well . well. >> it's 9 pm. on patrick christys tonight . christys tonight. >> look, the single most important thing was ensuring that we had a secure base. >> keir starmer refuses to rule out giving away the falklands and gibraltar now, thanks to laboun and gibraltar now, thanks to labour. the sun does now set on the british empire for the first time since the 18th century. >> also, where previous governments talked about ending late payments. we have taken the action needed to ensure companies pay on time . companies pay on time. >> labour's cash for access scandal £30,000 for a croissant with the business secretary. does jonathan reynolds have to go and protect our nhs.7

>> protect our nhs so we must do everything we can to protect the nhs. >> will old people now be encouraged to die to protect the nhs? nhs.7 >> nhs? >> and i'm going to try and discourage him. and i had a pathetic attempt at that. it didn't work. no. and there you go. i failed to avert megxit a tv exclusive with boris johnson. >> tonight we reveal what really went on between him, prince harry and meghan markle . harry and meghan markle. >> plus, this government faced a £22 billion black hole in the pubuc £22 billion black hole in the public finances. >> today, a new era begins, a new era of a new industry. carbon capture and storage. >> labour has just spent the entire black hole on a completely nutty net zero idea that probably won't work. oh, and yes, the bbc played the iranian ayatollahs friday prayers for 40 minutes and then quoted him saying the october 7th attacks were both logical and legal , 7th attacks were both logical and legal, and i have been living off a food budget of

£13.55 for this week to try to help raise a bit of money for pensioners who've cruelly had their winter fuel payment taken off them. you can donate at justgiving.com. forward slash page forward slash save our seniors. we're very close to hitting our target now. and thank you everybody. a bit more on that later on. on my panel tonight we have got political consultant suzanne evans, broadcaster alex armstrong and journalist jj anas sarwar. oh, and can you tell me what's going on here? get ready britain . here on here? get ready britain. here we go . we go. will old people be to told die to protect the nhs? next .

next. >> patrick. thank you very much. the top stories from the gb newsroom. downing street insists its deal to return the chagos islands to mauritius does not change the approach to other overseas territories. it comes as argentina is now pledging to gain full sovereignty of the falkland islands . gain full sovereignty of the falkland islands. however, gain full sovereignty of the falkland islands . however, the falkland islands. however, the government insists its commitment to the falklands is unwavering. former prime minister boris johnson told gb news this morning that he thinks the deal is crazy . the deal is crazy. >> chagos islands being given back to mauritius. your reaction? >> crazy. i mean, do i urge viewers of gb news to get out your maps, get out your atlases, check out the chagos islands, see where they are and see where mauritius is a long way away. yes. what is this claim? it's nonsense. it's total nonsense. why are we doing this? sheer political correctness . political correctness. >> sir keir starmer has announced what he calls a game changing £22 billion funding package for projects that capture and store carbon emissions. speaking to workers in liverpool earlier today, he

said the investment in so—called carbon capture clusters will create thousands of jobs, bring in investment and help meet climate goals. however, green campaigners warn the move could prolong oil and gas production, with the projects not set to begin storing carbon until 2028. following his speech, our political correspondent katherine forster challenged the prime minister over the costs with renewable energy, you get lower energy costs for good, not just for one winter, not you know, capping for a few months in necessary circumstances, but lower energy bills for good because renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. >> that is really important. you get independence and security by doing renewables here in britain. you're not relying on the international market. and therefore, even if there are international conflicts that affect the price of energy , we affect the price of energy, we would have our own supply, which is independent. and of course , is independent. and of course, what you get is the next generation of jobs .

generation of jobs. >> now, we found out in the last few minutes that another flight has been chartered by the uk government to leave beirut. that's from the foreign office this evening, that's from the foreign office this evening , who've also that's from the foreign office this evening, who've also said that that flight is due to take off from beirut on sunday. they say it's urged any remaining british nationals wanting to return home to register their presence immediately. meanwhile, the us president, joe biden, says he would think about alternatives to striking iranian oil fields if he were in israel's shoes, adding that he thinks israel has not yet concluded how to respond to iran. that's, of course , after iran. that's, of course, after iran. that's, of course, after iran fired almost 200 ballistic missiles towards israel . well, missiles towards israel. well, that's more airstrikes have been reported in southern beirut today, as israel tells more than 30 villages in the southern and south of lebanon to evacuate. an israeli strike has cut off a road near a lebanese border crossing as well. that's according to the country's transport minister. and it follows a night of blasts across beirut . in

follows a night of blasts across beirut. in the past 24 hours, at least 45 people have died across lebanon as israel launched its most intense airstrikes on the caphal most intense airstrikes on the capital. the foreign secretary, the uk foreign secretary, earlier confirmed a third government chartered flight for british evacuees and that, of course, they have confirmed this evening another flight to take off from beirut on sunday. israeli forces are also escalating ground operations in the south, targeting hezbollah militants in gaza. airstrikes have pushed the death toll to over 41,000 since the conflict began. over 41,000 since the conflict began . and the uk has denied began. and the uk has denied involvement in strikes on targets in yemen. us central command forces conducted strikes on 15 houthi targets in iranian backed houthi controlled areas of yemen. that was today at about 5:00 pm local time in sana'a. these targets included houthi offensive, military capabilities centcom says the actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make

international waters safer and more secure. for us coalition and merchant vessels . and those and merchant vessels. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll have more news for the news to direct your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> will all people be encouraged to die in order to protect our beloved nhs ? we are constantly beloved nhs? we are constantly being told stuff like this teched out nhs protect our nhs. >> so we must do everything we to can protect the nhs. >> we were locked down for two years to protect the nhs. we made people bankrupt to protect the nhs. we are banning smoking in pub gardens to protect the nhs. we're banning junk food adverts to protect the nhs. no takeaways near schools to

protect the nhs. sugar tax to protect the nhs. sugar tax to protect the nhs. we held a church service for the nhs . only church service for the nhs. only. for. it is seemingly a religion that must be protected at all costs. and now we have the assisted dying bill coming to the house of commons. and despite confirming his government would remain neutral on the subject, the prime minister just a couple of hours ago actually reignited as he appears to be in favour of it because in 2015 he supported a similar bill that ultimately failed and told reporters i personally do think there are grounds for changing the law. so passing this law would , as passing this law would, as i understand it, allow terminally ill people to end their lives. now, i want to make one thing very, very clear that i am genuinely sympathetic to that. i hope that i never have to know

what it's like to live in constant pain and discomfort. and i really do respect people's individual wishes on this. my concern is that this is a very slippery slope that, in my view , slippery slope that, in my view, will lead to the elderly being pressured into ending their lives, to free up space and resources in the nhs. let's have a look at canada. they introduced it for terminally ill people. then in 2021, they expanded it to include anyone with a grievous or irremediable condition. this led to a military veteran and a paralympic athlete who asked for a disability ramp in her own home, being told that she had the right to die if she wanted to, which she didn't, obviously, but she was offered it in oregon. america. there is what's known as death tourism now, where people from outside the state can travel there to be euthanized. in the netherlands, it again started with the terminally ill and now , terminally ill and now, reportedly people under the age of 30 who have autism are ending their own lives. it is a

slippery slope. they say that you'll need to consent with a couple of doctors, all right, well, we had doctors in this country who wanted to prescribe puberty blockers to kids, so it won't be hard to find some willing participants, will it? now, in those countries i mentioned, it's already led to what's known as doctor shopping, where people shop around to find a doctor who's happy to sign a piece of paper saying that they can die. and we're going to ignore all of those issues. seemingly, we'll just ignore them because one backbench labour mp who won a ballot to be able to put forward a bill, that's the way we're going to vote on this. all right, genuinely, because an mp called kim ledbetter essentially won a raffle to have this debated in the house of commons. here she is saying how the time is right to have this debate and that younger mps especially seem to think it's great. oh, sorry. okay, fine . we already see now, okay, fine. we already see now, don't we, how this labour party has stigmatised the elderly, painting them as millionaires

who drain our resources and live in massive houses. people will say i'm crazy for saying this, but i don't really care to be honest with you because try to look into the future here. with an ageing population, the nhs constantly being overwhelmed on the brink of collapse, we must do everything we possibly can to protect our beloved health service. go on ethel, you're in your 80s. you know that you have the right to end your life. don't you? yeah, indeed. and here's a couple of doctors who'll sign off on it. it won't hurt a bit. just do it. just to protect the nhs. i'm very worried about this. in case you couldn't tell. let's get your thoughts on my panel. now. we've got political consultant suzanne evans. we've got political commentator alex armstrong and journalist and broadcaster jj anas sarwar. suzanne, are you as worried about this as i am? the idea that this is a slippery slope, i'm seriously worried about it. >> and can i say straight off the bat? patrick, you are not crazy. anyone who is worried about this is not crazy and neither are they unsympathetic to people living with desperate

pain and severe illnesses. absolutely not. this isn't so much a slippery slope as a logical cliff. this is what's going to happen. and i think in your monologue just now, you summed it up very beautifully by talking about what's happened in other countries. we have other countries to learn from and every single country that's gone down this line has ended up allowing people with depression , allowing people with depression, minor mental illnesses. you mentioned autism pain that is short term, but that they feel they can't live with in the short term. i just think about the people in my life who i know, who've been suicidal in the past, who've had depression in the past, who now have recovered, and they have very lovely and fulfilling lives under this law. they could no longer be here. conceivably, the thing is, a law isn't just a law. it sends a social message and the social message that this is sending, i think, is that you have the right to die. and if you believe you have the right to die, you can ultimately then translate that into you have a duty to die.

>> that's exactly where i think that's what's going to happen. i'm worried. so we've got this ageing population, which we all we all know we've got clearly we've got a, you know, problem when it comes to resources in the nhs we've established. so far that governments and the health service to be fair, is willing to shut us all down to make us all poorer, to do all sorts of things that are designed to preserve and protect the nhs. we are a health service with a country attached. yeah. and the logical conclusion that for me, alex, would be that we could enter into a world where old people are encouraged to end things earlier than they need to in order to not be a burden. >> yeah, well, i think you're absolutely right. >> and what terrifies me and what will terrify many people is giving the government more power over our lives. and giving them the power to say, actually, you must die. that seems to be the logical end point of this, where the government says, actually, we're going to tell you where the limit is here. you're not going to be able to make this

decision anymore. we're going to have our doctors and our nurses, our qualified medical professionals tell you when you should die, and we won't fund your meds anymore . your meds anymore. >> well, exactly a choice. >> well, exactly a choice. >> you're too expensive. you're too expensive to keep alive. you know these things. >> you're shaking your head , >> you're shaking your head, j-j- >> you're shaking your head, j.j. you're shaking your head. >> yeah, because whilst i respect both of you immensely, there are several things you said there that are not factually true. it's not every country that has assisted dying where if you've got mental health, illness or you're depressed, then you get killed. it's not a case of doctors telling patients it's the patients themselves who are saying they want to end their lives and in somewhere like australia, various states of state. but in australia, it's seen as the model . so victoria seen as the model. so victoria specifically things like, yes , specifically things like, yes, it's two doctors, but one of those doctors has to be specialist in the illness the person suffering with. >> can i just say to you on that? you know, we had doctors who were specialists on gender reassignment surgery for kids, right? we had doctors who were specialists. so, you know, why would you choose to specialise in a particular aspect of that medicine, unless you were particularly interested in it? i would argue that there might be

some some bias there when it comes to pushing assisted dying . comes to pushing assisted dying. >> well, another thing that you have to do is that the person who wants it has to request it at least three times. the person must also be predicted to have less than 12 months to live. it's not just a case of i'm feeling sad and depressed. today. i go to the doctor. i want to die and they kill me. >> and i think, look, you've got a point. and i do have such deep compassion for people who, as you said in your monologue, who are really suffering. and i think there's there is certainly a case to be made there. my concern is, you know, look, 30, 40 years into the future where we have an ageing population in many parts of the west, actually, where actually one in 1 in 2 people will be an elderly person, 1 in 7 at the moment. and what do you think the pressure puts on our services? and do you get to a point where the government say, actually, we're going to cap the age of life, the pressure? >> okay. but that's that's a huge leap of caution, but it's a huge leap of caution, but it's a huge leap of caution, but it's a huge leap to give puberty blockers to children. >> but it's a huge leap to. >> but it's a huge leap to. >> but it's a huge leap to. >> but listen, listen, listen, listen. i'm not suggesting that getting old is a disability. of course. so let's so let's presume based on what we know currently, let's presume that it's not a disability to be old, in which case the government

would not be saying , right, it's would not be saying, right, it's time for you to die, ethel. in the same way that someone, someone, someone who is already currently terminally ill, who has six months to live, doctors do not turn to that person and say, okay, yeah, we're going to refuse any more, any more help for you . for you. >> it's not just about the government saying you must die. it's about people feeling that they're a burden, feeling their responsibility, feeling that, oh my goodness, i'm causing so much grief and trouble to everybody. and this is what's happening in so many countries. and you're kind of saying, oh , someone's kind of saying, oh, someone's got to ask for it three times. well, if someone's feeling depressed about their care and feels they're a burden on their children, they're going to ask for it three times. >> if they have less than six months to live. >> you have people. that's one safeguard. but as we know in other countries, that safeguard has been stripped away and it's gone and there are no safeguards. well, there are safeguards. well, there are safeguards because, as i say to you, in victoria, australia, they have an exhaustive list of 60 different things that you have to hit countries. patrick has talked about. >> at least in canada, you're right. he's right about in canada, each year the number has gone up. it's susceptible. >> i put my point just on that is that it's susceptible to change. right. so we have this labour government by the way,

the news that landed just a couple of hours ago. keir starmer was asked about this and he basically said my views on this are well known. then you go back to what you said historically and he's he's up for a law change on this. so it appears as though our current prime minister would vote in favour of assisted dying, and i suspect labour would generally will vote in favour. >> i actually think parliament in general will vote for this law. i really do believe it will be quite a big landslide. my concern and i and i completely understand we can put good safeguards in now, but this government won't be. the next government won't be. the next government won't be the one after that won't be the one after that won't be the one after that. in that case, you can never make a law. >> you can never make a law. >> you can never make a law. >> but but you should . but my >> but but you should. but my conservative case for this is that you don't get involved in people's lives, particularly when it comes to life and death, and you allow that person so where's the line for you on on what we should do to preserve the nhs. >> i never thought that we would be locked in our own homes for as long as we were, in to order protect the nhs. i never thought we'd do things. the justification for banning smoking in pub gardens, for goodness sake, is to protect the nhs. you know, all of this stuff. so for me it's not particularly a leap that at some

moment in time there could be serious pressure from the medical community to say that elderly people should be should be encouraged to end their lives in order to protect us from being overwhelmed. >> well, in order for these schemes to work, it actually puts some more pressure on on medical staff because you have to have direct, more medical staff from doing the normal day to day stuff of a gp or a&e or whatever it is they're specialising to in then work on assisted dying. so it actually is worse for the nhs, which is why i don't think it will go that way. but let me tell you a personal anecdote. my grandmother was diagnosed with motor neurone disease a few years ago. she had already she lived in denmark, not in this country. they had agreed with the doctors that when she decided to stop medication, they would stop giving her medication and she would have a drug that would stop her, would help her breathe shallow, and then she'd pass. now euthanasia is not allowed in denmark, but doctors use compassion and common sense case to case that here as well. >> that can already happens in this country, this this law in a sense, is not if you're really talking about seriously terminally ill people, this law is not necessary to them. and that's what people are saying. the people this law is for. but once you've established a right to die, how do you then say, oh, you can't have that right,

you're not ill enough. and that's the problem . that's why that's the problem. that's why i say this is a logical cliff. this is going to happen. look, it's no ifs, no buts . it will happen. >> yeah, and i sympathise, you know, with your grandmother's situation, it's clearly very, very sad. you know , my very sad. you know, my grandmother lived with miss and she couldn't move at the end of her life, but she she carried on.she her life, but she she carried on. she wanted to live actually, which i think is extremely powerful. but not everyone is in that position. of course. i think what we should be focusing on as a country, not about your death, but about how good your life is and the nhs is in absolute crisis. it's not going to get any better. and we i really want politicians to be looking at that rather than worrying about when you're going to die. >> yeah, i just, i just worry that this could become the next woke thing that everyone has the right to end their life for whatever reason. and i'm very concerned about about all of that still to come. as the prime minister today vows not to sacrifice british industries to net zero extremism. what do you believe in when his own energy secretary today spent the entire economic black hole on net zero and former pm boris johnson

exclusively reveals he tried his best to convince harry and meghan not to leave the uk. does megxit really mean megxit? we've got a clip for you on that. up next though, i think it's a big one. this this is our head to head. should the business secretary, jonathan reynolds, resign after it's revealed that businesses were paying £30,000, or at least trying to, to have breakfast with him, pablo ohana and neil parish join me in a moment on that. stay tuned . moment on that. stay tuned. brilliant start guys. thank you, thank you. i know it's a

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. only on gb news. just a very quick apology. bit of housekeeping. sorry if there was a little bit of fruity language that you heard just before there. i thought my microphone was off, but you're never alone with a mic, so apologies. it's time now for our head to head . time now for our head to head. talking of scandals, the scandals keep on coming for labour as the business secretary, jonathan reynolds, has now landed himself in hot water over cash for access allegations. so businesses were ianed allegations. so businesses were invited to the ivy restaurant in for manchester the chance to have breakfast with the business secretary for £30,000. reports suggest that attendees could also have a photo with mr reynolds for 15 grand, whilst they could choose who attended they could choose who attended the meeting for 30 k. it's an expensive breakfast, isn't it? really, but not quite as much as the £32,000 worth of clothes

starmer received from lord alli, who was granted a downing street pass by the prime minister. first we had passes for glasses, now it's cash for croissants. how many more scandals can we expect labour to be involved in the energy secretary, though ed miliband has wheeled himself out to defend the business sector, saying that he knew nothing about the breakfast and labour officials have clarified that the event is no longer going ahead , despite this being ahead, despite this being cancelled. should jonathan reynolds resign over this cash for croissants scheme, joined now by former political adviser pablo ohana and going to

he's got. i think he's going to have very great difficulty distancing himself from it. have very great difficulty distancing himself from it . and distancing himself from it. and i think, you know, i mean, i don't want to be, you know, i mean, not politics is not perfect. and we're all sinners at the end of the day. but i think, you know, cash for access is always a dangerous one. and i also think you've got to remember that labour came in on a great promise to clean up politics and all this sort of thing was never going to happen again. and yet they seem to be sort of embroiled more and more in this type of thing. sort of embroiled more and more in this type of thing . so, i in this type of thing. so, i mean, my view is that if jonathan reynolds knew this was happening, knew the meeting was going to take place, had actually sanctioned it, then i think he should look to resign. that's my view. okay. if he can, if he can distance himself from it, then he may get away with it. >> but i'll come back to you. i'll come back to you, pablo. you know, look, you know the old cash for croissants thing. i mean, £30,000 to what? glean the business expertise out of a bloke who's never worked in business? i mean, you could argue that you'd have to be

stupid to pay that to begin with, but, you know, this is a bit rum. and labour have now stopped the event, which implies that it was wrong and it was cash for access, and someone should go for it. >> yeah, as far as i can tell, reynolds wasn't actually aware of the event or offer, but i do think it speaks to a wider problem, which is, as you say, the sort of cash for access to senior politicians, which happensin senior politicians, which happens in all parties. to be frank , we've seen with both frank, we've seen with both labour and tories and i think if we have a problem with it, what we have a problem with it, what we actually need to do is tighten regulation and rules around that. so everybody follows the same rule at the moment. we sort of have this. you kind of have to trust them when they get in there and trust in politicians is already very low. so i think ultimately we should be aiming for a political system that operates fairly. and there is not this perception that money can buy influence and i think that's where reform and closing the loophole comes in, rather than sort of isolating a single issue and then using that to attack for political purposes. i mean , neil, how purposes. i mean, neil, how likely do you think it is that the business secretary didn't know that he was signed up to go and meet a load of business leaders at the ivy restaurant in

manchester? >> well, it's dark at the moment. patrick and i haven't seen the pig fly by the window, but but seriously, i think it's more likely that that jonathan reynolds knew exactly what was going on. because you can't really organise a meeting with lots of senior business people paying lots of senior business people paying you know, 15 to £30,000 to be there if you couldn't get your minister there. so surely for goodness sake, he must have been at least contacted as to his availability. so i think the whole thing is , is, is wrong. whole thing is, is, is wrong. and i think i don't i don't agree with pablo that you've just got to tighten the rules, i think. yes, perhaps tighten the rules, but you've got to behave properly. and, you know, i mean, don't forget keir starmer and everybody, quite rightly, when bofis everybody, quite rightly, when boris overstepped the mark and others absolutely came down on him like a ton of bricks. but don't forget, everything was going to be different under laboun going to be different under labour. well, so far i think. i think it's worse. >> well, this is it. so, pablo,

let's let's transport ourselves back into an alternative universe where the conservatives were still in power. and this story hits the headlines. guarantee you, keir starmer is at the despatch box in the house of commons, waving around something like this, saying, go, man, you've got to go. but it's different for labour, is it? >> i know , i mean, i do agree >> i know, i mean, i do agree with you that this this doesn't pass the sniff test. and, you know, if i was working for them, i'd be really frustrated that this was happening. and i do think that there is this extra problem, as you say, which is that they came in on this promise of like restoring public trust and restoring service to government. and that is absolutely what they should be doing. and the fact that all of this is happening makes that sort of twice as worse , really. sort of twice as worse, really. and i do think that, you know, i mean, i think either way, if this was tories or labour, you get it in both parties. and it wasn't that long ago that tory mps were selling access for, you know, policies and leaking documents and things. so i think you get it across party and i think this is why we need to tighten those regulations. yes, we should be able to trust politicians. but patrick otherwise sorry, sorry to interrupt. >> but patrick, i mean that that

was wrong for the tories to do it. but equally, it is wrong for labour to do it also. you know, it's no good for the prime minister to stand up and say, you know, he took you know, he had clothes and all these things andifs had clothes and all these things and it's all within the rules when you've actually taken £40,000 for clothes and you've cut the pensioners by £3,300 for their winter fuel payments, you see, it's not whether it's within the rules, it's how it looks on the front page of a paper or on the gb news or wherever it may be, bbc, anywhere else. and that is what the labour party and the labour party don't seem to be learning at the moment. it's not about the rules, it's about how it looks and i can be. i didn't expect labour, you know, i can be perfectly blunt with you. i expected them to be a lot better than this. i can't understand why they've got themselves into so much trouble so quickly. >> well, let's have a look at jonathan reynolds's track record so far. pablo, you know this man stands accused, which no doubt he denies. but he stands accused of taking a free ticket to

glastonbury from youtube shortly before labour were about to increase the taxation on online companies. the day after glastonbury that proposed tax appears to have been dropped. and now here he is with his face plastered all over. you know, labour literature. come on, give us your money. give us your money. you can pay money to come and meet and have breakfast with this guy. i believe. and this is according to other reports, that labour said that if you paid a certain amount of money, they would vet who your business was. but then according to the sun, if you paid a bit more money, then they wouldn't vet your business. that is straightforward. cash for access, and the only reason that i can gather that anyone in their right minds would want to pay their right minds would want to pay that amount of money to meet this particular business secretary is if they wanted to try to lean on him for something, and they felt he was gettable and labour have done an advert there, which makes it look like he very much is gettable. surely he's got to go ..

gettable. surely he's got to go.. >> well, i think there's two sides here. if this was, if i was working on this, frankly the most important thing is how it comes across. and so if i was on, if i was working with labour right now, i'd be like, this looks terrible. regardless of what has or hasn't happened, it looks terrible. the public are right to be upset about it, and the debate is a totally valid one. what actually happened? i suppose we'll never know. we you know, we can take labour's word for it, or we can accuse them of lying or whatever it is. but it is true that it just looks bad and it looks twice as bad. given the promises that they made dunng the promises that they made during the election , i think, during the election, i think, i mean, in this case, as i say , it mean, in this case, as i say, it looks as though reynolds didn't personally know. i agree that thatis personally know. i agree that that is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but if he didn't know, then i don't see why he should have to resign. i do think if they want to get away from these scandals, they do need to fix regulations and they could do that. and people would look at that. and people would look at that and think, okay, actually they feel like they're making progress on this. they're going to fix the rules, tighten the regulations, and this won't happen. and then you know, we

can accept a few problems, but we'll get over it. >> i will stress again exactly what ed miliband and the labour party have said, which is that, you know, this was a bit of an error, really. the events are now not going ahead. the jonathan reynolds himself was not personally aware of it. of course, we can have a discussion asindeed course, we can have a discussion as indeed we have, about how likely we think that is and whether or not that is indeed the truth, but that is their story and they are sticking to it. so look, thank you very, very much, both of you. great to have you both on the show and i hope you have a great weekend. still to come as the prime minister today vows not to sacrifice british interests to quote, net zero extremists. do you believe him when his own energy secretary today appears to have spent the entire economic black hole on net zero? but next, as former pm boris johnson exclusively reveals that he tried his best to convince harry and meghan not to the uk. does really mean megxit? stay

welcome back to patrick christys. tonight on gb news now bofis christys. tonight on gb news now boris johnson sat down with our very own camilla tominey for an exclusive interview which will air this sunday at 9:30 am. i believe it will go again, i think, at 6 pm, during which he revealed that his involvement with harry and meghan trying to flee the uk. and he apparently tried to stop them. you might have read a little bit about this in the mail serialisation, but as ever, with gb news, we

have the proper scoop and here it is. >> prince harry and meghan in my view, they did. they came to an event we did for female education. they were brilliant and she was particularly good and she was particularly good and articulate and on it and on the detail. so you got on quite well and yeah, yeah, yeah i got on well with both of them. and i also worked with harry when he did his invictus games for disabled veterans in, in the olympic park. and so in a sort of you know, pit of pomposity , i of you know, pit of pomposity, i thought, you know , this national thought, you know, this national asset is leaving our country. i think he's a force on the whole could be on the whole a force for good. i'm going to try and discourage him. and i had a pathetic attempt at that. it didn't work. no. and there you go. i failed to avert megxit, but i did deliver brexit. >> okay, so just to give you a little bit more detail on this, buckingham palace and downing street officials encouraged bofis

street officials encouraged boris to use his notorious charm to talk harry out of his decision. apparently, his meeting with the former prince lasted for 20 minutes at a uk—africa investment summit, but obviously boris could not replicate his success in delivering brexit. joining me now is the editor at large at the mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths. charlotte thank you very, very much. so boris couldn't convince harry or meghan clearly to stay in the uk. he is quite positive about them though publicly anyway. do you buy that? do you think ? you buy that? do you think? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i do wonder whether he's being very positive about meghan and harry, because it's there's been some discrepancy about whether he actually did do this , whether he actually did do this, because the buckingham palace are basically saying this didn't happen. are basically saying this didn't happen . they never asked him. happen. they never asked him. and obviously meghan and harry didn't mention it in the netflix series or in spare. so i'm just wondering whether he's being very, very positive about them because he doesn't want them to kick off about whether or not this is factually accurate. but it's a fantastic story and a great soundbite, and it allows him to go on camilla's show and

say, i delivered brexit, not brexit. so it's kind of a genius story, but it's just amazing that we haven't heard it until how. >> now. >> do you buy this idea that the royal family would have tried to lean on boris johnson to stop harry and meghan from leaving? >> i do think, i think it's unusual for them to take the step to actually deny it. i kind of do. i can imagine boris. i mean, he said it in an act of pomposity. i can imagine him doing it. i mean , one etonian to doing it. i mean, one etonian to another, mano a mano . having another, mano a mano. having a bit of a listen here, old chum. chat. bit of a listen here, old chum. chat . it's whether buckingham chat. it's whether buckingham palace really put boris up to it that i'm a little bit doubtful of, but i can see this moment happening, actually, in a strange way, is there not also something a little bit rum about this? >> i mean, look, you know, boris johnson, we're going to be talking about him a little bit later on, but you're not really supposed to reveal, are you, what conversations you have with the monarchy? >> no, certainly not. but i mean, if there's one thing harry and boris have in common is they know how to sell a book with a juicy revelation. and i think boris's book is actually going

to be brilliant. i actually can't wait to read it. so if harry gives him a hard time, let's face it , you know it'll be let's face it, you know it'll be the pot calling the kettle black. >> could anything at that point do you think have kept harry and meghan in the uk? >> well, the day before this 20 minute chat happened between bofis minute chat happened between boris and harry without any aides present. the day before, harry had given a speech, you know, really saying, look, i'm really doing this and it's with a heavy heart and i don't want to go. so it was it was a day too late at the very least. but really it was miles too late. there was nothing boris could have done because at that point harry was following his heart. he was absolutely determined. i'd say it's quite flattering, though. i mean, it's flattering that boris thought that harry was a real asset to uk plc. and if it's true that the royal family put him up to it, it shows how desperate the royal family were to keep harry. and actually for me, someone who commentates on this stuff all the time, that was a real revelation and something i hadnt revelation and something i hadn't actually sort of appreciated in all these years that the royal family must have been absolutely desperate to

keep him , to have resorted to keep him, to have resorted to bofis keep him, to have resorted to boris because. because, as boris said himself, it boris because. because, as boris said himself , it was boris because. because, as boris said himself, it was completely pointless and hopeless. there's no way he could have done it. but the act of desperation shows how urgent their need was to keep him. >> you're right about that, actually. you know, clearly that's the hail mary, isn't it? in all of this, where everything that has led up to this has happened. harry's gone out and made his speech telling the world that he is leaving with his wife. and then even then, the royal family has gone. what? what on earth can we do? we know bofisis what on earth can we do? we know boris is going to be with him at this thing. just try one last time. the hope against all hope. does he not kind of shatter the illusion that harry had where he was like, there really is no other option. >> yeah, definitely shatters that illusion. and also it shatters the illusion that the royal family somehow pushed him out. you know that whole narrative that meghan had that they were unwelcome. they were forced out. clearly isn't true. if this is the case, they were desperate to keep him. and they were, you know, even enlisting bofis were, you know, even enlisting boris johnson to try and

persuade him in 20 minutes. and there had been a several year build up to this moment. so the idea that it could be wound undone, you know, in 20 minutes is sort of for the birds. >> it is turning on the charm offensive. boris. now he's back in the media and you know, he was around this office a bit as well yesterday. you know, you kind of see him in person and you can absolutely see why people voted for him. actually, you know , i don't know whether you know, i don't know whether or not people necessarily would now, but you can see he's got that kind of energy about him and this kind of twinkle in the eye that makes you just want to nip down the pub and have a pint for him, which for me especially really is saying a lot these days. but harry and meghan are doing quite a lot separately at the moment, so there's one final question for you on this. i am wondering that if in light of bofis wondering that if in light of boris johnson clinging on to harry's leg and trying to drag him back to britain, whether or not harry kind of wishes that he had actually listened to boris, because they do appear to have commercially separated . commercially separated. >> definitely. harry is definitely going through a stage at the moment where he's revisiting the old harry. the

fact that he hasn't been sent to bali for a couple of years now , bali for a couple of years now, other than polo and things he hasn't actually been to lesotho for years. and there he is back again. and it would have been the classic thing you'd see meghan at, you know, a lovely african meeting with children. it's amazing that she wasn't there. but i think it's very deliberate. i think harry's trying to remind us all, look , trying to remind us all, look, he started this incredible children's charity in africa for children's charity in africa for children who were born with aids. and you know, he wants to remind us that that was who he was before megxit, before all the drama. and i think leaving meghan out of it is possibly something they've even decided together, because, you know, they don't want the kind of hysteria that happens when they're together. you know, harry really wants to remind people this was me before megxit. i was a good guy and i was brilliant with children. >> well, indeed . and actually, >> well, indeed. and actually, given the way it's panned out with harry and meghan and the old netflix saga and everything to do with that, i do wonder whether or not boris johnson should be going around trying to say that he did try to keep them in the country. it's probably a

token effort, but charlotte, thank you very much. great to have you on the show. lovely to see you. charlotte griffiths, the editor at large at the mail on sunday. they are doing a lot about boris johnson's book as well. so, you know, do check out what they're doing as well as of course here @gbnews because we're playing you an interview over the weekend. but coming up at 10:00 pm, i think it's an interesting one. this. so boris johnson is returning to our screens as we've been talking about there, and he's got this explosive interview with camilla tominey on sunday morning. but i'm going to have a little look back at his time in office and compare him to keir starmer in the backlash that keir starmer has received for his scandals versus what boris has received for his. and i'm going to ask whether or not actually, well, who's dodgier but next, as the prime minister today vows to not sacrifice british industries to net zero extremists, do you believe it? when his energy secretary today spent economic black hole

welcome back to patrick christys tonight. now, do you remember the labor party justifying cutting the winter fuel payment by claiming the conservatives left a £22 billion black hole in the public finances? well, it appears they've managed to find all that money and spend it on a new technology to help achieve net zero. keir starmer promoted the introduction of carbon capture, usage and storage technology as a sign of his changed labor party putting the country first. but is he really putting the country first by committing £21.7 billion towards the labour green energy project, rather than focusing on keeping our population out of the cold and the dark this winter. he claims that without this technological change, there'll be fewer homes, fewer new roads, a slow decline to the dark ages. rather, it seems his investment is forcing us back into the dark ages as winter fuel payments will remain cut. infrastructure projects such as the road tunnel and stonehenge will stay

cancelled. this comes after starmer claimed that he will not sacrifice great british industry to net zero extremists, and promised to put working people first when rebuilding britain in the national interest. can we really believe him? i'm joined now by the environment editor at the daily sceptic is chris morrison. look, chris, thank you very much. great to have you on the show. so just to just to clarify . keir starmer today came clarify. keir starmer today came out and said he's not going to sacrifice industry for the net zero zealots. he's sacrificed industry for net zero zealots. and he's just absolutely splashed £22 billion on it. >> yeah. hi , patrick. he's doing >> yeah. hi, patrick. he's doing exactly that. in fact , carbon exactly that. in fact, carbon capture is a colossal waste of money and it's not me that says that. there was a recent report from oil change international, which is one of these very extreme green think tanks funded by billionaires, who described it as a colossal waste of money. they spent $80 billion on it in the states, and there's been a pitiful return for it. you know, as we're speaking, we produce £2 of carbon dioxide ourselves. are they going to transport that compress it with vast amounts of

energy, and then truck it to the deep ocean, and they're going to sort of put it in the deep ocean where being a gas, it will permeate and probably escape anyway . and they're spending £20 anyway. and they're spending £20 billion of our money on this. but the real story, the real story, i was going to say if i just just a few seconds. the real story is because it was let out. the cat was let out of the bag recently by fintan slye, who's the head of this new nationalised command and control centre at the national grid. and he said that we will the only he more or less said the only real backup we have is gas. all of the ideas of battery storage and pushing water uphill and hydrogen, all for the birds. we have to keep a full set of gas turbines on and when the breezes and the sunbeams get to 80%, as they will by 2030, we will need a full set of gas turbines. so they have to justify it by producing this ridiculous carbon capture technology. >> right. fine. now when keir starmer says he won't give to in net zero eco extremists, so why has he got one in his cabinet? >> well, i think the whole

cabinet is an extremist in the sense that they're wedded to this destructive ideology. net zero will, will, will beggar us all. i mean, if you take hydrocarbons out of the industrial mix, which which all the zealots want to do, and they don't want any gas anywhere nean don't want any gas anywhere near, they don't want hydrocarbons, but hydrocarbons in everything from medicines to fertilisers to plastics. everything we use , if you take everything we use, if you take it out of the of the agricultural process, half the world population will die because that is where we've got the yields in the last 60 years that have meant that population doesn't can't feed itself. these people are determined to get rid of anything to do with hydrocarbons . hence even the hydrocarbons. hence even the a lot of the opposition he's talking about is actually coming from greenpeace and friends of the earth and all these. >> i'm the unions, chris, and the unions. and this is really important because, you know, labour used to be the party of, well, the working class and unions and all of this. and supposedly it still is. but there seems to be, you know ,

there seems to be, you know, more the party of kind of vegan anti oil activists these days. and if you see what's going on here. keir starmer is saying i will not put jobs at risk to appease the green lobby. and this week, i think 2500 people were essentially made redundant in port talbot. aberdeen is going to be a visit. in port talbot. aberdeen is going to be a visit . i hate to going to be a visit. i hate to say this, it's got friends in aberdeen is going to be a visible city of decline for the foreseeable future because of the lack of the oil and gas industry that's going to go on there. so jobs have been lost and will be lost. and where on earth is this £22 billion coming from? where is it coming from for this, this mythical carbon capture? >> it's coming from you and me. it's coming from the taxpayer. it's coming from the taxpayer. it's going to all more likely because it'll be it'll just be stuck on the national debt. you're right there are no jobs. and you also mentioned you should mention the grangemouth refinery jobs being lost. they've been lost all over the place. gary smith, who's the gmb leader, has described net zero

as more or less bonkers. he can see what's happening. his tongue slightly in cheek. he was talking earlier this year about he looks out to the windmills over the north sea, and the only jobs he can see being created is a man in a rowing boat picking up the dead birds. and if you look at the ons figures that have just come out for green jobs, you'd be hard pressed to see any green jobs. most of them are invented jobs in charities, consultancy, bureaucracy or reassigned jobs in water waste management. they even pick up, you know, if they call a green job, if for somebody who goes round to a house and repairs an appliance . so there are very few appliance. so there are very few green jobs the unions can see. >> so you think so you think, chris, just to clarify, literally a few seconds on this, that you think that when labour says to us in a few years time that they've created a load of green jobs, they're actually just going to be rebracketing jobs that already exist as green jobs that already exist as green jobs and adding them to a list. >> well, look at the ons figures. they are. they're doing it already. you know, it's difficult to really see a green

job. they identify about 650,000. and i would i'd be hard pressed to say it's more than 100,000 green jobs. and most of those are, you know, being just, you know, jobs taken, you know, putting up, looking after electric stations instead of petrol stations. i mean , chris, petrol stations. i mean, chris, sorry, we're we're at the end of the hour, but thank you very, very much. >> great to have you on. is chris morrison there? who is the environment editor at the daily sceptic. look, clearly labour saying a lot of people would say that we need to do this kind of stuff to stop us all burning to death. with global warming coming up, the row over the government's decision to relinquish the chagos islands to mauritius sparks further fears, including about the falklands and gibraltar. the prime minister today refused to rule out giving the islands to argentina and the spanish. but next, at 10:00 pm, i'm comparing and contrasting boris johnson and contrasting boris johnson and keir starmer's rap sheets. and i'm asking you, who's dodgier ? who? dodgier? who? >> a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm afternoon. boxed heat pumps, sponsors of

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well. >> it's 10 pm. on patrick christys tonight. >> look , the single most >> look, the single most important thing was ensuring that we had a secure base. >> keir starmer refuses to rule out giving away the falklands and gibraltar and thanks to laboun and gibraltar and thanks to labour, the sun does now set on the british empire for the first time since the 18th century. also , this is it folks. also, this is it folks. >> we're going to draw up some principles so that everyone can see the basis on which donations, etc. can be accepted . donations, etc. can be accepted. >> well, i have a little look at keir starmer's scandal so far and ask, is it not worse than anything boris ever did? >> plus, i'll just remind our

viewers who sue gray is. >> sue gray is a leading civil servant. >> what post does she currently hold? >> we're not going down this road. why not? oh, we're not going down this road. why won't the media talk about starmer's chief of staff and the bbc played a clip of for 40 minutes. by played a clip of for 40 minutes. by the way, the iranian ayatollahs friday prayers and quoted him saying that the october 7th attacks were logical and legal. and i have also been living off a food budget of £13.55 this week to help raise money for pensioners who have cruelly had their winter fuel payments taken away. and you can donate at justgiving.com. forward slash page forward slash save our seniors. forward slash page forward slash save our seniors . we are very save our seniors. we are very nearly at our target and i want to thank you all for everybody who has given even just a single penny. so thank you. more on that later. i'm going to give you a first look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages very soon as well, with political consultant suzanne evans, broadcaster alex armstrong and journalist jj anas sarwar. oh and please can you tell me what you think is going on here? get

ready britain, here we go . ready britain, here we go. does anyone have a feeling that keir starmer might be forced to resign next? >> patrick thank you. the top stories this hour. more than 250 british nationals have left lebanon on flights chartered by uk government. the foreign office has said that this evening, as david lammy urged any remaining uk citizens who want to leave to register immediately, the uk has chartered a flight to leave beirut on sunday amid ongoing tensions in the region. meanwhile, the us president, tensions in the region. meanwhile, the us president , joe meanwhile, the us president, joe biden, says he thinks israel has not yet concluded how to respond

to iran after they fired almost 200 ballistic missiles towards israel. that's as more airstrikes have been reported in southern beirut, as israel tells more than 30 villages in the south of lebanon to evacuate. it follows a night of blasts in beirut . in follows a night of blasts in beirut. in the past 24 hours. at least 45 people have died across lebanon as israel launched its most intense airstrikes on the caphal most intense airstrikes on the capital. the foreign secretary earlier confirmed a third government chartered flight for british evacuees had left lebanon. israeli forces are also escalating ground operations in the south, targeting hezbollah militants in gaza. airstrikes have pushed the death toll to over 41,000 since the conflict began. over 41,000 since the conflict began . now the uk has denied its began. now the uk has denied its involvement in strikes by the us on houthi targets in yemen. us central command forces have

posted on their x account today saying they conducted strikes on 15 houthi targets in iranian backed houthi controlled areas of yemen today, at about 5 pm, local time in sana'a. these targets included houthi offensive, military capabilities centcom says the actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure. for us coalition and merchant vessels . downing and merchant vessels. downing street insists its deal to return the chagos islands to mauritius does not change the approach to other overseas territories. it comes as argentina is now pledging to gain full sovereignty of the falkland islands. however, the government insists its commitment to the falklands is unwavering. former prime minister boris johnson told gb news he thinks the deal is crazy. >> the chagos islands being given back to mauritius. >> your reaction? >> your reaction? >> crazy. i mean, do i urge viewers of gb news to get out your maps, get out your atlases ,

your maps, get out your atlases, check out the chagos islands, see where they are, and see where mauritius is a long way away. yes. what is this claim? it's nonsense. it's total nonsense . why are we doing this? nonsense. why are we doing this? sheer political correctness. >> and the prime minister has announced what he calls a game changing £22 billion funding package for projects that capture and store carbon emissions. speaking to workers in liverpool, he said the investment in so—called carbon capture clusters will create thousands of jobs, bring in investment and help meet climate goals. however, green campaigners warn the move could prolong oil and gas production, with the projects not set to begin storing carbon until 2028. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. now it's back to patrick for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> boris johnson is back in the news this week, so i thought this was a good opportunity to look at what caused his resignation and compare that to keir starmer's scandals and ask, who do you think is dodgier? bofis who do you think is dodgier? boris was found to have breached covid rules over a birthday cake. keir starmer managed to get away with a beer and an indian takeaway in durham. the police deemed there were no rules broken there. he's also facing questions over videos that he recorded at lord alli £18 million penthouse, which he clearly tried to pass off as being his own home, despite saying that he hasn't done that dunng saying that he hasn't done that during those videos, he urged people to stay at home where possible. one major report into bofis possible. one major report into boris wrongdoing was written by sue gray, who has gone to on become starmer's chief of staff. that raises serious questions, but the media still don't want to talk about it. >> you know who investigated this thing? why don't you tell our viewers who investigated it? >> i don't want to go down the

avenue of sue gray, who is? >> just remind our viewers. who is sue gray? sue gray is a leading civil servant. what post does she currently hold? >> we're not going down this road. why not? >> no. we can't possibly go down that road. well, sorry. why not? one thing that did for boris was his relationship with dominic cummings, who was seen as a bit mad. starmer's sue gray has already been accused of bringing staff to tears, and the chief civil servant, simon case, has already resigned . a committee already resigned. a committee found that boris misled parliament over parties at downing street. a leader of that committee was yvette cooper, who is now our home secretary. when it comes to misleading parliament, keir starmer has faced allegations of threatening the speaker of the house of commons, lindsay hoyle, over a gaza vote, claims he vehemently denies. he also gave the strong impression to parliament that labour wouldn't scrap the winter fuel payment for pensioners. >> last year the prime minister was apparently drawing up plans to remove the winter fuel allowance from pensioners. so will he now rule out taking

pensioners winter fuel payments off them to help fund his £46 billion black hole? >> well, he has now done exactly that and taken those winter fuel payments off them. boris ultimately went for his support for chris pincher, who had been accused of inappropriate behaviour. and boris probably should not have stood by him for as long as he did. but keir starmer had no problem welcoming turncoat mp natalie elphicke into the labour party, despite her being forced to apologise for negative comments she made about her ex—husband's sexual assault victims. the general perception of boris, pumped out by the labour party and the establishment left wing media, is that he was a bit dodgy , is that he was a bit dodgy, elitist and cavalier with the financial rules. elitist and cavalier with the financial rules . well, keir financial rules. well, keir starmer, a multi—millionaire , starmer, a multi—millionaire, accepted more than £100,000 in donations and freebies, including clothes for his own wife. despite telling us nothing was wrong with that. he has now handed £6,000 back. why? one of the claims about boris johnson

was that he always felt as though he was above the rules. so does keir starmer not have to pay so does keir starmer not have to pay tax on the remaining donations? he's exempt, isn't he? boris was slammed for having a close relationship with people like mr lebedev, a russian british businessman who found his way into the house of lords. keir starmer appears to have given an access all areas pass to lord waheed alli after he gave loads of free stuff to a lot of different labour politicians who now stands accused by the way of meddling in the iraqi election and meeting syrian despot bashar al—assad and pushing for him not to be deposed. keir starmer also got into hot water immediately after several labour supporters and donors were mysteriously parachuted into the impartial civil service. interesting that, isn't it ? starmer's labour isn't it? starmer's labour party's largest pre—election donation was from a cayman islands based hedge fund that has interests in arms manufacturing, private healthcare and fossil fuels something they did not want to declare until after the election. why not? starmer's labour party is also now embroiled in a cash for access

scandal involving business secretary jonathan reynolds, where various business leaders could have paid up to £30,000 to meet with mr reynolds. that's the kind of thing that arguably could normally lead to a resignation. but because luvvie favourite ed miliband has tried to make it all go away by saying let's just make sure we don't ever do this again, chaps. starmer's cabinet remains intact bofis starmer's cabinet remains intact boris ran a general election campaign centred on this point . campaign centred on this point. i'll get brexit done. now, look, we can argue all day, can't we, about whether his brexit deal is any good. but he did get one. keir starmer did not run a general election campaign, saying that he'd give away a bit of british sovereign territory, remove the winter fuel payment from pensioners and borrow £3.1 billion to pay the unions. so who was more honest there? now, may i remind you that we are not even 100 days into keir starmer's premiership? and i'm just going to ask you this if you hadn't been conditioned by the establishment media to tell you that boris is a bad guy and

starmer is a good guy, and you just looked at their rap sheets side by side, who would you say is dodgier? let's get the thoughts of my panel this evening. political consultant suzanne evans. we've also got commentator and presenter as well, alex armstrong and broadcaster and journalist jj rspb. suzanne, i'll start with you. i mean, look , looking at you. i mean, look, looking at that in the cold light of day, i'm starting to wonder whether or not actually keir starmer might be a bit worse than boris johnson. >> yeah, it's sad, isn't it? i think people looking at this and we thought the conservative government was embroiled in sleaze and doing very bad things, and then people voted laboun things, and then people voted labour. and now look at what we've got. and it's like all politicians like this, are they all completely beneath the pale? is there an honest man or woman among them? it's just three months, as you say, not even 100 days since the general election. and we have had a daily dose of sleaze, of lies, of corruption, of bribery, gift taking , all of bribery, gift taking, all this stuff. and it's just absolutely shocking. i mean, you missed one out. there's one another one today, isn't there,

dale? vince, the environmental activist who is apparently getting divorced . he's given the getting divorced. he's given the labour party millions. his wife is claiming that he's going to get a seat in the house of lords, and he's trying to divorce her quickly so she can't use the title. i mean, this is this is the reports. i'm just repeating the reports. i mean , repeating the reports. i mean, it's just keeps coming. it never stops. >> well, yeah. whether or not dale vince thing turns out to be true, we shall see. we have to we have to. we have to wait and see, don't we? but yeah. alex, i mean, you know, you look at those two kind of rap sheets there and you've got the media even just today you've got the itv, itv saying, oh , we can't itv, itv saying, oh, we can't possibly can't talk about sorry, why can't we talk about the idea that the woman who is now starmer's chief of staff, was the one who really, really helped do for boris johnson? >> well, they never had a problem talking about dominic cummings. they talked about him almost every day. at one point in time. so this is complete hypocrisy from itv quite frankly. and all of this reminds me of that headline. and i think it was the daily mail where it said rishi sunak said 100 days starmer will ruin britain. well,

he was absolutely right, wasn't he? he was absolutely right. sanctimonious starmer has sat on this moral high horse for many, many years . this moral high horse for many, many years. he's this moral high horse for many, many years . he's pointed the many years. he's pointed the finger. he said he's going to clean up politics well, like you said, look at the rap sheet. look at the rap sheet. this is one of the most crony governments i've seen and they are up to their eyeballs in it. >> well come on, jesse, look, you know, this is just saying. >> just be honest, man. >> just be honest, man. >> don't hold back. don't hold back. >> come on. look, you know jj is starmer not is he not already done worse stuff than boris johnson ever did. >> i don't think so. the problem? here's the problem. when boris johnson was king of sleaze and leading a party that was full of sleaze every day. >> oh well, we've been trump now. >> oh well, we've been trump now. >> starmer, starmer and co. and when it was corbyn as well they all criticised the tories being sleazy. so. but now starmer is being criticised because of the hypocrisy. he's done nothing worse i don't think than boris johnson did. but the reason i think boris johnson is still worse than starmer is because 62 people resigned, and that's what forced boris johnson to resign,

which include the ministers, the private secretaries, the trade envoys, people who were seeing him day to day in his own party said enough is enough, you're not fit for office. and they resigned. furthermore, when it comes to the sexual assault allegations of people around him, boris johnson did not see anything wrong with promoting people around him , giving people people around him, giving people power who had been accused and admitted to sexual impropriety. that, for me, is worse than anything starmer has done. thus far. >> okay, so what you're saying, jj, actually, is that conservative mps recognise that bofis conservative mps recognise that boris was a wrong'un. if you like, and they got rid of him. so why aren't these labour mps doing the same thing? what does that say about labour mps that they're sitting there doing sod all? >> well, i'll tell you, i'll tell you rid of him. >> half of them are just as bad. >> half of them are just as bad. >> 90% of them. well, you're right, and 90% of those labour mps are brand new. they're worried about their careers. they want to. they want to suck up to starmer to make sure that they get their next job. and the old guard haven't been in power for so long that they've now got a taste of it and don't want to let go of it. so they don't want to kick him out. and frankly,

jj, as you know, as much as i do, right, that angela rayner is scratching at the doors of number 10, she can't wait to get her hands on that on the doors, can she? >> well go on, go on. look, do you think i love this guy bromance going on here? >> i think he left out . >> i think he left out. >> i think he left out. >> when we have a look at some of the, you know. so we've got a business secretary who's got some serious questions to answer over a couple of things. we've got an environment secretary who stands accused of accepting around £2,000 worth of football tickets from a company that pumped sewage into the rivers. and you've got whatever's going on with, you know , starmer and on with, you know, starmer and lord alli pad and covid accusations and all of that. you know, you rattle all of that up. i mean , that is the kind of i mean, that is the kind of thing that boris johnson would have been hauled before an inquiry. an inquiry fronted up by, no doubt, some very prominent labour mp. here we go. and then and then the results come in and he's got to go. well, why is there a double standard? >> let's not pretend as if these committees who do the inquiries were all just labour. it's crossbench. it's not just one party in charge of those things.

it's politicians working together. but you're quite right. if it was johnson who is who is leading this party currently, he'd be hauled over the coals for it purely because it was an everyday occurrence for so long. it's barely been three months. let's see where labour are in six months time. >> it was an everyday occurrence. i mean, we've got a new allegation every day. lord alli bebe. i mean, what else has he bought? >> alibi by the power of it. >> alibi by the power of it. >> for me, it's the power of perception. because boris johnson, you know. well, i was going to say he killed her. i'm not sure how hard he had to work at this, but cultivated an image of a man who's a, you know, a slightly chaotic, to say the least. and all and all of that. right. and so then, you know, if the glove fits, then you're in office and there's all this. keir starmer has cultivated a perception of himself as being mr forensic. mr rules. and i actually think that's what's covering for him a lot here. because people go oh well surely it can't be. it can't be that wrong. this this this must have been an honest mistake. or we can just breeze past this. well, it's actually when you lay it

out on paper like we've just done there. if you were blind to this, if this was a blind cv, i don't think you'd think that there was any difference between there was any difference between the two. >> he's a lawyer. i think that makes this worse. keir starmer is a lawyer . makes this worse. keir starmer is a lawyer. he should know what the rules are down to the last eye and the lastt the rules are down to the last eye and the last t crossed and he's broken them. well, no excuse. >> excuse. >> well he obviously he denies breaking the rules. >> well he does he does deny breaking the rules of course. but that doesn't mean that he hasn't broken them. and there's lots of back. listen, why would he be paying the money? i think i think there's a there's a moral high ground thing there. so i put six grand. well, where's the other £101,000 left to go? that's a whole year. so almost a whole year's salary, or at least half of him and victoria sponge salary together. yeah. so? so, look, i think there's a long way to go for him to prove himself that actually, you know, this this is my moral horse that i want to get off of. but i will say this. keir starmer has got to be very careful. i'm sure this will not be the end of the stories. and i suspect let's see what happens next year. all right. >> well, well look just just on that jj, has he got to be careful? mainly because of the

puritanical approach that he took before, you know, being mr rules, being everything. and actually it is it is becoming incredibly easy to draw together a catalogue of things that either either he's been involved with himself or that he is now in charge of. so if you have cabinet ministers who are, you know, the cash for access stuff, there is a strong denial there from jonathan reynolds that he ever knew anything. presumably he would have been teleported to the ivy in manchester one day. and so he was unaware of just paid £30,000 to be there for a croissant. but but you know, he was now in charge of that. so if he's presiding over that, it's that thing of, you know, boris johnson was supposedly in charge of a chaotic downing street, wasn't it? well, presumably. so is he. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and this is the exact problem. labour have been so pious the whole time that everyone was like, okay, we're going to see some change. they they would have to be whiter than white in order to succeed. now they can't do a single thing wrong. even the expenses to the penny has got to be accurate, because otherwise people are going to drill them for it.

absolutely. the reason labour are in power is because the tories for 14 years have become so unpopular. labour are not popular. they are not popular party. keir starmer is not the leader of this country wants. but he was the only choice we had left. apparently. so that's why he's there. i don't think he'll be in charge at the next election. >> you know , what's interesting >> you know, what's interesting about that message of change is that they've actually pushed forward a lot of tory policies into this government. i mean, like giving away the islands. james cleverly started that, right. yes. be fair. let's be fair. james cleverly did start that negotiation. the net zero carbon capture plant. that was a tory policy. so, you know, look, they're not really much of a change party, are they? >> okay, fine. look, we're going to we're going to move on. now i will just say, look, as everybody knows as everybody knows, you know, as it currently stands, there's no indication that labour have broken the law. and i think it's almost not not broken the law, all of that stuff, it's just simply, you know, drawing all of these different allegations together. it makes for an interesting read in my view. coming up, we're bringing you all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages hot off the press with my panel, but giving you an update as well on the challenge that i've been doing all week. surviving. surviving is a bit strong. at

least it's been all right. living off a food budget of some of britain's poorest pensioners. okay. and just to try to highlight the issue that they are facing, having had their winter fuel payment cruelly pred winter fuel payment cruelly ripped from their elderly hands. but next, the row over the government's decision to relinquish the chagos islands to mauritius sparks further fears over territories like the falklands and gibraltar. and the prime minister today refused to rule out giving the falkland islands over to argentina. so are they next? talk to you about that

now the sun is going to set on the british empire for the first time in 200 years, after agreeing to return the chagos islands to mauritius today, the prime minister was asked by our very own political correspondent, katherine forster, whether he could guarantee that no other british overseas territories would be signed away. this was his response. >> look, the single most important thing was ensuring that we had a secure base that joined us in particular uk base hugely important to us, hugely important to us. we've now secured that and that is why you saw such warm words from the us yesterday. >> he didn't rule out that, did he? unsurprisingly, the argentines are already at it. they celebrated yesterday's news

with foreign secretary diana mondino utilising the opportunity to renew argentina's vow to gain full sovereignty of the falklands. in response , the falklands. in response, falklands governor alison blake reasserted the uk's commitment to the territory's sovereignty, highlighting that the historical and legal context of the falkland islands is largely different from that of the chagos islands. starmer , though, chagos islands. starmer, though, failed to offer those reassurances, didn't he ? and the reassurances, didn't he? and the fact that david lammy is also trying to negotiate some kind of deal between gibraltar and spain, i think should also raise concerns. is starmer going to give away more british territory? i'm joined now by former conservative mp and british army officer colonel bob stewart . thank you very much. stewart. thank you very much. great to have you on the show. how concerned are you about things like the falkland islands , things like the falkland islands, gibraltar, other british territories ? territories? >> not greatly concerned, but it is a concern, isn't it, because when the british took over the falkland islands, it was no one there really whatsoever. in about 1833, the falkland

islanders do not want to be anything but british, something like almost 100% of them said that they're still looking for the small percentage that refused, or that didn't vote for that way. but we're talking about 95, 96, 97%, 99.8%, apparently. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but you know , there we are >> but you know, there we are pretty close to it. there's a 400 mile gap between the falkland islands and argentina across the south atlantic. this is not the same as the chagos islands giving away the chagos islands. in my view, was disgraceful. sovereign territory . disgraceful. sovereign territory. the base there is ours. >> sovereign territory means it's just like sussex, kent or lancashire effectively. >> and we've given that away. and by the way, we've given it away to mauritius, who are hugely in hock to the chinese, and the chinese would dearly love to get their hands on the waters around the chagos islands, which is the largest

maritime protection area in the world. >> they would. but bob . bob, >> they would. but bob. bob, just, just just on that. bob. sorry to cut across, but it's an important point this because on that you would have thought i would have thought that the day after that's announced and there's the controversy and the pushback on it, that when keir starmer is asked about the falklands and gibraltar, he would just come out and categorically say, we will not be parting company with those things. we asked him that and he didn't say that. do you find that odd? >> i do actually, i think all british prime ministers have said, you know, this is non—negotiable . although in the non—negotiable. although in the early 2000, i believe there was some sort of jiggery pokery going on between the labour government and spain over gibraltar. but it never it never came to anything. but let's just talk the falkland islands , the talk the falkland islands, the falkland islands want to be british. we believe in national self—determination, which means the people who live there decide. and there's 2000 people live there. i've been there.

they're absolutely 100% british. and while we're at it, we gave 255 lives to take back the falklands in 1982. and something like 777 people were wounded. that's british blood . we've shed that's british blood. we've shed blood to protect the falklands and actually they want us to be there and we should remain there. >> it's a question of perception as well around the world, isn't it? now, i have had my issues with david lammy. well, not just david lammy, but in this case it's relevant because he's foreign secretary continually. in my view, talking down british history and britain's past and our role in the world. and now we've seen the chagos islands go , we've seen the chagos islands go, the argentinians are, you know, ramping it up again as they do every now and again. but my concern would be the perception around the world of britain under this labour government, given what we've seen, is that

we are gettable and that we don't really mind the sun now setting on the british empire for the first time in whatever it is, 200 odd years , because we it is, 200 odd years, because we don't we don't even feel that it's worth a vote in parliament. no, i should be that . no, i should be that. >> we wish it was. we neither asked parliament about what to do with the chagos islands. they should have done, and neither do we ask those people from chagos who live in this country what their opinion was. we just did this very high handed. to be honest. parliament is meant to represent all of us and actually it wasn't consulted about what to do with sovereign territory. would would parliament be consulted if we were to give kent away ? i suspect they would. kent away? i suspect they would. i mean, and that's exactly the same. we're talking about sovereign territory here, patrick. sovereign territory means the laws are british. it's as british as london is. >> well, it is i mean, the fact factually it is. and, you know ,

factually it is. and, you know, again, you know, this claim of, oh, we're writing this is where this woke stuff gets us, isn't it? this idea that we're writing historic wrongs. so my understanding of this is that no one lived on those islands until the french turned up. and then we turned up. so who are we giving it back to wildlife. are we rewilding the chagos islands ? we rewilding the chagos islands? is that what this is? no, we're giving it to mauritius, i find. i find it very, very, very concerning. and to not rule anything out going forward as well. supposedly, bob, there's going to be a well, hopefully the conservative party is hoping to force through some kind of performative vote on this on tuesday, i believe is the deal has already been signed. so it's irrelevant. do you think there will be a problem for starmer if he actually loses that vote? just an optics thing . just an optics thing. >> yeah, well he won't lose a vote, will he? because of his huge majority. he'll whip whip it and it will go through. but i was a member of the chagos all

party parliamentary group until i ceased to be a member of parliament in july, and i know very well that those people from the chagos islands that live in this country very much want to. the vast majority of them want to remain british, and we should respect that. we didn't even have the we didn't even ask them about it. we didn't consult with them. we just made this high handed , high handed decision, handed, high handed decision, which gave chagos back to mauritius, which is a failed state in many ways and actually largely dependent on handouts from china and guess what? china may well ask a price for that . may well ask a price for that. and one of the prices could well be that their their trawler fleets will move into this protected area. the largest in the world around chagos. >> yeah, i mean, there's layers to this, isn't there, colonel? bob, look. thank you very much. it's been tremendous. and i do wish we could have a bit longer, but it's we're pressed for time, unfortunately. i hope to talk to you again very soon. it's colonel bob stewart there who is former conservative mp, british

army officer. look , again, i'll army officer. look, again, i'll stress keir starmer on this is saying that this is a great deal saying that this is a great deal, that it secures an air base there of vital strategic importance for both us and the united states of america. and there is very much the argument. it's not an argument. it's a fact that the initial handover process was started under the conservative party. i suppose the point for labour is that they they finished it, though, didn't they? but coming up, i'll reveal who gets the crown of tonight's greatest britain and union jackass. and i will finally tell you what on earth going on here. but next, i'm bringing you all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages, hot off the press with my panel, and i'm going to be giving you an update on the challenge that i've been undergoing this week, surviving off the food budget of, well, some of britain's most hard up pensioners. £13.55 is the food budget. i've been living off this week. it's not easy and i certainly would not want to be in my mid to late 80s doing

that. there's a fundraiser on the go as well. it's just giving.com/page/save our seniors. thank you to everyone who's i'm going to be to you about that in a little bit

welcome back to patrick christys tonight . welcome back to patrick christys tonight. i've got some more front pages for you, so let's do it. we start off this round of tomorrow's newspapers today with the mirror strictly. nick i'm out star forced to quit live show with second injury. so how will we survive? let's go to the i uk warning to israel attack on iran . nuclear sites could drag iran. nuclear sites could drag the region into a war. whitehall and intelligence sources have said that they believe there is now strong possibility that benjamin netanyahu may authorise a strike on the iranian nuclear

facility. so that's that. the independent revealed 36 rail projects face the axe , 16 new projects face the axe, 16 new train stations, 250 miles of track at risk in north and south—west because apparently the transport minister has branded hs2 cancellation the great rail betrayal . all right. great rail betrayal. all right. there's also an interesting article at the top from rick astley. i never wanted fame. okay, fine. why have you just sold this story to the independent? then let's go to the daily mail. hands off our falklands . argentina, emboldened falklands. argentina, emboldened by starmer's surrender of chagos, vows to reclaim las malvinas . senior military voices malvinas. senior military voices and the mps say, look, i know we're not necessarily what we were militarily, but may i remind the argentinians that last time we did, we did send them packing. so you know, have a bit of that. let's go to the daily express. disgraceful . 1 in daily express. disgraceful. 1 in 4. losing the fuel help are over 80. it's a big story. there's more than 1 in 4 oaps hit by

labour's quote, disgraceful axing of the winter fuel support are over the age of 80 le. there's absolutely nothing that they can do about it, clearly, because they are now of an age realistically where they're not going to be working, they can't even be reasonably, i don't think, considered for work. and i'm going to get stuck into this with my press pack, but i do i do want to just say a big thank you to everybody who's been donating to my fundraiser. now, this is an important thing i was quite well pleased to do. proud to do, which is for a charity called friends of the elderly . called friends of the elderly. and thanks to your donations, we have hit more than £200,000. in fact, it's £206,440. the target is 260 grand. i'm going to tell you why. that's because the amount of money that friends of the elderly gave away in grants last year. so hopefully we can basically cover them for a year and then some if we're if we're lucky. and now i'm going to keep doing everything i possibly can.

i've got some, you know, quite, quite big things lined up, especially when it gets a bit colder. and maybe people are a bit more aware of what's going on. but this week i took on the challenge of living off a food budget that some of the most hard up pensioners have to live for off a week. so it's £13.55 and i ended up eating, you know, some things that we can show you at some point here, i there we go. that was lentils and now my producers told me to try to remind you as couscous. there we are. so that would basically i'd eat one of those a day. so i'd eat one of those a day. so i'd eat one of those a day. so i'd eat one big plate of food a day. that was, i think, some stir fry veg that i didn't realise had already gone off, and a bit of 999 already gone off, and a bit of egg and i and i did it again the next day because i said, like i said, it had gone off, so to i had eat that. and so basically what i've been doing is trying to eat one big mound of food a day and live off that. now it's not been easy. clearly i'm fine. okay, so i don't want to try to overegg the pudding here, but my point is this if i was in my 80s or my 90s, i think that it's a

bit ridiculous to ask somebody to try to live off that. i've cut meat out because that was too expensive. you know, i didn't get myself any sweet things. and, you know, i get coffee free in the office so i could have that. but presumably if i was at home all day as a pensioner, you know, you lost weight. yeah, i have lost weight. yeah, i have lost weight. i have lost weight as a result of it. and i just want to say thank you to everybody who's been donating just giving.com/page/save our seniors. for me it does not seem right or fair that in this society we seem to have money for everybody else. but if you are in your 80s or your 90s, you can lose this winter fuel payment and be forced to essentially live off rations for a week. i'm glad this is this is coming to an end now for me. i'm really glad it's coming to an end. i think, you know, i'm kind of a young, fit guy , right? how of a young, fit guy, right? how must these people, that's their reality. >> i must admit, when i heard you were doing this, patrick, i was quite worried because i thought, well, what would you have to eat to spend that

little. i thought you'd be looking at porridge, pasta, rice, vegetables. not very much. protein, not very much dairy. and, you know, you said you'd lost weight. okay. if you're 80 and already thin . devastating, devastating. >> just before i move on to the rest of you, i just want to say a big thank you to some of the people who have very, very kindly and very generously given a bit of money just giving.com/page, forward slash save our seniors. annie an hour ago gave £100. thank you very much annie . wendy has given £15 much annie. wendy has given £15 so bless you wendy. thank you very much. ian. £20 here. good work. well done for supporting our seniors, says rose . £25. and our seniors, says rose. £25. and i just want to say a massive thank you. can i also just point you in the direction of the fact that there's a gift aid function as well? so when you go on that justgiving page it says that we've raised you've raised £206,430, which is a whopping great big effort. so thank you. but if i scroll down the page as well, we've got gift aid here and that gift aid is up way above £40,000. so when you actually add all of that up, it

is already up at about 250 grand quarter of a million pounds raised by you, the gb news viewers and listeners to try and help the elderly. this winter. friends of the elderly gives them grants. it can help them turn the heating on. it can be the difference between heating and eating for a pensioner. but for me, you look at this now, 1 in 4 on the front of the express, who are losing the winter fuel payment are over 80. it just doesn't seem right. >> no, it doesn't. and i think what you said a second ago, pat hit the nail on the head. we seem to have money for everything else. we had that silly carbon capture. not zero idea. it's costing 22 billion andifs idea. it's costing 22 billion and it's not even going to be ready by 2028. some people won't be able to feed themselves. they'll have to choose between heating and eating, and at a time when you know the pensioners are suffering the most under this government, it makes you ask, well, really, who are they looking after? >> jj what's your view on this? i mean, look, the winter fuel payment for me, you know, i've spoken this week actually to a procession of different people. one person was a veteran, one person was an elderly lady who also looked after her husband,

who's disabled. and you just think they're not the people we're giving. we're tossing money around to everyone else , money around to everyone else, aren't we? why can't they have it? >> yeah, like my father, who's watching now, godwin, he's in his 80s. he's going to be affected by this. he's losing his his his heating. thankfully, he's got three kids who can step in and look after him. but there's plenty of elderly people who don't have that family around to look after them. this will be keir starmer's legacy. this is what he's going to be remembered for. and i dread to think when it comes to winter andifs think when it comes to winter and it's bitterly cold in this country and the and we, god forbid, start losing too many people . the numbers come out people. the numbers come out that will be on keir starmer's hands. we know that before when they were in opposition, they thought it was going to kill 2 million people. >> that's right. and yet they still gone ahead and done it. >> shocking stuff. shocking shocking stuff. >> look, it's you know, it's a very, very, very difficult time for a lot of people. again, i'll just say that that fundraiser is just say that that fundraiser is just giving.com/page/save our seniors. i have got a lot more planned, more so than just just going a bit hungry for a week. but i just thought it would

emphasise if i am. i'm 32, quite fit, quite young . like find it fit, quite young. like find it a bit tricky. yeah . to live off, bit tricky. yeah. to live off, to live off those kind of meals. i really don't think that somebody who is in their 80s or 90s should have to live off that and not be able to heat their home. and the other aspect of this as well is i found i was i was able to walk about a quarter of a mile to the shops to buy that, to pick it up. an elderly person might have had to get that delivered. they probably couldn't walk there and carry it. for some of those people , it. for some of those people, it's just a lot of layers to this. i have got a lot more planned and certainly a lot more physically demanding things, by the way, especially as it gets colder. i just want to bring this on, you know, throughout the winter. all right. and see what we can get to maybe by christmas day. let's see what we can get to. if we can hit that £260,000, you will save lives. so it's just giving.com/page/save our seniors. thank you very much everybody. in fact we've raised thousand a more than £1,000 in the last five minutes. so thank you. wow that's great. brilliant. well done everybody a little bit of a little bit of a shift in tone now because i thought i'd just bring this video to you. it made me

chuckle. so despite losing to arsenal on tuesday night travelling psg football fans found something to celebrate as a group of their ultras took their support to a bunch of kids having a kickabout at a5a side pitch in london. have a look at this . this. >> oh it's fantastic. there's a load of kids there. they've just gone for a kick about five a side and a load of french ultras have turned up with flares having it off. >> so this is actually barnard park in islington, and one of the old boys is in one of the top boys from the from the firm, from psg plays football there. and he moved to london a few months ago . so they all came months ago. so they all came across for the game. that's half an hour walk from the emirates. so they went and saw their mate playing. there's about six pictures. they're brilliant. >> yeah, i love stuff like that. i love stuff like that. >> so look when i come back i'm going to have some more front pages for you. there's a couple of big ones there. i'm also

going to be talking about who's w011 won the greatest britain or union jackass award for the evening as well. so, you

>> join me camilla tominey this sunday when i interview one of the most significant political figures of our era, boris johnson. nothing will be off limits as we discuss his autobiography, unleashed and everything in it. >> i failed to avert megxit, but i did deliver brexit and i'm very, very happy to be on camilla tominey show. boris johnson on gb news. the people's channel johnson on gb news. the people's channel, britain's news channel that's the camilla tominey show on sunday at 9:30 am. and again at 6:00 pm. >> welcome back to patrick christys. tonight are some more front pages for you now. so we're going to start this round with the guardian's police took bnbes with the guardian's police took bribes to help al fayed persecute staff. great. okay. some strong allegations there in the front of the guardian . and

the front of the guardian. and let's go to the times staff to get more. writes from first day at work. so labour are overhauling individual concessions for bosses . i'll concessions for bosses. i'll just go into a little bit of detail on this. so more than 7 million people will gain rights to claim sick pay, maternity pay and protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in the job. under sweeping new laws. and i'm look, without having had a chance to read all of the detail on this, i would assume that they are trying to tighten up whether or not you can be sacked in your first three months, which i think at the moment is easier to get rid of you. i think within the first three months, isn't it two years actually, is it? yeah. okay . all actually, is it? yeah. okay. all right. but then after that, from what i gather, it's nigh on impossible. yes. that's correct. there we go. although, you know, every day is every day is a dice with death, as far as i'm concerned. but the telegraph go to the telegraph and foreign aid cuts sparks cabinet rebellion. david lammy leads the yeah, yeah david lammy leads the yeah, yeah david lammy leads a revolt over rachel reeves plan to cut almost

£2 billion from the foreign aid budget. so the foreign secretary is among ministers demanding that the chancellor announces more money for the aid budget, warning about damaging the impact of her cuts . there we go. impact of her cuts. there we go. i mean, you know, here we are, the same foreign secretary has just siphoned off a little bit of british foreign sovereign territory without a shot being fired, and we are paying for the privilege. but yeah, let's carry on dishing money out to the rest of the world. yeah. >> and of course, some of that's going to china as well. what is it about david lammy and china wanting to give away, you know, bits of britain eventually to a chinese proxy and carry on giving the aid money? you know, it's mad. it's this, this there's this target 0.7% of gross national income for foreign aid. it's far too much in my book. this is the first thing rachel reeves has done. right. >> i would certainly say we should stop giving money to the ukraine. £12.8 billion pledged thus far. i know it's a controversial thing to say, but 12.8 billion? i don't know where it's going. all i'm seeing is people in the ukraine getting fichen people in the ukraine getting richer. all i'm seeing is some of zelenskyy's friends going out

and buying new cars when there's and buying new cars when there's a war going on. i would like to see a reduction, take the 2 billion from that and not have that down on my bingo card for views from jj mazzini. >> i know plenty of people in the war over here. i know plenty of people will be disagreeing, but the same amount to ukraine as we do is the whole of the foreign aid budget actually. >> so i think there you go. >> so i think there you go. >> well, i mean, the first thing when i saw this, this headline was that it just seems very reminiscent of 2010 george osborne, doesn't it? you know, cutting things and, and a bit like austerity on turbo. you mix that with our last story about, you know, the oaps. unfortunately we're going to we're going to be hit very, very hard this winter. i feel like we're back to 2010 and this is george osborne in power. it really is quite shocking. did anyone vote for austerity? >> i was not a fan of george osborne, but i think i'd welcome him back right now. >> yeah, well fair enough, fair enough. >> it was interesting. i mean, look, i suppose you could you can very easily make the case you don't want to be. i don't spit your coffee out. i don't want to be too unfair to david lammy here. all right. because

as foreign secretary, it is within your purview to try to do anything or say anything that you think might enhance your relationship around the world. and so i can understand why you'd want to keep the foreign the foreign aid budget. can i just thank kerry, who has just donated £1,500? >> wow, wow to the fundraiser is just giving .com forward slash page forward slash save our seniors kerry thank you. >> and you have said thank you so much for helping with our dear senior people. look that is an unbelievable amount of money. i do really hope you i do really hope you can afford it . so thank hope you can afford it. so thank you. that means we are now at £209,990. wow . all the best, £209,990. wow. all the best, right? gosh, that's really taking taking my breath away there. thank you very much kerry. and thank you as well to everybody else who's donated even smaller amounts. it's not it's not about the amount that you donate. but anyway . right. you donate. but anyway. right. sorry. very quickly. now we're going to have to rattle through greatest britain union jackass. so go on. >> who do you want me to do? >> who do you want me to do? >> sorry. >> sorry. >> greatest. patrick. it's you. what? you're not going to like this . oh, we've just been

this. oh, we've just been talking about the wonderful work that you're doing for friends of the elderly. we've all complained about the winter fuel allowance being stripped from pensioners. you have actually done something about it, so. thank you. >> bravo. well , thank you very >> bravo. well, thank you very much. i do appreciate that. but it's really this is not this is what i'm doing. i've got a bit hungry this week. it's not the end of the world. right. yeah. >> well, mine's a bloke called jim o'neill. he's won just his reform seat in blackpool. but the key part of this story is that he's donating. he's a he's a veteran from the armed forces and he's donating his entire salary to keeping pensioners warm. so similar to what you're doing, pat. >> it's almost like it's almost like you know, he's one of the good guys isn't he? go on. >> jj mine is james cleverly for showing the world exactly how a politician operates. he helped devise a plan to give mauritius those islands. then he goes out of power and then blames the new guys for getting the deal across . guys for getting the deal across. >> across the first time i've ever agreed with lefties on guys. >> now, unfortunately, we've only got seconds left, so apologies. we're not going to be able to do the union jackass. but in terms of greatest britain, i'm going to go for what was he called again? alex. >> his name is jim o'neill.

>> his name is jim o'neill. >> jim o'neill doing something for the elderly this winter. look. thank you very much. it's been an incredibly lively show. i've enjoyed it. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody who's been watching and listening and again, just from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much to everybody who's been donating to help friends of the elderly this winter period. just give me.com/page four slash save our seniors. i'll see you on monday. >> expect a warm front moving from the kitchen right through to the rest of the house. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello, good evening and welcome to your gb news weather update. brought to you by the met office. well, as we head into the weekend, we can expect to see lots of fine weather to start, but it is gradually turning more unsettled from the west so we can expect to see some wet and windy weather over the weekend. and that's because this area of high pressure, which has brought us that fine weather to end the working week, is generally being replaced by low pressure as it moves in from the west, and we'll start to see this this evening as outbreaks of rain continue to push into

the north—west. this a little bit heavy at times , particularly bit heavy at times, particularly towards dawn and turning quite blustery under those cloudier skies too. but elsewhere across much of england and wales there'll be plenty of clear skies overnight. so turning quite chilly may even see some pockets of mist and fog by the morning. so quite a different start in the north—west to start the weekend. plenty of cloud around and some outbreaks of rain, and it is going to be turning rather heavy at times, particularly in western parts similar across northern ireland. a fairly cloudy start, with those outbreaks of rain just starting to push into the west. but elsewhere there should be plenty of bright skies to start the weekend. as i say, some pockets of mist and fog around and it will be a fairly chilly start . and then generally there start. and then generally there is still plenty of fine and dry weather across the country, plenty of sunny spells and feeling warm where you catch the sunshine. but that rain will gradually move in more and more across scotland. northern ireland with those outbreaks of rain and still fairly blustery under those cloudier skies. and nofice under those cloudier skies. and notice these brighter colours here. so some heavy rain moving

its way into parts of the far southwest later into saturday. but as i say, where you catch the sunshine with highs of 18 degrees, it should still feel rather pleasant for the time of yeah rather pleasant for the time of year. heading into sunday. a fairly unsettled day, plenty of cloud across the country with some outbreaks of rain. this too, could be heavy at times, particularly across the south—west southern parts of wales later into the day. and that generally leads us into an unsettled week next week. generally temperatures turning more towards average. so make sure you enjoy the sunshine while it's here. bye for now . while it's here. bye for now. >> we can expect clear skies leading to a light and warm day

well . well. >> hello and welcome to headliners. your first look at saturday's newspapers. >> with three out of work comedians. >> i'm josh howie joining me tonight is whippersnapper jonathan coggan and on a playdate adam kumars. >> hello . >> hello. >> hello. >> hello. >> how are you both? out of work. well, i told you that in confidence. it's friday night. none of us are gigging. why are we gigging? what's wrong with us? >> i am getting paid for this, though. to be fair. you two. yeah. you two do voluntarily. i get paid for this. >> i do it for the love and the free biscuits. i'm still on work experience. i really need to

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