too far. but she then says gone too far. but she then says that her comments have been misrepresented. >> i've been a minister for women and equalities. i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that, and i won't have my views misrepresented. >> and energy price hike as it gets colder outside. your energy bills are set to rise by 10% at midnight. will you be forced to restrict your energy use this winter.7 and is there bbc bias .7 winter.7 and is there bbc bias.7 the broadcaster has been accused of being institutionally hostile to israel by three jewish organisations over its coverage of the conflict in the middle east. a former bbc controller joins me to discuss that very shortly . and more expensive shortly. and more expensive booze in scotland, the minimum unit price for alcohol has increased by 30%. in an attempt to lose the title of scotland being the drink death capital of the uk. will it make any

difference .7 and working with difference? and working with andrew monday to thursday just clearly isn't enough for me. i'll find out about our saturday afternoon together at henley literary festival . literary festival. >> and i'm here at the at the tory conference. gosh, how can i confuse it? it's not exactly like it was at the labour conference last week. by this time last week, labour conference was rammed. it's a bit more like a ghost town here. this is the tory party in opposition. we saw rishi sunak briefly yesterday. he's been and gone and now all eyes are focused on kemi badenoch. after that row she got into over to maternity bay. she'll be doing a hustings later on with tom tugendhat. i'll be in there for that. but of course we want to hear what you think. send your views and post your comments by visiting gb news. com forward slash the seine. but first, here's the news with mark .

white. >> good morning. the main headunes >> good morning. the main headlines at 932 as andrew and bev just mentioned, at the top of the programme, the tory leadership contender kemi badenoch has defended comments she made over the level of maternity pay, saying her remarks have been misinterpreted. it follows an interview in which the shadow housing secretary appeared to suggest the allowance could be seen as excessive, but miss badenoch hit back, calling for an honest campaign. >> i've been a minister for women and equalities. i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that and i won't have my views misrepresented. >> meanwhile, the to race replace rishi sunak as tory party leader takes centre stage at the conservative party conference in birmingham today, a day after the former prime

minister urged the to party stop squabbling. two of the leadership contenders, kemi badenoch and tom tugendhat, will face a question and answer session. james cleverly and robert jenrick. the other two candidates will face questions on tuesday. the lebanese prime minister has said up to i million people have been displaced as fighting between israel and the terror group hezbollah continues. overnight, israeli airstrikes targeted central beirut for the first time. the terror group, the popular front for the liberation of palestine, said three of its leaders were killed in the strikes. meanwhile, hamas said its leader in lebanon has been killed along with some members of his family in an airstrike overnight in southern lebanon . overnight in southern lebanon. the uk's biggest steelworks is ending production today after more than a century of

operations . blast furnace four operations. blast furnace four is the final furnace operating at tata steel's plant in port talbot. from today it will be shut down, putting around 2000 people out of work. the works will enter a transition phase for the next three years until a new electric arc furnace is installed . the legendary country installed. the legendary country music singer and actor kris kristofferson has died at the age of 88. a family spokesperson said. the star passed away peacefully at his home in hawaii on saturday. he won three grammys for best country song , grammys for best country song, help me make it through the night and starred alongside barbra streisand in the 1976 film a star is born, for which he won a golden globe . the duke he won a golden globe. the duke of sussex is making a rare visit to the uk today to celebrate the achievements and resilience of

seriously ill youngsters and their families. seriously ill youngsters and theirfamilies. prince seriously ill youngsters and their families. prince harry will attend the wellchild awards ceremony in london in his role as the charity's patron, a position he has held for more than 15 years. the king is believed to be spending time in his balmoral home, and it's thought he has not seen harry since the duke rushed to his father's side after the king's cancer diagnosis in february. be right up to date with the latest headlines. i'm back with more 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 . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom live. across the uk on gb news i am bev turner. i am in london. andrew pierce is at the tory party

conference in birmingham. andrew kemi badenoch is having to defend herself this morning, isn't she, about these comments that she made over maternity pay and whether it was just a gotcha by the reporter or whether she does have a problem with women being paid what she may be termed excessive maternity pay . termed excessive maternity pay. >> you know, she was doing an interview here in the conference centre on the radio, and i was standing watching her and i heard i heard exactly what she said. and i thought, did she really just say that? there's no doubt she gave the distinct impression she thinks maternity pay impression she thinks maternity pay is excessive. what is it you get 90% of your pay for the first six weeks and then it falls back. i mean, from what i read, we've got one of the lowest maternity rates of pay in europe. if she'd said, look, this is a really onerous problem for people who run a very small business. you've sort of got it. but she was talking about the problems of statutory maternity pay, problems of statutory maternity pay, which is paid by the government. so she's now saying that she's been misrepresented. look, i don't think she was bev turner. i think what she said, i heard it and you've either got

to stick to your guns or. but don't don't blame the messenger. that doesn't work . this is that doesn't work. this is a woman who likes to be saying. i tell it straight. that is part of her shtick. she shoots from the hip. well, she shot from the hip, but she missed. >> well, it's £183 a week for women now to have maternity pay, which, let's face it, doesn't go very far at the moment, particularly with everything being so expensive in the uk , i being so expensive in the uk, i just want to talk to you a little bit as well, andrew, about what happened at the weekend with the rosie duffield resignation from labour, because if we'd have been on air that day, we'd have been talking about that. i mean, that was that was huge for rosie duffield, for such a significant member of the labour party, to leave with such an excoriating attack on keir starmer. i didn't see that coming in. quite those terms, did you? no no, and i've seen resignation letters in my time, but that was one of the most devastating. >> she really went for him. she, she juxtaposed the two issues of taking maternity pay. sorry, taking maternity pay. sorry, taking winter fuel allowance away from some of our poorest

pensioners with a with a prime minister who's incredibly well paid, who's taken tens of thousands of pounds in freebies. and we've only learnt this weekend just how much generosity there has been from lord alli lord alli. he spent £32,000 on clothes. did keir starmer from lord alli so she's really gone for him over that. and i don't think in modern modern politics there's ever been an mp who's jumped ship from their governing party so soon after a general election. it's an astonishing thing. it's happened within the first 90 days of a labour government, and it's a huge blow to keir starmer's authority. and that criticism. he runs a blokes club, a boys club. it's very telling because, remember, rosie duffield is very keen that women only spaces should be protected . only spaces should be protected. she's in the same camp as you and j.k. rowling. and of course, keir starmer has been frankly all over the place on that issue when he was asked, can only a woman have a cervix? it's not a straightforward question. oh it is. so it's a big for blow labour and it just shows his problem . he's discovering very

problem. he's discovering very quickly that governing the country is not nothing like as easy as being leader of the opposition. >> okay. all right. andrew, you will be talking to some really significant mps and guests up there in birmingham as the show goes on between now and midday. we'll talk to you in just a little while, but moving on. three prominent jewish groups, the board of deputies of british jews, the jewish leadership council and the community security trust have all backed a report saying that the bbc's coverage of the middle east conflict is institutionally hostile to israel. well, i'm delighted to say that we're going to talk now to danny cohen, who's former bbc executive, former controller of bbc one and author of this report. danny, good to see you. thank you for joining report. danny, good to see you. thank you forjoining us. this thank you for joining us. this morning. morning. so, you know, we're looking over at iran now. everybody is on tenterhooks . everybody is on tenterhooks. effectively the situation is incredibly febrile in the middle east and where this might go. so some might say what does it matter. danny cohen as how the bbc portrays this. isn't it more important to what's happening as

opposed to how it's being discussed ? discussed? >> well, we all know how it's happening by how it's reported. so the way it's reported is absolutely critical to our understanding of what's going on in the middle east and the bbc is a very trusted news source. and it has a commitment to impartiality and a commitment to accuracy. and what this report shows today is that the bbc is consistently and systematically showing bias against israel and failing in its duty to impartiality. and this matters for a very, very specific reason. the reason it matters is because that has a real world impact on the jewish community in the uk. when the bbc is lacks impartiality on israel, jewish people feel it in the uk in a growth in anti—semitism, a growth in anti—semitism, a growth in anti—semitism, a growth in anti—semitic incidents and problems in their lives. so that's why it matters. and that's why it matters. and that's why it matters. and that's why those three community organisations have endorsed today's report. and indeed the chief rabbi has done so as well. >> you were controller of bbc one, danny, for three years.

you've always been a significant member of the british media as well. so was this occurring to you? were you watching? have you been watching the bbc coverage of this unfolding and kind of with your head in your hands, just on a personal level, as a jewish man, as well, and therefore felt you needed to author this report to bring together your own personal experience, but also your professional experience. >> yeah , that's absolutely >> yeah, that's absolutely right. i mean, i first wrote about the problems with bbc coverage the day after the massacre of the 7th of october, when the bbc refused to refer to the hamas terrorists as terrorists . and i'd been writing terrorists. and i'd been writing about it, actually, in the daily telegraph since pointing out the failures in the bbc's coverage and the impact that's having on the jewish community and that ranges from mistakes and very inaccurate reporting to the crucial things that the bbc leaves out. more often than not, the bbc does not describe hamas orindeed the bbc does not describe hamas or indeed hezbollah as proscribed terrorist organisations, and often they make mistakes in their reporting

that they then do not correct, and that has a big impact, because we know the bbc is trusted around the world. so what it says, what it puts on its website, travels a long way. >> why, danny? why is this happening ? is it just young happening? is it just young journalists? maybe that don't always get the balance right? or is it something more pernicious than that? and it is deliberate propaganda. >> yeah, it's a great question. i mean, in my view, the problem is bottom up and top down. so you've got individual journalists who are bringing their own bias into the newsroom who are not reflecting stories fairly inaccurately when it comes to their representation of israel. but you've also got bbc bosses who are not willing to accept that there's a problem, continually push back and say there's nothing to see here. you're all wrong about this. well, i think maybe when three community organisations, the chief rabbi jointly addressed this, perhaps it's time to start listening. and one thing that's very interesting this morning, beverly, is that i've been interviewed on a number of radio

programmes. this morning. the only people who haven't had time for an interview have been the bbc, and i think that again , bbc, and i think that again, expresses their lack of transparency, their lack of willingness to engage with this issue and really understand the impact it's having on the jewish community. >> so what kind of response do you get if you go to, say, tim davie and you put this report on on tim's desk, what is his comeback? does he just say that you're wrong or that there are two sides to this story and that if he was to have an islamic based report, that it would come to a different conclusion. what's the response ? what's the response? >> well, i'm hoping that tim davie, the board of the bbc, they'll read this report. it's a 60 page detailed report. they'll read it. they'll see that there is a consistent pattern there . is a consistent pattern there. they'll acknowledge there is a problem and deal with it. they'll acknowledge there is a problem and deal with it . and problem and deal with it. and you can't deal with the problem unless you acknowledge it. and so far, the bbc have been reluctant to do so. and i think that's been about defending reputation has become more

important than their commitment to accuracy and transparency and impartiality. and that's the real problem here, because i think the bbc are more concerned about how they look to the world than dealing with an issue. bbc arabic is a very good example of this. there have been huge, huge issues in bbc arabic's presentation of this war. we've seen bbc arabic journalists celebrate the deaths and the killing and the terrorism of 7th of october. we've seen bbc arabic reports which actually question whether the massacre at kfar happened . we've seen bbc kfar happened. we've seen bbc arabic use sources which have proven to be hamas and islamic jihad supporters. and when you ask the bbc about that, their response and bbc arabic is that it retains the same standards as the rest of the bbc and we're very proud of it. and to me, that's just gaslighting the jewish community because it's very, very clear that the bbc arabic has significant problems of bias against israel. but even in that context , of bias against israel. but even in that context, bbc management won't admit there's a problem.

>> okay . all right, danny, good >> okay. all right, danny, good to see you. danny cohen, there , to see you. danny cohen, there, former bbc executive and author of the report and a significant voice in british media. and the bbc won't like to be criticised by danny cohen. i think it's very brave of him to come out and say this now. the bbc spokeswoman has said the israel—gaza conflict is a polarising and difficult story to cover, and we understand there are a range of views. the bbc has focused on reporting the conflict impartially, bringing audiences breaking news, insights and analysis and reflecting all perspectives while we do not recognise the overall characterisation of our journalism in this report, we will of course always look at anything raised with us with care and attention , but let us care and attention, but let us know your thoughts this morning gbnews.com/yoursay. but we are going to be crossing over to birmingham very soon, where the tory leadership hopefuls are gathered. is there any hope for the party, or are the tories effectively toast for the next few years? this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> 949 this is britain's newsroom on gb news. i'm at the tory party conference. joining me is the former deputy chairman of the tory party jonathan gullis, who lost his seat in the carnage which was the general election on july the 4th. you're putting your faith in robert jenrick, who was immigration minister. it's all his fault you did so badly because immigration is out of control and was out of control under the tories. >> well, i can say about rob is having worked in westminster with him to get a hotel in stoke on trent shut after it was housing illegal migrants right opposite our railway station, a gateway to 6 million visitors each and every year in our great city. it was rob who relentlessly drove and made sure that stoke was on that first 50 hotel list to see close. it was rob who took the brave decision to resign his immigration minister when he couldn't get the necessary changes. and having met with myself and other

colleagues in private to say just how important this issue was , he stuck by his word and i was, he stuck by his word and i worked with him on that rwanda legislation he obviously voted against in the end, and i admire his courage of his convictions, his courage of his convictions, his belief and his bravery. and he pointed out today in his fantastic speech at his rally for rob that was held early this morning, that ultimately, the echr we either leave it or we remain it. you can't reform it, you can't tweak it. >> so remind people , jonathan, >> so remind people, jonathan, why it's so important we're in the european court of human rights. if we withdraw, what difference does that make? because it's not linked to the european union, is it? it's a completely separate body . so why completely separate body. so why is it so important that we leave it? >> it's so important because we've got literal terrorists and murderers on our streets, foreign national offenders who were unable to deport because the european convention of human rights says, for example, that the mental health provision in ugandaisnt the mental health provision in uganda isn't good enough for an individual who recently bludgeoned someone to death in the back of an ambulance. we've also got others, like terrorists, for example, who were involved in the seven over seven bombings walking our streets, who are unable to be removed back to somalia because

the european court of human rights has said they should be able to remain in our country. >> this is totally unsustainable, but we could have just ignored the rulings. other countries ignore the rulings of the echr. why didn't the british government just ignore the rulings and deport these terrible men? >> i don't disagree that you can just ignore it, but of course there will be repercussions as there will be repercussions as the court lays out. there would be. and rather than having these fights anyway, rather than having leftie lawyers queuing up to take the government to court time and time again, costing millions of pounds of taxpayers money in legal fees. and let's not forget, these foreign criminals will get legal aid in many cases as well. funded again by the british taxpayer, it means that let's just take this argument and debate off the table. let's just have the one court, which is the supreme court in this country, which exists and perfectly holds the government's feet to the fire in order to make sure that we can have true accountability within our country and not some court in strasbourg with some judge that we've never heard of who is now tiptoeing. and lord sumption himself is saying no longer being a court, but actually a policy maker. was it switzerland recently? they just got they can't even own net zero policy. >> look, you don't have to convince me to be honest,

jonathan, but just but on this, it will split the tory party because there's a lot of what we call the one nation tories. people like the former solicitor general, former lord chancellor robert was the swindon embassy. people like robert buckland, that wing of the tory party could break away. it could split the tory party if generic takes us out of the european court, i would suggest someone like victoria atkins, who is a, you know, leading member of the one nafion know, leading member of the one nation caucus, is actually backing robert jenrick. >> we've seen tom tugendhat himself long seen to be someone who was pro remaining in the echr, now saying if push came to shove he'd be willing to leave it and he'll have a lot of one nafion it and he'll have a lot of one nation colleagues still backing him. and rob has shown that he's been able to reach across the broad breadth of the conservative party both in terms of former mps like myself and current mps in gathering support, and ultimately by rob outlining a very clear vision of what he would do as leader and prime minister of our country. there can be no excuse for the parliamentary party not understanding what his offer is and if members and rob gets the final two, which i believe he will. if rob wins with the membership, which i also believe will happen, then the parliamentary party will have to

respect the democratic wishes of our party. otherwise, as rob says, the conservative party will be resigning itself to history and it will be reform who pick up the pieces. >> how are you going to get the pubuc >> how are you going to get the public to start listening to the tory party? because if i took robert jenrick for a walk outside this conference centre and introduce them, they wouldn't have a clue who he is. they wouldn't know who robert jenrick is. how does a party with only 121 mps, you've suffered the most devastating defeat in your history. how do you get become relevant and how do you get people to start listening again? >> well, i think you call out, first of all, this terrible labour government. the winter fuel payment is exactly the kind of decision making that absolutely frustrates the hell out of the british public. 1.4 billion allegedly going to be saved, yet they could have reduced the foreign aid budget. they could have stopped sending climate change aid abroad. they didn't have to give train drivers inflation busting pay rises. so having an effective opposition in the house will play opposition in the house will play its part to having a leader of the courage of his convictions and his beliefs, which robert has, will also play a huge role. >> all right, that's jonathan. he's speaking very passionately for robert jenrick still to come. prince harry is due back

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gb news. morning and 10 am. on monday the 30th of september. >> live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, andrew pierce at the conservative party conference in birmingham and bev turner in london. >> good morning. thank you for joining us. so is maternity pay excessive? tory leadership hopeful kemi badenoch is under fire for suggesting that pay had gone too far. but she says that her comments have been misrepresented. >> i've been a minister for

women and equalities, i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that, and i won't have my views misrepresented and energy price hike. >> your energy bills are set to rise by 10% at midnight. will you be forced to restrict your energy use again? this winter? and does starmer have a woman problem? rosie duffield has resigned as a labour mp , resigned as a labour mp, slamming the party for pursuing cruel policies and claiming the lads are in charge. and a mother has launched a legal battle to stop her down syndrome son son's dnnks stop her down syndrome son son's drinks being spiked with sedatives. so that he can be forcibly given the covid jab against her wishes. we're going to talk to the lawyer representing her. and steelworks shut down the uk's biggest steelworks. tata steel's plant in port talbot, is ending production today after 100

years. >> here am i at the labour party. i keep saying labour party conference. the tory party conference in birmingham. don't forget. we'd love to hear what you think. send your views and post your comments by visiting forward slash gb news. com your say. but first i'm talking to greg smith who is the tory mp for mid buckinghamshire. in fact, in fact we're going to go to the headlines first. forgive me. we're going to go to headunes me. we're going to go to headlines first. we wouldn't want to miss mark white with the headlines. >> it's 10:02. the headlines. >> it's10:02. the main headlines. >> it's 10:02. the main news headunes >> it's 10:02. the main news headlines from the gb news centre. tory leadership contender kemi badenoch has defended comments she made over the level of maternity pay, saying her remarks have been misinterpreted. it follows an interview in which the shadow

housing secretary appeared to suggest the allowance could be seen as excessive. all three of her leadership rivals have distanced themselves from those comments, but miss badenoch hit back, calling for an honest campaign. >> i've been a minister for women and equalities, i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that and i won't have my views misrepresented . misrepresented. >> speaking to gb news this morning, the conservative party chairman said the allowance is not too high. >> the third party was the party that brought in statutory maternity pay. so no, i don't think it's excessive. and i think it's excessive. and i think if you talk to organisations like the cbi, they'd say exactly the same thing . thing. >> meanwhile, the race to replace rishi sunak as tory party leader takes centre stage at the conservative party conference in birmingham today, a day after the former prime minister urged the party to stop

squabbling. two of the leadership contenders, kemi badenoch and tom tugendhat, will face a question and answer session james cleverly and robert jenrick. the other two candidates will face questions on tuesday, and all four contenders make speeches on wednesday before the close of the conference. sir oliver dowden has become the most senior conservative to face questioning by the gambling commission over betting on the date of the general election. the former deputy prime minister is the latest ally of rishi sunak to be interviewed by the watchdog. however, the commission is not investigating sir oliver and he did not place any bets on the election . the any bets on the election. the lebanese prime minister has said up to 1 million people have now been displaced as fighting between israel and the terror group hezbollah continues . group hezbollah continues. overnight, israeli airstrikes targeted central beirut for the

first time. the terror group, the popular front for the liberation of palestine, said three of its leaders were killed in the strikes. meanwhile, hamas said its leader in lebanon has been killed along with some members of his family in an airstrike overnight in southern lebanon . the uk's biggest lebanon. the uk's biggest steelworks is ending production today after more than a century of operations. blast furnace four is the final furnace operating at tata steel's plant in port talbot. from today it will be shut down, putting around 2000 people out of work. the works will enter a transition phase for the next three years until a new electric arc furnace is installed . arc furnace is installed. austria's freedom party is projected to win the country's general election after 78% of the population turned out to vote. it would mean austria has

elected its first hard right party since the second world war. party leader herbert kickl ran a manifesto promising to crack down on asylum seekers and kerb inflation rates . the kerb inflation rates. the legendary country music singer and actor kris kristofferson has died at the age of 88, a family spokesperson said. the star passed away peacefully at his home in hawaii on saturday. he won three grammys for best country song, help me make it through the night and starred alongside barbra streisand in the 1976 film a star is born, for which he won a golden globe. the duke of sussex is making a rare visit to the uk today to celebrate the achievements and resilience of seriously ill youngsters and their families. prince harry will attend the wellchild awards ceremony in london in his role as the

charity's patron, a position he has held for more than 15 years. the king is believed to be spending time at his balmoral home. it's thought he hasn't seen harry since the duke rushed to his father's side after the king's cancer diagnosis in february . and finally, the late february. and finally, the late queen and sir david attenborough have been named our greatest british cultural figures. in a survey to mark the 90th anniversary of the british council. the late monarch was voted the country's greatest cultural icon, with 41% selecting her in the survey. sir david attenborough came a close second, with 40% voting for him, followed by diana , princess of followed by diana, princess of wales. former prime minister winston churchill and queen frontman freddie mercury . while frontman freddie mercury. while you're right up to date with all the latest headlines, i'm back in half an hour. in the meantime, it's back to andrew

and bev for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom. live across the uk on gb news. i am bev turner in gb news headquarters, gb news towers in london. andrew pierce is at the tory party conference in birmingham. what's the mood like there this morning? andrew >> not great. this is a party that shattered. it was a shattering defeat, the worst in their history. and they know, despite the huge mistakes being made by the labour government, they've got to climb the equivalent of mount everest. they've got four candidates fighting it out . but the big fighting it out. but the big problem, when you've got such a small opposition , only 121 mps small opposition, only 121 mps is how are they going to get heard? this was always the

problem after the blair landslide for william hague. he just couldn't get his voice across and people laughed a bit at him anyway because he looked. he looked old and he had that odd voice, but that's going to be the same problem for the tories now. how do they make themselves relevant? how does whoever gets picked out of this, the final four, get that voice heard and become, how did this tory party become relevant again, particularly with nigel farage's reform party breathing down their necks ? down their necks? >> rishi sunak chose not to give a speech at conference. did that strike you as a sensible decision ? decision? >> yeah, well, he did speak briefly to the convention yesterday, but he didn't speak for very long. i mean, blink, blink of an eye. he'd been. and gone. look, there's a lot of anger here for to rishi, towards rishi sunak, especially to those mps who lost their seats. some of whom i spoke to had lost lost seats and they'd had majorities of nearly 20,000. they blame one person, rishi, because he called that election at the wrong time. the tory party wasn't ready. he

didn't have the money. he didn't have the message. and of course, nigel farage, far from being an america with donald trump, which would have been the case if they'd gone for an october or november election, was there to wreck the tory party election machine? >> who's looking like the front runner for that leadership position at the moment, andrew? as of this morning, i think there's no doubt in my mind . there's no doubt in my mind. >> i've talked i've talked to three of them now. i talked to robert jenrick yesterday. he's definitely ahead. he will be in the last two for sure. they're all jostling now to see who is in the last two. we've got, tom tugendhat. we've got kemi badenoch and we've also got, of course, the former home secretary, james cleverly. it's between those three. it'd be very hard for me to say which one it will be. it could be cleverly. could be tugendhat, but i suspect it could be cleverly. i don't think it will be badenoch. >> no, and i think probably not. badenoch because of course this morning she's having to defend herself from these accusations that she said that maternity pay is excessive. she is pedalling back on that and she's saying

that she was misquoted. i think it's quite difficult to see that as a misquote, but actually jenrick is interesting, isn't it, because jenrick is the response to the reform threat? there's no doubt about it. he's not the response to the threat from the liberal democrats, who did admittedly well in the last election with their 72 seats. jenrick would to be appeal to those voters who they've lost to reform , without a doubt, and his reform, without a doubt, and his big pitch is if we don't leave the european court of human rights, this tory party dies and the country will never be able to get control of its borders again. >> that's his pitch. so i've got i've got with me in the in the conference hall now is greg smith. he's the conservative mp for mid buckinghamshire. he's been coming to tory conference since 1998. yeah. have you ever known such a poor turnout? i mean it's like a ghost town. >> the conference does feel quiet, actually. it is reminiscent of those years after we had that big defeat in 1997. but actually, the thing that matters is that members are turning up in slightly greater

numbers to see the contest, to see the four leadership candidates in to action, test them before they cast their votes. when it gets to the final two before the second in november, and actually to me, what's happening behind me actually plays to the narrative of something we've got to do as a party. we have got to, of course , re—engage with the course, re—engage with the british people, of course, put out a platform at the next election that excites them about the conservatives again. but we've also got to reach out to our members because our members , our members because our members, i'm sorry to say, have been walked all over a little bit in recent years. when it's come to candidate selection, when it's come to leadership elections, when it's come to policy development, and actually, if we can really excite the membership again and involve the membership again, give them a point and a purpose to being a member of a political party. i think that's when we can have a really exciting movement again. >> and, you know, and i've heard mps saying after the defeat, because of truss and sunak, we shouldn't give the tory party

members even a say in who the next leader is. well, what would be the point of being a member of a party? i mean, what power would they have? that's about the only power they've got at the only power they've got at the moment. >> pretty much the only power is that. and if you're lucky enough to select your candidate early and once the election is called and once the election is called a bit more, say over candidate selection. and actually james cleverly, who i'm backing, has put out a big package. and i know to the outside world it's very internally focused around party reform. but actually if we can't get our own house in order first, what hope have we got of actually reaching out and earning the trust or even earning the trust or even earning the trust or even earning the right to be heard by the british people? if we're not a functional party that values our members and are the candidates talking to the tory party here, or are they trying to talk to the country as well? >> because it's going to be very hard to get that message out there. >> well, it's got to be both. the first thing we've got to do is we've got to unite, because the number of doors in my constituency on the election that weren't raising particular policy points, although of course, gp appointments and potholes and the boats came up.

but the number one thing across so many doors was you lot are fighting like ferrets in a sack. you're disunited, you've got so many factions , we've got to come many factions, we've got to come together. and i think james cleverly is the candidate that can best unite us. put all wings of the conservative party back together, and only once we've done that can we begin that long, slow road to re earning the right to be heard. so it's about talking to our members now, but it's also about getting that pitch right to re—earn trust and just the plain right to be heard by the british people . people. >> if cleverley wins or whoever wins in a few weeks time, greg, it will be the fifth tory leader since may, may 2019. you're getting through one leader a yeah getting through one leader a year. you're turning into a banana republic. >> look, i accept that we've had a lot of leaders, and that is actually probably part of the one of the biggest reasons why we were any of them any good? badly. in july 24th. well, clearly the electorate gave us that answer on the 4th of july. thatis

that answer on the 4th of july. that is now in the past. we've got to learn those lessons. we've got to put our hands up to where we did let britain down, whilst being proud of the many achievements we did have, particularly around school standards and reading and going up the world league tables for phonics and things like that. but we do have to put our hands up to where we did let the country down and elect someone that can unite us, that can have a genuine conservative vision based on a small estate and low taxes and strong defence spending, never forgetting the first duty of government is to defend its population and james has a big commitment on getting us to 3% gdp. defence spending. then we can go to the country and ask for their permission to lead them again. >> why will anybody trust james cleverly to sort out the migration problem? when he was part of a cabinet which allowed legal migration to be three quarters of a million a year? that was just that was legal migration. >> the numbers were disappointing year on year. but as ever, when you leave government, things that we did

as a government in the last 12 months start to come good. and actually the number of dependent visa applications, the number of absolute visa applications was falling quite sharply over the summer. and there's no such thing as instant gratification in politics. you take an action and then you get the results of it. six months, 12 months down the line. i'm not saying it was job done, but if you look at those numbers now, particularly around visa applications and dependent visa applications, they are sharply down. >> but those numbers will come down and the labour government will take the credit. yeah. and another reason why rishi should never have gone for an early election. if you've got a chance to have spoken to rishi sunak, i said, what would you have said to him? politely? no. what would you say to him behind the scenes? >> so it took us all by surprise when that election was called. i'm not going to lie, there was a moderate level of swearing in office while we watched the prime minister call the election on our screens. i think if i'd seen him beforehand, i'd have said, hold your horses . the said, hold your horses. the autumn is going to be a much better time for us to hold this

election. but that's gone now. it's passed. there's nothing we can do about that. and we've got 121 mp5 can do about that. and we've got 121 mps left in the house of commons, and i feel the weight on my shoulders, along with my 120 colleagues, that we've got to come together, rebuild, unite, hold this government to account, but also come up with a genuine, good, solid conservative pitch that can get people excited about it. >> just finally, a certain former mp called boris johnson has published his memoirs, unleashed. they include the revelation that he contemplated sending a small platoon of royal marines to try and nick some, to help us with the covid crisis, do you miss him? do you wish? do you want do you want to see him back in the parliamentary party? he's a big figure. after all. and looking around, there's not many big figures here. >> look, boris is this enormous personality. he's also become very marmite in the country. i always got on very well with boris. i had some epic rows with him about hs2. however, you

know, if we're constantly looking backwards, we're not going to be able to move forwards. so i'm sure boris is going to have a big role in world politics going forwards . world politics going forwards. but right now it's about choosing a new leader for now and long into the future, hopefully to be the next prime minister >> and this man is forjames >> and this man is for james cleverly. i wonder who you're for up next, find out how much money the cut winter fuel payments expected to cost the nhs. you're with

in. welcome back to britain's newsroom. i am in london and andrew is at the conservative party conference. we'll be going back to him in just a moment. but we are joined now in the studio by political commentator emma woolf and former labour advisor matthew torbett. good to see you both. right, emma, shall we start with kemi badenoch? so this controversy over maternity pay this controversy over maternity pay this morning? yeah i'm quite pleased we're talking about it because we don't talk about this issue enough. everyone just

presumes that women should just have their babies and maybe go away quietly and not make a fuss about whether they ever want to come back to work. and it is a controversial issue. but do you think do you think she was misrepresented? >> i think it's been seized on. i think it's one of those issues. you make a comment. i think partly there's a vacuum of exciting ideas at the conference. so anyone saying anything vaguely controversial is going to be seized on. kemi has a kemi badenoch has a way of coming out and saying things that other people aren't saying, but i think she's making. and of course, look, i'm a mum, you're a mum, she's a mum, she's got three children. we all want women to be supported. there is no suggestion that kemi badenoch is against new mothers or anything like that, but i think she's raising the issue of the burden on small businesses. she's also talking about parental responsibility . she's parental responsibility. she's talking about the responsibility. when you have children, to think about the financial burden that you're taking on, to think about your finances, your family finances, are you going to be able to follow through? she's talking about small businesses who simply are are taking this

burden and having to pay maternity pay to women. she's also talking about the fact that we're taking from she says, we're taking from she says, we're taking from one group, taxpayers and giving to another group. so i'm 100% and as taxpayers and giving to another group. so i'm100% and as is i think kemi badenoch in favour of maternity pay . and of course, maternity pay. and of course, the other two candidates, jenrick and tugendhat , jenrick and tugendhat, immediately came out. we want brilliant maternity pay and paternity pay. well, it's easy to say that, but can we talk about who's paying for this? what is the burden on society? i think a lot of people, and i'm sad. i think it's probably it is probably her andrea leadsom moment. it is probably her moment. it is probably her moment when she's ruined her chances. but i think that she raises a really interesting issue. >> do we talk about this enough, matthew, about parenting and work and whether that should be the choice of the parents, whether they employer should have more choice about whether they do or do not employ women of fertile age? what did you make of all the rumblings that

have arisen this morning? >> i don't think we talk about it enough. and i think, you know, i can think of stories from the other end of the spectrum where people seem to be overworked and underpaid, to the point where you hear, hear of cases where people are handing over the children in a lay by in the car, and the next person's going on to work, and the families don't see each other, which i think is also a very bad thing for children growing up. when they don't see parents because they're constantly working to keep their head above water. and i think it's interesting, i think, i don't think kemi has been misrepresented, and i think she knows that because ordinarily we see from kemi badenoch , she will see from kemi badenoch, she will come out all guns blazing on twitter and say, no, no, this is what i said. she's actually reverse ferreted a little bit and gone. i'd like to clarify. normally she's happy to come out and double down almost. and i also come at it maybe from a slightly different angle from emma in the sense of i think we need to be paying people more to be having children. i think if we're going to be tackling things like immigration and things like immigration and things that people are care care about currently, and we have the

birth rate dwindling at about 1.6 people per per woman, yeah, it doesn't add up. so if we're going to cut immigration, we need the home grown people to be coming through the future, to be building a workplace fit for the future as well. >> it's such a good point, because kemi badenoch has often talked about this and her brand of conservatism, which is her, that we should be having more children, that women should be having more than the 1.6 children. she's got three herself. so if your conclusion is, well, we shouldn't be paying as much maternity pay, but we still want women to have loads of kids. then all you're talking aboutis of kids. then all you're talking about is going back to a time when women had their babies and stayed at home, whether they liked it or not, or that the state actually makes it less difficult. >> matthew makes a brilliant point. you know, there is this issue of we need women to be having more children, and many women would. many families, couples want to have children and want to have more children. but it's such a struggle as someone who's done it on my own for four years, it is, and i'm not. it's not a pity party, but

it's really hard in terms of early years provision, in terms of the fact that if you're not wealthy, the first two years, you do have to pretty much be a full time parent, that there isn't really childcare. so. so i think you raise a really good point, but we need to look at it in a, in a bigger context where who's paying for this and how is that burden, where is that burden going to fall. and if the state wants women to have more children, they're going to have to pick up and help somehow. >> okay. well, from babies to our senior citizens, matthew, this is the story today about the fact that labour's cruel winter fuel payment cut is going to result in 262,000 pensioners needing nhs care . labour thought needing nhs care. labour thought this through. >> i mean, you would think so. i've said before, i think this is potentially a case of treasury brain. there's probably a graph somewhere in number 11 where this makes absolute sense, but the politics of it don't. and i think even if this policy saved us loads of money and we were bringing loads of money in to help the nhs or whatever else, i think sometimes in politics it's not always about

the economics, it's about morals. i didn't go into politics many years ago to take people's benefits away or make sure that old people are freezing cold at winter. it's not the right thing. it doesn't feel i don't feel comfortable with it. and i would hope that rachel reeves pulls a rabbit out of the hat and says, look, i've listened. we're not going to do it on budget day. i don't think she will. >> but should she change the parameters, isn't that where it is? because most of us would agree that if you are a multi—millionaire, you don't need your £300 a year. so by all means, take it off those people. it feels like they've just set the bar too low. >> yeah, and i think if there is going to be any give, they will change the parameters and maybe more people will get it. i think the other the other end though, people, some people don't need it, but that's sometimes the beauty of universal benefits. you make sure everybody is looked after and if people wish to donate it to a food bank, as i've seen others do or or whatever makes them feel good or keep it, that's maybe part of the society we live in. >> what would it look like for laboun >> what would it look like for labour, though, emma, if she

does row back on this come the budget. >> okay, u —turns budget. >> okay, u—turns are not popular, but i think in this case it's just so universally unpopular and seems so cruel. it doesn't seem right. as you say sometimes in politics, it just doesn't seem right for pensioners. it's such an image. we know pensioners worry about bills anyway. we know that they're not. they can't increase their income. we know that there are going to be vulnerable elderly pensioners who are cold and who are not going to turn on the heating. all of that, i'm not even sure treasury brain was at work here, because when you look at the sums, they don't add up. if everybody had applied for pension credit, that should be applied, it would cost more. we're now being told that these 262,000 pensioners, it will cost the nhs 169 262,000 pensioners, it will cost the nhs169 million to 262,000 pensioners, it will cost the nhs 169 million to treat the nhs169 million to treat them when they're ill and getting poorly in hospital because their houses are too cold, because their houses are too cold. but it's not just and it's not about the money, this one. it's about people suffering. it's about people desperately worried already. it's getting cold already. everyone's going, i'm holding out until the 1st of october to turn on the heating. >> i had it on yesterday. it gave yesterday. >> yeah, yeah i know, have said they've put it on already and we've had the 10% energy price

hike i think from tonight at midnight. yeah. >> yeah i think it comes under the same in the venn diagram as the. for me it's similar to the tax on vat on private schools is that we got it wrong within the treasury. i think they thought it would land well because it appeared to be a punishment on the rich. but actually this is, this is and let's have horribly let's have a campaign where all because lots of wealthier pensioners do do something with that money. >> they don't need it. they say we don't need it. we either try and send it back or we give it to let's have a campaign where people say, actually, i don't needit people say, actually, i don't need it and i won't take it, that that shouldn't be so hard. i don't need it. i won't take it. >> what's this? health alerts on snacks. story matt, what's this about? >> i mean, i'm sort of all right about it . they're going to. they about it. they're going to. they want increased warnings on things that may be nutritionally not as healthy as for us, that the that they should be. i think the that they should be. i think the reason why i'm here is, is i never pay any attention to him. i don't go, oh it's got a load of red on it. i better not have this. i'll go, oh that's quite

badisnt this. i'll go, oh that's quite bad isn't it. but it looks quite nice, so i'll eat it. so whether it'll do anything i don't know. but for those that do look at it, you know, i imagine the idea is to save some money for the nhs and prevention is always better than cure. if people are eating healthier and we lead more healthier lifestyles, so is it is it like we do with cigarettes? >> is it the fact that it's have health warning like you would have on a packet of. >> yeah, literally they're going to slap these warnings on. they're even going to put pictures of tooth decay on the on the front of biscuits. look, this is such a clear cut case of parental responsibility. anything your child puts in their mouth up to the age of, i would say ten or even 12, you have chosen to let them do it. kids don't just get their money and go out to. they shouldn't be anyway. yes, there's pester power. it makes it really, really tough. but if parents don't know by now that crisps, biscuits, fizzy drinks are an occasional treat, they're absolutely a treat. they're a birthday party thing. they are not part of a balanced diet. if they don't know that by now, if they're not thinking that, then these labelling labels on the front of packets are not going to make any difference. there is

a reason why we have a generation of children who are shorter, fatter, sicker, but also more anxious, more depressed, more adhd, more more distracted, and more unhappy than at any other time. and that's ultra processed food and people feeding their children junk. maybe i have to say, i don't mind the idea of some rotting teeth on the on a mars bar. >> they're not going to put some big, big fat kid on the pitch from a packet of crisps, though, are they, you know, is it going to do anything to make any difference? >> i think what it might do for kids is i was with my nephew this weekend. it's a nightmare trying to get him to brush his teeth. in the morning. he goes, i can't be bothered. yeah, well nightmare and you've all got to do it. now, if he sees on his mars bar or whatever he's going to eat, i've got to brush my teeth when they get in after i've had this, because i don't fancy the look of that. it may. the proof will be in the pudding. maybe we'll see. and actually, i think the only problem is this seems to be a wider reform around things like having no junk food adverts pre 9:00 watershed. kids don't watch tv anymore. they watch tiktok, they watch youtube and social media. so i don't think that'll work. it'll get round it that way. i'd have thought, yeah, okay. >> matthew torbett emma woolf,

thank you so much. we've got to go to the news headlines now. mark white has them just for you. >> good morning. just after 1031, the latest headlines from the gb news centre, tory leadership contender kemi badenoch has defended comments she made over the level of maternity pay , saying her maternity pay, saying her remarks have been misinterpreted . remarks have been misinterpreted. it follows an interview in which the shadow housing secretary appeared to suggest the allowance could be seen as excessive, but miss badenoch hit back, calling for an honest campaign . campaign. >> i've been a minister for women and equalities, i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that, and i won't have my views misrepresented. >> well , misrepresented. >> well, speaking to gb news this morning, the conservative party chairman said the allowance is too not high. >> the conservative party was the party that brought in statutory maternity pay. so no,

i don't think it's excessive . i don't think it's excessive. and i think if you talk to organisations like the cbi , organisations like the cbi, they'd say exactly the same thing . thing. >> the lebanese prime minister has said up to 1 million people have now been displaced as fighting between israel and the terror group hezbollah continues overnight , israeli airstrikes overnight, israeli airstrikes targeted central beirut for the first time. the terror group, the popular front for the liberation of palestine, said three of its leaders were killed in the strikes. meanwhile, hamas said its leader in lebanon has been killed, along with some members of his family in an airstrike overnight in southern lebanon , the uk's biggest lebanon, the uk's biggest steelworks is ending production today after more than a century of operations . blast furnace of operations. blast furnace four is the final furnace operating at tata steel's plant in port talbot. from today it will be shut down, putting around 2000 people out of work .

around 2000 people out of work. the works will enter a transition phase for the next three years until a new electric arc furnace is installed . the arc furnace is installed. the legendary country music singer and actor kris kristofferson has died at the age of 88. a family spokesperson said. the star passed away peacefully at his home in hawaii on saturday. he won three grammys for best country song, help me make it through the night and starred alongside barbra streisand in the 1976 film a star is born, for which he won a golden globe . for which he won a golden globe. the duke of sussex is making a rare visit to the uk today to celebrate the achievements and the resilience of seriously ill youngsters and their families. prince harry will attend the wellchild awards ceremony in london in his role as the charity's patron, a position he has held for more than 15 years. the king is believed to be

spending time at his balmoral home and it's thought he hasn't seen harry since the duke rushed to his father's side after the king's cancer diagnosis in february . well, those are your february. well, those are your latest headlines. we'll have more for you in half an hour. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> now, as you'd imagine , there >> now, as you'd imagine, there aren't many lefties here in birmingham, but up next i'm going to be joined by the king of the lefties one kevin maguire of the lefties one kevin maguire of the lefties one kevin maguire of the daily mirror and i wonder what he'll have to say about rosie duffield quitting beloved labour what a setback for his great man. sir

>> next sunday, join me , camilla

>> next sunday, join me, camilla tominey, for an exclusive interview with one of the most controversial, influential and unique political figures of our time, boris johnson will be in studio discussing his new memoir , studio discussing his new memoir, unleashed, the gripping story of how he dealt with plotting politicians, problematic princes and a pandemic. from boris bikes to brexit and everything else in between. next sunday at 9:30 am, only on gb news, the people's channel. britain's news channel. >> 1038 this is britain's >>1038 this is britain's newsroom. joining me live in birmingham at the tory party conference. i don't know how they let him in, but they did. is kevin maguire of course is the associate editor of the labour party supporting daily mirror, kevin , you and i have mirror, kevin, you and i have been coming to the party conference, i think, well, more years than we care to remember. i think this is the number of people here is even lower than

in the year after the blair landslide back in 97, 98. >> i think that's right. i mean, i've been to bigger vicar's tea parties than this. a lot of mps have stayed away. former ministers stayed away . people ministers stayed away. people who lost their seats stayed away. lobbyists aren't here. all the power was last week at labour and conservative parties got very small, ageing membership too. yeah, they've just decided to save their money. >> i think, perversely, membership of the tory party will go up because people, people will see they don't like what the labour government is doing and they'll think the only way. but the how does the tory party get itself heard ? because party get itself heard? because when blair was in power, all powerful , all william when blair was in power, all powerful, all william hague could. the only time we read about william hague was when there was another row in the tory party that's going to be the problem. >> whoever wins, here it is. make yourself relevant. and of course, if you look at the labour government, it's almost, you know, it's doing its positive things and it's doing its negative things, whether it's, you know, freebies , it's, you know, freebies, clothes, winter fuel allowance,

rosie duffield , former labour rosie duffield, former labour mp, going off with a blistering resignation. conservatives aren't getting a look in no now. >> and a lot of conservatives i've talked to say labour are doing so badly, there's great hope for us. but lord ashcroft, who was a treasurer of the tory party, deputy chairman of the tory party, he's published some really interesting research in the last 24 hours, saying don't be, don't be fooled into thinking it's going to be easy because the tory party have got such a lot of work to do to restore, to regain the trust of the people, because people have got fed up with them after 14 years, not delivering on immigration, taxing us to billions and making a mess of the nhs. >> yeah, look, his money kept the tory party afloat after that blair landslide in 1907. and he's transformed himself now and quite a perceptive analysis. a poll father commissioning lots of research and he's quite right. he is he is saying don't think because labour are messing up now on the freebies on the winter fuel allowance that that will let you off the hook. the conservatives need to take a

long, hard look at themselves. why did they lose the trust and the votes of people? after 14 years, they became directionless. they were squabbling, didn't know what they stood for, were attacked on one wing by labour and the lib dems, on the other by reform uk. and if they just think , well, and if they just think, well, labour's messing up, they won't look at themselves. and he says that's a big problem because the country won't regret booting them out in july. that's, that's not going to change. they've got to think how do you win back voters ? voters? >> well, how it is an extraordinary thing in the last 24 hours, the resignation letter of rosie duffield from the labour party was one of the most devastating letters. and i've been looking at resignation letters for decades. it was devastating. it attacked keir starmer personally on a number of fronts. the boys club, he has got a women's problem. remember, he was the one who famously couldn't say whether only a women has a cervix. ridiculous. only a woman can have a cervix.

she's very the preservation of women only spaces are important . women only spaces are important. but i think it was the way she unked but i think it was the way she linked the fact that he's taking the winter fuel off the poorest pensioners with his knows so deeply in lord alli trough. this is a man, kevin. he deeply in lord alli trough. this is a man, kevin . he spent is a man, kevin. he spent £32,000 on clothes from lord alli. £32,000 is what a nurse earns in a year. yeah. >> rosie duffield's been on a journey away from for labour some time because on the on the actual we'll call it the trans issue. he's moved closer to her and not not away. she's also made a big issue of not lifting the two child benefit cap. well that wasn't in labour's manifesto. i think some of the criticism about taking freebies when you're taking away the winter fuel allowance will chime with some labour mps. a lot of labour voters. but she was falling out with a local party. there were some there i know wanted to deselect her, but they were stopped. >> are you saying she's a difficult woman, kevin? >> no, i'm not saying she's a difficult number. she can woman. she can think whichever way she likes it. she's a free thinker.

my likes it. she's a free thinker. my point, though, and i've argued this for 40 years. if an mp changes parties, i think that mp changes parties, i think that mp should fight an automatic by—election. >> she's sitting as an independent. i mean, she's not defected to any other side. >> no, but she got elected as a labour mp. now, i thought this when tories were defecting to laboun when tories were defecting to labour. yeah. before the last election. it should be an automatic by—election because she was elected as a labour mp. if canterbury want an independent mp and they want rosie duffield, you know, i can vote for her and i think if rosie duffield stood against an official labour candidate, i think she'd win because she'd make it a referendum on the winter fuel allowance. yeah, but it would be wider than that. the greens would probably do reasonably well. right, conservatives are pretty poorly placed now in that seat that used to be a conservative bastion. bastion. there's been a lot of demographic changes, but it'd be an interesting by—election. but i just think there's a point of principle. if you are elected under a banner and you leave that banner, you should have to fight by—election. >> why is lord alli so deeply

enmeshed in the labour party leadership ? what is what has he leadership? what is what has he got? what does he want? kevin. he's got his period. he's got lots of money. we hear that he was involved in do not topple bashar assad in syria . we know bashar assad in syria. we know he had his his all access pass to number 10. what does he want? i mean £32,000 in suits and spectacles for the leader of the opposition, the now prime minister. it's a staggering amount of money. what is he after? >> he's. well, he's worth 200 million, or he's thought to be worth 200 million. he's given labour 700,000. he's become a spider. no such thing as a free lunch, kevin. >> there's no such thing as a free lunch. >> no, of course it's not. it's said that he wants access to power, and he wants to be at the top table. now, a bit of that will always be eagle, and it will always be eagle, and it will be driven by. aren't i important? aren't i well connected? but you've got to ask what anybody gives any politician because let's face it, they are philanthropists. >> and, you know, one thing is absolutely for certain, kevin maguire is not spent £32,000 on his outfits, which, if he comes to party conference in at all, how much does your suit cost in marks and spencer?

>> you can get a good one for about £120. >> £120. >> £120. >> is yours machine washable? >> is yours machine washable? >> no dry cleaning the washing machine . mine costs more than machine. mine costs more than £120, but i could not spend £32,000 on suits. it would take me a lifetime. that's kevin maguire, he's from the daily mirror . he doesn't maguire, he's from the daily mirror. he doesn't think much of the tories. up next, a mother, a mother is launched, a legal battle to stop her down syndrome son's drinks being spiked with sedatives so that he can't be forcibly given the covid jab her wishes. that's all up with bev on

>> have you been getting in touch at home? thank you for keeping me company this morning while andrew is in birmingham, jedi knight has said i never thought i would agree with kevin maguire, but there should be a by—election. i think that's in relation to rosie duffield giving up the whip. tom has said, does starmer have a woman

problem ? actually, i can't read problem? actually, i can't read the rest of that, sharon has said yes. rosie duffield may have had had issues with labour for a while, but she has obviously had enough of the cruel new policies. that's the straw that broke the camel's back, because her statement just didn't she didn't absolute number on sir keir starmer as she resigned. a personal attacks, political attacks. it was a pretty unprecedented sort of statement . bag lady has said of statement. bag lady has said £30,000 is the amount that we know about , she says. i suspect know about, she says. i suspect it's much more . and this one it's much more. and this one here saying sometimes i think maybe the tories should join up with reform. and then my sensible head kicks in and says we do not need the same people, that's all, but destroyed our nafion that's all, but destroyed our nation , i think. i'm not sure we nation, i think. i'm not sure we do. i think we're better off without them. let's be honest. it would be a rescue mission. they would only want to join reform to save themselves. that's not the right reason to join reform. key messages coming gbnews.com/yoursay now a mother

is locked in a legal war with the nhs to stop them and the state. the wider tentacles of the state to stop them sedating her son who has down's syndrome. the court of protection orders the approved the use of one of three possible sedatives, with the judge concluding that adam is the name that we're giving him should have the jab because the benefits outweigh the risks. let's understand a little bit more on this case by lawyer representing the family. stephen jackson, good morning , stephen. jackson, good morning, stephen. thanks so much forjoining us. so people will hear this headune so people will hear this headline and they'll say, well, that that can't be the case in 2024. it can't be that a man with down's syndrome is being sedated to be given the covid vaccine, when the risk of that illness is no longer present . illness is no longer present. so. so is it really that simple ? so. so is it really that simple? >> we might say so. so. so is it really that simple? >> we might say so . the hundreds >> we might say so. the hundreds and hundreds of comments in response to the newspaper articles and the telegraph have run it. the daily mail have run it. they've picked it up just

yesterday. they all indicate that the public are pretty unanimous in this view. it only seems to be a handful of people who are stuck in 2021. what the case is about is that adam has down syndrome. he's got moderate learning disabilities, and autism, but that means he can hug people he enjoys tactile response, and he can say if he wants something or he doesn't wants something or he doesn't want something, and he can say if he doesn't want medical treatment, for example. and that's what he does, he recognises a needle in a picture book and thinks, and he says, no thank you. but he doesn't live with his mum. he lives in a care residence and the authority effectively has control over his care . everyone seems to have the care. everyone seems to have the same objective and don't criticise that. the objective of the courts and the authorities is to look after adam in his best interests. but the question is, how is that actually determined, the court of protection is supposed to give a

voice to people who don't have a voice to people who don't have a voice otherwise to respect their dignity . well, what we have here dignity. well, what we have here is that if we look at adam's risk group , is that if we look at adam's risk group, his particular one for his age and his, risk group, which isn't really vulnerable, it's just the lowest risk group above you and i, about 16% of people in his risk group said yes to the booster shot as called last autumn and winter . called last autumn and winter. that's 1 in 6 called last autumn and winter. that's1 in 6 people said yes. that's 1 in 6 people said yes. put another way , 5 or 6 of his put another way, 5 or 6 of his peers all said no. thank you. i don't want this. so how is it that the court or the ecb are telling us that if adam can speak for himself, if he could better understand covid better understand this treatment , he understand this treatment, he would be the outlier who says yes, it doesn't really make any sense. >> so adam's mother has has come to you for support for and help because she says this is he's already had two covid injections

under this same sedating methodology, and he's also had covid himself. so she feels this is too heavy handed and she'd rather not face the risk of a of an mrna drug . an mrna drug. >> well, he survived four years without the need for any mrna experimental treatment. by the way, the pfizer vaccine, so—called remains under trial until until 2029. so most people are saying no. as i said, 60% of adam's group are saying no, 50% of frontline health workers. i beg your pardon? 70% of frontline health workers are saying no , that's doctors and saying no, that's doctors and nurses, 50% of doctors across the wider group of risk. so not just so . and there's 10.5 just so. and there's 10.5 million or so, 11.5 million in the uk, 31% said, yes, i'll take the uk, 31% said, yes, i'll take the booster. that means more than two out of three said, no, thank you. so the public okay. health workers, they're all

saying no thank you. all right. >> stephen jackson, thank you so much. we run out of time. i think you've got a fundraiser going as well, haven't you, to try and help help the family just stop oil. >> com crowd. just com look at stop sedate to vaccinate. and thank you very much for having me on bev. >> thank you. a spokesman for the uk health security agency has said the government body responsible for public health protection said it would be inappropriate to comment on that specific case, but i'm sure you won't mind commenting. let me know your thoughts first though. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news. weather update from the met office. it's going to be an unsettled day out there today, but the rain should be clearing through tuesday and then turning a little bit drier and brighter as the week progresses. so we have got heavy spells of rain and we have got some met office rain warnings in force, especially across northern parts of wales into the midlands and

across parts of lincolnshire as well, where we've already seen quite significant amounts of rainfall. so disruption is possible further towards the south, turning drier here but still quite cloudy and towards scotland, still holding on to cloudy conditions and outbreaks of rain. still breezy once again across the english channel and towards east anglia. and we still have heavy spells of rain continuing through monday evening, so there could be some difficult driving conditions at rush hour, with travel disruption and also some flooding. so heavy spells of rain continuing across the central swathe of the uk, perhaps turning a little bit dner perhaps turning a little bit drier across parts of northern ireland and into scotland. but on the whole there is a lot of cloud around still persisting through the night. on monday. so as we go through monday evening, heavy spells of rain still continuing across much of england and across wales as that low pressure gradually clears off towards the east, then we'll start to see clearing skies especially further west. you go

with some clear skies here, allowing temperatures to fall just a little bit, but otherwise towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. so to start tuesday morning, that low pressure system moves its way out towards the east with a keen breeze down that north easterly coast. so it's going to be feeling quite chilly here. still quite a lot of cloud around with some outbreaks of rain, but further towards the west

well . well. >> good morning. 11 am. on monday the 30th of september live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce. i'm here at the conservative conference in birmingham and bev turner in london. >> good morning. thank you for joining us today. so excessive maternity pay really tory leadership hopeful kemi badenoch is under fire for suggesting that pay has gone too far. but she says that her comments have been misquoted.

>> i've been a minister for women and equalities. i've had three children, i've had maternity leave, three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay . i have been about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that and i won't have my views misrepresented. so you another energy price hike. >> all of our energy bills are set to rise by 10% at midnight. are you concerned, as we approach the winter? and is the nhs on life support? the chancellor, rachel reeves, is set to put saving on national health service at the heart of labour's first budget. but will more money fix it? and does sir keir starmer have a woman problem? rosie duffield has resigned as a labour mp, slamming the party for pursuing cruel policies and claiming their labs are in charge . and their labs are in charge. and prince harry is in london for an award ceremony later today. cameron wahaca has the details. >> well, the policy for seriously ill children in the uk. prince harry, the charity's patron. but will he have time to see his brother or father? stay

tuned . tuned. >> and working with andrew pierce monday to thursday just isn't enough for me. so you can find out about our saturday afternoon get together that we had this weekend at henley literary festival . literary festival. >> and of course, as ever, we'd love to hear what you think. send your views, your comments by visiting gb news. com forward slash yoursay. but first, here's the news with mark . white. the news with mark. white. >> at 11:02, the latest headunes >> at 11:02, the latest headlines from the gb news centre. tory leadership contender kemi badenoch has defended comments she made over the level of maternity pay , the level of maternity pay, saying her remarks had been misinterpreted. it follows an interview in which the shadow

housing secretary appeared to suggest the allowance could be seen as excessive. all three of her leadership rivals have distanced themselves from those comments, but miss badenoch hit back, calling for an honest campaign. >> i've been a minister for women and equalities, i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay . i have been about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that, and i won't have my views misrepresented. >> well , misrepresented. >> well, speaking to gb news this morning, the conservative party chairman said the allowance was too not high. >> the third party was the party that brought in statutory maternity pay. so no, i don't think it's excessive and i think if you talk to organisations like the cbi, they'd say exactly the same thing. >> meanwhile, the race to replace rishi sunak as tory party leader takes centre stage at the conservative party conference in birmingham today, a day after the former prime minister urged the to party stop

squabbling. two other leadership contenders, kemi badenoch and tom tugendhat, will face a question and answer session. james cleverly and robert jenrick. the other two candidates will face questions on tuesday . the candidates will face questions on tuesday. the bbc has been criticised in a new report for their coverage of the conflict in the middle east. the report accuses the corporation of anti—semitism and making false and damaging claims about the conflict. the bbc management have said they don't recognise the overall characterisation. former bbc executive danny cohen told gb news the corporation was failing in its duty to impartiality. >> this is a very trusted news source and it has a commitment to impartiality and a commitment to impartiality and a commitment to accuracy . and what this to accuracy. and what this report shows today is that the bbc is consistently and systematically showing bias against israel and failing in its duty to impartiality .

its duty to impartiality. >> the lebanese prime minister has said. up to 1 million people have now been displaced as fighting between israel and the terror group hezbollah continues. overnight israeli airstrikes targeted central beirut for the first time. the terror group , the popular front terror group, the popular front for the liberation of palestine, said three of its leaders were killed in the strikes. meanwhile, hamas said its leader in lebanon has been killed along with some members of his family in an airstrike overnight in southern lebanon . the uk's southern lebanon. the uk's biggest steelworks is ending production today after more than a century of operations. blast furnace four is the final furnace four is the final furnace operating at tata steel's plant in port talbot. from today it will be shut down, putting around 2000 people out of work. the works will enter a transition phase for the next three years until a new electric

arc furnace is installed . arc furnace is installed. austria's freedom party is projected to win the country's general election after a 78% of the population turned out to vote. it would mean austria has elected its first hard right party since the second world war. party leader herbert kickl ran on a manifesto promising to crack down on asylum seekers and kerb inflation rates . the duke kerb inflation rates. the duke of sussex is making a rare visit to the uk today to celebrate the achievements and resilience of seriously ill youngsters and their families. seriously ill youngsters and theirfamilies. prince seriously ill youngsters and their families. prince harry will attend the wellchild awards ceremony in london in his role as the charity's patron, a position he has held for more than 15 years. the king is believed to be spending time at his balmoral home. it's thought he hasn't seen harry since the

duke rushed to his father's side after the king's cancer diagnosis in february . the diagnosis in february. the legendary country music singer and actor kris kristofferson has died at the age of 88, a family spokesperson said. the star passed away peacefully at his home in hawaii on saturday. he won three grammys for best country song, help me make it through the night and starred alongside barbra streisand in the 1976 film a star is born, for which he won a global golden globe . the late queen and sir globe. the late queen and sir david attenborough have been named our greatest british cultural figures in a survey to mark the 90th anniversary of the british council. the late monarch was voted the country's greatest cultural icon, with 41% selecting her in the survey. sir david attenborough came a close second, with 40% voting for him,

followed by diana , princess of followed by diana, princess of wales. former prime minister winston churchill and queen frontman freddie mercury . and frontman freddie mercury. and those are the latest headlines from the gb news centre. we'll have more for you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> very good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom live across the uk with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. now we. well okay. the reason i'm looking a bit stumbled is because we're doing something a little unusual here on the show. andrew and i were working together at the weekend as well to promote his his book, and we were at henley literary festival, were we not? mr p? we were, we were.

>> it was very nice . beverley >> it was very nice. beverley interviewed me for the best part of an hour on stage. it was quite a lot of people in the audience about the book finding margaret. it was about looking for my birth mother and she got she got me to talk about things i've not talked about before. so it was all quite an unusual experience, but very nice experience. and actually she was very nice to me, which, as you know, is even more unusual. >> stop it. i'm always nice to you. let's have a little look at what happened at the weekend. i believe they've cut some bits together for us. here we go. he's going to be on the counsellor's couch here. this could turn into a therapy session, couldn't it? obviously, you're all familiar with andrew. you see him on good morning britain every morning. and obviously associate editor of the daily mail newspaper. to me, he's just the guy that i have to sit next to every morning for 2.5 hours on gb news, which he doesn't like much, which i do, but honestly, i think it's fair to say, isn't it? we probably spend more time with each other. we've both got rather attractive younger boyfriends and we spend more time with each other than we do with them, so we're doing something wrong, aren't we? 1st of november, 1976. public opinion. why i've adopted my mum

is the headline i was pleased to read marje proops article haunted by the past. i am a 15 year old and i was adopted when i was two. i have two loving, generous parents. for me, my mother is my real mum. the woman who gave birth to me does not exist in my mind at all, and i don't expect i do to her now. my mum has cared for me, fed me, clothed me and loved me and i would not swap my parents for anything . forget the myth that anything. forget the myth that blood is thicker than water. it is not. if you publish my letter, please give my name. i am not ashamed of being adopted. andrew pierce , swindon, wilts andrew pierce, swindon, wilts i got to know mrs. thatcher again in her twilight years, and i used to take to her lunch maybe 2 or 3 times a year, normally to the ritz and always when we'd leave the ritz, she'd be. >> she'd link arms with me because the pianist would start playing a nightingale in berkeley square, and she'd squeezed my hand and say, do you know, dear, that was dennis and our favourite. we did know that, which was why it was always

played. and i used to go to parties at her house and see her and, and she was just a rather sweet lady, really. >> she'd always have the same thing, didn't she? >> always had the same food? it was always lemon sorbet with the bones taken out. she'd have lobster bisque, one glass of wine because mrs. thatcher used to knock it back a bit a few years ago. and. and it was rather sweet and i it is true that my study at home is a shnne that my study at home is a shrine to mrs. thatcher. photographs of me with the lady, photographs, letters from her. and there is also a life size cut—out of mrs. thatcher. so on the rare occasions when some lefties come for a drink or for dinner, they're there quite happily having their dinner. then they turn around and there's me saying, oh ! there's me saying, oh! >> it was a it was a really nice opportunity, actually, to really talk about the book as well. and the book is really good. and we are desperate for the second version. now, andrew, we need the sequel to this because it's opened so many different doors, hasn't it? in terms of your family and your history? >> it really has. and of course, it's i'm here in birmingham, of

course. that's where we found my birth mother in a suburb of birmingham. and ironically , i'd birmingham. and ironically, i'd worked on the birmingham mail as part of my career and my office was just a couple of miles from where she lived. so, so many extraordinary coincidences unravelled by that book. anyway, it was great, very mbappe. now joining me in birmingham is the former chairman of the conservative party, sir jake berry. sirjake berry rishi sunak was in town yesterday. what would you have liked to have said to him, if you'd had a chance? because you lost your seat? because of it? >> i didn't see him. he was a bit like banquo's ghost coming back in the play. that shall not be named. but yeah, people talk about, i don't really know why he came, but the one thing i would have liked to hear from him is, is. sorry because i think if you talk to former conservative members of parliament like me who lost their seats, the one thing they cannot understand is what on earth was he doing calling that early election? because of course, we've seen now things have got worse for the labour party. the economy is improving. we might you never know. we might have got a flight off to

rwanda and it's all well and good for him to come here and say, now is the time for unity. i actually agree with him. it is. i think it may have been better if he hadn't come, actually, unless he was going to come and say, look, i'm really, really sorry for what it probably will go down as the biggest political gamble, certainly, of our generation. yeah, but it's one he lost and he should have , you know, he he should have, you know, he should have said sorry for it think. >> do you think he's going to clear off to california? and could you care less if he does or he doesn't? because he's got a home there hasn't he. >> what he does next is a matter for him, i don't i don't think he will be looked back on as you know, i don't think we look back at him in the conservative party like we look back on margaret for thatcher example. so i don't know what he'll do. he's clearly a member of parliament for richmond. he said he's going to serve a full term as a member of parliament for richmond. i hope he does, because the people who voted for him deserve that at the very least, yeah. just, it's a very odd thing that, leaders , a very odd thing that, leaders, you know, leaders, he is still

the leader of our party, and no one really noticing, i think. >> now, who are you backing in this leadership contest? >> so that may be a cheer for them, right now in the background, i'm going to. well, i am backing tom tugendhat and the reason is, is we've got four fantastic candidates . but tom, fantastic candidates. but tom, to me is the only person who's come out and said, this is my alternative programme for government. i'm in a cap immigration at 100,000. i want us to look at leaving the echr. i'm going to have plans for. >> why doesn't he say we will leave the echr which is what robert jenrick has said? >> well, i actually think thomas is a nuanced approach. i'm a long term advocate for leaving the echr. i think it's the only way. what he has said is, look, when treaties don't work for your country, the first thing is your country, the first thing is you try and change them and you can only change it from the inside a bit like we tried with europe and failed and if you can't change them and it doesn't work for britain, then leave. i think that's a pragmatic political approach to it rather than just, you know, we'll leave it at all costs. >> he's also the world is in we're in uncertain times . we see

we're in uncertain times. we see what's happening in ukraine, the middle east war, which is ongoing, could get worse if israel does invade lebanon. tom tugendhat had a very distinguished military career. would that be relevant to him being a leader of the tory party? >> it's important, i believe i can't remember the exact number he spent 20 years serving and working in our armed forces , working in our armed forces, it's. i think keir starmer, when he came into this election, said that he had a history of service as a senior civil servant in the uk government. we sort of learned that it's all about self service in his case. but i do think there is still a special place in people's heart in this country for people who have been prepared to put themselves in harm's way in our armed forces and in police forces, any uniformed service people. i think there's a special appreciation for what they've done.i appreciation for what they've done. i think also people understand that that sort of life and death leadership, when you're leading troops into battle in afghanistan, is a great training for the high pressured world of politics. and that's why i think, you know,

he's really the complete package, actually. >> and he, of course, says he would massively increase defence spending. can you believe a conservative government has allowed defence spending to fall so low, so badly? i think the army is probably smaller now than it was during the crimean war. >> well, look, the world has changed, hasn't it? so we have had this huge dividend that we've spent on the nhs. all the money we used to spend on defence during the cold war, when the berlin wall fell, successive governments took that dividend of spare money because we didn't need to keep the army in the same state of readiness and spent it on things that matter to us, like education and the nhs. the world has now changed. it's a very dangerous place. now is the right time for us to massively look at increasing defence spending to deal with a very dangerous world. >> can i ask you? boris johnson's memoirs are out . johnson's memoirs are out. they've been front page in my newspaper most days. does the tory party need a big figure like that? do you miss him not being around? >> oh, well, i think we absolutely missed boris. i'm looking forward to support. i'm.

i'm in there a couple of times. i'm in there a couple of times. i think there's a couple of bits have been in the mail talking about some of the crazy things that he and i did together. we're good friends. just think, you know, if boris walked into this conference hall today, despite what's going on with the leadership election, i'd electrify it, wouldn't he? most members here would have him back in a heartbeat. and what's really interesting, i think, is if you go out and talk to the public, as i know you do, i do sue gray being at the heart of the labour party is rather rehabilitating. boris johnson. people are saying, i remember this famous sue gray, she did, the one which brought him down. she's always said she was completely impartial. well, i suppose she might be because she bought boris johnson down, who was a conservative prime minister. now she seems to be bringing a labour prime minister down as well. so i know that is true impartiality in the british system. >> i know, and it does feed into people who said that her inquiry into partygate was rigged from beginning to end because she's now, look, starmer's chief of staff. >> people will make their own mind up about that. but you know , mind up about that. but you know, i think boris himself described

it as the greatest stitch up since the bio tapestry. i think he did say he does. yeah. >> and i don't think anybody would say that boris johnson was getting free suits from rich tory party donors, because i don't think i've ever seen boris johnson look smartly dressed in any. >> no, no, quite. but i don't know. i mean, if we think about the scandal of a donor through a blind trust, completely anonymously donating money to refurbish downing street, a pubuc refurbish downing street, a public building, that building belongs to us. >> the british people. he couldn't wear the wallpaper, couldn't wear the wallpaper, could he, boris? >> the wallpaper , which i'm sure >> the wallpaper, which i'm sure is still on the wall. yeah. refurbishing one of our great national iconic buildings like 10 downing street. that is very , 10 downing street. that is very, very different than a donor giving money directly to, you know, to an individual to buy clothes. and pat mcfadden, who's very, very close to keir starmer, was on various television programmes yesterday and he described them as political donations . now that is political donations. now that is a lie . we don't use that word a lie. we don't use that word much in politics. it is a lie . much in politics. it is a lie. political donations go to

political parties. when i was chairman of the conservative party, people would come and see me and say, i want to give a donation to the party. sometimes they'd say, i'd like to see it spent on. they said, no, look, that's not how it works. it goes into the party funds and we spend it how we want. the labour party is very different. this money is being given directly to individuals. now, gb news viewers would make their own mind up about why any one individual would want to buy clothes for the very senior leaders of our government that we have, or their wives, or provide them with multi—million pound apartments in the centre of london. why would you do that directly rather than give to that political party? who knows, maybe we'll find out. >> maybe we'll. that's the jake berry he is, the former tory party chairman and he is backing tom tugendhat. so we've had three now supporters of three of the candidates. we only want to find is kemi badenoch major. we're looking for kemi badenoch because we want to ask her what her view is of maternity pay. she's had some rather interesting views on that. now the minimum alcohol use, the minimum alcohol unit price rises by 30% in scotland today. will it be enough to reduce alcohol

related deaths, and is it the business of state to be the price of alcohol? this is

gb news. gb news. >> good morning. welcome back to >> good morning. welcome back to britain's newsroom. i'm joined britain's newsroom. i'm joined in the studio again by emma in the studio again by emma woolf and labour adviser, former woolf and labour adviser, former labour adviser matthew talbot. labour adviser matthew talbot. matthew just remind me because matthew just remind me because you're new for our viewers this you're new for our viewers this morning. you've been on here as morning. you've been on here as a guest but new as a panellist. a guest but new as a panellist. why are you no longer involved why are you no longer involved with the labour party with the labour party specifically? >> put me on the spot, why don't specifically? >> put me on the spot, why don't you?! >> put me on the spot, why don't you? i think i'm too left wing you?! >> put me on the spot, why don't you? i think i'm too left wing for the labour party in its for the labour party in its current guise. i always thought current guise. i always thought with the way the polls looked, with the way the polls looked, it would be a nice, natural it would be a nice, natural conclusion to seven years in conclusion to seven years in frontbench to politics leave frontbench to having seen us go into power, i think there was half an option to follow labour into government, but it's not a project. i was 1,000,000% behind and i had my bugbears with it.

so and i think the media in

and about what? >> well, i don't think you know my views. i don't think children under ten anyway should be online. i don't think children under 16 should be online. i really think the internet is an extremely and increasingly dangerous place for children. but this is children who are being well in the vacuum, in a vacuum where children have zero interest, zero hobbies, zero youth clubs, places to go, things to do, interests to pursue , they are finding strong pursue, they are finding strong figureheads online. they are seemingly not being parented, not being looked after, not having anyone monitoring what they're actually doing in this internet space, in this dangerous sort of wild west of the online world. and yes, they're being taken over by strong ideologies . it's no strong ideologies. it's no surprise at all, is it? >> is it what we would consider to be terrorism and radicalisation, or are they talking about people like andrew tate or i? >> i couldn't tell from the story. it was a little bit vague, but it could be considered terrorism. and i think emma's right about i worry

about a sort of breakdown in society. i even think back to when i was a kid. there were several football clubs i played for, and i know it's a little bit like back in my day, but we all played out together. there was almost a sense of community, and i think i know it's to easy blame social media and technology for a lot of things, but i think we have become more insular as a society. we have become more individualistic. and, you know, i again, i look at my nephew now, he, you know , at my nephew now, he, you know, he has friends or whatever, but he's all about online playing your minecraft and whatever other games they play on. and so your minecraft and whatever other games they play on. and so i think it's easy to come. and i i think it's easy to come. and i think actually the technology think actually the technology companies have to be held companies have to be held accountable a little bit more. accountable a little bit more. you go on youtube and you type you go on youtube and you type in some sort of thing. you in some sort of thing. you shouldn't be looking at the shouldn't be looking at the algorithm on. things like that algorithm on. things like that will send you to the next video. will send you to the next video. that's the same. and therefore that's the same. and therefore for me , things like youtube are for me , things like youtube are for me, things like youtube are the biggest terrorist for me, things like youtube are the biggest terrorist recruitment programs that we've recruitment programs that we've got at the moment. and there got at the moment. and there needs to we need to have a needs to we need to have a little look about what the little look about what the algorithms are doing to young algorithms are doing to young children. >> but isn't the isn't the children. >> but isn't the isn't the problem partly when we talk problem partly when we talk about banning smartphones for about banning smartphones for

the under 16, i've spoken to a the under 16, i've spoken to a few politicians about this. they few politicians about this. they tend to be older men who don't tend to be older men who don't have this in their life, and have this in their life, and they just say, oh, they're fine they just say, oh, they're fine parents just need to step in. parents just need to step in. you don't really understand. you don't really understand. >> you talk to any parent. i >> you talk to any parent. i mean, you were tweeting the mean, you were tweeting the other night about the addiction other night about the addiction that your children and your that your children and your auntie, all of this , it is auntie, all of this , it is auntie, all of this, it is absolutely addictive. this is auntie, all of this, it is absolutely addictive. this is warping people's minds. i don't warping people's minds. i don't care if you think that i'm care if you think that exaggerating. i am not. the internet is an incredibly clever place. it sucks you in. the guys who invented all this stuff they know. and is it any wonder that children are literally in their bedrooms on their own in this world, like minecraft, but but much darker than that ? is it any much darker than that? is it any wonder that that strong ideologies, that powerful, horrible, hateful ideologies in the vacuum of children just playing out , being with other playing out, being with other children, being around people, being in the outdoors? >> i've never understood why schools haven't done more to educate children, not just about the because what they do educate them on is don't meet one online and then go meet them in a park

because you don't whatever

warping people's minds. i don't care if you think thiyou know, >> yeah, it is. and, you know, this sort of theory of like, they're coming for our children. ihear they're coming for our children. i hear this a lot all the time. like they're coming for our children. like they've already got them. they've got them on this. what do you mean they? who are they? and they've already got them via that. right. can we talk about alcohol? this is minimum alcohol unit price increasing by 30% in scotland. matthew. is this just a punishment on the poor again, who might just enjoy a beer at the end of the week when they've had a tough week? >> i would say no, but people that know me would expect me to say that because i'm a recovering alcoholic. so i'm very passionate about things like alcohol, harm. i'm not anti alcohol, i'm anti—alcohol for me, but i'm not anti alcohol. and i think if you look at the pnces and i think if you look at the prices that it's going to go up to, a bottle of wine is going to be about £6, it can't be any less than £6, which when i was drinking, when i was quite a bit youngen drinking, when i was quite a bit younger, going out on nights out in manchester, you pay about £4. so it's not a huge incremental, sort of advance on, on what people were paying. and actually the interesting thing is it's bizarrely a vote winner. so alcohol change did some polling

recently on this, i think with a look to the upcoming budget. and they found that more than half of respondents agreed that increasing alcohol duty until it covers the cost of alcohol related harm would have a positive impact on the nhs. and the one that i thought was more interesting is almost half support minimum unit pricing to prevent alcohol being sold at low prices. that more than doubled for swing voters and 33% of reform voters also agreed. so you've almost got a third of those types of voters, which stereotypically people probably wouldn't assume, especially with nigel being the figurehead he is, and loving a pint and whatever, but i think there's probably a useful conversation we should have not we shouldn't be punishing people for wanting to drink, but i think certainly more information and maybe more pubuc more information and maybe more public health around it and more prevention rather than cure. yeah. >> i mean, you're more experienced in this than me, but my worry is that addicts and heavy drinkers will find that money and we know what happens. they cut back on the household budget, they cut back on even children's food and clothing or whatever they cut back on their own food so they will find that

money, even £4 to £6 or, you know, a bottle of vodka or whatever, £20. as a former smoker, i know that you just pay whatever because addictions are incredibly strong, aren't they? they're just powerful things like, yeah, no, you will totally find the money, find that money. >> booze addicts are selfish. you will put that before anything else. you know, i've got direct life experience of that sort of stuff, but i think maybe, therefore we need to look at more investment into support services and for helping people in the first place. and i think one thing i was always quite passionate about is there's a memorandum of exclusion in the equality act, and people will disagree on this, but i think it's the right thing in that the equality act still sees addiction as a personal choice. now, i would argue i would see it as an illness and it's something that maybe you can't help. if you were to remove that memorandum of exclusion, somebody at work may be more forthcoming and going, i've got an issue. can i talk to you about it? and actually, if you go for a period of rehabilitation, that would be paid for at the moment, it wouldn't and you would probably be discriminated for it, whereas

something like cancer that you can't help, you would get the paid time off as rightly so, to get some help and rehabilitation with that, you must come back and talk to us about that topic again another day. >> matthew. matthew torbett there and emma woolf, >> matthew. matthew torbett there and emma woolf , thank you there and emma woolf, thank you both so much for this morning. right. time for your news headunes right. time for your news headlines with mark . white. headlines with mark. white. >> good morning. it's just coming up to 1132. the latest headunes coming up to 1132. the latest headlines from the gb news centre. tory leadership contender kemi badenoch has defended comments she made over the level of maternity pay, saying her remarks have been misrepresented. it follows an interview in which the shadow housing secretary appeared to suggest the allowance could be seen as excessive, but miss badenoch hit back , calling for badenoch hit back, calling for an honest campaign. >> i've been a minister for women and equalities, i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me

about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that and i won't have my views misrepresented. >> well , misrepresented. >> well, speaking to gb news this morning, the conservative party chairman said the allowance was too not high. >> third party was the party that brought in statutory maternity pay. so no, i don't think it's excessive and i think if you talk to organisations like the cbi, they'd say exactly the same thing. >> meanwhile, the race to replace rishi sunak as tory party leader takes centre stage at the conservative party conference today, a day after the former prime minister urged the former prime minister urged the party to stop squabbling. two of the leadership contenders, kemi badenoch and tom tugendhat, will face a question and answer session. the lebanese prime minister has said up to £1 million, 1 million people. i should say, have been displaced as fighting between israel and the terror group hezbollah continues. overnight, israeli airstrikes targeted central beirut for the first

time. the terror group, the popular front for the liberation of palestine, said three of its leaders were killed in the strikes . meanwhile, leaders were killed in the strikes. meanwhile, hamas said its leader in lebanon has been killed, along with some members of his family in an airstrike overnight in southern lebanon . overnight in southern lebanon. the uk's biggest steelworks is ending production today after more than a century of operations. blast furnace four is the final furnace operating at tata steel's plant in port talbot from today. it's to be shut down putting around 2000 people out of work. the works will enter a transition phase for the next three years until a new electric arc furnace is installed . the legendary country installed. the legendary country music singer and actor kris kristofferson has died at the age of 82, 88. a family spokesperson said . the star spokesperson said. the star

passed away peacefully at his home in hawaii on saturday. he won three grammys for best country song, help me make it through the night and starred alongside barbra streisand in the 1976 film a star is born for which he won a golden globe . and which he won a golden globe. and those are the latest news headlines. we'll have more for you in half an hour. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. forward slash alerts . gbnews.com. forward slash alerts. >> up next, join me for an inside peak of the conservative party conference hall here in birmingham. this is britain's newsroom on

party conference. it's day two. i've got to tell you, this isn't the most widely attended tory party conference, but look who i've just bumped into. none other than lord mclaughlin, former chairman of the tory party, former transport secretary lord mclaughlin. you've been coming to tory conference for a long time. where is everybody? >> i think there's quite a few people around. i'm, you know, there's you're you're you're putting a bit of a gloss on it. look, we've just gone through a terrible election defeat. there is not the interest in the conservative party that there was a few years ago . so we've was a few years ago. so we've got to build ourselves, learn some of the lessons, and get ourselves in a better shape. >> do you think anyone's listening to the tory party at all at the moment? anyone's listening to the tory party at all? >> yes, they are listening. are we sufficiently important at the moment? no, not until we've got a new leader and we've rather than them listening to us, we need to listen to people. >> now, you're a former tory chairman. who are you backing

for? the leadership? because i don't think you're going to have a no view on this law. >> i well, i am having a no view on it. you're being diplomatic. ihave on it. you're being diplomatic. i have i did support a candidate, but mel got knocked out in the very early stages. >> he was so boring. he was never going to win. >> no. mel had done things before he got into parliament. he built a big business. he'd been successful. he'd been a very successful , i think, very successful, i think, cabinet minister. so i'm very sorry that he's not in the final foun sorry that he's not in the final four, but he's not. this will be a party vote. i will use my vote when i see who the final two candidates are. >> any hunch about who might win? >> no, i don't think anybody has as they. >> and can i ask you, is it true that tory party mps are the most dupuchous that tory party mps are the most duplicitous electorate in western europe? they tell you one thing and they tell everybody else who they're supporting. i mean, it is a problem, isn't it? >> well, it's that has been laid at many a tory member, and there are certain people who i do know who have pledged allegiance to several candidates at the same time. so that's why i'm saying nothing about who i'm voting.

but i've got to vote as a party member like all other party members. all right. >> norman cochrane, very nice to talk to you. enjoy the conference. we'll carry on walking. we're going to carry on walking. we're going to carry on walking this way. but going this way now to the we're walking around here. i'm tempted to go and see if i can have some of that whisky, but it's not exactly my tipple. what's this? whisky for? >> a company called strega decarbonised. whisky using hydrogen. >> so this is whisky, which is? this is. tell us about the whisky . whisky. >> the whisky is made with hydrogen. so it's decarbonised, use it using green electricity. make the make the whisky by splitting water into hydrogen. oxygen decarbonise . make this oxygen decarbonise. make this lovely stuff here. yeah. >> is it legal if you're over 18. >> yes. >> yes. >> over 18. and does it give you a terrible hangover if you drink too much of it ? too much of it? >> i couldn't say. i've only had a small dram, so not in in measured quantities. yeah. >> is it more expensive than the, the other stuff? i don't believe so. >> no competitive prices. yeah. >> no competitive prices. yeah. >> and is it made in scotland? it is made in scotland. it has to be, of course. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> all right. good luck with it. whisky with hydrogen in. let's keep walking . you notice they

keep walking. you notice they didn't give me a free bottle. hello gentlemen. how are you enjoying your conference? >> gb news. oh, hi. oh, yeah, we do, we do. do you watch gb news? i do watch good. do you watch it every day? yeah. what's your favourite? >> what's your programme? i watch your programme. >> and that lady, i keep on forgetting her name. beverley turner. yes, exactly. so is that your favourite programme? i mean, we are getting used to it, you know. okay, okay. and also watch it on x when you guys are up here on those little snippets or people put other observation and it's, i mean i find both you know whenever i've got time i do watch it and tell me, have you been coming to tory conference for a long time? that's my third one. one. >> one. >> he's i think my first one. your first one. yeah. >> are you enjoying it? >> are you enjoying it? >> oh, yeah . enjoying it a lot. >> oh, yeah. enjoying it a lot. enjoying it a lot. >> what are you enjoying about it? >> it's an environment. you know, the turnout. i thought conservatives only older generation. i can see lots of younger generation. >> so it's very more younger people this time around. >> and who do you want to be? the next tory leader?

>> oh, if i say it, you will appear! >> oh, if i say it, you will appear i don't know, i've got i've got a couple of them i don't mind james or tom. james or james or tom. >> what about you, sir? >> what about you, sir? >> same, i think james or robert jenrick. all right. >> well, very good talk to you. enjoy your conference. lovely to see you. >> newsnight as well. >> newsnight as well. >> oh, okay. very good. stay with gb news. that's the main one. that's very good. so here we are at the tory party conference. let's find out. we've got some young people here. people say the tory party is dying on its feet. how old are you, sir? >> i am 2020. how old are you, sir? >> 22. >> 22. >> 22? yeah. >> 22? yeah. >> is this your first conference? >> yes. my very first one. i've been a party member forjust over a year. right. >> and what about you, sir? >> and what about you, sir? >> this is my third conference. >> this is my third conference. >> third conference? have you decided who you'll. have you decided who you'll. have you decided who's going to be the next leader? >> yes. tom tugendhat , same >> yes. tom tugendhat, same question to you. >> i haven't decided yet. okay. yeah. >> why? tom tugendhat , he's >> why? tom tugendhat, he's a man of honesty and integrity and his years of service in the military will prove that he's got what it takes to lead us

into the next government and be the next prime minister. there we are. vote for tom tugendhat. okay, lovely to talk to you. look, we're at tom tugendhat stand here. but say, tom, look, what can we get at tom tugendhat? stand. look we've got here we are tom tugendhat stand for kyrees . tears for tears, for kyrees. tears for tears, tears. if tom is elected, well, i think that's pretty good because most of this stuff is tax, to be honest. it's we call it, they call it merch. but i think the tugendhat stand probably wins the most tcm. and then we've also got sweets and he's also got, i think he got his own newspaper. have you got your own newspaper here? what's it called ? it's called the it called? it's called the daily. the daily tuck and chat. but where is the biggest selling virtue here. where is the fake tan ? you've sold out a fake tan. tan? you've sold out a fake tan. not even one bottle. come on. look tom tugendhat, and you stand fake tan. exactly. i don't think politicians should ever talk about fakery. really, do you? but there we are. good luck with your campaign. we're just going to carry on walking around, we're probably , there's

around, we're probably, there's lots more people here than i probably thought. oh, we've just bumped into a photographer. we're bumping into another camera crew here, so we're just going to walk now. we're going to stop that way. so we're now going to go back to london. we're going to go back to beverley turner because that's it from me here at you'll hear from more a little later, a break now

>> welcome back. 1147 this is britain's newsroom. what have you been saying at home this morning? we started the show. it feels like a long time ago now. talking to danny cohen, former director of bbc one, who has basically authored a report saying that the bbc does not handle the middle east conflict with impartiality. alison, i said, i totally agree. i'm not jewish, but i turn off the bbc news now because of that obvious one sided reports on the middle east. they never show anything relating to the israeli side. it's very one sided and the bias has been shown by other news reports. and jim says the bbc

recruits almost exclusively from the pages of the guardian. they can't help themselves, northeast boy says. then they should have their licence fee removed if they cannot be an unbiased organisation, which they can't, they have no place taking tax payers money. and marilyn says i recently couldn't get gb news. sorry to hear that marilyn and i was forced to watch the bbc news. it was when the hezbollah leader was killed. i have never seen anything so biased on tv before. it was disgusting. it was all about calling israel the perpetrators of the whole war. there we were shocked and on kemi badenoch having to defend herself this morning against accusations that she said in an interview that maternity leave is excessive at. dennis has said i think it's the media that is against kemi. she's had three children. do you not think she knows what she is saying? and paul says, yep. well, three cheers for rosie duffield. don't let this story get buried because that's how it feels to me. thank you for reminding me, bev. that's a really good point because that broke over the weekend when we weren't on. i

don't feel like that's had as much publicity as it might have done. rosie duffield leaving and giving keir starmer such a kicking on the way out now moving on. the prodigal son has returned. prince harry has landed in the uk as he prepares to attend the wellchild charity awards today. there's no sign of meghan . the duchess has stayed meghan. the duchess has stayed at home in california. let's talk now to gb news royal correspondent cameron walker, who's here? cameron, so what is he doing here and what is his diary going to look like ? who is diary going to look like? who is he going to see? is he going to see his dad? >> i suspect it's going to be very short in and out visit. he's been patron of the wellchild awards, a charity in the uk, looking after seriously ill children for 16 years. he's attending their award ceremony in london tonight. he will be presenting one of those awards to a child, most inspirational child aged between 4 and 6, and he'll also deliver a short speech. but of course, a lot of the headlines are, well, who is he staying with? who's he going to be seeing? is there going to be any reconciliation? and the answer is, to be honest, we really don't know any source you

speak to close to the duke of sussex, you're met with silence. and similarly, any source close to the king or prince william. you're also met with silence. quite interesting really. some people suggesting that maybe this is going to be a test for prince harry if he does actually see his father or his brother, although i doubt it. but if he did , is there going to be any did, is there going to be any leaks to the media that could be potentially a test. the king, we believe, is in balmoral at the moment. so he's in scotland. so logistically it would be quite challenging for the two of them to see each other. prince william a lot closer. but we know that their relationship isn't great. we don't think they spoke in august when prince harry was last in the uk for the memorial service for their uncle, robert fellowes, although they were in the same room for you know, the best part of an houn you know, the best part of an hour, they didn't see each other. so i suspect probably not. and also, where's he going to be staying? maybe a hotel, maybe buckingham palace. i don't think it's going to be buckingham palace, though. although he was offered a room there in may and turned it down, reportedly. >> is it normal that they wouldn't say where a royal would be staying on an occasion like this? would you, as the as the royal correspondents normally

get a bit of a heads up? >> i think if they're a working royal, we'd get a heads up. but i think because prince harry isn't and there's security issues surrounding prince harry, clearly at the moment they're not going to give us that kind of information. also, he has to give the home office 28 days nofice give the home office 28 days notice before he returns to to the the uk so he can get a level of police protection while he's here. but we do know, of course, that there is still a legal battle going on. he's going to appeal that decision that his security was downgraded. that's the reason why meghan isn't here, actually, and it's prince harry solo, because harry told an itv documentary a couple of months ago that he doesn't feel safe bringing meghan to the uk. he's really worried for her security. but i mean, you know, that's just kind of one side of the story. perhaps the police would say different. >> netflix aren't very happy with them, are they? about this this polo documentary that there isn't really a lot of harry in it? apparently. >> yeah . it looks like he's been >> yeah. it looks like he's been kind of exec producing it. i suspect he will appear in the documentary. all we've got officially from netflix is a couple of stills of the images of a polo field in california,

and we know harry and meghan actually attended some polo matches recently over the summer, so i think we'll see them in a kind of fly on the wall style situation. but in terms of are we going to see harry or meghan interviewed as part of this documentary ? part of this documentary? probably not. and that's probably the selling point for netflix is harry and meghan. they've paid millions and millions of pounds , reportedly millions of pounds, reportedly to the couple, to produce and create content of the two of them. clearly the box office of them. clearly the box office of them was them spewing the beans on them, being working members of the royal family back in december 2022. well, the advert came out december 22. i think it was early 2023. that documentary came out . but yeah, they've kind came out. but yeah, they've kind of that could have been the most exciting thing for them. so a polo documentary and whatever meghan's working on with netflix, the cooking show reportedly, is it going to reap the same rewards for netflix? we'll have to wait and see, because netflix will only have so much patience with them. >> you know, they will only keep employing them if they're going to start generating, if they're going to generate profit for the company, maybe harry and meghan haven't worked out that yet, that if you make yourself the

product, just you and your personality and your history and your life, you can't then just pivot to executive produce something that you're not in. >> and is the contract going to be renewed? that's the other thing. and they have a huge security cost in the us as well, because they have to privately fund their own security team. there and a massive $11 million mansion in montecito . it's a lot mansion in montecito. it's a lot of money. it's a very luxury lifestyle. and the question is, how will they continue to afford it? >> okay, cameron, thank you so much. right. that is it from britain's newsroom for today. up next, good afternoon britain with emily and tom. here they are . are. >> it is indeed. and tom harwood is of course at the conservative party conference up in birmingham. we'll be checking in with him at the top of the show. who's standing out for you? which tory leadership hopeful is going to win in your view ? are going to win in your view? are you interested? what do you make of it all? that's what i want to know today. and also keir starmer, he's attempting to draw a line under freebie gate, isn't he.the a line under freebie gate, isn't he. the rules are going to change on how you declare and when you declare donations and gifts. is that really the point or is it that they're accepting so many in the first place? and of course, we're going to be

talking about the bbc because there's a new report out on bias, all of that 12 till three on. good afternoon britain . on. good afternoon britain. >> it looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> good morning. welcome to your gb news. weather update from the met office. it's going to be an unsettled day out there today, but the rain should be clearing through tuesday and then turning a little bit drier and brighter as the week progresses. so we have got a heavy spells of rain, and we have got some met office rain warnings in force, especially across northern parts of wales, into the midlands and across parts of lincolnshire as well, where we've already seen quite significant amounts of rainfall. so disruption is possible further towards the south, turning drier here, but still quite cloudy and towards scotland still holding on to cloudy conditions and outbreaks of rain . still breezy once again of rain. still breezy once again across the english channel and

towards east anglia. and we still have heavy spells of rain continuing through monday evening, so there could be some difficult driving conditions at rush hour, with travel disruption and also some flooding. so heavy spells of rain continuing across the central swathe of the uk, perhaps turning a little bit dner perhaps turning a little bit drier across parts of northern ireland and into scotland. but on the whole there is a lot of cloud around still persisting through the night on monday. so as we go through monday evening, heavy spells of rain still continuing across much of england and across wales as that low pressure gradually clears off towards the east, then we'll start to see clearing skies especially further west. you go with some clear skies here, allowing temperatures to fall just a little bit, but otherwise towns and cities holding up at around 10 or 11 degrees. so to start tuesday morning, that low pressure system moves its way out towards the east with a keen breeze down that northeasterly coast. so it's going to be feeling quite chilly here. still

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well. >> good afternoon britain . it's >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on monday the 30th of september. i'm emily carver and i'm tom harwood live from the conservative party conference in birmingham. well, yes, the conservative conference kicks off today in birmingham. shadow chancellor jeremy off today in birmingham. shadow chancellorjeremy hunt. he's kicked off by accusing labour of lying about the £22 billion financial black hole, while tory leadership candidate kemi badenoch is under fire for

suggesting maternity pay has gone too far for women. but she says her comments have been badly misrepresented. >> i've been a minister for women and equalities, i've had three children, i've had maternity leave three times. i don't need anyone to tell me about maternity pay . i have been about maternity pay. i have been one of the people fighting for that and i won't have my views misrepresented and bbc bias. >> the broadcaster has been accused of institutional hostility to israel by three huge jewish organisations over its coverage of the conflict in the middle east, and we'll bring you the latest updates from the region with defence editor at the telegraph. and as sir keir starmer have a woman problem in his party. well, rosie duffield resigned as a labour mp over the weekend. she slammed the for party pursuing cruel policies, and she claimed that the lads are in charge. is she right? and the government is attempting to draw a line under freebie gate . draw a line under freebie gate. ministers are to face new rules over how and when they declare donations of hospitality and

gifts and the like, but is that missing the