>> good evening, senior daily telegraph journalist and podcaster allison pearson had a knock at the door this sunday. i wonder, is free speech now really in danger in our country? i fear that perhaps it is the chagos islands. the government are sticking to their line that somehow the americans think it's a good deal. well, biden might have done. let me promise you something. the trump administration will not take the same view. i think the government will have to change tack. and our farmers will be protesting in london next week . protesting in london next week. on the 19th of this month, there will be a national farmers union lobby. there will be a bigger alternative protest to as farmers now threaten a strike. believe it or not, withholding

meat from supermarkets. are they serious? all of that coming up in just a moment. but first, let's get the news with sophie reaper. reapen >> thank you. nigel. the time is just after seven. and these are your latest headlines. axel rudakubana. the teenager charged with the murders of three children in southport earlier this year, has appeared for a plea and preparation hearing that was at liverpool crown court this afternoon. but he was not asked to plea. the teenager appeared via video link from hmp belmarsh, but refused to speak when he was asked twice to confirm his identity. rudy cabana is also charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one counts of attempted murder, one count of possession of a knife and two terror related offences. his trial is scheduled for january of next year. his trial is scheduled for january of next year . over in january of next year. over in the us now and president elect donald trump has been hosted by current president joe biden in washington, dc. the two sat down

at the white house this afternoon for a meeting designed to demonstrate a smooth handover of power. the reuters news agency is reporting that during the meeting, biden told trump he was, quote , looking forward to was, quote, looking forward to a peaceful transition whilst trump stated that, in his words, politics is tough , but it's politics is tough, but it's a nice world today . failing nice world today. failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and take control of finances, health secretary wes streeting told leaders at the nhs providers conference in liverpool. there will be no more rewards for failure. that was, in his words, as he set out a package of measures aimed at tackling poor performance. speaking earlier today, the health sector also championed the chancellor's autumn budget, claiming the nhs came out on top. >> collective challenge is to take the nhs from the worst crisis in its history, put it back on its feet and make it fit for the future. the budget was important . the chancellor gave important. the chancellor gave us the investment we need to

arrest the decline, begin fixing the foundations and start turning the service around. the nhs was the standout winner. we're delivering the largest health capital budget since labour was last in power, and the biggest cash uplift in day to day spending of any government department. >> and writer and journalist allison pearson has revealed she is facing a police investigation for allegedly stirring up racial hatred. in a social media post last year. writing in the telegraph newspaper, she said that two officers attended her home on sunday morning . but when home on sunday morning. but when she asked what she was alleged to have posted, the officer said he couldn't disclose that information. a spokesperson for essex police has said the report relates to a social media post, which was subsequently removed. an investigation is now being carried out under section 17 of the public order act. as part of that investigation, officers attended an address on sunday, november 10th to invite a woman to attend a voluntary interview

on the matter . and if you'd like on the matter. and if you'd like to hear more on this story, stay tuned as allison will be speaking to nigel on his show in the next few minutes . but for the next few minutes. but for now, those elitist gb news headunes now, those elitist gb news headlines i'm sophie reaper more from me in the next hour. >> 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 . .com forward slash alerts. >> picture the scene. it was sunday, the 10th of november, just ahead of the big remembrance day services about to take place right across our country and there at a home in essex , was allison pearson, essex, was allison pearson, daily telegraph columnist, podcaster, commentator and i understand she was actually in her gown and slippers when plod knock on the door. what on earth could this be all about? well,

allison joins me right now. i've set the scene. what happened? >> yes. there were two young constables by the door, and they said. what? one said something about a non—crime hate incident, which was a year ago with me, a social media post a year ago. and i said, what was it about the tweet? give me an idea of what it said. and he said, i'm not allowed to tell you that. and then i said, who is my accuser? and he said, we're not allowed to tell you that either. but it's not the accuser . it's but it's not the accuser. it's the victim. the victim, the victim, the victim. so, nigel, i had a victim. and you know , then had a victim. and you know, then it was just a very, very surreal and shocking conversation. and because it was remembrance sunday, i drew myself up to my full five feet, three and a half and i said, we're here today on and i said, we're here today on a special day commemorating

hundreds of hundreds and thousands of young men your age who laid down their lives for the country so it could be a free country and not live under the jackboot of tyranny. and here you are on remembrance sunday, coming to my house in something that i consider to be against freedom and tyrannical. and i said, and what would those young men think of you today? so they looked a bit. i think the poor coppers probably thought, we've got a right one here. >> but what they did. but but i mean, so they knock at the door and that's obviously slightly threatening . not something i threatening. not something i suppose you're particularly used to know in your life, but they can't tell you what you've done. they can't tell you who the victim is. no. so what are they doing? just trying to frighten you. >> well, i said to them, how would i defend myself if i don't know any of the relevant details? and they looked a bit, you know, again, a bit confused. i think they may have been on a sort of bacon roll run when they were told to, told to come up. but it was, i'll tell you, nigel, it was shocking. it was

upsetting. i'm a law abiding person. nobody likes to. i respect the police. i want to trust and respect the police . trust and respect the police. they seemed to me a completely mad overreaction. whatever it was that i posted a year ago on x, i'm not in the habit of writing anything horrible and inflammatory. if i wrote something that was unwise and i appear to have deleted that tweet , i have no memory of what tweet, i have no memory of what it was . i still don't think it was. i still don't think that's a proportionate response to something that i think that they might. looking at what essex police are doing and forces around the country, i would say they're getting more interested in trying to solve thought crime than the kind of crime that normal people are interested in burglaries, sexual assaults , muggings, people assaults, muggings, people having their phones nicked, the stats are really incontrovertible. >> so you view this as you really feel that you're being, that you are being harassed under a thought crime, yes i do. what also surprised me was, you

know, a non—crime hate incident suddenly has criminal implications. suddenly has criminal implications . apparently. implications. apparently. >> yes it does. now when suella braverman kwasi will know about this. when suella braverman was home secretary, she thought these non—crime hate incidents were bad because they impacted on freedom of speech, right? because they had a chilling effect on freedom of speech. so she wanted to get rid of them. apparently, rishi wasn't keen on taking that kind of decisive action, so they came in with a code of conduct to tell the police to exercise common sense proportionality. is this in the pubuc proportionality. is this in the public interest, to go around to allison's house and tell her that she's done this thing? yes. is this thing that's been done going to genuinely incite hostility? is it going to have real life repercussions in the world, rather than just being something stupid that millions of us say on social media every day now, that was supposed to be enforced and these non—crime hate incidents were supposed to be the police were supposed to

stop doing them. they're doing more