pensioner getting a pay the only pensioner getting a pay rise this winter. there is big trouble behind the scenes in laboun trouble behind the scenes in labour. also shock, horror. yes angela rayner, she's been on the take as well. by the looks of things. you just couldn't make this up, could you.7 and things. you just couldn't make this up, could you? and the serious answer is to smash the gangs. good. well, starmer has just appointed a bloke to smash the gangs. that man says smashing the gangs won't stop the boats. so not a great start. plus bear, come here now . plus bear, come here now. >> come here now. get there . >> come here now. get there. >> come here now. get there. >> keep running round this tree . >> keep running round this tree. >> keep running round this tree. >> well, kids turn up to school unable to speak english or use the toilet. but now teachers could be allowed to work from home to ease their stress. >> and down here lives the fatberg, a mixture of rancid, fatberg, a mixture of rancid, fat , human excrement and other fat, human excrement and other unmentionables .

unmentionables. >> your taxes and water bills could be about to go up so the government can pay for the bailout of a water company that's been pumping sewage into our rivers. oh, and how do you say cappuccino in welsh? >> frothy coffee? >> frothy coffee? >> welsh labour are removing the free bus pass for english speaking schoolchildren. isn't that a little bit racist? >> and all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read. it's one of the reasons why i won't bring my wife back to this country. >> well, now harry is coming back, but he won't see his dad. on my panel tonight is the director of the popular conservatives, mark littlewood. we've got landlord and activist adam brooks and broadcaster judy adam brooks and broadcasterjudy da silva. oh, and what's going on in lebanon? oh yvette cooper one. get ready britain, here we

go . go. starmer has just been stitched up royally by his stop the boat tsar. up royally by his stop the boat tsar . next. tsar. next. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines just after 9:00. first to the middle east, where israel has declared a new phase of war as its army turns its attention to the northern front with lebanon. it comes after another wave of explosions have reportedly killed 14 people and wounded hundreds more in beirut. it's understood that walkie talkies have been targeted in the latest attacks, rather than pages. it comes as hezbollah has launched rockets at israel, marking the first cross—border attack since explosions rocked lebanon. the terrorist group have accused israel for what's believed to have been a remote attack,

targeting hand—held communication devices. the israeli defence forces say they did strike a hezbollah target last night, but they did not comment on the explosions. 12 people, including two children, were killed in the blast and nearly 3000 remain in hospital . nearly 3000 remain in hospital. >> like many others, i woke up this morning to the news and reports of developments in lebanon , and this clearly is an lebanon, and this clearly is an awful situation and very concerned to hear about the reports of civilian casualties. clearly, i don't know all of the details of this . and as i say, details of this. and as i say, we woke up to this news. but the uk will be working with, particularly with our humanitarian partners in the region. >> development minister anneliese dodds speaking there. now, in other news, it's understood sir keir starmer's chief of staff received a pay rise after the election, which means she is now paid more than

the prime minister. it's being reported that sue gray asked for and was given a salary of £170,000, which is £3,000 more than the prime minister and more than the prime minister and more than any cabinet minister or her conservative predecessor . conservative predecessor. meanwhile, inflation remained above the 2% target, unchanged at 2.2% last month, with new data out today. treasury chief darren jones says years of sky high inflation continues to put a strain on british families, despite the slower rise. experts believe the figures point to the bank of england keeping interest rates at 5% tomorrow. meanwhile, in the us , interest rates have in the us, interest rates have been slashed for the first time in more than four years by more than many expected. the us central bank brought interest rates down by 0.5% to 5%, and some breaking news in the last half hour. harvey weinstein has pleaded not guilty to a new sex crime charge during a court

heanng crime charge during a court hearing in new york. the disgraced producer is charged with committing a criminal sex act. further details of the new allegations, which were first announced last week, have not been made available. it comes just over a week after he underwent emergency heart surgery, and we will bring you more as we get it. now surgery, and we will bring you more as we get it . now those surgery, and we will bring you more as we get it. now those are the latest gb news headlines . the latest gb news headlines. more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> welcome along. so the good news for sir keir starmer is that he's finally found a head of border command. the bad news for sir keir starmer is that the bloke he's picked has just told him that his plan to smash the gangs won't work. in fact, it's actually doomed to fail unless he introduces something like the

rwanda plan. but he scrapped that on day one. martin hewitt, who was the police officer in charge of enforcing the lockdown rules , presumably, look, hey, if rules, presumably, look, hey, if he was comfortable keeping all of us shackled to metaphorical radiators inside our own homes for months on end, then he won't have a problem stopping people breaking into britain. but it's better than the person sir keir originally wanted. >> are you alert to issues of racial and social justice? yes i am, and if that is the definition of woke, i'll wear it as a bumper sticker every day of the week. >> yeah, great. so at least it's not him anyway. martin hewitt has come out and said that he can't stop the boats or smash the gangs without an additional deterrent, and he's reportedly told the prime minister that his current plan to smash the gangs just simply won't work in fact, when sir keir did this on day one, rwanda scheme was dead and buned one, rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started. >> it's never been a deterrent . >> it's never been a deterrent. everybody has worked out, particularly the gangs that run this , that the chance of ever

this, that the chance of ever going to rwanda was so slim, less than 1% that it was never a deterrent. the chances were of not going and not being processed and staying here. therefore, in paid for accommodation for a very, very long time. it's had the complete opposite effect. and i'm not prepared to continue with gimmicks that do not act as a deterrent . deterrent. >> well, it turns out that that was basically a human rights lawyer talking, and not anyone from our security services, because shadow home secretary james cleverly has said the need for a deterrent to stop the people smugglers is obvious. we know it. the national crime agency knows it. and now we hear labour's new border commander knows it. it's becoming increasingly clear that labour's cancellation of our plan, with no replacement won't cut it. tough talk, but doing less isn't a plan. it's smoke and mirrors and they are being found out . and they are being found out. while fellow tory leadership contender robert jenrick has also piled in, saying it sounds like sir keir's new borders chief has taken this job only to tell him that his plan to stop the boats won't work. that's why i warned labour to not scrap the

rwanda deterrent, but strengthen it. it's now clear sir keir is utterly clueless and the boats are still coming. unless labour introduces a deterrent , we will introduces a deterrent, we will still be in this position come the next election . and i'm the next election. and i'm afraid to say the numbers speak for themselves. there's been 10,000 arrivals since starmer took office. every single one of them will now be able to claim asylum in a way that they simply could not. before the last election , and the facts speak election, and the facts speak for themselves as well. he went to talk to italian prime minister giorgia meloni because he doesn't have a plan . he's he doesn't have a plan. he's probably going to replace rwanda with albania, but the left hate it and he'll just run into the exact same issues with lawyers that the tories. can i just say that the tories. can i just say that was diane abbott's tweet there, calling meloni a literal fascist. okay, starmer doesn't have a plan. he never did. and i doubt he ever will. but let's get the thoughts of my panel now. the director of the popular conservatives, mark littlewood, we've got businessman and activist adam brookes, and we've got broadcaster judith da silva.

mark, i'll start with you. so finally, after, however long it's been, we've got a new head of border command. that head of border command has just sat down, keir starmer and said starmer, look, you need something like a deterrent mate. to which starmer now is going to go well sorry, i've just cancelled that. it would be funny if it wasn't so serious. >> patrick. right. and you know, so is the starmer master plan unravelling ? no it isn't because unravelling? no it isn't because he never had a master plan. the smash the gangs thing was always a sound bite. and i was stretching for an analogy here, but i think it's a bit like the sort of how would you tackle the war on drugs? and if people were worried about a drugs epidemic, you can't just say, smash the gang , smash you can't just say, smash the gang, smash the gangs, and i'll tell you why it won't work, because for every gang you round up and arrest, more people will come into their place. limitlessly and almost infinite supply. given the amount of money involved in people trafficking, given the percentage chance that you will successfully remain in the united kingdom, this is a going concern as an illegitimate black

market business forever. and if you smash one gang, another will rise up. it's cutting heads off the high so until they have a deterrent. it was really interesting. the clip that you played, it seemed to be starmer saying that the rwanda plan wasn't a sufficient deterrent. so i would have i would be all ears if he said, well, that won't work because it's only 1% of people going there. well, that's 1% better than 0%. why doesn't he have a 10 or 15% plan? so the deterrent has got to come in. i'm glad martin hewitt said that. i hope the labour get on with it, but i'm not holding my breath. >> i mean, adam, look, you know, far from me to accuse the prime minister of being a liar of course, but it does look as though he wasn't necessarily telling the truth when he did say he had a plan. >> i'll call him a liar. he is a liar. we've had 10,000 illegal immigrants come across since labour took power. there is no deterrent. at least with rwanda, we had interviews from migrants that were saying they were scared to be deported there. we have got countries like germany now implementing emergency border controls. where do you

think these people are now going to want to go to the soft touch. that's the uk we don't deport. hardly anyone. so if there's a, you know, if there's a toss up between an easy ride or another country that's going to face deportation, where are you going to go? we've got black market jobs here that we don't really see in europe either. they know they can come here and get cash in hand jobs. it's too it's too much of a. >> yeah. is that are we now under keir starmer is the only thing we've got that we are now massively out of step with mainland europe. we are el dorado. >> no, i don't think so. i think he's mentioned what i believe would be the way forward, but hasn't followed through on it yet. you do have to have a multi—pronged attack from different directions, smashing the gangs is one point, but also he alluded to earlier on but hasn't followed through on. you've got to eliminate the motivation at the point of origin for migrants. but what i find is that a lot of politicians talk about immigration, but it is clear

that they have a myopia when it comes to actually engaging with immigrants. if they spoke to them and understood the nature and the mentality of the people who do journeys, that by the time you've covered how harrowing those boat crossings are , that's the easiest part of are, that's the easiest part of their journey. are, that's the easiest part of theirjourney. take someone coming from west africa, going to italy. they've gone through mali, niger, they've gone through slavery , torture, through slavery, torture, imprisonment in libya, gone to tripoli , then made the journey tripoli, then made the journey to naples. by the time they get to naples. by the time they get to the to the boats, that horrific experience is the best part of their journey. if you talk to these people, what the government hasn't seen is that there's a very vital catchment area. migrants who've made the journey had such a horrible time upon being here who want to go back, they don't have the money to go back and they can't deal with the humiliation of failure. if you created a humanity, a humanitarian enclave within charities that exist, that say, those who want repatriation would get a job on the other side, paid in international currency, they would be willing to go back and what they would

act as is an almost citizen. and citizens advice bureau for immigrants who want to make the journey . because if you're journey. because if you're saying, i've done the journey, it's not what it's cut out to be, they would receive that message. >> do you buy that? >> do you buy that? >> it's interesting, and i completely agree about the multi—pronged approach. i don't think there is a silver bullet here. i'm still a bit worried that the magnet that is the uk. i mean, i'm sure you're right when you've mentioned, you know, that in some ways the easiest part of the journey is naples to doven part of the journey is naples to dover, not getting to naples. i mean, i think we should be pretty strict that if you've come from a safe haven to the united kingdom, and i would definitely include italy and france in that we're not going to entertain your application. you are already in a safe place. you are already in a safe place. you haven't come direct from afghanistan or syria and none of these rather clear , slightly these rather clear, slightly black and white and blunt rules appear to be in place. and i think putting some of those in place , however binary, however place, however binary, however blunt, would be the start of

getting to grips with this. >> but look, we've now got a new head of border command who is telling keir starmer, apparently you do need some kind of deterrent, a little bit like the one that you had. now, as far as i can tell, keir starmer's entire legal career and the letters that his own members of his own party previously signed and sent to home secretaries to get people who had committed crimes off deportation planes to stay in the uk, some of whom then went to on commit other heinous crimes. starmer now calls it irregular migration, not illegal immigration, and he's very clever about the wording that he says when he talks about people coming across the channel, you know, he says, oh, you know, no, no one should have to make that journey. he says. have to make that journey. he says . it's kind of have to make that journey. he says. it's kind of i just feel as though, adam, do we not have as though, adam, do we not have a prime minister who's on the side of people coming across the channel side of people coming across the channel, not on the side of people who and they know he's weak. >> they was cheering the fact that labour was getting in from across the channel in france. at the end of the day, if we carry on housing them, feeding them three times a day, healthcare, dentistry, free travel, of course they're going to come.

i'm not attacking these illegal migrants because at the end of the day, if i was in a country somewhere and i knew i could get to somewhere and get free stuff, i'm going to try it myself. i'm attacking the system . multiple attacking the system. multiple governments in the past in this country have let us down, and now we've got tens of thousands of unknown, unchecked , possibly of unknown, unchecked, possibly dangerous men walking the street amongst our children. and there's nothing we can do about it . they're not going to deport them. >> but starmer doesn't really care. i put it to you for reasons that we're going to go on to talk about later on in the show, which is that he's completely detached from the reality of the common man and woman, isn't he? does he know a single thing about hardship whenever he faces hard times, he goes and knocks on a lord's door and gets some money from his wife, doesn't he? >> i do feel that he has shown that he's a bit blinkered when it comes to understanding what the general conversation is for people who don't walk within his sphere of existence, but at the end of the day, that's pretty much most politicians. so if

you're going to talk about who you're going to talk about who you put in power, you've got somebody who's got the who's well versed in engaging with others to them, but isn't one of them. but as far as the actual migration thing, not. that's what i said. it's not like you said. i agree there isn't a silver bullet, but you have to be able to identify the delineation between types of migrants. there are a lot of migrants. there are a lot of migrants who come here because of the promise of the west. the key deterrents that nobody's actually talking about is you've got to destroy the image people have of what is possible in the west by talking about the realities of what it's like, the only solution you will get to migration in this country will come with the collaboration of europe. >> but the concern is the reality of what it's like is obviously very, very good, isn't it? for a lot of people, you get the hotels, certainly an improvement. >> i mean, i think the interesting thing here about whether keir starmer is tone deaf and look, i'm not going to pick on him because he was a human rights lawyer or he's affluent. i mean, i basically respect the legal profession, and i respect people who make money. but what the labour party

is now completely missing is anyone who seems to have their ear to the ground to the british working class, and that's the party they were born of, the british working class. i don't think there's anyone around the cabinet table who has an immediate , instinctive instinct immediate, instinctive instinct for what british working class opinion is , and that ultimately opinion is, and that ultimately will be the undoing of it. >> well, we're going to we're going to get stuck into that at the top of the next hour, especially because it's absolutely unbelievable the amount of freebies that keir starmer has got, but also the ones that he's been offered again today, the fact he said he'll continue to take them. the pay he'll continue to take them. the pay rise for sue gray, angela rayner has been at it as well. it is non—stop animal farm type stuff and it's happened in, what, 70 odd days? i find it quite bizarre. but anyway, talking of giveaways, it's time now for the great british giveaway. your chance to win the equivalent of having an extra three grand in your bank account each month for the next year. a whopping £36,000 in tax free cash. here's all the details you'll need to make that cash yours. >> this is your chance to win a £36,000 secret salary in the latest great british giveaway. that's like having £3,000 each month for an entire year. extra

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be about to rise in order to fund a government bailout of this debt ridden company. sorry, but isn't this just another slap in the face for hard working brits? and why can't we just let them go bust? i'll be joined by them go bust? i'll be joined by the founder of waterways protection, philip greenwood, very soon. but up next. teachers are the latest group to benefit from labour's workers rights bonanza. so the government is announcing plans to let teachers do marking and planning away from the classroom . but should from the classroom. but should teachers really be allowed to work from home, especially when we have kids turning up to school at the moment, unable to speak english or go to the bathrooms on their own? the head teacher, serge sapphire, goes head to head with the author and journalist rebecca reid in just a few minutes time, so don't go anywhere

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now coming up, are you about to foot the bill to save water companies that pumped raw sewage into british rivers? but first, should teachers be allowed to work from home? it's time now for the head to head . time now for the head to head. yep. that's right. the government have given teachers the green light to work from home in a bid to tackle a recruitment crisis in schools. although teachers already have free periods to mark homework and plan lessons, they will now be allowed to take these free penodsin be allowed to take these free periods in blocks at the

beginning or the end of the day, and thus work from home. now it comes after around 32,000 teachers left the profession in the 2022 to 2023 academic year, the 2022 to 2023 academic year, the majority of whom were women that had just had kids, though. but the plans have been met by fierce backlash, not least because of the concerns that the policy could negatively impact children's education. and in fact, a report just last week found that repairing the damage to education caused by the pandemic will disrupt schools until the mid 2030s, with staff in primary schools reporting very serious problems of arrested language development i.e. kids are not able to speak and a lack of toilet training, which is just, you know , which is just, you know, ridiculous, isn't it? absolutely ridiculous. so tonight i'm asking , should teachers actually asking, should teachers actually be allowed to work from home? let me know your thoughts. go to gbnews.com/yoursay or you can tweet me @gbnews. well, joining me now is headteacher serge safari and author and journalist rebecca reid. both of you. thank you very much. great to have you both on the show. serge, i'll start with you. should teachers be allowed to work from home?

>> right. well listen, i'll try not to rant too much because have we learnt nothing from lockdown? at what point are we going to put the children's needs first? who decided that being a teacher is some kind of bit part profession that you can't take seriously? why are we reducing our education system to something that people think they can do half heartedly? so first and foremost, this already happens. but it's the exception andifs happens. but it's the exception and it's done very carefully because never mind, the more practical stuff of writing a timetable with presumably a hell of a lot of teachers all wanting to be off on the last period of the day, have everybody forgotten about registration so that the children start school with their form tutor? the same form tutor? every morning they end school with the form tutor every day. so good school start, good end start. and of course i'm talking about stability and continuity. so whatever we end

up doing, the ones that are going to be most affected are our disadvantaged. but for me , our disadvantaged. but for me, we will do what we can. i've been a headteacher for 20 plus years. i know full well the problems of recruitment. this isn't the answer. maybe we can start with the unions and stop them doing down our job for a start, telling everybody let's go on strike because the job is terrible, etcetera, etcetera. all right, let's start there. serge. >> i'll come back to you. serge. i will come back to you. rebecca. hey, look, teachers, you know, they get a great pension and they get loads of holidays. why do they need thursdays and fridays at home as well? >> so they're not going to have thursdays and fridays at home. all that's happening is that teachers already work from home. any teacher you know is already doing marking and lesson planning in their own time, at home, in the holidays and around their scheduled hours. all this is doing is making it that you don't have to finish at 330 and then stay in your classroom physically until 6 pm. it's making timetables work better for teachers. one of the big issues in in teaching isn't recruitment and recruitment is

fine. it's retention and recruiting because people leave is really expensive. and one of the most important indicators for a child's experience at school is consistency. so it's having a teacher who teaches you when you were 11, who sees you through to 13 or 14, who understands what your educational background and your trajectory is. and if you don't have that because people are leaving, then you get a downward spiral in terms of people's academic progress. so in to order keep people in jobs, you can either pay them more or you can either pay them more or you can give them better working conditions. we don't have money to pay teachers more. so what we can do is look at what are the annoyances, what's not working for you as a teacher. and one of the things that teachers talk aboutis the things that teachers talk about is this expectation to finish school at 330 and then be in your classroom until 6:00, no reason you need to physically be there. the children have largely been just quite normal working hours. >> rebecca. sorry, but this is this is the thing. these are just quite normal working hours, the demands of which you would expect in pretty much any other job. but you do get perks as a teacher that are better than almost any other job. >> it's not a perk, because if you think about the educational

level compared to how much they get paid, that's already quite difficult. but also these are people who are on the premises at 7:00 in the morning, and so you wouldn't expect to work seven till six. that's an 11 hour shift. that's not normal. i would say if i was getting the summer off rebecca. >> absolutely. and if i was getting two weeks off at christmas and if i was getting time off at easter, and if i was getting time off at that random week that we seem to have in the middle of october. i mean, what's all that about lent, though? well, we have lent off, okay. >> they don't. lent is 40 days andifs >> they don't. lent is 40 days and it's a religious festival, which is to do with that. you don't get lent off, you get easter off. and those are for two reasons. one is that children need time to be away from school. children grow up in the holidays. they spend time with their families. they can travel. they can be at home. that's important. but the reason that holidays, the teachers still work unbelievably hard and i think, sorry, i still work unbelievably hard and ithink, sorry, i used still work unbelievably hard and i think, sorry, i used to go out with a couple of teachers. >> i know exactly what it's like and i'm sorry, but i'm not buying that at all. serge. i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna have you come back. come back in here. i think teachers already get a pretty sweet deal. >> rebecca, i'm not sure if you've read the report that i've

read, but we're not talking about half 3 to 6:00 here. we're talking about last lesson of the day. free period. and go home at 2:00. all right. and do your marking, then. i agree, i don't agree with patrick. he doesn't really understand how hard good teachers work. i agree with you, patrick. there's a couple of ones that swing the leg, but good teachers in good schools put in the hours. that's how they get the returns, especially with disadvantaged kids. however, this is a nonsense. i don't know where these advisers come from. so, rebecca, we're not talking about half three till 6:00 for a start, as a head teacher, i can't force the teachers to stay past half three. that's the end of the day. but what we'll lose here if it becomes the norm after school classes will disappear because people want to get out the door and they'll have the right to do so. >> and certainly in primary school, classes aren't run by teachers. they're run by outside agencies . and one of them, i'm agencies. and one of them, i'm a secondary background , okay, with secondary background, okay, with a plaid cymru. and we're talking about we're talking about an education system. >> we're talking about an education system. and once it's in primary, it's going to be in

secondary. and if the unions have got anything to do with it, where they're the last people that give a about our kids, they prove that during lockdown, where all they wanted to do was close the schools. any poor teachers, i can tell you now, they were quite happy with lockdown as well. it was only good teachers who really cared about the kids that wanted our schools open . and now of course, schools open. and now of course, everyone saying, well, maybe we should have done it better. well it was no over. >> lockdown is over . all right. >> lockdown is over. all right. >> lockdown is over. all right. >> well rebecca. yeah, fine. but but just just on that we're still paying the price for it. and we're still seeing kids now as reports say, turning up to school, unable to speak. they're not toilet trained. i mean, should teachers not be stepping in a little bit here? is this instead, they have got a guy who leads the union who quotes wants to globalise the intifada. you know, maybe he should be focused more on getting his teachers in the classroom, >> it would be extraordinary to expect the teachers to step into to toilet training. the reason that children are starting school, not toilet trained, is because the wisdom around toilet training has shifted. and if you want to talk about that on a different day, let's. but that's not for this discussion. the major issue around toilet training. yeah, absolutely.

because it used to be considered that it was best to do it very, very early. i'm currently doing it now, not for myself, but for a child, it's an important it is important, but it's not the conversation to have today in terms of the retention crisis for teachers, one of the major reasons women leave and it is predominantly women who teach in primary. and then it's sort of above 50 over 50. in secondary is that your children finish school at 330 and you can't pick them up. we don't pay teachers enough that they can pay somebody else to pick their children up. so they quit teaching because it's too expensive to keep working. if you find a way that twice a week you find a way that twice a week you can pick your own child up from school and be a teacher, you stay in the profession. that's better for the children. it's better for the teachers. >> always done it for decades. how did they used to do it? >> because. because women used to leave the profession. teachers. we're talking about teachers who need to go and look after their children . those after their children. those children, at some point will also want to go to school. and those same teachers , those same those same teachers, those same teachers will want not split classes . they'll want the same classes. they'll want the same teacher teaching them maths all week. they will want after school classes. they will want

school classes. they will want school productions . et cetera, school productions. et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. they can't have it. both ways. >> ten days a week. you have two days you are there, and two days you're not. you can structure this. this is a management issue, but any. okay. >> all right, all right, all right, all right guys . all right right, all right guys. all right rebecca, we're going to five years. >> they need to be in class. they need to be in schools. >> okay. all right. >> okay. all right. >> they just want to fit. >> they just want to fit. >> enough now. enough we're going to. we're going to knock it on the head. thank you very much. it was a good head to head.i much. it was a good head to head. i thoroughly enjoyed that. i was going to have to put you both in detention there for a second, but anyway. all right. okay. thank you very much. that certifies that teacher and rebecca reed, as well as an author and journalist. great stuff. can i just say, i think my favourite phrase of the show so far is the wisdom around toilet training. surely the wisdom would be to just toilet, train and whatever coming up in just a few minutes. do you remember this? >> it was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that simply weren't true, but with prince harry set to jet into the

uk for a charity event later this month, could a royal reconciliation finally be on the cards? >> editor at large at the mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths has got the inside scoop. she'll be live in the studio very soon. but first they've dumped billions of litres of raw sewage into our rivers. but now your water bills could be set to rise in order to fund a possible government bailout of thames water. is this yet another slap in the face for hard working brits? the founder of waterways protection, philip greenwood, has got some harsh words, actually, for not just fatcat investors, but any politician who thinks it's okay to use our money to this lot out. and it, put our bills up again. stay

welcome back to patrick christys tonight . so welcome back to patrick christys tonight. so coming up, prince harry is jetting back to the uk next month. so could a royal reconciliation finally be on the cards ? but first, keir starmer cards? but first, keir starmer is reportedly planning to allow water bills across the country to be hiked up in order to pay for a government bailout of thames water, the struggling water company, which has racked up billions and billions of poundsin up billions and billions of pounds in debt, needs £10 billion to keep itself afloat and under new legislation , water and under new legislation, water users could be forced to foot that bill. so that's you. that's me. that's everyone we know, isn't it? government ministers have stressed that a bailout would be a last resort, only to be used if a buyer for the company can't be found. well, it

comes just weeks after thames water was handed a record breaking £104 million fine for pumping sewage into british rivers and the sea. well, i'm joined now by the founder of waterways protection, philip green. well, philip, it's great to have you on the show. great to have you on the show. great to meet you as well. this is going to be an incredibly hard swallow for people whose bills are going up elsewhere as well. things like council tax, if the water bills go up in order to help a company that's got itself into a load of debt and put poo into a load of debt and put poo in our rivers, it's not great. luckis in our rivers, it's not great. luck is it? >> no, i mean, it's beyond a great look. i mean, what they're essentially looking to do is we think thames water. i mean , think thames water. i mean, instinctively we think, do we want to bail out thames water? do we want to bail out a water company? and there's a part inside of us that thinks, well, yes, we do want we would like to the water company to work. we would like it to function. we would like it to function. we would like it to function. we would like it to provide clean water, clean drinking water that isn't contaminated as our water isn't contaminated as our water is today. we'd like them to treat the waste water properly

as well. we'd like them to strip the microplastics out the chemicals, the pharmaceutical things that they don't do. that's not even in law that they do. okay, but they don't do these things. so what they're planning to do, the government is, is bailout, not thames water's per se, but the financial owners of thames water. so the, the investors. yeah. these are beyond billionaires. so okay. so look thames water is owned by. it's owned by a euro bond an investment vehicle. but it's actually owned by which is owned by 30% the canadian government. yeah essentially which is the on the ontario workers municipal fund. yeah. they own 30% of it. and don't forget, they weren't a passive investor as well . they passive investor as well. they had directors on the board of thames water okay. directing this. so they're directly responsible. >> the british taxpayers bills go up. we're we're paying the canadians. >> yeah that's right. and not only that , but the people in the

only that, but the people in the north and elsewhere, i don't want to do the whole divisive thing. but the reality is people across the country are going to be subsidising london and the south east as water bill. yeah, right. >> that's the that is another important aspect of it isn't it. so, so if we were essentially bailing out thames water or whoever else really is behind is the money behind thames water. yeah that would be the bills of everyone in britain. so if i lived in bolton my bills would go up. but really i'd be paying for people who live in beaconsfield. >> yeah, exactly . now, you might >> yeah, exactly. now, you might be able to stomach that on a human level. if we saw all the water companies really starting to get to work, really try to increase and improve things . but increase and improve things. but when, you know, actually that money is just going to a bunch of investors who are just going to keep stripping out the money, i mean, what we've got is a situation whereby profits are privatised , but the debts are privatised, but the debts are socialised. yeah. so it's

socialism for the corporates and it's capitalism for the individual people . individual people. >> so this is kind of the opposite of what i thought a labour government might do, because i thought there's no way they'd use taxpayers money to help make billionaires wealthier or write off some losses, but that appears to be the opposite of what they're doing. >> well, i mean, it it you know, the labour party, you know, i'm from doncaster, you know, yorkshire working class lad, through and through . and, you through and through. and, you know, actually, you know, the labour party was my father actually. great man. he worked on the, worked on the railways and actually the history of the labour party was it was formed by workers from the doncaster railway plant very initially in its initial conception. of course, since then it's, you know , evolved and it's been less know, evolved and it's been less of a socialist, more of a centrist movement. okay, fine. but now labour is completely , but now labour is completely, completely captured by private equity, by the establishment, by

whitehall, i mean , i'll give you whitehall, i mean, i'll give you a little story. just just a little example. i was at the river summit, extremely classist and elitist, anti sewage pollution movement, by the way, that discriminate against working people in the space like me, river action group, surfers against paradise, surfers against paradise, surfers against sewage. that's another story. but whilst we were there, we had toby perkins, you know, the, the a labour mp, i think he was a shadow shadow minister for rural affairs . now we were all rural affairs. now we were all talking to everyone in the panel talking to everyone in the panel, but nobody , even though panel, but nobody, even though we, we knew they were the ones getting in power, even bothered really to even ask him a question. he's a good guy. i can tell on a human level he's good, but he was pointless because they don't have the intellectual tools as politicians in the labour party to handle this kind of thing, and they are so under the grip. i mean, labour is such. it's such a nasty party with its own members. i mean, i've been a member of the labour party . yeah. anyone who deviates

party. yeah. anyone who deviates from the labour script, okay, is ostracised. it's like a religious cult, you know. i mean, i for , stand you know, i'm mean, i for, stand you know, i'm a little bit on the left, you know, more than most, especially on the environment, put it that way. but, i mean, what labour is doing is, is extremism. >> labour are saying that this is a, this is this would be a last resort, an absolute last resort to hike people's bills up in order to bail out. i know a lot of people were saying, well, look, hang on a minute. why don't we just let them go bust and then we could take it over anyway, we'll have to wait and see. but i mean, if labour do this, then i know that it will obviously come up against stiff opposition by people such as yourself as well. but thank you very much for coming on the show. it's been a pleasure to have you on and to have you on again very, very soon. and well, look, coming up, can you cast your minds back, please, to this ? your minds back, please, to this? you might need a few more seconds there, i'm afraid. >> as ever, one rule for them , >> as ever, one rule for them, another rule for everybody else.

a new britain built on decency , a new britain built on decency, security, prosperity and respect is welcome in my labour party. >> well, look , fast forward >> well, look, fast forward a few months and starmer appears to have accepted £100,000 worth of freebies. that is more than any other major party leader in recent times, and he's also handed his right hand woman, sue gray, a pay rise so big that she's now earning more than him. so is he britain's biggest scrounger ? my panel are going to scrounger? my panel are going to take that on, but just on a completely unrelated note, i would just like to remind everybody of a little fundraiser that we are looking to do here. and it is for britain's pensioners. so we are doing it for friends of the elderly, and we're trying to raise as much money as possible. and you can go to justgiving.com forward slash , page forward slash slash, page forward slash friends of the elderly. now already in the last. well, what's this been now? it's not even been 72 hours, is it? we've raised £141,303. but can i also

just point you in the direction of the amount of gift aid that we've raised? that's £30,156, which it takes. it to a grand total of somewhere in the region of £170,000 for friends of the elderly on tomorrow's show, i'll be talking to the ceo of friends of the elderly. so he can explain exactly to you where your money is going to go. so thank you very much. anyway, i've loads more coming. your way in just a second,

okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now coming up is keir starmer now britain's biggest scrounger. but first prince harry will jet back to the uk later this month , we the uk later this month, we believe to attend the wellchild awards in london in his role as the charity's patron. but tellingly, there's no mention of his wife accompanying him following reports that she's vowed to never set foot in the uk again. oh well, never mind. this comes after both buckingham palace and kensington palace

wished harry a happy 40th birthday on social media last week, with royal fans quick to point out that meghan has been cropped out of the picture used on the social media snap. joining me now is the editor at large of the mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths. charlotte, you have been ahead of the curve on pretty much every single harry story of recent times. so. so what do we know about this? so what do we know about this? so he's going to come back. but he's not really going to meet his dad. we don't think certainly not going to meet wills. >> he's definitely not going to meet william. and although william wished him a happy birthday technically on social media, i don't think that was william on the keyboard typing it out somehow. but but i have to say, kensington palace will have had to have checked with him. so that's a tiny concession from prince william that, you know, just acknowledging harry's existence for the first time on social media since 2021. but i don't think he's going to see william, and i don't think he's going to see his dad because his dad's going to be in scotland. however, i think it would be a really bad publicity misstep for king charles not to see harry. so i wouldn't be surprised if harry tries to get up to balmoral or to scotland, because harry loves balmoral and we know

that king charles is going to stay , he's going to holyrood and stay, he's going to holyrood and then he's going to stay on, probably in balmoral for a couple of days. so i wouldn't be surprised if harry tries to get up there. >> yeah. no, indeed. you think that it would be the best thing for king charles to actually see harry? >> i think so, because he hasn't seen him since february, when they obviously famously saw each other for 40 minutes. then harry's been over twice since then and not seen his father, and it was quite embarrassing when he sort of harry released a statement saying he tried to see his father, but because he was too busy, you know, he totally understood. but charles wasn't able to see him. it was a kind of backhanded sort of insult towards king charles, saying dad was too busy to see me. >> i mean, there have been some newspaper articles recently, just over the weekend, about harry apparently wanting some kind of reconciliation with his father. do you buy that? >> that's what i've been hearing. i think all the mood music from harry's camp is that he really wants to get back in uk circles, and sure enough, he's coming over at the end of this month and to reconcile with his dad to and somehow not be exiled from his social group and from his own family. >> is it too late for that,

though? is there too much water under the bridge? you know, do you think a lot of those social groups, you know, that he may be used to hang around in, actually, they don't recognise him or know him anymore. a different person, i think for a long time that was the case and it's definitely at the case and it's definitely at the moment for william. >> there's no going back. but charles, don't forget he's an ill man and we know he's a very spiritual man. you know, he has it in him to forgive his own son. and no, dad wants to be fully estranged from their son. so i think there's a chance for him and charles and i think even for his friends, as well, because a lot of his friends have been saying behind the scenes, you know, we sort of understand his motives for going over to america and wanting to find love and wanting to have a family. it'sjust find love and wanting to have a family. it's just that he went about it in all the wrong ways to say the least. but, you know, people aren't, totally as against him at the moment as they used to be. that's what i'm heanng they used to be. that's what i'm hearing from his camp. >> well, well, just to whiz it on as well, because the princess of wales, catherine, she's returning to her first royal engagement of the year, i believe, but there was another way of kind of reading

everything that was going on, wasn't there ? which is that wasn't there? which is that actually, she watched. let's see what she is doing first. windsor castle, she was there yesterday. and it's just because early childhood development is a cause close to her heart. it marks the first time that princess kate has been listed on the official record of royal events since finishing chemotherapy. but you don't think she's going to be in a rush to do too much more? >> yeah, i think that that video is lovely and charming as it was , is lovely and charming as it was, was her sort of saying, actually, i'm going to take a bit of a back seat with royal engagements. of course, she's going to be at the cenotaph in november and at the carol concert at christmas. and of course, she's going to be involved in the early years royal foundation stuff, because that's her legacy. she's truly passionate about that. but i just don't think she's going to be really heavy on the royal dufies be really heavy on the royal duties because she's had this , duties because she's had this, you know, life threatening condition. her youngest child is only six. i think she wants to spend time with her children and her family while she can. there will come a time when kate is the queen and she will be doing royal engagements. after royal

engagements until she's 96. i mean, prince philip retired at 96. she's got the rest of her life. >> so do you think actually, obviously she has been ill. there's no there's no question of that and everything, but but you think that she might use that as a way of not use that. but you know what i mean. try and try and now take the foot off the gas until she is queen. so she's conceivably got quite a few years before she is queen. yeah. so it's that can that can be a wholesome time and then she's going to be bang at it work wise. >> that's what i think. and i also think until her children are a bit older and until she's fully, fully past the words cancer wise, it's a really big life awakening moment, isn't it? surviving cancer. she wants to do what really matters. it's spending time with her family. yeah, indeed. >> well, look. thank you very, very much. great to have you on the show. great to have your insight as well. and coming up, if you could just do me a favour and just cast your minds back to when we heard quite a lot of this going on, didn't we? >> as ever, one rule for them , >> as ever, one rule for them, another rule for everybody else . another rule for everybody else. >> well, what a difference a few months make because starmer now accepted £100,000 worth of

freebies . is accepted £100,000 worth of freebies. is he britain's biggest scrounger? it's not just him. can i say it's also his wife? it's also now his chief of staff, sue gray, who's got a whopping great big pay rise. angela rayner, who's apparently had holidays and some clothes as well. what is going on there at the heart of the labour party? and look at the fact that he's going to ask us all to tighten our belts in the coming months. et cetera. has he now lost all ability to be able to do that? and just as a quick little reminder to everybody as well, we have got a fundraiser on the go for friends of the elderly. that fundraiser is now doing incredibly well. please go to justgiving.com . forward slash justgiving.com. forward slash page forward slash save our seniors. you've raised an amazing £141,735 in donations in less than three days. the ceo of friends of the elderly will be on tomorrow. just to tell you about some case studies and exactly where your money is going to be spent. you are going to save lives. so thank you very, very much. stay tuned for the next hour .

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>> go away . >> go away. >> go away. >> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight as ever. >> one rule for them , another >> one rule for them, another rule for everybody else. a new britain built on decency , britain built on decency, security, prosperity and respect is welcome in my labour party . is welcome in my labour party. >> is keir starmer the biggest scrounger in britain? his list of freebies is growing by the day. >> and i think if i was a spy, i'd be a pretty poor fighter. spy. if people are talking about

me being a spy. >> sue gray is now the only pensioner in britain getting a pay pensioner in britain getting a pay rise this winter. there's big trouble behind the scenes in laboun big trouble behind the scenes in labour. also shock, horror angela rayner has also been in the trough. you just couldn't make this up and down here lives the fatberg, a mixture of rancid, fat , human excrement and rancid, fat, human excrement and other unmentionables . your taxes other unmentionables. your taxes and water bills could be about to go up so the government can bail out a water company that's been pumping sewage into the rivers and how do you say cappuccino in welsh? >> frothy coffee? >> frothy coffee? >> well, welsh labour are removing the free school bus passes for english speaking schoolchildren. isn't that a little bit racist? and what's going on in lebanon ? ten hag going on in lebanon? ten hag tric award . on my panel tonight tric award. on my panel tonight is the director of the popular

conservatives, mark littlewood, landlord and activist adam brooks, and broadcaster judy da brooks, and broadcasterjudy da silva. oh and find out what britain's naughtiest squirrel did this week. yeah, get ready britain, here we go . britain, here we go. is keir starmer britain's biggest scrounger? next . biggest scrounger? next. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines. just after 10:00, israel has declared a new phase of war as its army turns its attention to the northern front with lebanon. it comes after another wave of explosions have reportedly killed 14 people and wounded hundreds more in lebanon. it's understood that walkie talkies have been targeted in the latest attacks, rather than pages. it

comes as hezbollah has launched rockets at israel, marking the first cross—border attack since explosions rocked the country. the terrorist group have accused israel for what's believed to have been a remote attack targeting hand—held communication devices. the israeli defence forces say they did strike a hezbollah target last night, but declined to comment on the explosions. 12 people, including two children, were killed in the blasts and nearly 3000 remain in hospital . nearly 3000 remain in hospital. now back in the uk, it's understood sir keir starmer's chief of staff received a pay rise after the election, which means she is now paid more than the prime minister. it's being reported that sue gray asked for, and was given a salary of £170,000. that's £3,000 more than the prime minister and more than the prime minister and more than any cabinet minister or her conservative predecessor. now, in the us, harvey weinstein has appeared in court over a new sex crime charge accused of sexually

assaulting a woman in a hotel in new york in 2006. the new indictment against the disgraced producer was first announced last week , although no details last week, although no details were released at the time. weinstein's latest hearing comes just over a week after he underwent emergency heart surgery . in other news, buffer surgery. in other news, buffer zones will come into force around abortion clinics in england and wales from the 31st of october. it will make it illegal to protest or hand out anti—abortion leaflets within 150 metre radius, or obstruct anyone using an abortion clinic. those convicted of breaking the new law will face an unlimited fine. a spokesperson for right to life uk said the zones will mean vital practical support provided, which helps to provide a genuine choice and offers to help women who may be undergoing coercion will be removed. and finally, drivers from the aslef union have overwhelmingly backed a new pay deal from the department for transport, ending

a dispute that began two years ago.the a dispute that began two years ago. the deal promises drivers a 15% pay rise over three years, with 97% of the union's members voting in favour. since july 2020, two, train drivers have walked out for 18 days, crippling services across the country. but with the new agreement, passengers can look forward to some long awaited stability on the rails. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. now it's back to patrick for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> i think keir starmer and his wife might be britain's biggest scroungers. it's free gear. keir and lady victoria scrounger isn't it? >> and return of politics to

pubuc >> and return of politics to public service. when the gap between the sacrifices made by people and the service they receive from politicians grows, this big. it leads to a weariness in the heart of a nation. this lack of trust can only be healed by actions. >> there we go. well, starmer's salary is paid for by the taxpayer. his previous salary was paid for by the taxpayer. he lives rent free in a flat in central london, paid for by the taxpayer. he gets his mps expenses. it turns out today that he's received £100,000 worth of gifts and freebies from wealthy donors. he's even got a load of stuff for his wife thrown in as well. >> he and anyone else who wants to build a new britain built on decency, security, prosperity and respect is welcome in my labor party today. >> arsenal football club have

offered him free use of a hospitality box. this would cost around £8,750 per game, so we'll have to declare that on his next round of expenses. it's also emerged that his wife went to see taylor swift not once, but twice. he's had glasses. he's had suits. he's been to see coldplay all on someone else's dime. >> i believe in honour, integrity . integrity. >> yeah. he's even declared things late. remarkable considering he said this. >> as ever, one rule for them , >> as ever, one rule for them, another rule for everybody else. >> he's lost all credibility, hasn't he? do you remember this? >> but i will be honest with you. there is a budget coming in october, and it's going to be painful. we have no other choice . painful. we have no other choice. given the situation that we're in. those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden .

heavier burden. >> not if you're in the labour party. angela rayner has had a free holiday to new york, reportedly loads of clothes as well. and now sue gray is apparently walking around like our unelected deputy prime minister got a whopping great big pay rise. she's now paid more than the prime minister. cien 170 grand. one source said it was suggested that she might want to go for a few thousand pounds less than the prime minister to avoid this very story, but she declined. starmer absolutely slammed boris johnson for giving dominic cummings a pay for giving dominic cummings a pay rise . there you go. there's pay rise. there you go. there's always a tweet, isn't there? there's always a tweet. he keeps saying the tories left a financial mess. we're all going to have to tighten our belts. pensioners will freeze to death in their own homes. this winter. but he gets to live the high life on a billionaire's dime. look every time his wife wants something , he just wanders up to something, he just wanders up to lord alli like a socialist, oliver twist doesn't. he? gives

out his begging bowl. please, sir. please, can i have some more? there you go. anyway pay your own way. sir keir and lady scrounger, let's get our thoughts on my final director of the popular conservatives, mark littlewood. we've also got businessman and activist adam brooks and broadcast journalist judy da silva. mark, i mean, this is just absolutely unbelievable from a bloke who stood in front of us every single day going, are we going to be something very different? we're going to have honour and decency. and meanwhile it's just freebie, freebie , freebie isn't it? >> it does seem that way. again, i think there's a few things to parcel out here. you're right to say and to point out on those clips, as you just have, how puritanical he was. so he's apparently entitled to all of this, but woe betide any conservative who gets a private individual to pay for their wallpaper, or take them to a concert or something . look, i concert or something. look, i would say this about keir starmer. i've never met the man. he's obviously much more powerful than me. he's the second most powerful person in

britain after sue gray. and he's and he's enormously richer than me. but i do know i have two things in common with him. one is i like to watch my own football team. that's southampton in my case, arsenal in his. and the second is like him. i like to wear clothes. yeah. but in both cases i pay for my own tickets there. right. and i pay for my own clothing . and i pay for my own clothing. and i pay for my own clothing. and the bit that's so weird about this. i don't really object. and you can see why, as the leader of the opposition companies and others would say, we'd like to take you out for a night at the theatre and have a discussion with you. this is a man who was likely to be prime minister. he's in high demand, but things that in your normal life you would by yourself? yes your clothes, the ticket to a football team that you want to support. and it's not as if he can't afford the top end tickets at the at the emirates to then take those from other people and then to find that these people who've gifted you that seem to have passes to number 10 downing street, that i'm afraid does smell pretty bad.

>> i mean, the optics of this are absolutely appalling. it gets worse by the day because more stuff comes out by the day. he said. he's going to keep taking this. how can he stand before the note when that budget is delivered in october? how on earth can he stand next to that? meanwhile, when times get tough in the starmer household, he just goes , sorry, is that lord just goes, sorry, is that lord alli? hi. can my wife get some more clothes from you, please? it's ridiculous. >> look at the weekend. i took a microphone and a camera to a high street, and i spoke to a load of pensioners that, you know, some voted labour, some didn't . but the anger out there didn't. but the anger out there is so high. they cannot believe what this government is doing. and as you said , the optics is and as you said, the optics is terrible. they are living the high life. keir starmer has had more freebies than any other mp over the last five years. i mean, after what he said in interviews and in parliament, this is the biggest hypocrite in politics. it's such a bad look

and they are so out of touch with the normal people of this country, and i would have thought that they would have give it a year or so, you know, before they they decided to act like this. but it's after weeks they've got no shame. >> theresa. is he britain's biggest scrounger? >> i don't know about britain's biggest scrounger, but i think he's just, playing the system that's available to him. and i do. i've tried so many ways to kind of put my mind in yoga positions to rationalise how he would think this would work for him, and i can't come up with a reason , but i would say that reason, but i would say that this is what happens when there is more full disclosure, because i think if all leaders before him truly, fully disclosed their gifting indulgences , they would gifting indulgences, they would probably be clocking up the same amount of money as keir starmer. well, they have to. >> they have to disclose it. if you're an mp. >> i mean, there are ways around it. if you bracket it as something that was personal, you need not disclose it. there's always ways around being fully

open with what you've accepted as a gift, but dependent on what kind of gift it was and in what vein it was given. but then at the same time, i also feel that i just can't understand why. say no? show a bit more discernment and just say no thank you. it's also the big problem is what? >> what is lord alli getting for this? exactly that. yeah. we don't know do we? >> £575,000 is donated to labour mps over the last four years. he hosted them late late night midnight pool parties at his mayfair home with cabinet ministers. what is he getting? >> yeah, but i think the real this hospitality. i'm trying to be evenhanded here because i've sat probably on this very couch defending conservatives in a similar position. i don't mind someone who's rich, who decides to give money to a political party of their choice. the issue for me is he was given a pass to number 10 downing street without having a job. it was a temporary pass. they cancelled it. i think they realised they'd made an

error, but that's appalling and if you've actually got a rich benefactor who says i support the political project you're on, there's a whole load of money and i'm going to give money to labour candidates as well. that's part and parcel of politics. but if that very person then gets special access to number 10 downing street, what on earth is going on? >> apparently, according to bloomberg, he's still attending meetings. >> why? well, that that should again be put. you know, that should be clear what his role is and what job function he has. >> i think the good thing the ugly good thing about this is that it throws the doors open to seeing how the brokerage of power happens within this level of operation . and this is what of operation. and this is what happens, like when somebody it's one hand washes the other. if somebody donates, they're going to want something, then nothing comes for nothing . and if this comes for nothing. and if this is the extent of it , it comes for nothing. and if this is the extent of it, it is a very, very poorly thought out execution plan to have someone have a pass to number 10. i still don't know who his advisors are. i don't know what issue they have with just saying

if like you said, if i bought if iused if like you said, if i bought if i used to buy it for myself, i'll still buy it now because you would look better as a labour government. but at the same time it is nothing new under the sun. >> it's an interesting potentially anyway psychological insight again into keir starmer though, isn't it? you know how much in common with the working man and woman does this guy? does this guy have. yeah. you know okay. well if you look at his early life , i mean anyone his early life, i mean anyone who keeps having to bang on relentlessly about the fact that their dad was a toolmaker implies to me that maybe they don't have that much of a working class pedigree themselves, surely could come up with something. it's a bit. it was actually a bit fields of wheat territory for me to keep doing that. his education was pretty, pretty good education. there's not too much working class around that. certainly his professional career, certainly the things he's been able to do for his mum in the later years of her life bought a seven acre plot in surrey, which she turned into a donkey sanctuary. it's fantastic that, isn't it? i know plenty of people would be. would love to do that. lives in lives in north london and you get to where you are today. multi—millionaire. and now he just thinks, of course he'll take a load of freebies. that's

not very it's not very working class. >> it's not very working class. i mean, i do sometimes i wonder that and worry that british politics is a bit too hair shirted in that american politicians go round and lie about how rich they are. they put a nought on the end of their wealth. they claim to be billionaires when they're only millionaires, whereas our rich people sort of try to pretend they're poor. i mean, i actually have to say, our former prime minister, rishi sunak, i think, you know , a number of his faults you know, a number of his faults did this quite well. he said, i'm unembarrassed about the fact that i'm rich. i'm from a family that's been successful, that's worked hard. >> i'm not going to apologise for doing all this now, though, but you get the sense that this is a guilty pleasure for our present prime minister. >> he doesn't really. you know, he likes being rich but doesn't want to admit he's rich. that's why my dad was a toolmaker. came out in every other sentence dunng out in every other sentence during the general election campaign. i don't know why he doesn't just say i'm affluent. i've had a successful legal career. the prime minister is on a high salary. i'm therefore going to pay for my own arsenal tickets. >> this . it tickets. >> this. it makes me laugh because a whole generation of

people thought that voting labour was going to be something different. they were going to be their friend. they weren't going to rub it in their faces. and now they've faced a labour government under keir starmer that are freezing pensioners and living the high life and rubbing it in their faces. there's some there's going to be some real regret out there from youngsters that voted labour. >> well, i mean, how does he square this when it comes to a budget or certain things ? as budget or certain things? as adam was raising there about issues surrounding pensioners etc? when you think, well, you know, he's he is taking a lot of freebies. that plays badly and optically and pr wise he can't square this. >> but what it can, what he can ride on is say there has been full disclosure and i've always said i would be honest about what i've done good, bad or ugly, that is a good thing. going forward, there has to be a consensus and a real move to do things differently. to show that i've seen the error of my ways, which is showing which shows growth and also culpability. but he has to use this as a mile marker to show that, like you

said, if you are a labour leader, walk in the path of what laboun leader, walk in the path of what labour, the labour party represents. you can't function in ways that are akin to the tories while bashing them, because that shows inconsistency. >> well, this is it. i wonder if he regrets being so, so pious or puritanical as you were saying before, you know, because really you do . if you dish it out, then you do. if you dish it out, then you're going to have to take it. i'm afraid. and he's dished it out more than anyone i can imagine when it comes to people, you know, whether it's wallpaper or i blame his advisors as well, i really do, because you would turn the arsenal box down. >> i mean, i would anyway. >> i mean, i would anyway. >> yeah, you burn it down. >> yeah, you burn it down. >> yeah, you burn it down. >> yeah, but come on, you just said to him, keir, this is a bad look. yeah. just be one of the people. >> yeah, but you should know that himself, right? yeah. i mean, to be honest with you, your advisers should be helping your advisers should be helping you on the margins. they should be correcting your grammatical errors. they shouldn't be giving you a moral compass. and you need that in all politics. >> you do have advisers that tell you about how optics work, because you'll be surprised how disconnected politicians are. >> the optics here are so bad he

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west , tom gifford, when he of the senate for south wales west, tom gifford, when he joins me live. also, we do have some exclusive polling to bring you, which mark will be sifting through later on in the show as well, about where tory party members are at when it comes to their next leader and the direction of the party. so stay tuned for all of that.

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council in wales has scrapped free transport for nursery and sixth form pupils , but bridgend sixth form pupils, but bridgend borough council said that it made the reluctant decision to stop providing travel for children aged four or under and those 16 or over. however, the local authority will continue to lay on transport free of charge for pupils who attend what's called welsh medium schools, where pupils are taught and converse in welsh and free schools , so the changes will schools, so the changes will kick in from the start of next full school year in september 2025. but i just looked at this and i thought, well, hang on a minute, is this not a little bit racist? i'm joined now by the conservative msp for south wales west and shadow minister for education, culture and sports, tom giffard. tom, thank you very much. yeah, so look i get that, i get that it's in wales. but you would have thought that, that children who speak english won't be punished. >> yeah. look, i, you know, i

live in bridgend. >> i used to be on bridgend council. i know the area very well . and you know, we as welsh well. and you know, we as welsh conservatives believe in choice. at the end of the day, you know, if you're a parent you should have that choice between whether you send your children to an engush you send your children to an english medium or a welsh medium school. and i think what happens here is when you take the choice away, if you like, you say to somebody, well, actually, you know, if you go to a welsh medium school, we'll give you the free transport. but if you want to choose to send your child to an english medium school, you know, you'll have to either make your own arrangements or kind of risk the walk and the dangers that lie with that. it kind of takes that choice away, i think, and it makes the decision for those parents. and i don't think that's the right approach at all. i think it's absolutely, fundamentally unfair. >> yeah. you're right. i mean, conceivably i don't know how expensive the buses are, whether or not that would plunge anyone into a life of poverty. i don't quite know, but it certainly would make children less safe if they couldn't get on the bus. thenif they couldn't get on the bus. then if something happens to a child and that has happened to them as a result of them being an english speaker and not a welsh speaker, i would imagine we'd hear quite a lot about that in the press. >> yeah, for sure. and one of

the reasons bridgend council's got to do this is because this is part of the welsh labour government's regulation in this area where they say they have to provide this transport for welsh medium schools, but the same provision isn't in place for engush provision isn't in place for english medium schools in the same way. and the council itself says they reckon that this will boost the number of welsh speakers in bridgend. but for me , speakers in bridgend. but for me, you've boosted it through forcing people, if you like to, to pursue that and i'm a welsh speaken to pursue that and i'm a welsh speaker, look , i believe in the speaker, look, i believe in the in the power of welsh language education. i'm not doing it from the perspective of believing people shouldn't, but i believe people shouldn't, but i believe people shouldn't, but i believe people should do it based on choice, based on the fact that they see the benefits of it and they see the benefits of it and they bought into it, and they want their children to learn welsh, not because it's the only opfion welsh, not because it's the only option on the table. >> yeah, i would have thought that this would presumably fall foul of some human rights act as well, that potentially some lawyers, if they wanted to, could get hold of this and, and do something with it. i do i do cover quite a lot of stories from from wales actually. one of the ones that i do cover quite a lot is again welsh labour's

decision at times, i think, to either put new accommodation for some new arrivals, whether that's refugees or asylum seekers, in some quite , i would seekers, in some quite, i would say maybe iffy places or at times maybe prioritise them. it seems odd that they would do that, but then also try to make a show of force about the welsh language, i don't know. look, you would know more about this than me as shadow minister for education, culture and sport. but i do question how much welsh labour does does actually really care about welsh culture at times. >> yeah. look. and at the end of the day, you want to have a situation where people are buying into this through through choice, right? i'd be the last person to tell you that welsh culture is unimportant. and our welsh language is unimportant. but the minute you start forcing it on people, the minute you start saying, actually, this is the only option for you and your child that alienates you totally. i think from the from the process entirely. what you want is a bilingual society. but remember, bilingualism works both ways . if parents can have both ways. if parents can have the choice to send their children to a welsh medium school, it should also have that same choice and same provision to send them to an english

medium school if they so choose . medium school if they so choose. bilingualism isn't just about the ability to speak welsh, it's about the ability to choose which language you converse in. >> yeah . no, indeed. well, look, >> yeah. no, indeed. well, look, tom, thank you very much. great to have your time this evening. always a pleasure. it's tom gifford there who's the shadow minister for education, culture and sport in wales. we reached out to the team at bridgend county borough council and their spokesman said we have resisted making this change for as long as possible. but after having to reduce council funding by £88.4 million over 14 consecutive years, we've reached a point where we must reluctantly change our previously generous home to school transport offer and bring it in line with welsh government legislation. the new offer includes welsh medium nursery and post 16 pupils. because the law in wales requires us to protect and promote the welsh language, while supporting those attending faith schools helps to meet our equalities duty and ensures a diversity of education. okay. all right. but again sorry , just to clarify again sorry, just to clarify this. if you happen to be a bog standard working class english speaking child in that area, you are at the back of the queue .

are at the back of the queue. that's that's what that reads like to me yet again, for not the first time, but there we go. coming up, the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages have landed. i will bring them to you next. and what on earth has been going on in lebanon ? aj has been going on in lebanon? aj bakhmut one. it loads of different things have been blowing it's all very mysterious. this is patrick christys

gb news. welcome back to patrick christys tonight, and it's time to bring you the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. so let's do it. i'm going to start us off with the daily mail. labour has undermined israel, says benjamin netanyahu. this is after the hezbollah walkie talkie explosion in a second wave of carnage. they've also, of course, got the story that we've already spoken about there, about sue gray and

starmer. they've called them champagne socialists, one and two. let's go for the metro secrets of israel. gadget blitz first pages explode , then radios first pages explode, then radios as hezbollah is blasted . and as hezbollah is blasted. and that has continued the daily express. they go off on the walkie talkie blasts as well. second wave of attacks israel suspected of remotely detonating more devices in lebanon used by hezbollah. the. i have gone for a different story . rogue a different story. rogue landlord mp founded a nursery firm accused of child safety breaches. this is labour's jas athwal. he's a director of village day nurseries, which cares for children under the age of five. all three of its properties have been criticised by ofsted inspectors. apparently companies house records list the ilford south mp as having significant control of the firm. he was recently forced to apologise after it emerged that he was renting out substandard flats with mould and ant infestations. and we can just round off this tranche of newspapers with the daily telegraph. they go new phase of

middle east and war after walkie talkie blitz. they've also got melania. i'm proud of my nude modelling and pm rewrites rules to pay sue gray more than he earns. oh, there's a story on page four. starmer and lord ali's £18 million penthouse, which i have a sense, might be doing some of the rounds tomorrow. whenever anyone finally gets to read telegraph page finally gets to read telegraph page four. but there you go. it keeps on coming. and now, just before we talk about some of these front pages, mark, i'm going to kind of lob it your way a little bit here because you've been doing some research haven't you, at the popular conservatives. and it's an exclusive poll from your group. and it's revealed that grassroots tory members, i believe, support robert jenrick over kemi badenoch to become the next tory party leader . and 89% next tory party leader. and 89% think that the next leader should move the party somewhat, or significantly to the right. so can you flesh that out a bit for us?

>> so, patrick, we've been asking about 500 grassroots members rank and file members of the tory party every couple of weeks. their views on a number of issues. we always ask them about the leadership question and each fortnight their views have changed a little . but have changed a little. but overwhelmingly robert jenrick and kemi badenoch are well out in front and i think it's very, very likely that one of those two will prevail. our polls suggest that if it is a head to head between them, generic would narrowly beat badenoch. not much in it and plenty to play for. and the reason we're polling the members is at the moment, these two, plus james cleverly and tom tugendhat, are still fighting the parliamentary rounds. the 121 tory mps will cut it down to two. we don't know who those two are. those two are then put to the rank and file members, the sort of people we're talking to. and at that point, the whole leadership election changes radically because the grassroots of the party, one member, one vote, it's becoming increasingly clear what what they want. we

actually asked the membership, where do you think the conservative party is now ? this conservative party is now? this is a party they're a member of. on the political spectrum, 49% of tory party members thought the conservative party was very left, fairly left, or slightly left. only 24% said they thought the conservative party today is slightly right, 7% fairly right, 1% very right. so as you correctly point out , patrick, correctly point out, patrick, nearly 90% of members want the next leader to shift to the conservative party somewhat to the right or significantly, to the right or significantly, to the right. and it's my view that whichever of these four are will get down to two. whichever of these four put the most compelling for case that is actually likely to be the next leader of the opposition. and this matters because we've got we spent a lot of this show talking about the kind of of the lab effectively, there's no official opposition at the moment. this is part will become november the

2nd. >> you know, i do appreciate that a lot of this show is about decisions that are being made now by the current government or perceived scandals by the current government. you know, it will be quite nice. i think, once the tories get their new leader and they start actually being in opposition properly, and they can oppose things like the budget to do a bit more talking about that, because at the moment it's this and i mean, the moment it's this and i mean, the telegraph has got a picture of a gender fluid dog on the front of it. yeah, that that story has been that story is three days old, which does say a little bit about where we are in the news at the moment, i think. but adam, just based on what you've heard there from, from mark, do you think that's the right direction for the tory party? 100%. >> i used to like kemi badenoch and i used to think she would she would unite a lot of people in this country and take away a lot of the left's sort of attack arguments. but since she cosied up to, michael gove, i don't particularly trust her now going forward. and there's some past comments she made about embracing immigration, high immigration in this country. so robert jenrick over the last 18

months has said the right things. i like his rhetoric, i like his manner, and i think going forward, he is the best bet for the conservatives. whether that would get someone like me back to voting conservative, we'd have to see their actions and what they might at least consider it. i might at least consider it. i might consider it if robert jenrick was was the leader. >> well, that says a lot. do you? what's your view on this? you know, as somebody looking into looking into the tory party with slightly, i would dare say , with slightly, i would dare say, maybe slightly less of a vested interest in it. who do you think would cause the biggest problem for keir starmer, >> i think probably robert jenrick, because the thing is, it's a difference between short term and long term. it's the same thing as what keir starmer did when he wanted to win leadership of the labour party. he played to the left. when you want to lead leadership of the country, you lead, you move towards the centre. the same thing would happen here. you're trying to the biggest problem the tories have now is consolidation of the party as a unit. so you do have to gravitate towards the left, but long term that is not a viable

opfion long term that is not a viable option because when you look at what happened in the election, they lost a lot more seats to they lost a lot more seats to the lib dems and labour than they did to the reform uk. so a retaliatory reaction isn't in the long term benefit of the party. if you're truly pushing towards getting back in power, you've got to gravitate towards the centre and present yourself as a kind of party with right leaning ideals. but an awareness of the left. that's enough to say that you can consolidate a governing power for everyone equally. >> some some head shaking going on here. >> yeah, i mean, that's the conventional wisdom. and i'm not saying it's completely wrong that elections are won from the centre ground, but in the particular plight that faces the conservative party at the moment, the reason that the conservative party lost so many seats is not because vast numbers of conservatives were defecting to the liberal democrats or to labour. it was vast numbers of conservatives defected to reform uk or not allowing the liberal democrats or labour to take seats. the liberal democrat vote didn't go up, especially it's the conservative vote went down because the tories were leaking

votes to reform uk. now i'm not so naive to say you can just add those two numbers together and the right would win, but i would have thought the starting point for the next conservative party leader is how do i win over a good chunk of the 4 million who voted reform? because if the conservatives can't do that, and they probably can't get every last man jack of them, i'll make sure robert jenrick gives you a call . adam. call. adam. >> if he does become party leader, he follows me on x, by the way, but you're the sort of person that the conservatives need to appeal to if they're going to have a snowball in hell's chance . hell's chance. >> and i would have thought the first move is to consolidate, not just the party, but the right of centre vote. and without that, there's no pathway to victory between short and long term. >> because even if you gravitate towards the right to create that consolidation, when it comes to pushing for power, which is the next thing the party would want if they're all moving in tandem, is to do what it takes to unify a country support of you to the point where you can win an election. you're gravitating back towards the centre, and you create that division again. whatever you start now, you have to be consistent with long term. >> but it might be that the

conservative vote plus, i mean, just to pick two, if you retain the conservative vote, a very dilapidated 24%, a very poor number, if you were to add on to that, about half of the reform vote. well, i mean, you're nearly within touching distance of winning. labour won the election on 33% of the vote. so i'm not saying that you shouldn't look towards people who voted labour or lib dem. clearly you should. but the first bit is to rebuild that base. but let's remember the turnout was so low for a general election. only 1 turnout was so low for a general election. only1 in turnout was so low for a general election. only 1 in 5 people voted labour. >> many people i know that used to vote conservative didn't bother voting at all either, because there wasn't a reform candidate or they just lost all trust in politics. the other the other challenge is to get those soft tories off their sofa. >> well, that's well that's interesting. >> i mean, yet again, some cracking data. lots to pick over there. robert jenrick out in front at the moment. and apparently the tory voting pubuc apparently the tory voting public quite keen on them moving to the right. quite funny to think that they currently think the party is somewhere, somewhere to the left. yeah.

which might explain a fair few things. but anyway. yeah, look very different story this now at least 14 people have died and 450 are injured following a fresh wave of attacks this afternoon in east lebanon and southern beirut, a day after 12 people were killed by pager explosions. so at least one of the blasts heard took place near a funeral that had actually been organised by hezbollah. for those people who were killed yesterday , rydon . yesterday, rydon. yet remarkable. that was just one of loads of clips that were doing the rounds today. interesting that on the front of the mail they've got labourers undermined israel, says benjamin netanyahu, if you go for the metro, though , they're talking metro, though, they're talking about the secrets of israel's gadget blitz, so apparently israel's secret service, mossad,

is believed to have hidden explosives in handheld messaging devices, which was sold to hezbollah by a firm in hungary. tuesday's attack in lebanon killed 12, as we were talking about. and then another one went off today. but yeah, apparently , off today. but yeah, apparently, apparently they're now just in complete and utter turmoil over there because they don't know what's going to blow up next. yeah. >> i mean, i'm no military expert or expert on military intelligence, but i think i'm right in saying, on the face of it, whichever, whatever view you take of the middle east conflict, this is a brilliantly targeted attack that previously the sort of aim was, oh my god, it's indiscriminate. what israel is doing. this seems to be specifically targeted. it won't be perfect, but at least is targeted. and to that extent, i mean sort of as an exercise, as a military exercise . hats off. a military exercise. hats off. >> people are making the point that really , if ordinary members that really, if ordinary members of the public are probably not walking around with hezbollah pages, which , yeah, let's pages, which, yeah, let's remember, since october 7, was

it that the attacks there has been 8000 hezbollah rockets target israel's civilian community? >> this is war. i don't agree with what israel has done in gaza, but they have the right to defend themselves. and, you know, this is a genius way of doing it. and minimal because the bad guys and hopefully not the bad guys and hopefully not the innocent civilians . the innocent civilians. >> do you think that this is this is we are witnessing one of the kind of greatest intelligence masterstrokes of modern times or not. >> i wouldn't go that far. but like i do agree that it's targeted. it's well—planned, it's effectively executed . but it's effectively executed. but it's effectively executed. but it also shows that they have the capacity to do it this way as opposed to the way they've been doing it. thus far, which sheds more light on what your motivations must be when it comes to the differences to different locations. interesting take. >> very interesting. right? okay. coming up, a lib dem councillor has claimed that she was diagnosed with ptsd over brexit. yes, you heard that right. so can you really blame britain leaving the eu on

everything? my panel will. we'll thrash that one out when we crown tonight's greatest britain and union jackass. but before that, i will have some more newspaper front pages for you. and i'll unmask britain's naughtiest squirrel. that's

next. okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. and i've got some more newspapers for you. so here we go at the guardian. fears of escalation as second wave of deadly explosions hits lebanon . we go now to the lebanon. we go now to the mirror. they've got murky world of diddy's parties. which is this , p diddy sean combs, these this, p diddy sean combs, these absolutely unbelievable details that appear to be coming out now about the kind of things that

he, he may have been up to at these kind of freak parties that were called, i think, there's going to be a lot more about that in the coming days. their main story they go off, though, is like practically everybody else. the walkie talkie explosions, the sun have gone off on that as well. they've also got a sidebar here of joey and love island jesse split, which frankly took months longer than i thought it would, but inevitably has happened anyway. so we wish them both very, very well. right? we've not got a huge amount of time left on the show, but as ever, i'm joined by my wonderful press pack. but i wanted to deal with, a little bit of, well , frankly, an bit of, well, frankly, an unusual story. it's a train that was cancelled after two squirrels jumped on board. so great western railway terminated the reading to get this gatwick airport service during rush houn airport service during rush hour. so this is for people who are genuinely trying to get to an airport to get on a plane, because the two squirrels quotes refuse to leave . so the distress

refuse to leave. so the distress calls led to passengers running off the train at surrey while the conductor attempted to eject these scoundrel squirrels, one escaped. i'm presuming this means squirrel. yes it does, one escaped, but the remaining squirrel who was unable to be booted off led to the complete cancellation. not just of this train, but of loads of other trains. as well, leaving passengers in danger of missing their flights , not getting to their flights, not getting to work, missing job interviews and i am sorry, but every single time anything happens like this, however, a squirrel, a squirrel can bring great western railway to a halt. >> it's ridiculous, isn't it? i mean, in fairness to great western railways, there's a i've got the press statement that they've sent out . there's a they've sent out. there's a certain degree of tongue in cheek humour about it which terminated flight. the squirrels boarded the train without tickets. i mean, they're obviously. but but what are the bit that i don't know, i would be fuming, but hang on. a source told the newspapers that this

isn't from gwr. it was complete pandemonium. the squirrels got into the rear carriage and attacked people. i mean, this is almost like a scene from the movie alien or something . them movie alien or something. them off the train and you would have thought the airport, you would have thought you'd still want to make your flight. and unless you're a rather snowflakey person, you can probably cope with a squirrel in the carriage. >> you can? yes, i mean, in britain, we're more likely to put this squirrel in prison than a child sex offender. >> well, that might be right as well. >> well, there we go. certainly something jul. i mean, this is just doesn't take much whether it's leaves on the track or squirrels in the carriage, it doesn't take much to grind britain's transport systems to a halt, does it? >> and like they can't deal with extremes of anything but in their defence, you squirrels do carry an unspeakable number of diseases. you wouldn't want to be bitten by one, because then that would be a whole health and safety issue, and they could be sued for endangering passengers. so it's kind of what they had to do. >> okay , maybe the passengers >> okay, maybe the passengers say, i'm willing to take the risk because i would have been willing to take the risk. >> if you did that, fine. you can be bitten. >> you'd have to be nuts.

>> you'd have to be nuts. >> da da da da da. right. okay, it's >> da da da da da. right. okay, wsfime >> da da da da da. right. okay, it's time to reveal today's greatest president xi indian jackass, who is your greatest briton? >> so , patrick, i've nominated >> so, patrick, i've nominated bernie spofforth. so she's the southport businesswoman who was nicked and arrested for apparently being the source of completely false information that led to the southport riots. yeah turns out she basically made an error if you that she was wrong. she apologised for it. she deleted the post. she i don't think was inciting anything. she was treated like a terrorist. fortunately, there's no further action against her. but i'm delighted that she's defended herself so well . and i defended herself so well. and i think she could actually now be a very strong advocate for freedom of speech against the sort of two tier policing that we've seen. ludicrous. the way she was treated. and sidebar shout out for the free speech union that leapt to her aid and have helped her. fantastic. so, i mean, god only knows what she's gone through, but big victory for freedom of speech. >> good stuff, good stuff. >> good stuff, good stuff. >> a lovely lady as well, by the way, mine is my friend tom skinner, many would know him from the apprentice, and he's the guy that shouts bosh, he's

ordered 1500 warm blankets for london's homeless, and there's still some on social media and on twitter that are giving him stick for it. now, i just can't believe that he's a good guy. he's a genuine guy and he just wants to help . wants to help. >> all right, good stuff. who's yours? >> mine is kind of belated. it's peter kyle mp, the secretary of state for science, technology and innovation who's been a real champion for higher education for people from backgrounds like his and also championing ai for medical intervention. because i'm a strong advocate that a university education sets you up to step into the big leagues because it's a microcosm of what the real world is going to be. okay, the fact he's pushing for that against what the tories previously said were rip off degrees, i champion him all right. >> now we've got about a minute left on show. so very quickly union jack, this is the little known lib dem councillor . sorry known lib dem councillor. sorry my greatest britain is tom skinner. apologies my fault . skinner. apologies my fault. >> you've got my union jackass let's see if i can win. this one

is the lib dem councillor, little known lib dem councillor antonio harrison, from havant in hampshire , who is now better hampshire, who is now better known because she claims to have a medical history of a diagnosis of ptsd , post—traumatic stress of ptsd, post—traumatic stress disorder over the brexit referendum. i mean, it's hardly naam, is it? i mean, it's not naam, is it? i mean, it's not naam, it's not naam mein is the actual prime minister of this country, sue gray, who is the only pensioner that is going to be better off this winter. >> okay. go on kemi badenoch for thinking working in mcdonald's makes her working class. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. all all decent shouts there. i have gone for sue gray. i think because i thought that the discrepancy there between the discrepancy there between the way that she's gone about things and other pensioners in this country is the nightmare. on that note, i will be talking to the ceo of friends of the elderly tomorrow. so that he can outline to you exactly where all your money is going to be going. you've been donating wonderful amounts of money up to 142,000. go to justgiving.com. forward slash page forward slash . save slash page forward slash. save our seniors to give any money

that you can to help the elderly . that you can to help the elderly. thank you everybody for a wonderful show and thank you at home or out and about for watching. i'll see you tomorrow at nine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello. good evening . welcome >> hello. good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. a lot of cloud to come in overnight tonight across eastern areas that will make for a fairly dull start to thursday with the best of any brighter weather across western areas. so weather across western areas. so we do have an easterly wind at the moment. that's because high pressure is set over to the north and east of the uk, bringing in that easterly wind, and that's what's going to drag in the cloud overnight. once again tonight. i think the cloud is going to be more extensive tonight compared to previous nights, and it'll probably unger nights, and it'll probably linger a little longer into tomorrow morning. we could see some drizzly rain over any high ground as well, but with the strength of the breeze and fairly extensive cloud is going to be another mild night away from the clearer skies across

the further north and west parts of northern ireland and western scotland. in particular, seeing a very fine start to the day and with a fairly brisk breeze across more southern areas, the cloud should start to break up quite quickly across more southern areas of england, but across more northeastern areas , across more northeastern areas, parts of central england. it will linger through a lot of the morning, even across parts of eastern scotland. aberdeenshire in particular, seeing some fairly extensive cloud, possibly some sea fog as well. first thing. and across eastern coasts of scotland, northeastern england, it will probably stay quite cloudy through a lot of the day. and cloudy and cooler day here to come compared to today. but elsewhere that cloud should clear away quite nicely after lunchtime to leave another dry and fine day for many areas. but notice there'll still be a fairly brisk easterly breeze as well, particularly across parts of the channel coast. but despite the breeze, it's still going to be feeling pretty warm for

>> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines at 11:00. israel's prime minister has hit out at the new labour government , accusing it of being government, accusing it of being misguided and undermining israel. benjamin netanyahu made the comments in an interview with the mail newspaper, which was published just tonight, days before a wave of walkie talkie and pager explosions rocked lebanon. it's understood that 14 people have been killed in today's attacks. while 12 people, including two children, were killed in the blasts yesterday and nearly 3000 remain in hospital. the terrorist group have accused israel for what's believed to have been a remote attack, targeting hand—held communication devices. the israeli defence forces say they did strike a hezbollah target last night, but didn't comment on the explosions. meanwhile, israel has declared a new phase

of war as its army turns