scandal? >> does he want to bear down properly on the non—dom tax status? >> closing the tax loopholes that are currently left there by the conservatives in their non—dom arrangements? >> labour have committed to getting rid of the non—dom tax status . status. >> are labour economically illiterate? they said that non—doms would fund everything. now it emerges their tax grab will raise no money and with assalamualaikum warahmatullahi. there are calls for civilians to be drafted into the army. would you fight for starmer's britain ? you fight for starmer's britain? also, harry and meghan professionally separate as their brand turns toxic. meanwhile just when you thought that the labour party couldn't get any worse, play the vibes are slay rafe on my panel tonight is the telegraph's madeline grant. we've also got tory peer lord bailey and ex—labour party adviser matthew last. oh, and

can you tell me, please, what happens next here? >> i needed to sell you more. >> i needed to sell you more. >> get ready britain. here we go . >> get ready britain. here we go. you're about to pay for labour's economic disaster. next . economic disaster. next. >> good evening. i'm mark white the main headlines from the gb news centre. the prime minister is due to address the united nations. this evening, as he joins other world leaders in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the fighting between israel and hezbollah in lebanon. sir keir's speech comes on the day the israeli military targeted and killed another top hezbollah commander, mohamed sir, a senior leader in the terror group's aerial command was killed in an airstrike on a

building in southern beirut. well, these are live pictures overlooking the lebanese capital tonight, on a day that has seen fierce cross—border fighting. us defence secretary lloyd austin has warned that the situation is rapidly escalating and we now face the risk of an all out war, another full scale war could be devastating for both israel and lebanon. >> so let me be clear. israel and lebanon can choose a different path . despite the different path. despite the sharp escalation in recent days, a diplomatic solution is still viable . viable. >> on some breaking news now and we are getting flood alerts through from the environment agency reporting that there have been 40 flood warnings that have

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network rail stations. scotland yard has issued a call for any potential victims of mohamed al fayed to come forward. five women have claimed they were raped by the former harrods owner, who died last year at the age of 94. a number of others say they were sexually assaulted by him. the current managing director of harrods, michael ward, has apologised and said the business failed. colleagues and finally astronomers have unveiled the most detailed map ever seen of our galaxy. from the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries of the galactic core, these new images show the milky way as you've never seen it before. the map is the culmination of more than 13 years of observations . than 13 years of observations. just thinking what puns i can just shoehorn in for patrick.

top superstar. well, he's out of this world, isn't he? >> over to patrick for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. dot com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much, mark, right . labour appears to be right. labour appears to be economically illiterate . do you economically illiterate. do you remember in june when keir starmer said he had a plan to make you richer? now, a big part of that plan was clamping down on non—doms. >> you want to bear down properly on the non—dom tax status ? status? >> we've committed £100 million to the emergency dentist appointments, which will be paid for by closing tax avoidance and also closing the tax loopholes that are currently left there by the conservatives in their non—dom arrangements.

>> labour have committed to getting rid of the non—dom tax status because if you make britain your home, you should pay britain your home, you should pay your taxes here. >> in fact , in that metro >> in fact, in that metro article, keir starmer said we will end tax breaks for very wealthy non—doms to deliver free breakfast clubs in primary schools , which we have found schools, which we have found would save parents £400 a year by cutting expenses on paid for breakfast clubs or alternative childcare arrangements. now non—doms were going to fund the nhs , they were going to fund nhs, they were going to fund schools, they were going to fund pretty much everything. rachel reeves even stood up in parliament and said that labour was the party. now, wasn't it, of economic literacy? in fact , of economic literacy? in fact, she actually said this. >> it is clear that today labour is the party of economic and fiscal responsibility. >> well, today it's emerged that this is frankly a load of rubbish because the government's spending watchdog is expected to reveal that keir starmer's promised tax crackdown on

non—doms could raise nothing. not a penny. in fact, it might end up costing us. labour later predicted that implementing its changes could raise an annual £1 billion in the first year, which will be put towards funding universal school breakfast clubs and more. hospital and dental appointments. but now that means there's a £1 billion black hole, doesn't it? all of their own making, of course. if only they could have seen this coming that the world's wealthiest and most mobile people might simply leave britain if the socialists come to kick their door down and demand their money. of course, the other kicker here is that if they leave entirely, then they pay they leave entirely, then they pay no tax at all. which means what exactly? who's going to pay for wes streeting 40,000 extra nhs appointments a week? and just two days ago, just two days ago, rachel reeves already spent the non—dom money on breakfast clubs. so who's going to pay for

all of this? maybe the millionaires will cover the cost. oh, no. wait a record number of millionaires are set to leave britain this year as well to escape the red terror . well to escape the red terror. but that's all right, because people who write for the guardian don't care. britain's millionaires are fleeing. good night and good luck. that chap said. well, if the non—doms won't pay for stuff and millionaires won't pay for stuff, then it's us, isn't it? we're stuck with the bill. shall we just have another little look? shall we? at that article that keir starmer wrote where he said that he had a plan to make us all richer? yeah. he said we'll make it all richer. well, actually, really what you should have done was just cross that out and write the word poorer in there. we fixed it for him. there we go. just as a final thought. keir starmer is now so desperate that he's claiming responsibility for things that have nothing to do with him. he says we've secured investment to create one of the largest ai data centres in europe. slight problem this deal was agreed in april under the conservatives. buckle up everyone. the labour tax man is coming knocking.

let's get a thoughts from our panel this evening. i am of course joined by the wonderful madeline grant of the telegraph. we've also got tory peer lord bailey and ex—labour party adviser , matthew laza madelin. adviser, matthew laza madelin. i'll start with you on this. labour's non—dom nightmare. shock horror. they ain't going to be paying for anything. >> well, the thing is, this was, as we heard during the package that you just had there, it was the constant refrain of the general election campaign. it often felt to me as if labour weren't really telling us how they planned to raise money with they planned to raise money with the exception of non—dom tax status and vat on school fees and they just talked endlessly about these two things and not about these two things and not about anything else at all. and now it turns out that actually, the experts who repeatedly warned that if you're going to make life very difficult for a group that is already inherently very mobile, at a time when other countries around the world are doing their best to attract these wealthy individuals to come and live there, then guess what? they might actually go ahead and leave and labour have chosen to ignore this advice, and now it's been backed up by the treasury, who warned that they may not even break even

with this particular policy. so it's shocking, isn't it? yes. well, it's not shocking. i'm not surprised. shocking. i think it's what happens when you put ideology ahead of pragmatism and evidence, which is what they tend to do. yeah. >> so will labour just crack on and do this, sean, do you think and do this, sean, do you think a pure ideological madness. >> 100%. they'd rather be right than effective . the point is, if than effective. the point is, if you're struggling person in this country of course, you want to hear the idea that the rich will pay hear the idea that the rich will pay more. but what they need to look into into is what are those rich people doing? rich people pay a rich people doing? rich people pay a lot of tax. and also there's a lot of our entrepreneurs in there. and my real worry is twofold. twofold one will lose jobs. real worry is twofold. twofold one will lose jobs . those people one will lose jobs. those people are the type of people who set up companies. they'll just go elsewhere and set up those companies. we need to ask ourselves, why are other people, other countries trying to attract those people? we're trying to get rid of them. yes, everybody should pay their fair share of tax, but you shouldn't chase people out of the country who provide employment. very, very important. and of course, when you hypothecate taxes and that means when you say, well, we'll take this tax from here and place it elsewhere, you make

yourself a hostage to fortune. theidea yourself a hostage to fortune. the idea that you'd be funding breakfast clubs and all that is that now for the birds. is that money gone? we're paying for that now. exactly. but but the key point is this actually, particularly the breakfast clubs, i favour giving the money directly to the parents. don't do the club. give the money to the parents? yeah >> okay. and there's a picture on the screen just behind me here of rachel reeves, sir keir starmer poring over the granular detail. presumably. there it is. you know, and for the last couple of years, what a lovely picture for the last couple of years, matthew, whenever i've had anyone from labour on this show or other shows that i've been doing, i said, how are you going to pay for this? how are you going to pay for it? it's non—doms non—doms non—doms. and it turns out actually they're non—existent. >> no, that's i mean, that's not true. one of the things that we should look at this, this is an estimate. it's a range of estimates of how much it will raise, and the final figure will obviously be subject to how many people stay and how many people go. >> but in 2017, when the non—dom rules were changed, i remember those headlines when the tories changed it all those headlines saying everybody would flee, there'd be none left. actually, normally about 5% a year go

anyway because they move. that went up to 10%. and actually the vast majority of the people who are non—doms are actually international, you know , the international, you know, the international, you know, the international people, but they are actually salaried . so they are actually salaried. so they are actually salaried. so they are ceos, they're footballers or they're bankers. so they're not and they're going to work here because they need to work here. it's not just rich people sitting by a pool. >> we've had some spending commitments. >> so just to say we've had some actual non—dom spending commitments, the 40,000 appointments for the nhs a week was going to be paid for by, and it may still well be, but because it's not, it's one of the estimates. >> it's this idea they haven't estimated how many people are going to put the nhs. they've given us a definite figure. the only thing they're estimating is how much money you might lose . how much money you might lose. but to go to matthew's point, that's why this is scary. because yes, matthew's technically correct. most people can't just up and leave, but their company can leave . their their company can leave. their founder can leave. and we are making the country so unattractive they will make that wrench. look, i think everybody,

everybody, there's one, one way in which what labour were proposing or proposing to do here goes further even than previous raids on non—doms is that they're proposing to tax worldwide people's worldwide assets. >> i think 40% inheritance tax. right. in countries like italy, it's i think it's like 3 or 4% that you would pay on your inheritance tax. now, that is quite a big risk that if you stay here, then you could be walloped with that kind of a tariff. it goes much further than anything that we've seen before in this respect. so you can understand why it might be the thing that, you know, pushes people to leave. >> and anyone who is going to flee the red terror. matthew. >> well, i mean, i think red terror may be a little over the top. patrick, you know, fond of you there. i am, look, i mean, i think we don't know what's going to happen on inheritance tax because we haven't had the budget yet. >> so why have they proposed to do the big problem with it, the big problem with it? >> well, because this isn't an inheritance tax. this is non—dom. and we know that they're going to do this. this is a commitment. we haven't

heard the other set of tax changes that are necessary because of the fiscal situation that was inherited. >> so if they don't manage to raise this money to those nhs, appointments will still happen. okay. but but who's paying for them? >> it's us, isn't it? >> it's us, isn't it? >> it's us. it's non millionaires. we've just seen they're millionaires leaving in in droves. the highest exodus of millionaires we saw. >> well some of those figures are from estate agents who you know and sort of and concierge companies. let's wait and see what actually happens. >> i believe i'm right in saying it's a record number of mergers and acquisitions in the year preceding the general election, which implies that people were trying to get rid of anything that they possibly could before labour came in. so actually, realistically, it is, you know, your average kind of joe bloggs on the street is probably going to end up footing the bill for all this stuff. matthew is that not well, i hope that the non—doms change will still raise a significant amount of money, and i and i hope that we can have a fairer tax system under this labour government, because people with the broadest shoulders should pay their share. >> listen, nobody, nobody, nobody is arguing that people shouldn't pay their share. what we are arguing is how a supposedly fiscally, you know, focused government can make all these estimations on things that are not going to come to pass.

that's going to leave some of the poorest people in this country hanging there waiting for these things. don't make promises. >> we're not going to be increasing taxes on the poorest people in the country. >> articles there like keir starmer in june, this was, you know, a few weeks before people went out and voted for him. and it was a very bold headline in the metro. i have a plan to make you richer. and in that article, non—doms was the was one of the key, key lynchpins of that. and if that doesn't exist and actually it emerges that he didn't have a plan. >> that's right. i don't think they did have a plan. i think they did have a plan. i think they were very lucky in the sense that people were so fed up to the back teeth of the conservative party that they didn't really look for that kind of granular detail. they were they were deliberately vague and evasive, and they got away with it because people were so fed up with the last lot that they just wanted a change. but now i think that the lack of detail and clarification we're starting to realise, you know, what exactly that means for us people who are not rich off the scale, their taxes will surely necessarily must go up to make up the shortfall. >> one of the groups i think really need to panic is the squeezed middle sets. those households who may have two

incomes, maybe professionals, maybe may own their own, their own little company. they are the ones who are going to suffer. teachers, doctors because they've all now just gently this is what the this is the tories tax whammy, tax scare tactics we've had for decades. but you said you weren't going to raise taxes and it's actually going to happen. >> and these are we never said we weren't going to raise any taxes in the election. that's not true. we said we're not going to raise income tax. we're not going to raise national insurance. and unlike the tory government, which put up national insurance, people on, on on national insurance, the rates of income tax, one of the problems the government's got is that because of rishi having called the election in that kind of panic, i've had enough. i just want to get it out of the way. there's been this massive gap between the election victory and the budget and that is to been to the government's harm fully costed anyway. yeah. well, no, partly because they've got the black hole which is then going to start shouting about you taking the words out of my mouth. >> now you've just slapped him with £1 billion on the old black hole. they've looked at. well that's 12 billion less than the tories left. >> patrick. >> patrick. >> they've got a big shovel out and they've just kept digging it.

>> but as i it.— >> but as i say, it's 12 it. >> but as i say, it's 12 billion less than the tories left. even if this does prove to be add to the black hole, some of that black hole a significant part of that if that black hole exists. >> yeah. was from fighting the pandemic. every single member know the black hole was from the asylum system, was being funded out of reserves. >> okay. let's talk about the pandemic. >> let's talk about asylum. then asylum in this country. i will not try to cover up tories made a mess of it. but let's be very clear. a big part of why they made a mess of it. any attempt they made to sort it out, your party then said to them it was either illegal, you've got lawyer. >> that's the court, sean. that's the law, not the labour party. >> the point was, the point was you shaped the conversation around immigration and made it far more expensive than, you know, rachel, having to make tough decisions. >> these schools and hospitals were promised. and guess what? there was no money for them because the tories lied. >> the people that were going to pay >> the people that were going to pay for them have decided that they're going to leave. and the latest figures show that those non—doms that wasn't going to be spent on new schools, not going to give us a penny. the old non—doms, are they right? >> a lively start to onshore your tax arrangements, patrick. oh, no. >> but cayman islands are great

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welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now coming up, i talked tonight. now coming up, i talked to a lady who was fined £3,000 because an illegal migrant climbed into the back of a van, undetected, by the way, and came to britain. she had to foot the bill for that remarkable story. but first, would you fight for britain? it's time now for our head to head . so a report has head to head. so a report has warned that britain's armed

forces are too small and lack the mass resilience and coherence to win a prolonged and intense war. the house of lords, international relations and defence committee has concluded that the country urgently needs to adopt the mindset of a nation under genuine threat , and it's under genuine threat, and it's called on brits to be prepared to defend their country. so dunng to defend their country. so during the election, rishi sunak pledged to bring back mandatory national service with every 18 year old made to spend a bit of time in a competitive full time military commission, or spend one weekend a month just doing something like volunteering. but it comes as experts warn that the middle east is on the brink of all out war. as israel prepares for a ground assault on lebanon. so tonight i'm asking, would you fight for britain? let me know your thoughts. head to gbnews.com forward slash yoursay or tweet me @gbnews and going head to head on this now are the former nato commander, rear admiral chris parry, and the political commentator conor tomlinson. shapps great stuff. thank you very much for joining us. look, conor, i'll start i'll start with you. you're a young, virile chap. would you be

fighting for britain? >> well, i appreciate the compliment, patrick. my follow up question to that question is where, who and why? because for those who think that it's only young blue haired snowflakes that aren't too keen on strapping a bandolier on and going and shooting a bunch of russians or gazans, i would remind them that for the majority of my life , the uk and majority of my life, the uk and america have done some pretty unsuccessful foreign policy ventures in lands for some very strange reasons, such as hoping to bomb iraq into having pride parades, for example . the parades, for example. the ukraine at the moment doesn't look all that winnable , and look all that winnable, and given the recent israeli pager situation in lebanon, i think we can probably leave the israelis to get on with it themselves, because they seem to be much more successful than we are. and then on behalf of whom i mean currently as a 25, 26 year old man who's doing all the right things, who's got a job and

saving up and getting married, i am looking at the immigration rates, both legal and illegal, and i'm seeing essentially a large scale invasion that i am forced to pay for because i am taxed at the highest rate since 1948, and i am putting up hostile criminals on my dime. and if i complain about that, i'm called far right. so why would i fight for a government that has active contempt for me, my country on a front that we probably can't? >> i see what you're saying is you have reservations seriously about fighting for this version of britain. look, i understand that , chris parry, of britain. look, i understand that, chris parry, i'll bring you in now. so, former nato commander, rear admiral chris parry. go on then. so come on, why are we why are we all. why are we all cracking on fighting for britain? >> well, we don't have to fight for britain. that's why we have armed forces. but we've got a situation in the world today. now, that's probably the most dangerous since 1945. we don't have the assurances that we had in terms of being able to combat autocratic regimes that, frankly, want to do us harm. we've got a combination of china ,

we've got a combination of china, russia, iran, north korea . russia, iran, north korea. they're basically consolidating their hold on eurasia. they're keeping america, obviously the world's superpower, off balance in four regions right now ukraine, the middle east, north and south korea and the south china sea, >> and i would say always that war is only an option if the alternative is worse. there's no question about that. and i think out of the three of us, i'm the only one who's actually fought for this country. only one who's actually fought for this country . so, you know, for this country. so, you know, i think i can speak with some authority, the fact of life is people in the armed forces don't want to go to war. it's a real pension trap to tell you the truth, and, you know, you want to survive, but the fact of life is, the country has interests, and if you're in a war of national survival against any one of these regimes, from the nuclear through to the conventional, then we need to access the resources of society to be able to combat that scale

of threat. and if you look at ukraine today, ukraine doesn't make any decisions about anything education, schooling, migration, whatever it is , all migration, whatever it is, all they make decisions about at the moment is how they're defending their country. >> all right, connor, let me just ask you , you know, would just ask you, you know, would you rather live under putin or live under any british prime minister >> well, any british prime minister that's ever lived or anyone that we could ever have. >> this is my point, which is that would you rather ultimately do whatever it took to fight for britain if the alternative was someone like putin, which i think which i think chris was trying to allude to there, which is that if it was a fight for national survival against someone like china or russia, so would you just would you ultimately fight for us no matter what? in that case, do you think, it's kind of difficult to ask that question because i don't have any allegiances to russia because i'm not a russian. >> but i will point out that it's hard to feel any allegiance to the current government when they're actively,

demographically replacing their own population. and we lock up more people for speech violations than vladimir putin does himself . so i'm not a fan does himself. so i'm not a fan of putin. the obligatory put it out there, he's a despot. he kills journalists very bad . but kills journalists very bad. but we've also undermined in the eyes of especially my generation, on both the right and the left, the moral legitimacy of britain standing up against that. and we basically do the same thing that he does, except we wave the rainbow flag and say that we're in favour of democracy. >> okay, chris, i'll put it to you that i think there is an. well, to be honest with you, i think there is an increasing number of people who would not necessarily like to fight for this version of britain and the direction of travel. and when i look at the younger generation, i do think there are i think conor comes at it from a slightly different angle than a lot of the quote unquote snowflake generation. but i think ultimately we end up in a very similar place, which is a lot of people who are under 30 in this country at the moment probably wouldn't want to fight for it. would you disagree with that? >> yeah , i would if you found >> yeah, i would if you found that your community was being raped and murdered, i think you'd pick up a weapon pretty

quickly, to tell you the truth. and that's what's happening in ukraine right now. and ukraine had assurances in the bucharest memorandum that their borders would be safe. and one of the signatories on that was russia itself. so we haven't got the safeguards we used to have in europe anymore , and the fact of europe anymore, and the fact of life is, you know , we're all life is, you know, we're all very complacent in the free world right now. the normal state of the world is war. it is not peace . we you know, i'm 70 not peace. we you know, i'm 70 years old. i've been in a blessed generation where we haven't seen war in europe, but, you know , putin, xi jinping, kim you know, putin, xi jinping, kim jong un, iran. they're all threatening war against their enemies at the moment. and three of them are nuclear powers. and unless we actually front up and say, look, we have the will to be able to fight you, then we can't deter them. it's as simple as that. and the more that putin and xi jinping hear that the population doesn't really want to pay for defence, doesn't

really want to fight, that makes them happy, indeed i did. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> can i can i was at a conference today where, you know, i heard a the head of one of our armed forces say we've just got to make the government happy. that's our role. well, actually, i countered that, and said, no, no, your role is to make russia and china feel unhappy. and that's the role of defence. i think, you know, one thing we've got to remember is what trotsky said. he said, you know, you might not be interested in war, but we're in a situation now where war could be interested in you. and unless we actually say to ourselves, you know, conlon is going to fight, he is if his interests are are threatened, you know, he's going to fight if it comes to it. and a lot of people say to it. and a lot of people say to me, yeah, i'd fight for my neighbours, i'd fight for my street. i would say, as a former commander, much better to fight somewhere else so people don't don't come down your street. >> fair enough. okay. all right. sorry, connor. i'll give you a very quick final word on that. i think you were itching to come back, so. >> yeah, i wouldn't need to be conscripted if they had actually invaded, we are currently being

invaded, we are currently being invaded, by the way, and we're told not to fight. and also, i'm always keen on ukraine defending. hang on. i'm always keen on defending ukraine, defending their own borders from an invasion. that's fantastic. i wish we would have the same opinion about our own borders and our own integrity as we do about the ukrainians. okay, sorry. >> yeah, if chris, if you're very quick. >> yeah, i agree with that. you know, we've got entirely porous borders. it's not entirely a military threat at the moment. you know, it's a social, economic threat, but the point is well made. we don't have secure borders at the moment. >> shapps. fantastic stuff . >> shapps. fantastic stuff. thank you. thank you very, very much. and that was former nato commander there, rear admiral chris parry and the political commentator connor tomlinson. right. okay. so coming up, do you remember this have made important exclusions to the design of this policy , serious design of this policy, serious violence or sexual offences have been excluded from this policy ? been excluded from this policy? well, it looks like the justice secretary might have broken that promise after it emerged that 37

prisoners, including stalkers and domestic abusers, were wrongly freed under the government's early release scheme. and i mean this for me, is the worst bit of it all five of them are still on the loose, so have the government. now put ordinary brits at grave risk? reform uk spokesperson, former prisons minister ann widdecombe. she joins me very soon. but first there's trouble brewing in montecito. so rumours are circulating now that harry and meghan will split professionally to pursue separate work projects. so is the sussex brand completely dead in the water? we've got royal journalist sarah robertson with the lowdown . and also apparently trying to stage some kind of pr fight

us. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, many critics wonder if the duke and duchess of sussex will be together forever. and the cracks could be starting to show for the runaway royals. the sources reveal that they have executed a, quote, professional separation after being dropped by spotify and seeing their joint netflix deal fall flat on its face, it's been reported that harry and meghan will change tactics, so a royal source told the daily mail they'll still carry out some charitable engagements together and embark on foreign visits, but their work projects will now be separate. well, i'm joined by the royal journalist sarah—louise robertson. sarah, thank you very much. so what do we make of this? this professional separation then? >> i'm fascinated by this, patrick. i have to say, and i've

been predicting this for quite a while , ever since we saw these, while, ever since we saw these, these tours that they've been going on and, and we've seen what's happened as well with these reports that that have happenedin these reports that that have happened in the hollywood reporter, which is really seen as, as the hollywood bible. i mean, this is something that's that's read by industry bigwigs and meghan's been labelled names, such as a dictator in high heels and the daily beast has come out and called her symptoms that she would have attacks like a demon . i mean, attacks like a demon. i mean, this is incredible inflammatory language to use against meghan markle, but it just points now that all bets are off with in terms of you know, hollywood gunning for them. and i don't think they could have had a worse pr week than they could possibly have had this last week. so what they've done now is they've decided to have these separate interests. harry's on this eight day solo tour in new york, which is going to culminate over here in the uk. but as far as i'm concerned, eight days away from meghan markle's grasp or class, wherever you want to call it

that to me is the signal. it's just a hop , skip that to me is the signal. it's just a hop, skip and a jump to splitsville. as far as i'm concerned, i think the writings on the wall, he hasn't looked happy for a while despite, contrary to reports, he didn't look very happy when he was on that supposed tour in colombia. and people have said, actually, he looked a bit happier when he was in new york. he was a bit more how is it someone put it human? that was it. we saw more of a human. he was humanised on this new york trip. so actually, this new york trip. so actually, this new york trip. so actually, this new york trip has been a bit more beneficial for harry because he hasn't had the worries. we've not heard him have a go at the press or go on about security following him. you know that that last trip to new york where they claimed that they were being hounded by paparazzi, we've heard none of this this time. >> the fast, the fast and the furious. yeah, the fast and the spurious, etc. because because many people thought that it didn't actually exist, that that kind of low speed car chase that they stephen barclay i will just say, i will just say this, you know, look, i've obviously dished it out a fair bit to harry and meghan, as many people

have over the course of the last few years. i really do hope they stay together. i'm a big believer in marriage. i've recently got married myself. there's also kids involved with them and i would hate to see, you know, anything go on there. but they are also as well as a couple a brand. they tried to make themselves a brand. now if they realise this is it. so if they realise this is it. so if they realise this is it. so if they realise that they've failed as a brand and they start offering to operate professionally in a separate capacity, then i suppose that is going to have an impact on their personal relationship, isn't it? >> well, of course it is. because remember, meghan made that famous silly comment where she says, we're like salt and peppen she says, we're like salt and pepper. we move together, i mean, whatever that meant. but anyway, she came out with that and then now we've seen that they're they're actually working together has done them no good whatsoever . they've had a whatsoever. they've had a disastrous time in hollywood . disastrous time in hollywood. everything they've touched has just gone wrong. they were dropped by spotify. they're coming to the end of their contract with netflix. that's set to run out next year. and i've been told that at the moment, there's no plans for it to be renewed. the heart of the invictus documentary that harry

did that sank without trace, that failed to sort of set alight with with viewers. she's brought out this thing, american riviera orchard, where she sent a few jars of jam to some famous friends . again, nothing's really friends. again, nothing's really come of that. and so together it's just not looking good for them. so i think now as a way to try and salvage their own reputations, they've decided, okay, let's just try and see if we can do something solo. meghan probably in her head, thinks that, you know , harry's that, you know, harry's complaints against the media and against his family. i think now she sort of wants to distance herself from that and align herself from that and align herself with powerful people in hollywood. harry is, i think, missing royal life in a way, even though he claimed to want to run away from it. he's missing the status that being being a working royal gave him. we've seen he's gone. he's he's talked about service, how he still wants to play a part in in, you know, his his humanitarian causes . and that's humanitarian causes. and that's what he set out to do. but i think what's really fascinating this week as well, which i can't

get over, she hired this massive agent, this hollywood power broker, ari emanuel. how did he fail to stop this hollywood reporter piece from going out? i mean that in itself speaks volumes, doesn't it ? but meghan volumes, doesn't it? but meghan herself, she seems like she's wanted to align herself with the likes of oprah. these these hollywood types . she obviously hollywood types. she obviously sees. that's where her power power base is. that's what she's trying to build there. because the thing with meghan is her eyes are on a political career . eyes are on a political career. it always has been the case of her that her eyes are on a political career. >> it's interesting, isn't it, on that, because i think just to say, just to say on that, because i think you wrote a really good point, which is that if harry is looking to return to royal life or be in that orbit, well, he said that meghan isn't going to come back to britain. i think we all know that if you also add into the mix exactly what you've just said there, which is if meghan does have political ambitions in the us , political ambitions in the us, then harry might not want to be, you know, overtly political. we know that he's kind of ventured into that that zone before. we

might not want to be overtly political. so it would make sense for them to go their separate ways. professionally speaking, to both line up those next offshoots, wouldn't it? the only issue for meghan is potentially that we've just seen a load of stuff here, as you were alluding to there, about people saying she's a dictator in high heels, she's fuming and barking orders. she reportedly belittled staff, so she will need to do a pr revolution job on herself if she's going to get anywhere, won't she? >> massively massive. i mean, i pity >> massively massive. i mean, i pity the person who has to do that for her. they've tried already this week. they've released this, this report in us weekly, which was one of their favourite favourite , favourite favourite favourite, favourite magazines. the editor of that, dan wakeford, he used to be the editor of chief of people magazine, which is another one of meghan's magazines of choice. it's interesting he took upon himself to get the so—called members of staff who have come out and said, try to say what a wonderful boss she is, and they've come out named. as opposed to the unnamed sources that were in the hollywood reporter and the daily beast's article. so that's the start of

the pr offensive, the, the move to sort of try and clear her name. but there's a long way to go yet, patrick. i mean, those revelations are damaging and we still have never seen the results of the royal family inquiry into the alleged bullying that took place when she was a working royal. >> i wonder if we ever will. i wonder if we ever will. well, we won't , we won't. thank you. won't, we won't. thank you. thank you very, very much. absolute delight to see you again. take care. sarah—louise robertson there. coming up first he threw his own son under the bus, didn't he? >> i wanted somewhere safe and quiet for my son to do his gcse preparation. i needed it to be secure because of the situation we were in. >> and then it emerged he might have broken covid rules when he filmed a christmas message video from lord ali's penthouse. and now there are massive questions over his top business advisers multi—million pound stake in an investment firm. the bad news just keeps on coming for

starmer. so is it time that he just resigned? i'm going to tackle that with my panel at 10:00 pm. >> but first have made important exclusions to the design of this policy. serious violence or sexual offences have been excluded from this policy. >> no violent offenders. no people who have committed sexual crimes. well, it looks as though the justice secretary might have broken that promise after it emerged that 37 dangerous criminals, including stalkers and domestic abusers, were released accidentally onto british streets and five of them are still out there, so has the government put brits in massive danger? reform spokesperson, former prisons minister ann widdecombe she is

next. this is patrick christys tonight. now coming up, will the freebie scandal actually cost the prime minister his job? i mean , it could also be if it mean, it could also be if it turns out that he may have lied about the old covid stuff as

well. but first, dozens of prisoners were mistakenly freed under the government's early release scheme after a system error. so up to 37 criminals, all jailed for breaching, restraining orders, were released. now, five of them are yet to be put back behind bars. now under labour's early release scheme, more than 5000 criminals were let to loose ease overcrowding. the justice secretary, shabana mahmood, claimed that the scheme was needed to prevent the full breakdown of society. >> we could see looters running amok, smashing in windows , amok, smashing in windows, robbing shops and setting neighbourhoods alight . in short, neighbourhoods alight. in short, if we fail to act now, we face the collapse of the criminal justice system. >> terrifying stuff . but she >> terrifying stuff. but she also promised that violent criminals would not be set free, have made important exclusions to the design of this policy and all those who have committed serious offences, who have been sentenced to four years or more, will be excluded. >> but those offences that should be included that relate to serious violence or sexual

offences have been excluded from this policy. >> yeah . but you know, classic >> yeah. but you know, classic it does look as though some people with a violent and sex crime based history were in fact allowed back out onto the streets. so reform uk spokesperson ann widdecombe joins us now. anna, have they just put us all at massive risk here? >> well, i know one can't say that for a certainty because the devil lies in the detail. who's been released? how close were they to release anyway? you know, were they guilty of serious crime or repetitive serious crime or repetitive serious crime? i can't answer that. you can't answer that. the government can and should answer that. government can and should answer that . and i think what we've got that. and i think what we've got here is very clearly an error. and i don't think it's enough to blame computers. somebody somewhere sanctioned this, and that needs to be fully disclosed. >> yeah. i mean , this is also >> yeah. i mean, this is also one of the first things that the government did. so you would have thought that they'd be trying to make sure that they got it right. i'm quite concerned by the idea that they still can't get hold of five of these people. >> yes. well, i'm concerned

about that as well, because i assume, perhaps naively , but as assume, perhaps naively, but as assume, perhaps naively, but as a condition of release, the pfison a condition of release, the prison service would have to know where you were and, you know, know to how locate you, how do they receive tax if we don't know where they are? you know, presumably they're among those who haven't been tagged and who should have been so it's been an awfully messy implementation of a hastily conceived policy to meet a situation. if the government's own making, which was the very tough sentences which i don't disagree with in principle, very tough sentences on the rioters, but it all flows from that. and they do have a duty, their own government now , not opposition. government now, not opposition. they do have a duty to make sure that the rest of us are kept safe. >> i think that was the key condition for most people, wasn't it? if you are going to let these people out, then we trust that those people will be kept tabs on or tags on, quite literally. and if it turns out that that's not been the case, and some of those people were not actually supposed to have

been released in the first place, and some of the people who you did release were back in prison less than 48 hours later because, shock, horror, it turned out that they were actually really rhiannon jones then. that is a bit of a condition that labour might have broken. but there's another aspect of this stuff, which is that at labour party conference in liverpool earlier this week, the justice secretary again, shabana mahmood, made this quite eye catching policy announcement. >> and it is clear now that if we change how we treat women in prison, we cut crime, we keep families together and we end the harm that passes from one generation to the next. and for that reason, i am today announcing that this government will launch a new body, the women's justice board . women's justice board. its goal will be clear to reduce the number of women going into prison with the ultimate ambition of having fewer women's

prisons . prisons. >> and what do you make of that? >> and what do you make of that? >> well, it's appalling, first of all, if a woman has committed a crime so serious that the courts think she should be sent to prison, it's the duty of the government to find the places, not to second guess the courts. that's the first thing. but the second thing is, i wonder if she's thought this through, if we get into the habit of believing that if you're a woman, you won't be sent to prison. if you commit a crime, men will take advantage of that. and they'll ask women to do the dirty work because they will say, oh, but you aren't going to prison, you know, i might not send them, and i will actually embroil women in crime. i don't think she's thought it through, but i think in principle, you know, we are all equal. and it should be down to the courts to determine whether there should be a prison sentence or not. not some policy which says if you're one sex rather than the other, well, we're going to treat you more gently. that is quite wrong. >> i think you make a cracking point, actually, about we've seen the way that especially

drug gangs operate, which is that what they realise they could do is get increasingly younger and younger people to go and commit these crimes or run the drugs for them, etc. well, if you would just do the same thing with women, wouldn't they? if it turned out that women weren't going to be sent to prison, that's exactly what they'd do. which is really, i would argue in many ways worse, actually. but and look, thank you very, very much. always a pleasure. the wonderful ann widdecombe there. now coming up, i've got an extraordinary interview for you with a woman who found a migrant in the back of her van. illegal migrant, i should say, in the back of her van, but was then charged £3,000 by border force for , quote, by border force for, quote, unknowingly smuggling a migrant into the country. so she tells me her absolutely astonishing story. very, very soon. it's not to be missed, but first, another day of torrid headlines and more revelations about keir starmer's freebie scandal. is it time now for the pm to resign? i put all of their alleged corruption and dona gate scandals in one devastating list. stay tuned . devastating list. stay tuned. >> for that warm feeling inside

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three grand? is that right? >> yeah, it is. three grand? is that right? >> yeah, it is . yes. >> yeah, it is. yes. >> so a couple found an illegal immigrant in their car. then border force fined them three grand. i'm not making that up. i speak to one half of that couple shortly. also just when you thought that labour couldn't get any more ridiculous. >> slay the vibes are slay. >> slay the vibes are slay. >> okay, i've got all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages tonight as well. my wonderful panel , the telegraph's madeline panel, the telegraph's madeline grant tory peer lord bailey, and ex—labour party adviser matthew laza. and can you tell me what happens next here? >> i knew that yamal guarantee britain here. >> we go . >> we go. the net is closing in on keir starmer. next .

starmer. next. >> good evening. i'm mark white. the latest news from the gb news centre and some breaking news with the prime minister meeting donald trump tonight in a packed day in which he toured the nasdaq stock exchange and will shortly speak at the united nations. he's also making time to meet the former president. sir keir said he wanted to establish a relationship with mr trump and this evening he's also addressed the latest row around free donations. the prime minister told our political edhon minister told our political editor, christopher hope, that it was farcical to suggest he pretended labour donor lord alli's home was his when he stayed there during the pandemic. the israeli military has targeted and killed a top hezbollah commander in a strike on the lebanese capital. mohammad sarwar, a senior leader in the terror group's aerial command , was killed in an command, was killed in an airstrike on a building in

southern beirut. the lebanese health ministry claims dozens have died in israeli attacks throughout the day . the throughout the day. the environment agency is tonight issued 40 flood warnings and 113 flood alerts for large parts of the uk. parts of oxfordshire, bedfordshire, northamptonshire and north yorkshire have been listed by the agency as being most at risk. it comes after an amber warning was issued by the met office for more heavy rain, causing further flooding and travel disruption, in particular across the midlands and parts of the south west . a man has been the south west. a man has been arrested in connection with a cyber attack targeting railway stations across the uk. the wi—fi systems at 19 stations in cities including london, manchester, liverpool and birmingham were affected. people logging on to wi—fi in those stations were greeted with a page about terrorist attacks.

the arrested man is understood to be an employee of a technology company which provides internet access to some network rail stations . scotland network rail stations. scotland yard has issued a call for any potential victims of mohamed al—fayed to come forward. five women have claimed they were raped by the former harrods owner, who died last year at the age of 94. a number of others say they were sexually assaulted by him. the current managing director of harrods, michael ward , has apologised and said ward, has apologised and said the business failed colleagues and finally , astronomers have and finally, astronomers have unveiled the most detailed map ever seen of our galaxy from the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries of the galactic core. these new images show the milky way as you've never seen it before. the map is the culmination of more than 13 years of observations .

years of observations. absolutely stunning images. those are your headlines for the moment. now back to for patrick the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com forward slash alerts . >> .com forward slash alerts. >> .com forward slash alerts. >> i think it's time we tried to put all labour's donation and alleged corruption issues in one place and posed the question, should keir starmer resign? let's start with the prime minister so he accepted thousands of pounds from lord waheed alli for glasses, his suits, his wife's wardrobe , suits, his wife's wardrobe, taylor swift tickets and he's used lord ali's £18 million penthouse. there is a lot of speculation about whether starmer has a breached electoral law by not properly declaring his stays there , b whether he his stays there, b whether he breached covid rules by recording videos from there. c

whether he tried to lie and pass that place off as his own home by putting family pictures on a bookshelf behind him and d the moral issue using his son's gcses as an excuse to use the pad. despite the fact his son's gcses finished a month before their stay ended. keir starmer has also accepted more in donations and freebies than any mp , totalling more than mp, totalling more than £100,000. then we have the deputy prime minister, angela raynen deputy prime minister, angela rayner. she's been reported to the parliamentary standards commissioner amid accusations of failing to properly declare a stay at lord ali's £1.8 million new york apartment. sticking with rayner but also bringing into the equation the chancellor of the exchequer now rachel reeves. both of them received donations for clothing, which they initially appeared to declare as things like office support before coming clean. now, according to the financial times, their combined clothing total was somewhere in the region of ten grand. let's whizz ourselves over now to the secretary of state for business

and trade, jonathan reynolds. business secretary of state for business and trade, jonathan reynolds. labour was promising to increase labour was promising to increase the digital service tax from 2% the digital service tax from 2% to 10%. mr reynolds then to 10%. mr reynolds then reportedly got a free ticket to reportedly got a free ticket to glastonbury, courtesy of glastonbury, courtesy of youtube. and the day after the youtube. and the day after the festival , labour decided to festival , labour decided to festival, labour decided to ditch the policy. environment festival, labour decided to ditch the policy. environment secretary steve reed reportedly secretary steve reed reportedly accepted football tickets worth accepted football tickets worth nearly £2,000, for a company nearly £2,000, for a company that was apparently found to that was apparently found to have dumped raw sewage into our have dumped raw sewage into our waterways. then there's sue waterways. then there's sue grey's son. yes, that's right. grey's son. yes, that's right. who apparently accepted a £4,000 who apparently accepted a £4,000 donation from britain's biggest donation from britain's biggest train drivers union, aslef, train drivers union, aslef, before becoming a parliamentary before becoming a parliamentary private secretary at the private secretary at the department for transport, which department for transport, which then helped dish out an then helped dish out an inflation busting pay rise to inflation busting pay rise to train drivers. keir starmer's train drivers. keir starmer's business adviser is a chap business adviser is a chap called varun chandra, who, to called varun chandra, who, to according bloomberg, has a according bloomberg, has a multi—million pound stake in multi—million pound stake in hakluyt capital, representing hakluyt capital, representing some of the biggest companies some of the biggest companies and private equity firms in the and private equity firms in the world. but its client list is world. but its client list is kept a secret. apparently he

and private equity firms in the world. accusedlient list is and private equity firms in the world. accusedlie|failings and private equity firms in the world. accusedlie|failing to stands accused of failing to declare his interest in a tax haven based firm. there is also probably the biggest issue of all, what has lord alli got for his money? well, there was the supposed access all areas downing street, pass . was that downing street, pass. was that all? or is there something else going on here? now, of course, all parties involved vehemently deny any wrongdoing , corruption deny any wrongdoing, corruption or inappropriate behaviour. but keir starmer has been in power for i think it's about 84 days now and it does beg the question is it already time for a fresh start? let's get our thoughts on my panel. we are joined by the telegraph's madeline grant. i have also got tory peer lord bailey, an ex—labour party adviser. matthew laza madeleine, when you look at all of that in one place, it is quite astonishing. i think. isn't it already? >> yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty mad. and in fact there's even that was quite an exhaustive list . but there are exhaustive list. but there are some things that you've not mentioned on there, including

some, some civil service appointments that have raised eyebrows , people being eyebrows, people being parachuted in from being an adviser in an advisory role before the election to suddenly being parachuted into a top role at the civil service, which has happened.so at the civil service, which has happened. so don't get me wrong, there is a lot to go on. but to your point about, is it time for him to resign? no, i think i think not, but i think what is fascinating here is the extent to which you know, just the extent to which we're so used to these kind of allegations in our politics and how labour have consistently been absolutely leading the charge on the tories when, when the shoe was on the other foot. i'm quite amazed by the sheer quantity that has come out in such a short period of time. i didn't expect it to happen this soon. i mean, i as part of my job, i have to spend a lot of time looking at labour mps and following them more closely than like a normal person would. and i knew how terrible a lot of these people were. but i thought the unique horror of bridget phillipson is something that the public will have to enjoy for them to appreciate for themselves in the fullness of time. but now she's

brilliant. >> i love bridget strong defence, not strong defence. >> and i'll come to you, sean. do you think any of those things i've mentioned there could bring keir starmer down? >> look, the only reason those things won't bring keir starmer down or haven't yet is because of the double standard. let's be very clear, those things all need to be looked at. some will look worse than they actually are. some may break the rules. who knows . that's yet to be who knows. that's yet to be investigated. but the point is the labour party, particularly keir starmer and angela rayner, did so much finger pointing. and i've said it before and i'll say it again, imagine that was boris. or imagine that as a tory mp, they'd all be lying up writing articles saying that person's head has to roll. so why do they work to a different standard for themselves and a different standard for everybody else? and that hypocrisy , i else? and that hypocrisy, i think, will circle back and get them. >> yeah. keir starmer is apparently i was hearing the bulletins there. matthew just told our political editor christopher hope, that it is, quote , farcical to try to claim quote, farcical to try to claim that he was making lord waheed ali's penthouse look like his

own home. it is. it's not. he brought family pictures because he was trying to make it look like he's . like he's. >> well, no. can i answer the question, sean? >> he didn't tell us and didn't tell us it was lord ali. >> can i can i can i answer that charge ? charge? >> whilst he was telling us all to work from home? right. so the implication is there. i'm at my home. yeah, right. go on. >> i mean, i don't think no, i don't, i actually don't think i wouldn't have thought that implication watching it because nor would i have thought of that implication when you're watching any of these things, all these, all these things are done basically, the those messages are done and party election broadcasts are all done in locations because it is a lot easier to shoot them in locations, to shoot them in somebody's house, i suspect, although i don't know that in this particular case, the waheed's apartment was empty, because waheed has more than one property, he's a multi—millionaire and therefore it was used as a set in terms of let me just because it's very important in terms of the putting of the photographs and

things that set dressing that you do, whether because i just thought, let me finish it is it looked like his office. >> come on. »- >> come on. >> i mean, who has a house that looks like that? >> you may i don't when i go to stay with my friend's house, i don't tend to bring pictures of my own family. >> no, he wasn't staying there. it was. he was filming. >> as someone who i have run several big campaigns and i've made those addresses from different places. yet not once did i bring pictures of my wife and children and put them in the background. i'm just simply i'm sorry . you're correct that the sorry. you're correct that the man i mean, sean, you're correct . man i mean, sean, you're correct. the man's busy and he has to make different choices. but i'm sorry , the supporting of those pictures. >> no, that's absolutely ridiculous. >> sean. working from home. >> sean. working from home. >> that's absolutely ridiculous. >> that's absolutely ridiculous. >> sean, please investigate that. that that whole covid issue. >> well, because what's the. sorry. let's just be clear. we don't know. there's no accusation . what's the accusation? >> the accusation could be that we were under something . i think we were under something. i think it was plan b covid restrictions at that time, which basically said to everyone, you should work from home where possible.

so there's two accusations here, but both of which are vehemently denied at the moment, which is that that he may well have broken covid restrictions, that he was or been a bit double two faced over it, telling other people to do things he wasn't doing himself. the other accusation is that he might have broken electoral rules. >> this is for the later stage by by not declaring his times at lord ali's house. can i can i can i answer both of those specifically on the first thing is that that what that broadcast was is it was a response that the leader of the opposition gets to when the then prime minister did did a response, it was filmed. i don't think anybody was trying to pretend it was his home. he was obviously trying to pretend it was his office. i suspect that it was done because they thought that filming it in an empty building was more enhanced in covid regulations than filming it in the in, the leader of the opposition's office, which might have been closed at the time because that might because because that might because because because. justin. well, let me answer. let me answer the question. because the point about that is the reason that his own houses that might have broken covid regulations because

you're taking. i'll tell you what, he wasn't filming at his mobile phone. patrick. there was a camera operator, a lighting operator, a sound person, which was within the law. >> but wherever home you're in, those people would be there . those people would be there. >> yeah, yeah, but if it was an empty if it was an empty space. >> but sean, when he's in a good job, he didn't have a bit of cash. >> waheed wasn't there as far as we know, but but but that's not true. >> you can argue about the covid restrictions. what's more. well, you're just trying to put dirt on him. no, no, no i'm not i'm asking. i'm asking a question. >> you never let me answer him. >> you never let me answer him. >> it's about it's about the campaigning rules. the rules where you have to talk about donations to your campaign. i think that will probably get more scrutiny. okay. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, then refer them to the police. sean. >> so i think that this would be truly absurd to reopen these things. and, you know, covid is well, in the past, i think i was one of the people who was saying this is completely absurd. the rules are absurd. it's almost impossible for anyone to have followed the rules to the letter without breaking them inadvertently, because they were so absurd. but the point is that who was at the forefront of the absurdity? who was haranguing rishi sunak for the fact that

somebody handed him a piece of birthday cake at work, and he had a fixed penalty? >> no party for arriving, no . he >> no party for arriving, no. he arrived early for a meeting. right? >> i mean, it was a lot of absurdity going on, but i remember labour being very involved in stirring up the. >> i don't think labour made up the cases of booze from the co—opin the cases of booze from the co—op in whitehall that were taking it to number 10, specifically about rishi sunak and the cake. >> why is this absurd? >> why is this absurd? >> why is the environment secretary accepted? roughly speaking , £2,000 worth of speaking, £2,000 worth of football tickets? i think it is from a company that has been found guilty of putting poo in the water. >> well, i don't know specifically in that case, can i the youtube, come on. i mean, i don't know and i mean it's an allegation and if that's the environment, look, look, come on, let's work our way through it. >> because we've just dealt with the prime minister. there's obviously, you know, pretty squiffy stuff about the deputy prime minister. the chancellor of the exchequer was not particularly squiffy because she she closed the investigation for that, i think, isn't it? >> i don't think she is. >> i don't think she is. >> i don't think she is. >> i think there's a standard i think she's been reported to the standards watchdog, but she's declared all that. >> i didn't know she'd been reported. >> look, there's two basic, important things he's running through his list, sean. one is

how long your list is the list is long. and there's things you could add to that list. but my defence here is the hypocrisy of it all, because you fully know you could be watching this today. you could be a staunch labour supporter , but you fully labour supporter, but you fully know in your heart that if the shoe was on the other foot, they'd be calling for people's heads. why is there one set of rules? >> no, we don't know that. >> no, we don't know that. >> that's just tory spin, because we've already seen it experienced endlessly during lockdown, because there's a big difference between him recording his message to the nation in an and what we think is an empty flat to tory advisers trundling down, trundling down whitehall with boxes of booze , with with boxes of booze, with a suitcase full of booze. just i'm quite keen to get into this one now. so jonathan reynolds okay, i'm good on this one. no. good, good. i'm glad because this will bnng good. i'm glad because this will bring some much needed clarity to the nation, because from from a layman's perspective, matthew, it looks a little bit like a man who was about to introduce a tax on companies like youtube, received a free ticket from youtube to go to a music festival. and then the day after he got back from that music

festival, decided to not tax. >> well, i mean, i mean, i can see i can see that the optics are not great, but but the idea that the idea that johnny reynolds single handedly writes policy like that is just nonsense, that that goes through about nine layers of people and one person got some, got some glasto tickets. i personally think that they were over the top in taking tickets. for various events, and they need to be they should have been more aware of it. >> we've got we've got the cayman islands hedge fund, the £4 million, which is absolutely massive and it's links. >> it's not, it's a uk registered entity, another one that we've not mentioned, which i think is really serious, is i think it's david lammy who took £10,000 from a very, very dodgy sort of islamist adjacent organisation, as i recall. >> i mean really some very unsavoury people. and again , unsavoury people. and again, people were rightly furious about frank hester's donation to the conservative party, given his racist remarks. but that was talked about and we condemned it. and who was the first to condemn it? the labour party, it's just it's just it's very obvious double standards going

on here. it would be nice to have some recognition of that. yeah >> yeah, yeah. well the tories keep taking frank hester's money even even after, you know what we know that he said, and he doesn't dispute that he he said it. he disputes the context but not the words. >> so you think that's bad? so what? >> well, i don't know about the money. i don't know about the money. i don't know about the money to leave them. waheed alli is a labour member of parliament. he's a member of the house of lords. he has been a committed to the labour party for 30 years. i mean, one of the ones you came up with when? because. i'm sorry. do you think he should apologise for lending his friend money to get a house for a dying sister that's going to be repaid from the sale of another house? obviously, we don't all have friends who can don't all have friends who can do that. i think that's a bit odd. >> yeah, i do think it's a bit odd. i think i think, yes, i do think on top of everything else, just just just dishing out £1.2 million for somebody. so that it's basically a bridging loan while they sell the sell the previous house, it's going to be repaid in a few weeks. >> he got for his money, you know, that's what does it. what does he want for his money? he doesn't want anything. he's a member of the house of lords. he sits on the benches with sean. >> okay. all right. >> okay. all right. >> other side.

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next. now for a truly jaw dropping exclusive tv interview, a norfolk couple were fined £3,000 after calling police to report that an illegal immigrant had snuck into their vehicle at the french border. so border force decided that they were somehow responsible for not securing their own vehicle. they fined them for, quote, unknowingly

smuggling a migrant into the country. well, it's understood that the fines are only issued when border force officers consider that they have significant evidence. but the story raises some, frankly very serious questions about his country's priorities when it comes to the migrant crisis . comes to the migrant crisis. now, the lady initially found someone trying to break into her van. they legged it, but it turned out that there was another one in there already. and i'm delighted to say that i spoke to the woman at the heart of this story, the antique dealer janie of this story, the antique dealerjanie cave, a little earlier today. jane, it's an absolute pleasure to have you on the show. this is a remarkable story. would you mind just telling our viewers and listeners exactly what happened then? >> well, my we went to supermarkets, the supermarket , supermarkets, the supermarket, and, and my husband phoned. he went to the van when he got an email through on his phone to use mine, he unlocked the van and he's my ipad. and then it was unlocked and he thought it was unlocked and he thought it was quite windy today. and, then

he thought, no, it's not windy at all. and he went to the back of the van and there was a leg poking out. >> so you saw a leg poking out of your van and you thought, well , of your van and you thought, well, someone's someone's broken in. >> yeah . he realised it was >> yeah. he realised it was a migrant and said, get out, get out behind the door. got the man out behind the door. got the man out . and the man got out and out. and the man got out and ambled across the car park of the supermarket. and then he called me, got back in the van, locked the door, called me and said, get back in here. i've had a face to face with the migrant a face to face with the migrant a bit dismayed by it. and then he, he when we came out of the market, it was my business partner, and i. caroline and i came out of the supermarket and we went on the eurotunnel. we got checked the van, got checked by customs , border control and by customs, border control and then, we got to barton mills and then, we got to barton mills and the migrant got, tapped like

this. three times on the van. we thought, oh, please say it's not a migrant. it is a migrant. >> oh my gosh. >> oh my gosh. >> and he got in first. >> and he got in first. >> so okay. goodness me. right. so there was an initial encounter with someone who tried to get in and then they then scarpered and then clearly someone else. he was the second person i see. so someone had already got in. right. okay. so then so then at this point by then so then at this point by the time that you hear the knocking on the on the door and you realise what's happened, you are where now have you entered britain again? >> norfolk. suffolk? yes. >> norfolk. suffolk? yes. >> right . okay. so then, so then >> right. okay. so then, so then you've had a person. what sitting behind you. the whole time that you've not realised the whole time with the furniture. >> and he was respectful of the furniture and stuff. >> oh gosh i know, i mean that's terrifying. >> so let's do first things first. that is terrifying. >> it is terrifying. yeah he was quite young. he was under 18 anyway. he wouldn't say if he's

anyway. he wouldn't say if he's a boy or a girl. but anyway. he wouldn't say if he's a boy or a girl . but we saw we a boy or a girl. but we saw we saw i rang the police and, i said, ring the police. so i rang them. we met at the supermarket just past there and, somebody was videoing us. the migrant got caught by the police and taken to a house, which i'm not allowed to say the name of. and, then i got interrogated for two hours. the guy checked the van. nobody else in there . that's nobody else in there. that's fine . and, that was it. nobody else in there. that's fine . and, that was it . really? fine. and, that was it. really? >> so. well, so. so you were interrogated for two hours. what kind of questions were they asking you? and also they then find you three grand. is that right? yeah. >> yeah, it is. right? yeah. >> yeah, it is . yes. in june, >> yeah, it is. yes. in june, july , we had to reply by so. july, we had to reply by so. >> so what kind of questions were they asking you then? and also forgive me, but i think myself, like many other people,

are probably wondering, well, why on earth were you find i mean, you didn't. i know you weren't human trafficking. >> i know, but we could have been. but we weren't. we wouldn't have called the police. surely if we were. >> yeah, yeah, of course. so? so they were asking you, were they trying to get to the bottom of whether or not you'd done this deliberately? >> yes. i think so. >> and then presumably they concluded that you had. which is why they find you. yeah. yeah so i'm laughing. i mean, it's not funny. it's not funny for you, is it? but it's laughable, i think. what's going on? >> i'd advise you to take him. take him to a layby. it was a boy. it was under 1816. i'd say . boy. it was under 1816. i'd say. and take him to a layby and let him go and let him call the police . police. >> well, quite. yeah. if you want to keep hold of £3,000. >> yeah , >> yeah, >> yeah, >> okay. so so, have you now got a criminal conviction as well for this? >> it has got not a criminal conviction, but he's got a fine of £3,000 being the driver.

>> yeah. okay, >> yeah. okay, >> but we're paying it. >> but we're paying it. >> you're not paying it. >> you're not paying it. >> we are paying it. you are paying >> we are paying it. you are paying it, caroline and i are paying paying it, caroline and i are paying it, caroline and i are paying it from our business. £100 a month. >> okay . and could you just tell >> okay. and could you just tell me exactly how this happened in terms of. so border force were asking you questions. terms of. so border force were asking you questions . you said, asking you questions. you said, well, we call the police asking us questions. yeah, okay. and you said, well, we called you and we alerted you to this and we obviously didn't know this chap was in here. and i just don't quite understand how they then came to the conclusion that you now needed to be fined £3,000, because i know you couldn't have really stopped that. are we, are we now all expected to secure our own vehicles to the point of them being an impenetrable fortress? >> i think they think that we were a haulage company and lorry had a lorry. we didn't. we just had a lorry. we didn't. we just had transit . had transit. >> goodness me . okay, and. yeah.

>> goodness me. okay, and. yeah. and so this is just absolutely bonkers. what's happened here. and this must be conceivably this must be happening quite a lot to other people. you've just highlighted it, i think probably. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> right. and the actual offence is, is what not securing your vehicle properly , vehicle properly, >> it's, it says here on the letter immigration and asylum act 1999, the carriers liability regulations 2002, clandestine entrance, clandestine entrance . entrance, clandestine entrance. >> good grief. okay. >> good grief. okay. >> and ability to a penalty. >> and ability to a penalty. >> okay, so this is clearly madness. and just just while we've got you just finally, what would your message be to. well, anyone who's thinking of making that journey, whether it's across, you know, on the, on the channel tunnel or on the ferry or anything, but also to the police and border force, really, i would say to anyone carrying a vehicle who has a vehicle , don't

vehicle who has a vehicle, don't call the police. >> and the cross border, the border force, i would say, i'm sorry, i'm tired. right. i would say, don't find the people or find out more facts. >> indeed. well, look, jake , can >> indeed. well, look, jake, can i just say a massive thank you? it's been great to have you on the show, and i hope to talk to you again in the future, hopefully under slightly better circumstances, perhaps, but, yeah, thank you very much. and i'm glad that you stayed safe in the end. anyway. that is the main thing. despite the financial loss. so good luck to you and hopefully we'll see you again very soon. thank you very much. can you just imagine seriously getting a knock on the car you turn round ? there's an car you turn round? there's an illegal migrant in the back of your van that has clearly been there for hours, and then you call the police, and the police turn up, and then they find you three grand. so no, this is

absolutely bonkers. a home office spokesman said we are fully committed to stopping people from illegally entering the country and cracking down on people smugglers. the clandestine entrants, civil penalty scheme aims to ensure drivers are taking every reasonable step to deter irregular migration. disrupt people smugglers say to that, though . what are you supposed to though. what are you supposed to do if you've got someone in the back of your car? they might be violent. they might. you can't. you can't be expected to literally turf them out yourself, can you call the police, don't you? in that situation, which is what they did. but anyway, coming up, the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages and i'll bnng newspaper front pages and i'll bring you them shortly. also this is a special little treat for you. we're going to go live to new york because keir starmer meets donald trump for the first time. and i am hearing in my ear that our political editor, christopher hope, might have just spoken with donald trump . just spoken with donald trump. so i think we might bring that to you in a second or two. but

of course, isn't this just the worst thing you've ever seen play? >> the vibes are slay regret to inform you there's more of that.

welcome back to patrick christys tonight, and now it's time to show you the very first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. so here they are. the daily mail unleashed political memoir of the century. the bombshell begins. boris johnson, my quote manly pep talk with harry in his bid to stop megxit in the first extraordinary revelation from a book jam packed with them. the ex—prime minister reveals his attempts to change the prince's mind. let's go to the daily telegraph. i told harry not to leave the uk, reveals boris johnson . so there reveals boris johnson. so there we are. they're leading with that as well. the i budget rule change risks higher interest rates for longer, reeves warned. great. let's go to the daily express. it feels like they don't want him to come back to

me. fenella clapham, on her 260 mile round trip to see her husband brian in a care home grave. a distraught woman is having to make a 260 mile round trip to see her husband and exposes the crumbling care system. that's by sam lester, who's political editor at the express. she's a regular on this show as well, the express doing a lot of good work at the moment when it comes to highlighting some of the issues that pensioners are facing in this country. let's go to the metro, i think this is probably we on . should have gone hackers target. should have gone for a 5050. i got it wrong. why? on rush hour trains, terror hackers target rail stations across the uk. it was a cyber hacker that basically i think they said put a message out there as mark white was telling us earlier that there had been some kind of islamist attack on the messaging boards right now, in a in an extraordinary twist to the existing proceedings on this show, i am about to take you all the way to new york because our political editor, christopher hope, he's he's been up the empire state building.

he's had a look at the statue of liberty . he's done all sorts. liberty. he's done all sorts. okay. he's not been to hooters, though. that was off limits for him. but what he has done, what he has done, is just asked former president donald trump a question. and we're going to bnng question. and we're going to bring that to you now, here it is . is. >> bebe king keir starmer, the uk premier. >> yes, he's coming tonight. >> yes, he's coming tonight. >> what do you think of him? some of his colleagues in government have been quite critical of you. >> well, i'm going to see him in about an hour, so i have to be nice, right? yeah, but i actually think he's very nice. i think, he ran a great race. he did very well, it's very early, but he's popular, and i'll be seeing him. and i'll send your regards. who are you with? who are you with? with gb news in the uk. okay, good. >> would you rather nigel farage had a bigger role? >> well, i think nigel is great. i mean, i've known him for a long time. he had a great election too. he picked up a lot of seats. more seats than he was allowed to have. actually, they acknowledged that he won, but for some reason, you have a very strange system over there. you might win them , but you don't

might win them, but you don't get them, nigel is a fantastic person, mr president. >> all right, so there we go, let's start with the nigel stuff first. so trump acknowledging that reform 4 million votes didn't necessarily equate to as many seats as it possibly could have done him, essentially going into bat for pr, i think, which is kind of ironic , because i is kind of ironic, because i remember when the hillary people in 2020, no, sorry, 20, 2016, complained because i think hillary won the popular vote, but donald trump won it on the electoral college. >> and he made the point that obviously, you campaign based on the system that you have. so the popular vote doesn't really. so he's kind of slightly ironic that he's reversed . ferreted on that. >> i did quite like the idea that he just went straight off the bat and just went, well, i'm seeing keir starmer in an hour, so i have to be nice. so what a guy. what a guy. >> well, that's probably based on the fact that some of keir starmer's mps haven't been particularly nice about him . so. particularly nice about him. so. >> and your friend the mayor. >> and your friend the mayor. >> so he's actually giving the

more grown up response. if you had to judge our system against his system, he's given the more grown up response that actually, to be honest with you, there is a point there because david lammy has called him basically everything awful. priti sadiq khan got a few digs as well and allowed a blimp of trump in a nappy to fly over london. >> yeah, for a free free blimps free speech. but, you know, you've got trump there. he's actually been quite consistent. that's the thing isn't it, when you actually compare what trump said there to what david lammy said, trump is the grown up, isn't he? >> i'm just going to go online and cancel my support for the year pr campaign. as if donald trump is in favour. i've got to be against, i mean , i thought it be against, i mean, i thought it was one of his more coherent replies. yeah, you know, and actually, you know, he did actually, you know, he did actually make a point about about pr it'd be interesting to see what happens about this. maybe nigel will use that that clip to further the cause. >> well, the thing is that trump is so very unpopular amongst the majority of the british public. conservative right leaning and left leaning in the main, that actually, as you as you allude to having him on your side is not necessarily what you want

for a popular campaign . for a popular campaign. >> it's going to get you on this idea that he has just been more diplomatic than david lammy, though. >> well, i mean, i think david lammy has been very diplomatic since he has been in office. >> i see, i see, you know, he on his— >> i see, i see, you know, he on his lbc programme or whatever. >> he may have said things over the years, but you know. >> yeah. okay, look, i am, i am, i'm getting some remarkable things in my ear. i believe that, christopher hope, our political editor, is in trump tower. wow. we're going to go and we're going to go to him after a very short break. so, yes, i'll also have some more front pages. but really, this next bit it's all about chopper at trump isn't it? stay

breaking tonight keir starmer will meet with donald trump for the first time since he became prime minister. now starmer is currently in new york for the united nations general assembly .

united nations general assembly. and for more details on all of this, we can go live now to our political editor, who is in new york, where the prime minister has been as well. and i believe christopher hope is there now, christopher. is that that looks like is it is it trump tower? what's going on? what's going on with you ? with you? >> hi, patrick. well, behind me are the famous gold elevator doors, which you've seen a lot, haven't you, with donald trump. and yes, i'm in here in trump tower, having just asked a question on behalf of you and all our colleagues and viewers and listeners to gb news about sir keir starmer. now, what's happening very shortly is sir keir starmer will meet will with donald trump. i said what do you make of, keir starmer. some of his colleagues are quite critical of you, mr trump and he said this to me. well i'm going to see him in about an hour, so ihave to see him in about an hour, so i have to be nice, he said. i actually think he's very nice. he ran a great race. he did it very well. it's very early , but very well. it's very early, but he's very popular. i then said to the former president , donald to the former president, donald trump, would you rather that nigel farage had a bigger role,

maybe in uk, us relations? he said nigel is great. he's known him for a long time. he had a great election to, he said he picked up a lot of seats, more seats than he's allowed to have got. actually, they acknowledged that he won, but for some reason you have a strange system over there about our system, he said. you might win them, but you don't get them. nigel is a fantastic person. so there we have it . donald trump fantastic person. so there we have it. donald trump giving full praise to nigel farage, of course, the presenter on gb news and also saying he's looking forward in a very, quite a nice way to meeting with sir keir starmer shortly. >> exactly. so, so christopher , >> exactly. so, so christopher, do we think that keir starmer at some point is going to be walking presumably. what behind you getting into those gold lifts going up to trump's pad or are they meeting at the un? how's it working? i don't really know what's going on. what >> we're not getting the detail of where they're meeting, i think for security reasons. but we know they're meeting at some point later tonight before they sir keir starmer flies home. i'll be on his plane with him. i may have gone to the airport by

the time he arrives or wherever they meet, but certainly it's quite a big moment here for sir keir starmer. he's trying to get the trump to back the idea of this victory plan to try and help ukraine end this war with russia and win that war tomorrow morning at 945 here, we heard from donald trump. he's meeting with president zelenskyy. so there's a bit of an effort here. i think by us, by western leaders to pressure donald trump to come round to that position , to come round to that position, because what everyone's worrying about, i think, is if trump wins on november the 5th, he might then push for a ukraine towards a peace deal they don't want. so it's very complicated. some big politics happening tonight in new york city. patrick. >> yeah. massive stuff. christopher. thank you very, very much. i must say, last night we had you on a boat there with the with the statue of liberty just around the corner. that wonderful new york skyline. tonight you're in trump tower with the goal of it. i shudder to think what would have happened if we'd left you there for another evening. christopher, thank you very much . christopher, thank you very much. our political editor. good stuff. there we go. talking of views. okay. and welcome back my by my press pack. now and we've

not got a huge amount of time. so what do you make of that. so he's going to have to well he's going to meet keir starmer now. and that's going to presumably be quite tense i imagine. >> oh i suppose so. i mean it's the politics of opposition are very different to actually being in charge and having to deal with brinkmanship and diplomacy is a difficult thing. and i also can't think of two people that perhaps have less in common in any other way socially, than keir starmer and donald trump. >> well, having said that, i don't know. they both enjoy a large penthouse. >> i knew you were going to say it. >> i was poised, i think the most , the most. most, the most. >> i think while he's paid for it, that's probably mortgage. the trump tower probably the most, the most important thing is this ukraine conversation, because if you're donald trump, you want to lower your defence bill. >> and if you're the europeans, you want to defeat russia fairly quickly. and i think there's a negotiation there. and what is who would you back to win a negotiation between trump and starmer. yeah. >> well trump i think yeah. >> well trump i think yeah. >> yeah i'm not sure about that

as he actually hasn't negotiated. it's all a myth . i negotiated. it's all a myth. i mean look, i mean i think what's quite interesting is that they are coordinate. they are doing the choreography of this meeting by the sound of it. what interesting what chopper was saying there that they're going to have shoved everybody off to the airport because you have to go on these press trips, you are shoved into the bus. they're all off at the airport. there'll be one photograph. so it's so that all the awkwardness of the theresa may and the and the hand on the thing, i think they're going to be avoiding all of that as possible. i reckon all we're going to see of this is a couple of stills of them sat with the flags behind them. >> yeah, true. because keir starmer is not going to want to seem ecstatic. >> he's not going to want to be at any pictures of him getting in those lifts. >> no, that's true. >> no, that's true. >> elevators, elevators, elevators. >> okay. all right. well watch this space, because we here @gbnews will bring you the very latest. and our wonderful political editor, christopher hopeis political editor, christopher hope is right on the scene, but it's hope is right on the scene, but wsfime hope is right on the scene, but it's time to reveal today's greatest britain and union jackass so, maddie, who's your greatest britain please. >> i've actually gone for one lord alli who we've spent quite a while talking about tonight. but the reason being that he's

just brought so much joy and laughter into our lives. over the last couple of weeks, it's been extraordinary. a never ending dribble of cronyism and corruption stories courtesy of lord alli. and frankly, we could all use a friend like lord alli in our lives, you know, to bankroll every aspect of our existence and take our wives shopping and pay for bridget phillipson's birthday party. >> yeah, i wish i, i'm really worried about your obsession with bridget. >> i mean, lord waheed alli is conceivably this government's sugar daddy. yeah, which is a remarkable thing . exactly. remarkable thing. exactly. >> he's a committed labour supporter. i thought it was going to be. you were going to nominate him as greatest britain for what he did for the madonna sisters. >> i'm being told to shut up. >> i'm being told to shut up. >> i'm being told to shut up. >> i am, i am, my greatest bit is dame joan collins for her wonderful appearance on gb news and her real look at common sense britain, and just saying, let's go back to one of the great things about this country, our sense of humour. and we're here from her now. >> and do you think this wokery thing has got a bit too much of this? >> wokery good god, yes, you know i do, i do, i think it's gone out of control. yeah. really. you can't say anything

and people get offended. we've lost our british sense of humour. >> okay, so matthew , who is your >> okay, so matthew, who is your greatest briton? >> well, i tried, i tried to change mine at the last minute. so let's hope that the graphic matches this. mine is michael dawson, who was , very sadly dawson, who was, very sadly murdered last year because he told us his senior citizen and he told a cyclist to get off the road to get get off the pavement and cycle in the road. and today, at last, his family got justice as the guy who punched him has been given a five year sentence. >> okay. oh okay. all right. >> okay. oh okay. all right. >> he's in bury in greater manchester. >> so today's greatest britain is the name escapes me. sorry, michael. michael. there we go. all right . well, well done, the all right. well, well done, the greatest britain right now. union jackass. >> please. oh, yeah. my union jackass is. i've just come back from liverpool today where i was at the labour party conference and i've decided to go for an mp, a junior minister called andrew gwynne, who's i think one of wes streeting minions in the

health department. and he says that he thinks that pub pub opening hours should be shortened for public health reasons. >> boo boo boo i don't even dnnk >> boo boo boo i don't even drink anymore. and i think boo. yeah, apparently labour have denied this policy, but they denied this policy, but they denied it. >> yeah, well, this is what andrew gwynne said . he said, andrew gwynne said. he said, quote, direct quote, shorter hours is something that we're considering even if labour denies it. >> he said , i first met andrew >> he said, i first met andrew gwynne next to a pub and they want to shut it down. i first met andrew gwynne when i was 17 at a labour party young socialist training event, where quite a lot of alcohol was taken. oh, interesting. >> there we go. we've got less than a minute. >> my, union jack asks, is keir starmer for claiming credit for 10 billion investment that was secured under the conservative government? nobody appreciates somebody claiming, credit for somebody claiming, credit for somebody else's work . somebody else's work. >> okay, mine's very quick, naomi campbell, for being stripped of being a charity trustee after the charity she was involved with was found to be, let's put it mildly, not very well run. >> okay. interesting. well, i will not be going for the notoriously litigious naomi campbell, but i will. >> instead, i will be leaving

that one to me. i'm going to be sued all you matthew laza now. >> i'm going to go for, for gwynne pub man. because i've done keir starmer a few times. boo boo boo. yeah. all right. brilliant stuff guys. a bit of a hectic end to the show, but to be honest with you, i've had a good time, so thank you, thank you, thank you. headliners are up next. they're going to be taking a more detailed look through tomorrow's front pages. and who knows what political editor christopher hope might p0p up editor christopher hope might pop up with trump tower. pop up with at trump tower. thank you very much, everybody who's watching and who's been watching and listening. i will see you tomorrow at nine. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar. sponsors of weather on . solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello again and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. very wet overnight for some places with the risk of the flooding. rain then clears to showers through friday. colder but brighter weather arrives from the north.

we've already seen that for scotland through the day, but across northern england, northern ireland, wet weather has been persisting all day. that then moves south overnight, merging with some heavy downpours across central england and wales. and these are the areas that saw flooding earlier in the week and so an amber warning in force because of the risk of 60mm in just a few hours overnight , could be some overnight, could be some transport disruption. first thing because of the effects of that rainfall. but by the 5555 rainfall.5 555555 55 55 push away the last of the rain 5555 rainfall. but 55 5555 55 push away the last of the rain 5555 rainfall. but by 5555 55 push away the last of the rain 5555 rainfall. but by the 5 55 morning rush hour, the heaviest that rainfall. but by the morning rush hour, the heaviest downpours will actually be downpours will actually be occurring across the south occurring across the south coast, parts of hampshire into coast, parts of hampshire into sussex and kent, clearing away sussex and kent, clearing away gradually from the rest of the gradually from the rest of the south. the brighter skies across south. the brighter skies across wales and northern england. by wales and northern england. by this stage northern ireland, this stage northern ireland, scotland seeing a mix of sunny scotland seeing a mix of sunny spells and showers, and it's a spells and showers, and it's a cold start to the day in these cold start to the day in these areas, with temperatures in some areas, with temperatures in some places down in the low single places down in the low single figures. the cold air because of figures. the cold air because of northerly winds and those northerly winds and those northerlies extend country wide northerlies extend country wide through the morning, helping to through the morning, helping to

push away the last of the rain push away the last of the rain and bringing brighter skies for many and drier weather finally across much of the country. having said that, there will be further showers, these not as heavy or as prolonged as recent weather, but certainly a mixed afternoon to come. sunny spells and showers and a cold wind with highs of just 15 celsius in the south, ten in the north.

gb news. >> hello there, i'm mark white. the latest headlines from the gb news centre. the former us president has told gb news he'll be nice as he meets the uk prime minister in new york. sir keir starmer said he wants to establish a relationship with the former president. and donald trump told our political editor, christopher hope, that he was receptive to that. >> well, i'm going to see him in about an hour, so i have to be

nice, right? but i actually think he's very nice. i think, he ran a great race. he did very well, it's very early, but he's popular and i'll be seeing him, and i'll send your regards . and i'll send your regards. >> meanwhile, the prime minister has told the united nations that there must be an immediate ceasefire in the middle east. sir keir said the uk was now returning to a position of responsible global leadership. and he said the most pressing issue had to be securing a halt to the violence in lebanon . to the violence in lebanon. >> so we are ready to step up in a spirit of respect and equal partnership. >> i don't claim that solving these problems is easy, but there are positive, practical things that we can do together . things that we can do together. this starts with addressing the rising tide of conflict and preventing a regional war in the middle east. i call on israel and hezbollah to stop the

violence and step