>> good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> it'sjust >> good morning to you. >> it's just after 930. we will be joining andrew and bev very shortly. first though, let's take a quick look at the headunes take a quick look at the headlines making the news. this morning. and we start with the labour conference in liverpool, where sir keir starmer is set to say light at the end of the tunnel. that's the message from the prime minister as he prepares for his first labour conference speech later this afternoon. as prime minister, there he'll outline a vision for national renewal, focusing on faster economy growth, shorter hospital waiting lists and safer streets. but he'll warn of tough and short term pressures, lying ahead.the and short term pressures, lying ahead. the labour leader will also pledge a crackdown on benefit fraud, a reduction in net migration and the introduction of a hillsborough

law. the speech comes amid anger over cuts to winter fuel payments and scrutiny of donations to senior labour figures. starmer will also insist that labour must deliver a decisive government without hiking taxes on workers . in hiking taxes on workers. in other news, thousands are fleeing southern lebanon as israeli air strikes and tank fire have been targeting hezbollah militants. nearly 500 people have now been killed and temporary shelters are being set up for some 26,000 displaced residents, to according lebanon's government. lebanese families have been seen packing up their belongings and jamming onto highways as israeli bombs have fallen, with 89 shelters activated in the region. hezbollah have responded overnight with rocket attacks on israeli military targets, including an explosives factory and an airfield. the israeli military says it has struck over 1600 hezbollah targets in the past 24 hours. a global it outage in july is now back on

the spotlight today, as crowdstrike senior executives are facing lawmakers in the us. adam myers will testify before a subcommittee later to explain how a faulty software update caused widespread disruption for businesses around the world, including airlines and hospitals. the texas based firm has since apologised for what is now regarded as widely the worst blunder in its history , saying blunder in its history, saying a fix was quickly deployed and promising full transparency and owning zombie style knives and machetes is now banned in the uk following a four week amnesty where owners could hand in their weapons. the move is part of a wider effort to tackle knife crime, with actor idris elba among those campaigning for the ban. ninja swords are expected to also be outlawed next. police chiefs are welcoming the ban, but they are stressing that enforcement alone won't solve the problem as new technologies are being developed to detect knives in crowds. knife crime in

england and wales rose by 7% last year, with 239 knife related deaths recorded . well, related deaths recorded. well, those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. a quick recap of that top story from liverpool, where sir keir starmer is set to be bringing his speech first time as prime minister. that will be at just after 2:00 this afternoon and we will of course, bring that to you live here on gb news. those are the latest headlines. now over to andrew and bev for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> well good morning to you to welcome to britain's newsroom live. i'm at the labour party conference chris hope, our political editor. before we get the main feast, which is the

prime minister, the home secretary, yvette cooper, is on the stage. she's under huge pressure, chris, because of the small boats, are record numbers now and 11,000 already since labour came to power. >> morning , andrew. the >> morning, andrew. the conference here? yeah. easy to overlook the big speech from the home secretary. on a normal day, that's a big moment in a political calendar. instead, by lunchtime, it's all been forgotten because keir starmer is speaking of course, i've got some advance notes exclusive to us about what she'll say on immigration. she'll say that we can't let disorder and violence silence, she says a serious debate on immigration. she'll be saying something's been missing for too long amidst the chaos. they call it gimmicks of rwanda and ramped up rhetoric. she says net migration has trebled. we know that. but she says it will come down under labour as they properly train young people here in the uk. they want to clear the backlog and end asylum hotels. she will stay and on illegal migration, they won't stand for this vile trade in human lives. so i think quite punchy remarks there because it's quite hard to get yvette cooper to talk about immigration at all. most of the time that's

in there. also on the budget is about cracking down on soaring street crime, as she describes it, and rebuilding a viable police presence in town centres . police presence in town centres. >> so yeah, it's a combination of it's a shocking story in the papers today about a 15 year old boy, chris, saying to the woman who came to his aid in the street, please don't let me die. i'm only 15. he died. >> these are children. these are children. children. they may they may be in trouble in adult fighting . these are children. fighting. these are children. and then the day they also want. they want to be banned. >> the ban on the zombie knives comes in any day now. but there are still many other knives still out there. i just just beyond beyond my ken. how this trade can continue to flourish. >> no knives are a huge problem, but where do you how i mean, zombie knives obviously defined as having a serrated blade, two points and some wording on there to indicate the zombie knife. but you know, a bread knife, a kitchen knife . i do wonder how kitchen knife. i do wonder how that will stop anything. frankly >> and on small boats, the smash the gangs and they've got this new head of whatever this new border force is . but he has

border force is. but he has said, didn't he, in an interview last week . it's smashing the last week. it's smashing the gangs isn't enough. they need a deterrent, which was attempted, which they had. >> and many i mean, we've been saying for a while now, why ditch rwanda before it's even had a chance of working? >> give it a try, did they? well, james cleverly sent two people out to rwanda voluntarily, by the way they went and wanted to go there just to prove it's a safe country. >> they hope the work, the work is there, the buildings are there. germany might now take them up rather than having british, british taxpayers money being used. >> and we spent all that money. what was it, £700 million? i think their government almost had a duty to try and see if the policy could work, but they'd made their mind up. it was a gimmick. it probably was a bit of a gimmick. >> it looks a bit for the wrong reason. i mean, if i'd sunk £300 million into something, you want to see if it works, even if it's the previous owner of the house, perhaps it would just be too painful for them. >> for if, the policy had worked. yeah. >> well, difficult. >> well, difficult. >> so that's the home secretary. we'll be taking her speech live. 1005. 1005. i'm going to be. this is chris hope . it's, we're

this is chris hope. it's, we're also going to be talking about knife crime. also, it's going to be talking shortly to dave ward, who is the general secretary of the, yeah, the cw , the cw, the the, yeah, the cw, the cw, the commercial workers union, and of course, they're in a big fight because the royal mail could be taken over bya by a czech billionaire. why? you're with britain's newsroom

gb news. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> welcome to britain's newsroom. live across the uk. i am in london. andrew pierce is in liverpool at the labour party conference. andrew, i want to know what happened when you met the prime minister last night. >> well, this is getting a bit of a habit. i was in the same restaurant and the prime minister was in the corner with his wife. actually now i thought he'd be ensconced in his suite working hard on his speech, because this is a big moment for him today. first speech to a labour conference by a prime minister since 2009. but he came over way across the restaurant and he said, are you stalking me, tory boy? i said, i think

actually you're stalking me, prime minister, because i'm sitting here very quietly having dinner. and i said, why aren't you upstairs writing your speech? he said, speech is under control. i said, well, we'll be the judge of that, won't we? but he was very friendly and very relaxed and asked if i was going to stop writing and saying terrible things about his government, to which i could give him no guarantees. bev and andrew did you ask him if wajid ali was writing his speech upstairs while he was having his dinner? >> i think that might have been my question. >> i yeah, i did. dare i ask you where you got it from? he said conversations over. that was the end of the conversation. >> okay . right. we'll be back. >> okay. right. we'll be back. >> okay. right. we'll be back. >> i'll come over and talk to me tonight. >> okay? right. you carry on down there . down there. >> all right? bev, we've got with me in the studio is one of the big union leaders here. dave ward is general secretary of the commercial workers union. dave the communication workers union. forgive me. you are seconding the motion, which is all about, the motion, which is all about, the winter fuel allowance. the labour party managers have spin doctored this so the vote won't be till tomorrow afternoon. commonly known as the graveyard.

dave. it should have been today. they didn't want this motion overshadowing the prime minister's speech. it's a bit disappointing. >> yes. very disappointing. but at the same time, i mean, actually, it should have been yesterday. yeah and then it wouldn't have overshadowed the prime minister's speech. you know, i don't think it would have overshadowed the chancellor's speech. there was time yesterday to debate this issue . and i think i come from a issue. and i think i come from a position where if you've got difficult issues, you don't push them away. you you have a proper open discussion on them and you come out stronger. whatever open discussion on them and you come out stronger . whatever the come out stronger. whatever the end result of that, that vote is so yeah, it's disappointing. but andrew, it's not surprising because politics today is very much based around you could go to all these conferences and you know, there's a degree of control that people feel they have to have. now, i think politics is worse for that. and i'm not talking about, you know, where protesters come in and you've got you've got to deal with that. i'm talking about

open, honest discussions. you know, and if you do this, this is one of the problems in this country. everything you discuss in this country is polarised. yeah and we're only unless you create the space for proper discussion. and, you know, solutions that people get behind because you've listened to people, you never move things forward . forward. >> but it's a story, isn't it? this is the first labour conference being addressed by a labour prime minister since 2009. an important vote on an issue that has outraged, frankly, the country taking away winter fuel for 10 million pensioners. and they've managed it so that the prime minister won't be here. he'll be in new york, he's going to the united nations. after his speech tonight, this place will be empty because the prime minister's gone . it'll be half minister's gone. it'll be half full tomorrow in the afternoon . full tomorrow in the afternoon. most people will have gone. and yet this was an opportunity for the labour party to say. and the labour movement to say we don't agree with this, prime minister, but we'll still be saying that tomorrow there'll still be a vote. >> and at the end of it, i

believe that we'll win that vote, but we won't get the vote till the weekend. >> we won't get the vote till the weekend. >> what these moments are important for in the end, it would have been far better if we could have debated it in its original time slot. but what they're important for is because we then start campaigning around changing that position right now, you know, and i know and your listeners and viewers will know that, you know , at the end know that, you know, at the end of it all, they they often say like, well, you know , the like, well, you know, the conference may have voted that way, but we're the government and we're going to have to do this. every political party says that, but it changes the direction of the debate after that vote. and, you know, we're confident that there will be support for that vote, not everywhere. but i think we'll get that vote agreed. and it allows to us campaign on an issue that is so important to, millions of pensioners . i agree millions of pensioners. i agree completely with you on the issue of, you know , everyone knows the of, you know, everyone knows the country's got huge problems, that it's got to deal with. and

but you have these choices . and, but you have these choices. and, you know, i feel that we should be able to come here and where we think that keir starmer is right on some of the things he's going to do, we'll give him absolute support on that. his missions, things like that. you don't start that by then making a choice where instead of saying to people, those who have got the most are going to contribute the most are going to contribute the most, you pick on pensioners earning about £11,000 with their state pension is not right. there's no justification for it. it's not even good economics. no, i think it's poor economics. and i think that will be shown in the coming weeks and months. >> and how uncomfortable are you that this this , they're doing that this this, they're doing this to pensioners, as your union colleague sharon graham from unite said, picking the pockets of pensioners at a time when we learned that the chancellor of the exchequer had 7500 pounds of free clothes, the prime minister had £17,000 of free clothes from a very wealthy donor called lord alli. the prime minister's wife had 5000. it's a very bad look, isn't it?

>> well, it's a it's a contradiction , isn't it? i think contradiction, isn't it? i think the problem again, you know, let's not forget that the previous government now we're talking about this government. >> yeah, i know they were coming in to do things. >> they were doing. they were doing that. >> they said they they said they were going to do things differently. >> let me let me finish. what i'm saying is, is that i think it's naive, right. you know, they'll defend it from the point of view that they've not broken any of the rules, and that they declared it, which some of the previous government people didn't. and, but i don't think it's right. and, you know, they've got to change the rules now to make sure that those type of gifts, are just not, not acceptable anymore. but can i say you're right on this point? the contradiction in those two positions is what people will see out in the country. and because of that, i mean, it's wrong in its own set of parameters , the issue itself. parameters, the issue itself. but it's made worse when those contradictions are very clear. >> let me ask you just briefly, the royal mail is facing a

takeover by a czech billionaire called daniel kawczynski. are you are you do you want the government to intervene to block it, or to at least get some assurances about the fact that the royal mail will continue in its current form ? its current form? >> well, we carried a motion yesterday. it was a really important motion asking the government to intervene in a number of areas. one is we're pleased they've called in the takeover bid. they've got a properly scrutinise that. but what we've made crystal clear in that, in that motion, is that the government has got to get guarantees on the future of royal mail , including what royal mail, including what happens if this guy is an asset stripper. what are they going to do about that? so i think this is a moment where the government have to think very carefully about how they're going to intervene in this debate. we need guarantees about the uso. we can't have the current royal mail failed leadership team stitching the uso up with ofcom, who have also not protected the uso when it was their number one responsibility. does that mean that there shouldn't be any change? no. we're willing to talk about that and make sure

that there's a sustainable uso. but this government has got to intervene. there's an infrastructure in royal mail. you've heard me say this on many occasions where it is the only physical connection to every city, every town, every village, every person in the uk. the benefits of that was seen in the pandemic when our members were out there every single day. we delivered and collected all the test kits. what a fantastic piece of infrastructure the debate is. what can you do with that? and the government need to support that. we could be supporting the nhs more. we could be supporting communities more and but the people who are running royal mail, this is back to the original dilemma. what do you do with these two choices? we have no confidence in the current royal mail leadership. we are very worried about a takeover from daniel kawczynski, so we're trying to build a set of principles and guarantees that give us the confidence to move forward and what we want more than anything is a new

model of ownership, where workers and customers have a greater say over the direction. >> that's dave ward, he is the general secretary of the communications workers union, who is part of this big vote tomorrow, which has been pushed off until tomorrow to spare the embarrassment, frankly, of the prime minister, because this motion is going to be carried, saying the labour movement do not want the winter fuel allowance taken from pensioners. back to beth mead. >> thank you, andrew. thank you. so from today, dangerous zombie knives are officially illegal as the government strives to keep our streets safe. our north west england reporter, sophie reaper, has this report. >> these are a couple of zombie knives that have been handed in at blackpool. so what you've got here is a blade that is over eight inches long. it has a point. it has two serrated edges and it has holes cut into it as well. obviously this then makes it a zombie knife. >> as of today, owning one of these weapons could land you in prison. a new law has been passed which now makes it illegal to own, make or sell a zombie style knife or machete. >> these weapons are viewed as being a status symbol. hopefully

they'll have a massive impact on they'll have a massive impact on the community that these weapons won't be around. people won't see them. they won't be intimidated by them. hopefully we won't have any more tragedies related to these weapons, but someone who's already experienced tragedy at the hands of knife crime is byron highton. >> ten years ago, his brother john joe was brutally murdered in a knife attack looking like this. >> guess who their target audience is now? >> byron travels the country sharing his story and teaching schoolchildren about the dangers of knives. to him, this new law doesn't go far enough. >> it's a waste of time. it's an absolute waste of time because, zombie swords are just are a part of the fashion. the zombie swords aren't or machetes aren't brainwashing kids. that's not the problem. that's not the root cause. it'sjust the problem. that's not the root cause. it's just like this big illusion to make the to make the government look to the public to look like they're doing something for byron. >> he says music genres such as drill and grime as well as the culture they create, are what's really to blame for the knife crime epidemic. >> when you look into what

they're listening to and who the following , they're all rapping following, they're all rapping the same, talking the same, acting the same, and it all comes from music. when we're on about banning zombie swords and i'm just like, this is totally wrong because kids will just pick up another knife. the actual problem is, is that when these kids have been brainwashed so much, this is how to living a life at blackburn royal hosphal life at blackburn royal hospital, they treat young knife crime victims on a regular basis. >> they even have specialist members of staff who work with them to help get their lives back on track. >> we had a young adult who came through our a&e department, and he had been the victim of a machete attack , and he had machete attack, and he had a fractured skull. and so we sat with him in the department. after he was discharged, we stayed in contact. i went to all of his hospital appointments with him, worked with him with housing because he was put in emergency housing for his own safety, took him a food parcel one day. you know, there's nothing that we won't do. we're there to support that patient's really going forward. >> it's hoped that this new law will reduce the number of knife

crime victims treated by our hospitals and the number of families like byron's, who have to grieve the loss of a loved one. sophie reaper gb news and byron highton, i'm delighted to say, joins me now. >> morning , byron. morning, >> morning, byron. morning, amazing work that you do. and so much of that resonates with me as a mom of teenagers as well, that the influences these children are getting and these young people. it's not just about the knife, is it? how do we tackle the kind of the depravity actually , that they're depravity actually, that they're exposed to through a lot of modern culture? >> honestly, i've been saying this for like seven years now, and when i when i created the dj effect, the actual main goal was to be the uk's most violent, crazy, anti—knife deterrent crazy, anti —knife deterrent that's crazy, anti—knife deterrent that's ever been shown in schools. and that's now my next mission , because i've done that. mission, because i've done that. that's what we're known for. but to combat knife crime, now, we have to have real deterrence. and i'm sorry we have not gotten on, banning these knives. is obviously a fantastic big, you know, shout out to idris for

doing this, but it's also disrespectful at the same time when you've got people like me who've seen over 500,000 people been saying this for years and years and years, and now a celebrity gets involved. and the band, the knives . yeah, we've band, the knives. yeah, we've just got no deterrence and honestly, i'm sick of saying it now when you get people saying you can't judge people or or assume that people carry knives to look a certain way, but 95% of the children i see in over 550, 000 people i've taught look the same act. the same, talk the same, use the same drugs , same, use the same drugs, predominantly smoking e—cigarettes. and then i've got another spliff in the mouth. how is it possible that kids around the country don't even know each other, but they're all doing the same thing, so we've got to look at what are they consuming? and i'm sorry , i, i'm a big fan of i'm sorry, i, i'm a big fan of grime music. i was brought up on it , but my era grime music. i was brought up on it, but my era was grime music. i was brought up on it , but my era was totally it, but my era was totally different to now . and children different to now. and children cannot be trusted with violent content, let alone social media. it's we've got it's been that since 2013, when a massive social media boom happened, when

it became normal for kids to have forms prepubescent teenage suicide went up instantly . suicide went up instantly. bottles of bleach killed kids. so we protect them from it. why why why are you why are you social media not banned until kids are 18, giving them a fighting chance and being an actual child? >> we've got. we're so short on time . but in a word, would you time. but in a word, would you like to see smartphones banned for the under 16 seconds, not smartphones, because they need them for safety, but social media and music and the clothing brands that are attached to them need to be policed. okay. all right. byron, i think you're amazing . keep up the good work. amazing. keep up the good work. byron heights and come back and see us. any time. come back and see us. any time. come back and see us. any time. come back and see us in just a minute. here's your weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. following the very heavy rain that we've seen across some

central and southern parts of the uk over the last few days, today is brighter and drier in the south. still some showers around, but this time it's the turn of the north, specifically northern and eastern scotland, where we'll see some wet weather dunng where we'll see some wet weather during the next few hours. persistent and at times heavy outbreaks of rain. scattered showers for western scotland , showers for western scotland, northern ireland, much of northern and central england, as well as wales , mostly dry to the well as wales, mostly dry to the south. some areas of cloud around , but also a few glimmers around, but also a few glimmers of sunshine, so certainly drier and brighter compared with yesterday. highs of 18 celsius in the south, colder further north, with a bit of a northerly wind setting in across scotland, northern ireland and northern england, and the showers tending to break up a lot more into the evening, some late brightness arriving into the north of scotland before the sun goes down. likewise for western scotland , northern ireland a few scotland, northern ireland a few gapsin scotland, northern ireland a few gaps in the clouds, but plenty of showers around and for northern and central england. parts of wales again a few showers, but also some clear spells, mostly dry for east anglia and southern counties of

england. after we've seen so much rain during the last few days heading into the evening. clearing skies for many, but there will be some areas of cloud floating about for the central belt into southern scotland, parts of northern england, some showers keep going here. likewise for northern scotland , where we've got the scotland, where we've got the clear skies. elsewhere, though, it's going to be a cool night with temperatures dipping into the mid single figures in the north, mild in the far south as it starts to turn cloudy for the start of wednesday, and this area of rain begins to move in. now that's going to turn things wet by the afternoon across parts of the south and southwest , parts of the south and southwest, as well as eventually northern ireland. but ahead of that , some ireland. but ahead of that, some brightness remains across scotland, northern and eastern england. just some showers around, but it's again cold in the north, milder further south and then very unsettled into thursday. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . inside from boxt boilers. >> sponsors of weather

good morning. 10 am. on tuesday, 24th of september live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me andrew pierce at the labour conference in liverpool and bev turner. >> so tackling thugs and thieves. home secretary yvette cooperis thieves. home secretary yvette cooper is about to address the labour party conference any minute . and light at the end of minute. and light at the end of the tunnel that's going to be the tunnel that's going to be the message from the prime minister this afternoon as he sets out his plans to build a new britain and knife crime crackdown. from today, it's illegal to own zombie knives or machetes. two days after a 15 year old schoolboy was stabbed to death who pleaded i'm too young. don't let me die . and young. don't let me die. and more power for the unions rmt boss mick lynch demands a return to the 1970s and wants unions in every workplace to fix the economy . and is it another to

economy. and is it another to blow pubs early last orders they're facing? being forced to close early to tackle what's being called harmful drinking? are we not allowed to do anything fun anymore ? anything fun anymore? >> well, as always, we would love to hear what you think. send your views. post your comments by visiting gbnews.com forward slash your say. but first, here's the news with sam francis lakshmi parthasarathy . francis lakshmi parthasarathy. >> andrew, thank you and good morning to you . it is just morning to you. it is just coming up to 10:02 light at the end of the tunnel . that is the end of the tunnel. that is the message from sir keir starmer as he prepares for his first labour conference speech as prime minister. this afternoon at around 2:00, he will outline his vision for national renewal, focusing on faster economic

growth, shorter hospital waiting lists and safer streets, but will warn of tough short term pressures ahead. the labour leader will also pledge a crackdown on benefit fraud, a reduction in net migration and the introduction of a hillsborough law. the speech, though , comes amid anger over though, comes amid anger over cuts to the winter fuel payments and scrutiny of donations to senior labour figures. starmer will insist labour must deliver a decisive government without hiking taxes on workers . the hiking taxes on workers. the government says securing an agreement with striking nurses is an essential step to restoring public services. that's after nurses yesterday turned down a 5.5% pay rise. two thirds of royal college of nursing members voted against the deal, in a record turnout of 145,000 members. labour minister pat mcfadden insists the government understands the challenge of balancing balancing pubuc challenge of balancing balancing public spending while trying to treat workers fairly. >> prospects for the country are great britain is a great place in which to invest, and if we

can get that message out and get that going, then we can generate the wealth that we need to make people better off and to fund the public services that we all depend on. and the two parts to that story are going to be at the heart of the prime minister's speech this afternoon . minister's speech this afternoon. >> however, the shadow health secretary, victoria atkins, claims the labour government has lost control of public sector pay- lost control of public sector pay. and she told us this morning that pay rises given to junior doctors could have repercussions for nurses and others in healthcare. >> it would have impacts on other healthcare professionals, including nurses and midwives, who would ask quite reasonably well, what value does this government put on us? and we are now seeing the longer term consequences of that short term decision he made in july to award that inflation busting pay rise to junior doctors with no reform, such as i had with consultants , no improvements to consultants, no improvements to productivity and sadly, we're now seeing the ramifications of

that. >> turning to international news and thousands are fleeing southern lebanon as israeli air strikes and tank fires target hezbollah militants. nearly 500 people have been killed, so far, and temporary shelters are being set up for 26,000 displaced residents, to according lebanon's government. lebanese families have been seen packing up their belongings and jamming onto highways as israeli bombs have fallen, with 89 shelters activated in the region. hezbollah responded overnight with rocket attacks on israeli military targets, including an explosives factory and an airfield. the israeli military say it struck over 1600 hezbollah targets in the past 24 hours. well we'll pull away from that story and take you live now to the home secretary, yvette coopen to the home secretary, yvette cooper, speaking in liverpool at the labour conference. >> all the mums and dads because no parent should have to go through this unimaginable pain. so puja, we salute you , we so puja, we salute you, we support you and now we are in

government. we will back you in your fight to save young lives . your fight to save young lives. ronan's teenage killers ordered the ninja sword online. no checks, no questions asked. lethal weapons put straight in the hands of children . so this the hands of children. so this labour government will bring in new laws to crack down on dangerous online sales and the gangs who draw children in alongside new youth hubs to steer young people away from violence. a teenage sure start to build hope in the future . to build hope in the future. and we will make it a mission for

our whole country to halve knife crime in a decade. and yes, this labour government will pass ronan's law , a ban on ninja ronan's law, a ban on ninja swords . this swords. this labour government will. it is 15 years since i've been able to say those words at a labour party conference. all those years we said things but couldn't do them. so don't let anyone tell you that politics does not matter. because six months ago, our party tried to ban ninja swords , but we didn't ban ninja swords, but we didn't have enough mps to win that vote because of the election , because because of the election, because of the change you campaigned for. now we do .

for. now we do. ten years ago, i called for buffer zones around abortion clinics , but we weren't abortion clinics, but we weren't in government. we couldn't make it happen. now we can. and yes, we have. because no woman should be harassed on the way to a healthcare appointment. that is her legal right. healthcare appointment. that is her legal right . but it can be her legal right. but it can be hard to trust in change when things have felt so tough for so long. and a year ago at this conference, i warned about the depth of the damage the tories had done in 14 years, how they had done in 14 years, how they had taken a wrecking ball to the criminal justice system so criminals laugh at the law, how they left communities to fracture so criminals and extremists step in. conference

eight weeks ago, when the unbearable news broke about a horrendous attack in southport on little children at a summer dance club from all across the country, our hearts went out to the loved ones of little alice, bebe and elsie. and that's where all our thoughts should have stayed. the following day i met the police officers, paramedics and firefighters who were first on the scene that day and whose bravery in the face of such trauma saved many young lives . trauma saved many young lives. but within hours , the same but within hours, the same southport police were under attack, facing missiles , bottles attack, facing missiles, bottles and bricks. the most shocking , and bricks. the most shocking, violent insult to a grieving community and the police officers protecting them. a total, total disgrace .

total, total disgrace. and then, in copycat violence over the following days, stirred up from a safe distance by the grifters and the agitators online, we saw looting of shops , online, we saw looting of shops, attacks on mosques, a citizen's advice bureau torched, an asylum hotel set alight and people targeted on the streets of britain because of the colour of their skin. and here in liverpool, on county road, the burning of spellow library, a place where children grow to read, left in ashes. and i spoke to some of those children who live around the library in walton, and one told me how scared she was that night, how her mum switched off all the lights in the house and told her to stay quiet and sit on the stairs. as bins were being set alight along her street . so alight along her street. so

don't anyone tell me that was protest. don't anyone tell me that was about immigration or policing or poverty. plenty of people have strong views on immigration, on crime, on the nhs and more . immigration, on crime, on the nhs and more. but they do immigration, on crime, on the nhs and more . but they do not nhs and more. but they do not pick up bricks and throw them at the police. they do not set light to buildings with people inside. >> it was arson. it was racism , >> it was arson. it was racism, it was thuggery. it was crime . >> and, you know, it happened because criminals thought they would get away with it. they saw the cracks in the system, the impunity that built up through the tory years. and when they decided to run riot those early

august days, they thought no one would stop them . they were wrong . would stop them. they were wrong. with keir starmer's leadership , with keir starmer's leadership, this labour government made clear that we would back our police, not blame them. we would stand up for our courts, not undermine them. we would pull our communities together, not divide them. we stood up for the rule of law. decent people stood up for their communities , and up for their communities, and together we put the disorder . together we put the disorder. down. i'll be honest, i've been shocked by the response from some of those in political parties on the right who once claimed to care about law and order after rioters attacked the police. they should have given full throated backing to our brave officers. instead, too often we have seen them

undermine the integrity and authority of the police, even making excuses for the mob. if you remember back in the run up to armistice day last year, disgraceful slurs that were made against the police, which made it harder for them to do their job that day, were treated as a sacking offence for a tory home secretary. a year on, those same slurs have become an article of faith for every tory leadership contender. it is shameful what that party has become . that party has become. to the tories with their mates in reform, are just becoming right wing wreckers, undermining respect for the rule of law , respect for the rule of law, trying to fracture the very bonds that keep communities safe. they have nothing to offer but fear, division and anger. but that's not who we are.

that's not what britain is about. our country has always championed respect and the rule of law, and that is what this labour party will always stand up for. the party of law and order, now a government of law and order once more . and nor and order once more. and nor will we let disorder and violence silence a serious debate on immigration, something that's been missing for too long. amid the chaos, the gimmicks and the damaging ramped up rhetoric . a serious up rhetoric. a serious government sees that net migration has trebled because overseas recruitment has soared, while training has been cut right back, and says net migration must come down. as we properly train young people here in the uk. a serious government sees an asylum system in chaos and says we have to clear the backlog and end asylum hotels and a serious government looks

at the criminal gangs who are profiting from undermining our border security while women and children are crushed to death in crowded, flimsy, small boats, and says the gangs have got away with it for too long, we will not for stand this vile trade in human lives . a serious human lives. a serious government knows that immigration is important and thatis immigration is important and that is why it needs to be properly managed and controlled. so the system is fair, so rules are properly respected and enforced. but we never again see a shameful repeat of the windrush scandal that let british citizens . down. so in british citizens. down. so in three months we have set up the border security command, launched new investment in covert operations, hi tech investigations to go after the gangs with proper enforcement

and returns. and instead of spending £700 million, employing 1000 people to send four volunteers to rwanda, we are boosting our border security instead, because the best way to do that is to work with countries on the other side of our borders, not to just stand on the shoreline shouting at the . sea. so from our border security to our national security, combating changing terror state and cyber threats to the security and the safety of our local streets, we know that security is the bedrock on which communities can come together and on which all the opportunities labour has always fought for are built. you don't get social justice if you don't get social justice if you don't have justice, and respect

is the very foundation of our democracy . and those labour democracy. and those labour values are at the heart of all we do, and they are at the heart of our mission for safer streets. where across the country, for where too long rising town centre and street crime have been driving people away from our high streets, corroding the fabric of our communities . so this labour communities. so this labour government will bring in new powers on anti—social behaviour, shoplifting and off road bikes and we will put neighbourhood police back in our communities and back on the beat. police back in our communities and back on the beat . and yes, and back on the beat. and yes, after years of co—op and usdaw campaigning, this labour government will introduce a new law on assaults on shop workers because everyone has the right to work in freedom from fear .

to work in freedom from fear. and, you know, conference. it's so long overdue . at long last, so long overdue. at long last, this government will treat violence against women and girls as the national emergency. it really is . when raneem oudeh called the police four times the night, she was killed, no one came. so in

raneem's name, this labour government will put domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms, overhaul protection orders and go after dangerous perpetrators who put lives at risk. new laws on spiking and onune risk. new laws on spiking and online image abuse. a radical and ambitious labour mission for the whole of government. for the whole of the country to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. because we cannot and we will not let the next generation of women and girls face the same violence as the last. our daughters deserve better than this . better than this. and why do we do all this ? for and why do we do all this? for the same reason that communities came together here in liverpool and across the country , to clear

and across the country, to clear up the damage that rioters had done to rebuild the broken mosque wall in southport. to find a new citizens advice centre in sunderland to clean up the streets. because the simple belief that we all share is this our streets do not belong to the gangs, yobs and thieves. our streets do not belong to the racist extremists and thugs, and our streets will never belong to the stalkers, abusers or rapists. the streets belong to us all and it is time to take them back . so conference, of course, the work is hard. as a poet once

said , our sleeves will grow said, our sleeves will grow ragged from rolling them up. but if you need hope that together we can deliver just if you need hope that together we can deliverjust look down we can deliver just look down the road again at spellow library. after the fire, a young young mum from netherton here with us this morning, alex mccormick started a fundraiser and donations have poured in from all over the world. thousands of books , hundreds of thousands of books, hundreds of thousands of pounds and already the labour council, the labour mayor and community are restoring and rebuilding spellow library better than ever before. so when alex said, let's show the world what community in liverpool really means , she did liverpool really means, she did her city proud. she did our country proud . up from the country proud. up from the ashes, a symbol of hope, a model of what our country can do. so leave the politics of fear, division and decline to others. the politics of hope is ours.

the politics of hope is ours. the future belongs to us all. let change begin . thank you. let change begin. thank you. conference . conference. >> thank you . so that was >> thank you. so that was home secretary yvette cooper there addressing the labour conference. she got a standing ovation partway through the speech when she talked about the fact that the southport riots were all racists. >> i don't know about you, andrew, but for me, it was a lot of platitudes. she said things that were sort of commonsensical. yes. we don't like violence against women and girls. yes. we don't like violence on our streets. but she said almost nothing about what she would actually do about that. i've got piers pottinger and nigel nelson in the studio. we're going to talk about it in just a minute. but first of all, what did you make of it, andrew, in just

minute. >> but first of all, what did you make good on rhetoric. not much substance. and obviously she was going to get huge applause talking about violence against women. but i thought it was particularly interesting the way she ripped into the idea that any of the people involved in the disturbances after the terrible killings in southport, it was all the far right. she repeated that again, completely ignonng repeated that again, completely ignoring the fact that many people who were were uneasy about their rapid effect of mass migration in this country and how it's affected communities . how it's affected communities. and i think, frankly, that's insulting. but it just shows labour are doubling down on it. they think they're winning on it politically. i'm not sure they are so but it went down very well in the conference hall. bev and she will be she will think that's job done when we consider we've had a pretty difficult conference for labour so far, she said, didn't she, that immigration is important? >> she said a lot of people have grievances about immigration, immigration, but they don't

choose to put bricks through windows. fair enough, but she also said that we need to work out this returns agreement effectively. the processing and smashing the gangs again. but her own new border force commander has said they need a deterrent . there's still no deterrent. there's still no evidence of any suggestion of what that might be. still no evidence of any suggestion of what that might mean? >> no. and we could even see potentially bev germany sending migrants to, of all places, rwanda, which would be extraordinary, wouldn't they? perhaps they'll make use of the facilities that the british taxpayer have paid. i still think it's a scandal that they didn't at least try to see if rwanda would work. i think the fear for labour was what if it did work? and when they called it such a gimmick. so i say it was very good on rhetoric, but very but lacking in substance and no real serious policy on how they're going to bring immigration down, which is running at, what, 675 , 700,000 running at, what, 675, 700,000 every year, far too high and no response to the small boats. >> and i mean, correct me if i'm

wrong, but i didn't hear her say that migration necessarily needs to come down. that wasn't what i heard her say necessarily. that certainly wasn't in there . and certainly wasn't in there. and interestingly, i thought was interestingly, i thought was interesting that rachel reeves yesterday didn't make one mention of immigration in her speech on immigration in her. >> they don't understand, and i think they will pay a very heavy price if this government doesn't recognise that mass immigration is becoming a major political issue, it's becoming a major social issues in towns and cities. the length and breadth of this country. people are disturbed by the speed of it. they don't like it. they blame the last tory government for a lot of it. and they're quite right to. and if labour don't get a grip of it, they they will have reform in particular breathing down their neck. and if robert jenrick wins, the tory leadership election and becomes tory leader, he will make immigration. i'm sure, a number one priority. and we've seen another major minister today not even conceding or acknowledging that the level of immigration into this country is a problem, because frankly, bev, i don't

think they think it is a problem. i think they think they like it and they're going to encourage it. and that's a big blue dividing line between labour and the tories. blue dividing line between labour and the tories . and let's labour and the tories. and let's not forget nigel farage's reform party . yeah. party. yeah. >> okay andrew i'm going to come back to you in just a little while. we were back at you, but as i say, we are joined in the studio by gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson and piers pottinger in the studio, pierce, you were sighing. sometimes you had your headin sighing. sometimes you had your head in your hands. there nigel. you were just sort of smiling. i want to come to you in a minute. i'm not sure. there was a huge amount to defend in there, but. pierce, what was most frustrating for you? >> well, again, i think i don't know whether it's wishful thinking or just delusional. they come up with these platitudes on everything, not just yvette cooper here. i must admit, i being home secretary is admit, i being home secretary is a pretty thankless role and i have some sympathy for her and actually, of all the shadow cabinet, i think she's probably one of the better. and i was very disappointed in that speech

because , again, she's saying, because, again, she's saying, we're going to do this, we're going to cut violence by 50%. we're going to do these things without any explanation as to how if you're going to do these things, you can pass as many laws as you want, but you're not going to be able to implement them if you don't have people to execute these laws and what they talked in the election campaign about thousands of more police, they haven't mentioned that since she didn't mention more police officers in her speech. you're going to need many more people to monitor these new laws and actually make sure they're enforced, and that, of course, is much more cost. so it's cost, cost, cost pie in the sky and when it comes to immigration, of course, she didn't really deal with it. martin hewitt, the new border tsar, the first thing he did was say her plans for stopping the gangs won't work. so, i mean, that's a kick in the teeth. and on top of that, of course, socialists love

immigrants coming in because they can put them on social benefits and then they're beholden to the state. and that's what the socialists want. they want everyone beholden to the state. >> oh, that's a bit of a pessimistic conclusion, nigel. >> not really quite true either. i don't think i think socialists like us do want, want that to happen. >> would you mind that happening, though? do you? you don't you don't mind the i do, i don't you don't mind the i do, i do i think that immigration should be for the needs of the economy. >> so i don't think i'm not keen on putting numbers on it because i don't think that works. piers talked about that, that these various things don't have any bill attached to them. well, there's a good reason for that. there's a budget coming up on october the 30th. all ministers are constrained now from saying anything that would actually include spending. so what yvette cooper did there? i think she's a class act. i think it was a good speech. >> she had the audience in the palm of her hand. yes she did. >> yeah. i mean, she's good. she

is very good. but what she did there was outline the various things they promised during the manifesto. there wasn't anything new there as such. but as i say, when it comes down to how things are going to be done, that really is for october the 30th. what the bill is going to be, how the bill will be paid on the police thing. she did mention it that she's talking about 13,000 more neighbourhood police and support officers to make sure you can clean up neighbourhoods, and the kind of message was she intends to take back our streets for the people who live on, where is she going to get 13,000 new policemen from ? new policemen from? >> sorry, out of thin air? how long is it going to take? you can't do that overnight. you can't. it's a preposterous. >> you've got to be. they've got to be recruited. it can't be an overnight thing. but the money was, was budgeted in there for the manifesto, which is why i'm saying nothing there that she announced was actually new. they were the manifesto commitments. the detail is going to have to wait till the budget. >> well, everything is going to wait till the budget . i mean, wait till the budget. i mean, the budget is nobody's given us

any detail in this conference so far, and i'm sure starmer will be giving us the usual stuff at 2:00 this afternoon. and the light at the end of the tunnel, the only light i can see will be when the pubs close, because it will be in daylight. now, if again, labour wants to ban people drinking again instead of tackling the nhs. by the way, what they're trying to do is , is what they're trying to do is, is stop people eating, stop people drinking , i stop people eating, stop people drinking, i mean soon, stop smoking, stop you smoking, stop people doing anything but the idea that they're going to change the licensing hours, i mean, they're not dealing with they're not dealing with the core problems properly. and don't forget , nigel, in their don't forget, nigel, in their election campaign, they kept saying everything was fully costed and fully funded. it clearly isn't. >> i think for me as well. i keep looking for the ethos, the ideology behind this labour government. and as the home secretary, nigel, i wanted her to talk a little bit about some sort of, i don't know, call me old fashioned personal

responsibility. what i took from there is, if you're a criminal, we will lock you up. fine. if you can't feed your kids rachel reeves yesterday, we will feed your kids for you. if the teenagers are misbehaving, we will provide a hub. and that's quite on board with that. the sure start hub for teenagers. i think that's a good idea. but if you're poor, we'll look after you. if you want to live here, the state will look after you. not at any point. do these politicians from labour talk ever about people taking responsibility for themselves and their actions and their health? >> well, i mean, i think they do. >> i mean, what do you see? what i mean? think about it. >> you mentioned you just mentioned health there. i think that, the change in nhs will do just that. and the idea wes streeting idea is this will be a prevention service, not a sickness service. that then puts the responsibility on the individual to make sure they do prevent disease, that you do try and live healthily. so there will be that personal responsibility coming in. >> but particularly when she's talking about crime there, there's very little i ever hear from this government about . look

from this government about. look after your own children, take care of your own teenagers. don't go out with a knife. it's almost there's just this very interesting balance happening between the state. it feels to me getting their tentacles into every area of. yeah, i mean, private and business life. >> absolutely. it's they want to interfere in every aspect of our lives and control it as much as possible and get as many people on benefit living in fear, because that's the kind of people that vote for them, because more intelligent people now realise what a disastrous thing it was to have voted labourin thing it was to have voted labour in in the election. i mean, starmer's , rating is the mean, starmer's, rating is the lowest of any prime minister, in such a short space of time. it's incredible how fast they've shown their true colours and how catastrophic this government has already become. >> and i think i think that's partly, probably because they played with such a safe bat into the election. they just had to

not be the conservatives. >> and they but they're talking about change, okay. they've changed government. but i mean changed government. but i mean change begins what an extremely bizarre slogan to use. i mean, come on, let's get this conference. >> but it's going to be better. >> but it's going to be better. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, nothing's nothing's changing at the conference. >> i don't have any money to spend. they're going to take most of that. but everything could be better. nothing >> socialists don't change. all they want to do is take take our money. >> we've got to move on. both of you. nigel and pearce. sam francis is here with the news headlines. >> very good morning to you from the newsroom. 1032 exactly. and we'll start then with a recap of that speech we've just been heanng that speech we've just been hearing from the home secretary. she says labour is the party of law and order and vowed to crack down on street crime, targeting offenders like street drinkers and shoplifters. opening the third day of the labour conference in liverpool. yvette cooperin conference in liverpool. yvette cooper in the last few minutes has pledged to introduce ronan's

law banning ninja swords, earning her a standing ovation. she also promised buffer zones around abortion clinics and reiterated labour's plan to halve knife crime in a decade. she went on to condemn riots in southport after the deaths of three girls, calling the violence a disgrace, and also slammed the conservatives, calling them right wing wreckers who sow division well ahead of his speech to the labour conference later today. sir keir starmer has insisted that britain can be fixed. posting on social media this morning, the prime minister said just because britain isn't working at the moment, it doesn't mean it can't be fixed. his speech, set to begin at 2:00 this afternoon, will aim for an optimistic note claiming there is light at the end of the tunnel. he'll outline a vision for national renewal, focusing on faster economic growth, shorter hospital waiting lists and safer streets, but will warn of tough, short term pressures ahead. and his speech comes amid anger over cuts to

the winter fuel payments and scrutiny of donations to some senior labour figures . turning senior labour figures. turning to the middle east, where thousands are fleeing southern lebanon as israeli air strikes and tank fire has targeted hezbollah militants, nearly 500 people have been killed and temporary shelters are being set up for displaced residents , up for displaced residents, according to lebanon's government. lebanese families have been seen packing up their belongings and jamming into highways as israeli bombs fall with 89 shelters activated. hezbollah responded overnight with rocket attacks on israeli military targets , including an military targets, including an explosives factory and an airfield. the israeli military says it struck over 1600 hezbollah targets in the past 24 hours. and here, the government says securing an agreement with striking nurses is an essential step to restoring public services. that's after nurses turned down a 5.5% pay rise yesterday . two thirds of royal yesterday. two thirds of royal college of nursing members voted

against that deal, in a record turnout of 145,000 members. labour minister pat mcfadden insists the government does understand the challenge of balancing public spending while trying to treat workers fairly. however, the shadow health secretary, victoria atkins, claims that the labour government has lost control of pubuc government has lost control of public sector pay. and she also warned earlier that the pay rise given to junior doctors could have repercussions for other healthcare professionals. those are the latest headlines for now. a full roundup of all the top stories at 11. next, though, a look at the markets 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 . news. com forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> well, let's take a quick look at the markets as they stand at

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well welcome back to the labour conference here in liverpool .

conference here in liverpool. with me here at the gb news stand is the political editor. the independent david maddox. david, you and i have been watching these conferences for a very long time. the home secretary's speech is always a key moment to say that was thin gruel. i'm thinking of oliver twist. there was nothing in it. >> i think the timing of it was interesting that they stuck it interesting that they stuck it in the morning before the prime minister. so everybody's kind of looking towards 2:00 for starmer's getting up. it was surprisingly little in it given us such huge issues actually, she probably didn't want to talk about immigration in front of this audience. there's a lot of protesters outside and things who don't like her border force idea, even, you know, in this party. but it's obviously a difficult area for her. and, and, you know, it was much easier for her to really go back to the riots over the summer, where i think probably she, she, she did quite well. >> but politically, they've got a problem in my view, because we know reform came second to

labourin know reform came second to labour in nearly over 90 seats, and in some seats there are just and in some seats there are just a few hundred votes behind reform will play immigration very strong and very hard if robert jenrick wins the tory leadership contest. and i think he will. yes, he's going to make immigration a big, big key if labour are even going to concede that immigration is too high, they've got that's going to be a political problem for them, and i think they'll pay a price at the ballot box. >> i think so, and it'll be interesting to see what happens interesting to see what happens in the local elections and the kind of assembly elections like the welsh parliament and the scottish parliament. i think they're all underestimating reform. i still think they're all underestimated, not just laboun all underestimated, not just labour, but the conservatives you know, if reform really get a ground campaign together, that's what they were missing last time they had the votes, but they didn't have a get out the vote. and, you know, this could be a serious problem for them. and i think you're right. they do need to address these issues because they're not just talking to the party faithful. they're talking to the country when they're

doing this. >> and i'm glad you made that point, because it felt to me listening to yvette cooper. who are you talking to? are you talking to the conference floor where she was bound to get applause for the stuff about violence against women? obvious stuff, but still very important. very important. but she's got a whole country to talk to. >> she does. and her brief, more than any, really. well, you know , than any, really. well, you know, there's three of them, rachel reeves, yvette cooper, and starmer. there were three who are really talking to the country at the moment. they're the key. the key briefs in this government. and you just get a feeling that they're letting some things drift and not really kind of, not really kind of stamping their authority at all on these things. >> one of the biggest cheers in her speech was when she talked about the terrible, killings in southport. and she wasn't having any truck with any idea that any of the people involved in the unrest were anything other than violent, far right thugs. and i think that is an oversimplification. that's my view. >> it probably is to a certain

degree, but there certainly were organised and pushed by the far right. yeah. i mean , there's no right. yeah. i mean, there's no doubt about that. there may well have been useful idiots there, probably plenty of useful idiots who got caught up in it. there may be some people who've been unfairly convicted because they just happened to have been caught up with it, but, generally this was a far right problem . now, you could say that problem. now, you could say that the far right issue is much rarer in this country than other issues, and that certain other protests were not dealt with in similar fashion. you know, we've seen anti—semitism on the streets as well, which is, has been frightening for a lot of people, particularly the jewish community. so, you know, that it's something they need to i think the government did well over the summer in, you know, acting swiftly and toughly on the riots. but they need to use that blueprint in other areas as well. >> let's quickly look ahead to the prime minister's speech milestone in the history of the labour party. the first speech

by a prime minister to a labour conference since 2009, gordon brown, when he made his speech , brown, when he made his speech, probably knew it would be his last one because labour were heading to defeat. of course they were. this is the start of a bright new beginning. are we going to get sunlit uplands in the speech? are we going to get more doom and gloom? >> well, i mean, certainly from what we've seen so far, he's going to try and give us some sunlit uplands. i mean, the thing was yesterday when rachel reeves tried to do that, the smile on her face seemed a bit forced. for me, i mean, they've got to be more cheerful . they got to be more cheerful. they do. they've won a big election result. okay but maybe didn't get as many votes as they wanted. but they've got a big majority. they've won the right to rule. they've got to be pleased about it. they've got to show that they're pleased about it and show what they actually want to do. other than just the kind of the misery of the first couple of months we've seen all these reports about confidence draining away in the business community, business confidence draining in the housing market. >> it's because relentlessly, we're told it's going to get

worse and it's going to get a lot worse, and it's going to get even worse when the budget comes on october the 31st, which is why i think they've done a kind of sharp handbrake turn this week and are trying to now inject some optimism and positivism. >> let's see if it works. >> let's see if it works. >> it's people aren't stupid. last week it was all doom and gloom, and this week , suddenly gloom, and this week, suddenly we're trying to sound a bit more upbeat because they've looked at the polling and shown that keir starmer's own polling rating, personal polls have collapsed and the labour party's polling rating has collapsed. >> well , it's true, it's true. >> well, it's true, it's true. and as you say, it's also affected business confidence. it's affecting, you know, general consumer confidence as well. just people in the country. people don't want to be miserable all the time. and it really struck me really. we've met with several ministers. none of them really are very happy at the moment, and they all seem to be very kind of worried about it, worried about the arguments within the government which are already happening. they're worried about the obviously, the kind of free gifts , freebies,

kind of free gifts, freebies, scandals and things like that. they haven't got off to a good start. it's not too late for them by any means. they've got best part of five years to sort this out . but best part of five years to sort this out. but you best part of five years to sort this out . but you know, this best part of five years to sort this out. but you know, this is the big moment. this is going to kind of set the next couple of years this speech, and he's got to. >> all right. that's david maddox of the independent of course we're looking ahead to the prime minister's speeches. at 2:00. we'll we'll bring you all the updates until then. up next, the home secretary has set out her plan to take britain back from thugs and thieves. do you have faith in their plans to crack down on i didn't think we re were many actually. this is britain's

news. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom. it is 1049. i'm in london. andrew pierce is at the labour party conference in liverpool. so joining me now is the home and security editor, mark white good morning mark.

where are you? there you are. okay. so we've just heard from yvette cooper from the home secretary. what was your assessment of it as our home security editor ? security editor? >> well, i mean, it was the typical sort of tub thumping, sort of tub thumping, even speech that you would expect from a home secretary at conference. little on detail. but then that's going to be in the changes that we're going to get before parliament, in the, in the king's speech. so as far as the, the government is concerned with law and order, they say they are going to get tougher. they've accused the conservatives of effectively , conservatives of effectively, bringing a wrecking ball to law and order and the criminal justice system in the uk to the point where thugs, criminals were just laughing at

authorities and laughing at the system with regard, of course, to the riots, which i thought was quite interesting. she chose, to replay the sentiment from the government about what the motivation was behind the unrest that we saw across the country. and she said absolutely, that racism was at the heart of this. this is one of the points that she made. let's have a listen. >> so don't anyone tell me that was protest. don't anyone tell me that was about immigration or policing or poverty. plenty of people have strong views on immigration, on crime, on the nhs and more. but they do not pick up bricks and throw them at the police. they do not set light to buildings with people inside. >> it was arson. it was racism. it was thuggery . it was crime . it was thuggery. it was crime. >> and so in terms of law and order, back on the streets,

she's announcing, of course, more police officers. 13,000, we're told. who will be based in neighbourhoods in towns and cities across the country. and there will be extra protection for shopkeepers. this is what she said. >> this labour government will bnngin >> this labour government will bring in new powers on anti—social behaviour, shoplifting and off road bikes and we will put neighbourhood police back in our communities and back on the beat. police back in our communities and back on the beat . and yes, and back on the beat. and yes, after years of co—op and usdaw campaigning, this labour government will introduce a new law on assaults on shop workers because everyone has the right to work in freedom from fear . to work in freedom from fear. >> and as part of that, of

course , she is introducing this course, she is introducing this ban on zombie style knives as well as machetes, which she believes will be an important part in what the government wants to do in terms of a real crackdown on knife crime, particularly knife enabled robberies, which have shown a very dramatic increase in the last year or two. >> mark this idea that she wants to bring back this this notion of respect, of respect order so that individuals may not be allowed to go back into their town centres if you've been a teenager who's been causing trouble or you've been street drinking or shoplifting, is that different to anything we've previously seen? i'm thinking of asbos . asbos. >> well, i'm thinking exactly of anti—social behaviour orders as well. under the blair government. and, you know, how well did that work ? actually, well did that work? actually, these thugs, these criminals looked upon getting an asbo as a

badge of honour. it was, you know, pretty much a disaster in terms of having any real deterrent effect. >> okay. all right. mark thank you so much. mark white there. let us know what you thought of the speech. some of your messages are coming in on gbnews.com forward slash your say. i will be reading them while we take this quick break but still to come. as if pubs aren't struggling enough, they may now be forced to protect you from harmful drinking and close earlier. yes that's right. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom, home of common sense. i think we can say. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. following the very heavy rain that we've seen across some central and southern parts of the uk over the last few days, today is brighter and drier in

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gb news. >> good morning. 11 am. on tuesday, the 24th of september live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce. i'm here at the labour conference in liverpool and bev turner. >> good morning. so the prime minister will this afternoon light at the end of the tunnel at the short term pain, he will say for britain . home secretary say for britain. home secretary yvette cooper has vowed to make britain's streets safer, who took part in the southport riots as racists or have strong views on immigration. >> on crime, on the nhs and more. but they do not pick up bncks more. but they do not pick up bricks and throw them at the police. they do not set light to buildings with people inside. >> it was arson, it was racism, it was thuggery . it was crime it was thuggery. it was crime and zombie knife ban . and zombie knife ban. >> from today it is illegal to

own zombie knives or machetes. this comes just two days after a 15 year old london schoolboy was stabbed to death. campaigners have told gb news that the law does not go far enough. >> the zombie swords or machetes aren't brainwashing kids. that's not the problem. that's not the root cause. it's just like this big illusion to make the to make big illusion to make the to make the government look to the the government look to the pubuc the government look to the public to look like they're pubuc the government look to the public to look like they're doing something. doing something. >> and harry's visa victory. a >> and harry's visa victory. a judge has ruled that prince judge has ruled that prince harry's american visa harry's american visa application should remain application should remain private, despite admitting to private, despite admitting to taking drugs in his memoir, taking drugs in his memoir, spare, cameron walker has more . spare, cameron walker has more . spare, cameron walker has more. >> it looks like prince harry is spare, cameron walker has more. >> it looks like prince harry is not being barred from the united not being barred from the united again the to states any time soon, but is states any time soon, but is this proving an unwanted this proving an unwanted distraction from his engagements distraction from his engagements in new york? more details in new york? more details shortly. shortly. >> and are we looking at early >> and are we looking at early last orders? in another to blow last orders? in another to blow pubs they might now face being pubs they might now face being forced to close early to tackle forced to close early to tackle what's being called harmful what's being called harmful drinking the fun police strike drinking the fun police strike

again . again. >> and of course, as always, we want to hear what you think. so do send your views and post your comments by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, here is the news with sam francis . francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just gone. 11:00 the top story this morning. the home secretary has said that labour is the party of law and order, vowing to crack down on street crime , targeting offenders like crime, targeting offenders like street drinkers and shoplifters. opening the third day of the labour conference in liverpool this morning, labour conference in liverpool this morning , yvette cooper this morning, yvette cooper pledged to introduce ronan's law banning ninja swords that earned her a standing ovation. she also promised buffer zones around abortion clinics and reiterated labour's plan to halve knife crime in a decade. she went to on condemn riots in southport

after the deaths of three girls, calling the violence there a disgrace, and slammed the conservatives as right wing wreckers who sow division so don't anyone tell me that was protest. >> don't anyone tell me that was about immigration or policing or poverty. plenty of people have strong views on immigration, on crime, on the nhs and more. but they do not pick up bricks and throw them at the police. they do not set light to buildings

,555 a do not set light to buildings a reduction in benefit fraud, a reduction in net migration and the introduction of a hillsborough law. the speech comes though, amid anger over cuts to winter fuel payments and scrutiny of donations to a number of senior labour figures . meanwhile, the labour figures. meanwhile, the government says that securing an agreement with striking nurses is an essential step to restoring public services. that's after they turned down a 5.5% pay rise yesterday. two thirds of royal college of nursing members voted against that deal, in a record turnout of 145,000 members. labour minister pat mcfadden insists the government understands the challenge of balancing public spending while trying to treat workers fairly. >> prospects for the country are great britain is a great place in which to invest, and if we can get that message out and get that going, then we can generate the wealth that we need to make people better off and to fund the public services that we all depend on. and the two parts to that story are going to be at

the heart of the prime minister's speech this afternoon. >> however, the shadow health secretary victoria atkins, claims the labour government has lost control of public sector pay lost control of public sector pay and this morning she told us the pay rise given to junior doctors could have repercussions for other healthcare professionals . professionals. >> it would have impacts on other healthcare professionals, including nurses and midwives, who would ask quite reasonably well, what value does this government put on us? and we are now seeing the longer term consequences of that short term decision he made in july to award that inflation busting pay rise to junior doctors with no reform, such as i had with consultants , no improvements to consultants, no improvements to productivity and sadly , we're productivity and sadly, we're now seeing the ramifications of that. >> turning away from news here to the middle east now. and the foreign secretary has joined world leaders calling for an immediate ceasefire between israel and lebanon as the death toll from israeli airstrikes

targeting hezbollah now nears 500, half a million people have already fled southern lebanon, as the country's health minister confirmed 492 deaths and over 1600 injuries from those strikes. it's been the deadliest barrage since the war between israel and hezbollah in 2006. in response , lebanon's fired 55 response, lebanon's fired 55 rockets into northern israel overnight , rockets into northern israel overnight, wounding rockets into northern israel overnight , wounding several overnight, wounding several people. and the uk has advised british nationals to leave immediately, with david lammy warning that any further escalation could. he says, have devastating consequences . here. devastating consequences. here. owning zombie style knives and machetes is now banned following a four week amnesty where owners could hand their weapons into police. the move is part of a wider effort to tackle knife crime, with actor idris elba among those campaigning for the ban. ninja swords are expected to be outlawed shortly. police chiefs have welcomed the ban but say enforcement alone won't solve the problem as new technologies are being developed to detect knives in crowds. it

comes as knife crime in england and wales rose by 7% last year, with 239 knife crime related deaths recorded . and as i always deaths recorded. and as i always say, it wouldn't be a news bulletin without an update on the weather. and commuters are bracing for more disruption as dozens of flood warnings remain in place across the uk, with more heavy rain on the way. some areas have seen more than a month's worth of rainfall in just 24 hours, leaving homes damaged and roads impassable. a new yellow weather warning has also been issued for thursday this week, stretching from nottinghamshire to northumberland, with 100mm of rain expected in some areas. the environment agency has also issued a number of flood warnings. that's the second highest alert level, with strong winds and further travel chaos expected , especially across the expected, especially across the pennines and the north. york moors. those are the latest headunes moors. those are the latest headlines for now. your next round up in about half an hour for the very latest . gb news

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. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom live. across the uk, i am in london. andrew is of course at the labour party conference in liverpool. andrew back to you . back to you. >> thanks. with me in the studio, here is the is emma lewell—buck. she is the mp for south shields. big moment for you. first labour conference in government since 2009. you came in. when did you come in? emma 2013. >> believe it or not, in a by—election, of course. so a long time. >> what are you expecting to hear from your prime minister? your leader? >> well, i want to hear some hope and optimism, and i think there hasn't been much of that, has there? there hasn't. and to be fair, you know what? after 14 years of what the tories did to this country, i'm not surprised. you know anyone coming into

government thinking it was going to be loads of joy and a bed of roses, then there. haven't been watching politics much, have they? because it was obvious there was a lot of hard work to do. we've got to roll our sleeves up and get on with it, and i'm pleased. we've got serious people in government who are willing to do that. but also the country is on its knees and it does need the prime minister to buoy things up a bit and say, look, we're going to sort this. we're going to you elected us on a promise to make things better. we're going to try and do that for you. >> they've overdone the pessimism, haven't they? >> i think to some degree perhaps, yes. i think if you ask anyone on the street, that's what they'll say. you know, they voted for change. they want to see that change coming and they for hope that change come soon, >> do you think how concerned have you been about what you might we might perhaps call the noises of the rows over lord alli wahid ali giving tens of thousands of pounds for clothes and parties. it's not a great look for a labour government that came in saying they were going to do things differently to the tories. angela rayner in

particular, attacking boris johnson over sleaze and vanity photographers. and then we discover she's got her own vanhy discover she's got her own vanity photographer paid for by the taxpayer. >> i think i'm disappointed, and i think other people are as well. you know, i've i've been offered gifts before. i turned them down. i've had things sent to me. i've sent it back. i think personal gifts for politicians, no party, political donations. okay. but you have to always. you know, i've never wanted to feel beholden to anyone or anyone to think that i'm beholden to them. i am elected by the people of south shields, i represent them, i'm their public servant, and that's what i want them to always remember and want people to think. so i always send back any gifts that i get and we heard the chancellor, she was saying, oh, well, now we're in government. >> we won't take we won't take these, we won't have free clothes. did they? why did they? why did they need to get into government before they reached that decision? that it was a very, very bad look. >> i mean, i think what we need to do, what we should have done is shut this down straight away.

and perhaps people said, you know what? it was an error. we shouldn't have done it, but the story would have moved on. yeah. i mean, yeah, because, you know, ultimately we've had 14 years of utter chaos, utter self service. people want to know that we are different and we are different, but that has overshadowed, overshadowed all of the good stuff that we've done. >> you are you are different because of course you're getting rid of the winter fuel allowance and six conservative chancellors. it's that winter fuel that survived six conservative chancellors and a labour government's axing it. so you are different to the tories. you're more mean . you're more mean. >> well, i don't think we're more mean at all. i mean, if you look at some of the things we've done since we got into power, we've ended the doctors strike, we've ended the doctors strike, we've put in plans to nationalise rail, being bringing buses back into public control, gb energy and anyone watching who knows me knows that i abstained on the winter fuel vote because it's not a policy i agree with. >> why didn't you vote against it then? >> i didn't vote against it because in parliament, as you well know, you have a motion and

you vote for or against it in its entirety. i don't think that the very wealthiest should receive this payment, but i also don't think those who need it should lose out on it. so no circumstances your only option is to abstain. >> are you puzzled why they didn't just think with a majority of 168? actually, we've got this wrong. let's drop it and find and find savings in the budget somewhere else. because, you know, 1.41.5 billion it will save is small beer, frankly, in an economy of 2 trillion. >> well, the arguments i was making is that i don't even understand the maths of it. i mean, i'm no mathematical genius, but if you add up the household support fund costs and if everyone is entitled to pension credit claims it, that will cost £2.5 billion for a 1.45 billion saving. yeah. so i'm i'm a bit bamboozled by it. right >> okay, in the conference speech, you want to hear some upbeat stuff? anything specific? because the home secretary in her conference speech said nothing about cutting immigration. she talked about,

the riots and the disturbances. but do you think immigration is too high? >> i think this argument has gone on for as long as i can remember, and it becomes very toxic and very heated. and it seems like every time it does it. no, but every time it's debated either on the news or in parliament, people seem to lose their heads over it. and nobody can seem to have just a sensible and rational conversation about immigration in our country. you know, the history of the world is people moving around and settling places. this isn't something new. the way we talk about it, though, has become new, and i wish we could just take the heat out of it. think sensibly and calm down everybody across the board and have a sensible debate about immigration and what i would like to hear from the prime minister, which i'm guaranteed we are going to hear is about the introduction of the hillsborough law, you know. >> yes. tell me about why that's so important. >> well, you know, again, we got elected to bring public service back to the public. now, what speaks better than this law?

because what this is going to do is make sure that people, you know, grenfell nuke , nuke know, grenfell nuke, nuke scandal , contaminated blood, scandal, contaminated blood, people are fed up of state cover ups. they are fed up of when they're telling the truth, not being listened to. this law will make sure that they are listened to. they get the right legal aid help and they have a public advocate. this is purely returning public service right back to the public when they needit back to the public when they need it the most and when they're most in need. >> and it will also, of course, apply to the post office scandal, which in my mind is one of the biggest scandals in our in our lifetime. isn't it a sad thing though? actually emma, that we need this law because since hillsborough, where there was a cover up, nobody's ever been convicted, no criminal convictions, even though, what, 96 people died, 72 people died in grenfell tower. no criminal prosecutions . still no criminal prosecutions. still no criminal prosecutions. still no criminal prosecutions in the post office. it's shameful that we need this law, that there wasn't proper policing work done in the past. >> it's shameful and it's absolutely heartbreaking. and

anyone who's met victims of a tragedy or their families , you tragedy or their families, you can see the pain they feel and the heartbreak they go through just trying to be believed. just trying to get justice. the emotional cost , the financial emotional cost, the financial cost, everything. and they can't grieve. you know, i've spoke to people who've lost loved ones in mass casualty events. you can't grieve and you can't move on until you have justice. if you're waiting years and years for justice, for a public inquiry that costs the taxpayer absolutely millions and i'm hoping that this law will speed up any inquiries in the future, and that they won't cost as much because that cost could then be put back into public services , put back into public services, or to help those families in their hour of need. >> i mean, how many? we've just had the grenfell inquiry concluding this year, how many years later? yeah, it's two tens of millions of pounds. >> it's not fair for people. and the pain and the anguish they go through, it's, you know, we should be better than that. and we are going to be better than that because we've got a labour government and we've got the

hillsborough law coming in next yeah >> do you think because we've still got the ongoing covid inquiry, do you think there should be criminal prosecutions as a result of covid? >> i think if anybody has lied and anybody has covered anything up, especially those in public office, then yes, absolutely . office, then yes, absolutely. criminal prosecutions should follow. they would follow in any other walk of life. why is it there's always a rule, isn't there? there's it seems to be that politicians and senior pubuc that politicians and senior public servants are always protected. well, it should be the same rule for all of us. if you lie, if you cover up the truth, then you should be sanctioned appropriately. >> all right, that's a million bucks. that's a very important. i'm sure the prime minister will be talking about today. it's the hillsborough law to effectively ensure there are no more cover ups in particularly involving pubuc ups in particularly involving public officials. very important change. emily bourke, will you come and see us again? >> i would love to. thank you very much. >> and up next, don't forget we'll be talking to the prime minister will be on at 2:00. but first bev is doing a deep delve into the labour donor lord alli and will. and it's going to look

at just how influential he is. there were photographs of him on the front page of newspapers this morning, because he's given all that to politicians for their you should have seen what he was dressed

gb news. >> welcome back. it's 1120. gb news. >> welcome back. it's1120. this >> welcome back. it's 1120. this is britain's newsroom. thanks for joining us this morning. i forjoining us this morning. i am back in the studio with gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson and also political commentator , man also political commentator, man of many talents, in fact and experience, piers piers pottinger. given your experience, piers , you've worked experience, piers, you've worked both in politics and in the media. you are the perfect person to talk to about lord waheed alli, a name that wasn't known to many people until the last couple of weeks. a face certainly not known to many people, but clearly exerting quite a significant influence behind the scenes over the labour party. he was ennobled by tony blair in 1998. he was the one, i think, the youngest peer , one, i think, the youngest peer, openly gay, muslim man, and

starmer brought him on board in 2022. in a more sort of semi—official capacity and over the years he's given hundreds of thousands of pounds to the labour party. now isn't it normal? she says, trying to play devil's advocate, that one might donate to a political party? >> yes, it is, and there's nothing wrong in that. but he's donating to individuals for things like suits , glasses, things like suits, glasses, holidays . things like suits, glasses, holidays. he's it's the things like suits, glasses, holidays . he's it's the way it's holidays. he's it's the way it's permitted. seven cabinet ministers sue grey's son who stood for beckenham as an mp. he gave £10,000 to. and this drip, drip of more and more stuff he's giving and he keeps saying he doesn't want any. well, he doesn't want any. well, he doesn't say anything actually. they say he doesn't want anything in return . then you do anything in return. then you do have to say, well, why is he doing it ? and actually have to say, well, why is he doing it? and actually this could be resolved very quickly if he was to put out a full

statement saying this is the scope of all my donations that i've given . i've done this i've given. i've done this because i believe in the labour party. i've supported them for many years and this is a simple way of me showing my support. and furthermore , in future in and furthermore, in future in the house of lords, i believe there should be a register. so every peer would be obliged to, as they do in mps where the money is going coming from in a more , transparent way. he could, more, transparent way. he could, if he was transparent, do it. but the way he's avoided journalists at the conference yesterday, he said it's not nice when someone went up to him in any other country. this would smell of corruption. and we internationally, actually, this is the point that no one has meant and made internationally. the press are calling this a corruption scandal, and that's how serious it is for the labour

party. if it continues to drip, drip, drip like this. lord alli could put an end to it. and why doesn't he? he's worth £200 million, nigel. >> part of which he made through his media enterprises. over the years, he's given £155,000 to keir starmer. it years, he's given £155,000 to keir starmer . it does smack of keir starmer. it does smack of corruption, doesn't it? unless he's explicit about what he wants. there's no such thing as a free lunch. >> no. and i think there are. there will be things that that he wants and i rather like piers's idea. i think that if you actually completely transparent about this, this would take a lot of the accusations of corruption away from it. i don't believe he's corrupt. i mean, basically what you mean by corruption, though . you mean by corruption, though. >> we need to know why he wants to influence labour policy. >> i think that piers got it right. he believes in the labour party. what does that mean? well, it means that he likes the politics of the labour party. significantly, he first came to prominence back in tony blair's day, so he was kind of tony blair's youth tsar, and at that

time he was very close to anji hunter. anji hunter was tony blair's gatekeeper , the sue gray blair's gatekeeper, the sue gray of her day . so he's quite sort of her day. so he's quite sort of her day. so he's quite sort of ofay with downing street. then he sort of disappears. he didn't seem to like the intervening years, particularly the corbyn time. now he comes back under keir starmer, knowing that this lot are malleable. i'm not so much malleable, but actually because there is there is much more comparison between starmer and blair and their administrations. he likes what the what this new government is doing is what sorry, which which is what? >> this is a point everyone keeps saying to me. he's just supporting the labour party. >> well , but supporting the labour party. >> well, but there's more than this. >> because what does he want? what does he want? you know, he's been a big campaigner for lgbt rights over the years. is this the reason keir starmer can't say what a woman is on an interview just before the election? >> no, i don't think there's any connection there. and again, back to why back to the blair

days, what he wanted in the blair days was for the, the age of consent for gay sex to be reduced from 18 to 16. >> and he was successful in that, and he was successful. >> that happened in 2000. so that's what he was lobbying for there. he wanted to get rid of section 28. he was lobbying for that. that goes actually hand in hand with what the then labour party was after, too. so there's no reason why. >> i mean, when he, when he was made about that, when he was made about that, when he was made about that, when he was made a peer by tony blair, a lot of people were very surprised , of people were very surprised, and one now why. well, because he was very young. he hadn't actually achieved a hell of a lot in life, other than being moderately successful businessman and some of his businessman and some of his business practices , notably the business practices, notably the acquisition of koovs india , acquisition of koovs india, which he did over a very, very , which he did over a very, very, very, difficult administration . very, difficult administration. the company went into administration and he bought it the same day, leaving the other shareholders, the small individual people with nothing. so one wonders about that. but,

the point is that rather like you know, lord levy and cash for questions, the question in the house of lords is, i mean, did you know what is going on with this peer? he is said to be influential. what does that mean? clearly. and he he got the house of lords. they say he didn't want anything. he got an all access 10 downing street pass. not everyone gets that. >> what's his voting record like in the house of lords? is he regularly there? >> well, he hasn't spoken for more than ten minutes in the last six years. >> just let that hang in the air for a minute. he hasn't spoken in the house of lords for more than ten minutes in the last six years. six years? >> the total of his speech speaking, is ten minutes. >> you know why he won't do it? because then we'll work out what he's about. and then we might be a little bit concerned about our democracy to think that if we know what he wants, we know why he's trying to buy influence. he's almost single handedly who will fall for it? i mean, bridget phillipson accepted

£14,000 for a 40th birthday. i heard an interview this morning. try and say no, no, no, it's a work event. it just happened to be my 40th birthday. are they are they that sort of egotistical and vain that they can be bought up like that? >> those were those were certainly missteps that, i rather expected more of the, of this labour government. it's quite obvious taking expensive gifts is always a bad look and it always comes back to bite you. i'm surprised they did it. having done it. i'm surprised it didn't come out quicker and say, we're not going to do it again. it took them a while to actually say that. so the worst thing about this is it makes it makes this lot look no better than the previous lot. >> and lord alli is almost single handedly making a case for making the house of lords entirely hereditary because hereditary peers don't have any allegiance to any party, don't need to get involved and the irony? the idea of having two

elected houses, of course, is madness , because they'll be madness, because they'll be they'll fight each other and it won't work . but, i don't think won't work. but, i don't think it'll happen either. but lord alli is actually bringing the house of lords into disrepute by the way he's behaving . and he the way he's behaving. and he could, if he was transparent , if could, if he was transparent, if he doesn't want anything, if there's nothing wrong with this, why doesn't he come out and say so? he's hiding and he should know by now. you can run , but know by now. you can run, but you can't hide. lord alli. someone is going to pin you down and make you answer the question. >> the transparency thing i agree entirely. i mean, i'm not sure what what he wants. i don't know the answer. i am surprised he had a downing street pass thatis he had a downing street pass that is unusual. it should only be for people who work there in the same way that somebody wandering off the street wouldn't get a gb news pass. so, that's peculiar. the gifts. the gifts were a mistake, but i think we dismissed them as a mistake. that was a bad start to the labour party have got more

problems now coming their way with donations, as it's now emerged today , that they took emerged today, that they took their largest ever donation , £4 their largest ever donation, £4 million from a cayman islands based hedge fund, >> the people behind who of whom we are not yet named. they will be, i'm sure, when the financial times or some investigative financial reporter gets to the bottom of this. it was taken two days before the election campaign started, when the rules on donations change. so they so they didn't have to declare this dunng they didn't have to declare this during the election campaign . during the election campaign. this is another sinister aspect of it , of it, >> and they're saying that company is saying that why they the reason that they invested in labouris the reason that they invested in labour is they look to all the policies and they decided that labour was the most eco friendly. they were the most green. yeah. >> this is a company that invests in fossil fuels, arms sales. it doesn't add up. there's something smelly about this to now the labour party has i mean lord levy and the cash for peerages . did tony blair and

for peerages. did tony blair and the labour government an enormous amount of damage and this is building up to be just as bad. the labour party have got address their donations properly. it's bad enough they are paid by the trade unions. but this is much worse because it looks murky and if it isn't murky then be transparent. >> absolutely. the thing is, and they can be transparent about they can be transparent about the money and they're only becoming transparent now because journalists are digging into this. people are demanding to know answers to this. but i still don't know the why, nigel. and that is what bothers me. i mean, when he was saying there may not be a white bear in mind there's always a why. >> well, if we leave it, leave it at simply why? he supported tony blair's labour party and why he supports keir starmer's labour party is because he believes in it. that is a possible why. i'm not saying it is the why, but a possible why. >> yes, but that's not enough

for me. i'm sorry. you can't say he believes in it. he believes in it. i need to know which bit he believes in. i want to know what part of politics is of particular interest to him. what does he want to see changed about this country? that means he would allow keir starmer to stay in his £18 million penthouse. i mean, starmer staying in the £80 million penthouse. and during the general election because he needed somewhere to stay . needed somewhere to stay. admittedly, it went through the books. they valued it at £20,000, is what it would have cost him to stay there. i mean, it's all nonsense. what was he thinking? this guy's clearly got a lot of influence and we need to understand what he wants from that relationship. >> i think that the influence, the influence bit, whatever it is he wants. the influence thing is he wants. the influence thing is a slightly concerning. when he was actually involved with sue gray in choosing cabinet ministers, correct, that that surprised me. so downing street, pa surprised me. that surprised me. the gift surprised me. then we shouldn't go too far about things like football tickets or whatever. i'm not bothered about that stuff, nor am i.

>> but if he was, if he wants to go and watch football because of a security detail, suggests he'd be in a box, i'm all right with that. i don't think you see, you see, the point is, if he's so influential and so important, why doesn't he have some official role? >> correct. >> correct. >> he does. he's the he's the i mean, he he bankrolls the labour party. but the treasurer there. so he's the key fundraiser for labouh so he's the key fundraiser for labour. so during the election he did have an official role. and yes, he also gave £500,000. and yes, he also gave £500,000. and we come back each time. this turns up to the same problem . do turns up to the same problem. do we want want political parties funded in a different way, say by the taxpayer rather than by donations? >> you must know lots of people who've donated to the conservative party. yes. over the years. yes what was their motive, >> they their motive was they wanted a conservative government in power because they felt it would be more beneficial to their businesses, which indeed it they were. >> so it doesn't come from an altruistic place, does it? understandably, it comes from saying, well, i have a financial

portfolio. i have, let's say commercial or corporate ambitions. and i believe that this this government is going to represent my interests. i just need to know what his are. yes. >> and if you're an employer, because you know he's an employer and any employer actually their interests are better served by the conservatives than than the labour party who are in hock to the trade unions and who are against employers and against business. like all socialists, all they want is the business's money. >> it's why you give to charities, though, isn't it? you give to a charity because you believe in it. you believe keir starmer you don't give not a charity case, right? >> we keir starmer didn't need the money. >> we need to move on. i'd love to know what you think at home. sam francis is here though. now with the headlines. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 11:30, a look at the stories making the news this morning. the home secretary says

labouris morning. the home secretary says labour is the party of law and order and vowed to crack down on street crime targeting offenders like street drinkers and shoplifters. opening the third day of the labour conference in liverpool earlier , yvette cooper liverpool earlier, yvette cooper pledged to introduce ronan's law banning ninja swords, earning her a standing ovation . she also her a standing ovation. she also promised buffer zones around abortion clinics and reiterated labour's plan to halve knife crime in a decade. she went on to condemn riots in southport after the deaths of three girls, calling the violence there a disgrace , and slammed the disgrace, and slammed the conservatives as right wing wreckers well ahead of his speech later to the labour conference. sir keir starmer has insisted that britain can be fixed, posting on social media this morning, the prime minister said just because britain isn't working at the moment, it doesn't mean it can't be fixed. his speech set to begin at 2:00, which of course we will bring live to you here on gb. news will aim to strike an optimistic tone , claiming that there is tone, claiming that there is light at the end of the tunnel .

light at the end of the tunnel. he'll also outline a vision for national renewal, focusing on faster economic growth, shorter hospital waiting lists and safer streets, but will warn of tough short term pressures ahead. the speech comes, though, amid anger over cuts to winter fuel payments and scrutiny of donations to senior labour figures . donations to senior labour figures. thousands are continuing to flee southern lebanon as israeli air strikes and tank fire has been targeting hezbollah militants there. more than 550 people are now known to have died, and temporary shelters are being set up for more than 25,000 displaced residents, according to lebanon's government. lebanese families have been seen packing up their belongings and jamming onto highways as israeli bombs have fallen. 89 shelters have been activated in the region. hezbollah responded overnight with rocket attacks on israeli military targets, including an explosives factory and an airfield. the israeli military says it struck over 1600 hezbollah targets in the past 24

hours. here, the government says securing an agreement with striking nurses is an essential step to restoring public services. that's after they turned down a 5.5% pay rise, two thirds of royal college of nursing members voted against that deal in a record turnout. labour minister pat mcfadden insists the government understands the challenge of balancing public spending with trying to treat workers fairly. however, shadow health secretary victoria atkins claims the labour government has lost control of public spending and warns that the pay rise given to junior doctors could have repercussions for other healthcare professionals . and healthcare professionals. and one last story for you. i just had to squeeze it in. it's a skydiver who has pulled off a world first stunt combining skydiving and surfing. sebastian alvarez jumped from a helicopter with a surfboard strapped to his feet , with a surfboard strapped to his feet, landing directly on the water. video you can see here shows that incredible feat with alvarez releasing his parachute

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>> very good morning. it's 1141. >> very good morning. it's1141. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson. liverpool and me bev turner in london. now the public does not have a strong interest in prince harry's immigration record. that is according to a ruling from a judge in the us. this is of course, after a lawsuit was brought forward to get the government, the american government, the american government, to publicly release the duke's visa application. now, cameron walker joins me to explain why this situation arose in the first place. morning, cameron. >> good morning. well, it looks like prince harry not going to be kicked out of the united states any time soon, doesn't it ? states any time soon, doesn't it? as you said, he admitted in his memoir, spare to taking illegal drugs. and usually when you

apply drugs. and usually when you apply for a visa to the united states, if you have taken illegal drugs, they're not going to let you in. which is why the heritage foundation, this conservative with a small c think tank, asked in a freedom of information request for the us government to release his immigration. >> that's a british organisation, the heritage foundation, based in the united states, based in washington, d.c, and their grounds was either prince harry lied on his immigration form and therefore something should be done about it , or something should be done about it, or perhaps something should be done about it , or perhaps slightly more it, or perhaps slightly more sinister in their view. >> the us officials turned a blind eye to his immigration records. now, we do not know what kind of visa prince harry is on. for example, if he's on a diplomatic style visa, then perhaps there are some waivers which would warrant him not having to declare his his drug use. but the us judge, carl nichols , last night in his in nichols, last night in his in his in his ruling, said that the pubuc his in his ruling, said that the public does not have a strong interest in disclosing the duke's immigration records. and thatis duke's immigration records. and that is obviously what the us government is saying as well, which is why they're failing to release it. and i think on the one hand, clearly prince harry

is a private individual like everybody. he has a right to private his private immigration records and also , to be fair, records and also, to be fair, he's not the first high profile figure to have entered the united states who has previously admitted to taking illegal drugs, including cocaine. but on the other, it just does raise a wider point as to has somebody like prince harry with his status as the king's son, been given some kind of special treatment . and at the moment we treatment. and at the moment we don't know the answer to that because the immigration record is remaining private. so we're not sure if the heritage foundation is going to be wanting to take this further and perhaps wanting to, you know, try and take this appeal. that's the word i was looking for. yeah, exactly. and that's the thing we don't know yet, so we'll have to wait and see. watch this space. but for now, prince harry is safe, and he must be very relieved about that. >> yes, you would think. >> yes, you would think. >> exactly. and he's in new york at the moment doing a number of pubuc at the moment doing a number of public engagements. so it's a huge distraction for him, and he'll be wanting to focus on his charity work. okay. >> cameron walker, thank you so

much. right. let's cross back to andrew pierce who is in liverpool. obviously, andrew, i imagine on the edge of your seat for the prime minister's speech, of course, in a couple of hours. how has it been for you down there this morning? thrilling. >> absolutely thrilling. >> absolutely thrilling. >> you sound like you've got a bit of a cold, but can you just can you just confirm for our viewers, have you got a bit of sniffle? >> it's a conference cold. everybody gets it. it's rubbing up to close to all these delegates in all these, fringe meetings, normally i get it in the tory conference, but i think labour have given it to me deliberately to try and shut me up. but they won't succeed, bev. delighted to say with me in the studio, who hasn't got a conference cold scarlett mccgwire for the pollster from jl partners. the polls. now, normally a new government, particularly one with such a large majority, albeit on a very small share of the vote, has a honeymoon with the voters. that's not happened. >> the honeymoon, if it was ever there, is definitely over. there's been a slew of negative polls actually coming out over

conference weekend, which is very unhelpful to the labour party, which is showing that both the party and keir starmer are going down very sharply in voters opinions. >> why is it. i think that's a good question. >> i think we've seen a few, i'd say missteps in terms of public opinion. i think the first of which is that there's not been a coherent narrative, let alone a positive narrative, about what it is they're going to do. we know that the overwhelming reason why voters were voting for labour in the election was that they wanted change. that's something labour were campaigning on. get rid of the tories, the get rid of the tories, the get rid of the tories, and we want a change. however they want to know what that change is and how it's going to be better. and i think there have been a couple of things. so firstly, i think there was definitely a slight mistake to announce the cut in winter fuel payments, especially if you're not going to then place it in a wider narrative of something that, you know, a bit like we were hearing from rachel reeves yesterday. there's pain today, but so it can get better tomorrow. that was completely absent. we had that announcement almost in isolation, and we know when we did a poll of labour voters, even just labour voters

early in august, that was the thing that had cut through the most in terms of government policy so far. so i think there's a lack of announcements. and then there's the second thing, a lack of positive plans, i should say, rather than announcements. then there's the second issue, which is this suspicion that voters have that all mainstream politicians are the same and that they're not very trustworthy, that they're dishonest, that they're in it for the wrong reasons. and i think that's why over the last week, some of the things that have come out in the papers on ruby gates, exactly, that is also incredibly unhelpful to labouh also incredibly unhelpful to labour, because that's, again, not seeming like change to voters. and if they don't, you know, if they think labour aren't delivering change, they will look elsewhere. now, i don't think that's the conservative party, but they will look increasingly to other parties on the left and on the right. >> just finally, scarlet, we heard the home secretary speaking today. she had made no reference to any attempts to cut immigration. is immigration as an issue rising up the political league table? >> immigration is hugely important to voters, so we see that nearly half of voters list it in their top three concerns, and it is in the top three concerns across the country, along with health and economy just behind those two. when you

look at it overall, it's incredibly important to voters. and the other thing we've seen increases. okay, so you say immigration is important, but the thing that's also on the rise is the amount of people that say immigration is too high. so now nearly in 7 in 10 brits, according to some polls say that immigration into this country is too high. and again, that's quite dramatically increased even since 2022. so i think it's again, something that labouris think it's again, something that labour is really going to need to address. >> all right. that's scarlett mccgwire labour. be warned. 7 in 10 voters now saying immigration is too high. up next find how pubs could be the next victim of nanny state britain as if our

gb news. is browbeaten now as if pubs and hospitality isn't finding it tough enough already. the health minister, the public health minister, the public health minister, andrew gwynne, is talking about making pubs close their doors early to target harmful drinking. what's it got to do with the minister?

frankly? let's talk to kate nicholls, who is chief executive of uk hospitality. kate, welcome to the show. as if the hospitality industry isn't on its knees after covid and all the rest , this would be a disaster. >> this will be very bad for a lot of businesses and although the government has ruled this out this morning and it's really welcome to hear ministers categorically state they're not looking at it, it's unhelpful to have ministers at fringe meetings openly speculating about policy when it undermines investment and business confidence. for so many of our smes across the sector. >> yeah, because they hear the health, public health minister, andrew green, floating this idea at a fringe meeting here. and then ministers say, no, no, it's not going to happen. do we believe ministers? >> well, it's very difficult to be able to tell. it comes on the back obviously of a leak about a smoking ban. then you've got restrictions on alcohol. there's discussions about food. so you have got a suite of measures. and if you are looking at businesses that are, as you say, have struggled with covid, they need investment. they need the banks to start lending to them

again. they need funds to come through. this makes it very difficult because you can't tell what the government is going to be doing next. >> the pub is an important part of british cultural life, but we're losing them at a rate of knots. we are. >> we saw 50 pubs a month close in the first half of this year. last year alone we saw 3000 hospitality businesses pubs, bars, restaurants, nightclubs, hotels . these are economically hotels. these are economically important to every community. they supply jobs, they create investment, they support the supply chain, but they're also part of the community. they're important socially and culturally. and once these businesses are gone, they're gone for good. so we can't afford to lose any more. >> do you think ministers understand that? i think they're starting to, as i say, very welcome to hear pat mcfadden this morning on the media round, say categorically that this would not be going ahead, but i don't think they realise that careless talk undermines investment and can be the final nail in the coffin of many businesses. >> and i think what we need to see is support measures coming forward to make sure that the

hospitality industry is supported, going forward in the budget, and that we have the sector involved in consultation and discussions on these important matters. >> we've just got 30s left, kate, in the budget. what what can they do to help the hospitality industry? >> business rates, if we don't have any support coming forward on march, our business rates bill will quadruple. you'll have a tax bombshell. that's £1 billion of extra tax that the hospitality sector has to find. they need to support us on business rates. >> all right. that's kate nicholls. she's chief executive of uk hospitality. we've had this assurance from the government that the health minister was misspeaking was he. i'm very suspicious because we know this nanny state tendency of this government, know this nanny state tendency of this government , the ban on of this government, the ban on smoking in pub gardens. what i think is outrageous. well, that's it from britain's newsroom here at the labour conference we'll of course be keeping you up to date with the prime minister's speech. but we're going to go now to emily to tell us all about what's happening in good afternoon britain. what's on the show, emily? >> thank you very much indeed, andrew. we will, of course, be bringing keir starmers speech live to you this afternoon on the show. lots of reaction, lots

of analysis ahead of that big moment for the prime minister. what exactly will he say? he says labour will bring back a little bit of joy. there's some light at the end of this tunnel. do you believe him? and also yvette cooper quite interesting what she had to say a little bit earlier on, accusing the tories and reform of being a right wing wreckers and making excuses for the summer rioters. she says labouris the summer rioters. she says labour is the party of law and order and they will be the only ones to back the police. we have all of that. i'll also be checking in with tom harwood, of course, at the conference, all of that 12 till three on good afternoon britain . it looks like afternoon britain. it looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> time now for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. thankfully, it's a lot drier out there today. after the recent downpours. it's not completely dry. we do have some wet weather across northern scotland where it's also turned colder. this area of low pressure brought all

the heavy rain through the weekend and yesterday, but it is ebbing away as it pulls away, though it is allowing the winds to come down from the north, hence why it's so chilly across northern scotland. we do have some pretty wet weather here too. a few showers over southern scotland and a scattering over parts of northern england and wales. northern ireland also, but for a good part of england, particularly those flood affected areas, it should be a dry day, fairly cloudy, but with a bit of brightness. we could get up into the high teens, so generally fine conditions across much of southern england and the midlands . maybe 1 or 2 showers midlands. maybe 1 or 2 showers coming into devon and cornwall later on northern and western parts of wales will see some sunny spells, but also a few showers here. a scattering of showers here. a scattering of showers over northern england. these showers over the far north of england, southern scotland, could be on the heavy side and the heavy and persistent rain this morning over north—east scotland that should ease by the end of the day. but look at that wind coming down from the north, bringing that chillier feel and that colder air will sink further south as we go through the night. many places will have

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>> good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on tuesday, the 24th of september. i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood live from the labour party conference today in liverpool, where leader sir keir starmer will be speaking in just two hours. >> stay tuned to hear what the labour leader has to say. >> yes , indeed. and the home >> yes, indeed. and the home secretary, she's had her say yvette cooper calls the conservatives and reform right wing right wing wreckers, accusing them of making excuses for the mob following the summer riots and she says labour will continue to back the police. the national trust's director general has admitted that 70% of his staff hate the union flag and are progressive activists. are you surprised? and a judge has ruled that prince harry's us visa application should remain private, despite him admitting to taking drugs in his memoir spare. our royal reporter will tell us