on the graham norton appearance on the graham norton show last night. dressed in casual gear, baseball cap and wearing dark sunglasses for the whole interview. have modern music stars lost all respect? i'll be asking one of the world's leading frank sinatra impersonators, who's currently embarked on a uk wide tour celebrating the career of old blue eyes, and i'm looking forward to this. in my take at ten in an hour's time with a fearless new leader, the tories are back. i'll be giving my first on air reaction to the appointment of kemi badenoch, who has one of the biggest and toughest jobs in politics. and tonight's top pundits. i'm delighted to welcome political commentator and broadcaster joana jarjue. her first

appearance on mark dolan tonight. an old friend of mine tv personality and writer ingrid tarrant, and a brand new second star on the show. this evening it's out with the old, in with the new. former conservative mp and homelessness campaigner brooks newmark . so two hours of brooks newmark. so two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. my reaction to the news that kemi badenoch is the news that kemi badenoch is the news that kemi badenoch is the new tory leader at ten. but lots to get through. next up, the case for donald trump. first, the news headlines and tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> mark thank you. the top stories. kemi badenoch has vowed to tell the truth and stand up for our principles as she was elected the new leader of the conservative party this morning. badenoch defeated robert jenrick in a ballot of party members. she's the fourth female leader and the first ever black leader of the party. in her acceptance speech, she said the tories have

to be honest about the fact they made mistakes and let standards slip. she also praised the outgoing leader, rishi sunak, for getting the party through a tough time. >> it is the most enormous honour to be elected to this role, to lead the party that i love, the party that has given me so much. i hope that i will be able to repay that debt. i also want to thank rishi. no one could have worked harder in such difficult times. rishi, thank you for everything you did. we all wish you and your wonderful family the very best for the future . future. >> while the prime minister has congratulated the new tory leader, the labour party chair ellie reeves, criticised the conservatives for dragging out the leadership contest and not taking accountability for their time in government. >> you know, we've spent the last four months with the conservatives rather than take any kind of responsibility for the mess that they have left the country in after 14 years of

conservative government. rather than take responsibility, they've just been talking to each other and with more division and chaos and infighting . as this leadership infighting. as this leadership election has played out. >> now it's understood police investigating historical sex offence allegations against actor and comedian russell brand have handed a file of evidence to the crown prosecution service. a statement from the metropolitan police said following an investigation by channel four's dispatches and the sunday times in september 2023, the met received a number of reports of sexual offences between 2006 and 2013 from women in london and elsewhere in the country. russell brand has denied all of the allegations made against him, and said his relationships were always consensual . now, just three days consensual. now, just three days remain until us election day and both republican presidential candidate donald trump and democrat kamala harris are hitting the american south, continuing to make their closing arguments to voters. donald

trump has made a pitch to voters in north carolina this evening as the race for president nears its end . will trump accused the its end. will trump accused the democrats of a coup for heaping pressure on joe biden to drop out of the race in july? biden's exit made way for kamala harris, while donald trump said, i think joe might have done better. meanwhile, harris, who's been speaking at a campaign event in atlanta, georgia, today, says trump is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge , consumed obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance. and she also said he's out for unchecked power . and covent garden's power. and covent garden's famous christmas tree has been handpicked and freshly harvested ahead of this year's festive season for the 15th consecutive yeah season for the 15th consecutive year. the 55 foot norwegian spruce christmas tree was chosen from woods farm, a 200 acre festive forest near solihull in the west midlands. wood's farm, also supplies festive trees to other notable locations such as downing street and windsor castle . and those are the latest castle. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm

tatiana sanchez. now it's back to mark dolan tonight 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 . slash alerts. >> congratulations to kemi badenoch, who is the new leader of the conservative party. so is she. sir keir starmer's worst nightmare. i'll be giving my verdict in an hour's time. in my take at ten. but first, my big opinion . god knows he's not opinion. god knows he's not perfect. there are not enough minutes in this two hour show to tell you everything that's wrong with donald trump. but let me have a go. pathologically dishonest. a checkered past with women. a corrupt businessman, although. show me a billionaire.

that isn't. he's unpredictable. he's undisciplined, he's mad. and he's probably the only narcissist in the world that would admit to being a narcissist. he'd probably be flattered by the description. no, i'd much rather have fearless florida governor ron desantis in the white house. a war hero who governed by his freedom loving principles during the pandemic , pushing back on the pandemic, pushing back on covid lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine tyranny, delivering great outcomes for the sunshine state and a fraction of the economic and societal damage . economic and societal damage. but you don't choose, do you? who goes on the ballot paper? and if it's harris versus trump, then for me, it's trump all day long. he'll close the border. so far, upwards of 11 million people have entered the united states illegally over the last four years. it's so bad. it's like the spanish armada compared to our current problems in the

channel. trump will tackle the poison of woke ideology , which poison of woke ideology, which sees young children at elementary school being asked whether they're a boy or a girl. today and told to hate america and its past. and told to hate themselves if they have the wrong skin colour. the democratic party seems to be in the bosom of the military industrial complex, where war has proved mightily profitable, not to mention the pharmaceutical industry and their frothing enthusiasm for their frothing enthusiasm for the jab. trump will seek an end to the carnage in ukraine by reaching out to both parties , reaching out to both parties, knocking heads together. and as is befitting the author of the art of the deal, getting a peace deal across the line. the safety of the world is probably the biggest argument for a trump presidency , given that he was presidency, given that he was the first occupant of the white house in decades. not to start a

single conflict. and in fact, it was his idea for america to withdraw from afghanistan in the first place, although he would have done it far better than the catastrophic way that it happened under the increasingly confused joe biden, who, let me tell you, he's back in the news filmed this week biting the ankles and legs of children at a halloween celebration. well, it beats sniffing their hair or discussing their sex life. i suppose. discussing their sex life. i suppose . terrifying that he is suppose. terrifying that he is still president. so there are all sorts of practical reasons as to why trump should prevail over kamala. but what trumps all of those policy issues is principles . although trump principles. although trump spends a lot of the day thinking about himself, he has demonstrated that his other great love, alongside his reflection in the mirror is the united states of america. he loves his own country as a self—made billionaire. he didn't need to be president. who wants

to go through all of that hassle? and since his four years in charge, in which he grew the economy and reached out to tyrants like kim jong un of nonh tyrants like kim jong un of north korea and president xi of china, the guy is being compared to hitler, a profound insult to jews who perished in the holocaust, as well as being a lie. trump has been dragged through the courts, suffered multi—million dollar fines. he's been impeached. or at least they tried. and his ongoing liberty is still not a given. oh, and as a result of being characterised as the devil incarnate by most of the us media, he has suffered at least two assassination attempts. but his response after taking a shot to his right ear in pennsylvania was to look for his shoes, get back on his feet and tell his supporters that he will fight, fight, and tell his supporters that he will fig