . but he an extraordinary debate. but he told me that the reason why most of coming over from france of those coming over from france are young, single, strong men is because they're targeted more . because they're targeted more. and my response to that was , and my response to that was, tell that to a woman i met in

rohingya refugee camp who had been raped. tell been repeatedly raped. i tell them they this is them that's why they this is this is an extraordinary situation have. there is situation that we have. there is no and i'm increasingly angry with people like the archbishop of canterbury and various other figures in the labour party who just virtually stood along. this will attack our policy without coming up with any practical policy of our own . and i think policy of our own. and i think it's deeply irresponsible to do so. and you say that could things get any worse under a labour party? yes. i've been in politics long enough to know that can get that things can always get worse, always . that isn't say worse, always. that isn't to say that this is an acceptable state of affairs. no, but i'll give you one example. in ipswich, for example, an opponent . my example, we have an opponent. my opponent has made multiple visits to the calais camp himself, where he appears to have been encouraging the crossings and in fact he attended pro open borders attended a pro open borders rally one the hotels rally outside one of the hotels being at ipswich for these being used at ipswich for these illegal immigrants. so um, but ultimately , lee spoke for many ultimately, lee spoke for many people when he when he when he

made the comments that he made and ultimately millions of people in the country feel the same way. and lee is incredibly angry and frustrated about the situation. we haven't got time to debate about whether he used the right words or not. ultimately this is about actions andifs ultimately this is about actions and it's about delivery. >> look what lee anderson said. what lee anderson said is what happens when you get normal blokes who go into politics and he's saying he's echoing what your average man and woman on the street would say about this this issue. so i don't have any issue with it at all. in fact, i could make the case for the fact that we need a bit more of that. actually, in i'll speak i'll speak about lee anderson, specifically anderson a specifically lee anderson is a quite of mine. quite a close friend of mine. >> somebody i've had very >> he's somebody i've had a very different upbringing lee. different upbringing from lee. we've come we've had we've come to we've had different to being different journeys to being conservatives. paper different journeys to being conscould ves. paper different journeys to being conscould not paper different journeys to being conscould not put paper different journeys to being conscould not put a paperpaper you could not put a paper between me him. he speaks between me and him. he speaks for of people up and for millions of people up and down the country. he is not a regular politician. he was a labour until recently and labour party until recently and there's reason left the there's a reason why he left the labour party. don't have labour party. you don't have to

think about that is. think hard about what that is. yeah, but ultimately, you know, he unpolished, he's he is unpolished, he's authentic, lee and authentic, like he's lee and occasionally being lee, occasionally lee being lee, he'll probably say the other thing that upsets a few people, um , but it is what it is. i um, but it is what it is. i haven't got we haven't got time to be thinking about semantics, what we need to focussed on is, look, there's enough, there's enough rubbish and enough waffle and rubbish and lies politics to start lies in politics to start chastising a bloke who shoots from the hip and speaks the heart. >> as far as i'm concerned, just one more with you, tom, if that's all right. you mentioned there about people like the archbishop canterbury. you archbishop of canterbury. you mentioned archbishop of canterbury. you mencareed calais. you must like care for calais. you must be increasingly be getting increasingly frustrated what appears to frustrated with what appears to be of spider web going be some kind of spider web going on of people. essentially, on here of people. essentially, it be argued, it could be it could be argued, it could be argued helping with human trafficking into britain to an extent , certainly not trafficking into britain to an extent, certainly not doing that much to stop it. and groups charity groups, for example, dodgy crooked lawyers, people propping us up saying, oh, look at what a horrible situation we are. here making it difficult to

deport people . it does appear deport people. it does appear like there is some kind of fifth column working underneath you, which is frankly undermining everything is going on. everything that is going on. i mean, i don't think the chief executive of care for calais wakes up in the morning and thinks, right, how i thinks, all right, how can i help people smugglers? >> don't think >> you know, i don't think that's motivation . but that's his motivation. but ultimately, outcome and the ultimately, the outcome and the end is the you end result is the same. you know, well—intentioned know, however well—intentioned these may be, net these people may be, the net result is that they are working towards sustain ing, dangerous small boat crossings . so they're small boat crossings. so they're working towards sustaining people smuggling and also and as a consequence of that, they're making it harder and harder for us a country to welcome the us as a country to welcome the most genuine refugees because our capacity up not our capacity is taken up not long ago, i had a discussion with an international charity about rohingya refugees, and i was honest with and was quite honest with them and i said it's going to be very difficult for us to take many in the term because our the short term because our capacity up. well, capacity is taken up. well, exactly. so exactly, tom. >> are going to we are >> and we are going to we are going to leave it there. going to have to leave it there. but finish a very good but you finish on a very good point, because when do

point, because when crises do occur, have in sudan or occur, like you have in sudan or like we had in afghanistan, like we ukraine, and then we have in ukraine, and then the usual types rock up and go, why aren't taking our fair share? aren't we taking our fair share? well, but we've got well, i'm sorry, but we've got tens thousands young men tens of thousands of young men from like albania or now from places like albania or now increasingly apparently, increasingly turkey, apparently, that that that are coming here that are clogging system, or where clogging up our system, or where do them all? would do we put them all? we would have room for more genuine have more room for more genuine refugees we didn't so refugees if we didn't accept so many economic but tom, many economic migrants. but tom, thank much. hunt thank you very much. tom hunt there, who is the vice chairman of the common group of of the common sense group and of course, mp for course, the conservative mp for ipswich, on this ipswich, loads more on this story our website gbnews.com. story on our website gbnews.com. it's the fastest growing national news site in the country. best analysis, country. all the best analysis, big opinion and the latest breaking and reminder of breaking news and a reminder of this news, this afternoon breaking news, which the police service which is that the police service of ireland has declared of northern ireland has declared a after the a critical incident after the personal of 10,000 personal details of 10,000 officers were officers and staff were published online. and amazingly, it's emerged that around 40 million voters across the uk could have had their information accessed by hackers, possibly russian hackers . accessed by hackers, possibly russian hackers. i'm asking just how safe is our data? just how worried should we really be? patrick on gb news

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wake up two mornings on gb news. the people's channel. >> britain's news . the people's channel. >> britain's news. channel >> britain's news. channel >> well, in just a few moments , >> well, in just a few moments, i will have details of an investigation that's found evidence of sewage spills , evidence of sewage spills, chemical leaks and broken fire alarms at nhs hospitals right across england. and there's confirmation that harry has finally been stripped of one of his titles, which is good news, i think. but now to a shocking data breach. not one, but two of

them, actually. in a moment, i will be discussing why millions up to 40 million voters, which is staggering , actually. i mean, is staggering, actually. i mean, fact, it's borderline criminal. this could have had their info accessed by hackers targeting the electoral commission. we weren't made aware of it either, which is very nice of the electoral commission course, electoral commission of course, they're investigate they're keen to investigate hacking on multiple fronts. whether not when whether it's true or not when it comes brexit. when this comes to brexit. but when this happens, keep very quiet, happens, they keep very quiet, don't they? but first, police officers ireland are officers in northern ireland are said , dismayed and said to be shocked, dismayed and angry after personal and employment of 10,000 police employment data of 10,000 police officers staff was published officers and staff was published online. the uk info commissioner is now working with psni over the breach . it followed a the breach. it followed a freedom of information request, seeking the number of officers and staff at all ranks and grades across the organisation . grades across the organisation. the data was mistakenly put out onune the data was mistakenly put out online for over three hours. the names and roles of all police and this is for me anyway, the crucial bit civilian personnel were then exposed and where they

were then exposed and where they were based as well. so why does this matter? well, more than 300 police officers were murdered in northern ireland during the 30 years of violence known as the troubles and the most recent attack on a police officer was in february when detective chief inspector john caldwell was seriously injured in a shooting in . so, i mean, it really in omagh. so, i mean, it really does matter, frankly . i am does matter, frankly. i am joined by kelly, who's joined now by liam kelly, who's the chair of the police federation ireland. federation for northern ireland. thank very much, liam. how thank you very much, liam. how on earth did happen ? on earth did this happen? >> yeah , well, there's going to >> yeah, well, there's going to be a full investigation, patrick, into this and that will establish the facts around this. >> so the reality, as you've outlined , there was a freedom of outlined, there was a freedom of information request came in and a junior police staff member inadvertently sent additional data to that request, which has resulted in this being uploaded into the public domain . into the public domain. >> there's a very realistic possibility that lives will be lost as a result of this, though. so it's all very well and good. having a long winded investigation, but it needs

action now, doesn't it? no absolutely. >> again, i think the reality around is the psni need to around this is the psni need to know what that exposure actually looked like for them . so they looked like for them. so they need to extrapolate that data so they can work out how many people actually access the website when this information was live and then following on from that, they will need to be able to establish what the possible threat, risk and harm is, both to individual officers and groups of officers and then take security precautions or security assessments so that they can make the most effective response to this. so, i mean, ultimately , there's a there's a ultimately, there's a there's a spectrum of people who are impacted from this , from people impacted from this, from people who are quite high profile in service, where the information that was was released yesterday makes no tangible impact on them on a day to day basis right through to those officers who are working with intelligence on or working in with with m15 and national security matters , where national security matters, where that veil of secrecy is literally the difference between

them taking actions which, you know, are impacting on people's lives and keeping people safe, including themselves. so it's a very serious data breach and in fact, unprecedented right across the uk . the uk. >> well, i mean, it's a gift for terrorist, isn't it ? terrorist, isn't it? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, we're hoping when the investigation comes through that that that exposure will be able to be quantified. but yes, i mean , clearly, it's a matter of mean, clearly, it's a matter of deep regret that this information has been put into the public domain by by the psni , who have a duty of care to our officers, to protect their identities and to keep them safe. >> how are the officers at the moment? imagine morale is moment? i imagine morale is rather . rather low. >> well, morale has been low for some time because of the failure to invest in police in northern ireland. and it's one of the major concerns that i have is that we are a shrinking organisation. there's a lack of investment in policing our officers are treated appallingly at times, but yet things like this added on top of that are certainly not not of any

assistance. so yeah, people are more angry with this that because this shouldn't have happened, the fact that is it has happened now we have to rebuild react and rebuild the react to that and put limitations and put in limitations and mitigations to ensure that it doesn't happen again. and those officers who and police staff who have been exposed as a result of this are kept as safe and as as they possibly can be. >> yeah. all right, liam, thank you very much. we really appreciate you coming on and making the time for us. no doubt you've a very day and you've got a very busy day and few days ahead. liam kelly, who's the chair of the police federation ireland, federation for northern ireland, now quickly, going federation for northern ireland, nowhizz quickly, going federation for northern ireland, nowhizz you quickly, going federation for northern ireland, nowhizz you through(, going federation for northern ireland, nowhizz you through a going federation for northern ireland, nowhizz you through a second1g to whizz you through a second massive data breach, potentially less affects less deadly, but it affects millions million millions more people, 40 million people be precise. people roughly, to be precise. and involves electoral and it involves the electoral commission i'm now commission okay. i'm joined now by political correspondent, by our political correspondent, olivia this olivia utley. and olivia, this is in the sense is catastrophic in the sense that it appears that potentially anyway, russia certainly somebody has has hacked our electoral commission and the details of around 40 million people have just been absorbed by them. and our electoral

commission didn't see the need to tell us about this until right now. to tell us about this until rigiwell,'. to tell us about this until rigiwell, absolutely. this is >> well, absolutely. this is very embarrassing for the electoral commission and is pretty for everyone pretty worrying for everyone really what happened was between august 2021 and october 20th, 20, two, hackers and we don't yet know the identity of those hackers managed to get into our electoral register and were able to access the data that is names, addresses in some cases phone numbers of up to 40 million registered voters. that is , everyone who registered to is, everyone who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. now the electoral commission didn't know that this was happening for the 14 months while the hackers were on the system . and we were on the system. and we haven't heard about it until almost a year after that because the electoral commission decided that it it wanted to tighten up its security and not alert the hackers to the fact that it had it had cottoned on basically. but for people sitting at home, it does feel quite worrying that nearly two years ago now there

data was being accessed by some sort of nefarious players and they're only just hearing about it now. and it does sound rather as though it was russia that was the culprit here. it was a very sophisticated hack. it took the electoral commission such a long time to register it because it was so complicated. std and the former head of gchq is saying that he suspects that the only the only player here with the with the technology and the expertise to do a hack like this is russia. >> i think this is just such a comment modern times, comment on modern times, which is firstly, don't think is that firstly, i don't think a lot of people realise exactly how much of own personal how much of their own personal data there. that is data is out there. that is because dishing it out because we are dishing it out non—stop. 24 seven that's before we've the amount of we've looked at the amount of times a day we're caught on cctv. that's before we look at everything that's going on on social media of that everything that's going on on socialbutdia of that everything that's going on on socialbut the of that everything that's going on on socialbut the crucial of that everything that's going on on socialbut the crucial bitthat stuff. but the crucial bit for me is the people that we trust to look after that data all too often don't do a good enough job often don't do a good enough job of we realistically do of it, and we realistically do not until quite down not know until quite far down the line if that data has been

lost. all incredibly lost. and we are all incredibly vulnerable, i think, especially when it to our medical when it comes to our medical records . i mean, good grief, records. i mean, good grief, there was even talk, wasn't records. i mean, good grief, there 'about en talk, wasn't records. i mean, good grief, there 'about if| talk, wasn't records. i mean, good grief, there 'about if you (, wasn't records. i mean, good grief, there 'about if you buy|sn't records. i mean, good grief, there 'about if you buy ant there, about if you buy an electric vehicle made electric vehicle that was made in china, that could be a threat. before you know it, threat. so before you know it, everything that we do will be a threat. but, olivia, thank you very, great to have very, very much. great to have you on whizzing that you on whizzing us through that olivia there. our olivia utley there. our political and political correspondent. and i think all have a think you should all have a right ask serious questions right to ask serious questions about our electoral commission they of a lot of they devote a heck of a lot of time, don't they, investigating things not things like whether or not russia was involved in the brexit meanwhile, brexit referendum. meanwhile, russia have russia may well have been involved data being involved in your data being nicked from the electoral commission. been commission. it would have been nice if they'd had a longer look at that, would it not? but between 5:00, the between now and 5:00, the shocking of hospitals shocking state of hospitals in england bare. now england has been laid bare. now it's not waiting times. nurses are on strike. no we're not are out on strike. no we're not seeing on seeing consultants out on strike. to do with strike. this is to do with dozens broken fire alarms, dozens of broken fire alarms, chemical crucially, chemical and crucially, sewage leaks first, it's leaks last year. but first, it's your latest headlines with ray addison . thanks patrick.

addison. thanks patrick. >> 4:33. i'm ray addison in the newsroom. and we start with some breaking news in the last few minutes, police in northern ireland have revealed that they're now investigating a second data breach relating to a laptop stolen on july the sixth. the force says they're looking into the circumstances surrounding the theft theft of documents , including a documents, including a spreadsheet containing the names of more than 200 serving officers and staff. the documents , along with a police documents, along with a police issue, laptop and a radio, are believed to have been stolen from a private vehicle in the newtownabbey area. now, earlier on, the psni declared that a data breach revealing details of thousands of police in northern ireland had been stolen were describing it as a critical incident . the prime minister of incident. the prime minister of france is visiting the site of a deadly fire that killed 11 people early this morning. the blaze broke out at a holiday for home disabled people and was quickly extinguished by firefighters. president emmanuel macron describing the situation as a tragedy . we can get more on

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sponsors of weather on. gb news loads of emails flooding in at the moment. >> gbviews@gbnews.com actually people talking about whether or not asylum seekers should be more grateful to be housed on the bibby stockholm these asylum seekers should be very, very grateful. they shouldn't actually be given accommodation at all. that's remarking. a lot of saying that of people saying that lee anderson's firstly anderson's comments firstly about the tories actually failing immigration and failing on immigration and secondly, that if people don't like this country then like it in this country then they where else to go. to they know where else to go. to paraphrase if lee anderson was party definitely party leader, i would definitely vote is vote conservative. and that is from darrell. your views from darrell. keep your views coming views gbnews.com. coming in gb views gbnews.com. but to shocking but now to a shocking investigation into the state of nhs england. it's revealed that there are hundreds of sewage and chemical hospitals chemical leaks in hospitals across country each year. so across the country each year. so across the country each year. so a freedom of information request also evidence of dozens of also found evidence of dozens of broken alarms . also found evidence of dozens of broken alarms. i am joined broken fire alarms. i am joined now by sarah jane palmer, who's been a nurse and is a writer as well. sarah thank you very, very much. it's great to have you on

the show. i mean, this is disgusting, isn't it? you go in hospital to get better, not to lie on a hospital ward whilst sewage is swirling around near you. >> yeah, it's extremely worrying . i think it's absolutely disgusting. i think it shows that there's a real problem throughout the nhs where there are of hospitals that are a lot of hospitals that aren't really fit for use and sorry, cat was trying to come sorry, my cat was trying to come into view there right. and yeah, it's really worrying and i think there can be a lot of issues that can arise from sewage leaks and also from gas leaks and things that you see in these hospitals as well . hospitals as well. >> yeah, it is. it is actually staggering. you know, 450 sewage leaks reported across hospitals in england and is actually the infrastructure itself of these hospitals. that is a problem. that's before we've got started on whether or not the staff are on whether or not the staff are on strike, whether or not they're allowed to negligence claims, which by the way, equate to billion pounds every to several billion pounds every single although don't single year, although they don't like tell you that, do they, like to tell you that, do they, when they're out on strike. this is to with the

is actually to do with the infrastructure of the hospitals themselves. saying themselves. and they're saying that not fit for purpose themselves. and they're saying tiit's not fit for purpose themselves. and they're saying tiit's yeah, not fit for purpose themselves. and they're saying tiit's yeah, inot fit for purpose themselves. and they're saying tiit's yeah, i mean, for purpose themselves. and they're saying tiit's yeah, i mean, i've urpose themselves. and they're saying tiit's yeah, i mean, i've worked . it's yeah, i mean, i've worked in hospitals throughout kent and london and i've seen that there's just never ending need for maintenance and repairs. >> i think the infrastructure there, the hospitals is are very a lot of hospitals are in very old buildings and they need constant repair. and as you say, it can result in sort of in claims that cost billions. it can result in sort of in claims that cost billions . and claims that cost billions. and it's i don't know how they would ever fix it unless they actually built new hospitals. but that's where the argument for privatisation comes in, i suppose, because many private hospitals are completely up to standard and they don't have these problems , although some of these problems, although some of them do, depends where them do, it depends where they're located. really. no indeed. >> and the chemical leaks is another bad one. and the fact that there are there are fire hazards, you know, these are bafic hazards, you know, these are basic things. i mean , having basic things. i mean, having fire alarms that aren't working with the best will in the world, i could understand just i could understand and just about could understand about i could understand if hospitals crippled by

hospitals are being crippled by the amount of people that are in them, and then they've got issues when to, issues when it comes to, you know, piping and that know, old style piping and that there is some kind of issue there is some kind of issue there with with the plumbing. i can ican there with with the plumbing. i can i can i can at least understand the logic behind why that might be a problem. but but fire easy to fix and fire alarms is easy to fix and by definition, a of people by definition, a lot of people will be in capacity in a hospital and would be able hospital and would not be able to get out if there was a fire. and is something that i and this is something that i think seriously looking think needs seriously looking at, it's extremely worrying. >> it's extremely worrying. yeah. it's absolutely yeah. i think it's absolutely awful. how it's awful. i don't know how it's come that, that there'd be so come to that, that there'd be so many fire alarms that aren't working. a working. it puts patients at a massive and you say, massive risk. and as you say, many of them are vulnerable birds. and, you there birds. and, you know, there shouldn't be this of shouldn't be this type of problem ever occurring in a hospital all at all. and it's hospital at all at all. and it's obviously happened quite a lot . obviously happened quite a lot. and how many how many hospitals did the freedom of information? well, it it covered hospitals. >> it covered hospitals across england. so every single hospital trust across england . hospital trust across england. so, i mean, the mind boggles ,

so, i mean, the mind boggles, isn't it, to think about what kind of damage and destruction might be taking place north of the border as well in scotland. so this is this is a terrifying situation for a lot people. situation for a lot of people. you mentioned about the you mentioned there about the case private physician. it case for private physician. it is a fascinating moment to be alive it comes our alive when it comes to our national because national health service because we appear to have had to have let it hit rock bottom before we can have a serious conversation about how we reform about how on earth we reform this. make it better. my this. and make it better. my point would be how many people had to the meantime had to die in the meantime whilst people were playing political football and political games wanting games and not wanting to slaughter cow that slaughter the sacred cow that is our beloved health our beloved national health service. remember , service. you might remember, sarah, long ago we had a sarah, not so long ago we had a church service our nhs on church service for our nhs on the anniversary of its conception, i think was conception, which i think was absolutely in the extreme. absolutely weird in the extreme. but you think that privatisation might actually make the facilities better as well. do you possibly mean i wouldn't have said this in the past and it's so important the nhs is something that everyone relies on, but the fact is when you've got over 7 million on waiting

lists and it takes two years to get a treatment that by the time they're actually able to get it, they're actually able to get it, they might be too ill to have it. >> i mean, that makes one argument. and then you've got these problems with gas leak, sewage leaks and these problems with the fire alarms that you've mentioned. the general, the issues with the actual buildings, it does make the case stronger for privatisation because it's too just expensive andifs because it's too just expensive and it's not achieving keeping everyone in good health. it's not actually achieving anything that it's there for. if it's harming people more than it's cunng harming people more than it's curing them. so this is the thing. >> this is this is the thing. and yet again, we are looking at a very, very bloated, expensive pubuc a very, very bloated, expensive public service that is not actually delivering what it's supposed to be. we're to going be having a look shortly at issues with the civil service, you know, the wage bill of the civil service now alone topping £17.5 year. we're £17.5 billion a year. we're employing more people in the last few years alone. we've hired more people our civil hired more people in our civil service we employ in the service than we employ in the

entire british army. for goodness sake, 88% increase on the amount of people on over 100 grand a year. you look at the nhs, one of the largest employers in europe, the big black that we pump money black chasm that we pump money into every single year, and black chasm that we pump money into e�*got single year, and black chasm that we pump money into e�*got gasjle year, and black chasm that we pump money into e�*got gas leaks, r, and black chasm that we pump money into e�*got gas leaks, sewage we've got gas leaks, sewage leaks. a record waiting list is making a serious case for privatisation . but sarah jane, privatisation. but sarah jane, thank you very much. it's always a pleasure was nice to a pleasure and it was nice to see brief appearance from your see a brief appearance from your cat as sarah jane palmer cat as well as sarah jane palmer , nurse and a writer. , who's a nurse and a writer. i would be up for having more animals on this show, but my request, unfortunately, to have a live cheetah in the studio was turned down there we go. but three years after harry quit, as a senior royal, he's finally officially lost his hrh title. i'll be looking at that. and has anybody else noticed how happy he looks in japan without meghan patrick christys on gb news, britain's news .

on gb news, the people's. channel very shortly . very shortly. >> the latest on the government's new plan to solve the migrant crisis. we've got a new deal with turkey and some of the asylum seekers on the bibby stockholm barge have slammed it, saying that it's a floating alcatraz . there are hourly bus alcatraz. there are hourly bus services into the nearest towns, a games room, a television room , a games room, a television room a , a games room, a television room , a computer room, a buffet. for goodness sake, i mean, i don't

really think this is alcatraz, is it? but there we go . we're is it? but there we go. we're talking about whether or not they should just be grateful to be there, frankly. but there's also the shocking news of these data has left us data breaches, which has left us all when it to all dismayed when it comes to the that million of us the fact that 40 million of us now might have essentially been hacked. but the buckingham palace ditched palace have quietly ditched prince title from prince harry's hrh title from their website. it has taken a whopping three years for it to be removed after agreeing that the would have to give it the prince would have to give it up as part of the megxit deal. the latest blow comes as harry and meghan see a slump in their popularity polls. joining us now is journalist and broadcaster angela epstein. angela, thank you , very much. has it you very, very much. why has it taken so long for this, do you think? and presumably now meghan and will to stop and harry will have to stop dining out on their royal titles ? >> 7- >> uh, 7_ >> uh, well, 7 >> uh, well, yeah. i ? >> uh, well, yeah. i mean, 7 >> uh, well, yeah. i mean, the scope for monetising their former association with the royal family is becoming ever increasingly narrow because, as you say, you know , hrh slung out you say, you know, hrh slung out the window, uh, there's not much

else that they can do. they step down as senior royals. and this was passed as, as you said, the megxit deal. i'm wondering whether it's just an administrative it's administrative error, that it's taken there taken three years. there have been acknowledgements taken three years. there have beeothernowledgements taken three years. there have beeother admingements taken three years. there have beeother admin errorsits this are other admin errors on this site, as prince louis age site, such as prince louis age and other stuff. maybe it's something we seem to do very well country, sort of well in this country, sort of data breaches and getting things administratively wrong . but on administratively wrong. but on a serious note , obviously somebody serious note, obviously somebody either spotted it or they've taken a view . and as we've seen taken a view. and as we've seen from what's been happening with meghan and harry recently, there's i mean, they have been defined by their ironically, by their connection with the royal family, the autobiography, the docu series on netflix, the interviews they've they've gone through a lamentable phase with with netflix now because they've not been able to come up with the ideas that they've needed the ideas that they've needed the issue with their spotify deal so what defines meghan and harry and i'm hoping this isn't an act of spite and it was just an act of spite and it was just an admin error because then everybody's lowered to the

lowest common denominator. but but the fact is. hrh is a significant thing. and remember , his mother lost her hrh as well. >> oh yeah, no , absolutely. and >> oh yeah, no, absolutely. and harry is currently in japan actually doing the kind of stuff that everyone loved. prince harry for. so he's there. he's very happy, he's smiling, he's joking. he's, you know, pretty good off the cuff, actually. when he was being asked questions there, he was raising money a genuinely good money for a genuinely good cause. as well the sense bali cause. as well as the sense bali charity does a lot, of course, with aids and hiv sufferers. there's invictus games for there's the invictus games for him to promote. he was even laughing and joking. they were saying, know, you like saying, you know, would you like to japan? he said, i'd to live in japan? he said, i'd love live here you'd have love to live here if you'd have me. but a lot of people are pointing out online, angela, that look happier his own. >> well, okay. does he look happier on his own? i think it might be more a question of he looks happierjust being able to looks happier just being able to be harry for. so maybe he's just finally feeling that he can discharge all the angst, all the resentment , all all the feelings

resentment, all all the feelings of be it loathing or or whatever you want to call it about the royal family he's, you know, he's emptied the tank. there isn't much left there now. now he's not an hrh as well. so he's just left as the sum of his parts, which is to be the harry that we all want sort of, you know, loved and seeing in action, which was all the things you said affable, humorous , you said affable, humorous, boyish, very tigger like in his behaviour all the things that he was able to do as the spare which william was never allowed to indulge in. so he's being the real harry. and he's also not being meghan and harry, you know, they are. know, which is what they are. they're a couple. they come as a package. i do hope that we're reading too much into this, and it's because he's it's not just because he's without meghan. just think without meghan. i just think there associations with there are no associations with this trip. there's he's just he's just a mega star in the eyes of the people that are queuing up to see him . and queuing up to see him. and therefore he can be sort of distilled to lowest distilled down to his lowest essence and be harry. essence and just be harry. >> no, i mean, he's he's big in

japan, he? of course, like japan, isn't he? of course, like a lot of people wish to be. and it off the press it does come hot off the press of harry and meghan buying the film rights to a love story book that appears to mirror in so many ways their their love story . you know, people meeting and pretending not to know who the other one was. and no, sorry that it's not in it. and then and then there were issues, of course, weren't there, with mental and with things mental health and with things like that. and suspiciously one of mother who sadly of them had a mother who sadly died a in a car crash. of them had a mother who sadly died a in a car crash . and died in a in a car crash. and now supposedly netflix are paying now supposedly netflix are paying £2.3 million for harry and meghan to film that love story with harry and meghan already having paid £3 million for the rights to it. so that's confusing enough as it is. but do you think that harry and meghan will actually do well as as film directors and producers? because the problem there is that it might involve a bit of work. >> well , well, yes, possibly. >> well, well, yes, possibly. i mean , you know, show and tell. mean, you know, show and tell.

let's wait and see how they turn out. the thing is, they've gone for a fairly safe bet on the one hand, because they're they're fishing in a in a pond that they're familiar with for they're very familiar with for all things that just all the things that you've just said, themes resonate said, all the themes resonate with their life. but equally well, sort of know the well, we sort of know the reality of that. so why not sort of strike out and do something really daring interesting? really daring and interesting? we all well, many people are we are all well, many people are fatigue dogged by the whole harry and meghan narrative live. and they are sort of they've and if they are sort of they've got their fingers in their ears to that and i don't think they'll succeed. to that and i don't think they'll sknowzd. to that and i don't think they'll rknow what it is it's >> you know what it is it's actually straightforward actually quite straightforward lesson to people. and i think it should be a really good lesson to younger people as well, which is try do something is if you try to do something that not true to yourself , that is not true to yourself, then you will be found out about it. okay? there has to be it. okay? yeah. there has to be a happy medium between naked billiards in vegas and what billiards in las vegas and what we've seen about being barefoot. i've been taking jet i've been taking a private jet to kind of eco retreat. to some kind of eco retreat. there's got to be middle there's got to be a middle ground all of those ground between all of those things. you try and things. but if you try and relentlessly pursue this overintellectual narrative about

being to the world and that being good to the world and that you've managed to activate a higher echelon of consciousness and you are here as a modern day gingerjesus out and ginger jesus to come out and educate us all on how to live. you are going to get found out and your popularity to going and your popularity is to going go through floor and may go through the floor and you may well losing family. well end up losing your family. and you know it, you and before you know it, you might find yourself being called grifters this is grifters by spotify. and this is the stuff that happens the kind of stuff that happens if harry and meghan just just just themselves and just if harry and meghan just just just all themselves and just if harry and meghan just just just all right selves and just if harry and meghan just just just all right andes and just if harry and meghan just just just all right and been! just been. all right and been natural, maybe natural, then maybe they wouldn't situation. wouldn't be in this situation. but. but we go. angela, but. but there we go. angela, thank very, very thank thank you very, very much. thank you for coming to my ted talk. angela who is the angela epstein there, who is the journalist and broadcaster and friend the show. now the uk friend of the show. now the uk has signed deal with turkey. friend of the show. now the uk has the 1ed deal with turkey. friend of the show. now the uk has the latestieal with turkey. friend of the show. now the uk has the latest attempt turkey. friend of the show. now the uk has the latest attempt t0|rkey. friend of the show. now the uk has the latest attempt to solve it's the latest attempt to solve the migrant what it the migrant crisis. what it hopefully that we now hopefully means is that we now cut off the human trafficking gangs source. the downside gangs at source. the downside with that we now have to with that is that we now have to pay- with that is that we now have to pay. appear, train pay. it would appear, to train the how to the turkish government in how to do the other in do that. and the other flaw in this plan that now a load of this plan is that now a load of people coming on boats are people coming over on boats are actually just turkish citizens. so of a problem

so that's a bit of a problem there. anyway more on this when i come back. patrick christys on gb we are, of course, gb news. we are, of course, britain's the britain's news channel. it's the only place to be all only place to be for all the news that matters to you. news that really matters to you. stay tuned. >> temperature's rising. >> the temperature's rising. boxt of boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office. with the gb news forecast, sunny spells for many of us during the rest of the day, feeling warmer than it has for some time. and then with the increased humidity , we've got an increased chance of overnight as we end of some fog overnight as we end wednesday, there'll be some patchy cloud around for much of scotland, some light showers for the west scotland and a brisk the west of scotland and a brisk wind the far north. also wind for the far north. also fairly breezy out towards the south—west. 1 or 2 showers possible corn wall by the possible for corn wall by the end of night. areas of cloud possible for corn wall by the end some night. areas of cloud possible for corn wall by the end some fog|ht. areas of cloud possible for corn wall by the end some fog affecting of cloud possible for corn wall by the end some fog affecting southern and some fog affecting southern counties of england and south wales . but it's counties of england and south wales. but it's a counties of england and south wales . but it's a warm night wales. but it's a warm night compared with recent nights, 15 or celsius in places by dawn or 16 celsius in places by dawn . we start with the low cloud and fog in some southern and western parts, but otherwise it's sunny skies and

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news it's is 5 pm. this patrick christys. >> it's gb news now will our new deal with turkey actually stop the flow of migrants at saw slight flaw in the plan. now which is that an increasing number of people coming over on small boats are actually turkish. so possibly not. but you might remember our friends at this hotel in wales who have been launching a blockade to stop the use of their local

hotel as a migrant hotel. they are still standing firm. we're going to check back in with them. some shocking video footage there of the way that they're being treated by the local authorities as well. so make sure you keep your eyes peeled for that. in other news, though, we will be talking about this £17.5 billion a year. that is the money that you are paying for civil service staff. we are now employing more than 520,000 people in our civil service it is worth noting, of course, that at one moment in time more than 1 in 10 of them were off work with long covid. there appears to be an aggressive work from home culture. and do you feel as though country is seriously though our country is seriously more i certainly more efficient? i certainly don't. it massive rip off don't. is it a massive rip off and there's the story as well. yes, that's a ship that yes, that's right. a ship that sunk around 500 years ago or so has now gone woke because some items that were dredged up from the bottom of the ocean, they were called queer , as far as i were called queer, as far as i can gather, in an attempt to appease the lgbtq+ community. but as so often happens, it has

enraged them. patrick christys on . gb news. well, there we go. on. gb news. well, there we go. loads coming your way. i am going to be looking at what's been going on at this hotel in wales. important to check back in them. they decided that in with them. they decided that they going to allow it they were not going to allow it physically to become a migrant hotel. launched a blockade hotel. they launched a blockade . getting on? we'll . how are they getting on? we'll find in a tick after your find out in a tick after your headunes find out in a tick after your headlines with . ray thanks , headlines with. ray thanks, patrick. >> 5:01. here's the latest . >> 5:01. here's the latest. police in northern ireland say they're now investigating a second data breach . this time second data breach. this time the theft of documents relating to a stolen laptop . according to to a stolen laptop. according to the force, a spreadsheet containing the names of more than 200 serving officers and staff was stolen from a private vehicle in the newtownabbey area on july sixth, the police issued laptop and radio were also taken

. now earlier, the psni announced a critical incident after admitting that data revealing the details of thousands of police officers was briefly published . online the briefly published. online the prime minister of france has visited the site of a deadly fire that killed 11 people early this morning. fire that killed 11 people early this morning . the blaze broke this morning. the blaze broke out at a holiday home for disabled people and was quickly extinguished by firefighters as president emmanuel macron described it as a tragedy . 41 described it as a tragedy. 41 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the italian island of lampedusa , local media of lampedusa, local media reports saying that four people who survived the wreckage told rescuers they were on a boat that set off from tunisia and sank on its way to italy. it also said the boat that was carrying 45 people included . carrying 45 people included. three children. a surge in illegal people smuggling gangs is to be tackled by a new deal struck between the uk and turkey

. under the agreement, the turkish national police will speed up the process of returning turkish nationals who come to britain via illegal channels , as turkey's often used channels, as turkey's often used as a major hub for people smuggling gangs due to due to its geographic location. reports suggest that many vessels used to cross the channel originate there too young men have been handcuffed and led away from london shops rumoured to be the target of tiktok organised disorder. it comes after posts on the social media platform encouraged people to steal from oxford street stores , prompting oxford street stores, prompting a heavy police presence . some a heavy police presence. some outlets shut their doors while crowds gathered and traffic was temporarily brought to a halt. crowds gathered and traffic was temporarily brought to a halt . a temporarily brought to a halt. a spokesperson for the mayor of london told us anyone who's seen social media content encouraging them to commit crime should ignore it . strikes by staff at ignore it. strikes by staff at gatwick airport will cause disruption during the bank houday disruption during the bank holiday weekend as workers announce fresh walkouts. it's

part of an ongoing dispute over pay- part of an ongoing dispute over pay. the unite union saying that around 230 workers, including ground handlers and those who assist passengers, will walk out for eight days from august the 18th and then again august 25th . fewer homes are to be built by a major construction firm due to a major construction firm due to a sharp slowdown in the property market. bellway told shareholders it expects completion to decrease due to weaker order numbers and low reservation rates. but there is some good news on the way for those with a mortgage. several of britain's biggest lenders have cut their interest rates today. have cut their interest rates today . let's take a look at today. let's take a look at what's in store for us nationwide. cutting up to 0.55% off its fixed rate mortgages . off its fixed rate mortgages. tsb has slashed around . 0.4% tsb has slashed around. 0.4% from selected five year fixed rate products , and hsbc has cut rate products, and hsbc has cut rates on its residential mortgage range by 0.2. and of course, the bank of england base

rate remains at 5.25. at a british man is among five people who have been shot dead in violent protests in south africa. the 40 year old reportedly a doctor who was a tourist in the country, was killed in cape town last thursday. now it's believed that he'd taken a wrong turn when a group approached the vehicle and shot him. unrest began after minibus taxi drivers announced a week long strike. well online medical company babylon health is at risk of collapsing unless it finds a buyer. babylon's gp at hand service is available 24 hours a day via your smartphone phone. it's funded by the nhs and became the first gp provider to build up more than 100,000 patients since the us listed company has struggled after a business merger fell through . it business merger fell through. it says the uk part of its business is still successful and sustainable , but will struggle sustainable, but will struggle to continue unless a solution is

found . and finally , a search is found. and finally, a search is underway for a missing pelican after it escaped from blackpool zoo.the after it escaped from blackpool zoo. the 14 week old bird took to the sky on friday afternoon after it was startled by a flock of gulls . a spokesperson for the of gulls. a spokesperson for the zoo saying that as the little bird had only just grown its aduu bird had only just grown its adult feathers, its wings had not yet been clipped. they've assured people that pelicans are docile creatures and say there is no threat to the public at this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now let's get straight back to . patrick >> look, there's absolutely loads on the agenda this hour, but i just wanted to, before we get stuck into the latest deal with turkey over the migrant crisis, to have a chat about something that is affecting the taxpayer, argue just as taxpayer, i would argue just as much, not more. the british much, if not more. the british taxpayer is being ripped off by

the civil service. wage bill the civil service. the wage bill is somewhere between £155 is now somewhere between £15.5 billion and £175 is now somewhere between £15.5 billion and £17.5 billion. and i think the fact that reports, give or take a couple of billion highlight how much we are all paying highlight how much we are all paying for them, the number of people earning more than £100,000 a year in our civil service is increased by 88% since 2016. we have increased the number of whitehall staff by more than 100,000 in the last few years alone. and that, for a bit of context, is more than the entirety of our british army. we now have 520,000 civil service staff and what are we getting ? staff and what are we getting? an aggressive work from home culture. the systematic stitch up and ousting of democratically elected conservatives trying to enforce government policy. one person nearly accident mentally handed gibraltar back to the spanish, for goodness sake. bizarrely they're considering going on strike because they say that their pay isn't good enough. there was a time when more than 1 in 10 civil servants

claimed they were suffering from long covid. jacob rees—mogg blames civil servants for scaling back a bonfire of eu laws . their own union had to laws. their own union had to come out and ask people to stop calling them lazy , inefficient calling them lazy, inefficient snowflakes , which is a shame snowflakes, which is a shame because we have massive inefficiencies , huge delays, inefficiencies, huge delays, backlogs and the general poor running of the country behind the scenes. but of course they have got time to go on courses about conscious inclusion, micro aggressions, debiasing decision making. you will be pleased to know that they have a series of champions. there is a race faith and belief champion , a champion and belief champion, a champion for age , carers and culture, a for age, carers and culture, a disability champion, an lgbtq+ champion. a social mobility champion. a social mobility champion . yeah. get in. well, champion. yeah. get in. well, i think the taxpayer has a right to ask civil servants what they do all day, actually. and if the pubuc do all day, actually. and if the public are being ripped off by a bloated public sector. unfortunately, civil servants

didn't really feel the need, though . to talk to me a little though. to talk to me a little bit earlier on when i stood outside a couple of different civil service hotspots and asked them if they were grossly overpaid, what they did for a living, whether they living, and whether or not they could their salaries. could justify their salaries. they don't really like it up them, do they? but i think that taxpayers are right to call out civil you civil servants. why because you pay civil servants. why because you pay wages as . they should pay their wages as. they should have an efficiency champion , have an efficiency champion, shouldn't they? that would be absolutely golden. but gbviews@gbnews.com will have a little bit more on that in the later in the hour and hopefully as well, some clips of me outside chatting to some civil servants albeit briefly . but now servants albeit briefly. but now to latest government to to the latest government plan to crack criminal crack down on criminal trafficking . an trafficking gangs. an interesting period of time this for the migrant crisis. okay. because we've got whatever nonsense happening with the nonsense is happening with the bibby stockholm, think bibby stockholm, i think people should grateful to be on should be more grateful to be on that of course, that boat. someone of course, said being on a said that they were being on a floating alcatraz, but alcatraz did not allow people to come and

go they please, feed them go as they please, feed them half well provide them half as well or provide them with a tv room, for example. but we the ascension we have got that. the ascension island plan of dumping a load of them there is going to them on there is not going to work. are paying the french a work. we are paying the french a load not getting load of money and not getting a lot in return that. we have lot in return for that. we have done a deal supposedly with done a deal supposedly now with turkey cut down on the human turkey to cut down on the human trafficking taking place trafficking that is taking place . a problem, which . but there is a problem, which is a of people coming is that a load of people coming on are indeed now turkish is that a load of people coming oand are indeed now turkish is that a load of people coming oand we are indeed now turkish is that a load of people coming oand we are alsozd now turkish is that a load of people coming oand we are also trying turkish is that a load of people coming oand we are also trying t0|rkish is that a load of people coming oand we are also trying to work . and we are also trying to work with the germans to actually cut the boats. there does the number of boats. there does come you just think come a point when you just think good is there. is there good grief, is there. is there that much more that we could really be doing? but but it does, of course, come off the back of lee anderson, who is the deputy chairman of the conservative party. he's copped it i think unfairly, but it a bit. i think unfairly, but he's getting a lot of grief over this for saying on gb news last night that the conservative party has failed on immigration i >> -- >> it's easy to make excuses to anyone. >> this is out of control. where the you know, we're in power at the you know, we're in power at the moment. >> i'm, as you say, the deputy

chair of the conservative party. we're government and we have we're in government and we have failed on there's no doubt failed on this. there's no doubt about failed on this. there's no doubt aboyou know, we've said we're >> you know, we've said we're going fix it. it is a failure. >> joining us now is our home security editor, white is security editor, mark white is lee anderson right? they lee anderson right? have they failed? >> well, i think if you take on face, value , what the prime face, face value, what the prime minister, rishi sunak , said when minister, rishi sunak, said when he stood up in april of this year and said that they are managing to stop the small boats that the number of small boats coming across was down significantly on what it was at the same period last year. i think , yes, he is failing think, yes, he is failing because actually he since then the number has risen . it's still the number has risen. it's still a bit shy of what it was at this penod a bit shy of what it was at this period last year, but that's mainly due to the weather. we've had appalling weather conditions out in the channel and the fact is he promised to stop the boats. he hasn't stopped the

boats. he hasn't stopped the boats. they're still coming. so on that by that measure , you on that by that measure, you could say absolutely they're failing rishi sunak will with some conviction actually be able to say we've we've done a returns agreement with albania . returns agreement with albania. >> we're trying to sort that out or we are looking into a load of different policies making it easier to deport people as well, even though that hasn't really got off the ground yet. we are trying to work with the germans to finally stop the actual movement of these boats. similar setup when it comes to turkey , setup when it comes to turkey, we are paying the french a load of money. it's not our fault that they're not doing that much with looking as though with it. it is looking as though it might be beyond the wit of man to stop the migrant crisis. but there are two options, aren't there, which is pay the french more to actually do more or turn the boats back ? or turn the boats back? >> yes, i think there is no doubt that the migrant crisis worse in terms of small boats coming across the english channel coming across the english channel, could be stopped

tomorrow if the french president, emmanuel macron, agreed to allow the uk government to return those who crossed the english channel. now they've never agreed to that before. no reason to believe they would. but by the very process of doing that, it would break the business model of these people smugglers because what is the point of going to nonh what is the point of going to north west france paying x thousand pounds to a criminal to get on a boat and come across to the uk? if all that's going to happenis the uk? if all that's going to happen is your return to france. so that would break the business model. it might be unpalatable for the french president as in terms of how that would play with his domestic audience, because you would of course have all these people who would then become a french problem, but they are still a french problem. but that french problem is in dunkirk . it's but that french problem is in dunkirk. it's in but that french problem is in dunkirk . it's in cali blowing dunkirk. it's in cali blowing where many, many thousands of people are gathered and camped

up there and are going into to these communities on a regular bafis these communities on a regular basis and are being blamed for a very significant rise in criminality and anti—social. >> and then they manage somehow to overcome their deep seated fear of water and make it across the busiest shipping lane in the world. mark, thank you very world. but mark, thank you very much. home security much. mark, home security ednon much. mark, home security editor. all editor. now, look, this all culminates, lot of culminates, doesn't it? a lot of the in these small boats the time in these small boats crossings all know crossings is, as we all know now, by the use of migrant hotels. well, let's get more now on that we covered on a story that we covered extensively on this a few extensively on this show a few weeks ago. 95 people who worked at a hotel in south wales were made redundant june, but made redundant in june, but plans than 200 asylum plans for more than 200 asylum seekers to move in haven't gone well. residents have well. local residents have basically set up a blockade , basically set up a blockade, protesting 24 hours a day outside the stradey park hotel in llanelli and gb news. viewers will be able to see footage that we have been given. thank you very much. of a local company removing skips from the hotel on monday. so look, local business is are joining forces with locals to make it as impossible

as possible to get asylum seekers in there now. joining me now is dan morgan from the voice of wales . dan, thank you very of wales. dan, thank you very much. it's been a few weeks since i last checked in with you, but i've been watching your videos online with interest. and i back in what's i wanted to check back in what's the of play at this hotel? the state of play at this hotel? because as i don't because as people i don't think maybe that last. maybe thought that you'd last. they thought that you'd they maybe thought that you'd give some point, but give in at some point, but you've not. you're holding the fort. >> yeah, the. >> yeah, the. >> oh, no disaster poster. we will never know . i can fill you will never know. i can fill you in. really? because i was speaking to dan a little bit earlier while getting earlier on while we're getting back. so basically what's happenedis back. so basically what's happened is that 24 hours a day, there group of people who there is a group of people who are outside this hotel. are still outside this hotel. they with an they have been presented with an absolute that absolute gift that unfortunately, of people unfortunately, a lot of people in areas don't have unfortunately, a lot of people irwhich areas don't have unfortunately, a lot of people irwhich is areas don't have unfortunately, a lot of people irwhich is a areas don't have unfortunately, a lot of people irwhich is a private don't have unfortunately, a lot of people irwhich is a private road have unfortunately, a lot of people irwhich is a private road ,�*|ave unfortunately, a lot of people irwhich is a private road , which , which is a private road, which you therefore blockade. you can therefore blockade. dan's back room, people. dan's back in the room, people. here comes . there we go. here he comes. there we go. right you've stood firm, haven't you? what's going on? >> yeah, the protesters , they >> yeah, the protesters, they haven't backed down at all. >> the only thing that has

changed and it isn't quite important is that it has gone to court. and hotel did win an court. and the hotel did win an injunction. now, the injunction itself prevent anybody from itself does prevent anybody from actually stopping any vehicles going in and coming out. it also . so it's quite strict. it's very strict, actually, because it includes causing, assisting and encouraging anyone else to break the order. so that could be a conversation in the pub. it also includes spoiling enjoyment of the hotel . you know, again, of the hotel. you know, again, that can be interpreted any way that can be interpreted any way that you like . so it has taken that you like. so it has taken a significant blow, albeit that it hasn't dampened the spirits, but the pro the migrants they are now allowed access. but the difficulty is , is there's no difficulty is, is there's no firms willing to go in and help fix the issues that need to be done. there's rubbish piling up out the backs, there's beds dumped out the front. it's becoming questionable whether it's even going to succeed or ever going to work. >> so this is the thing. so initially they tried to land a

migrant hotel on you sacking all the staff without any public consult nation. then you guys found what was a little bit of a loophole in the sense that it was private road that meant was a private road that meant that you could blockade it, which you did quite successfully. they've then gone, right? to court right? we'll try to go to court and injunction, which and get some injunction, which somehow got and then somehow they've got and then actually relying now on actually it's relying now on local firms and local companies saying, you know what, we're not actually going to help when it comes to setting up this hotel as a base for migrants. i mean, look, you know, what's going to happen eventually they're going to people to start employing people from further but further afield, aren't they? but but i think, a big a but this is, i think, a big a big lesson in people power, isn't dan? isn't it, dan? >> yeah, absolutely . you know, >> yeah, absolutely. you know, this this shows and you saw that company going out, they have got the full support of the community now, their reviews on google and facebook and things like are as sounding and like that are as sounding and they're fake reviews. they're not fake reviews. they're know, they're saying that, you know, this support and this company needs support and they're for what's they're standing up for what's right. please you know, support this firm and it is that good old fashioned, although it's not

a picket. it's that sort of picket where, you know, if picket feel where, you know, if you cross the line, you become a scab. now, what they're what they're polite. they're doing is very polite. it's well mannered, and it's very well mannered, and it it's very welgame nered, and it it's very well mannered, and it it's very welgame nowi, and it it's very well mannered, and it it's very welgame now because it is a waiting game now because it is a waiting game now because it is just a matter of time, like you said, the migrants do you said, until the migrants do arrive. it is a test of arrive. but it is a test of their strength because a lot of people would have given in a long time ago. they're in 24 hour shifts in a marquee outside . and the weather, you know, despite what you hear, it's been absolutely disastrous in wales. it hasn't stopped it's it hasn't stopped raining. it's been cold. so, you been freezing cold. so, you know, to off the know, hats to off the protesters. are backing protesters. they are not backing down and they are there for the long haul. >> no, 100. and just >> yeah, no, 100. and just quickly, last time that we spoke , there were issues with some of the security at the hotel and some of the protesters. was what's the state of play there? i saw i was quite concerned, actually. i saw an image online that appeared to show one of the demonstrators was one of the people that are there injured. is that right ? people that are there injured. is that right? were people that are there injured. is that right ? were they hit by is that right? were they hit by a car or something ?

a car or something? >> that's right. so it was a vehicle leaving the hotel. i don't know. the company . it was don't know. the company. it was a maintenance vehicle. and apparently from england when they came out of the hotel, they came out at some speed, allegedly, there was a collision with one of the boulders that it's the second time these have been hit. now and a pedestrian or and that protester or protester and that protester had to be taken to cardiff hosphal had to be taken to cardiff hospital. now that, you know, from llanelli to cardiff is about an hour and 20 minute drive. um, there was no ambulance. they are okay from what i from what i hear, there was no serious, serious injuries, but they needed to be checked but it is getting checked out. but it is getting to a pressure feel now to a pressure cooker feel now where the security you can tell it's the same security with their last time. so there's still that sort of , their last time. so there's still that sort of, um, animosity between the two groups. but it is getting to pressure point because they can't get food, they can't get the roof fixed, which needs to be fixed. they can't get rubbish removed, can't any removed, they can't get any support anywhere either. support from anywhere either. and can see that the and you can see that the tensions are building and this

who's going down first? who's going to back down first? >> i don't think it's >> well, i don't think it's going to be you, is it? to be fair. but dan, thank you very, very much. it's great to have you on the and great to you on the show and great to check with the people in check in with the people in llanelli. and one day we'll learn how to pronounce it correctly. not correctly. that day is not today. all of today. i apologise about all of that. it's dan morgan there from the from voice of wales. the from the voice of wales. it's interesting. wanted it's interesting. i wanted to check they're check back in because they're big putting all big online. they're putting all their there. and it's their stuff out there. and it's interesting people to note, interesting for people to note, i think that are still i think that they are still standing firm. and you contrast that with i think a of that with i think a lot of the areas we've seen maybe areas where we've seen and maybe areas where we've seen and maybe a communities who wish a lot of communities who wish they'd similar, they'd done something similar, but that. but we'll move on from that. now. yousaf has ordered now. humza yousaf has ordered a review of scottish government credit love credit card spending. i'd love to see it after scottish labour revealed how officials spent £14 million a three period million over a three year period , have been out , snp bigwigs have been out today campaigning ahead of the by—election in rutherglen and hamilton west. join us now from rutherglen is our scotland reporter tony maguire. tony, thank you very, very much . it is

thank you very, very much. it is a bad time for the snp. we had nicola sturgeon's garden getting the blue tents put up in front of it. of course, her husband apparently driving around without any tax on his car, which was an honest mistake. and also we had the snp finances story that broke as well. now humza yousaf is ordering a review of spending. it's all kicking . off kicking. off >> yeah, that's right. patrick um, certainly you got to wonder how many days of this year will feature in the snp annual of 2023 when it's mailed out to members . but 2023 when it's mailed out to members. but certainly this seems to be the latest and it's another financial issue which of course the snp could really be doing without just now. this byelection here in rutherglen and hamilton west. you know, i know that down south there was a few a few weeks ago and i'm probably a lot of people are sick of them by now. but this is really crucial . and the other really crucial. and the other week we saw, know, quite an week we saw, you know, quite an even split. got slice even split. everyone got a slice of between the main of cake between the main political down in

political parties down in westminster it's really westminster up here, it's really has won by snp and has to be won by snp and scottish labour. so a few weeks ago i met michael shanks, the new scottish labour candidate for this constituency when the by—election finally rolls around, believe sometime in around, we believe sometime in october. but certainly today was a chance for me to meet katy loudon and giving her his an unrelenting support, shall we say , was snp westminster leader say, was snp westminster leader stephen flynn. now his seats in the north—east of scotland . so the north—east of scotland. so quite a journey down for him . quite a journey down for him. but i had to ask him with all these revelations over the last couple of days about these expenditure chairs, where did he sit on this? >> well , of course, sit on this? >> well, of course, as i understand it, the first minister of scotland has outlined the fact that there will be an immediate and urgent review from the top civil servant in relation to some of the things that we've seen in the things that we've seen in the paper in the last few days. >> and i think that's the right approach take. think the approach to take. i think the pubuc approach to take. i think the public have clarity public deserves to have clarity in some of the in relation to some of the things that they've read and

hopefully we can get to a point where the public has trust where the public has has trust and that money being and where that money is being spent. don't have a spent. of course, i don't have a direct into to how that direct link into to how that money is being spent or indeed direct link into to how that mowhom,being spent or indeed direct link into to how that mowhom, becauseent or indeed direct link into to how that mowhom, because itt or indeed direct link into to how that mowhom, because it is,�* indeed direct link into to how that mowhom, because it is, asdeed by whom, because it is, as i say, is my understanding. this has been so through a civil servants. hopefully the top servants. so hopefully the top civil can get to the civil servant can get to the bottom and provide the bottom of this and provide the clarity public today, bottom of this and provide the clar sure public today, bottom of this and provide the clar sure require. blic today, bottom of this and provide the clarsure require. so: today, bottom of this and provide the clarsure require. so i've ay, bottom of this and provide the clarsure require. so i've i've i'm sure require. so i've i've spent quite a few days here in rutherglen and residents here, i think would think that anyone would be better than the snp . would be better than the snp. >> ferrier however , snp >> margaret ferrier however, snp and labour, scottish labour are going to continue to put everything winning this everything in to winning this seat a really important seat as a really important by—election coming up soon. >> tony, thank you very, very much . it's tony mcguire there, much. it's tony mcguire there, our scotland from our scotland reporter from rutherglen . apparently i have to rutherglen. apparently i have to apologise just in case there were any offensive gestures that flashed up on your screen that not a picture of nicola sturgeon , course. it was indeed , of course. no, it was indeed some people apparently doing things tony's head. and things behind tony's head. and we have a thing like that we can't have a thing like that now. the personal details now. now, the personal details of police officer in of every police officer in northern has been

northern ireland has been published it's been published on line. it's been confirmed as well that of confirmed as well that tens of millions of votes could have had their information accessed by hackers. asking how safe our hackers. i'm asking how safe our data is. i think we all know the answer is not very. my other point would be what on earth is going on with the people who we trust with our personal data? and crucially, can we any and crucially, can we get any compo patrick on gb compo patrick christys on gb news

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>> well, in just a few moments , >> well, in just a few moments, i will be showing you exposing to you actually the bloated size of the whitehall civil service blob . and you will get to find blob. and you will get to find out what happened when i actually went out and asked some civil servants if they provided value for money and find out why even a famous 16 century warship isn't safe from the wokerati . isn't safe from the wokerati. but before all of that, to shocking data breaches that have come to light today that affect loads of us, i mean, literally tens of millions of people, in fact, quite possibly you and everyone , you know, details of everyone, you know, details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed now by hackers, possibly russian. but as it currently stands, we don't know who targeted the electoral commission well, could russians have actually been behind this? also, the police service of northern ireland has called a critical incident after personnel and, of course, their employment data of 10,000 officers was published online. fine, which is of vital importance given the fact that

300 officers have been killed in northern ireland as a result of the troubles and the ongoing saga. since then, there's now been a data breach been a second data breach relating a laptop stolen on relating to a laptop stolen on july the 6th, when documents including a spreadsheet containing the names of more than 200 serving officers and staff, stolen. basically, staff, were stolen. basically, it's non stop data breaches. i could have summarised that for you as head of you in seconds. as head of counter terrorism, former head of terrorism the of counter terrorism at the ministry of defence, major general chapman me . general chip chapman joins me. thank you very, very much . how thank you very, very much. how worried should we be about the people that we put in charge of securing our data ? well we securing our data? well we should be worried across the board, both in civil industry and often in in government. >> and that is because of three things, essentially , you need things, essentially, you need people, process and technology . people, process and technology. >> a lot of civilian companies will see cyber as a cost and won't invest in it. >> that is not necessarily the case in government organisations , but we've seen what happens here in with the psni because that was a human failure . 94% of

that was a human failure. 94% of all data breaches originate and with malware and viruses originate in the email domain . originate in the email domain. >> it's people clicking on links. so pretty dumb people is often the source of a lot of this problem. now of course, we do have enshrined in law now the information commissioner office. >> look at all these breaches and have massive powers . and have massive powers. >> for example, all remember the massive breach of the british airways a few years ago where they were fined multiple millions, but in northern ireland's case, it's the number of data points and data sets , of data points and data sets, which is the relevant thing, because if you know where who they are or what they do and where they do it and you add that to the electoral roll and where they do it is often with those who actually work alongside m15. you've got a significant number of data sets which can be useful either to a terrorist, and it's worth noting that there were eight terrorist attacks on national security targets in northern ireland from

2018 to 2023. so in northern ireland it has both operational security and personal security aspects in the wider aspects, this is russians. the russians are always trying to use what we call advanced persistent threats, run through a thing called the internet research agency in saint petersburg, standfast, that was actually a payrolled by prigozhin from 2017 onwards. >> now, chip , onwards. >> now, chip, i am onwards. >> now, chip , i am getting some >> now, chip, i am getting some emails in saying why do i care if my information for the electoral commission has been leaked? surely a lot of that information is out there already. why should people bother apart from, i would argue , the fact that the electoral commission that spent so long investigating bogus claims of russian interference in brexit was seemingly unable and unwilling tell us about the unwilling to tell us about the fact that they may well have been by russians been hacked by the russians a couple ago. but why couple of years ago. but why should people be should most people be be concerned ? concerned? >> because it's just one >> because it's not just one

data so really we talk data set. so really we talk about metadata and metadata is data about data. so if you put that together with all the other knowledge points about people, you should care because people's minds could be hacked. so for example, the advanced persistent threats and knowing a lot of data sets could mean that you or ihave data sets could mean that you or i have advertising, which is absolutely individually tailored to us, to try and hack our mind in a in a certain way. let me give you an example. in may 2016, the heart of texas had 250,000 facebook members . the 250,000 facebook members. the united muslims of texas had 320,000 members. they were brought together for a big punch up at a mosque in houston. both of those groups were set up by the russian internet research agency , and the content was agency, and the content was promulgate by the russians. that was real americans, real divisiveness that was powered by the russians. that's why metadata, the data about data is so important , why people need to

so important, why people need to know about it . know about it. >> that is a fascinating example that i must admit i was not aware of. it's the kind of story that i think we would have covered it extend at gb news if that had happened, actually. but a chip. thank you very, very much. it's great to have you on and great to have your insight. and that, think, is a really and that, i think, is a really good for people who are good point for people who are watching to this watching or listening to this now, i care my now, why should i care if my address is out there? people might well, it is because might know, well, it is because of there is chip of those reasons. there is chip chapman saying hack chapman was saying they can hack your is major general your mind. that is major general chip chapman. there the former head counter—terrorism at the head of counter—terrorism at the ministry did make ministry of defence. he did make a point right at the a great point right at the start, and think it is vital, start, and i think it is vital, which a of this which is that a lot of this comes to idiots and who are comes down to idiots and who are in charge of looking after your personal information. we consent in charge of looking after your pe giving information. we consent in charge of looking after your pe giving inforn heck. we consent in charge of looking after your pe giving inforn heck of ie consent in charge of looking after your pe giving inforn heck of a consent in charge of looking after your pe giving inforn heck of a lot|sent in charge of looking after your pe giving inforn heck of a lot of nt to giving out a heck of a lot of personal information out there and if make mistakes with and if idiots make mistakes with that, you and i get hacked. that, then you and i get hacked. and is a massive problem. and that is a massive problem. that concern . but there we that is a concern. but there we go. right. still loads go. right. there's still loads to come between now and 6:00, a few months after civil servants went strike, emerged

went out on strike, it's emerged that the whitehall blob is getting and bigger and getting bigger and bigger and bigger. costing us loads bigger. it's costing us loads of money. and spoke to some money. i went and spoke to some civil earlier on. i'll civil servants earlier on. i'll be showing you some footage of that. pretty staggering that. it is pretty staggering actually, your actually, but now as your headunes actually, but now as your headlines with . ray 5:34, our headlines with. ray 5:34, our top story, police in northern ireland are now investigating a second data breach this time the theft of documents relating to a stolen laptop. >> according to the force, a spreadsheet containing the names of more than 200 serving officers and staff was stolen from a private vehicle in the newtownabbey area on july sixth. earlier, the psni declared a critical incident after admitting that data revealing the details of thousands of police was briefly published online. strikes by staff at gatwick airport will cause disruption during the bank houday disruption during the bank holiday weekend with workers announcing fresh walkouts over pay- announcing fresh walkouts over pay. the unite union says 230 staff will walk out for eight

days from august 18th and the 25th. and the prime minister of france has visited the site of a deadly fire that killed 11 people early this morning . the people early this morning. the blaze broke out at a holiday home for disabled people and was quickly extinguished by firefighters as you can get more on all of those by visiting our website, gbnews.com . direct website, gb news.com. direct bullion website, gbnews.com. direct bullion sponsors. >> the finance report on gb news for gold and silver investment . for gold and silver investment. >> here's a snapshot of today's financial markets . the pound financial markets. the pound will buy you $1.2723 and ,1.1587. price of gold. £1,507.4o ,1.1587. price of gold. £1,507.40 per ounce and the ftse 100 closed at 7587 points, a direct bullion sponsors the

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risen by almost a quarter since the eu referendum in 2016. >> the figures obtained by the taxpayers alliance also show a huge increase in the wage bill for civil servants. they show that between march 2016 and march this year, civil service employment increased from 418,000 to nearly 520,000. that means that more than a 100,000 extra staff have been taken on since 2016. now that rise outnumbers the entire regular forces of the british army. there's also been an 88% rise in the number of officials receiving more than 100 grand. the taxpayers alliance has estimated that the civil service pay estimated that the civil service pay bill has risen. estimated that the civil service pay bill has risen . from 11.5 pay bill has risen. from 11.5 billion to 17.8 billion over the past six years. i'm joined now by lucille thirlby, who is the assistant general secretary of the fda, i believe, which is a trade union for civil servants . trade union for civil servants. thank you very much. okay. what would you say to people who say that they are bloated,

inefficient and the taxpayer is being ripped off? >> well, i would disagree with that. the case that the civil service is growing exponentially beyond any means is and by its own volition, is a complete nonsense. the ministers decide the shape and remit for the civil service and they do workforce planning. they look at what efficiencies can be found throughout the process . at the throughout the process. at the point where this started from, looking at the point of 2016, the civil service was at its lowest numbers since the second world war. so the period in which you've grown. yes you've had the referendum , you've also had the referendum, you've also had the referendum, you've also had covid and the pandemic, and therefore , there are legitimate therefore, there are legitimate reasons for the growth of the numbers. what results has the taxpayer seen having to

recognise the what what what have we got? >> have we got some great examples of , of, you know, examples of, of, you know, ruthless efficiency as a result of this additional expenditure for the british taxpayer ? for the british taxpayer? because at the minute you're copping it a bit in the civil service, aren't you a lazy work from home culture. this is what people lobbying out, people will be lobbying out, won't and that. so. won't they? and all of that. so. so on, let's have let's so come on, let's have let's have hard core examples of have some hard core examples of ruthless efficiency. okay >> 68% of the people who work in the civil service work for the ministry of justice, the home office, ministry of defence, hmrc . department of work and hmrc. department of work and pensions , those are delivering pensions, those are delivering core . policy statements for the core. policy statements for the government. so in the dwp , government. so in the dwp, they're providing pensions, they're providing pensions, they're providing pensions, they're providing universal credit in the home office, we know that people want to have their passports on time that is delivered , but it takes staff in

delivered, but it takes staff in to order provide efficient services and deliver those passports to them effectively. and within the moj, that's a huge department delivering in prisons and across the civil justice processes. there's a huge range of public services that are demanded and needed across the public services. so you know, those are the sorts of efficient services that i'd want to highlight. >> but is it unfair then for people to look at the home office as a lot of people do, and say that we've got a catastrophic asylum seeker backlog and our border security is a complete mess? or look at things like the justice sector and say, well, we've got huge waiting lists for people to go to court our prisons are to court and our prisons are full. there issues there full. there are issues there every day . i mean, on the every single day. i mean, on the face of it, it it it doesn't look like they're doing that well those areas. but is that well in those areas. but is that not the fault civil servants? yes. >> no. well, no, absolutely. the fact is , is that, as i said, in

fact is, is that, as i said, in 2016, you had the lowest level of civil servants in in in across since the second world war. it takes time to build up those services . we also had a those services. we also had a pandemic which led to an immediate turnaround of different ways of working how people deliver their services . people deliver their services. and naturally those backlogs are caused by underfunding of those core services. so although the taxpayers allowance thing allows us think that there's a misuse of those funds, actually those funds are not being allocated correctly by this government and haven't been for the last 12 years. a lot of people might be thinking, well, good grief , when thinking, well, good grief, when we look at a wage . bill of we look at a wage. bill of around £178 we look at a wage. bill of around £17.8 billion a year and then we see that there was a penod then we see that there was a period of time apparently where 1 in 10 civil servants were saying that they had long covid and that there is this perceived work from home culture as well . work from home culture as well.

>> so people might raise the point why are you striking over a lack of pay? i mean, it sounds like a cushy gig. >> it certainly isn't a cushy gig- >> it certainly isn't a cushy gig. the civil service pay system is fundamentally broken. i do not recognise a lot of people. my taxpayer allowance allowances statistic sticks at all. there's a from the cabinet office 6% pardon from the they've got the stats through an foi from the cabinet office though haven't they. >> yes. >> yes. >> recognise that. but as i said dunng >> recognise that. but as i said during that period you've had a growth of employee fees that doesn't to their pay. doesn't relate to their pay. their pay has not kept pace with inflation in 88, 88, an 88% increase in the number of people earning more than 100 grand yeah >> that might just prove that, no, an 88% increase in the number of people on six figures, but that that's a small, very small part of the hundreds of thousands of people who work in in the civil service. >> there is a cost to paying people within the civil service

and within public services. but actually we the evidence that we've provided both to the senior salaries review body and to other and to the government itself about its own pay, is that they're not keeping pace with private sector or other pubuc with private sector or other public sector bodies and they've got recruitment and retention issues, which is meaning there's more churn, which means it costs them more money. so actually there are systemic issues with pay there are systemic issues with pay in the civil service >> all right, lizzie, look, can i just say thank you very, very much for coming on? it is a fascinating conversation and great to get your insight, your insider it were, as insider insight, as it were, as lucille thirlby. there is the assistant general secretary of the of course, works the fda, which of course, works a with servants. a lot with civil servants. right. okay. the mary rose right. okay. now, the mary rose sank 480 years ago. sank almost 480 years ago. barely day by now and barely a day goes by now and it's now being an lgbtq+ it's now being given an lgbtq+ makeover. yes the ancient ruined ship got to appease the lgbtq+ community. anyway. patrick christys on gb news. we are

gb news the people's channel. britain's watching young . britain's watching young. a row has broken out after the mary rose museum claimed that normal day to day items found on the ship have, quote , queer attributes. >> look, seriously , strap >> look, seriously, strap yourselves in for one of the most insane stories that you will hear, and that really is saying something. the blog,

which is entitled queering the mary rose's collection, says it attempts to use queerness as an interpretive tool to represent lgbtq+ stories. it says is a gold ring . this is found on on gold ring. this is found on on the ocean floor symbolises gay marriage , despite the fact that marriage, despite the fact that it doesn't because this is, i think it's been on seabed for 400 years right . and nick comb 400 years right. and nick comb shows how hair is central to lgbtq identity. get a load of this and octagonal mirror. i'm going to read something to you now. an octagonal mirror found aboard the galleon. they said for queer people, we may experience a strong feeling of gender dysphoria when we look into a mirror , a feeling of into a mirror, a feeling of distress caused by our reflection conflict with our own gender identity is what the flipping heck is this nonsense ? flipping heck is this nonsense? joining me now is philip caselli , cultural historian at leeds

university and senior fellow at the new culture forum. why are we being lied to with just needless lgb plus stuff on an old boat . old boat. >> first of all, patrick, hi. it's great to talk to you again. my it's great to talk to you again. my connection isn't very good, actually. i'm hearing, um, i'm heanng actually. i'm hearing, um, i'm hearing you really slowly, but i think the question was why would be why are we being sold lies here? >> yeah , um, i think what's >> yeah, um, i think what's happening is , is that they're happening is, is that they're repurposing history to serve the interests of the gender cult . interests of the gender cult. >> they're inventing a whole set of associations which . which of associations which. which simply aren't there . simply aren't there. >> and. and this is nothing new, of course, but this is educational and so i look at it and i. >> and i don't know whether to laugh or cry because on the one hand, it it's kind of, um, it's intrinsic , funny, you know, intrinsic, funny, you know, because it's absurd . because it's absurd. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but on the other hand , it's

>> but on the other hand, it's dictatorial and authority driven and we should laugh at those things because they're less frightening if we do laugh at them. >> and we, we have a history of, of sending up these things. >> but also, of course , we have >> but also, of course, we have to take these things very seriously because if , if we to take these things very seriously because if, if we are being told that our history is something it isn't and if these people are rehabil imitating a set of stereotypes that have been dead for years and didn't even exist in the first place, to fight culture wars that aren't even there, then we've really got a problem. >> yeah, you've, you've summed that up perfectly in that sense. this they are making stuff up to, to trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. and why did the mary rose need to be queered i >> -- >> i'm sorry i missed that question. >> the connection is so bad. >> the connection is so bad. >> all right, don't worry. i'll

tell you what philip, i love you, but we're going to leave it there, okay? because we're near there, okay? because we're near the end of the show anyway. philip kingsley, cultural historian leeds university. philip kingsley, cultural histwill1 leeds university. philip kingsley, cultural histwill get leeds university. philip kingsley, cultural histwill get him s university. philip kingsley, cultural histwill get him back versity. philip kingsley, cultural histwill get him back onsity. philip kingsley, cultural histwill get him back on at'. philip kingsley, cultural histwill get him back on at some we will get him back on at some point in the coming days. but no matter, because michelle dewberry dewbs& dewberry joins me now. dewbs& co is up next. >> and of course, my mic was not live when you asked that question because i did out question because i did let out a little chortle . yeah. little chortle. yeah. >> when you asked some things, believe not, michelle, believe it or not, michelle, i don't think everything needs to be queered i just think be queered oh, i just think packet what is wrong with packet in what is wrong with everybody. packet in what is wrong with eve honestly, do. i say often >> honestly, i do. i say often on my program, think this on my program, i think this world is going mad, there world is going mad, but there are organisations that are a lot of organisations that have to justify their existence. so you're like, why so when you're saying like, why is being queered? well, is this being queered? well, it's some organisations it's because some organisations are desperate to prove that they're to and get grants. >> but who goes and looks at the mary rose? i went to look at it on a school trip when i was probably about ten old. probably about ten years old. >> well, want to happen >> well, what i want to happen in about a couple hundred in about a couple of hundred years want people to years is i want people to explore again the sark, explore again the cutty sark, not the shipyards. talk about

i'm talking about the cutty sark moved because little boy moved on because my little boy chucked out an object, a little dinosaur one the dinosaur thing into one of the crevices and we couldn't get it out neither the staff out and neither could the staff member. so i want in a few hundred years, i want them to go and of go through all of and kind of go through all of the workings and stuff of the inner workings and stuff of the inner workings and stuff of the then have the cutty sark and then have this fascinate discussion this real fascinate discussion about this object. about what is this object. and i'd see the i'd be fascinated to see the story they tell themselves story that they tell themselves when it was just when actually it was just a kid's toy. >> i'd like that. i used to do something similar with time capsules i'd just bury capsules where i'd just bury really objects really ridiculous objects in there that one there and then hope that one day. that's the life an day. but that's the life of an only anyway. what have you only child anyway. what have you got coming on show? got coming up on your show? >> all about it. that >> i forgot all about it. that was very blue peter esque, wasn't it? yeah capsules. oh, i forgot all about them. have wasn't it? yeah capsules. oh, i f

think country is worse for think this country is worse for social i social media, not better. so i want follow that want people to follow that twitter yeah, and also twitter gb news. yeah, and also so these polls day so all these polls every day there's poll. they there's a different poll. they saying that the labour party would tories . saying that the labour party would tories. is it would smash the tories. is it really the labour really are the labour party going make great going to make britain great again? really >> a great show. >> well, it's a great show. i wish i was a part of it. i see. right dewbs& co. it's right up next dewbs& co. it's going to be absolutely fantastic. you fantastic. i will see you tomorrow at p.m. fantastic. i will see you tomorrow at pm. thank you tomorrow at 3 pm. thank you very watching. peace out. >> looks things are heating >> looks like things are heating up. boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office. with the gb news forecast, sunny spells for many of us during the rest of the day, feeling warmer than some time . and than it has for some time. and then the increased humidity then with the increased humidity , we've got an increased chance of overnight . right as , we've got an increased chance of end overnight. right as , we've got an increased chance of end wednesday|ht . right as , we've got an increased chance of end wednesday ,il . right as , we've got an increased chance of end wednesday , there'll: as , we've got an increased chance of end wednesday , there'll be we end wednesday, there'll be some patchy cloud around for much of scotland, some light showers the west scotland showers for the west of scotland and wind for the far and a brisk wind for the far north. also fairly breezy out towards the south—west. 1 or 2 showers possible for cornwall by

the end of the night. areas of cloud and some affecting cloud and some fog affecting southern counties of england and south wales. but it's a warm night compared with recent nights, 15 16 celsius in nights, 15 or 16 celsius in places by dawn . we start with places by dawn. we start with the low cloud and fog in some southern and western parts , but southern and western parts, but otherwise sunny otherwise it's largely sunny skies and we keep the bright weather through the rest of the day, especially across central weather through the rest of the day, eastecially across central weather through the rest of the day, east england,oss central weather through the rest of the day,east england, northernal and east england, northern scotland as well. seeing some decent there will decent sunny spells there will be some cloud building through the the chance of the day and the chance of a shower two into the far shower or two into the far southwest at times. otherwise, where sunshine , where we've got the sunshine, temperatures reaching high where we've got the sunshine, temfsoitures reaching high where we've got the sunshine, temfso muchreaching high where we've got the sunshine, temfso much warmer high where we've got the sunshine, temfso much warmer than 1igh where we've got the sunshine, temfso much warmer than itjh where we've got the sunshine, temfso much warmer than it has 20s. so much warmer than it has been for some time , but it been for some time, but it doesn't last. it's a one day wonder. we've got a cold front moving overnight and moving through overnight and that will bring some heavy rain, especially scotland especially to scotland and more especially to scotland and more especially the north of especially for the north of scotland during friday day showers arriving elsewhere , some showers arriving elsewhere, some heavy bursts at times in between, still some sunny spells on friday and still warm in the east. but the weekend will be a mixture of sunny spells and showers. temperatures back to

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why. and let's face it, we all know by now, don't we? we are being ripped off by the banks. they are so quick to hike up the rates on your mortgage, but not so quick to do the same for your savings . they are so quick to do the same for your savings. they are making eye—watering a eye—watering profits as a result. i'm asking , is it result. so i'm asking, is it time follow some of the other time to follow some of the other countries tax the countries and windfall tax the banks? and today when the police should be busy fighting crime? guess what they're doing instead , they are hanging around outside shops such as jd sports. why? well, because idiots on social media have been organising a co—ordinated stealing session. i'm asking a simple question is social media a scourge on society? are we better or worse for having it ? better or worse for having it? and does believing in biological sex and that it matters make you akin to a racist or something like a white supremacist ?

like a white supremacist? definitely