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so you tell me then. should the government u—turn or not.7 also, the countdowns are closing the bibby stockholm begins, and migrants there are going to be relocated to rented accommodation. but locals are furious that these people are jumping the housing queue. your thoughts? and a stunning victory. that is how reform uk are calling their council win overin are calling their council win over in wolverhampton. and meanwhile they've today launched a campaign calling for more data
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to show the true impact of immigration on the uk. well, i would say that's a no brainer to support. isn't it? but i can tell you now, many people say no , tell you now, many people say no, absolutely no to that. so what says you ? also keeping me says you? also keeping me company tonight my panel i've got charlie downs the political commentator, and james schneider, the former labour advisor. but first of all, let's get tonight's latest news headunes. headlines. >> michelle. thank you. it's just gone 6:00. these are your latest headlines. the fallout from rachel reeves budget continues as the government faces backlash over increasing inheritance tax for farmers. farmers across the uk are set to gather in london for a rally against the government's agricultural policies, which they say put the future of family farms at risk and threatens food security. the nfu
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is organising the rally, which will take place on the 19th of this month. fears have grown that labour's tax and spend budget will fail to boost growth , budget will fail to boost growth, with bonds, shares and the value of the pound all falling well. farmer clive bailey had this to say to martin daubney earlier on they're talking about potentially strike action, not letting food leave the farm. >> we all know how just in time type supply chains work now, how fragile they can be. i think that could very easily lead to the kind of panic buying that we saw with fuel, and we saw with toilet roll, empty shelves and, you know, yeah, i think most people could go longer without toilet roll than they can without food, can't they? >> well, the secretary of state for rural affairs, steve reed, has accused the wealthy of buying up huge estates to avoid paying buying up huge estates to avoid paying tax , before adding that paying tax, before adding that small family farms will be protected . the chancellor has protected. the chancellor has also defended her budget earlier today. >> economic and fiscal stability are the number one priorities for this government and that is what we achieved in the budget. on wednesday . a robust set of
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on wednesday. a robust set of fiscal rules within a framework which gets debt down as our share of the economy, but crucially , within three years, crucially, within three years, something that the previous government never achieved . government never achieved. >> surrey police have released a video of the moment that police boarded a plane and detained sara sharif's alleged killers, and that's been played in court today, with the ten year old's stepmother telling officers in the video i think you're looking for us. three of sara's relatives fled to pakistan the day after sara sara died at the family home in woking , surrey, family home in woking, surrey, on the 8th of august last year. ten year old sara suffered dozens of injuries, including burns and human bite marks, in what the prosecution allege was a campaign of abuse culminating in her death . all three in her death. all three defendants have denied murder and causing or allowing the death of a child. the old bailey trial continues briefly to spain, where rescue teams are continuing to search for bodies after flash flooding swept through large areas of the country. the spanish government
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has now confirmed 205 deaths. crews are continuing to search for bodies and stranded cars and buildings following the flash floods, as authorities deal with the worst flooding in the country in decades. dozens of people are still missing and spain's prime minister has announced that the area will be declared a disaster zone. those are the latest gb news headlines. now let's go to michelle for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . alerts. >> thank you very much for that goodness. to me, that's sara sharif story. that's absolutely heartbreaking, isn't it? what that poor girl must have gone through before she died. it just doesn't bear thinking about, doesn't bear thinking about, does it? and speaking of young girls, i do just want to say the place that i call home. hazel.
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awful news coming out of there today. there's a young girl aged 13 years of age that was discovered this morning. she has had multiple stabbings to her, so her neck, her chest, her abdomen, you name it. a gang of teenagers have been arrested , teenagers have been arrested, including girls. some of the girls as young as 14 years old. i don't know what this world is coming to, but what i do know is that i want to send my love to that i want to send my love to that 13 year old little girl who will be fighting for her life as we speak in the place that i call home. so i hope that she goes on to make a recovery and i send my love to her family, her friends, and anybody that cares for her. but look, i am michelle dewberry. i'm with you until 7:00 tonight. my panel keeping me company. i've got a new face on this show tonight. charlie downs, the political commentator, and james schneider , commentator, and james schneider, the former labour advisor. good evening, gents, to both of you . evening, gents, to both of you. you're very welcome tonight as our each and every single one of
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you at home as well. you know the drill, don't you? it's not just about us three. you can get in touch with me all the usual ways. you can email me gbviews@gbnews.com. you can go to twitter or x and you can get me there. or of course you can go to the website gbnews.com/yoursay. you're very , gbnews.com/yoursay. you're very, very welcome on this friday night. look, i've also got my poppy night. look, i've also got my poppy on tonight. we had that conversation about that last night, didn't we? so thanks again to the viewer who knitted this for me. i absolutely love it and i appreciate it. look, i'll tell you who doesn't appreciate things at the moment british farmers. have you followed this story? all comes off, of course, at the back of the budget and the changes to the budget and the changes to the inheritance tax tax that will affect some of those guys? well, i can tell you they're not accepting it quietly. they're geanng accepting it quietly. they're gearing up now to create a rally to come to london and protest. they want to rise up against this budget. they actually want the government to change their mind and u—turn essentially on the inheritance tax plans. james schneider, where are you on
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this? >> so i can see why farmers are alarmed to find out that they're going to be taxed more. but the good news is that for the vast majority of them, they aren't going to be what the changes that have been made in this budget remove a previous exemption. so all agricultural land was exempt from inheritance tax. now land with value over £1 million will be taxed at 20%. so small, small and medium sized farms won't be covered. that covers about 20% of estates are over a million. and then of those ones that are over a million, because we've had a phenomenon in recent years, because it's basically an inheritance tax dodge. if you can buy up big amounts of farmland, then you can pass that on without having any inheritance tax. so one study found that more than 50% of those estates that passed on had done no farming, no revenue in
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raising farming in the last five years. so i can understand why people are concerned if they think that their, you know, medium sized farm is going to be is going to be taxed much more. but basically that, that that really isn't the case. and for the, for the small number that it does impact, they'll have a 20% rate, which they can pay over the course of ten years. so i think it's much less alarming than it seems by the headlines about nothing i can tell you now, farmer clive, clive bailey, he joined gb news earlier. >> his grandad actually started their farm after world war two. let's listen to what he had to say . say. >> you take away this ability to pass this on, and the idea that you're just going to leave your children with a 20 to 20% liability, which you know , the liability, which you know, the return on investment, the profits aren't there to service a loan for that, or let alone make repayments. and that absolutely shows the complete ignorance and lack of understanding of this government. and rachel reeves and keir starmer in this
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