talking about that. in we're talking about that. in other news, this in light of gillian keegan's comments yesterday, politicians yesterday, do our politicians deserve are they deserve thanks? are they selfless public servants or are they all on the take and frankly, ruining our lives by not doing what we tell them to do? be thanking our do? should we be thanking our mps i'll also talking about mps? i'll also be talking about this well. of the this as well. return of the blair riots. yes the vast majority the media shock majority of the media shock horror are hailing a keir starmer shadow cabinet as this great success. we're seeing tony blair mark two. i don't think that's a good thing. i'll be discussing and also this as well. i will be talking about a wind farm in your back garden. this is slipped the radar this is slipped under the radar a bit. so it's being a little bit. so it's being debated the house of commons debated in the house of commons today. we end up seeing today. could we end up seeing wind popping right wind farms popping up right across countryside? would across the countryside? would you at the back your you have one at the back of your house? ulez of rural house? is it the ulez of rural britain ? and finally hour britain? and finally this hour as well birmingham bust, as well, birmingham goes bust, essentially. yes, that's true. birmingham city council, the largest council , has filed for largest council, has filed for effective bankruptcy . what does effective bankruptcy. what does this mean? not just for the people of birmingham, but for

taxpayers generally? how do we now all pay for britain's second taxpayers generally? how do we now patrick for britain's second taxpayers generally? how do we now patrick christys in's second taxpayers generally? how do we now patrick christys .1's second taxpayers generally? how do we now patrick christys . gb;econd taxpayers generally? how do we now patrick christys . gb newsi city, patrick christys. gb news get your views coming in gb views and gb news dot com. i think a couple of big ones for you today. should we be thanking our mps for anything? do they deserve more praise as also as well? the idea of tony blair? mark two the return of the blairite, that good thing? blairite, is that a good thing? gb views gbnews.com but right now it's your headlines with tatiana . patrick. tatiana. patrick. >> thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom bringing city council has effectively declared bankruptcy. in a statement , the bankruptcy. in a statement, the council said it's issued a section 114 notice which prevents all but essential new spending. it says it's part of plans to meet its financial liabilities relating to equal pay liabilities relating to equal pay claims . liabilities relating to equal pay claims. the council liabilities relating to equal pay claims . the council also pay claims. the council also says it's facing a financial gap

within its budget . currently within its budget. currently standing in the region of £87 million in finances related to protecting vulnerable people . protecting vulnerable people. and statutory services remain in place. however, all other new spending will cease with immediate effect . it'll be immediate effect. it'll be easier to build onshore wind farms across england . under new farms across england. under new rules announced by the government this afternoon, the changes will see project supported by local people approved more quickly . local approved more quickly. local areas will also have a greater say in how developments are considered and may even benefit from cheaper energy . the new from cheaper energy. the new rules come after mounting pressure from downing street pressure from mps downing street says its position hasn't changed, despite rishi sunak saying in october that he'll keep a ban on new wind farms built onshore. the government says renewable energy is fuelled 42% of the uk's electricity generation last year up from just 7% in 2010. the school's minister says the government has been very proactive in dealing with the concrete crisis in schools and has been issuing

guidance to schools since 2018. speaking to gb news nick gibbs comments come after the education secretary apologised for using strong language while expressing her frustration at the situation. both rishi sunak and gillian keegan are under growing pressure as schools across the uk have fully or partially closed. mr gibbs says gillian keegan's comments were off the cuff . off the cuff. >> if she was frustrated by the fact that the department for education and the civil servants have been working very hard in terms of dealing with rac issue, we've been very proactive in deaung we've been very proactive in dealing with rac since 2018. we've issued very detailed guidance to responsible bodies and these are the bodies that are legally responsible for school buildings , which are the school buildings, which are the local authorities , the academy local authorities, the academy trusts diocese says. but we provide them with the best advice based on the technical advice based on the technical advice that we get about how to identify and monitor. rac shadow paymaster, general jonathan ashworth says the government's handung ashworth says the government's handling of the matter is an

abdication of response ability. >> i think today look, when you've got sort of roofs at risk of collapse in various various schools across the country, pupils really worried. you've got the education secretary expecting to be thanked and congratulated and parents across the country, teachers who work in schools and pupils , because in schools and pupils, because some of these pupils are old enough to understand what is going on. want you to fix this and don't want any more your and don't want any more of your saying, oh, nothing to do with me, that is frankly an me, guv. that is frankly an abdication of your responsibilities . responsibilities. >> discount retailer b&m has agreed to buy up to 51 wilko stores from administrators for £13 million. it comes nearly a month after wilko collapsed , month after wilko collapsed, putting thousands of jobs at risk across its 400 stores. it's understood that the majority of the new stores are expected to rebrand as b&m . social media rebrand as b&m. social media giant tiktok is attempting to allay fears over its links to china as it opens its first data centre in europe . located in

centre in europe. located in dubun centre in europe. located in dublin is the first of three to be built in europe and will house data from tiktok users from across the continent, including the uk. tiktok is owned by chinese firm bytedance, but has long said it doesn't share information with china. critics, however , fear it could critics, however, fear it could be compelled to hand over data to beijing . kim jong un is to beijing. kim jong un is expected to travel to russia in an armoured train to meet president vladimir putin. the nonh president vladimir putin. the north korean leader could make the trip as early as this month, near to the border between the two countries. it comes as the us claims the kremlin is attempting to acquire military equipment for its war in . equipment for its war in. ukraine and the hottest temperatures of the year could be seen this week, possibly even hotter than ibiza. the met office is predicting maximum temperatures of 32 degrees tomorrow and thursday, potentially matching the year's record during the heatwave in june. it says the uk health security agency issued a yellow alert across the whole of england. apart from the north—east yesterday

north—east from yesterday afternoon until sunday night . afternoon until sunday night. and a section of the great wall of china has been damaged by vandals who were looking for a shortcut . two people used an shortcut. two people used an excavator to dig a shortcut through the historical site located near suzhou city . the located near suzhou city. the suspects have been detained. they claimed they wanted to save time and space. 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 it's back to . patrick >> gillian keegan sweary outbursts yesterday got me thinking do politicians ever deserve a thank you ? i actually deserve a thank you? i actually liked keegan's quite human reaction yesterday . i know a lot reaction yesterday. i know a lot of our viewers did too. even if they don't actually think she's doing a particularly good job. but argument would be that but the argument would be that they public servants, mps they are public servants, mps who dedicate their lives to the

nafion who dedicate their lives to the nation their constituents. nation and their constituents. they don't rich. they give they don't get rich. they give up right to a life up their right to a private life , entire and their , their entire family and their finances is under the finances is put under the microscope and when they get a ministerial position, they often inherit absolute and inherit an absolute mess and have carry the can for it. so have to carry the can for it. so if look at it like that, if you look at it like that, then it is quite literally a thankless task. but i think that's looking at it through thankless task. but i think that'tinted ng at it through thankless task. but i think that'tinted glasses, through thankless task. but i think that'tinted glasses, isn'tgh rose tinted glasses, isn't it? because where i'm sitting, because from where i'm sitting, the job of politician should the job of a politician should be the public votes be to do what the public votes for and then act in their best interests. don't think interests. and i don't think that happens . the people voted that happens. the people voted for brexit. do we thank our politicians for making an absolute horlicks of it, trying to overturn it, talking britain down sabotage this down and trying to sabotage this country's future because they didn't get the result they want country's future because they didrpublic the result they want country's future because they didr public theeveryt they want country's future because they didrpublic theevery opportunity the public at every opportunity vote for a party that says it wants to reduce net migration and illegal immigration. and stop illegal immigration. and we've opened the floodgates. record at record levels of immigration at the of all of our public the expense of all of our public services, our housing stock and our we are unable to our culture. we are unable to get to grips with what's been going the channel and going on in the channel and quite the world clearly

quite frankly, the world clearly thinks have open borders and thinks we have open borders and we there for the taking. we are there for the taking. should we be thanking politicians should we politicians for that? should we be for letting be thanking them for letting britain mullered the britain get mullered by the world? similar note about world? on a similar note about immigration, politicians are terrified of the word recession . they're terrified of spreadsheets . so they want mass spreadsheets. so they want mass immigration so that they can talk about growth and gdp , talk about growth and gdp, conveniently ignoring the fact that we are actually worse off per capita in that very direct sense . chancellors especially sense. chancellors especially put their own vested interests above that of the nation . thank above that of the nation. thank you very much for making us poorer so that you look better to your banker mates. ulez another net zero big green agenda stuff saying it's all about clean air. agenda stuff saying it's all about clean air . and the planet. about clean air. and the planet. are we supposed to say thank you for? sometimes. sometimes using quite questionable science to inflict financial pain on the poorest in society or not bothering to actually update the infrastructure ? we need to hit infrastructure? we need to hit the arbitrary targets that you came up with. thanks a lot . came up with. thanks a lot. covid lockdowns and the vaccine pressure. thanks a lot for not

giving a benefit giving us a cost benefit analysis lockdown for caving analysis of lockdown for caving in lot of media pressure in to a lot of media pressure for scaring the heck out of everyone. again, with at times pretty sketchy data. the schools issue right now sums up the calibre of political leadership that we've had for a very long time in this country. the dodgy concrete has been known about for a heck of a long time and nobody did anything about it because they didn't want have because they didn't want to have to handle it on their watch. they if they kick that they knew that if they kick that can down the road long enough , can down the road long enough, then it would be somebody else's problem. and it isn't just schools where is the case. schools where this is the case. the nhs housing, public transport, they let it get to crisis before they have to crisis point before they have to act. should be thanking them act. should we be thanking them for being too scared for that, for being too scared to grasp the nettle of a bit of bad press? odd negative bad press? the odd negative headune bad press? the odd negative headline putting headline instead just putting sticking plasters over gaping wounds until it just gushes out like a severed artery . wounds until it just gushes out like a severed artery. thank you.thank like a severed artery. thank you. thank thank you . these you. thank you. thank you. these are just few examples. you. thank you. thank you. these are just few examples . now, if are just a few examples. now, if our politicians want our thanks, then frankly , they have to do a

then frankly, they have to do a better job. if they worked in business or in your job, if they were managing your department and they ran it as badly as they run this country , they'd be run this country, they'd be getting their p45 sharpish . getting their p45 sharpish. well, that's what i think i want to hear from you. email me gbviews@gbnews.com. if you think that there are cast iron examples of politicians and i'm sure there will be, who do deserve thanks. i know i've used quite broad brush language there. then get in touch. let me know. vaiews@gbnews.com. do they for the they deserve more praise for the job do? let's get job that they do? but let's get straight this ongoing row straight into this ongoing row over crumbling concrete in schools and you're going to hear i'm not sure if it is just schools actually. i think there is a much bigger story here. the prime minister is coming under increasing pressure to reveal prime minister is coming under incrextent pressure to reveal prime minister is coming under incrextent ofzssure to reveal prime minister is coming under incrextent of there to reveal prime minister is coming under incrextent of the problemeal the extent of the problem and how government dealing how the government is dealing with much is being of how the government is dealing witifunding h is being of how the government is dealing witifunding that being of how the government is dealing witifunding that mr1g of how the government is dealing witifunding that mr sunak of the funding that mr sunak provided schools provided for the schools rebuilding he rebuilding programme when he was chancellor some people, and chancellor so some people, and i find this quite interesting are

today reporting that the schools minister has actually backed, criticised of mr sunak that he only provided cash to rebuild 50 schools a year when the problem warranted work on 200 a year. take a look at this . take a look at this. >> in building or refurbishing 50 schools a year from the beginning when we came into office right through our period in power and so we had this the priority school building programme for the first five years, we built and refurbished 260 schools, and then the school , the priority school building programme , too, which is another programme, too, which is another 272 schools. and one of the first things that rishi did as chancellor was set up the school rebuilding programme, 500 schools to be built, rebuilt or refurbished between 2020 and 2030. now, of course , we always 2030. now, of course, we always put in bids for more. that's what all spending departments do . but we've kept that 50 a year building programme right through covid. >> yes, it was that last bit there. there's a lot of people to jump on it and say, oh look,

there's a chasm now there's a chasm in government. what he's saying there, isn't he, is that every single department will shoot they'll go, shoot for the stars. they'll go, look, funding for this. look, we need funding for this. we then you we need everything. and then you have that for reality. have to adjust that for reality. and i think it's unfair , and i think it's unfair, genuinely. it's unfair genuinely. i think it's unfair to that split to say that there's a split there. you can criticise them for loads of other stuff, don't get me wrong, but i think it's unfair to say that there's now this divide there in this chasm and a divide there in government rishi sunak didn't do enough. was quite enough. i think it was quite a realistic spending expectation, but labour certainly hasn't been holding criticism holding back in their criticism and on news spoke to and earlier on gb news spoke to the shadow paymaster, general jonathan ashworth. well, he called the situation a shambles. >> today look, when >> i think today look, when you've got sort of roofs at risk of collapse in various various schools across the country, pupils really worried. you've got the education secretary expecting to be thanked and congratu , elated and parents congratu, elated and parents across the country, teachers who work in schools and pupils because some of these pupils are old enough to understand what is going on. want you to fix this

and don't want any more of your saying, oh, nothing to do with me. gov. that is frankly an abdication your abdication of your responsibility . liz yeah . responsibility. liz yeah. >> look, i think there's a bigger issue at play here. i mean, the idea of schools collapsing around kids of collapsing around kids is, of course terrible and hopefully course is terrible and hopefully that hopefully that doesn't happen. hopefully that doesn't happen. hopefully that prevented now with that is being prevented now with whatever action government whatever action the government is going take. and think is going to take. and i think the of probably the cost of this is probably going the next big going to be the next big question. yet a question. we are yet to get a serious cast iron idea of how much going cost, but much this is going to cost, but this concrete that was used wasn't in schools . in wasn't just used in schools. in fact, it was very widely used in a whole host of other public buildings, well . i buildings, hospitals as well. i suspect it will have been used elsewhere as well. are we actually looking at a much bigger problem here? will britain crumble ? chris gorse is britain crumble? chris gorse is a professor of construction, engineering and management at loughborough university. or, as ionce loughborough university. or, as i once heard, an american on the london underground call it lugar barooga . he says that rac is barooga. he says that rac is found in a whole range of buildings . found in a whole range of buildings. look, thank you very,

very much. can you explain the extent problem? because extent of this problem? because it's just schools here, is it's not just schools here, is it's not just schools here, is it ? it? >> n it? >> i mean , we've been >> no, i mean, we've been conducting research for two years or about two years for the nhs . nhs. >> and during that period of time we've come across buildings as ambulance , some fire stations as ambulance, some fire stations and some a lot of private buildings as well as the nhs estate and other public buildings during the 50s, 60s and 70s, rac was is commonly used. >> it offered a solution. it's quite an effective material . quite an effective material. it's rapidly assembled, it's lightweight, it's reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete , and autoclaved aerated concrete, and it has some unique properties, many of which are good , but it many of which are good, but it doesn't behave like traditional concrete . it and we have found concrete. it and we have found inconsistencies with the way the material was manufactured and

the way it was assembled that are producing some of the problems that we see now that we need inspect our schools and need to inspect our schools and other buildings. >> yeah, i mean, it's the other buildings bit that i'm really focusing on today. so is it fair to say that any public building built between . in around 1950 built between. in around 1950 and 1985 needs looking at and if it contains rac, it will need to be rebuilt? yeah i think we need to quickly look at the at all of our buildings that have been produced during that time and quickly assess whether or not there is any rac within them and not all rac is inherently bad . not all rac is inherently bad. >> so you know a lot of it that we've tested still 50 years later performs beyond its design strength as long as it's got adequate bearing. but we do need to inspect. we do need to determine quite where it is . and

determine quite where it is. and we are finding more and more buildings as as time goes on. >> i mean, this is massive , >> i mean, this is massive, right? this is absolutely huge . right? this is absolutely huge. theidea right? this is absolutely huge. the idea that any public building or indeed some private building or indeed some private building is built between a very long period of time there from about 1950 to nudging up towards 1990 could be at risk of imminent collapse. now we've got we've got three, certainly three decades of that . decades of that. >> we are we've identified risks in the way that the rac was produced and then assembled . and produced and then assembled. and there are rats still being produced today as a material. it isn't inherently unsafe . it is isn't inherently unsafe. it is different to traditional concrete and it can easily be abused. concrete and it can easily be abused . so what we what the abused. so what we what the risks that we've identified are really on the bearings. but it means that all of the buildings have got to be inspected. we've got to inspect schools and got to inspect our schools and determine whether it's in our other buildings . and that can

other buildings. and that can easily be done . so if you rac is easily be done. so if you rac is different to other materials is if you get a drill or a sharp and you will be able to penetrate into the rac. it's very durable material, whereas a traditional concrete , you might traditional concrete, you might be able to scratch the surface , be able to scratch the surface, but you wouldn't be able to do that. so it's relatively easy to inspect and determine whether you've got rac and then you've got to determine whether it's safe or not and the risks are around the end bearing some of the photographs that we're seeing at the moment are where buildings have not been adequately maintained . there's adequately maintained. there's been water ingress , there's been water ingress, there's deterioration or overload of the floors and the roofs. and that's caused some of the damage. so there's a need to inspect our buildings and determine whether they are safe and understand whether it's right there. >> if it if it goes right, if it if it starts crumbling , does it if it starts crumbling, does it just cave in immediately or no

warning? >> so this is where so there's a lot of the images that we're seeing where we've got crumbling rock and we've got rock that's deflecting large amounts that that may be more associated to damage done during remedial action, sort of repair ing of roofs or something where people have overloaded the material . have overloaded the material. the problems that we've encountered are where where the rac hasn't got the structural beanng rac hasn't got the structural bearing it needs. so when it was manufactured, there were inconsistent rs in the way that the reinforcement was placed. and we need reinforcement over the bearings to add to that, we've determined as well that there are there are inconsistencies in the assembly, the construction process . that the construction process. that means that some buildings have not got adequate bearing. now we've we've we found buildings with forensically examined some buildings and we found them where where there is very, very limited bearings. and we're and there is a risk of collapse. and

there is a risk of collapse. and the reason that they're almost holding together is questionable . but the there seems to be trigger events that are causing these collapses , such as these collapses, such as remedial action. and so it seems there seems to be a link between changes to the building and then the collapse. >> but a quick one for you, if that's all right, chris. sorry because we are a little bit pressed time, chris, on this pressed for time, chris, on this and if let's say we find now that within our hospital , right, that within our hospital, right, it has got rac in it and i mean it's a massive hospital. does that hospital need to be rebuilt or can it be renovated? yeah >> so we've seen very different approaches. so certainly when we first discovered rac and we were deaung first discovered rac and we were dealing with the risks, the most, a lot of the hospitals were taking immediate remedial action and putting structural supports in if inspected and you determine that it's got adequate bearings, then then it's

questionable whether any remedial action is needed. so what i've said is that where we've tested beams and where we've tested beams and where we've modelled beams, we've found them to be of adequate strength. but but equally where we determine that they've got insufficient bearing, then immediate remediation is needed . so, so propping and support and then additional bearing introduced. so remedial action, structural changes to the building so that that that and that does lead to sort of temporary closures of , of areas temporary closures of, of areas . yeah. it's going to be and which have we've seen that and it's ongoing. we're discovering more as time goes on and we've we've really got to do we have got to do more research. we've got to do more research. we've got to do more research. we've got to work out how this material behaves. if we want to keep in building stock. keep it in our building stock. >> really appreciate >> chris, i really appreciate you coming i actually you coming on. i actually genuinely thought genuinely i never thought i could to someone about could talk to someone about concrete this long and wish concrete for this long and wish that more time to talk to that i had more time to talk to them about it. but alas, we are

out of time. chris. take care. i think i will talk to you again because this is going to be huge. gothner, professor huge. chris gothner, a professor of construction, and of construction, engineering and management going university. it's going to be a huge it's going to huge scandal. this it's going to be an absolutely huge scandal. loads public buildings, loads of public buildings, loads of housing, of social housing, loads of private buildings as well will discover this discover that they've got this stuff. knows stuff. and then goodness knows what have to shut what happens. do we have to shut a load of hospitals? will our politicians to what politicians comes back to what i said our said at the start. will our politicians guts to politicians have the guts to actually tell us about this and take or will they wait actually tell us about this and takthe or will they wait actually tell us about this and takthe disaster/ill they wait actually tell us about this and takthe disaster to they wait actually tell us about this and takthe disaster to happen|it for the disaster to happen because too big? because the problem is too big? more story on our more on this story on our website news dot com fastest website gb news dot com fastest growing news in growing national news site in the big analysis, the country. big analysis, big opinion latest opinion and all the latest breaking this has got opinion and all the latest breéallg this has got opinion and all the latest breéall going this has got opinion and all the latest breéall going in this has got opinion and all the latest breéall going in the :his has got opinion and all the latest breéall going in the inbox|s got you all going in the inbox already. vaiews@gbnews.com keir starmer shadow cabinet reshuffle has been met with claims that the blairites are back. now. it's not going to win the election for labour or actually would country reject them? would the country reject them? tony blair an election winning tour de force or an unflushable stain on britain? patrick christys gb news britain's news

sunday mornings from 930 on gb news is . welcome back. news is. welcome back. >> it's 325. you're watching and listening to me. patrick christys on news now in a few moments rishi sunak prepares moments as rishi sunak prepares to make a u—turn on the ban on onshore farms, i will ask, onshore wind farms, i will ask, would you want to load a wind turbines outside your back door? is it going to be the ulez of the countryside? but let's be honest, if you don't live in the westminster then cabinet honest, if you don't live in the wes shadow then cabinet honest, if you don't live in the wes shadow cabinet then cabinet honest, if you don't live in the wes shadow cabinet reshuffleinet honest, if you don't live in the wes shadow cabinet reshuffle can and shadow cabinet reshuffle can seem pretty dull. but the

changes that sir keir starmer made to his shadow cabinet yesterday actually stood out for one big reason. it signalled the return of the blairite. starmer has promoted pat mcfadden , who has promoted pat mcfadden, who worked with blair when he was prime minister. hilary benn is in the cabinet under blair as well, and he returned to the shadow yesterday. the shadow cabinet yesterday. the appointments caught the eye of snp david who tweeted snp mp david linden, who tweeted this jing's not quite sure what that means. it must be a scottish thing. this labour reshuffle proper. blairism on reshuffle is proper. blairism on steroids at this rate, we'll be surprised if we are not invading iraq teatime time. yeah, it's iraq by teatime time. yeah, it's good stuff that david. anyway i'm joined now by gb news political editor christopher hope. christopher, thank you very, on in the very, very much. later on in the show, going to having a show, i'm going to be having a debate or not the debate about whether or not the return of the blairite is actually thing. keir actually a good thing. keir starmer say this is tony starmer will say this is tony blair won elections. he was a tory bashing machine. other people think he was unflushed well, latest on the well, what's the latest on the blair ? blair rise? >> there's no question. keir starmer sees this new group around him in the shadow cabinet

room today as the group who he will take into the next election, who he will then try and fight for the votes of gb news viewers . and he told them news viewers. and he told them as much when he spoke to as much today when he spoke to them, he made clear he them, he made very clear that he feels these feel feels that these people feel that they've been chosen for their and lead up their hunger and in the lead up to the next general election, he said , quite interestingly with said, quite interestingly with a quote, around this quote, he said, you around this table here because of four table are here because of four things. said, your talent and things. he said, your talent and your , your hunger, your commitment, your hunger, that's really important that's really, really important . and because he wants a team that up every morning and that wakes up every morning and is determined to the is determined to rise to the challenges that our country faces now set that against patrick, if you will, what was happening a few hundred metres away in 10 downing street, where rishi team were meeting to discuss crumbling school buildings and you see two visions of politics and visions there of politics and one group trying to fix the problems of the past 13 years and failing to and one group looking bit forward with looking a bit more forward with anidea looking a bit more forward with an idea about how to make it better. >> does being a blairite >> what does being a blairite mean? because i think a lot of people, when they think of tony

blair, they think of iraq. and whilst do think he whilst i really do think he should more stick for that, should get more stick for that, i think fair to lob should get more stick for that, i at think fairto lob should get more stick for that, i at this|k fairto lob should get more stick for that, i at this current fair to lob should get more stick for that, i at this current shadow.ob out at this current shadow cabinet. right. so what does it mean to be a blairite? is it socially liberal? is it is it globalist it ? globalist looking? what is it? >> it it is appealing really to a kind of the middle england people who don't want to pay loads more in tax, who want to see tough on law and order, who want to prioritise education, often don't want to put kind of ideology above what is practical and what works . and we're seeing and what works. and we're seeing lots of this language and the team around no question. team around him, no question. pat mcfadden served pat mcfadden i mean, he served in top teams of both in the in the top teams of both tony blair and gordon brown, and he is now the national strategy coordinator. he will hold the pen decisions made by pen on any big decisions made by this new labour team. we saw in that interview, didn't we? on monday? patrick keir starmer was saying increases income monday? patrick keir starmer was sayingi increases income monday? patrick keir starmer was sayingimean,eases income monday? patrick keir starmer was sayingi mean, they income monday? patrick keir starmer was sayingi mean, they are ncome monday? patrick keir starmer was sayingi mean, they are trying taxes. i mean, they are trying to they they're getting all their out there, big their stuff out there, big policies there way early. policies out there way early. they're think, to they're showing, i think, to people normally people who wouldn't normally vote labour, they take a risk on

us. and that's the point. will people be want to take a risk on them? blair, blairism them? but blair, blairism is a kind of short is a is a is a shortcut really to saying making the party electable and going towards the middle ground . towards the middle ground. >> okay. and what is tony blair's legacy? christopher. >> well, its legacy for him is seen through the prism of the iraq war. i mean, he obviously was determined to think there were these weapons of mass destruction and none were ever found . but i think on a on a found. but i think on a on a domestic policy level, it was the academy programme. it was it was trying to trying to be trying to set out a middle way. i think, for the country away, not the right or left, but a way he would call it. in fact did call it third way, didn't call it the third way, didn't he, first first or he, in those first first 4 or 4 years. and what they are, they're at that playbook they're looking at that playbook and , well, can and thinking, well, we can probably that probably get away with that again. so you've got labour saying going to depart saying we're not going to depart from the tory spending from the from the tory spending plans, we're not going to jack up taxes. they're trying to

they're trying to away the they're trying to take away the risk voting labour. risk of voting labour. and that's happening that's what's happening right now what is tony blair now. but what is tony blair mean? well, he's his own his mean? well, he's got his own his own blair institute own tony blair institute offering ideas offering up thoughts and ideas for all sorts of governments and some say on the tory side that he's the pulling he's behind the scenes pulling all strings. i'm not all the strings. i'm not sure that's true . that's entirely true. >> interesting stuff. thank you very much. gb news political editor christopher there editor christopher hope there outside of power outside the epicentre of power in westminster. yeah, i'll be debating this later on in the show. in fact, at the top of the next hour about whether or not the return of tony blair mark two is actually thing. two is actually a good thing. i'm not sure tony blair gets enough actually, be enough stick, actually, to be honest. a gb news honest. gb views a gb news made.com. i will go to the inbox very, very shortly actually. in fact, quite a lot of you have been getting in touch to give your dissatisfaction at tony blair a couple of a couple of helpful ones as well. sarah just quickly says this won't be read out. mine ever do, but out. none of mine ever do, but i'm ever hopeful. well, there you sarah that. she you go, sarah have that. she says, about labour says, my thinking about labour is plan was set in place

is the plan was set in place years blair get kids years ago by blair to get kids into universities. once they into universities. and once they are seldom an are in, they're seldom an ideology. these kids ideology. and then these kids will now be in the civil service and the nhs, and and in schools in the nhs, and then eventually she on then eventually she goes on to basically she will then basically say that she will then come to power. she says, do i sound conspiracy sound like a conspiracy theorist? sarah, but theorist? not to me, sarah, but maybe people, yes. maybe to most people, yes. anyway, views at gb views anyway, gb views at gb views .com. loads. still to come .com. look loads. still to come between now with rishi between now and 4:00 with rishi sunak ban sunak set to water down the ban on onshore wind farms, i will ask whether or not this the ask whether or not this is the right decision. would have right decision. would you have a wind farm at the back of your house? would you be happy about it? right your it? but right now it's your headunes it? but right now it's your headlines with armstrong . headlines with anne armstrong. >> it is 331. >> it is 331. >> i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. >> the breaking news in the last hour or so, spain's football federation has sacked jorge vilda, the coach of its world cup women's winning team . cup women's winning team. >> vilda was the only member of the coaching staff not to stand down in protest after midfielder jenny hermoso was kissed on the lips by the federation.

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some sea fog drifting in from the for eastern parts the north sea for eastern parts of scotland and eastern england as some drizzly as well. perhaps some drizzly rain for elsewhere, rain here for some elsewhere, further west and south, clearer skies, a few pockets of mist and fog, but temperatures not dropping some dropping a huge amount. some places above celsius places staying above 20 celsius tonight. could be a tonight. so it could be a tropical night as we look through wednesday itself, a slow start eastern of start down the eastern side of the uk. the cloud, the murk here will quickly burn back to the coast, though, except across eastern scotland where eastern parts of scotland where we're on that we're likely to hold on to that low into the low cloud well into the afternoon. otherwise, of afternoon. otherwise, plenty of sunshine yet again, perhaps a bit more cloud than we've seen through recent days, through some recent days, especially for northern ireland, where some fair weather cloud will bubble up. but look at those likely to be will bubble up. but look at titouch likely to be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher likely to be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher thanlikely to be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher than todayto be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher than today could a touch higher than today could get to highs 32 or 33 get to highs of around 32 or 33 celsius overnight wednesday into thursday, heavy thursday, we will see some heavy showery , perhaps rain showery, perhaps thundery rain sweeping western side of sweeping up the western side of the uk, taking us into thursday itself, dry and brighter itself, staying dry and brighter towards east, further hot towards the east, further hot and sunny weather to come as we go end the week go through the end of the week and weekend, but likely go through the end of the week an see weekend, but likely go through the end of the week an see somethingzend, but likely go through the end of the week an see something of d, but likely go through the end of the week an see something of a but likely

go through the end of the week an see something of a thundery! to see something of a thundery breakdown like things are breakdown looks like things are heating up. >> box boilers proud sponsors of weather on . weather on. gb news right then wind farm. >> so householders in the uk have seen a huge rise in their energy bills, mainly supposedly because of the russia—ukraine war. but today ministers are expected to announce a plan to help bring those bills down by over turning a ban on onshore wind farms. so more onshore wind farms , basically they're one of farms, basically they're one of the cheapest forms of renewable energy . but the current rules energy. but the current rules mean that just one objection can prevent them from being built. the government is expected to lift that restriction and instead allow development. if a council can demonstrate local support. well, the move comes after a huge number of conservative mps calls for the restrictions to be eased. i know a lot of people will be currently banging their heads on a lot of people will be currdesk, banging their heads on a lot of people will be currdesk, thinking, heir heads on a lot of people will be currdesk, thinking, well, eads on a lot of people will be currdesk, thinking, well, whaton the desk, thinking, well, what about restrictions

about the planning restrictions for extending my house or anything? why is that so difficult? but we can have wind farms left, right and centre. joining discuss joining me now to discuss this is jim dale. jim, is meteorologist jim dale. jim, thank you very much . great to thank you very much. great to have you. you're welcome. the show. some people show. hi. so some people question wind farms. they say that what they do is blight the landscape and kill birds. >> actually, i quite like them personally and i know they look . yeah, i actually when i go down the motorway and you see these always have a these things, i always have a good look at them. they're captivating a certain way. good look at them. they're cavaating a certain way. good look at them. they're cavaatingyour certain way. good look at them. they're cavaatingyour cert or way. good look at them. they're cavaatingyour cert or isay. >> i know your car. or is it maybe i've never done that. >> no, i think i think the >> but no, i think i think the kids love them as well. and we're the not so much we're looking at the not so much the use them, the look the use of them, but the look of them. not saying that birds them. i'm not saying that birds wouldn't necessarily get killed. i i guess it's part of that they get killed in by by going in front of cars and lorries and all the rest of it. we know all of this. so there's a little bit of this. so there's a little bit of that involved. but you've got to look beyond the reasons for it reasons it is to it and the reasons for it is to produce or near free

energy. >> so how good are they at that then? because we regularly hear stories about, well, stories, don't we, about, well, the blowing , they the wind isn't blowing, they aren't working. >> , i'm glad there's >> yeah, i'm glad there's a little breeze blowing for us today in this room. it's today in this in this room. it's nice comfortable. we nice and comfortable. i think we need a bit more of that out there, to be honest with you. but yeah, on days like this, actually, when wind farms are not do particularly not going to do particularly well, that is of the well, and that is one of the achilles heels, you have to wait for right weather and the achilles heels, you have to wait for we right weather and the achilles heels, you have to wait for we right w

the side of it then, the cost side of it then, because for a lot of people in the areas, you know, the rural areas, you know, i used cumbria, for used to live in cumbria, for example. quite example. i know there's quite a bit of there's a bit of local support. there's also a fair bit of local objection for it based around landscape. what around the landscape. what benefit national grid benefit it to our national grid would wind or loads of would a wind farm or loads of wind actually? wind farms actually? >> the wind blows and >> well, when the wind blows and it enough, then you it blows enough, then you obviously the power, obviously aggregate the power, the energy and store it . you can the energy and store it. you can actually sell it back to the grid. that's the whole point that local people and this is about , i guess, local people about, i guess, local people having a little bit of a say through their council in terms of whether they want these things in and around their area. and remember, the bigger picture is , is climate change and going is, is climate change and going in that in that cleaner, greener direction. so i think that's what people want to know, isn't it? >> which is if they're going to do their bit for global climate change of these change and have one of these stonking wind farms at stonking great big wind farms at the of their house, what the back of their house, what difference going difference is it actually going to ithink difference is it actually going to i think i think will all >> i think i think they will all make difference . aggregated. make a difference. aggregated. yeah, a single one is the

yeah, even a single one is the difference. i don't know the technicalities of what technicalities in terms of what one do on a particular one would do on a particular day, much, many day, how much, how many kilowatts it would produce, etcetera. that might depend etcetera. and that might depend on the speed the wind. and of on the speed of the wind. and of course notice most of these course you notice most of these are most of them that are in position at the moment as you probably know, are hills from probably know, are on hills from cumbria. know, you'll cumbria. and you know, you'll nofice cumbria. and you know, you'll notice that hills and notice that on hills and mountains and on shorelines mountains and on the shorelines where the the wind blows where the where the wind blows hardest longest. they're hardest for longest. and they're also tends be where people also tends to be where people don't. so much live, if that makes sense. so this is a move more into to the the to the conurbations. i think that's the ideaisnt conurbations. i think that's the idea isn't it, that they're going to around villages going to go around the villages and and what have you and the towns and what have you . think you what . but i think you know, what would you rather have would you rather wind farm or would rather have a wind farm or would you one them smoky big you have one of them smoky big chimney things that we used to see honzon chimney things that we used to see horizon going see on the horizon going possibly a possibly nuclear would be a different option, though, wouldn't it? >> really? wouldn't it? >> yeah,r? a of well, >> yeah, it's a mix of well, i don't think we're going to lose nuclear we nuclear very quickly and we should maybe more of it should have maybe had more of it than would have to have a lot than we would have to have a lot of potentially. of wind potentially. yeah. but l, of wind potentially. yeah. but i, combination. i, i think it's a combination. and we're at that stage where

we're making those changes. and we're at that stage where we're m.we|g those changes. and we're at that stage where we're m.we shoulde changes. and we're at that stage where we're m.we shoulde charbeen perhaps we should have been a little bit quicker about it, but. nonetheless, i don't but. but nonetheless, i don't agree too much with most of what this government does. but this is step the right is one step in the right direction. and i think he's making the fact he's making up for the fact he's giving out there giving oil licences out there right and centre and he's going to going to lose the to soon. it's going to lose the home counties are very take home counties who are very take the amersham the chesham and amersham by—election which by—election for example which is right where i live. right next door to where i live. and know rock solid tory and you know rock solid tory seat forever and day and seat forever and a day and suddenly you a by—election suddenly you get a by—election and a massive liberal majority. >> problem that w“ >> but the problem with that is, i is that one the i would say is that one of the main reasons people voted main reasons why people voted lib dem places like is lib dem in places like that is to stop permission for to stop planning permission for building this building new things and this would amount would require a huge amount of planning. permission to build a load yeah i think load of wind farms. yeah i think hs2 a part in that. >> but what i'm getting at is, is the green pulse, if you is it's the green pulse, if you like, and the green pulse runs right that central zone right through that central zone where blue where there's a lot of blue seats. therefore is for seats. and therefore this is for sunak. is this is sunak. this is this is like a payback oil licences. he payback for his oil licences. he can't to be seen to be can't afford to be seen to be anti green. does that make sense? >> but don't currently, as >> but we don't currently, as far you're aware, have rock

far as you're aware, have rock solid data on how effective any of actually be of this will actually be nationally . nationally. >> you don't. and i think >> me and you don't. and i think i think those that are minded , i think those that are minded, those that are in this business, know exactly what they will produce, when they will produce and how much there are stats out there. have not any today, there. i have not got any today, but it where you say but i've seen it where you say you britain is you can see that britain is being by wind and or other being run by wind and or other green energy and nearly to 100. that's the reality of it, that we're nearly getting there, but we're nearly getting there, but we're not quite there in terms of the calm days, if you like. that does is an achilles heel. >> okay. i mean , this could well >> okay. i mean, this could well be a bit of a sticking point for rishi because clearly rishi sunak because it clearly is a bit of a u—turn. but in yourin is a bit of a u—turn. but in your in your view that your in your view then that people willing to suck people should be willing to suck up wind turbine at the up having a wind turbine at the back of their house, not suck it up. >> i'm a big believer in in in votes and people's opinions counting and if councils have you know can put out a local referendum on it there's no reason why that can't be done

and it isn't there just one person objecting and everything falls . that cannot be right in falls. that cannot be right in any democracy . so democracy any democracy. so democracy rules in your local in your local area. if the majority vote for it, why not? >> i'm just having a look at national grid live now. what percentage the is wind percentage of the uk is wind power today ? and it seems to say power today? and it seems to say to me here, 8.98. >> yeah, not a lot. but you know, the reason, you know, we're out there and there's not a lot of wind blowing. so so yeah, but you can look on another it's going to be another day and it's going to be 20, 30, 40. so this is the 20, 30, 40. and so this is the swings. a bit like solar, swings. it's a bit like solar, solar power. people got solar power. so people have got solar, panels and what solar, solar panels and what have you. you know perfectly well winter can well in the wintertime it can struggle. week of dank struggle. you get a week of dank grey . you know, it goes grey weather. you know, it goes nowhere fast. that's where nowhere fast. but that's where storage comes into. that's where battery comes it. battery life comes into it. that's where technology comes back . you know, we can back into it. you know, we can include that as well, include cars in that as well, how far they might that how far they might go so that that technological advancement is for to is what we're looking for to make more practical. yeah. make this more practical. yeah. >> and indeed, and a lot of people are pointing out the cost

to actually will make it will cost actually these cost us to actually build these wind farms . wind farms. >> this another astronomical >> this is another astronomical . yeah. and that's the taxpayer. >> again isn't it? see, this is the thing. mean again, how the thing. i mean again, how long will it be? i mean, these are i don't have answer to are i don't have the answer to this, of thing this, but it's the kind of thing that people should be thinking about, which is if it's going to have the local have an impact on the local landscape, local scenery, landscape, the local scenery, the population, landscape, the local scenery, the one population, landscape, the local scenery, the one po if lation, landscape, the local scenery, the one po if latiiare that's one thing. if we are going up getting return going to end up getting a return on do see a future, on it where we do see a future, where on certain days we have 50% of this country, you know, on good powered wind. on a good day, powered by wind. all one thing. but all right, that's one thing. but then what point do we go? then at what point do we go? well, to hundred well, it's cost to us a hundred grand that's grand per turbine. and that's the taxpayer paying for that, isn't the taxpayer paying for that, isn'but the opposite of is >> but the opposite of that is we go back to we let everything go. go back to the engine the combustion engine and continue and that continue with it. and ramp that up further. the cost of up even further. and the cost of that terms progressing that in terms of not progressing the green energy side of things will be cataclysmic in terms of the costs that actually come in terms serious terms of serious, serious things. for example, what's going on in greece today. massive, massive floods started a fire again. no, it's not a fire. all right. this is the

flood. next thing flood. the next the next thing comes plague. of course. of comes the plague. of course. of course. way works and the course. the way it works and the oarsmen rest it. oarsmen and all the rest of it. >> exactly. look jim, thank you very do appreciate your very much. i do appreciate your time take mate. all time and take care, mate. all the thank you. see the best. and thank you. see you. a street in bromley. you. not on a street in bromley. no that was could get on a no that was we could get on a street tomorrow. we'll where street tomorrow. we'll see where we dale, we go. right. jim dale, meteorologist. okay meteorologist. right. okay look, if booking if you are thinking of booking a houday if you are thinking of booking a holiday to holiday abroad, don't go to greece. it's floods. holiday abroad, don't go to gree apocalypse it's floods. holiday abroad, don't go to gree apocalypse to it's floods. holiday abroad, don't go to gree apocalypse to catch .oods. holiday abroad, don't go to gree apocalypse to catch some the apocalypse to catch some summer sunshine. think again. think because the think again. because much of the uk heatwave. uk is basking in a heatwave. temperatures in some places are over 30 degrees. i believe that we're going to go to jeff moody's, somewhere near the beach, so it's all right for some patrick christys news

news, britain's news. channel welcome back. >> it is 1548. you are watching me patrick christie on gp news at 4:00 i'll give my verdict on the return of the blair ites to keir starmer, shadow cabinet and i will ask does the country really want a load of tony blair fansin really want a load of tony blair fans in charge yet again? but the summer holidays are over. most people are back at work. the kids are going back to school. isn't school. well, if it isn't falling is. so after falling apart, that is. so after a pretty miserable a wet and pretty miserable summer, wouldn't you just know it ? of uk is now it? most of the uk is now basking in a heatwave. temperatures set to soar to temperatures are set to soar to 32 degrees tomorrow and thursday. we could see this thursday. and we could see this year's record of 32.2 celsius beaten. the uk health security agency has issued a yellow alert for the heat across the whole of england. apart from the

north—east, surrey north east until next monday. these alerts, by the way, remember to drink water. yeah. all right. if you're going outside for a bit, sun cream there. just mother, you don't they. oh, don't forget to breathe . you have to blink to breathe. you have to blink occasionally . let's go live now occasionally. let's go live now to instow beach in devon and speak to our south—west of england. reporter jeff moody england. reporterjeff moody who's definitely drawn the short straw today . straw today. >> just bit. >> just a bit. >> just a bit. >> just a bit. >> just , geoff, you're on the >> just, geoff, you're on the telly in it. >> lovely. thank you very much. hello yes, i've just got my ice cream . it really is beautiful cream. it really is beautiful down here, isn't it? if you ever live in north devon or you've visited here, you will have heard of hocking's ice cream. everybody loves it down here. and mainly because the and it's mainly because of the clotted the top. it clotted cream on the top. it really very, very nice really is very, very nice indeed. well, we've been waiting for this indian summer for quite some time, haven't we? and finally , it's here. temperatures finally, it's here. temperatures expected to get up to 32 tomorrow, possibly even 33. and they're also saying that we've got tropical nights ahead. that

is, believe it or not, patrick, a meteorological term tropical nights. that means that the temperature at night stays above of 20 c. so it is going to be a little bit hot. now as you said, in a slightly cynical way, i feel that , yes, there are all feel that, yes, there are all the heat warnings out in place. don't leave your dogs in cars. yeah, there was a yellow warning until recently that was extended at midday today to an amber warning and basically what that means is there's a risk of death. now that might sound very dramatic, but basically that warning is in place for care homes, for the elderly, for anybody that feels that they need a little bit of extra support in these sort of weather, if you're vulnerable to the heat, stay indoors. common sense , really. but the big sense, really. but the big question , of course, is how long question, of course, is how long is it going to last? right. and that depends really who that depends really on who you're talking to. some reports say going to be like say that it's going to be like this september. say that it's going to be like this the september. say that it's going to be like this the sthatmber. say that it's going to be like this the sthat i ber. say that it's going to be like this the sthat i like to

that's the report that i like to look other reports , look at. but the other reports, most of the forecasts say, well , we've got this for about a week now. now until around 9:00 on sunday, that specific we've got this heat wave till 9:00 on sunday. and then temperatures go back to average. i'm afraid. >> okay . well, i'll tell you >> okay. well, i'll tell you what, you are definitely not average, jeff. i'm a massive fan of this. and i've spoken to you in the past with you getting battered by the elements in fields with rain pouring over you. this appears to be one of the better jobs that we've ever sent you out to . i know. sent you out to. i know. >> thank you very much for this gig- >> thank you very much for this gig. yeah, you have. you have you on windy hill tops in the pounng you on windy hill tops in the pouring rain. and it's been. and the freezing cold and the cold, the freezing cold and that's they call that's just what they call summer. yes , this has been summer. so, yes, this has been very you very very nice gig. thank you very much well, i've had too much indeed. well, i've had too many today. i wasn't many of these today. i wasn't about to ask. >> yeah. so you've now had >> look. yeah. so you've now had three creams, right? this >> look. yeah. so you've now had ththis creams, right? this >> look. yeah. so you've now had ththis is creams, right? this >> look. yeah. so you've now had ththis is the|ms, right? this >> look. yeah. so you've now had ththis is the thing.ght? this >> look. yeah. so you've now had ththis is the thing.ght?comeiis is this is the thing. i'll come back you the next hour. back to you in the next hour. the sugar rush the massive sugar rush and everything. know everything. and i don't know whether it might be

whether or not it might be possible, not it possible, whether or not it might jeff, to might be possible, jeff, to at some point get you running into might be possible, jeff, to at sonsea. int get you running into might be possible, jeff, to at sonsea. butjet you running into might be possible, jeff, to at sonsea. but thatou running into might be possible, jeff, to at sonsea. but that might1ing into might be possible, jeff, to at sonsea. but that might be] into might be possible, jeff, to at sonsea. but that might be a nto the sea. but that might be a bndge the sea. but that might be a bridge far. we don't want to bridge too far. we don't want to see you strip off, do we, patrick? >> you couldn't afford it . not a >> you couldn't afford it. not a hopein >> you couldn't afford it. not a hope in hell. >> oh , jeff, i love you. right. >> oh, jeff, i love you. right. you take care, mate. all the best. enjoy your ice cream. >> paid enough ? no. >> paid enough? no. >> paid enough? no. >> enjoy your ice cream. jeff moody. they're all south—west of england . reporter right. okay england. reporter right. okay i mean, i love jeff loads. right? i'm going to go into the inbox now. lots of top topics to get you going today. i asked earlier on whether or not you felt as though politicians ever though our politicians ever deserve thank you and deserve a big thank you and a big the back. it's like big pat on the back. it's like gillian keegan yesterday getting big pat on the back. it's like gilliésweary,|n yesterday getting big pat on the back. it's like gilliésweary, essentially' getting a bit sweary, essentially saying, ever say saying, does anyone ever say that you're doing a great job? and i thinking, no, and i was thinking, well, no, really? lot of the really? because a lot of the time they don't really. and ron's on. ron says, no , no, ron's been on. ron says, no, no, no, they do deserve our no, they do not deserve our thanks. treat us with thanks. they treat us with increasing , laughing at thanks. they treat us with incwhilst] , laughing at thanks. they treat us with incwhilst they , laughing at thanks. they treat us with incwhilst they sneer, laughing at thanks. they treat us with incwhilst they sneer , laughing at thanks. they treat us with incwhilst they sneer , telling g at us whilst they sneer, telling lies insult our lies that insult our intelligence mate. ron, i agree with you entirely . that is

with you entirely. that is entirely my point of view on this. every single time the pubuc this. every single time the public gets a chance to vote on something, they politicians something, they tell politicians exactly what they want to do. and very rarely ever and then it very rarely ever happens, and happens, doesn't it? and i do think treat with think they treat us with a little bit of contempt. i'm just going to finish hour with going to finish this hour with an julie. julie says, an email from julie. julie says, patrick, please, can you say hello loves hello to my mum? and she loves you. are in the lake district you. we are in the lake district on trip down memory lane. on a trip down memory lane. she's years old. julie yeah, on a trip down memory lane. she�*knowvears old. julie yeah, on a trip down memory lane. she�*know what? ld. julie yeah, on a trip down memory lane. she�*know what? hello?a yeah, on a trip down memory lane. she�*know what? hello? ann|h, on a trip down memory lane. she�*know what? hello? ann well you know what? hello? ann well done. congratulations on the done. and congratulations on the ripe old age of 93. and enjoy the it is my the lake district. it is my favourite of the world. favourite part of the world. here's what's coming up the here's what's coming up in the next hour. labour are miles ahead polls, sir ahead in the polls, as sir keir starmer put together a starmer has put together a shadow cabinet that he thinks will win the next election. but the question this okay, will the question is this okay, will the question is this okay, will the vote for a load of the country vote for a load of blair rice? and i think this is a bigger issue than is being made out the moment. a lot of made out at the moment. a lot of the chatter media classes who , the chatter media classes who, let's honest with you, are let's be honest with you, are all themselves. all new labour themselves. they're this is great they're saying this is a great thing, they do, thing, but they would do, wouldn't they? does it mean wouldn't they? what does it mean to mark two

to have tony blair? mark two patrick news, patrick christys gb news, britain's channel britain's news channel a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again . there's the >> hello again. there's the potential for temperatures to rise even higher as we go through the next day or so, but there will be a little bit of fog and low cloud around and also the risk of some thundery showers some us looking showers for some of us looking at picture. it's at the bigger picture. and it's high pressure the uk, high pressure dominating the uk, which so settled which is why it's so settled at the moment, though there are a few bringing few weak fronts around bringing a some a little bit more cloud for some of little bit of rain of us and a little bit of rain too. but for most a dry, too. but for most it's a dry, sunny picture to end the day. notice, though, some low clouds, some sea drifting in from some sea fog drifting in from the north sea for eastern parts of scotland and eastern england as drizzly as well. perhaps some drizzly rain here some elsewhere, rain here for some elsewhere, further west and south, clearer skies, pockets of mist and skies, a few pockets of mist and fog, but temperatures not dropping some dropping a huge amount. some places above 20 celsius places staying above 20 celsius tonight. so it could a tonight. so it could be a tropical we look tropical night as we look through wednesday itself, a slow start eastern side of start down the eastern side of the the cloud, the murk here

the uk. the cloud, the murk here will quickly burn back to the coast, except across coast, though, except across eastern parts of scotland where we're likely hold to that we're likely to hold on to that low well into the low cloud well into the afternoon. otherwise, plenty of sunshine perhaps sunshine yet again. perhaps a bit more cloud than we've seen through recent days, through some recent days, especially ireland, especially for northern ireland, where weather cloud where some fair weather cloud will but look at will bubble up. but look at those likely those temperatures likely to be a today could a touch higher than today could get of around 32 or 33 get to highs of around 32 or 33 celsius overnight, wednesday into thursday, we will see some heavy showery , perhaps thundery heavy showery, perhaps thundery rain the west and rain sweeping up the west and side taking us into side of the uk, taking us into thursday itself, staying dry and brighter towards the east. further hot and sunny weather to come we go through end of come as we go through the end of the the weekend, the week and into the weekend, but something of but likely to see something of a thundery breakdown, a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on .

gb news away. as is patrick christys, it's gb news now. >> tony blair, regarded by many as an election winning machine, as an election winning machine, a tour de force , a tory basher. a tour de force, a tory basher. other people say he's completely unflushable and we are still paying unflushable and we are still paying for his mess. however will the return of the blair writes at the top of the labour tree be a good thing for britain or something that strikes terror into your heart? and doubt into your heart? and no doubt the of people right the hearts of people right across the middle in other across the middle east. in other news, discussing this news, we'll be discussing this as jailhouse block. we as well. jailhouse block. so we cannot extradite a

cannot extradite someone from a german prison, a criminal, to face justice here because they are genuinely saying that the conditions in our prisons break human rights. so we can't stop people who we don't want coming into britain , coming in, but we into britain, coming in, but we also can't get the people that we actually do want bring we actually do want to bring back bonkers stuff. back. yeah, bonkers stuff. in other discussing other news, we'll be discussing this lazy, fat this as well. yes. lazy, fat people or people who need a weight jab . now, the weight weight loss jab. now, the weight loss jab will guangxi has gone on sale. can also get it on on sale. you can also get it on the nhs, but we've got an issue, okay, people who okay, because people who actually so people with actually need it. so people with diabetes some diabetes and some other illnesses can't get hold illnesses as well can't get hold of it because a load of people with the money who want to take it for designer purposes are buying all the stock. i think buying up all the stock. i think that's should just that's wrong. should they just get gym instead ? but get down to the gym instead? but the by the way, cost more the jab, by the way, cost more than anyway, than a gym membership. anyway, we'll of this. than a gym membership. anyway, we'li of this. than a gym membership. anyway, we'li will of this. than a gym membership. anyway, we'li will also of this. than a gym membership. anyway, we'li will also be of this. than a gym membership. anyway, we'li will also be discussing and i will also be discussing this as well. toilet trouble schools foul of the schools could fall foul of the law for allowing children who identify as a different gender to use as the opposite genders toilets. yeah so what are they

going to do? are they going to have just build toilet have to just build new toilet blocks? actually be blocks? should we actually be criminalising so schools criminalising people? so schools and allow this to and teachers who allow this to happen? christys . gb happen? patrick christys. gb news get get your emails coming in thick and fast. gb views and news.com. are you scared about the return of the blair riots? what does that really mean? gb views a gbnews.com. get those views coming in thick and fast. i'll see you in a. views coming in thick and fast. i'll see you in a . fight in the i'll see you in a. fight in the newsroom . newsroom. >> birmingham city council is effectively declared itself bankrupt. >> europe's largest local authority has issued a notice which prevents all but essential new spending. >> the council's financial problems have been linked to liabilities of around £760 million to settle equal pay claims. the council is also facing a financial gap within its budget of £87 million. finance related to protecting vulnerable people and statutory

services. though will remain in place. but all other new spending will stop with immediate effect. i've got it. >> i've got it. >> i've got it. >> it will be easier to build onshore wind farms as a result of new rules announced by the government this afternoon . the government this afternoon. the changes will see projects supported by local people approved more quickly . a local approved more quickly. a local areas will also have a greater say in how developments are considered. they may even benefit cheaper energy. now benefit from cheaper energy. now the new rules come after mounting pressure on rishi sunak from rebel mps downing street says its position hasn't changed, despite the prime minister saying in october he would keep a ban on new wind farms built onshore . the farms built onshore. the government says renewable energy is fuelled 42% of the uk's electricity generation in 2022, up from just 7% in 2010. the schools minister says the government has been very proactive in dealing with the concrete crisis in schools and has been issuing guidance since 2018. speaking to gb news nick

gibbs comments come after the education secretary apologised sized for using strong language while expressing her frustration at the situation. both rishi sunak and gillian keegan are under mounting pressure as schools across the uk have fully or partially closed . mr gibbs or partially closed. mr gibbs says gillian keegan's comments were off the cuff . were off the cuff. >> she was frustrated by the fact that the department for education , the civil servants education, the civil servants have been working very hard in terms of dealing with rac issue. we've been very proactive in deaung we've been very proactive in dealing with rack since 2018. we've issued very detailed guidance to responsible bodies. these are the bodies that are legally responsible for school buildings , which are the local buildings, which are the local authorities . the academy trusts authorities. the academy trusts dioceses , but we provide them dioceses, but we provide them with the best advice based on the technical advice that we get about how to identify and monitor racks. >> however , shadow paymaster, >> however, shadow paymaster, general jonathan ashworth says the government's handling of the matter is an abdication of

responsibility . responsibility. >> he yeah, i think today look , >> he yeah, i think today look, when you've got sort of rooves at risk of collapse in various various schools across the country, pupils really worried. you've got the education secretary expecting to be thanked and congratulated and parents across the country. teachers who work in schools and pupils because some of these pupils because some of these pupils are old enough to understand what is going on. want you to fix this and don't want any more of your saying, oh, nothing to do with me, guv. that frankly an abdication that is frankly an abdication of your response abilities. >> this breaking news just into us administrators have confirmed more than 1300 further redundant nurses at the collapsed retail for wilko. the news comes after discount store b&m agreed to buy up to 51 wilko stores from administrators for £13 million. it's nearly a month after wilko collapsed, putting thousands of jobs at risk across its 400 stores. it is understood the majority of the new stores are expected to rebrand as b&m ,

expected to rebrand as b&m, laughing gas will be banned and those caught in possession of the popular drug will face unlimited fines or up to two years in jail. new measures introduced by the government expected this year will also see tougher penalties for the supply and production of the drug, officially known as nitrous oxide. laughing gas is the third most used drug among 16 to 24 year olds in england. it's been heavily linked to anti—social behaviour, with usage possibly leading to anaemia and in more severe cases, nerve damage or paralysis . spain's football paralysis. spain's football federation has sacked jorge vilda , the coach of its winning vilda, the coach of its winning world cup women's team. vilda was the only member of the coaching staff not to stand down in protest at after midfielder jenni hermoso was kissed on the lips by the federation's president, luis rubiales . kim president, luis rubiales. kim jong un is expected to travel to russia in an armoured train to meet the president. vladimir putin, the leader of north

korea, could make the trip as early as this month. it's expected he will go close to the border between the two countries. now it comes as the us claims the kremlin is attempting to acquire military equipment for its war in ukraine. some more breaking news. buses crashed in the west of wales in a to post social media. mid and west wales fire and rescue crews say they're currently assisting a major incident on the cleddau bridge incident on the cleddau bridge in pembrokeshire . they're in pembrokeshire. they're advising people to avoid the area if possible while the incident is ongoing. area if possible while the incident is ongoing . we'll have incident is ongoing. we'll have more on this as soon as we get it here at gb news is now a section of the great wall of china has been damaged by vandals who apparently vandals who were apparently looking for a shortcut. two people used an excavator to dig a shortcut through the historic site located near suzhou city. the suspect have been detained. they claimed they wanted to save time and distance . police in the

time and distance. police in the west midlands have come face to face with a 12 foot python. the snake was spotted slithering along a street in west bromwich at 130 in the morning, and it took three officers to capture the python, which was transferred to a nearby vet hospital for care. now, police haven't yet said where the snake escaped from or whether they've been able to trace its owners . been able to trace its owners. good for them. this is gb news on your tv, on digital radio, and on your smart speaker, too. that's it from me. now back to . patrick >> right before we get stuck into tony blair, we do have a little bit of breaking news for you. our home security editor has it . has it. >> this is a bus crash in west wales described by the fire and rescue service as in the local area as a major incident. reports of multiple injured his. now, this happened at about

2:20. so not that long ago when a bus crashed on cleddau i think is a pronunciation cleddau bndge is a pronunciation cleddau bridge bridge at pembroke dock in west wales. bridge bridge at pembroke dock in west wales . and now according in west wales. and now according to west and mid and west wales fire and rescue service, they said many passengers have suffered injuries a degree of injuries. so some less seriously injured , some more seriously injured, some more seriously injured, some more seriously injured . the driver of the bus injured. the driver of the bus apparently is severely trapped in the wreckage . multiple fire in the wreckage. multiple fire crews from the area are attending along with paramedics and also the local air ambulances on scene at the moment. the bus involved, we're told, is a 52 seater bus . it was told, is a 52 seater bus. it was in collision with a car , we in collision with a car, we think, in the area as well. so still early stages, but the

driver of this bus, we understand it has been severely trapped. multiple people on the bus that have been injured and exact casualty toll , we don't exact casualty toll, we don't have as yet ongoing incident. but at this early stage, it has been described as a major incident that obviously allows the emerged rac services to call in more resources. the emerged rac services to call in more resources . and they have in more resources. and they have all three emergency services , all three emergency services, including air support from the paramedic, air ambulance on scene. okay. >> so what we know so far then, bus crash around an hour or so ago, major incident declared every single emergency service, including air ambulance , is on including air ambulance, is on the scene and it's a 52 seater bus. at least at least one person, the driver still trapped i >> -- >> yeah. and dyfed powys, police have said that the a477 one, which is between pembroke dock and haverfordwest , it is shut and haverfordwest, it is shut currently in both directions at the cleddau bridge , while the

the cleddau bridge, while the emergency services deal with this ongoing incident. >> all right. we'll have more on this as we get it. mark whitely, our home security editor, just bringing us. very concerning incidents unfolding speak incidents unfolding as we speak now but we're going to now in wales. but we're going to plough ahead with a couple of the other topics that we planned to start this particular hour with. namely, about this with. namely, it's about this labour for me, it's labour reshuffle. for me, it's about tony side of about the tony blair side of things and the blair right. so it makes me laugh really, that everyone seems to think it's such a good thing that keir starmer has stacked his shadow cabinet full of blair ites. i think that the think the fact that the establishment media is tripping over tell that over itself to tell you that this good thing tells you this is a good thing tells you everything you need to know everything that you need to know . it's hardly a shock, is it, that the establishment is new labour? know that because labour? we all know that because the any of them leave the the second any of them leave the bbc and go do a lefty bbc and they go and do a lefty tv or a radio show, don't they, when they complain that they couldn't out couldn't get their views out there, always turn there, those views always turn out to be tony blair's views, don't they? anyway why would we

want tony blair? mark two? i can see why starmer would want it. don't get me wrong. tony blair won elections . he was a tory won elections. he was a tory bashing machine. if you actually want be in power, then the want to be in power, then the best thing to do is to try to copy what tony blair did. so that makes absolute sense. but why should the public want it? i don't think blair gets don't think tony blair gets enough be honest enough stick, to be honest with you. obvious one me is you. the obvious one for me is iraq. many think there iraq. many people think there isn't in world iraq. many people think there isrwash in world iraq. many people think there isrwash the in world iraq. many people think there isrwash the blood in world iraq. many people think there isrwash the blood off world iraq. many people think there isrwash the blood off hisrvorld iraq. many people think there isrwash the blood off his hands. to wash the blood off his hands. and when people talk about tony blair they blair entering the hague, they are about william. are not talking about william. but the iraq and afghan wars were, i think, quite uniquely. blair issues. were, i think, quite uniquely. blair issues . so it's probably blair issues. so it's probably not fair to throw that at the current shadow cabinet. but if we are being asked to swallow that blairism is a good thing and this shadow cabinet is britain's next top team, should we just have a look at what that really means? really? so i mean, blair set the ball rolling on mass according to home mass migration according to home office total number office stats, the total number of coming the uk for of migrants coming to the uk for more than one year rose from .

more than one year rose from. 326,100in 1997 to 582,100in 2004. well the net inflow, which accounts for emigration an increased . from 46,800 to increased. from 46,800 to 222,600 in may 2004. the eu is well welcomed. ten new member states, the majority from central and eastern europe in what was the largest expansion in the history of european integration . the uk under blair integration. the uk under blair was one of only three member states alongside sweden and ireland, to open its labour market to these new eu citizens immediately . we are living in immediately. we are living in tony blair's mass migration legacy. does that feel good ? legacy. does that feel good? what about education, education, education on student debt. student debt. student debt? blair told everyone to go to university and we've ended up with a load of people clinging on worthless pieces of paper on to worthless pieces of paper that might as well a that might as well have a child's drawing mickey mouse child's drawing of mickey mouse on a lifetime of on it. and a lifetime of debt that will never back that they will never pay back manufacturing workers. well,

manufacturing and workers. well, according to reports between 1997 and two thousand and seven, believe it or not, output from all manufacturing and value adjusted for inflation fell by 3. and a million workers lost their jobs. 3. and a million workers lost theirjobs. in fact , most theirjobs. in fact, most manufacturing is a share of the overall economy, fell more under blair than get this thatcher and major combined . that's major combined. that's staggering. house affordability. this, by the way , is why all of this, by the way, is why all of the establishment luvvies love him. in 1997, the average income was £15,000 a year, while the average property cost was 65 grand. by two thousand and seven, the average pay had risen to 20,000. but house prices had surged to an extra ordinary 190,000. so home owners loved him. they made money and the ladder was kicked away to stop anybody else climbing. it so there are some of the tony blair illusions shattered a little bit. but what blair writes also , i guarantee you, is generally being massively socially liberal

and massively globalist, massively pro eu. and i am not convinced that that's what the vast majority of the british pubuc vast majority of the british public want. and with that in mind, i can't help but wonder if this country has been honed by the unflushable ghost of tony blair for long enough and bringing him back to life in the form toolmakers might form of a toolmakers son might not actually be the triumph that the metropolita luvvie media tells is . loads of people tells you it is. loads of people have already been getting in touch on this topic. i'll go to the inbox shortly. vaiews@gbnews.com now i went out and about a bit earlier to find out what people thought about tony blair, what words came to mind when they thought about old tone, what they thought about of the thought about the return of the blair it is blair right. here it is deceitful, deceitful. why >> well , iraq deceitful, deceitful. why >> well, iraq for first, i don't think bad things. >> i'm sure. i'm sure he's okay in his own way. it just

shouldn't he shouldn't have got involved with that war at all. >> no, i heard that he wasn't a very good person . very good person. >> that's just what i heard, though. >> not a nice guy. >> not a nice guy. >> yeah, he's not a nice quy- >> really? yeah. >> really? yeah. >> yeah. fair enough. all >> yeah. okay. fair enough. all right. specific reasons right. and he specific reasons for just lot of his, like, >> just a lot of his, like, political decisions as just some of things he did. of the things he did. >> i didn't agree with. yeah. no, i wouldn't have him. >> right. i think we need something new. >> got it done. all right. but it was a little bit of a how should we say , a people pleaser should we say, a people pleaser within politics. that's what i think , right. think, right. >> well, does the country want a load of people who enjoyed a tenure under tony blair, who advised tony blair who it could be? blair icemark, too? i mean, apparently not there, but we'll have to wait and see, won't we? i'm joined by john mcternan, who was blair's political secretary when he was prime minister. john, look, thank very, very when he was prime minister. john, llook,hank very, very when he was prime minister. john, llook, what very, very when he was prime minister. john, llook, what do very, very when he was prime minister. john, llook, what do you y, very when he was prime minister. john, llook, what do you think' much. look, what do you think about then? as about this then? it looks as though maybe stacking your shadow cabinet of blair shadow cabinet full of blair rights actually lead rights might not actually lead to kind politics that to the kind of politics that people look i think tony

people want. look i think tony blair's record speaks for itself i >> -- >> peace in northern ireland and minimum wage. >> peace in northern ireland and minimum wage . there's a whole minimum wage. there's a whole host of things i could go through that were really good. and the geopolitical importance of actually securing former commun states in eastern europe into the european union was absolutely critical. and we see that when you you stop paying attention to eastern europe, you get the invasion of ukraine. so really important what tony did with eastern europe and the and the new accession countries there. but the big thing is tony's been clear. i'm clear i'm blairism was for the end of the 20th century. it's not for the 21st century. it's not for where we are now. if there's an election that's won by keir starmer , he will be prime starmer, he will be prime minister in the second quarter of the 21st century. and the issues we face are very different from the ones that there were in the late 1990s, and they require different

solutions , which is why keir solutions, which is why keir himself has spoken about mission dnven himself has spoken about mission driven government rather than a return to the some of the some of the with respect with respect, when i have a look at some of the issues that we really are facing now, such as housing crisis, mass. immigration and quite a lot of geopolitical issues in the world. >> so it's not fair to suggest that tony blair caused all that i >> -- >> no, it's complete nonsense to say that the issues around housing costs are there in toronto , in melbourne, in san toronto, in melbourne, in san francisco , in dublin, uh, francisco, in dublin, uh, countries which actually, you know, the theme . know, the theme. >> hang on a minute. is there a is there a theme there? i think there might be a theme there, john, isn't there, in terms of the political ideology of the people? >> tony blair wasn't the president of the united states and the prime minister of australia and the prime minister of as well as being the of canada as well as being the prime of the uk. there

prime minister of the uk. there are global forces shaping our economy and there's global forces have done many , many forces have done many, many great things in the uk. they've made us one of the great one of the biggest investor in the world in foreign companies , world in foreign companies, which is boosting pension which is boosting our pension funds. they've also made us one of the biggest exporters of white collar services in the world. we're a successful country in so many ways. and you you mentioned manufacturing in yourin you mentioned manufacturing in your in in your introduction under tony blair, productivity rose substantially in manufacturing, while the other parts of the economy grew. but the thing is, we're looking now at a country where schools is it's not just they're failing , it's not just they're failing, they're unsafe. where the nhs waiting lists are rising, where people can't see a doctor, there's a poly crisis everywhere you turn , there's a crisis. what you turn, there's a crisis. what you turn, there's a crisis. what you also see everywhere you turn is a government minister trying to say it's nothing to do with them. you know, british sunak yesterday said he did. he had

nothing to do with with the schools crisis, even though he admitted that he'd actually cut into a quarter the bid for renovation, presumably a little bit like tony blair doesn't think he did anything. yeah, the government, the government has to. the government . i mean, the to. the government. i mean, the government is turning in and you're sounding a bit like jeremy corbyn, for whom every problem in the world goes back to tony blair. tony blair stopped being pm in two thousand and so i'm trying to i'm and seven, so i'm trying to i'm trying to have a i'm trying to assess. >> i'm trying to assess by whether your cabinet whether stacking your cabinet full ites is going to full of blair ites is going to lead to people who clearly who clearly similar ideology lead to people who clearly who cletony similar ideology lead to people who clearly who cletony blair. similar ideology lead to people who clearly who cletony blair. and ilar ideology lead to people who clearly who cletony blair. and that deology lead to people who clearly who cletony blair. and that ideology to tony blair. and that ideology , socially , i think is massively socially liberal and very outward looking onto the world. and when you look at some of the domestic policies that we had so mass immigration, the issue that we and have an issue with and we did have an issue with manufacturing we manufacturing and workers, we did when it comes did have an issue when it comes to as well. and we to housing stock as well. and we also did have an issue economically. let's be honest. i know but know that we've got one now, but we no money left, we did. there was no money left, was there? so it worth noting

was there? so it is worth noting that take housing to 2 that to so take housing to 2 million council houses were brought up to decent home standards. >> nothing has been spent on council housing in its renovation and maintenance since 2010. so that's failed 13 years in every single area. tony blair invested large amounts of money and had a big pay off. the shortest waiting times and the highest satisfaction. that's not true. >> he invested, invested, invested tens of billions in the iraq war that didn't have a pay off, did it ? off, did it? >> we got democracy in iraq and we got rid of a fascist dictator. and as a progressive, any war against a fascist dictator is a good war. the war against garcia was a good war. i think you must support the war against that. you probably support against that. you probably supwhere those weapons? >> where are those weapons? where mass where are those weapons of mass destruction? there destruction? john there were every every country in the world had a security service that believed there were weapons of mass destruction. >> turned out there was the >> it turned out there was the capability to create them. there wasn't actually an existing program but that. but the but

the about about the the question about about the shadow cabinet is pretty tough on angela rayner for actually pretty rachel reeves call her a blairite and a lot of the it's pretty tough on you know keir starmer's from the soft left. what has happened is people have been put into the shadow cabinet who got experience who have got experience in government the labour government and given the labour record, you know, the labour record, you know, the labour record is lose, lose, lose, lose for loss in row. win, win, win for loss in a row. win, win, win in the tony, lose, lose, lose, lose since tony. so basically if you want anybody who's ministerial experience, they're going to have been in a tony blair government. yeah no it's a fair point . fair point. >> it's a fair point. and by the way, i think for all of this, putting all of this aside, if i was keir starmer, i would quite probably be doing exactly the same thing because at the end of power. yeah you power, power. yeah if you want power, you've to you've got to win, you've got to you've got to win, right? so that's that. but right? and so that's that. but john, we're going to to john, we're going to have to leave there. thank you very leave it there. thank you very much, john martin in much, mate. john martin in there, who's was blair's there, who's blairs, was blair's political was political strategist when he was prime minister. there we go. right. loads more on this

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channel >> 4:26. you're watching. you're listening to me patrick christys on gb news. in a few minutes, we'll talk about the new weight loss injection. very controversial. this is available on nhs . but are rich and on the nhs. but are rich and famous people buying up these jabs, stopping people who really need them from getting them? also, just fyi, they cost more now from what i can tell than a gym membership. so i'll leave that there . we also as well are that there. we also as well are going to be having a look at the fact that schools are falling apart and it turns out that things aren't great in prison ehhen things aren't great in prison either. no, a german judge has refused an albanian refused to deport an albanian man accused of drug trafficking because of what he called the state of the british prison system. the man's lawyer had researched uk jails and told the court that we had problems with overcrowding, staff shortages and violence among inmates. i'm sure we do. but i mean, it's

prison , isn't it? isn't that prison, isn't it? isn't that part of the thing anyway? no i'm joined now by mark johnson. he's a former prisoner and is the founder of user voice, a charity that works to reduce re—offending. look, thank you very, very much. great to have you mean, are you on the show. i mean, are britain's prisons are human rights cesspit? we can't possibly send anyone to them . possibly send anyone to them. >> yeah, they absolutely are. human rights cesspit. >> i mean, i don't think i would want to send a sort of dog there at the moment, really to be honest. >> would you want to send a criminal there? >> um , yeah, i would want to >> um, yeah, i would want to send a criminal there. >> but when they're sent there, i agree with the law and that is that we punish people by removing their civil liberties and we sentence them to a sentence in incarcerate them. but the second part of justice is about rehabilitation and the conditions currently , there is conditions currently, there is no room for any kind of rehabilitation whatsoever . um, rehabilitation whatsoever. um, the human rights breaches . the human rights breaches. you've got to look at what sort

of the most extreme isolation and the most extreme conditions. and i'm talking, uh, you know, starvation. i'm talking in no way to navigate. >> do you know, do you know, get, you know, do you not get fed in prison? >> uh, not, not not to the degree that you should do. >> you're talking, um, in august last month, the prison population was 87,000. and by march 27, they want to increase it by 105,000. the mp5 march 27, they want to increase it by 105,000. the mps spent 5 million on, um , last year on million on, um, last year on housing prisoners in police cells. it costs £130 a day to house a prisoner in a cell in prison. yeah. and yet thousands in a police cell. so prison. yeah. and yet thousands in a police cell . so we've got in a police cell. so we've got this situation where whatever the government rhetoric is, what they want to do and what the pubuc they want to do and what the public want is actually we don't have a system that's fit for purpose. and the and the real story here is around the

increase in deaths in prison cells increased by 10. suicides increased by 30, self—harm in women's prisons is up by 50. you know, we're talking about prison leavers 4 in 10 people that leavers 4 in 10 people that leave prison , leave homeless. so leave prison, leave homeless. so you can we can talk about the conditions in prison and not be bothered about about it. but i'm pretty i'm glad that there europe is actually intervened and somebody sentence not not the actual person but the principle behind it that they have looked at it and said actually it goes against um like sort of human decency . sort of human decency. >> i mean if you the argument would be if you didn't commit a crime , then you wouldn't have to crime, then you wouldn't have to deal with any of that. >> it's such a it's such a simple argument to make , but simple argument to make, but actually, sadly, it's not it's not the argument to make. so we've got 87 people in prison. that's 87,000 different mitigating and circumstances.

why don't please don't think that i'm pandering to offenders needs. that i'm pandering to offenders needs . i'm that i'm pandering to offenders needs. i'm absolutely not. i believe that everybody's accountable for their behaviour. but what i believe is that it's us as a society need to invest in the successful reintegration of those people . of those people. >> but i get that. but we're talking about in albanian drug lord in this particular case, and i don't want to get dragged into this specific with you too much about because know much about this because i know you about you came on to talk about prisons i do want prisons generally. but i do want to about prisons genuinely prisons generally. but i do want to termsbout prisons genuinely prisons generally. but i do want to terms of it prisons genuinely prisons generally. but i do want to terms of the isons genuinely prisons generally. but i do want to terms of the world. ienuinely prisons generally. but i do want to terms of the world. inuinely prisons generally. but i do want to terms of the world. i mean, in terms of the world. i mean, you've painted very bad you've painted a very bad picture there. know you've painted a very bad pilot re there. know you've painted a very bad pilot of there. know you've painted a very bad pilot of people there. know you've painted a very bad pilot of people willere. know you've painted a very bad pilot of people will thinkznow a lot of people will think that's a good thing. prisoners in many people's views should maybe little but in many people's views should m'the�* little but in many people's views should m'the case little but in many people's views should m'the case of little but in many people's views should m'the case of anttle but in many people's views should m'the case of an albanian ut in many people's views should m'the case of an albanian drug in the case of an albanian drug lord, i mean, i dare say that our prisons better than our prisons will be better than what would albania. what he would get in albania. you mean, realistically, you know, i mean, realistically, if people don't if he you know, the people don't care , do they? i surely care, do they? i mean, surely you'd still rather go to prison in country you would in this country than you would in this country than you would in that you would in this country than you would in colombia that you would in this country than you would in colombia or that you would in this country than you would in colombia or thatwould ould in this country than you would in colombia or thatwould inld in this country than you would in colombia or thatwould in vast in colombia or you would in vast parts the world? parts of the world? >> i'm not sure about that, actually. i think over the last 3 years of working in

3 to 4 years of working in british prisons, i think we british prisons, i think that we are we are like behind a lot of countries. and we're we're really losing the sort of track on treating people and having a bar against human decency. see, if you look at the covid situation, when the lockdown, you know, you're looking at prisoners on 23.75 hours a day, bang up . currently, there's bang up. currently, there's about 70% of prisons still under 22 hours a day. yeah >> so, yeah, but i don't know. i mean, i think, you know , if you mean, i think, you know, if you kill someone , you rape someone. kill someone, you rape someone. i don't really care about whether or not you like the food or whether you're banged up for 23 hours a day. well let's bring back the death penalty , because back the death penalty, because i've had about three debates on that recently. >> right. because if we want if we want people to serve a centre and come out and not commit the same offence as they did that got them there . right. we need got them there. right. we need to rehabilitate people and we don't do that by treating them

like like animals basically , and like like animals basically, and depriving , depriving them and depriving, depriving them and putting them into extreme levels of isolation. there's no evidence whatsoever that backs up that treating people in such a inhumane way reduces reoffending and creates a safer society. if you want, if you want increasing sentences, if you want a vision of the future, well , i you want a vision of the future, well, i mean, the death the death penalty reduces the reoffending rate by 100. >> well , that penalty got >> well, that penalty got abolished, but the death penalty got abolished. >> right. because that 1—1 is i don't i don't believe i think in a civil society that if i if i murdered someone, if whether that's complicit in the state doing it in in in killing someone or whether i'd done it, there's a distinction between me and a murderer. and that is the ability to kill. right. whether that's i advocate the state doing it or whether i do it myself. and i'm really glad that they abolished it , you know what

they abolished it, you know what i mean? and i think i think we're danger. a lot people we're in danger. a lot of people are. yeah >> all right, mark, look, thank you very fascinating you very much. fascinating conversation. you conversation. great to have you on. you. conversation. great to have you on. you is conversation. great to have you on. you. is mark johnson. on. thank you. is mark johnson. there former prisoner there is a former prisoner and he's the founder uservoice, he's the founder of uservoice, a charity looks to charity that looks to work to reduce more charity that looks to work to redu to more charity that looks to work to reduto come more charity that looks to work to reduto come now more charity that looks to work to reduto come now ande still to come between now and 5:00. the latest on 5:00. i'll have the latest on the weight loss jabs that are now available on the nhs. i will ask, are ask, should people who are overweight because of a bad diet so not through health stuff, a bad get down the gym. bad diet, just get down the gym. but first, for your but first, it's time for your latest headlines karen latest headlines with karen armstrong . armstrong. >> and it's 433. karen armstrong here in the newsroom . birmingham here in the newsroom. birmingham city council has effectively declared itself bankrupt. europe's largest local authority has issued a notice which prevents all but essential new spending. the council's financial problems have been unked financial problems have been linked to a bill of around £760 million to settle equal pay claims as administrator. others have confirmed over 1300 further redundancies at the collapsed

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others knocking about as well, but this one is called wegovy and it will be limited to people needing medical help to lose weight . so needing medical help to lose weight. so around needing medical help to lose weight . so around 50,000 people weight. so around 50,000 people in england could receive a weekly injection. it comes after the government announced a £40 million pilot to expand access to the jab as a way to tackle obesity . so this to the jab as a way to tackle obesity. so this has to the jab as a way to tackle obesity . so this has proved obesity. so this has proved very, very controversial. firstly, want to make one thing very, very clear. there are numerous different, very genuine health issues that lead to people getting to the situation where obviously need to where they obviously need to lose weight. okay this is not all about lazy mcdonald's loving slobs who can't be bothered to exercise and pile the pounds on. and, you know, frankly, just look like a hog roast. okay. it's not all about those people. so these are the people that genuinely need it. and it could save the nhs quite a lot of money in the long run because there's a lot of knock on effects to people who are obese through other medical conditions as course, to as well. of course, it leads to as well. of course, it leads to a amount problems that a huge amount of problems that

we paying for nhs. we end up paying for in the nhs. generally so there is that side of things. the actual weight loss jab itself. i think is a good thing. however the problem is at the moment is that there is at the moment is that there is at the moment is that there is a limited supply of these weight loss jabs and unfortunately quietly, everybody who says that they need it on the nhs can't get hold of it because a load of people with money are buying jabs like these going private and then using them . but if you have a little them. but if you have a little look at the cost of some of these jabs , okay, so the jab can these jabs, okay, so the jab can cost something like £140. so if you went private, you could go and say , right, look, here's and say, right, look, here's £140 and i'll have this jab, please. fine. what does a gym membership cost? mind gym membership cost? mind gym membership is £32 a month. okay, so for £32 a month, i can go to the gym any single day that i want, any time of day and actually do what those people are doing there. and now get on the treadmill, do a few weights, whatever, and lose weight that way i can get off my backside

whatever, and lose weight that way go an get off my backside whatever, and lose weight that way go to get off my backside whatever, and lose weight that way go to the off my backside whatever, and lose weight that way go to the gym. y backside whatever, and lose weight that way go to the gym. but ckside whatever, and lose weight that way go to the gym. but if side whatever, and lose weight that way go to the gym. but if you and go to the gym. but if you are could just pay are lazy, you could just pay about £140 and get a jab . and about £140 and get a jab. and that means that also then there is less supply for the people who genuinely do need it as well. i think we were just rewarding laziness. but alice guevara joins me now, who is an nhs lead advanced clinical practitioner. but more important here has had a weight loss drug. alex, thank you very much. great to have you on the show. right. okay. so what kind of people would qualify for this weight loss jab on the nhs. >> thanks . good to see you >> thanks. good to see you again, as always. >> so broadly speaking, the nhs has requirements at the moment are a bmi of over 35 that may differ in some areas depending on the local weight loss team approach. and they're going to be looking at also for people who've got co—morbidity and by that we mean things like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease and on. right disease and so on. right >> but so okay, fine. but that

if you've got a bmi of over that, that could be your own doing. and if you've got high blood pressure, is that because you love a burger king? >> well , that depends really how >> well, that depends really how you look at it. i think you you and discussed this before and i have discussed this before and i have discussed this before and always enjoy, enjoy our and i always enjoy, enjoy our repartee. obe is a repartee. but it's obe is a condition more and more it is being classed as a condition now, not a personal individual failing of somebody who is a classes or thought of as lazy and, you know, sits around and just eats junk food that is a complete stereotype. obesity is a long term, serious condition , a long term, serious condition, which costs the nhs billions of pounds a year and has organic origin . so that means that your origin. so that means that your appetite is controlled by your brain. your fat is an organ that drives you to develop certain behaviours. in eating. it's not as simple as just being able to stop eating and we know that from all the clinical research that's been done. >> we to move away from that's been done. >> personal to move away from that's been done. >> personal individual away from that's been done. >> personal individual failurefrom this personal individual failure mantra and move on a minute that

i disagree. that is managed massively disagree because if you say to people then that you're fat, not because you are a lazy lard who won't stop eating, but because you have of some kind of problem right now. and this isn't, by the way , and this isn't, by the way, talking about people who do have genuine medical problems that can lead to obe. these are people who sit couch all people who sit on the couch all day and eat. okay then you fantasise them and then that means that they don't have any incentive to get better whatsoever . i incentive to get better whatsoever. i smoke incentive to get better whatsoever . i smoke if i get whatsoever. i smoke if i get lung cancer . whatsoever. i smoke if i get lung cancer. is that because i deserve do i deserve sympathy for that? because i've done it to myself to some extent you do, because smoking is addictive and we need to be supporting people with addiction so we don't use this language with people who have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, even though the majority of those are lifestyle in origin as well. >> but your, your, your your kind of approach to people is not an approach we would take as

clinicians to patients because we need to be understanding about the battles that people are facing weight . it's are facing around weight. it's an now. you can't argue an epidemic now. you can't argue that there are 60% of the population who are obese because they're all lazy, they're all lazy . 60% of the population are lazy. 60% of the population are lazy. 60% of the population are lazy . come on, we need to be lazy. come on, we need to be thinking about this in clinical terms professional and terms and professional terms and supporting people have these supporting people to have these conversations around weight loss and whatever therapies are needed, whether that is sponsoring people go to the sponsoring people to go to the gym, whether it is giving them dietary sponsoring people to go to a minute. to the gym, hang on a minute. >> i am sorry. right. want >> i am sorry. right. you want me pay your gym membership ? me to pay your gym membership? >> well, we know that health inequality has a huge has a huge role in poverty or poverty has a huge role in health, in health inequality. so those who are more likely to be overweight and suffer comorbidities are suffer with comorbidities are also who are likely to be also those who are likely to be able to not afford to buy fresh vegetables and to afford gym memberships. so we need to be supporting those that those

members of the community and those battles. >> and apple costs £0.20 and a dog free. dog is free. >> well , a bag dog is free. >> well, a bag of apples costs £2.50 and a bag of doughnuts costs a pound and whilst there are those are the figures that we're dealing with, we're going to to get problems with to continue to get problems with obesity, aren't we? >> if i took this wegovy jab, then could i expect ? does then what could i expect? does it me? happens ? it fall off me? what happens? >> well , everybody's different, >> well, everybody's different, but you can expect appetite suppression. you can expect to reduction in your desire to eat . you can often experience some reduction in inflammation. so you have a little bit more energy and over time, yes, you can expect to lose weight. the rate obviously differs from person to person, but it's a highly, highly effective drug and people lose ten, 20, 30 and many people lose ten, 20, 30 kilos, which of course has a knock on effect in terms of reducing their other risks, like heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, etcetera . diabetes, etcetera. >> all right, alex, look, thank you very much. i must say, i genuinely do really enjoy our chats and it's amazing how we

can look at something completely different way. but i do i do appreciate you. look, please keep coming back on. take care. it's alex guevara there who was an nhs lead advanced clinical practitioner of the day practitioner email of the day goes alex. thank you very goes to alex. thank you very much. thank god for the nhs. i used to be over 16.5 stone, but now i realise it wasn't my fault . fantastic. that is from alex. there's a lot of this coming in at the moment. yeah, look again , i think i've been clear enough on this massive sympathy, genuinely. and i'm not talking about people here who've got a genuine medical condition. that means gain weight, means that they gain weight, right? got right? people who have got serious issues. i'm not talking about that. from you've about that. but from what you've just there , the people just heard there, the people who qualify nhs , which we're qualify on the nhs, which we're all for, for weight all paying for, for a weight loss people who have loss drug, are people who have eaten too and don't want to eaten too much and don't want to work it off. i'm sorry, but we cannot. why aren't we paying for that? and then the other solution is, well, you don't have to pay for that jab. you pay gym have to pay for that jab. you pay gym membership. i'm pay for the gym membership. i'm sorry, just sorry, but this is just absolutely mean, absolutely ludicrous. i mean, another we're another thing, now that we're all for fat people

all at fault for fat people anyway , we all know about the anyway, we all know about the concrete crisis that's affecting schools across the country. but it turns that thousands of it turns out that thousands of schools that are this week schools that are open this week could be breaking and could be breaking the law. and that's because of the toilets. find out more in a tech patrick christys gb news business news .

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news is. >> it's 449. you're watching me . patrick christys on gb news at five i will discuss whether the government should have performed a u—turn as it now has, as it clears the way for dozens of onshore wind farms to be built. it is now as of literally right now, much more likely that you will have a wind farm at the back your house. but back of your house. but thousands and thousands of schools and colleges breaking the colleges could be breaking the law are using the law because pupils are using the wrong toilet. teachers are allowing kids to enter toilets and changing rooms according to their but their gender identity. but campaign group sex matters says the schools must recognise pupils biological sex and shouldn't let boys pretend to be girls and then go into the girls toilet. i'm joined now by maya forstater, is the co—founder forstater, who is the co—founder and director of sex and executive director of sex matters. maya, thank you matters. look maya, thank you very, very much. so am i right then, that schools are, if they ever open with the dodgy concrete crisis , potentially concrete crisis, potentially going to be breaking the law if they let someone who is identifying as a girl go into the girls loo? is that right?

that's right. >> schools have a duty of care to protect all of their pupils, and they have to provide a single sex toilets and change rooms over the age of eight and 11. and so to let a boy go into the girls changing potentially exposed with the girls to sexual harassment, basically they you know, the girl girls they shouldn't expect to be met with boy even a boy who thinks he's a girl or who has changed his name . and so schools have schools have this duty of care. that's a legal obligation to protect all of their pupils. and they can't do that if they forget what sex each of the students is. >> okay. how big a problem is this, though, maya? i mean, you know, is it a bigger problem on paper than it is in reality? >> well, we surveyed through yougov , so proper survey yougov, so proper survey secondary school teachers and 79% of them said that they have

a trans identified child in their school . and of those, 20% their school. and of those, 20% said they let their child isn't allowed to use the facilities and 80% said they would use preferred pronouns. so they will call a boy or a boy or a girl and that you don't have an explicit rule to allow a child to use the facilities. if you call them, if you call a boy a girl, it's very difficult to then explain why why they shouldn't go into the girls . shouldn't go into the girls. >> all right, mate , thank you >> all right, mate, thank you very, very much. it is a slightly bad line, so i'm going to leave it there. maya, unfortunately . but i to leave it there. maya, unfortunately. but i think we all got the gist. it's my fault. today is the co—founder and executive director of sex matters. look, just that matters. look, just saying that schools be schools now apparently will be breaking essentially breaking the law essentially if they who they allow somebody who identifies sex identifies as the opposite sex to the toilets and the to use the toilets and the changing facilities that changing facilities at that school, that's school, good. i think that's fantastic . i school, good. i think that's fantastic. i really think fantastic. i really do not think that children who essentially are cosplaying as the opposite

sex allowed rampage sex should be allowed to rampage through different bathroom . i through a different bathroom. i don't see why that should be the case. there are, i think, disabled loos in a lot of schools . et cetera. so that schools. et cetera. so that would maybe be a facility, an additional facility the school wouldn't to build so they wouldn't have to build so they could that the 1 or 2 or 3 or could go that the 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 pupils at that school who appear to be having some of appear to be having some kind of gender they could gender crisis, maybe they could use those facilities i use those facilities or dare i say it, maybe they could use a facilities that match their own genitals would genitals and then nobody would have about all have to actually worry about all of we probably can't of this. but we probably can't have that these days, can we? i'm to off this hour i'm going to round off this hour by my toe into the by dipping my toe into the terrifying my inbox. terrifying world of my inbox. lots reaction to the fat jab lots of reaction to the fat jab or it's now called or as it's now been called by loads viewers , by loads of different viewers, by the the flab jab and a lot the way, the flab jab and a lot of people are saying that we should not be paying on the nhs people to have a fat jab. i want to reiterate again that i think we should for people who genuinely have a medical condition, that means they condition, that means that they need to lose weight and therefore that's fine. therefore that that's fine. that's for anybody. why that's the same for anybody. why wouldn't literally make wouldn't you just literally make

somebody better with medication that's ? but it can that's available? but if it can be taxpayers are be used and taxpayers are expected to pay for people who are fat , then are deliberately fat, then i don't see what the what the problem is. what the point sorry of that is. i can't believe the rubbish that this person is coming outwith. it's not my fault, brigade said. sally and thatis fault, brigade said. sally and that is the real idea that apparently now the nhs is telling people that you being fat is not really your your fault. i have got an opinion poll running at the moment on my twitter, which is at patrick christys about whether or not you think that the return of tony blair as politics to britain , which is appears to be britain, which is appears to be what keir starmer is trying to do with his new shadow cabinet, is good thing or not? so far is a good thing or not? so far 91% of you saying no, 9% of you say yes. but when i come back, the government has opened the way for onshore wind farms to be built all over the country as of literally right now, it is much more likely that you will end up with a wind farm at the back of

your house. do you want that? patrick christys gb news business news channel. >> the temperature's rising . >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello again. there's the potential for temperatures to rise even higher as we go through the next day or so, but there will be a little bit of fog and low cloud around and also risk of some thundery also the risk of some thundery showers us looking showers for some of us looking at bigger picture. and it's at the bigger picture. and it's high dominating high pressure dominating the uk, which settled at which is why it's so settled at the though there are the moment, though there are a few fronts around bringing few weak fronts around bringing a bit more cloud some a little bit more cloud for some of us and a little bit of rain too, but for it's a dry, too, but for most it's a dry, sunny picture to the sunny picture to end the day. nofice sunny picture to end the day. notice though, clouds, notice though, some low clouds, some fog drifting in from some sea fog drifting in from the for eastern parts the north sea for eastern parts of eastern england of scotland and eastern england as well. perhaps some drizzly rain here for elsewhere, rain here for some elsewhere, further west and south, clearer skies, a pockets of mist and skies, a few pockets of mist and fog, temperatures not fog, but temperatures not dropping a huge amount. some places celsius places staying above 20 celsius tonight. could be a tonight. so it could be a tropical as we look tropical night as we look through wednesday itself, slow

through wednesday itself, a slow start down eastern side of start down the eastern side of the uk. the cloud, murk here the uk. the cloud, the murk here will quickly burn back to the coast, though, across coast, though, except across eastern scotland where eastern parts of scotland where we're on that eastern parts of scotland where we'rcloud on that eastern parts of scotland where we'rcloud well on that eastern parts of scotland where we'rcloud well into on that eastern parts of scotland where we'rcloud well into the that low cloud well into the afternoon. otherwise, plenty of sunshine yet again, perhaps a bit more cloud than we've seen through recent days, through some recent days, especially northern ireland, especially for northern ireland, where some fair weather cloud will up. but look at will bubble up. but look at those be those temperatures likely to be a touch higher than today could those temperatures likely to be a totoh higher than today could those temperatures likely to be a toto highs er than today could those temperatures likely to be a toto highser aroundjay could those temperatures likely to be a toto highser around 32 could those temperatures likely to be a toto highser around 32 or uld those temperatures likely to be a toto highser around 32 or 331 get to highs of around 32 or 33 celsius wednesday into celsius overnight wednesday into thursday, we will see some heavy showery perhaps rain showery, perhaps thundery rain sweeping western side of sweeping up the western side of the uk, taking us into thursday itself, dry and brighter itself, staying dry and brighter towards east. further hot towards the east. further hot and sunny weather to come as we go the end of week go through the end of the week and weekend, but likely and into the weekend, but likely to of thundery to see something of a thundery breakdown . breakdown. >> the temperatures rising , boxt >> the temperatures rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on .

gb news. >> it's 5 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news loads on in the final hour of this show, a wind farm in your garden. it just got a lot more likely. tory, you turn wind farms, well, they are going to be popping up left, right and centre. now how do you feel about that? do you want them in your area? in other news, be talking about news, we'll be talking about this will britain news, we'll be talking about this dodgy ll britain news, we'll be talking about this dodgy concrete? it's not crumble dodgy concrete? it's not just schools. it's in just in schools. it's in hospitals , it's in motorway hospitals, it's in motorway bridges, it's in social housing, it's airports, it's it's at airports, it's absolutely everywhere. are on

absolutely everywhere. we are on the cusp, genuinely of a massive concrete crisis. and how much is that going to cost? i'm also going be talking about this going to be talking about this story blair or story as well. blair hero or villain loads of people in the establishment media praising the return of blairite politics. well, of course, they are, because they're all new labour, aren't they? but what does that actually mean in the practical reality day reality of the day to day running country? does running of this country? does it mean socially mean being hugely socially liberal and massively pro—european that pro—european and is that actually what we want ? will also actually what we want? will also be this as well. big be discussing this as well. big one, the bbc stands accused of a diana up, but in fact, her brother is giving evidence today to say how the beeb stitched up diana. so we will be discussing all of that. patrick christie's on . gb news that all of that. patrick christie's on. gb news that email all of that. patrick christie's on . gb news that email address on. gb news that email address gb views. the gbnews.com. keep them coming in thick and fast. loads of top talking points there. would you have a wind

farm anywhere near your house? would you object to it? it's just become a lot harder for you to reject a wind farms basically. and i think that's an issue people, of issue for people, especially of course, communities. course, in rural communities. tony blair, blairite. do you tony blair, a blairite. do you think a good thing that think it's a good thing that there's the return there's going to be the return there, gbnews.com there, gb views or gbnews.com get but get them coming in. but right now your headlines our now is your headlines with our anne . anne armstrong. >> good evening to you. it's a minute past five. i'm aaron armstrong in the newsroom . a armstrong in the newsroom. a birmingham city council has effectively declared itself bankrupt. europe's largest local authority has issued a notice which prevents all but essential new spending . the council's new spending. the council's financial problems have been unked financial problems have been linked to liabilities of around £760 million to settle equal pay claims. the council is also facing a financial gap within its budget of £87 million. it finances related to protecting vulnerable people and statutory services, though will all remain in place . more onshore wind in place. more onshore wind farms are expected to be built

as a result of new rules announced by the government this afternoon. the changes will see projects supported by local people approved more quickly. local areas will also have a greater say in how developments are considered , and they may are considered, and they may even benefit from cheaper energy. the new rules come after mounting pressure from mps. downing street claims it hasn't changed its position, although rishi sunak did say in october that ban on new that he would keep a ban on new wind farms built onshore . the wind farms built onshore. the government says renewable energy is fuelled 42% of the uk's electricity generation last yean electricity generation last year, up from just 7% in 2010. the school's minister says the government's been very proactive in dealing with the concrete crisis and has been issuing guidance to schools since 2018. speaking to gb news nick gibbs, comments come after the education secretary was forced to apologise for using strong language while expressing her frustration at the situation. both rishi sunak and gillian keegan are under growing pressure as schools across the

uk have fully or partially closed. mr gibbs says gillian keegan's comments were off the cuff . cuff. >> she was frustrated by the fact that the department for education , the civil servants education, the civil servants have been working very hard in terms of dealing with rake issue. we've been very proactive in dealing with rack since 2018. we've issued very detailed guidance to respond bodies and these are the bodies that are legally responsible for school buildings , which are the local buildings, which are the local authorities, the academy trusts diocese us, but we provide them with the best advice based on the technical advice that we get about how to identify and monitor racks. the shadow paymaster general, however , paymaster general, however, jonathan ashworth, says the government's handling of the matter is an abdication of responsibility . responsibility. >> he i think today look , when >> he i think today look, when you've got of roofs at risk you've got sort of roofs at risk of collapse in various various schools across the country, pupils really worried. you've got the education secretary expecting to be thanked and congratulated and parents across

the country, teachers who work in schools and pupils , because in schools and pupils, because some of these pupils are old enough to understand what is going on. want you to fix this and don't want any more of your saying, oh, nothing to do with me, guv. that is frankly an abdication your abdication version of your responsibilities . responsibilities. >> administrators have confirmed over 1300 further redundant bosses at the collapsed retailer wilko. the news comes after the discount retailer b&m agreed to buy up 51 wilko stores from administrators for £13 million. it is nearly a month since wilko collapsed . at thousands of jobs collapsed. at thousands of jobs have been put at risk across its 400 stores. its understood the majority of the new stores will be rebranded as b and m laughing gas will be banned and those caughtin gas will be banned and those caught in possession of the popular drug will face unlimited fines or up to two years in jail. new measures expected to be introduced this year will also see tougher penalties for the supply and production of the drug , officially known as drug, officially known as nitrous oxide . laughing gas is

nitrous oxide. laughing gas is the third most used drug among 16 to 24 year olds in england. it's been heavily linked to antisocial behaviour , with use antisocial behaviour, with use possibly leading to anaemia and in more severe cases, nerve damage or paralysis. in more severe cases, nerve damage or paralysis . a major damage or paralysis. a major incident has been declared in west wales after a 52 seater bus was involved in a crash with another vehicle on the cleddau bridge in pembrokeshire . fire bridge in pembrokeshire. fire and rescue services say a driver is severely trapped and many of the bus passengers are suffering with various injuries. more on that story as soon as we get it here at gb news. meanwhile spain's football federation has sacked jorge vilda. that's the coach of its world cup women's team, which won the tournament. vilda was the only member of the coaching staff not to stand down in protest after the midfielder jenni hermoso was kissed on the lips the federation's lips by the federation's president , lips by the federation's president, luis rubiales . president, luis rubiales. a section of the great wall of china has been damaged by vandals who were looking for a

shortcut. two people used an excavator to dig through the historical site located near zuzu city and the suspects have been detained . they claim they been detained. they claim they wanted to save time and distance . police in the west midlands have come face to face with a 12 foot python snake was spotted on a street in west bromwich at 1:30 am. it took three officers to capture the python, which was transferred to a nearby vet hospital for care. now police haven't yet said where this game escaped from or indeed, if they've been able to find its owners . we'll keep across that owners. we'll keep across that one for you as well. this is gb news. as more headlines in about 25 minutes time. but for now, it's back to . patrick it's back to. patrick >> let's start with some developing news in the past hour . as the government has announced that planning regulations for onshore wind

farms will be relaxed. so the current rules mean that one objection, just one, can prevent them from being built. but after pressure from conservative mps, believe it or not, the government will give more opfions government will give more options for communities who want developments in their area. well, that's good news for some who want the use of cheap, renewable energy to bring down energy bills. for others it energy bills. but for others it spells news. believe spells bad news. they believe that turbines blight that wind turbines blight natural habitats and lead to natural habitats and can lead to higher it higher electricity costs. it doesn't really matter which way you the fact is you dress this up. the fact is that has now more that it has now become more likely that you end up likely that you could end up with farm very near where with a wind farm very near where you live. you know, if you just with a wind farm very near where you livea you know, if you just with a wind farm very near where you livea house, m, if you just with a wind farm very near where you livea house, for if you just with a wind farm very near where you livea house, for example,t with a wind farm very near where you livea house, for example, and bought a house, for example, and you've view, you've got a lovely view, someone wind farm someone might slap a wind farm on it, or might have on it, or you might just have one the back of your one right at the back of your house. maybe you think that's a good thing. i don't know. but should government have should the government have lifted it also, lifted the ban? it is also, for what worth, rishi what it's worth, there rishi sunak i can't help sunak u—turn. and i can't help but he can but wonder whether or not he can get with without being get away with this without being hit polls because i don't hit in the polls because i don't really think the lib dems are going against going to come out against wind farms, isn't farms, are they? labour isn't going out against wind

going to come out against wind farms. are you to going farms. so who are you to going vote for? really? joining me now is the director vote for? really? joining me now is net the director vote for? really? joining me now is net watch the director vote for? really? joining me now is net watch the diileader of net zero watch and the leader of net zero watch and the leader of the climate party. as well at gammell. of you, you gammell. both of you, thank you very, much. stuff. very, very much. great stuff. and our farms, frankly, and add our wind farms, frankly, just blight on the landscape and add our wind farms, frankly, just killers |t on the landscape and add our wind farms, frankly, just killers ofyn the landscape and add our wind farms, frankly, just killers of birds landscape and add our wind farms, frankly, just killers of birds ..andscape and killers of birds. >> gosh, what a way to introduce it, patrick. >> no, of course they're not. >> no, of course they're not. >> i mean, they are fantastic opportunity for us to get cheaper electricity going. >> they're fantastic >> they're a fantastic opportunity for communities potentially get cheaper potentially to get cheaper electricity in their local area. >> mean alok sharma is proposed all which is what the government was looking at was suggesting all which is what the government was thoseg at was suggesting all which is what the government was those localvas suggesting all which is what the government was those local communitiesg that those local communities could actually benefit from it . could actually benefit from it. >> and look, in a cost of living crisis like we're in at the moment, what is to like moment, what is to not like about money off the cost about getting money off the cost of the local area? >> well, it costs >> all right. well, it costs about 200 grand to put of about 200 grand to put one of them it? i think them up, doesn't it? i think i think about price. think that's about the price. andrew wind farms andrew i mean, do wind farms work? importantly, is it do andrew i mean, do wind farms workwork importantly, is it do andrew i mean, do wind farms workwork ? importantly, is it do they work? >> mean, patrick, both >> well, i mean, patrick, both both you and ed have talked about wind energy being cheaper. ihave

about wind energy being cheaper. i have to tell you , it's simply i have to tell you, it's simply isn't true . i do this day in, isn't true. i do this day in, day out. i look at the costs of wind farms. and i have to tell you that onshore wind farms are probably 20% more expensive than gas turbines at the moment. >> that's based on current pnces >> that's based on current prices of gas and current and the latest onshore wind farms. >> offshore wind turbines are probably twice the price they are going to put your bills up every time you put a new wind farm on the grid , bills go up. farm on the grid, bills go up. it drives up wholesale prices. you have to pay subsidies. you have to pay extra balancing costs. it goes on forever. this is definitely going to put your bills up. so that is bad news. you're right. they are a blight on the landscape to the they're horrible to look at. there are problems with noise. there are problems with noise. there are problems with noise. there are problems with flicker , there's problems with flicker, there's problems with flicker, there's problems with flicker, there's problems with infrasound. and yes, they kill birds. i mean, they probably don't kill as many birds do, but they birds as cats do, but they certainly kill if you like, the more glamorous species. you know, the raptors and the upland

birds . so yeah, there's very birds. so yeah, there's very little to like about wind farms. but at the end of the day, we can't go on putting our energy bills up. we've been through one energy crisis that's enough. all right. >> and there's a lot to come back to there. the leader of the climate party take it away. mean honestly when you come out with a total rubbish. a whole load of total rubbish. >> i find it absolutely >> i mean i find it absolutely bizarre to be honest with you. you the price of a you look at the price of a megawatt hour for and for megawatt hour for gas and for renewables actually it's renewables and actually it's renewables and actually it's renewables today. renewables are cheaper today. >> the on the level >> and based on the on the level of generation well of generation as well for renewables, we've actually had points where the of points where the cost of renewables has gone to renewables has gone down to negative renewables has gone down to negso ve renewables has gone down to negso actually if we then >> so actually if we then pegging >> so actually if we then pegging our electricity price on the of renewables we got the amount of renewables we got at certain times , we'd at certain times, we'd be getting down an getting them down at an extraordinarily getting them down at an extr' reason �*ily getting them down at an extr'reason our getting them down at an extr' reason our prices getting them down at an extr'reason our prices stay up the reason our prices stay up high, as you know, is that we p99 high, as you know, is that we peg it at the price of the most expensive kilowatt hour of electricity that's coming in, and that's generally been gas recently , and that pushes the recently, and that pushes the pnces recently, and that pushes the prices up. but let's also, you know, look at this in an

absolutely different way. i mean, we are moving forward at the moment in an economy and we have an opportunity to get britain of the new britain at the front of the new clean revolution, clean industrial revolution, start money for british start making money for british people, get industry into this country, the cost of country, drive down the cost of living crisis and start to see revenue coming in because we have sell. spur have things to sell. let's spur the industrial revolution on. >> so these things go all right? fine, fine. how many jobs are wind farms going to create ? wind farms going to create? >> well, at the moment, for every kilowatt that we're producing from renewables, we reduce 2.5 times the number of jobs that we do from fossil fuels. you know, i mean, it's ridiculous. everything we do in the renewables industry is not only driving down prices, it's providing employment for providing more employment for people and it's moving it moving us through to an opportunity in the future. >> okay. well, tell you >> okay. well, i'll tell you what, back to that what, andrew, come back to that then, know, job then, because you know, job creation something get creation is something i can get behind. yeah >> okay. there's two things. there's two things to say there. one, ed thinks that wind one, if ed thinks that that wind farms are cheap and they're creating lots of jobs, well,

those two things contradict each other. jobs cost money. you can't have technologies that can't have two technologies that create lots of jobs that are simultaneously cheap. gas is cheap , cheaper than wind, if simultaneously cheap. gas is cheap, cheaper than wind, if you like, because it takes so few people to run a gas turbine. so that's complete nonsense. but he keeps saying this thing, that wind is cheaper than gas. if that's true, we should be able to agree , ed and i, that we can to agree, ed and i, that we can do away with subsidies for wind power tomorrow. do we agree on that, ed? >> that's interesting. >> that's interesting. >> i think we can do away with subsidies fossil fuels subsidies for fossil fuels first, can't we, on basis first, can't we, on the basis that subsidies. >> you told was cheaper. >> you told me it was cheaper. it cheaper than than, say , gas. >> so we can do away with it. >> so we can do away with it. >> all right. all right. one at a time. and should we do away with subsidies for wind farms ? with subsidies for wind farms? >> i'm completely into the free market. away all market. let's do away with all of those subsidies, including the fuel subsidies the fossil fuel. fuel subsidies . let's make it a completely level playing ground let's level playing ground and let's get in investing in our clean get on in investing in our clean industrial revolution in the future. >> all right, andrew, you're clearly drilling down or trying

>> all right, andrew, you're cleanywaylling down or trying >> all right, andrew, you're cleanyway into down or trying >> all right, andrew, you're cleanyway into the in or trying >> all right, andrew, you're cleanyway into the finances�*ng >> all right, andrew, you're cleanyway into the finances of to anyway into the finances of this kind of stuff then. i mean , you said there that , you know, you said there that it more expensive and it will be more expensive and make up . i it will be more expensive and make up. i mean, make our bills go up. i mean, can you prove that? andrew what is what costing us to is it? what is it costing us to have a wind farm? what is it going to cost us relative to what we're paying right now ? what we're paying right now? >> you go back to about >> so if you go back to about 2002, when we first started on the renewables drive, retail electricity prices were about half of what they were in in say, 2020, you know, a year or so before the energy crisis that was the effect of renewables. if you want to go back to those sort of prices again, then you have to get rid of the renewables. this is the problem. renewables will always make your electricity more expensive . this electricity more expensive. this is seen across the world. >> right? okay. well, so you have a radically different view on that. but this is a vital issue as far as i'm concerned . i issue as far as i'm concerned. i mean, the issue, right, mean, this is the issue, right, because it's this is going to

cost us a load more money and it's to blight it's going to blight a landscape. then why are we doing it? >> well, i mean, just before we came on today, i was checking the megawatt hour and the cost per megawatt hour and renewables than renewables are cheaper than gas today. think it's today. i mean, i think it's absolutely ridiculous both absolutely ridiculous that both of radically of you can have such radically different on what is different views on on what is presumably googleable. >> but on this. yeah, right. >> so but on this. yeah, right. >> so but on this. yeah, right. >> patrick can i just add one other thing in as well about please this is also about democracy. >> you look, i'm a local councillor in buckinghamshire. we with planning decisions councillor in buckinghamshire. we the with planning decisions councillor in buckinghamshire. we the time] planning decisions councillor in buckinghamshire. we the time and nning decisions councillor in buckinghamshire. we the time and previouslysions all the time and previously wind has blocked has been able to be blocked by one the community. one member of the community. could you imagine how the hands would be thrown up by the housebuilder or is it normally, normally takes normally normally it takes a room full of liberal democrats to do that, doesn't it? >> housing applications? >> with housing applications? you that's is it. and now you know, that's is it. and now but but streamlined with but but we streamlined it with wind meant just wind and we meant it could just take from number 42. you take doreen from number 42. you didn't boot out , boot didn't have to boot out, boot out tories and vote in out the tories and vote in davie. look, how many, how many houses are we going to be? are we be providing we going to be providing electricity for with wind? i mean, is it actually effective ? mean, is it actually effective? this is other key thing. is

this is the other key thing. is it effective? >> i think it can be >> i mean, i think it can be hugely effective. >> i mean, i think the government's us government's target is to get us up government's target is to get us up 40, you know, megawatt up to 40, you know, megawatt hours whatever is , which hours or whatever it is, which is what's that in normal, is about what's that in normal, normal speak. is about what's that in normal, nor come speak. is about what's that in normal, nor come on, speak. is about what's that in normal, norcome on, look,ak. is about what's that in normal, norcome on, look, normal people >> come on, look, normal people don't kilowatt hour don't know what kilowatt hour is. it mean at that, is. what does it mean at that, at that kind level, at that kind of level, electricity would actually electricity that would actually power every home in the power every single home in the uk, wouldn't power our uk, but it wouldn't power our industry . industry. >> so that's what the government's to government's target is, is to get about get it up to point. about two thirds of maximum thirds of our sort of maximum electricity demand and that actually is about the demand for the whole of domestic the whole of the domestic market. that's what market. so i mean, that's what can done. and to be honest, can be done. and to be honest, you we're we're more than you know, we're we're more than half there the moment half the way there at the moment and going expanding and we're going to be expanding our well. we've also our offshore as well. we've also got and there's of got solar and there's plenty of very bright people who talk about why earth don't we about why on earth don't we put solar every rooftop in solar on every single rooftop in the facing in the the country that's facing in the right direction? we right direction? of course we should. the issues i should. and one of the issues i think that andrew should be bringing he's against bringing up, if he's against this, we do all this, is what do we do with all that excess capacity? i mean, when we've excess capacity when we've got excess capacity coming from renewables, both when we've got excess capacity comi|and om renewables, both when we've got excess capacity

comi|and solarnewables, both when we've got excess capacity comi|and solar ,ewables, both when we've got excess capacity comi|and solar , let'sles, both when we've got excess capacity comi|and solar , let's be both when we've got excess capacity comi|and solar , let's be great wind and solar, let's be great when we get to it, which would be but then need be wonderful. but then we need to those technologies to invest in those technologies that to help that are actually going to help us then use it us store it and then use it again when we need it. and that's just batteries that's not just batteries and hydrogen, should be hydrogen, which we should be doing anyway, but it's also investments technologies such doing anyway, but it's also ianide ents technologies such doing anyway, but it's also ianide , nts technologies such doing anyway, but it's also ianide , such technologies such doing anyway, but it's also ianide , such as chnologies such doing anyway, but it's also ianide , such as wave,ygies such doing anyway, but it's also ianide , such as wave, thingsrch as tide, such as wave, things that we haven't see. >> this is the thing, though, isn't this is the thing isn't it? and this is the thing that i think a lot of people feel, which is that it's all very well good these very well and good having these things isolation. we've got things in isolation. we've got to of wind farms to slap a load of wind farms over we doing over here. but then are we doing everything would everything else that we would need again? answer need to do again? and the answer to usually no. and then to that is usually no. and then you up situation like you end up in a situation like we're the mini andrew akua we're in the mini andrew akua itching to get involved. go on. >> well, there's the >> yeah, well, there's the problem is ed is getting a little confused. he doesn't little bit confused. he doesn't understand difference understand the difference between so between cost and price. okay, so he's talked about the price . he he's talked about the price. he talked about the cost of wind power falling below zero. okay. but that's the price, not the cost. so it still costs you money to make that electricity, even if you're having to sell it

for zero. so when you get a surplus and the price falls to zero, it still cost you lots of money to make it. so you're wasting electricity . now you can wasting electricity. now you can then spend a load more money turning it into hydrogen or something to store it. but the problem is if you put wind power into hydrogen at £120, a megawatt hour, that's what it costs to produce. it comes out at 300. now, if you do that, your electric bills are going to be permanently at the level they were during the energy crisis. i mean, permanently , because as ed mean, permanently, because as ed so rightly pointed out, the electricity gets sold at the price of the most expensive person on the market, which is gas. now but in future it could be hydrogen. we are talking permanent energy crisis. and because people aren't willing to get into the nitty gritty of these technical issues, right. i think you need to do that . think you need to do that. you're leading us to disaster. >> add the final word to you .

>> add the final word to you. you are leading us to disaster. >> oh, total, total . i mean, >> oh, total, total. i mean, honestly, andrew, you need to get on top of these statistics yourself. i mean, we're not we're bearing in mind what yourself. i mean, we're not we'do bearing in mind what yourself. i mean, we're not we'do on bearing in mind what yourself. i mean, we're not we'do on fossil1g in mind what yourself. i mean, we're not we'do on fossil fuels.1ind what yourself. i mean, we're not we'do on fossil fuels. you what yourself. i mean, we're not we'do on fossil fuels. you have we do on fossil fuels. you have to go out and explore for it. drill out ground, drill it out the ground, transport it, and then burn it. and not taking into and we're also not taking into account fact that, fact, and we're also not taking into acccproduce fact that, fact, and we're also not taking into acccproduce your:hat, fact, and we're also not taking into acccproduce your:hat, fa> that's the whole point of having the storage. of course, if not and we've not if it's not windy and we've not got solar, we should have our storage. and the moment, storage. and at the moment, patrick, absolutely we patrick, absolutely right. we haven't so we've haven't got enough. so we've got to build. >> haven't >> we haven't got enough wind. well i should have led with, well i should have led in with, i with that i should have led in with that shouldn't messed shouldn't i really. we've messed around minutes. around for 19 minutes. the reality actually reality is we don't actually have wind wind have enough wind for the wind farms we? we could farms anyway, do we? we could have ourselves a lot of have saved ourselves a lot of time, whole country. >> not just one area. >> not just from one area. >> not just from one area. >> okay, fine. >> yeah. all right. okay, fine. look, you. thank look, both of you. thank you very what understood of very much. what i understood of those points was good. andrew

mumford, who's director mumford, who's the director of net then the net zero watch. and then the leader the climate party as leader of the climate party as well who i think, well at gamble, who i think, let's they're not let's be honest, they're not going for a pint any time going to go for a pint any time soon. look, down to brass soon. look, to get down to brass tacks this is much more tacks on this is now much more likely you're going to have a wind farm near where wind farm somewhere near where you about you live. how do you feel about that? get in touch with that? you can get in touch with us, gbnews.com or us, gb views or gbnews.com or visit website gbnews.com. visit our website gbnews.com. the national the fastest growing national news country. news site in the country. big analysis, all the analysis, big opinion, all the latest news now. oh latest breaking news now. oh okay. breaking and worrying okay. some breaking and worrying news. concrete crisis news. the concrete crisis appears to be spreading. a theatre in northampton has just announced it's had to shut its doors because of the discovery of rat concrete. the royal and derngate theatre has just released this statement following a building survey. released this statement following a building survey . the following a building survey. the presence of reinforced autoclaved area coated concrete known as rac has been discovered in our foyers in line with recent government health and safety guidance around this material . both of the royal and material. both of the royal and derngate auditoriums in northampton, filmhouse will need

to be closed with immediate effect. we're working urgently with our landlords. west northamptonshire council to investigate and plan remedial works and are asking for patience while we do so. okay i mean, this is the problem , mean, this is the problem, right, isn't it? it's not just schools. i address this earlier on as well. this kind of thing will be happening now up and down country. the concrete will be happening now up and downin country. the concrete will be happening now up and downin this untry. the concrete will be happening now up and downin this situation; concrete will be happening now up and downin this situation often rete will be happening now up and downin this situation often was used in this situation often was used in this situation often was used the 1950s and just used between the 1950s and just nudging 1990. that's a heck of a long time. it's not just schools , it's hospitals. it's theatres . in northamptonshire. it could be motorway bridges, it could be airport terminals. it could be your house, it could be absolutely anything. so what do you now ? what happens now? you do now? what happens now? we're talking about the amount you do now? what happens now? wecost alking about the amount you do now? what happens now? wecost thatg about the amount you do now? what happens now? wecost that it's)out the amount you do now? what happens now? wecost that it's goingie amount you do now? what happens now? wecost that it's going toamount you do now? what happens now? wecost that it's going to beyunt of cost that it's going to be for the way, we don't for schools by the way, we don't know have to know that yet. so we'll have to wait see. we already know wait and see. we already know that some that it's present in some hospitals going hospitals. what's going to happen shut a happen there? do you shut a hospital or do politicians decide not to address it and just their fingers and just cross their fingers and hope collapse? but hope it doesn't collapse? but what basic bits of british what about basic bits of british infrastructure i that it's infrastructure? i know that it's concrete. know that a

concrete. i know that it's a bit dull, actually this dull, but actually this is genuinely going to affect loads of us because this problem is everywhere. moving keir everywhere. but moving on. keir starmer shadow cabinet reshuffle everywhere. but moving on. keir starbeen'yhadow cabinet reshuffle everywhere. but moving on. keir starbeen metyw cabinet reshuffle everywhere. but moving on. keir starbeen met with binet reshuffle everywhere. but moving on. keir starbeen met with claimszshuffle everywhere. but moving on. keir starbeen met with claims that fle has been met with claims that the blairite so it's not claims that the blair writes about the blair ites are back is that going to the election for going to win the election for labour? will the country reject them? what mean to be them? what does it mean to be a blairite? should we worried? blairite? should we be worried? should be should the people of iraq be very concerned? patrick christys gb news, britain's news

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news. the people's channel. >> britain's news. channel >> britain's news. channel >> welcome back . it is 5:25. >> welcome back. it is 5:25. you're watching me. patrick christys on gb news. now in a few moments time, i will talk about more problems at the bbc. yes so princess diana's brother gives evidence today about the broadcaster's controversial interview with his sister. and i think that's worth highlighting. it was a bit of a con to say the least, a stitch up there. but put some more on this afternoon's breaking news. the bus pembrokeshire in bus crash in pembrokeshire in west the welsh ambulance west wales. the welsh ambulance service has confirmed now that ten people have been taken to two hospitals following what it called a serious bus crash. a 52 seater bus collided with another vehicle shortly after 2 pm. and a variety of different emergency services, including the air ambulance , were on hand. more on ambulance, were on hand. more on that as we get it. but let's be honest , if that as we get it. but let's be honest, if you don't that as we get it. but let's be honest , if you don't live that as we get it. but let's be honest, if you don't live in westminster and the westminster bubble, then cabinet and bubble, then the cabinet and shadow cabinet reshuffles can all seem pretty dull, especially because they're a version of the

same a lot of them aren't same and a lot of them aren't even household their even household names in their own changes that own home. but the changes that sir keir starmer made to his shadow yesterday stood shadow cabinet yesterday stood out for one reason me. it out for one reason to me. it signalled the return the signalled the return of the blairite style has promoted pat mcfadden , who worked with blair mcfadden, who worked with blair when he was prime minister. hilary is in the cabinet. hilary benn is in the cabinet. he was in the cabinet under blair, course, as well. look, blair, of course, as well. look, there's them actually. blair, of course, as well. look, ther appointments em actually. blair, of course, as well. look, ther appointments caughtjally. blair, of course, as well. look, ther appointments caught the y. blair, of course, as well. look, ther appointments caught the eye the appointments caught the eye of linden, who of snp mp david linden, who tweeted this labour reshuffle is proper blairism on steroids . at proper blairism on steroids. at this rate, i'll be surprised if we aren't invading iraq by teatime . yes, you and me both. teatime. yes, you and me both. david but there we go. but what doesit david but there we go. but what does it really mean to be a blair right now? tony blair, of course, won elections. and that is a vital thing. is the most important thing i can completely understand why keir starmer wants to stack his cabinet full of people who at some point know how a general election. how to win a general election. what's point up what's the point of turning up to politics if you're not to play politics if you're not playing ? however, what playing to win? however, what are their actual politics? what was blair's view? i mean, was tony blair's view? i mean, massively socially liberal,

massively socially liberal, massively pro—eu et very, very globalist in his outlook. but what was his legacy in a domestic level as well ? is this domestic level as well? is this something that should concern people? if we end up with the return of tony blair? legend pollster is that this guy is the man to talk to about this. the professor of politics at the university of strathclyde . and university of strathclyde. and it's sir john curtice . university of strathclyde. and it's sirjohn curtice . sirjohn, it's sir john curtice. sir john, thank you very , very much. will thank you very, very much. will blair writes, will blair ites win an election . win an election. >> well, that doesn't simply lie in the hands of the labour party. >> the honest truth is that the reason why the labour party finds itself 18 points ahead in the polls is primarily not to do with what the labour party has donein with what the labour party has done in a much more to do with what the conservative government has done. i mean, the principal foundation of labour's 18 point lead in the opinion polls is one partygate to and the liz truss administered version. those are the two events that saw the

conservatives fall behind in the polls and then indeed the 18 point lead is still a legacy of 12 months ago and to that extent sir keir starmer has been remarkably lucky politician. yes, he's moved his party to the right. yes he is seen at least as an example , suitable prime as an example, suitable prime minister, perhaps unlike jeremy corbyn or not. >> not necessarily somebody about whom the public were enthused as they certainly were so far as tony blair was concerned . concerned. >> but the truth is, labour's so far position are primarily a indication of the government's difficulties, rather than the opposition's strengths. so do you think that if people look at the shadow cabinet and they go, there are six people in there that that served under tony blair, that that would be a positive for people going to the next election? >> or do you think people just don't care? they just think they're tories. they're not the tories. i couldn't a toss. couldn't give a toss. >> well, that for that, for the most part, they're not going to care. >> i mean, i think the other attribute of this reshuffle that

we out, apart from the fact we pick out, apart from the fact that, a number of that, yes, there are a number of blairites shadow cabinet blairites in the shadow cabinet or re—enter the shadow cabinet is the emphasis on experience, the fact that he's got persuaded. liz kendall to come back in. she's had family reasons out for a while. reasons to be out for a while. hilary benn , who's been outside hilary benn, who's been outside of shadow for of the shadow government for a long while jeremy long time, spent while jeremy corbyn was leader, chairing the brexit committee . but in brexit committee. but in a senior experience figure. now in so far as these people succeed in communicating to the public a confidence about what labour might do in office, then yes, their arrival might be useful . their arrival might be useful. it's going to be about the message they can can convey and not simply the fact that they are there, because as you quite rightly say, people want no not know a great deal about what they do. >> also got to be it's also >> it's also got to be it's also got be believability , got to be about believability, though, right, as well. so, i mean, we had keir mean, yesterday we had sir keir starmer saying, starmer coming out and saying, oh, raise income oh, well, i won't raise income tax, course, but you'll just tax, of course, but you'll just

find loads of other ways to do it, won't you find other find loads of other ways to do it, to won't you find other find loads of other ways to do it, to taxes?1't you find other find loads of other ways to do it, to taxes? gordonind other find loads of other ways to do it, to taxes? gordonind otiis ways to taxes? gordon brown is something very similar. something very, very similar. you shadow you look at this new shadow cabinet we've got now. i cabinet that we've got now. i mean, it's chockablock of mean, it's chockablock full of remainers who are hugely remainers people who are hugely socially liberal. tony blair himself, of course, was very global in his in his outlook as well . i global in his in his outlook as well. i mean, that the kind well. i mean, is that the kind of socially liberal of politics socially liberal politics, eu, quite politics, very pro eu, quite globalist. is that the kind of politics that the majority of brits want ? what we. brits want? what we. >> well, let's first of all, yeah, pick up a number of points there. yes tony blair is undoubtedly a social liberal, but sir keir starmer , at least but sir keir starmer, at least in his stances since he's become leader, has certainly pulled away from any attempt to be thinking of going back towards the european union, even though most of the people who are inclined to vote for the labour party are now inclined to want to rejoin the european union and, you know, his recent steps

for example, on gender recognition, whereby he's rowed back on the idea that we should be changing our gender recognition without some kind of medical diagnosis. this recognition without some kind of medical diagnosis . this is a medical diagnosis. this is a politician who's founded his leadership in the last two years on the back of trying to win back the voting voters in red wall areas. and that's led him to take a much more socially conservative path than either jeremy corbyn or tony blair were were minded to do. so i'm not necessarily sure that we're going to get anything like as blairite as that. as far as sir keir starmer is concerned , i keir starmer is concerned, i mean, the other thing of course, which is undoubted true about sir starmer , is the sir keir starmer, is the leadership so far is he's proving to be relatively, relatively conservative in his attitudes towards welfare. there's the announcement that they're going to keep the two child cap, at least for the time being . and one of the other being. and one of the other distinctive features of tony blair's that it blair's government is that it wasn't to spend too much wasn't wanting to spend too much money welfare. it actually

money on welfare. it actually criticised margaret thatcher for money on welfare. it actually criti(and margaret thatcher for money on welfare. it actually criti(and saidgaret thatcher for money on welfare. it actually criti(and said thet thatcher for money on welfare. it actually criti(and said the point cher for money on welfare. it actually criti(and said the point ofer for money on welfare. it actually criti(and said the point of the r that and said the point of the welfare system is to people welfare system is to get people back work, give them back into work, not to give them a term life on welfare. so a long term life on welfare. so there are aspects of tony blair's agenda on welfare which again, necessary . certainly again, not necessary. certainly what you would necessarily expect from the labour party. >> stuff as ever, >> interesting stuff as ever, sir john, thank you very much. sir john, thank you very much. sir john, thank you very much. sir john curtice there, the professor of politics the professor of politics at the university strathclyde. professor of politics at the university strathclyde . was university of strathclyde. was there a job that does him down? political guru, pollster extraordinaire, more extraordinaire, but loads more still to come between now and 6:00. i will tell 6:00. in a moment, i will tell you the controversy over the you why the controversy over the bbc's diana interview you why the controversy over the blstill diana interview you why the controversy over the blstill rumbling diana interview you why the controversy over the blstill rumbling on ana interview you why the controversy over the blstill rumbling on 28 interview you why the controversy over the blstill rumbling on 28 yearsyiew is still rumbling on 28 years on, but now as your headlines with karen armstrong . it's 533. with karen armstrong. it's 533. >> let's get you up to date with the headlines from the newsroom. birmingham city council has effectively declared itself bankrupt . europe's largest local bankrupt. europe's largest local authority has issued a notice which prevents all but essential new spending. the council's financial problems have been

unked financial problems have been linked to a bill of around £760 million to settle equal pay claims. administrators have confirmed that over 1300 further redundancies as the collapsed retailer wilko the news comes after variety chain bam agreed to buy up to 51 stores for £13 million. wilko collapsed almost a month ago, putting thousands ofjobs a month ago, putting thousands of jobs at risk. the majority of the new stores are expected to rebrand as bam and ten people have been taken to hospital after a bus collided with a car on the cleddau bridge in pembrokeshire , near a fire and pembrokeshire, near a fire and rescue services say a driver who was severely trapped has now been taken to hospital by air ambulance. many of the bus passengers are suffering with a variety of injuries. more on that story when we get it . you that story when we get it. you can also check out our website for more details on many of our top stories. that's gbnews.com .

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sweeping western side of sweeping up the western side of the taking us into thursday the uk, taking us into thursday itself, and brighter itself, staying dry and brighter towards the east, further hot and sunny weather to come as we go through the end of the week and the weekend, but likely and into the weekend, but likely to something thundery to see something of a thundery breakdown on a brighter outlook with solar proud sponsors with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . of weather on. gb news just a little heads up for you very, very shortly. >> i'm expecting to have the chair of the education select committee . they've got a bit of committee. they've got a bit of an announcement coming about the latest concrete crisis. we'll find out what that is. i'll have a chat with them on air. but before that, princess diana's brother, spencer , is brother, earl spencer, is battling he's giving battling the bbc. so he's giving evidence that the evidence about claims that the broadcaster is concealing a cover up. the bbc can see a cover up. the bbc can see a cover up. the bbc can see a cover up. no. inside during the sensational martin bashir panorama interview with the late princess. so according to the times, the bbc is being accused

of fake going to release details under a freedom of information request , and under a freedom of information request, and that is relating to how it handled the scandal. when that scandal emerged in 2020. interesting. now to remember bashir claiming that he had some kind of heart trouble and then he was pictured picking up a whopping great big indian takeaway, was unfortunate takeaway, which was unfortunate for chat, wasn't it? but for the chat, wasn't it? but royal correspondent michael cole joins . michael, thank you joins us now. michael, thank you very so earl spencer is very much. so earl spencer is chomping the bit to stick it chomping at the bit to stick it to over the diana to the beeb over the diana scandal, isn't he? what's going on? >> before he was the ninth earl spencer . spencen >> charles spencer was quite effective. >> reporter for nbc, the american network. >> he knows his way around the media and he said us and accuses the bbc of telling agonising lies , lies and contributing to lies, lies and contributing to his beloved late sister . his beloved late sister. >> s sense of paranoia . >> s sense of paranoia. >> s sense of paranoia. >> the fear and isolation. >> the fear and isolation. >> and he says , charles and

>> and he says, charles and there we see him at althorp , his there we see him at althorp, his stately home. >> he wants the bbc prosecuted. he says there's been a cover up over the years and he wants to see the 3000 withheld memos which he thinks will reveal all the complex s complex arrangements that were made to keep this under wraps. and i think it's quite interesting. i mean, you mentioned and you we saw the picture of martin bashir. >> well, who is never mentioned or rarely mentioned is steve hewlett, the late steve hewlett. >> he was the editor of panorama, and he went with bashir and he helped persuade diana to do this interview. and he he later, after his death , he he later, after his death, was honoured with a posthumous bafta . and there are bafta. and there are scholarships in his name for good journalism given by the royal television society. >> now, steve hewlett defended

that panorama programme against all comers and vociferously now this . as you say, it's a long, this. as you say, it's a long, long time ago, but it is still a very expensive piece of chewing gum. that's got stuck to the bbc tennis shoe and they can't get it off and when i say expensive, they've had to pay damages to three people. tiggy legge—bourke, who was the wales's nanny to philip jephson, who was the private secretary to princess and to lord spencer, the head of security, alan waller , and lord spencer says waller, and lord spencer says quite bluntly that the bbc told lies about it and said that he, lord spencer, had given to panorama false , uh, bank panorama false, uh, bank statements of waller, which of course was demonstrably untrue. the bbc has apologised for this abjectly and lord dyson carried out an inquiry and he roundly accused the corporation of

deceit. but now lord spencer says, not unreasonably , let's says, not unreasonably, let's find out the whole of it . find out the whole of it. >> let's find out what really went on and how did this in any way contribute to or could it be seen to have contributed towards the situation or the circumstances that led up to diana's death? >> well , i diana's death? >> well, i think prince william said it all. >> he said it made the marriage they were only separated at the time, 1995, november . they were only separated at the time, 1995, november. i remember it very well . the prince and it very well. the prince and princess of wales were only separate covid. but that made that was the final curtain. >> and after that, her majesty the queen said to prince charles, it's got to be divorce. >> so that's set in train. everything that happened thereafter for. so i think i mean, diana and her brother charles, who were the youngest of the of the family , there were of the of the family, there were there were two older sisters. they were extremely, extremely close as children . extremely close as children. extremely close. and they deeply loved

each other. and i think charles spencer is to be commended for going into battle for his sister even all these years later . going into battle for his sister even all these years later. and i can't see why having gone the route of hangout route of saying , yes, we're responsible, we apologise . i think they should apologise. i think they should make a clean breast of it because people who were there at the time have all moved on or been moved aside. >> debt, all that debt . you >> all debt, all that debt. you know, is this is what know, this is this is what i don't get. you know, i mean, why don't get. you know, i mean, why don't they just come clean about the if indeed there don't they just come clean about th anything if indeed there don't they just come clean about th anything to if indeed there don't they just come clean about th anything to comeideed there don't they just come clean about th anything to come cleanthere don't they just come clean about th anything to come clean about is anything to come clean about , you know? and ryan, michael, look, very, very look, thank you very, very much. great you thank you. great to have you on. thank you. we'll about this we'll be talking about this again when we get any again as and when we get any updates. there, updates. michael cole there, royal correspondent right now, tens can't tens of thousands of kids can't go this week go back to school this week because concrete. we go back to school this week bec know concrete. we go back to school this week bec know the concrete. we go back to school this week bec know the drill. concrete. we go back to school this week bec know the drill. but rete. we go back to school this week bec know the drill. but there's; all know the drill. but there's been a development in this story this evening. and i will bring you with very you that development with a very special a couple special guest in just a couple of so tuned. of moments time. so stay tuned. patrick christys gb news,

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channel. >> i'll tom moore breaking news for you now. how. >> now. >> now, earlier in the show, we reported how a theatre in northampton has had to close because of the discovery of crumbling concrete of the same type has forced dozens of type that has forced dozens of schools well, now schools to close. well, now another oh the another one. oh great. the orchard theatre in dartford has had to do the same thing . had to do the same thing. there's a run on the theatres at the moment . they're all closing. the moment. they're all closing. but i've said this before. look,

it's schools now. it will be theatres, it will other theatres, it will be other bits of type of of infrastructure. this type of concrete rack has been from concrete rack has been used from about 1950 to about 1990. so clearly anything then that's been used with it could now face closure. but what an influential committee of mps says that it's looking for more transparency from government from the government on the current crisis in current concrete crisis in schools. more than 150 schools in england have been identified as having rack a substance, posing a risk of collapse . we posing a risk of collapse. we have the perfect guest for on this now, someone who is looking very closely at the school situation. i'm very pleased to say. i'm joined by robin walker, who of the commons who is the chair of the commons education select committee. robin, great stuff. you robin, great stuff. thank you very believe very, very much. i believe there's bit of an update, there's a bit of an update, is there's a bit of an update, is there what's going on? yes there now? what's going on? yes there now? what's going on? yes the committee met this morning and in our private session before we were taking our formal evidence, we've agreed that we will summon ministers to give evidence on this, to answer questions as we recognise the depth of concern there is about this issue and the fact that schools are very frustrated that

they got the news so late in the day just before the term started i >> -- >> and so what we want to be able to do is get answers from both ministers and their officials exactly how they officials as to exactly how they reached the decision that they did the timeline in did what was the timeline in terms events that led to terms of the events that led to them changing policy on this and also to be learned , to also lessons to be learned, to make that this kind of make sure that this kind of thing again. make sure that this kind of thirit's again. make sure that this kind of thirit's very again. make sure that this kind of thirit's very clear again. make sure that this kind of thirit's very clear thatgain. make sure that this kind of thirit's very clear that material >> it's very clear that material towels were in public towels were used in public buildings over a long period of time, but didn't have a safe life that matched the use of those buildings. >> something that we >> and that's something that we want isn't repeated want to make sure isn't repeated , quite straightforward >> not quite straightforward that politicians knew about this for years, didn't want to be the one to deal with it, so didn't deal with it? now it's a crisis and are . and here we are. >> of course, has been >> of course, there has been knowledge about some of the risks of rap over a long period of time, and it's got to be right that government has a responsibility to deal with that. the government would that. what the government would say, they they say, though, is that they they set deal with that on set out to deal with that on a risk over risk based approach over a penod risk based approach over a period time . period of time. >> and the advice has >> and then the advice has

changed and what they've told us to that the buildings to date is that the buildings which were previously rated low risk are now considered to be at some degree of risk. >> and of course, where children are concerned, we don't want to take degree of risk at take any degree of risk at all. and cross—party committee, and as a cross—party committee, we would strong view of we would take a strong view of the children. always the safety of children. always has to come first. what appears to happened that the to have happened is that the advice the advice on this changed over the course it's course of the summer and it's incredibly frustrating for headteachers for people headteachers and for people running . running schools. >> but just as they're returning and child and trying to get every child back they've been back into school, they've been hit the disruption of having hit by the disruption of having to this in short order. >> that's what we'd like to get to the bottom of. >> that's what we'd like try >> that's what we'd like to try and sure doesn't happen again. >> f- again. >> want to obviously make >> and we want to obviously make sure that with regard to capital spending investment in sure that with regard to capital spe school investment in sure that with regard to capital spe school estate, investment in sure that with regard to capital spe school estate, that'sment in the school estate, that's done on sensible, term on a good, sensible, long term value that value for money basis that delivers safe and effective buildings. so all of these things are valid issues for us to be asking questions on. and i think there was agreement across all parties and from mps in all areas the country, we areas of the country, but we want to see quick answers on

this. we want see quick this. we want to see quick action from the government , but action from the government, but we also want to see what lessons have been learned. we also want to see what lessons havsoeen learned. we also want to see what lessons havso what'sarned. we also want to see what lessons havso what's the d. we also want to see what lessons havso what's the time frame for >> so what's the time frame for this inquiry then? >> we've written to ministers today to say, can they come before our committee? >> we want to do it within this quite short setting of parliament. so we've offered them slots next week and the week after. and obviously we have for them to have to wait for them to confirm. can attend . oh confirm. but they can attend. oh no , i think we might have lost robin. >> we got robin. oh, sorry . >> we got robin. oh, sorry. right. | >> we got robin. oh, sorry. right. i think we've got robin. robin. apologies i think we lost you for a second, but i think you for a second, but i think you might be that that you might be that you are that good. the next what you've good. so in the next what you've offered, offered them offered, you've offered them slots. that's got up to. slots. that's why i got up to. >> yeah. we've offered them >> yeah. so we've offered them slots the couple slots over the next couple of weeks. keen to obviously get >> very keen to obviously get them , get their response before them, get their response before parliament breaks up the conference season. >> okay . i'm conference season. >> okay. i'm going to i'm to going i'm going to i'm going i'm going i'm going to i'm going i'm going to plough ahead with this. so. robin okay. right. so good. so. robin okay. right. so good. so then hopefully so hopefully then hopefully then we've got a maybe in the

we've got a slot maybe in the next or the week after. next week or the week after. if the government which the government say yes, which let's should say let's be honest, they should say yes. we, yes. and hopefully we, we, we end in situation where we end up in a situation where we can some answers and make can get some answers and make sure that this doesn't happen again and make sure that children are safe in school. because i think, robin, the wider as well of wider picture as well of children's education at the minute they've got a bit minute is that they've got a bit of a raw over covid and of a raw deal over covid and then some overinflate exam then maybe some overinflate exam results, then maybe some underinflated exam results. and then now the schools close because down. are because it might fall down. are we of raising we at risk of raising a generation of idiots here because we're not educating them ? >> well, 7- >> well, i 7_ >> well, i have 7 >> well, i have great confidence in our i have less confidence in this phone line, unfortunately. >> and i'm going to knock it on the head there. robin, take care. you're a good lad. but unfortunately, we're to unfortunately, we're going to have to leave it. robin walker there, the chair the there, who's the chair of the commons select commons education select committee. the committee. but look, we got the gist. going to gist. at least they're going to do something about it. i suppose.i do something about it. i suppose. i suspect people suppose. i suspect many people share when it comes share my cynicism when it comes to any kind of you know, share my cynicism when it comes to inquiryd of you know, share my cynicism when it comes to inquiry onf you know, share my cynicism when it comes to inquiry on top you know, share my cynicism when it comes to inquiry on top yoinquiry, an inquiry on top of an inquiry, on top of an inquiry to find out that concrete used for

that dodgy concrete was used for 40 nobody did anything 40 years and nobody did anything about until point about it until the point it became absolute and became an absolute crisis. and now somebody has to do something became an absolute crisis. and now s> yeah. it's a posh day. >> it's posh day for the northerners when you have bath. >> it's a posh day. exactly. or a week in my house. a posh week in my house. >> i was told for off picking on you during our handover. yeah, but i told when but then i was told off when i got being rude to you. got home for being rude to you. >> so why? >> so why? >> who told off? emily oh, >> who told you off? emily oh, good. jubes? >> who told you off? emily oh, gooyeah. jubes? >> who told you off? emily oh, gooyeah. yeah jubes? >> who told you off? emily oh, gooyeah. yeah 100. ubes? >> who told you off? emily oh, gooyeah. yeah 100. oh, ;? >> yeah. yeah 100. oh, excellent. yeah, yeah, yeah. like that. >> wm w- w— >> but yeah, i did. i've got loads people writing in and loads of people writing in and at the start of my show, they still in, they're going, still writing in, they're going, why patrick? why are you so mean to patrick? i'm move on now i'm like, guys, move on now we're talking about gillian keegan how we communicate. >> this is how we communicate. you this what do. you see, this is what we do. we're just mean to each other. but get actually really but we do get on actually really well. what you got on well. yes what have you got on this show? >> gillian keegan and >> well, not gillian keegan and concrete today have moved on from have say,

from that one. i have to say, i want to talk about the absolute farce councils. what's want to talk about the absolute farce on? councils. what's want to talk about the absolute farce on? counc why/hat's want to talk about the absolute farce on? counc why are's want to talk about the absolute farce on? counc why are so going on? oh yeah. why are so many just so incapable many of them just so incapable of actually running their own budgets? life, budgets? my theory is in life, i think in private think that in the private sector, public too sector, in the public sector too many people spend other people's money in a way that they money in such a way that they wouldn't if it was their own money. anyway, i want to get of these ridiculous , by the way, i these ridiculous, by the way, i mean absolutely ludicrous. >> but not their >> but it's not just their slough's in trouble. >> there's and then >> no, there's loads. and then there's about another 26 that are projected doing these. are projected to be doing these. section fs their calls section 1—1 four fs their calls anyway, into all of anyway, we'll get into all of that with habib joe that with ben habib and joe phillips. want talk phillips. i want to talk about free meals well, free school meals as well, whether not all kids should whether or not all kids should get them, not the ones that get them, not just the ones that are parents are struggling, the parents are struggling, blanket struggling, but all kids blanket . i no. do you ? . i say no. do you? >> i say no. »- >> i say no. >> oh, what a meanie. what a meanie. well, you'll have to watch see what watch my show to see what i think that. but there's lot think of that. but there's a lot of debate part. of debate on my part. >> i think if i had kids, i'd say yes . do >> i think if i had kids, i'd say yes. do you? >> i think if i had kids, i'd say yes . do you? yeah, because say yes. do you? yeah, because it'd save me money, wouldn't it? >> would save you, >> well, it would save you, apparently. the average apparently. i think the average is month to be is about £440 a month to be precise. it seriously,

precise. flip it out. seriously, what's with i've what's going on with me? i've taken memory tablets , i've taken my memory tablets, i've had i've taken my memory had a bath, i've taken my memory tablets is going on tonight. tablets is all going on tonight. i to talk about i also want to talk about net zero well, whether or not we zero as well, whether or not we should and don't should be fined. and if we don't follow the i would say follow the what? i would say ridiculous of rules ridiculous regulations of rules that being suggested to be that are being suggested to be upon know, liz upon us. and you know, liz truss, it's one year since she became leader of the tories , so became leader of the tories, so i'm just reflecting. i'm going like i'm just looking all misty eyed and pondering that the country be better 300 and what, 29 days since she quit then ? 29 days since she quit then? well, no, since she was appointed. so it's the year anniversary of her getting the appointment today. then i think she went on for what, 40, 40 days, i think, or something like that. >> i think jesus walked the desert longer than she was in power. >> yeah, but you know what? fair play >> yeah, but you know what? fair play to her. i bet spent an play to her. i bet she spent an absolute fortune on the speaking circuit odd absolute fortune on the speaking circuiand odd absolute fortune on the speaking circuiand know odd absolute fortune on the speaking circuiand know what? dd days and you know what? >> looking back at it >> seriously, looking back at it now, actually, she wasn't necessarily wrong what necessarily wrong with what are we told shut am we being told to shut up. i am talking minute dewbs talking i've seen a minute dewbs & next. i'll see you & co up next. i'll see you

tomorrow three. easy, tomorrow at three. take it easy, everybody. in my. everybody. it's not in my. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt proud up. a boxt boilers. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello again . there's the >> hello again. there's the potential for temperatures to rise even higher as we go through the next day or so. but there will be a little bit of fog and low cloud around and also the risk some thundery also the risk of some thundery showers for some of us looking at it's at the bigger picture. and it's high the uk at the bigger picture. and it's hwhich the uk at the bigger picture. and it's hwhich is the uk at the bigger picture. and it's hwhich is why the uk at the bigger picture. and it's hwhich is why it's the uk at the bigger picture. and it's hwhich is why it's so the uk at the bigger picture. and it's hwhich is why it's so settled uk , which is why it's so settled at the moment, though there are at the moment, though there are a fronts around a few weak fronts around bringing a little more bringing a little bit more cloud for and little bit for some of us and a little bit of too, for most it's of rain too, but for most it's a dry, sunny picture the dry, sunny picture to end the day. notice though, some low clouds, some sea fog drifting in from north sea eastern from the north sea for eastern parts of scotland and eastern england well. perhaps some england as well. perhaps some drizzly here for some drizzly rain here for some elsewhere west and elsewhere further west and south, clearer skies, a few pockets of and but pockets of mist and fog, but temperatures dropping a huge temperatures not dropping a huge amount. staying amount. some places staying above 20 celsius so it above 20 celsius tonight. so it could be a tropical night as we look wednesday itself, look through wednesday itself, a slow down the eastern side slow start down the eastern side of the cloud , the murk of the uk, the cloud, the murk here quickly burn back to

here will quickly burn back to the coast, though, except across eastern parts of scotland where we're that we're likely to hold on to that low well into the low cloud well into the afternoon. plenty of afternoon. otherwise, plenty of sunshine yet again. perhaps a bit more cloud than we've seen through some days, through some recent days, especially for northern ireland, where weather cloud especially for northern ireland, wheibubble weather cloud especially for northern ireland, wheibubble up. weather cloud especially for northern ireland, wheibubble up. butather cloud especially for northern ireland, wheibubble up. but look cloud will bubble up. but look at those temperatures likely to be will bubble up. but look at titouchemperatures likely to be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher ures likely to be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher thanlikely to be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher than todayto be will bubble up. but look at titouch higher than today could a touch higher than today could get of around 32 or 33 get to highs of around 32 or 33 celsius overnight wednesday into thursday, we will see some heavy showery, perhaps thundery rain sweeping side the sweeping up the west side of the uk, taking us into thursday itself, dry and brighter itself, staying dry and brighter towards the east, further hot and sunny weather to come as we go through end of the week go through the end of the week and but likely and into the weekend, but likely to a thundery to see something of a thundery breakdown, a looks like things are heating up . are heating up. >> boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on .

it's a good idea if you are a wealthy parent. should taxpayers be picking up the bill to feed your kids? and get this, it's a year ago since liz truss was voted in as tory leader. year ago since liz truss was voted in as tory leader . what do voted in as tory leader. what do you reckon a year on with mr yard reflection? was she the right person for the job? the wrong person? would the country be better now or worse? and there's a bill going through parliament see parliament that could see property fined , get this, property owners fined, get this, £15,000 or get a one year prison sentence if you don't comply with net zero regulations. honestly i think this world is turning into some kind of clown zone. what do you make to it all? we've got it all to come and more. but before we do that, let's bring ourselves up to speed with tonight's latest headunes. headlines. >> very good evening to you. i'm aaron armstrong in the newsroom . birmingham city council is effectively declared itself bankrupt. europe's largest local

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