well . well. >> morning 930 on tuesday, the 8th of october, live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. thanks for joining us. the labour in chaos. fresh allegations this morning about the influence of labour donor lord alli when he attended crucial whitehall meetings before the election. the prime minister is being urged to come clean about their relationship , clean about their relationship, soft on foreign criminals and albanian criminal who sneaked back into britain after being deported. >> he's won the right to stay here. and guess what.7 it was through the european court of human rights. of course it was more on that to come. >> and ageism in the workplace, more than 1 in 5 job candidates over the age of 50 do not say how old they are in their cv to avoid being stereotyped. are we missing out on employing the older worker .7 older worker? >> and breaking news this morning water firms in england and wales have been ordered to return 158 million to us to

customers due to their poor performance . performance. we have to watch how they do that though the rebate to customers, because do they then just whack it on the bills next year? >> 158 million. between how many of us i know, i don't think any of us i know, i don't think any of us i know, i don't think any of us are going to feel like won we the lottery. >> population is 74 million. it's not going to go far, is it? >> no, it isn't, but you're right. it will just get probably just you got to keep an eye on it. whether it gets put on your bill or taken off your bill. let us know your thoughts. this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay lots to get through. first, the very latest news with sam francis. >> very good morning to you from the newsroom. just gone 930 the top story this morning. water companies in england and wales have been ordered to return almost £158 million to customers for failing to meet crucial targets on pollution and

interruption to their supplies. ofwat, the regulator, has demanded the money comes off bills for households and businesses in 2025 and 26. it follows a previous order to repay £114 million last year. well, with water bills set to rise by an average of 21% over the next five years. ofwat chief executive says the financial penalties alone won't solve the industry's deep rooted issues. meanwhile, though, some companies have made progress on leaks, though none have achieved the top rating in the middle east, israel has ramped up its military offensive in lebanon with fresh airstrikes on hezbollah strongholds and beirut in southern lebanon. these are the live pictures above the skyline of beirut as clouds of smoke continue to linger in the air following those latest strikes, which come less than 24 hours after israel marked the anniversary of the hamas attacks, and they've now triggered mass evacuations in beirut. as the idf prepares for

what they're describing as a major operation. meanwhile, 400,000 people have already already fled lebanon seeking refuge in syria as fears of a wider conflict there grow. and the us has voiced its support for israel's targeting of hezbollah, though concerns do remain about the potential of a prolonged war. meanwhile, in the us, donald trump marked that one year anniversary of those hamas attacks in israel, calling it a nightmare. speaking to a packed ballroom last night at his miami golf course, the former president addressed a group of supporters blaming the rise of anti—semitism in the us on the democrats. >> a lot of that has to do with the leadership of this country. this attack . on the october 7th this attack. on the october 7th attack, would never have happened if i was president, i can. >> and with just 29 days until

the us election, kamala harris has also been facing questions on critical issues, including the middle east. in a one on one interview with cbs news amid growing criticism over her limited media appearances during the campaign, the vice president addressed topics like ukraine, gun ownership and immigration. and in one tense moment, she refused to call israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, a strong ally of the us . after strong ally of the us. after recent disagreements between the white house and jerusalem. >> but it seems that prime minister netanyahu is not listening. >> we're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the united states to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. >> and back here at home, the race to lead the conservative party is in its final stages, with just two days left to decide, the next opposition leader. four candidates are battling it out robert jenrick , battling it out robert jenrick, kemi badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat. but tonight one will be eliminated. then on wednesday, the final two will be selected, leaving conservative

members to make the ultimate choice. cleverly has been seen as the front runner and gained momentum following his strong performance at the party's conference. but team jenrick is also confident, believing their hard stance on the european convention of human rights will win them a place in that final. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you for now. i'll be back with you for a full round up at 10:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com . code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> very good morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news bev turner and andrew pierce. >> so the prime minister is being urged to come clean with his relationship with old lord moneybags himself, lord alli, because there's a new book that's come out written by people who are very well plugged into the labour party, tim ross and rachel wearmouth. it's called landslide and this was

written before the furore over lord alli and the scale of his largesse to the labour party, where it says we've often said what did he want for the money? yeah. why? why is he paid for £32,000 worth of suits for keir starmer and his glasses, £5,000 for keir starmer's wife's clothes? i think keir starmer had about £77,000 from alli altogether. he's given hundreds of thousands of pounds, so he's already got his period. so it wasn't for that. but this book says that he took part in meetings before the election with shadow ministers going into senior civil servants to prepare for government. what why is the labour donors going doing that ? labour donors going doing that? and also, he's been involved in the preparation of the grid for the preparation of the grid for the first 100 days in government. so we do this in the first week. the second week, well , if he's first week. the second week, well, if he's responsible for that, i'm amazed he's a multi—millionaire because the grid has been useless. they've had a disastrous first hundred days. so this book i haven't seen any extracts of this book, but this book was written before all of this scandal. >> so it's effectively a prequel

to what we're seeing unravel at the moment. and it would suggest that not only was lord alli given that pass to downing street, but he was there at the table through all of these decision making in the run up to the election, in the run up to the election, in the run up to the election. >> and of course, we weren't aware of it in the run up to election that shadow ministers were taking quite so much money because the money doesn't get declared immediately and lord alli is not responding to any requests for interview. but we've pressed and pressed number 10. why did lord alli give all this money? what did he get in return? well, we're beginning to find out. >> well, let's speak to former labour spokesman james matthewson . good morning. james. matthewson. good morning. james. what might lord alli have wanted in terms of buying effectively the presence at the top table, with decisions being made before the election . the election. >> morning. i have no idea what rich people want when they engage with politics like this. because often to me, if it comes

to, you know, a point of just them trying to make more money or them trying to have more influence or all the rest of it, it doesn't seem to be worth their while. a lot of the time, because what ends up happening is they end up embroiled in situations like this and scandals where ultimately, no matter how much money lord alli has helped. keir starmer with whether it be resources, whether it be support, whether it be clothes, whether it be, you know, anything, you know, the house that he gave him to, to kind of campaign basis campaigning, not none of it seems to be worthwhile in the long run because this is where we've ended up. so i never understand the motivation of these people behind it. however, at the same time , from the at the same time, from the labour party's point of view, it is concerning, labour party's point of view, it is concerning , obviously, but is concerning, obviously, but this new book, obviously, and the revelations in it, whether they they are true or not or whether the allegations are correct and there are questions to be asked, and i think politicians as a whole owe it to us to be transparent about the role that their their donors and that the people who are around them, who have money and who support them financially, play because we don't want to end up

like america . like america. >> you've been around the labour party for a long time. i've been writing about politics for 30, 40 years. james. i've never heard of a donor accompanying shadow ministers going into whitehall to talk to very senior civil servants about preparation for government. i've never heard of it . i'm for government. i've never heard of it. i'm amazed that civil servants didn't say, oh, what's he doing here? and even more astonished that the preparations for the first 100 days of a new government were being made in lord alli £18 million penthouse, with keir starmer and shadow ministers. he wouldn't have been in any of those meetings. i'd suggest, james, if he hadn't given so much money to the labour party . labour party. >> i fear, andrew, that you might be correct on that. i have absolutely no idea what role lord alli has to play. and look, don't get me wrong, i'm sure the quy's don't get me wrong, i'm sure the guy's very clever. i have no idea what his experience is with regard to this, but the grid that first 100 days of government. the grid is god when it comes to politics. as we know, the grid sets out everything that you're going to

do, your messaging, your strategy. and if i'm being honest, it is the grid that has been lacking for the labour party in government. in this first 100 days. and that's why we've seen the departure of sue gray, somebody who ultimately was responsible for the grid. so, you know, we hope to see better control of that as we move forward and better clear messaging from the labour party in government on what they're doing and why they're doing it. but why has this happened? you're absolutely right. it's bizarre. and if it is true and if the allegations are correct that he's been involved in this process, then there needs to be clear answers as to why and what is relevance was in doing so , is relevance was in doing so, people would normally see the grid. >> is it a fairly exclusive bunch? >> yeah. so i think normally the way that it works and bear in mind people like myself have only got experience of this in opposition. but the way that the grid would work is it tends to go out across the cabinet or the shadow cabinet in opposition. people can see that grid. now the grid is something that becomes something that people fight over right?

becomes something that people fight over right ? because fight over right? because everybody wants the leader or they want the prime minister to be at their event. they want them to be at their opening of something. they want them to be in their constituency. so people end up fighting over the grid. so whoever has control over that essentially has control over keir starmer's diary and where he is and what he's doing. but more than that, it's about the agendain more than that, it's about the agenda in government, right? in opposition. the thing we were fighting for so long is to try and control that media agenda and control that media agenda and what's what's talked about week to week in government. you actually have the chance to do that because with the announcements that you make, you can influence what we're talking about. what you and i are talking about right now on the news, you know, we can have those discussions now for the past, you know, kind of how many days labour have been in power. now you can see that that has just been a complete runaway train for them. they haven't had control over that. so whoever now morgan mcsweeney seems to be will be in charge of the grid going forward, needs to have a tight grasp on what is talked about and why it's talked about. crucially , great. crucially, great. >> great has been blown up,

james, because of the revelations about the extent of the involvement of lord alli. and are you uncomfortable that a labour donor who i'd say again, icannot labour donor who i'd say again, i cannot think of any other reason he'd be there if it wasn't for the fact he'd been so generous personally to the labour leader, personally, to the labour leader . are you the labour leader. are you uncomfortable that he was at these meetings and that he did? he helped determine the grid for the first 100 days of the first labour government, for 14 years? >> yeah. if he was and it turns out that he was, then yes, i am absolutely . and i think anybody absolutely. and i think anybody would be already at labour party conference and you might have heard this yourself. you know, people were uncomfortable talking or asking about who, you know, people were saying, who is lord alli ? who is this guy? and lord alli? who is this guy? and because, you know, we've got people who've been grafting for the past 14 years to get a labour government delivered, people who've been door knocking two times a week, you know, for the past 14 years to try and deliver a labour government now , deliver a labour government now, if somebody like lord alli has then just paid a load of money

and he's had better access to the labour party than any of those individuals, people who've worked their way up through the party, then that will be a real crying shame. and the party needs to ask itself seriously what the leadership's doing. but we need to see what the what the reality is with this situation, because a lot of this is speculation so far. but, you know, hopefully who is who is lord alli? >> do you know him? >> do you know him? >> i have absolutely no idea other than the past few weeks, obviously. and everything that i've read and the kind of research that i've done into him as a commentator, i had never heard the name mentioned before in labour circles at all. >> he was the tony blair gave him a peerage in 1998, first openly gay muslim politician shocked some colleagues in the house of lords with his diamond stud earring. well, good luck to him on all of that, but he was very close in the blair years in the wilderness, in miliband, corbyn years back with a vengeance and he clearly is one of lord alli keir starmer's greatest confidants. because where did keir starmer spend general election night watching the biggest labour win since

1997? oh, of course he was in lord alli £18 million covent garden apartment. he, the prime minister, has got too close to this bloke . this bloke. >> i mean questionable, i don't know and i don't know the reality, but you're absolutely right. if, as the speculation seems to be and as the allegations in this book seem to be, then i would argue yes. and we saw this with boris johnson, with the likes of evgeny lebedev and you know, i mean, whilst this isn't quite the same thing from a foreign office perspective and the concern with connections to russia, it is that that influence, you know, how can people who influence politicians and influence our government at the end of the day, that's the concern, isn't it? and i think there needs to be open transparency with this. i would i would honestly, i would plea plea to any anybody in the labour party right now that the way forward from this is not trying to spin it, trying to move away from it, but trying to move away from it, but trying to be open and transparent because they've got a chance to turn things around in the next. i would say, 50, 60 days from everything from the clothing

scandal, from everything, to be able to put their hands up and say, look , this is what's say, look, this is what's happened so far. this is why it's happened. we're cutting our teeth. we're a new government. we're getting to grips with things. let's turn it around and change things from now on. but if they don't do that and they double down and they try and save the face of somebody like lord alli, then it could be detrimental to the labor party in the long run. >> just very briefly, james, i'm pressed for time. did you really suspect after 93 days of a labour government, there'd be a poll showing that people think this new labour government is more sleazy than the tories ? more sleazy than the tories? after 14 years in power. >> sleaze isn't something that i thought would come with their with keir starmer especially, you know, being in the cps and, and all of his kind of credibility. i do think, however, that this is because of the, the failure to grip the pr side of things and the communications operation, which, by the way , is not not anything by the way, is not not anything anybody in the labour party expected. because when we were told about keir starmer, when we were told about this leadership and everybody who was in and around it, their, their primary function and the thing people have praised them for for, the

whole election campaign has been their communications operation, their communications operation, the second that they've been in government that seems to have collapsed. so, you know, they really do need to get a grip of this. and hopefully in the long run, they'll be able to sort that out. fingers crossed. >> okay. thank you . james james >> okay. thank you. james james matthewson there. right up. next guess which european body allows an albanian criminal back into britain because of his rights to a family life? you're with britain's newsroom

gb news. welcome back to newsroom on gb news. with me , bev turner and news. with me, bev turner and andrew pierce until midday. >> now this is going to infuriate you. i suspect an albanian criminal who came back into britain illegally after being deported. he'd served six months in a two and a half year sentence for burglary, has won the right to stay in britain under the european convention on human rights. >> i'd it. binoche was freed six

months into a two and a half year jail sentence for burglary and deported as part of a prisoner transfer agreement with albania. came back. sorry . no, i albania. came back. sorry. no, i was going to say. have you have you today? but he came back to britain to be with his lithuanian girlfriend, and now he's staying here as he has a right to a family life. is it madness? it flipping is. >> let's speak to the barrister and writer stephen barrett . and writer stephen barrett. stephen. so this gentleman broke the law . he. he was a burglar, the law. he. he was a burglar, which is a very, very difficult offence if you're a victim of burglary, sentenced to two and a half years in this country, served six months. he's deported. he comes back into britain illegally breaching in breaching the deportation order. makes his lithuanian girlfriend pregnant because there's a baby. he's allowed to stay here because of his human rights. he's cocking a snook at the entire law. that is why people are so furious with the european court of human rights. don't worry about the victims of crime. let's worry about this criminal who broke the law in the first place, banged up in prison, deported, comes back

illegally pregnant, impregnates his girlfriend. you can stay because of your human rights. >> well, don't blame him. blame the european court of human rights because you know , rights because you know, ultimately, what you end up with is a situation where. and i don't really like to see this as law. so one of the publications talked about this and they called it a legal loophole. i don't think it is a legal loophole. effectively, these these rights are so nebulous. they're so, so vague that nobody really knows what they are at all or what they mean or what stems from them . so this office stems from them. so this office block in strasbourg that calls itself the european court of human rights, it gets to make a effectively a political decision that in these circumstances , that in these circumstances, criminals who nonetheless break the law but manage to have a baby can stay in your country. and that that that is fundamentally overriding what the democratic government has chosen to do. you know, we elect

governments, they enact laws. and those those laws are the laws that ordinarily would be followed. but instead we have this additional layer, this floating, floating office block that can just override us for some jazz band type reason. and that's what people will be frustrated by, because the british public are very law abiding. we are very rural. we're a rules based order. that's what we do. and the rules were clear that he should have been deported. he shouldn't have been deported. he shouldn't have been allowed back in. and then when he was found out he should go again. and to simply override that with the stroke of a pen because of something, something right to something. i mean, it's just it i don't like it as law. it frustrates me as a lawyer because it doesn't feel like proper law. it doesn't feel like clear rules that are applied in advance that we all knew. i mean, it just feels like some external political force that's able to override our democratic government because, well, why? i

have no idea . have no idea. >> steve, if we came out of the echr, if we stepped away from that, what would we lose? as free citizens of this country ? free citizens of this country? >> you would lose the right to appeal to an office block in strasbourg to do random things , strasbourg to do random things, which is a right that i think 99% of us don't realistically have, because most of us can't afford it . most of us aren't afford it. most of us aren't going to do it. most of us don't get the sympathy of a bunch of human rights lawyers. so most of us realistically can't access the strasbourg court . it's only the strasbourg court. it's only a select tiny minority who get singled out to do this. other than that, you lose nothing. there are some minor treaty complications because i'll tell you, i'll tell you this now, and i want to be very clear about this. there are a bunch of people in our country who desperately want us to stay in the in the european court of human rights, and they are trying, by hook or by crook, to

make it as hard as possible to leave now because of our constitution, they can't actually win. so don't worry about it. they're not actually going to win. but what they've doneis going to win. but what they've done is they've taken the good friday agreement and they've incorporated it into our law decades after this agreement was agreed , decades later, and for agreed, decades later, and for no obvious or apparent reason, they've tied it. they've woven it into our law. so we'll have if you want to leave, you've got to unpick that . to unpick that. >> okay. all right. we've got we've run out of time. stephen, i'm so sorry. we've got to the end of that first half hour. here's the weather, which is still . still. >> despite the morning rain , >> despite the morning rain, it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello. good morning and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's an unsettled day ahead with showers and some longer spells of rain, but if you manage to avoid the showers in the south—east, it will feel warm where you catch the

sunshine. so plenty of showers bubbung sunshine. so plenty of showers bubbling up across parts of england and wales. these could be heavy at times, with the risk of thunder to some longer spells of thunder to some longer spells of rain across northern parts of england. across the scottish borders too. this once again could also be heavy and some fairly strong winds amongst the showers too, and some stronger winds moving into parts of northern scotland too. and that's just going to take a bit of a kick off the temperatures too. but as i say, where you catch the sunshine across the south—east, if you manage to avoid the showers, it will be feeling warm and pleasant for the time of year. still into the evening we'll continue to see those outbreaks of rain. still a chance they could be heavy. perhaps even some sleet and snow fall across the scottish highlands. and still those blustery winds as well, moving in across parts of scotland. too cloudy once again with outbreaks of rain in northern ireland and elsewhere still plenty of showers continuing into the evening . still once again could evening. still once again could be heavy. still may even hear the odd rumble of thunder. those showers are going to stick around into the evening, perhaps progressing into longer spells

of rain across the southeast. so quite a damp start possible here. and still with those outbreaks of rain across parts of scotland too. still could be heavy. perhaps still continuing to see that sleet and snow across the highlands. so generally a cold night, particularly in the north, and especially in that brisk wind too. but across the south, generally a mild night on offer for towns and cities heading into the middle part of the week. still a fairly unsettled day. still, with those longer spells of rain in parts of the northeast, a fair amount of the northeast, a fair amount of cloud across england and wales, and still continuing to see those showers bubble up into the afternoon. once again, a risk of some heavy thundery downpours too, and plenty of strong winds across the country too, which is going to make it feel a little bit chillier. that's it from me. bye for now . that's it from me. bye for now. >> we can expect clear

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8th of october, live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so how influential is lord alli within the upper reaches of the government? the prime minister is now being urged to come clean about his relationship with lord moneybags. christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor, has the latest lord alli accused of taking a major role in the first 100 days of this government. >> but is it right? and why was he donating all that money? >> and are we too soft on foreign criminals and albanian criminal who sneaked back into britain after being deported has won the right to stay here. and it was through the echr because he was then having a baby with a woman who lived here. is it time to leave the echr ? to leave the echr? >> ageism in the workplace? well, we knew about that, didn't we? more than 1 in 5 job candidates over the age of 50 don't say how old they are on their cv to avoid being stereotyped, or because they think they won't even get an interview . interview. >> and there's a millionaire exodus. >> and there's a millionaire exodus . high taxes and changes

exodus. high taxes and changes to non—dom rules are driving away wealthy brits. how damaging do you think this is going to be to the uk ? i'd always to the uk? i'd always employ someone over 50 experience rather employ someone over 50. you're not dealing with kids. i'm sorry. that's awful. it sounds so sexist. >> they've got experience, but the magic age is. once you've reached 57, that's it . according reached 57, that's it. according to this new survey. yeah, well, you're over the hill. >> i you know, i'd love that. >> i you know, i'd love that. >> she's going to be over the hill in a few weeks time. >> no, i'm not i'm not 57. it's my birthday next week though. is it next week? week after. but, you know, i just think if you want to employ someone, i would always look at you. what a shame. we're having to hide ages on cvs. why? i feel the need to do that. let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay right. saint francis is here with the news .

francis is here with the news. >> very good morning to you. it's just gone 10:00. the top story from the newsroom this morning. well, water companies in england and in wales have been ordered today to return more than £157 million to customers for failing to meet crucial targets on pollution. ofwat demanded the money that comes off the bills for households and businesses needs to be removed in 2025 and 2026. it follows a previous order to repay £114 million last year, with water bills set to rise by an average of 21% over the next five years off. what's chief executive says that financial penalties alone, though, won't solve the industry's deep rooted issues. meanwhile , some issues. meanwhile, some companies have made progress on leaks, though none have achieved a top rating . israel has ramped a top rating. israel has ramped up its military offensive in lebanon with fresh airstrikes on hezbollah strongholds in beirut and across southern lebanon. we take you live now to pictures of

the scene above the skyline in beirut. clouds of smoke continuing to linger in the air there this morning following those recent strikes which come just less than 24 hours after israel marked the anniversary of the hamas attacks, they have also now triggered mass evacuations in beirut, as the idf say they are preparing for a major operation. there . major operation. there. meanwhile, some 400,000 people have already fled lebanon seeking refuge in syria as fears of a wider conflict continue to grow across the region . and just grow across the region. and just a quick breaking line that we're receiving from the reuters news agency, this morning, the hezbollah deputy chief says that all positions within the terror group are filled, so they are no longer looking for any further people to join their top tier command. and they are also saying, and i quote here, that the command centre for israel and hezbollah rather are in

position to respond. they've also said that they will continue to pursue israel in a war that they say is a war of who cries first and they say, quote, they will not cry first. so those latest lines just coming to us from the reuters news agency, meanwhile, in the us, donald trump marked that one year anniversary of the hamas attack on israel, calling it yesterday a nightmare. speaking to a packed ballroom at his miami golf course, the former president addressed a group of supporters blaming the rise of anti—semitism in the united states on the democratic party. >> a lot of that has to do with the leadership of this country . the leadership of this country. this attack . the october 7th this attack. the october 7th attack would never have happened if i was president. i can tell . if i was president. i can tell. >> well, with just 29 days until the us election, kamala harris has been facing questions on

critical issues, including the middle east. in a one on one interview with cbs news amid growing criticism over her limited media appearances, the vice president addressed topics like ukraine, gun ownership and immigration. in one tense moment, she refused to call israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu a strong ally after recent disagreements between the white house and jerusalem. >> but it seems that prime minister netanyahu is not listening. >> we are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the united states to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end here. >> conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has claimed that illegal immigration affects other european countries far more, he says, than the uk. that's despite figures indicating that 1 in 100 people indicating that 1 in 100 people in britain are illegal migrants. in an exclusive clip from a private meeting in august, tugendhat said that britain is by a long way not the most affected by illegal immigration.

his comments come as conservative candidates in the leadership race continue to clash over the topic of immigration, and that race to lead the conservative party is in its final stages, with just days left to decide, the next opposition leader, four candidates are battling it out robert jenrick , kemi badenoch, robert jenrick, kemi badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat. but by tonight one will be eliminated. then, on wednesday, the final two will be selected, leaving conservative members to make the ultimate choice. cleverly has been seen as the front runner and gained momentum following a strong performance at the party conference. but team jenrick is confident, believing their hard stance on the european convention of human rights will win them a place in the final. well, this morning we were joined by the shadow minister for education, damian hinds, and he told us there's a field of four standout candidates to choose from. >> we've not made a declaration. i think we've got four really strong candidates. obviously we've got we've got around today , we've got we've got around today, another round tomorrow and then there will be the and then

there'll be the members round. i took a decision at the start of the contest not to make a declaration until we got to that final, until we got to that final, until we got to that final stage. but i think it's been a very well contested election. obviously, the party conference last week, that was a really important opportunity for people to set out their stall. and i think both party members and of course the wider public got a chance to see all four of them in action. >> we'll just turn to a quick bit of breaking international news coming to us from germany this morning. christian brueckner, a suspect in the disappearance of madeleine mccann, has been acquitted in germany in an unrelated sexual abuse case involving three counts of rape, two of sexual abuse. the 47 year old is under investigation, of course, for the suspected murder of madeleine mccann, though he's not yet been charged. in that case, he lived in portugal around the time of madeleine's disappearance in may of two thousand and seven, but continues to deny any involvement . and finally, damage

involvement. and finally, damage to the brain stem might explain the frustrating symptoms of long covid, according to new research. in a pioneering study from the university of cambridge. ultra high resolution mri scanners uncovered long lasting brain changes linked to inflammation in covid 19 patients. the abnormalities were found in areas responsible they say, for breathing control, suggesting a potential link to fatigue, breathlessness and mental health issues reported by some patients . that's the latest some patients. that's the latest from the gb newsroom. for now, i will hand you straight back over to bev and andrew for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom with andrew and bev. we'll see what you've been

saying at home this morning. brent has got in touch and said can we as a country sue the echr? i don't think so. >> we can ignore them and that's what we should do. i mean, that bloke should be deported. to hell with the echr. it is. it is not binding. lots of countries ignore it. yeah, that's all the time. and we don't because we're idiots. >> martin says don't blame this illegal immigrant who was caught stealing, given a prison sentence. get him deported, then comes back illegally. he's not to blame because it's the european court of human rights. we should kick him out regardless. and his girlfriend? yeah, and anna said, who is? >> but i do blame him for stealing in the first place. of course, comes in his country that rewards us for his hospitality by it must have been a lot of burglary to be banged up for two and a half years, right? and burglary is horrible. >> anna said you're asking who is waheed ali? well, he's from bangladesh with uk citizenship and has gradually bought his way into influencing government policy. look at bangladesh. they might need his money and support. >> well, the prime minister is on the run . chapter lead. on the run. chapter lead. >> well, i thought that was some breaking news. i thought keir

starmer had escaped robert hur and she's been on the run because of policies and her niece across the bangladeshi prime minister, her niece, her niece by the way, is my mp. >> labour mp. right. >> labour mp. right. >> yeah. oh , you know everyone >> yeah. oh, you know everyone now here we go. robin has said the echr stands for empty, clueless, hateful. oh , i can't clueless, hateful. oh, i can't say the r word. should have got to the last one before this. >> remind me about that echr. it was the echr which blocked the flight going to rwanda, which was on the runway, ready to go, full of illegal migrants. echr blocked it. late night court heanng blocked it. late night court hearing on a sunday. we never even knew the identity. which country? the judge came from. all cloudy. so you can't appeal it. outrageous. we should have still sent the flight. but rishi was too too weak. >> but you see what i. what i'm not sure about. and we kind of touched on it with our lawyer, but we ran out of time. i, we obviously have the echr for a reason. i quite like the idea generally of human rights, because you never know when you might need your own. >> it was set up in the aftermath of the war. europe, countries coming together to have a uniform legal system to

try to prevent the sort of rise of nazis that was generally the, the, the aim. but we've got a new superior. we've got a pretty good legal system in this country, one of the best. >> there must be a reason why we haven't got rid of it. and i just i feel like there was a wasn't there a former prime minister who recently said we should have a referendum on the echr. he did. >> he said it on camilla tominey show on sunday. >> and so i makes me think maybe it is something that we should all understand a little bit more about, and we don't. and if there was a referendum on it, i think the best thing to come out of that referendum would be an understanding of it. >> there's 43 countries in the echr so far, more than in the european union. so it's nothing to do with the eu. that's the point. it's beyond it's beyond the eu. >> and actually the old bloke in the corner . morning. are you the corner. morning. are you talking about me? no he, he's he's got in touch and says conservative leadership contest is still going on. why whoever gets in it will be for five minutes. it's not a good career move. i would think. just shows you how slow and frustrating politics is. don't they get narrowed down today? at some

point they go down from 4 to 3. >> tomorrow it's down to two. and then we they choose. we get the new leader by november the 2nd. i bet people are breathless with excitement. >> i have to say, i am strangely excited about that , only because excited about that, only because i'm sick of there being no opposition at the moment. i really could do with somebody just taking the reins for the conservatives and holding labour to account. and here's an idea, here's an idea. >> so we go down to two by wednesday instead of rishi sunak doing prime minister's questions, why doesn't one of them do it next week? good idea. and then the other one the week after. and then we see how they perform like a sort of political x factor in the house of commons. >> i like it. >> i like it. >> wouldn't that be a good idea? >> wouldn't that be a good idea? >> i think that's great. >> i think that's great. >> and also we should say to rishi sunak, your history mate, clear off. it may be the convention that the leader of the opposition responds to the budget, but it's just that a convention. yeah, we don't want him to do it. somebody else can do it because he's got no cat in the fight. >> what time today do we find out what's. 330. 330 this afternoon. so i'll be in martin daubney show this afternoon.

>> and i know, i know, you'll all be glued to the tv on the radio waiting to hear it's going to be tom tugendhat, right? >> probably. >> probably. >> i like tom a lot. i think he had a good campaign, but it was pretty flat speech on, although you never know because kemi badenoch people came up to you and said, we're very worried about how these mps have voted. oh, you should be, you should be, because they don't tell it straight. they'll say, i'm backing you. i'm backing you. they're terrible. >> chopper's waiting for us. right. the prime minister is being urged to come clean about this lord alli relationship. these allegations about this donor having an extraordinary amount of power, particularly in this first 100 days. let's talk now to our political editor, christopher hope, who is in downing street. morning, chris. it's not going away. this story is it at all for the prime minister? more and more revelations. we've got book coming out which is acting if i've understood this correctly, because it isn't out yet as a sort of prequel to events that we're seeing unfolding, which will shed some light on what lord alli was doing behind closed doors . closed doors. >> yeah. morning. good morning, andrew, from downing street, where the cabinet meets right now with sir keir starmer, the

under—fire prime minister. yeah that's right. there's a book out from tim ross. he works for politico and he's lifting the lid on the links between waheed alli and senior figures in the labour government . this book labour government. this book claims that lord alli helped to draw up the 100 day timetable. the first 100 days of government to which i would add, look how well it's going for them. and he advise on appointments. apparently, according to the tim ross book , and also attended ross book, and also attended access talks as talks before labour's won the election. when sue gray and others would meet with senior officials in whitehall and work out how this government could hit the ground running. well, it hasn't gone very well since then. one of the big queries about this whole lord alli the donations he's given the free spectacles to the prime minister, the suits, the clothing for everybody else, the flat in new york and london he loaned to senior labour figures, including sir keir starmer. of course is what why is he doing

it? and it isn't really clear because there's no real obvious policy ask we can define. there's no actual connection between things happening by this labour government and what he's done. it might just be that he wanted to be to support this labour government as a senior labour government as a senior labour peer. what does seem clear from this book, from tim ross, is that he's very closely allied to sue gray. he donated to sue grey's son, who's now a labour mp. of course, his campaign, it looks like the kind of ally, the ally influence on the government was part of sue grey's offering. so maybe with sue gray disappearing off to be an envoy for the nations and regions, he might now move to one side and let people like morgan mcsweeney. he's a replacement for sue gray , run replacement for sue gray, run the show. >> people keep talking about morgan mcsweeney as if he's going to be the saviour who's going to be the saviour who's going to be the saviour who's going to wave a magic wand, and everything's going to be fine. but look at the front page of the times today. number 10 crisis bigger than grey. the

guardian saying the same. he's beenin guardian saying the same. he's been in number 10 from the very beginning. he was there in opposition with starmer. he must have known about these freebies. he must have known about these extraordinary decisions to say, we're going to cancel the winter fuel for pensioners and in the same week give bumper pay rises to train drivers on £65,000 a yean to train drivers on £65,000 a year, not. did he not realise the optic was bad? is he any better ? better? >> well, he's better in a sense. andrew. he helped win this huge landslide with a tiny number of people comparatively supporting the labour party in that elections. only barely 1 in 3 voters voted labour. only 1 in 2 of all adults who could vote voted labour, and to construct a majority of 170. in the house of commons is some achievement, given that, given the low, low, low turnout. but yeah, i mean, he didn't step in. i mean, if i was planning a grid and thank goodness no one ever asked me to do that kind of thing, i would have probably removed that benefit. if that's the policy from 10 million pensioners at

the same time as giving them a big pay rise. with that rise in the state pension in september. instead they announced it, as you say, on the same day as a pay you say, on the same day as a pay rise for train drivers and other public sector workers, which looks, frankly tin eared to how the response might be. but and it looks also i think this government's been tied in knots by the requirement to listen to the obr, get them to vet this budget from rachel reeves on october 30th. other new governments have had a budget in half the time, and once that budget is out, it will set the tone for the next five years i've been reform informed reliably. there's very little being announced this week and next week and the following weeks until october 30th. this weeks until october 30th. this week is about water companies. we've got news on. on thursday, the first reading of angela rayner's crackdown on on on bad employees and employment rights. that's on thursday. but really it's a very, very thin news list. and that allows journalists like me to talk about sue gray to you . about sue gray to you. >> all right, chris, thanks for

that. that's chris faux pas, political editor, who keeps saying that morgan mcsweeney masterminded the extraordinary labour election victory. well, they got less than 34% share of they got less than 34% share of the vote, the smallest ever for a government with a majority of that size. he didn't mastermind a brilliant victory. the tories were booted out because they were booted out because they were so awful . absolutely. were so awful. absolutely. people were sick to death of the tories. >> do you remember what labour's plan was when they came in? it was a decade of national renewal. i had to remind myself what their ambition was and they had five. >> they added six on immigration, but they had six mission statements. pledges can you remember them? >> growth? yeah . >> growth? yeah. >> growth? yeah. >> it's going to be the highest in the highest in the g7, the nhs. >> there was nothing about immigration. they added a sixth. they added it didn't they. yeah. >> and well i can't remember. >> and well i can't remember. >> no because they weren't terribly memorable. but we're getting up to 100 days. it'll be 100 days this weekend won't it. >> and the reason they've had other problems with the hundred daysis other problems with the hundred days is because i don't think this government has a narrative. i don't think they do have a

strategy. i don't think this government knows what it's what it wants to do. they've been out of power for 14 years. you'd think they'd have had known every day what they were doing. >> well, one of the effects of labour policy so far is that there is a millionaire exodus hitting britain. we're going to be discussing that next with britain's newsroom on

gb news. 1022 this is britain's newsroom with andrew and bev. we're joined in the studio by political commentator piers pottinger and gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. in the studio now as two gazillionaires nigel, to sit here flanked by two gazillionaires. are either of you leaving the country under this labour government? i was staying. that might be because you're not a gazillionaire telegraph front page says they're fleeing at a record rate. >> yeah, well, i'm not surprised . >> yeah, well, i'm not surprised. and i know quite a few people

who are leaving or have left gone to dubai or monaco or some even to france. amazingly. and italy regime is worse. italy is fairly more easy to bypass the tax laws, i think there, but i shouldn't have said that. perhaps, but but the millionaires who are leaving, of course, have a trickle down effect, and this is now finally the penny is dropping with our extraordinarily red headed chancellor, who now it seems every day is under pressure from people who are either the trade unions or the ludicrous institute for fiscal studies, which is basically just how to be a communist. and but she's being told what to do by them . being told what to do by them. she's apparently changing her mind every five minutes. i mean, it's a shambles. it's a total shambles. >> and the millionaires are

fleeing, but probably the one millionaire who's not fled. nigel is wahid ali lord alli. you'd probably prefer if he'd fled the country weeks ago to prevent all this mess. he's got you. well, you've got enough money to go, i admit. >> yeah, on this one that millionaires fleeing. you can't really put this on the non—dom tax. yes you can. well, if you do put it on the non—dom tax, it's the one the tories actually introduced. so they're bringing it. >> they're tightening it aren't they. >> that's right. loophole. >> that's right. loophole. >> the loopholes. >> the loopholes. >> what labour. what labour are going to do is that that the tories didn't do is to make inheritance tax on assets. they'll have to pay that which the tories didn't do, which will damage private companies enormously. >> family owned businesses will all suffer as a result of that. and the second thing that they will do is that the tories gave them a 50% discount on tax for them a 50% discount on tax for the first year. >> that'll be closed . those two >> that'll be closed. those two loopholes are worth just over over a billion pounds. so that's what rachel reeves is planning at the moment. now the question

really is if he's also planning capital gains tax rises and all kinds of other tax. well, we don't know that yet. but i mean, but it is it is likely it is likely that will come into it. but the whole point is that this is based on an lse warwick university report, and we're looking at quite a small group of people, 26,000 non—doms, who would fall into this category. what that report was saying was that only about a hundred of those were predicted to leave. now , obviously, if more do, this now, obviously, if more do, this policy doesn't work. i do take that point that but the report about the millionaires going , about the millionaires going, these are mobile people who might go anyway. we don't know directly is to do with the non—dom tax . non—dom tax. >> these are people who've bought property here, who've got a great deal of assets here. we're talking about very serious investors in great britain . and investors in great britain. and they are leaving because they don't have any faith in the future in this country. and i don't blame them. >> that's a bit different from

the tax thing. they may well be that that's what i mean about them being highly mobile. they may well leave because they don't particularly like britain . don't particularly like britain. those who do like britain will stay and pay their tax, and surely there must be. >> what they don't like is the labour government saying they're coming after your money? don't you remember? go back to 1998, peter mandelson, who is still a big figure in the labour party. he said he was intensely relaxed about people being filthy rich. rachel reeves isn't, and she doesn't seem to understand that rich people create jobs, create wealth for other people. >> but what the labour party doesn't understand is that by taking everyone's money, which is all they ever do, someone's got to create the money and we've got to have growth and nothing that this government has done so far since they've been in power, or that they're saying they're going to do in the budget, which incidentally, is they delayed having the budget which has proved to be a big mistake, having it so late on in when they since they've come to power. but anyway. but , but but power. but anyway. but, but but what you have just done to create growth what you and andrew have just done is

outlined where conservative policy goes wrong. >> you talk about about the rich. piers is talking about taking money from them. the tory policy works on the basis of trickle down. if rich people create jobs that benefits everybody, that actually is a good system. however, what then tends to happen is the rich keep the money for themselves and thatis the money for themselves and that is what the labour government is trying to do, is to actually redress that balance. a bit of wealth redistribution through money. >> i mean, you can, you can, you can tax the super rich. the super rich already pay most of the tax in this country, remember. i do, but also what the super rich do is they send their children to private school. they're not going to do that in this country anymore because they're moving and that so those sorts of policies that they employ people, they run businesses and putting vat on the private school fees, that feels so punitive . feels so punitive. >> and on that, actually, there's reports now that they're going to have to delay the vat on schools because the unions have complained. it's going to

mean so many teachers are going to lose their jobs because private schools are going to close down. they're going to lose pupils. the private schools won't be able to afford so many teachers. >> and also universities have now said that because the wording in the legislation that they've seen the draft legislation is so vague, it could affect them. and don't forget, this is the labour party that pledged starmer is you can see lots of clips of him on youtube pledging that he will remove tuition fees in university. but bear in mind instead, they're putting him up a lot of these people are going to be doing this at the moment to be doing this at the moment to try and stop the tax going through. >> so you'd expect all these sort of various trade unions. >> this is the trade unions. yeah. >> but they're worried about the teachers. yeah. they're worried about the teachers. the question obviously is your point is, is the is the unintended consequences. >> did the did this labour government not think this through. well what about the special schools who were closed down about the pupils who are in private schools with special needs. >> did they think what you were going about, what you are going

to need, need is special provisions for those those with special needs. there's no time. >> this is the point. this is the point. the private schools policy comes in in january, they made a lot of noise of it running up to the election. yeah, it was a big policy. and what does it it's not necessarily even the income that it will take for the treasury because it isn't on the whole grand scheme of things that much. >> well, it's 1.5 much. >> well, it's1.5 billion if it works. this is not that much these days. no, but it all adds up. >> 1.5 billion up. >>1.5 billion is add up, up. >> 1.5 billion is add up, you >>1.5 billion is add up, you say if it works, that's a key phrase. if it's not going to work. and also, i mean, we don't know socialist government. this is that's taking money from pensioners and students for goodness sake. i mean, this government is all it's done since it's been in power is penalise people, take money from vulnerable people, do nothing to create any growth. if one park sovereign territories well unwell. >> i don't think that sort of comes. don't think chagos comes into this one at the moment. but if you just take away the winter fuel payments, which is a whole different argument, what you're talking about is taking money from people who can afford it .

from people who can afford it. so somewhere along the line, who are the best people to take money from the poor? no, the best people to take money from are the ones who have got plenty already. >> pay tax. they already pay their share. you know this is a wonderful socialist thing. the best thing to do is take money off people all the time. >> these these are people. this just goes back to what we were just goes back to what we were just talking about with the trickle down effect of why the tories always look after the wealthy . if that work, that wealthy. if that work, that would be great. but the wealthy keep the money for themselves and watch what they do. i mean, and watch what they do. i mean, a lot of hang on. >> some of them are very philanthropic. a lot of them are very philanthropic. >> if you look, if you look at the look at top people's pay ceos that 50 years ago, they got 20, 20 times average wage. 20 years ago they got 50 times average wage. now they're up to 109 times average average wage. >> we're a much wealthier country. >> well, we're not a wealthier country because wages haven't increased in over since 2008. >> i guess the thing is, it's fine if that's that's the

country we now live in. if we now live under a socialist government, and the messaging quite clearly has been, if you make a lot of money, we are going to take it off you then let's all agree that that is going to lead to very rich people leaving the country, because that's what we're seeing. so what is labour's plan once the super rich have gone and they're not employing people in their businesses and all of the extra i mean, you know, rich people employ a lot of people , people employ a lot of people, even if it's just like on a domestic level, they employ a lot of people . what is labour's lot of people. what is labour's plan going to be? where are they going to get the money from? >> well, the first question is will they actually leave the country? i mean, an awful lot of these people have the non—doms have so much money that they can actually afford the taxes. and if they want to live here, which is the reason they come, because they could go anywhere. and clearly if they wanted to, wanted really big tax breaks, you go to a country that gives it to you, ireland, luxembourg, something like that. but the point is they don't. they stay here. >> creators who are leaving the country, they are wealth creators. this government is

anti creating wealth. no, that's not true. >> no . what is in favour of is >> no. what is in favour of is doneis >> no. what is in favour of is done is , is, is distributing done is, is, is distributing that wealth more fairly. >> and the only thing she seems to think she says she can create growth is she can reform the planning system. and that will take years. >> so is it unfair if you work very hard and you do extremely well in business, that you are wealthy? that's unfair. is it? >> no, i don't think no, but what it what it means is, is how that wealth is distributed. and that's my point about ceos who are taking huge amounts of money. if they were doing it fairly, what they would do is if the boardroom is taking a 30% pay the boardroom is taking a 30% pay rise, you're taking they're earning it. well, i mean, they're taking it because they can. so if they're getting a 30% pay can. so if they're getting a 30% pay rise, why can't that happen to the workforce? why can't boardrooms take the same amount of proportionately the same amount of money? the workforce would have? they could still have millions of pounds in salary. i'm not knocking.

>> you're creating a kind of communist scenario, which is ludicrous and won't create any kind of growth at the moment, though, this so—called socialist government is penalising the poon government is penalising the poor, the elderly and the students. it is a ludicrous situation and it shows what a catastrophic bunch of clowns are running this country. >> but before we go to the break, we have to go to the break. it is an irony that you talk about redistribution of wealth, and that lord alli, one of the richest men who's ever supported the labour party, was apparently involved in devising the grid for labour's first 100 days. that went well. yeah. >> well, yes, it did. went well, i think that let's hope that in fact now keir starmer has got a grip on downing street. things will actually i don't know. but i mean it was chaos i admit. >> and he was at meetings with senior civil servants in the run up to the election about i don't defend me. >> i don't defend that he's got no no official function and he shouldn't he shouldn't even be doing government policy. >> he screw the rich. but lord alli can be involved in how to

form policy. >> i'm not defending lord alli. >> i'm not defending lord alli. >> yeah, this government overrides democracy in this country. it makes announcements that require acts of parliament outside parliament . the speaker outside parliament. the speaker yesterday reprimanded the government . government. >> we are going very late to the headlines. >> we're very late for the news. sam's waiting for us. here's sam francis with the headlines . francis with the headlines. >> very good morning to you. 10:34. a quick bit of breaking news for you into us in the last few minutes that the uk population grew by 1% in just a yeah population grew by 1% in just a year. mostly they say , due to year. mostly they say, due to international migration. the for office national statistics estimates the total population has now reached 68.3 million. that was by mid 2023, covering england, scotland, wales and northern ireland. the ons says migration was the key driver of growth as deaths exceeded births by around 16,300. in the same penod by around 16,300. in the same period and in some more breaking

news this morning, news just into us that pro—palestinian activists have targeted the offices of financial services firm allianz across the uk. pictures here you should be able to see showing police that have cordoned off the offices of allianz in the heart of london's financial district, after protesters there covered the buildings with red paint. palestine action says the protests are due to the business's alleged links to an israeli defence firm. ten allianz offices have been hit, including the insurers uk headquarters in guildford, where we understand demonstrators are still there . water companies in still there. water companies in england and in wales have been ordered to return more than £157 million to customers for, they say, failing to meet crucial targets on pollution and interruption to water supplies. ofwat has demanded the money comes off of bills for households and businesses in 2025 and 26. it follows a previous to order repay £114

million last year. well, with water bills set to rise by an average of 21% over the next five years. the chief executive of ofwat says that financial penalties alone won't solve the industry's deep rooted crisis. meanwhile, though, some companies have made progress on leaks, though none have achieved the top rating in the middle east, israel is ramping up its military offensive in lebanon with fresh airstrikes on hezbollah strongholds in beirut and across southern lebanon. these are the latest pictures just into us of the skyline in beirut, where those strikes have come just less than 24 hours after israel marked the anniversary of the hamas attacks. that's now triggered a mass evacuation in beirut. as the idf says it is preparing for a major operation. meanwhile, more than 20% of lebanon's population have already fled seeking refuge in syria, as there are fears of a wider conflict in the region. well, the us has voiced its support

for israel's targeting of hezbollah, though there are concerns still about a potential prolonged war in the region . in prolonged war in the region. in germany , christian brueckner, germany, christian brueckner, the suspect in the disappearance of the madeleine mccann case, has been acquitted in an unrelated sexual abuse case involving three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse. 47 year old is under investigation for the suspected murder of madeleine mccann, but he's not been charged in the case. he lived in portugal around the time of madeleine's disappearance in may of two thousand and seven, but continues to deny any involvement . and as ever, it involvement. and as ever, it wouldn't be a news bulletin without a bit of weather news for you . so hurricane milton has for you. so hurricane milton has been upgraded to a category five storm, prompting florida's biggest evacuation in seven years. these satellite images show that storm churning through the gulf of mexico with winds reaching up to 180 miles an houn reaching up to 180 miles an hour. it's set to make landfall on wednesday in the us , with

on wednesday in the us, with forecasters warning of an 8 to 12 foot storm surge that would be the highest ever for the region and could bring some widespread flooding. florida's emergency department says that residents should prepare for the largest evacuation since 2017. hurricane irma. and it comes just two weeks after hurricane helene sadly claimed over 200 lives in the southeastern us . lives in the southeastern us. those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in around half an hour. andrew and bev. up next. first, though, a short break 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 alerts

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>> very good morning. it's1041. this is britain's newsroom. >> so campaigners are calling on the chancellor to grant a list of promises. promises, promises. sorry. over planned changes to council tax ahead of the october 30th budget. >> that's right. so currently, a person can qualify for a 25% discount if somebody lives alone or with someone who has dementia. >> critics fear these discounts that benefit the elderly in particular, could be scrapped in the budget. what a surprise. >> anna riley spoke to a pensioner about what such a measure would mean for them. here she is. >> we have a big bite . that's >> we have a big bite. that's nice, isn't it? >> derek brown cares for his wife margaret, in their northallerton home. margaret can no longer walk and struggles to talk due to dementia. >> when she forgets your name and when she looks at you as if who are you? that's really hard. and the first time it happens, it's like a knife going in you. it really is the person you've been married to for 15 years doesn't know who you are, and it

really , really hurts. but in really, really hurts. but in time, you learn to live with it. you learn to blame the disease. >> as one of the 900,000 people with dementia in the uk , with dementia in the uk, margaret's exempt from paying council tax . and so derek council tax. and so derek qualifies for a 25% discount. but he fears the cost should the reduction be scrapped. >> we're losing the £300 heating allowance and the average price, the average value of the council tax discount is just over £500 a yeah tax discount is just over £500 a year. so the government are talking about taking away £500 from people who've got dementia. how are they going to survive campaigning for those with dementia and their carers? >> derek pressed for a change in the law to backdate council tax discounts for those with the disease. now he's fighting for

the allowance to remain. >> i think the government are hammering people with dementia again. people with dementia have to have the heating on. they have to be over 21 degrees to keep the houses warm. they're not mobile as same as everybody else. margaret's in a bed in the lounge, so she needs the heating on all the time. why should i have to cut down on the meals? why should i have to watch when i'm washing margaret's clothes? why should i have to do that in order to satisfy a political objective? >> chancellor rachel reeves will set out the budget on october the 30th. she said it will involve difficult decisions on tax spending and benefits. anna riley , honestly. riley, honestly. >> anna riley, thank you for that. >> anna riley, thank you for that . it's >> anna riley, thank you for that. it's just >> anna riley, thank you for that . it's just awful what that. it's just awful what people do. i was nearly crying watching it, but there's at least 950,000 people in this country with dementia. >> many of them are at home with

carers. my mum, my mum did that for my dad and in the end he was bedndden for my dad and in the end he was bedridden and he couldn't speak. it was just awful and he didn't know us. he'd get the odd word out of him. >> oh, don't tell me this labour government are kind. don't tell me the left ofwat the monopoly on kindness. i'm not buying it anymore. >> and remember, one of the things they've dropped. there's no plans for social care. there's no package for social care. they've dropped it. >> no one talks about it. they just don't talk about people like that. thank goodness for gb news. we can show you people like that. >> people with dementia don't have a vote, do they? >> they don't have a vote? no. it's just well, they do, but they can't. >> they can't exercise it because they're not capable. yeah, i don't know actually if they can have a proxy. i don't know what the law is. >> susan. morning. susan has said bev and andrew, can you please get the powers that be to send a copy of this heartbreaking clip and council tax to rachel? thieves, please. it's very upsetting to think about that dreadful woman. what she would be getting sony nicked named rachel reeves. >> rachel. freeze! as in freezing the pension. >> i've never known a pair of leaders whose names lend

themselves to the nicknames like those two. >> i mean, you think about keir starmer free two tier care free kirakira free gear. >> keir yeah, sticking paula said. imagine our weak government. imagine our government. imagine our government being advised by 8000 people like nigel nelson. now stop imagining it. that's the reality. 8000 people like nigel nelson are being advised by 8000 people like nigel nelson. i don't know where he got the 8000. there's only one nigel nelson. >> and we do love nigel nelson. i suspect nigel nelson. now he has to do defend this labour government. i think he probably enjoyed attacking the tory government because it was eafien >> yeah, well you can see it in the eyes when we sit here on this desk and we get our lefties in who we love in, they sit down and you see them before we have our debates. there's like a it's disappointing but disappointing in their eyes. >> but you know, i go to the commons once or twice a week and italk commons once or twice a week and i talk to mps. i can sense it. i mean the labour conference, i won't forget. you would have expected the move to be triumphant, joyful, back in power after 14 years. there was a sense of real dejection

because they couldn't believe that this government had got themselves in such a mess over winter fuel and the freebies. >> and just to be clear, i mean, andrew might feel differently to me, but i don't wish this government ill. i don't want i don't want to see labour do badly. i genuinely i don't feel party political in that way. >> they drag the country down with us. >> but that's the issue is i don't take any satisfaction in the fact that it's the labour party that are managing to completely mess everything up, but i just, i wanted them to do well and it's appalling. right up next, why are 1 in 5 over 50. that's you andrew. >> no, i'm long over that. >> no, i'm long over that. >> hiding their age on their cv. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb. news.

welcome back to britain's newsroom on gb news with bev and

andrew. >> studies reveal more than 1 in 5 job candidates over the age of 50 fail to mention their age on their cvs, because they think they might not get an interview. >> apparently, if you're over the age of 57, you are considered too old. well, that's you done then. we're lucky to even be here, aren't we? what? >> var soon? >> var soon? >> well, it's my birthday. next week. we're joined by sarah vickerstaff , professor of work vickerstaff, professor of work and employment at the university of kent. good morning to you, sarah. good morning. so just just to explain this to us in a bit more detail. what are the more experienced job applicant frightened of when they don't put their name on their age? >> their age they don't put their age on? sorry. yeah. well, they've seen the research , like they've seen the research, like they've seen the research, like the research we're talking about today from total jobs that recruiters, 46% of recruiters thought that 57 was too old. i mean , that's nearly a decade mean, that's nearly a decade before the state pension age, and about 15% of those

interviewed felt that they had not got a job because of their age. so if you're in this environment where you've experienced ageism or you can see it happening around you, then leaving your age off your cv is a bit of a no brainer. >> but what is it about being over 50 that might render you a liability to an employer? i would always employ people with experience and wisdom . experience and wisdom. >> well, indeed, you would have thought they would be a highly desirable talent pool, especially in the context of skill shortages . lots of skill shortages. lots of employers complaining about the fact that it's difficult to recruit the people they want, and there's lots of older workers over 50 out there looking for work. but i think what happens is that we live in a society where we have a lot of stereotypes about age, not just older age, but younger age as well . so, i older age, but younger age as well. so, i mean, our visions of old age tend to be coloured by pictures of physical or cognitive decline . and that's

cognitive decline. and that's those sort of stereotypes are what are operating in the in the labour market that recruiters worry about someone's capability if they're if they're past a certain age. so they're not recruiting for the skills and competencies that are really needed for the job, but they're relying on stereotypes . and of relying on stereotypes. and of course, younger people suffer from this as well, in the sense that younger people are seen as less reliable, less committed. so we, we all operate on the bafis so we, we all operate on the basis of stereotypes , and they basis of stereotypes, and they can be very damaging in the labour market. >> those sarah, those recruiters, i suspect are younger people . younger people. >> well, indeed, this piece of research confirms earlier research confirms earlier research that younger recruiters are more likely to go for younger applicants . so are more likely to go for younger applicants. so this really is a steer to employers that you should have age diverse recruiting teams so that people

come in and see people like themselves. in the interview situation or whenever they interact with a prospective employer . employer. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> professor of work and employment at the university of kent. these people think it's hilarious. well, because physical and cognitive decline and i thought, why don't we just have that as a strap underneath us? >> because we're embodying it. it feels like more and more every day. if you want to watch some more physical and cognitive decline, don't go anywhere while you watch the weather. >> 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. >> hello! good morning and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's an unsettled day ahead with showers and some longer spells of rain, but if you manage to avoid the showers in the south—east, it will feel warm where you catch the sunshine. so plenty of showers

bubbung sunshine. so plenty of showers bubbling up across parts of england and wales. these could be heavy at times, with the risk of thunder to some longer spells of thunder to some longer spells of rain across northern parts of england . across the scottish england. across the scottish borders too. this once again could also be heavy and some fairly strong winds amongst the showers too, and some stronger winds moving into parts of northern scotland too. and that's just going to take a bit of a kick off the temperatures too. but as i say, where you catch the sunshine across the south—east, if you manage to avoid the showers, it will be feeling warm and pleasant for the time of year. still into the evening, we'll continue to see those outbreaks of rain. still a chance. they could be heavy, perhaps seeing even some sleet and snow fall across the scottish highlands. and still those blustery winds as well, moving in across parts of scotland. too cloudy once again with outbreaks of rain in northern ireland and elsewhere. still plenty of showers continuing into the evening. still once again could be heavy. still once again could be heavy. still may even hear the odd rumble of thunder. those showers are going to stick around into the evening, perhaps progressing into longer spells of rain across the southeast. so quite a

damp start possible here. and still with those outbreaks of rain across parts of scotland too. still could be heavy, perhaps still continuing to see that sleet and snow across the highlands. so generally a cold night , particularly highlands. so generally a cold night, particularly in the north, and especially in that brisk wind too, but across the south, generally a mild night on offer for towns and cities heading into the middle part of the week. still a fairly unsettled day. still, with those longer spells of rain in parts of the northeast, a fair amount of the northeast, a fair amount of cloud across england and wales, and still continuing to see those showers bubble up into the afternoon. once again, a risk of some heavy thundery downpours too, and plenty of strong winds across the country too , which is going to make it too, which is going to make it feel a little bit chillier. that's it from me. bye for now. >> we can expect clear skies leading to a light and warm day ahead. lovely boxt

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the 8th of october. live across the 8th of october. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning . thanks for >> good morning. thanks for joining us. so labour are still, it seems in chaos. the prime minister is being urged to come clean about his relationship with a labour donor. lord alli. it's emerged that he helped plan labour's first 100 days in power and nobody elected him. remember soft on foreign criminals? >> oh yes, an albanian criminal who sneaked back into britain after being jailed and then deported, has won the right to stay here. and guess what? it was through the wretched european court of human rights. is it time to leave? >> in a gb news exclusive, white metropolitan police officers hesitate when dealing with ethnic minorities. charlie peters has more . peters has more. >> do you trust the police to apply >> do you trust the police to apply the law fairly in all cases, to people of all backgrounds? well, the chair of the met police federation suggests that many officers don't feel confident to do just that. i'll have all the details coming up shortly .

coming up shortly. >> another one bites the dust in the tory leadership race. four candidates will become three later today as labour's poll lead over the tories has fallen to just one point. >> and breaking news this morning, water firms in england and wales have been ordered to return £157 million to us. the customers due to their poor performance . performance. >> is only going to be a few quid, isn't it? >> each person. yeah, well, we're looking at that story in some more detail about the water companies . i know a lot of you companies. i know a lot of you feel very strongly about that, and we do, but but my, my concern is that they give us that money back as a rebate, but then whack it on the bills next year of course. why do we why do we always feel like that anyway? that must be our cognitive and physical decline that we're suffering from. we? we talked about before the break. get in

touch this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your say first the very latest news with sam francis . francis. >> bev and andrew thank you very much. good morning to you. it is 11:02. the top story. this hour. the uk's population has grown by 1% in the space of just a year, mostly the ons say, due to net international migration. the office for national statistics estimates the total population reached 68.3 million by mid 2023. that covers england, scotland , wales and northern scotland, wales and northern ireland, the ons says migration was the key driver of growth as deaths exceeded births by around 16,300. in the same period. that's the main factor behind the latest rise in the uk population . well, just an update population. well, just an update on that news we brought you in the last half hour or so that pro—palestinian activists have targeted the offices of financial services firm allianz across the uk. this morning, police have cordoned off the

offices in the heart of london's financial district after protesters covered buildings there with red paint. palestine action says the protests are over the business's alleged links to an israeli defence firm. ten of allianz offices were hit this morning, including the insurers uk headquarters in guildford, where demonstrators remain . well, that breaking news remain. well, that breaking news that we have just been bringing you from the palestine protests comes as officials are in the middle east warning of a serious disease outbreak in lebanon that comes as reuters news agency is saying five hospitals in lebanon are now non—functional for semi—functional due to the impacts of the ongoing hostilities in the region and we're also just hearing the hezbollah chief, deputy chief at this stage has said that they want to the military group that is the terror group want to clash with the israelis, and they believe that the only answer to a resolution is to continue pushing back against

israeli strikes. so that latest update just into us on the situation in the middle east. well, we will take a pause from that news in the middle east and turn to news in the uk, where water companies in england and in wales have been ordered to return more than £157 million to customers for failing to meet crucial targets on pollution off what's demanded. the money comes off of bills for households and businesses in 2025 and 2026. it follows a previous order to repay £114 million last year, and with water bills set to rise by an average of 21% over the next five years. ofwat chief executive says that financial penalties alone won't solve the industry's deep rooted issues . industry's deep rooted issues. meanwhile, though some companies have made progress on leaks, though none have achieved the top rating . and as i just said, top rating. and as i just said, a few moments ago, the situation

in the middle east seems to be ramping up as israel is now continuing its military offensive in lebanon. you can see there scenes of the beirut skyline as smoke continues to unger skyline as smoke continues to linger in the air following fresh airstrikes on hezbollah strongholds in the lebanese capital and across the south of the country. those strikes , the country. those strikes, which come less than 24 hours after israel, marked the anniversary of the mass attacks, have now triggered mass evacuations in beirut as the idf prepares for what they have described as a major operation. meanwhile, more than 20% of the lebanese population have now fled, seeking refuge for some in syria as fears of the wider conflict are growing well. the us. conflict are growing well. the us has voiced its support for u.s. has voiced its support for israel's targeting of hezbollah, though concerns are still remaining about a potential and prolonged war in the region . in prolonged war in the region. in the us, meanwhile , donald trump the us, meanwhile, donald trump marked that one year anniversary of the hamas attacks on israel,

calling it a nightmare. speaking to a packed ballroom at his miami golf club, the former president addressed a group of supporters, blaming the rise of anti—semitism across the uk on the democratic party. >> that has to do with the leadership of this country, this attack . on the october 7th attack. on the october 7th attack, would never have happened if i was president. i can tell you . can tell you. >> well, with just 29 days until the us election, kamala harris has been facing questions on critical issues, including the conflict in the middle east. in one a on one interview with cbs news, amid growing criticism over her limited media appearances, the vice president addressed topics like ukraine, gun ownership and immigration. and in one tense moment, she refused to call the israeli prime minister a strong ally of the us after recent disagreements. >> but it seems that prime minister netanyahu is not

listening. >> we are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the united states to be clear about where we stand on the need for this to war end. >> henri paul kamala harris there, the vice president, speaking with cbs news. well, here at home, conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has claimed that illegal immigration affects other eu countries far more than it does the uk. that's despite figures indicating that 1 in 100 people indicating that 1 in 100 people in britain are illegal migrants. in an exclusive clip obtained by gb news from a private meeting in august, tugendhat said britain is by a long way the most , not the britain is by a long way the most, not the most britain is by a long way the most , not the most affected by most, not the most affected by illegal immigration, and his comments come as conservative candidates in the leadership race are continuing to clash on that topic . and that race to that topic. and that race to lead the conservative party is in its final stages with just days left to decide, the next opposition leader, four candidates are battling it out robert jenrick , kemi badenoch, robert jenrick, kemi badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat .

james cleverly and tom tugendhat. but by tonight one will be eliminated and then on wednesday, the final two will be selected, leaving conservative members to make the ultimate choice . james, cleverly seen as choice. james, cleverly seen as the front runner, has gained some momentum following a strong performance at the party conference, but team jenrick is confident, believing their hard stance on the european convention on human rights will win them a place in that final. well, this morning we were joined by shadow minister for education damian hinds and he told us that he thinks there is a field of four standout candidates to choose from. >> we've not made a declaration. i think we've got four really strong candidates. obviously we've got we've got around today another round tomorrow and then there will be the and then there'll be the members round. i took a decision at the start of the contest not to make a declaration until we got to that final, until we got to that final, until we got to that final stage. but i think it's been a very well contested election. obviously, the party conference last week, that was a really important opportunity for people to set out their stall. and i think both party members and of course the wider public

got a chance to see all four of them in action . them in action. >> and finally, a weather update for you. hurricane milton has been upgraded to a category five storm, prompting florida's biggest evacuation in seven years. the satellite images show that storm churning through the gulf of mexico with winds reaching up to 180 miles an houn reaching up to 180 miles an hour. it's set to make landfall on the american coast on wednesday, with forecasters there warning of an 8 to 12 foot storm surge possible that would be the highest ever for the region and could bring some widespread spread flooding. meanwhile, florida's emergency department says residents should prepare for the largest evacuation since 2017, hurricane irma, and it comes just two weeks after hurricane helene claimed. sadly , over 200 lives claimed. sadly, over 200 lives in southeastern us . those are in southeastern us. those are the latest headlines for now. your next update from me in around half an hour now though, back to bev and andrew for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news

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trumpet. but we did. yes it did, but thank you. >> we couldn't do it without you. right. moving on. the chairman of the metropolitan police federation has said that white police officers hesitate when dealing with ethnic minorities over fears they could be investigated for racism. >> rick prior spoke to gb news exclusively, saying that racism of low expectation means the met does not criticise bad behaviour. >> charlie peters is here with us, gb news national reporter what does racism of low expectation mean, charlie? >> so the racism of low expectations is what rick perry is describing. when the met is failing to call out bad behaviour, he says from members of the public who get caught up in altercations or confrontations with police officers . he draws on one key officers. he draws on one key example, which is a relevant and active example, because last week a police officer was exonerated after an 18 month investigation. he had his conviction quashed for assault after he stopped a woman while supporting the tfl's revenue protection team in croydon, south london. she was asked to show her oyster card to prove

that you've paid for the bus. you might see these people on tubes and trains of london day in and day out. she refused. she walked away and it created a confrontation and he arrested her, as is within his rights as a constable in the metropolitan police. footage of the incident was filmed. as is often the case as well and it sparked into a wider national conversation about race and policing. she was about race and policing. she was a black woman. he was a white man, but the institute, the office for police conduct looking into this, the independent office, the iopc , independent office, the iopc, they launched an investigation saying that this was potentially racially motivated actions by the police officer. a district judge in westminster magistrates court convicted him of assault and finally, after this time with this man, as you know , was with this man, as you know, was having his job thrown out, was in a serious state of disarray because of it. it's been overturned. and the met, in reaction said, oh, well, this incident has divided opinion and it was a concern for the black community. rick prior is saying the met should have stepped in

there and said if a police officer politely asks you to show your ticket to prove you've paid for the bus , just do it. paid for the bus, just do it. just engage with a polite police constable trying to enforce the law. that's the job. that is the job. and he is saying that the met is failing to do this. they're nervous about asking people from minority backgrounds to behave better when in having these sorts of interactions. >> thus have happened if the woman had been white. no. >> well, that's almost certainly the perspective of many officers ispoke the perspective of many officers i spoke to, they would say, and there will be black people and campaigners on this issue that would say, but i know that i'm more likely to get my collar felt because i am black, or i know that i am going to be racially profiled and targeted for not getting on the bus with the right ticket because i am black. >> it's very hard to prove. >> it's very hard to prove. >> this morning i spoke to andy george, who's the chair of the national black police association. he took a completely opposite view to rick prior's and he pointed to baroness louise casey, finding last march that the metropolitan police was institutionally racist. now, the met's not accepted that many officers find

this to be a quite rotten summary and conclusion. in the investigation that's been charged in that reaction. but rick also pointed to another concern that i think is raising more of a reaction this morning, not just this racism of low expectations , but the effect expectations, but the effect it's having, which is a lot of officers don't feel backed by their leadership. there is, as he says, a crisis in confidence. and so when they get into these sorts of altercations and confrontations with members of the public, he's saying that a lot of them are hesitating. now, the press struggled to speak to police officers. there's no doubt about that. it's gotten more and more difficult to have relationships, to work out how they really feel. and so we rely on people like rick is the federation chair and other representatives to put through what the rank and file think and feel on their day to day experience as bobbies on the beat. and if this is an accurate representation of what officers feel, and so far have not had anyone get in touch to tell me they don't feel that way, and i speak to a lot of police officers, then this is really concerning. and there have been other cases more recently where the iopc has launched

investigations into officers, which have then been overturned, a four year investigation, four years of your career being on the line for the stopping of two olympic sprinters, you may remember that case. now the iopc opened an investigation after sir keir starmer, four years ago, said on lbc that this was a very controversial situation. sadiq khan also made an intervention as well and the met then felt they had to refer it to the iopc. finally , last week to the iopc. finally, last week those officers were cleared the police appeals tribunal said that the original decision to find these officers guilty of a of an incorrect stop and misconduct was irrational. it was a decision they couldn't understand. and those officers finally have been exonerated. but for four years they've been at the hands of a malicious complaint. that's what the that's what the federation and they never get those years back of their life, do they, charlie? precisely. and if you think you're a police officer, if you see that situation, rick prior told me last night on the phone, he said, in that sort of scenario, which those officers were in, other officers might not do the job. when she was the

commissioner of the met, she said any officer worth their salt would have stopped that car. and i'm concerned. and i think rick's concerned that many officers who are worth their salt will now not stop that car because they don't want to go down. this process. >> two tier policing. >> two tier policing. >> the problem is we see everything and when we are forced or encouraged to see everything through the prism of identity politics, be that race or sexuality, then everybody is nervous of saying the wrong thing , doing the wrong thing, thing, doing the wrong thing, arresting the wrong person and all it creates is more division and resentment. it feels like we were discussing this, weren't we, in the break that 20 years ago, when you were talking at dinners as a as a gay man in fleet street, not an easy role to have at all. di was incredibly necessary . but have incredibly necessary. but have we won most of those have moved on. have we moved on? do we need to get to a point where we're judged on our character, not our melanin ? melanin? >> yeah, well, the iopc, it's

been said by rick prior, their default position is to assume that police officers are being racist in their approach and they're often continuing with that narrative, he says. even after it's been proved otherwise. and so even if andrew is saying that we've moved on from certain situations, there are i think it's clear for to all see, regardless of your perspective, people who really want to push this idea that there are deep and consistent issues with racism in policing and potentially forcing them into situations where that is not the case. and i think in the last couple of exonerations, these officers have seen, some officers in the met are now feeling more confident in saying, we've got to push back against this, which is great, right? >> andy? george, who charlie just mentioned there , who's the just mentioned there, who's the president of the national black police association, told gb news there have been many seminal reports in the race into the racism that black communities suffer at the hands of met officers in london over recent years. it is ridiculous that rick perry and others would try to use a small number of high profile cases to delegitimize the evidence found in many

reports. >> the met police is in a crisis of its own making, and it's disappointing that while scrutiny should be rightly appued scrutiny should be rightly applied given the tragic murder of sarah everard, people like rick prior are pushing back on accountability. >> he goes on. the police federation is crumbling and have again shown they are not fit for purpose nor able to represent all their members views adequately. thank you for that. >> so no agreement there. >> so no agreement there. >> yeah, right up next, lord moneybags lord alli has been pulling the strings of the labour party before they came into power. you may not be surprised to hear that. how tall is he? about three foot two. >> who's next to lord alli is very small. >> how tall is that man? >> how tall is that man? >> he makes me look tall and i'm five foot nine, right? >> this is britain's newsroom on gb news. don't go anywhere.

welcome back to britain's newsroom on gb news. >> andrew and bev panel is back.

piers pottinger and gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. we talked very briefly yesterday, guys, about the astonishing figures that have come to light. that 1 the astonishing figures that have come to light. that1 in have come to light. that 1 in 100 in this country is an illegal migrant. we talked to tony smith, who used to run border control, and i said , it's border control, and i said, it's all your fault because you didn't stop them coming in. yeah. and he said he said those figures were from 2017. probably more like 1 in 50. >> well, i mean, his point, which i thought was really good, is that other countries, america specifically, not only do they monitor people coming in, but also the people who go out , we also the people who go out, we don't do that in this country. so actually we don't know how many of those people might have left. it may well be much higher, much higher figure than what the higher, much higher figure than what the 745,000 higher, much higher figure than what the 745,000 that they're talking about. we just don't know. but it seems to be now that we've got sort of biometric gates there, why can't we do it the other way round? and as people leave the country, we monitor them at the same time. >> but do they leave? do we

deport? well, we don't know. i mean, that's the problem. do they not keep a record of the ones they deport? >> well, of course they do. but i mean, a lot of these people will be ones who who have overstayed their visas, and then we don't know if they've gone and then that if they're staying, they'll have overstayed, become illegal migrants. and then gone into the black economy. so it's very difficult to actually know who they are, who they are. the other issue that we've had is because of rwanda, the backlog of asylum seekers grew on the bafis of asylum seekers grew on the basis that they couldn't stay in this country, but they couldn't leave either because we didn't have rwanda off the ground. so whether or not this works or not, but what yvette cooper has doneis not, but what yvette cooper has done is taken the thousand civil servants who are working on rwanda and has now put them on working on the backlog to try and clear that. >> yeah, i mean, it's extraordinary. >> it's a very cynical, extraordinary. >> it's a very cynical , cynical, >> it's a very cynical, cynical, yasmin people. >> and the one thing to say about all of them a major city. well, the one thing you can say

about all of them is none of them pay any tax. in fact, of course , all they are there on course, all they are there on benefits because we're the most generous country. they're not on benefits. >> we're seen as the no, they're not on benefits. >> they will be taking benefits. no they won't. they will be using. are you telling me none of them are using the national health service? >> well, of course they are. they would have to actually show that they'd paid the nhs surcharge to be able to use it. so these necessarily these people won't be. i mean, asylum seekers around it. asylum seekers around it. asylum seekers get a small amount of money, enormous drain on our resources . resources. >> illegal immigrants and a lot of immigrants that come in. can i just give you a point? >> anecdotally, i was in boots yesterday at the pharmacy. there was a japanese looking gentleman and he said, no, no, i get it because my wife is british. okay. no no no no no prescription. no no evidence, no proof. >> no no i mean he could barely speak a word of english. this man, it's a colossal drain. and of course, this government wants more illegal immigrants because the more they come in, the more they're dependent on our state

system. and this is a government who wants to control every aspect of everyone's life , and aspect of everyone's life, and they rely on vulnerable and poor people to vote for them because no one, as we look at the vote, either no one with any money or anyone who's actually in work or has any assets or has a car or a house would ever dream now of voting for the labour party because it's insane. >> well, i do think labour would still have won even if everyone knew what we know now , but i do knew what we know now, but i do think they would have had fewer seats. >> the migration problem could become a real issue in the run up to the election, because look, there it is. it is already is there, pouring across the channelin is there, pouring across the channel in ever greater numbers. >> but you see, they're not talking about it. they appointed this famous border tsar who was supposed to sort it out . and the supposed to sort it out. and the only thing the first two turned down the job. not surprisingly, the third one, martin hewitt ex—policeman , said the only ex—policeman, said the only thing he said so far is that the

government's plans have no chance of success because they need a deterrent, so they're doing nothing about it. the other day we had a thousand people come in on the boats illegally, 1000 in 1 day. so if you work that out, it's 360,000 roughly just across the channel in the dinghies, for goodness sake. this is insanity. and it costs every british taxpayer every illegal immigrant costs the british taxpayer. >> this is this is political manna from heaven for nigel farage's reform party. yes, it is breathing down the neck of the labour party in 100 seats. >> but i mean , the question is, >> but i mean, the question is, what do you do about it? so at the moment we've got the border security command that keir starmer has set up is just about starting, so we can't expect a result at the moment. i don't know if that's going to work enhen know if that's going to work either, because the previous one that the conservative conservatives had didn't work, but no one is coming up as far as i can see with a practical way of dealing with this. >> well, i was watching some

footage, a rather good old footage, a rather good old footage of margaret thatcher in the house the other day, and someone was asking her about what was she going to do about immigration. and she said simply, we will send them back. >> but how? we send them back to where? >> start sending these people back to the countries they came from. >> but the question is, where do you send them back to if they come from a safe country? france , come from a safe country? france, they can send them back to france. >> that's where they came from. >> that's where they came from. >> well, but they're not in france to be in france. they're in france to get here. yeah, but they were in france, but they were somewhere else before that. they were sent them back, but then somewhere else before france. they may have come. >> well, then france come through back to where they came from . from. >> and. but where do you stop this process going? >> that's france's issue. they came here from france. send them back to france. job done. >> and also, we should stop being a soft touch. i mean, they come here because, as you've just said, they they go to. they come through france. why don't they stop in france? because they stop in france? because they don't get very good food.

they don't get. they've got some nice countryside. there's plenty of room, much more room than there is here from the french and from the french point of view, it's not their problem. reason, money. we pay them. money. they can take money off us. we pay them £88 a week if they. >> if they're in a hotel and we pay >> if they're in a hotel and we pay them 40 odd quid a week if they're not, there's hardly a huge amount of money is money. >> we're paying them as well, on top of the £8. >> yeah, but you don't leave them on the streets, are you? >> but we're talking about hundreds of. they do in france. yeah. we're not talking about a couple of people were paying £40 a week. nigel, this is a huge drain. >> it's costing a fortune. i'm not knocking. i'm not knocking. the fact it is costing a fortune. but the labour government just won't talk about it. >> but to come up with it, they have no plans with a solution. >> the idea of saying, oh, we'll just send them back to france. how do you send them back to france? the french turn around and say, oh no, no, we're not taking them either. they're your problem. >> we put them in a boat and you send them back to france. very

simple. >> and france delivers them back , >> and france delivers them back, back, back to the norfolk coast. >> let's have a game of ping pong. >> well, we should be in the middle of a game of ping pong. >> number one, we should stop being so generous. we should make it. we are. these people are not welcome. >> instead, i think we've made it clear about that. can we just haven't? >> we've only got a minute left. but i want to hear pierce, your thoughts on the fact that james cleverly is looking likely to become the tory leader, and one of them will drop out today. >> well, he clearly was the only leader at the conference who had any kind of empathy with the with the audience in his speech. and he gave a pretty good speech compared to the others. i still think it's a pretty poor lot, quite frankly, i don't think i think cleverly , i mean, i still think cleverly, i mean, i still cleverly's the favourite with the bookies, but none of them, in my opinion, have got what it takes to really lead this party into victory at the next election. >> okay. all right. we have run out of time. nigel nelson piers pottinger. thank you so much. don't go anywhere. we're going to have the news now with sam

francis. >> very good morning to you. it is exactly 11:30. some breaking news for you on the russia, ukraine conflict. we've heard in the last few minutes that the foreign office here in the uk has imposed sanctions on russian troops who are accused of using chemical weapons on the battlefield in ukraine. those sanctions target russia's radiological, chemical and biological defence troops along with their commander. well, the uk government made that move just hours ago, calling it part of ongoing efforts to hold russia accountable. at this stage, there has been no response from moscow, but we will, of course, keep across you across the details for you . and across the details for you. and some breaking news from the situation in palestine. while pro—palestine activists here in the uk have targeted the offices of the financial services firm

allianz across the uk. police have cordoned off offices in the heart of london's financial district after protesters covered buildings with red paint. palestine action says the protests are over. the businesses linked to an israeli defence firm . ten allianz defence firm. ten allianz offices were hit, including the insurers uk headquarters in guildford , where demonstrators guildford, where demonstrators are still protesting . in the are still protesting. in the middle east, israel has launched operations in south western lebanon but says they are limited. they're localised and targeted. these are the live images of the skyline in lebanon. you can just about make out there smoke rising into the sky as those strikes have taken place. just less than 24 hours after israel marked the anniversary of the hamas attacks and killed a key hezbollah commander in beirut. meanwhile , commander in beirut. meanwhile, evacuations are underway in the lebanese capital as those strikes continue. 400,000 people

have already fled there seeking safety in various countries, including syria, amid growing fears of a wider conflict. over 1400 people have now been killed in lebanon, while the death toll in lebanon, while the death toll in gaza has now surpassed 41,900. and israel is also bracing for a potential response to iranian airstrikes in its towns. last week . back here, towns. last week. back here, water companies in england and wales have been ordered to return almost £158 million to customers for failing to meet crucial targets on pollution. ofwat demanded the money comes off bills for households and businesses in 2025 to 26. it follows a previous to order repay £114 million last year, with water bills set to rise by an average of 21% over the next five years. the chief executive of ofwat says that financial penalties alone won't solve the industry's deep rooted issues. meanwhile, some companies have

made progress on leaks, though none have achieved the top rating . the race to lead the rating. the race to lead the conservative party is in its final stages, with just days left to decide the next opposition leader, four candidates are battling it out , candidates are battling it out, including robert jenrick kemi badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat. but by tonight one will be eliminated. then, on wednesday, the final two will be selected, leaving the conservative members to make the ultimate choice. cleverly is seen as the front runner and gained momentum following a strong performance at the party's conference. but team jenrick is confident, also believing their hard stance on the european convention of human rights will win them a place in the final . and finally, to some the final. and finally, to some weather news. hurricane milton has been upgraded to a category five storm, prompting florida's biggest evacuation in seven years. satellite images you can see here show that storm churning through the gulf of

mexico with winds reaching up to 180 miles an hour. it's set to make landfall on wednesday, with forecasters warning there could be a storm surge of up to 12ft. that would be the highest ever for the region and could bring some widespread flooding. well, the emergency departments across florida say residents should prepare for the largest evacuation since 2017. and it comes just two weeks after hurricane helene claimed over 200 lives in southeastern us . 200 lives in southeastern us. those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. a full roundup at midday now, though, back to andrew and bev for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> up at noon. good afternoon

britain with emily and tom. they're here with us. what have you got today, guys? >> we've got a huge amount coming up. >> i heard you were talking about this exodus of millionaires. yes. >> which a lot of people, you know, predicted andrews booking his ticket. but apparently economists are now coming out to suggest that there should be some kind of exit tax when the super rich dare to leave the country. >> left wing economists. well, this is extraordinary. >> it's from the institute of fiscal studies. >> sensible. >> sensible. >> say no more. >> say no more. >> well, i mean, people can make their own minds up about that , their own minds up about that, about the leaning or whatever of the organisation. >> but. but the fascinating thing is , if we start imposing thing is, if we start imposing exit duties on people who leave, i mean, this is straight back to the 1970s, really is authoritarian, isn't it? nuts. and it's almost as if people have not considered the second order effects of. surely we should be wanting to attract very wealthy people to come to the country. who on earth is going to come to the country is, if you dare, step foot in here, we're going to take half your cash. can you imagine? >> you come to this country to set up a business, create hundreds of jobs, do really well,

pay, pay hundreds of jobs, do really well, pay, pay huge amounts of tax. you decide. you know, on balance, you want to try out another country or move somewhere else. that you'd like to go, and then you're hit with a massive tax. well, why would you come to this country in the first place? >> premium on investing in britain is going to rise inexorably. >> if this is when we're already more tax than at any time in the last 70 years. >> yeah it's crazy. and also, rachel reeves, apparently she's being urged to scrap these prescriptions , free prescriptions, free prescriptions, free prescriptions for 60 to 65 year olds. we're going to be asking whether that's a good idea. is that a good way to save some money? >> i think yes. >> i think yes. >> i think yes. >> i mean, it's below pension age, i think i think it's extraordinary that it didn't rise with pension age. >> you know, we're living longer if you're in work, if you're earning money, you should pay for your prescriptions. >> yeah, i get a free prescription. it is ridiculous. >> free bus pass. >> free bus pass. >> i do . >> i do. >> i do. >> do you use it? >> do you use it? >> i do, i use a tube all the time. >> yeah, it is crazy. i mean, people are working longer and longer and longer. do they really need free prescriptions? perhaps people at home might disagree. >> i think there are going to be very strong opinions on this. yeah. because. yeah. >> oh sorry. and another question. has the echr become a

charter for criminals? yes, of course we're referring to this albanian burglar who's managed to get away from deportation because of his right to family life. >> remember robert jenrick highlighted another egregious case in his speech last week at the tory conference. >> yeah, and it's going to be it's going to be very interesting, actually. how that plays into the tory leadership knockout rounds today. someone's going out of that contest this afternoon . and of course, you afternoon. and of course, you might think that the story, like the echr robert jenrick, has campaigned on the echr perhaps more strongly than than any other of the remaining candidates. but he's talking to conservative mps, the membership are with him on that question. might it hurt his chances amongst those mps, though? that's a big question. one to watch. how will his numbers rise? he's ahead right now, but will he just stay and we'll be watching you from midday. >> emily and tom. thank you. up next, though, former us president donald trump's huge claim about the middle east conflict. have a listen. >> the october 7th attack would never have happened if i was president . president. >> is he right? this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. 1141 this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and andrew pierce. we're in a state of cognitive and physical decline due to an interview where it really tickled us. >> that has now, overnight, the us vice president, kamala harris. she is, of course, now the contender to be president of the contender to be president of the united states. in a rare interview. this was cbs news 60 minutes was quizzed over the failing immigration system. >> was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did? >> it's a long standing problem and solutions are at hand. and from day one, literally , we have from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions , she says. >> literally nothing. >> literally nothing. >> oh, they've been in nearly four years. the election is in four years. the election is in four weeks time. and she's saying solutions are at hand .

saying solutions are at hand. where have they? where have you been, love? she's been in charge of immigration for four years. they are charging through the border from mexico in their thousands every week. >> well, former president donald trump spoke at an event in florida, and he blames the american leadership for the october 7th attacks. have a listen. >> a lot of that has to do with the leadership of this country. this attack leadership , the this attack leadership, the october 7th attack would never have happened if i was president. i can tell you we're joined now by democrat political strategist hank sheinkopf. >> and were there highlights for you, hank? from from kamala harris. but also i want to find out what do you think donald trump means by that when he says the october the 7th attacks on israel wouldn't have happened had he been in charge. why? >> yeah, i have no idea what he's talking about, and i have noidea he's talking about, and i have no idea what she was talking about. both of them were ridiculous. she said nothing that made any sense about immigration. he's been saying lately. nothing that makes any sense about anything. so it's

quite the election . quite the election. >> it's not very reassuring for the electorate of america, is it , the electorate of america, is it, hank, that neither of the contenders you say are making any sense on two very big, important issues ? important issues? >> this is not good for the united states. it's frankly not for good europe, considering the importance of the american nuclear shield to protect europeans from the russians and from further chaos. so everybody has a lot to be worried about. >> we're only a matter of weeks, i think . aren't we now? well, i think. aren't we now? well, a couple of weeks until the american election. what's the polling saying over there in the states? who's looking like the front runner right now? >> she is by about 2%. but her momentum has kind of slowed down. and the good news for her is that trump keeps talking and he keeps saying things like you just noted in your program that somehow he could save the united states from things that he has no control over and would not have been able to do anything about. >> do you think with your contacts in the democratic party , contacts in the democratic party, kamala harris got the job as contender because trump sorry, biden stood down so late in the

day . was there a hope in hell day. was there a hope in hell she'd have been the contender otherwise ? otherwise? >> not likely. i mean, the democratic leadership went into panic about two months out, and particularly reached that high crescendo of absolute insecurity about the future after the debate. well known debate between biden and trump when biden did not perform, could not perform, and was seen to be kind of out of it most of the time. so they had to do something. she was the something you could not tell in the united states based on its politics. a black woman vice president that she could not be running for office, and she's the one they had no choice but to choose , is she? but to choose, is she? >> can i ask you, do you think she's up to it? >> candidly, i don't know anybody, whether in the uk or in the united states or in most of the united states or in most of the countries that are impacted. thatis the countries that are impacted. that is up to the present moment. you know, my view is a phd in political science. i think the world war two just ended on october 7th of last yeah ended on october 7th of last year. so we're entering a new era. as anyone up to the task, i'm not quite sure what might

the fundamental issues be between now and october? >> november the 5th? hank, in terms of switching the dial for voters , it is really immigration voters, it is really immigration and the economy, the good economic news, the united states is experiencing. >> we've recovered from covid faster than any other industrialised western nation . industrialised western nation. certainly that's good news. but inflation is still a problem. she has to deal with that. and immigration are the two things that combination of inflation and immigration and the sense that things are generally out of control. there's chaos tends to benefit the out party. so trump could close this some more , but could close this some more, but it's up to him. he's saying the most ridiculous things and is highly quotable for being incoherent. so when you have that kind of setting and a weak looking vice president, anything can happen. >> he's a loose cannon, isn't he? that's part of the problem. >> sure it is. it's a serious problem. he says the craziest things you just noted, it. but can you tell me how an american president could have prohibited nine, ten, seven? i'd like to

know. really ? know. really? >> i'm sort of. i kind of with you both on the fact that he is unpredictable, but doesn't that partly explain hank why there was so little international conflict under trump's premiership? because equally impulsive leaders look at him and think , well, maybe you're and think, well, maybe you're one of us and we don't want to poke the bear because he does. look like he would do anything to defend america . to defend america. >> you may have a point i'd take. i'd add to what you're saying in kind of slightly different way, because you're right, no one in politics in that gamesmanship takes takes risks that are unpredictable . so risks that are unpredictable. so trump is unpredictable. therefore he will do anything. and he did some things that were just unbelievable . so yeah, just unbelievable. so yeah, people are much more afraid to do business with him. but we don't know when he talks about taking nato apart. that by itself is a very serious, serious question. and everybody should be very concerned about that. >> just last great quick prediction. who wins hank today

harris by about a point point and a half. >> maybe this continues . it's >> maybe this continues. it's going to get closer okay. >> all right. fascinating . >> all right. fascinating. democratic political strategist hank sheinkopf still to come. how do people in scotland feel about sue gray, starmer's former chief of staff, being parachuted in as the envoy for the regions and nations? let's just say they're not terribly welcoming. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. it's only tuesday, right? as we know, sue gray was sacked on sunday as the pm's chief of staff. >> she's been awarded the role of envoy for the regions in the nafions of envoy for the regions in the nations pm, which is clearly a fig leaf to cover her embarrassment. >> this has caused backlash across the political divide ,

across the political divide, including in holyrood, not hollywood , no holyrood and scotland. >> so we're joined by political commentator and former snp key figure lieutenant colonel stewart crawford, to give him his full moniker, stewart morning to you. i gather the reaction in scotland is not positive to miss grey being an envoy from london, i mean an envoy, you tend to think that would be someone in a war zone. but i'm not aware that scotland is a war zone. you don't want her? >> well good morning. i mean, i certainly have no opinion whether i want her or not, but i think that you can imagine that the snp led administration and remember, it is a minority administration now that the greens have fallen out with them and the broader independence movement does not welcome having an envoy to the nations and regions or regions and nations. as it is, nobody actually knows really what the job entails. i haven't seen a job description, but i think the important point as far as those who seek scottish independence, is that it is seen to reinforce

devolution. and of course, that is the antithesis of what the independence movement wants . independence movement wants. >> it's a little patronising, isn't it, stewart? i've been trying to put my finger on what the problem is. it sort of sounds grand in a way that maybe she doesn't deserve to have such a grand role. possibly. but it's also sort of you've got this image of somebody that will step out and grace you with their presence as the envoy to the nafion presence as the envoy to the nation . nation. >> yes, there is an element of her being an emissary, if you like, from 10 downing street, who'll be sent up like some medieval messenger to edinburgh and to the holyrood parliament and to the holyrood parliament and the scottish government, and deliver edicts to the parliament which sees itself very much as being, if not autonomous, then semi—autonomous. so it will grate with the administration in edinburgh and of course it the, the, the strategy of the independence movement in scotland, particularly the snp,

has long been to pretend that we're an independent nation already and to act like that and eventually people will believe that that's what that is the case. and the early indication of that was when alex salmond changed the name of the scottish executive, as it was then to the scottish government. and so this is, this is how the, the snp seeks to go forward. hence all the, the pretend embassies and ministers for foreign affairs. et cetera. et cetera. so sue gray, as an emissary will not be particularly welcome . particularly welcome. >> do they have to cooperate with her? >> well, i don't know, because i haven't seen the job description. and it's not just scotland, of course. it's the first ministers of the other devolved administrations, plus the mayors of whom i only know really, of andy burnham in manchester and sadiq khan in london. so it will be some sort of sort of council where it will meet. i know not, and what it will deal with, i

don't know either. so i think we just have to wait and see. >> okay . all right. thank you so >> okay. all right. thank you so much. former snp member, lieutenant colonel stuart crawford. >> not so much for the boys jobs for the girls. >> yeah, well you had some really good messages, but we've run out of time. but emily and tom will no doubt carry them through the afternoon brilliantly. >> we'll get the latest stage of the tory leadership contest. thrilling, thrilling. >> see, tomorrow has the echr become a charter for criminals. >> this is an illegal migrant. can stay upon second time of entering. we'll discuss it next. >> 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. >> hello. good morning and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's an unsettled day ahead with showers and some longer spells of rain, but if you manage to avoid the showers in the south—east, it will feel

warm where you catch the sunshine. so plenty of showers bubbung sunshine. so plenty of showers bubbling up across parts of england and wales. these could be heavy at times, with the risk of thunder to some longer spells of thunder to some longer spells of rain across northern parts of england . across the scottish england. across the scottish borders too. this once again could also be heavy and some fairly strong winds amongst the showers too, and some stronger winds moving into parts of northern scotland too. and that's just going to take a bit of a kick off the temperatures too. but as i say, where you catch the sunshine across the south—east, if you manage to avoid the showers, it will be feeling warm and pleasant for the time of year. still into the evening, we'll continue to see those outbreaks of rain. still a chance. they could be heavy, perhaps seeing even some sleet and snow fall across the scottish highlands. and still those blustery winds as well, moving in across parts of scotland. too cloudy once again with outbreaks of rain in northern ireland and elsewhere. still plenty of showers continuing into the evening. still once again could be heavy. still once again could be heavy. still may even hear the odd rumble of thunder. those showers are going to stick around into the evening, perhaps progressing into longer spells of rain

across the southeast. so quite a damp start possible here and still with those outbreaks of rain across parts of scotland too. still could be heavy, perhaps still continuing to see that sleet and snow across the highlands. so generally a cold night , particularly highlands. so generally a cold night, particularly in the north, and especially in that brisk wind too , but across the brisk wind too, but across the south, generally a mild night on offer for towns and cities heading into the middle part of the week. still a fairly unsettled day. still, with those longer spells of rain in parts of the northeast, a fair amount of the northeast, a fair amount of cloud across england and wales, and still continuing to see those showers bubble up into the afternoon. once again, a risk of some heavy thundery downpours too, and plenty of strong winds across the country too , which is going to make it too, which is going to make it feel a little bit chillier. that's it from me. bye for now . that's it from me. bye for now. >> ooh , a chilly start will give >> ooh, a chilly start will give way

>> good afternoon britain. it's

12:00 on tuesday the 8th of october. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver. soft touch britain. an albanian burglar who sneaked back into britain after being deported, has now won the right to stay in the uk. all because he had a baby with his lithuanian girlfriend, now wife. deporting him would apparently breach his rights to a family life. we're asking, has the echr become a charter for criminals? >> and it's a knockout for will become three today as conservative mps dump another leadership contender this afternoon, we'll bring you the very latest free prescriptions on the chopping block. >> rachel reeves is facing mounting pressure to scrap free prescriptions for those aged 60 to 65 years old to save the treasury. billions. would you back such a move and would it actually save billions? >> and the great british millionaire exodus fear ahead of the budget , millionaire exodus fear ahead of the budget, high taxes and changes to non—dom rules are driving away wealthy brits. the problem is apparently getting so

bad that some economists are now