britain. >> 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 .7 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

contract talks with the bbc have just started . just started. and there's a new poll out today. i don't know if you've seen it. it's by yougov, so a very reputable polling company and they found that more and more people are finding this current government sleazy. that term sleazy is being used to describe it. now, of course, people have called previous conservative administrations very sleazy for various reasons, from partygate to cash for access and everything else. but to call this new labour government just 100 days in sleazy is quite something. people are saying the public are more likely to call keir starmer's government sleazy than they are to call rishi sunak's government sleazy. let me know why exactly you think that is. could it have to do with this whole sue gray issue, this whole

reconfiguration of number 10, just 100 days into government? lots of people are saying, oh, this shows how ruthless keir starmer is when he needs to get a job done. but does it actually show a little bit of incompetency? does it actually show that he hasn't quite got a grip on what exactly he's trying to do in government? what direction he wants to go in? we're hearing things that the winter fuel allowance we've got that going down very well, exact, very, very well, very badly . at exactly the same time badly. at exactly the same time as you're announcing huge public sector pay rises, you've got issues with sue gray, you've got people briefing from number 10 itself. let me know your thoughts on everything that's been going on politically in this country . at the heart of this country. at the heart of number 10, gbnews.com/yoursay is the way to get in touch. but let's get the headlines with sophie reaper. >> thank you. emily. it's just after midday 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 in jerusalem . 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 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. 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 joined, joined by chief rabbi to 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

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 us to do. >> a protest is being held outside parliament 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 per 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 . one ahead of the winter months. 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 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 while serving in the british army. but also making headunes british army. but also making 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 returned to prison, and finally a cost hearing is taking place

at the royal courts of justice today as part of the wagatha christie libel case between coleen rooney and rebekah vardy . 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 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. >> okay. welcome back. this is good afternoon britain. it is just coming up to 12:08 now laboun just coming up to 12:08 now

labour. they're approaching their first 100 days in office. and how much trouble is sir keir starmer and his government actually in number 10? they've been plunged into disarray as sue gray sensationally quit her role. or was ousted as prime minister's chief of staff over fears she had become a distraction. now her exit follows reports of tensions in downing street, including with the prime minister's chief adviser, morgan mcsweeney , who's adviser, morgan mcsweeney, who's now stepping into her role. well. grey is best known , of well. grey is best known, of course, for leading the partygate investigation into bofis partygate investigation into boris johnson. that ultimately helped lead to his demise. okay, well , let's helped lead to his demise. okay, well, let's bring in chief political editor at the financial times, jim pickard. jim, how damaging is this for keir starmer and his government to have this almost total reconfiguration of number 10? the heart of government, just 100 days into into his premiership. >> so it certainly doesn't look as if he's massively in control, does it? it certainly is a bit of a blow to his authority that he's had to reshuffle his central team in downing street, only barely 100 days into the government. but i think the

perspective here that your viewers need to remember is that in terms of political strength, this labour party still has a majority of nearly 200 mps. the conservatives are shattered and demoralised. reform only has five mps. so you know, it reminds me a little bit of the early days of the tony blair government where because labour was so much in control, the opposition almost became the media and various other people sort of carping from the sidelines. and because the opposition was so weak and therefore we're going to see this week in, week out, you know , this week in, week out, you know, forget the fact that sue gray is gone and someone else is coming in. there will be criticism from within and from outside this government next month, the next six months or the next five years. and partly not entirely. that just reflects the fact that there is not really any opposition in the house of commons, which you would normally have. if you think back to the brexit era, if you think back at theresa may's period, when they barely had any majority at all, mps actually had some some clout. we're in a

very different environment, right now. if people think that bringing in morgan mcsweeney and making him chief of staff in downing street means that there's no longer going to be media criticism, there's no longer going to be articles about internal tensions within this government. i think they're very wrong. >> i mean, jim, it's not great. is it that keir starmer set out when he when he got the job as prime minister when he was elected, that he'd be different, his government wouldn't be sleazy. it wouldn't be corrupt, there wouldn't be any of this nonsense that the conservatives presided over, presided over. and now you've got this new polling saying that actually people think starmer is sleazier than sunak. how did we get to this point? >> i mean, the poll that i would want to see would be, do they think that keir starmer's government is more sleazy than bofis government is more sleazy than boris johnson's government? i think you might get a slightly different result if you do, but keir starmer doesn't want to be compared to boris johnson, does he? i genuinely have been surprised by the scandal over all the freebies. and, you know, i wrote the story back at the

end of june, just before the election, where we're the financial times calculated that keir starmer had taken £76,000 worth of fun stuff, and it was more than any other mp in the house of commons. we were ahead of this story months before everyone else, and i remember going through the register of interest thinking this is a very different person to the person that we thought we knew, who's this very puritan politician, very judgemental about conservative sleaze or whatever you and whether or not this is within the rules. i think the taking of notpla is something which does does raise concerns among the general pubuc concerns among the general public about, you know, are these guys really so different to their predecessors? i think there have been legitimate it's more difficult. >> it's more difficult, isn't it, when you've been holier than thou and very judgemental for so many years and then and then you commit the same sort of sort of crimes just very quickly. do you think sue gray will end up in the house of lords? >> i think it's the kind of place where you might expect it

to be. i mean, one interesting facet of this is if you watched keir starmer for the last 4 or 5 years, which i have, he has been very ruthless about getting rid of people when they no longer serve his purpose. the people who were around him when he stood for the labour leadership got basically axed within a few months of him becoming leader. he had a chief of staff called sam white, who only lasted a yeah he sam white, who only lasted a year. he had morgan mcsweeney as chief of staff temporarily. he moves on from people very, very quickly. he is surprisingly ruthless when it when it comes to basically doing what he wants with the people he wants and leaving other people behind. it's quite interesting to observe. >> well, thank you very much indeed for your time, jim pickard, really appreciate it. chief political editor at the financial times. thank you. well, joining us in the studio for some more reaction is former special adviser and ex colleague of sue gray, no less, charlie rowley. charlie, what is sue gray like? i mean, there's lots of mixed messages coming out. it seems as though she wasn't entirely on top of the brief. >> well, it's been an almighty

fall, i have to say, for sue gray. >> i mean, i've never met anybody that's been able to isolate both the conservative party and the labour party in quite sort of quick succession. but i'm a fan of sue and the reason i'm a fan of sue is because what she did in government and there'll be many people who do come out and support her, is because of the way in which she operates. she's not a typical civil servant. she's not a hooray henry, who just likes to have meeting after meeting. she's not a civil servant that likes to block things. in fact, if a minister wanted something done, she would be the arbiter of the rules and she would unlock. actually some rather difficult civil servants that wanted to do things their way. >> so she sometimes change the rules, charlie, because she's being accused of restricting access to the prime minister over intelligence briefings. now , over intelligence briefings. now, robert jenrick, one of the conservative leadership candidates who has come out strongly today to say that he thinks there should be an investigation, that she should be blocked from this new role, whatever, exactly this new role is, until that investigation is over. is, until that investigation is over . what do you make to that? over. what do you make to that? >> well, this might be where it's taken a step too far. so, you know, where are sue gray

beforehand? should have been the arbiter of propriety and ethics. that's what she did for a very long time in the cabinet office. i mean, it is slightly strange that if she didn't have a conversation with sir keir starmer on day one to say, right. prime minister's chief of staff is someone that is supposed to be there from the government to be able to prepare the labour party for government. she should have sat down with the prime minister at least asked, are there any skeletons in your closet that might actually cause us some embarrassment? that i can help with, such as all the freebies and all the rest of it? and by the way, the difference between keir starmer and rishi sunak, i think, is rishi sunak was able to afford his own clothes and actually didn't take those kind of freebies, which was a criticism in itself. >> but but would he have even if he couldn't afford them? this is something about character, isn't it? i mean, just because you are rich doesn't mean that you wouldn't accept freebies. just because you're poor doesn't mean you would. >> exactly. and that's the thing. and look, you know, i think what people expect from their politicians is to deliver. and, you know, ultimately, yes, this story will pass on the labour party will be judged on their record. and it's their record that currently i think is still hanging around their neck. so in the budget, are they going to now because, you know, sue gray is gone. are they going to

use sue as a mechanism to reverse cutting that winter fuel payment for example? that's something that is really going to bite people, not necessarily this internal party rail for too long, but we'll just have to wait and see. >> was it in sue grey's gift to tell the top team of the cabinet that perhaps they shouldn't be taking these types of freebies or indeed, when keir starmer was in opposition? >> well, it's totally within her right to have a view and say, look, should she have should she have been that person to say, hang on, you know, this doesn't look right. >> you shouldn't be doing this. >> you shouldn't be doing this. >> well, i mean, the first question is, did she know about it? i mean, she perhaps should have done if she'd gone through the members interests, as jim had done previously, as he told us then, it was there in public view. so she should have done that. and then maybe raised the alarm as the chief of staff, as someone that was in that role for many, many years. so that might be a failing that she lived to regret. but she's obviously divided people. it's clearly not worked out in number 10, and it's sue gray that's paid the price. >> and this new role she's been given to sort of soften the blow. is it a non—job? >> well, it reminded me i was talking to a good friend last

night. it reminds me of when you appoint a foreign secretary that you might not be particularly close to, and you appoint the foreign secretary to keep them out of the country and essentially just touring the world to keep them away from cabinet and parliament. this is a similar one. i think internally this is a role for sue to tour the regions and nations, probably to keep her out of the cabinet. but it's an important one because sue has got a history of dealing with the nation. so we've got an snp government still, or an snp force in scotland trying to keep the union together is something she's incredibly passionate about, and she's obviously done about, and she's obviously done a lot of good work where i think sadiq khan and andy burnham could have been a thorn in the labour leader's side. she's been able to keep them, the lid on them being too critical, and i think that role will continue very difficult. >> when your campaign line was tory chaos, conservatives in chaos, tory corruption. et cetera. et cetera. to then have labour chaos leading the headunes labour chaos leading the headlines a difficult one to turn around, particularly when you're so far down in the polls. charlie, we're going to have to leave it there. thank you very much indeed. charlie rowley, who is a former special adviser and ex—colleague of sue gray, now moving on, because today marks

one year since hamas terrorists massacred just under 1200 israelis, including 36 children, and took 251 more hostage. now, in a statement marking the anniversary, prime minister sir keir starmer described the attack as the darkest day in jewish history since the holocaust. and to mark the anniversary, the israeli flag at the knesset was lowered to half mast and memorial events have been taking place across the country, including at the site of the supernova music festival, where more than 350 people were gunned down. well, let's discuss this further with gb news home and security editor mark white. mark, it's hard to believe it's been a been a whole year since october the 7th in this country . october the 7th in this country. over the weekend, we saw huge pro—palestine protests. on saturday, we saw blatant support for terrorist groups, hamas, hezbollah. we did see that . we hezbollah. we did see that. we know the police have arrested quite a few and we know that they're searching for others who may have committed potential offences. on sunday, you had a

mass vigil for israeli hostages for and israel as a whole, we are a divided society. >> yeah we are, and it's only getting more divided because clearly the images that most people are seeing now are the images of israeli, the israelis taking the fight first to hamas, which incidentally, they're still doing hamas having launched more rockets into gaza, or the communities around gaza. this morning, but also now taking that fight to the other terrorist group, hezbollah in northern israel, who have been firing more than 8000 missiles and drones into israel for a year now as well. really, it was the 8th of october that they decided to do that in solidarity with their fellow terrorists down in gaza. and now, of course, israel has decided enoughis course, israel has decided enough is enough and they need to ensure that those communities

who have been displaced more than 70,000 people who are living in other parts of israel because they're not able to get back to their homes in northern israel, should be allowed to go home. no other country , no other home. no other country, no other sovereign state in the world, israel would argue, would allow this state of affairs to continue. and that's why they are doing what they're doing in first going after hamas. now going after hezbollah. >> and what's your assessment of are the new governments, keir starmer's government's position on all of this ? have there been on all of this? have there been mixed messages? >> well, i think supporters of israel would suggest that, yes, there has been mixed or confused messaging coming out from the government because clearly you have very definitive statements from the likes of the prime minister . when iran launched its minister. when iran launched its ballistic missiles into israel in recent days, saying that we stand full square behind israel

in its efforts to defend itself . in its efforts to defend itself. but then, on the other hand, we've got arms licences that are supporting israel and the manufacturing of certain munitions that are going to israel being suspended because of what the british government views as real concern over the way in which that war is being prosecuted in gaza. so, yes , i prosecuted in gaza. so, yes, i think those supporters of israel feel that there are some mixed messages coming out from the british government at the moment. >> and what do we do when there's a significant minority of people in this country who do augn of people in this country who do align themselves with the aims and goals of hamas and hezbollah, or at least support them in their missions against them in their missions against the state of israel . it's very the state of israel. it's very worrying indeed. >> yes. and i mean, there was a the latest survey is certainly worrying that has come out from

the campaign against anti—semitism that shows that 1 in 10 of people in this country surveyed between the ages of 18 and 24 are supportive of hamas, roughly that number again , not roughly that number again, not believing the reports surrounding the massacre that it was as horrific as israel is making it out to be. and again, actually, even more supporting or suggesting that hamas was somehow justified in launching this attack to slaughter over 1200 people and take 250 people hostage and part of that, unfortunately, is because of what we're seeing in israel. always knew this would be the case, that, yes, there would be sympathy . understandably, in the sympathy. understandably, in the early days , after the horrific early days, after the horrific events of 7th of october last yeah events of 7th of october last year. but it wouldn't take long before the counter images to come out of israel taking that

fight to hamas and then the civilian deaths in gaza for people and for opinions to change. and those that were perhaps suspicious and never really supported israel in the first place, seize on those images . as you know, what they images. as you know, what they would say is a genocide that is being, you know , carried out by being, you know, carried out by israel in gaza. what the israelis would say is that you're dealing with a terrorist group that is part of the population, the terrorists that they are killing are fathers, and sons and brothers and uncles living in amongst the community, putting their terrorist infrastructure under clinics and schools, kindergartens, areas where people congregate. and deaung where people congregate. and dealing with that threat is extremely difficult and complex. >> and benjamin netanyahu says that he's not only fighting the fight for israel, of course, and his people, but also for the entirety of the west. the idea

that we have mutual enemies and also mutual allies is that message going through ? message going through? >> i think it's certainly being received and understood by many, but there are many others who don't see that. they don't see that there is a wider threat that there is a wider threat that emanates from iran, that the groups that have been involved in, you know , launching involved in, you know, launching thousands of rockets towards israeli territory over the past year are iranian aligned groups. hamas in gaza , hezbollah in hamas in gaza, hezbollah in southern lebanon, the houthis in yemen, other iranian aligned groups in iraq and syria. there is, according to the israeli ambassador to the uk, a ring of fire around israel that they have to deal with. and, you know, they see at the moment that they have an advantage that the bombing attacks that took

out. so many hezbollah fighters through these pager bombs and then the two way radio bombs , then the two way radio bombs, and then also the decapitation of the leadership of hezbollah, including the their supreme leader. effectively, hassan nasrallah has given them an advantage that they want to push forward, and that might mean the impending attack that we will get on iran in the coming days. in response to the 181 ballistic missiles that they launched at israel last week. when we see that it could be of a magnitude much bigger than the attack that we saw in april of last year. >> well, thank you very much indeed, mark for white, talking to us on this one year anniversary of the october 7 terror attack in israel. this is good afternoon, britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. turns out that apparently this country harbours the most illegal migrants out of any other

european country. can that be true? that's

okay. good afternoon. britain . okay. good afternoon. britain. someone has appeared by my side from under the desk. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> ben, leo's here to save the day. he's with me this afternoon. little bit late, i must say, but i don't think you're to blame. >> i will say not my fault. i won't explain why, but not my fault. i wasn't meant to be working today, but here i am. >> he lives far away, so i just live around the corner. >> i was out on oxford street with lord alli. he was buying me a new wardrobe and i got a call. >> it does look very smart. you're always very well dressed, aren't you, ben? >> i've got dressed and ready in about two minutes, so if i'm looking a bit scruffy hair wise, or, dare i say it, makeup. >> he's just fishing for compliments, isn't he? fishing for compliments? anyway, let's get to on serious matters. britain apparently has the most

illegal migrants in the country than anywhere else in europe. >> wow. yeah, i saw this this morning. every 1 >> wow. yeah, i saw this this morning. every1 in >> wow. yeah, i saw this this morning. every 1 in 100 >> wow. yeah, i saw this this morning. every1 in 100 people morning. every 1 in 100 people in britain is an illegal migrant. according to research by the university of oxford, and in total, 745,000 illegal migrants live currently in the uk. and that's more than double when compared to france. >> okay, well, co—founder of migrationwatch, mike jones is with us. mike, do these figures surprise you? do you believe them to be accurate ? them to be accurate? >> you've always got to take statistics on illegal migration with a pinch of salt, because illegal migration by its very nature is, you know, clandestine, you know , many clandestine, you know, many illegal immigrants don't share data in surveys, censuses and other data gathering processes. now, my guess is these numbers are actually quite conservative. you know , 1 in 100 of the you know, 1 in 100 of the british population are here illegally. now the pew research centre conducted a very similar study about five years ago, and they found that the their higher

estimates for 2017 were about 1.2 million. so we could actually be looking at many more people here illegally. the millom project, who have just released these latest numbers, you know, about 745,000, a city the size of leeds that could actually underestimate the scale of the problem. but i think it's very useful data because it shows that the uk is the number one destination for illegal immigrants in europe. >> so, mike, why is that? let's just try and figure out why we are so attractive to migrants from all over europe. what's the appeal ? appeal? >> well, the appeal is you know, we're an english speaking country . it's a very accessible country. it's a very accessible language. it's easier to learn than other languages. we have a flexible labour market. there are no id cards here. and obviously there's a large sort of black economy that isn't properly policed. so those are all reasons. and obviously we're

all reasons. and obviously we're a multicultural society. so it doesn't matter where you come from in the world, you'll probably find a community that has certain ties to your country of origin. but at the end of the day , you know, the uk can't day, you know, the uk can't actually get rid of people. we can't detain people and we can't deport them within, you know, 24, 48 hours or whatever. and, you know, even if you have an asylum application rejected, you know, chances are you're not you're not going to be kicked out of the country and, you know, that increases the pull factor . and yeah, we are where factor. and yeah, we are where we are . we are. >> mike i am surprised though, because i would have thought with the schengen zone and the free movement in, in europe that perhaps countries like germany and france would actually have more illegal migrants than, than the uk, just because it's a little bit trickier for people to get to this country on the whole than it is to mainland and mainland europe. but i was reading a stat and perhaps you can can check this for us, that something like only 3% of those

who've crossed in a boat across the channel have actually been removed. is that right? >> the it depends on nationality and it depends on whether they've actually applied for asylum . but but the numbers are asylum. but but the numbers are very, very low, let's put it that way. i mean ultimately there's, there's various things you can do around the margins. you know, biometrics , better you know, biometrics, better screening of the channel tunnel and so on. but at the end of the day, you've got to change your legal system. you need to amend the human rights act. you need to remove any reference to the echr and the principle of non—refoulement, which you know, gives a lot of ammunition to lawyers and judges and ngos who want these people to stay in this country. so you've got to start with the basics. the foundational issues tackle the legal system and then focus on the operational stuff. >> yeah, okay. mike jones , >> yeah, okay. mike jones, co—founder of migrationwatch, thank you for joining co—founder of migrationwatch, thank you forjoining us. i'd thank you for joining us. i'd also like to know where all

these illegal migrants are. do we know where they all are? what percentage do we have tabs on? what percentage are sort of awol, i guess. >> yeah. i mean, some people would say, you know, oh, well, then let's just have an amnesty. if these people have been here for x amount of time. but what message does that say? it's almost as if you know no borders at all. >> just we haven't got time because we're about to go to the news. but i just had a fascinating conversation with an iranian taxi driver who dropped me to the studio just now to spill lots to go out on migration, the change of the country and also, of course, quite a prevalent today , the quite a prevalent today, the iranian israel conflict. >> oh, i look forward to hearing that. we're also we're also going to be checking up with the patrick christys because he's attending or at least reporting from a winter fuel protest in outside parliament. that's after the news with sophie reaper . the news with sophie reaper. >> thank you. emily. it's just after 12:30. and these are your latest headlines. this morning, people gathered across israel 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 figures, hamas killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . parliament hostages to gaza. parliament returns 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 , after the pm's chief of staff, sue gray, left 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 house of commons, chris philp, told gb news breakfast 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 is taking place outside parliament 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 per 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 . new ahead of the winter months. new analysis has found that 10,000 children have fallen into poverty as a result of the two child benefit limit since labour took to 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 finally, a cost hearing is 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 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 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 the latest gb 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 , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts

>> hello. welcome back. now a protest is taking place outside parliament today following the government's controversial decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. >> yes. last month, labour voted to cut the benefit for all but the poorest pensioners. although the poorest pensioners. although the unite union has argued this would only save around £1.4 billion a year. now the union are encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse the decision. >> gb news presenter patrick christys is joining us live now from outside westminster, where the protest is taking place . the protest is taking place. patrick, good to see you at this ungodly hour. how's it going? what's what's the atmosphere like down there ? like down there? >> yeah, look, it's a really important day there for pensioners actually. and arguably for fairness as well. i think this is a very, very well attended event that we're seeing

here. it goes all the way back and you've got a variety of different people. yep. multiple different people. yep. multiple different unions. i've spoken to a couple of veterans as well. i've spoken to a group of waspi women who've self—funded travelled all the way down from the north east. there is very much one shared issue here, and thatis much one shared issue here, and that is a sense of unfairness about the way that pensioners in britain are being treated. now the event has been organised by unite and i'm very pleased to say i'm joined now by the general secretary of the unite union, sharon graham. sharon, a rousing speech he delivered earlier. why is this so important for you today? >> well, look, the decision that's been made by labour is totally and utterly wrong. how a labour government can choose to pick the pocket of pensioners and leave the super rich totally untouched is beyond me. people don't understand it. what we need to do is have a u—turn. okay. >> and why do you think that labour have done this? because you know , i think a lot of you know, i think a lot of people expected that when labour got in that, you know, you would probably have a lot more say. >> well, look, i think what's happenedis >> well, look, i think what's happened is labour's come in and they are trying to be better managers of the economy. and

what we're looking for is a new vision. and what we need to look at is get those people who've been at the back of the queue for 14 years and get them to the front of the queue. workers, communities and pensioners, they've made the wrong decision and they need to reverse it. >> okay, so on pensioners specifically, i mean, some of labour's own reports when they were in opposition suggested that as many as 4000 people might die if the winter fuel payment was taken over them. we've had a population increase since then, so you would imagine that that number is even higher now. i mean, how does that make you feel? there's a load of pensioners here today. you know, they're all united in one core mission. aren't they trying to get this reversed? >> yeah. i mean, look , they are >> yeah. i mean, look, they are looking at this and thinking, how could this possibly have happened? people went out in their droves to vote for labour willing change on. and what they got is they actually got a cut in their winter fuel. and what we're saying here today, it's too not late to change his mind. keir starmer needs to change his mind, do the right thing and put this back. >> it wasn't in the manifesto was it either? >> no, it wasn't in the manifesto. and of course that's the problem. i mean, it wasn't in the manifesto. it's one of the first acts that happened, and i'm at a loss as to know why

this decision was made. i often say, who was in the room, who thought this was a good idea to make such a decision, they need to reverse it. leadership is about knowing when you're wrong. they need to reverse the decision. >> and just while i've got you, i mean, there's a stark contrast, isn't there, between the old freebies and donors row that we've seen and some of the people here, i've listened to some speeches here from people who've said that they're just above the pension credit threshold. they're going to have a really, really tough time this winter. those choices between heating and eating, there's certainly no luxuries in some of their lives. i mean, there's a lady there who was saying she doesn't go on holiday. she's not got you know, she's not one of these millionaire pensioners, you hear so much about. do you think keir starmer really gets it? you know, his lifestyle, his donors, etc? do you think they get it? >> well, look, what they've got to do is to listen. most pensioners are not rich pensioners. they are not rich pensioners. they are not rich pensioners. most pensioners are on the breadline. you heard earlier on today they haven't put up the winter fuel allowance payment since two thousand and seven. so it's actually depreciating every year in terms of its value. what keir starmer needs to do is to actually listen, not be tin eared, listen to what people are saying, reverse the decision, show you

have a heart and put this back on for these workers and you don't buy the idea that this is necessary. >> there's this big black hole andifs >> there's this big black hole and it's necessary. >> well, look, there's a so—called black hole of 23. i think they're now saying £1 billion. black holes have changed over many years. fiscal rules have changed nine times since 1997. but actually, i've given a really clear guidance of how they can get rid of the black hole. if you tax the richest 1% 1% more, that would give you £25 billion. black hole gone, £3 billion left over. why is that decision? why is that a worse decision than picking the pocket of pensioners? and that's the question i'm asking now, just very lastly, thank you for your time today. >> if you wouldn't mind, maybe just giving a message to keir starmer, i know that you're going in later. >> are you going in later? i've got my executive actually as well. so we're sort of doing two things at once, which is a woman, you know, a woman does that very often. so yes, absolutely. and i've spoken to rachel reeves about it last week. i've spoken to keir starmer. what did they say? well, look, the conversation they're having is to say we've

got the black hole in the economy. and i'm making the point that if we have a black hole of 25 billion, there are other ways to deal with that black hole . you have to weaken black hole. you have to weaken these fiscal rules. no one is going to give us a gold badge for paying back peanuts in the first parliament. you've got to borrow to invest for our industries like grangemouth and like the oil and gas industry at the same time, you've got to make sure that pensioners are not paying the price. >> look, thank you very much. thank you very much for your time today. you take care. see you soon. all the best. back to you soon. all the best. back to you in the studio. strong messages here from this protest in westminster. >> very strong indeed. thank you very much, patrick, for bringing us that interview with sharon graham there. the general secretary of the unite union, she's adamant that this has to be u—turned. but the government still insisting, we've got this black hole, we've got this black hole. >> well, apparently it's gone up by £1 billion, £23 billion you mentioned. but look, you're spending £22 billion on a carbon capture scheme, which is a gamble, quite frankly, slammed across the board by eco fanatics and sceptics alike. £11 billion in that climate. aid to africa, £14 billion in public sector pay rises for train drivers and so on.and rises for train drivers and so on. and yet you decide to cut

fuel allowances by 1.5 billion, a measly in the grand scheme of things. politically, she made a great point as well. politically, it's a bit naive, isn't it? >> yeah. wasn't the timing of it. you know, at the same time as dishing out massive public sector pay rises just at the time you're cutting back on winter fuel payments for pensioners. we were just having a little look at it as well. patrick's fundraiser for friends of the elderly, the charity you've all raised £218,000. quite incredible. >> incredible. >> incredible. >> so generous. gift aid plus gift aid. >> so generous. and every time patrick or anyone else does these fundraisers, fundraisers, you guys at home, the viewers are always so generous. you dig deep. and what a great cause for friends of the elderly. £218,000. nearly at that 260,000 target. and i'm sure the money will go to very good use. i wonder what the likes of keir starmer thinks when he sees fundraisers like this. you know, the good, the goodwill of the british people having to kind of step up to the mark in, in replacement of, of them.

>> that's what a lot of people are saying. >> i wish we didn't have to do this, but we'll give whatever we can. you know, anything from £2 to £2000 on this fundraiser. good stuff. anyway, this is good afternoon britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. yes. gary lineker, is he going? is his contract going to be renewed? he's spoken out. we'll reveal what he said

okay. good afternoon britain. it's 1250 or with me, emily it's1250 or with me, emily carver and ben leo today. now , carver and ben leo today. now, gary lineker has revealed that talks over his future at match of the day have just started as he nears the end of his bbc contract. >> yes, lineker, 63, faces a possible pay cuts from his current £1.35 million salary paid for by licence fee payers, of course, sparking speculation over his future role. the beeb is yet to confirm details, but

lineker says discussions are indeed underway. >> okay, well joining us now to discuss this is former bbc executive and presenter roger bolton. roger. reading between the lines is gary lineker being moved on? >> no, but i think he probably will move on. >> in other words, i think this is a real negotiation. i think on the one hand, the bbc feels that it has to get his contract reduced. if he's going to have a new contract, it has to be paid less. at the same time, they will want to make sure that he abides in future by the guidelines over his comments on twitter. and so on. so that's from the bbc's point of view, from the bbc's point of view, from gary's point of view, i suppose. he obviously loves presenting match of the day, but he is 63. he's got a big business empire developing . if business empire developing. if the bbc decides and he decides to go different ways, he'll get, he'll get another job. and so he'll get anotherjob. and so i think it's a real negotiation. what i don't think the bbc could do is offer him a raise in pay or even to freeze his salary. i

think that that wouldn't go down well. when you're making cuts elsewhere and more cuts to come. yes. >> roger, there's talk of his salary being reduced to, say, £1 million. i mean, still fairly excessive in the grand scheme of things. do you think that that would be acceptable to both lineker and the beeb? could that be enough to see him stay on? >> i don't know. i mean, you say excessive, but i mean it's you're talking about a market here isn't there. would, would itv or would somebody else pay £1 million for gary lineker? yes. i think they would. so the question for the bbc always is doesit question for the bbc always is does it pay the market rate or just below the market rate or doesit just below the market rate or does it say no. okay. let them go . we'll employ our other go. we'll employ our other people. and so it's very difficult. is he paid too much? i would say most normal people would say yes, but in show business terms or even in television presenting terms, probably no . probably no. >> i mean, roger, is he really, you know , first rate is he is you know, first rate is he is there not are there not many people that could do his job? >> oh, there are lots. there are

lots of people who could do the job. i mean, i was quite a good tv and radio presenter, but i was no star. i, you know, i could do the job, but i didn't have that sort of thing, which. well, no, there are a handful of people who are exceptional. right. and you need them. and if you're in the bbc, you want them at the david dimbleby's of this world. you know, there are a range of other people like that. so, you know, do you pay more for a star or do you say, of course he can be replaced? and i would love to see gabby logan doing his job and or perhaps somebody younger who comes through. i mean, there are lots who could do the job, but is he a special talent? i think he is now. how much do you pay for special talent? the bbc clearly has been paying too much. the public, i don't think, would accept him being paid that. he's also, although he's freelance, he's also been making comments which have been difficult for the bbc. so it's a crunch. if i had to bet , i the bbc. so it's a crunch. if i had to bet, i think this will be his last season presenting match of the day. >> okay, roger. i mean, there are plenty of names to replace him. mark chapman of course,

you've got alex scott who's waiting in the wings, and i'm sure both of those presenters would happily take a salary less than £1 million a year. so we'll wait and see till the end of the season. roger, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> yeah. interesting isn't it? i guess, you know, the problem is, is that gary lineker probably could make even more money elsewhere. >> i don't know, i don't know who tuned into match of the day to watch the football, to see gary lineker. it could be anyone. it could be mr blobby. and you'd still tune in. >> i do think that too. i'm no expert. i'm no expert. we've got a lot more coming up. we're going to be speaking to robert jenrick too, so stick with us. >> ooh, a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm afternoon. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello! time for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. some sunshine around today, but also many of us seeing a few heavy showers and for some expect some big thunderstorms. low pressure is dominating and sitting down to the south—west. not really

moving very far. this weather front also isn't moving very far, bringing thicker cloud and more persistent rain over the far north of scotland and at times through the northern isles. elsewhere, we'll have some sunshine, some decent spells. in fact, across northern england and eastern england, but some heavy showers getting going now and staying fairly showery through the day across southwest scotland for northern ireland. some sunshine, quite breezy in the west and down to the far southwest. we need to watch this zone of very heavy showers that will spread its way slowly northwards as we go into the late afternoon and into the evening. that's likely to contain some thunderstorms, some hail as possible as well . hail as possible as well. elsewhere, the showers for the afternoon and evening rush hour afternoon and evening rush hour a bit more scattered. so many places avoiding them, but staying quite cloudy over southwest scotland with more showers here and staying pretty dull throughout the day over northern scotland with rain and drizzle on and off. its further south though, where the rain is likely to be pretty heavy. thundery showers spreading northwards. we do have a met office yellow thunderstorm warning in place as these

downpours spread into south wales , across southwest england wales, across southwest england and up towards the southeast dunng and up towards the southeast during this evening. drifting northwards as we go through the night, we're tending to ease off at least a little bit as we head through the early hours, but many places seeing further showers, overnight, temperatures holding up in double figures in most towns and cities, certainly across the south. a little lower, with some clearer skies across southern scotland and northern england . tomorrow it's northern england. tomorrow it's another day of dodging the downpours . further heavy and downpours. further heavy and potentially thundery showers drifting their way in again quite gusty at times , quite gusty at times, particularly close to the showers on the south coast and the west coast. thicker cloud and more persistent rain across parts of scotland , but maybe a parts of scotland, but maybe a brighter day in the far north—west, but also turning colder here too. bye for now . colder here too. bye for now. >> we can expect clear skies leading to a light and warm day ahead. lovely boxt solar

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>> good afternoon britain . it's >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:00 on monday the 7th of october. i'm ben leo varadkar and i'm emily carver. labour in turmoil. one former senior adviser to tony blair says starmer's government has completely lost grip after sue gray was ousted from her role as number 10 chief of staff. how much has labour really achieved in their first 100 days in power? >> 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 is israel marks that anniversary and migration nafion that anniversary and migration nation britain is home to more illegal migrants than any other european country, with researchers at oxford university claiming that 1% of the population of britain is in the country illegally . country illegally. now, ben did

promise to tell us his story from your little taxi trip. >> oh, yes. yes, it was very interesting. it was an iranian taxi driver and we got chatting. we were talking about iran and i said, i saw some videos the other day of iran in the 70s. used to look like a pretty cool and vibrant place. he said, yes, since the islamic revolution, it's gone downhill. he goes back maybe once a year , and he'd been maybe once a year, and he'd been in london for 20 years. he came in london for 20 years. he came in around the early 2000 and i said, oh, has london changed much in that time? and he said, unfortunately it has. i made some notes. he said it used to be a vibrant place, but they're now so many different communities and cultures who keep themselves apart. when i first came, it was such a mix of people. you had greeks, iranians , people. you had greeks, iranians, iraqis, different communities who kind of entwined together and had a happy community. but he said, now london, the atmosphere generally is pretty bad. he says he rarely sees anybody who's genuinely happy. and then we started talking about, of course, because it's october the 7th about iran and

israel and the us. and he admitted that iran is in such a state. and he said, according to his estimations, 90% of iranians don't support the current islamic regime. he said he'd support a us israel or the west, an attack on iran. he said, the only way you're going to get rid of this current regime is through the west attacking iran, he said. they will destroy the world with a nuclear bomb or even worse, with their toxic ideology, which will spread and destroy the world and send us back to the stone age . so back to the stone age. so according to this iranian taxi dnveh according to this iranian taxi driver, he reckons the ideology being spread now by the regime in iran is worse than a nuclear bomb. >> but this is what makes so many people so angry. to see people in this country who benefit from the liberalism, who benefit from the liberalism, who benefit from the liberalism, who benefit from all the benefits of being in a in a western liberal democracy defending hezbollah and hamas and terrorist organisations that would want to bnng organisations that would want to bring us back to the dark age.

so it's quite extraordinary. >> on saturday at the protest, there were people parading iranian flags, hezbollah flags , iranian flags, hezbollah flags, hamas signs in support of hamas. and these people don't understand that, according to iranians themselves, this guy has family in tehran. he goes back every year. you know, they don't support the current regime. they hate it. they want civilisation. they want western values. how it used to be in iran before the islamic takeover. >> well, do get in touch. gbnews.com forward slash usa. but let's get to the headlines with sophie reaper . with sophie reaper. >> thank you emily. it's just after 1:00. and these are your latest gb news headlines . this latest gb news headlines. this morning people across israel 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 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, joined by chief rabbi to 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 damari, the

british hostage, and her family have no word of her fate or how she is doing . she is doing. >> speaking at a london memorial event yesterday, the mother to 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 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 a hostage by hamas terrorists in the gazan terror tunnels. 20m or more underground, kept in captivity, tortured, isolated , unable to tortured, isolated, unable to eat, speak or even move without

someone else's permission . 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 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 the 3% across the general public onto politics and parliament returns today following a recess for the various party conferences which have been taking place for the past few weeks. mps are back at westminster, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the departure of the pm's chief of staff , sue gray, chief of staff, sue gray, 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 protest is being held outside parliament 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 per year. the union are now encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse this decision to make these cuts ahead of the winter months . the ahead of the winter months. the trial for daniel khalife is taking place at woolwich crown court in london today. khalife stands charged with committing various terror offences while serving in the british army. but he 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 . 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, but for now it's back to ben and emily for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> right. well good afternoon britain. it is now 108 you're with me emily carver and ben leo today. with me emily carver and ben leo today . now labour have today. now labour have approached their first 100 days in office. but how much trouble is sir keir starmer and his government actually in number 10, has been plunged of course, into disarray as sue gray sensationally quits her role as the prime minister's chief of staff over fears she'd become a distraction in number 10. or was

she more ousted than chose to quit? her exit follows reports of tensions in downing street, including with the prime minister's chief adviser , morgan minister's chief adviser, morgan mcsweeney, who just so happens to now be stepping into her role. >> grey is best known for leading the partygate investigation into boris johnson that ultimately, and of course, we all know this led to his demise. and joining us now is our political editor, christopher hope. good afternoon chopper, you couldn't make it up really. labour came into government saying that the grown ups were in the room. even the commentators were echoing the same ethos, and it appears they're just as amateurish and disorganised as the tories were in their dying days. >> oh no. >> oh no. >> morgan mcsweeney coming in as the can you hear me now? so we're here in downing street, ben and emily. where? behind me. it's all changed. where you've got morgan mcsweeney coming into . got morgan mcsweeney coming into. >> well, we're having trouble with the connection . hopefully

with the connection. hopefully we can reconnect that. we can work on that and get chopper back because he's just been in lobby, so he's just been speaking to number 10 spokesperson, and he's asked about about all sorts. really, it looks like so lots of people have been this is another separate issue from sue gray. but this issue of private school fees and the vat on the private school fees, there's been so much pushback, hasn't there , much pushback, hasn't there, oveh much pushback, hasn't there, over, you know, are you going to bnng over, you know, are you going to bring it in january? right. in the middle, slap bang in the middle of the school year? apparently they're sticking to that. apparently they're sticking to that. also sticking to the winter fuel payments. >> it just doesn't make sense. i heard there's a local authority i won't name them now because we have to get a comment. but there's a local authority down where i am, where they're now having to pay for home schooling because there's not enough state spaces for the private pupils who are forced out of their schools based in their education because their parents can no longer afford it. >> these were all the warnings. these were all the warnings. anyway, we're going to speak to conservative leader contender robert jenrick now , robert, we robert jenrick now, robert, we wanted to talk to you first to mark. well, the anniversary of october the 7th, the terrible

terrorist attack on the israeli people. it's hard to believe it's been an entire year. i was reading with interest your your article, your short article in the daily mail where you essentially say that people like keir starmer have for too long shied away from the issue of islamism , the issue of terrorist islamism, the issue of terrorist sympathisers in this country. i guess the question is what can be done about that ? be done about that? >> well, good afternoon. and firstly, let me say that we join in our sympathy and giving my thoughts and prayers to all of those who suffered on the terrible barbaric attacks on october the 7th. and i had the honour of meeting mandy, the mother of emily, our remaining british hostage. when i went to the memorial event on sunday in

hyde park. but the broader point that you raise is an important one. we as a country need to be unhed one. we as a country need to be united against all forms of extremism , and particularly extremism, and particularly islamist extremism, which remains prevalent in our society. i think that too many politicians shy away from tackling this issue. what i want to see us adopt the most robust approach that means ending mass migration so that we stop making the problem worse , and importing the problem worse, and importing foreign criminals and terrorists into our country. as happens now, ensure the police enforce our laws without fear or favour , our laws without fear or favour, which is not happening in all instances at the moment. as we've seen. you know, for example, people shouting jihad off the streets of london and the home office as i did when i was immigration minister, taking robust action to revoke visas and deport people who fall below the basic standards we would expect in our country. >> and robert, is it fair to

say, though, that keir starmer has maintained a conspiracy of silence over islamism ? that's silence over islamism? that's quite an accusation, isn't it ? quite an accusation, isn't it? >> well, look, when i raised islamist extremism in the house of commons just a few months ago, i was shouted down by labour mps who accused me of being an extremist merely for raising these incidents. that's wrong. we should be voicing the concerns of the silent majority in our country who want us to be a united, integrated nation, which is not happening at all instances right now. and i don't see keir starmer speaking out on these issues in fact, he has a record of campaigning against the things that need to be done. you know , he put his name to you know, he put his name to letters preventing the home office from removing dangerous people from our country, such as foreign national offenders. and when he responded to the riots at the beginning of the summer, he was quick to call out the far right. absolutely. the thuggery

and violence that we saw from those quarters. but he was selective and squeamish about calling out the sectarian gangs that we also saw on our streets. and that's not leadership , robert. >> i guess many people would agree with you, of course, and your sentiments, but you are echoing the words of suella braverman last year who fell on her sword for expressing the same views . and i'm not sure if same views. and i'm not sure if you saw this observer piece yesterday , which was headlined yesterday, which was headlined they have him by the balls. senior tories warn robert jenrick will be at the mercy of the braverman rights as leader. the party right. sorry. party figures say the front runner will be brought down by the right if he tries to move to moderate ground. if you do become leader, so , first of all, become leader, so, first of all, are you are you fearful that you'll have to move to the centre ground if you become leader? and also, are you a genuine right winger? some tory members are suggesting your rhetoric, your braverman esque rhetoric, your braverman esque rhetoric is just for this

leadership race. >> well, firstly, ben, i wouldn't believe everything that you read in the guardian that i saw that article and it's a complete load of rubbish. it's in the conspiracy theory box. i believe very strongly that the conservative party has to represent the common ground of british politics, and millions of people across our country are calling for secure borders, a tough approach on extremism , tough approach on extremism, ensuring that we bear down on criminals and lock up hyper prolific criminals in our prisons. those are not issues of the right or the left. they're issues which unite our country. and i want to ensure that the conservative party has the strongest possible approach on them. i'm very pleased that so far in this leadership contest, i've attracted support from all quarters in the party and i hope that will that will continue as we have votes in parliament tomorrow and on wednesday. i want to unite the conservative party now, be unite it with a real sense of purpose and part of that is undoubtedly making

sure that we end illegal migration and we control and reduce migration in a way we did not when we were in office. >> yes, robert, i'm sure you've seen the statistics out. a study out from oxford university that suggests the uk has the most illegal migrants than any other european country, which is quite extraordinary. if true. i just want to ask you also about your decision to call for a cabinet office investigation into the serious allegations made against sue gray, which allegations allegations are you specifically referring to? there ? referring to? there? >> well, look, keir starmer has been forced to remove sue gray, but she remains in government. and i want to see an investigation into the very serious allegation that has been made against her, that she has prevented serious national security briefings from reaching the prime minister. that is very concerning. and i think that the propriety and ethics team in the cabinet office, the very team

that she used to run, should look into this before she is given her new role as a special envoy of the prime minister. look, the bigger question is this . this is a look, the bigger question is this. this is a government that is now in freefall. it's tanking in the polls. and the very person that keir starmer handpicked to run his government has been forced out as a result of infighting and division amongst his special advisers. he's weak. he's not a leader. he's weak. he's not a leader. he's not been able to bring order to downing street, let alone the government that he runs. and it's leading to big policy failures left, right and centre. whether that's taking away the winter fuel payment for 10 million poor pensioners or handing over british sovereign territory to an ally of china, compromising and important strategic military base, you know , that raises a big question know, that raises a big question on whose side is sir keir starmer? is he on the side of the british public and our national interest, or is he on the side of international diplomatic opinion and

international law? you know what side i'm on, i'm on the side of the british public. >> well, i'm not casting aspersions. but starmer infamously did say he'd prefer davos to westminster. but yeah, make of that what you will. robert jenrick. thank you for joining us this afternoon. and apologies if you were able to hear yourself through your earpiece. i think you may have had trouble with that. so apologies. thank you. robert. >> yeah, sorry about that. oh dear oh dear. anyway joining us now is our political editor christopher hope. christopher, thank you very much indeed. you've been speaking to number 10 spokesperson for us haven't you. what what did they say ? you. what what did they say? >> well, the meeting here, the first lobby meeting of this new term back in parliament for mps. when we are briefed by the pm's official spokesman, mainly about sue gray. she's got a new job now as the nations and regions envoy. into her role comes morgan mcsweeney . that's an morgan mcsweeney. that's an immediate role. we'll see later if she's paid more than the prime minister as she was in the old role, i would say a big bet on the fact that she won't be

paid more than the prime minister. but sue gray, morgan mcsweeney, these names should mean very little to viewers and listeners. they're not really that important to people. people outside the place where i am now in whitehall. but they signify a lack of grip, a problem at the heart of government. the fact that this government started well and seemed to stop governing when mps went off for their summer holidays and have allowed events to buffet this government, notably over three glasses and donated suits and flats by lord alli. the labour peeh flats by lord alli. the labour peer. and they haven't gone past that. the government is trying to get back into the swing of things now. we're expecting measures this week on the day one rights for people in their in their in their jobs. those are the measures pushed by angela rayner and jonathan reynolds. the business secretary. they're trying to get back underway. but really i think a real worry for this government, why they can't grip it tightly. and i wonder whether that part of the problem is we saw back in 2019, when boris johnson became prime minister, he was going to stop jeremy corbyn and get brexit done. he did all that within 40 days and

then almost drifted. what do we do next? and i sense this government hasn't really got a grip on it. what it's what it's in power for. despite the scale of its majority, it got rid of the tory party. and then what? we'll wait and see. maybe morgan mcsweeney this svengali figure, this head of strategy during the election , maybe he might give election, maybe he might give some grip over this government and try and direct where it's going. >> just on sue grey's new role, it's a she's the envoy to the nafions it's a she's the envoy to the nations and the regions, which i understand is brand new. is she keeping her salary? do we know? and also why are some people have asked, why do we need an envoy to the nations and regions? some have said, we're not the ottoman empire. it's only a couple of hundred miles to wales or to scotland. what? what is this job? yes. >> well, ben, you're right. i mean, the job doesn't exist until it was given to sue gray. so it's not a job we've ever heard before. no one's being replaced here. we don't know where what the person was paid beforehand. it's a job within

government reporting to pat mcfadden, who runs the cabinet office. there's more efforts by this government to connect with the regional assemblies in wales and in scotland and northern ireland. there's a big meeting coming up shortly within the within the devolved heads and hopefully they'll be talking more to the prime minister. but you're right, we're not the ottoman empire. we're not we're not turks here. we do have a sustained uk. you might wonder why you need that role. i think what's interesting, maybe that that may be drawn out from this, that may be drawn out from this, that sue gray is back in the civil service running as this envoy that means she can't enter the house of lords in short order. there have been a rumour that she'd be off to the house of lords wrapped in red ermine, in ermine, and given a role in that legislative legislature. thatis that legislative legislature. that is unlikely now, given she's back in, back in the civil service. but what what this means for viewers and listeners is all is not gone. well, for this government to have to reset

your your government before the 100 day mark is up next week with a new chief of staff shows there's deep problems at the heart of a labour government. >> well, thank you very much indeed, christopher. hope our political editor, will speak to you a little bit later. what was the title again? >> sue grey's job envoy to the regions and the nations. >> this is quite creative. job creation isn't it? >> if sue gray is a problem , >> if sue gray is a problem, just ask her to leave government. don't shoehorn in some made made up jobs. some people were joking that she'd be travelling to wales and scotland in the regions to check out the latest fashion trends for keir starmer, i mean, will morgan mcsweeney get the same salary as sue gray, which of course was so controversial because it was more than the prime minister. >> will he take a lower salary? that was what a lot of people in the cabinet office were angry about, wasn't it? or at least in number 10. anyway, we shall see. so the house of lords isn't on the cards for now. this is good afternoon britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. we are of course going to be reflecting on the october the 7th anniversary. it's been one year now since that horrific terror attack. how

have things changed not only in israel, in the middle east and gaza and all over the region, but also here in in britain. that's next.

>> hello. welcome back. it's 126, ben and emily with you on good afternoon britain on gb news. and today of course marks one year since hamas terrorists massacred just under 1200 israelis, including 36 children, and taking 251 hostages in the process . process. >> process. >> yes. in a statement marking the anniversary, prime minister sir keir starmer described the attack as the darkest day in jewish history since the holocaust. >> to mark the anniversary, memorial events have been taking place across the country, including at the site of the nova music festival, where more than 350 people were gunned down. >> yes, the israeli flag was also lowered to half mast at the knesset in honour of those who perished in the attack.

>> let's discuss this further with gb news home and security edhoh with gb news home and security editor, mark white. good afternoon, mark, a pretty sombre day, i guess, when you look back at it. i was watching a bbc documentary the other night about the nova music festival. i think it was called the last dance or the final dance. it just reminded you of the evil that took place that day. people hiding in ice cream freezers while hamas terrorists ran riot across the site. and i guess it's fair to say that some people in the west, indeed in london, have forgotten about the depravity that took place that day. i think israel always knew that the support that they would gain in the aftermath of these absolutely horrific events would be finite, that it wouldn't take the people long around the world to see the news focus shift to their operations in the likes of gaza. >> and of course, the images that are coming out are of the

death and destruction in gaza as israel takes that fight to hamas. so sympathies shift and i think israel always knew that. but it tries to remind people wherever possible that this war is being prosecuted because israel can no longer tolerate a state of affairs, that a terrorist regime, such as the hamas terrorist organisation can be right there in a position to launch these. and it's it was her stated aim to launch further 7th of october style attacks and for the most part, israel will say that that operation has been successful because they have very significantly degraded hamas's capability to be a threat to israel. it's still a threat to israel. it's still a threat today. we had more in the way of rockets launched on several occasions into central israel and into the areas around

the gaza strip, but more symbolic than anything else to mark, of course, the one year anniversary of the 7th of october attacks for the most part, hamas has been very, very significantly degraded and that operation in gaza is winding down, allowing israel to go further to north concentrate on the threat from hezbollah, which is still very real. >> where does this desire to justify almost the actions or indeed celebrate in some in some cases , the actions of hamas and cases, the actions of hamas and now hezbollah come from it does often seem to be wrapped up in, in sort of far left rhetoric , anti—capitalism, anti—imperialism and all of that. >> yeah. i mean , it's shocking. >> yeah. i mean, it's shocking. there was this survey that's out by the campaign against anti semitism, which shows that 1 in

10 people surveyed in this country between the ages of 18 and 24, have sympathies for hamas, a roughly same number again, slightly more. don't believe a lot of what has been said about the horrific nature of the massacre that took place and the things that were done to civilians and young children, and also others . 16% of those and also others. 16% of those surveyed believing that actually hamas was justified in launching this horrific attack. what do you do with these people other than grab them by the scruff of the neck and take them down there to see exactly what was perpetrated by this terrorist group to see how babies on that day were slaughtered. whether you get into the debate of whether babies were beheaded or not, they were murdered . not, they were murdered. >> but they would point now to the number of civilian casualties in gaza. and also now

in lebanon, which goes back to the first point that i made there, that the images that are coming out are of israel now, taking that fight to hamas to prevent another october seventh style attack in future. >> and of course, the images are horrific and you've got to mourn the deaths of any civilians. but what israel would see with regard to that as well is that they believe 20,000 of the 42,000 people who have died in gaza, where hamas terrorists, and that it is extremely difficult to try to take a fight to a terrorist group that is the people effectively, that it is the fathers, the sons, the uncles, the brothers of those families and of people who are dying. they bury their terrorist infrastructure under hospitals and clinics and kindergartens. it is extremely difficult to try

to take out a terrorist group thatis to take out a terrorist group that is so immersed into the local population. >> okay, mark white home and security. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank forjoining us. >> thank you very much indeed. well, this is good afternoon, britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show , including new figures show, including new figures showing that apparently the united kingdom has the largest population of illegal immigrants than any other european country. >> and that's just the ones we know about. by the way, these are these figures come from where oxford university, no less. >> right? >> right? >> okay. i'd say maybe double it . >> okay. i'd say maybe double it. >> okay. i'd say maybe double it. >> we'll find out more after the news with sophie reaper . news with sophie reaper. >> thank you. emily. it's just after 1:30. and these are the latest headlines this morning. people across israel 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 . parliament hostages to gaza. parliament returns today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place up and down the country 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, left 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 chief of staff role instead. earlier shadow leader of the house of commons, chris philp, told gb news that this is just one example of labour chaos . 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. >> new analysis has found that 10,000 children have fallen into poverty as a result of the two child benefit limit since labour took to 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. happen due to the state of the uk's public finances . a protest uk's public finances. a protest is being held outside parliament 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 per year. the union are now encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse this decision to make these cuts

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>> hello. welcome back. 139 you're with ben and emily on good afternoon britain. only on gb news now britain has the most illegal migrants in europe. >> yes, this is according to a new study. every 1 in 100 people in britain is an illegal migrant. that's according to the research by the university of oxford. >> in total, 745,000 illegal migrants live in the uk. and that's more than double when compared to france. >> well, joining us now is human rights lawyer david. hey, david. thank you very much indeed. i mean, i am getting questions in the inbox saying, how on earth can oxford university know this ? can oxford university know this? >> well, absolutely. good afternoon to you both. i mean , i afternoon to you both. i mean, i think, ben, when you mentioned earlier on, it's probably much more than that. you know, i think the oxford university is as clueless as the home office when it comes to counting. counting migrants. and there simply is no effective way for us to know who is in the country

and who isn't. much the same as the european countries they mentioned in the study as well. so we simply don't know who's here. so how can they come to that number? i would imagine it's considerably more. >> so , david, how much of >> so, david, how much of a national security threat is this? we've got if you're to believe oxford's research, we've got record amounts of illegal migrants compared to any other european nation. we don't know where a lot of them are. should the public be concerned? >> i think the more of a concern for me is, i mean, you know, just because someone's a, you know, an illegal migrant or asylum seeker doesn't necessarily mean they're a bad person. i think more of a concern is that we just don't know who is in this country and who isn't, whether they're illegal or otherwise or visiting you know, there's no mechanism that's accurate of when let's say, for example, let's look last, last. i think up until march, you had just under half a million student visas. when those student visas expire , we those student visas expire, we don't know for sure if those students have gone back to their

country or stayed here illegally. so we have no clue who is here and who isn't. so it's a wider issue, i think, than just actual people coming across illegally. we need to know who's in the country and who isn't . it's i think it's as who isn't. it's i think it's as simple as that. >> yeah, we've heard from the new government. yvette cooper, the home secretary in particular, about how she's going to, you know, try and find illegal immigrants and sort this issue out , tackling places like issue out, tackling places like nail salons or car washes. most recently, people have been talking about how delivery app services are being used by illegal migrants. how much is this an impossible? is this an impossible task ? impossible task? >> i think no, i mean, i think the first thing you know, we're an island, so it should be easy. certainly easier in a country like france , with very borders like france, with very borders across europe, we should be able to find a mechanism to check people when they come in and check people when they go out, and to make sure they go out. so that would mean to me, one of the first things we should do. and i think, emily, i've

mentioned it before, when we look at passport controls, you know, i lived in the middle east for a long time and when in the country where i went to when i went in and when i went out, my passport was checked and my visa. and, you know, in that case, if i'd overstayed or anything like that, i would be in serious trouble. we don't have that. we don't have those passport checks. generally, when we go out, we rely on things like api data, which really, you know, really, really doesn't do the job. so i think there are so many more things we need to be doing than, than going to a few nail salons and a few car washes, but it's going to take a long time. you know, the system is completely broken. so there's many, many things that need to be done, and it's going to take a long, long time. and the figures, like i said before, are going to get a lot worse before they get better. and the study today, i think it's the tip of the iceberg, david, practically. >> and let's imagine we're still in the echr at this point. could we do mass deportations of illegal migrants , as donald illegal migrants, as donald trump has pledged to do in america? i think nine out of ten trump supporters in america vote mass deportations of illegal migrants. could we do that here?

because nigel farage was asked in an interview the other week by our us reporter, steve edgington, and he said it just wouldn't be possible. it wouldn't be possible. it wouldn't be. it wouldn't be possible. is that right? can we just not get a mass deportation operation off the ground? >> i mean, from a logistic perspective, you know, and from a legal perspective, i mean, you can do it, but you're effectively breaking the various laws. echr would be one of them. so, you know, you look at other countries that have ignored echr rulings so it could be done, but then we're breaching existing laws that we did at one point enter into, or they developed with case law. so technically it's possible, but it's breaking laws. and that's obviously one of the big debates you've seen with the echr whether or not that's something that should be ignored, whether or not we should come out of that. but again, you know, i think under certainly under starmer, it's clear that we are not going to be leaving the echr . be leaving the echr. >> no, but the a lot of the tory leadership hopefuls, not least robert jenrick, who we just spoke to, is adamant that he would take us out of the echr

with or without a referendum. thank you david. hey, we'll have to leave it there. great to speak to you . immigration lawyer speak to you. immigration lawyer now human rights lawyer ontologies. john says that's why we need id cards. i haven't got a problem with that. now, does that send alarm bells ringing for you? >> it sounds like tony blair. that's tony blair, sounds like tony blair. >> but is that. what is that ? is >> but is that. what is that? is that what's needed to sort this problem out? i mean , that is an problem out? i mean, that is an issue, isn't it, that you simply just don't know who's who. you can use public services, for example, without showing id? >> yeah . or as david suggested, >> yeah. or as david suggested, just stop them coming in in the first place if they're not meant to be here illegally, i just many of you stay at home and i say as well, i just don't understand practically how i'm going to sound like a you know, maybe a bit barmy here, but britain used to rule the waves, you know, we conquered the world. we had the british empire but cancelled for that. i know, but cancelled for that. i know, but it's. i just don't understand it. but now we can't stop rubber dinghies crossing the english channel en masse, which is, apart from anything else, is a massive national

security threat. i don't understand it, i really don't. >> it is a bit pathetic, isn't it? you have these politicians of all stripes saying yes , we of all stripes saying yes, we will stop the boats. we will get to grips with this issue. we understand how important it is to have border control and yet we have a record day, a record weekend, a record week record month, record year . month, record year. >> yeah. and yeah. expect more records on the way. peta on gbnews.com/yoursay you say these illegal migrant figures from the government are lies? in 2019, there was a report from migrationwatch printed in the times that the uk had 1.2 million illegal migrants, the highest in the eu. current estimates after another five years is that there are now 3.8 million illegal migrants in the uk. yeah, as i said , i don't if uk. yeah, as i said, i don't if you get any government figures, i reckon double them if you're going to be conservative. >> that's the thing. no one actually knows, no one knows. no one actually knows. oh well, this is good afternoon britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. i don't know if you've seen, but there's a shocking video of a man who's been described as evil and old. from my neck of the

woods, from your neck of the woods? yeah. brighton. lovely. brighton. really kind . brighton, brighton. really kind. brighton, you know, very progressive brighton. well, he's pictured destroying a memorial for those who died at the october 7th massacre. so that's isn't it? terrible.

welcome back. now, as israel marks one year since the october 7th hamas terror attack, a brighton man has been branded evil and disgusting for destroying a memorial to the victims of the massacre. >> the man was filmed tossing flowers and throwing a plaque before being confronted by a member of the public who stood between him and the memorial. you can see him there trashing the memorial. i think it's fair to say just mindless. >> let's get the thoughts now of heidi beckham, organiser of the palmyra memorial group down in brighton in east sussex. good afternoon, heidi, thank you for joining us. can you just explain the thinking behind doing this kind of thing? and it kind of reminds me of tearing down the

stickers of the missing hostages as well. early shortly after the attack last year. what's the what what is the thinking here? what's the mentality ? what's the mentality? >> i think that israel and israelis and then jews in turn, have become so dehumanised lately that people think that they can do that kind of thing, and it makes sense to them. >> and did you see this memorial for yourself? and clearly people had placed a notes and flowers and well wishes , and we know and well wishes, and we know that there is still a 100 odd hostages being kept by hamas in gaza. i mean, this must be not only upsetting, but it must also make people fearful in the community that there could be someone around who has so much hatred . hatred. >> yeah, the memorial has been running for 11 months now, and it's a group of volunteers that

that do it every single night. we go and we dedicate a service to a different victim of the massacre to humanise them, to be in the public space, because quite often our streets are full of hateful people , and we wanted of hateful people, and we wanted to be visibly grieving and not let them control the public square . so we have been doing square. so we have been doing that every month , every night, that every month, every night, and that memorial has been attacked 25 times now in various different forms by different people. and at the moment there is somebody who's relentlessly putting anti—semitic graffiti around the bus stops around that square. you can see the bus going past in the video. there's a bus stop just there, and somebody is relentlessly writing. actually, hamas supporting the inverted red triangle. that's been put there in full like view of the memorial and a deliberate

provocation. so we've been deaung provocation. so we've been dealing with this for a long time now. and but this one is the first time that we've seen it caught on camera like that. and actually the ferocity of that attack is, is quite something like we haven't seen that kind of absolutely hateful rage before. and it's really upsetting. it actually happened on rosh hashanah, which is the jewish new year, and that was on thursday. and so we arrived at the memorial that evening to dedicate to a victim of the massacre. and we found it in, in this terrible state, and we could tell that it had been worse , because i think perhaps worse, because i think perhaps that man that intervened that hero to us, he may have tidied up a bit, because when we arrived it was a little bit more put together and looked a bit more normal. but we could tell that things were not right. so we also are hearing that that man may have harassed some jewish people on the seafront

after trashing the memorial, so it was clearly connected with the jewish community explicitly. and rather than just people say it's anti—israel or about the ceasefire or whatever about atrocities, but actually we're seeing a lot of this hate is actually about anti—semitism. >> yeah. it just seems like there i mean , 25 times heidi has there i mean, 25 times heidi has left me gobsmacked that you mentioned it's been attacked so many times. but these kind of people, they just feel they don't care. it's broad daylight. they don't care who sees them. they don't care who sees them. they feel emboldened, i guess, to do this kind of thing. for what reason? i don't know, because it changes nothing. and it comes in a city i live near brighton. it comes in a so—called progressive city. it's meant to be quite tolerant and accepting and liberal and sharing diverse ideas. >> yeah. so we jews don't count, right? so we don't count in the sense the community doesn't countin sense the community doesn't count in the sense of the liberal and progressive approach to hate. and racism. so what we've seen, we saw a really

amazing reaction to far right racism recently, where the whole community turned out and rejected them, or only six of them in the end, but rejected them. and we support that. but on that same demonstration, they were chanting for the destruction of israel. >> so there's a double standard going on, isn't there ? on, on, going on, isn't there? on, on, on what sort of bigotry people stand up against. but thank you very much. really appreciate your time. heidi. backroom organiser, organiser of the palmyra memorial group. shocking . palmyra memorial group. shocking. just the way he's just trashing a memorial to people who are being kept hostage or who have sadly died. anyway, lots more coming up on today's show. don't go anywhere. we are going to be talking about what's been going on. >> 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 afternoon. >> time for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb. news more heavy showers around this evening and for some

well, a few thundery downpours. also quite gusty. close to those heavy showers all from this an area of low pressure just sitting out to the west and spiralling bands of showery rain our way. this weather fronts made for a dull and damp day across parts of northern scotland that's not moving too far, but elsewhere the showers are moving in some big thunderstorms this evening over south wales and southern counties of england. that's where we have a met office yellow warning in place, something a bit drier for northern ireland and northern england for most of the night. but this band of showery rain may get to northern ireland by dawn , also spreading across dawn, also spreading across eastern parts of england too, keeping the temperatures up for sure double digits for many clearer skies over northern england and southern scotland will allow temperatures to dip down to single figures to on tuesday. it's another day where there'll be some sunshine , but there'll be some sunshine, but there'll be some sunshine, but there will also be further showers coming in from the word 90, showers coming in from the word go, really. across southern england and south wales. perhaps a drier start, but a bit misty over parts of northern england and the midlands. and showery

rain too , crossing through rain too, crossing through northern ireland. southern scotland may well start dry, but noficein scotland may well start dry, but notice in northern scotland where the wind is coming from a northerly breeze that'll bring a chill here. even though it will be a bit of a drier day across the far north compared to today. further south, though, well , further south, though, well, it'll be far from dry. it will be sunny at times, but look at these showers. you can see there these showers. you can see there the circulation. that's where the circulation. that's where the low pressure is sitting. getting closer and closer to south wales. southern counties of england bombarded by showers . of england bombarded by showers. and so we'll see this zone of wetter weather across southeast scotland, northern england and the east of northern ireland too. quite a chill with those northerly winds in the north, but actually quite mild in the south. when the sun is out like today, we could get to 18, maybe 19 celsius come wednesday. more of the same heavy showers over some parts of central and eastern england, staying pretty wet across north—east england and southeast scotland, but a bit drier, maybe for

>> good afternoon britain. it's 2:00 on monday. the 7th of october. >> i'm emily carver and i'm ben leo. >> well, labour are in a bit of turmoil, aren't they? one former senior adviser to tony blair says starmer's government has completely lost grip after sue gray was ousted from her role as number 10 chief of staff. a question, i guess, is how much is labour really achieved in their first 100 days in power and one year on from the october 7th massacre in israel? >> shocking new figures show sympathy and support for hamas on britain's streets as israel marks the anniversary of the devastating tragedy last year and migration nation britain is home to more illegal migrants than any other european country, with researchers at oxford university claiming that now 1% of the entire population of

britain is in the country illegally . illegally. and of course, it was meant to be the government. the administration of grown up politics, getting things done without scandal and cronyism. do you remember andrew marr talking about it? isn't it nice to have the grown ups back in the room? lots of other commentators as well, getting in on the same vibe. but here we are, 100 days in. >> i've heard some people who would be naturally supportive of keir starmer's government talk about how. keir starmer is showing he's ruthless and about how, you know, in the current climate it's almost impossible to run a government or a country. i mean, they didn't give boris johnson or liz truss or rishi sunak that level of slack, did they? well, surely there's some incompetence here. >> there was something breaking in the last couple of minutes. i've just lost it. but alastair campbell, tony blair's former communications director, his spin doctor, apparently complaining that the british press, the written press and the

broadcasters are giving this labour government a harder time than the tories. but what do you think of that? gb news com forward slash your say? is there some bias from the press towards this labour government? i seem to recall in the first week or so the absolute loathing for labouh so the absolute loathing for labour. as i said, people like andrew marr, all the newspapers and broadcasters saying how nice it was to have the adults back in the room. do you remember that phrase? yeah. >> i mean, this freebie gate has done some damage, hasn't it? and the winter fuel payments to a lot of people voted labour and that wasn't in the manifesto, and they did not believe that they'd be taking welfare away from pensioners at the expense, by the way, of a £22 billion carbon capture scheme, which has been widely slammed for that. are you carbon capture? nobody is carbon capture. >> even the green zealots don't like it. they say it doesn't work. £11 billion in climate aid, £14 billion to public sector pay workers, two and a half grand spectacles, but 8 billion for gb energy, which is not going to produce any energy, but it might create a few office

jobs. arsenal tickets, taylor swift tickets. you know , lord swift tickets. you know, lord alli new york penthouse over. >> he's paid back the money for the taylor swift tickets. he's paid back that. and he's paid back something else. >> oh, six grand's worth of freebies. but if he did nothing wrong, why are you paying money back? yes. i thought it was all going to change the rules. >> he's going to change the rules and make them very, very good. very proper. >> we'll be heading to chopper very shortly outside downing street. i want to ask him about sue grey's new role. it's come completely out of nowhere. envoy to the regions and the nations i didn't think were such a big empire. it's quite good, doesn't it? >> envoy to the regions and the nations. >> is she getting her 170 k salary still? has it been reduced ? we'll find out fairly shortly. >> well, let's get the. >> well, let's get the. >> good afternoon to you. it's just after 2:00. and these are your latest gb news headlines . your latest gb news headlines. this morning, people across israel 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 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 by chief rabbis of 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 reflection and pain. thinking about october 7, 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 damari, 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 . 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 returns today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place for the past few weeks. mps are now back at westminster, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after yesterday's departure of the pm's chief of staff, after yesterday's departure of the pm's chief of staff , sue the pm's chief of staff, sue gray. this has prompted sir keir to reshuffle his staff, with the

leader of labour's general election campaign , morgan 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 to us do. >> elsewhere in politics, reform uk is preparing a private prosecution of the men involved in a violent altercation with police officers at manchester airport in july. mps have written to the home secretary claiming the officers involved have been thrown under the bus, and that the alleged assailants are being given special different treatment . in their different treatment. in their letter, they also claim that a senior police officer overruled a recommendation to release footage of the incident, which was later leaked to a newspaper.

reform mp rupert lowe told our reporter charlie peters that the investigation needed to be resolved urgently. >> when you see a video like that and we've had, i think, an 11 week delay so far, you've got people's lives on hold and it's not fair. on the police officers involved . so it needs to be involved. so it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved quickly and it needs to be resolved fairly and with common sense. >> a protest is taking place outside parliament today following the government's controversial decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners . last month, labour 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 per 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. new analysis has found that 10,000 children have fallen into poverty as a result of the two child benefit limit since labour took to 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 finally, a costs hearing is 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 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 battle rumbles on as questions are being asked on both sides about which costs should reasonably be paid for. well, 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 , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

slash alerts. >> well good afternoon britain. it's now 2:09. now labour as they approach their first 100 days in office. how much trouble is sir keir starmer and his government actually in. >> number 10 has been plunged into yet more disarray today as sue gray sensationally quits her role over the weekend as the prime minister's chief of staff over fears she'd become distraction. >> that's one reading of it. her exit follows reports of tensions in downing street, including with the prime minister's chief adviser, morgan mcsweeney, who has suddenly managed to step straight into her role. >> yes, but number 10 at the moment, as of the last half an houh moment, as of the last half an hour, refusing to say how much mcsweeney will be paid. but sue gray, of course, his predecessor, is best known for leading the partygate investigation into boris johnson that ultimately led to his demise. okay. >> well, joining us now is our political editor, christopher hope. christopher, it's quite a thing for a prime minister after

only about 100 days in to office appear to completely reconfigure his setup at number 10. >> hi, ben. hi, emily. that's right. well, i can't think of an example of this. and i've been around politics for about nearly three, three decades now. i think it is my last counted. i can't remember this happening before. it does show a degree of concern at the top of government about this direction. i mean, many would say it may have been a mistake by rachel reeves to tell us, as she did in that press conference in rolls—royce dunng press conference in rolls—royce during the election campaign, that she wouldn't have the budget until the obr had had ten weeks to check out her plans. and that's why the budget is so late at this. in this government's setting up, october 30th. other governments have had a quick budget, established the direction of travel and move on with the agenda. this government has been hamstrung by this concern about spooking the markets after the after the liz truss debacle, and therefore they haven't had this budget until they've got obr agreement to what's in it. and that's why

it's so late and that's why so little is happening on the news side. and that's why i think that the government has allowed itself to be battered by these . itself to be battered by these. the stories about free glasses for the prime minister suits length flats here in new york by lord alli and the like. and they appear to be a rabbit in headlights when confronted by these stories , by journalists, these stories, by journalists, not by the opposition. the tory party hasn't even got a leader yet and won't have one until the 2nd of november. so yeah, it's been a mess. i would say they started well. the first three weeks were quite kind of busy until parliament rose for the break in the in august and since then it's been pretty dreadful for the labour government. >> chopper what do you make of alastair campbell's comments this morning? of course, tony blair's former spin doctor who said that this labour government is being held to higher standards than previous conservative governments by the press. is that fair ? press. is that fair? >> well, it's patently nonsense

from alastair campbell. i mean, he's a guy who, of course, is well regarded in in spin doctor circles. he spun very well for the tory. the labour government from 1997 to, i think 2004, 2005, when he left the government. but simply the press are holding this government to the same standard that labour held it to when it was in power. it went on and on about the various misdeeds by boris johnson over over the alleged wallpaper on his walls, the donations and the like, and of course , partygate, which is very course, partygate, which is very serious because so many of us were locked down by the covid pandemic. but those are the standards we're holding this government to. and it's ridiculous of him to say that. >> thank you very much. strong stuff. christopher hope, our political editor. there . outside political editor. there. outside number 10. we'll catch up with you a little bit later. well, joining us now is a former labour adviser, paul richards. paul labour adviser, paul richards. paul, are the labour government being held to different standards by the press? are they unfairly getting a bit of a kicking? >> i'm afraid my sound has just

gone off. >> oh, i think the sound we're having issues with the sound. paul having issues with the sound. paul. we'll come back to you, which is a shame. it is quite funny, this narrative emerging that you know, all of these evil right wing journalists. >> oh, boo . who do you know what >> oh, boo. who do you know what you play those games. you. you topple governments because of cake in downing street. and whatever else and wallpaper in downing street. you set the standards. that's the rules. you set, you set. you were responsible for that. so people would argue if you want to play the game by such strict and tough rules, then i guess, to be quite frank, suck it up. this is it. you're in government now, andifs it. you're in government now, and it's a lot easier to cheer from the sidelines and points and wail from the sidelines as it is actually running the country and away from the freebie gate and things like that, which some people would think were trivial . think were trivial. >> there's massive mistakes when it comes to as as christopher hope said, the timing of this october budget, there has been such a long period for the media and everyone else to speculate on what is going to be in that

budget, and budgets are incredibly important for what? consumer confidence, business confidence, the economy, how people behave in the economy, what investments people make, what investments people make, what spending decisions people make , all of that, and they've make, all of that, and they've just left it open to weeks and mopen ' " ' ' left it opren'to' 77 7 7 left it open'to weeks 7 7 left it opren'to weeks and 7 weeks and weeks of speculation. just left it open to weeks and weeks and weeks of speculation. and it's no wonder that, you and it's no wonder that, you know, you've got millionaires know, you've got millionaires leaving, you've got consumer leaving, you've got consumer confidence down, talking about confidence down, talking about millionaires leaving britain. millionaires leaving britain. >> there is a it's embargoed, so >> there is a it's embargoed, so i can't reveal too much. but i can't reveal too much. but there's a big report out in the there's a big report out in the morning about millionaires morning about millionaires leaving britain. and let's just leaving britain. and let's just say it's not pretty. alastair say it's not pretty. alastair campbell, by the way, in his campbell, by the way, in his interview on radio four this interview on radio four this morning, he went on to say morning, he went on to say holding a budget, holding a budget, morning, he went on to say holding a budget , failing, holding a budget, failing, rather failing to hold a budget morning, he went on to say holding a budget , failing, holding a budget, failing, rather failing to hold a budget so soon after the election was a so soon after the election was a mistake. as you've just said, mistake. as you've just said, emily, leaving it so long with emily, leaving it so long with so many question marks is so many question marks is proving a grave error. proving a grave error. >> and i agree with alistair on >> and i agree with alistair on that one at least. that one at least. >> citi analyst this morning was >> citi analyst this morning was saying that even, for example, saying that even, for example, the house prices are creeping up the house prices are creeping up slowly. mortgage applications slowly. mortgage applications are increasing. there's a bit are increasing. there's a bit more confidence back in the more confidence back in the market. interest rates are market. interest rates are

slowly falling and they're now slowly falling and they're now suggesting that because of this turmoil and question marks over capital gains tax increases , capital gains tax increases, inheritance tax, will they be borrowing lots more money? there's now a bit more concern in the

rishi sunak call an election when he did? why did keir starmer yank fuel payments from pensioners so soon after? it's a bit politically naive. >> well, apparently, according to the public, keir starmer is now more sleazy than rishi sunak , now more sleazy than rishi sunak, so go figure. anyway, this is good afternoon britain on gb news. we're going to take a very short break we're also going to be talking about that decision to slap vat on

welcome back. 219 ben and emily with you on good afternoon britain only on gb news now new polling carried out on behalf of the campaign against antisemitism has found what they called concerning levels of support for hamas among among young people in britain. yes. >> so the 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. so much more support among what you'd call

gen z. >> and we saw that, of course, on saturday at the protest in london, there were images of people holding iranian flags, hezbollah flags and placards. >> i love hezbollah. great. okay. >> yeah. well, joining us now to discuss this is executive director of the henry jackson society, alan mendoza. good afternoon, alan, thanks for joining us. where is this from? the younger cohort would suggest that it's maybe social media inspired as it's all sort of gen z—ers . z—ers. >> yeah, i think this is very much the thing we've seen happen for some time with this cohort. >> it is that obviously social media is a prime way that they consume news and understand news and a lot of social media in this conflict has been very, very biased against israel and frankly, in favour of the terrorists. so it might be of no surprise that we've got some young people who've been lulled into believing that this is the real deal, as it were , with real deal, as it were, with this, because the police can make as many arrests at these protests where people are holding up placards for example,

or chanting things that are in direct support, obvious support for a terrorist group. >> but it's much more difficult to change how people think, isn't it? alan? >> yeah, totally. i mean , the >> yeah, totally. i mean, the marches are one thing you've got obviously egregious examples of anti—semitism and of pro—terrorist support there. and you mentioned that the police arrests them. actually, a lot of the time they don't arrest them. the worrying thing is that, you know, we hear that they might arrest them afterwards. but i think one of the big problems of the marches, as opposed to, for example, what happened in the disgraceful scenes this summer when the police did act very quickly, is that justice is not seen to be being done at the protest marches. you see arrests, you know, being made afterwards. but what we what the pubuc afterwards. but what we what the public really want is for criminality to be called out there and then that will leave a much last, you know, more vaster impression on people and might actually change people's minds if you see that the broader question you're asking about social media of course, in the sense of how do you change mindsets there? well, we have to

have an understanding of what social media is, and people think, you know, it's some pubuc think, you know, it's some public service production. it isn't. social media is run by private companies. and, you know, some of these companies are very open to allowing disinformation on their platforms. and that disinformation then does, you know, obviously cause people to believe, oh, that's real, that's true. it might shape their mind in that set. and there's got to be a whole pushback, hasn't there, in the information area to make sure that lies are rooted out and the truth gets told. now how do you do that? it's a very long conversation, but that's the heart of what we're trying to get at. >> difficult, isn't it, alan? because you don't want to go down, you know, the line of censoring information because we know that facts change. we know that yesterday's falsehood could be today's truth and so on and so forth. very difficult to get a grip on that type of information . information. >> well, we do, emily, but there are some truths that we know for example, we know that hamas is a is an evil terrorist group. no amount of changing that. they're not going to become the on the

side of the angels tomorrow. so part of it is about working out what are the things we can look at on these channels, and what are the things that, as you say, are the things that, as you say, are much more nuanced and much more, you know, kind of careful. i mean, a great example of the latter was, of course, during the covid pandemic , you weren't the covid pandemic, you weren't allowed on facebook to say that china might have been something to do with it because that was deemed not to be, you know, part of the narrative. of course, it turned out afterwards that that was very much part of the narrative. so there's a good example there of, of, of where censorship could take you. so the challenge is how do you go for the absolutes? how do you make sure that there is better behaviour by these companies on their channels, on their works, that we don't have people lulled into absolute lies without, of course, restricting people's abilities to talk about around some of the issues and express differing opinions on them. >> alan, i was just laughing in disbelief there because we were showing footage of some idiot in london flying a taliban flag at some protest recently. but let me ask you about the government's role in all this, because we've had, you know, statements from david lammy

today, sir keir starmer gave a statement about the october 7th attacks and even sadiq khan gave attacks and even sadiq khan gave a statement which mentioned the hostages just once and then sort of ranted on about other, other issues. do they kind of not give the green light to anti—semitism, but they make it anti—semitism, but they make it a lot easier? don't they, when they do things like place arms embargoes on israel as if they've done something wrong ? they've done something wrong? >> yeah. i mean, i think the interesting part about what government can and can't do here is we heard in the summer again, we heard zero tolerance on these issues. we heard 24 hour courts. we saw justice being done to, you know, to sort of some of these rioters, things like that happening the same thing is not happening the same thing is not happening here. so when we get this kind of criticism of if you like, either two tier policing or two tier influencing from the top, we can see it, you know, writ large here. what we should be seeing is absolute condemnation of the terrorist attacks of october. the seventh, of the people who are, in some

cases supporting those attacks and the people who've just got it, frankly , wrong on the middle it, frankly, wrong on the middle east, where our democratic ally israel has been plunged into a war for its very survival against people who want to destroy it. and kill its people, brutally murder and rape them, and kidnap them and that sort of way. that's not been happening. and so until we hear that, there's always going to be a sense, isn't there, from some people that, oh, actually, it's okay to do these things. it's okay to do these things. it's okay to do these things. it's okay to sort of be supportive of that argument rather than understanding. there's a much broader civilizational point that needs to be made. >> you've got this very strange alliance of the far left and also islamists in this country, which isn't very helpful. alan mendoza, thank you very much . mendoza, thank you very much. executive director of the henry jackson society of course. >> okay. let's see now if we can go back to paul richards, who is down the line. paul, can you hear us? former labour advisor paul richards , are you there? paul richards, are you there? >> paul richards, we're going to get to paul richards. yes, we

are indeed. >> paul, thank you very much for staying. >> i can hear you loud and clear. >> wonderful. what a result. thank you for sticking around for us while we work things out . for us while we work things out. right. as a former labour adviser, what do you make of the first 100 days of this government? is keir starmer on the ropes ? is keir starmer on the ropes? is keir starmer on the ropes? is keir starmer on the ropes? >> well, the last labour government had this this thing called the grid and it's the idea was that announcements would be made as part of a plan. they wouldn't clash with each other and every minister, whether they're a senior cabinet minister or not, had to bid to get onto the grid. so to get their announcement up and i don't get the sense there's been that same level of coordination in government over the last three months. i don't know how you guys feel, but it feels a little bit like it's been a bit haphazard. so i can't help but feel that the getting a grip on it this week with the announcements over the last 48 hours is going to help. i mean, there have been some very big announcements you may disagree with them, but things like gb energy and things like the carbon capture and nationalising

the railways, but it's been drowned out. frustratingly for labouh drowned out. frustratingly for labour, by all this froth about glasses and tickets for taylor swift. so a grid will help putting somebody in charge of comms will help, and having a clear person in charge of the chief of staff role will help. >> but paul, it's not quite froth, is it? because this is the same kind of sleaze and scandal that labour were pointing at the tories when they were in power? so, as i mentioned in the previous half, an hour, if you're going to spend your time in opposition complaining about such behaviour, you've got to expect the same back . the same back. >> i don't think it's of the same scale, though. if you look at the sort of amounts involved with boris johnson's administration and certainly the ppe procurement scandal, which is still being unearthed with the fast tracking of mates for contracts and all of that, it's not quite the same as some designer glasses. i agree utterly that it looks bad, and the optics of this look terrible, and it has blown the government off course . but i government off course. but i think when the historians look

back at this period, it's not this that they'll remember. they'll remember nationalising the railways and the other things i mentioned. so, you know, it is it is here today, gone tomorrow. and i think it's something that the government recognises. it has to get a grip on because people are a bit frustrated and you know, that's fair enough. i think people have the right to be a bit annoyed by the right to be a bit annoyed by the first 100 days not being quite as glittering as they could have been. >> yeah, i mean, is it just this freebie stuff , sue gray stuff freebie stuff, sue gray stuff and the like? that's hitting labouh and the like? that's hitting labour, is it not? the more substantial things as well? cutting winter fuel payments and exactly the same time as you give whopping pay rises to pubuc give whopping pay rises to public sector workers, is it not the early release scheme that actually saw violent criminals let out, even though they promised they would? and is it not all this talk about a £22 billion financial black hole? but then you find money for absolutely everything, including carbon capture and gb energy, which won't actually produce any energy. it will just probably create a few office jobs up in aberdeen. there are substantial

things that have gone wrong and also, you know, no chance of stopping the boats either. that's gone up . that's gone up. >> well, i don't think anything substantial actually has gone wrong. i mean, i think there's some issues around the sequencing of some of these announcements. so why on earth would you put pensions up with the triple lock and only do that afterwards, when you've said that there's going to be a possible cut to winter fuel allowance, you know, things like that are missteps that could have been avoided. i would pick up chopper on a point, though, from the things that he was saying earlier from downing street. i think that this government is being held to a different account, a different, different account, a different, different standard to previous conservative governments and i think labour is always held to a different standard simply because, you know, the media looks at us in a very different way. and i think alastair campbell's point actually is, well made. so i would just push back on that point. >> paul, i guess you say that it's not in the same scale as bons it's not in the same scale as boris johnson and the ppe and the covid contracts, but the problem is okay, maybe let's say

you're right, for argument's sake, the problem is keir starmer and labour have spent years banging on about how virtuous they are, how they're going to be a government of service. and, you know, we're the good guys, we're going to do things properly. so when they do that and they go and commit even a fraction of what the tories did, you know you it's going to be no surprise when the press are going to hold them to account in such a way. >> i totally get that , tom. i'm >> i totally get that, tom. i'm not suggesting that this has been a wonderful three months, but i would say that people will judge this government by its deeds and not by some of the headunes. deeds and not by some of the headlines . and if you look at headlines. and if you look at the pretty substantial things that have already been announced, we've also, you know, got this big investment summit coming up in ten days. we've got the budget coming up at the end of the month. there's going to be some pretty major announcements coming up that will actually impact on people's real lives . and i think that's real lives. and i think that's the things that the government should be held to account for, not whether or not somebody went to see taylor swift. i just think it is a matter of degree. and the impact on people's lives in real life, you know, and

that's what we should be judged on. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed, paul richards, former labour adviser. i mean, there's so much to talk about. i mean, lord waheed alli, he's still under investigation , isn't still under investigation, isn't he? yeah. you've got i mean, it's not just a couple of taylor swift tickets, is it? do we still know exactly why keir starmer was using that £18 million penthouse for so long, over the summer months, was it really because his son had his gcses to revise for? yeah , i gcses to revise for? yeah, i mean there's so many things and they're so evasive. that's the issue. it's almost as if, how dare you ask me a question about this? >> as i said, they they think they're the good guys and the tories and anyone slightly right of centre are the bad guys. so they shouldn't have to. it's just i mean, some argue it's pure arrogance and interesting. the two interventions this morning, one from alastair campbell, of course, tony blair's former comms director, spin doctor at downing street who said as well as saying that labour are being held to different standards, he says that keir starmer can't afford too many more missteps so soon after taking power, and again from john mcternan, who served as tony blair's political

secretary when he was in downing street , he said that the street, he said that the government had completely lost grip, of course, in recent weeks. so two blair allies, two former blair colleagues who are making pubuc blair colleagues who are making public interventions this morning , is that a coincidence? morning, is that a coincidence? is tony blair behind the scenes kind of giving some warning shots? >> stranger things have happened. i mean, there's talk of boris johnson wanting to get back into politics. could he be prime minister again? oh, that would be odd, wouldn't it ? would be odd, wouldn't it? >> analogy, he said i can't remember. he had a funny analogy to camilla tominey something. what was it? yeah, some boris, i don't know , brianna ghey analogy. >> maybe we'll come back to it. we'll remember during the break. sometimes things just fly out of your head on on live television and in general. anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show. yes. could another u—turn be in sight when it comes to private schools and that extra tax load for parents? that's next. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's just after 2:30. and these are your latest headlines . it's just after 2:30. and these are your latest headlines. this morning, people across israel

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, to according israeli figures, hamas killed some 1200 people and took about 250 hostages to gaza . 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 . 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 has returned today following a recess for the various party conferences, which have been taking place over the past few weeks . mps are back at weeks. mps are back at westminster, but their return coincides with further controversy for the government after the pm's chief of staff, sue gray, left her job 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, shadow leader of the house of commons chris philp, told gb news 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 catastrophically, and i think this sue gray debacle is an example of that . example of that. >> new analysis has found that 10,000 children have fallen into poverty as a result of the two child benefit limit since labour took to 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. a protest is being held outside parliament 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 per 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. those are your latest gb news headunes those are your latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophie reaper more in the next half. an hour from will hollis 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

>> hello. welcome back to 39 with ben and emily on good afternoon britain. only on gb news and on standby is martin daubney who's up at 3 pm. with his cracking show. martin, what's in your bag of tricks this afternoon ? this afternoon? >> good afternoon guys. got two sensational exclusives today on this happy monday. first of all, the worst offenders, the foreign prisoners clogging up british jails. i spent my weekend sad as i am crunching some numbers an astonishing 35 nationalities more likely to end up in jail than brits. top of the league of shame albanians. an astonishing 14.5 times more likely to end up in our necks than brits. what are they doing here? time to deport them. plus, should we make it harder for them to get to our country in the first place? second exclusive. an astonishing figure. just 3% of illegal immigrants who arrived in britain since 2018 have been deported. 3%, the rest just roaming around the country doing

whatever they want. and astonishingly, 80% of those here are military age men, men under 42 sensational exclusives that show we've totally lost control of our borders, and we've totally lost control of our prisons. three till 6 pm. >> okay, well, we'll stay tuned for that. martin. thank you very much indeed. you're on three till 6:00 this afternoon. and evening. yeah. >> an amazing investigation by the telegraph on saturday showing that foreign nationals are 30% higher, more likely to commit crime in britain than brits. so, as martin said , brits. so, as martin said, albanians kosovans are top of the list . somalians and the most the list. somalians and the most well—behaved nationalities or foreign nationals were greeks, italians, indians and chinese . italians, indians and chinese. >> you better have got that right. >> oh, definitely. yeah, but that's cheered us up nicely to our next conversation because apparently britain has the most illegal migrants in europe out of any country in the rest of the continent. yes, every 1 in 100 people in britain is an illegal migrant. that's

according to research by the university of oxford and in total , 745,000 illegal migrants total, 745,000 illegal migrants live in the uk. that's more than double when compared to france. >> okay. well, joining us now is former minister of state for legal migration and the borders, tom pursglove. thank you very much indeed forjoining us to much indeed for joining us to discuss all this. i mean, just going off what martin had to say there. it is true that a huge amount of space in our prisons is being taken up by foreign nationals who commit crime in this country. why is it so hard to, i don't know, send them to prison in their own country? >> well, it's fair to say that in recent years we have improved processes around trying to get foreign national offenders out of our jails. that was something that i know that previous justice secretaries, during my time in office worked very hard on. actually working with the pnson on. actually working with the prison service, working with ministers across government to try and improve that. the simple truth, however , is that illegal truth, however, is that illegal migration abstracts resources away from getting on and dealing with problems like this . and i with problems like this. and i think one of the things that really strikes me from this

report is of course, that that very concerning that headline figure, that 745,000 figure that has been touched on. but ultimately, unless we get a grip of the flow of people coming, i actually think these challenges are only going to get harder to deal with. >> and in defence of labour, they had changed their policy and their process of targeting foreign nationals who shouldn't be here. i think it's sajid javid's brother who's now the head of border force . yvette head of border force. yvette cooper sat down with him. according to reports in the times anyway, and said let's target nationalities who aren't here on persecution basis. they're not fleeing war. they're not fleeing persecution. the albanians, for example, the vietnamese, make up a big cohort and apparently they are deporting more foreign nationals than the tories were in their later years. >> well, i would say actually the work that james cleverly and michael tomlinson did in the home office in the months prior to the labour government coming to the labour government coming to office, were absolutely foundational in doing that. for example, i saw the press release over the summer that triumphantly said that a flight had been sent off to a country.

they wouldn't say which country it was, but with over 200 people on it, i know that the preparatory work for that was going on while we were in office and actually albania was touched on there. the partnership work that we had with albania shows that we had with albania shows that deterrence work. we saw a 90% reduction in small boat crossings from albania because of that very targeted work. and actually the albanian government have been very good historically at working with the uk government to take the returns of individuals with no right to be in the uk, as well as foreign national offenders, and i think thatis national offenders, and i think that is welcome. but there will be more to do now of course, there's a conservative leadership contest on at the moment. >> you've got james cleverly, you've got robert jenrick, you've got robert jenrick, you've got robert jenrick, you've got kemi badenoch and tom tugendhat, who's, who's your money behind and also who is the most likely to get to grips with this particular issue. if they do end up being prime minister? >> well, i'm supporting my old boss james cleverly, and together we cut legal migration numbers. >> we came forward and said that we wanted to, you know, as well as i do the package of measures

that we announced was the biggest cut in legal migration ever. >> eveh >> and we've seen real progress sustained towards getting that down by 300,000. >> tom, why did it get so high? why were visas given out like, you know, sweeties, i think you have to be honest about the realities of the time that we deau realities of the time that we dealt with. >> on the back of the pandemic. there was undoubtedly a need for social care staff across the country . you look at our country. you look at our response, i think the right response, i think the right response being very generous in relation to afghanistan , relation to afghanistan, ukraine, the conflict in syria, as well as the situation in hong kong that in large part accounts for those very large numbers. but what i think james spotted and what i spotted and felt very strongly about and still do was that, for example , university that, for example, university students do not need to be bringing dependents to the united kingdom, and we put a stop to that. that was something that i think was the right decision from the last government. i am worried that they are dismantling planks of that package of measures that will get these numbers under much better control than was previously the case. we were right to respond to those challenges at the time, but that was the whole point of the points based system in the

referendum. wanting to have control year to year of our borders, deciding the numbers according to the needs in our economy. and i think james gets that and on both that and illegal migration, he has delivered real, meaningful progress. >> james was the home secretary , >> james was the home secretary, though, isn't he? a bit of a busted flush? i mean, how are you meant to regain that trust record legal migration and illegal migration? you were the home secretary. he's really is there a route to leadership of there a route to leadership of the opposition? >> well, i think, you know, james had just over six months in the role as home secretary. and in that time, as i say, we put in place the steps to dramatically bring legal migration numbers down. that has been happening month on month. we've seen the progress. labour are dismantling the planks of that. and also when you look at illegal migration, for example, return numbers up , the number of return numbers up, the number of applications for asylum was down. and we just continue to forge ahead with the cooperation that we need. and he was also completely , stridently behind completely, stridently behind getting the rwanda partnership up in place, which we need to tackle illegal migration. >> okay, tom pursglove, former minister of state for legal migration and the border, thank

you for joining migration and the border, thank you forjoining us migration and the border, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you very much indeed. well, as you may know, there's a bit of a protest taking place outside parliament today. this is following the government's rather controversial decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for many, many millions of pensioners. >> controversial , to say the >> controversial, to say the least. well, 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 per year, which in the grand scheme of things and the trillion pound budget we've got or multi—trillion pound budget, is paltry to say the least . the paltry to say the least. the union unite are now encouraging people to speak out and join them as they lobby the government to reverse the decision to make the cuts ahead of the winter. months earlier on in the show, patrick christys spoke with the general secretary of the unite union, sharon graham. let's take a listen. >> most pensioners are not rich pensioners. they are not rich pensioners. they are not rich pensioners. most pensioners are on the breadline. you heard earlier on today they haven't put up the winter fuel allowance payment since two thousand and seven. so it's actually depreciating every year in terms of its value. what keir starmer needs to do is to actually

listen, not be tin eared, listen to what people are saying, reverse the decision, show you have a heart and put this back on. >> i mean, whether you support unite the union as a whole and a lot of their policy demands, i think on this one, they've got a hell of a lot of support. look , hell of a lot of support. look, huge amount of support. she's a fantastic campaigner. if nothing else. sharon graham yeah. >> yeah indeed. and look, i'm no political mastermind , but maybe political mastermind, but maybe in the same way the lobby journalists today are saying, oh, keir starmer, he's showing some strength and mettle by getting rid of sue gray. maybe keir starmer, the prime minister, will be advised to reverse the winter fuel allowance. he could then say look, britain supporters, voters, i am listening to you. i'm listening. you know, i'm not stuck in my ways. >> absolutely . we know how much >> absolutely. we know how much you care about this, £220,000 raised already for friends of the elderly. a lot of you saying , the elderly. a lot of you saying, why on earth should we have to do this? but there you go. yeah we do. >> you've been very, very generous with your donations to that. generous with your donations to that . patrick has organised that. patrick has organised friends for the elderly, £260,000 or £220,000.

>> target is 260,000. don't ask me why. the target is 260,000. i'll have to ask patrick. it's a good big number, isn't it? >> i think there was a reason i think from memory it was. that's how much the grant would have been from last year. >> okay, well , i should have >> okay, well, i should have known that, shouldn't i? anyway, coming up, apparently there's a massive hurricane coming our way. >> great . politically or meteorologically great politically, perhaps

>> okay, 251 is the time and the weather in this country is set to take a bit of a turn for the worse this week, when the remnants of hurricane kirk reach the uk. meteorologists are forecasting very heavy wind and rather a lot of strong rain. >> oh, who would have guessed ? >> oh, who would have guessed? several parts of england have been hit already by heavy flooding over the past few weeks. and with the met office not ruling out issuing further weather warnings, is it time to

batten down the hatches? >> okay, well, to answer that question is whether journalist nathan ralph. nathan, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. do we need to batten down the hatches? are we going to be battered by yet another spout of spout? spate of bad weather? >> good afternoon . i wouldn't >> good afternoon. i wouldn't worry too much about this one. >> now. there are three hurricanes currently swirling around in the atlantic basin. >> there is lesley, there is milton, which is going to cause some problems in america. and then there is kirk, and it is kirk that we are watching now. the uk is we cannot get hurricanes in the uk. we've never had a hurricane. and we have we are absolutely unlikely to get a hurricane. but what we can get, as you mentioned, is the remnants of a hurricane. and thatis the remnants of a hurricane. and that is what kirk is going to do, get swept up in the jet stream and come towards northern europe and the uk towards the middle. towards the end of the week , it will be the remnants. week, it will be the remnants. now, contrary to what we were expecting a few days ago, the remnants of kirk are going to move further south than we first thought. so it's actually going to be northern france and europe. that will take the brunt

of it. but we may catch the tail end.so of it. but we may catch the tail end. so yes, towards wednesday or thursday, some strong winds and some rain towards the south of the uk. but we look like we've dodged dodged the main impact of what we could have had from the remnants of kirk as he swept along , up, from the remnants of kirk as he swept along, up, up in the jet stream and towards the uk. >> okay nathan, some would blame this on climate change. are there no new taxes or civil liberties we can introduce or strip to stop the hurricane? that's how it works , isn't it? that's how it works, isn't it? >> if we all stop driving our cars by wednesday, maybe it will go away, i don't know. no , i go away, i don't know. no, i wouldn't blame this directly on climate change. i think that individual weather events and blaming individual weather events on climate change is unscientific and irresponsible. the activity in the atlantic is interesting. there are three hurricanes. as i mentioned, and it is very, very unusual to see three hurricanes. i think it's not unheard of at the same time at this time of year. so there may well be a link between the changing climate and an increased incidence probability. stroke risk of that sort of thing happening. and they can

have a knock on effect in the uk. but no, i don't think that what we're seeing this week is a direct consequence of climate change. it's pretty standard. >> you can drive your car in peace this week. i'm joking, i'm joking. >> you can drive your car in peace and you won't get. >> thank you nathan, thanks for being with us nathan. we live to fight another day. climate change will keep at bay for another few weeks. thank you for watching. good afternoon. >> thanks for keeping me company. >> thank you for having me. tom's back tomorrow. i think. >> i believe so, yeah. better be. >> catch you soon. thanks for joining us . joining us. >> despite the morning rain. it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. boxt heat pumps, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> afternoon. for time your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. more heavy showers around this evening. and for some. well, a few thundery downpours. also quite gusty. close to those heavy showers all from this an area of low pressure just sitting out to the west and spiralling bands of showery rain

our way. this weather fronts made for a dull and damp day across parts of northern scotland that's not moving too far, but elsewhere the showers are moving in some big thunderstorms this evening over south wales and southern counties of england. that's where we have a met office yellow warning in place, something a bit drier for northern ireland and northern england for most of the night. but this band of showery rain may get to northern ireland by dawn, also spreading across eastern parts of england too, keeping the temperatures up for sure double digits for many clearer skies over northern england and southern scotland will allow temperatures to dip to down single figures. on to tuesday. it's another day where there'll be some sunshine, but there'll be some sunshine, but there will also be further showers coming in from the word go showers coming in from the word 9° ' showers coming in from the word go , really, across southern go, really, across southern england and south wales, perhaps a drier start, but a bit misty over parts of northern england and the midlands. and showery rain too , crossing through rain too, crossing through northern ireland. southern scotland may well start dry, but noficein scotland may well start dry, but notice in northern scotland where the wind is coming from a northerly breeze that'll bring a chill here. even though it will

be a bit of a drier day across the far north compared to today. further south, though , well, further south, though, well, it'll be far from dry. it'll be sunny at times, but look at these showers. you can see there these showers. you can see there the circulation. that's where the circulation. that's where the low pressure is sitting. getting closer and closer to south wales , southern counties south wales, southern counties of england bombarded by showers. and so we'll see this zone of wetter weather across southeast scotland, northern england and the east of northern ireland too. quite a chill with those northerly winds in the north, but actually quite mild in the south. when the sun is out like today, we could get to 18, maybe 19 celsius come wednesday. more of the same heavy showers over some parts of central and eastern england, staying pretty wet across northeast england and southeast scotland. but a bit dneh southeast scotland. but a bit drier, maybe for south wales and south—west england . south—west england. >> ooh, a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm afternoon. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on

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well. >> a very, very good afternoon to you and a very happy monday 3:00 pm. welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk . on today's show, one the uk. on today's show, one former labour adviser says to tony blair says that starmer's government has completely lost grip after sue gray was ousted from her role as number 10 chief of staff. how much is labour really achieved in their first 100 days in power? and will be crossing line to sir keir starmer later in the show as he addresses the nation on the state in israel. talking of which, one year on from the october 7th massacre in israel, shocking new figures show sympathy and support for hamas on britain's streets as israel marks the terrible first anniversary of the october 7th terror attack. live pictures there from southern israel commemorating that anniversary one year ago today. commemorating that anniversary one year ago today . and if the one year ago today. and if the labour party gave the chagos

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