>> it's 9 pm. >> this is patrick christys tonight with me. ben. leo. >> you want you want us the pubuc >> you want you want us the public to trust you to like you to think he's the man for the job. >> he's doing what he needs to do. your approval rating is lower than nigel farage is right now. how. >> now. >> oof! itv's competitions guy does a better job >> oof! itv's competitions guy does a betterjob of holding the does a better job of holding the pm to account than the fawning mainstream media. so just why have millions of brits signed the petition demanding a snap

general election at this sort of thermal jacket that she just the commitment to 2.5% is absolute. >> the bluster about defence spending. >> they sit in hotels and digs for months on end at the taxpayers expense. >> the false promise to end migrant hotels. >> i will restore standards in pubuc >> i will restore standards in public life with a total crackdown on cronyism. >> all the lie about wanting to clean up cronyism will deep dive into labour's first six months into labour's first six months in power next. also tonight, a new book for children claims refugees are for good the economy and enrich our culture. do you agree? and elsewhere woke brighton council apologised for throwing a dead man's belongings in a skip before his only remaining family member could retrieve them. his heartbroken brother joins me live

retrieve them. his heartbroken brotherjoins me live and as kate nash admits, she's flogging pictures on onlyfans, is selling saucy snaps online. the same as prostitution. tonight's panel are ready to go. i'm joined by daily express columnist carole malone, campaigner and political activist samuel sukh and the former mp and chairman of the conservative party, jake berry. and what do you reckon donald trump will say to sadiq khan's iane? >> i'd like to use this opportunity today to invite president elect trump to next year's pride in london. >> how long before angela rayner becomes prime minister? first, your news headlines with joe caspar . caspan >> good evening. it's 9:02. i'm joe caspar in the gb newsroom . joe caspar in the gb newsroom. two british tourists are missing after a boat sunk in the red sea

off egypt. the foreign office says it is supporting several british nationals and their families. two brits are said to be among the 28 rescued. the governor of the red sea region said the yacht was carrying 44 people and a high sea wave hit the vessel, causing it to capsize in about 5 or 7 minutes. rescue efforts are ongoing, led by the military and local officials . the environment officials. the environment secretary says more flooding is likely this week following the devastation caused by storm bert, which has claimed five lives. the storm, which swept across england and wales over the weekend, brought torrential rain, flooding and 80 mile an hour winds in northamptonshire. a major incident has been declared as heavy rainfall caused severe flooding, overwhelming local emergency services, with more than 800 calls. authorities there are urging the to public only dial 999 when there is a risk to life. 12 british soldiers have been

injured in a major crash in estonia involving two minibuses transporting nato troops. eight of those most seriously injured were airlifted to the uk, with three still in hospital. the crash on friday involved six vehicles near the russian border. the soldiers served on nato's operation cabrit were on their way back from their base in tapa. an raf jet was deployed to evacuate them, transferring them to the queen elizabeth hospital in birmingham . in the hospital in birmingham. in the us, prosecutors have moved to drop their criminal case against donald trump. special counsel jack smith dropped all four felony charges against the president elect related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election . mr 2020 presidential election. mr trump, who was indicted in august 2023, faced charges including conspiracy to defraud the us and obstruction of an official proceeding . and rachel official proceeding. and rachel reeves has ruled out tax rises for the rest of this parliament

as she defended her budget. the chancellor told business leaders it was it has brought stability to the economy, saying public services must now live within their means. speaking at the confederation of british industry conference, she said difficult decisions were needed to draw a line under the inheritance from the previous government. she also she also dismissed calls for big tax rises on businesses, saying the economy is now on firm footing . economy is now on firm footing. >> we have now drawn a line under the inheritance that i faced . public finances are now faced. public finances are now on a firm footing and also our pubuc on a firm footing and also our public services are funded in a proper way, and we've now set the envelope for those public services for the rest of this parliament, which means we're not going to have to come back for more . for more. >> those are your latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm joe caspen headlines. for now, i'm joe casper. more than an hour. now back to ben leo for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news

alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/alerts . or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> evening. hope you're well now. nothing to personal itv's andy peters. i actually think he's quite a good bloke, but it's a sad state of affairs when the competitions guy proves more capable holding the prime minister to account than the rest of the fawning mainstream media. >> i'm not surprised that many of them mourned a rerun . that of them mourned a rerun. that isn't how our system works. >> you want us the public, to trust you, to like you to think he's the man for the job. he's doing what he needs to do. your approval rating is lower than nigel farage is right now, which even saying it to the prime minister of the country i live in that i pay tax in to say your approval rate is lower than nigel farage. that's disappointing. whoever you know , disappointing. whoever you know, whoever i support. >> the thing is, if you make your mind up, as i have done, that, we're going to do the

difficult things first. then i think it's inevitable that people do feel their difficult decisions. i mean , i understand decisions. i mean, i understand that keir starmer was, of course, reacting to this bombshell petition calling for a snap general election. >> millions of people have now signed it, and i know nothing is ever going to come of this petition. let's start with that. but sir keir starmer, in that clip has already laughed it off in the only arrogant way he knows best. but one thing we can conclude is that in just a short few months, labour has lost whatever little goodwill it had, including from people who voted for them. there's just been too many howlers and barefaced lies. take this one, for example, from april expiry winter before last, in the height of the energy pnces in the height of the energy prices going up and spoke to an 84 year old woman who worked all her life, obviously now a pensioner, and she told me that she doesn't get out of bed till midday because she didn't want to turn the heating on. >> yeah. it's awful.

>> yeah. it's awful. >> and then when she did get out of bed, she had this sort of thermal jacket that she just wore all day long, so she didn't have to put the heating up very high. that's an awful position to put a pensioner in. >> well, he didn't seem to care that much, did he? we also had the pledge to boost defence by 2.5%, matching rishi sunak. >> the commitment to 2.5% is absolute and we will get to that 2.5%. it is very important we need to do that within our fiscal rules . fiscal rules. >> well, on friday it was announced that labour were actually sending £500 million worth of military gear to the scrap heap. and what about ending the use of migrant hotels? seems like the residents of the migrant hotel are using this private residence estate as a shortcut. look, jumping the fence. excuse me . why are they fence. excuse me. why are they jumping the fence here? where have they been ? are they allowed have they been? are they allowed to access the hotel from this way? because they're jumping over a resident's fences are

revealed during a show last week, of course, that migrant hotels were now popping up all over the country again. then there's the cronyism to change britain. >> we must change ourselves. we need to clean up politics. no more vip fast lanes, no more kickbacks for colleagues, no more revolving doors between government and the companies they regulate. i will restore standards in public life with a total crackdown on cronyism. >> and what happened next? they handed out plum civil service jobs to party donors, activists and aides like chocolate bars at willy wonka's factory. the civil service, of course, is meant to be politically neutral. and what about this one? >> you have given us a clear mandate and we will use it to deliver change, to restore service and respect to politics. end the era of noisy performance. tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country. >> tread more lightly on our lives well. six months on,

starmer's own backbencher, the labour chair of 1529