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forward slash alerts. >> welcome along . labour are >> welcome along. labour are struggling at home. keir starmer is less popular than rishi sunak, and the labour party as a whole are just a few points ahead of the leaderless tories. a polling company asked people what word best described starmer, and they came back with liar, boring, weak and an idiot. it's fair to say that some people did think he was good though as well. but are things worse abroad? is the labour party now an international embarrassment? we've had david lammy causing a major international diplomatic incident by claiming that azerbaijan liberated itself despite being guilty of committing genocide against armenian christians. he also decided to turn up to meet the us president, joe biden , in his us president, joe biden, in his trainers. this led some people to ask if we should have a whip round for some smart shoes, but presumably lord alli can take

care of that. we've got keir starmer nipping off to italy to meet their leader , giorgia meet their leader, giorgia meloni, desperately trying to figure out how on earth she stopped illegal immigration. she then released this video during which she told illegal immigrants that if they come to italy, she'll just deport them, something keir starmer doesn't really want to do. starmer then waded back into foreign policy when talking about the israel—hamas war, and made this catastrophic blunder. >> i call again for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. >> the return of the sausages, the hostages . the hostages. >> i have the sausages returned. >> i have the sausages returned. >> we don't know, do we? now it turns out that lord waheed alli, who has been the government's sugar daddy, met with brutal syrian dictator bashar al assad on several occasions and called for him not to be deposed. now we know that starmer has just met up with trump at trump tower. the former us president was actually very diplomatic about meeting the labour prime

minister >> 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 he ran a great race. he did very well, it's irwanda y, but he's he ran a great race. he did very well, it's irwanda oi'iiul he's he ran a great race. he did very well, it's irwanda on day e's and

cancelled rwanda on day one and didn't bother to tell the rwandan government, but now it looks like the germans will use rwandan facilities paid for by the british taxpayer to send illegal immigrants to. that happened shortly after keir starmer met with the german chancellor. and he's just handed £84 million of your money to african and middle eastern countries in the vain hope that that will stop illegals coming to britain, which it won't . oh, to britain, which it won't. oh, and just to round us off on the international embarrassment stakes, i bet the international human traffickers just love this, don't they? yeah absolutely. refugees welcome. that's our home secretary. so when you add all of that up, is the world laughing at labour? let's get our thoughts on my panel this evening. i am of course, joined by the wonderful communications officer at the institute of economic affairs. it's reem ibrahim. i've got columnist and political commentator patrick o'flynn and making his debut on my panel. but of course, by no means on the channel is the wonderful journalist and broadcaster jj

and tobi. i'll start with you, reem, do you think that labour have turned britain into an international laughing stock? >> they definitely have, although i do think that a lot of the criticisms seem to be focused on the government themselves. i mean, you outlined some of those scandals, just some of those scandals, just some of those scandals, just some of them. i mean, the lord alli situation, the fact that he was given number 10 pass, i think that just domestically speaks really, really badly. just smells of corruption internationally. david lammy, i think is a complete joke. i mean, the fact that he's using language that is just so strong against somebody who could very well effectively completely ruin the international relationship with the us. so i think it's really important that we do recognise this does have international outcomes. >> yeah, indeed. patrick what's your view on this. the idea that labour now when you kind of wrap all of that up are just the laughing stock of the world. >> well, i enjoyed your entertaining sort of stitching together of, of, the sort of crocheted blanket, as it were, but , i actually think crocheted blanket, as it were, but, i actually think keir starmer hasn't really changed our foreign policy very much.

and i almost think he is actually looking a bit of a grown up compared to, as we know, the foreign secretary, david lammy, has made a lot of blunders already and has got a long back catalogue of kind of shock jock pronouncements. so he was an odd choice. emily thornberry, let's not forget, despite the relative thinness of talent and experience available to keir starmer when he was forming his government, she didn't make the cut. right. and i think we can now see why she didn't make the cut, even in cabinet. >> she is in the labour party. she is. oh, absolutely. a member of the labour party. >> and that is absolutely. >> and that is absolutely. >> but but i would say of keir starmer on this issue of particularly on the relationship with the united states. clearly he doesn't like donald trump. donald trump doesn't like him. donald trump doesn't like him. donald trump's a pro, as we saw there about, you know, if he wins the presidency, the uk is an important ally. and keir starmer is in for a reasonable length of time. and starmer as well, i think he said in terms it's about the relationship rather than who occupies the

office. >> well, you'd have to say that, wouldn't it, really? >> because i just think on foreign policy, i think he's less vulnerable than someone on some of the domestic stuff. >> i mean, the italians are almost definitely laughing at us. jj you know, because we can see, can't we? the idea that, you know, giorgia meloni is there. starmer goes over, god, just tell me, tell me how you did it. she goes, well, i was all right with people turning boats back. i wanted them processed offshore. and i've told people that if they come here illegally, i'm going to deport them. and starmer goes, that's magic. and comes home and doesn't do any of that . doesn't do any of that. >> i don't think people in other countries care one iota about the uk, just as we don't care about the about the other countries. when you look at silvio berlusconi, he was the biggest clown going. we did not sit around in the uk discussing how what a joke italy are. look how what a joke italy are. look how embarrassing they are. whether you look at the current president of argentina and the crazy things he comes outwith, we comment on it. but we're not losing sleep over that. >> millais comes outwith. i think millais is one of the most respected presidents. >> well, i think that's i, i

disagree with you on that. and i think it's debateable. however, there are banana republics all over the all over the world. and you have even when trump was in power, it made for good entertainment. but no one in this country was really losing sleep over it. they think there's too much emphasis. >> that's my point. okay, so laughing stock is one thing, but do you honestly think that they really respect keir starmer and david lammy? when david lammy walks into a room, does that scream respect to you? >> not as much as david cameron had. he was our last foreign secretary before lammy, and cameron had a gravitas, perhaps because he'd been prime minister, or maybe just because he was a better statesman than david lammy is. i do, i can, i can see richard tice, for example, a friend of mine, when he was campaigning, he would wear trainers sometimes because he was walking around all day. i don't understand why david lammy is wearing trainers. he's jumping on private jets to go to meetings, he's being chauffeur dnven meetings, he's being chauffeur driven everywhere, put a pair of shoes on, mate. >> i think those i think those things matter slightly less. i think what matters is the fact that people like david lammy, the foreign secretary, the person that is supposed to be representing the uk on the world stage, just does not represent british people. he just says things that are absolutely

outrageous . i mean, the calling outrageous. i mean, the calling trump a neo—nazi, it's not just trump a neo—nazi, it's not just trump by the way, sorry to interrupt you, but i mean, you know, any member of the conservative erg who, by the way, you know, roughly speaking, about 52%, at least in one snapshot in time, the british public, were aligned with he just thought they were worse than nazis, which just begs the question, what is worse than a nazi? >> we haven't got time to go into that tonight. but, you know, it just begs the question, doesn't it? what was worse that he thought they were worse than that? >> he did. i don't think he i don't think necessarily knows what he believes. i think the point is that he just doesn't come across as serious. and ultimately, i think the difference between him and trump now, i'm no huge trump fan. i think he's rather authoritarian on many issues. but actually with this particular perspective, trump is coming across as though he's a lot more serious and even though starmer comes from a completely different political aisle, actually that respect the fact that the uk and the us relationship matters, i think, is emphasised more patrick christys. >> yeah, well, i would say just don't forget that we went through the election and we had a prime minister in rishi sunak who couldn't even be bothered to

stay for the full d—day commemorations. and keir starmer did. right. so i just think on the international stage, he's not he's not an obvious disaster. he kind of looks the part. he's a bit dull. i think we'll get him on some of the domestic policies, i would say. >> i would also add that my i'm a labour supporter, but my issue with emily thornberry and david lammy is that it's selective outrage. they're angry that they hate donald trump. he's this, he's that. well what about xi jinping of china? we give him a nice state. welcome. he got to meet the queen, gets to go to man city. that man has committed atrocities in china, but he gets the carpet rolled out for him. no one is honest. muslims as well against muslims. >> yeah. against uyghur muslims. again the selective outrage there isn't there. you know, we hear a lot about genocide, genocide, genocide. and then you've got a bloke there g. jinping. if he decided he wanted to come back again, the red carpet, be straight back out. absolutely. we'd be rolling. we'd be getting on the phone to the royal family going, go on another state banquet. you see the string quartette? come on, bnng the string quartette? come on, bring them back out. you know, please do everything we possibly can. i imagine, though, that the

germans as well appear to be laughing at us a little bit. so because they do, he goes over there and he goes, oh, i'm worried about these irregular migrants. and he goes, you're worried about them? well, we're going to use your taxpayers money to send those irregular migrants to facilities you built in rwanda. >> it's absolutely it. is it is funny when you look at it from that perspective, but it's also terribly sad. i mean, this is taxpayer money that's been going to institutions that have been built specifically for those particular people. and actually, i don't necessarily think the rwanda scheme would have worked in the long term, but even even if you think that in the short term it could have actually done something, the perspective that actually germany are now using things that are taxpayer funded, british taxpayer funded, i think it's outrageous. just on that, that point about, about that particular perspective around racism and, and that kind of thing . i think what's really thing. i think what's really interesting with lammy solingen rupa huq said that kwasi kwarteng was superficially black. people like lammy were completely silent about it. and so i think it's really important. i know xi jinping is a very good example, but even just taking a step back within their own party, they were not willing to call out that kind of racism just on one thing, just to crowbar this in right at the end, if you don't mind, which

you mentioned about some of the domestic issues. >> well, lord waheed ali is a problem for labour at the moment. absolutely. they're sugar daddy for goodness knows how long by the looks of things. absolutely. but now the latest is this business of him. he went and met bashar al assad several times and then didn't want him to be deposed. well, that's very curious. >> that's right. that shows that he he far from being just a kind of no strings bankroller because he supports the labour party. he has his own particular political agenda, and some of it seems very unappetising . so that very unappetising. so that really is a big problem for keir starmer. he got far too close to one donor rather than having an array of donors, each with less sway . and i do think that's sway. and i do think that's dented his his image and profile long term, not just among right of centre voters, but across the whole. >> you should have many sugar daddies. >> well, i think you should have many moderate scale donors rather than depending on one one huge sugar daddy for everything.

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bathroom, he was literally right in there behind me. he came into the bathroom and put his back to the bathroom and put his back to the bathroom and put his back to the bathroom door so nobody else could come in. >> yes, more of that at ten. but up next, as britain's youngest knife murderers are jailed for eight and a half years for a brutal machete attack , should brutal machete attack, should their parents actually be held responsible, got former tory mp miriam cates going head to head with the journalist and author rebecca reid. that'll kick off. i'll see you in a few minutes

welcome back to patrick christys tonight . now welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now coming up, i will speak to a pensioner who is absolutely terrified that she will freeze to death. this winter without her winter fuel payment . her winter without her winter fuel payment. her husband as well, has got early onset dementia and is an amputee. well, they are very, very concerned that they might not make it through the winter. so we'll we'll hear their testimony. winter. so we'll we'll hear theirtestimony. but winter. so we'll we'll hear their testimony. but first, should parents be held criminally responsible for their child's behaviour? it's time now for our head to head . shocking for our head to head. shocking story there. so britain's youngest knife murderers have today been jailed for eight and a half years as a minimum term of eight and a half years, following a brutal machete murder. the pair, from wolverhampton, were 12 years old

when they killed shawn seesahai with a machete, stabbing him in the heart and chopping at his head on the night he was killed, sean and two of his friends travelled into wolverhampton on the tram so that one of their mates could visit his girlfriend . mates could visit his girlfriend. mr seesahai is last seen alive at around 7 pm. in some footage here that you're watching currently , if you are watching currently, if you are watching us on tv anyway, and we've seen it live at 7:00 pm when the footage comes to an end, as they enter stowlawn playing fields, ambulances were called to the scene at about 8:30 pm. after those two youths hacked him to death with a 16 inch machete. his friend, though, did manage to escape. look, tonight i am asking in light of how young these murderers are , should the these murderers are, should the parents of britain's youngest killers actually be held criminally responsible for their children's actions, let me know your thoughts. go to gbnews.com/yoursay. tweet me @gbnews. while you're there, go and vote in our poll. joining me to debate this now are former conservative mp miriam cates and author and journalist rebecca

reid. both of you, thank you very, very much. and look, miriam, i'll start with you. should parents be held criminally responsible for their children's behaviour? do you think ? think? >> well, i think in certain circumstances, parents should be held criminally responsible, particularly for something like neglect. >> if these children had been 3 or 4 years old, then clearly there would be a cut and dried case of neglect . no 3 or 4 year case of neglect. no 3 or 4 year old should be walking around with a knife . however, they are with a knife. however, they are 12. they were 12 at the time and of course, a 12 year old is not under the eye of their parents. all the time. they shouldn't be. and therefore no, a parent can't always be held criminally responsible for something that their 12 year old does when they are not being supervised. now, of course, i am not saying parents are blameless in this. children have to be taught right from wrong. no child is born evil. something clearly terrible has happened in this case, and certainly one of the boys had an unbelievably tragic childhood where he himself has been a victim. so i'm not saying at all this is this is it. >> that's exactly my point,

miriam. that's exactly my point. now, was this over to rebecca because i look at this. >> let me just finish. but it's very dangerous to start saying that parents should be held criminally responsible for their children's behaviour, because where do you draw the line? at what point is the state just interfering with children, you know, naturally, being rebellious, even if parents are good?i rebellious, even if parents are good? i think that's a very, very dangerous line to go down. okay. >> all right, rebecca, i will bnng >> all right, rebecca, i will bring you in now. so i've got i've got a headline in front of me here. okay. so the 12 year old, who became a murderer, how many schoolboy with a jailbird father terrorised locals. this child was out and about, rampaging through his local area , rampaging through his local area, doing drugs all the time, being photographed with a machete. his dad's in and out of jail. we don't appear to have any idea where his mum is. you look at that and you think, well, maybe that and you think, well, maybe thatis that and you think, well, maybe that is the parent's fault. >> i think it's a i think it's a cascade of responsibilities. and i think when somebody has that poor of a family situation, they are usually, they're a ward of the state. functionally, if not logistically, the social services were actively involved. so i think the issue, if you

were trying to have criminal responsibility is whose fault is it? because absolutely, it sounds like the father is useless. it sounds like the mother dropped the ball. it sounds like the social services weren't involved enough. had his school noticed what was going on. but who do you point the finger at? who is supposed to do time on behalf of this child who was failed by every adult he encountered . >> no, >> no, it's »- >> no, it's a »— >> no, it's a it's a good >> no, it's a it's a good point >> no, it's a it's a good point. look, it is a good point. yeah, miriam , i'll, i'll ask you now miriam, i'll, i'll ask you now about if we had a situation where somebody was the owner of a dangerous out of control dog, and that dog attacked someone, they do get prosecuted . so i'm they do get prosecuted. so i'm not wanting to say that these children are obviously dogs, as it were, but is there not a similarity here where you could prosecute someone for owning something that's supposed to be under their control, something that's supposed to be under their control , that then under their control, that then goes on and commits a crime? >> we don't own children. they are human beings. they have free will, and as the older they get, the more developed they get. the more independent decisions they take. and the point about these

children is that they are in the in—between stage between childhood and adulthood. if they were five, clearly they would not be sent to prison. you would absolutely be looking at sending the parents to prison. if they were 25, they should be getting whole life terms because their brains are fully developed. whatever has happened to them in childhood, they are still criminally responsible. the point is, they're 12. and that is in that in—between stage between childhood and adulthood, isuppose between childhood and adulthood, i suppose miriam at least at least miriam, this is a breakdown. >> is this a not a breakdown in the kind of nuclear family situation here, though, miriam? is this is this an issue? is this a wider issue? >> partially true. i think that's partially true. there's a clear link between criminality, particularly in young boys and chaotic families. absolutely. but i think it's also a case for wider society because no nuclear family can bring up a child on their own, can bring them up with the kind of values, the kind of social responsibility, the kind of moral norms on their own. in isolation. we require all of society to emphasise that. and there used to be a time, and there still is in some

other countries where adults would tell children off on the streets and children would know that wherever they go, they have to conform to a certain moral standard that doesn't happen anymore, partly because adults are frightened, partly because adults think, well, it's not my responsibility. so i think there is an element of collective failure here as well as clearly individual failures. in the case of the families involved. >> all right, rebecca, i'll get you to come back. back to that then. this idea that this is a kind of maybe a societal thing, a breakdown of societal and nuclear norms . nuclear norms. >> i don't think it's that and i think the best data set we have about children who kill. so i think in terms of petty crime, there is a correlation with poverty. and you get fewer nuclear families in high poverty environments. so it's a complicated data set that people are very quick to just brush off. but if we're looking at children who kill, which is very different to children who shoplift, the best data set is of school shootings in the us. that's the biggest number of children who commit murder. and the most recent study, which was done by byu, which is a highly christian. more it's a more mormon university in the us, so very skewed towards the nuclear family. and they found that

there was no significant data set to connect child fatherless families or broken families and children who kill. so it's not that it's got to be something else. but the thing is, it's so rare for a child to be violent. children are not inherently violent. children are inherently good, and children want to be loved and feel safe. and so i think this isn't about fatherlessness or broken families, but it is about a world in which these children clearly are not being given the support and the love that they needed. >> yeah, i think there's also just to to just go on. miriam, do you want to come back to that? >> i think children are inherently good or bad. i think they inherently are in need of guidance, training and discipline. that is the point of childhood . and unless that is childhood. and unless that is instilled in children from a very early age and not just by their parents, but also by society as a whole, then sadly, things like this will happen. now, of course, the vast majority of children, even if they do grow up in different circumstances, don't commit murder. and these are the youngest murderers since the bulger case when i was only ten. so this is clearly very, very rare, as you say . rare, as you say. >> but nevertheless, i think sure, but this is clearly this

is clearly rebecca. >> i just i just ask this to you. this is clearly a prime example as indeed you could argue the bulger killers were as well. the other two youngest people to go and kill and be held accountable for that in this country. this is clearly a straightforward case of more discipline needed in the home, isn't it? >> no. i mean, i think you have it. well, first of all, we haven't seen any psychological profiling in—depth of these children, so it's impossible to know. >> sorry. do we need to i mean, they were wandering around with a 16 inch machete. they hacked a man to death. they were doing drugs all the time, committing petty crimes. >> several several children have committed serious violent crimes. were were a victim of physical child abuse in the home. that's discipline. children who are hit at home very often go on to be violent. the majority of men who commit domestic violence have experienced violence in the home. there's plenty of discipline there. discipline is not the issue. good parenting, that's abuse. >> that's not discipline, that's abuse. there is a difference between discipline and abuse. and i'm talking about good discipline, of course. >> but i'm saying more discipline doesn't necessarily mean that children come out better. and also i'm a little

i'm a little nervous of this idea that nuclear family and being raised with values are being raised with values are being conflated because plenty of nuclear families, plenty of non—nuclear families have values and raise children with very strong moral compasses. >> and plenty said that the values of the nuclear family have to be reinforced by society. it's not enough whether your nuclear family is functional or not, good or not, at raising children . why does at raising children. why does society also has a role to play? and that's what i'm saying. i'm not trying to blame the nuclear family on its own in this case, or any other case. i'm saying that even when the nuclear family is doing everything right, you still need society to reinforce values and morals and standards of behaviour. that's vital. and so it's a partnership between society and the family. >> i'll just give i'll just give a final word. >> parents can manage it themselves. >> sorry , rebecca. what was >> sorry, rebecca. what was that? >> i don't think parents can manage themselves. >> no parents don't. some parents are able to instigate that themselves. some parents need a wider village. different families are different. you can't prescribe. >> okay. all right, both of you look. thank you very, very much. great stuff. that's great to see you both. all the best. have a

great weekend ahead as well. that's former conservative mp miriam cates author and journalist rebecca reid. i mean, look, another aspect of this of course, which is not really the topic that we went in on there, but another aspect is eight and a half years minimum in prison. so conceivably if they're 13 now, these two, they could be back out and about, couldn't they essentially, you know, well, eight and a half years time and they're anonymous. we're not allowed to know who they are. so that doesn't bode well for wider society, does it. anyway, coming up at 10:00 pm, very much a shift in tone here. it's a gb news exclusive. >> just thought, was it what i was wearing? why did he do that to me? was it because i looked back at him when he kept staring at me in the restaurant ? at me in the restaurant? >> i've spoken to a brave victim of mohamed al fayed who has waived her right to anonymity to tell the world now about the abuse that she suffered at the hands of that monster. she's hoping that it might cause others to come forward as well. you don't want to miss her story, but next, thanks to your generosity, my fundraiser for friends of the elderly has nearly hit £190,000. i'm going to be speaking to one pensioner

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british history. and i want this to sink in this year more than any other year in british history , there will be the history, there will be the largest number of pensioners struggling . okay, so we can't struggling. okay, so we can't really have that, can we? and they've just had that winter fuel payment cut. so just giving.com/page/save our seniors next week i am going to be living off a food budget of £15. and why you may ask? well because of stories like this i'm delighted to be joined now by angela maskell, who does care for her 82 year old husband, frederick, now she joins us down the line this evening. angela it's great to have you on the show tonight. thank you very, very much. how are you? >> oh, not too bad. thank you. >> oh, not too bad. thank you. >> oh, not too bad. thank you. >> oh, good. well, look, thank you very much for joining us. now, i was hoping to ask you, angela, you're you're going to have the winter fuel payment taken off you this year, aren't you? and could you just tell me how that might affect yourself and your husband as well, please ,

and your husband as well, please, >> well, we only our central heating is inefficient and we don't have it all. and we we've only got , two heaters, halogen only got, two heaters, halogen heaters, but that really isn't enough. you know, ideally, we'd like to get, the central heating fixed, which is going to be costly or alternatively, get some a lot more powerful room heaters, my husband is, has limited mobility. he's an amputee. and i think we've just been let down because there's going to be loads of most people our age have got some sort of health problem, and they've given it no thought of the consequences. the labour government? >> no, indeed. and angela, there's an idea, i think, in britain that people like yourself and your husband have

paid into the system their entire lives. and actually, when the time comes and you're a little bit later in life, you know, you should be looked after a bit more than maybe you are now . how. >> now. >> yes, certainly of course. >> yes, certainly of course. >> do you feel let down in that respect? do you feel as though that that's unfair ? that that's unfair? >> yes, i do very unfair, as you say. and a lot of people say it. we worked hard all our lives , we worked hard all our lives, been law abiding at our time of life . we want to enjoy our life. we want to enjoy our retirement, not sit in the freezing cold with loads of layers on, which doesn't always help. i have to say, and it's just not right. >> no, it's not right . and is >> no, it's not right. and is that going to be your reality? unfortunately, you think this winter, angela, that you and your husband there, as you said, has a couple of health issues are going to be sitting around in the cold with lots of layers on? and i do wonder as well,

with your husband struggling with your husband struggling with his mobility. i suppose that means as well, that he won't be able to actually get up himself and keep warm in a way that, you know, maybe some more able bodied people can do. >> yes, that's right, he has difficulty walking. he has he has a mobility scooter , but has a mobility scooter, but which he doesn't use in the home. but, you know, walking is difficult and he's had some falls , he, as you say, he can't falls, he, as you say, he can't because of his limited mobility. he can't get up and walk around the room a bit as i can, or i can just take myself off and walk up and down the flat. but he can't do that with ease anyway . anyway. >> well, i mean, you shouldn't have to, though , angela. that's have to, though, angela. that's the main point here. you know, you and your husband shouldn't have to, like you've said, worked hard all your lives. law abiding jobs, paid your way, done everything by the book , done everything by the book, done everything by the book, done everything by the book, done everything you were told that you were supposed to do.

and now you're in the situation that you yourselves are in at this particular time of life. and the idea that you would have husband. frederick, yes. so

old husband. frederick, yes. so just to just to say that just giving page is just giving .com forward slash page forward slash save our seniors. in fact it's on your screen. there it is. yes. just down there . it's on yes. just down there. it's on your screen there. and if you can just go and just give a few quid. that would be greatly appreciated because all of that money, including gift aid, by the way, goes to friends of the elderly who could conceivably get help to people like angela and derek this winter. just think ahead. you know , when it think ahead. you know, when it gets to late november, december, and those temperatures really drop, they can get on the phone to friends of the elderly that charity and maybe get a bit of help that they need. so if you have got a few quid, i know it will go to good use. just giving.com/page/save our seniors. thank you very much . seniors. thank you very much. still to come. yes at 10 pm. the brave victim of mohamed al fayed. she breaks her silence. >> he had a piece of paper in his hand. he shoved it down my top and at the same time groped me. and then, with his other

hand, he groped me in my private parts, she tells me about the moment that the former harrods owner attacked her. >> she's hoping that other survivors and victims may come forward. that's at 10 pm, but next. >> the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. the answer is blowing in the wind. >> yeah, i know, i know. anyway, the head of the powerful gmb union has warned that ed miliband's net zero mission will cost millions of jobs, decimate the working class communities and bring everyone a world of pain. so will miliband's eco lunacy bankrupt britain? harry wilkinson from global warming policy foundation

next. welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now coming up, an incredibly brave victim of mohamed al fayed waives her right to anonymity ed

here, essentially saying that ed miliband is going to turn parts

of scotland into a barren hinterland . hinterland. >> well, this is devastating. net zero has been disastrous , net zero has been disastrous, andifs net zero has been disastrous, and it's been particularly disastrous for working class communities where you've had high skilled manufacturing jobs. those are the people that levelling up was supposed to benefit. but this push towards net zero under the last government and being continued under ed miliband is closing all of these industries we've seen our steel, manufacturing closed. we've seen grangemouth oil refinery closed. we've seen cement under pressure. all these high energy intensive industries are really struggling. and that's because we have the highest electricity prices in the world, both for industrial users and now for domestic use. >> let's just explore that , >> let's just explore that, because that's an important point. ed miliband put a tweet out just the other day saying britain is back to being a number one player on the world stage when it comes to net zero. but as you just said there we have the highest electricity bills in the world. is that

right? >> that's right. these are shocking new numbers . we've shocking new numbers. we've always been very high to the top of the list , unfortunately, but of the list, unfortunately, but we're now topping the list for electricity prices and that feeds into every all the other parts of the economy. because energy is at the basis, it's how people heat their homes. it's how we manufacture various products. so this is feeding right through the system. it was part of why we had so high inflation over the last few years . and it's a huge delusion years. and it's a huge delusion to believe that that wind and solar are going to get our energy prices down. we just saw a huge 66% increase in the strike prices offered to new offshore wind in a budget that was actually massively expanded by ed miliband and the government's looked at this in 2020, they looked at the wider system impacts. and they actually found when you compare wind and solar to gas, those system costs. so the fact that you have to back it up, it's not always working. the fact that you have to build all these new pylons connecting these systems to the grid actually has an

enormous cost. >> i mean, look, it does have a cost, but it also has a societal cost, but it also has a societal cost, and, you know, you think back to when thatcher closed the pits and all of that stuff, and you think about those communities there. they always talk about the community was decimated. we end up with something very similar here, conceivably going on where these communities will have mass unemployment, this promise of, oh, there'll be 650,000 green jobs. well, what are they and when are they coming? and who's getting them? so there's a load of unanswered questions there. what i will put to you, though is, well, you know, climate activists indeed, ed miliband. and there is apparently a difference there will say we need to do this . we have to do need to do this. we have to do this. we have a moral obligation to do this, do we not? >> well, i want to tackle climate change as quickly as we possibly can if we want to be world leaders in this, we're going to have to get prices for electricity down. that's the exact opposite of what we've been doing. we could use technologies like gas and nuclear that can actually provide that reliable capacity, and we could have a grid that was much more affordable than it is now. and then other countries would want to copy us. people

would want to copy us. people would also want to adopt evs and heat pumps if electricity prices were cheaper. so they're going about this the wrong way. they're slowing decarbonisation and they're putting many businesses out of business. they're making people go unemployed. and there's a deep irony behind how the left now treats this subject. they fought tooth and nail against thatcher's closing of the pits, as you mentioned, and now they welcome coal power stations being closed. so but this is very welcome from the gmb union. they are finally standing up for workers and i think that's very well. >> well they are exactly. yeah. the unions are not happy and rightly so when it comes to this. so look thank you very much. great to have you on the show. always a pleasure. it's harry wilkinson there who is the head of policy at the global warming policy foundation. right. look i've still got loads coming. your way because in just a few moments time, it is a gb news exclusive , news exclusive, >> i felt embarrassed , i felt >> i felt embarrassed, i felt ashamed, i felt that it possibly could have been my own fault that it happened because i was

wearing a short skirt. >> well, i speak to a brave woman who has waived her right to anonymity to tell the world about the moment that mohamed al fayed attacked her, and she's hoping that other people will now come forward. so you won't want to miss that, because of course, all of that is next. i'm also going to be talking as well about some comments that robert jenrick the tory leadership hopeful made about whether or not we should now withdraw foreign aid to countries that refuse to take back failed asylum seekers in a few countries. they're countries like somalia being one of them. and when you really think about it, why should british taxpayers be paid for a motorway that al—shabab can use to launch the next terror attack? probably not for the best. stay tuned for that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> evening. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. a much drier night tonight compared to last night across the south. pretty chilly one though, so it'll be a cold start

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gb. news well. >> it's 10 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight , christys tonight, >> i felt embarrassed. i felt ashamed, i felt that it possibly could have been my own fault that it happened because i was wearing a short skirt. >> a brave victim of mohamed al fayed waives her anonymity to talk exclusively to me about the moment that the former harrods boss attacked her, and his name is in tatters now, isn't it? >> he's not remembered as the owner of harrods. he's now remembered as a rapist and a sexual predator. and that's what he deserves in my eyes. >> but there are huge questions here. how did the police not charge al fayed during his decades long reign of terror? also al—shabab terrorists .

also al—shabab terrorists. >> el—sisi terrorists. >> el—sisi terrorists. >> should we stop foreign aid to countries like somalia who refuse to take back failed asylum seekers? plus, some. oh no no no . just stop asylum seekers? plus, some. oh no no no .just stop oil no no no. just stop oil activists are back at it . on the activists are back at it. on the same day that their comrades were jailed for a similar protest back in 2022. i've got all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages tonight with my wonderful panel is the communications officer at the institute of economic affairs, reem ibrahim columnist and political commentator patrick o'flynn, and the journalist and broadcaster jj o'flynn, and the journalist and broadcasterjj and sophie. oh, and what's prince harry screaming about here? oh, get ready britain, here we go . ready britain, here we go. stop what you're doing and listen to a brave victim tell

her story. next . her story. next. >> good evening. it's10:00. i'm lewis mckenzie here in the gb newsroom . the israeli military newsroom. the israeli military has ordered residents in some areas of southern beirut to evacuate. this comes as at least two people have been killed and 76 wounded in an israeli strike on the city. multiple explosions were heard in the capital after israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu, vowed to keep fighting hezbollah in lebanon. the idf say they conducted a precise strike on the central headquarters of hezbollah, in the heart of the city. israeli, israeli media is reporting that hezbollah's leader, hassan nasrallah, was the was the proposed target of the attack. but the proscribed terrorist organisation are yet to make an official statement on the

leader's status. soldiers and aid workers are currently taking part in the rescue operation , part in the rescue operation, looking for survivors and victims in the rubble. we'll bnng victims in the rubble. we'll bring you latest updates as and when it happens. reacting to the attack, though, the united states secretary of state, antony blinken, says israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism, but refused to make further comments until they know more information about they know more information about the current strikes on the events of the last hours. >> we are still gathering information, making sure that we fully understand what happened, what the intent was. and until we have that information, i can't. i can't address in detail our response to it. so we'll continue to work on that in the hours ahead . hours ahead. >> meanwhile, sir keir starmer called for a ceasefire in the region, saying escalation serves no one. speaking at the united nations, the prime minister implored the two sides to step back from the brink. saikia also

discussed the importance of a ceasefire deal with his lebanese counterpart. it concludes sir starmer's three day trip to new york after attending the annual meeting of world leaders . meeting of world leaders. barristers representing alleged victims of mohamed al fayed say there are now 60 survivors and they have credible evidence of abuse at fulham football club. the former harrods and fulham fc owner is accused of multiple sexual assaults after a bbc investigation published last week. a spokesman for justice for harrods survivors, a group of barristers representing the alleged victims, say there's been an enormous response to the investigation . more than 180 investigation. more than 180 flood warnings are in place across england after days of heavy rain. images posted on social media show tracks at a train station in shropshire completely submerged in rainwater. the met office says

northern and central parts of england and wales have been hit. the hardest . and dame maggie the hardest. and dame maggie smith, known for the harry potter films and downton abbey, has died at the age of 89. her family released a statement saying she passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning. she leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who were devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother. well, those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm lewis mckenzie. more from me in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good evening. now this is the latest twist in a story that has

been dominating the news for a couple of weeks now, and no doubt will for a few weeks more at least. lawyers acting for alleged victims of the now disgraced ex harrods boss mohamed al fayed , have today mohamed al fayed, have today said that more than 60 survivors have come forward with harrowing stories of abuse, rape and assault at the hands of the former arizona. the justice for harrods survivors group, which is planning legal action against the luxury department store, also said that they expected many more survivors to come forward. a whole host of sickening allegations against the billionaire former harrods owner, who died last year, have emerged in the last few days. now the met police confirmed on thursday that it investigated 19 allegations against al fayed between 1979 and 2013. none of those ever resulted in charges. well, a little earlier today, i spoke to one brave woman who has waived her right to anonymity to speak exclusively to us here @gbnews. now, i do want to make

one thing very clear, actually, about this, that sarah was not paid for this interview. she does not stand to gain any money at all from a lawsuit. she just wanted to come forward to share her horrendous story about mohamed al fayed in the hope that other women might be inspired by this and come forward as well. here we are very pleased to say that i'm joined in the studio now by sarah, who is an incredibly brave victim who has decided to come forward with your story. so thank you very much for joining us today. it's a pleasure to meet you. are you okay? >> yes. i'm fine, thank you. i'm okay. >> would you mind by telling our viewers and listeners exactly what happened then, please? yeah >> so, we're going back to the late 1980s. i was 19 at the time, i was working in knightsbridge in london, and my case is obviously slightly different to the others because i had this sexual assault by fired, in a

restaurant. and it wasn't connected to harrods , i was out connected to harrods, i was out on a date with my boyfriend. we went into a restaurant and when went into a restaurant and when we walked into the restaurant , we walked into the restaurant, mohamed al fayed was sitting at a table with some colleagues of his or friends. i don't know who they were. and my boyfriend said hello, and he said hello back, and i said hello out of being polite. and we sat down and our table was sort of adjacent to them. and we were having dinner. and the whole time he was staring at me, winking at me, smiling at me, i felt very

uncomfortable. and when somebody keeps looking at you, you automatically look at them to see if they're looking at you . see if they're looking at you. and so that i looked back at him a few times because he was making me feel more and more uncomfortable, given i didn't really know who he was at that stage because he wasn't actually famous or really well known at that time. and my boyfriend at the time said, oh, that's, you know, that's mohamed al—fayed. he's the owner of harrods. did you know that? and i said, well, not really, but now you say it. oh, you know , and, i went to the oh, you know, and, i went to the bathroom. halfway through my meal and, as i walked into the ladies bathroom, he was literally right in there behind me. he came into the bathroom and put his back to the bathroom door so nobody else could come in, and i straight away said,

oh, i think you're in the wrong, wrong toilet because, you know, it wasn't normal. and he said, no, no, no, i'm not in the wrong toilet. i've come in because i want to pay you a compliment, and i want to tell you, you know, you're beautiful and all this nonsense, all this sort of, you know , nonsense talking. and you know, nonsense talking. and i just sort of felt immediately uneasy. and i said , well, you uneasy. and i said, well, you know, what do you want me to say? and with that, he had a piece of paper in his hand. he shoved it down my top, and at the same time groped me. and then with his other hand, he groped me in my private parts. really really aggressively. i mean, it was aggressive, and i was just completely shocked. i was just completely shocked. i was just completely shocked. i was just i was 19, not

particularly , you know, a young particularly, you know, a young girl just learning about life, really, and getting out there in the big wide world. so for me, this was something you know, i was just shocked. and i just stood there and i froze. and with that, he said to me, call this number. you'll you won't regret it . we'll have a great regret it. we'll have a great time together. and keep this incident between us private sort of thing. and he was very forceful . and with that, he he forceful. and with that, he he left. he left. okay. and i just stood there and felt sick. i remember thinking, what? what was that? what just happened there . there. >> and that impacted you both emotionally and physically in terms of the hurt, didn't it? >> absolutely, absolutely.

because you at that time , also because you at that time, also in the late 80s, you it wasn't. so, outwardly spoken about any sort of abuse from people . you sort of abuse from people. you know, it's not like today they teach the young children in schools. if ever this happens to you, you come and tell somebody, you, you come and tell somebody, you know, you you talk about it. i just thought, was it what i was wearing? why did he do that to me? was it because i looked back at him when he kept staring at me in the restaurant? i was making all these excuses, almost sort of blaming, blaming myself for the incident , for the for the incident, for the assault. and i remember , going assault. and i remember, going back to my table and sitting down and really making a sort of conscientious effort to completely turn my head away from his view to even look at me because he was he'd gone and sat back down and i just said to my

boyfriend, i want to go home, can we leave? and he said, are you okay? and i said, no. and he said, no, you look very pale. what's what's wrong? and i just said, i just need to get home, okay? >> and then when you did get home, you were stunned into not wanting to tell anybody about this. i believe actually , until this. i believe actually, until very, very recently, no one. really? no. you kept this to yourself? >> well, at the time i was , i >> well, at the time i was, i was sharing a flat, sharing with a girlfriend, and she was the only person i told, and i spoke to her about it and i said, you know , i don't know what to do. know, i don't know what to do. and she said, well, you know what can you do about something like that? you know, are you going to go to the police and i said, well, do you think i should? and she said, yes, i do. and i said, well, i'll think about it, but then i started thinking about who he was . was

thinking about who he was. was it a good idea? are people going to believe me, i felt embarrassed. i felt ashamed, i felt that it possibly could have been my own fault that it happened because i was wearing a short skirt , and, you know, that short skirt, and, you know, that was the fashion. in the 1980s, we wore these little rah rah skirts. they were called and, you know, and you start thinking , you know, and you start thinking, actually, was it my fault? did i encourage it? and with the other women coming forward, it gave me such a sense of relief because it was almost a clarification that i now know it didn't just happen to me and i wasn't the only one. and he was doing this to lots of other women and young, young girls. yeah. >> do you think that if you weren't in a relatively public environment, albeit a ladies toilet at this restaurant, that he would have gone further? >> yes, yes, i do . it wasn't the

>> yes, yes, i do. it wasn't the fact that i pulled back and i was it didn't seem to deter him. he he had this look in his eyes and i'll never forget it. it was like a monstrous i'm going to get what i want from you, you know, i don't care how you feel. and i do think because it was in a public place. so to speak, he he would have gone further had he would have gone further had he could. i think he was worried somebody might come in, or i might have started screaming or something like that. so he made his exit pretty quickly, and i think he would have definitely raped me if he'd had half the chance. 100%. >> and you get the impression that he did this kind of thing quite a lot. >> yes. >> yes. >> he he had no qualms about making me feel uncomfortable or scaring me or making me feel scared. i mean, i think the look on my face must have said it all, and the fact that i just, i

pulled back and i was being very, you know, i was resisting, must have said everything to him . must have said everything to him. >> and has this had an impact on your future relationships? this has an impact. i hope you don't mind me asking, but on your current relationship, because as i understand it, your your current partner wasn't aware of this until quite recently . this until quite recently. >> i haven't told anybody. i kept it to myself apart from my girlfriend. i kept it to myself because . it makes you feel , because. it makes you feel, ashamed. it's a shameful feeling when somebody does that to you and somebody violates your body without consent. and as a young person as well, it's made me feel that i didn't ever want to talk about it. and even later on in life, seeing him on tv when his son had the horrendous accident with dodi and diana , accident with dodi and diana, every time i looked at him , i

every time i looked at him, i just, i just, you know , but it just, i just, you know, but it you do go through life feeling you're a little bit damaged where you are damaged. there's that there and you put it in a box and you learn to put it away. and that's how i've dealt with it. i've said . i've away. and that's how i've dealt with it. i've said. i've said to myself , i'm with it. i've said. i've said to myself, i'm not going to think about this because it would. it would ruin your mindset if you let it. and it can do. and it did for me for a while. i don't think i went out for about three months. yeah, i didn't want to go out and i had a bruise on my leg for a long time where he grabbed me and this is ties in now to as in the fullness of time following his death , it's time following his death, it's now emerged that there were 19 abuse allegations, i believe, from 19 separate women, including the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault between a period of 1979 and 2013.

>> yeah, these were, as i understand it, reported to the police between 2005 and 2013. and i think they went to the crown prosecution service five times at no point was a charge ever brought. how does that make you feel ? you feel? >> disgusted ? absolutely let >> disgusted? absolutely let down completely. i mean, obviously i didn't make a complaint, but for those other women that i believe had gone through worse with him than i had on many occasions, the whole system has let them down. i mean, they've been they've been raped. they've been sexually assaulted. and how i feel is probably half as not as bad as how they must feel when, because a lot of this with them was happening regularly , so yeah, happening regularly, so yeah, the system is wrong. it's corrupted. and i do believe that

he had a lot of people covering for him , it seems that way that for him, it seems that way that there's been a lot of cover ups and, you know, it's disgusting really, that that he's got away with it because had they come forward and had the police followed this through and the cps had followed it through , cps had followed it through, then, you know, he would have been alive when justice would have been and had some consequences. >> i will just say before i ask you the final question on this, that in light of all of those times that people did come forward and still nothing was done, you know, i really do hope that you don't feel as though if you had come forward, something would have changed because it clearly wouldn't have done so, you know, would you now urge other people to come forward? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and what can i ask as well? what is it that you hope is done now because he has passed away? >> yeah. so because for me, it's given me a relief and it's made

me feel , you know, it wasn't me. me feel, you know, it wasn't me. it wasn't what i did. i didn't do anything wrong. i feel that me coming and speaking about my experience , it will help other experience, it will help other ladies that have been through the same thing with him to come forward. and i think if we can all have an impact on this horrendous situation with him, what he did then , we can all get what he did then, we can all get justice and his name's in tatters now, isn't it? he's not remembered as the owner of harrods. he's now remembered as a rapist and a sexual predator. and that's what he deserves in my eyes. >> sarah, thank you very, very much for coming forward today. thank you. i'm absolutely convinced that your story will help other people. >> i hope so. >> i hope so. >> both find peace, hopefully, and justice as well. so thank you very, very much for your

time today. >> thank you very much. thank you. okay. take care. >> yes. well, what an incredibly brave lady. and now the metropolitan police are appealing for more women to come forward with their experiences as they explore whether any other individuals now could be pursued for criminal offences. if you heard sarah's story and you want to come forward with your own experience and speak to the police, then you can contact the police, then you can contact the complex investigation team on 020 8217 6582. now, i would just like to thank sarah again personally. in fact, that number is on your screen there. but i would like to thank sarah again personally for coming forward and speaking to us today. i wish her all the very best. okay, coming up, i will have all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages for you. i have had a little look at them and there are some absolute corkers on there . but absolute corkers on there. but first, as he sets out his plan to increase the number of deportations from the uk by 100,000, is tory leadership hopeful robert jenrick right that we should cut foreign aid

from countries that won't take back asylum seekers? those include places like india, somalia. my panel will tackle that ahead

next. okay. welcome back to patrick christys tonight . now, robert christys tonight. now, robert jenrick stepped his campaign up to become the next tory leader. he's vowed to slash foreign aid from countries that won't take back refused asylum seekers. because it's all part of the

tory leadership. hopefuls plan to deport 100,000 more migrants per year. he also said that asylum seekers from countries like turkey, brazil, vietnam they will be barred from entering the uk altogether. he basically wants them to just be classed as safe countries, and his intervention comes ahead of the tory party conference next week. and he's one of four tory mps who will make their case to be the next leader. so, as robert jenrick right that countries who won't take back failed asylum seekers should face cuts to their foreign aid . face cuts to their foreign aid. i'm entering my panel into the discussion here. we've got reem ibrahim from the institute of economic affairs, columnist, political commentator patrick o'flynn, journalist and broadcaster jj anas sarwar. and look, patrick, i'll start with you on this one. do you think that that we should be stripping foreign aid from countries like somalia or even india, really, i suppose, who refuse to take back failed asylum seekers? >> absolutely. well, i mean, i cut foreign aid from almost everyone to its fullest extent anyway. so he's speaking my language. but absolutely, if they're not showing good faith to give them british taxpayers

money and they won't take back their own illegal immigrants. absolutely. and i think robert jenrick is also saying we should drastically curtail visas for legal migrants from from some of these countries , particularly these countries, particularly a country like india, that sends us, you know, hundreds of thousands of migrants with visas a year and yet only takes back, you know, a few dozen at most of thousand several illegal undocumented migrants. so i think, you know, we're supposed to have all this soft power in britain. let's use it. let's let's use it. let's stand up to them. >> there's also this is not directly what robert jenrick is talking about, but is an example where there was a couple of members of the rochdale grooming gang who had dual pakistani and british nationality. the pakistanis were not particularly keen to take them back, and i've got an element of sympathy for that. however, we obviously didn't want them here anymore. they were scheduled for deportation. we couldn't get rid of them. and you know, we do give money to pakistan as well. now, is that another area where we could be saying, well, look, we're going to stop sending you this stuff if you don't take back criminals that we don't

want here. >> well, i'm with patrick on this. i think a lot of these countries don't deserve foreign aid regardless. i mean, we currently give to money countries that are wealthier than some areas of the uk. the iea came out with a report a couple of weeks ago on this on this very point that actually there are so many areas in the world where we are actually funding things that are effectively higher gdp per capha effectively higher gdp per capita than some areas of the uk. now on this point on immigration, i think that what's interesting about the conservative party leadership election is that all four of those candidates are trying to define themselves as being a particular faction within the party. so this really is not just a debate about the future of the leader of the conservative party, but also the future of conservatism as a whole. and the definition about what that looks like for immigration. now, i think that if you're an illegal migrant, , if you're an illegal migrant,, you should not be allowed to become a british citizen in this country. >> yeah. which is, let's be honest, a marked contrast to the current, policy. so that's mad. >> but they've had he was part of a government that had 14 years to sort this out. numbers only rose and rose and rose. i think what jeff is trying to do is try and get some of those

reform voters to get behind him. so if he does become leader, he's got them. but if you get those people behind you, you need to produce and i don't think he'll have enough people around him backing him in in his party that that even if, even if becomes prime minister, this will not get pushed. >> well, he resigned as his minister for immigration as a result of the fact that he wasn't able to get any of this legislation through. >> yeah. when i spoke to him, a good few months ago , not long good few months ago, not long after he quit, actually, and he was quite honest, very honest with me. was behind the scenes where essentially he said he's almost become a bit radicalised by what he'd seen behind the curtain at the home office because he'd gone into it with maybe one set of ideas seen the mess and the reality, and then come out of it as this version of himself. so i do think there is authenticity to it. i think i do think he's been on a bit of a journey there, in a sense, i know, but, do you think it's possible? >> because even emily thornberry was saying just a few months ago before labour got into power, she was saying that we have all this fraud done online, where it's from, from factories in

brazil, from places in nigeria, from all over the world. you've got these warehouses full of people on the computers for defrauding us in this country. and she said we should stop doing trade deals with those countries. it's not going to happen. >> no, i don't agree with that. >> no, i don't agree with that. >> i don't think it can happen. >> i don't think it can happen. >> i don't think it can happen. >> i don't think we should be stopping trade deals with particular countries as a result of that, because that will just hurt british consumers at the end of the day. >> and i think india is going to do when we turn around and say to them, we're cutting your foreign aid because because you won't take your case for it. >> i mean, i get this, i at risk of enraging indian twitter again at this point. i'm i'm loathe to do because that was that was not a week i want to revisit. they have got a space program. yes. they have landed on the dark side of the moon, and i'm not really sure that brits need to be continuing to give them money. no. >> and the economy is growing at five, six, 7% a year. you know, they're on an upward path. they can stand on their own two feet if they don't prioritise anti—poverty spending in their own country, which you can argue they don't, then that's a matter for indian democracy and for the voters to take a view. we

shouldn't be stepping in to be their sort of socialist cashcard. >> i'm sorry, but it's not asking for that much to say. here are some people who have broken into britain illegally. so forget the actual criminal if they've committed crimes here. but people who've actually come into britain illegally, we don't want to take them back. we give you x amount of money every single year, whether it's 20 or 30 million for somalia or yemen or these places. we do not want these people here. if you want to keep that money, then you have to take these five people back or it's not that big of a thing, is it? >> it is. it's really interesting because it's a very clear incentive issue. right? it's effectively generic is saying here is something that we give them. this is the carrot. we're going to take the carrot away. and that way that hopefully they'll have that incentive to take those particular people back. but the problem is the home office, the problem is the home office, the problem is the immigration system and the problem is the fact that we have so many people on the asylum seeker backlog that are just completely unaccounted for. we don't know who these people are. british taxpayers are paying for them. and effectively, those particular people in this country are allowed to stay here for so long, which ends up meaning they end up working in the gig economy. they work for

the gig economy. they work for the black market. >> well, i think to be fair to generic, he has got quite a lot of different policies addressing the issue, whether it's reviving rwanda or perhaps, setting up a reception centre on a british overseas territory, you know, he's been thinking about it for this period of time and has prioritised it and seems to be ahead of the other leadership contenders on it. >> works a bit pressed for time. i want to get to the front page, but jj, the british taxpayer is being ripped off. i think whichever way you look at it would be my view, certainly with the people who are coming over here illegally, the bill that we're paying for them, the cost of what it's going to cost over the course of their lifetime. some estimates are between 200,000 £400,000 per person, which is astonishing amount of money. but then if you wallop foreign aid on top of that, as well, and then those countries do not take these people back. i mean, it is just like the british taxpayers just we might as well just incinerate our cash, aren't we? >> i would like the government, whichever one it is, i'd like them to do what trump did, set up processing centres abroad. thenif up processing centres abroad. then if anyone comes illegally in the small boats, you can say we are sending you back because

you have a place nearer where you have a place nearer where you could have gone and been processed. if you come, if you come otherwise, then automatically send them back. >> are you going to say build a wall in the channel? >> we're going to build a wall. >> we're going to build a wall. >> we're going to build the wall in the channel. >> that's the best wall you've ever seen. okay. >> all right guys. again great stuff. and when we come back i will have the very first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages for you. there is an absolute corker on there, about the time that boris johnson nearly invaded a european country. but what's prince harry so scared of now ? all right, all much more in a few minutes.

welcome back to patrick christys tonight, and it's time to have a quick look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages. and i must say , we're going in strong must say, we're going in strong with the daily mail, because this is a corker. all right, bonsis this is a corker. all right, boris is dramatic plan for a military raid on holland to snatch back our vaccines. there we go. he's also talking about

his, his time with covid. but, yeah, he apparently hatched a plan for british special forces to invade holland and seize vaccines back from the dutch. so we'll talk about that in a second. the telegraph also lead with that story, they have lord alli £16,000 for starmer. that's an additional £16,000, it appears, for clothing, apparently hezbollah chief targeted an israeli airstrike. quite strong rumours circulating that he has in fact been killed. but i don't think we've had official confirmation yet. and dame maggie smith sadly dies at the age of 89. a fabulous actress, the i israel's warning to iran. that's what they've got there and the picture story of that rubble in beirut. the guardian again, i'll just round us off with this. israel launches heaviest air attack on lebanon. so that's that's leading a lot of it. the final one i'll talk to you about tonight and we will discuss this again with the panel, is the son phil phillip schofield ? i was phil phillip schofield? i was thrown under the bus. he takes

jibes at his former co—host, holly willoughby. he won't work again for itv. he says this is all i think. his monologue on a desert island that they sent him to. so. so yeah, that's that's that's certainly a story we'll talk about. let's deal with bons talk about. let's deal with boris and the dutch first. so bons boris and the dutch first. so boris johnson wanted to invade the netherlands essentially, i suppose, do a raid on the astrazeneca plant. is that right? i'm saying where where there's a warehouse. there's a warehouse where these vaccines are being stored. and for a while, the dutch were , were while, the dutch were, were keeping hold of these, but he was told it was nuts. so. so bons was told it was nuts. so. so boris nearly took us to war with the dutch rain. >> i mean, it's fascinating . >> i mean, it's fascinating. absolutely incredible. the sorts of things that you hear in in prime ministers memoirs. i think what's so interesting about this is actually, in many ways, johnson's bravery . now, i'm no johnson's bravery. now, i'm no huge boris johnson. oh, we don't like that. >> i. i know he's borisjohnson >> i. i know he's boris johnson fan, but what i will say is that the fact that he was so willing

to protect this country with, with literally anything i think it's fascinating. >> can i just say, can i just say, right, let's cast our minds back to however we feel now and in my view, rightly, some people do have a deep amount of scepticism about exactly how well certain , covid related well certain, covid related products work. but at the time, this was seen as maybe our our big great white hope and the eu had robbed them. and i think he probably would have been quite popular if he'd sent the sas in. >> i think it's a load of old baloney. yes. and you used the word incredible. i would use that word in its in its original sense. it was incredible. i think he probably said it as an aside, a joke for about five seconds. i don't think it was ever going to happen. i remember the incident and the european commission was basically saying, you can't have this stuff . but you can't have this stuff. but the idea he would have sent an sas squadron up the canals of

holland to snatch it. i just think it's good fodder for his memoirs, but i won't i won't be buying that. >> boris johnson is a fantasist, right? he's trying to sell a book, so he's making up stories. the other day he said, i was called in to speak to to harry try and convince prince harry to stay in the uk. comes out today. the news is the royal family said we never asked boris johnson to speak to prince harry. he's making stuff up to sell a book and mugs like him are sitting there going oh, he's the hero, i love him. >> i think this was i didn't say he's a hero. >> i said i'm not generally speaking, not a boris johnson fan. i'm totally against lockdown , to use one of boris's lockdown, to use one of boris's phrases, can i just say i would have backed the daring raid ' 7 m. again? >> totally, totally , 100%. if >> totally, totally, 100%. if he'd have gone, if he'd have, if he'd have gone, if he'd have, if he'd have, if i'd have been seeing, you know, chinook helicopters above , above a helicopters above, above a warehouse, somewhere in wherever the heck this is in rural holland. laden. i don't even know where that is. >> leader. i think it is incredible that somebody finally has the nerve to stand up to the

european union, and the nerve to say he didn't do it and he didn't do it. but but the fact that he even considered it, i think shows that finally, there are people in government you only have to consider consider it. >> yes, it.- >> yes, i it. >> yes, i consider it it. — >> yes, i consider it as it. >> yes, i consider it as well. then am i a hero? >> thankfully you are my hero, jj, but it's interesting because we got these vaccines. >> this was a time as well when it was looking like they were. i mean, they were actually they were being held hostage by the eu. i mean the french's attempt to get a vaccine. i mean, honestly, they might as well just put water in a syringe, drizzle a bit garlic on it or something. but like but but yeah. so they needed, they needed the stuff that we had procured. again i will emphasise there are varying views on the efficacy of vaccines. but anyway and you know at that time i thought, you know, he could have he could have, he could have sent the boys in. i don't see what the problem would have been. >> well, i say in boris's own words and boris's own words in inverted pyramid of piffle is the phrase yes , yes, the phrase yes, yes, invertebrate jelly. >> you're thinking in terms. >> you're thinking in terms. >> okay, well, have i got time? you probably i have, yeah. phillip schofield, let's do him.

so i was thrown under the bus in the front of the sun. was phillip schofield really thrown under the bus , patrick. or is under the bus, patrick. or is this a desperate attempt by a man who many regard as a bit of a wrong'un to try to varnish his reputation? >> more of that. and one line leapt out at me, which he says he'll never work for itv again. i think those terms are probably mutually acceptable for itv. >> i'll never play for united. yeah he was thrown under the bus, though he was. >> holly willoughby was his best mate. there were so smug together. every award ceremony turning up to work drunk haven't been home yet. oh, look at us. aren't we a pair going on holidays together? and then suddenly he gets a bit of bad press and she's like, are you okay? >> that's not true. >> that's not true. >> okay, yes it is true. that's not true. no, that's not true. i think you're being so unfair to holly. i think effectively what happenedis holly. i think effectively what happened is she realised that he had effectively lied to his entire family, had caused so much heartache. what's that got to do with her? came out well because they were both seen as a team. so it had a lot to do with how their brand was. holly and phil, it had so much to do with

her. if his brand was damaged , her. if his brand was damaged, her. if his brand was damaged, her brand was damaged. of course it mattered to him and i do think that ultimately the fact i mean, yes, he might have felt as though he was thrown under the bus, i think he threw himself unden >>i unden >> i wonder if he's reading the room or in this case, the island here by by by playing the victim, i mean a lot of people. okay. i think what's the what was the says unwise but not illegal. and that's true. it you know what has been out there. it is not illegal. okay. >> but but certainly unwise. and he was right to point that out. but i think that ultimately he's totally misread the room. i don't think anybody in the british public feels any ounce of sorry for him. i don't think people feel sorry for him. >> i mean, i'm not going to be watching the programme, but we don't get any air of contrition from him. he still feel more sinned against than sinning. i'm the victim here. well, i don't think many of the british public are going to going to fall for that. >> no, i yeah, i agree, i don't think, i don't think people will. but anyway, right after the first tranche of newspaper front pages, now though, prince

harry appeared on the tonight show with jemmy fallon last night, with the pair taking a little wander through jimmy's haunted maze. that's not a euphemism, and he might have survived two tours of afghanistan, but the maze proved a bit too much of a hurry. >> here it is, about to go in with a very special guest, prince harry. harry, thank you for doing this. >> are you easily scared? >> are you easily scared? >> i'm not normally, but today might be different. >> all right, let's see. >> all right, let's see. >> let's go. here we go. >> let's go. here we go. >> that actually got me . all >> that actually got me. all right. that one actually. oh, god. >> thank you so much for doing that. let's do it. three, two. one. go whoa i one. go whoa! >> oh, there we go. it's got to do something about that hair, honey. >> okay. >> okay. >> anyway, coming up, coming up, coming up. i'll have some more of tomorrow's newspaper front pages for you . and it does pages for you. and it does emerge as well. that just stop oil have been back at it again .

oil have been back at it again. and i don't think you're going to like what they've done, and neither will vincent van gogh. or is it gough? who knows? sinner sukh.

welcome back to patrick christys tonight, and i've got some more front pages for you. so this is the times. tuition fees to rise, but grants return too. so apparently labour wants an annual cap up of 13.5% to £10,500. let me just give you the front lines of this. so tuition fees will rise in line with inflation and maintenance grants will be restored for the poorest students under this government's plans. apparently, the education secretary, bridget phillipson, has said the value of the £9,250 a year tuition fee has been eroded because it had not risen in a very long time.

okay, i'm not quite sure that that's a wise move, but anyway, the daily express so vindictive labouris the daily express so vindictive labour is in denial over fuel row. so rachel reeves is being quite as vindictive as she frees up billions of pounds of investment to help struggling pensioners. campaigners say the chancellor is planning to tweak rules to unlock £50 billion, while sticking to her plans to take the £300 off 10 million over 65. so that's the daily express gripe there. the daily express gripe there. the daily express are doing a fantastic campaign. i must say, when it comes to trying to highlight some of the real life issues. in a separate note, we also have our fundraiser which is just giving.com/page forward slash, save our seniors and this show alone. you wonderful people have raised about 5 or 6 grand. last time i had a look at it, it was on £192,000 now. so thank you very much everybody. and like i said as well, just quickly as the as the months and weeks get colder, i'll be doing more and more out and about to try and highlight the issues there. we go. move on to the daily mirror.

now a true legend. tears and tributes to dame maggie smith, who has died at the age of 89. a national treasure mourned an iconic actress sadly passed away. right? i'm just going to whizz us through a couple of clips that have caught my eye over the course of the day, so this is a haitian politician called edgard leblanc. now he got a little bit drenched whilst making a speech during the un general assembly in new york last night, but it wasn't from sweat. should we have a little look? >> he's not looking for charity, but justice, respect . but justice, respect. >> why did he go straight for the job? >> well, you never go full judge. >> i think he. he didn't know where he was looking, and he was like , mouths dry. oh, it's too like, mouths dry. oh, it's too late. i've got to carry on. >> he weighed it up. he weighed it up. >> he thought, i'm going for

this. >> he was trying to make an impactful statement, and this is the way he got it. i demand respect . respect. >> it's that. is it a worse that to people in prison demanc.ng an end to new oil and respect. >> it's that. is it a worse gaffe than sausages? gaffe than sausages? >> it's up there, isn't it? no >> it's up there, isn't it? no no probably not, probably not. no probably not, probably not. >> yeah i mean yeah , absolutely >> yeah i mean yeah , absolutely >> yeah i mean yeah, absolutely absolutely ridiculous. i don't >> yeah i mean yeah, absolutely absolutely ridiculous. i don't know if i believe i might be know if i believe i might be able to play you a little clip able to play you a little clip as well of, yes, i can. so three as well of, yes, i can. so three just stop oil supporters have just stop oil supporters have today been arrested after two today been arrested after two vincent van gogh or whatever it vincent van gogh or whatever it is . is . vincent van gogh or whatever it is. paintings were vincent van gogh or whatever it is . paintings were targeted just vincent van gogh or whatever it is. paintings were vincent van gogh or whatever it is . paintings were targeted just is. paintings were targeted just hours after fellow activists was is. paintings were targeted just hours after fellow activists was not looking for charity, but not looking for charity, but justice. okay, that's our justice. okay, that's our haitian friend demanding haitian friend demanding respect, anyway, basically these respect, anyway, basically these just stop oil activists, they just stop oil activists, they went back in for vincent van went back in for vincent van gogh just after a couple of gogh just after a couple of their comrades had been sent to their comrades had been sent to prison. so here it is. prison. so here it is. >> so . oh, no. no no . >> so . oh, no. no no . >> so. oh, no. no no. >>— >> so. oh, no. no no. >> oh my god, why are you doing >> so. oh, no. no no. >>— >> so. oh, no. no no. >> oh my god, why are you doing that to people in prison that to people in prison demanding an end to new oil and demanding an end to new oil and

gas ? gas? >> not quite sure the words that someone said at the end there, but if they said, well, i think they said, then i apologise. but time for today's greatest britain, an indian jackass, right? so we're going to be quite quick with this, who's your greatest british dream? >> my greatest britain is. i'm sure you'll agree. patrick, i'm going to go with boris johnson. i actually think just the mere fact that he even considered going to all the netherlands to protect this great country, i think is excellent. >> does it take a lot to impress you? does it go on, patrick? >> it's got to be dame maggie smith. extraordinary career. she shot to fame in the prime of miss jean brodie, which was 55 years ago. she'd already been in a few things before that, but the sheer span and she became a national treasure. so on the day the news of her death was broken, i think she should be our greatest britain. >> okay. go on. who's your greatest britain dj? >> it's the late rob burrow. the former professional rugby player. yesterday would have been his 42nd birthday and obviously he died earlier this year with motor neurone disease and he did so much to raise awareness about the disease and raised so much money for it as

well. >> yeah, absolutely. look, three absolutely stellar choices there, i must say. and i really hate to do this, but i'm going to i'm going to just rampage straight through it with one of my own, which is the brave sarah, who spoke to us earlier on, about her. the impact that she had when she was assaulted by mohamed al fayed. so i just thought i'd . i'd like to make thought i'd. i'd like to make her today's greatest britain. can i go for union , jackass, please? >> mine's ed miliband, because in the same week, he effectively said that net zero is excellent. it's going to save so many people. we've also found out that it's also going to completely axe about a million jobs in britain. >> yes, it is . >> yes, it is. >>— >> yes, it is. >> and plunge people into poverty and ruin lives. so yeah, there we go. >> i must say that that is a strong contender, but mine is. mine is sayeeda varsi, who's playing the victim and pretending she's stalking off from the tory party, when in fact she was caught red handed, revelling in senior colleagues, having been the victims of racial slurs . right. so she was racial slurs. right. so she was probably about to get the

conservative. >> no. yeah, yeah. well, i don't know why she was a tory to be honest. but anyway. go on. >> jj, mine are those just stop oil idiots, phoebe plummer and anna holland, who have been jailed for damaging the van gogh painting the first time this plumber girl grew up in to quid spare, please do go to justgiving.com forward slash page forward slash save our

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with temperatures a touch below the average for the end of september. but the winds will be lighter tomorrow compared to today. on sunday, though we do have to talk about the winds picking up in the southwest. a fine bright start for many. a few showers in northern scotland, but the winds whipping up here we do have a met office yellow warning in place for the coast of wales and southwest england. those gusty winds could cause some disruption, rain coming in here as well, but for many, much of the day will be dry again . dry again. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of

gb news. >> good evening. it's 11:00. gb news. >> good evening. it's11:00. i'm lewis mackenzie in the gb newsroom. the israeli military has ordered residents in some areas of southern beirut to evacuate. this comes as at least six people have now been killed and 91 wounded in an israeli

strike on the city. multiple explosions were heard in the capital after israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to keep fighting hezbollah in lebanon. the idf say they conducted a precise strike on the central headquarters of the proscribed terrorist organisation. soldiers and aid workers alike are currently taking part in the rescue operations, looking for survivors and victims in the rubble. reacting to the attack, the united states secretary of state, antony blinken, says israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism but refused to make further comment until they knew more information about the current strikes on the events of the last hours. >> we are still gathering information , making sure that we information, making sure that we fully understand what happened, what the intent was, and until we have that information, i can't, i can't address in detail our response to it. so we'll continue to work on that in the

hours ahead. >> barristers representing alleged victims of mohamed al fayed say they are now 60 survivors and they have credible, credible evidence of abuse at fulham football club. the former harrods and fulham fc owner is accused of multiple sexual assaults after a bbc investigation was published last week. a spokesman for justice for harrods survivors, a group of barristers representing the alleged victims, says there has been an enormous response to the investigation. one of the alleged victims has spoken exclusively to gb news. >> he had this look in his eyes and i'll never forget it. it was like a monstrous i'm going to get what i want from you. you know, i don't care how you feel. and i do think because it was in a public place. so to speak, he he would have gone further had he would have gone further had he could. i think he was worried somebody might come in, or i might have started screaming or

something like that. so he made his exit pretty quickly, and i think he would have definitely raped me if he'd had half the chance. 100%. >> more than 180 flood warnings are in place across england after days of heavy rain. images posted on social media show tracks at a train station in shropshire completely submerged in rainwater. the met office says northern and central parts of england and wales have been hit. the hardest, and dame maggie smith, known for the harry potter films and downton abbey , has died at the age of abbey, has died at the age of 89. her family released a statement saying she passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning. she leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who were devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother. well, those are your latest gb news headlines . your latest gb news headlines. >> i've been lewis mckenzie for the very latest gb news direct

to your smartphone . sign up to to your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you lewis. hello and welcome to headliners. it's your first look at saturday's top news stories with three comedians and one of them, leo carson. tonight i'm joined by josh howie and bruce devlin. how the devlin are you? >> i'm all right. how are you? >> i'm all right. how are you? >> yeah. not bad. >> yeah. not bad. >> how are you doing? how are you doing? i can't believe you missed that out. >> and that's just bringing back my childhood at school. did you. did you have an enjoyable childhood at school? no. right. that explains it. >> yes. i was massively bullied. >> yes. i was massively bullied. >> and then i became a comedian. yeah. isn't that how it works? >> you became a comedian. >> you became a comedian. >> why were you bullied? were you gay as well? >> no, i mean