well . it's 9:00 pm. well. it's 9:00 pm. this is patrick christys tonight with me. ben leo. >> if i wasn't this colour skin. it >> if i wasn't this colour skin. if i >> if i wasn't this colour skin. it i wasn't a practising muslim. if i wasn't a practising muslim. you want to come for me.7 he wasn't coming for me because i'm five foot six, right.7 he's come for me because of, let's be frank, my ethnicity and my sadiq khan reignites his war with donald trump by calling him a racist homophobe. >> but isn't this the real reason the mayor of london is disliked? >> he should actually focus on his job. >> he should actually focus on hisjob. he'd be a lot >> he should actually focus on his job. he'd be a lot better if he did that. he could straighten out some of the problems that he has, and probably some of the problems that he's caused . problems that he's caused. >> labour's angered farmers. and now the cabinet is at war. so is keir starmer's inheritance tax raid going to scupper christmas to will? >> absolutely screw christmas. it will put up prices and it will leave people , you know,

will leave people, you know, really struggling to put turkeys on the table. >> a small boat deal has been busted in amsterdam, and starmer is taking a victory lap. >> we've been bearing down on law enforcement here and working with international partners, and this shows that that approach is beanng this shows that that approach is bearing fruit . bearing fruit. >> but new bombshell data shows britain's legal migration problem is bigger than any other wealthy nation. also tonight. what's racist today? well, dogs apparently barking mad welsh labour are being urged to create pooch free zones to make the outdoors. get this anti—racist. and she faced up to two years in prison for a tweet criticising a trans person. but now police have dropped their orwellian investigation into gender critical campaigner maya forstater. she joins me live to discuss her case and that of alison pearson. tonight's panel are ready to go too. i'm joined by the former tory adviser, lauren mckevitt, conservative peer lord bailey and former

labour adviser matthew laza . and labour adviser matthew laza. and after boots worst christmas ad everis after boots worst christmas ad ever is john lewis a contender for the best? jeevun sandher for jo cox is closing 15 minutes. labour's war on farmers just went nuclear next. >> a very good evening to you . >> a very good evening to you. the time is 9:03 and these are your latest gb news headlines. a 17 year old girl who died in a collision on the m5 as she was fleeing from a police vehicle , fleeing from a police vehicle, has been named by avon and somerset police as tamsin hall,

the teenager, from wellington, somerset, was killed in the incident shortly after 11 pm. on monday night. since then , on monday night. since then, avon and somerset police has made a mandatory referral to the independent office for police conduct to carry out an investigation. elsewhere, law enforcement agencies in the uk, belgium and the netherlands have arrested a major supplier of small boats and engines to criminal people smugglers. the suspect, a 44 year old turkish national, was arrested after arriving at amsterdam airport. dutch authorities plan to extradite the man to belgium to face charges as part of an organised criminal operation. the national crime agency says that the suspect has been a top target of investigations for years . fewer pharmacies could be years. fewer pharmacies could be openin years. fewer pharmacies could be open in the evenings and at weekends from the new year. that's after pharmacy owners voted in favour of collective action for the first time in their history. more than 3000 independent community pharmacies independent community pharmacies in england , wales and northern in england, wales and northern ireland took part in the ballot,

with 97% of those who voted saying they would serve notice on opening hours above the minimum required by their contract. earlier, the chief executive of peak pharmacy told gb news this action is a cry for help. >> pharmacy and the general health service is in a sorry state now. unfortunately, community pharmacy has suffered under the imposition of a ten year fixed funding deal effectively, which has really meant that it's now straining in every direction to continue to uphold the service that that, frankly, is starting to deteriorate . deteriorate. >> and in royal news, a 62 gun salute has taken place at the tower of london this lunchtime to honour king charles, 76th birthday. today is the monarch's actual birthday , following the actual birthday, following the official celebration marked by trooping the colour in june. earlier this morning, the royal family posted a new image of the king on x and the prince and

princess of wales wished the king a happy birthday with this lovely image on instagram. and despite it being his birthday, the king is still carrying out his official duties. today, he's opened two coronation food hubs designed to bridge the gap between food need and food waste in the uk. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm sophie reaper but now it's back to ben 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. >> labour's war on farmers is causing a right stink. and i'm not just talking about the messy protests set to hit london on tuesday. tuesday, their inheritance tax raid on farming estates is now reportedly sparking yet another cabinet row, with ministers questioning the risk reward of stitching up farmers for a paltry £560 million pounds. online reports

that environment secretary steve reed has been pushing rachel reeves to water the tax rate down. down options floated by his department for environment, food and rural affairs include exempting farmers aged over 80 who won't have time to adjust their plans plans. the chancellor, though, is having none of it. none of it. she's slapped down the idea with treasury sources saying it wasn't considering mitigations and. and last night on this show, one mr farmer told me how christmas could be scuppered. scuppered if farmers decide to down tools in a mass strike from this sunday. >> sunday, we certainly expect that keir starmer, if he sees any sense, will turn around and at least step back from his decision. decision? if he doesn't, then it's proof that labour not only only don't want to listen to their constituents, don't want to listen to the new people who have elected labour in the countryside but don't give a about farmers, farmers and yeah , it will absolutely and yeah, it will absolutely screw christmas. it will put up pnces screw christmas. it will put up prices and it will leave people, you know, really struggling to put turkeys on the table . put turkeys on the table. >> so just like with the winter

fuel allowance botch job, you have to wonder whether labour have to wonder whether labour have the political nous to get through yet another self—inflicted policy scandal. what is the point of all this mess for a paltry £500 million to the coffers? who thought it was a good idea? and more importantly, what does this say about the competence of this labour government? let's get the thoughts now of tonight's panel. former tory adviser lauren mckevitt, conservative peer lord bailey and former labour adviser matthew laza. good evening to you all. er matthew laza. what stinks more ? a dairy farm being stinks more? a dairy farm being stitched up by this government or this policy on inheritance tax. >> so i agree with steve reed, who's the environment secretary, that there's a mitigation for those over 80. the reason for those over 80. the reason for those over 80 is because if you if you if you give assets to your children and you survive for seven years, then they are exempt of inheritance tax. and that's actually one of the real ways that family farms rather than big farm, massive farm businesses will be able to not

end up paying this tax. so i agree with that. as a as a mitigation, but it's already been slapped down, i think i think rachel's wrong to do that. i think it should. i think i think that that's worth doing. i think that that's worth doing. i think there is an argument that making sure that if people are able to plan that those it's going to be about 500 farms a year of the absolute biggest farms are affected. that's the aim. they need to make sure the structure is in place to do that. >> one more very quick question for you, matthew, as a labour voice on this channel, it's going to raise £500 million a yeah going to raise £500 million a year. nothing in the grand scheme of things. what's the real agenda behind this policy. because it's not it's not raising money is it. so what what's the story? what's the truth? >> no, i think i think to be honest with you, i think it really is just about raising money because there literally it's like they're literally going down the back of the sofa looking for anything they can find them. any money? politically naive? absolutely. but but so was getting rid of the winter fuel allowance. but they were in the treasury's insistent they had to do it and not for political reasons, but because they were desperate for the money. >> even the politics said, don't do it, lawrence. so why are they doing it? it's not raising as in

the winter fuel allowance 1.23 billion. the winter fuel allowa