show on gb news. we're daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, politicians went back to school today as parliament returns over the summer. sir keir starmer's popularity plummeted amid riots , popularity plummeted amid riots, slashing the winter fuel allowance and allegations of cronyism. the tories are still meanwhile looking for a new leader, and reform has seen a 5% polling boost. i'll bring you fully up to speed and today kemi badenoch and james cleverly made their pitch to be the next conservative leader. ms badenoch slammed labour as clueless, irresponsible and dishonest. meanwhile, mr cleverly promised to bring back rwanda and scrap stamp duty. we'll have all the latest. and it's not just parliament that's back, as hundreds of thousands of students have returned to school. ofsted have also announced scrapping their one word grades for schools across the country. but what impact could this have on parents.7 and are you looking back in anger at the weekend? i am, it seems so

are the labour party, because lisa nandy has promised that the government will be looking into the pricing of oasis's 2025 tour tickets and get answers for millions of fans who felt deceived over the cost of those tickets. and that's all coming up over your next hour. yeah, probably. like a lot of you out there, i spent three hours on saturday morning and the rest hours of my life. i'll never got back.i hours of my life. i'll never got back. i didn't get any tickets. i'm still hoping for a miracle. did you? let me know. did you waste your time, too? later in the show, i'll have lee anderson in the studio for his first interview. back in this parliamentary term, he'll tell me the extraordinary story of the death threats he's received over the summer, culminating in two court cases which mr anderson believes are proof that we have political, two tiered justice in this country would not want to miss that. get into its usual ways, gbnews.com/yoursay. but now it's

your headlines with will hollis . your headlines with will hollis. >> thank you. martin, your top stories this hour. leadership contender james cleverly has launched his tory bid this afternoon, vowing to bring back the rwanda plan, as he also said conservative answers are needed to solve the most challenging problems facing our country. mr cleverly highlighted the need for to us make to remake the argument for capitalism to boost economic growth and give younger people a stake in society. he also said he'd increased defence spending to 3% of gdp and on illegal migration, mr cleverly says we need to have deterrent. >> i will use my contacts and my reputation with rwanda to resurrect that incredibly important partnership . and more

important partnership. and more than that , i will rebuild than that, i will rebuild a relationship so badly damaged by labour's arrogant and callous disregard to the diplomatic niceties that bind the world to inform the media that they were scrapping this partnership before they had the courage to inform the rwandan government is unacceptable . unacceptable. >> meanwhile, kemi badenoch launched her tory leadership campaign today, calling for change in the conservative party. the shadow communities secretary and contender to replace rishi sunak says her party has to focus on renewal to be ready to return to power. mr badenoch used the speech to also accuse labour of pulling the wool over the eyes of the public, insisting that it's time for something new. >> we can't just sit around pointing out how terrible labour are. that's just not good enough and we can't just keep having the same policy arguments from

the same policy arguments from the last parliament. we are not in power. we lost. labour will fail. and when that time comes and the british people are looking for change, we have to be that change. we have to focus on renewal, the renewal of our party, our politics and our thinking. and it starts with principles. principles are the fundamentals that give us direction, unity and certainty. they must underpin everything we do . do. >> the prime minister says the scrapping of single phrase inspection headlines grades for schools in england will be a relief for parents. previously, ofsted awarded one of four headune ofsted awarded one of four headline grades to schools. it inspects outstanding good, requires improvement and inadequate. the department for education says this academic yean education says this academic year, parents will see four grades across the existing subcategories , those being subcategories, those being quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development and leadership and

management . education secretary management. education secretary bridget phillipson says has told reporters this morning that the death of headteacher ruth perry made the need for ofsted reform absolutely clear. the prime minister says it will hold schools accountable . schools accountable. >> i've got a mission for our government which is to make sure that every single child , that every single child, whatever their background, wherever they come from, has the best possible education. and this move today is about driving up standards, making sure that we have a richer picture so parents can see in a more accountable way the real strength of a school and making sure we've got the improvements in to catch schools quickly. so this is all about driving up standards. and i'm really pleased that we're able to do it so quickly . so quickly. >> next, the wife of a conservative councillor has pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred. 41 year old childminder lucy connolly called for mass deportations and

attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers. in a post on x on the day three girls were killed in southport. the post has now been deleted from her account and she later apologised for acting on false and malicious information. lucy is the wife of conservative councillor raymond connolly . an councillor raymond connolly. an israeli court has ruled that a general strike that shut much of the country's economy must end this afternoon. israel's entire economy is on strike today in a bid to pressure the country's pm, benjamin netanyahu, into accepting a gaza ceasefire deal after six hostages were shot deadin after six hostages were shot dead in gaza. idf soldiers recovered the bodies of the hostages, who israel says were killed moments before troops reached them . the government has reached them. the government has promised to look into dynamic ticket pricing after the cost of tickets for the oasis reunion tour more than doubled, while on

sale. culture secretary lisa nandy described the selling of inflated oasis tickets as depressing. on saturday, fans of the world famous band sat in virtual queues for hours, hoping to get their hands on tickets to one of the shows next year. however, when they finally got through, many were met with the ticket prices far higher than face value. some expressed their anger on social media as tickets worth £148 were being sold for £355 on ticketmaster within hours of release. those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm will hollis and we will see you in 30 minutes for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> thank you. wheel cracking job there. now to our top story. today parliament has reopened its doors as the summer recess ends and members of parliament from across the country finally get back to work. it's been a turbulent summer for sir keir starmer following those southport stabbings and of course, the subsequent riots across the country. but he's promised a packaged a packed autumn of legislation with votes expected on great british energy and also returning of the publicly owned railways. well, joining me now to discuss that is the writer john oxley. john, welcome to the show. so it's been a torrid first couple of months. we've seen sir keir starmer's popularity plummet 27 points over the summer. he's now on —11. a lot of work to do and a lot of people scratching their heads for starters, about the fact there's no debate , no fact there's no debate, no chance to vote on the very, very controversial policy of axing the winter fuel allowance . the winter fuel allowance. >> yes. so that's something that most likely will get wrapped up

into the autumn statement. but, you know, one of the things that labour shows now, if when you're in government, you get to control a lot of the parliamentary time, and so you can shape the things that you want mps debating. and if the opposition want to try and do anything on that, they either have to try and find a way to force a vote or bring it up on one of the small number of opposition days they have. so part of what we're going to see over the next few months is labour really getting into, you know, the powers it has and how it can control the terms of debate through its control of parliament, particularly with such a big majority . such a big majority. >> so, john, they're not obligated to give a vote on this, and they're not obligated to have a debate. it looks like we'll get neither. they would clearly win if they did have the vote because of that supermajority. john oxley is the truth . something else. and that truth. something else. and that is if they have a vote on it, we

will forever see their voting record and people will always be able to say, you are the members of parliament. that decided to make pensioners colder and poorer this winter. that would be electoral kryptonite for any of them, john. >> precisely . i mean, that's the >> precisely. i mean, that's the sort of thing that, you know, the opposition can do at the moment. and we saw this a lot dunng moment. and we saw this a lot during the last parliament when the conservatives were in charge, that, you know, labour would try and force things in. they would try and get a vote. so simply for the reason to say, look, you voted against this, even if it was part of a broader package of reforms. so what we might see is, you know, when that comes up in the budget, you know, perhaps the conservatives will try and get an amendment, you know, around that which will obviously lose, and then they'll have that same weapon of being able to say , look, your mp and able to say, look, your mp and your local area voted against the winter fuel allowance and they will be putting that on their leaflets when they try and

win back some of the seats that they lost this time around. >> and john, there's a poll out this morning not only keir starmer's personal popularity down to a record low of —16 points, but the labour party has lost four percentile points. now, on 30%. the conservatives, even leaderless , seemingly even leaderless, seemingly rudderless, they've gained two points. but there's been a big game for the reform party. they've put on 4%. now on 19%. is this just early term blues , is this just early term blues, or do you think actually there could be a more significant problem in terms of the public relations for the labour party? >> i think at the moment you see a lot of noise after elections. things bounce around quite a lot in terms of the polling. but what we've seen already is labour have been getting the bad news out early. they've made a lot of unpopular decisions early on, keir starmer sort of coming out and saying it's going to get worse before it gets better, so we can probably expect them to

take a hit. the big question for labouris take a hit. the big question for labour is really in 2 or 3 years time, are the public going to be looking at those things and saying, yes, those sacrifices were worth it, yes. things are getting better, or is it going to be a case that this unpopular run continues and, you know , the run continues and, you know, the good news never comes around the corner? because if that happens, then you could see labour's big lead from the election, fall apart very quickly in the same way that you saw it happen over five years with the conservative party and john, an astonishing story has just broken. >> jeremy corbyn has formed an independent alliance. this is now five pro gaza mps . independent alliance. this is now five pro gaza mps. he's formed an alliance with. presumably that's another headache that the labour party will have in store the potential to haemorrhage votes or even lose seats in a future election to a more pro—palestine voter base. now, jeremy corbyn coming back, the former prime minister

that never was coming back to potentially haunt the current prime minister. >> yes. and, you know, it was a big worry. and it was the surprising defeat and the surprising defeat and the surprising story from the election in july in these seats that are very focused around issues around gaza, but are also quite similar. issues around gaza, but are also quite similar . they're they're quite similar. they're they're sort of very urban, very poor seats where there are a lot of other issues going on. and there's a real potential for this to become a bit of a bigger movement of, you know , urban movement of, you know, urban ethnic minority seats and those voters being pulled away from the labour party by something a bit more left wing, a bit more sort of fighty, you know, a bit more pro gaza and a bit more critical of israel and, you know, has the momentum to really threaten labour in the sort of areas that they took for granted. and if you look, you know, there was the five seats that were lost to this group, but also there's probably another 4 or 5 seats at the same

time where, you know, pro gaza independent left wing candidates did quite well and potentially could be building up for a more of a threat next time around. >> those seats . dewsbury and >> those seats. dewsbury and batley, burnham, bury , pa, batley, burnham, bury, pa, leicester south and blackburn. of course they have in common a very high percentage of the muslim vote. and could that be a fracture line moving forward, something that many predicted before the election? john oxley, fascinating stuff. thank you for joining us at the top of the show this monday. thank you very much. now moving on. the tory leadership race is heating up with kemi badenoch officially launching her bid to become the leader of the conservative party and the shadow community secretary said her party must return to a foundation of economic renewal as she also looks back at her time in government with disappointment, saying that the conservatives leaned too far to the left in many of their policies. i go try

that again now . that again now. >> people who are throwing out numbers and saying, oh well, we'll leave the echr and so on, or giving you easy answers. that is how we got into this mess in the first place. i'm not going to do that. i don't want it to sound like i haven't thought about what to do. i have been thinking about it, and i think that the first thing starts with who we get to enforce our borders. we need to take a better look at how we recruit into the civil service and make sure that people are put in places and in jobs where their skills are going to be best, best used because clearly leaving the echr will not be enough. that's why i don't want to throw that promise out there . to throw that promise out there. >> well, joining me now in the studio for more on that leadership race is our political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, welcome to the show. and i believe it was the show. and i believe it was the question that you asked there to miss badenoch. the precipitated the answer on the issue of immigration, a huge

issue of immigration, a huge issue for many , many voters. can issue for many, many voters. can you give us a quick upsome of what happened at kemi's launch? kemi badenoch launch? and then also, i believe you're at james cleverly's launch earlier. so two launches in the same day. tell us more. >> yes. quite interesting. the differences between them. i asked kemi badenoch. badenoch apparently we've been told there's no bad in her name. kemi badenoch, about immigration specifically. and she said, you know , i'm not going to get into know, i'm not going to get into numbers. this is where we went wrong before, but we need to look at the people making these decisions. i think, you know, people in the civil service that may not be fully on board, and also, she was saying that leaving the echr is not the answer as far as she is concerned, she was very upbeat . concerned, she was very upbeat. it was very punchy. it was really well attended. it feels to me like she's got the energy, the momentum. we had chris philpott this morning, laura

trott, claire coutinho introduced her all pretty big beasts in the conservative party at the moment. so she is riding high, some people do have concerns about her style though she can be quite abrasive. and then james cleverly, who is going on his record, all the big posts that he's held in government, well attended grant shapps was there, but didn't have the sort of current remaining big tory stars. but what was interesting with james cleverly was he actually announced some policies. now for all kemi badenoch words, we didn't hear , it was all very didn't hear, it was all very general, but no actual policy detail, with james cleverly , he detail, with james cleverly, he said a few things. he'd bring back rwanda, he would put defence spending up not to 2.5, but to 3%, and also , as

but to 3%, and also, as previously announced this morning, he would like to scrap, stamp duty . totally not reduce stamp duty. totally not reduce it , cut it totally. so really it, cut it totally. so really quite a different approach. >> and that's quite a lot of meat to throw out. defence of course, that that would be very expensive. bring back rwanda. well, that didn't get a single person voluntarily off the ground in its time in office under rishi sunak. and like £19,000 million. i think that's 9 billion in revenue. so that's a lot of money to lose. but in terms of i always like to ask like chris, hope yourself like you were in the room, like you were you witnessed the energy, you saw the support in terms of the momentum, the edge, the vim, the momentum, the edge, the vim, the verve. who do you think is nosing it today? >> it felt to me like kemi badenoch had more momentum, more energy. i think the same actually can be said about

robert jenrick , but james robert jenrick, but james cleverly , will appeal cleverly, will appeal potentially to a broader range of people. so ultimately it depends which way the conservative party wants to go, you know , kemi badenoch is very you know, kemi badenoch is very good at speaking. she's very definite with her opinions. james cleverly tends to be rather sort of more emollient . rather sort of more emollient. so one of them, one of the six candidates, will be eliminated on wednesday. i don't think it will be kemi badenoch at all or robert jenrick. possibly. mel stride james cleverly, priti patel, we'll have to wait and see. we'll have to wait and see. >> and then the course, the race goes on now until november. the second. that's when the conservatives will finally have their new leader. do you think this process has taken too long, even though there was a summer recess, there's been a heck of a lot going on. all the things we talked about the riots, the winter fuel allowance, huge

amount of political turmoil. do you think that the conservatives should have got this over with quicker so they'd be an effective leader of the opposition in right now to be delivering those blows to sir keir starmer? >> well, i've certainly been told privately some of the candidates do think it's going on too long. and of course, the damaging thing for the conservatives is we've got this huge, very, very significant budget coming from rachel reeves at the end of october. the conservative party will not have the new leader in place. there's plenty of people that think that thatis plenty of people that think that that is a misstep behind the scenes. there are candidates that would like it to be brought forward, but of course, generally they will be seen. they'll want to be seen to respect the rules that have been set. >> katherine forster i know you've been going with the locks, the crack of dawn on this. you've been going since 530. thank you for sticking around and bring us up to speed, and i hope to see you again in the next hour. have some more coffee. thank you very much indeed. now then, brace yourselves. it's time for a brand new great british giveaway. we're now going into the final three weeks of our next £30,000 tax free great british giveaway. still plenty

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welcome back. it's 3:25 on this monday afternoon. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. single word ofsted inspection grades for english schools are being scrapped as part of huge plans to reform our education system. now this follows the suicide of the headteacher, ruth perry, last year , which was linked with the year, which was linked with the impact of the review system and

how it affected the lives of both teachers and students. well, let's speak now to the executive head at the saint thomas of the apostles school, serge sapphire. serge, welcome to the show. always a pleasure to the show. always a pleasure to have you accompany serge. i'm a parent. i chose my kids school on the basis of a one word recommendation. it works for me. if it ain't broke, why mend it? >> well, i'm not sure it isn't broken. however, i think what your point is well made in terms of let's understand what ofsted is about and it's to inform parents at the end of the school they're likely to send their kids to, for me , i think, the kids to, for me, i think, the review is welcome . i think it review is welcome. i think it has lost its way somewhat in terms of not focusing properly on what's the most important thing for the parents. i mean, you can speak for yourself, i know, but most of the parents i speak to is they want to look at educational outcomes, which of course are linked to how happy the children are, how well they behave, and of course, how well they're taught. i think it

became too complicated, but the fact that we've now got an ofsted inspector who's actually done the job, fills me with hope, >> it's interesting because when you say parents like it's amanda spielman, who's a former ofsted chief inspector for six years, she said that parents liked the simplicity and the clarity of the old system . outstanding the old system. outstanding good, requiring improvement or inadequate. you know, there's nothing wrong with that. it worked well, it didn't work. >> it didn't work because, you know, you've got teachers a headteacher committing suicide and everyone reporting that, you know, it's not clear as to what we're being graded on. i think every good school and every good headteacher will welcome accountability. and we must never lose sight of that. after all, that's what examinations are all about, so we must be put under the ring as well as everybody else, but clarity is key. and writing down exactly what's most important in a school. and i refer back to outcomes. okay, that has got to be the number one. and i think

the media could help with explaining outcomes like progress eight. like what the children actually achieve every year as a reflection of how good a school is, because it's all unked a school is, because it's all linked with all the other things. i think the health and safety factor in ofsted, if it were up to me, i would actually remove that from ofsted and make sure that every school is actually inspected every every two years. don't wait for a ten year round if it's so important that you can fail your ofsted on it, then surely it's important enough to be graded more often. but having said that, as i said, i'm glad that we've now got an ex head teacher in charge and hopefully we'll get clarity which parents need, we'll get priority where it belongs. i i've said it 3 or 4 times, but outcomes what children come out of school with is the most important thing to those kids, and especially the parents. we've just been through the gcse and a level results. if like me, you've seen that morning for 40

odd years and know how much the parents get upset, how much their children means to the children and their futures, we must prioritise. what do our children leave with from our schools and go from there? >> what would you say to those who claim that this new classification system has been done to please the teachers? it's the unions complained to get their way. schools grade pupils all the time. why can't schools be graded in a simple way that people understand? >> well , i way that people understand? >> well, i agree way that people understand? >> well , i agree with way that people understand? >> well, i agree with you. we don't need to lose the simplicity and i'm not interested in kwarteng. quite frankly , what the unions think. frankly, what the unions think. this is about telling the parents the truth about the school. but i've said i've got to get their act together. they've got to measure the right things, and schools have got to know in detail what we're being measured for it. let's get rid of some subjectivity here. let's be as objective as we can. we've got numbers. we've got numbers of children passing every single subject. we've got attendance

figures. we've got punctuality figures. we've got punctuality figures. these are written in stone . that's what parents want stone. that's what parents want to hear. that's what they want to hear. that's what they want to see. we don't want any ofsted inspector who i'm afraid i've come across a few that are particularly well qualified in my eye. we want objectivity, we want clarity so that parents can make an educated choice, well spoken, with passion and clarity. >> excellent. thank you very much. that's the executive head at the saint thomas the apostle school there. serge sapphire. thank you for coming on. please come back on in the future. thanks. now lots more still to come between now and 4:00, including the latest from israel where thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest of the handling of the ongoing hostage crisis. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines. and here's will hollis . hollis. >> hello. your top stories at 3:30 this afternoon, tory leadership contenderjames leadership contender james cleverly has launched his bid, vowing to bring back the rwanda

plan, as he also said conservative answers are needed to solve the most challenging problems facing our country. cleverly highlighted the need for the uk to remake the argument for capitalism to boost economic growth and give younger people a stake in society. he also said he'd increased defence spending to 3% of gdp and on illegal migration, mr cleverly says we need to have a deterrent . says we need to have a deterrent. meanwhile, kemi badenoch has launched her tory leadership campaign today calling for change in the conservative party the shadow communities secretary and contender to replace rishi sunak says her party has to focus on renewal to be ready for to return to power. mr badenoch used the speech to also accuse labour of pulling the wool over the eyes of the public, insisting that it's time for something new. the prime minister said the scrapping of single phrase inspection

headune single phrase inspection headline grades for schools in england will be a relief for parents. previously, ofsted awarded one of four headline grades to schools. it inspects outstanding good, requires improvement and inadequate. the department for education says for inspections this academic yean for inspections this academic year, parents will see four grades across the existing subcategories. those are quality of education, behaviour and attitudes , personal development attitudes, personal development and leadership, and management. the prime minister says it will hold schools accountable. the wife next the wife of a conservative councillor, has pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred. the 41 year old child miner lucy connelly, called for mass deportations and attacks on hotels, hotels, housing asylum seekers. in a post on x on the day three girls were killed in southport. the post has now been deleted from

her x account and she later apologised for acting on false and malicious information. lucy is the wife of conservative councillor raymond connolly and those are your latest gb news headlines. for more, we'll be back at 4:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> thank you will. now, if you want to get in touch with me @gbnews, you know what to do. simply go to gbnews.com/yoursay. get your opinions in. i'll read the best out before the end of the

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now. pressure on israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is continuing to build as tens of thousands of people protested at the government's handling of the ongoing hostage crisis. hamas executed six people who were kidnapped on october the 7th. with israel's main labour union calling for a strike in response to the government's failure to save them and us president joe biden has said netanyahu is not doing enough to secure an agreement. could this finally be the turning point in the conflict? well let's ask that question now directly to somebody who will know the answer . and somebody who will know the answer. and that's the israel correspondent for the telegraph , correspondent for the telegraph, jotam confino jotam. it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. a huge, hugely significant protest going on here. of course, it was hamas that executed the six hostages. so why could i ask you the question? is the frustration being taken out on netanyahu's regime? >> it's a good question, and it's a little bit complicated, but i'll try to break it for

down you. so the demonstrators are holding netanyahu directly responsible for the failure to bnng responsible for the failure to bring back these hostages, because netanyahu is insisting on keeping control of a vital buffer zone separating egypt from gaza . and hamas has said from gaza. and hamas has said that israel has to withdraw from all of gaza in order for them to reach a ceasefire. so this is the main sticking point. and this is what's holding up the ceasefire. in other words , it ceasefire. in other words, it might be hamas that pulls the trigger, but netanyahu is the one that prevents the ceasefire from happening . that's according from happening. that's according to the people who go on the streets. and that's also according to the workers union that called a general strike today that lasted from six in the morning until 230. this afternoon, when a labour court ordered the strike to stop because it was illegal and jotam. >> that brings me on to the next question then. could this grotesque moment be something of a wake up call? will we think there be some developments now?

as painful as it is for either side to make concessions, are we at the point where we should be moving towards some form of discussion about that ceasefire? >> so we know that the united states, for example, are putting heavy pressure on israel because it has more leverage with israel and qatar and egypt are supposedly putting pressure on hamas. but if we just take the israeli side for a moment, i just got a leak from a cabinet meeting where mr netanyahu was meeting where mr netanyahu was meeting with his ministers, and he told them again , he's not he told them again, he's not ready to leave control of this corridor in the hands of hamas because it's the oxygen for hamas to get, first of all, weapons smuggled from egypt into gaza, but also because he believes that if israel withdraws from this corridor, it will never be able to take control of it again. so it doesn't look like netanyahu is at all compromised on this issue. and it also doesn't look like hamas is ready to.

>> and we must remember, of course, that the events of october the 7th precipitated everything that's gone on. ever since then, it's been an utterly tragic confrontation. but israel has maintained its right all along. they said from the beginning they wanted to eviscerate hamas, to completely remove it, and jotam confino the people who would be happiest about the ceasefire will be hamas. it will give them a chance to regroup, a chance to strengthen. with that in mind, as difficult as it is, is it a reasonable thing to expect to call for the arms to be put down when, after all, you know, this was started by the hamas terrorist invasion of october the 7th? >> i think most rational people hopefully see hamas as as the rogue actor here. hamas started this. hamas is keeping civilians hostage. it's breaking any possible basis, but it doesn't change the fact that focus is on because israel is held to a different and a higher standard. it doesn't matter what what hamas does. they just announced

the other day that they're going to go back to suicide bombs. i didn't hear any human rights organisations even comment on that. so at the end of the day, the pressure is on netanyahu and it is up to him to release these hostages because nobody will hold hamas responsible . hold hamas responsible. >> jotam a lot of people say a two state solution is the only answer, but there was a two state solution before hamas didn't seem to be satisfied with that.in didn't seem to be satisfied with that. in fact, one of their stated aims is to eradicate israel from the river to the sea. can a two state solution ever work ? ever work? >> maybe. i wouldn't say never say never, obviously, but i think it's delusional to talk about a two state solution. now, i'm not saying it's a bad idea. that's not the argument. the argument is that you're in a war and you have hamas, who is more popular than ever. really and they would win by a landslide if elections were held tomorrow. they have huge support in the west bank. they are not looking for a two state solution. and if you ask the palestinians in general, according to all polls ,

general, according to all polls, less and less people want a two state solution. in fact, they prefer armed resistance. so no, there is no two state solution on the horizon. and if you ask the israelis, they're definitely not about to give the palestinians a state while their hostages are still still held in dungeons somewhere in gaza . dungeons somewhere in gaza. >> okay. thank you very much for joining us. and that's the israel correspondent for the telegraph , jotam confino. you've telegraph, jotam confino. you've been excellent all the way throughout this. thank you very much for joining throughout this. thank you very much forjoining us on the show much for joining us on the show today. thank you. thank you. now up next, did you manage to get oasis tickets? if so , i'll buy oasis tickets? if so, i'll buy them off you i didn't. well, stick around. if not, because labour have promised to look into why so many fans felt lied to on release day. are they looking back in anger? my martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

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news now. the culture secretary, lisa nandy, said that she wants to end rip off resales after millions of oasis fans felt let down by the ticket sales for their much anticipated reunion toun their much anticipated reunion tour. now during the sale, website selling the tickets failed to keep fans informed of the process and also some tech difficulties forced thousands to lose out unfairly. now i queued for ten hours and i didn't even make it into the numbered queue. now those who managed to get through were also shocked to see that some prices have more than doubled and tripled, even for certain dates due to their demand. that's precisely what you see on your screen there. what i saw all day long, i was queuing to get in the queue and i didn't even make it into the queue. not that i'm at all bitter, but joining me down the line to discuss this ticket chaosis line to discuss this ticket chaos is the senior fellow at iea, doctor stephen davis, and the former editor of kerrang! jim mcmahon, welcome to you .

jim mcmahon, welcome to you. gentleman. always a superb pleasure to have you on. jim. let's start with you. is it? look, a few of us got more than a bit dis chuffed, to say the least, when we didn't get tickets. but should the government really be getting involved in things like this? >> well, i mean, it depends on what you view your role, the role of government to be right. so normally my politics are that i want my government as far away from anything that they can overreach on. in this instance, i feel like government does have a job to help culture bloom in this country. i think that's historically been something that britain has . historically been something that britain has. it's been a prime export for us, rock and roll especially, and i do feel like there are some problems with the idea of regulating, dynamic pricing in the sense that you have to start looking at the hotel industry. you have to start looking at uber. it's not just in music where this exists, but i, as a fan of oasis, as a fan of rock n roll, as a fan of

l, fan of rock n roll, as a fan of i, as someone who wants this country to be dynamic in the way that we remember from the 90s, i think i think something's got to be done. >> okay, let's put a point now to doctor stephen davis. a lot of people are very frustrated about not getting a ticket. i was one of them. but is the answer for the government to start poking its beak in? >> certainly not the great problem with this kind of thinking is that you get the sir humphrey appleby logic. something must be done. this is something. therefore, we should do it. as has just been said, you get this dynamic pricing in many, many markets. not in hotel rooms, airline tickets. it's widely used by many different kinds of industries. it's not clear to me why tickets should be treated for exceptionally or in a different way to any other kind of good, where you've got a fundamentally fixed supply, which is what the problem is here. that's why you were online for such a long time. >> yeah. and james, a lot of people were saying, i mean, i

don't know anybody who got tickets on the day. i know plenty of people who got them in the pre raffle in the ballot. they were lucky enough to get in that way. i don't know anybody who got tickets on the day, james mcmahon, but is it time to go back to the old school days. get your get your sleeping bag out and camp out for a few days at least. then you'd actually get face value ticket. >> well, my heart says yes. my spine says no , but i think that spine says no, but i think that just to respond to the point that was previously made, i think that one of the one of the, the frisson that is existed in music and in culture and in art throughout the entire time that i've written and talked about music, is that where does the line of industry stop, and when does the line of culture begin ? like music isn't like begin? like music isn't like other industries. and i know that sounds incredibly naive and trite to say , but, you know, trite to say, but, you know, i think you're the same as me. we'll see things they'll never see. like you don't say that about the you don't say that about the you don't say that about the you don't say that about the meat industry , right? about the meat industry, right? it's something else. it's about

dreamers. it's about, big ideas. and i can see my friend over here on the right wincing slightly. but that's how i see it . and i think that if dynamic it. and i think that if dynamic pricing had existed in this way when oasis were young lads and go and see the stone roses, there wouldn't be any oasis, quite simply because kids from burnage, they couldn't afford to go see a concert if that's the pnces go see a concert if that's the prices we're talking about, you know , the tickets are already know, the tickets are already expensive enough. and i'm not blaming oasis for that. there's so many problems in this country or in europe with ukraine and russia. everything costs more to put on gigs, production costs. gigs aren't . they're not going gigs aren't. they're not going to be £22 for knebworth like they were 25 years ago, but i think that i, i'm very i feel very disappointed in liam and noel because they, they would have greenlit this and there's i want them to i want noel to pay for his divorce. i want them to make good money. oasis were never particularly champions of the proles. they wanted to get .

the proles. they wanted to get. they wanted to get famous and they wanted to get rich. but it feels a little bit like they've forgotten me. you and many people like us. >> do you think there's a fair point there, doctor stephen davies, in terms of democratic access , the fact of the matter access, the fact of the matter is, this is a seller's market with a global audience, a finite product. and i think they could have sold this entire run of gigs out if they charged £1,000 a ticket, somebody, somewhere would have had that. a lot of kids grew up, made a few quid, and they would pay whatever it costs. maybe james mcmahon has a point. doctor stephen davies, it's point. doctor stephen davies, wsfime point. doctor stephen davies, it's time to put some kind of regulation in place to have a free and democratic access to all fans . all fans. >> well, you actually, you don't need regulation to do this. it's perfectly you know, the band in this case, oasis is perfectly at liberty if they want to, to say that they're going to sell all the tickets with a capped price and then not allow anybody in, not allow any resale by saying that you can only get into the concert if you produce id to

confirm you're the original person who bought the ticket. and certain artists do do this. it's quite hard to enforce, but you can do that if you want. now, the problem there is that most people would have your experience you. it's still the case that the great majority of people who want to get a ticket can't get one, because there simply isn't the number of seats available at the concert venue. but on the other hand, if you do want to make it more accessible, perhaps to people with lower income, then yes, you can do that. you know , the market is that. you know, the market is flexible. it doesn't have to be about profit maximising. you know , in a pure business sense, know, in a pure business sense, if you are an artist and you want to have lower, you know, lower income customers attending your concerts, you can do that. you've just got to accept that the consequence is that most people will, you know, spend hours queuing up and not get it at the end. that's just the price you have to pay if you want to make it accessible to people with lower incomes . people with lower incomes. >> can i have the final word to you there, james mcmahon? i know when you came on the show last time, you shared, i think,

poetic , beautiful stuff about poetic, beautiful stuff about how you were unwell in hospital and you really wanted to see oasis again. did you get tickets ? oasis again. did you get tickets? >> no, no, and i don't know anyone. i don't know anyone who has , saturday. i mean, if there has, saturday. i mean, if there was any upside to it, it was that doncaster rovers tom moore to port vale, but also that there was a running commentary from my friends that brought us all together and we were united in our disappointment. i think the reason why i haven't hit rock bottom is that the scuttlebutt is that there are still dates being held , so maybe still dates being held, so maybe this madness happens all over again. i'll get there . i'll be again. i'll get there. i'll be there somehow. you'll be there somehow we'll be. we'll be, we'll be giving us, like, leg ups over the wall. >> now, i think james mcmahon. i'm going to get him by hook or by crook. it's always a pleasure to talk to you, mate. thank you for speaking so passionately as usual. and also thank you to the senior fellow at the iea, doctor stephen davis. superb debate. a lot of disappointed people out

there. and that includes me this week. and i'm afraid wasn't our time. but maybe, just maybe, we can dare to dream. maybe there'll be new tickets, some new venues and we'll get in there. thank you very much. now, in the next hour, we'll be joined. well, we'll be joined later in the show by lee anderson. he's giving his first interview since coming back to parliament. you will not want to miss it . stick around. see you sooi'i. 500“. >> soon. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. plenty going on in the skies today. some big thunderstorms in places , but other areas just places, but other areas just fine with some warm and humid sunshine. it's a bit of a messy weather picture . low pressure weather picture. low pressure system sitting over the uk old weather fronts generating some hefty downpours. we've seen some thunderstorms and a few more to come through the evening time, potentially causing some

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show. politicians went back to school today as parliament returned over the summer. sir keir starmer's popularity plummeted amid riots , slashing plummeted amid riots, slashing the winter fuel allowance. and of course , allegations of of course, allegations of cronyism. now the tories are still looking for a new leader, meanwhile, and reform has seen a 5% polling boost. i'll bring you fully up to speed on all the politics later in the show. i'll be joined in the studio by the reform party's lee anderson with his first major interview of this term. he'll share the shocking death threats he's received and how he believes that he has suffered from yet more two tier justice. and there was a shock in germany yesterday after the right wing afd party wins a state election and a huge blow for the german chancellor, olaf scholz, could there be another swing of europe towards the right? and what impact could that have in brussels on the european union and the paralympics has been dragged into the trans debate after the first openly trans paralympian

beat out her competitors in the t12 400 metre heat earlier on today. now the move has already been called out by several female competitors and equality groups. so what is next for the games? that's all coming up in your next hour ? what was the your next hour? what was the show? a delight to have your company. so parliament has gone back to school. the tory party two leaders threw their hat in the ring today , kemi badenoch the ring today, kemi badenoch and james cleverly. we were told it's badenoch, not badenoch. katherine forster, our political correspondent. she was there. we've got a full update of the latest from that and also i'll be joined by lee anderson. shocking death threats he received over the course of the summer. he believes he's been on the receiving end of yet more two tier justice loads to get our teeth stuck into in the next houn our teeth stuck into in the next hour. i want to hear from you. get in touch. use your way gbnews.com/yoursay. but now your headlines. and here's will

hollis . hollis. >> good afternoon. your top stories at 4:00. leadership contender james cleverly has launched his tory bid this afternoon, vowing to bring back the rwanda plan, as he also said, conservative answers are needed to solve the most challenging problems facing our country. cleverly highlighted the need for us to remake the argument for capitalism to boost economic growth and give younger people a better chance in society. he also said he'd increase the defence spending to 3% of gdp and on illegal migration, mr cleverly says britain needs to have a deterrent . deterrent. >> i will use my contacts and my reputation with rwanda to resurrect that incredibly important partnership . and more important partnership. and more than that , i will rebuild

than that, i will rebuild a relationship so badly damaged by labour's arrogant and callous disregard to the diplomatic niceties that bind the to world inform the media that they were scrapping this partnership before they had the courage to inform the rwandan government is unacceptable . unacceptable. >> meanwhile, kemi badenoch launched her tory leadership campaign today, calling for change in the conservative party. the shadow communities secretary and contender to replace rishi sunak says her party has to focus on renewal to be ready to return to power . be ready to return to power. miss badenoch used the speech to also accuse labour of pulling the wool over the eyes of the public, insisting that it's time for something new. >> just sit around pointing out how terrible labour are. that's just not good enough and we can't just keep having the same policy arguments from the last parliament. we are not in power. we lost. labour will fail.

parliament. we are not in power. we lost. labour will fail . and we lost. labour will fail. and when that time comes and the british people are looking for change, we have to be that change. we have to focus on renewal, the renewal of our party, our politics and our thinking . and it starts with thinking. and it starts with principles . principles are the principles. principles are the fundamentals that give us direction , unity and certainty. direction, unity and certainty. they must underpin everything we do . do. >> the prime minister says the scrapping of single phrase inspection headline grades for schools in england will be a relief for parents. previously ofsted awarded one of four headune ofsted awarded one of four headline grades to schools. it inspects outstanding good, requires improvement and inadequate. the department for education says this academic yean education says this academic year, parents will see four grades across the existing subcategories, those being quality of education, behaviour and attitudes , personal and attitudes, personal development and leadership, and management. education secretary

bridget phillipson said that this the said this morning that the death of headteacher ruth perry made the need for ofsted reform absolutely clear. the prime minister says it will hold schools accountable. >> i've got a mission for our government , which is to >> i've got a mission for our government, which is to make sure that every single child, whatever their background, wherever they come from, has the best possible education. and this move today is about driving up standards, making sure that we have a richer picture so parents can see in a more accountable way the real strength of a school and making sure we've got the improvements in to catch schools quickly. so this is all about driving up standards. and i'm really pleased that we're able to do it so quickly . so quickly. >> the wife of a conservative councillor has pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred. 41 year old childminder lucy connolly called for mass deportations and attacks on houses, hotels, housing, asylum seekers. in a

post on x on the day three girls were killed in southport. the post has now been deleted from her x account and she later apologised for acting on false and malicious information . lucy and malicious information. lucy is the wife of conservative councillor raymond connolly. an israeli court has ruled that a general strike that shut much of the country's economy must end. this afternoon. israel's entire economy is on strike today in a bid to pressure the country's pm, benjamin netanyahu, into accepting a gaza ceasefire deal after six hostages were shot deadin after six hostages were shot dead in gaza . idf soldiers dead in gaza. idf soldiers recovered the bodies of the hostages who were who israel says were killed moments before troops reached them. the government has promised to look into it. the government has promised to look into dynamic ticket pricing . after the cost ticket pricing. after the cost of tickets for the oasis reunion tour more than doubled during a sale. culture secretary lisa

nandy described the selling of inflated oasis ticket prices as depressing. on saturday, fans of the world famous band sat in virtual queues for hours , hoping virtual queues for hours, hoping to get their hands on tickets to one of the shows next year. however, when they finally got through, many were met with ticket prices far higher than face value. some expressed their anger on social media as tickets worth £148 were being sold for £355 on ticketmaster within hours of release. those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm will hollis and we'll have more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts .

>> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much, will. now of course, there's nowhere else to start this hour than in the house of commons, where moments ago, angela rayner addressed the controversial clip of her dancing in ibiza. as you can see on your screens, they're giving it large now. she was complimented by conservative mp graham stuart . graham stuart. >> mr speaker, may i congratulate the secretary of state on her dancing skills on her current appointment and her outstanding answer to the earlier question from the shadow secretary of state on council tax? but could i pursue that and say specifically, could she give the house the assurance that the single person discount, which is so important, the pensioners who are already losing out because of the absence of the winter fuel allowance that she can guarantee today, put gladness into all their hearts across the country by saying she will not look at removing that single person discount so important to people , elderly people in people, elderly people in particular, who live on small incomes. >> seriously. thank you, mr speaken >> thank you, first of all, for your comments on my dance moves.

thatis your comments on my dance moves. that is subjective, like beauty, of course . but on a serious of course. but on a serious note, i find it astonishing that members opposite, after running down the economy in the way that they have after the chancellor had to come to this house to talk about the billions of pounds black hole that they are now trying to claim that this government is about raising taxes, this government is about making sure that working people are better off and will intend to do that. >> rachael maskell. >> rachael maskell. >> well, the agony and the ecstasy there. joining us now is the former conservative mp miriam cates. miriam, welcome to the show. always an absolute pleasure. can we start by addressing this, this business of angela rayner having a bit of a rave in ibiza? a lot of people on the on the conservative side of the parliament sort of clutching their pearls. parliamentarians are allowed to take a blooming holiday on. they >> absolutely. and the whole point of democracy is that we're represented by by people from all walks of life , wherever they all walks of life, wherever they want to take their holidays. and i think it is really important that mps are allowed time off, are allowed holidays do get a

chance to recharge their batteries and good honour. i mean, i think she's very brave to be filmed doing that given her position, and i have no criticism of her for that at all. >> yeah, i'm very, very grateful. there are never any camera phones. when i was in my era of clubbing, i'll tell you that. much for free. miriam cates. and don't forget, michael gove was having a little dance. few of us are trying to forget that. still traumatised by those memories of michael gove doing his little jig. but on a serious point, let's get back to the politics now. parliament has gone back to school today and the question there, a lot of people are asking the same question about the winter fuel allowance. the axing of that was highly, highly controversial. we won't be seeing a debate, let alone a vote on that. do you think that's the wrong thing? >> it's the way that government can proceed. they're not doing anything procedurally incorrect, but obviously it is a huge change to what has been accepted for many years that the winter fuel payment for pensioners, not just those on very low incomes. i do think there are two sides to this story, because i think

it is becoming increasingly clear that the uk, along with many western countries, just cannot afford our current pension payments because we have this ageing population and not enough young people being born and coming into the workplace. so i do think we should be having an honest and sober debate about how we fund pensions in retirement, because frankly, the current system is completely unsustainable. however, the fact that it wasn't in the manifesto and yet was announced so quickly, i do think is a problem because people can honestly say that this is not what they voted for, and they may have voted differently had it been in labour's manifesto. so i do think that is a problem. but of course, all this is leading up to the big event on the 30th of october, which is the 30th of october, which is the budget. it's going to be the first major event of this parliament and of course, lots of tax rises are being speculated about are being trailed. and i think that's what a lot of mps will be focused on over the coming weeks. what is going to be announced, how are they going to respond to it? because of course, the conservatives can be expected to oppose it. but i wouldn't be a surprise if a lot of labour mps oppose some of the measures to an october 30th.

>> of course, that's halloween eve. a lot of people expecting middle classes, a bit of a horror show. miriam a bit of a horror show. miriam a bit of a horror show. miriam a bit of a horror show in terms of things like inheritance tax and things like inheritance tax and things like capital gains tax. do you think this has the potential to be almost not an austerity budget, a sort of george osborne budget, a sort of george osborne budget, but more of a kind of aspirational budget, anti aspirational budget, anti aspiration budget? >> well, certainly, if they do bnngin >> well, certainly, if they do bring in all those measures, it will lead to austerity, whether that's now or in the medium term. because although i think a lot of people will sympathise with labour's desire to redistribute, to use the tax system, to take money, if you like, off the very wealthiest and redistribute it amongst the poorest, that's always been the left's idea. that's always been the labour party's policy. there does come a point when you redistribute so much that there's nothing left to redistribute, because people at the top of the tree have have got up and left. they've left the country, they've given up making money because it's just too expensive to do so. and i do think we're in danger of that now because of course , people now because of course, people look at the very wealthiest

people in society, the tech entrepreneurs, people like that who are earning often you know, ridiculous salaries. that's true. but it is the case even now that the top 1% of earners pay now that the top 1% of earners pay 30% of the tax that the government takes , that's up from government takes, that's up from 20% 15 years ago. so it's already the case that those with the broadest shoulders are beanng the broadest shoulders are bearing the biggest burden. so the question is how much more can you raise that until the wealthiest people in society decide it's not worth starting a business, it's not worth taking risks. it's not worth investing. it's not worth paying tax in this country. and they get up and leave or they do a different job. and i think we're very close to that point now. and labour have got to realise that if you want to redistribute, you've got to have people creating wealth in order to redistribute it. and i think they don't understand that at all. >> it's almost like miriam cates be great. if we had an organised and effective opposition, one with a leader in place , but that with a leader in place, but that won't happen until november. the second. brings me on to my next question. kemi badenoch and james cleverly made their pitches today. i have to ask you now you're on the outside looking in. who's caught your eye? who would you for vote

going to be public about who i'm supporting? >> i do think they're all good candidates with different strengths. i'm sorry. i'm not going to go down that route at the moment, and i haven't listened to all of kemi's speech. there certainly seem to be some excellent parts of it. i really thought what she said about family being the basis of society, not individualism, was very good, and that's very much what we want to hear right now. i think robert jenrick has made some very powerful interventions, being very honest about where the party has gone wrong. and although you're right, having no leader does leave the conservative party right now in a weaker position. i think taking the time to choose the right leader and to make sure voters conservative party members, know what they're voting for, it is important to do that, to have the length of process so that when we do choose a leader, it is the right one. so although it leaves us weaker in the short term, i do think it's the right thing in the long term, because this is a five year parliament and we're going to have to the conservative party are certainly going to have to do everything they can to win back voters over

that time. so it's important to choose the right person. >> okay. miriam cates there as usual. ever the politician, ever the professional, keeping your cards close to your chest. but i'll get the answer out of you one of these days. miriam, always an absolute pleasure to have you on the show. thank you very, very much indeed for joining us. now joining me more in the studio now on that leadership race is our political correspondent, katherine forster. and catherine, you were at both of those launch events today. we've already spelled out, team cleverly, team badenoch, if you could just explain to us the main policy points, the main points of difference. and because you were in the room , you were seeing the in the room, you were seeing the energy. who do you think is edging it? >> sure. well, just to say, following on from miriam cates, it's not just former tory mps being bashful about who they think should lead the party. only about half of the 121 think should lead the party. only about half of the 121 conservatives have actually conservatives have actually publicly come out in support of publicly come out in support of somebody or other at the moment. somebody or other at the moment. kemi badenoch or kemi badenoch kemi badenoch or kemi badenoch and robert jenrick are leading and robert jenrick are leading

the field in terms of policy , the field in terms of policy , the field in terms of policy, both the speeches were quite the field in terms of policy, both the speeches were quite different , kemi badenoch was different , kemi badenoch was different, kemi badenoch was very punchy, very well attended, different, kemi badenoch was very punchy, very well attended, felt that she had the energy, felt that she had the energy, the momentum, but in terms of the momentum, but in terms of policy, there was nothing. it policy, there was nothing. it was very, very broad brush was very, very broad brush strokes , james cleverly, however , strokes , james cleverly, however , strokes, james cleverly, however, did announce several policies strokes, james cleverly, however, did announce several policies actually, which is quite unusual actually, which is quite unusual in this contest. he said that in this contest. he said that they would bring back rwanda. he they would bring back rwanda. he also said that he would want to also said that he would want to ultimately scrap stamp duty. ultimately scrap stamp duty. totally. which was interesting. totally. which was interesting. so it's he is laying out so it's he is laying out policies, both of them don't policies, both of them don't seem to be in favour of pulling seem to be in favour of pulling out of the echr. however robert out of the echr. however robert jenrick absolutely is, but it jenrick absolutely is, but it

was interesting to the party. was interesting to who was there publicly to support them. so kemi badenoch had chris philp, laura trott, claire coutinho , laura trott, claire coutinho, the current shadow energy minister, introduced her james minister, introduced herjames cleverly had grant shapps, of course, a very big beast of the conservative party but he is no longer an mp. so it felt to me like at the moment, kemi badenoch had the momentum, possibly more than james cleverly . but kemi badenoch does cleverly. but kemi badenoch does not appeal to everyone, and james cleverly believes that he may have broader support and be better placed to unify the party, something that they're all talking about. but easier said than done and you've got a few numbers. >> i see there very interesting numbers in front of you about who has declared thus far. it's early doors, so who's got the early doors, so who's got the early momentum? >> well, according to the numbers that i've currently got, both kemi badenoch and robert

jenrick are tied on about 13 or so. mel stride seven tom tugendhat six. james cleverly five. priti patel five. now one of them will be out on wednesday. a lot of people feel that it's likely to be mel stride, who hasn't even launched his campaign. but his team are still saying that absolutely in it for the long haul, so it will be very, very interesting to see. but by thursday, the six that we currently have will be down to five. >> so if their early numbers. but nevertheless, if that is a bellwether, the momentum seems to be a two horse race between the kemi

forster. i know you've been going for well over 12 hours on this today, so thank you very much for sticking with us and giving it both barrels for us here. thank you very much. lots more on that story, of course, at 5:00 and there's plenty of coverage on our website gbnews.com. and you've helped to make it the fastest growing national news website in the country. so thank you very much. well, i've got even more in just a few minutes , including what a few minutes, including what the scrapping of ofsted's grading system could mean for parents trying to choose a school for their children. as far as i'm concerned, what they had worked. why on earth are they tinkering? i'm martin daubney on gb news britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 423 on martin daubney on gb news now . single word ofsted now. single word ofsted inspection grades for english schools are being scrapped as part of huge plans to adjust our education system, and it follows the suicide of headteacher ruth perry last year, which was

unked perry last year, which was linked to the impact of the review system and how it affected the lives of both teachers and parents. let's bnngin teachers and parents. let's bring in now the chair of the campaign for real education , campaign for real education, chris mcgovern. for more on this story. chris, welcome to the show. got to say, i'm a parent. i've chosen two schools for both of my kids on the basis of outstanding good requiring improvement or inadequate. it wasn't broken. why are they trying to fix it ?

you're hearing it today from me. campaign for real education because that is the truth. we're not getting an accurate representation from ofsted and it's not going to be any different really. now we're going to get several words that may be, but actually we need to understand why we're falling so far behind those top countries such as singapore. cities like shanghai, south korea, japan, taiwan and so forth. we are and evenin taiwan and so forth. we are and even in europe, we're falling behind poland, we're falling behind poland, we're falling behind estonia and others. and yet the government says, oh, it's getting better every year , it's getting better every year, yeah it's getting better every year, year. they go back to 2010 and look at our results internationally. i say, no, don't go back to 2010, go back to 2000 and look at the results we were getting then. we're not going forward fast, fast enough. and actually there's a storm in a teacup here because the whole ofsted process is too generous in my view. >> okay. great stuff. can i ask you about second, policy point that's been released today and that's been released today and thatis that's been released today and that is the increasing of fines on parents from £60 to £80, and that will rise to £160 if paid within 21 days. this, of course,

is trying to discourage parents from taking their kids out dunng from taking their kids out during term time because holidays are so bloomin expensive. any parent watching this will empathise with that . this will empathise with that. and you know, full confession chris, i did take my kids out of school a week early last year. i saved two grand in the process on a holiday . otherwise my on a holiday. otherwise my children have an exemplary attendance record and the entire system is stacked against parents. and will this work? i mean, the serial absenteeism. chris mcgovern from schools. my missus is a teacher. i know this it's not middle class parents who go on holidays. it's kids who go on holidays. it's kids who just can't be bothered to go to school with feckless parents who don't send them in. >> yeah, we've got a huge problem , martin, of absenteeism. problem, martin, of absenteeism. it's got worse since covid. and you would think if 90% of schools are good or outstanding, children would want to go there. well, clearly they're not good or outstanding. as i said. look, i read a piece in the times a few weeks ago, and i pointed out that when you take a child out of school, that child has to come back, has to catch up. the teachers mostly are very

professional. they try to help the child to catch up. therefore other children suffer. so when you take a child out of school, you're not just taking your own child out, you're going to impact on other children in that class. in my view, you should get one warning and then you should find another school that may sound tough, but it's intolerable that we are having children hunt with such high absences. look around the world. it doesn't happen elsewhere. look in afghanistan, the girls chris o'shea there. >> but. but, chris, the school unions, the teachers , they they unions, the teachers, they they they left our kids at for home months and months and months dunng months and months and months during lockdown. they didn't care then about the impact on on children, about the impact on education. it was a dogmatic approach. we saw the unions were weaponizing lockdowns and covid against children. they didn't give a damn about the kids in my opinion then. so was that part of the time, chris, where that bond of trust was simply lost with schools and the notion that i'm going to be fined for taking a day off here or there, well, you took months and months and months off school. >> yeah. look, you make a fair point. look, let me be totally

cynical, martin. we closed the schools for a couple of years because of covid. what happened to exam results? they were the best in our history. so if you want to improve exam results, close the schools. that's one way of looking at it, of course, but at the end of the day, we have most teachers want to do a good job. they're working very hard. and yes, there was a closure of schools and some teachers are lazy. of course there are. on the whole, teachers aren't the hard working. they're mostly pretty good people. look, it's common sense. if the schools were going to, you should attend. if it's not worth going to, then of course you don't want to attend. if it's a good school, you need to turn up and it it harms other children. if you take children out, other parents take children out, other parents take children out, they've got to come back. it harms other children. so not on your side on that martin. but look, i understand, but who suffers most? it's the parents who have no money. they can't go on holiday at any time. not in the summer. not not not in the winter, not at any time. because they have no money at all. and they have no money at all. and they suffer most of all because they suffer most of all because they can't make up for lost learning. so, look, i'm a teacher. i taught for 35 years. i think kids should be in school. we want to improve education. we have to improve

the quality of teaching. and it's an outrage that the majority of staff in school, believe it or not, are not teachers. they're a support staff. we need to deal with that , staff. we need to deal with that, reduce the bean counters and give more money to the teachers and make sure we reward good teaching, because that's what really matters . really matters. >> common sense stuff as ever. thank you so much for joining >> common sense stuff as ever. thank you so much forjoining us on the show today. and that's the chair of the campaign for real education, chris mcgovern. excellent. great day for you. outstanding. even now, there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00. up next we head to birmingham , where campaigners birmingham, where campaigners have called for the king to attend the upcoming anniversary service for those killed in the 1974 pub bombing there. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines. and here's will hewlett . hewlett. >> first, some breaking news for you this afternoon. a third arrest has been made in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 13 year old boy in oldbury last week. the boy, who has not been named, died inside a home on lovett avenue last

thursday, sparking a murder investigation . west midlands investigation. west midlands police said two teenagers arrested earlier this week are still being questioned, while a man in his 40s is also in custody suspected of assisting an offender . custody suspected of assisting an offender. tory leadership contender james cleverly has launched his bid to vow, vowing to bring back the rwanda plan as he also said conservative answers are needed to solve the most challenging problems facing our country . most challenging problems facing our country. our james most challenging problems facing our country . our james cleverly our country. our james cleverly highlighted the need for the uk to remake the arguments for capitalism to boost economic growth and give younger people a stake in society. he also said he would increase defence spending to 3% of gdp . spending to 3% of gdp. meanwhile, kemi badenoch has launched her tory leadership campaign today calling for change in the conservative party. the shadow communities secretary and contender to replace rishi sunak says her party has to focus on renewal to

be ready to return to power. mr badenoch used the speech to also accuse labour of pulling the wool over the eyes of the public, insisting that it's time for something new. previously ofsted awarded one of four headune ofsted awarded one of four headline grades to the schools it inspects and those are outstanding. good requires improvement and inadequate. the department for education says for inspections this year , for inspections this year, academic for this academic year , academic for this academic year, parents will see four grades across the existing subcategories, those being quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development and leadership and management . meanwhile, the wife management. meanwhile, the wife of a conservative councillor has pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred . 41 year old racial hatred. 41 year old childminder lucy connolly has called for mass deportations and attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers. in a post on x on the day three girls were killed in

southport. the post has now been deleted from her x account, and she later apologised for acting on false and malicious information. lucy is the wife of conservative councillor raymond connolly . at 4:30, those are connolly. at 4:30, those are your latest gb news headlines and we'll have more for you at 5:oo. 5:00. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. forward slash alerts . gbnews.com. forward slash alerts. >> thank you. we'll now get in touch with me here @gbnews. you know what to do. go to gbnews.com/yoursay. got to say, loads of you getting in touch about being fined for taking your kids out of school. you don't care. you're going to save a fortune on your holidays. and i've got to say, i tend to agree. get your opinions and read the best before the end of the show. i'm martin

welcome back. your time is 437. i'm martin daubney on gb news. now this year marks 50 years since the birmingham pub bombings which claimed the lives of 21 people in their local pub. prime minister and king charles have been asked by local campaigners to attend this year's memorial service in november. now west midlands reporter jack carson spoke to some of the people leading the tributes ahead of the anniversary about why they feel forgotten . forgotten. >> on the 21st of november 1974, twin blasts destroyed the tavern in the town and mulberry bush pubsin in the town and mulberry bush pubs in birmingham . pubs in birmingham. >> the bombs killed 21 people, injuring more than 200. it remains one of the worst terrorist atrocities in british history. six irishmen, who became known as the birmingham six, were wrongly convicted over the attacks and jailed for life in 1975. they were freed in

1991. nobody has ever successfully been brought to justice. 50 years on from the attack, campaigner from justice for the 21, julie hambleton details their plans to remember those lost. >> we're asking the whole of birmingham to stop at 3 pm. on the 21st of november for one minute, just one minute to remember the fantastic emergency services. >> the taxi drivers who helped save many lives that night, the survivors of which there are over 200, many with life changing injuries and of course our 21 who never came home. wouldn't it be a thoughtful and decent gesture to see our prime minister? wouldn't it be even a greater gesture for our to king charles be present? >> a labour party spokesperson confirmed the prime minister would not be present at the event due to a diary clash, but

it's reported he's asked west midlands mayor richard parker to attend on his behalf. >> we have called upon the council leader, john cotton, and also the lord mayor of birmingham, who we know is a great supporter of ours, to help think about all the 21. it's a traumsupporterfer goes think about all the 21. it's a traum supporter of goes think about all the 21. it's a traum supporter of ours, to great supporter of ours, to help to champion the 50th memorial, to champion the 50th memorial, where we would like them to where we would like them to help, to bring to the table help, to bring to the table aston villa football club, but aston villa football club, but also birmingham city football also birmingham city football club, and we have the support of club, and we have the support of their fans already. all we need their fans already. all we need is their management at the is their management at the table. we have birmingham city's table. we have birmingham city's management, whereas aston management, whereas aston villa's julie lost her older villa's julie lost her older sister maxine in the attack, who sister maxine in the attack, who was just 18 years old at the was just 18 years old at the time, continuously calling for a time, continuously calling for a pubuc time, continuously calling for a public inquiry to get justice pubuc time, continuously calling for a public inquiry to get justice for those killed. for those killed. >> the bombing has had a >> the bombing has had a profound effect on her. profound effect on her. >> every day i wake up and i >> every day i wake up and i think about maxine every day, i think about maxine every day, i think about maxine every day, i think about maxine every day, i think about maxine every day, i think about maxine every day, i

think about all the 21. it's a think about all the 21. it's a trauma that never goes trauma that never goes away. i'd love to have had children there was a time when i would have given anything to have children, but i chose not to have children because the thought of losing a child was too much to bear. every memorial is difficult

the afd ran on an coalition. now the afd ran on an anti—immigration stance and also supported ending german supports for ukraine, which remains a contentious issue for millions of eastern germans. let's speak now to the former uk editor of die zeit magazine, jurgen kronig. jurgen, welcome to the show. pleasure to have you. so a lot of people are calling this a. a lot of people are calling this a seismic result, one that sent shockwaves through germany and the rest of the continent. spell out for us why it is so significant . significant. >> indeed it is. if you imagine the three ruling parties in berlin and the national government, social democrats, greens and liberals were reduced to tiny percentages. of course, in state elections, thuringia and saxony, but nevertheless , and saxony, but nevertheless, it's such a shock that you can

already write the coalition government under chancellor olaf scholz of they will disappear into the abyss of history, and it is clear that they will lose. but the shock is indeed a that the populist parties, and it's not only right wing. there is a left wing populist party, the zahawi b as w you see it in short , one again was too. and short, one again was too. and both parties are in some ways expressing similar emotions and feelings and rejections of the established policy especially. and let me say this the last thing, and it is basically the long term bill has been presented for failures in politics, in in politics, which

started with angela merkel's government allowing millions of people entering europe. and this is now so clear that because this government is at the moment already starting sending a illegal immigrants back to afghanistan , to syria, afghanistan, to syria, unthinkable even four weeks ago. now they should have done something similar already much earlier and jurgen, when you look at the numbers, germany has been the most impacted of any european member states by illegal immigration. >> 2.15 million in the nine years from 2012. that's an extraordinary social change, an extraordinary social change, an extraordinary burden upon the system, upon the taxpayer. and of course, we've seen over in the uk here horrible headlines about islamist knife attacks going on. are those, you believe the two drivers of parties like

the two drivers of parties like the afd getting an upturn in their turnouts and winning this state? do you think that's what's driving it? >> absolutely. clear. and especially interesting that young voters don't have this inhibition to vote for a party, which is called right wing extremist. they don't see the afd as right wing extremist. they see it as a protest party, and they feel that they are demanding something which other parties and governments should have done a long time ago. and this is really the remarkable thing about this election. it is really a signal that the populist parties to call them, instead of right wing extremist, populist parties, are now dominating the agenda because they are fulfilling what voters expect from them. stop illegal immigration and send terrorists or criminals , or back to the

or criminals, or back to the countries where they came from . countries where they came from. >> okay. jurgen grewenig, a lot of people are saying, of course, this is, has echoes of the 1930s, but then, as you say here, you know, if the electorate had been listened to earlier, perhaps this wouldn't have happened. we have to leave it there. we've simply run out of time. jurgen kronig, thank you very much for joining us of time. jurgen kronig, thank you very much forjoining us on you very much for joining us on the show. pleasure. okay. now up next, the first openly trans athletes has made history at the paralympics. but how controversial is the athletes inclusion? i'm martin daubney on gb news fryston news

channel. welcome back. it's 449 on martin daubney on gb news. valentina petrillo has become the first openly trans athlete to compete at the paralympics, and they have qualified for the

semi—finals of the t12 400m. petrillo has been approved by the international paralympic committee to compete at the games, but there remains no unified position towards transgender inclusion at the paralympics. now let's bring in the spokesperson for sex matters, fiona mckinnon. fiona, welcome to the show. so we saw a lot of controversy at the olympics , at the boxing. a lot olympics, at the boxing. a lot of people were were kind of very outraged about the idea that a biological man was competing, particularly in the boxing. and now we have a sprinter, an italian , competing at the italian, competing at the paralympics. tell us your position. >> well, this is a 51 year old man. he was a pretty good runner. won multiple national titles as a paralympic sprinter for italy. and i can tell you he's the only 51 year old sprinting at in paris because his opposition will be women in

their mostly in their 20s and 30s. he's not, in fact, the first transgender athlete. he's the first male to compete in the women's event. there have been women's event. there have been women female runners who identified as men or said they were non—binary, and no one has any problem with that. you know , any problem with that. you know, the problem is not that someone has a transgender identity. the problem is that petrillo has male advantage, and that is just not fair . and petrillo should not fair. and petrillo should not fair. and petrillo should not be in the women's event. >> now, petrillo has said that this is to down envy and jealousy and has commented that what i do is real and therefore ihave what i do is real and therefore i have nothing to fear. is the system here the problem? fiona, we saw at the olympics there's no rule against this. >> yeah, in world athletics, in fact, this wouldn't be allowed, you know , sebastian coe, lord you know, sebastian coe, lord coe came out very clearly over a year ago and said, no, if you're not born female, you don't

belong in women's athletics. the world the paralympics association is going a different route, but i think there are two problems. i think it's a problem of the, the organisers, the people who make the rules. and i think we also can't excuse the individual athletes because they know their own sex and they know that they're taking advantage of rules that are unfair on women. so i'm afraid i don't think petrillo gets off the hook here. >> and what would you like to see happen? i mean, of course, sports has a terrible wrestle with inclusivity and respecting of trans athletes, but what do you think that this athlete can simply be taking a medal off a biological woman? therefore they shouldn't be allowed to compete ? shouldn't be allowed to compete? >> i think that's exactly right. he is taking potentially taking an athlete a medal away from a woman. he's certainly taking a place at the paralympic games away from a woman. and that is, you know, the pinnacle of achievement for that tiny number of people who get who get to compete at the, at the olympics.

so if he's not good enough to run with the men, he shouldn't be there. and a woman should be there instead. and i think it's fine. we can respect people's identities, but we need to respect women here. you know, it's a category designed for those of us who do not have the advantage of male bodies , and advantage of male bodies, and petrillo doesn't belong in it. and we need to respect the women who's category this is . who's category this is. >> and fiona in the boxing people were saying in the olympics there's a simple answer and that's a cheek swab test. and that will prove if you're x or xy male, therefore you won't be allowed to compete. but in this instance, valentina petrillo openly admits it was a father of two and competed for many years and won 11 national titles as a man. so that rule wouldn't work here. this is about the self—identification. >> yeah. i mean, it's very simple here, isn't it? everybody knows this is a man. petrillo knows this is a man. petrillo knows he's a man, and his identity or his right to grow his hair and wear his makeup, and everything else does not

change the fact that when it comes to sport, we organise by sex. your male or female, and everyone should respect that. and it's i think it's just as important that we respect the women here, is that anyone respects petrillo's identity. i'm much more concerned with the women who are losing their places here. >> okay. thank you very much for joining us, giving us your opinions. that's fiona mackinnon, a spokesperson for sex matters. thank you very much. now, loads of you have been getting in touch throughout the show with your essays. and michael says this, i'm taking my kids out of school in two weeks time. i work for a small firm. i get 30 days for holidays and it's almost impossible to book holidays during the school holidays during the school holidays due to the extremely high demand. and that's why i have not had a holiday in three years. i don't have the advantage of three months off for holidays like the school teachers do, nor do i have, nor do i earn the sort of public sector pay that workers get. so i can't afford to pay for the pncey i can't afford to pay for the pricey holidays during school time breaks. as far as i'm concerned, i'll pay the fine. i

too have the right to enjoy a houday too have the right to enjoy a holiday with my family like everybody else does. do you know what? i totally agree with you and that might well get me in trouble. now stick around because coming up next, i'll be joined in the studio by lee anderson. he'll share his harrowing story about death threats he had over the summer, why he thinks he's been the victim of two tiered justice. that's coming up. first, here's your. that's coming up. first, here's your . weather. your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . solar sponsors of weather on. gb. news >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. plenty going on in the skies today. some big thunderstorms in places, but other areas just fine with some warm and humid sunshine. it's a bit of a messy weather picture . low pressure weather picture. low pressure system sitting over the uk , old system sitting over the uk, old weather fronts generating some hefty downpours . we've seen some hefty downpours. we've seen some thunderstorms and a few more to

come through the evening time, potentially causing some disruption. parts of the welsh marches up into the west midlands, north—west england but also northeast scotland , all also northeast scotland, all tending to ease as we go through the night. but still a few showers coming into parts of the midlands during the early hours. still quite warm and humid over eastern england, but generally turning cooler and fresher, particularly in parts of scotland. well down into single figures here. and that fresher air will spread in more widely as we go through tomorrow , but as we go through tomorrow, but still probably quite quite warm, quite humid first thing in the morning over the midlands, southern england, still a lot of cloud and still some showers here, but brighter skies further north over northern england and much of scotland. but for northern ireland and western scotland, there's another zone of rain coming in. it won't be as heavy as the thunderstorms that we've seen today, but nevertheless a dull, damp start in the northwest . a lot of cloud in the northwest. a lot of cloud still over the midlands and eastern england early on. still a few showers here. still got the humid air in place for tomorrow. potential for 1

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the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk . on and all across the uk. on today's show, as politicians return to parliament, there's been a major announcement concerning the israel—gaza conflict. david lammy just announced that the uk is suspending a certain amount of licences for arms to israel, but away from the middle east. it's been a chaotic summer for the prime minister. sir keir starmer's popularity has plummeted amid riots. the winter fuel allowance being axed and of course, allegations of cronyism. the tories, meanwhile, are still looking for a new leader and reform has seen a 5% polling boost. i'll keep you fully up to speed and in just a few moments time. don't go anywhere. i'll be joined in the studio by that man. the reform party's lee anderson, with his first major interview of this term. he'll share also the shocking death threats he's received and how he believes that he suffered from. yet more two tier justice and it's not just parliament that's back as hundreds of thousands of

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headlines, and it's will hollis. >> it is 5:00, and as we head headlines, and it's will hollis. >> it is 5:00, and as we head into the evening, your top into the evening, your top story, the government has story, the government has announced it is to suspend the announced it is to suspend the sale of some weapons to israel. sale of some weapons to israel. foreign secretary david lammy foreign secretary david lammy said 30 out of 350 arms export said 30 out of 350 arms export licences will end due to clear licences will end due to clear risk. they could be used in a risk. they could be used in a serious violation of serious violation of humanitarian laws. israel humanitarian laws. israel continues to face international continues to face international criticism for the growing death criticism for the growing death toll in its war against hamas in toll in its war against hamas in gaza. gaza. toll in its war against hamas in gaza . next leadership contender toll in its war against hamas in gaza . next leadership contender gaza. next leadership contender james cleverly has launched his gaza. next leadership contender james cleverly has launched his tory bid this afternoon , vowing tory bid this afternoon , vowing tory bid this afternoon, vowing to bring back the rwanda plan as tory bid this afternoon, vowing to bring back the rwanda plan as he has . he he has . he to bring back the rwanda plan as he has. he also said conservative answers are needed to bring back the rwanda plan as he has. he also said conservative answers are needed to solve the most challenging to solve the most challenging problems facing the country. problems facing the cleverly highlighted the need for britain to make the argument for britain to make the argument for capitalism to boost economic growth, and give younger people

more chances in society campaign today calling for change in the conservative party. the shadow communities

party. the shadow communities secretary and contender to secretary and contender to replace rishi sunak says her replace rishi sunak says her party has to focus on renewal to party has to focus on renewal to be ready to return to power. mr be ready to return to power. mr badenoch used the speech to also badenoch used the speech to also accuse labour of pulling the accuse labour of pulling the wool over the eyes of the wool over the eyes of the public, insisting that it's time public, insisting that it's time for something new. >> just sit around pointing out for something new. >> just sit around pointing out how terrible labour are. that's how terrible labour are. that's just not good enough and we just not good enough and we can't just keep having the same can't just keep having the same policy arguments from the last policy arguments from the last parliament. we are not in power. parliament. we are not in power. we lost. labour will fail. and we lost. labour will fail. and when that time comes and the when that time comes and the british people are looking for british people are looking for change, we have to be that change, we have to be that change. we have to focus on change. we have to focus on renewal, the renewal of our renewal, the renewal of our party, our politics and our party, our politics and our thinking. and it starts with thinking. and it starts with principles. principles are the principles. principles are the fundamentals that give us fundamentals that give us direction, unity and certainty. direction, unity and certainty. they must underpin everything we they must underpin everything we do. do. >> and some breaking news in the >> and some breaking news in the

last hour or so. last hour or so. a third arrest has been made in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 13 year old boy in oldbury. the boy, who has not been named, died inside his home on lovett avenue on thursday afternoon, sparking a murder investigation, west midlands police said. two teenagers arrested earlier this week are still being questioned, while a man in his 40s is also in custody. suspected of assisting an offender. the wife of a conservative councillor has pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred. 41 year old childminder lucy connolly called for mass deportations and attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers. in a post on x on the day three girls were killed in southport. the post, which has now been deleted from her x account . she later apologised account. she later apologised for acting on false and malicious information. lucy is the wife of conservative councillor raymond connolly. the

government has promised to look into dynamic ticket pricing after the cost of tickets for the oasis reunion tour more than doubled while on sale. culture secretary lisa nandy described the selling of inflated oasis tickets as depressing. on the saturday, fans of the world famous band sat in virtual queues for hours, hoping to get their hands on tickets to one of their hands on tickets to one of the shows next year. however when they finally got through, many were met with ticket prices far higher than face value. some expressed their anger on social media, claiming that tickets worth £148 were now going for 355 on ticketmaster within hours of release. those are your headunes of release. those are your headlines for 5:00. we're back in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward

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277— stabbings top story today as parliament *——— stabbings and top story today as parliament 277— stabbings and the the southport stabbings and the subsequent riots across england, but he has promised a packed autumn of legislation, with votes expected on great british energy and also to return the railways to public ownership. and i'm joined now in the studio by the reform mp for ashfield, lee anderson, on what he's made of the return of what labour has planned. lee so you're back to school today. you're in, you're in there and already you've been causing a bit of mischief in chamber. tell us about exchange. >> not really mischief, martin. just a basic question. >> i mean, angela rayner was was banging on about islamophobia and now the labour party are going hell for leather to root out islamophobia. they're going to legislate against islamophobia. so i decided to ask a really difficult question, martin, which was i asked her to define what islamophobia actually meant, and she couldn't tell me. the lunatics have taken over the asylum. >> it's been posted on social media. now you put it out there, it's over half a million clips. it's a it's a fair question to

ask what something is, to define something. if that could mean people getting lengthy criminal records, because that seems to be the direction of travel. do you think that this, this argument about free speech over the summer has taken a dramatic downturn? >> well, it does. >> well, it does. >> i mean, i sat in the studio just a few months ago, martin, before the general election, you know, discussing islamophobia and some of the comments i made about mayor khan. >> and i said at the time i'd asked many mps from all parties to define what islamophobia actually meant. nobody can tell you yet. they're going to legislate against something that they don't know what it is. it's absolute madness. >> and in terms of you've been talking a lot over the summer about the riots and two tier policing, two tier justice. and you can share with us today you've had some harrowing abuse yourself, and that's some of that has culminated in some legal action. yeah. >> well i mean i've had two cases go to court recently. >> i've not been able to speak about them openly, obviously, because there was a live cases. but i had one particular case last year where i was getting

death threats every half an hour on the telephone from some lunatic, but we managed. the police managed to track her down. she went to court. i think she got £50 for no, £50 compensation. she had to pay me for threatening to kill me, and then the most recent ones . then the most recent ones. another lunatic from from leeds , another lunatic from from leeds, actually was sending horrible emails to my office. and one of them said that he wanted to. he's going to come and burn my house down and all he got was a he was a two year restraining order, not gone to prison or anything like that. and then you look you look online, you see on the news, you see on gb news, these other people committing crimes, you know, on the riots labelled as far right. i don't think they are. i just think the angry people that committed horrible crimes and you know, if they're going to be tough on on these people for threatening to do stuff or writing stuff on twitter or facebook, and so be it. but if you're going to be of a fair justice system, it. but if you're going to be of a fairjustice system, martin, you've got to be fair across the board. and i just think that the way the justice system has treated me as a reform uk mp is a little bit different to what

other people. >> do you think that's a fair thing to say for example, nigel farage, when he was attacked recently, he was a suspended sentence. there six weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months. but when ed miliband received another lambasted grotesque verbal threat, i'm going to slit your throat. that individual was jailed for three years now. we hear a lot about two tier justice, two tier policing. do you think from what you've experienced, there could be something to that ? something to that? >> well, there is definitely. i mean, some of the i mean, it's horrible what was said then. miliband make no bones about that at all. but this is not uncommon. these sort of threats you get on social media through emails. i think what the british pubuc emails. i think what the british public want to see and what we want to see in parliament is fairness in the justice system. and it just seems at the moment that sir keir starmer is, is controlling what happens in the judiciary. and he shouldn't, you know , he's elected, same as me. know, he's elected, same as me. we should let the justice system get on with it without fear or favour from , from from favour from, from from parliamentarians. yes, we make the laws. we decide that. but at

the laws. we decide that. but at the end of the day, we make the laws. it's up to the justice system to make sure that they're they're done fairly . they're done fairly. >> and there was a robust and a very quick response to those riots. to be fair, it did end the riots pretty sharpish. so whether you agree with the methods or not, it didn't stop martin. >> martin, you stood on parliament square a few months back when they were shining from the rivers to the sea on the elizabeth tower. you actually highlighted this to the police on duty on that night. and they did absolutely nothing. nothing. thatis did absolutely nothing. nothing. that is two tier policing. >> yeah . and also when i went to >> yeah. and also when i went to report on another demonstration at the cenotaph , the enough is at the cenotaph, the enough is enough one, i was actually handcuffed momentarily for doing precisely the same job. so you could argue i got a sniff of that too. i want to talk about some polling. that's out. of course, sir keir starmer's popularity, his personal popularity, his personal popularity has plummeted since elected two months ago. he's gone down now to —11, a drop of 27 points. meanwhile, the reform party in a poll out today, you've gone up 5% now 19%. labour 40 party vie portland has dropped 4%. but do you think

that what with what's been going on, you'd expect a bit more of an uptick than 5% for reform at the moment? >> well, not really march. i mean , sir keir starmer, he's, mean, sir keir starmer, he's, his popularity is plummeting. it's actually his birthday today also. so they say he'll probably u—turn on that. and deny it's his birthday today. on the 2nd of september. but no, 5%. we're going in the right direction. we're going in the right direction. martin. we had more councillors join us this week. we're up in the in the opinion polls. there are more councillors contacting us or contacting me by the day. want to come over. you get ready for next may the council elections. i'm telling you, i've told you before, we're going to sweep the board next may. >> do you think that's a fair thing to say? i mean, there's a lot of rhetoric. 4 million votes only precipitated five seats. do you have the organisational prowess to make any of this count, or is reform just a protest vote? no, it's not a protest vote? no, it's not a protest vote, martin. >> we are currently democratising the party. we're getting structures in place. we've got a template for each constituency, you know, to get

the to get the rules in place for setting up branches. we're going to have treasurers, secretaries, you know, organisers. this is all happening. we've got an army of people out there that want to get involved, that want to help us. you know, with the local elections next year and ultimately the general election in 2029. so we're a new party. we're a start up party, but we've got to start somewhere. >> what kind of things are voters telling you at the moment when you go out on the streets? what kind of things are they saying? >> well, i was out saturday morning in my constituency, just in a calf. i always go every saturday morning, sit and have a cup of tea and a bacon cob and listen to all the old dears that come in. and the winter fuel payment was . they're furious payment was. they're furious about that. they're absolutely furious. >> should there be a debate about this in the commons now? >> it should be a vote on it. yeah.i >> it should be a vote on it. yeah. i mean, that would be interesting. hopefully we can get an opposition day debate on the winter fuel payment at some stage. i'm no doubt the labour party will try and kick it into the long grass, but there was no there was been no debate about this. it wasn't in their manifesto , they found this manifesto, they found this imaginary black hole of £22 billion. and i'll tell you what,

they've really upset millions of pensioners across this country . pensioners across this country. and i'm sorry, sir keir starmer blatantly lied over this. he's been dishonest. he's been deceitful. imagine if the reform party or the conservative party had made this decision. they'd have been up in arms. martin. well there had been a position from sir keir starmer a couple of years ago about saying the labour party would always defend the winter fuel payment. >> but of course, you know, the country is in difficult circumstances financially. you know, there's got to be some sacrifices, right? but you're saying the winter fuel allowance that shouldn't have been cut. >> yeah, but martin, we're sending money abroad. about 11 or £12 billion a year is going abroad to help people on their crazy net zero journey journeys as well. you know, we've got we've got illegal migration costing us billions of pounds a yeah costing us billions of pounds a year. and our poor old pensioners, that's worked all their lives, many of them doing difficult jobs, not, you know, not got a big state pension. and if they're just over that threshold, maybe they've got a small, i don't know, occupational pension, you know, ten, £20 a week above the pension credit limit. then they lose £300 a year. it's you know,

it's criminal. how can i explain to my constituents that people are coming over on small boats with picking them up? we're putting them in hotels. we're spending about 40 grand a year on these illegal migrants who have no right to be here. that's all right, mrs. jones. you 90 year old person who's worked all your life, we're going to take your life, we're going to take your winter fuel payment off you. it's an absolute disgrace. and this country should be ashamed of itself. >> there's a leadership contest going on at the moment with your old party. two candidates declared today. kemi badenoch and james cleverly. who would you like to see as the leader of the conservative party, >> nigel farage. there you go. okay, i'm being flippant here, back in the real world, back in the real world, i'm not interested in martin, to be honest. look at the leadership contest and many of them are friends. still friends still talk. but i've actually got a bigger majority in ashfield. as a reform uk member of parliament than all the candidates apart from kemi . but i've got a bigger from kemi. but i've got a bigger vote share than her, so and these are people that had 25, 20 000 majorities. now they're scraping through on 2 or 3 000

majorities, not interested at all. i don't think the public are. >> okay. so, lee, you've mentioned a few councillors flashing their garters to you about maybe hopping over. people are still interested. are there any disposed conservative former mps who you think should jump into bed with nigel farage and yourself? >> well, that's up to them. martin i mean, i have conversations with some of my old tory colleagues, the ones that lost their seats. anyway, on a regular basis, you know, they're incredibly loyal people to the party. i think they want to the party. i think they want to fight back at the next election. for me , i think the election. for me, i think the tory party, who, by the way, i'm not going to diss them because it was incredibly good to me until until the end, i just think the toast and i think whichever leader they get at the moment, they're still not in touch with the british public. and parliament's not. i mean , and parliament's not. i mean, i've been sat in the chamber today and some of the nonsense is coming out. today and some of the nonsense is coming out . martin, that is coming out. martin, that place does not represent the country at all. >> how can we still be in that position like we've been saying, voters have been saying for, for, for many, many years , for, for many, many years, certainly since the brexit

referendum, that parliament needs to be more representative of the working class. i'm saying that's still not happening. >> it's a stitch up. it's a monopoly monopoly between two main parties and either the labour party or the conservative party are always going to be in power. so they've got that monopoly. and once they elected these mps get there. not all of them, but a lot of them think they know best. they dictate to their constituents, try to tell them how to live their lives, when really they should be listening to their constituents and doing what they. politics is simple. listen to your constituents at the week and when you go home, come back to that place on a monday morning and do what they say. >> do you think part of the problem, the reform party has, though, is that when it comes to elections, people tend to revert back to the two big parties. they might, they might, they might sort of tap dance around with a party like reform. but when it comes down to the 2029. yeah, people seem to have short memories. they might just flip back to the conservatives again. is that a real problem for the reform ? >> reform? >> i think they have had in the past, martin. but it can only push somebody so far. if you keep poking someone and pushing them, eventually they'll flip and they'll say to themselves, what have i got to lose? because

most people go to the ballot box every 4 or 5 years. they want to put the cross there on the paper and forget about it. and hopefully the governing party will do their job. but for the past, well , since will do their job. but for the past, well, since i can remember the political parties that's won elections have completely ignored the electorate and gone against their wishes. so yeah, people are angry. they're more nimble in how they vote these days and they will punish at the ballot box. okay. >> thank you very much. that's the mp for ashfield, lee anderson for the reform party. thank you very much for joining me on this first day back at school. now coming up, we'll have more from the commons. and the huge news that the uk has suspended certain arms to i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

welcome back . it's approaching welcome back. it's approaching 523. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. let's get back now to the huge breaking news that the foreign secretary, david lammy, has confirmed that the uk will partially suspend arms sales to israel. here's what he said in the house of commons moments

ago. >> but to license arms exports to israel, we must assess their compliance with international humanitarian law , humanitarian law, notwithstanding the abhorrence of their opponents , tactics and of their opponents, tactics and ideology. third, this is not a blanket ban. this is not an arms embargo. it targets around 30, approximately a 350 licences to israel in total for items which could be used in the current conflict in gaza . conflict in gaza. >> well, what a huge story. let's speak now to our national national reporter, charlie peters for more on this developing story. charlie, welcome to the show . so since welcome to the show. so since october the 7th, from the very, very beginning , the position of very beginning, the position of sir keir starmer and the conservative party, the entire country at the time was that israel had the right to defend itself. significant change of position today. >> charlie peters well, martin david lammy, the foreign secretary, is saying that this decision does not affect

israel's security. >> he said that he has suspended some 30 licences in the direction towards israel of some 350 licences that the uk currently has with israel. he said that it was the responsibility of the government to assess if there was a clear risk, if the items might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law. so of those 30 licences, what do they include ? licences, what do they include? well, the suspension will cover components for military aircraft , components for military aircraft, including fighter aircraft, helicopters and also drones. drones obviously operating extensively across gaza. that seems to be the key cause of david lammy's concern, but it won't include fighter parts for the f—35 fighter jet. that's the key israeli jet that's being used extensively by the israeli air force over gaza. but also in the north. some 100 jets were deployed in southern lebanon

about ten days ago in what the idf described as pre—emptive strikes on missile launcher sites. there also comments quite recently from donald trump's most recent national security adviser, robert o'brien, who said that there would be serious rifts between britain and the united states if there was an arms embargo between london and israel. so we'll see potentially what ramifications there could be there. now, britain also does receive some high tech military equipment from israel. it's a two way relationship. so we'll see how israel reacts to this decision later as well. and i think it's also important to stress that many labour mps and indeed this government, have come under significant pressure from protesters on the issue of arms licensing to israel. there have been specialist and extreme protest groups set up who have really campaigned quite hard on this issue. we've had some israel linked arms factories and

establishments and institutions attacked and disrupted by protesters and activists across britain for much of the last ten months, many of them also supplying the british armed forces so we could hear potentially some criticism of this labour government's decision. are they potentially giving to in some protester demands now? we'll also look to potentially hear about the legal advice that's been given towards this decision. a review was started under the previous government. david lammy has continued that looking into the links between arms exports with israel and the current international humanitarian law situation. but in his address to the house of commons earlier this afternoon, david lammy, the foreign secretary, was keen to stress that the house of commons is not a court. this is not an area to assess possible breaches of international humanitarian law, but in discussion with israel, david lammy said that

his majesty's government was frustrated by the concerns not being sufficiently answered by israel. so 30 export licences suspended today of a total of 350 that britain has with israel. he said it's going to be focusing david lammy on the components it has for operating in gaza, but crucially, it won't include the f—35 fighter jet program, which is key for israel's defence, but also for britain's relationship with the united states. >> charlie peters in as far as israel's ability to continue with its military military operations, 30 contracts out of 350 from one nation won't make a significant impact, will it? we live in a global market. you know israel will be able to procure from elsewhere, which bnngs procure from elsewhere, which brings me to my next point. how much of this is political ? how much of this is political? how much of this is political? how much of this is political? how much of this is posturing a shift of policy we've seen today? charlie peters , jeremy today? charlie peters, jeremy corbyn forming an independent

alliance with those five pro gaza mps, and of course, the labour party, concerned about haemorrhaging votes to the pro gaza electorate, as it were. how much of this do you think is just politics, showboating ? just politics, showboating? >> well, what israel needs. needs. sorry, britain can't provide its main supplier and supporter is washington. without american armed support on both an offensive and defensive position, than israel really is in trouble . 30 suspended export in trouble. 30 suspended export licences unlikely to make a significant difference to israeli military effectiveness, but it could be supplies to some of the key weapons that they are running short of. this campaign after ten months has been extensive. you only need to look at the damage both in gaza but also in southern lebanon, and that border area with northern israel, to see just the extent of the of the munitions that have been used in this conflict. it has been a vast air based, predominantly air based conflict .

predominantly air based conflict. before that ground invasion was launched, so many bombs were being used to shape the ground in gaza , and they're still being in gaza, and they're still being used to maintain security across the entire strip. that's the israeli strategy. so if it's not going to have a significant military effect, this is you could potentially say, as you've alluded to, martin, this is political posturing, but also potentially it's legal posturing. now, the government won't release its legal advice behind this decision, but clearly frustrated by what they're terming as israel's failure to give sufficient information to justify some of the decisions made in recent months. >> and charlie peters, has there been any backlash to this announcement yet? because even though operationally it might not be a significant withdrawal in terms of the sentiment behind it, it's a totemic moment. it seems to be, in effect, going back on britain's original position of giving israel the right to defend itself. well, you can defend yourself, but not

with these 30 suppliers. it's a very, very different position they're taking today. charlie peters. >> yes , it is a significant >> yes, it is a significant shift. it's a significant moment in the relationship between britain and israel. but as i say, britain potentially not the most significant ally that israel has in the region. it did support the country in april when that flotilla of drones and missiles was fired over from iran and was welcomed significantly by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. but the most significant support will continue to come from washington. so as i said, martin, possibly more political and legal posturing then indeed militaristic . militaristic. >> thank you, charlie. and while you were talking there, we were showing some pictures from tel aviv, live pictures of that ongoing strike. thousands and thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest. of course, of the six hostages that hamas killed at the weekend. charlie peters, thank you very much for joining charlie peters, thank you very much forjoining us and giving us that comprehensive update . us that comprehensive update. excellent as ever . okay, so now

excellent as ever. okay, so now a full update with that. there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00. now. up next, we'll have much more on the tory leadership election. but now it's leadership election. but now wsfime leadership election. but now it's time for your latest news headlines. and here's will hollis . hollis. >> hello. it's 5:30 and here are your latest stories in the gb news newsroom. the government has announced it is to suspend the sale of some weapons to israel . the sale of some weapons to israel. foreign the sale of some weapons to israel . foreign secretary david israel. foreign secretary david lammy said 30 out of 350 arms export licences are to end due to clear risk. they could be used in a serious violation of humanitarian laws. israel continues to face international criticism for the growing death toll in its war against hamas in gaza. toll in its war against hamas in gaza . meanwhile, an israeli gaza. meanwhile, an israeli court has ruled that a general strike that shut much of the country's economy must end. israel's entire economy is on strike today in a bid to

pressure the country's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu , minister, benjamin netanyahu, into accepting a gaza ceasefire deal after six hostages were shot dead in gaza , idf soldiers shot dead in gaza, idf soldiers recovered the bodies of the hostages , who israel says were hostages, who israel says were killed moments before troops reached them in the uk, tory james cleverly has launched his bid for leadership , vowing to bid for leadership, vowing to bnng bid for leadership, vowing to bring back the rwanda plan as he also said conservative answers are needed to solve the most challenging problems facing the united kingdom . cleverly united kingdom. cleverly highlighted the need for the uk to remake the argument for capitalism to boost economic growth and give younger people a stake in society. he also said he would increase defence spending to 3% of gdp . a third spending to 3% of gdp. a third arrest has been made in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 13 year old boy in oldbury. the boy , who was not oldbury. the boy, who was not named, died inside his home in lovett avenue on thursday afternoon, sparking a murder investigation. west midlands police said two teenagers

arrested earlier this week are still being questioned, while a man in his 40s is also in custody. accused of assisting an offender . meanwhile, kemi offender. meanwhile, kemi badenoch has launched her tory leadership campaign today calling for change in the conservative party. the shadow communities secretary and contender to replace rishi sunak said her party has to focus on renewal to be ready to return to power. mr badenoch used the speech to also accuse labour of pulling the wool over the eyes of the public, insisting that it's of the public, insisting that wsfime of the public, insisting that it's time for something new now. today, labour and the government are to suspend the use of single word grading for ofsted in schools . currently, the grading schools. currently, the grading as outstanding good requires improvement and inadequate will be scrapped this academic year. the department for education says the inspections this year. for inspections this year, parents will instead see four

grades across the existing subcategories , those being subcategories, those being quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development and leadership, and management. the wife of a conservative councillor has pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred . 41 year old racial hatred. 41 year old childminder lucy connolly called for mass deportations and attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers. in a post on x on the day three girls were killed in southport, the post, which has now been deleted from her account . she later apologised account. she later apologised for acting on false and malicious information. lucy is the wife of conservative councillor raymond connolly and those are your latest gb news headlines. we'll have more for you in just 30 minutes for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> now the home secretary, yvette cooper, is about to address the commons on the government's response to the riots, seen across the country this summer. let's head straight now to westminster and go live. >> our hearts still ache for the three precious little girls who lost their lives, for their loved ones, and for the other children who were injured or endured unspeakable horror that day . the endured unspeakable horror that day. the house will endured unspeakable horror that day . the house will know that a day. the house will know that a suspect has been charged in. the investigation into the attack is ongoing. those grieving families, the southport community and the country will need answers. but for that reason, the legal process must now take its course. that day in the house, all of us came together in sorrow, in sorrow and in solidarity with the families and with the people of southport. and i spoke of the bravery, the compassion and the distress of the police, the

paramedics and the firefighters that i had met that morning who were first on the scene. so it is truly appalling that within hours of that statement, those same southport police were facing the most disgraceful violent attacks from criminals and thugs. >> police officers pelted with bncks >> police officers pelted with bricks and bottles the local mosque, a place of worship subjected to violent attack. >> and while millions of decent people across the country were praying for bereaved families, a criminal minority of thugs and extremists saw only an opportunity to hijack a town's grief. the merseyside chief constable, serena kennedy, spoke at the funeral of alice da silva aguiar and she said she hoped that anyone taking part in the violent disorder was hanging their head in shame at the pain that they had caused. the bereaved family . that they had caused. the bereaved family. in the

that they had caused. the bereaved family . in the days bereaved family. in the days that followed, we saw further disgraceful violent disorder in a number of towns and cities . a number of towns and cities. repeated attacks on the very police officers whose job it is to keep communities safe. over 100 officers injured in sunderland a citizens advice branch set alight in liverpool, a library and a library and vital community hub was torched in hull. shops were looted and a mosque was targeted. in rotherham, a hotel used as asylum accommodation was set alight when people were inside. in bolton, clashes between rival groups involved fireworks and bottles thrown and we saw people targeted on the streets because of the colour of their skin . of the colour of their skin. this disgraceful or disorder and racist hatred, including that whipped up by a hateful minority online, was an insult to those grieving over southport. so let us be very clear. those violent

and criminal attacks were not protests. they were not about grievance. they were thuggery, racism and crime. plenty of people across the country have strong views about crime, about policing, about immigration, asylum, the nhs and more . but asylum, the nhs and more. but they don't pick up bricks and throw them at the police. they do not loot shops or attack places of worship and they do not set buildings alight. knowing that other human beings are inside. there is lots to debate on all kinds of policy issues, but no one should make excuses for violence or thuggery that risks public safety. this was brazen criminality perpetrated in many cases by those with existing criminal convictions . the prime minister convictions. the prime minister and i made clear that criminals would pay the price for their violence, and we meant it. the prime minister announced a new national violent disorder programme to bring together the best policing capabilities and enhance intelligence sharing across forces. our ministers worked daily with the police and

criminal justice partners to ensure that there was a strong and determined response. the national police coordination centre operated a national mobilisation plan to ensure strategic reserves of public order. officers were ready to be deployed in support of different police forces. over 40,000 officer shifts were worked by pubuc officer shifts were worked by public order officers over ten days, with over 6600 public order officers deployed on one day alone. rest days were cancelled. additional hours were worked. the crown prosecution service deployed over 100 additional prosecutors, boosting their 24 hour charging service with additional advice from the director of public prosecutions so they could move swiftly to charge. the ministry of justice accelerated the work on new cells to bring 500 more prison places on stream earlier, and the lord chancellor made clear that the courts stood ready to hear all the cases coming through. and the home office established new rapid procedure for security support for mosques

to ensure that communities felt supported and felt safe. in total , around 1280 people have total, around 1280 people have been arrested . around 800 been arrested. around 800 charges have been made and over 570 individuals have been brought before the courts for offences like violent disorder, assaults on emergency workers, arson and for encouraging violent attacks online. this robust and swift response from government and the criminal justice system has provided a strong deterrent and showed our steadfast determination to keep people safe and most importantly, order was restored. but i want now to just update the house on some of the next steps we will take. first, we will take forward policing positive policing reform to build on the important work done by the national police coordination centre this summer. i want particularly to thank the chair of the national police chiefs council and public order lead for the mobilisation work that they did, but the reality is that the coordination,

infrastructure and systems that they had to work with were too weak. and i am therefore asking his majesty's inspectorate of constabulary and fire and rescue services to work quickly with the mpc. the college of policing and national lead for public order to review the lessons from this summer's events so we can ensure strong coordination and intelligence systems are in place, and that there is sufficient public order policing for the future. second, as well as ensuring there is proper punishment for those responsible for the disorder, will be pressing forward at pace with this government's mission to take back the safety of our streets and restore respect for the police and rule of law. we will put thousands more neighbourhood police officers and pcsos back on the streets, reversing the collapse in community policing and rebuilding the relationship between local communities and forces. and this government is very clear wherever and whenever violence and disorder emerges, whether in hartlepool or harehills, sunderland or stoke, we expect crimes to face consequences and perpetrators to

face the full force of the law and the criminal violence we saw after the southport attacks was not the only violent disorder. this summer we also saw disgraceful arson and attacks on the police in harehills. in that case, 232 people have been arrested and in the last week, three men have pled guilty for arson and violent disorder after arson and violent disorder after a bus was set alight. but third, ihave a bus was set alight. but third, i have been concerned for a long time. not enough is being done to counter extremism, including both islamist extremism and far right extremism, as there has been no proper strategy in place since 2015. i have ordered a rapid review of extremism to ensure we have the strongest possible response to poisonous ideologies that corrode community cohesion and fray the fabnc community cohesion and fray the fabric of our democracy. and alongside that , the deputy prime alongside that, the deputy prime minister is overseeing cross—government work to consider how we support our communities and address issues of cohesion in the longer term. fourthly, the secretary of for

state science, innovation and technology will strengthen the requirements for social media companies to take responsibility for the poison proliferated on their platforms, with the rollout of the measures in the online safety act . and we will online safety act. and we will continue to be clear that criminal content online results in criminal sanctions offline. and fifth, we stand ready to support the police through the special grant for policing , and special grant for policing, and the home office will work with police and crime commissioners to ensure that the riot compensation act works effectively in the areas that are affected. mr speaker, madam deputy speaker, the country recoiled in horror at the scenes of violence and disorder in some cities and towns earlier in this summer. but let there be no doubt the minority of criminal and thugs who sought to cause havoc do not represent britain. instead, across the country, we saw decent people coming together to support each other, together to support each other, to clean up the damage, to rebuild communities. the bricklayers who repaired the

wall of the southport mosque, the residents who donated funds and books to restock the spello library. the volunteers in sunderland who found a new site to offer community advice and there are so many more examples and those small, unassuming acts of selflessness should serve as a message to the criminals and extremists that they do not speak for britain and they never will. i commend this statement to the house. shadow home secretary james cleverly thank you, madam deputy speaker, and i thank the secretary of state for advance copy of her statement. >> and i wish once again to pay my respects to the victims of the southport attacks, the murder of three young girls in southport was horrific and our thoughts are with them, their families, their friends and of course, the local community. my thoughts are also with the families and friends of those who were killed at the notting hill carnival. the government and mayor of london must do more

to end the criminality and violence which too regularly mars this event, and they must bnng mars this event, and they must bring forward credible plans to improve the safety of this well ahead of next year's carnivals. i ahead of next year's carnivals. l pay ahead of next year's carnivals. i pay tribute to the bravery of our police officers across the country who put themselves in harm's way to deal with the violence perpetrated by thugs this summer. there is not, and can never be any excuse, justification, or rationale for the violent disorder that we have seen. we cannot and will not let rioting thugs or extremists win. the government must always back our police officers to do what is necessary to maintain and maintain law and order and attacks on the police by any group must not be

tolerated, and intimidation of the public or the media cannot be allowed. so does the home secretary. now see that the comments made by one of her own ministers at the time of the riots, seemingly making excuses for armed thugs intimidating the media, undermines the government's credibility and reinforces the accusations of bias and puts people, including police officers, at increased risk. and does she now also recognise that the labour leadership, kneeling in the immediate aftermath of the black lives matter disorder , when lives matter disorder, when violent protesters attacked police officers, looks like her party takes some forms of violence less seriously than other forms of violence. and does she accept that any perception whatsoever of treating the same crimes differently based on the race,

religion or community of the perpetrators increases tension rather than reduces it? and does she accept that at times of heightened tension , government heightened tension, government ministers must be and must be seen to be even handed and demand even handedness of others ? demand even handedness of others? does she also recognise that the delay in holding a cobra meeting until almost a week after these events started was a mistake that it created a vacuum and delayed the actions which could have brought this disorder to an end more quickly. at the time of the disorder, the prime minister claimed he would create and i quote a standing army of public order police officers. what progress has been made in the intervening weeks to make that claim a reality ? after the claim a reality? after the murder of the three young girls in southport. the right hon. lady and i discussed across the

despatch box the impact of misinformation and disinformation online when i was home secretary, i travelled to the united states to deliver this message directly to the leadership of the tech firms and make the house of commons sound . make the house of commons sound. >> so we lost our audio link there. just a quick summary of a heated exchange there. yvette cooper the home secretary, started off by talking about the riots in southport. in fact started off by talking about the three killings. she said our hearts still ache for southport. the community deserves answers. but now the legal system must take its course. she then went on to talk about the wider trouble, calling it truly appalling that southport police face attacks from criminals. she called them a criminal minority of thugs and extremists, doubung of thugs and extremists, doubling down on similar language used by the prime

minister, sir keir starmer, saying further disgraceful disorder. over 100 officers were injured, a library was torched, a mosque was targeted in rotherham, a hotel used for asylum seekers at night was targeted while other humans were inside. she then talked about racist hatred whipped up by a minority online, and went on to say that these protests, they were not protests. they were riots and they were involving racism and more. there's lots to debate, but nobody should excuse such brazen thuggery. so so no, no conversation there yet about the reasons behind it and outright condemnation of seems everybody who was at those events and an update on the statistics 1280 have been arrested , over 800 now charged

arrested, over 800 now charged called it a robust and swift response, provided a strong deterrent and order was restored, then went on to roll out a number of next steps , out a number of next steps, including thousands more police and getting the tech systems in place. with a further clamp down of the online safety act . lot to of the online safety act. lot to take in there and join me now for some reaction as the former editor of labourlist, peter edwards. peter, welcome to the show. always a pleasure to have your company. so first day back and the home secretary yvette cooper addressing the southport situation head on. what do you make of her comments? >> well, i thought she was sober and responsible exactly as you'd expect. >> you know , i think we're all >> you know, i think we're all relieved that there wasn't much party politics in there, actually. >> you know, i don't think it was that heated. i felt it was very sober and plain language. and that's as you'd expect after the horrific killing of three children in southport. and then, as you mentioned , the riots that as you mentioned, the riots that followed and the 800 plus arrests . and it was quite arrests. and it was quite factual. yvette cooper said much

of the many of the riots were motivated by racist sentiment , motivated by racist sentiment, but personally, i think that is correct , correct, >> a lot of people have been saying that that is a strong sentiment. a lot of people who went on these protests weren't a part of a riot. they got swept into it. they wouldn't consider themselves racist or far right or extremist. we hear from hundreds and hundreds of those people every day here on gb news. but peter edwards, can i can i put to you some of the comments made in response by james cleverly, the shadow home secretary . he then said the secretary. he then said the government should do more to act on the, the two killings at the notting hill carnival, the labour party, the prime minister and the mayor of london must more, must do more to remove the violence at notting hill. and then he said, when the labour leadership kneeled in direct aftermath of the black lives matter riots, that looks like the her party takes violence more seriously from some sides than from others. what do you

make of that, peter? >> well, well. two people killed in notting hill. so again, you know , horrific events that know, horrific events that forces to us speak with kind of great sobriety. clearly sadiq khan has been in office for many years. he's in his third term. i think he's been a good mayor, particularly on air quality, but he's under huge pressure on knife crime, and that's completely proper because every life and sadly, some of them are quite young lives. but every life lost to knife crime is a tragedy. and, you know, for as long as that continues under whoever is in power in city hall, there will be pressure on the mayor. but i actually thought, james cleverly, as you mentioned, he was a home secretary until this summer, and he's running for the conservative leadership again. he was quite, downbeat in his language. and other than the point about black lives matter, i think was was a bit of a mistake. there was, a global movement after the murder of george floyd, but there was but there was similarly a lot of social disorder, street disorder, a lot of police

officers were were hurt during those black lives matter protests in june 2020. >> there were 140 arrests. and i guess what james cleverly is trying to say is that sir keir starmer and angela rayner chose to take the knee to that, but we've seen a very, very different response to the trouble in southport and seven other working class towns across england . england. >> well, there's no excuse for attacking a police officer. full stop ever. but after the black lives matter movement began 3 or 4 years ago, that was a global movement. and i think it's right for any political leader to show some empathy with that and understanding of that. but i'm really, really, cautious also about lumping different groups together from from around the uk, you know, take harehills. i lived about one mile down the road from harehills when i lived in west yorkshire. and you have very poor white communities, very poor white communities, very poor white communities, very poor asian communities, and then a middle class community up then a middle class community up the road in north leeds, these are all different folk with

different beliefs, different skin colours, different jobs. and i'm very wary of lumping them all together. and i know you're not doing that, but but others are there saying, you know, all the protests, peter, i'm afraid we have to leave it there. >> we've simply run out of time. but thanks for your input. now stick around because dewbs& co is up next. if you haven't had enough of me, i'm back 7 to 8. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news >> good afternoon. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb. news plenty going on in the skies today. some big thunderstorms in places, but other areas just fine with some warm and humid sunshine. it's a bit of a messy weather picture. low pressure system sitting over the uk. old weather fronts generating some hefty downpours. we've seen some thunderstorms and a few more to come through the evening time, potentially causing some

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lots to discuss tonight. why? because, of course, it's parliament's first day back. and what a busy first day it has been. we've seen david lammy , he been. we've seen david lammy, he has been speaking out, announcing a partial suspension of arms exports to israel. so what do you think to that? do you support that move or not? do you support that move or not? do you perhaps think it doesn't go far enough? also, we've just literally seen home secretary yvette cooper on her feet. she has been talking tough about these rioters. they're racists. they're thugs. they're all far right . rhiannon jones, you know right. rhiannon jones, you know the drill by now. what do you think to that? also dynamic ticket pricing. should that be allowed to continue? is it all a scam? are we all getting ripped off or is it all fair capitalism. lots more as well to discuss tonight . but first, discuss tonight. but first, let's get the 6:00 news headunes.