gb news. >> good morning. it's 930 on friday the 20th of september. we are live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with ben, leo and me. >> nana akua very good morning to you. hope you're doing well. starmer's turmoil a civil war brews in number 10 as the prime minister defends his decision to pay minister defends his decision to pay his chief of staff, sue gray, a salary that exceeds his own . own. >> i no longer need to control this party. i'm going to let go. we will change the structure of

the party and that means it's the party and that means it's the members of reform that will own this party. >> as nigel farage relinquishes ownership of reform uk, the party's conference kick off in birmingham is today, and the government's revealed its plans to tackle domestic violence in britain as abuse experts will be placed in 999 control rooms. >> home secretary yvette cooper wants to halve domestic abuse against women and girls in the next ten years, means working much harder on prevention. >> it means the stronger police response, it means effective criminal justice response and it means communities and workforces across the country responding to what really should be treated as a serious crime . a serious crime. >> budget boost the government gets a £10 billion boost from the bank of england . so will the the bank of england. so will the chancellor restore winter fuel payments for pensioners? >> and is english identity under

threat? that's what tory leadership robert jenrick warns as he says mass immigration and woke culture has taken hold of the country and there is a huge british boxing bout this week. >> paul coyte has more. >> paul coyte has more. >> yes, it is huge. it's 90,000 people that will fill wembley stadium tomorrow night for the first british heavyweight championship of the world in 30 years, as anthony joshua takes on daniel dubois. >> all kicking off, isn't it ? >> all kicking off, isn't it? with. was he being called now? >> free gig here? >> free gig here? >> oh , good. >> oh, good. >> oh, good. >> i mean, what how much? over £155,000. it was actually if reports are to be believed. plus angela rayner, over £70,000 as well. i mean, what what on earth is going on? you can't you can't castigate boris johnson and then turn out to be doing well, behaving in a similar manner as

it was revealed this morning that angela rayner over the last few years we had in january, she spent five days in a luxury new york penthouse courtesy of its owner, lord ali. >> the big labour donor. right. and she registered the holiday personal holiday and said it cost £250 a night. now, if anyone's been to new york or you're familiar with new york prices, i think you could probably treble that at least to get an accurate understanding of how much it costs to stay in a new york penthouse over new years. >> well, why are they accepting that anyway? i mean, let's be honest. keir starmer, him and his wife's earnings are well over £200,000. i think he's got a property empire as well. so it's like, why would you take that when you've got money and then take away money from pensioners? it's not a good look. >> so let us know what you think about that. gbnews.com/yoursay and action packed show coming up. but first, your news headunes up. but first, your news headlines with tatiana. >> ben nana. thank you and good morning. the top stories. a campaigner whose niece was

killed by her ex—partner after calling the police multiple times, says domestic violence victims need to be heard the first time they call 999. noor norris, whose niece, raneem oudeh and sister were both murdered by mr o'dea's ex—partner in 2018, says those calling the police for help need to be given the opportunity to be saved. the home office says some police forces will start embedding domestic abuse specialists in their 999 control rooms early next year, as part of raneem's law, to transform the way the police handle cases of violence against women and girls. an inquest found mistakes made by west midlands police had materially contributed to miss o'day and miss saleem's deaths. home secretary yvette cooper says the government will ensure that things change. >> victims of domestic abuse need to know that the police will be there for them in an emergency that didn't happen for raneem oudeh when she lost her life, and that's why we're bringing domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms like this

to make sure that the emergency response is right. we saw when raneem oudeh called 999 four times on the night she was killed . no one came. we cannot killed. no one came. we cannot let that happen again . so i'll let that happen again. so i'll begin with the first wave. then we want to roll this out right across the country so that domestic abuse victims can know the police will be there for them when they call . them when they call. >> in other news, the foreign secretary last night demanded an immediate ceasefire between israel and the militant group hezbollah after meeting allies in paris, david lammy will chair meetings today on the evacuation of britons from lebanon following israeli airstrikes overnight. israel has carried out more strikes on southern lebanon, saying its warplanes hit more than 100 hezbollah rocket launchers and other terrorist sites. the israel defence forces said the launchers were ready to be fired against israel. it wasn't immediately clear if there were any casualties. lebanon's state run national news agency said. israel carried out at least 52

strikes in the south of the country last night, and that lebanon had also launched strikes on military sites in northern israel. earlier, the leader of the terrorist group hezbollah said deadly explosions earlier in the week crossed all red lines, accusing israel of what he said represented a declaration of war. israel has not said it was behind those attacks , but saw pages and attacks, but saw pages and walkie talkies explode across the country on tuesday and wednesday, and which lebanese authorities said killed 37 people and wounded 3000. and tory party leader hopeful robert jenrick has warned that english identity is under threat. he claims the ties that bind the nafion claims the ties that bind the nation together are beginning to fray due to mass immigration and woke culture. jenrick says immigration has had a clear impact on our culture, customs and cohesion. he's also suggested it's a contributing factor to this summer's riots, with unrest spreading across the country in the wake of the

southport knife attack, which killed three little girls . and killed three little girls. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour 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. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> hello. good morning to you at home. welcome to britain's newsroom live across the uk only on gb news with me, ben leo and nana akua. >> right. so we're kicking things off with reform uk, their conference and their leader nigel farage has relinquished ownership of the party. have listen. >> decision. i no longer need to control this party. i'm going to let go. we will change the structure of the party from one limited by shares to a company limited by shares to a company limited by shares to a company limited by guarantee, and that means it's the members of reform

that will own this party. i am relinquishing control of the of the company . the company. >> okay, so big changes afoot at reform uk. their conference of course kicks off in birmingham today and our man on the ground. gb news political editor christopher hope is there. good morning christopher. what's the feeling like there today and what is the sort of narrative the party is trying to push? of course we have the revelations there from nigel farage that the party's structure is being changed. what's the message? they're trying to get out today? yeah >> hi, ben. hi, nana. that's right. welcome to to the the to birmingham. the nec where reform uk are about to welcome maybe 4000 members here. i've been inside the auditorium. it is glitzy. it's a this is grand as i've seen in any political party. this party feels it's going somewhere. they've won five mps in july's general

election. they're targeting 2000 candidates in next year's local elections. they want to win hundreds of seats there. we'll hear later from all the all of those five mps. nigel farage is up at 4 pm. that'll be live on gb news. of course, others richard tice he'll be making his speech. he's the deputy leader. he's going to accuse ed miliband, the climate change secretary, of being the most dangerous man in britain. he says we are the only country, he says, to have all this oil and gas under our control and not be using it. other countries are laughing at us, he says. it's a gross negligence not to use fossil fuels to bring down heat, gas and heating bills and the like and keep us warm this winter . lee anderson will say winter. lee anderson will say that he wants to get his country back. he'll say he looks back to a time when children were taught to be good citizens at school, not taught. there could be a different agenda, he also will

see. he'll give us the boldest speech i've seen so far. in the brief remarks. he'll be saying that if we win these hundreds of council seats in may, this party can win the 2029 general election . now, that is an election. now, that is an extraordinary claim to make . extraordinary claim to make. probably unlikely. they've got five mps at the moment. they need, over 325 to win an election. but it shows the ambition of this party, if nothing else . nothing else. >> all right, christopher, thank you very much. we'll keep up. you'll keep us updated throughout the day. right. let's get the thoughts of brexiteer and businessman ben habib. get the thoughts of brexiteer and businessman ben habib . ben, and businessman ben habib. ben, you've been calling for the democratisation of the party for a while and the change of structure. can you explain what how the structural change. because nigel farage has relinquished his his level of control within it. what? how doesit control within it. what? how does it work? what does this mean? >> yeah. so to just clarify, for people who aren't familiar with the subject, the company that is reform uk limited is the political party. it has 15

shares and nigel owns nine of them. so nigel effectively owns and controls reform uk limited, the private company which is the political party. what nigel has declared he will be doing is changing the nature of that company into one limited by guarantee, where he doesn't own the shares but the membership effectively, own the party and that the party will be run pursuant to its new constitution, which they are. yusuf revealed a couple of days ago . ago. >> ben, thanks forjoining us >> ben, thanks for joining us this morning. you tweeted yesterday, and i quote, i have now read the new reform uk constitution. i'll be letting you know the facts of it tomorrow morning. anyone voting on it on saturday needs to hear what i have to say. arron banks, the former ukip donor, replied to you and said how to spot a troublemaker who thinks he's important. what did he mean by that? >> well, i don't know. you will have to ask aaron what he

thinks, but no idea . i've got no thinks, but no idea. i've got no idea. i mean, he's obviously a great fan of nigel's, but that's no reason to detract from the very reasonable representation that i made, that i read the document and i was going to give people my analysis. i'm the one, by the way, who's been pushing for the democratisation of the party. i was doing it privately for a long time , and i know nana for a long time, and i know nana very validly has told me herself privately, ben, keep these things private. but i kept it private for a long, long time until i could see the party wasn't moving in the direction required to democratise it . and required to democratise it. and i don't think you can be a serious political party with aspirations for government if you yourselves don't act in some democratic way. and when it became evident to me that my private pleadings were not going to bear fruit, i went public with my calls for the democratisation of the party. and all credit, by the way, to gb news and christopher holac, who are speaking to zigi yusuf on the 22nd of august. got yusuf

to confirm. and this is this is volunteered up brazier that he had a finest legal minds in the country working on the constitution day and night, and that it would guarantee that members could remove nigel. it would introduce the democratisation of the party. and i tweeted then i don't know if arron banks responded to me at that point, but i tweeted then a note of congratulations to zahawi and the party. but when i got the constitution the other day, actually it was a rehashed document that i had rejected a year and a half ago, with a few changes here and there, which couldn't have been made more than by a paralegal. it certainly had had not had the finest legal minds in the country on it. the document is very largely a mess, and it doesn't deliver the ability of the membership to remove the leader. and let me just get one thing clear. i am not seeking the removal of nigel farage. this has got nothing to do with nigel farage. but any organisation, whether it's political , private, political, private, governmental, if it has a

leadership that cannot be held to account , that don't have to account, that don't have checks and balances in place to ensure that they behave properly, and where the leadership don't , don't leadership don't, don't recognise that they can be removed if they perform badly. that leadership and that organisation will fail. so it is because i love that which richard and i and others created. reform uk. i love the ideology i think it's the last, bastion , if you like, of bastion, if you like, of protection for the united kingdom from the precipice that awaits the country. if the labour party and the tory party continue to behave, the way they are. whilst i love reform uk , if are. whilst i love reform uk, if reform uk is to save the country , reform uk is to save the country, then it must itself reform and become a proper political party. it's got to carry the movement with it and it's got to nurture that movement and deliver on the promises it's made to that movement. and that can only happenif movement. and that can only happen if you've got an accountable leadership, and that

can only happen if you've got a proper constitution. but i'm afraid the constitution that i reviewed the other day is not fit for purpose . fit for purpose. >> so, ben, do you see your future within reform then i see my future right now, in the present and in the near future as the conscience of reform i. >> i live and breathe reform. i've. i've put my life blood into it. over the last couple of years, richard and i took it. when i joined the party. it was we were polling 6% by the time the general election came along, we were polling 16%. that's how richard and i delivered the five mps into office. and but i will stand and hold the party to account. just like i hold anyone else to account. if they're failing the country, i'd still be a conservative party member and donor if it wasn't for their repeated fundamental failures. reform exists because the two establishment parties have so failed, and so we must ensure that reform doesn't fall into the same pit. it doesn't make

the same pit. it doesn't make the same pit. it doesn't make the same mistakes. and certainly if the party. let me just say one thing. if the party chairman has represented that the finest legal minds in the country have worked on this document, and that it will enable members to remove the leader, then for goodness sake, make that happen. the people of this country are sick and tired of being given false promises, and those promises being broken, and it's not a good start for our use of his chairman to make those representations on national television and then fail to deliver them. >> ben benhabib, thank you very much. that's ben habib, he's at the reform uk conference. but up next, there's a huge british heavyweight fight at wembley tomorrow with a record sell—out crowd of 96,000 expected at the stay tuned. we'll be talking about that.

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>> 949 ben and nana with you on britain's newsroom only on gb news. and we're also joined by sports extraordinaire paul coyte, who has the latest on the big fight tomorrow at wembley. wembley stadium. who's fighting who. what's going on? why is it so big? >> anthony joshua and he's going to be fighting danny dubois and this is tomorrow night. to be fighting danny dubois and this is tomorrow night . 90,000 this is tomorrow night. 90,000 people going to be at wembley stadium for this , which is stadium for this, which is i don't know if you've been to like one of the big fights you're usually involved in those aren't you? nana, to be honest with you, if you've ever seen them, it's like the thing is you look, you you can't hardly see a thing because it's so far away. the atmosphere is always amazing because they have sweet caroline. and then the ring walks, which seem to go on forever. so you've got anthony joshua. when he fought oleksandr usyk and he did that at the tottenham hotspur stadium, the ring walk was actually longer than the darn fight was. i mean, it's just nonsense. >> don't they have screens in wembley so you can see the fight? >> that's the thing. so you get screens above the ring. so you're kind of looking at the screens and you see these dots, but anyway it's 90 000 people

are paying to go and see it. so it's the first time that two brits have fought for the heavyweight title of the world is the first time since 93 anthony joshua. >> what's his career trajectory doing? i mean, he is he it's been.is doing? i mean, he is he it's been. is he finished really? no, no, i think i think it's actually restarted, to be honest with you, ben, this is the press conference. >> they always make a big deal about this. he was at the guildhall in london. the reason i think they chose that is because it's one of the most ornate, beautiful buildings i think there is in the city. and so it just goes with the whole pomp and circumstance of the day. there's anthony joshua coming in. look what we see. look one airpod. what's all that about? >> he's probably lost the other one. >> well, he's found one i lost one. >> that's the thing i always lose my airpods. i've just given up now. okay? i bought the ones on the string now because. okay, so he needs to go back. larry grayson with the glasses. >> he's kind of like that. but anyway, you said about trajectory, it's stop and started. it was terrific. and then he was the world champion and then he lost it to andy ruiz jr. then came back, won it again, and then lost to oleksandr usyk twice. and so it

looked like this was going to be the end of his career. but he's kind of rebuilt. he's had three more fights now. the holder of the title is joyce there now? he won that by default. it's because usyk actually relinquished one of them, which is the ibf. so he's picked that up. so joshua is the challenger for this . so whoever actually for this. so whoever actually wins this fight will then probably go on and fight oleksandr usyk. so possibly to unify this just so many titles, what are his chances of winning ? what are his chances of winning? >> is he expected to win joshua. yeah. >> you know there's a there's quite a few people that are saying that joyce because he's such a big puncher could win this fight. but i think the way and it is about that trajectory, i think that anthony joshua will win this. >> how much does he get then? how much does he get for these fights. because there's a lot of money involved. >> prize purse. >> prize purse. >> you know what it's he is a very, very, very rich man. now he doesn't need to fight. >> we're talking how much? >> we're talking how much? >> we're talking how much? >> we're probably talking tens of millions. i'm a sports guy, you know. it's all about the

title. it's not about the cash for me. but there will be a huge amount of money at stake. >> yeah, apparently 10 million each. >> 10 million each. >> 10 million each. >> 3.5 million up front. and then, depending on pay per view sales, up to 10 million each walk in the park. >> so this is like acting really. they could pretend to fight. and then one of them relinquishes. but it doesn't matter really, because they both get 10 million at the end. i mean, what's the point of this? >> well, the point of this is the title, because that's what they fight for. they get the money. but we're often seeing a lot of rematches. this is what's happened over the last few years is that you'll get that. and if it's a great fight, they'll think people are going to want to see this again. so we'll put it on again and then there'll be it's like joshua and usyk, you know, there's a lot of appetite to see these fights go on again. but really you're thinking, well you know what that's happened. now let's see them fight someone else. but it just sums up a lot of money just for the people that are going there, let alone pay per that are going there, let alone pay per view. >> how much is the pay per view? >> how much is the pay per view? >> si king usually. i mean, i don't know how much it is. it's

usually about £30. what a rip off to watch the fight. >> i'll get a takeaway and watch eastenders instead i think. >> okay, watch a rerun of an old. i'll be watching gb news >> well, yeah. >> well, yeah. >> saturday night, saturday five, headlines me i'm on twitter or you could come round to mine and we can split the cost between us. no, i think i'm washing my hair. >> okay, fine. >> okay, fine. >> sorry. thank you. kwasi. >> sorry. thank you. kwasi. >> your dog's coming. >> your dog's coming. >> it's all good stuff. look forward to the fight tomorrow. good stuff up next, listen to my fellow arsenal fans. sir keir starmer defending the fact he watches them from a hospitality box because of security concerns. >> i think most people watching this would say, well, fair do's, fair do's. >> what's he talking about? >> what's he talking about? >> so he's getting a box worth eight grand a game at arsenal. he's been given the for box free. i don't know why. as an arsenal fan, they have given a box to a politician just free of charge, i don't understand. >> well, well, look, he would argue that it's his security and everything else, but rishi sunak would sit in the stands and also prince william sits in the stands. so. so can keir starmer stay with us though. >> all right. and he's got your weather. we'll be back in a tick. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb

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gb news. >> away . >> away. >> away. >> very good morning to you. it's 10 am. on friday, september the 20th. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me, ben, leo and nana akua. >> starmer's turmoil now a civil war brews in number 10 as the prime minister defends his decision to pay his chief of staff, sue gray, a salary that exceeds his own . exceeds his own. >> i no longer need to control this party. i am going to let go. we will change the structure of the party and that means it's the members of reform that will own this party. >> and as nigel farage relinquishes ownership of reform uk, the party's conference kicks

off in birmingham today. we'll be there to get the latest . be there to get the latest. >> the government has unveiled its plans to tackle domestic violence in britain as abuse experts will be placed in 999 control rooms and surprise budget boost. >> the government gets a £10 billion boost from the bank of england. so will the chancellor restore winter fuel payments for pensioners? >> is english identity under threat now? that's what tory leadership robert jenrick warns, as he says that mass immigration and woke culture have taken hold of this country. i mean, i'm being a bit presumptuous there. it's not the leadership candidate. he hasn't got the title yet. candidate is what he is. >> leadership hopeful or leadership candidate the favourite? i think he is. >> he is the favourite alongside kemi. there's a couple of points between the two of them, but do you think he's right though,

that we are in england in particular, which is where he alludes to that we are at risk of losing our english identity, of losing our english identity, of course. >> yeah, i think so. i mean, when you look at the demographics, the statistics of white brits going down year on yean white brits going down year on year, london is now a majority, sorry, english. white english are a minority in london. it does raise concerns and conversations about the. >> yeah, but what you just said there that if you play that back to yourself you you equate being engush to yourself you you equate being english as as being white as in white brits. you said so. do you think that's the direction he's talking about, or do you think he's talking about the actual general culture of this country? >> well, it's a, it's an anomaly to have any capital city in the world where the native white demographic. could you imagine new york being a minority white city? london is quite isolated. >> but my point is, is he talking about that or is he talking about that or is he talking about that or is he talking about the actual culture? >> culture? >> culture? >> i think that's what he's talking about. i don't think he ancestral links. >> lots of, you know, english families have people who fought in the world wars. exactly. new generations of immigrants. >> i think he's talking i think

he's talking about culture. i think he's alluding to culture and the british way of being and the english culture, which i think is where he's leading with. >> it's a good conversation to have let us know what you think. gbnews.com/yoursay but before we crack on with our show, tatiana sanchez has your news headlines . sanchez has your news headlines. >> ben nana, thank you. the top story is a campaigner whose niece was killed by her ex—partner after calling the police multiple times, says domestic violence victims need to be heard the first time they call 999. nora norris, whose niece, raneem oudeh and sister were both murdered by masood's ex—partner in 2018. and she says those calling the police for help need to be given the opportunity to be saved . the opportunity to be saved. the home office says some police forces will start embedding domestic abuse specialists in their 999 control rooms early next year, as part of raneem's law, to transform the way police handle cases of violence against women and girls. an inquest found. mistakes made by west

midlands police had materially contributed to miss o'day and miss saleem's deaths. home secretary yvette cooper says the government will ensure that things change. >> victims of domestic abuse need to know that the police will be there for them in an emergency. that didn't happen for raneem oudeh when she lost her life, and that's why we're bringing domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms like this to make sure that the emergency response is right. we saw when raneem oudeh called 999 four times on the night she was killed . no one came. we cannot killed. no one came. we cannot let that happen again. so i'll begin with the first wave. then we want to roll this out right across the country so that domestic abuse victims can know the police will be there for them when they call . them when they call. >> but raneem's auntie noor norris says the system failed. her family . her family. >> it's been such a painful journey for raneem to start with, all the hard work she put

in to try to get the help and support she needed, and she didn't get that , into the extent didn't get that, into the extent of going through the pain of not being supported, from the beginning of her abuse through the authority, the police social workers and all that. and into that point where she lost her life and we lost her in 2018. and my sister tried their best to be here today, but the system failed them because the attitude of domestic abuse was very dismissive . dismissive. >> in other news, the foreign secretary last night demanded an immediate ceasefire between israel and the militant group hezbollah after meeting allies in paris. david lammy will chair meetings today on the evacuation of britons from lebanon following israeli airstrikes. israel carried out further strikes on southern lebanon overnight, saying its warplanes hit more than 100 hezbollah rocket launchers and other terrorist sites. it says the israel defence forces said the

launchers were ready to be fired against israel. it wasn't immediately clear if there were any casualties. lebanon's state run national news agency said israel carried out at least 52 strikes in the south of the country last night, and that lebanon had also launched strikes on military sites in northern israel. earlier, the leader of the terrorist group hezbollah said deadly explosions in the week crossed all red lines, accusing israel of what he said represented a declaration of war. israel has not said it was behind the attacks, which saw pages and walkie talkies explode across the country on tuesday and wednesday, and which lebanese authorities said killed 37 people and wounded 3000. tory party leader hopeful robert jenrick has warned that english identity is under threat. he claims the ties that bind the nafion claims the ties that bind the nation together are beginning to fray due to mass immigration and woke culture. jenrick says the migration has had a clear impact on our culture, customs and cohesion. mrjenrick also

suggested it's a contributing factor to this summer's riots, with unrest spreading across the country in the wake of the southport knife attack, which killed three young girls . in killed three young girls. in other news, thunderstorms and lightning are set to batter the uk with up to 70mm of rainfall expected within a few hours after a spell of dry, warm weather. the met office has issued two yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms for today and tomorrow, and said damage to buildings as a result of lightning strikes, disruption to public transport and flooding should be expected within the affected areas. today's alert covers most of the south—west england, parts of wales, the midlands and west london and is in place from midday until 8:00 tonight. the second warning is in place all of tomorrow from 1 am, and covers all of wales and south west england. the midlands and parts of the south east of england . and in sports, anthony england. and in sports, anthony joshua is ready to take revenge for coming off worse in a brutal

sparring session against daniel dubois eight years ago, when the british rivals clash at wembley stadium tomorrow night. joshua admitted he was hurt by dubois when they duelled in training at team gb headquarters in sheffield in 2016, the year he defeated charles martin to win his first world title. at the time, dubois was just 18 years old and still an amateur, but the power he displayed against the power he displayed against the olympic, world olympic gold medallist that day convinced promoter frank warren to sign him up as a pro. joshua admitted at yesterday's head to head press conference that he felt the strength of dubois . the strength of dubois. >> oladipo. >> oladipo. >> he cracked me with a great shot and it's my chance to get him back on saturday. i'm not depending on punch power, you know. you know what? it takes a lot more than that to be a great fighter. a lot more than that to be a great fighter. so there's various ways i'll win. but i got the fighting spirit and that's how i'll go in there and break him down. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm

tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour 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. >> and good morning and welcome. this is britain's newsroom. we're live across the united kingdom with ben leo and nana akua. now lots of you have been in touch with your thoughts. let's see what you've been saying. okay. there's one here from dennis. he says, did anyone ask the arsenal fans? this is with regard to sir keir starmer and his his free box. did anyone ask the arsenal fans who pay through the nose to attend, whether they agreed with freebies being dished out to keir starmer and his family? surely they cannot let all they cannot all be labour supporters? >> yeah, i'm an arsenal fan and infamously, arsenal have the most expensive ticket prices in europe. i paid up to £150 for a

ticket before to see a game . not ticket before to see a game. not even a fancy seat. just a seat. maybe buried in the gods somewhere. season tickets are thousands of pounds. so yeah, it does beg the question. i'd rather arsenal, my club, which is built on class and tradition and, you know, a really good culture of doing things for the community. i'd rather they gave it to school kids. why don't they give it to local school kids? >> why not give it to the pensioners? yeah, well, this one on what you said. grumpy grandad said from what i can make out, starmer always sat in the stands. but the team upgraded him to a box for security reasons, which is fair enough, i suppose. you know me. i can't stand, can't stand him. but let's stick to the truth on things when we can. well, we've not said that he didn't get that. he doesn't pay for a season ticket, and that he was given the box for security reasons. but we all know that. but let's just bear in mind , but let's just bear in mind, william, prince william, he goes in the stands. so did rishi sunak and whilst you know, i don't i don't necessarily begrudge him. i just think that there's a lot of freebies on that as well. >> yeah. the argument is that

either keir starmer should pay for that box himself and not take gifts. yet another gift free kick free keir gear as they're calling him £155,000 in total so far, or quite frankly, just suck it up and accept that you can't go to arsenal games anymore. i mean, i don't particularly approve of that because i know that, you know, prime ministers and everybody, normal people need downtime. >> but you can watch it on the tv though. but like the rest of us, it's the fact of taking the gift and eight grand a game. >> so if you're going to say ten home games a year, you know, work it out. it's a lot of money. >> all right. we'll keep your thoughts coming. gbnews.com/yoursay. but a civil war has broken out in westminster as the prime minister is forced to deny that he's lost control of government amid the sue gray row. >> yes, sir keir starmer defended himself after questions over grey's £170,000 salary that reportedly exceeds his own just by three grand and newspaper reports, if they're correct, revealed that actually it's from the bbc. if they're correct, sir. >> if they're correct. >> if they're correct. sue >> if they're correct. sue gray was apparently set. was told, look, you're going to be earning

more than the prime minister would you like to take a three grand pay cut just so you're slightly below the prime minister and, you know, it looks it looks fit and proper. she said, no, no, thank you very much. i'll take the three k. and just as we were saying, sir keir starmer, he's defended his decision to accept corporate hospitality from arsenal football club. listen to this. >> i think most people watching this would say, well fair do's. i think they'd think i was pretty self—centred if i said i'd much prefer to be in the stands by the way, if i said i'm going in the stands and you, the taxpayer, are going to have to pick up the tab for the security. >> right. well, the author and broadcaster rebecca reid joins us now. rebecca, thank you so much for joining us now. rebecca, thank you so much forjoining us. okay. let's talk about this. this is surely even though, i mean, i, i suspect you may well be somebody who supports the labour party. this is not a good look for, for the party, is it that sue gray should be being paid more than the prime minister or is it irrelevant? >> i'm not sure why people are bothered about that. >> i think there is a fair argument that she was that she

was perhaps not the right choice for that role, or that given her her involvement in the covid inquiry and her long standing involvement previously, i can see why people would be annoyed about that completely. but i don't really understand why her getting paid more is a problem or is worrisome. she's got a fairly significant job. i think there's an argument we should be paying there's an argument we should be paying all of the people at top levels in government, more so that they want to go and do that, rather than being investment bankers, so i don't i genuinely i find it very hard to understand why anybody is cross about that, and i think in terms of the rest of it, it does sort of the rest of it, it does sort of smack of the politics of envy. i think it's a sort of like i don't want other people to have nice things because i can't have them, it's bringing out an old. but also i think it's one of those things that people are really cross about in the media and really cross about in very small circles. but when l, in very small circles. but when i, when i've been in the pub this week with my friends, none of them have heard about it or care. it'sjust of them have heard about it or care. it's just one of those issues that i think is actually much less of an issue than the media wants it to be. >> well, rebecca, i'm sure skins and freezing pensioners will care about it. and the problem is not the salary in itself, but

the fact the fact she's paid more than the prime minister and nobody elected her. who is sue gray? she didn't run for parliament or for election. nobody chose her. and she said to have more power than than most ministers in the cabinet. i mean, that's not right, is it? >> well, that's just how the civil service works. and if you wanted to have everybody who works in the civil service elected, you'd have a really, really complicated situation, the idea that, you know, the speaker would have to be and, and the people who work in portcullis house on the canteen, i think it's right that unelected civil servants have more power than cabinet ministers >> elected cabinet ministers, think. >> i think you're asking a question on a premise that isn't accurate , i think it's important accurate, i think it's important to have civil servants who are apolitical and consistent and therefore aren't aren't replaced in every government, because when you get a new government in, you need people who know where the printer ink is and have been there for 25 years and have been there for 25 years and have a sense of continuity. and both in the like, the minutiae of the day to day, but also in the grander scheme of having seen a lot of different political institutions. so the

civil service being apolitical is essential. that's why i think sue gray was a questionable choice in the first place, but the idea that you want everybody who works in westminster to be elected, it's a confusing one to me, and i'm not really sure how you would manage that system. >> okay. can i ask you then, your thoughts on keir starmer and the freebies that he's been accepting? £155,000. that's what we're up to now. and also angela rayner has over £70,000. what what is your view on that in particular? whilst they're sort of withdrawing winter fuel payments for pensioners, i think it's, it's a it's a bizarre , it's, it's a it's a bizarre, it's, it's a it's a bizarre, it's a sort of facebook mum logic that i see a lot of facebook user logic that i see a lot that's like, why are footballers paid so much and we don't pay nurses more. >> and it's just those aren't comparable. there is a completely different number of pensioners to people who are employed as politicians. those two things don't go together and maybe the comms is a bit complicated, but we're talking about money that we're talking about money that we're talking about freebies they've had since 2019. so that's over. over the course of five years. and the total amount of hospitality and gifts that keir starmer has had

since 2019 is 1200, is 12,500 less than boris johnson got to do up his flat from lord brownlow. so i think the idea that people are suddenly very bothered about this, but they weren't. when boris johnson was having his wallpaper, they were bothered, weren't they? >> boris johnson no , but that's >> boris johnson no, but that's the point, rebecca. they were about it because he tried to not declare it. so. so hold on. you said there weren't. but people were bothered about the fact that boris johnson had the wallpaper. in fact, the labour party made a massive issue over it. and then everybody, everybody, everybody jumped on the back of it. >> everybody jumped . >> everybody jumped. >> everybody jumped. >> sorry, sorry. i just want to finish the question. let me come to the question. everybody jumped on the back of this. yet now we hear it's almost as though there seems to be a lot of people making excuses for keir starmer on this. why? why do you feel the narrative is so liberal towards keir starmer? yet it certainly wasn't the same for boris johnson. >> with boris johnson, the issue was that he hadn't declared it properly, so he said he couldn't remember who had paid for what and he'd lost his phone and he didn't have the messages. keir starmer has done things by the

book and that's what he does. he does. he can be charmless and uncharismatic, but he does tend to follow the rules and play things by the book, which is why we have this data, he hasn't tried to fudge it. he's been very clear. he hasn't done anything illegal. he hasn't done anything illegal. he hasn't done anything wrong. you might not like it, but it smacks of people being like, why do influencers get things sent for free? because they are more important in the grand scheme of things than me or you or ben, because people want to give important people want to give important people free things, and that is the system that is, they're not in charge of policy and they're not running the country, and they're not in a position where actually what they do can affect millions and millions of people. >> and they're not elected. keir starmer was. and on a premise of being honest and on a premise of having integrity. and that does not look good. he's a very rich man. why is he taking freebies? >> but, well, to start with, he is a man who is paid 170,000 £160,000 a year, and the amount that it costs to go in that box every time is like £8,000. so it would take a serious dent into his, salary. >> if he don't go. that's the

point . don't >> if he don't go. that's the point. don't go. >> if he don't go. that's the point . don't go. what's he point. don't go. what's he doing? going. if it's eight grand a pop and he can't keep himself safe, don't go or pay for it yourself. >> but okay then. should nigel farage be doing surgeries in person? same logic. >> well, it's not really. it's not the same logic at all. keir starmer is the prime minister and leading this country, so he's directly in charge of policy and actually, if you believe that it's not safe for nigel to farage hold surgeries in person, then what? >> and i and you, i think you guys probably do believe that that i guys probably do believe that thati do guys probably do believe that that i do believe that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> then why would you believe that keir starmer should be in the stands in a major. >> i don't that's why nigel's not having surgeries. is he. because he feels unsafe. so with that same logic, keir starmer shouldn't be going to the football. so using your own analogy, you shouldn't be going. >> you say it's not our responsibility to protect you. it's not our responsibility for you to your life. >> no. >> no. >> you should go to waitrose. >> you should go to waitrose. >> should he be making the same judgement that nigel has made? keir should make the same judgement that nigel has made, that it judgement that nigel has made, thatitis judgement that nigel has made, that it is not safe so you don't do it. >> going to arsenal is not his job. >> then you don't do your job

properly. >> going to arsenal is not what his job is. >> going to arsenal is not what hisjob is. it his job is. it >> what state all partaking in pubuc >> what state all partaking in public life is part of his job, but also so don't go to the supermarket. he can't go to see his kids sports days. what? what level do you want him to not be able to just that level specifically that level in the same way you use nigel farage, he's not doing the surgeries because he doesn't feel safe. >> you're saying no, no, no, no. but keir starmer said he doesn't feel safe and that's why he's not. that's why he needs a box. he shouldn't go. >> no, we should facilitate people being able to do things when they work in public life. it's a bizarre idea. is it the mps should just be cloistered and unable to partake in public. nigel farage should have enough security to be able to do in person surgeries. that's just good sense and keir starmer should have the right security to be able to partake in life. >> i think it's absurd, especially given the optics with the interviewer. rebecca reed, always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining always a pleasure. thank you very much forjoining us. thanks, rebecca. that's rebecca reed. right. well, do you think, gbnews.com/yoursay i do find it interesting how those on the left side of the argument or left side of the argument or left of centre are now, are now

doing sort of all sorts of mental gymnastics to excuse labour when over the past ten years or so they've been, you know, but anyway, listen well up next, foreign secretary david lammy, he has defended an immediate ceasefire between israel and the militant group hezbollah. will anyone listen to him now with britain's newsroom on

gb news? >> hello. welcome back. 1023 ben and nana with you on britain's newsroom on gb news. and we're also joined by political commentator emma webb and broadcaster and tv personality precious muir in the studio . precious muir in the studio. good morning to you both. what would you like to kick off with? >> well, should we start with this one? i'm still in control. that's the words of keir starmer. the prime minister was forced to defend his authority amid growing questions over sue grey's larger than life pay rise or pay salary.

>> even i think that actually a lot of people have a problem with it because she's a woman. >> i think that if she was a man, they actually wouldn't have this issue. oh, precious. i really, genuinely believe that i think that because she's a man and the prime minister. sorry, she's a woman, and the prime minister obviously is a man. there is an issue, i think, that she's obviously there to do the job, and if she's getting paid more than him, then that just so happens to be i mean, who is she? well, she's obviously her. >> what does she stand for? what's her policies? who is sue gray? >> well, at the end of the day, she's obviously doing the job, and that's why she's getting paid to do so. if keir starmer had an issue with it, he would actually put get into control of the situation and change the salary. but obviously he isn't getting on with it. >> he just said get into control of the situation. it sounds like he's lost control. do you think he's lost control. do you think he's lost control over the idea that people are complaining because she's a woman is funny, i think. >> i mean, she's being paid £25,000 more than chiefs of staff were paid under the conservative government and she's responsible for signing off the lower salaries for

spads, reducing spad numbers. that's why other civil service advisers are. yes. special advisers are. yes. special advisers and are surprised by this, that she's earning so much money and so much more money than the prime minister. but it's also because obviously, sue gray, in her previous position, there have always been question marks about her appointment to this role as chief of staff, and that this is also coming at a time when we've had all this news about keir starmer receiving so many hundreds of thousands of pounds worth in gifts . so i thousands of pounds worth in gifts. so i think it's a bit hypocritical for the labour party to be doubling down over this kind of thing, given how much attention and scrutiny they paid to the conservatives over this. when you know, they're doing exactly the same thing. i mean, do you think that they release this information to actually cover keir starmer in

going or, you know, everyone's going on about all these freebies, how about we just release her salary and announce to the world that, well, actually, he's getting paid less. so hence why he can't afford to pay for arsenal ticket tactics. a little distraction, i think, because obviously if he's getting paid less, he can't pay for the boxing to do that. >> they could use jazz as well. instead, who's the dodgy labour landlord who brought out a licensing system that he himself did not follow? >> but also everything suggests that the reason why this probably has been leaked, and it's interesting that there's now this, this sort of crusade to try and find out who the person was who leaked it, rather than admitting that there are some legitimate concerns as to why she's being paid so much more, given it's a proper leak. but the reason the reason the everything suggests the reason why this would have been leaked is because so many other members of staff have already been disgruntled by sue gray. so of course they have a motive. occam's razor. that's a much more simple explanation than they're trying to cover up, the stories around keir starmer ,

stories around keir starmer, which haven't been covered up at all. >> one, one starmer ally has told the prime minister he needs to. this is according to the daily telegraph read the riot act to stop staff , staff leaks. act to stop staff, staff leaks. so i don't think it's intentional, but precious. let me ask you again because this is very important. it's not just the fact she's paid £170,000 or £3000 more than the prime minister, sue gray is the is the person who , admittedly, chris person who, admittedly, chris pincher aside, which was the cherry on the cake, admittedly brought down boris johnson. yeah by eating again cake in downing street. >> he didn't eat the cake, actually. >> he turned up. he ate some crusty m&s sandwiches on his birthday. she toppled boris johnson. he's she's now keir starmer's chief of staff, widely reported to have more power than any cabinet minister, paid more than the prime minister. the head of the civil service, simon case, is said to be resigning imminently in the new year because apparently he doesn't get on with sue gray because she wields so much power. who is sue gray? who elected her? what does she stand for? why is her son a labour mp? >> can't answer. >> can't answer. >> why did why did she cause too many questions all at once? >> well, i just think that

obviously people i think people just have an issue because she is a woman. that's my stance on it. i truly believe that. i truly believe, i truly believe that i don't look, look, that would be fair enough. >> but there's a lot going on with sue gray. and she's a woman. she's reached the heady heights that she has reached, so that that certainly didn't work against her. right. well, let's let's move on to this one. get out of lebanon. now. that's what britons have been told. emma woolf, united states, uk, a number of other countries, including spain, canada, australia, france , germany, australia, france, germany, i think as well have issued warnings to their citizens in lebanon that they should get out now while they can still take commercial flights out, now while they can still take commercial flights out , because commercial flights out, because it could change at a moment's notice. >> and so this is coming after israel had a very , very israel had a very, very indiscriminate attack on hezbollah terrorists using pages. and there are some fears that this could further ignite a sort of blazing fire in the region. >> well, there's an argument that i'm listening to a lot of news reports that say, oh, it's

terrible. and obviously it's awful that people lose their lives. but this was, as you said, discriminate. it was specifically at terrorists who were part of hezbollah. and all the other and hamas. >> and it is remarkable how few people are willing to say that they are terrorists. these are not innocent civilians. and people always complain about israel saying they should be more discriminate. well, this was a case of them being about as discriminate as you possibly could be. this was the most targeted attack imaginable, much more discriminate than the indiscriminate attack by hezbollah that launched a rocket onto the golan heights into a druze community and killed 12 children. so it's interesting people like to talk about context when it suits their narrative, but not when it doesn't. precious. >> i just think it's really sad. obviously because children and women are obviously always a part of the conflict, and they're the ones that are suffering , and we have to get suffering, and we have to get a handle on how are they in this particular one, because the pages were targeted specifically at terrorists . at terrorists. >> so yeah, but, but but that's always the case. if it had been always the case. if it had been a bomb then that would have been more. it would have been an

attempt for it to be discriminate, but it would have been more indiscriminate. this is literally directly to a terrorist who has a pager in his pocket. >> yeah, but then that always happens. i mean, they obviously are targeting certain amount of terrorists, but then women and children are always a part of the conflict . the conflict. >> but it's impossible. >> but it's impossible. >> like like it's impossible for not. and anyway, you don't know whether you can believe the statistics that are coming out and the numbers of women and children that are being killed because we know that some of these people do stretch the truth. but the point of this is this is a very discriminatory attack. how would you suggest they get rid of their enemy if you don't do it in a very discriminate specific person to person conflict? >> well, this is where the leader has to get involved because obviously the conflict is amongst the people and the conflict is constantly going on. we can't get a handle on. obviously, the politics in this nafion obviously, the politics in this nation is always about one side against the other. when are you sympathising with the terrorists? >> and no, i'm not sympathising with the terrorists at all. i'm just asking. >> no, not at all. i'm not. >> no, not at all. i'm not. >> no, no, a ten year old, a ten

year old girl did die. >> yes. children. >> yes. children. >> children and women are dying. icannot >> children and women are dying. i cannot be sure, of course. >> but if you want to talk about women and children, let's talk about the women who are being raped in captivity, who are still being held by hamas, the women who were raped and murdered by hamas on october 7th. let's talk about the children who are still being held in captivity, or the 12 children who were murdered on the golan heights. and that's the golan heights. and that's the reason why they are constantly being raped , tortured. >> that is the reason why that is the reason why they are discriminately. >> and actually, i mean, this attack on these hezbollah operatives is genius because it is as discriminate as you can get from a military perspective. >> i was very impressed with how they did it. they would have had to have intercepted the shipment of pages and walkie talkies on that front, obviously, point of view. very impressive. >> obviously nobody wants people to die, but it is a war and unfortunately that is unfortunately that is unfortunately there will be casualties of war. right. well, thank you very much. both emma and also precious time to get your news headlines with tatiana sanchez.

>> nana. thank you. the top stories this hour. a campaigner whose niece was killed by her ex—partner after calling the police multiple times, says domestic violence victims need to be heard the first time they call 999. nora norris, whose niece, raneem oudeh and sister were both murdered by masood's ex—partner in 2018. she says those calling the police for help need to be given the opportunity to be saved. the home office says some police forces will start embedding domestic abuse specialists in their 999 control rooms early next year as part of raneem's law to transform the way police handle cases of violence against women and girls , an inquest women and girls, an inquest found. mistakes made by the west midlands police had materially contributed to miss odi and miss saleem's deaths. home secretary yvette cooper says the government will ensure that things change. >> victims of domestic abuse need to know that the police will be there for them in an emergency. that didn't happen for raneem oudeh when she lost her life and that's why we're

bringing domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms like this to make sure that the emergency response is right. to make sure that the emergency response is right . we saw when response is right. we saw when raneem oudeh called 999 four times on the night. she was killed. no one came. we cannot let that happen again. so we'll begin with the first wave. then we want to roll this out right across the country so that domestic abuse victims can know the police will be there for them when they call . them when they call. >> lawyers are currently holding a press conference after it came to light that the former harrods boss, mohamed al fayed, is facing allegations of sexual assault and rape towards several former workers of the luxury department store. dean armstrong kc called him a monster. >> we believe that the system not only enabled but potentially and allowed to a knowing extent , and allowed to a knowing extent, the widespread sexual abuse of the widespread sexual abuse of the survivors that we represent.

he was a monster enabled by a system , a system that pervaded system, a system that pervaded harrods . those of you who have harrods. those of you who have seen the most magnificent documentary that we saw last night will know and may well remember very clearly the words of the manager who said the following . anyone who tells you following. anyone who tells you they didn't know what was going on is lying , and tory party on is lying, and tory party leader hopeful robert jenrick has warned that english identity is under threat. >> he claims the ties that bind the nation together are beginning to fray due to mass immigration and woke culture. jenrick says immigration has had a clear impact on our culture, customs and cohesion. mrjenrick also suggested it's a contributing factor to this summer's riots, with unrest spreading across the country in the wake of the southport knife attack, which killed three little girls . and those are the

little girls. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tatiana sanchez. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana . up next, >> thank you tatiana. up next, are you proud to be english? i ask that because tory leadership hopeful robert jenrick says engush hopeful robert jenrick says english identity is under threat. what do you think? gb news.com/your say. is your this is britain's

tick. >> good morning. if you've just tuned in. welcome 38 minutes after 10:00. this is britain's newsroom with me nana akua and ben leo. >> very good morning to you. hope you're well. now, tory leadership candidate robert jenrick has warned that english identity is under threat.

>> now he says that immigration and woke culture is stripping away english culture and the people in scotland and wales are proud to be scottish and welsh. but those from england are far from proud to be english. >> i always think that i always think the scots are proud to fly their flag and the welsh, and as soon as the english do, somehow it's related to football hooliganism or something like that. but why do you think that is? what is the theory behind it? well, we're joined now by senior fellow for new culture forum, philip kissel. good morning philip. thank you for joining us as robert jenrick got a point. if so, really, what is his point ? his point? >> hi, both. well, first of all, it's lovely to be with you, yes, of course, he's got a point. my, my problem with the whole thing is that that the conservative party should have been talking about this ten, 15 years ago. we as a as an electorate, we have always voted against mass immigration. and this goes back for 30 years, we are concerned,

as a country about the woke infiltration in institutions, particularly education. education, particularly schools. and yet the conservative government in power have done nothing whatsoever to address any of these things. and as far as immigration is concerned, they they've, you know, they've they've powered it. the immigration under the conservative party has been absolutely crazy. so it almost feels like when i hear a senior conservative politician talk about this, it almost feels i'm being gaslighted. it almost feels as though i'm in a, you know, a an abusive, narcissistic relationship because, hang on, you're responsible for all of this kind of stuff. yes, we've got in the institutions, we've got in the institutions, we've got people , pretty much got people, pretty much everybody. there are 1 or 2 people, myself included, but there are 1 or 2 people, everybody else is about deconstructing british identity . deconstructing british identity. decolonising british culture,

marginalising the mainstream, championing minorities. now it's great to champion minorities, but it isn't a zero sum game. it isn't. it isn't either. or what we haven't done . and i think we haven't done. and i think this is what he's getting at, what we haven't done is put british identity at the core . we british identity at the core. we are not allowed to celebrate our history. we have to criticise our history massively , unfairly, our history massively, unfairly, because we don't criticise anybody else's history outside the anglosphere and outside of the anglosphere and outside of the west. okay we only champion those things, so it's an unfair playing field and our children are growing up hating britain and our demographic is changing so quickly that we're finding it very difficult to defend who we are, because the people in britain don't want to hear that story. >> so what would you say? perhaps because robert jenrick he's saying that we're losing this british identity or english identity. in fact, what would you say needs to be done, in

your view, to champion it more ? your view, to champion it more? >> well, i think we have to start probably at the, at the borders and we have to kind of say, well, let's, let's stop mass immigration. and that doesn't make me far right or racist to say that, like you nana, i'm from an immigrant background myself. my father was a political refugee. he came here in 1959. the difference is, here in 1959. the difference is, he didn't hate the country. he didn't want to change the country, so we need to stop the numbers. we need to really take seriously what people are saying. so stopping mass immigration is the obvious one. then tackling the culture in institutions and really starting root and bo, taking all of, you know, all of the quangos, the arm's length institutions, the universities, the schools really taking apart the ethos. they're taking apart the ethos. they're taking apart the culture challenging this very simplistic narrative of britain, bad

everywhere else, good. taking that apart and saying no, if you don't want to have an honest, decent discussion about who we are, what we've done and where we're going, then you shouldn't be in the institutions because you are just peddling ideological lies. now britain isn't perfect and it never was, but our history ultimately is one of doing good rather than doing bad. the world is a better place for, britain's actions in it. and i think our children should be taught that. and if we focus on education, if we if we if we if we focus on primary, secondary and higher education, then we might be in a place where we can look to the future and say, we have a demographic, and say, we have a demographic, a nation that is proud to be who we are. and if we are proud of what we are, we put the nation state first, then we can

function. the problem is, we can't function. at the moment. we are living in a sectarian society . you see it in london society. you see it in london and all the major cities every week. there are hate marches. anti—semitism is rife. misogyny is rife. it's because we have no coherence. we don't have a national identity. and i'm glad that robert jenrick is saying that robert jenrick is saying that we need to put this first. we need to put nation state first. we need to understand who we are. but my god, there's a lot of work to do and this stuff should have been happening ten, 15 years ago. >> philip, thank you very much. really good to talk to you. that is philip kingsley there. yeah. i second everything he's just said there. i think he's making a good point. what do you think? gbnews.com/yoursay up next. there's a huge british bout at wembley tomorrow with a record sell—out crowd of £96,000 or 1000 even expected. back in just a moment. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> hello. welcome back. 1047 ben and anna with you on britain's newsrooms emails are flying in on your say. vrinda, you say ben. many years ago highbury the old football ground of arsenal, used to have a schoolboy stand which used to cost a fiver. that's cheap. i'm not an arsenal supporter, but i watched many games at the schoolboy stand with my mate. wonderful memories and vrinda of course follows on my comment about sir keir starmer and arsenal. instead of gifting starmer an eight grand a game box, give it to the local school kids or people that you know would really appreciate it. >> well, listen, jude has got in touch and said starmer is a multi—millionaire. can he write like this? and if he doesn't feel safe in the football stands and needs a box, he should well pay and needs a box, he should well pay for it himself . if he truly pay for it himself. if he truly can't afford the £8,000, then he just doesn't go. that's what the rest of us do. so why does he think that he's so special? i find most labour supporters very

naive and argue it's okay for their leaders to accept gifts. whilst it wasn't okay for the tories, it is hypocrisy, two faced and double standards and jazz on english identity. >> you say it's not only english identity that's under threat, it's also welsh, irish, scottish. it covers the whole of the united kingdom. wow. >> okay. and then lynn, i think maybe robert jenrick is saying that obviously because he'll be the prime minister for, for obviously if he does get in for the entire country, but initially the others had their own parliaments. right? lynn says rebecca is wrong because we had rebecca reid on earlier with regard to keir starmer, she said he failed to declare his freebies in the timescale allowed. this isn't new. in 2022, he breached the code of conduct eight times for similar issues. the lengths people like rebecca go to defend its indefensible and laughable. >> as he'd say, fair do's, it's fair do's. i think. >> as he'd say, fair do's, it's fair do's. i think . yeah. fair do's. i think. yeah. anyway, we move on. broadcaster paul coyte is here with us in a big fight. takes place tomorrow night at wembley. >> there'll be any heads of state or any politicians that

might be getting free tickets. >> starmer tomorrow will be in a box there. >> do you think they'll be flown there and then there may be. >> sit and watch some of them. >> sit and watch some of them. >> he's holding up the ring as the ring walk beforehand. >> yeah. huge fight. 90,000 people going to be at wembley tomorrow. it's the first british heavyweight championship of the world. i've always wanted to do that. it's taking place here in 30 years. anthony joshua versus daniel dubois. and we should have a little look here because this was before the fight. they always have the press conference beforehand. there's usually loads of them beforehand. so this was before the fight because they have fought before although sparring. so will that have any effect on what we're going to see tomorrow night? this is what they said. >> can we clear that up now? obviously we know you guys are going to fight for the real thing on saturday, but can we clear up this sparring story? the sparring rumours aj you cracked me with a great shot and it's my chance to get him back on saturday. >> i'm looking forward to it. >> i'm looking forward to it. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> we sparred hundreds of rounds in it. >> you cracked him , daniel. so

>> you cracked him, daniel. so you know you can hurt him in sparring. >> now we're fighting. it's different, you know. it's different. let it go. let's move on. now we can move on now. on move on. move on. >> move on. >> okay. >> okay. >> it's all a little bit uncomfortable, isn't it, really? but former european champion and my favourite boxing pundit spencer oliver joins us now. morning spencer. >> morning, paul. how are you, mate? yeah i was there at the guildhall yesterday and. yeah, it was what, an event it was actually. i mean, it's a fantastic setting that we was in there. yeah. and unbelievably right. that is where boxing all begun over 2000 years ago. we i got i got taken in a lift downstairs, to the roman amphitheatre. and that's where the first ever fight took place. so there's a lot of history surrounding it. and. yeah, the press conference. listen, it was fun. it was good. anthony joshua was a great speaker. daniel dubois is a man of few words , dubois is a man of few words, but, yeah, the rumours were circulating. did he hurt anthony

joshua in sparring? did he put him down? joshua wants joshua said, look, that was a long time ago. let's get it on. let's make it happen. both guys have been on a great journey. you know, to get to this, to get to this point, you mentioned paul, you know, the last british heavyweight title fight that was 1993, lennox lewis versus frank bruno in the national stadium in cardiff . i bruno in the national stadium in cardiff. i spoke bruno in the national stadium in cardiff . i spoke to lennox about cardiff. i spoke to lennox about that. he's looking forward to this fight. he says. now daniel dubois has made a lot of ground up and it's going to be good. >> but lennox has been quite critical over about aj, though, hasn't he, in the past there, spence? >> yeah, he certainly has. there's a lot of back and forth between the two of them. look, lennox lewis, where does he fit you know you got to look at lennox and say he's got to be one of, if not the greatest heavyweight of all time. you know, he was around in an era where, you know, he had some great fights, memorable fights, and he's been slightly critical of anthony joshua. if joshua comes through this one, he becomes a three time world heavyweight champion. he falls into that elite group. not many

of them have achieved that before . so you have to put some before. so you have to put some respect on his name . his journey respect on his name. his journey has been incredible, man. like he's been an inspiration since 2012 when he won that gold medal in the olympics. you know, he transformed boxing in many ways. you know, he filled the amateur boxing gyms with the young kids, etc. the journey has been sensational for anthony joshua in and out of the ring. >> now joshua, he's looking better. i think it's fair to say than he has in some time. spencer i think you'll agree with that. what about when it comes to daniel dubois? because it didn't seem long ago that he had his his cheek was cracked. he was in a terrible state, wasn't he, against joe joyce. and but they both almost like rebuilt their careers. so where is this fight going to go, do you think? >> yeah, that's exactly what they've done. paul. you know and they've done. paul. you know and they both rebuilt their careers off a loss to oleksandr usyk. you know anthony joshua has been a two year process in rebuilding that career jermaine franklin he that careerjermaine franklin he was not particularly good in that fight robert helenius you know he looks better stepped in with that right hand. knocked helenius out cold in the seventh

round. then otto wallin. and last time out against francis ngannou. but you look at daniel dubois and the fights that he's had since then. jarrell miller and filip hrgovic. you look at those fights, you know, he was an underdog in both of those. and he showed that he can bite down on his gumshield late on in the fight. the question marks were over. was he a quitter? you know, has he got that bit between his teeth? they both rebuilt brilliantly. that's what makes this a fantastic fight. >> spencer, look , we're really >> spencer, look, we're really running out of time. give me a name. who wins it and then how many, how many rounds i'm going to go. >> anthony. joshua wins a very exciting, explosive fight . exciting, explosive fight. inside six rounds. >> inside six. i'm with you. to good speak to you. thank you. spencen good speak to you. thank you. spencer. spencer. oliver. yeah. he's the best, isn't he? he is. i did say hello, and it was all there. >> thank you very much. pleasure. this is britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and ben leo. >> we'll be back in a tick. >> we'll be back in a tick. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar. sponsors of weather on gb news

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gb news. >> good morning. it's 11 am. on friday the 20th of september. we are live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with ben, leo and me. >> nana akua very good morning to you. hope you're well and thanks for joining us. to you. hope you're well and thanks forjoining us. starmer's turmoil a civil war brews in number 10 as the prime minister defends his decision to pay chief of staff sue gray, a salary that exceeds his own . salary that exceeds his own. >> i no longer need to control this party. i'm going to let go. we will change the structure of the party. and that means it's the party. and that means it's the members of reform that will own this party. >> as nigel farage relinquishes

ownership of reform uk, the party's conference kicks off in birmingham. christopher hope is there . there. >> i'm here with 4000 members of the reform uk party, where get this they think they can win the 2029 general election. >> oh, it's a bold ambition. elsewhere, the government has unveiled its plans to tackle domestic violence in britain as abuse experts will be placed in 999 control rooms. home secretary yvette cooper wants to halve domestic abuse against women and girls in the next ten years means working much harder on prevention. >> it means the stronger police response, it means effective criminal justice response and it means communities and workforces across the country responding to what really should be treated as a serious crime . a serious crime. >> budget boost. the government gets a £10 billion boost from the bank of england . so will the the bank of england. so will the chancellor restore winter fuel payments for pensioners? >> and former harrods owner

mohamed al—fayed is accused of multiple rapes by staff during their time working for the luxury london department store. and lawyers for victims are now speaking in . speaking in. london. thank you for joining speaking in. london. thank you forjoining us speaking in. london. thank you for joining us this morning. i hope you're doing okay. it's friday, we're nearly at the weekend . although at the weekend. although weekends aren't really weekends for us, are they? >> well, weekends are working, but i just love the job. >> so it's not really it's an honour to do it. but let's talk about that. the business about the budget, the 10 billion boost. do you think that this is now a chance for labour to sort of go, oh, sorry, we didn't quite mean the winter fuel thing. what we're going to do now is we're going to backtrack u—turn. but it doesn't look so bad because we've got a boost. >> yeah, plenty of calls from labour mps for the government to u—turn. essentially on the winter fuel payments. they found £10 billion down the back of the sofa, the bank of england. so will they do it? i don't think they will. reeves has hinted that she's going to stick to the

strict, as she calls it , strict strict, as she calls it, strict fiscal pathway. so pensioners , i fiscal pathway. so pensioners, i guess you'll probably still a bit stuffed. well, i wonder, i wonder, we'll see. >> but even diane abbott was talking about it. she was against the whole winter fuel payments removal. but frankly, she also abstained. but listen, send us your thoughts, post your comments gbnews.com forward slash your say. here's the news with tatiana . with tatiana. >> ben nana. thank you. the top stories. a campaigner whose niece was killed by her ex—partner after calling the police multiple times , says police multiple times, says domestic violence victims need to be heard. the first time they call 999. nora norris, whose niece, raneem oudeh and sister were both murdered by miss uday's ex—partner in 2018. she says those calling the police for help need to be given the opportunity to be saved. the home office says some police forces will start embedding domestic abuse specialists in their 999 control rooms early next year as part of raneem's

law, to transform the way police handle cases of violence against women and girls. an inquest found. mistakes made by west midlands police had materially contributed to miss o'day and muslims deaths. the home secretary says the government will ensure that things will change. >> victims of domestic abuse need to know that the police will be there for them in an emergency. that didn't happen for raneem oudeh when she lost her life and that's why we're bringing domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms like this, to make sure that the emergency response is right. we saw when raneem oudeh called 999 four times on the night. she was killed. no one came. we cannot let that happen again. so i'll begin with the first wave. then we want to roll this out right across the country so that domestic abuse victims can know the police will be there for them when they call. >> but raneem's auntie noor norris says the system failed. her family . her family. >> it's been such a painful

journey for raneem start with all the hard work she put in to try to get the help and support she needed , and she didn't get she needed, and she didn't get that into the extent of going through the pain of not being supported from the beginning of her abuse through the authority, the police, social workers and all that. and into that point where she lost her life and we lost her in 2018, my sister tried their best to be here today , but the system failed today, but the system failed them because the attitude of domestic abuse was very dismissive . dismissive. >> in other news, one of mohamed al fayed's alleged victims who went by the name of natasha, has told a press conference the billionaire businessman was highly manipulative. lawyers are currently holding that press conference after it came to light that the former harrods bossis light that the former harrods boss is facing allegations of sexual assault and rape towards several former workers of the

luxury london department store. barrister dean armstrong kc said it's barrister dean armstrong kc said wsfime barrister dean armstrong kc said it's time harrods took responsibility and set matters right. >> we believe that the system not only enabled but potentially and allowed to a knowing extent , and allowed to a knowing extent, the widespread sexual abuse of the widespread sexual abuse of the survivors that we represent. he was a monster enabled by a system , a system that pervaded system, a system that pervaded harrods . those of you who have harrods. those of you who have seen the most magnificent documentary that we saw last night will know and may well remember very clearly the words of the manager who said the following . anyone who tells you following. anyone who tells you they didn't know what was going on is lying . on is lying. >> the foreign secretary last night demanded an immediate ceasefire between israel and the

militant group hezbollah. after meeting allies in paris. david lammy is chairing meetings today on the evacuation of britons from lebanon following israeli airstrikes. israel carried out further strikes on southern lebanon overnight, saying its warplanes hit more than 100 hezbollah rocket launchers and other terrorist sites. the israel defence forces said the launchers were ready to be fired against israel, and it wasn't clear immediately how many casualties there might have been. lebanon's state run national news agency said israel carried out at least 52 strikes in the south of the country last night, and that lebanon had also launched strikes on military sites in northern israel. earlier, the leader of the terrorist group hezbollah said deadly explosions earlier in the week crossed all red lines , week crossed all red lines, accusing israel of what he said represented a declaration of war. israel has not said it was behind the attacks, which saw pages and walkie talkies explode across the country, and which lebanese authorities said killed 37 people and wounded 3000. now,

tory party leader hopeful robert jenrick has warned that english identity is under threat. he claims the ties that bind the nafion claims the ties that bind the nation together are beginning to fray due to mass immigration and woke culture. jenrick says immigration has had a clear impact on our culture, customs and cohesion. mrjenrick also suggested as a contributing factor to this summer's riots, with unrest spreading across the country in the wake of the southport knife attack, which killed three little girls . and killed three little girls. and anthony joshua is ready to take revenge for coming off worse off in a brutal sparring session against daniel dubois eight years ago, when the british rivals clash at wembley tomorrow night. joshua admitted he was hurt by dubois when they duelled in training at team gb headquarters in sheffield in 2016. that's the year he defeated charles martin to win his first world title at the time, dubois was just 18 years old and still an amateur. but the power he displayed against

the power he displayed against the olympic gold medallist that day convinced promoter frank warren to sign him up as a professional. joshua admitted at yesterday's head to head press conference that he felt the strength of dubois. >> he cracked me with a great shot and it's my chance to get him back on saturday. >> i'm not depending on punch power, you know. you know what? it takes a lot more than that to be a great fighter. a lot more than that to be a great fighter. so there's various ways i'll win. but i've got the fighting spirit, and that's how i'll go in there and break him down. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm tatiana sanchez i'll be back with more in half an hour. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> good morning. hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with ben, leo and me .

and me. >> nana akua very good morning to you. emails flying in. somebody thinks again that i'm tom harwood so i'll ignore that. i'm not tom harwood. we have very differing views, although we do look fairly similar, but indeed i'm not tom harwood elsewhere though people who do recognise i am ben leo. someone said who is it? lee. good morning ben, you're more deserving of that box at arsenal's emirates stadium. at least you'll have something to wind up paul coyte about. yeah indeed. yeah, eight grand a game. keir starmer i know a lot of people talking about that. >> ian alexander, he says during the election, starmer said he would never pay for a relative to have private medical care, no matter the pain or discomfort. his principles did not allow him to help with a payment to a private hospital. what sort of relative morality then follows him to accept suits and spectacles for him, and new clobber for his wife, paid for by someone else? if it is morality morally unacceptable to pay morality morally unacceptable to pay to ease the suffering of a relative, how is it acceptable to allow others to fund your

lifestyle so you can look nice and watch football in comfort? not concerned by the great unwashed? can someone explain ? unwashed? can someone explain? yes. very nice. >> what was his name? >> what was his name? >> this was ian. ian. alexander. good job. ian. >> yeah. ken, you said rachel reeves will probably give the £10 billion the bank of england found and gave to the treasury. >> she'll probably give it to other countries for climate aid and whatnot. and, heather, yeah . and whatnot. and, heather, yeah. something about arsenal similar to what he said about arsenal's. >> well, this one's interesting, john barry. >> he says besides having a dnnk >> he says besides having a drink and a chat about what they might be asked to comment on, i wonder if they ever use the time to look at have your say when i'm looking at it now i'm reading it and you've not said much. >> presenters. >> presenters. >> i think he's talking about us, but he's not even said anything. i mean, if he's got something to say, but i read it for him to even know that we do read it, we do look at it. but he's not said anything. that's, you know, i've just read it for you know, i've just read it for you there you go. gary says this

one of the biggest culprits in england, britain in losing its identity is the bbc. he's blaming them the organisation, because it can go into all homes and has brainwashed this country into thinking that a half the population are black, are black, be we are horrible colonial power that enslave the earth and see that unless we promote minorities above the majority, we are horrible people. they have over the years constantly eroded at national pride. that's his thoughts. i mean , that's his thoughts. i mean, that's a bit of a stretch, but i hear what he's saying. >> can i ask what you reckon about the very far left argument when it comes to migration and losing the identity of our country, which is, well, the britain colonised the world with the british empire and the tide is just turning now the other way. >> is that a i think it depends where you start history from. >> if you're going to start it from the bit where britain colonised the world, then yes. but if you go further back, there are other empires and other colonial powers and actually white people at one point were enslaved as well. so it just depends how far you want to go back if you want to start there, where britain colonised there, where britain colonised the world, which is obviously the world, which is obviously the best place if you're showing off british history. initially

it was then that's where i think people start. >> interesting. okay, let's head now to reform uk's conference where leader nigel farage, over the last 24 hours, has relinquished ownership of the party. take a listen. >> decision. i no longer need to control this party. i am going to let go . we will change the to let go. we will change the structure of the party from one limited by shares to a company limited by shares to a company limited by shares to a company limited by guarantee, and that means it's the members of reform that will own this party. i am relinquishing control of the of the company and this comes as reform uk's conference kicks off in birmingham today, where they believe they can win the next election in 2029. >> our political editor , >> our political editor, christopher hope, is there now. choppen christopher hope, is there now. chopper, what's the mood like? have you seen any guests yet? what's their ambitions for the years ahead ? years ahead? >> hi, ben. hi, nana. yeah, welcome to the nec here in

birmingham. 4000 members arriving here from around the country. reform uk is interesting. i think that the other party conferences are in town centre cities . manchester, town centre cities. manchester, birmingham, liverpool. easily accessible by trains for corporates , lobbyists and there corporates, lobbyists and there aren't that many members there half the time, as far as my experience is , this one is aimed experience is, this one is aimed firmly at the members. 4000 paying firmly at the members. 4000 paying members. here you can drive the nec from most parts of england and that's why they've chosen to be here outside of birmingham and near the birmingham and near the birmingham international station. the idea is to get more and more people here who want to hear from nigel farage and the other other senior players in reform uk, the mood is upbeat. five mps of course, returned in july election and ambitious. you heard there from nigel farage until now. this party has been a company of 15 shares, 8 or 9 of them owned by nigel farage. what's happening over this

weekend is that company is buying. the shares in that company are being given to all members in the party. the idea is, is that they have power over even selecting the leader, if more than half of them currently there are 80,000 members, if 40,000 of them have no confidence in the leader, nigel farage, they can seek a vote of confidence in by the by this party's board. so they're trying to make this party more open to, to make this party more open to, to democratic democracy , to democratic democracy, essentially some critics ben habib, the former deputy leader, he's not happy. he says it doesn't go far enough . but i doesn't go far enough. but i think it goes pretty far. and as far as many of the other, other, big parties we'll be hearing later from zaheer yusuf, he'll say the parties he wants to is going to be fielding 2000 candidates at may's local elections, he says this party will be ready for government in 2029. lee anderson, he's the party's chief whip. one of those mps, a former tory mp, a former tory mp and a former labour councillor, he says they can win that election in 2029. he'll

take aim in his speech later on, saying that he looks back when children had, they were taught to be good citizens at school and now they're taught to have a different gender at school, he says. something's wrong with our schools and richard tice. he's the party. party's, deputy leader nigel farage. he'll be he'll be tackling what he calls the folly of net zero. he'll wonder why our country sits on oil and gas reserves. but the labour government won't get them out and try and bring down bills for people as they get. as it gets colder this winter, he'll say that ed miliband, the climate change secretary, is the most dangerous man to the british economy. so all of that coming up for you live on gb news throughout the day. nigel farage, the main man, he speaks at 4 pm. >> all right, christopher hope, thank you very much. that's christopher hope. he's at the reform uk conference party conference in birmingham. >> thanks. chopper yeah. rupert lowe is speaking at 3:00. you've got lee anderson at 315. richard

tice at half three. zia yousef, the reform uk chairman, and then nigel farage. an interesting development with rupert lowe, the mp for great yarmouth, the reform mp, who, famously donates his mp salary to local charities in his constituency. he was getting lots of stick this morning, he shared. i think it was an ft article saying that, well, suggesting that it was a wrong thing for him to do to dish out his salary to local charities. why? >> why shouldn't he if he wants to and he doesn't need it, and he believes that it could be better used for others in the community, then he can do what he likes, just like the so—called likes of keir starmer, who want to take on lots of £100,000 or so worth of gifts. >> it was the very opposite, isn't it really of the complete opposite ? it was the financial opposite? it was the financial times. it says. reform mp faces backlash for giving away salary rupert lowe promises to donate five grand a month to good causes. what kind of upside down clown world do we live in? >> where people on the left think it's okay for keir starmer to be accepting these gifts, but

they want to attack an mp for giving away his salary to his constituents? well, it's from one unnamed labour mp who's quoted who said it had to be. >> it says this is from the labour mp. it's all very well for him to do this. but of course there are some people who think mps shouldn't be paid and that we should do the same, yeah. >> well, he's doing exactly that. >> he's doing it as a passion and he's obviously he's a conviction politician. he believes in what he thinks and he doesn't particularly need the money. so he said , i don't need money. so he said, i don't need this. let me give it to the community. i don't get it. >> another mp said rupert lowe is a multi—millionaire and he's not really an mp in the same way that most of us are. >> well, he is, isn't he? he worked, he's been elected, which is how an mp gets into power. he was elected by his constituents to run the constituency. >> so isn't it funny how the most sort of gracious or kind of acts can be spun in the political world to be something that's a bad thing? yes. >> the sinister ones can be, well, unspun in a certain way to make it sound like there's nothing to see here. like labour mp james archewell, who still remains unpunished as far as to

my knowledge, after not paying the licensing scheme that he set up slum landlord he's been accused of being. >> yeah . anyway, up next would >> yeah. anyway, up next would a lie—in and an extra day in bed and a three day working week convince you to become a teacher? who knows? let us know. gbnews.com forward slash yourself. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

tick. >> good morning. 22 minutes after 11. if you've just tuned in. welcome. this is britain's newsroom with ben, leo and me nana akua and joining us in the studio, political commentator emma webb. and also broadcaster and tv personality. >> oh we've got precious. we've gone to a time warp. right. >> we have. yes. right let's let's start. very odd that let's start with you, emma webb. rachel reeves. given a 10 million or billion pounds or billion pound boost by the bank of england. yeah.

>> so the bank of england have given a sort of windfall, £10 billion budget boost, and some labour mps are calling on rachel reeves, given that it's 10 billion and the, the, the savings for the winter fuel cut is 1.4 billion. it's a drop in the ocean in comparison to this 10 billion boost. some labour mps are calling on rachel reeves to hold off on making those winter fuel cuts that will hit the elderly. and if i were being exceptionally cynical, i would say that the labour party don't really care because they don't think the pensioners will vote for them anyway, and so that's the reason why they're choosing to sort of hold the line and not backtrack on this winter fuel payment cut. she obviously wants to appear to be fiscally responsible, but i think actually she's coming off as heartless and cold. >> where is the 10 billion come from, though? what does the boost what are they attributing it to? does it say it does? >> i have to be honest, i don't

entirely understand how it works. >> long story short, they're paying >> long story short, they're paying back the national debt at a slower rate. >> yeah, it's something to do with them selling off bonds or something like that. >> yes, they're selling bonds at a slower rate than they would, which they should have done that all along then. >> i don't know why they didn't. precious >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean i think they should just let you know the pensioners need this winter fuel and i think that they need to maybe look into who actually voted for them and that is the elderly. and so making sure that they're supported when this winter comes is more important. and i think if you've got the money there, why not use it, >> some people saying that david lammy or rachel reeves would rather send the money abroad on climate projects, and that's ridiculous. >> you're supposed to start from home, make sure the people here are taken care of. >> well, they already do that. now we are sending £11.5 billion to africa for climate aid, so yeah, well, i mean, here in london, in the uk , we should be london, in the uk, we should be taking care of the people in the uk. >> she's saying that people should be taking care of this country first. i agree with that. get your own house in order first before you help somebody helping others do that, especially that kind of money.

let's talk about the shop of horrors. is that the one we're going to do, or did you want to do the teach the day off there are fired. >> should we do our fired? >> should we do our fired? >> yeah, i think so. i mean, talking about that is really it is quite sad to me because obviously people knew about it. a lot of people are coming out and saying they knew about it, and saying they knew about it, andifs and saying they knew about it, and it's been going on for quite some time, and it's just sad that the women didn't come forward before he died. you know, he died last year and it would have been beneficial for them to come out with their stories then instead of now when he's passed. so it's kind of like the women are trying to, you know, get some sort of justice, some level of doubt on there when you do it. yeah because obviously the person is not here to defend themselves and say their side of the story, but because there were so many staff members, there was like a manager who knew about it for over ten years, didn't say that he he knew about the rape situation, the accusations, but he knew about the assault during, you know, obviously, you know , staff members on the shop know, staff members on the shop floor. et cetera. et cetera. but i think harrods have been deaung i think harrods have been dealing with it very well. they've basically come out and announced and said, we're going

to kind of all the claims that have come up, we're going to deal with them promptly. we're not going to drag it out. the women have been through enough, and i think that's a really good idea to do, because obviously the women have struggled with this, haven't come forward for so many years. and finally now i think they deserve justice in their defence. >> they they did go forward. the cps in 2009. correct me if i'm wrong. they were investigating an allegation from a 15 year old who claims she was raped by al fayed in harrods and the cps, which was headed by sir keir starmer at the time, threw it out. >> although he did, a lot of people were signing ndas and receiving hold on, though he may have been the head of the department of prosecutors, but he would not have been directly involved with that case, would he? >> yeah. so just just to be clear, whilst he was in charge of it, he and a lot of people were working directly with mohamed al fayed directly, like as assistants, they would go to his house in park lane. >> incidents happened outside of harrods. we need to also make that clear. they also went on trips with him. that happened in paris, saint—tropez and all all

of these other locations. these incidents happened, occurred abu dhabias incidents happened, occurred abu dhabi as well. there's many, many places that it happened outside of harrods. >> i think also, i mean, even though al fayed hasn't owned or had significant control over harrods in more than a decade , harrods in more than a decade, there is talk of this case against harrods for not having a safe working environment, because yes, of course, accusations. i never want to discourage women from coming forward and reporting sexual abuse or any other kind of abuse. but i do think it's a bit of a problem that he's not alive to defend himself. >> yeah, it would have been. >> yeah, it would have been. >> it is. >> it is. >> that's what i said. i think if they'd have come forward last year before he passed away, it would have been much better, possibly fear. >> but yeah . >> but yeah. >> but yeah. >> and losing their job as well, that was another thing. >> so sometimes that's what often stops women from coming forward. but a spokesperson for harrods said this yesterday the harrods said this yesterday the harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by al fayed. between 1985 and 2010. it

is one. it is one that seeks to put the welfare of our employees at the heart of everything we do . at the heart of everything we do. >> okie dokie, what should we move on to now? what about giving teachers a day off and a lie—in by only working three day weeks? emma woolf . weeks? emma woolf. >> well, apparently, in order to enfice >> well, apparently, in order to entice gen z to become teachers, they need to give them these little, sweeteners so that they, i suppose, don't get too overwhelmed by the job. i know that teaching can be. i have friends who are teachers. i know teaching can be actually quite an overwhelming profession. they don't. they have a lot of bureaucracy to do . probably the bureaucracy to do. probably the solution will be to try and cut some of that paperwork that they they have to do. i know some people even never mind gen z, but older people who have been sort of driven out of teaching by that and all sorts of other problems, including behavioural, issues . but i mean, really to issues. but i mean, really to give them a lie in and an extra day off, it's ridiculous. >> i think it's i think about the continuity for the children. >> i think also that the parents

need children to be in school. i mean, i now see kids leaving school at two, two 2230 in the afternoon. i mean, how does a parent actually deal with that? you know, if you're a full time parent and full time work and then you're also a parent, how would you manage that? also, like childcare is extremely expensive. i think the more the child is in school, helps the parents and the teachers need to be there. i don't know about this whole day off thing. >> are they talking about reducing the school timetable in terms of days, or is it just simply the teachers will have less days? >> well, they're having their trial basis is one day off. >> that's what a catholic i think they would have a supply teacher. >> they'd have somebody else to do it. >> but in my view, i'm just thinking about the continuity for the kids, though, because you've got different teachers chopping and changing. it's not good for the kids. >> no, no. and absolutely self—centred. >> we saw the same thing over covid that this is not it's not about the children. it's not about the children. it's not about the children. it's not about the children's welfare or their education. it's about what's convenient for the adults. and while i recognise that sometimes teaching can be a stressful profession , lots of stressful profession, lots of professions are stressful and you don't get these kinds of

sweeteners. i actually think that gen z just need to suck it up and work harder. >> i think the salaries is probably also a thing with the teachers. >> they get paid quite well to be fair, the teachers often complain about the salary, so i think if salaries were increased somehow, then they'd probably be motivated to go. >> everyone wants more money, >> everyone wants more money, >> let's say this is a this is a recommendation from the charity teach first. that sort of help teachers to well, let's move on. >> let's move on to this one. engush >> let's move on to this one. english identity is under threat. robert jenrick is saying that he warns that ties will which bind the nation together, are beginning to fray due to mass immigration and woke culture, all of which happened on their watch. >> yeah, well, he's not wrong, is he? but philip kissel, who was on, earlier , put it just was on, earlier, put it just bang on when he said it feels like you're being gaslit by them narcissists. yeah. i mean, little too late. robert jenrick was such a centrist for a long time, and now it does look a little cynical that he's sort of trying to pitch himself to the right of the party when, i don't know if it comes across as being

slightly disingenuous , but what slightly disingenuous, but what he's saying is correct. i mean, particularly the fact that, you know, it's not just mass immigration, this huge change to the population of the country, but it's also the fact that englishness and english identity, over and above welsh scottish identity is constantly being denigrated. i am proud to being denigrated. i am proud to be english, but if you say that, you'll get accused of being far right. so i think he's he's correct. and this is a problem for the country. but he's wrong that this is something that's only rearing. but i also think that it dealt with this. >> i think it also depends on what you think or perceive or everyone as a nation, what they perceive as english. because i'm english, i was born here, my mother was born here, my father came from cuba, and it was a legal immigrant who worked here and basically created a beautiful life for us. but i am engush beautiful life for us. but i am english and i'm very proud. i have a flag on my hand and i'm very proud. but it doesn't mean tattooed on. it is tattooed on. yes, i'm very proud of that. yes. so it really just depends on what you perceive or what the nafion on what you perceive or what the nation perceives as english. because i'm very english, yes, i

have the, you know, traditions. i'm involved in the culture. i've embraced it since the day i was born. so it really just depends on what people perceive. i don't think that the immigrants that came many years ago, like my father, are the same as the immigrants that are coming in now. i would agree, and that needs to be specified. those two people are very different. >> i mean , the point that he's >> i mean, the point that he's making, quite rightly, is also about integration. we have lots of people who can't even speak the language. that's what i'm saying. >> and my father came here at 18 and was able to speak english. >> i'm with you . and was able to speak english. >> i'm with you. i and was able to speak english. >> i'm with you . i second your >> i'm with you. i second your sentiments, precious. i feel the same way. i'll tattoo one on my hand as well. there we go. i'm so dark. the challenge for next week. it's so dark, it won't show up, to be honest with you. it'll just look black. but listen, emma. precious. thank you very much. of course, i wasn't saying that robert is being a narcissist. it was a narcissistic relationship that philip kingsley was talking about. all right, let's get your latest news with tatiana sanchez . latest news with tatiana sanchez. >> nana. thank you. the top

stories this morning. a campaigner whose niece was killed by her ex—partner after calling the police multiple times, says domestic violence victims need to be heard the first time they call 999. nora norris, whose niece, raneem oudeh and sister were both murdered by masood's ex—partner in 2018. she says those calling the police for help need to be given the opportunity to be saved. the home office says some police forces will start embedding domestic abuse specialists in their 999 control rooms early next year as part of raneem's law, to transform the way police handle cases of violence against women and girls. an inquest found. mistakes made by west midlands police had materially contributed to miss odi and saleem's deaths. home secretary yvette cooper says the government will ensure that things change. victims of domestic abuse need to know that the police will be there for them in an emergency. >> that didn't happen for raneem oudeh when she lost her life, and that's why we're bringing domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms like this to make

sure that the emergency response is right. we saw when raneem oudeh called 999 four times on the night. she was killed. no one came. we cannot let that happen again. so we'll begin with the first wave. then we want to roll this out right across the country so that domestic abuse victims can know the police will be there for them when they call. >> lawyers are holding a press conference after it came to light that the former harrods bossis light that the former harrods boss is facing allegations of sexual assault and rape towards several former workers of the luxury london department store. one of mohamed al fayed's alleged victims , who went by the alleged victims, who went by the name natasha, has told a press conference the billionaire businessman was highly manipulative . manipulative. >> we would be sent to see al fayed because he had a job for us to do. it was always more of a friendly chat than actual work. but then these private meetings turned into more a forced kiss. his hands gripping your face to his lips or pulling your face to his lips or pulling you down on his lap where his

hands were to free explore any part of your body that he wished . part of your body that he wished. these incidents lasted seconds, but the fear instilled left me paralysed . paralysed. >> al fayed brushed off these moments like they had never happened , but i was always happened, but i was always reminded not to mention them to anyone. he would know if i did. >> and tory party leader hopeful robert jenrick has warned that engush robert jenrick has warned that english identity is under threat. he claims the ties that bind the nation together are beginning to fray due to mass immigration and woke culture. jenrick says immigration has had a clear impact on our culture, customs and cohesion . he's also customs and cohesion. he's also suggested it's a contributing factor to the summer's riots, with unrest spreading across the country in the wake of the southport knife attack, which killed three young girls . and killed three young girls. and those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour 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 the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you tatiana. up at noon. good afternoon britain with tom and emily. and tom, i believe is live at the reform party conference in birmingham. tom or emily? let's start with you. what's coming up on the show? >> oh, we've got a huge amount. >> oh, we've got a huge amount. >> as you can see, tom harwood is at the reform party conference, which is very exciting. he's going to be there all afternoon, bringing us all the gossip. we're also going to be having robert jenrick on the show, going to be asking him about his comments that you've been discussing about english identity and how it's under threat from mass immigration, and also woke culture. what exactly does he mean by that? but tom, take it away . what are but tom, take it away. what are you what are you up to at conference? >> yeah, i'll be here at the biggest reform party conference in this party's history. >> this is actually something

more akin to the size of the party conferences that we've seen from the labour party, the conservative party and the liberal democrats. it feels that this is a conference where this party is growing up. thousands of people are here in birmingham. we're going to be walking and talking around and showing what is going on in the hall. i'm also going to have some excellent guests, some big interviews here at the gb news stand. and of course, a little bit later on, some big speeches , bit later on, some big speeches, including from none other than nigel farage. >> all right. lovely tom. right. lovely thanks a lot, tom. well, emily, obviously we'll be catching up throughout the show. emily, what else is coming up? >> it's going to be a fantastic show. i'm also rather concerned we're going to be speaking to robert jenrick, which i want him to, you know, say exactly what he means by his comments. what does he mean about english identity? what does he mean? and is it the conservatives fault seeing as they've been in power? >> you should play him. >> you should play him. >> the clip of philip kingsley, who gave a definition of the relationship that he felt that he had with the conservative

party with him saying that because that would be interesting to get his thoughts. >> i'll be very interesting. >> i'll be very interesting. >> i'll be very interesting. >> i'll have a little look back, have a look at what philip kingsley had to say. also concerning that debt is now 100% of our national income . wow. how of our national income. wow. how did that happen in just a month? >> just a month . >> just a month. >> just a month. >> so since this is in august, so since labour came in, is it the public sector pay rises? what's to account for this? why is debt spiralling out of control? >> is it labour's magic money tree? >> well, they've found 10 billion behind the sofa . billion behind the sofa. >> it's there if you want it, isn't it? if you dig far enough. if you dig far enough. >> no, it's going to be a great show. and we'll be catching up with tom harwood. and of course, christopher hope, who is there too at reform conference. >> great. good stuff. thank you emily. all that and more coming up from midday, but sticking with us for the time being. a barrister representing some of mohamed al fayed reported victims says the case, quote , victims says the case, quote, combines some of the most horrific elements of those involving jimmy savile, jeffrey epstein and harvey weinstein. we'll hear from one of alleged next. this is

tick. hello. welcome back to britain's newsroom now, lawyers are currently holding a press conference after it came to light that the former harrods boss, mohamed al fayed, is facing allegations of sexual assault and rape towards several former workers of the luxury london department store. >> earlier, one of mohamed al fayed's alleged victims, who went by the name of natasha, said that the billionaire businessman was highly manipulative . have a listen to manipulative. have a listen to the al fayed because he had a job for us to do. >> it was always more of a friendly chat than actual work. but then these private meetings turned into more a forced kiss , turned into more a forced kiss, his hands gripping your face to his hands gripping your face to his lips or pulling you down on his lips or pulling you down on his lap where his hands were free to explore any part of your body that he wished . these body that he wished. these incidents lasted seconds, but the fear instilled left me

paralysed . al fayed brushed off paralysed. al fayed brushed off these moments like they had never happened , but i was always never happened, but i was always reminded not to mention them to anyone. he would know if i did right. >> well, a spokesman for harrods said yesterday, the harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by mohamed al—fayed between 1985 and 2010. it's one that seeks to put the welfare of our employees at the heart of everything we do, really traumatic case. listening to the details of this, there was one woman who came forward and spoke to the bbc who's been instigating this investigation, and she was canny enough to record one of her attacks from al fayed against her on a dictaphone. she transcribed it and it was, i'm not going to go through it because it was very graphic and traumatic. but she managed to transcribe the, transcript and the dictaphone recording went to harrods with it, and they basically gave her, made her sign an nda, paid her off and told her to keep schtum.

but it's only now since al fayed has died last year , that they've has died last year, that they've had the courage again to come forward. >> yeah, i mean, it's tragic that people didn't feel brave enough, even though al fayed now is when, you know, when he was alive towards the end of his life, he's a very old man. but again , you see, sometimes when again, you see, sometimes when people don't come forward and wait until the person dies , wait until the person dies, sometimes it tends to cast some doubt on things, but it's really good that this lady actually has a recording of it. and obviously there's evidence from others saying the same thing before them as well. >> what do you make of this? nana? so sir keir starmer was head of the cps. he was director of public prosecutions when one of public prosecutions when one of the cases was passed to them by the police about al fayed al fayed attacking a 15 year old girl. well, well , of course it girl. well, well, of course it was in 2002. some people suggesting this morning, again, similar to the accusations with jimmy savile, that starmer should have maybe known about it or done more. but number 10 have said the case didn't pass his desk. >> yeah, well, see, that's the thing, isn't it? when you're at the top of something, often you are not aware of all the things

that are going on below the surface. and maybe this one was deliberately kept away from him. i don't know, maybe the same with the savile situation. it doesn't look good for him. but then of course, he, you know, he would argue that he can't possibly have his eye on absolutely everything being the head of it. but then sometimes at the time that sometimes people might then argue that, well, you want your head of things and things go wrong. yeah your head should roll. >> the tories, of course, using it as an attack line this morning like they did with jimmy savile. but number 10, as i said, they're insisting that sir keir starmer didn't even see the file on his desk. he has nothing to do with him, which is interesting because al fayed is such a high profile individual, as was jimmy savile at the time as was jimmy savile at the time as well, that it does seem a little bit odd that that person at the top may not hear about it, but then you know that that could also be true, s atkinson, i think maybe your name, sir. you've said on your say shocked heanng you've said on your say shocked hearing about al fayed. sounds like he was a wolf in sheep's clothing. he was an indirect client of a company. i did work for some years ago when he was developing a lot of property in london. when i spoke to him, he

was extremely respectful and curious, very courteous, saying that i never met him in person. >> well, benny says this i get what precious is saying, that these assaults happened outside harrods, but if it was widely known what was what he was like, why go to his home or go on trips abroad? yeah, i mean, that's a good point, but i suppose in some ways you might not expect that you think that you're safe. he's the boss. everything's fine, you know. but then if presumably these people didn't know what he was like and miss p says, i love precious there you go, >> gary, you've said good morning. why are all these accusations coming out now, years after the events he is now dead. he can't defend himself. if the women were uncomfortable about working there, why didn't they leave his employment? yeah. i mean, it's i think when you're, you need to put yourselves in their in victim's shoes of all sexual assaults and sexual harassment, when you're relying on a job, you're relying on a wage. there's pressure for you to keep your job. you know, you to keep your job. you know, you can see why victims are fearful of saying anything, especially when with someone with massive influence. look at jimmy savile. look how many people knew about jimmy savile and didn't come forward. >> well, you know, that's a

whole other can of worms right there, grumpy granddad says , so there, grumpy granddad says, so what if reeves got a £20 billion bonus? this is, of course, from the discussion earlier from the bank of england . you know, it bank of england. you know, it won't go to the british people. they'll end up giving it away or spending it on dealing with migrants and pensioners will be left to freeze if they don't use the bonus to give pensioners their winter fuel payments back. it will be a national disgrace. it will be a national disgrace. i don't get it. or the pension uplift. it's not about me. i'm seriously worried for some pensioners, some will die without it. well, labour should be very concerned about the opfics be very concerned about the optics on this one because perhaps keir starmer should put on his specs. it's 2500 pounds for free spectacles and take a good look , look in the mirror good look, look in the mirror and have a look at this as well. >> i think rachel reeves has indirectly suggested she won't be reversing the decision on that winter fuel payment. she said she's going to stay fiscally strict and carry on with their path, despite getting that extra 10 billion from the bank of england. right? >> well, they've increased our debt substantially. we have absolutely nothing to play with now. but up next, cancer patients at risk as 300,000 face

treatment delays. find out more after this. you're with britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> hello. welcome back to britain's newsroom. now, a warning from cancer research uk says that over 300,000 cancer patients will face treatment delays over the next five years. that's unless there's a vastly improved nhs performance now. >> the current target for 85% of cancer patients to begin treatment within 62 days of urgent referral has not been met since 2015. well joining us now, oncologist and former chief of the who, the world health organisation's cancer programme is professor carlos alcaraz . is professor carlos alcaraz. professor, thank you so much for joining us. why are we having such bad outcomes with with cancer patients now, what has happened since 2015?

>> you know, the difficulty is it's the diagnostic phase. it's getting into the system that's just too slow. in this country. we spend about the same amount on cancer care as france, germany , italy. you'll be germany, italy. you'll be treated next week in any of those countries. if you were found to have cancer here, the target 62 days, as you just said, and we're not meeting it. less than 85% of trusts are meeting that around the country. some are appalling, less than 50% in some parts of the country. a lot of variation. and, you know, there are three reasons for delay in cancer. number one is patients were pretty stoic race as a whole. and brits tend not to want to go to the doctor, especially men. women are a bit more forward with the doctor. the second problem is you can't get to see a gp very easily. you have to persist and thirdly, getting into the queue for a scan for a biopsy, it can take months and every month that goes by. according to the cruk report, you lose about 7% chance of

life. so it's a serious issue . life. so it's a serious issue. >> carol, how do we compare to , >> carol, how do we compare to, say, europe and the rest of the world? because the nhs is routinely called the envy of the world when it comes to being a health service. but how do we compare globally? any idea? >> not good. if you look at western europe and now increasingly eastern europe, poland, czech republic , hungary, poland, czech republic, hungary, bulgaria and so on are results are down the bottom of the pile for survival and it's to all do with cancer being diagnosed late and then treated late. so cancer begins in one organ breast, lung, colon and so on and then spreads outside . if it's confined to the outside. if it's confined to the organ, the cure rate for all types of cancers is about 90%. once it starts to spread, it's much more difficult. interestingly, for some cancers, we're very good paediatrics children , testicular cancer in children, testicular cancer in men leukaemias we're very good. nothing wrong with the treatment. it'sjust nothing wrong with the treatment. it's just getting to the front of the queue. okay. >> all right. carlos alcaraz, thank you very much. really to

good talk to you. that's professor karol sikora. it's a shame, isn't it? we need to improve. how? well, it's been an interesting morning. that's it from us here on britain's newsroom. >> up next. good afternoon. britain with tom and emily bev and andrew will be back in the hot seat from monday. >> thanks for joining hot seat from monday. >> thanks forjoining us. >> thanks forjoining us. >> and i'll be here on at 3:00 on saturday. get that in. >> yeah. stick with us for good afternoon britain. i'm here in the studio tom harwood. my co—host is at the reform conference in birmingham. it looks like there's a few battles going on within that party. we're also going to be speaking to robert jenrick, who's had a pretty punchy piece in the daily mail today about english national identity. he thinks that mass immigration and woke culture may well be destroying it. what do you think? let me know your thoughts. and also our debt spiralling out of control now 100% of national income. what's going on there? and our labour to blame? that's all. 12 till three on. good afternoon. britain >> it looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers

sponsors of weather on gb news >> time for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a dry for friday most, but we are going to see some big thunderstorms across parts of the south. the sunnier skies probably in western scotland. that's because we've got high pressure sitting to the . got high pressure sitting to the. nonh got high pressure sitting to the. north and generally an easterly wind. so with some shelter, say western scotland doing okay for sunshine, but also much of northern ireland and northwest england further south, things are brightening up. we've got some sunny spells but that is sparking a few showers. much of northeast england and eastern scotland staying pretty drab. the showers in the south intensifying this afternoon and some rumbles of thunder, lightning flashes and hailstones are likely temperatures in the sunny spells in the south. getting into the low 20s on the cool side, though, on these nonh cool side, though, on these north sea coast where it stays fairly drab and a little drizzly with a brisk wind. now this is the thunderstorm warning area. not everywhere in this area will see the thunderstorms. they will

be hit and miss, but the potential for those thunderstorms to cause some problems. certainly a lot of spray and surface water on the roads further north. well, it's a fine friday across western scotland, northern ireland, staying pretty drab in eastern scotland, parts of northeast england where the cloud will be thick enough for a little drizzle here and there. but the heaviest rain in those thundery showers across parts of the south and west slowly fade as we go through this evening. for many, it will be a fine friday night , but notice further south night, but notice further south we are starting to import further heavy showers as we go through the early hours, and they could also cause some disruption during saturday. a fairly mild night for most with some clearer skies. in western scotland. temperatures well down into single digits, but again here on saturday, a fine day , here on saturday, a fine day, but again in the south. we do need to watch out for thunderstorms again. lots of lightning, large hailstones, torrential downpours possible could cause some flooding and again, a lot of spray and surface water on the roads won't rain all day. there will be somewhat hit and miss and in the

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gb news. >> good afternoon britain . it's >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on friday the 20th of september. i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood. >> i'm at the reform uk party conference today, where leader nigel farage will be among the speakers at the two day event. it gets underway here in birmingham. >> good stuff. we'll be catching up with tom throughout the show. and starmer, he's in turmoil. a civil war brews in number 10 as the prime minister defends his decision to pay his chief of staff a salary that exceeds his own . and losing our englishness.

own. and losing our englishness. robert jenrick has today warned