system. labour two tierjustice system. labour could try to ban nigel farage from presenting his gb news tv show. they're coming for him. they're coming for us. >> plus, back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here earth looks like a perfect world. >> billionaires become the first non astronauts to do a space walk. on my panel tonight is gb news star emily carver tory peer lord bailey and ex—labour adviser matthew lars. oh, and can you guess who is the celebrity here? who's saving someone's life? it's amazing. this video. i'll show you all later on. get ready britain. here we go . here we go. labour's widow tax would be a crime against humanity. next. >> good evening.

crime against humanity. next. >> good eveniweapons against using western weapons against russian targets. during a visit by the foreign secretary and the us secretary of state. at a press conference in kyiv, david

lammy and antony blinken praised ukraine's bravery but avoided committing to president zelenskyy's request to use long—range missiles for strikes inside of russia. discussions will continue in washington on friday. harvey weinstein has been hit with new criminal charges as he as the disgraced movie producer gears up for a possible retrial. his 2020 rape case conviction was overturned in april after a judge allowed testimony from accusers not formally involved in the case. prosecutors in manhattan are now investigating new sexual assault claims, as more women come forward, he continues to deny all allegations . the 17 year old all allegations. the 17 year old boy has been arrested as part of an investigation into a cyberattack on for transport london. the national crime agency says the teenager was detained on suspicion of offences under the computer misuse act. it comes as tfl says

some customer names and contact details have been compromised in the security breach. now, in a sign that major changes could be ahead for the uk workforce , ahead for the uk workforce, healthcare visas for workers applications have plunged by 83% from april to august. this year, new figures from the home office reveal . dependent visa reveal. dependent visa applications also dropped by 73%, while student visas saw a 17% drop. but dependents of students took a sharper hit with an 83% decline. in contrast, applications for skilled worker visas rose by 18% over the same penod. visas rose by 18% over the same period . a royal navy warship has period. a royal navy warship has seized £160 million worth of cocaine in the caribbean , cocaine in the caribbean, intercepting a so—called narco sub in a joint operation with the us. hms trent . sailing the us. hms trent. sailing around 200 miles south of the dominican republic, seized 2000 kilos of cocaine , marking the

kilos of cocaine, marking the ship's eighth drug bust in just under seven months and taking space exploration to new heights. two civilians have completed the first ever commercial space walk. billionaire jared isaacman and crewmate sarah gillis floated out from their spacex dragon capsule 400 miles above the earth, without the usual safety of an airlock. the daring duo tested life support systems in the vacuum of space. well, those are your latest gb news headlines. more from me in an hour. houn >> 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 . forward slash alerts. >> good evening . it's time for a >> good evening. it's time for a pensioners protest. keir starmer clearly has a problem with old

people. he's coming after your heating and now he's coming after your purse. keir starmer will be keir starmer by the end of next year, with 17% of pensioners set to be consigned to a life of poverty under laboun to a life of poverty under labour. now it looks like he might enforce the cruel, heartless widow tax. the single person council tax discount is a lifeline for elderly widows and the 4 million pensioners who live alone. they pay 25% less council tax. apparently labour are refusing to rule out scrapping that. well, what else could happen? what's another lifeline for the elderly to have the free bus passes, isn't it? well, they might go to his starmer being questioned about both these things yesterday following labour's disgraceful political decision to scrap winter fuel payments with little nofice winter fuel payments with little notice to millions of pensioners, will the prime minister today rule out scrapping concessionary travel fares and council tax discounts, which also help millions of pensioners across the uk? >> yes or no ? prime minister as

>> yes or no? prime minister as he knows very well, i'm not going to pre—empt the budget. >> it will all be set out in due coui'se. >> course. >> a government spokesperson later came out and said oh no, don't worry, we won't scrap the old bus passes. but how can you trust them when keir starmer has already flip flopped on brexit? on supporting corbyn on the winter fuel payments, on taxes, on working people, on a big green plan, on free movement, on border security . there's two border security. there's two things people don't like about sir keir starmer. both of his faces talking of cutting the winter fuel payments , starmer is winter fuel payments, starmer is refusing to publish the risk assessment report. okay. is he trying to hide how many people this would kill? >> but we know why he's hiding the impact assessment. the labour party's own previous analysis claimed that this policy could cause 3850 deaths. so are the numbers in his impact assessment higher or lower than that ? that? >> the prime minister? >> the prime minister? >> mr speaker, we're taking this

decision to stabilise the economy. that means we can commit to the triple lock by committing to the triple lock. we can make sure that payments of state pension are higher and therefore there's more money in therefore there's more money in the pocket of pensioners , the pocket of pensioners, notwithstanding the tough action that we need to take. >> all of this is happening whilst the government also refuses to tell us how many migrants were paying welfare bills for. they won't tell us our great old generation who've paid into the system all their lives, are getting hammered by a millionaire prime minister. he bought his own mum a seven acre plot in surrey, reportedly in her later life, but he could be about to consign millions of britain's brilliant elderly to a freezing cold, starving, isolated existence. and i think that's cruel. let's get the thoughts of my panel this evening. we've got gb news star emily carver. we've also got conservative peer lord bailey and former labour party adviser matthew laza. emily, i'll come to you first on this. they're not publishing the impact

assessment, are they? >> well, apparently it turns out number 10 have just said this. or their spokesperson has that. they never did one. so all we've got , all we've got is the 2017 got, all we've got is the 2017 report that they commissioned. which said that potentially 3850 people or so could die as a result of cutting these types of payments. so now it turns out they haven't really got one. what they may have is something related to rachel reeves and the treasury. so the money side of things, but not actually how this may impact and harm so many pensioners. you know , sometimes pensioners. you know, sometimes you can exaggerate in these types of monologues and things, but i don't think you have older people have been surveyed. 55% say they'll heat their homes less 4,040% say they'll cut back on essentials, 65% say they'll take cost saving measures, 20% say they will eat less as a result of cutting these winter fuel payments, so you may well find you may well find that

there are older people up and down this country who are not only deeply anxious about this, but who may actually stop putting food on their own plates as a result of this. and this is about priorities. it is, isn't this? they've got money when it comes to gb energy, which appears to be a vanity project. they've got money for international climate finance. they've got money for train drivers. so priorities. >> sean, is this as shameful as it sounds? >> i think what's really, really shameful for this, when they were in opposition, the government of the day suffered so many lectures about how they didn't care about people, how their measures were going to kill people. and in this case, keir starmer won't even do the impact study because i think he knows what will come back. and if you look at these things, there's two important things. it's a wickedness because they're bringing it in so quickly. why would they do it in the middle of the year? why wouldn't they give older people a notice so they could deal with this? and that's what makes it wicked. and on top of this, they've talked about the savings that will be made. let people take up pension credit tax. allowances. but if everybody who

is eligible for that did that, it would cost more than the savings they're going to make. the bottom line is this is a political choice, and they've chosen to punish the most vulnerable people in the country. there are some 3.5 million pensioners who are at risk of losing that payment, who need the payment. the government don't want to do the work of means testing. that's another choice they've made. they are punishing pensioners and that isn't right. >> sir keir starmer and rachel freeze matthew. >> well i mean, you know , >> well i mean, you know, clearly it is going to be difficult for some pensioners. but let's remember that this is going to be taken away from a lot of prosperous pensioners as well. but government is about making tough decisions. and we saw things like the two child benefit cap. so that if you have you don't get any benefits. your benefits don't increase if you have more than two children. we saw the bedroom tax, which when i worked for the labour party, was our big campaign where we saw people, you know, penalised because they had a second bedroom for a disabled child for instance, which the tories imposed, and the same people who are now complaining about the

winter fuel allowance were not making a fuss when other welfare cuts have to come into. >> the conservatives were doing this, you'd be up in arms. there is no doubt about that. and this council tax exemption for single households, half of the people, more than half of the people affected by that will be pensioners. a lot of lonely, a lot of very elderly, vulnerable widows and widowers will be impacted. >> i strongly think that we won't see that happen. i hope not. >> i hope there's a very special thing about punishing pensioners. they have no ability to raise their income. that's a special thing about punishing pensioners , pensioners, and they pensioners, pensioners, and they know that while they're doing it. and i come back to this, labour gave so many lectures about cruel policy, about political decisions . this is political decisions. this is absolutely cruel and is absolutely cruel and is absolutely a decision . they absolutely a decision. they spent money on train drivers that they could have spent on pensioners. >> well, you could go way down the list with all of that stuff. but matthew, you know, when rishi sunak was prime minister incredibly wealthy individual, as is his wife. and there would always be the massive clamour

about this. well, keir starmer is apparently a millionaire. you know, he apparently, according to reports, was able to buy his mum a seven acre plot in surrey towards the end of her life. i think they had a donkey sanctuary on there as well. well, there's millions of pensioners around the country right now who might not have anybody. is keir starmer massively out of touch? >> no. i mean, you know, his mum was ill for most for most of her her life. and he, and he did that for her and he was in a fortunate position to do that. look i think on the, on the, on the council tax, i think it would be completely wrong to get rid of the single person discount. there's a big case for getting rid of council tax and changing the whole system. it's a big controversial issue, perhaps one for another day. but but it would it wouldn't just affect lots of, as emily says, millions of pensioner households would also affect people like single mums. so, you know, i grew up in a single parent household. my mum would have struggled to pay the full council tax. so, you know, i think you need to think about the impact on the law. i suspect we will hear that ruled out and the bus pass, gold plated and safe, but the government needs

to be clear because at the moment it's giving the impression it's kind of bleeding because it's giving the impression that it's going to come for these other things. >> may i just say one more thing, we don't have an idea, really, of where this £22 billion financial black hole is and what it's made up of it. the treasury won't release the details on what exactly that black hole is all about, we're just told. oh, officials want to ensure that the figures are accurate before they're published. well, if you're if you're justifying these type of policies off the back of a £22 billion financial black hole, show us. show us the calculations. >> they haven't released them because their mantra is because of the last tory government will be broken with detail. that's why they haven't released them. and what matthew said is correct about the single person discount . about the single person discount. but it doesn't change the fact that the winter fuel payment is being taken away from some of the most vulnerable people in this country, and it's a political decision that the labour party has made, and council tax could go up and the energy price cap has gone up. i have never known council tax not to go up. >> yeah, of course. yeah. yeah. exactly 100% exactly that. and

there is also this idea just to touch on emily's point there, matthew, of, the department for work and pensions and hmrc combined not telling us the details on migrant welfare and benefits, etc. they're refusing to do that. they've obviously got the data. there's a similar situation when it comes to migrant crime. i suppose you could argue there's a prison cost in that, but, they're also now not going to tell us what the cost is, where this black hole is coming from. i mean, they are just withholding information that is objectively information that is objectively in the public domain and that they are using excuses for. i mean, i put it to you that the way that this could be portrayed is that we are paying for unemployed, lazy work, shy individuals. we're also paying a massive, whopping great big welfare bill for people who just arrived in this country and the people who are being suffering the most as a result of this are people who've paid into the system all their lives. the pensioners. >> well, i think there are two things. i think, firstly, personally, i believe that information is power. i think you know, i believe in freedom

of information and the government does need to answer the legitimate questions. i think that they will come up with the come out and publish the figures on the black hole. you know, they did sort of give some detail in areas like in fact, the migration budget, which was literally the tories were spending we're spending the reserves to try and plug that hole. i think on the second thing, i agree with you on worklessness and actually liz kendall, the work and pensions secretary, in her very first week in office, made absolutely clear that, you know, the clues in the title that labour's mission is to get more people back into work, get the percentage of people of working age in work up. and we're the only country in the world in the industrial world, where the number of people in the workforce has gone , has stayed workforce has gone, has stayed down since covid. that needs to change. >> seems like it's a bit hard being in government. yes, a bit trickier . trickier. >> it's quite hard defending it on the sofa, never mind being in government. >> you had a prisoner released in this early release scheme immediately rearrested. i mean, after about 30s. >> well, and today diana johnson, the policing minister, has had her, has had her purse nicked at the police

superintendents conference. >> that is like i mean, not for her obviously, but it is a comedy sketch. >> i mean, if you wrote it in a comedy sketch, do people say it's too far fetched? >> well, i'll tell you what, i tell you what you wouldn't. but what it does defy reality is they actually arrested somebody, which is quite rare. oh, there you go. >> i hope it wasn't a police officer. it was a chimney sweep. >> i'm sorry. >> i'm sorry. >> that's what i appreciate. you were joking, but i know it's an active case. >> and of course, no guilt has been proven. so there we go. right. | been proven. so there we go. right. i think we're out of the woods all right. thank you. lovely start. it is time now for the great british giveaway. listen up. if you're a pensioner, because you're probably gonna need this, but it's the biggest cash prize we've ever given away. £36,000 could be all yours. that's like having an extra three grand tax free in your bank account every single month for an entire year. here's all the details you need to make that yours. >> there's an incredible £36,000 to be won in the great british giveaway. that's like having an extra £3,000 each month to play with. and because it's totally tax free, you get to keep every penny and spend it however you like . we could be paying for like. we could be paying for your entire year until 2025. how amazing would that be for

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england . england. >> today we're going to be finding out how it earned that title. i'm paul and i'm a historian at english heritage. well done paul. >> but refugees go free now at more than 400 historic english heritage sites. but adult tickets cost as much as £28 for a single visit. plus, you've got parking, haven't you? whatever you spend when you're there. anyway, is this really a good idea? going head to head on that are the founder of the sanctuary foundation, krish kandiah, and the founder of the global britain centre, ammon bogle. that's

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now coming up, do labour always put decent people last but first? should refugees get free access to english heritage sites? it's time now for the head to head . now an for the head to head. now an engush for the head to head. now an english heritage scheme that gives refugees from any background free access to more than 400 historic sites has raised eyebrows among members of the charity, which is partly funded by government aid. the initiative, first introduced in 2022, came to members attention after a recent post on social media went viral. it read i'd just like to say how great engush just like to say how great english heritage was on sunday, giving 30 afghan refugee families and 30 local families access to a property for free. they all mixed and a great

picnic and played football. it was such a great day indeed. engush was such a great day indeed. english heritage were quick to respond to questions, with a spokesperson lavishing praise on the quote generous welcome. british people have supposedly been giving refugees, adding we at english heritage are determined to play our part. we think that our sites represent some of the best of britain, places whose age, beauty and atmosphere can provide comfort in an uncertain world. sharing them is the right thing to do. however, adult tickets for some engush however, adult tickets for some english heritage sites cost as much as £28 for a single visit. then you've got parking on top of that, probably, and goodness knows what else. so tonight i'm asking should refugees get free access? let me know your thoughts. go to gbnews.com/yoursay or tweet me @gbnews. make sure you go and vote in our poll. going head to head on this, the founder of the sanctuary foundation , krish sanctuary foundation, krish kandiah, and the founder of global britain , amaan bogel, global britain, amaan bogel, both of you. thank you very much. great to have you on the show. amaan, i'll start with you. should refugees be getting free access? >> no, not at all. on the contrary, it should be our

veterans who should be given free access to english heritage sites. after all, it's those people who are putting their lives on the line throughout their armed forces careers to defend our national heritage and civilisation. but look, i think this is the latest in a long utany this is the latest in a long litany of this woke backworth diy schemes that are infecting so much of our national institutions . what next? they're institutions. what next? they're going to be giving concessions based on our skin colour. that's where that's where i see this going. >> okay. all right, chris, i'll bnng >> okay. all right, chris, i'll bring you in. what do you make of this scheme, then? >> well, i do like the suggestion of veterans going free. i think that would be a lovely gesture. but refugees are men and women and children who have fled war and terror and famine. they've been through a very rigorous vetting process by our home office, and their claims have been found to be true. so what a lovely gesture of support and welcome to offer them free access. and in fact, this will help us with things like integration , celebrating like integration, celebrating our history, understanding our

culture. that's a really positive thing for someone new to our country, to receive, and will help people build bridges of relationships. >> yeah. i mean, to be honest with you, that is one of the reasons why i'm not massively or at all really up in arms about this imam, which might, you know, shock some people at home. but, you know, we do bang on quite a lot about integration and stuff, don't we? one of the things maybe that is quite a good thing is for people who have just arrived to britain to actually go and learn a bit about english heritage. >> yes. well, maybe. well, you have to question english heritage's motivation here. why aren't veterans given free entry? why is it that refugees are their first priority? surely their first priority should be people who are our own. and look, the basic fact is, when my grandfather first came to the uk back in 1959, he used to tell me the story of the bbc. yes, the bbc broadcasting a show every saturday morning on bbc two called apna gari samjho, which basically translates into a think of this as your own home

and you know, it taught english language skills , civic skills, language skills, civic skills, social attitudes and that's the type of thing that might help refugees from foreign lands integrate better not giving them freebies at the cost of the rest of english heritage members, especially when it's not open at the same level for veterans. >> i suppose, chris, that, you know, this is maybe one of a long list of things where it can be perceived that refugees get some kind of benefit that maybe brits don't. so, you know, we've obviously spoken in the past about things like housing or access to whatever else. i suppose this is. this is another one of. there's another one of that, isn't it? i mean, if you are a bit skint and english, then you still have to pay £28 plus parking. >> well, actually , i'm a carer >> well, actually, i'm a carer for disabled foster children and we get to go free too. so again, i guess it's just recognising people with vulnerabilities or extra needs being offered special hospitality. but again, i agree with eamonn. why not offer that to veterans as well?

i know pensioners get a discount and i just think this is a positive step. i met with ukrainian refugees this week who are feeling incredibly and threatened by what's going on right now in their country, and this little gesture of hospitality is just a nice little touch to say, look, we see you, we recognise you, and we stand with you. >> yeah, i mean look. hey, aman, i will be intrigued to see the take up figures on this. i mean, with respect, i remain resolutely unconvinced that in the local migrant hotel are desperate to go and have a look at dover castle or tatton hall or whatever it is. but, you know, i suppose you know, maybe there is a case to say that this is quite a good thing. or what do you reckon? >> well, exactly, patrick, but i thought the last time we were heanng thought the last time we were hearing from all the leftie liberals crying that the countryside primarily predominantly english heritage , predominantly english heritage, is racist. so it's not very welcoming to people of foreign origins. so it's either that or yes , maybe there are thousands yes, maybe there are thousands of refugees who are willing , of refugees who are willing, wanting and very actively seeking to visit our english heritage sites. >> yeah. i mean, look like with

all of these things, i do wonder how much of this is just kind of needless virtue signalling to say they're doing something. how much of it is out of the kindness of their heart? but you know, it is unusual for me to sit on the fence when it comes to these head to heads. but i very much can see both sides of this. if i had a few young kids and no kind of distinguishing feature i.e. i, you know, didn't have some kind of vulnerability or disability or whatever, and maybe i would feel quite disillusioned with the idea that i'd have to pay full whack. however i do sit here and bang on a lot about the idea of integration not being a thing and all of that. and if someone does want to go who's just arrived here, and maybe actually integrate and learn a bit about british culture, and this is a way of helping them do it, then, you know, i can't really be hypocritical about it. i've got to say. fair enough. but both of you, thank you very much. that's a good head to head that as the founder of the sanctuary foundation, chris skudder, and the founder of global britain centre, amaan bogel. good stuff. who do you agree with? should refugees get free access to british museums and heritage sites? matt says absolutely not. british people should have free access to our own heritage. everyone else should pay. all right , laura says, of course

right, laura says, of course they should. and alex says we should encourage migrants and refugees to integrate into british society. however, it should be at their expense, not ours. all right . okay, well, ours. all right. okay, well, your verdict is in. i'm quite intrigued to see what the results are with this, actually. so 5% of you. there we go. 5% of you think that refugees should get free access to british museums and heritage sites. 95% of you say they shouldn't. i can respect that . absolutely. i do respect that. absolutely. i do wonder whether or not that is a little bit because of the perceived or definite, frankly, freebies that they seem to get in other areas of life as well. but coming up , do in other areas of life as well. but coming up, do you remember the militant boss of the national education union? a chap by the name of daniel kobedi, a bank. gaza. >> it's about time we globalise the intifada. yeah or you could just teach some kids. >> but anyway , now the rail >> but anyway, now the rail union baron mick lynch has got in on the action. he's compared israel's treatment of palestinians to the slave trade. he also lavished praise on the government for suspending some arms licences to israel. i'm less bothered about that. i'll

be honest with you. about what i'm bothered about. okay it's whether or not trade unions in britain are going to start striking over foreign policy decisions that they disagree with. you might think that's far fetched. i personally don't i can see it coming. the former conservative mp robert halfon joins me live very soon. but first, as sadiq khan claims that recently freed criminals should skip the queue and get priority for community accommodation despite massive housing shortages across the country. does labour just frankly hate ordinary, decent law abiding brits? former labour advisor matthew torbay

>> welcome back to patrick christys tonight. >> coming up are the trade unions dictating british foreign policy? how long is it before they go out on strike? because they go out on strike? because the foreign policy decision they don't like. i'll give you a bit of context for that in a few minutes. but first, london mayor sadiq khan has once again sparked outrage after he said that newly released prisoners should be prioritised for social housing. so on tuesday, more than 1600 violent criminals, sex offenders etc. were just let loose onto britain's streets under the government's early release scheme. and speaking to the times's crime and justice commission yesterday, khan said we need to have an honest conversation with our constituents about the reasons why people who have come out of

prison may need to jump in the queue to get to housing avoid them reoffending again. well, those comments were slammed by tory leadership frontrunner robert jenrick, who earlier today accused labour of putting decent people last. well, there we go. i'm joined now by former labour adviser matthew talbot. matthew, great to have you on the show. thank you very much for making the time for us this evening. is he right then? robert jenrick are they putting decent people last? putting a putting a criminal up the housing waiting list ? housing waiting list? >> i don't know, i mean, it wouldn't be like the leadership competition on its own for robert jenrick to be diving in on something sadiq khan said. but i think i don't know that the framing of the question suggests that people end up in prison. can't always be decent people. many people in life make mistakes, some much bigger than others. and again, you know, you alluded to it in your introduction. i will reserve judgement for things like sex offenders, and other things. but for those that sometimes, initiate crimes of potentially poverty or for want of other reason, i wouldn't necessarily

say that people have been to prison, aren't decent . prison, aren't decent. >> so yeah, i do i do appreciate that. look, i do, i do appreciate what you're saying there. what i would say, though, is , well, what message does this is, well, what message does this send out to anyone who just abides by the law? so people who might have gone shoplifting when they were hungry but didn't and have waited on the housing waiting list, then all of a sudden the london mayor says, i'm really sorry, but this bloke with, you know, even if it's petty crime but convictions, as long as your arm does go above you in the housing waiting list, it feels a bit like the social contract would be broken. there >> well, i would agree that the social contracts for me already feels broken in that you know me and you probably always were brought up in that if you work hard and you abide by the law and you get on in life, you know, you'll be able to afford a home and have sort of quite a nice life and doesn't seem to be the case. i think with regards to prioritising, i think what sadiq said is we need to have a conversation. i think that's fair enough. in many ways. i think the other thing is there are many. the evidence is there that if people that leave prison

are fined relatively permanent housing, they don't go to on reoffend. and reoffending costs us all through the home office £20 billion a year. so i think there's an economic argument to show that certain people should be prioritised, but that can depend. obviously, you can have prisoners that are of old age that are potentially mentally ill or have learning difficulties or physical disabilities, or maybe fleeing violence or persecution as such from whatever they've been involved in, and i think, you know , how you prioritise those know, how you prioritise those and for those that are already on the waiting list is a tricky thing. i think the main thing is we need to be building more housing. >> yeah, we do need to be building more housing. i just building more housing. ijust think it plays into the perception that in britain, very often it seems to be law abiding brits who are at the back of the queue for everything. >> but on the flip side of that, if we've got to ask ourselves , if we've got to ask ourselves, how do we wish to treat prisoners once all is said and

done, if you have broken the law , done, if you have broken the law, you've ended up in prison. you've done the punishment. you've done the punishment. you've been in prison for maybe 510, however many years you've got a criminal record that could last up to ten years, maybe longer . you're going to find it longer. you're going to find it harder to get on in life, and you know it's right that people are punished. i'm not saying, you know, people shouldn't be going to prison for certain things, but ultimately, when is enough enough? once you've done the crime and you've done the time, surely we have to ask ourselves , i would hate, i would ourselves, i would hate, i would hate for a situation to occur where one of the victims of those crimes gets bumped down a social housing waiting list for the for the man or woman who did commit that crime against them, though , and i'm not quite sure how. >> i'm just not quite sure why sadiq khan says this stuff . like sadiq khan says this stuff. like is he trolling us? do you think ? is he trolling us? do you think? >> i think he's popular to dislike sadiq khan. he does say some things at times where i think, well, i would certainly wouldn't have advised that , but wouldn't have advised that, but i think, i wouldn't have advised that, but ithink, i don't wouldn't have advised that, but i think, i don't know. >> he's he's opening up a

question that actually politicians may not have the, the courage to even entertain the courage to even entertain the idea that, you know , the idea that, you know, economically it's causing chaos. >> the fact that we are even more recently in the more recent riots, we've got people going to prison that really probably, maybe shouldn't be going to prison for saying things online and whether whether we're too harsh with our convictions sometimes. keir starmer has a record of that. previously, with the 2011 riots, when he was head of the dpp. so it also opens up the argument of whether we're sending people to prison far too easily, which, you know, the current prime minister would agree. he seems to think two thirds of people shouldn't be there at all. >> i do, i do worry. right. so there's a lot spoken about, especially by the likes of sadiq khan and keir starmer when it comes to language's importance in politics. language really matters. language really matters in life. okay. all right, i get that. but, you know, we've had sadiq khan, who relentlessly seems to be calling out things as racist. you know, if you're against what's going on in the channel and you might be a racist and all of this, if you're against all the pro—palestine stuff, you know,

you might be a racist, you might be a member of the far right. and a lot of that stuff for me comes from things that actually people have got a legitimate right to be angry about. well, now, if you're angry about the idea that someone who's, you know, either battered someone in the street or done some crime and gone to prison for it, skips the housing waiting list now, are we being told that we're unkind ? unkind? >> yeah, i can see your point. >> yeah, i can see your point. >> i don't think you're unkind, but i think we maybe need to look through the other end of the telescope and actually ask ourselves, what do we want? do we want a society that gives people second chances? or do we cast aside people for the rest of their lives, which ultimately the victim of a crime may not want? because it may cause another victim of a crime? because somebody has felt the need to go and reoffend further, because they've not been allowed to get on with their life post prison. >> yeah. no. look i, i think we can have a perfectly respectable conversation about this, as indeed we just have matthew, massively appreciate your time. this evening. you take care. all right, matthew. talk with former labour adviser. right. coming up, a report has concluded that

the nhs is in a critical condition. patients getting worse care despite a record level of funding. all right. well, starmer had a clear message for our crumbling health service earlier today. >> so it's reform or die . >> so it's reform or die. >> so it's reform or die. >> yeah, but how many people have to die while we're waiting for it to reform? isn't it time that the fat cat nhs bosses were held accountable for their mistakes? you keep seeing these reports. there's not even the whiff of the idea that anyone might be sacked or resign. why not? i'll give you my take at 10 pm, but first, remember the national education union boss, our mate daniel covid, west bank, gaza. >> it's about time we globalise the intifada and teach kids to read and add up and stuff anyway. >> well, rail union baron mick lynch has jumped on the bandwagon. he's talking about how israel's treatment of the palestinians is like the slave trade. okay, okay, okay. but i can foresee a future in the not too distant future , by the way,

too distant future, by the way, where our unions, emboldened by starmer , start going on strike starmer, start going on strike over foreign policy decisions and that is a problem. former

tick. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now coming up, the nhs has more money and staff than even has more money and staff than ever, but is performing worse than ever. do we need to sack the managers? i can't believe no one's raising this. why aren't the managers just resigning? it's awful. but first, the rail union baron, mick lynch. well, he's caused controversy because he's caused controversy because he's compared israel's treatment of palestinians to the slave trade. now, look, this got me thinking about this issue, okay? because he's criticised the government's decision to end only some arms exports and licenses, etc. to israel. this was at the trade union congress conference this week. he said, this is like somebody standing up in front of you in the 1840s and saying, i'm going to abolish some slavery. i'm going to liberate some people. i'm going

to do this measure, but it's only going to apply in this very small way. and it certainly isn't the first time that the unions have got involved in the middle east. here's the eu's top boss, daniel covid, speaking back in 2021. >> west bank, gaza. it's about time we globalise the intifada . yeah. >> lovely stuff. so he's in charge of teaching your kids so great. okay. i'm joined now by former tory mp robert halfon. now robert, for me, this isn't necessarily about directly what mick lynch has said , okay. mick lynch has said, okay. people can agree with it or disagree with it. fine. it's for me, this idea about the possibility of the unions deciding to get involved with strike action that might try to pressure foreign policy , that pressure foreign policy, that might try to be outside of their remit. i can foresee a future where that happens, i don't know, what do you think? >> well, i do think it is important to call it call this out because it's pretty grim stuff . using the word slavery stuff. using the word slavery with israel has got real connotations with with what happened to the jews in the

holocaust. it's a completely unacceptable language. you know , unacceptable language. you know, we've got to remember that israel faces an existential crisis not just against hamas, but against hezbollah as well, all funded by iran. they had an awful massacre of their people and many hostages from overseas on october the 7th, trying to get the hostages back for the rail union leader to come out with this kind of language is just beyond belief. but sadly it happens too often. it wasn't just the new leader that you mentioned. previous new general secretaries have been on marches where people have waved extremist placards about israel in in the background, and i just don't know what on earth they're doing. they should be concentrating on getting the railways running. >> well, exactly that involved attacking israel. it's not in their remit, is it? the remit is, like you said, whether it's education or whether it's health or whether it's trains or whatever. but now they feel emboldened, don't they? i think

they feel incredibly emboldened. and we see at every single one of these marches, or every single one of the things the socialist workers party there, there, all the time, all the time. and this is what i'm worried about, that now, we've emboldened these people with whopping great big pay rises. they've had a political impact. they've had a political impact. they could do it again over a political issue that is not anything to do with what they're actually supposed to be doing. >> yeah, and they just had a billions of pounds given to them by the government in place of giving pensioners their winter fuel payments. it's worth remembering and, and instead of looking after their workers or being happy with what they've got, they're making statements like this, which all it does is give, succour to hamas and, and the terrorist organisations. it's just, you know, if i joined that union, i would want them to represent my rights and be sure that i got union services. i wouldn't want my union leader to be comparing israel with with slavery . and it's just not

acceptable. >> because the other thing that labouris >> because the other thing that labour is apparently doing or going to do is basically make it easier for people to strike. now, the only reason you would want as a union to make it easier for yourself to strike, is if you intended on going to on going on strike more, there is. there is no other conceivable reason why, if you had no desire to go on strike any more than you've already done, you wouldn't need it to be eafien done, you wouldn't need it to be easier. okay? and my concern is that labour are going to do that, and then we're going to see a plethora of strike action about things like, we're not going to go to work until you stop arming israel. we have a big foreign policy decision. something could come up in the future. wasn't that long ago. we had serious conversations about whether we were going to bomb syria or intervene in libya. all of these things, some things we got right, some things we didn't get right. but i can now see an incredibly militant union force where they decide to take matters into their own hands and say, we will go on strike unless you do this or don't do this. and i think that's a concern. >> well , the old there's the old >> well, the old there's the old churchill quote, isn't there, that if you keep on feeding the

crocodile, they just end up eating you last and that is what seems to be the approach of the labour party is to feed the crocodile. and instead it doesn't look like they're going to get industrial peace on the railways. it's already strikes that were announced pretty soon after they agreed to give some of the rail workers, you know , of the rail workers, you know, billions of pounds, you know, huge increases in their in their wages. and now instead of, as i say, looking after workers, they're going on about israel. and, you know, this is not acceptable. i mean, this this gives succour to hamas, to hezbollah, all these kind of people watching and thinking, what on earth is going on in the united kingdom when you've got senior union leaders coming out with this stuff or attending demonstrations and saying extremist things that that look like they're in sympathy with all the people who want to see israel destroyed. >> i think we have to have a serious conversation in this country about who some of these union leaders are. you look at the likes of daniel kabadi. now,

if memory serves me right, he was elected on something like a 9% turnout, something like a 9% turnout of the vote there to become the head of the eu. now people will say, well, that's democracy. people could have gone and voted if they wanted to. yeah, fair enough. but based on just that, you know, as a massively prominent position in society, he's talking about decolonising the curriculum. he's talking about globalising, the intifada, talking about all sorts of stuff . and i do wonder sorts of stuff. and i do wonder whether or not some of these unions are, frankly, just a back door for marxism to have an incredibly powerful foothold in british society . british society. >> yeah, it's a huge shame, because when members join the unions , most members are unions, most members are ordinary, decent working people. they don't want all this extremism or political activism. what they want to do is to know that they're going to get proper services and membership services from their from their union. and these guys, particularly the teaching unions , should be teaching unions, should be trying to encourage higher standards in the schools. okay. >> and i will, i will, i will ask you there, robert, you know, hey, look, things got quite bad. >> the unions were very angry.

it's fair to say they don't seem to be that much happier now, apart from when they see pay day. but yes, perhaps the tories could have cut this off at the pass. done a bit more for them earlier on. maybe we wouldn't end up with such. well, allegedly extreme people in charge of some of these unions, you know, could could you guys not done a bit more. there was a labour landslide. and now look where we are. you know. >> well i would say don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. you know, the conservatives did a lot to try and contain strikes. they were going to be non strike agreements. and as business service levels, especially for vital public services like the train services, we limited strikes. we made sure that they had to be proper votes in order to go on strike. and it looks like the labour party is going to roll back , not just what the to roll back, not just what the conservative party have done over the past few years, but actually some of the legislation that mrs. thatcher brought through to tame the excesses of the union way back in the 1980s and 90s. okay. >> robert , look, thank you very >> robert, look, thank you very much for your time this evening, as ever. that's former tory mp

robert halfon. look, i know that there's no plans for this yet, but i can see the direction of travel in this country with an incredibly emboldened union workforce that seem absolutely free to pass. comment on any given policy at all. and i can foresee a time where there are strikes based around an issue thatis strikes based around an issue that is happening thousands and thousands of miles away. but coming up , thousands of miles away. but coming up, nigel farage could be banned from hosting his gb news show as part of a labour government crackdown on mps extracurricular activities. so is this a chilling attack on free speech? reform uk spokesperson ann widdecombe. she certainly thinks so. she'll be live in the studio very soon, but next. i'm really pumped up about this actually , a new about this actually, a new report has put the nhs in a critical condition. basically, we're paying more for money them than ever before. we're giving them more money than ever before, and we're getting a worse outcome than ever before. why on earth are there no calls for the fat cat? nhs bosses to resign or be sacked ? why aren't resign or be sacked? why aren't they? it's absolutely abominable. there is no other walk of life where you would

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gb news. archewell. >> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight . christys tonight. >> climate change is a health emergency as well as an environmental emergency. so it's absolutely right that we are part of the solution. and that's why the nhs is committed to being net zero by 2040. >> rafe the nhs has more money

and staff than ever, but it's performing worse than ever. do we need to sack the managers . or we need to sack the managers. or nurse sacked from his bazball? do you remember when we had an actual church service for the nhs? d0 actual church service for the nhs? do we have to now slaughter this ridiculous sacred cow? also >> and that's why a labour government would freeze council tax this year. >> liar liar liar. labour might bnngin >> liar liar liar. labour might bring in the widow tax. scrapping the single person discount on council tax plus , discount on council tax plus, there is a growing feeling of angerin there is a growing feeling of anger in this country that we are living through two tier policing and a two tier justice system . labour could try to ban system. labour could try to ban nigel farage from presenting his gb news tv show. they're coming for him, they're coming for us. plus back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here it looks like a perfect world.

billionaires become the first non—astronauts to do a spacewalk, and on my panel tonight is gb news star emily carver. tory peer lord bailey and ex—labour adviser matthew lazo. and can you guess which celebrity is filmed here? saving someone's life. it's a remarkable video. i'll show you the full thing later on. get ready britain. here we go . ready britain. here we go. the nhs is killing people and nobody gets sacked for it. next . nobody gets sacked for it. next. >> good afternoon. it's 10:00. i'm lewis mckenzie here in the gb newsroom . let's start this gb newsroom. let's start this hour with some breaking news. the prime minister has hit back at putin's threat to the west, claiming russia started this conflict and can end it straight away. in response to signs that

the us may soon agree with the uk and france to allow storm shadow long—range cruise missiles to be used in ukraine to bomb territory inside russia itself. vladimir putin said on state tv that the move would change the very nature of the conflict . spelling it out, he conflict. spelling it out, he addedit conflict. spelling it out, he added it would mean that nato countries are at war with russia . countries are at war with russia. earlier on today, starmer said the nhs is broken but not beaten , the nhs is broken but not beaten, delivering a stark message after a report into the national health service . the review health service. the review highlighted ballooning waiting times, a&e delays and poor cancer care. speaking earlier, the prime minister warned there will be no more money without reform and said big shifts are needed to secure the nhs future. >> only fundamental reform and a plan for the long term can turn around the nhs and build a healthy society. that won't be easy, it won't be quick. it will take a ten year plan, not just

the work of one parliament, but i know we can do it . i know we can do it. >> harvey weinstein has been hit with new criminal charges as the disgraced movie producer gears up for a possible retrial. his 2020 rape conviction was overturned in april after a judge allowed testimony from accusers not formally involved in the case. prosecutors in manhattan are now investigating new sexual assault claims as more women come forward. he continues to deny all allegations . continues to deny all allegations. in a sign that major changes could be ahead for the uk's workforce, health and care work visas applications have plunged by 83% from april to august this year. new figures from the home office reveal dependent visa applications also dropped by 73%. meanwhile, student visas saw 17% drop, but dependents of students took a sharper hit with 83% decline. in

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latest news. gb news headlines . vacuum of space. those are your latest news. gb news headlines . latest news. gb news headlines. more from me in just over an latest news. gb news headlines. more from me in just over an hour for the very latest gb news hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> the nhs is little more than a >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> the nhs is little more than a dysfunctional negligence machine, and the clowns running dysfunctional negligence machine, and the clowns running this circus should be sacked. this circus should be sacked. it's missed every a&e target for it's missed every a&e target for almost a decade. last year it almost a decade. last year it came second to last in a list of came second to last in a list of 19 developed countries for 19 developed countries for saving lives when it came to saving lives when it came to treatable illnesses. we have a treatable illnesses. we have a waiting list of 7.6 million. nhs waiting list of 7.6 million. nhs progress is going backwards for progress is going backwards for the first time in half a the first time in half a century. a&e queues more than century. a&e queues more than doubled in 2010. some doubled in 2010. some 94% of people attending major a&e were seen within four hours. by may 2024, that figure had dropped to

just over 60%. 1 in 10 patients now waiting for more than 12 hours. 800,000 children and young people are on nhs waiting lists for hospital treatment. the uk has worse cancer survival rates than other comparable countries. there was no progress whatsoever in diagnosing cancers in stages one and two between 2013 and 2021, 2.8 million people were economically inactive due to long term sickness, with most of the rise since the pandemic down to mental health conditions. the nhs is behind almost all other comparable nations. for it systems . crucially, it is 15 systems. crucially, it is 15 years behind the private sector. waiting times targets are being missed across the board, including for surgery, cancer care and mental health services. here is the killer line, quite literally. nhs hospitals are doing less work for their patients despite being handed more money than ever. funding of

around £165 billion. that, by the way , is roughly the gdp of the way, is roughly the gdp of greece . it's got 1.3 million greece. it's got 1.3 million staff, making on somewhere in the region of 260,000. here's the leadership team in all its glory. all right, scroll down this list. here. you have this completely random assortment of individuals

like the chair richard meddings, who, from what i can gather, is basically a banker, no pun intended, who obviously would have been sacked from any of the jobs he's previously had if he performed as badly as he is now. doctor emily lawson, dbe, chief operating officer for the nhs. well, the nhs isn't operating, is it? quite literally. doctor vin diwakar, interim national director of transformation. what's he transformed? what on earth is that job? there's not even the question as to whether this lot should resign or be sacked. and therein lies the problem. they should be so ashamed of reports like this that they resign. but no, they just stand there like oliver twist with a stethoscope, saying , twist with a stethoscope, saying, please, mr taxpayer, please can ihave please, mr taxpayer, please can i have more money? no. keir starmer says the nhs has to reform or die. okay, well how many people have to die before that lot of unaccountable duds bother to reform it? let's get the thoughts of my panel. gb news presenter emily carver. we've got conservative peer lord bailey and former labour party

adviser matthew laza emily. i'm obviously quite angry about this. why are we stuffed full of unaccountable duds in these nonsensical jobs who are not being sacked or resigning? when you see devastating reports like this ? this? >> well, i'm starting to think the nhs is a massive job creation scheme at this stage , creation scheme at this stage, 1.5 million people work in this failing institution, and i think it is fair to say it's failing. everyone is saying that now, not just horrible people on the right wing of politics, but people who are using it and people who are using it and people who are investigating it. i mean, you said it's the biggest employer in europe, so apparently it's the sixth biggest in the world. so the only ones that are bigger indian ministry of defence, us department of defence, the people's liberation army of china , walmart and amazon. i china, walmart and amazon. i mean, tell me 40 million on diversity and inclusion roles. i mean, sorry, that's a crock. when people are waiting so long for a&e get the basics right

before you indulge in that type of nonsense. nonsense in my humble opinion. but there's going to be a huge amount of inertia for any type of reform. i wonder if it will die before it gets reformed. >> yeah, but then we die, don't we? and that's the issue here. i just can't believe you get reports like that. no improvement in stage 1 or 2 cancer care between 2013 and 2021. this isn't about money. this is about the people running the show. surely. >> but this is a problem, isn't it? that there's two things that really need to be focused on here. the nhs has always asked for more and more and more money, and the response is we have a problem in the nhs. throw money at it and then it's become a political football. so they've hidden behind politicians. if you look at what happened in the pandemic, the message swapped around. we were there to defend the nhs , but my opinion was the nhs, but my opinion was surely they're there to defend us. but every mistake that's made in the nhs, they can just blame it on a politician, be they tory or labour. i think. what, what, wes streeting need

to do is say, actually, this is about you. it's not about the public. it's not about how much the public pay. i mean, one estimate says we give 1.8 180 billion a year to the nhs. i think we pay a lot, but we've been able to make an argument between the government and the nhs. it's actually a discussion between the public and the nhs and that's what needs to happen. there's a possibility here because wes has the unions , because wes has the unions, maybe he can get something done. but as emily said, it's created so many jobs i think the unions might prevent. yeah i'm not sure he has the unions onside, to be honest. >> well, they talk tough when it comes to wes streeting. >> well, look , if wes was was >> well, look, if wes was was a was a tory mp, he'd have a different set of problems. >> yeah okay. all right. so look as it currently stands, we're not going to get rid of any of that bloated , ridiculous that bloated, ridiculous ensemble of no hopers that apparently are directors and non—executive directors that no one's ever heard of, and no one ever will again, because they just hide behind all of these failing reports and disappear and get the gold plated pensions, etc. so what on earth

is labour going to do to reform it, and why is it going to take us ten years? >> well, you can't turn a supertanker around in five minutes. but i think, you know, emily says there's inertia about change. i mean, i think to be fair to wes streeting, the health secretary, and to the government, you know, the commission, this report, within its first days and it has you know, we're now in the sort of second month of the government and it has reported. so now, the key thing is, is that this report doesn't sit and gather dust. i'm very proud that keir has been totally clear with the nhs today with everybody from those top managers all the way down to the front line, that enoughis down to the front line, that enough is enough. change has to happen. >> i think it's actually deeply unfair that when we look at the nhs, it's always the health secretary of the day who absolutely cops it, when actually the people who are running it day to day are these managers. and you know what keir starmer is talking about now. oh expanding the nanny state okay. well ban outdoor smoking and we'll ban junk food ads because that's going to somehow turn the nhs around. that's absolute

nonsense. >> it's i agree we need to see real. we need to see real reform and not and not just the there's and not and not just the there's a broader problem here is we have given too much power to quangos. >> quangos have a brilliant ability to absorb abuse, and the people inside survive. and the other fundamental thing the nhs needs to swap its focus. it's being used to display other people's virtue signalling politics that needs to stop. and the other thing as well, it needs to protect our health, not just try to repair our health. if you really want to lower the cost of health care in this country, we need to have a healthier population. >> that would be the argument the government would make. that's why it's in favour of this outdoor smoking ban, the banning of energy drinks for under 16 seconds. but look, 17% staff increase, with no consequence and a linked increase in productivity that is not on the nhs has got to be better . better. >> and the fact is, and this is it. and finally, now we can officially say the nhs has if it is the largest employer in europe and the sixth largest in the world, behind something like the world, behind something like the people's liberation army of china, for goodness sake, then

it's got enough staff. it has to have.it it's got enough staff. it has to have. it has to have enough staff. that's too many, right? too many. it's got it's got the gdp of greece being pumped into every year. that has to be enough money. and i'm sorry, but people have to do better. >> every employee in the nhs make a point. >> sorry. i don't want to get absolutely clobbered right. i am not talking about your average day to day nurse. i'm not talking about your average, you know, day to day worker in the nhs, your hospital porter and all of that. you know, i'm not i am really seriously talking about the people whose job it is at the top of the chain to run this thing. >> i mean, you've got, you know, amanda pritchard, the chief executive of nhs england, you mentioned her. okay. she's got in her bio on twitter, proud to be part of the nhs. great great, great. she has responded to the report and it's just it's so thin. it'sjust report and it's just it's so thin. it's just oh you know it's all about the staff. they're the beating heart of the nhs. obviously we have some challenges. i mean we're committed to working with the government, blah blah, blah blah blah. i mean , yeah, come on, get well. >> i'll tell you what, resign if you feel that badly about it . you feel that badly about it. this is a shocker. nobody else in any other walk of life would have a report this bad if they

were running a quango. >> yeah, i think we need to be absolutely clear. and actually, i'm going to be. i'm going to go further than you, patrick. i don't normally do this. this could end. this could end badly. but i think every single person in the nhs needs to look, and we need to stop the idea that that you cannot criticise anything and you can't change anything. yes, of course, if you're on the front line, you need management to be to be responsive to what you're saying, and management needs to listen to how people can do it better. but every single process in the nhs needs to be looked at. it can be done better. we literally i mean, the footage of carrying the sort of logo down the down the aisle of the church of saint paul's, i think it was. or was it westminster abbey, you know, it's just ludicrous. >> we just need to get like some. you know, top ceo guy from the private sector who can make things efficient. we will sort things efficient. we will sort things out. >> what we'll do, we'll if we don't fundamentally change the nhs, we'll just continue to tinker around the edges . it's as tinker around the edges. it's as simple as that. and it's going to take some extreme political, i think we've got it to do it. i don't , because the unions will don't, because the unions will wade in. let's see if we can do it. >> and it's a challenge. >> and it's a challenge. >> but the bottom line is the

first thing we have to do is not allow the nhs to hide behind politicians . they the nhs is in politicians. they the nhs is in a state. it is because of the people in the nhs at the top of the nhs. they need to get grip. >> this what we're seeing now is not what got anything to do with wes streeting. it's not got anything to do with keir starmer, really, i don't think. i don't really believe it's got that much to do with the tories that much to do with the tories that went before it, because you, you come up against this brick wall of people who are who are in these positions. if i was the likes of amanda pritchard or whatever the heck that bloke who's supposedly the chair is called transformation , there's called transformation, there's an ex tory mp who missed out on that list, jane ellison. >> i was right, it wasn't deliberate. >> the list was very long, but i would highlight them though. seriously. yeah, but you know, i couldn't sleep at night if i saw that there had been that this was what was going on in the. but they know no one's going to blame them because if it was a business. yeah. how many of them go private if it was a business, if you put 17% more resources in and you get less out than you get 11% more out, are you putting more in and getting less out? >> it's unsustainable just to

make one political point. >> yeah, yeah. every time anybody has said anything about the nhs, who's a tory, labour accused them of privatising the place . labour have accused them place. labour have accused them of killing babies and that's why there's a little, maybe not quite killing babies, but yeah, and that's why that's why the nhs has been unapproachable. because people on the left. >> the most statistic in your monologue, patrick, was the was the fact that we are now 15 out of 17 for advanced economies in terms of health outcomes. we've got to stop as a nation praising the nhs and say what we want is health outcomes. it doesn't matter who delivers it. we need better health service and we needit better health service and we need it now and we absolutely need it now and we absolutely needit need it now and we absolutely need it right now. >> not in ten years time, but anyway. right. thank you. another lively start. it's time now for the great british giveaway and it's the biggest cash prize you could afford to go private with this biggest cash prize. we've ever given away. £36,000 could be yours. that's like having an extra three grand tax free in your bank account every single month for an entire year. here's all the details on how to make that money yours. >> there's an incredible £36,000 to be won in the great british giveaway. that's like having an

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have a lot of work to do, but from here that sure looks like a perfect world. >> well, an american billionaire has become the first private citizen to do a spacewalk. i'll bnng citizen to do a spacewalk. i'll bring you more on that in just a few minutes. but next. nigel farage could be banned from hosting his gb news show as part of a labour government crackdown on mps extracurricular activities. so is this a chilling attack on free speech? reform uk spokesperson ann widdecombe joins me live in the studio

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. coming up, i will have the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. but first, nigel farage could be banned from hosting his gb news show under a labour crackdown on mps making paid media appearances. parliament's modernisation committee yeah, a real thing, which is being chaired by a labour frontbencher, lucy powell today published a memorandum agreeing to look at tightening rules on second jobs. but is this move actually a chilling attack on free speech and crucially as well gb news. i'm joined now by reform uk's immigration and justice spokesperson ann widdecombe. and thank you very much. now labour might think that they've got a tricky time getting at us through ofcom and all of this stuff, but actually, if they can just knock nigel farage out of play by doing something like this, then why

wouldn't they do it? >> well, indeed. and i think if you look at the whole argument around mps second jobs, you know, you have to make so many exceptions and at the end of it, what you're really doing is choosing who you're going to prevent from doing second jobs. and that seems to be what's happening here. they've said, right, well, you know, it will be people with paid media appearances, but where are you going to stop? i mean, supposing you've got somebody who's come from the media who's still got a profession there, who wants to make, say, a documentary, you know, i mean, never mind present a programme that just wants to make a documentary. i did plenty of those while i was an mp. a it didn't interfere with anything that i was doing as an mp, and b, nobody thought it was peculiar. >> the only reason they would want to do this, as far as i can tell, is if there was someone with a prominent platform that they didn't like, who they thought that they could silence, and i look around, david lammy doesn't do his lbc show anymore. you know, ed balls is a retired labour politician. now, despite, of course, being married to our home secretary. so actually,

really the only person this affects is nigel farage. >> well, certainly the only person it affects in terms of an ongoing regular appearance. but what are they going to do about people who do one offs, as i've just said, you know, are they going to include them as well? and if not, what possible grounds can they have for excluding nigel? >> so conceivably what could happenis >> so conceivably what could happen is that the labour party, every single day the government gets the opportunity to put a minister up for a morning round and they also could maybe decide which ones of their labour politicians are allowed to do columns in newspapers, for example. but if another mp from another party wanted to be paid to write a newspaper column or do a television show, that would be banned, and i think that's quite chilling . quite chilling. >> well, they've got to decide exactly what they're going to ban. are they going to ban, you know, one off articles in newspapers on subjects of expertise. are they just going to do a blanket ban on anything to do a blanket ban on anything to do a blanket ban on anything to do whatever with the press and media? what are they going to do? they haven't actually

told us, patrick. we don't know. no. >> there is an argument though, and some people really do fully subscribe to this argument that if you are elected to be an mp for a particular constituency, then your entire sole focus should singularly be on that, le. just to continue with this , i.e. just to continue with this, this nigel, as the example that the fair people of clacton might benefit more if nigel farage spent all his time there focusing on them. >> i can't imagine anything worse than a parliament full of people who have no connection with the outside world beyond the job that they actually do . i the job that they actually do. i can't imagine anything worse. and then, of course, you start on the exceptions. you know, you've got the doctors, the dentists. well, they can't start practising after ten years. would you want your teeth pulled by somebody who hadn't done it for ten years? you know, and so the exceptions start as they always have. and then as i say, if you have enough exceptions, then you come down to the people you're discriminating against. >> do you think that if this did become law, nigel farage would just break the law ? just break the law? >> well, of course, parliament can impose its own penalties on

on mps who do that. i don't know what he would do. you've got to ask him that. but i think the best solution to this is to resist it becoming law . resist it becoming law. >> but you raise an interesting question there. it ties in wider to the second jobs issue when it comes to mps. and i have my own theories about why labour might want to clamp down on this. and i will just say it, which is that if you have somebody who is desperate to work in the private sector and go and make a bit of money in the city, or set up their own business, or do all of this stuff that would therefore essentially exclude them from going into politics. so you might end up with the kind of people who are not particularly inspired by any of those things and do not want to generalise overly here, but i suspect most of those kind of people would lean towards the left, and therefore you could stack the deck with a load of lefties. >> you could certainly have a very, very second rate parliament. if you've got people who can't carry on with paid interests in which you know they have a legitimate, not only a legitimate interest , have a legitimate, not only a legitimate interest, but from which they can bring expertise

into the house of commons. yeah. i mean, it's why do so many barristers in the house of commons practice? the answer is because if they didn't, they wouldn't be capable of doing it in a few years time. >> what could the possible justification for this be though? you know, let's have a look. so they would say, well, we want to spend more time with your constituents. we want it to be the sole focus. they could say that it might get rid of vested interest. they could say in the case of nigel farage here on gb news, presenting a show monday to thursday or back, you know , prior to jacob rees—mogg. know, prior to jacob rees—mogg. well i suppose he's the case against that because he lost his seat. but, you know, nigel can use that platform to, to to, self—promote and therefore politically promote and that, thatis politically promote and that, that is in some way unfair. >> okay then. so you get an mp who writes bestsellers. do you forbid that as well? because, you know, if somebody is in the pubuc you know, if somebody is in the public eye because of that, you know, are you going to forbid

that there are just so many? as i say, in the end, you've got to end up making a whole raft of exceptions, and therefore you end up with a small persecuted minority, if you want to put it that way, the cynic in me would say that labour might have weighed this up. >> i've got no doubt they would deny this, that labour might have weighed this up and thought it might be a bit too tricky to come after us through the means of ofcom and get us taken off air or anything like that, but if they can knock out a big hitter @gbnews by doing something like this, then maybe, maybe, maybe they would do that. >> of course, i'm sure that's featured in the discussions. >> well, well, of course there is no suggestion of that at the moment. >> i wouldn't i'm not saying that that's their motive, but i'm saying i'm sure it's featured in discussions. i do wonder, one wonders, don't they? >> and thank you very, very much. that's ann widdecombe there. who is the former uk's immigration and justice spokesperson? great to have you in the studio. thank you very much. coming up, the very first, tomorrow's newspaper front pages have landed. they're on the way. plus i will have analysis from my panel and back at home. >> we all have a lot of work to do, but from here it looks like a perfect world. >> it is the moment a

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okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now it's time to bring you the first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. so let's do that. let's go with the independent. they've got the big picture there of space man. we'll talk about that later on. but starmer takes on the nhs. no new cash without reforms. we've spoken about that quite a lot. let's go to the daily express now. yes that's right estes hope as key vote backs law change on assisted dying. so this is the campaign at the daily express around assisted dying. now dame esther rantzen's bid to change the law on assisted dying has the backing of england's first citizens jury. apparently a 71% of people supported a change to it. let's go to the guardian now ,

it. let's go to the guardian now, starmer tells putin. you started this war. you can end it any time. i'm sure putin is quaking in his boots , there we go. let's in his boots, there we go. let's go to the telegraph. lammy, uk missiles are vital to stop putin. a winter of defeat looms for kyiv without storm shadow, says the foreign secretary. they've also got a story here on the front of the telegraph. low skilled migrants cost the public 150,000 grand each. low paid migrant workers are an immediate drain on the public purse, with each one costing taxpayers more than 150 grand by the time they hit state pension age. that's according to the government's tax and spending watchdog, the office for budget responsibility said the average low earner who came to britain aged 25 would cost the government more than they pay in the moment they arrive shortly chuntering away at that. >> what was it i just said? this is the kind of thing that we weren't talking about when we weren't talking about when we were talking about the good or ills of immigration. we were talking about growing the pie. but what we really should have

been talking about is the per capha been talking about is the per capita effect of growing that pie. and that's what we should have been looking at. and now we've exposed some of the poorest people in the country to a competition that they probably can't win and for so long for so long, you weren't allowed to question that . question that. >> perhaps not always. immigration is an economic net benefit to this country. it was almost blasphemous to say that in some circles, it's a denial of the science, absolute denial, because i think if you have these realistic conversations, then we can have more, more refugees in particular. >> but what's happened? we've mixed refugees with economic migrants, and there's now there's a growing clamour to just stop all these things. i wish we'd had a more realistic conversation. >> yeah. i mean, i think the fact that this has come from the office of budget responsibility means that at least nobody can question that in terms of saying they've got an agenda. frankly people might have assumed they had an agenda the other way. so therefore hopefully this will allow more informed debate. yeah. >> well, look, we certainly need it. you know, it's the latest in a long line of stats about immigration that hopefully at some point won't bother to do

something about. but now top navy bosses have renamed war training exercises for royal marines. you. honestly, you're not going to believe this as the old names are apparently too sexual and aggressive. for example, final thrust is now commando forge . seaman is being commando forge. seaman is being swapped for seafarer violent entry is now green salamander and direct action. one of the navy's ultra tough courses is now named dragon warrior. so is this move to softer terms reasonable or is this a bit ridiculous? emily i mean, where where to start there? >> i mean, ijust assumed where to start there? >> i mean, i just assumed that most military people like a bit of sexual innuendo . makes it of sexual innuendo. makes it a bit fun, and isn't it quite important that, you know, our military is able to be a bit aggressive? are you allowed to say that this is a thing ? say that this is a thing? >> this is a thing. firstly, any aggressive term should be allowed to stay. you are talking about people who'll be fighting for their lives and look a little indian. innuendo is a

very british thing. who remembers the carry on films? do not. don't let this sort of soft woke agenda take away some of the joy of being the armed forces. >> you don't think some of the some of them would prefer to be a seafarer than seaman? i don't know, i don't know. >> how do you feel about a final thrust? yeah. >> i mean, look, it is a little it seems a little bit ridiculous to me. do you remember when penny mordaunt, obviously departed, but wants a future prime minister? was she was in the royal navy reserve and her colleagues better in the royal navy that she could get the word into a speech, x number of times she managed it in the commons so that we have a graphic for this. >> isn't that fantastic? >> isn't that fantastic? >> isn't that fantastic? >> i just, >> isn't that fantastic? >> ijust, i really i remember heanng >> ijust, i really i remember hearing someone saying about soldiers swearing, and the soldiers swearing, and the soldier turned around and explained him. >> he said, do you realise that we are in the most life threatening situations ever? the odd swear word helps us get through. >> i've seen second world war movies. all they say is dash and golly, you were going to go with that. >> this is actually quite serious. >> this is quite serious because this puts off a lot of people

who are working in the military, in the royal marines. they think, for goodness sake, it might put some people do i have to sign up to blooming woke word guidance, speech guidance. >> it might put some people more likely to go in because they feel more accommodated in at home people. i'm trying. i don't believe it, but i'm trying to believe it, but i'm trying to believe it. >> you if you're if you're going to join, if you're going to join the armed forces, a little aggression is on the table. come on. yeah. >> i think look, there's a sensible thing of making sure that terms aren't explicitly sexist. there's a difference between calling something green salamander rather than, you know, it's also final attack or being able to understand things, isn't it, as well. >> it's like, you know, you're there, you're outside, you're surrounded. a taliban compound, actually. right. okay. what we're going to do is we're going to green salamander our way through that dragon warrior before we puff the magic dragon and we use the seafarers. what are you on about? >> that's true. >> that's true. >> yeah, it kind of says what it does on the tin. isn't it? violent entry? yeah. green salamander. what was that again? yeah. oh, and then it's too late. >> no, sorry. a green salamander when i should a magic dragon. and. on everyone's dead. everyone's dead. but not the

taliban . you know, it's just taliban. you know, it's just ridiculous, isn't it? i find it bonkers. i mean, it's just over sanitising this, aren't we? these are. these are things that are sorry for the, you know , are sorry for the, you know, tough lads in the marines even have to have these conversations. >> i just. >> i just. >> well, the other thing is like, do you like i do wonder whether or not sometimes this is just the stuff that they tell us. and then you get in there on day one and they're like, smash his head in, do it, run up that thing. you know, they just haze people. >> this is all coming from the civil service, isn't it? >> yeah. is it? >> yeah. is it? >> you've got to allow people in these situations a very high level of aggression or they lose their operational usefulness. >> there are people that i knew when i was younger , okay, who when i was younger, okay, who were in the armed forces at lot for a variety of different reasons. i had a lot of friends who were in the armed forces, and a lot of them were. i will only describe as tapped. right. and i think we should be giving those people guns, because otherwise they're a problem on the streets here. give them a gun, train them, teach them a bit of discipline, send them to a war zone. we're going to get

cancelled. i will say i will say something a little bit. but anyway, give them, send them, send them off to a war zone. they're the kind of people that should be in a war zone or male aggression is a real thing. >> you know, testosterone makes men aggressive. what what what what the armed services often doesis what the armed services often does is allow people to, to mature and control that and be and be productive members of society. that's what i think. >> women can play a full and active role in our armed services. i want to put that on the record. but they were not tapped . tapped. >> no, no, no, i'm just saying some of the people i think are predisposed to being very good in a war zone. right that's what i'm saying. >> i would not be i'd probably be awful. >> right? >> right? >> i'd be at home. you know, baking cakes and yeah, full dress uniform in the ministry of information. >> some people are made for it. some people are absolutely made for it. and i think that we should be encouraged. >> do you know, do you know the biggest thing that makes you made for the armed services? what being a team player. oh, makes you good in armed service? >> i think you've saved saved the conversation. that's good. >> yes. i would like to the armed forces. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> any one of them.

>> any one of them. >> i would like to emphasise yet again, for the sake of anyone who might be wishing to cancel me now, i'm certainly not advocating a needless, senseless violence. i was making a point simply about the idea that i do quite like our military to kill bad guys. anyway history has been made today after an american citizen became the first ever person to take part in a private space walk, take a look at this btec back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here earth looks like a perfect . world. so that was perfect. world. so that was commander. commander. all right. why not? commander and billionaire jared isaacman and crewmate sarah gillis. and they left their modified spacex dragon capsule without the usual safety of an airlock 400 miles above earth. it's amazing. images. i would love to do that. images. i would love to do that. i would absolutely love to. they're relying on experimental spacesuits and life support hoses to perform critical tests in space. the mission is privately funded, and isaacman says the risks are worth it to

advance space exploration. >> sean, is it only me who thinks that spacesuit looks like a shell suit from jd sports and other sports retailers now available? >> it looks really low budge. >> it looks really low budge. >> it looks really low budge. >> i mean, that guy is brave or crazy. >> i'm not sure it did look a bit like he got it in the middle of lidl, didn't it? >> i do agree if they'd showed me that at the sort of presentation, here's your suit, i'd have been like, i'll go after you. >> yeah, perhaps it's all a big stunt and they haven't actually gone up there. >> oh, like the moon landing? no, no, i don't want to qualify that. >> i would absolutely love to do that myself. i would, shall we do it? yeah. well yeah. >> if you could, you generate, you generate a few billion quid. okay. and we'll, and we'll go up there. but no, i would absolutely. it's bucket list stuff that for me it is. >> but with a proper spacesuit, with a proper spacesuit . with a proper spacesuit. >> yeah. just make me laugh, doesn't it? well, say clearly it did make me wonder when i saw that this was privately funded . that this was privately funded. there's clearly no actual astronaut fancied it .

astronaut fancied it. >> yes. you know, i mean, in all seriousness, as we've seen with with other billionaires who who've taken risks in other sort of extreme, extreme, extreme situations that maybe other people wouldn't, there is a kind of feeling that you can take risks that maybe, you know, and i think that people need to be careful of the submarine i was thinking of. yeah, but but but if your suit leaks up there, no amount of billions is going to save you. save you. >> save you. >> well know why he's done it. if you have all that money, you have everything you know when you're at dinner. yeah, but this he can dine out on for a very long time. >> but i thought that. but then i thought, no one believes him. you don't go. you go to a dinner party and they go, what do you do on thursday? and he went, well, i went up to space and i went out there and experimental spaces. >> i think my left wing friends don't believe it. when i say i spend it with you. patrick. >> my thursday night, i reckon you'd have taken the odd selfie in space. >> what do you reckon? oh, 100%. >> what do you reckon? oh, 100%. >> 100%. right. okay. good stuff. now, coming up in the next few minutes, can you guess who the celebrity is here? saving someone's life. there's a little clip that we'll be playing for you. i'll show you that in a minute. there it is

now. okay, so that's a very well—known celebrity. and there is a kind of tragic backstory to this. so i don't want to, like, make out that he's just a good news story. but they did ultimately end up helping to save someone's life. reveal exactly who that is

all right. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. i've got some more front pages for you now, so let's do those. the ijunk you now, so let's do those. the i junk food tv ban before 9 pm. with a total ban online in 2025. fizzy drinks , chocolates, some fizzy drinks, chocolates, some cnsps fizzy drinks, chocolates, some crisps are among products high in fat, salt and sugar, which face new restrictions on advertising. i think we might have a little chat about that. let's go to the daily mail, same story there. plus a picture of charlie mullins. i'm quitting britain to escape labour's war on wealth creators . let's go to on wealth creators. let's go to the times. they also going off on the junk food ban. junk food

adverts banned before 9 pm. to take the weight off the nhs. hahaha.the take the weight off the nhs. hahaha. the mirror. okay, so this is the last paper for you exclusive amnesty castro. it says final insult, heartbroken families fury as sellers of knives used to kill their loved ones are given £350,000 in compensation for handing in the blades. firms that sell zombie knives have raked in 350 grand from an amnesty. knives have raked in 350 grand from an amnesty . despite from an amnesty. despite supplying these knives in several murders . apparently several murders. apparently grieving families obviously spoke of their, well, disgust at this. and i think they've got a point. but i suppose then the flip side is, well, if it gets the knives off the streets, look a difficult one to talk about, let's just go in on on this nanny state ban on junk food adverts. >> go on. keir starmer is sounding very authoritarian indeed.i sounding very authoritarian indeed. i know some prevention measures will be controversial, but i'm prepared to be bold even in the face of loud opposition. he's trying to justify this all as as the key to saving the nhs,

which we've all been told is in dire straits today, but will it junk food adverts? is that the real thing? is that the cure? here? get rid of those and we'll all be fine. >> you should be trying to save us, not the nhs again. i love this idea that we must save the nhs. the nhs should be saving us. this would do both. the most important thing though. you've but by banning the junk food advertising doesn't change the junk food. it's still there. the one tax, the only tax i was in favour of was the sugar tax. they should have smashed it through the roof. made it big because as a parent it is almost impossible to divorce your children from huge amounts of sugan >> but as a parent, he said he said he was going to be a stand off prime minister, didn't he? he said he wasn't going lightly. he's going to say, i'm going to tread more lightly and that's going to come back to haunt him. >> he's going to say, i'm absolutely convinced the government has to do more. but as a parent, sean, surely you want under—sixteen to be banned from having these, you know, these high energy drinks with packed full of caffeine? >> what i want is a sugar out of

it. you do one product, fine, but it's all right. >> you were telling me how you were enjoying a couple of cakes this afternoon. >> because i'm a fan, subsidised by the. >> i'm a fat middle aged man. >> i'm a fat middle aged man. >> you're not a fat. i don't want my children to be that way, don't it? >> you're a gymnast. >> you're a gymnast. >> you're a gymnast. >> you're in top, nick. yeah, but the point is, if you're banning people is not helpful. >> change the ingredients. yeah. >> change the ingredients. yeah. >> i mean, look, there's a new regulations will come into force apparently, on the 1st of october. so it's next year. so it's not this october next year. so you've all got time to stop stock up stock up. yeah. get the but but but they also want to tighten rules on unhealthy fast food outlets and takeaways near schools . so i mean food outlets and takeaways near schools. so i mean again do we end up seriously in a situation here where you're shutting down a chicken shop or something that's been there's been there for 20 years. >> you can't take away people's livelihoods or a corner shop. >> i mean, they sell sweets. i don't know, i mean, i know these types of shops can be a bit unsightly on the high street, but what's interesting, you know, in these stories, in the stories, it seems to be that they're sticking to their guns

on the on the pub garden, smoking ban, which is going to, which is buried in these stories which is buried in these stories which we saw in favour of that one. one. >> one. >> well, i'm not and i think that this, i thought they were going to quietly drop it because it was only in an options paper. but in a couple of the papers they're redoubling. it appears so. presumably that's been briefed that they're going to stick with it. it goes to emily's point. >> this is a this is a prime minister and a cabinet that i've turned out to be very authoritarian. and if you rewind to my many appearances on your lovely sofa, i told everybody. keir starmer is going to be hard on me. i just find that i find this absolutely ridiculous. >> i find this absolutely ridiculous. but anyway. right, okay, so let's get to greatest britain and union, jackass. why not? okay. all right, so it is time to reveal says great britain union jackass. emily, who's your greatest britain? well it's going to be the american rock star jon well it's going to be the american rock starjon bon jovi, who managed to talk down a woman from taking her life. yes, indeed, i think we. look, we've got some footage of this. it's been playing, you know, all day as well. so jon bon jovi , the

as well. so jon bon jovi, the american rock star, was conceivably just what was he doing just walking down? walking across the bridge. emily was he. >> and he saw this. he managed to talk down a woman from a bndge to talk down a woman from a bridge in the city who was very much in distress and about to take her life. so it's a good news story. >> goodness gracious me. >> goodness gracious me. >> who's out jogging ? americans >> who's out jogging? americans jogged >> who's out jogging? americans jogged out and they don't walk. they jog . they jog. >> i mean, apparently he was filming a music video nearby, and he's seen this and, you know, he's got involved. we don't know exactly what he's said to her. poor, poor lady. and i do really hope she's all right now. i mean, in order to find yourself in that position. yeah >> apparently he gave her a hug and stood with her for a few minutes. and then they left the bndge minutes. and then they left the bridge together. yeah that must be an amazing feeling to be able to save a life like that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and hopefully someone out from doing something that they , from doing something that they, you know, hopefully she gets the help that she needs. >> go on. sean. >> well, my greatest britain's a great british high street with the grim news that 30 pubs, pharmacies, corner shops are

closing all the time on the high street, we must support our local high streets. they are vital to the vibrancy of many a community, and particularly useful to our older people who don't want to use huge supermarkets or travel too far. it's very important. it's a big part of our economy as well. support your local high street. >> yeah, 100%. i couldn't agree more. go on. >> mine is keir starmer for being brave enough to say no extra money for the nhs without the reform. it needs, and him and wes streeting for challenging the bma to get on board. all right. >> okay. well he's fighting. the good fight is matthew, but he's not tonight's winner. tonight's winner is honorary jon bon jovi for helping to save the life of a woman who, again, i will emphasise, i really hope has now managed to come out the other side of that. right. okay, so , side of that. right. okay, so, emily, who's your union jackass? please. >> well, it's got to be the royal marines or whoever told the royal navy and the royal marines to wokeist their training exercises . whoever training exercises. whoever thought that final thrust should be. >> what should it be? the final thrust. the final thrust. >> salamander. >> salamander. >> green salamander. i mean, whoever thought that was better? >> okay. fair enough. shawn.

>> okay. fair enough. shawn. >> mighty sadiq khan for suggesting newly released prisoners should jump the housing queue. of course we should support people and help with rehabilitation, but housing need should be calculated on need. and there's families who are living in temporary accommodation. we spend £90 million a month in london on temporary accommodation, who will be terrified by the idea that they'll be shuffled backwards in the queue. >> yeah, okay. go on then, matthew. >> and mine is frank hester and the tory party. then pulling the tories took £5 million from the disgraced businessman. remember when he was caught on a secret recording saying labour mp diane abbott made you want to hate all black women and that she, quote, should be shot. the police opened an investigation. operation brass announced in march that is ongoing. and yet the tories took this tainted money to prop up their failing election campaign. >> yeah, not a great look. not a great look. okay, so today's winner of the union jackass is . winner of the union jackass is. it's the royal navy. so in a news that will surprise nobody, my wife has won both of those things . things. >> you want pizza for your tea? all right. okay. >> bit of favouritism. never did

anyone any harm. okay. all right, well, look, thank you very much for everybody who's been watching and listening. every viewer really matters. so go out there and tell your friends. thank you, thank you, thank you. i'll see you tomorrow at nine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello. good evening. it's going to be a very cold night tonight with a chance of frost , tonight with a chance of frost, particularly across northern areas, but also a chance of spotting the aurora or the northern lights across parts of scotland and northern england. we've got cold arctic air at the moment, but that will be replaced by atlantic air as high pressure builds in for the last day of the week into friday. so that will develop clear skies quite widely. so a good chance of spotting the aurora. aurora as far south as northern areas of england, parts of northern ireland, too few showers still clipping the coast of east anglia overnight tonight, but for many of us it's going to be a clear, dry and cold night. chance of frost rurally just about anywhere away from the

very far south—east. towns and cities should be above zero by tomorrow morning though, and it will be a fairly bright start to the day on friday. the sunshine still got some warmth to it and the winds will be much lighter tomorrow morning, so it should still feel fairly pleasant first thing across coastal areas. there is still a risk of the odd shower and more in the way of cloud, particularly as we look further north and west to parts of western scotland, northern ireland, where there is a greater risk of a few showers first thing tomorrow. as those westerly winds are bringing in the next weather front through friday afternoon that will spread into parts of northern ireland, western scotland turning the sunshine much hazier as we head towards lunchtime. but elsewhere across the uk it's going to be actually a dry and fine day. a much more settled day to come tomorrow compared to today. less of a risk of any of those showers rattling through. it won't feel too bad in the sunshine. temperatures are still below average, but it's definitely warmer than it has been lately and it will become even warmer as we head into saturday as well as we pick up

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>> good evening. it's 11:00. >> good evening. it's11:00. i'm lewis mckenzie in the gb newsroom . the prime minister has newsroom. the prime minister has hit back at putin's threat to the west, claiming russia started this conflict and can end it straight away. in response to the signs, the us may soon agree to the uk and

france and allow storm shadow long—range cruise missiles to be used by ukraine to bomb territory inside of russia itself. vladimir putin said on state tv that the move would change the very nature of the conflict, spelling out that spelling out, he added it would mean that nato countries are at war with russia . earlier on war with russia. earlier on today, the prime minister said that the nhs is broken but not beaten, delivering a stark message after a report into the national health service. the review highlights ballooning waiting times, a&e delays and poor cancer care. speaking earlier, the prime minister warns that there will be no more money without reform and said that big shifts are needed to secure the nhs future . secure the nhs future. >> only fundamental reform and a plan for the long term can turn around the nhs and build a healthy society. now. it won't be easy, it won't be quick, it

will take a ten year plan, not just the work of one parliament, but i know we can do it . but i know we can do it. >> harvey weinstein has been hit with new criminal charges as the disgraced movie producer gears up for a possible retrial. his 2020 rape conviction was overturned in april after a judge allowed testimony from accusers not formally involved in the case. prosecutors in manhattan are now investigating new sexual assault claims as more women come forward. he continues to deny all allegations. in a sign that major changes could be ahead for the uk's workforce . health and the uk's workforce. health and care work visas applications have plunged by 83% from april to august of this year. new figures from the home office reveal. dependent visas applications also dropped by 73%. meanwhile student visas saw a 17% drop, but dependents of students took a sharper hit with 83% decline in contrast,

applications for skilled workers rose 18% over the same period . a rose 18% over the same period. a royal navy warship has seized £160 million worth of cocaine in the caribbean, intercepting a so—called narco sub in a joint operation with the us. hms trent sailing around 200 miles south of the dominican republic , of the dominican republic, seized 2000 kilos of cocaine , seized 2000 kilos of cocaine, making it the ship's eighth drug bust in under seven months and taking space exploration to heights to new heights, two civilians just completed the first ever commercial space walk. billionaire jared isaacman and crewmate sarah gillis floated out of their spacex dragon capsule 400 miles above earth, using