well. >> morning 930 on monday, the 7th of october. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so sue gray calls it a day. did she jump before she was pushed? sue gray has quit as the prime minister's chief of staff. don't worry, she's got a new part time role. will tell you all about it. >> stand with the jewish community. that's the message from the prime minister as he again calls for a ceasefire in the middle east and the anniversary of hamas's attack on israel. mark white has the latest. >> well, a year after that horrific attack, on october the 7th last year, israel is still fighting in gaza. but they measure success by the fact that the vast majority of rockets have ceased being fired into israel by hamas. >> and meanwhile, there's been a surge of young people supporting hamas in this country who think the massacre of the jews was, quote, justified . quote, justified. >> britain, the home of the

illegal migrant, has almost 1000 people crossed the channel on saturday? new research shows one person in every 100 of the population. can you believe this is an illegal migrant? and he starts smashing up those gangs? prime minister, and your nuclear veterans need you. >> we will reveal the amazing amount of money that you raise to fund the annual reunion for british servicemen and their families. the servicemen took part in nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s. brian unthank was one of them, and he told us about the skin cancers he suffered 23 so far. >> and i was supposed to go back in october and get more removed, but that's been put back another six months and i lost my teeth at the age of 20. good lord, i'm now 86 years old and looking fabulous. >> if you don't mind me saying i love the feeling of it. >> we had a good hug. morning. very nice .

very nice. >> oh, weren't they amazing on thursday? >> fantastic. >> fantastic. >> very moving. very powerful. and we know how powerful and moving it was because of the response of our viewers. and listeners. yeah. we'll tell you a little later about how much you've raised and the money still pouring in. >> i'm going to be talking to another family member of a veteran, a daughter, this morning on the show as well, to express their thanks to all of you at home. so don't miss that. and we're going to be discussing what's going on with the labour party. >> yeah. what's going on with the government? i'll tell you what's going on with the government. it is a complete shambles. that's what's going on. that's what sue gray being sacked, not pushed. she didn't resign. she was sacked not even 100 days. and the chief of staff has gone. what a shower. >> let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com. forward slash. you're safe. first, the very latest news with sophie reaper. >> thank you. bev. it's just after 9:30. >> and these are your latest gb news headlines. this morning people across israel have gathered to mark the one year

anniversary of the october 7th attacks in jerusalem . israelis attacks in jerusalem. israelis carrying flags and placards with the faces of missing people gathered outside. president netanyahu's home at 629, local time, a siren rang out to mark the hour that hamas led militants launched rockets into israel last october 7th, according to israeli figures , according to israeli figures, they killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . took about 250 hostages to gaza. meanwhile, new polling carried out on behalf of the campaign against antisemitism has found what they called concerning levels of support for hamas among young people in britain. the yougov poll found that 9% of 18 to 24 year olds in the uk had a so—called favourable view of hamas, compared to 3% across the general public. in politics, parliament is set to return today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place for the past few weeks. mps will be back at westminster today, but their return coincides with further,

further controversy for the government after the pm's chief of staff , sue gray, quit her job of staff, sue gray, quit her job yesterday. this has prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff, with the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney , taking on the morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier , shadow leader of the earlier, shadow leader of the house of commons, chris philp, told gb news breakfast that this is just one example of labour chaos. >> keir starmer's government has collapsed into chaos afterjust collapsed into chaos after just 93 days. he can't even run his own number 10 downing street operation let alone run the country. frankly, this has all fallen apart a lot faster than i was expecting. but this sort of chaos at the heart of downing street shows us why they've made so many mistakes. it's no surprise that his opinion poll ratings have collapsed so catastrophically, and i think this sue gray debacle is an example of that . example of that. >> a protest will be held outside parliament later on today following the government's controversial decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. last month, labour voted to cut the benefit for all

but the poorest pensioners. although the unite union has argued this would only save around £1.4 billion every year. the union are now encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse the decision to make these cuts ahead of the winter months . ahead of the winter months. finally, the trial for daniel khalife is scheduled to begin at woolwich crown court in london today. khalife stands charged with committing various terror offences while serving in the british army , but also made british army, but also made headunes british army, but also made headlines last year after allegedly escaping from wandsworth prison and spending four days on the run. a mass manhunt was carried out for the former soldier last september, until he was recaptured and returned to prison . those are returned to prison. those are your latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophie reaper. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> thank you sophie. good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with me bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well we want to start the show this morning with a very big thank you to you, our viewers and listeners. >> on thursday we asked if you'd help us to raise £25,000. that was so that nuclear veterans. so those that took part in nuclear testing for the military in the 50s and 60s could have their annual reunion. >> well, not only did you smash that, you actually raised . that, you actually raised. almost £47,000, which not only can fund next year's reunion, but almost enough for 2026, two. >> yeah, it's wonderful news. if you still want to donate to the veterans reunion, you're going to see the qr code in the bottom right hand of the screen. now grab your phone, open the camera, scan the code. it will take you straight to the page. or if that's a bit laborious, go to gofundme.com and search for

nuclear test. veterans reunion 2025. and we are genuinely so grateful and we know that they are too. they're absolutely blown away by it. >> they were. and what a great cause, because they were literally unpaid guinea pigs who've suffered huge health issues. the lovely brian, who came on with his 9293 skin cancers and of course, his wife had 13 miscarriages. >> yeah. and the damage from these experiments, which were done on, on these soldiers and some of them were they weren't all in the military. there were some of them were civilians taken out to easter island and once they were there, found out what they would be subjected to. and the damage i think the bit that really stuck with me, what bnan that really stuck with me, what brian unthank had said was that 500 years, it will take for genealogy, for the for the ancestors to be washed out. thank you. >> yeah . and they've had no >> yeah. and they've had no compensation and successive governments of every political hue have turned their nose up. and it is a scandal because this

has been going on for 72 years. it makes the row over the post office, which is legitimate and appalling. of course, pale into insignificance. and you've had the infected blood scandal. and remember, this government is bringing in a new law about ensuring greater transparency in holding public organisations to account. well , their start their account. well, their start their ministry of defence right . ministry of defence right. >> gbnews.com/yoursay for all of your thoughts, this morning. but sue gray has quit. your thoughts, this morning. but sue gray has quit . or more sue gray has quit. or more likely, she was fired behind the scenes in her role as sir keir starmer's chief of staff, over fears that she had become a distraction. >> so her exit follows reports of, well, not reports. there were tensions in downing street, including with the prime minister's chief adviser, morgan mcsweeney. he was head of strategy, who is now stepping into her role. >> she hasn't gone completely. she's been appointed as the envoy. i love this title for the regions and nations . which means regions and nations. which means what? nothing. it's . it's what? nothing. it's. it's a grand title. the envoy for

regions and nations. >> it's. >> it's. >> it's. >> i mean , envoy, if you think >> i mean, envoy, if you think of an envoy is like a middle east envoy. tony blair was in the middle east or envoy to the un, but the regions being manchester, liverpool. so we need an envoy. she she's very keen on it. it's to try to soften the blow of her being fired, and she's carrying the can for the huge rows over the botched handling of winter fuel, taking away from pensioners the freebies from lord alli, the prime minister taking £32,000 worth of suits, the taylor swift tickets and then, of course, she is blamed for the fact that they, in my view, lost leave of their senses last week and they said he was going to give back £6,000 worth. what about the rest, prime minister? >> the thing is, i think people at home might be going, well, why do we care about this woman? nobody's elected her. we don't know who she is. but that role, chief of staff is very, very powerful. absolutely crucial behind the scenes at number 10. >> it's an absolute admission

that number 10 is not working. and if number 10 is not working, that impacts on the whole of government. that's why it m atters. matters. >> and i think probably a peerage in the offing periods will be coming. >> you could be certain of that. what do you do in public life if you're useless? you get a knighthood or a peerage. that's what happens. you see it with rishi sunak's resignation periods. there's some resignation, honestly, some of the people who persuaded him to go for an early election will get knighthoods and bridges, for sure. >> well, let's talk to former labour minister ivor caplin, who joins us now. morning, ivor. is andrew right there? if you're useless, you just end up getting a thank you with a peerage and sit in the house of lords. is that what we're looking at here for sue gray? >> let's start . >> let's start. >> let's start. >> andrew's never right on most of these things. >> so let's just move on from there. >> and firstly you know what a great service that gb news did to those those those military men the other week. and to get that support in terms of, of this. look she's done a fantastic job for the labour party over the last. i don't know, 18 months or so. and i'm

afraid it just didn't work out. and that happens. it happens in in conservative governments and it happens in labour governments of the past. and you just have to keep changing things. i, morgan mcsweeney, is someone i've known 20 plus years in labour politics, and he's a he's a fantastic organiser and he'll be a very good chief of staff. and i think that has slightly strengthened the team of people who know their background. and that's one of the things that probably , despite sue greys probably, despite sue greys excellent work , she's not in excellent work, she's not in that category . that category. >> if she's excellent, why has she been fired? and she has been thrown under a bus, hasn't she either for the disasters, after disasters, after disasters , disasters, after disasters, freebies, the wahid ali being given a past all access to number 10 downing street. she apparently approved that. unprecedented for a donor who's given so much money to be given an all access pass to downing

street. and then apparently it was her decision for the prime minister to give up £6,000 worth of freebies last week, where were then everybody says, well, hang on, what about the deputy prime minister's freebie since the election? what about the home secretaries and the chancellors and the foreign secretary's a complete mess. but the prime minister took the decision to take the freebies, and he took the decision to give them back. it was the prime minister's decision with the chancellor. hang on, either to take away winter fuel from some of our poorest pensioners at a time when they announce with great bravado and they think it's a tribe. huge bumper pay rises for train drivers and pubuc rises for train drivers and public servants, public sector workers , right? workers, right? >> but the point here, andrew, is that that those, those those changes to people's pay is something that has, has been prepared over the last year or so in terms of, in terms of what's happened there . but let what's happened there. but let me just say this. the, the, the constant thing about how, how people have dealt with their,

their , their, you know, issues their, their, you know, issues in terms of when you're a member of parliament and when you have these kind of things , these have these kind of things, these have all been handled properly. and what i'm pleased about is to see that now there's going to be some changes to the situation and that everyone will be dealt with in the same situation. and i remember as, as a minister that it wasn't the same even then 20 or so years ago, but the fact that it's going to be the same for all 650 members of parliament, that's a very strong change to the system. and i think that is something that will work better and make sure that you always have the kind of information and ability of understanding why, why people have done things and how they do it. and that will be, i think, to the benefit of parliament in its general self. >> but does this decision to get rid of sue gray tell us that keir starmer is incredibly

ruthless and ideologically dnven ruthless and ideologically driven , but will ultimately be, driven, but will ultimately be, will, will just push people off his party or his team if they're reflecting badly on him . reflecting badly on him. >> bev, i think that's that's probably right. i think i think keir keir understands how he wants to run the government over the next, you know, however many years . and to do that you years. and to do that you sometimes have to make changes. i'm pleased that sue gray is still going to be involved in a in a, in a other way, but but to run the government you need the right people at the right place. and i think morgan is, is that i also think the appointment of james lie—ins is a really good appointment in terms as , as he appointment in terms as, as he him becoming the comms director. so i think these are strengths that sometimes you have to do when you're running a government. >> what do you think an envoy for regions and nations is ehhen for regions and nations is either, and do you think it will

be handsomely paid ? be handsomely paid? >> i couldn't possibly comment on that one at all. but what i can say is there is in in in labour's terms and in the manifesto, we did say there would be more work with the regions. now that's a wide thing. i mean for me in brighton and hove or you , andrew, that and hove or you, andrew, that could affect brighton and hove as well in the longer term as it will manchester or liverpool or anywhere else . so the fact that anywhere else. so the fact that there's going to be changes to how these operate seems to me to be something that that she may be something that that she may be very interested in. >> just to go back to where we started, morgan mcsweeney, who was head of strategy, he ran keir starmer's leadership campaign. he ran the general election campaign. he's taking over her job and everything's going to be fine now. what was he doing with all these problems were building up in the government's in—tray in the first 193 days. what was he doing? was he asleep at the wheel? because sue gray has taken all the blame. what was he

doing? what was he saying? why wasn't he saying, don't take the freebies, prime minister, or don't give that 6000 freebies, prime minister. prime minister, are you sure if we announce this taking winter fuel away from pensioners at the same time we're giving bumper pay rises to train drivers. we'll look mean spirited. what was he doing now? >> you're obsessed , andrew, by >> you're obsessed, andrew, by all these so—called freebies. but everything that keir starmer has done has been registered in the right way with the parliamentary authorities. >> why did he give back £6,000 worth then? why did he give £6,000 back if everything was fine ? fine? >> he's made a decision that he didn't have to do, but he's done it now. >> sue gray told him to because he's not a strong prime minister. he's weak. >> he's made that decision that that's, you know, he's weak. i think. i think anyone who's supported what's his name? johnson can't talk about other prime ministers. >> no, we're not talking about johnson. we're talking about keir starmer. he's weak. he gave back £6,000 to freebies last week . now

back £6,000 to freebies last week. now he's seen back £6,000 to freebies last week . now he's seen the back £6,000 to freebies last week. now he's seen the bad reaction to it. so he's fired. the person who told him to give him back. no. that's weak. >> that's that's not true. andrew and i and i would just say that at least everything that keir starmer has done and other senior figures in the labour party has been properly registered with the parliamentary authorities, and that system is going to grow into a much bigger system. now, given what has happened over the last few weeks, i think that's a strong way forward for parliament. >> okay . i've always good to see >> okay. i've always good to see you. you always put up a great fight. former labour minister ivor kaplan there. up next, the world remembers hamas's october seventh attack. of course, it's the anniversary today on israel . the anniversary today on israel. but there are shocking findings about young brits supporting hamas action on that r , we'll be discussing why that

gb news. >> it's 950. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> so today, the world remembers hamas's october the 7th attack on israel. >> this comes as a new poll shows there are some young brits and youngsters who support hamas and youngsters who support hamas and believe the reports about the october 7th massacre were exaggerated, or they think that the massacre of the jews was justified. >> so joining us now is gb news homeland security editor, mark white. morning , mark. it's kind white. morning, mark. it's kind of remarkable to think that was a year ago. i remember those shocking images coming in of all those beautiful, innocent young people at that music festival and the hamas terrorists parachuting in and all of the extraordinary ways that they arrived in israel. and yet now we're hearing in this country today about the fact that as andrew just said then, that there are so many youngsters in this country who sympathise and think that was okay. >> yes. and one of the reasons why that is the case and why it's increasingly becoming the case, especially amongst young people on university campuses and the like, is because the

images that they are seeing are the images of death and destruction in gaza. israel always knew that the sympathy for what happened on october the 7th was finite. it would last a certain period of time in the minds of some, not very long at all. and then, of course, being saturated with these other images, then everything turns in terms of a great deal of criticism towards israel. having said that , there is still very said that, there is still very significant popular support in israel for prosecuting this war, both in gaza and taking the fight to hezbollah in the north. >> it's interesting because netanyahu's popularity plunged to levels he'd never seen before after the massacre, because it was a major security failure on his watch. but now, a year on, his watch. but now, a year on, his popularity is sky high again , his popularity is sky high again, extraordinary. he's it's almost like he's been forgiven or they've forgotten that the massacre happened on his watch and should have been detected. >> yes. we mustn't , you know,

>> yes. we mustn't, you know, brush over the fact that there are still hundreds of thousands of people that take to the streets of tel aviv and other areas on a regular basis, calling for a ceasefire and the return of the hostages. but the vast majority of people in israel are foursquare behind benjamin netanyahu, his war cabinet and their efforts to try to take the fight to hamas and hezbollah. now, israel will judge their success on the fact that hamas is no longer firing on a daily basis, hundreds of rockets into israeli communities. it no longer has the capability to launch a significant attack into israeli territory. now, that doesn't mean the threat is completely gone and in fact, just today, another four rockets more symbolic than anything else , symbolic than anything else, were lobbed from gaza into surrounding communities there. there is still a significant operation ongoing in gaza, although it is winding down and the effort has switched to the

north, which also has a great deal of popular support because you've got displaced communities, 70,000 people who've not been able to return to their homes because more than 8000 missiles and drones have been launched by hezbollah into israel's northern. okay. >> thank you. mark. we'll be reflecting on this throughout the show this morning. but still to come, britain is the home for illegal migrants in europe. we've got more than anyone else. don't go anywhere. here's the weather. >> despite the morning rain , >> despite the morning rain, it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead . boxt heat pumps sponsors ahead. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning, welcome to your gb. news, weather update from the met office. it's going to be a case of sunny spells and scattered showers today. we still have some rain in scotland before turning colder later on in the week, so we've got some

heavy spells of rain persisting across northern scotland that will gradually move its way northwards, but across much of england and wales and northern ireland, it's a case of sunny spells and scattered showers developing through the afternoon. we've already got a band across northern parts of england, but the showers could turn heavy, possibly with the odd rumble of thunder too, but highs up to 17, possibly 18 degrees in the sunshine. more unpleasant towards the north. but as we go through monday evening, there could be some difficult driving conditions through rush hour towards the south and west, as we have some heavy spells of rain moving their way northwards. drier for a time towards the south and east, with some early evening sunshine across northern ireland and parts of northwestern england as well. still a few showers remaining across parts of scotland, but towards the north we've still got outbreaks of rain across orkney and shetland during monday night, so through monday evening and overnight this band of rain

across the midlands into parts of the south—east of england will continue to push its way northwards and again could be heavy at times towards the south. we then see another spell of showers moving through. there'll be some clear spells in between, but generally a mild night with temperatures holding up into the double figures. so to start tuesday morning, some heavy spells of rain across northern ireland. parts of northern england into scotland towards the south. some sunny spells, but also some frequent showers that could be on the heavy side, especially towards the south and west, mixed in with some sunshine to breezy towards the south and towards the far north. chilly here, but in the sunshine we could reach highs of 16 or 17 by mish rahman. >> we can expect clear skies leading to a light and warm day ahead.

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well. >> good morning. it's 10:00 well. >> good morning. it's10:00 on monday the 7th of october live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me bev turner and andrew pierce. >> sue grey's reduced pay day. sue gray sacked as the prime minister's chief of staff. but don't worry, she's a new part time role with a reduced salary and stand with the jewish community. >> that's the message from the prime minister as he again calls for a ceasefire in the middle east on the anniversary of hamas's attack on israel, as memorials take place across britain and the middle east. >> meanwhile, there's been a really worrying surge of young people supporting hamas. they believe reports about october the 7th have been exaggerated , the 7th have been exaggerated, and britain is officially the home of illegal migrants. >> new research shows that one person in every 100 of the population here is an illegal migrant. astonishing. >> and your nuclear veterans need you . you've raised almost need you. you've raised almost £48,000 to fund the annual reunion for british servicemen who took part in nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s from both the

us and the station . thank you. us and the station. thank you. >> i think for me, the most shocking headline today is this 1 in 100 people. it's terrible. it's terrible. it's here illegally. what? >> and if we know that figure, why we know who they are. why are they here? get them out. and this comes of course, as on saturday alone, 973 people crossed the channel in small boats, the highest total for two years. when are they going to smash the gangs? >> there's not a lot of smashing going on at the moment, is there? let us know your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. first, though, the very latest news with sophie reaper. >> thank you bev. it's just after 10:00 and these are your latest headlines . this morning. latest headlines. this morning. people across israel have gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th attacks in jerusalem. israelis carrying flags and placards with

the faces of missing people gathered outside president netanyahu's home at 629 local time, a siren rang out to mark the hour that hamas led militants launched rockets into israel. last october seventh. according to israeli figures, they killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . took about 250 hostages to gaza. speaking at a london memorial event yesterday, the mother to the only british israeli hostage has asked why the uk is not doing more to secure the release of her daughter emily damari was taken from an israeli settlement across the border and into gaza one year ago today. let's take a listen to what her mother, mandy, had to say. >> my beautiful , funny and brave >> my beautiful, funny and brave daughter, who i love to the moon and back, deserves to come home. ineed and back, deserves to come home. i need to hug her again and i need to see her smile, try to picture what she is going through. since the 7th of october last year, she has been held as a hostage by hamas terrorists in the gazan terror

tunnels, 20m or more underground , tunnels, 20m or more underground, kept in captivity, tortured , kept in captivity, tortured, isolated, unable to eat, speak or even move without someone else's permission. >> new polling carried out on behalf of the campaign against antisemitism has found what they called concerning levels of support for hamas among young people in britain. the yougov poll found that 9% of 18 to 24 year olds in the uk had a so—called favourable view of hamas, compared to 3% across the general public. over to politics, parliament is set to return today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place for the past few weeks . mps will be back at weeks. mps will be back at westminster today, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the pm's chief of staff, sue gray, quit her job sue gray, quit herjob yesterday. this has prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff, with the leader of labour's general election campaign , general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead.

earlier, foreign office minister hamish falconer defended labour's so—called shaky starts in government. >> i don't at all accept in the first 100 days that this government has been a disaster. we've made real progress across a whole range of issues. i think it's been full of difficult choices which reflect the difficult inheritance that we've got as we become the government. but i think keir starmer and the rest of the government is getting on with the job that the british public elected us to do. >> one person has been killed and several others injured by an explosion at a block of flats in the scottish town of alloa at around 6:00 last night. fire and emergency crews were called to the called to the residential property after reports of an explosion. a man was pronounced dead at the scene and three others were taken to the forth valley royal infirmary for treatment of minor injuries. new analysis has found that 10,000 children have fallen into poverty as a result of the two child child benefit limit since labour took office, the data

comes from the child poverty action group, who say the policy must now be abolished. however, the government says this cannot happen due to the state of the uk's public finances. the trial for daniel khalife is scheduled to begin at woolwich crown court in london today. khalife stands charged with committing various terror offences while serving in the british army, but also made headunes the british army, but also made headlines last year after allegedly escaping from wandsworth prison and spending four days on the run . a mass four days on the run. a mass manhunt was carried out for the former soldier last september until he was recaptured and returned to prison, and finally , returned to prison, and finally, a costs hearing will take place at the royal courts of justice today as part of the wagatha christie libel case between coleen rooney and rebekah vardy. following the ruling in 2022, which found vardy had leaked rooney's private information to the press, it was ordered that she would have to pay 90% of rooney's legal costs . but now rooney's legal costs. but now the legal battle rumbles on as questions are asked on both sides about which costs should

reasonably be paid . those are reasonably be paid. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophie reaper more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back britain's newsroom. it is a monday morning. thank you forjoining morning. thank you for joining us this morning. we're just looking at your comments coming in here in the news brian. oops sorry . hold the line caller sorry. hold the line caller while i just find no point me it's online so i don't do that. >> i don't do that if it's not in a piece of paper the old fashioned way, i can't read it. >> honestly. i sit here like his secretary, don't i? doing all this work for him. brian has said the youngsters that support hamas do so because they don't watch the news. they have their heads stuck into their phones

and computers. they're being brainwashed. they should be given a dose of sharia law. >> it's a particularly troubling when you consider how many young people were kidnapped from that music festival . some of them music festival. some of them were killed at the music festival, some were dragged away. so that was their fellow young people. and yet and yet these young people in this country are saying that the hamas massacre was just 16% of them say it was justified, and 1 in 10 say what was going on on that day was exaggerated. it wasn't exaggerated. >> but you see, i think what's happened here, maybe and i don't want to sound patronising to these youngsters, but they are being fed extraordinary , awful being fed extraordinary, awful images from gaza. we would all agree that 40,000 dead palestinians, most of which are being because the predominantly young population. yeah, those images are awful. so many young people being slaughtered and therefore they're coming to the defence of those people. i get that instinct to want to do that. i have the same instinct to want to do that. but i think they're they've got to understand the trigger for this being october the 7th. they're now saying, well, you know, that was justified because just look

what israel is doing. yeah, but israel are bombing the living daylights out of gaza. and i think that's wrong. but the events of october 7 came out of nowhere. >> for those innocent young people. >> and israel, one of the few democracies in the middle east still being backed by countries like egypt, jordan. hamas is a terrorist organisation. you wouldn't get that from the bbc. it is a terrorist organisation. >> it is a conflict. >> it is a conflict. >> it wants to eradicate israel from the face of the earth that's in its dna. >> it is a complicated and miserable situation out there for everybody involved. mary, good morning. mary says keeping hostages and tunnels under the ground. how can anyone support these terror groups , these young these terror groups, these young ones, out demonstrating need to think about the conditions that they are keeping them in? what can we, joe public, do about a government that we have no confidence in? how do we get rid of them? says alex. a lot of you talking about the sue gray situation, margaret says so. keir starmer, keir scammer, she calls him. >> he's got a lot of nicknames.

>> he's got a lot of nicknames. >> he's got a lot of nicknames. >> he's giving keir starmer a seat in the house of lords, free for money signing in each day for money signing in each day for that. just that plus expenses, £300 plus. but she's causing harm to britain's elderly. >> £330 actually tax free. >> £330 actually tax free. >> yeah, yeah, you don't have to speak. >> some of them have never spoken, but they still get the 333 tax free. by the way, andrew says i can't stand the fact that illegal immigrants are being allowed to get to our shores without documents, etc. but the fact that we accept so many males of fighting age that would willingly trample a two year old to get here sickens me to the core. yes, because that's how that two year old died crossing the channel. there was a panic and he was trampled to death by his fellow by fellow migrants. isn't that awful? >> that is really awful, right? keep your messages coming this morning, gbnews.com/yoursay. so on that middle east situation, a leading imam has described the relations between jews and muslims in this country as both fragile and fractured amid the ongoing conflict in the middle east. >> this comes on the day the world remembers the hamas october 7th attack on israel. so what can be done to ensure all

communities feel safe in britain? >> well, we're joined now by the deputy chair of the conservative muslim forum, naveed asghar, and reporter at the jewish chronicle, josh caplan. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us. it's really great to bnng joining us. it's really great to bring you both together. this morning to talk about this. let's start with you, naveed. how can we bring communities together in this country when the situation is so febrile ? the situation is so febrile? >> i absolutely, you know, we need to keep working and having dialogue with each other. we live here in the united kingdom, and we understand that the scenes that we see on television, social media, etc. are very harrowing and there is no doubt about that. but we live here in the united kingdom and we must keep dialogue open. yes, it's been one year, and i totally agree that, you know, when hamas went over the border and killed those teenagers at a festival, they did not ask their population that, can we go and do this? they did not negotiate with the regional muslim partners and countries to say , partners and countries to say, we are going to do this. i do

not think anybody in their living memory would ever have agreed to something like that. until this day, they're still hostages . outstanding. the first hostages. outstanding. the first and foremost thing they need to do is return these hostages. and i'm sure that is where, you know, the stock will come from israel, and our international partners will then negotiate a ceasefire and stop the killing that's going on. yes , that's going on. yes, absolutely. look, i'm not going to deny that israel has bombed the living daylights out of gaza. it's going to take decades to you know, to rebuild that country. but we need to get the hostages back. there is no doubt about that. >> josh, what about what's happening here on saturday? there was a big march in central london again, and lots of photographs of people with banners and placards supporting hamas, a terrorist organisation supporting hezbollah . and it supporting hezbollah. and it appears the police turned a blind eye. we go back to this idea of two tier policing, and i know many jewish people feel it would be unsafe to walk into central london on a saturday when these marches take place . when these marches take place. that's never going to be able to solve communities, that we're never going to get community cohesion. while that's carrying

on. >> no, i agree with you. and i, and i think it's about coming from a point of shared values. >> right. like we need to be able to say that some things are unequivocally bad and they should be condemned. and i think that would include for me, and i think for a lot of other people supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation like hamas or hezbollah. but it's the sort of thing you see week in, week out on the streets of london. you see people that put swastikas on israeli flags, you see people that make like grotesque caricatures of israel's leaders. and you know, i'm not saying for a second here that people shouldn't be able to exercise their free speech, but i think it we will not get community cohesion. we will not get a sense that all communities are respected if we don't agree on a set of things that we think are beyond the pale and things that we think are acceptable. >> can we go back to you, naveed? i mean, we know that jewish people are fearful. do you have you do you say islamophobia has risen since what happened in october the 7th in this country ? in this country? >> absolutely. look, anti—semitic attacks have risen

vastly. islamophobic attacks have risen drastically. and that is the last thing we want of communities living here in the united kingdom. everybody has a right to protest peacefully. and, you know, everybody should have a right to be able to go out freely, freely in the street and exercise those rights. nobody should feel under pressure or of the fear of attack from anybody else within our communities. you know, we live in the united kingdom, which is a free and fair society. and we've been given those rights because a lot of countries, for example, in the middle east , africa, etc, you're middle east, africa, etc, you're not allowed to protest if you protest the armed forces, the police, etcetera, come down on you really, really hard unless, you really, really hard unless, you know, the government authorises it. so the fact that we have those facilities available in the uk, we should take them at face value and let everybody protest. now, look, i might not agree with your opinions. you might not agree with my we might have opinions. political differences, we might have religious differences. but absolutely there must be peaceful and everybody should be allowed to protest. >> i think what maybe we're missing, the part of this story is the fact that these tensions

wouldn't boil over in the way that they currently do. if we had been better at integrating different cultures and religions for not just the last 12 months, but frankly, for the last 20 years, because i think that's to some degree what's come home to roost here. josh, have we worked hard enough, do you think, to encourage communities to assimilate with each other so that when events happen in the middle east, we all come together under a british identity, regardless of really where you were born or what your religious religion is ? religious religion is? >> i mean, i think if you look at the scenes from the last year , at the scenes from the last year, especially in london, i think you'll have to say that that's been a bit of a failure. i think there are people in this country that that care so deeply about a conflict that's 5000 miles away, that doesn't really concern them, that doesn't really have any personal impact on their lives. and i, for one, i can't really understand it. you know, my family's israeli. my sister, until very recently was in the idf. i have a very personal connection to this. what i can't

understand is why people who have been born and raised in the uk are willing to, you know, go out on the streets and get arrested and assault police officers in the name of ideas that, frankly, have nothing to do with them . do with them. >> and what about this, this shocking survey today showing so many young people in this country are sympathetic to hamas, which is a terrorist organisation which wants to eradicate israel from the face of the earth , and also thinks of the earth, and also thinks that what happened on october 7th has been exaggerated. it's just very disturbing. >> it's disturbing. and i think a lot of issues come down to education and most of the education and most of the education is happening from tiktok, from youtube through whatsapp messages. and it's, you know, and the narrative is being put through by people who call themselves leaders of the muslim faith here in britain when they actually don't represent a majority of the moderate british people who actually just want to get on with their life and carry on.and get on with their life and carry on. and yes, of course, when issues happen around the world and people are being killed, innocent, innocent people are being killed. and it doesn't stop, then of course people do

get agreed with that. but i think we need to be much better at educating our youngsters and ensuring that they don't actually get into the clutches of these extremists who are trying to, you know, portray a different narrative and trying to get people behind them. essentially, a lot of people are doing this. you know, there's a lot of tiktokers wanting to create their own brands, their own, you know, their own money bank. they're trying to enrich themselves off of this war. i see it in local communities all the time. it's virtually got to a stage where if you if you're not with them, you're actually against them. so i often speak out and try to be a voice of reason, and i often get a lot of pushback for my views when i say, look, there's two sides to a story. they don't want to listen to the other side of the story. they only have one narrative, and they want to keep going on that. in regards to integration, look, a lot of work has been done over the last decades and, you know, it has worked and i think a lot more worked and i think a lot more work needs done. i think this, you know, the boom of the internet and everyone's got mobile phones in their hand when the information is so fast and

steady and there is no fact checking of information that comes through these, these mediums and young children, ten, 11, 12, 13 years old have got this access 24 over seven. so we really need to look at a wider, you know , a society. we need to you know, a society. we need to look at a much more wider way of how we deal with this. it's not just one issue that will resolve this. and if we don't look at it now, this 3.9 million muslims in the uk, are we going to have this sort of situation every time something happens on the other side of the world and i think the government needs to look at this and it disturbs local communities as well. yeah, it's not so it's a very few by the way. it shout the loudest and caused the most upset. but then the moderate people have to either fall in line or go silent and they don't have the voice or opinion or the strength to actually speak out. >> okay. thank you gentlemen. really interesting deputy chair of the conservative muslim forum there. naveed asghar and reporter at the jewish chronicle, josh kaplan. thank you both. >> up next, find out which tory leadership hopeful is tipped to take the win .

1021 fryston to news with andrew pierce and bev turner. the panel is here. writer and journalist emma woolf and former labour advisor matthew torbett. you must be glad you're a former labour advisor at the moment because to be honest, not going, not going terribly well, is it? they've thrown sue gray under bus? >> no, i said to bev last week, i wouldn't say i take any great glee, not longer being part of the labour party or for even saying i thought this would happen. saying i thought this would happen . i think sue's probably happen. i think sue's probably been done a disservice. the boys have got their way. they always do . and i think the interesting do. and i think the interesting thing will be that there's some somehow going to be a reset. we have a politician in keir starmer who has never been popular, has never. i always thought the tories were 20 points behind. we weren't 20 points behind. we weren't 20 points ahead the first 100 days. haven't gone very well, and all of a sudden we're supposed to

expect that a rearranging of the deckchairs means that he's now going to surge on and do really well. i'm not convinced, because morgan mcsweeney, who was campaign director so head of strategy at number 10, now takes over from sue gray. >> he's been there all the time. he's been everything's been going wrong. was he asleep at the wheel? what was he doing? >> probably briefing the newspapers. i would i would say some may say not me, not me. no, i just think it's i some may say not me, not me. no, ijust think it's i don't some may say not me, not me. no, i just think it's i don't think a lot of them have been prepared for to what's come. and i've, i've always, always been of the opinion that this will be a one term government, tony. and actually, i'll share with you tony.tony actually, i'll share with you tony. tony blair said in his bookin tony. tony blair said in his book in 2008. he predicted keir starmer . he book in 2008. he predicted keir starmer. he said he assessed that there were three types of labour when he came in as prime minister. you can have old fashioned labour, which could never win. that's your jeremy corbyn. labour, modernised laboun corbyn. labour, modernised labour, which could win and keep winning, which was his ambition from the outset. but there is a third strand of labour which is plain labour, which could win once, but essentially, as a reaction to an unpopular conservative government. and i think that the labour party

currently, in a nutshell, the idea that a government needs a reset after barely three months, he hasn't reached the 100 days. >> do you remember rishi saying this would all fall apart, that he would destroy the country and rishi sunak saying that in 100 days he hasn't even reached his 100 days? >> sue gray was meant to set out a plan for the first 100 days. she hasn't made it. you haven't had a budget yet? days? no. and you know, you talk about sue and you know, you talk about sue and you make her sound like a nice little pussycat. she wanted that money. she was very greedy about getting that. she's been moving desks away from the prime minister. i think the government is in chaos. and this was very much starmer's appointment. he has clung to sue gray. so i think this fatally weakens him and, you know, damages his authority. >> what do you think of it? getting this new job as ambassador or is it envoy, envoy to the region ? to the region? >> it's a non—job. >> it's a non—job. >> it's a non—job. >> it's a job. won't be very happy. he would consider himself to be an envoy for that region. >> you would be surprised. he does like. so what i will tell you this. i don't think i'm breaching confidence. and if i am, i apologise in advance. is

that andy burnham and steve rotherham at the labour party conference, led a letter that was signed and delivered privately to keir starmer, saying keep her safe, keep her on. i think michael crick they were a big fan of her because the boys is their term. the lads around. keir starmer were no fan of andy burnham. the problem is with the labour party constantly is it is ridiculously factional. yes, if you're not in our club we don't want to hear from you. and that was what i always and that was one of their best assets. >> but they fear him. >> but they fear him. >> well, you would assume so. but also they fear him, potentially a threat. >> they fear him because he's popular, which is. you make the point. starmer has never been popular. andy burnham is hugely popular, telegenic, looks good and he i wrote last week. he begged number 10. don't get rid of her. >> that's absolutely true. and i think there was one mayor that didn't want to sign it. he was a bit worried about how it would look. and he's quite a close ally of rachel reeves. so therefore maybe didn't want to rock the boat a bit too much. >> we're getting a picture of who keir starmer is now. emma, aren't we in a way that we didn't really have before the

election? because all he had to do as much as people are crediting morgan mcsweeney with some fantastic campaign, it wasn't a fantastic campaign. they just had to keep very quiet and not mess up. >> they did, and as matthew said, they were 20 points behind, not sorry, conservatives were 20 points behind. but i think andrew makes a really good point in his piece in the mail, which is that keir starmer's not an experience, really an experience mp he's only been an mp since 2015 and doesn't have. i don't think he's showing, shown judgement or kind of political instinct that you need to be agile on your feet to understand that you come into office and you give some sweeteners, you do some positivity, you don't come in and start slashing winter fuel allowance, even if you'd have to do that later, or even if you deliver the message in a different way. i mean, he's now got his comms chief from is it james reynolds from tiktok? yeah. and the nhs. but you don't. you do it in a different way. you talk about taking money away from the wealthy pensioners who can afford it, but you don't come in. what sue gray thinking. >> but also this idea that i think he's a weak prime minister, because whether he should have taken the freebies or not is another debate. but he decided last week, inexplicably, to give

up £6,000 worth of freebies. which means every day i say, what about the deputy prime minister? what about the chancellor? but what about all the freebies? apparently that was her advice to him , which he was her advice to him, which he should have rejected, but he tookit should have rejected, but he took it when it then backfires in public because people think what? he fires her. >> emma said . what? he fires her. >> emma said. bizarre and i would agree. i read it and just thought what this has been handled terribly. terribly, yes. first of all, the potential of how it may have looked in the first place. but what you're doing by returning some of it and what people will read off the top headlines is you're making it look like you've done something wrong. there is no suggestion you've done anything outside the rules, but now you're muddying the waters further and going, oh, well, this bit might have been bad, but we had ivor caplin on the former minister, saying everything was within the rules. >> it may be within the rules. it's how it looks, it stinks. >> it looks and it wasn't necessary. it's these rolling stories today in the telegraph, £100,000 for other ministers from the premier league for football tickets for the hospitality boxes. it just goes on and on and on. and there's more to come because this

doesn't heal the wounds, does it? it moves sue gray sideways. she'll probably be popped into the house of lords. she will. but the problems go on. morgan mcsweeney isn't without controversy. he's an ideologue. you know . let's see what happens how. >> now. >> should we just get one more story in before we have to go to the news? but let's talk about then about james cleverly, who's tipped to win the poll at the moment for the leader of the conservative party. good choice, matt. >> he'd be the one i'd fear the most. and that's not because of where he sits ideologically. i thought his speech at conservative party conference was actually the right diagnosis. i think there's a lot of people that think they should tack right. if you're going to fish in just reform voters pond that there's only so many people in there, they did lose voters to labour, they did lose voters to labour, they did lose voters to the lib dems, and ultimately lost a lot of people to apathy, who just didn't turn out for them anymore. so he he'd be the one. i think he looks good. he sounds good. former soldier. so people like that sort of shtick. and he's a competent speaker. so he's and actually someone i encourage. three days after the election that he should stand. >> and he's he's got a backstory which generic does not have. his mum was an nhs midwife. dad was

on a council estate, son of migrants. all plays to the idea this boy has done good. >> no, i think so. and he's, you know, he's the sort of guy that your mum would be happy to have over for tea. yeah, probably. he's a nice, charming sort of bloke. so i think, and i think ultimately where keir can come across quite cold, i think cleverly will seem quite likeable. well, what do you make? >> my heart is still team kemi. i think she's the brightest spark. i think she comes out with absolutely brilliant, you know, i mean she's just, she's, she's an interesting woman. she's, she's a thinker. she's a, you know, but i but i think you're right about cleverly i think my head says cleverly best option. >> well we get we get the first result tomorrow. they'll go and then it starts to be the donkey, then it starts to be the donkey, the horse trading, which is when it gets fun. and of course, i talked to team kemi last week. kemi doesn't really speak to the press very much, but they said we're very worried about the mps who said, oh, you should be because they are duplicitous tory mps. it is the most dupuchous tory mps. it is the most duplicitous electorate in western europe and she's not well liked amongst tory mps. no, and they saw her blow up last

week about maternity pay and she did blow up and she did say it. i heard her say it. she said maternity pay is too high. she tried to say she was talking about excess regulation. she wasn't. she was talking about maternity pay. and then she tries to say, don't misrepresent me, which she's done before. and then she was suggesting that 10% of civil servants should be in prison. yeah, that was 10%. >> we still got a couple of minutes. leadership thing should have been done and dusted weeks ago . they've had an open goal ago. they've had an open goal all summer. labour are falling apart in front of our eyes and no one is holding one horror show to another. >> should halloween be a bank holiday? >> what? >> what? >> no. so there are calls now that halloween should become a bank holiday. almost one third of people polled want it marked as an official day off, a fifth of people admitting they prefer it to christmas. if you put my children in that bracket, they absolutely prefer halloween to christmas. yeah, kids are obsessed with halloween now. >> yeah, they love dressing up. and i think that's the main thing. should it be a bank holiday? probably not. but without being a little bit bah humbug, you know i can't be doing with it. but it's great for the kids. >> it's nice to see my nephews ehhen >>i ehhen >> i never answer the door on halloween. >> i will join you.

>> i will join you. >> never, ever ask to sit in the dark. >> trick or treat. >> trick or treat. >> clear off americanisation of our culture. i just told my four year old this morning. you're not bringing pumpkins in here. we're not scooping bits of pumpkin out all over my house. no, you can do it at school. disappointed? disappointed. very, very. oh, but we need to carve it. and i said, no, we don't. i don't want you setting fire to rotting vegetables in my house. >> the brainwashing around halloween this younger generation. i can't stand it ehhen generation. i can't stand it either. every time i think i cannot be bothered to go out and buy a load of plastic tat, and all it is, is sweets and threatening to do mean things to people on their doorstep or covering their houses in. >> what are they going to do if you don't give them a treat? what do they do to you? >> what is the funny thing when you start seeing these 13 and 14 year olds in a tracksuit and a mask, just sort of going , yeah. mask, just sort of going, yeah. trick or treating? yeah. if i don't give him some air. >> yeah, they're going to stop you, right? has a back story, but what's the back story for halloween? >> i don't know it. it's another ghastly american of course it's an americanism. >> well, i was listening to breakfast this morning, and eamonn was explaining that it's actually an irish tradition originally, isn't it? isn't it all all hallows eve and then you.

>> all right. >> all right. >> and then you reflect upon the people who've died. and eamonn was saying on breakfast this morning that they would a bit like at christmas you put out a mince pie and a they put out some food and then in the morning your parents say, look, grandma came to visit us in the night and she had a little bite of fruitcake that either. >> the irish think that apparently. correct me if i'm wrong. not the catholics in ireland. >> no, i think that. >> no, i think that. >> correct me if i'm wrong. gbnews.com/yoursay has been visited by the spirits of people you've lost , right? visited by the spirits of people you've lost, right? yeah, but again, kids love ghosts. >> yeah, they do, they do. and they love covering stuff. you know, when people cover their houses, do you answer the door on halloween night? no, i don't know. do you ? no. know. do you? no. >> well, normally i'm out with the kids walking around, knocking on other people's doors. oh, yeah. believe me, i know it's not a thing. i don't enjoy it. to quote matthew, i can't be doing with it. that's how i feel, right? emma. matt, thank you so much. time for the news headlines. it's that time here. sophie reaper. >> a very good morning to you.

it's just after 10:30. and these are the latest gb news headlines this morning. people across israel have gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th attacks at the knesset building in jerusalem. flags were lowered to half mast in commemoration of victims to the attack, according to israeli figures, hamas killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . meanwhile , new hostages to gaza. meanwhile, new polling carried out on behalf of the campaign against antisemitism has found what they called concerning levels of support for hamas among young people in britain. the yougov poll found that 9% of 18 to 24 year olds in the uk had a so—called favourable view of hamas, compared to 3% across the general public. parliament is set to return today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place for the past few weeks. mps will be back at

westminster today, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the pm's chief of staff, sue gray, quit her job sue gray, quit herjob yesterday. this has prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff with the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier, shadow leader of the house of commons, chris philp, told gb news breakfast that this is just one example of labour chaos. >> keir starmer's government has collapsed into chaos afterjust collapsed into chaos after just 93 days. he can't even run his own number 10 downing street operation , let alone run the operation, let alone run the country. frankly, this has all fallen apart a lot faster than i was expecting. but this sort of chaos at the heart of downing street shows us why they've made so many mistakes. it's no surprise that his opinion poll ratings have collapsed so catastrophically , and i think catastrophically, and i think this sue gray debacle is an example of that . example of that. >> a cost hearing will take place at the royal courts of justice today as part of the wagatha christie libel case between coleen rooney and rebekah vardy, following the

ruling in 2022, which found vardy had leaked rooney's private information to the press, it was ordered that she would have to pay 90% of rooney's legal costs. but now the legal battle rumbles on as questions are asked on both sides about which costs should reasonably be paid . those are reasonably be paid. those are your latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophie reaper more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news to direct your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> well, first, a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.3102 and ,1.949. the price of gold is £2,021.52 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is

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dad. who is he? >> i am my dad was born in 1934. he's 90 this year. and 70 years ago, 1955, he joined the royal navy and i ended up on operation grapple. his ship was hms warrior, and they sailed to the south pacific. and he witnessed three h—bomb tests, the third of which my dad is very emotional about when he speaks about. i watched a video of it with him that i found on the imperial war museum archives, and he this was last year and he still, like, burst into tears. really . burst into tears. really. >> what was what was significant about the third one? >> it was bigger than all the others. right. >> and were they on christmas island? >> were they on the ship at the time? >> he was on the ship, and he was the engine room writer and scribe. so his handwriting i assume, and he was saying to me this weekend will be either in the admiralty or the imperial war museum documenting all that was happening. >> and he's lived to a ripe old age. >> yes. >> yes. >> has he therefore been lucky

with health effects from the tests? >> two things really. he has had cancen >> two things really. he has had cancer. he had a surgery on a lesion on his head just here, and radiotherapy at the christie hospital in manchester. and thankfully it's turned out really well. >> what do you think about the utter, abject failure of every government since, since, since 72 years to do the right thing, which is what other governments have done in other countries , have done in other countries, accept responsibility, accept liability. these were guinea pigs liability. these were guinea pigs and pay them some form of compensation. >> i totally agree and also, my father would be the first person to agree that the other issue, health wise, was the psychological impact of seeing one of the most destructive forces unleashed on our planet. and i'm the impact on my dad on that was lifelong. but also, many veterans don't mention what they've witnessed with my father. the impact was it was constantly in his mind and one

of the things that was in his mind was the injustice over compensation. i believe the isle of man gave compensation many years ago. australia , france and years ago. australia, france and america. america and one of the things my dad also said that when he when the warrior went through america, they were treated very well. and when they came back through to britain, they were dismissed. >> and it's almost like they've supped >> and it's almost like they've slipped under the radar. >> yes. >> yes. >> i mean, to be honest, when bev and i talked to alan, who founded labrats , we sort of were founded labrats, we sort of were dimly aware of it. but our jaws dimly aware of it. but ourjaws were dropping when we just heard about the impact on these men's health and the unwillingness of the government to do anything to help them. they've sent them to a medal. very nice. in a jiffy, in a jiffy bag in the post. >> it's been shocking. each government has failed them. yeah, i there's been some great individual mps over the years. the mp from norwich between 1997 and onwards, he spoke out every week well, as much as he could on it. and ian gibson, yes, it

was ian gibson. on it. and ian gibson, yes, it was ian gibson . thank you for was ian gibson. thank you for reminding me. and there's been lots of early day motions going back into the 1990s, possibly earlier. that was that had an incredible support. i but it always got blocked and i don't know whether you could even say it got blocked at governments because there was definitely support from mps and peers. i suspect it may have been blocked more at the ministry of defence level, sadly, yeah, because of course there should be. >> if the world was a just place, an extraordinary class action, compensation payout here, because what we were heanng here, because what we were hearing on thursday is that the effects aren't just on this generation, but the children of the grandchildren of brian, who we interviewed his wife had 13 miscarriages, and he has children and grandchildren who've had all sorts of extraordinary an unusual health and genetic abnormalities so far , and genetic abnormalities so far, so good. >> i've been lucky, but i only found out when my mom was dying herself that she'd also had

miscarriages and she'd not told me. >> yeah , did she have more than one? >> soi one? >> so i believe. one? >> soi beueve.yeah. >> so i believe. yeah. >> so i believe. yeah. >> so i believe. yeah. >> so you're wearing your metal? yes. metal? yes . how important yes. metal? yes. how important is it that this this charity continues to make the case for these men and also to get their houday these men and also to get their holiday lab rats have been absolutely outstanding and an outstanding support for me. >> it's not been an easy few years. my mum passed in 2018 and my partner passed in 2022, and my partner passed in 2022, and my dad is really quite ill and frail now, but he's doing well and he's got loads of vim and vigour. but he's frail and last year we went to the cenotaph . i year we went to the cenotaph. i was hoping that we'd be able to go this year, but it doesn't look as though it's possible. but he was quite anxious last year and i, we were all massing up and susan, who works with alan on i'm a lab rat, susan musselwhite, hugged him and that

meant the to world me and gave him that confidence again to go out there and walk. >> will he be well enough to go to pontins, do you think? >> next year i hope so, i hope so. he's he expressed the desire to and he said he would love to see fellow veterans again. one of the things he said, firstly when he i heard about the 46 or 40 7 to £8000, now that's been raised, is that he didn't say about himself. he said it's a shame that his friends and other colleagues who are no longer here, haven't been able to have the terribly cynical part of all this government's just know that, unfortunately, these wonderful old men are dying off. >> yeah, same with the infected blood scandal. >> the post office post office the seine. and yet this new government has passed. they're passing the hillsborough. they're calling it a duty of candour on public bodies. there needs to be a duty of candour on the ministry of defence. it's obvious what happened to those men. and they are entitled to some recompense. >> exactly. and also those that

have been requesting their medical records. i went through a period of attempting to access my dad's medical records for him, and in each point it went on to a different area. and then there comes a point when you can't keep following it through . can't keep following it through. you've got to get on with other things. and plus think about him in the present as well, of course. >> and jane, you were just briefly you banned trophy hunting. that's your campaign, isn't it? as well. you do good in the world. >> oh, thank you for mentioning that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> no, i do remember you were you were with lord ashcroft the other day. who's big into banning trophy hunting? yeah. >> yes, i spoke to him a couple of times at conference. >> yeah, yeah, he's big into that. >> yeah. we're hoping to bring the bill back in this session. sue hayman, baroness hayman is very positive about doing it. and i spoke to henry smith recently who the conservative former mp for crawley who was absolutely championed this with john spellar who often is on this show as well, they both are actually, aren't they. >> and now you have been to we really appreciate your time this

morning. thank you so much. >> jane washington evans, whose dad was one of those lab rats, which is exactly what they were. >> keep donating. they'll find a way to make these old blokes enjoy this money in some way. don't you worry. >> now, there's the qr code in the corner on screen. beth will explain it because i really don't know what qr code does. >> get your phone out. get your camera out. you can scan the qr code there, and that will take you to the website with all the details of how you can make a donation or if that's a little bit too complicated, but it was for me and i don't blame you. go to the website , you can go to to the website, you can go to gofundme.com. and then if you for search nuclear test veterans reunion, that photo will come up. that is the page. >> and i know they would really appreciate it and wouldn't it be fabulous if we could get it to £50,000? >> it really would. it would be great, right? why is britain the european home for illegal migrants? and should you be worried about it? this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb.

1051 this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> can you believe this? i can quite easily. britain has the most illegal migrants of any other european country. listen to this figure. oh, everyone. >> so it's not funny , but you >> so it's not funny, but you sort of have to laugh because you can't work out how we've got here. everyone in 100 person in this country is here illegally, according to oxford university research. >> so that means there must be at least one out there. >> it's illegal. i know which one we're going to kick out, but if you think about, like any, any high school with a thousand kids in it, you know , a hundred kids in it, you know, a hundred of them. >> no, i've got don't, don't, don't don't. ten of them. sorry. i'm sorry i'm terrible at maths. ten of them stay educated . did ten of them stay educated. did ten of them will be here illegally in a thousand people in a school. >> it is a point. how did we get in this situation? well, let's ask our next guest. who is the former head of the uk border force, tony smith, tony smith.

much of this must have happened on your watch. it's all your fault, tony. sorry to blame you. >> of course it is, andrew. of course it's my fault. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> these figures are quite old, actually. i've been digging around a bit since you told me. these are 2017 figures you speak to migration watch. probably the best informed on uk figures. it's probably about double that now, actually. oh, god . it's now, actually. oh, god. it's probably about. yeah, because we think it's going up about 70,000 a year since 2017. if you take into account the ones we don't know about, but we estimate that don't come to home office. but i mean, i think probably, you know, the more informed commentators would tell you it's probably about 1.5 million people may well be in this country illegally. i mean, we say illegally, they may have entered illegally, of course, but they are now in this position where they've claimed permission to stay from the home office, and they're in a backlog. so, you know, they're not necessarily sort of immediately removable. but yeah, it is a quite high number i think, compared with other countries. yeah, definitely. >> tony, i can remember when

bons >> tony, i can remember when boris johnson was mayor of london, one of his ideas was to give an amnesty to illegal migrants. and i think the figure was half a million in london. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> outrageous. we want to kick him out. want to stay? >> i mean, i mean, if you look at the eu settlement scheme, you know, after brexit, you know , know, after brexit, you know, europeans were allowed to stay the estimate there were 3 million here, actually about 7 million here, actually about 7 million in the end applied under eu settlement to stay. so we're not really good because we don't have a biometric entry exit system in this country. we don't actually check people in and check people out like they do in the states . the eu are starting the states. the eu are starting that next month with the entry exit scheme. so we do check people in and even then, andrew, you know, people coming through e—gates, we let lots of nationalities through the e gate, which can't ask you any questions, doesn't assess your you know what, tony? >> they'll find a way. they'll find a way. you can have a biometric system at the airport, but they're not coming on the aeroplanes anyway, so they'll still find a way to get round any sort of biometric system

that we all then get enslaved to. but the crooks will always find a way, tony. >> anyway, the new labour government is going to smash the gang, so that's all right. >> we can all sleep safe at night. we've got to go. so we've run out of time. tony, i'm so sorry. tony smith, the former head of the uk border force. let us know your thoughts. i'm sure you will be outrageous. >> tell us how outraged you are because we are both outraged. this is britain's newsroom . this is britain's newsroom. >> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm front . boxt heat pumps sponsors front. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a case of sunny spells and scattered showers today . we scattered showers today. we still have some rain in scotland before turning colder later on in the week, so we've got some heavy spells of rain persisting across northern scotland that will gradually move its way northwards. but across much of

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but has already been half the faces of missing people gathe but has already been half year, but has already been half a million callouts in 2024 year, but has already been half a million callouts in 2024 alone. alone. >> and your new nuclear >> and your new nuclear veterans, well, they need you. veterans, well, they need you. you have raised almost £50,000 you have raised almost £50,000 to fund the annual reunion for to fund the annual reunion for the british servicemen who took the british servicemen who took part in nuclear tests in the part in nuclear tests in the 19505 part in nuclear tests in the 1950s and 60s. we are enormously 19505 part in nuclear tests in the 1950s and 60s. we are enormously grateful . grateful . grateful. lots to talk about grateful. lots to talk about this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay gathered this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay to let us know your thoughts. to let us know your thoughts. first, though, the very latest first, though, the very latest news with sophie reaper . news with sophie reaper . news with sophie reaper. >> thank you bev. it's just news with sophie reaper. >> thank you bev. it's just after 11:00 and these are your after 11:00 and these are your latest headlines . this morning, latest headlines . this morning, latest headlines. this morning, people across israel have latest headlines. this morning, people across israel have gathered to mark the one year gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th anniversary of the october 7th attacks. in jerusalem, israelis attacks. in jerusalem, israelis carrying flags and placards with carrying flags and placards with the faces of missing people the faces of missing people

gathered outside president netanyahu's home. at 629 local time, a siren rang out to mark the hour that hamas led militants launched rockets into israel last october 7th. according to israeli figures, they killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . took about 250 hostages to gaza. earlier, foreign secretary david lammy visited a synagogue in north to london mark one year since the attack on israel. joined, joined by chief rabbi to the uk , rabbi ephraim mirvis. the uk, rabbi ephraim mirvis. they commemorated those who lost their lives one year ago. this is what david lammy had to say. >> it is a day of deep reflection and pain. thinking about october the 7th, the worst attack on the jewish community since the holocaust, and of course, thinking about the many hostages that are still held in

gaza and their loved ones, and the pain and particularly we think of emily demari, the british hostage, and her family have no word of her fate or how she is doing. >> new polling carried out on behalf of the campaign against antisemitism has found what they called concerning levels of support for hamas among young people in britain. the yougov poll found that 9% of 18 to 24 year olds in the uk had a so—called favourable view of hamas, compared to 3% across the general public. parliament is set to return today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place for the past few weeks. mps will be back at westminster today, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the pm's chief of staff, sue gray, quit her job sue gray, quit herjob yesterday. this has prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff with

the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier, foreign office minister hamish falconer defended labour's so—called shaky start in government. >> i don't at all accept in the first 100 days that this government has been a disaster. we've made real progress across a whole range of issues. i think it's been full of difficult choices which reflect the difficult inheritance that we've got as we become the government. but i think keir starmer and the rest of the government is getting on with the job that the british public elected to us do. >> a by an

several others injured by an explosion at a block of flats in the scottish town of alloa. at around 6:00 last night, fire and emergency crews were called to the residential property after reports of an explosion. a man was pronounced dead at the scene and three others were taken to the forth valley royal infirmary for treatment of minor injuries. the trial for daniel khalife is scheduled to begin at woolwich crown court in london today. khalife stands charged with committing various terror offences whilst serving in the british army, but also made headunes british army, but also made headlines last year after allegedly escaping from wandsworth prison and spending four days on the run. a mass manhunt was carried out for the former soldier last september until he was recaptured and returned to prison. and finally, a cost hearing will be taking place at the royal courts of justice today as part of the wagatha christie libel case between coleen rooney and rebekah vardy. following the ruling in 2022, which found

vardy had leaked rooney's private information to the press , private information to the press, it was ordered she would have to pay it was ordered she would have to pay 90% of rooney's legal costs. but now the battle rumbles on as questions are asked on both sides about which costs should reasonably be paid . those are reasonably be paid. those are your latest gb news headlines for now. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news to direct your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> lots of people getting in touch. >> so this is where i do my secretary bit again. anything else you'd like me to do, mr pierce, while i'm doing this? >> tea producer printed them off. >> tea producer printed them off. >> they're very busy making sure that our show doesn't fall

apart. that's very true. while we're gossiping and nattering right . let's be professional and right. let's be professional and grown up for just right. let's be professional and grown up forjust a moment. it is a monday morning. you have been staying at home, right? let's have a look. dennis has said no. dorothy says king charles, do the right thing and vote for no confidence in this government. it is embarrassing having all this dreadful, embarrassing government be placed on tv with all their dirty washing being highlighted world wide. they do seem to be a bit of a joke, don't they? stephen has said lammy with a robotic statement without compassion or sincerity. what an absolute embarrassment. the real people of the uk. that was david lammy there, making a statement about the fact that it's october the 7th today. >> yeah, i wonder if he's going to make a statement about giving away the chagos islands, which broke while we were on air. >> well he did. well, no, he hasn't, has it? >> i mean, the commons wasn't even sitting. no, it is extraordinary. yeah it is. and a major statement. the first territory we've given away since hong kong in 1997. we've given

it to mauritius, which is seen as a client state of china. well, hong kong went well with china, didn't it? quite. >> well, john has said on the discussion of illegal migrants as well this morning, as mentioned on the programme, that 973 people arrived on the shore. the labour party doesn't care. that isn't the phrase that you use, john, but i can't read that out on tv and welcomes them into our country. paying everything for them. while the labour party are quite happy to cut the pensioners winter fuel allowance by £300, it's typical of this country . let's look after country. let's look after everybody else around the world and forget our own. anyone who voted for the labour party. you should be disgusted with yourself. >> well, it's early days, but they haven't covered themselves in glory. normally you'd expect there to be a grid . so the first there to be a grid. so the first hundred days they hit the ground running. afterwards, they'd had a couple of years to prepare because it was pretty obvious the tories were heading for defeat. whatever. and yet there was no plan . and wasn't that was no plan. and wasn't that what sue gray was supposed to do? or morgan mcsweeney, this svengali figure who's taking over from her? >> elaine has said there's no hope for the uk. now, i'm not

paying hope for the uk. now, i'm not paying into the system anymore. i'm going to rent out my flat. i'm going to rent out my flat. i'm going to live in a caravan. i'm going to live in a caravan. i'm not funding an invasion. and that's the problem, isn't it? that so much what we have been a compassionate country over the years. we've always welcomed people who are living in war torn countries, particularly. i would take more women and children if we had the choice to be completely honest with some of those countries. but we our patience now, it feels like our compassion is growing, growing very thin. >> there was a story in the papers the other day, 1 in 50 of albanians who are here are in prison. right? boot mount. we've got a return agreement with the ones who crossed the channel. there's no war in albania. there's no war in albania. there's no war in albania. there's no conflict in albania. kick them out. send them back. why do we want them in our prisons? >> yeah, yeah. well, absolutely. ian has said christians and muslims need to set up lobby groups. there are only 300,000 jews in the uk. however, they're very effective. most politicians will be affiliated or aware of the lobbying groups. it can be lucrative with holidays thrown in. not belonging to one does

have serious consequences for a political career. anyway , what political career. anyway, what else have you been saying here? let me have a quick look. >> interesting. is it the party conferences? they all have stands and stalls and i noticed there were labour, friends of israel, labour friends of pakistan, labour friends of india. same with the tories. but you don't get tory friends of christian christians or labour friends of christians. the christian voice is just not heard. no , just not heard. heard. no, just not heard. although there is a group, christians in the conservative party. there's got to be. and i spoke at their fringe event last week actually, dennis has said, laughing and hand—wringing about illegal immigrants is obviously not the answer . not the answer. >> police our borders effectively, and in turn, all would be illegals indefinitely in spartan accommodation. no hotels ever until they returned where they came from. there should be no exceptions. we're basically in a wartime situation and emergency measures can no longer be delayed. >> don't forget though, the labour government , they're going labour government, they're going to smash the gangs. >> there's not a lot of smashing going on, is there at the moment. let's recap on the story

this morning about sue gray has quit. >> she's been fired. >> she's been fired. >> she's been no doubt about it. she was fired on thursday. she was told. i wrote this in the mail today. she was told on thursday by the prime minister it's not working. what do you want to do? so they found a new job for her, which is a non—existent job. she's envoy to the regions. you think what the regions of where use bexton? no, the regions of the uk which like liverpool, manchester, they've got elected mayors, they've got really good mayors in the regions. and they rather like her. yeah, they do like her. it's a it's a fig leaf to cover her embarrassment over the fact she's probably the i don't think there's ever been a chief of staff fired so quickly in a new government, elected with landslide. >> well, someone had to go, didn't they? someone had to go. and it wasn't going to be keir starmer. let's go to gb news. political editor christopher hope. christopher, we've just. have we just hit peak peak cynicism here that we think she's been thrown to the wolves in order to just have somebody take the flack for the expenses, sort of scandal, you might call

it . it. >> hi, andrew. hi, beth. well, you might think that. i mean, i think that this issue here with sue gray, many viewers and listeners won't know who she is, and nor should she, but she's a symptom. i think, of a failure by the prime minister, sir keir starmer, to get a grip on this new administration. it marks 100 days next month . there was a bit days next month. there was a bit of a pace behind the government, wasn't there in those sitting days in parliament back in july. but they lost the grip on the whole parliament, on the whole news operation through august. and ever fair. and they've failed to re—establish that after the battle of the rows about the claims. he's the money he's been given the spectacles, the suits and the and the free use of flats. and it's a real, a real issue for this government. i think the issue of lack of a news, there's no plan news between now and october 30th, i was told ten days ago. and that is that blame for that goes down to sue gray, who was the chief of staff. but i think this new

person, morgan mcsweeney, a key ally of sir keir starmer, was a former, of course, chief of staff when he was in opposition, doesn't know government that well and that could be a problem. but i think, andrew, in many ways, the symptom of the problems goes back to that article on page one of the mail about ten days ago, when you had photographs of a of a heated debate, a conversation in the downing street garden between sue gray and a civil servant working for keir, sir keir starmer. the fact that that was leaking out meant that her days were numbered. >> yeah, and it was actually it was clearly a heated exchange. it was in a downing street garden and it was michael bourn who was the principal private secretary to the cabinet secretary , simon case. so she secretary, simon case. so she was at war with simon case, the cabinet secretary at war with just about everybody in number 10. someone told me she'd crossed the street to have a fight with somebody rattling a tin for a charity. she just can't seem to not get into conflict with people . but there conflict with people. but there is a sense, chris, talking to some people that she has been thrown under a bus here because

morgan mcsweeney, who is this great now political svengali who takes over, what was he doing when all these mistakes were being made ? why didn't he being made? why didn't he intervene ? intervene? >> well, we don't know why didn't intervene. i mean, maybe some friends of his were supporting the leaking against sue gray. i mean, as an observer, i thought it made a bit of sense having someone, a seasoned whitehall veteran coming in to run the kind of whitehall operation for starmer, given that no one's been in power for labour in 14 years and leave morgan mcsweeney to do the campaigning work, what's happened here? she's lost that battle. but there are so many roles that aren't yet filled. they haven't got a permanent national security adviser. they're waiting for a new uk ambassador to washington that's so important with security issues and with our commitment to the special relationship. and now we have i think they may have appointed a private secretary to the prime minister, prime minister, to help run his diary. it seems chaotic. i should say, though the tories

shouldn't relax too much. this is a five year government with barely 100 days in. i think this will sort itself out. they've got some senior players coming in to the media operation that will help, and pretty soon i think this may get back on track. but we are seeing, i think the weakness of this prime minister has not been political enoughin minister has not been political enough in a very difficult political environment . political environment. >> there's a similarity here with rishi sunak. i think chris, they both got elected in 2015. rishi sunak wasn't very political and at times looked embarrassingly inexperienced and naive. and i think we're seeing the same with keir starmer. someone said to me yesterday for the piece i wrote today he doesn't understand the labour party. he doesn't get how it works. he doesn't have a political instinct. he needs people around him who have political instincts. but it's very worrying that we have a prime minister who doesn't have strong instincts like we had with margaret thatcher or even blair, to give him credit . blair, to give him credit. >> that's right. it seems to me a lack of narrative. i mean, you

can compare back to 2019, when bons can compare back to 2019, when boris johnson came in, he did two things. he promised to her voters, didn't he ? he said, i'll voters, didn't he? he said, i'll stop jeremy corbyn running, running this country and i'll sort out brexit. well, he did that within 40 days. and then he kind of ran out of ideas and he got swamped by by covid and of course fighting and backing the ukraine against the russian invasion with this new labour government, his idea. sir keir starmer was i will stop the tories making a mess of things. well he did that and did he ever with that huge majority. but then what. i can't see what the clear majority clear narrative is of this government. and if anything else , morgan mcsweeney anything else, morgan mcsweeney might give him that because he was a campaigner. he delivered that manifesto with his campaigning on that very small, very small number of people voting for labour, 1 in 3 of those who voted back labour in the election, don't forget one in 1 in 5 of all adults. the election, don't forget one in 1 in 5 of all adults . so in 1 in 5 of all adults. so maybe he might give an idea of what this government's for. and that could be a starting point. >> do we what do we know about

morgan mcsweeney? if he's going to play such an important role now in policy and planning , what now in policy and planning, what are his political allegiance like? obviously he's on the left, but he's is he hard left? is he more of a centrist politician ? politician? >> no. he's certainly more centrist. but if he was someone who helped sir keir starmer fight off the corbynista threat he has, he's schooled in the battles in east london against the far left. he's somebody who can give a narrative, i think, to this government from the centre left. but the question is, can he, can he get a grip on government? he has no experience of whitehall. how it works don't forget simon case, pictured arriving at work today on a walking stick. he is leaving works soon. he's standing down as a cabinet secretary. he hasn't been very well for the past year or so. there are a lot of key jobs that haven't yet been filled. the question is, can morgan mcsweeney find people to work and get behind this prime minister? it's hard to imagine, hard to credit, really the chaos. i think , at the heart

the chaos. i think, at the heart of government and how that's being seen across the rest of the operation . next week. we've the operation. next week. we've got this 100 days anniversary of this government. lots of people will write up how it's going and also a major investment summit, which, if you believe reports in the financial times and elsewhere, isn't going that well enhen elsewhere, isn't going that well either. so big issues and the budget of course, remind us when that is. >> chris. yeah . >> chris. yeah. >> chris. yeah. >> well the budget is huge. the budget has a kind of will set the tone for the next five years. already we're hearing that they might delay this vat increase on private school fees . increase on private school fees. will that non—dom crackdown actually bring in the money they want? there's all sorts of concerns going into that budget, but it is seen by many close to the prime minister as setting the prime minister as setting the entire tone for the next five years. don't forget, we haven't yet got a tory leader. they'll get to two candidates by thursday and a and a final selection of somebody by the 2nd of november. so all of these

problems for this government have taken place without any formal proper opposition, which makes you wonder how on earth it can get any better for them at the moment, all right, chris, that's chris, our political ednon >> up next are the relatives of the english writer virginia woolf. really upset about a proposed barbie? well, who better to tell us than emma woolf? who's part of that very distinguished literary family ?

>> sir, it's 1122. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk with bev turner and rupa. thank you for joining us. >> emma woolf is here. and former labour adviser matthew talk is in the studio. i'm going to tease you again, matthew. just saying. you must be so pleased with that thing before your name. former labour adviser. >> no, i'm honestly not. i was saying to emma, just just in the green room. >> we need you, matt. >> we need you, matt. >> i well, yeah, i don't know.

they could be doing a manner of this. i just think it's the than this. i just think it's the thing that makes me sad. is you know, i should have been excited about all this, and i wasn't because i knew this was because lknewthls was going to these people because lknewitnis was going to these people that keir happen. these people that keir surrounds himself with, perfectly affable. i get on with many of them. >> are you saying they're not up to it? >> oh, loads of them aren't up to it. i was to it; i was saying this what about morgan mcsweeney? >> who is this campaign. he mcsweeney? >> who is this campaign. hee ran his leadership campaign. he ran his leadership campaign. he ran the general ran his leadership campaign. he ran the 1theeral ran his leadership campaign. he ran the 1the tories were always because the tories were always going to lose it because they were so hopeless and people were fed i agree, it's you know, with me . why? i came aloof with me. why? well, i came to him with ideas he didn't want to him with ideas he didn't want to do because i was left wing. i wasn't putting forward left wing ideas. i came forward with ideas that i thought would help the party for what he was trying to do. >> i've always sad that you get pigeonholed well, what's he like though? >> he's quiet, he's diminutive.

he's you know, i do laugh when, you know, we have this bizarre thing in politics where he's a hard man or he's took on the bnp and he ran a campaign. you know, he's not gone out on the the pitchforks. with the pitchforks. >> the one that's in at seven in the morning doesn't leave till midnight , the morning doesn't leave till midnight, which is to be expected. >> but there's a lot of the special advisers who are going, oh, this is hard work. what am i doing here? you know, this is . doing here? you know, this is. and how much money. and we all knew this, or you should have been prepared. but, you know, there was training put on by the party at the time by the institute for government. and i think the problem is, is the politicians at fault in a way, because there's an element of loyalty to your staff and a lot of them, not all, but a lot of them. i think, are promoted beyond their means. and therefore are taken into government. absolutely not ready. and what you will see is there'll be a large churn. there always is in every government. there'll be a large churn of staff over the first 12 months because they're burnt out, they can't handle it. and they can't wait. >> and being in opposition is completely different to being in government. that is, it's a different skill set from the. >> yeah, that's what they'll

probably say about me on here. it's easy for me to criticise from the sidelines because i'm no longer in it. but yeah, no, but i did always think there's an overegging of the pudding. you're having a go at rishi sunak for getting in a helicopter. do you not think you'll have to maybe do that at some point, at a critical moment or, you know, i think the problem is he's surrounded himself with people that are really out of touch. and that isn't a factional thing . that's isn't a factional thing. that's not a left or right thing. that's a classic. it's totally it's middle class, privately educated, mostly men whose experiences aren't grounded in reality . reality. >> unfortunately, because the dispute that there's a lot of hypocrisy. we've heard so much from angela rayner. and then we hear today that actually she was buying her boyfriend £3,000 suits. you know, she she has made out that she's the kind of the socialist. she's the poster girl for the working class. >> but i don't know about that because that sort of stuff, i think i would always argue champagne socialists, even socialists are allowed champagne. you know, once upon a time, if they do. all right. of course. but if she when i think when is enough, enough, you know, she's done well, she wants

to buy herself some nice suits or a boyfriend, a nice suits. well why not? >> she did have a bit of help from lord alli. >> no, this one she did in i will be. i will defend. this was her own money. >> in a sense. in a sense. if you've had 3500 pounds worth of clothes from lord alli, then you can spend £3,000 on them because you've already got a huge fair enough. >> you do have a choice. >>— >> you do have a choice. >> and you know, when i saw that picture of her raving or whatever you call it in that nightclub in ibiza, i thought, how much did that cost you? not a penny. £840, that freebie. why isn't she giving it back if starmer is giving back his freebies? >> well, it was somebody's birthday, actually. i think she, she was out there for. but i the thing with that again and i felt a bit unfair. i've got a lot of time for angela. she grew up on the same estate as me and she's a nice woman that cares genuinely. yeah. the problem with it was she. she, i think, wants the normal life you've chosen to be deputy prime minister. you're not going to get that. so i couldn't help but think in principle. great. normal person having a rave in ibiza. the deputy prime minister. and we've just cut winter fuel allowance into £10,000. >> a lack of seriousness there. you know, if you're going to

step up to that one of the top jobs you can't then be raving in ibiza. we all have to give up. you know, the fun stuff when we become grown ups. >> what happened in finland with their prime minister ? she lasted their prime minister? she lasted two minutes after being out and about and being seen as they normally did. so you know, it was so destructive. i agree, i agree, emma, we've got to talk to you about virginia woolf. >> now, remind people how you are related. >> so virginia is my great aunt. so she's my father's aunt. my father, who died in his early 90s, was was close to virginia and leonard. he was the last surviving person who knew virginia and leonard. and so, yeah, the virginia is my great aunt. >> and for people who don't know, amazing writer. one of the best wonderful writer female writers, very, very progressive, sort of modernist writer of the early 20th century, very important in terms of the development of, of literature, this stream of consciousness thing before that, not to be boring, but before that. >> the victorians, you know , >> the victorians, you know, dickens, trollope, it was all inside. it was all sort of the externals, the plots and the storylines. virginia woolf took it inside the head. she she

wrote about how it feels to be a human being. she wrote about how it feels to move through your day. and i sit on the bus and be thinking about something in your own private life. >> i don't think i've almost ever said never , almost, never ever said never, almost, never sat down at a computer to do some work without thinking about a room of her own, a room of one's own, a room of one's own . one's own, a room of one's own. because as women particularly, the idea was that we were barred from creativity, particularly writing, because we never had a private space. men could go to their little office and sit down, and women never had a room of their own. >> the independence, the room of one's own and £500 a year. that's all she wanted. and she was so independent. and what's really, really interesting about virginia is that she's still so well known. we're talking about her in gb news, and yet no one has read her. she's a difficult writer. yeah, there's a couple of the people in the in the, in the studio who've asked me, what should i start with? and they're difficult books, but they're very rewarding. most people have done to the lighthouse at university or something like that. university or something like that . but university or something like that. but yeah, university or something like that . but yeah, let's university or something like that. but yeah, let's remind people, why are we talking about it? >> why are we talking about her? >> why are we talking about her? >> we're talking about her today because the times are reporting that barbie wanted to make a

doll. they wanted to make a barbie doll of virginia woolf, which is really quite funny because you've got this difficult, complex, tortured soul. she committed suicide in 1941. yeah, you've got it there. bev turner barbie. apparently mattel , the barbie company, mattel, the barbie company, wanted to make a barbie doll of virginia woolf, which is just kind of a huge contradiction. this pinky plasticky new pneumatic barbie doll, which looks like a woman who was the ultimate feminist, the ultimate progressive. >> and they've also managed to make it look like queen camilla. >> yeah, yeah. the weird thing is they refer to the entire family being aghast, saying, over my dead body. well, i can tell you here and now, they didn't consult the woolf family. they didn't consult me or my father or anyone. so it's a it's an odd story, but it's getting a lot of interest. people are saying a barbie doll of virginia woolf. also, who buys barbie? i'm just about to say. >> but people who buy barbie dolls have never heard of virginia woolf. no, exactly. am i being patronising? >> i don't know, i think barbie

or most people, i think it's barbie collectors now. i don't think the average ten year old, i mean, the average ten year old doesn't buy barbie dolls anymore. but do your ten year old girl, you know, did any of you read books? >>i books? >> ican books? >> i can tell you that. >> i can tell you that. >> matthews, looking curiously . >> matthews, looking curiously. >> matthews, looking curiously. >> it's a funny one based out of this one here. are you a virginia woolf reader? >> to my shame, no, i would, i would say i'm a feminist. i haven't read any virginia woolf, which maybe takes my credentials away. >> but why? have you heard of her? isn't it weird? no . it's her? isn't it weird? no. it's true. taxi drivers have heard of her. there's a virginia woolf burger bar in the centre of london. yeah. why is she so popular? and no one's read her? >> there's a very famous film called who's afraid of virginia woolf? >> who's afraid of virginia woolf ? it's gone into pop woolf? it's gone into pop culture, and yet people don't know her work . yeah, it's very odd. >> and maybe that's why she's been chosen as a as the person to. >> and they, they know she's feminist. >> and there's a very famous film when she with nicole kidman. >> yeah. the hours, the hours. yeah, yeah. and everyone says to me, i love the hours. and i'm saying, yeah, it's nothing. she didn't write the hours, she wrote the years. and it's based on it's based on a novel by virginia woolf. but yeah, it's

always the films that are far more popular than the than the work. >> do her books still tick over in sales? >> they do. yeah. yeah, yeah. and they're still, you know, they're still they're all still on all the academic and the curriculum. they're still on the curriculum. they're still on the curriculum. well, where they've survived, where they haven't been. >> what would she think about being a barbie thing? >> i think virginia and leonard would be amused by this. i think they would think it was very, very funny because they both had a brilliant sense of humour. yeah, yeah, that's right. >> matthew. emma, thank you so much. right. we're going to go to sophie reaper with your news. here she is . here she is. >> a very good morning to you. it's just after 11:30. and these are your latest gb news headunes. are your latest gb news headlines . this morning. people headlines. this morning. people across israel have gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the october 7th attacks at the knesset building in jerusalem. flags were lowered to half mast in commemoration of victims to the attack . according to israeli the attack. according to israeli figures, hamas killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . parliament is hostages to gaza. parliament is set to return today following a

recess for the various party conferences , which have been conferences, which have been taking place for the past few weeks. mps will be back at westminster today, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the pm's chief of staff sue grey, quit her job sue grey, quit herjob yesterday. this has prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff, with the leader of labour's general election campaign, morgan mcsweeney , taking on the morgan mcsweeney, taking on the chief of staff role instead. earlier shadow leader of the house of commons chris philp , house of commons chris philp, told gb news breakfast that this is just one example of labour chaos. is just one example of labour chaos . new analysis has found chaos. new analysis has found that 10,000 children have fallen into poverty as a result of the two child child benefit limits, since labour took office. the data comes from the child poverty action group, who say the policy must be abolished. however, the government says this cannot happen due to the state of the uk's public finances and a cost hearing is

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,1.949. the price of gold is £2,021.52 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8,273.90 points. >> cheers britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> at noon good afternoon britain with emily and ben leo today. >> yes, tom is taking a day off, but ben leo will be with me . but ben leo will be with me. >> sorry, he's not here. >> sorry, he's not here. >> he's probably recovering from conferences. >> well, tom. >> well, tom. >> yes, he was very busy, but they didn't give me a dale. were you at all of them? >> all of them? all of them? >> all of them? all of them? >> i didn't go to lib dem one because i could not put myself through such purgatory. i just could not. i did them when they were in coalition because they were in coalition because they were in coalition because they were in government. but i can't bear the sanctimony. i mean, it's tight. >> it must be tiring doing all of the conferences. >> yeah, because it's an early start and it's a late finish.

>> i was feeling a bit jealous being in the studio. i don't know about you, bev, but then. but then, to be honest, a bit of a slog up there, isn't it? >> it's also you get you get a conference throat, we call it, because you're in air conditioned rooms all the time . conditioned rooms all the time. you're the labour conference. there were 30,000 people accredited. that's a small town. >> wow, that is a lot, isn't it? >> wow, that is a lot, isn't it? >> and it was about 12,000 for the tories. measure of how far the tories. measure of how far the tories. measure of how far the tories have fallen. >> well, yes, actually, they certainly need to rebuild. but interesting. today everyone's back to the commons. back to work. but a huge clean out of number 10. i mean it's quite remarkable isn't it. 100 days in that so many unbelievable. there's such a, you know, reconfiguration. cabinet secretary's on his way out. >> graves on the way out. she was fired, by the way. she didn't resign. she was fired. >> there's this talk about how she might be ennobled. she will. she might find her way into the house. >> she will be. there's no doubt about it. >> that is the classic in politics. what do you think? what do you get if you fail? you get a peerage. so a man goes to brussels, a man called liam. it'll come to you in a second. he was boris. he was rishi sunak's chief of staff, who encouraged him to do the early election. he's in the house of

lords already and it was the worst tory election defeat in history. >> he's quite incredible, isn't it? >> yeah, that's the reward for failure. >> it's what? >> it's what? >> a reward for failure. >> a reward for failure. >> yeah. and it's the kind of thing. it's the kind of stuff that puts people off politics in this country, because people think that it just feels like such an exclusive clique. i know what i'll do. >> i'll shove him in the subsidised old, old bloke for old people, not looking after us is how it feels until they're 18. >> liam. liam. liam. >> liam. liam. liam. >> booth—smith. who came from a council estate up in stockton and he was lauded as the great hope for rishi sunak disaster. well, he's in the lords so he's all right. >> we're going to be talking to robert jenrick on a number of things, but he's calling for essentially sue gray to be blocked from this new role until an investigation has been done properly. >> it's also quite interesting on assisted dying because he thinks the government is wrong to come forward on assisted dying . bill. ask him on that. dying. bill. ask him on that. it's quite interesting. >> i might ask him on that. of course we'll also be talking about the anniversary of october the 7th. he scored a piece in the 7th. he scored a piece in the daily mail today, which makes it all seem rather existential. this support for hamas on our streets and the like. still, you know, the metropolitan police got all these clips of people there

asking the public to identify all of these people at these protests on saturday, but why didn't they arrest the ones who i saw with hamas posters and banners on saturday? >> i don't think i didn't read any of them. >> it's always so slow, isn't it? but it'll be interesting to get his thoughts on that. >> especially brilliant all right. so lots more as well. and ben leo will be here from midday. still to come though. here. a protest is being held outside parliament as we speak against the decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners . patrick christys is pensioners. patrick christys is going to be right there for us in just a minute. this is britain's newsroom on

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10, didn't sound like he'd have gone into number 10 with morgan mcsweeney because he's of the left. and he said, i've always thought it would be a one term government and we shouldn't forget . it's not just the tory forget. it's not just the tory party in opposition. there's nigel farage's reform party in opposition, and they will be making waves on lots of issues, i suspect, particularly on law and order migration. we saw 973 migrants cross the channel on saturday. look, rwanda may have been flawed. why didn't the government let it at least try it? it may have been a deterrent. yeah . instead they've deterrent. yeah. instead they've got nothing. and by the way, four migrants died crossing the channel at the weekend, including a two year old who was trampled to death by his fellow migrants. >> we're talking, of course, as well. it's october the 7th today, and it's easy to forget that this is a year now that this has been going on in the middle east and gaza and the palestinian people being bombed relentlessly by benjamin netanyahu . netanyahu. >> however, they've still got a lot of israeli hostages , lot of israeli hostages, including a british girl, which

is exactly what i was going to say. >> shane has got in touch to say the family of the british hostage in gaza have no word on her fate or how she's doing this is what foreign secretary david lammy has also said. this is emily de—man, she's 28 and she was shot and taken from an israeli kibbutz on october the 7th, and mr lammy said it's a day of deep reflection and pain, thinking about 7th of october, the worst attack on the jewish community since the holocaust. and we think particularly of emily damari, the british hostage, and her family has no word of her fate. it's amazing that we've not really been talking about her, i suspect. >> i wonder if the family were told to keep a low profile. often they respond to the way the foreign office direct it. think of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe. you know, for a long time that was low profile. so if they draw attention to her, perhaps they worry that that will make it more difficult for the hostages. we don't know, bev. if she's alive . alive. >> absolutely her poor. >> absolutely her poor. >> how do her family get through any day? >> i don't know, i don't know

how you'd get up in the morning. her mother's been doing a lot on social media over the weekend as well. and talking about the fact that she does not know if her daughter is alive. >> those young people who responded to the survey saying that they think it's been exaggerated, what hamas did on october 7th. talk to emily's mum. yeah . kidnapped from mum. yeah. kidnapped from a kibbutz. talk to the people who were at the music festival who were at the music festival who were murdered at the festival , were murdered at the festival, having been raped first repeatedly and then murdered. and some of them taken prisoner. so why do young people not see that ? that's what they could that? that's what they could have been doing. and yet they're sympathising with hamas, a horrible medieval terrorist organisation that wants to eradicate israel off the off the map , off the world map. map, off the world map. >> what else have you been saying here on gbnews.com/yoursay vincent just now has said if keir starmer and the british government decide to send british troops to help the government of israel and benjamin netanyahu in their quest to exterminate palestinians in gaza, they must remember that britain has let in thousands of hamas fighters and scattered them all over britain,

thanks to crooked lawyers telling them what lies to tell the government officials. we don't know for a fact that there are hamas fighters, of course, who are here. >> well , who are here. >> well, bearing in mind 1 in 100 people here in this country are illegal migrants. what's the betting? a lot of them are terrorists, potentially, or certainly have terrorist leanings. >> that could be triggered by any absolute proof positive. >> we've completely lost control of our borders and completely taken leave of our senses in the home office. >> elaine. good morning. elaine . >> elaine. good morning. elaine. well done. elaine, you have just donated £17 to the nuclear veterans taking to us £50,000. thank you. so much. you were hot off the mark there with your phone. we've done it. we've hit £50,000. >> well done. gb news viewers and listeners the least. >> they deserve , right? we're >> they deserve, right? we're going still to come?

welcome back to britain's newsroom. so british mother mandy moore has made an emotional plea for the return of her daughter. >> she was kidnapped a year ago today, as the world remembers hamas's horrific october the 7th attack on israel . attack on israel. >> my beautiful, funny and brave daughter, who i love to the moon and back , deserves to come home. and back, deserves to come home. >> so that's emily dave myers mother. then. according to israeli government, 250 people were taken hostage, with a 91 of them still remaining in captivity. >> this comes as a frankly shocking poll shows some young brits support hamas because they believe reports about october 7th were exaggerated and think , 7th were exaggerated and think, get this, the mask of the jews was justified . was justified. >> well, joining us now is our gb news homeland security editor mark white. mark, we were saying it's sort of surprising that we don't know the name of emily de—man. why why, why would you say that? is, as a british person who's been taken hostage?

>> well, at the beginning, when this all happened, many of the families understandably didn't want to really be besieged by the press or weren't really looking for that much in the way of publicity. and we did speak about the fact that there were british hostages and not just direct british citizens, but also there are many people in this country who, you know, have relatives over in israel. they visit on a regular basis. so there are lots of connections amongst those who were taken hostage. and as you said, close to 100 of those still unaccounted for after all this time here. but the fact is, you know, as the months pass, the news cycle gets focused on the images that come out, which are the images of the death and destruction in gaza from israel prosecuting the war to go after a terrorist organisation that is

embedded in the community. it's part of the community and of the 42,000 people that have been killed that we hear so much about , israel says the thing about, israel says the thing that doesn't get reported there estimates are that half that number, they believe are hamas terrorists . terrorists. >> what of the hostage? the british hostage? there's not much, is there? frankly, the foreign office can do. >> there isn't. i mean, as you know, we've seen some negotiations where as part of a deal for a pause in the fighting, certain numbers of hostages have been released. but sad to say that, you know , a sad to say that, you know, a significant number of those that are still being held may already be dead. and i think the families obviously know and acknowledged that themselves, because you've had so much in the way of bombing of these terror tunnels where it's believed that the vast majority of the hostages have been held, that it might either be at the

hands of hamas or indirectly by israeli bombing. people may have lost their lives, but undoubtedly there will be hostages still alive. and the hope has to be that at some point there's some kind of negotiated solution that will allow for those that are still being held to be released. >> so of the 91 missing, we've no clue as to how many of them are alive. >> we don't , unfortunately, >> we don't, unfortunately, because they are being held, as i say, you know, probably deep underground in that maze of tunnels and although the israeli government and the israeli military have destroyed many of the tunnels, there are undoubtedly still tunnels out there . hamas undoubtedly still tunnels out there. hamas had undoubtedly still tunnels out there . hamas had years to there. hamas had years to prepare for this . much of the prepare for this. much of the money that was going in that should have been there to redevelop the gaza strip, was being used to fortify these positions instead. >> okay. thank you mark. that is it from britain's newsroom. i'm going to be hosting for michelle dewberry all this week. i'll be on at 6:00 tonight. andrew and i

will be back tomorrow morning at 930. but now emily and ben tomorrow. >> well, yougov polling has found that voters think keir starmer's government is now sleazier than rishi sunak's. why exactly is that? could it have to do with the reconfiguration that we're seeing of number 10 at the moment? after sue gray was ousted from her job at the top? also, why is there so much support for hamas and hezbollah in this country and on our streets? what can we do about it? lots more to come on. good afternoon britain. after the weather . weather. >> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm front. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. it's going to be a case of sunny spells and scattered showers today. we still have some rain in scotland before turning colder later on in the week, so we've got some heavy spells of rain persisting across northern scotland that

will gradually move its way northwards, but across much of england and wales and northern ireland, it's a case of sunny spells and scattered showers developing through the afternoon. we've already got a band across northern parts of england, but the showers could turn heavy, possibly with the odd rumble of thunder too, but highs up to 17, possibly 18 degrees in the sunshine. more unpleasant towards the north. but as we go through monday evening there could be some difficult driving conditions through rush hour towards the south and west, as we have some heavy spells of rain moving their way northwards, drier for a time towards the south and east, with some early evening sunshine across northern ireland and parts of northwestern england. as well. still a few showers remaining across parts of scotland, but towards the north we've still got outbreaks of rain across orkney and shetland during monday night. so through monday evening and overnight this band of rain across the midlands into parts of the south—east of england

will continue to push its way northwards and again could be heavy at times towards the south. we then see another spell of showers moving through. there'll be some clear spells in between, but generally a mild night with temperatures holding up into the double figures . so up into the double figures. so to start tuesday morning, some heavy spells of rain across northern ireland, parts of northern england into scotland towards the south, some sunny spells, but also some frequent showers that could be on the heavy side, especially towards the south and west, mixed in with some sunshine to breezy towards the south and towards the far north. chilly here, but in the sunshine we could reach highs of 16 or 17. by who ? highs of 16 or 17. by who? >> a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm . boxt .boxt heat . boxt heat pumps sponsors of

>> well good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on monday the 7th of october. i'm emily carver labour in turmoil. one former senior adviser to tony blair says starmer's government has completely lost grip. this after sue gray was ousted from her role as number 10 chief of staff. how much has labour really achieved in the first 100 days in power, and why this sudden reconfiguration ? and one sudden reconfiguration? and one year on from the october the 7th massacre in israel, shocking new figures show sympathy and support for hamas remains on britain's streets . this as britain's streets. this as israel marks the anniversary of the october the 7th terror attack and migration nation. britain is home to more illegal immigrants than any other european country. that's to according researchers at oxford university. they claim that now 1% of the entire population of britain is here illegally . and britain is here illegally. and could this be the end of the road for gary lineker? the footballing star has broken his pubuc footballing star has broken his public silence on his match of the day future by revealing

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