2017, and going on back to 2017, and certainly the data you brought to us here today, gb news is only from the beginning of 2021. if it's half a million under the conservatives, do you have any faith anytime soon that this is going to be rectified or addressed or clamped down on by the labour regime? >> could you imagine? could you imagine the labour party actually doing something stringent on our borders? i think it's incredibly remote to suggest that they would do anything i think keir starmer, as we see, is currently being made a fool of on the european stage. he's taking orders from the europeans. we know for a fact that the europeans during the brexit negotiations were incredibly averse to the idea of those individuals that would be entering the uk after the end of the withdrawal agreement, having to undergo these checks. so i think the prospect is incredibly remote . remote. >> but david lammy is there today. david lammy is in brussels today fighting for britain, promising to strengthen visas, promising to strengthen borders, promising to make it much, much tougher to get into britain. rob bates, you cynical individual, you have no faith in mr lammy's ability. well, it's

not just david lammy. >> i don't want to single out david lammy. i think we followed the rich vein of british politics over the last 30 years. we see again and again and again a repeated series of promises that people are giving. politicians are going to endeavour to bring down net migration numbers and are actually going to deliver on the wishes of the british public, which is to see a managed and controlled border. we're nowhere near that. and the idea that david lammy keir starmer yvette cooper any of these types that are in their very heart of hearts, far left liberals are going to do anything to tackle this is remote, and rob is quickly going through some of them as 28,000 nearly programmers and software workers 20,000. >> it workers 15,000. management consultants, 12,000 chefs. the list goes on and on and on. quarter of a million. none of these people have had a basic background check to get into britain. thank you very much for sharing that exclusive report with us, robert bates. and that's, of course, the research director at the centre for migration control. rob, always a pleasure. thank you. now, still to come, i'll be speaking to the legendary pollster sir john curtice and why he thinks that

neither tory leadership candidates can save the tories. but first, here's your news headunes but first, here's your news headlines with mark white. >> good afternoon. it's 331. the main headlines from the gb news centre , stansted airport, is to centre, stansted airport, is to undergo a massive transformation as part of a £1.1 billion investment. the five year construction programme will expand the main terminal by a third and see the existing building refurbished . the building refurbished. the development will create 5000 new jobs and also deliver a 14 megawatt solar farm on site, which will help power the airport's infrastructure. the plans were unveiled by the prime minister at the flagship international investment summit in for london us tech firms also used the summit to announce plans to invest £6.3 billion in

data centre infrastructure in the uk . the perfume bottle the uk. the perfume bottle carrying the russian nerve agent that killed a salisbury woman contained enough poison to kill thousands of people. the official novichok inquiry heard how 44 year old dawn sturgess died at salisbury district hosphal died at salisbury district hospital, hours after coming into contact with the nerve agent she'd collapsed at her boyfriend's home on the 30th of june 2018, after the pair found the discarded perfume bottle in a local park. the nerve agent had been used in a bid to murder former spy sergei skripal, his daughter yulia and local police officer also fell seriously ill. a jury at the old bailey has been told how the father of sarah sharif fled to pakistan after allegedly killing the ten year old, and then called the police to say i legally punished

her and she died. sarah's father, irfan sharif, her stepmother and uncle are on trial accused of killing her. her body was discovered at her home in woking in surrey in august last year. the defendants have pleaded not guilty to her murder . the have pleaded not guilty to her murder. the police firearms officer who shot london man chris kaba, has told a jury he thought one of his colleagues was about to die when he opened fire. giving evidence in public for the first time at the old bailey, pc martin blake said he was filled with dread as the audi mr kaba was driving moved backwards and forwards as the police officers surrounded the car. pc blake fatally shot the 24 year old through the windscreen of the car in streatham in south—east london, in september 2022. the officer denies murder. the fbi is

investigating whether a man caught with loaded weapons near a donald trump rally at the weekend was part of another attempted assassination. local police arrested the man carrying multiple weapons and fake passports as he attempted to get into the trump rally in california. the 49 year old las vegas resident denied wanting to hurt the former president and was released on bail. the local county sheriff said the suspect was likely to be a sovereign citizen, someone who doesn't believe in government control . believe in government control. okay, right up to date with the latest gb news headlines, we'll have more for

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final two candidates for the tory leadership race kemi badenoch and of course, robert jenrick . but can either of them jenrick. but can either of them reverse their party's fortunes after that historic defeat? back in july? well, it would mean winning over the party and uniting the right after millions abandoned the conservatives . 4.1 abandoned the conservatives. 4.1 million. in fact, for reform uk. well, i'm joined now by the top pollster and the professor of politics at the university of strathclyde , sir john curtice. strathclyde, sir john curtice. sir john, always a pleasure. you sirjohn, always a pleasure. you wrote a stinging article, i believe, today . excellent stuff believe, today. excellent stuff on the fact that neither kemi badenoch or robert jenrick can do the job. tell us why. >> well, perhaps they can't do the job. the piece is slightly more circumspect than perhaps it's headlined in the independent. >> there are essentially three points to bear in mind. perhaps the most important of them is that neither robert jenrick nor kemi badenoch are terribly widely known amongst the wider

public. >> between two thirds and three quarters are unable to give a view as to whether or not they think they would be acceptable or unacceptable, or whether they think favourably or unfavourably towards them, and even those who voted conservative in 2019, 20, 24. half of them again don't express a view. so the truth is, these are largely unknown characters. their ability to reach out to the wider public is certainly untested, and untried. that doesn't mean to say they necessarily lack the qualities, but hitherto, at least, they've not demonstrated those qualities within a wider public forum . so within a wider public forum. so that means that either of them, in some senses, is a little bit of a gamble. the second point to bearin of a gamble. the second point to bear in mind is that the sources of such popularity as they , of such popularity as they, harv, vary somewhat between conservative and reform voters. kemi badenoch looks as though she is rather more popular amongst reform voters than is robert jenrick, whereas the opposite is true amongst 2019

conservative voters. that at least raises a question mark about the ability of either of them to unite the right to bring conservative and reform voters together, which many, at least inside the conservative party, believe would be a necessary first step towards its electoral recovery . but then beyond that, recovery. but then beyond that, there is frankly a much bigger question. i think both robert jenrick and kemi badenoch are essentially in the camp of those conservatives who take the view that ultimately the reason why the party did so badly is because it wasn't true to itself that it presided over a substantial expansion of the state, the biggest since 1945, failed to kerb immigration and wasn't and was too willing to adopt, adopt the diversity and equality agenda. the trouble is, it's not entirely clear that that's where the public are at, certainly insofar as the expansion of the state is concerned, it looks as though, at least for so long as the

national health service is in a poor state, that it is that the public's priority is going to be about turning around public services rather than reducing our taxation. and certainly, you know, much more broadly, why did the conservatives do badly? well, basically , partygate, liz well, basically, partygate, liz truss and the economy and indeed, yes, the state of the nhs. now, in fairness, robert jenrick is beginning certainly talking about 1505 00:12:23,