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manufacturing private healthcare backing cayman island based hedge fund , and got the chance hedge fund, and got the chance for a little bit of time with family or something that's important to them, in this case, lifelong support for a football team. >> again, i don't think that's problem. >> apparently starmer needs all these freebies to be able to relax. what a joke. >> talking of jokes, who acceded to the english throne at the age of nine on the death of his father, henry the eighth, in 1547. >> henry the seventh. >> henry the seventh. >> edward the sixth. >> edward the sixth. >> should david lammy resign? he's caused a huge diplomatic incident by referring to a genocide against christians as a liberation. but he has managed to hoist two massive bisexual awareness flags outside the foreign office. is this the wokeist government ever? >> also, we've had a number of people on treatment who don't even have the basics, like a bed to sleep in, so they've been sleeping on the floor or on the

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pages tonight with political editor at the express, sam lester. got tory peer lord bailey and ex—labour party adviser matthew laza. oh, and this is what happens when you let a gen z person handle the social media account for a famous museum. >> brat. summer is over, bestie. it's time to enter your historical era . historical era. >> get ready britain. here we go . >> get ready britain. here we go. as labour woke, incompetent or both. next . both. next. >> well, at just after 9:00, the latest headlines from the gb news centre. sir keir starmer has insisted he is completely in control amid a row within government over his top advisers pay government over his top advisers pay the revelation that sue gray, the downing street chief

of staff, received a pay rise after the election and now earns more than sir keir has prompted a furious backlash. speaking ahead of the labour party conference this weekend, the prime minister insisted his team was focused on the government's mandate to deliver change. the foreign secretary, david lammy, has urged british nationals to leave lebanon, warning the situation could worsen rapidly. it comes as the leader of the hezbollah terrorist group said the waves of explosions against its fighters were equal to a declaration of war. hassan nasrallah said israel had crossed all red lines in launching the attacks, which targeted thousands of communications devices used by the group, killing dozens and wounding more than 3000. well these are live shots of the lebanese capital, beirut. tonight, the israeli government

hasn't commented on the co—ordinated attacks , but has co—ordinated attacks, but has said it's entered a new phase in its almost year long war. hassan nasrallah said there would be a just punishment in response, but gave no indication of what that would be. parts of dublin were brought to a standstill earlier this evening as anti—immigration demonstrators and anti—racism protesters staged rival events in the city. the protests follow mounting tensions in the irish repubuc mounting tensions in the irish republic over the growing number of asylum seekers in the country , of asylum seekers in the country, and a spate of recent incidents unked and a spate of recent incidents linked to the immigrants. gb news witness multiple arrests as police detained 19 people. a professional footballer has been charged in connection with an attempt to smuggle £600,000 worth of cannabis through stansted airport. jay emmanuel—thomas, who is currently a striker for scottish

championship side greenock morton, was arrested by national crime agency officers in the days after his flight. the former livingston, aberdeen and arsenal academy player has also played for ipswich town, bristol city and queens park rangers . city and queens park rangers. and finally the prince of wales has been visiting aberdeen to thank workers in the homelessness sector for supporting the city's rough sleepers. the prince launched his homewards project last year, a five year campaign aimed at ending homelessness in the uk. prince william said the problem should not exist in a modern and progressive society . well, there progressive society. well, there you are. you're right up to date. now over to the prince of late night news chat patrick christys for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> dot com. forward slash alerts .

>> dot com. forward slash alerts. >> dot com. forward slash alerts. >> my king. this is the wokeist government in british history. foreign secretary david lammy faced calls that he lacks the mental capacity to be foreign secretary when he called azerbaijan's genocide against christians a liberation. but what he did manage to do was hoist the bisexual awareness flag outside the foreign office. forget the war in the middle east, the war in ukraine, the us election. get those bisexual flags up now. labour's sadiq khan ignored calls to put a statue of our late queen on trafalgar square's fourth plinth. instead, we now have this monstrosity, an installation of the faces of 726 trans, non—binary and gender non—conforming people. but, wait for this, because if we zoom in on the faces a little bit actually, as well, isn't it funny if you do that? how they

all look exactly like men. anyway, labour wants to make it easier for people to change gender by dropping the need for trans people to prove that they have lived in their preferred gender for two years. that means more men in women's changing rooms. rachel reeves now wants to replace every picture in number 11 with a portrait of a woman, or a painting done by a woman, or a painting done by a woman because she is a woman and she's the first woman to be chancellor. but she can't tell you what a woman is. >> is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix? but is it transphobic yes or no ? transphobic yes or no? >> look, i is it. is it transphobic? look >> angela rayner is absolutely desperate to be a gay icon. hi, i'm angela rayner with terrence higgins trust. >> at london pride , >> at london pride, >> at london pride, >> so we've got all that going on. meanwhile, we've had 10,000 people cross the channel since starmer took office, but he

doesn't want to call them illegals. >> vile trade that sits beneath irregular migration across europe . europe. >> it's irregular, isn't it? we've got a home secretary who says refugees are welcome. labour has a secretary of state for business and trade that thinks working from the office is so old fashioned. he wants to end. are you ready for this? the culture of presenteeism. all right. we've got an energy minister who does stuff like this. >> the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. >> the answer is blowing in the wind. >> and just to bring us full circle , we've got a foreign circle, we've got a foreign secretary who thinks that climate change is a bigger threat than terrorism. >> the threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat , but it is imperialist autocrat, but it is more fundamental. it is systemic. it's pervasive and accelerating towards us at pace. >> honestly, i mean, we are

probably just about three months away from sir keir starmer standing outside downing street cancelling christmas and wishing us all a very happy winter, aren't we? let's get our thoughts from our panel is political editor at the daily express, sam lester, conservative peer lord bailey and former labour party adviser matthew laza. sam, have we got the wokeist government in british history here now? >> well, it's certainly more woke than the last government, isn't it? >> i think when you look at all that put together there, i think the thing that obviously strikes me is, what goes to the very heart of it is what is a woman. and labour cannot answer that. and labour cannot answer that. and i think when you look at the rachel reeves side of it, i think when she really struggled to answer that question. but then she is talking about putting up paintings by a woman or of women, and you can't answer that fundamental question. i think that is a serious thing. and i think with david lammy, i just think, you know , the union jack used to know, the union jack used to unite the country, but now we

have all these flags that divide the country . it's all about the country. it's all about passing us off into little groups of people, and that is not the way i really think the country wants to be. >> well, david lammy's primary job is to be foreign secretary. >> he clearly has absolutely no grasp on world affairs whatsoever, as evidenced yet again by his kind of appalling lack of judgement when it came to azerbaijan and the armenian christians today. but he has got the capacity to hoist a load of bisexual awareness flags outside the foreign office. i mean, surely his priorities are all wrong. yes, in that the mistake in armenia is actually very important. >> we're in this country now. people are talking about two tier policing, two levels of judgement, depending on who you are. if you get roasted in the paper or not, people organising pilings because you don't share their politics. there's a large group of christians in this country of which i am one. to hearit country of which i am one. to hear it passed off like that is very, very worrying, very demeaning . actually, a he's demeaning. actually, a he's a foreign secretary should be much more accurate. his statements can start wars. he needs to be aware of that and he needs to be

aware of that and he needs to be aware he's not just having an effect on the international stage. he's affecting people here. and i was i was so upset by that. that's really upsetting to pass it off in that way. it was a genocide. it was . i'm was a genocide. it was. i'm heartbroken that he said that. that's all i'll say on that. with rachel reeves, she rubbishes the whole argument. you can't have it both ways. either women are important or they're not. you can't pick and chooseif they're not. you can't pick and choose if women are so important that they have to be represented in number 11, fine. but then you have to be able to tell people what a woman is. you can't have it both ways. and i think what the problem with with politicians pretending to be woke is actually they end up upsetting everybody. well, yeah. >> i mean, this is it, matthew, isn't it? labour are fantastic at virtue signalling. they're rubbish at politics. >> well, no, i mean i don't think we're rubbish at governing. i think we are where there have been problems about some of the mood music, you know, of the government over the last couple of weeks. i mean, just to address these specifically, i personally am not sure that there is a need to fly the bisexual pride flag. i do think it's right to fly the

pride flag once a year. lg lgbtq. lgbtq rights around the world are very important. there are countries where you know it would be illegal for me to, you know, to exist. and i think that's very and that's an important part of the foreign office's work, but i'm not sure that it needs to do. the pride flag is inclusive. and that would end that on rachel and the female artists there have been there have been centuries where pubuc there have been centuries where public buildings have been have had not a single picture by a woman or of a woman in there. then what happens with the government art collection is when you when you when you become a minister, you get to choose your art. it's not permanent. she's just making a point. it's interesting. it starts a debate and there can be other and you know, and in future there'll be different portraits. >> now this is a point. you're entirely correct. it's well within her rights to change those those those paintings oven those those those paintings over. but it's a nature in work that she's done and that she felt that she had to make that point. and just to go back to the flags, i'll tell you why the flag shouldn't be flown. it shows two things. is somebody inside the civil service

captured the government because these issues are far more prevalent than get far more airtime than, say, race. i'm a person. i'm. i might be concerned about race. why don't we fly my flag? what about the war in darfur? there's a lot of flags that could be from it. what about child soldiers? why aren't we not supporting them? what about the sex grooming gangs that are having the country? if you pick one group, you eliminate many others. and that's what they should be aware of. >> we can't even call it illegal immigration. now, really, it's irregular immigration, which i did raise this issue with james cleverly. >> i did an interview with him yesterday and he basically said the government was talking nonsense. it's trying to fool . nonsense. it's trying to fool. well, he said it's taking the pubuc well, he said it's taking the public for fools. you're rebranding something. you're trying to. it's not a new name. >> irregular migration is the term that's used internationally. i mean, i think that, you know, it's not labour trying to spin it. it's what the un people use. >> we can't go on about how he was the prosecutor. he wanted to make himself out like a kind of you know, goodwill, darth vader. i was the prosecutor. i was prosecutor, his dad was a toolmaker. his dad was a

toolmaker, clearly. but then he goes, then he goes, you know, then he can't go. he can't go at then he can't go. he can't go at the same time. well, oh, you know, i can't see what's illegal and what's not illegal. the worry, the worry with the change in tone for some people will be if why have we changed the words? >> because he was using the word illegal months and weeks ago. is this the prelude? >> no. i think they'll use both interchangeably. is this the prelude to an amnesty? >> that's the question. >> that's the question. >> absolutely not this question. >> absolutely not this question. >> were they using irregular dunng >> were they using irregular during the election? no, because. because it's a it's a sign isn't it. it's a it's a it's a signal to the public. it was illegal. then it became irregular once they were in government. >> look, if i look if i was, if i was still a spin doctor as a retired spin doctor, if i was still a spin doctor, i would be saying you keep using illegal. it's ridiculous to switch the terms. if you're using irregular in official document, you know when you're dealing with the un, that's slightly different. but in terms of public facing, just on lame, i mean, i think lame has got to be careful. he you know, he i mean, we saw his rather embarrassing celebrity mastermind appearance. i think sometimes he needs to take a breath and just compute. he's a

clever guy, but he needs to. he sometimes i think speaks before he thinks to take charge of his department. >> this is not a surprise to us. it's not the first time these things have happened. but that's because he's knew the people underneath him are not. >> we also have this this idea now as well, that we have to ignore the conventional wisdom that bothering to turn up to work or having a shower first thing in the morning and a shave and getting changed. >> what do you say about jonny reynolds beard? i think it's very smart getting changed out of your pyjamas and being being literally present for what might in some way be a good thing. >> we're now being asked to believe that we have to cast aside. presenteeism is bad, isn't it? >> you don't have a shower. >> you don't have a shower. >> on that note, can i thank you all for being present tonight? >> well, i was thinking about dialling it in. >> yes, i was quite tempted. >> yes, i was quite tempted. >> yeah, it would have been eafien >> yeah, it would have been easier, you know, i'm not. please don't cast aspersions on whether i would have had a shower. of course i would have had a shower, i always maintain standards at all times, but i think, you know. look, let's be let's be serious. i think i want to be fair to women. women who have kids and who have caring

responsibilities. and i think accommodations can be made in the workplace. and i think if you're looking after elderly parents or young children and let's be fair, it generally does fall on the woman. and i think, you know, if you can find ways in the workplace to make accommodations for that. but if it's just a case of actually i just prefer working at home, it's just a bit more comfy. i don't really have to put on that tie. i don't have to bother brushing my hair. i don't have to actually make any effort to leave the house. that's a very different thing, isn't it? and actually, i think certainly for me and my team, i've got a lot of young members of my team. if they were working at home, they would not be able to learn the trade. and i think they they actually soak so much up from just sitting in the office with me and other colleagues who have been around a lot longer. >> if i was, if i was just starting out all over again. and you never know, that might have to happen. one day, but it will when the when the beard's working from home. protesters really hope that everybody else in your team was working from home so that i could come into the office and shine, you know, and sit near you all day, and then you'd get that. and then who's getting promoted first?

>> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> always. but there's deeper things. firstly, the labour party have talked about paying off our debt, covering all manner of, of social care bills with growth. i'm sorry. no. if you don't come to office, our productivity will take a dive. we've had a problem with productivity in this country for years. and there's also a class element to this. if you're a brickie, a plumber, a dustman, a security guard, you can't work from home. so what they've done, they've shown everybody that the labour party is now the preserve of the middle classes. it's no longer about the working class. even train drivers are going to have to turn up to work. well. >> well, every now and again, just to round us off on this particular segment, we've got the sadiq khan, obviously, labour london mayor. that plinth there was was nice and empty wasn't it. we could have had i don't know, some queen we could prince philip, we could have had anyone like that. it is temporary. yeah but that's why, that's why we've got, we've got a 700 and something trans or gender fluid or whatever it is, the mass of people, which when you zoom in, i'm sorry, but the vast majority of them do look. exactly. >> i think it's a reminder of the violence and challenges that trans people face around the world, and it's there to start a

conversation. it's temporary. we've had lots of provocative pieces on the fourth plinth before. i suspect that sadiq doesn't pick them himself. i'm sure there's a commission of the great and the good who picked them. >> i think it was much better under boris johnson when we had the big blue cockerel. >> right. i thought you were going to say something else. >> then for a second, yes. you were careful how i said that. >> actually, matthew's right. is temporary, and it would have been very appropriate to have the queen on there for a time. her time is past. it had been it would have been a recognition of the work she did for the country. and then you were in the gla. >> you should propose that. i'm sure that would be great for second. >> sadiq would take my dear sadiq, sean said. that would be it. that's as far as he would get. >> yeah, it's just a sign of the only thing that you can really get on there. that kind of thing, isn't it? i find that a bit a bit strange, really. a bit strange, but there we go. yes, i was asking, of course, whether or not we do have the wokeist as the politicians that we've ever had.the the politicians that we've ever had. the wokeist government even had. the wokeist government ever. but anyway, moving on from that, a screeching gear change. it's time for the great british giveaway. it's back and your chance to win the equivalent of having an extra £3,000 in your bank account each month for the

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please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. good luck , good luck. good luck, good luck. >> still to come, an asian man who stirred up racial hatred by posing as a white man during the summer riots, has been jailed for more than two years. meanwhile, the social media commentator bernie spofforth, who was arrested in the aftermath of the southport riots for a post on x, has been given no further action. okay, well, that's a move in the right direction. so is it really fair to be blaming the riots on the far right? baroness claire fox joins me very, very soon. >> but first, we've got the chance for a little bit of time with family or something that's important to them in this case, lifelong support for a football team. again i don't think that's a problem. >> yes. well, you heard that right. the business secretary, jonathan reynolds, thinks keir starmer needs freebees so that he can just kick back and relax. yeah. does he have a point or is he talking complete and utter nonsense going head to head on that? our political commentator emily hewitson, and the editor of labourlist, peter edwards, that's

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. and it is time now for our head to head . well, the our head to head. well, the fallout for keir starmer's cash for clothing scandal has rumbled on today, with reports that the prime minister initially failed to declare the £16,200 worth of

clothing he received from lord alli. he originally recorded the donation in april as, quote, private support for the leader of the opposition, and that was corrected a month later. the revelation that starmer has accepted more than £100,000 worth of freebies in 2019, more may i say, than any other mp has. well, ben calls widespread outrage, hasn't it really? but speaking this morning, the business secretary, jonathan reynolds, shrugged off the outrage , just arguing that the outrage, just arguing that the freebies helped the prime minister to kick back and relax. >> anyone who's doing a job of the pressure , of the scale, of the pressure, of the scale, of the pressure, of the scale, of the importance that the prime minister does, spends pretty much every bit of their waking life working on it, and if they've got the chance for a little bit of time with family or something, that's important to them in this case, lifelong support for a football team, again, i don't think that's a problem. i don't think people object to that.

>> well, you just couldn't really make this up, could he? so tonight i'm asking, is jonathan reynolds right that keir starmer needs freebies to allow him to relax? i want to know your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay or tweet me @gbnews. going head to head on this now with the political commentator emily hewitson and the former editor of labourlist, peter edwards, both of you, thank you very much. emily, i'll start with you. is that just a load of complete and utter twaddle? >> i think so. i think it's very clear that labour seem to hold everybody else to different standards than themselves. i know for a fact if it were a conservative prime minister who had claimed all of these free gifts, they would be absolute outrage. i mean, we're led by donkeys, for example. i'd also add that i think the context of this is very important. keir starmer has talked a lot about difficult decisions , and whilst difficult decisions, and whilst he's snatching the winter fuel allowance from pensioners, it seems the only difficult decisions he's been making is which £2,000 pair of designer sunglasses to nab from one of his mates. >> peter, >> peter, i >> peter, i mean >> peter, i mean all >> peter, i mean all of

>> peter, i mean all of this talk about. well, look, if keir starmer can just grab a moment with his family or switch off for a second. i mean, he literally wanted boris johnson arrested for eating a bit of birthday cake, didn't he? hypocrite much ? hypocrite much? >> well, i think that's quite a comic line. i don't know how much relation it bears to reality . if you are prime reality. if you are prime minister and i think david cameron worked very hard, i think gordon brown worked very hard. i think theresa may worked hard. i think theresa may worked hard. and so on and so on. you can't sit in the ordinary seats like the rest of us do, and that's just the reality. peter, it's not the reality, you understand that we've seen. >> sorry. i'm going to cut you off there because, you know, we've seen other people do it. it is the reality. we've seen people do it. loads of people do it. i mean, today prince william walked down aberdeen high street. i mean, you know, he's in line for the throne, didn't he? you know, keir starmer, he just doesn't want to mix with the plebs, does he? >> peter i think that's nonsense. so first of all, keir starmer and to be fair tory politicians though walked down the high street and you will know, because you work in the media that any royal who's walking down the high street will have a security detail, 1

or 2 or three foot behind them. and by the way, on the other point about where do you sit when you go to a cultural event, which is generally a good thing to do? well, theresa may went to the opera and the cricket on a freebie. david cameron, there's a whole list of david cameron's flights, you know, that he was given for three, £5,000. £7,000. bofis given for three, £5,000. £7,000. boris johnson went to watch england play at wembley stadium on a freebie. if politicians left and right, red and blue do that and they all cite the same reasons security, you know, maybe they're all telling the truth and you can't just live an ordinary life. i just think it's different to, you know, i just i just feel like the way that keir starmer has let himself down. >> emily, he's been so unbelievably puritanical about it, saying he's going to clean up politics. he's going to clean up politics. he's going to clean up cronyism. unless you want to buy my wife a new wardrobe, in which case, come on in. >> exactly. i mean, he in his manifesto, there was this big emphasis on making politics more ethical. and it was going to be an ethical government. but quite quickly, we've seen that he failed to declare and was delayed in declaring these

gifts. so i think it's i think this has been a big wake up call really, for labour. and they've realised that it's much easier to sit on the sidelines and just criticise and criticise, but actually when they're in charge, they're very willing to make some very questionable decisions as well. >> why can't you just pay for his own box? this is the other thing, peter. it's one thing today him saying, oh, you know, well, i'll go to the arsenal games. i like the arsenal games. i like the arsenal. me i want to go there. but the reason i can't go, i've got these little security reasons. so i'm going to save the taxpayer a bit of money. i'm going to get a box. why hasn't he paid for his own box? he's a millionaire. >> well, the taxpayer is not paying >> well, the taxpayer is not paying for his box at arsenal, so you're barking up the wrong tree there. no, i'm not. >> i imagine he would still have security detail. he could well be getting other stuff as well. i'm just saying why why doesn't he just pay for his own stuff, you know? why can't he pay for his own suits? why can't he pay for his wife's own clothes? why doesit for his wife's own clothes? why does it have to be a choice between. oh well, you know, i either i either get this special treatment or i don't go. no, just pay for it yourself. >> well, pay for his own

security detail, which is part of being prime minister or pay for a box. you know, pay for a box at a football match, peter. >> because. because peter, there is a serious conversation being had at the moment about whether this government is going to introduce a football regulator as you will well know, and arsenal football club have a vested interest in that, and so does keir starmer. and if he accepts hospitality, that could be a conflict of interest. could it not. so why is he still doing it not. so why is he still doing it . it. >> there are i'm it.— >> there are i'm a it. >> there are i'm a big football fan asi >> there are i'm a big football fan as i know you are . football fan as i know you are. football is politicised all the time and there are constantly politicised stories of football. boris johnson said he was going to crush the super league. personally, i was quite glad about that. he was going to crush the super league and he took football tickets. no one said that made him a hypocrite. he had a groundswell of public support for vowing to crush the breakaway super league. >> okay, so you don't think that there's a possibility that there's a possibility that there's a possibility that there's a vested interest in it? i mean, this is emily. some people would say just listening to peter here, that this is the exact kind of hypocrisy that you get from the left. >> absolutely. and i think it is important to emphasise that keir

starmer didn't just, you know, accept a gift here and there. it was 2.5 times more than any other mp. that is how staggering it is. if this is kind of the ethical politics he's talking about , then i think he's a about, then i think he's a complete hypocrite. it started off with two tier care, and now ihear off with two tier care, and now i hear people are calling him free gear care. >> no, indeed. and of course, that's before we've got started on the £4 million from a cayman island based hedge fund that specialises in arms manufacturing, fossil fuels and private health care, which are all things that the labour party seems to oppose. but we'll actually be coming to that in the next hour. but thank you very much. both of you. who do you agree with is the business secretary, jonathan reynolds. right that at the time the prime minister is entitled to enjoy donations and gifts because of the pressure of his job? and nigel says, absolutely. so out of touch . it's off the scale. of touch. it's off the scale. matt says he probably would be if he hadn't complained about the previous prime ministers for accepting even less joy on excess pressure. what pressure? he's only been in the job for five minutes. your verdict is

now in. 96% of you say no, jonathan reynolds is not right. the prime minister is not entitled to a load of gifts because of the pressure of his job. 4% of you say yes, actually, he is coming up. the ever growing list of the prime minister's freebies has sparked outrage, but obviously he doesn't seem to care. >> i think most people watching this would say, well, fair do's. >> no, they wouldn't , they >> no, they wouldn't, they wouldn't. oh, and he's also splashed £8 million of taxpayers cash every single day since he took office on pay rises for doctors and train drivers . doctors and train drivers. that's despite scrapping the winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners. so has starmer got his priorities all wrong? we're going to be joined by reform uk spokesperson ann widdecombe. she certainly thinks so. she's live very soon, but first, an asian man who stirred up racial hatred by posing as a white man during the summer riots, has been jailed. meanwhile, the social media commentator bernie spofforth, who was arrested in the aftermath of the southport riots for a post on x, has now finally

been given no further action. so is it really right and fair to blame the riots totally on the far right? baroness claire

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. and now an asian man who stirred up racial hatred against muslims after posing onune against muslims after posing online as a right wing activist

dunng online as a right wing activist during the summer riots, has been jailed for more than two years. hassan hussain, whose 25 used the fake identity of a white guy that he'd made up, called chris nolan while calling for disorder in birmingham as the riots spread across britain, one of the messages read birmingham first we need to take back what's ours. so he was really trying to stir up the far right to go and attack various different groups of people in birmingham. meanwhile, the police have now dropped their investigation into the social media commentator and businesswoman bernadette spofforth. she was arrested on august the 8th after she posted on social media about the identity of the southport attacker. she then later deleted that tweet and also apologised for it. and i am joined now by baroness claire fox to discuss this . and it's almost like all this. and it's almost like all of this disorder can't really be blamed on the far right. claire isn't it? >> well, that was always too

sweeping a statement. >> and i think that we've seen from this story that there were malevolent, bad faith actors, and mr hussain was one of them who was stirring things up. i don't want to imply that there were no hard core racists involved, because i think there were. i however, think that to typify everything that happened through that prism is just completely misunderstanding the nature of the riots. the unsettled atmosphere, the febrile atmosphere that led to them in many ways . and one of them in many ways. and one of them in many ways. and one of the things that's most distressing is that we're having this conversation through the prism of people's racial identity, which is, in a way, partly what's happened in society, isn't it, that we now live in a situation where we can't see people we see ethnicity or skin colour or, you know, that's how we identify, and that's one of the damaging things that's come out of identity politics and the policy decision in terms of multiculturalism, of viewing

people as groups of people based on their ethnic or cultural backgrounds, very unpleasant, very damaging, very divisive. >> yeah , incredibly. i mean, you >> yeah, incredibly. i mean, you know, it's not lost on me that one of the people who was arrested for supposedly concocting this fake news about the identity of this southport attacker turned out to be a man who lived in lahore, who was then arrested. and goodness only knows what's happened to him since then. one of the people who's now been sent to prison for stirring up racial hatred , for stirring up racial hatred, remarkably, you know, a good couple of months after quite a lot of other people were actually also happens to be an asian man. and i just wonder whether or not there was a little bit of , of confected little bit of, of confected outrage here when we saw that, that night where there was supposed to be 300 far right protests. i mean, where did that number come from? do you think they held up a bit of a straw man to be knocked down there, really, as a show of force against something that maybe didn't really exist? >> they did. but i want to be

careful here because, listen, you know, it doesn't matter what i saw on telegram or social media, i wouldn't go out and start trying to burn a mosque or throw a burn. you know, try and burn down a hostel with people in it. right. and i don't want to in any way endorse people who behaved. i don't just mean said things on social media, i mean people who went out and behaved in a racist way and started attacking people because they were immigrants. i mean, that is not the basis on which we should be opposing mass migration or the problems that we might have in society. so there's that bit, but you're right to say that what then happens is in this atmosphere, people stir things up and you've given that example of the 100, you know, far right riots. and one of the things that's been incredibly infuriating is that that was put forward by so—called anti —racist. forward by so—called anti—racist. and i mean, they really give anti—racism a bad name, he said. the next day, rather gleefully. oh, well, we think it might have been a hoax.

that list of 100 far right rioters. but don't worry, because all the anti—racist came out, all the stand up to racism people. and look at the wonderful headlines we've got. in other words, they were prepared to say this kind of misinformation was a good lie because it was on the side of the angels. whereas the kind of misinformation that bernie spofforth was accused of is bad information. she should be locked up. and i'm glad that she has been. i'm glad all charges have been dropped. i mean, i've said on other media today, you know, i thought that her her original tweet was ridiculous and daft and ill judged and all the rest of it. i said i read it as it got posted and thought , oh as it got posted and thought, oh my god, what? there's no evidence of that. so i do think we all want to take care. you know, you just don't want to. i don't want to be one of the people who's stirring it up on any direction, because it was a nasty atmosphere that. but nonetheless, politically, what's happenedis nonetheless, politically, what's happened is that the government and it's, you know, and the cps and it's, you know, and the cps and the police have used those

kind of incidents to imply that anyone who was concerned about people being placed in hotels or, you know, any of the things that are really aggravating people, people worried about lack of resources because there are too many people living in the area. all of those things, they have all been written off as far right racists . and that's as far right racists. and that's the really damaging bit that we really need to get away from, because that means that they are basically demonising and even criminalising our ability to have debates about very important issues. >> yeah. exactly that. clare, thank you very, very much. tremendous as ever to have you on the show and hope to chat to you again very, very soon. patrick. >> i've got one little message. go on. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> one little message from val mclean, who is one of your greatest fans. you say she loves you, but sometimes you speak a bit fast for val. >> i get that a lot . >> i get that a lot. >> i get that a lot. >> who is very much a fan? just sometimes a bit slower.

>> this is quite a bit of live criticism here. lovely stuff. well, val, thank you very , very well, val, thank you very, very much, clare. i'll see you next time. all right. great. okay. sorry, val. i get told that a lot. anyway, coming up, the list of keir starmer's freebies keeps growing. by the day, he's racked up more gifts and donations than any other mp in recent times. but he just doesn't seem to care, does he ? care, does he? >> i think most people watching this would say, well , fair do's this would say, well, fair do's and his business secretary obviously thinks that he just needs these freebies to relax. >> and i'm going to tackle the latest cash for clothes scandal. but it's more than that because it's actually it was revealed today what labour have been donated from from what i can gather anyway a hedge fund that seems to stand for everything that labour hate. so a bit of hypocrisy there. but first good news for the refugees welcome brigade, because britain's border force. well, apparently it might essentially be obsolete by 2030 because of post—brexit trade rules. so has our border security been compromised? ann

widdecombe reform, uk spokeswoman,

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now the replacement of the uk's border force fleet has been delayed until 2030 at the earliest , with the cost set to earliest, with the cost set to soar to £300 million six times the initial budget. the delay has reportedly been caused by post—brexit trading rules, which dictate that government contracts have to be opened up to international competition, as well as domestic border security . well as domestic border security. experts have warned that the lengthy delay could put the uk's security at risk. i do know what you're all saying, security at risk. i do know what you're all saying , what border you're all saying, what border force? but anyway, apparently it exists. i'm joined now by reform uk's immigration and justice spokesperson ann widdecombe and how much of a problem is this ? how much of a problem is this? >> well, it is a problem if we're going to stick minutely to the terms that we agreed. and i think it shows just how right

those of us were who said we should not be accepting restrictions on what we do, we want to be a sovereign nation again. and we would leave without a deal if necessary. and we did actually warn that accepting those sorts of restrictions and rules about competition, all those things we did warn at the time that the deal was being discussed. we're going to cause us a problem. and now they have and they've caused it in the very area where we do not need any problems, because if we need anything at the moment, we need a highly efficient and effective , well efficient and effective, well manned border force. and to be efficient and effective, it has to have not only an adequate but an excellent fleet. it has to have all that it needs. otherwise it can't do the job of the moment which is to curtail unlawful immigration. >> what i don't understand, though, is how everyone throws their hands up in these situations, so we can see that

we need to update our border force, and we can see that that needs to happen. now why are we all going, oh gosh, if we don't do something about this, we're going to get to 2030 and we're not going to have a border force. and everyone just looks around and goes, right, we're going to wind up in 2030 without a border force because of this. why can't we just act? >> well we should. >> well we should. >> i've no doubt about that at all. we should just act, we don't actually need to defy the rules of competition, but we can, you know , decide our own can, you know, decide our own end date and when we want things decided. and we should do that right away. i see no reason why we shouldn't do it. is iniquitous that any sovereign state can't decide what it needs in terms of size and efficiency, to control its own darn borders. >> well, could you argue as well? oh, well, you know , maybe well? oh, well, you know, maybe well? oh, well, you know, maybe we could get a cheaper deal if we could get a cheaper deal if we enlisted the help of a foreign company. but given the fact that it's already supposed to be at least three times over budget, well, that thing is

completely irrelevant, isn't it? so why don't we just crack on? but i'm talking of cracking on. it's been revealed today that the prime minister has spent a jaw dropping £8 million every single day since he took office on pay rises for train drivers and doctors . it comes on pay rises for train drivers and doctors. it comes as on pay rises for train drivers and doctors . it comes as aslef and doctors. it comes as aslef union train drivers, yesterday became the latest to agree a pay deal with the government, worth £55 million. well, can he know he's cut the winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners? and also we've seen as well that council tax is probably going to go council tax is probably going to 9° up council tax is probably going to go up for them and all sorts. but he's handed out pay rises left right and centre. has he got his priorities wrong. >> can i just make a very quick comment on your sign off line on the previous item , when you the previous item, when you talked about we might get a cheaper deal . patrick, that cheaper deal. patrick, that should not be the prime consideration. i have been through the contenders. when all they're concerned about is the cheapest option , what we should cheapest option, what we should be looking at is the most effective option. but now, back to keir starmer, yeah. i mean ,

to keir starmer, yeah. i mean, keir starmer has displayed a phenomenal arrogance. can you imagine what the labour party would be saying if it was the tories who were doing this? if it was the tories who were taking away the winter fuel allowance, whilst at the same time benefiting from umpteen freebies quite blatantly, what's it about? >> yeah. i mean the line was, oh, we're spending far too much money every single day on migrant hotels. £8 million a day. well, he's managed to replace that with that money for workers. but i suppose the argument to that would be we need train drivers more than we need, you know, a holiday inn full of people who've maybe just arrived from eritrea. so maybe he's done the right thing. >> well, the fact is, we're spending far too much on hotels, and we shouldn't be doing it. and we wouldn't be doing it if we had an effective deterrent. but keith's keir starmer has offered us no deterrent at all. i mean, amazingly, he went through the whole of the general election without a policy other than to smash the gangs. well,

you might as well talk about getting rid of drugs by smashing gangs or getting rid of crime by smashing the mafia. you know, one gang goes, another one comes along, it's pie in the sky. and we're going to get this, this expenditure on hotels. so long as he won't, you know, take any other options. just just got slightly sidetracked there. but it is important that we understand that he is offering nothing. the boats are coming almost daily and he is offering nothing. king canute was more sensible. >> well, well, you know the only point at which i will disagree with you on is the thing that he is offering is boatloads of taxpayers cash, and i think that is a massive, massive problem for us as we continually look at the double pronged approach. now, £8 million a day for migrants, hotels and the like and £8 million a day on top of that for union mates, etcetera. meanwhile you look at some people who are going to be literally frozen out this winter, you know, people who

are, you know, vulnerable pensioners, etcetera. i mean, it's disgusting . it's disgusting. >> i can't understand why you say you're taking issue with me. i agree with all of that. what have i said that makes you think? >> you said he wasn't offering anything. i said the only thing he is offering is taxpayers cash, to be fair. so you know, he is. he's dishing out. he's dishing out a load of stuff, and then he isn't offering any solution or any deterrent. >> i think everybody listening knew i meant that. >> yeah, absolutely. and look, you take care, all right? i'll see you very, very soon. and when i come there, i reform uk. right. okay. so look, just, just on that note, just giving.com/page/save our seniors is the fundraising site that i've set up to try to help some needy, vulnerable pensioners this year. all of that money goes to friends of the elderly. so far, you wonderful people have managed to raise £146,414. we've upped our target to £260,000, because that is the amount of money that friends of the elderly gave to vulnerable pensioners last year. okay, now it's expected this year could be worse than ever in terms of the

amount of people who need their help and some of the reasons behind it. winter fuel payment. of course, you see council tax going up, the energy price cap going up, the energy price cap going up, the cost of living generally. et cetera. et cetera. et cetera. now earlier on today, i sat down with the, co ceo of friends of the elderly, and he gave me, you know, quite a harrowing account of some of the stories that they have. and so i'm going to play that to you later on, and i would like you to, to listen up and see if we can raise a little bit more money for them. it's just giving.com/page/save our seniors. but yes, we are also going to be talking of course about the list of starmer's freebies because now labour have taken an absolute whopper from, well, an offshore hedge fund that might raise a few eyebrows. starmer's not bothered, though, of course. >> i think most people watching this would say well fair do's. >> well, especially not in the case of a fossil fuel loving private healthcare backing , private healthcare backing, cayman island based hedge fund. so is there now a stench of hypocrisy and arrogance and

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>> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight to clean up politics. >> no more vip fast lanes, no more kickbacks for colleagues. no more revolving doors between government and the companies. they regulate. i will restore standards in public life with a total crackdown on cronyism. >> labour took millions from a fossil fuel loving arms manufacturing, private healthcare backing cayman island

based hedge fund, and got the chance for a little bit of time with family or something that's important to them. >> in this case, lifelong support for a football team. again, i don't think that's a problem. >> why can't you just pay for it himself ? apparently, starmer himself? apparently, starmer needs freebies to be able to relax a bit of a joke that also tonight we've had a number of people on treatment who don't even have the basics, like a bed to sleep in, so they've been sleeping on the floor or on the sofa while they've been ill. so pensioners are sleeping on the floor because they don't have a bed, they're unable to afford a taxito bed, they're unable to afford a taxi to chemotherapy appointments. they've got empty cupboards very often as well. they're too proud to ask for help. now i am fund raising for friends of the elderly and i am asking if you to can please donate to justgiving.com/page, forward slash save our seniors. and so far you have raised more than £146,000. so thank you very very much everybody. and please do keep going. i'm going to play

you an interview i did with the co—leader of friends of the elderly very, very shortly. so please stay tuned for that. but in other news . okay. there's in other news. okay. there's a heavy dose of irony as a free speech group are kicked out of a pub in brighton for speaking freely, and a museum regrets letting the gen z staff member script their promotional video . script their promotional video. >> brat summer is over, bestie. it's time to enter your historical era. >> yes, i love all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages tonight with political editor at the express, sam lister, tory peer lord bailey and ex—labour party adviser matthew lancer. oh, yes. and what do you make of the new john lewis christmas ad? >> i do not know why we dream exactly how or why we fall in love chemicals. i guess . love chemicals. i guess. >> get ready britain. here we go .

>> get ready britain. here we go. pensioners freeze while starmer goes free. next . goes free. next. >> just after 10 pm, the latest headunes >> just after 10 pm, the latest headlines from the gb news centre. the foreign secretary, david lammy, has tonight called for an immediate ceasefire between israel and hezbollah. he's also urging british nationals to leave lebanon, warning the situation could worsen rapidly. it comes as the leader of the terror group, hassan nasrallah, said the waves of explosions targeting hezbollah fighters had crossed all red lines and were equal to all red lines and were equal to a declaration of war. well, you're looking at live images across the lebanese capital, beirut tonight. the israeli government hasn't commented on the coordinated attacks , but has

the coordinated attacks, but has said it's entered a new phase in its almost year long war. hassan nasrallah said there would be a just punishment in response, but gave no indication of what that would be. sir keir starmer has insisted he's completely in control amid a row within government over his top advisers pay- government over his top advisers pay. the revelation that sue gray, the downing street chief of staff , received a pay rise of staff, received a pay rise after the election and now earns more than keir starmer , has more than keir starmer, has prompted a furious backlash. speaking ahead of the labour party conference this weekend, the prime minister insisted his team was focused on the government's mandate to deliver change. parts of dublin were brought to a standstill earlier this evening as anti—immigration demonstrators and anti—racism protesters staged rival events in the city. the protests,

following mounting tensions in the irish republic over the growing number of asylum seekers in the country and a spate of recent incidents linked to immigrants. gb news witnessed multiple arrests as police detained 19 people. a professional footballer has been charged in connection with an attempt to smuggle £600,000 worth of cannabis through stansted airport. jay emmanuel—thomas , who is emmanuel—thomas, who is currently a striker for scottish championship side greenock morton, was arrested by the national crime agency in the days after his flight. the former livingston , aberdeen and former livingston, aberdeen and arsenal academy player has also played for ipswich town, bristol city and queens park rangers. the prince of wales has been visiting aberdeen to thank workers in the homelessness sector for supporting the city's rough sleepers. the prince launched his homewards project last year, a five year campaign

aimed at ending homelessness in the uk. he said the problem should not exist in a modern and progressive society . and progressive society. and finally, a thunderstorm warning has been issued for large parts of england and wales over the next two days, with the threat of frequent lightning and large hailstones. the force met office warning , in effect until 8 pm. warning, in effect until 8 pm. on friday, stretches from the west midlands to the south east and includes the south—west. it also covers the western part of wales, including cardiff and swansea . definitely don't go out swansea. definitely don't go out at night. stay in and watch gb news. our own force of nature patrick christys 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 .

slash alerts. >> welcome along . there is the >> welcome along. there is the stench of hypocrisy, arrogance and corruption hanging over downing street. do you remember when sir keir starmer said this to change britain, we must change ourselves. >> we need to clean up politics. no more vip fast lanes, no more kickbacks for colleagues, no more revolving doors between government and the companies they regulate. i will restore standards in public life with a total crackdown on cronyism. >> okay, well, before i get stuck into everything else, you might have missed this. today it's emerged that the labour party's largest donation came from a cayman islands registered hedge fund with shares in fossil fuels, arms manufacturers and private healthcare. they took £4 million from a hedge fund that invests in everything they claim to hate, basically on a tax haven that they claim that they want to clamp down on. the donation fell within the one week window where labour didn't

have to declare it until after the election, so it looks like they were trying to maybe hide it. now, can you imagine the outrage from labour if the tories had done exactly the same thing? in fact, look at this tweet from angela rayner. they're about boris helping out his rich mates. look at that. there it is. well keir starmer has accepted £107,000 in freebies from the likes of lord waheed, alli . the party has waheed, alli. the party has accepted millions from the offshore billionaires. he stayed rent free, apparently in lord ali's £18 million flat. what are they getting out of all this? is lord alli still sitting in on meetings in downing street? if so, why? the latest is this starmer's hospitality box at the arsenal games. so here's his excuse. >> excuse. >> i think most people watching this would say, well, fair do's. think they'd think i was pretty self—centred if i said i'd much prefer to be in the stands by the way, i said, i'm going in the way, i said, i'm going in the stands. and you, the taxpayer, are going to have to

pick up the tab for the security . pick up the tab for the security. >> okay. so you're saying that you're saving the taxpayer money. are you okay? we think it's fair dues. do we? i mean, there is talk of starmer's government bringing in a football regulator, and it doesn't take a genius to work out that arsenal football club might be trying to butter him up.and might be trying to butter him up. and he has a conflict of interest there , doesn't he? he interest there, doesn't he? he could also, of course, just pay for it himself. he doesn't have to take the freebie. another line today out of labour is this we've got the chance for a little bit of time with family or something. >> that's important to them. in this case, lifelong support for a football team. again, i don't think that's a problem. >> so basically in a nutshell, he needs to keep taking these freebies so he can relax. boris johnson nearly died of covid. he was trying to guide us through a pandemic. sign a brexit deal. his wife had just given birth and keir starmer wanted him to be arrested over a birthday cake. so to claim that keir starmer needs to take a load of freebies to relax, i think is

absolutely ridiculous and now it looks like the top civil servant, simon case is going to resign early because he can't get on with sue gray and people have been leaking information about her less than 100 days in the top civil servant can't stand it any longer. people are leaking things left, right and centre. but starmer now feels the need to come out and say he is completely in control . well, is completely in control. well, you don't really have to say that, do you? if you are completely in control. fossil fuel investors, arms manufacturers, private healthcare, offshore tax havens, british billionaires allowed into downing street a football club worried about a new football regulator. what are they all getting for their money? mr starmer , let's get money? mr starmer, let's get your thoughts on my panel. political editor at the daily express, sam lister, conservative peer lord bailey and former labour party adviser matthew laza . i mean, sam, we've matthew laza. i mean, sam, we've got to know, haven't we? what are they all getting for their money from mr starmer?

>> well, that's the big question, isn't it? you know, day 76 of this government. and who'd have thought it would already be in this position? this is the sort of swirl of accusations and sleaze and smears and what have you that tend to, to dominate a government near the end of its term, not in its first flush of power. and i think the accusations just keep coming, don't they? obviously there's been another bit in this analysis that keir starmer has taken more freebies than anybody else who's currently sitting, you have to wonder why why, why does he need these? why does he have to take these freebies? we don't , you know, this is a man don't, you know, this is a man who's been on a high salary. he's been a top 1% earner for many, many years . how can he not many, many years. how can he not afford to pay for his own glasses? how can he not afford to pay for football tickets? how can he not afford to pay for all these things and what is lord alli getting out of it? >> is he still sitting in on meetings? the jury's out on that. as far as i can tell. but sean, you know the other story that landed today about this £4

million from the cayman islands based hedge fund, which includes investments in things like arms manufacturers, private healthcare and fossil fuels. i mean, those are all things that labour party has, has absolutely rallied against. and also, it looks like they received that money and that cushy little one week window there where it meant they didn't have to declare it until after the election, almost like they were trying to hide it. i mean, have they lost all kind of moral high ground here? >> look, there's two angles to look at this. there's some very clear rules about political donations. can you take them when if they didn't break those rules, they didn't break those rules. but will it clear the sniff test for the public? that remains to be seen. the other piece about freebies and all the rest of that. it's a real huge piece of hypocrisy. you you yourself showed the tweet by angela rayner and all of this talk about sleaze, sleaze, sleaze, sleaze. when it looks like they were doing the same thing. and this is the challenge for the public and also the press. there's a double standard because if these were tory mps, if this was rishi, there'd be a tidal wave. and i wonder what the likes of the guardian and the likes of the guardian and

the mirror will say. and i'll tell you why. as well, because people on the left, not necessarily labour party members, but people on the left, will not like this. they will say you've spoken about being being green and all the rest of that, but these are your friends. you need to separate yourself from them. it's going to be a challenge. >> remember the sexism directed at carrie johnson? oh, carrie wants new wallpaper. does she? carrie wants this. well, i'm sorry, but you know, lady starmer wanted a new wardrobe, and she got it, didn't she? >> is that a question? well, look, i mean, it's not been a great week, to put it mildly. and i think the government needs to get a grip, hopefully with the party conference beginning at the weekend. a grip will be got. i mean, you know, we can go into the reasons why, you know, he still does pay for an arsenal season ticket. the club kind of upgraded him because that's easier for the security detail. you know. you know, we can go we can have a discussion about how all prime ministers and their spouses are, you know, in the pubuc spouses are, you know, in the public eye. and therefore, you know why he does a tv executive, why he doesn't want anything out of it, why he all he wants is a

labour government. >> he was he was. >> he was he was. >> yeah. because he because he's deeply meetings because he's deeply meetings because he's deeply committed to the labour party. he goes canvassing sean. he goes canvassing. >> let me say something to you. i've sat in the lords and been lectured by labour peers about tory donors and their influences. you now have a labour donor sat in number 10. i don't ever want to hear another lecture, but he's not just a labour donor. >> he's a he's a labour peer and he was a labour peer before he was. i mean, look, he's deeply committed to the success of the labour party. he's, you know , labour party. he's, you know, he's there's nobody saying that he's there's nobody saying that he's trying to get x, y or z, but he's got a particular business interest that i mean, he's kind of semi—retired from business anyway. >> yeah. but with respect. and look, this is this is genuinely like i'm not saying there's any truth to this whatsoever. i'm just saying it doesn't take a genius to suggest that the fabulously wealthy lord ali might have quite a lot to gain from being surrounded by people who might be about to make some serious decisions about tax, and where those tax laws are going to change. >> but he's been he's been he's known these people for he should never have had a pass to downing

street. nobody's ever that was that was an error of judgement. >> why he had it. they said he was part part of the transition team, but nobody's explained why he had the pass. as soon as the press found out about the pass, they rescinded the pass, which i think also exactly what happened with one speaker. >> let's be clear, nobody suggested he's up to something, and nobody's suggesting that he can't have that pass. but it all needs to be done efficiently. clear. and the reason why is because when the tories did anything close to that, they were piled upon. you can't have one set of rules for us and one set of rules for you. >> boris locked up. everybody's got to abide by the same rules. what happened with waheed? i think, is because he's known he's you know, on the mainstream of the party. he's a big supporter of tony blair's, he's, he's known people like wes before they were mps. i went to a fundraiser at waheed's, you know, ten years ago where there were people there who are now mps who weren't there. he's been very supportive. and what happened, i think, is because he was very involved in the election, people just basically regarded him as effectively just another labour staffer and didn't actually stop to think. and they should have stopped to think this was the conservatives.

>> yes, the labour lot would be. >> yes, the labour lot would be. >> absolutely. and they need to. that's why they need wise heads. >> and the way that lady starmer is being treated compared to carrie johnson is absolutely astonishing. and i think that you said she's a public figure, actually, they made a great play in the run up to the election of her being a private figure, how she wanted to stay out of the limelight. she didn't do anything publicly on the campaign trail. she just occasionally appeared by the prime minister's side and she she has actively made it clear that she did not want to be in the limelight. so why is a labour peer dressing the prime minister's wife? it just does not make any sense. >> i mean, i think, i think what happened is, is that because he's a tv executive? i mean, he the reason the glasses cost £5,000, i guess is because they would have gone for the thinnest possible lenses because they look best on telly. et cetera. because that's why his background, he made his money in the company that made the big breakfast his original money. if you remember, then, that changed television. so, i mean, i think what they need is they need to have a wise head who is stepping back.i have a wise head who is stepping back. i think at the moment they're all you know, the kind

of war and briefing about sue and special advisers needs to end. and they need they need wise heads to make sure that the rules do apply to them as they apply to everybody else, because sean's right in that we're potentially about to have a football regulator, which is a massive political decision . massive political decision. >> it may well prove to be the right decision. who knows? but it's a big political decision. it will affect arsenal. arsenal are going to give him a hospitality box, seemingly free of charge. as far as we can gather, that could be deemed to be a conflict of interest. there's also the public opinion aspect to this. he's potentially about to ban ordinary working class football fans from going to the pub and having a cigarette in the pub garden, whilst they watch the football, while he gets free hospitality boxes, non—smoking at the arsenal, there's a massive, massive boxes. >> the issue here is there's two things we shouldn't have to dig into the detail, and the reason we shouldn't have to dig into the detail to see that this was right or wrong is because of all of what the labour party had done over the last 3 to 4 years. if a tory mp looks sideways, they wanted him arrested. now, apparently he's all right. >> but they were a bit more than

that. were they arrested for? some of them have gone to jail, apparently. >> apparently it's all right for them to do these things. and all i'm saying is it's a double standard and it will come back to bite keir starmer because people are taking the register and a register already is too long. >> look, as one of my colleagues in westminster said, keir starmer is the first prime minister to look through the world, through rose tinted glasses and i think they had point. >> well, it's a good line . well >> well, it's a good line. well there we are. look, okay. and also as well as i'm just saying also as well as i'm just saying a bit, i know that the press have been doing quite a lot of work when it comes to winter fuel payments as well. and, you know, the optics here are pretty bad as i will just just bang the drum again. i'm doing a fundraiser for friends of the elderly, which i really do hope if you can. if you can, i don't want you to put yourselves in a difficult financial position, but if you can, please do go to justgiving.com forward slash page forward slash. save our seniors. there's also a qr code on your screen right there. right now we're just shy of 148 grand. that's been raised . and grand. that's been raised. and we started on monday, so it's not bad going. we started at 9

pm. on monday, so not bad going at all. and we are going to try and get that up over the course of the next couple of weeks or whatever, to around £260,000. and because that's the amount of grants that friends of the elderly managed to give out to people last year, i've actually got an interview coming up shortly with someone right at the top of the tree , friends of the top of the tree, friends of the top of the tree, friends of the elderly, which i think it might be worth you watching. so if you can give a few quid, it's just giving.com/page/save our seniors. and the qr code is on screen . more about that in just screen. more about that in just a few minutes time. but before that yes there is something else this time, this time, this time you could be getting the money. so here we go. it's time for the great british giveaway and your chance to win the equivalent of three grand in your bank account every single month for the next yeah every single month for the next year. it's a whopping £36,000 in tax free cash. here's how you can win 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 cash in your bank account that you can do whatever you

like with. take a year off and keep it to yourself. you don't even need to tell the taxman as it's totally tax free for another chance to win £36,000 in tax free cash. text cash to 632321. entry cost £2 plus one standard network rate message or text bonus to 632325 entries cost £5 plus one standard network rate message. you can enter online at gbnews.com/win. entries cost £2 or post your name and to number gb08, po box 8690. derby d19, dougie beattie, uk. only entrants must be 18 or oven uk. only entrants must be 18 or over. lines close at 5 pm. on the 25th of october. please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. good luck . good luck. >> coming up, coming up, coming up. i'll have the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. but next. yes, thanks to your generosity, my fundraiser for friends of the elderly has now hit £148,000. earlier today, i spoke to the

charity's interim co—chief executive, mark wilson, and it's stories like this that make your donations all the more important. >> we've had a number of people on treatment who don't even have the basics, like a bed to sleep in, so they've been sleeping on the floor or on the sofa while they've been ill. >> more of that very shortly. and to just remind you as well, it's just giving.com/page/save our seniors. thank you very much

welcome back to patrick christys tonight . now elderly people are tonight. now elderly people are having to sleep on the floor because they haven't got a bed. they're calling up charities desperately asking for a coat. they're having to choose between going to their chemotherapy appointments and heating their homes this winter. appointments and heating their homes this winter . pensioners in homes this winter. pensioners in britain are getting an awful deal britain are getting an awful deal. if you ask me. we know there was modelling that predicted that around 4000 of them would sadly die if they lost the winter fuel payment. well, now lots of them have lost the winter fuel payment and the energy price cap. well, that's gone up as well. and council tax that will go up. food bills, they'll go up . we have the money they'll go up. we have the money for everyone else in this country. it seems we have even money for some people who, dare i say it, are not actually in this country, but when it comes to the elderly, i'm afraid that we're told there's nothing left.

well, i think that's wrong. so on monday, i started trying to raise some money for friends of the elderly, which is a charity that offers grants to vulnerable people who are right on the brink. and thanks to so many of you, we've so far raised £149,684, which is an amazing effort. and you can go to justgiving.com forward slash page, forward slash save our seniors, or use the qr code on your screen right now. so that's how you can just add to that. wouldn't it be lovely if by the end of this show tonight, we'd got up, we'd got up over 150 or we'd got up over 152,000 or something along those lines. well, earlier today i caught up with the interim co—chief executive of friends of the elderly, mark wilson. and i was saying, i do wonder if we might be able to bump a couple of those donations up after we've after we've heard from mark, i'm very pleased to say that mark joins me in the studio now. thank you very, very much for

coming in. i just thought it might be nice for our viewers and our listeners if you could tell us a little bit about what friends of the elderly do and why it's so important, especially as we approach those winter months . winter months. >> so friends of the elderly is a charity, and we've been operating since 1905, so it's long established . we have ten long established. we have ten care homes across eight sites and supporting older people in residential care, nursing care and care for people in with dementia. we've also got four day—care facilities where we support people living in their own homes in the community, who are also living with dementia. so they're going for the day, get support and then go home and it also gives relatives and family members a bit of respite as well. >> absolutely. and one thing i was hoping you might be able to tell me a little bit about is some of the grants. yeah. given out. so that's something that i know, especially our viewers and listeners. we're thinking of it at the time of year where people might be struggling with, with heating and eating, etc. that that was something that they would like to know a bit more about. so what are these grants? >> yeah. so absolutely. so our grant program is the essence really of our organisation and

that the grants have been going on for over 100 years. and so we support pensioners who are struggling on a day to day basis financially. so they're surviving rather than living. and that's sometimes not due to, well , it's definitely not due to well, it's definitely not due to their own choices. it's unforeseen, issues that have happened over the years. it might be that a lot of our pensioners have been working full time, but they've had to stop work due to either ill health or become a full time carer. and then, following the death of their partner or mother, they've had to just survive on their own pension with no savings. and if there is a, a large expense they need to pay a, a large expense they need to pay for like a new boiler or repair to a boiler, pay for like a new boiler or repairto a boiler, it pay for like a new boiler or repair to a boiler, it can wipe the savings out and put them in in dire straits. they really struggle. >> it's those kind of unforeseen things that they actually need a bit of help with. absolutely. isn't it? and that's where quite a lot, i imagine, of the money that will be raised here might go. is it towards those grants? >> absolutely. the money will go towards the grants and the people we support. there's a vast range of things people ask

for, ranging from whitegoods or new washing machine. we've had, just as an example, we had a gentleman in his late 80s who hadnt gentleman in his late 80s who hadn't had a washing machine for three and a half years, and he'd been washing his clothes in the bath, and he was getting more and more difficult. and he was getting he was feeling that he was feeling ashamed that he couldn't get his clothes clean. and just by giving him a grant for a washing machine, really enhanced his quality of life and his wellbeing. and that's just one small example. >> would you mind maybe giving us a few more examples of the kind of phone calls that you get, the kind of situations that people need help in? yeah, sure. >> so we we've received phone calls from and this is not uncommon from people who are receiving treatment from hospital, maybe having cancer treatment and having to pay for their journey there and treatment and having to pay for theirjourney there and back. so tax payers, if they're having chemotherapy every day for the week and having to go there and back, leaving them very short to live, and we've had a number of people on treatment who don't even have the basics, like a bed to sleep in. so they've been

sleeping on the floor or on the sofa while they've been ill, which not only affects their recovery process, but also affects their mental health and wellbeing. so by us being able to give them a grant of £400, it sounds relatively small. it can make such a difference by giving them a bed to help aid their comfort, but also aid their recovery process as well. >> it's life changing for them, isn't it? >> absolutely, yeah, and i do often find as well that perhaps the older generation are the least inclined to want to ask for help . sometimes they're very for help. sometimes they're very proud. and some of the basic things , we've had on occasion, things, we've had on occasion, people just ring up and ask for a toaster or a kettle because they've not got a kettle in them. so you can have something up to £400. and i only need a toaster. i only need a kettle. so they don't want to, you know, ask for help, and they're very grateful when they get it. and they don't need to be grateful. you know, we're here to support them. >> yeah, indeed . and, you know, >> yeah, indeed. and, you know, ihave >> yeah, indeed. and, you know, i have a look around now, and i only think of my own grandmother, for example, i was with her at the weekend and the idea of her

having to choose between heating and eating this winter breaks my heart. but the reality is that thatis heart. but the reality is that that is what millions of elderly people are going to go through. isn't it? >> i think absolutely, if we if we just focus on our grant offer. last winter, we had a 10% increase on applications during the winter period, people asking for a warm coat and a duvet. so nothing like i say, not major things, things that we would expect people to have but they can't afford to buy them and they can't afford to turn the heating on. and i think as she has gone on with the, cost of living crisis and the energy costs rising in october, it will also have another negative impact. so i would imagine there'll be an uplift again in there'll be an uplift again in the number of applications we receive. this winter. >> yeah, absolutely. and this problem, because we also do have an ageing population. yeah this is a problem that through a variety of different reasons, is probably set to get worse and not better. i would have thought, yeah, i agree. >> yeah. yeah absolutely. >> yeah. yeah absolutely. >> yeah. yeah absolutely. >> yeah. well hopefully we can

we can do something about it. and if people do want to get in touch and, and access your services and, you know, whether that's that they might have a relative who's struggling or whether that's they themselves, how can they go about doing that? >> so if they look on our website, friends of the elderly, if you google friends of the elderly, that will, get our web page elderly, that will, get our web page up elderly, that will, get our web page up or go directly to w—w—w dot f o t e org.uk and it'll take you to the main home page, and you can choose either a service we offer, whether it's day—care, our care homes or the grant giving programme. and the grant giving programme gives you the eligibility criteria and also how to apply . also how to apply. >> okay. well lovely. well look, thank you very, very much for taking the time to come in today. it's been great to meet you. you too. thank you for all the great work that you do for elderly people right across england and wales. i know it's tremendous that that, you know, the kind of effort that you go to and everything. thank you. before i let you go, can i just ask why? is there any particular reason why it means so much to

you? because i know that you've beenin you? because i know that you've been in this kind of line of work for quite a long time, haven't you? >> personally, to me, yeah. so i had it very when i was growing up. i had a very, very close relationship with my grandparents, and it's just horrible to see, our older generation suffering and struggling. and if we can alleviate that struggle slightly, then it means the world. >> yeah, indeed. well, it's a good message, i think, to leave us on there. so thank you very, very much for your time today and good luck with everything. thank you very much. thank you. to stay in touch with you over the course the next few weeks and months. thank you. thank you. yeah. well, there we go, well, can i just say a massive thank you to mark for coming in? also, as well. mark was very keen to stress, bless him, that he is very, very grateful to everybody who's donated . but everybody who's donated. but unfortunately we had massive time constraints with that interview. so that is the one bit of it that we cut out. but he was so, so grateful to all the gb news viewers and listeners. for everybody who has been donating. i did want to make that clear. it's just giving.com/page forward slash, save our seniors. and if we just refresh that page again right now, we have got up to in the

last in fact. well it's gone up on my phone again here in front of me. i've got £153,977 here, which considering just before we started that, i think with that interview there we were on about 148 or something. so you've gone and got it up. the amazing generosity of gb news viewers and listeners never ceases to amaze me. so thank you so, so much. there you go. it's gone up again now. i mean, look at that. thank you so much. you are going to save lives this winter. and i know it really means a lot to you. we've got a lot planned over the course of this fundraiser in the coming weeks. so watch this space. let's try and get as much money in as we possibly can. anyway, coming up, i will have all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages for you. they are hot off the press. oh, and apparently this is what happens when you let generation z write your adverts for you brat. >> summer is over , bestie. it's >> summer is over, bestie. it's time enter your historical >> all that and

welcome back to patrick christys tonight , and welcome back to patrick christys tonight, and it's time now to have a little look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. so here we go. we're going to kick start things with the metro. dozens of women accuse quotes monster. harrods tycoon al fayed, a serial rapist. that's the front page. at least five women were raped. more than 20 sexually assaulted by billionaire former harrods owner mohamed al fayed. thatis harrods owner mohamed al fayed. that is according to an investigation. so i think there's a documentary to go along with that investigation, which no doubt we will all be heanng which no doubt we will all be hearing a lot more about. let's go to the independent. how i survived 11 months of torture in putin's worst gulag, and this is his first tv interview on uk soil since being released for his part of the east west prisoner swap, british russian dissident vladimir kara—murza reveals the full horror of life in a siberian penal colony. let's go to the i am middle east steps closer to regional war. israel bombed southern lebanon

after two of its soldiers were killed and hezbollah's leader condemns two days of deadly attacks. we go to the daily express and they've gone with i survived atomic bomb tests and cancen survived atomic bomb tests and cancer. but will i survive this winter? and it's an raf veteran who risked his life during the atomic bomb test. fears the bitter cold of winter, though apparently could could pose him more of a threat. he's 86 years old and this is all part of the daily express. wonderful. what would you call it? crusade. crusade? of course. >> winter . fuel cuts. winter. >> winter. fuel cuts. winter. >> winter. fuel cuts. winter. >> the winter fuel. crusade that they are doing it. it's very important stuff. this. but let's whizz ourselves over to the daily mail now. english identity is under threat, warns robert jenrick. he says that mass immigration and woke culture have put england's national identity at risk. i'm going to i'm going to start us on with that one, i think. so, panel, i'll throw it over to you, do you feel, sam, that english

identity is under threat, do you think? well i think that robert jenrick submitted an article for the mail where he gives an analysis about the problems this country is facing. >> he talks about the summer riots, the what has helped to fuel them. he talks about high levels of migration and the fact that the changing culture in communities outside london, is causing tensions. communities outside london, is causing tensions . and he says, causing tensions. and he says, if you fail to address that, if you refuse to talk about it, then that gives rise to the far right. and so i think he's quite clear eyed about what the what he sees the problems to be and how he thinks you should kind of deal with them. so i think it's an interesting intervention there. >> do you think he's the man should, you know, tory peer, would you be saying if he's saying stuff like this, is he on the right track? >> i think this this conversation has been a long time coming. anything british seems to be held back, seems to be put down. you have a class of people in britain who won't talk positively about britain's past, who won't fly the union jack. you know, who can't support the

country in any way, shape or form that has an effect and i remember when we had the riots and starmer talked about, you know, people who basically disagreed with his point being on the far right. i made the point at the time. you cannot tell people who are worried for their income, their livelihood and their way of life . they are and their way of life. they are on the far right, because then they will start to consider it. the barrier now to be seen as far right in your own mind and also in somebody else's mind, is much lower. and it is a problem. it is a problem. and i do believe this country will cease to move forward if it doesn't have some self—love. everybody around the world loves themselves and talks about themselves and talks about themselves in a positive way. you don't hear that much in this country. >> yeah, i'll just go into a bit more detail. matthew i'll put it to you. so. so mrjenrick has said that he believes that this is the result of influx of migrants and the sneering attitude of the metropolitan establishment towards english identity. would you, would you go that? has there been a sneering metropolitan? >> i mean, just taking politics out of it for a minute. i mean,

in terms of english identity rather than british identity, you never saw when i was a kid, you never saw when i was a kid, you never saw the saint george's flag. it was always the union flag. and now the saint george's flag is flown, is flown proudly. we have saint george's day parades. in a way. actually we didn't. we might have had them, you know, before that i'm not, you know, before that i'm not, you know, before that i'm not, you know, that old. but i'm talking about growing up in the 80s. so i think in terms of engush 80s. so i think in terms of english identity, it's actually become more of a thing, over the last couple, of, couple of decades. i think we do need to all be proud of our country. i don't think we need robert jenrick, who's desperate to become tory leader, to try and play become tory leader, to try and play politics with patriotism, which belongs to us all, whatever our politics. i would just say this. >> the reason you see more saint george's day parades than you used to is because people feel like they need them. back in the day, the union jack was enough. the country was enough. people loved it. as ourselves. enough. i remember growing up in this country and you just felt british? yes. you had to deal with racism. there was a lot of it, but that got better over time. now it feels worse. as a black man walking around this country, i feel like my race is more of an issue than it's been for maybe ever, ever. and that

need to express your englishness, as it were, is because britishness has been battered to the floor. >> it's interesting. i mean, this is completely anecdotal, but i was in the lake district. iused but i was in the lake district. i used to work in the lake district. i spent a couple of years there, and then i went back again a few months ago, and i was seeing a lot more union jacks on flagpoles in people's front gardens in a way that i simply cannot remember a few years ago. i wonder if you're to on something there, whether people actually feel like they they can't like like they're doing that to protest against something. now, maybe so i don't know. >> i mean, i think john makes some very good points there because i think, you know, if you do feel that you can no longer be proud of your country's history, if you were told that you are oppressors and that your history is something to be ashamed of, then you know thatis to be ashamed of, then you know that is something that people will either take on board or they will rail against. and i think this is a this is a problem that robert jenrick has tapped into here. yeah. >> and now i was just going to shift us onto something completely different now because in a bid to attract a younger clientele, museums and visitor

attractions across the uk have started using gen z slang and firearms expert mark murray flutter from the royal armouries museum in leeds, has well, slayed the competition. >> brat summer is over bestie. it's time to enter your historical era. the royal armouries is the most sigma day out in leeds . armouries is the most sigma day out in leeds. no cap slay small. >> the line armour is serving main character energy pop off queen henry the eighth is the original rizla . original rizla. >> his codpiece hits different . >> his codpiece hits different. >> his codpiece hits different. >> don't know why do you love me? it's genius. >> it's genius. >> it's genius. >> no idea. you're all too old. you know . you know. >> you say slay, i slay, i slay, i don't say you know. so slay or slay and demure are the two words of the summer. >> okay? >> okay? >> all they needed was my daughter. because my daughter constantly tells me anybody over the age of 25 should not speak

in that manner. >> well, look, if you're the royal armies that is going to win, that's going to win marketing campaign of the year. it's got huge attention for the royal armies. it was clearly done, ironically, with a very traditional guy like it, think. >> no, i mean, i think i think it was done. >> you're not going to make me explain, brat summer. i had to do it to andrew pierce the other day. i'm not doing it twice. >> andrew pierce has been having a brat summer for. >> i'm saying nothing but interestingly, nato, nato put it on. it's social media. the sort of summer logo of against the green backdrop, the word peace. because brat, summer's over. but peace should always be what we're aiming for. >> oh, you see, you've got to be careful. slay >> as someone who's not actually entirely sure what a brat summer is, i should probably take this opportunity to apologise to andrew pierce. i'm not sure if he has been having one of those, and i don't really want to hear from his lawyers coming up out of the rest of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. so stay

all right. welcome back to patrick christys. tonight. it's time to return to the liveliest pay per time to return to the liveliest pay per view you'll get anywhere, so let's do it. i've got the daily telegraph. i'm still in control. say starmer, as feud erupts. you know, arne slot always slay queen. that's exactly what you would say if you knew you were in control. you know you'd feel the need to say it, let's go to the times . say it, let's go to the times. i'm completely in control. so starmer. reeves told to reverse cuts after £10 billion boost. interesting. so rachel reeves has been provided with the £10 billion budget boost by the bank of england, increasing pressure on her to reverse spending cuts. let's go to the sun. ronnie and layla's 147 break. the number layla's147 break. the number of, the number of months snooker legend was with the fiancee. apparently ronnie o'sullivan has split from his fiancee . that's split from his fiancee. that's very sad. okay. >> my old boss, ed miliband. big ronnie o'sullivan fan. >> there's a fan i remember, i remember on the campaign trail. >> he came on the campaign

trail. yeah. >> oh, really? yeah. >> oh, really? yeah. >> we spent a bit more time with him now. can't you? there you go. anyway, i'm joined again by my wonderful press pack, as you can see here and now, the moment that we've all been waiting for, it's very early in the year. this. but john lewis has released a very early hint of what i believe might be one of its christmas adverts. the advert was released today in the first part of a series of videos that will end in the retailer's iconic christmas offering. so this is a little sneak peek. shall we have a look ? shall we have a look? >> i know what i know, what do know? >> i say what i say, we come and we go . certainly not everything we go. certainly not everything at the back of my head i know, but i know i do not know why we dream exactly how or why we fall in love. chemicals. i guess i know what i don't know why that is funny . i know what i don't know why that is funny. i don't know know what i don't know why that is funny . i don't know french, is funny. i don't know french, but i'll take the blue one. i know, i don't know how i didn't see how beautiful i was then,

and then we come and we go. >> . >>. i >>. i >> okay. all right. so that was a bit of advert there, so i don't know what everyone might have made of that. i must say, it didn't seem particularly christmassy in that offering, but demure is what it was. demure, but i from what i understand, i think that is just the first part of what is going to be a wider christmas offering from john lewis. so they're going to build up to the actual christmas advert. >> it needs to be more christmassy. it does that, that, that bore no relationship to christmas. i didn't look at that and think, oh, christmas. no, i thought a bit summery actually. >> it was like a holiday. yeah houday >> it was like a holiday. yeah holiday music. yeah. >> it was. yeah, it was, it wasn't. people were not in their winter coats. they were in their 80s shell suits with the walkman. nice to see a gay couple featured though. >> well, hey , there you go. you >> well, hey, there you go. you know. fine. it's, it just seemed a bit not christmassy, i don't know, anyway. >> i mean , it is early. it is >> i mean, it is early. it is early for the reindeer, isn't it? i mean, come on, we're not even at the end of september.

we're not at the party. conference's finished yet. >> no, no. that's true. no, we're gonna have to rattle through this. so. greatest britain, please, sam, can you remember who your greatest briton is? >> my greatest briton today is stockton council. a labour council . but the labour council. but the labour councillors in stockton have voted against rachel reeves and her winter fuel cut. and they have said it's unfair. they are going to write to rachel reeves and ask her to turn that around. and i think that shows some integrity. and they because in stockton particularly, obviously it's further up north than i live, it's very cold up there. and so they are very concerned about that. >> good start. okay. >> good start. okay. >> minds are the brave nuclear test veterans who were honoured in a ceremony very recently . in a ceremony very recently. these people took a massive risk on our behalf. and it's right that they should be honoured. >> lovely stuff. >> lovely stuff. >> and mine is another labour council, but it's actually not really about politics, it's mohammed. he leads brent council in london and he's gone to war with all those e—bikes that are just abandoned everywhere, from those big tech giants, it's not just in london, but in cities across the country. and he said, enough's enough. >> okay, three really good

suggestions there. i have gone for stockton council because they also don't think it's winter fuel payment should be cut . and it ties in with cut. and it ties in with obviously what we're doing here is what you're doing at the express, but also we're doing here or i'm doing here and trying to raise a bit of money, for friends of the elderly, just giving.com/page/save our seniors. if you can give a few quid. who's a union jackass, please. >> the bank of england. we they were very slow to respond to inflation. they're very slow to respond to it falling. and so they've kept the interest rates today. and i think everyone was hoping for a bit of a cup. >> they were yes. >> they were yes. >> minds is the early prisoner release program. let's be clear . release program. let's be clear. releasing prisoners is fine if you pick the right people and you pick the right people and you rehabilitate them properly, because if you don't, the whole thing becomes a laughing stock. and we need to rehabilitate our prisoners properly so we don't keep them prisoners. >> some of them have already been put back in prison. exactly. >> mine's a blast from the past. owen paterson. the disgraced former minister and mp. and he took of all things, the gall and

the gumption against the european convention on human rights and he's just lost his case today. guess what? the european court of human rights. >> all right. okay, i've gone for someone completely different. just because i thought it was quite funny. actually, today's winner of the union jackass is a guy called brent carter who is. >> you've gone off piste. you've ordered off menu. >> he's now the head of. i think it's merthyr tydfil council. yes. yeah. he was found covered in lipstick at an illegal brothel and still managed to work his way up the greasy pole of politics. >> i actually read this story today. >> it's because he's not a tory. >>— >> it's because he's not a tory. >> if he's a tory, the labour party will call for his head. >> i actually read this story. i'm going to. i'm going to defend him because first of all, we're going to give up. if you start making your own picks, rondo picks point one. we're going to go on strike. absolutely secondly. secondly, it was investigated by the standards board. and he was found that he hadn't brought the council into disrepute. >> really the question about what the council i'm saying nothing else. >> yeah. what else has gone on. >> yeah. what else has gone on. >> look, brent. >> look, brent.

>> hey if you you've got you've got friends on the panel. brent. don't worry. it was a very tongue in cheek thing. right. okay. so thank you very much, everybody. a complete shift in tone, to everybody who's donated tone, to everybody who's donated to the fundraiser. it's now up to the fundraiser. it's now up to £161,082. slave of the elderly. you can go to justgiving.com/page, forward slash, save our seniors or use our qr code on your screen. let's try and get those numbers up to show as many elderly people this winter in britain that they really are cared for and loved, despite what some people may say or do. so thank you very much and thank you everybody on the panel. wonderful show this evening. it's headliners next. they're going to be great. so make sure you keep it gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> time for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. good evening to you tomorrow . likely to start fairly tomorrow. likely to start fairly grey. should brighten up with

some sunshine but a change in the south. we are expecting to see some heavy and thundery showers developing as the day goes on. low pressure is just pushing northwards, getting rid of the high pressure that's brought most of us a dry week with the easterly winds. the cloud is feeding back in through the night , across northern the night, across northern england, across the midlands into east wales and western scotland, northern ireland generally staying dry and clear here. and that's where we'll see the lowest temperatures, well down into single figures. but elsewhere staying quite mild actually, with the blanket of cloud, that cloud thick enough for a bit of drizzle on some eastern coasts and over the pennines, we may see 1 or 2 showers in the morning across the southeast, but we're more likely to see them develop as we go through the day. it will be quite a cloudy start, but as those skies start to brighten, some heavier showers developing later on, much of western wales, northern ireland and western scotland having a sparkling start to the day with plenty of sunshine, will soon start to lift the temperatures, but the east coast plagued by that ha! and that could be a feature of

the weather throughout the day, and at times that cloud thick enough for a bit of drizzle. as i mentioned though, it's in the south where we're a bit concerned about the showers that are likely to develop. it will brighten up. we'll see some sunshine, but that will spark a scattering of showers, perhaps over east anglia, but particularly over the midlands, southern england and parts of wales come the afternoon and into the evening. still quite warm here. cool on some of these nonh warm here. cool on some of these north sea coasts where it stays grey. a very pleasant day in western scotland once more. we do have a met office yellow warning in place for the thunderstorms. not everywhere in this area will catch a downpour, but where they do occur they could cause some problems, potential for flooding. certainly a lot of spray and surface water on the roads and we're not done with the thunderstorms because on saturday across the south we could again see some very heavy downpours developing once more. a fine day in western scotland. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

>> i'm mark white the latest headunes >> i'm mark white the latest headlines from the gb news centre. the foreign secretary, david lammy, has called for an immediate ceasefire between israel and hezbollah. he's also urging british nationals to leave lebanon, warning the situation could worsen rapidly. it comes as the leader of the terror group, hassan nasrallah , terror group, hassan nasrallah, said the waves of explosions

targeting hezbollah fighters had crossed