>> good evening. it's me again. i'm martin daubney standing in for the big man nigel farage on farage tonight. the leader of the opposition, kemi badenoch, has said that the tories got it wrong. you don't say when it came to reducing immigration, going as far to blame it on brexit and the shadow immigration secretary also committed to a hard cap on immigration. but are his words as useless as a screen door on a submarine .7 and the business submarine? and the business secretary has called today a dark day for luton after vauxhall announced it would be closing down its historic factory , costing up to 1100 factory, costing up to 1100 jobs. yet the government has doubled down on its commitment to phase out petrol and diesel cars by 2030, a policy, remember, brought in by the conservatives. but should they consider u—turning on this net zero policy? plus, labour continue to bite the hand that feeds them today. farmers gathered in dover to call for a

government u—turn on its controversial inheritance tax plan raids. i'll be joined by one of those protesters later on in the programme. all of that to come and much more. but first, here's your latest news headunes here's your latest news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good evening. it'sjust >> martin. thank you. good evening. it's just gone. 7:00. these are your headlines . labour these are your headlines. labour have no serious plan for ending illegal migration. that's a message from conservative leader kemi badenoch, who says we can no longer be naive. giving a speech a short while ago , she speech a short while ago, she said the conservatives are to thank for a reduction in net immigration expected to be confirmed tomorrow. the tory leader laid out her five point plan for tackling immigration, while admitting her party got it wrong in the past. >> people know that if they can make it to the uk they will be able to stay. we must end that. the result of labour's policies will be consistently high.

illegal immigration throughout this parliament and insufficient action on legal migration. but we are not in government now. we are the opposition and our role now is to hold the government to account . account. >> meanwhile, the prime minister has ruled out calling another general election after a petition calling for a rerun garnered over 2.8 million signatures. the petition, on parliament's website calling for another election, has become the third most popular e—petition since 2010, easily surpassing the 100,000 signatures required for a debate to take place. while the vast majority of those signing it are from the uk, it has also gained support from other countries. donald trump ally elon musk used his ex—social media site to highlight a petition calling for another election, and branding the uk a tyrannical police state. downing street sources have told gb news that the government is

not considering a blasphemy law. it comes after sir keir starmer faced questions from mps in the house of commons today, where he was urged to introduce blasphemy laws by labour mp tahir ali. mr ali called for action as he warned division and hatred can be fuelled in society by such mindless desecration. blasphemy laws were abolished in england and wales in 2008, and in scotland in 2021. in other news, several people nominated to roles in donald trump's incoming cabinet and administration have been targeted by bomb threats and swatting, according to the fbi. police are investigating the incidents, which happened on tuesday night and early this morning. karoline leavitt a spokeswoman for trump's transition team, said several people had been targeted and law enforcement acted quickly to ensure their safety . thousands ensure their safety. thousands of displaced lebanese residents in the south are returning home after a ceasefire between israel

and hezbollah came into effect. however, israel is warning people not to return until its forces have withdrawn from certain areas, which could take up to two months. here, prime minister sir keir starmer says the ceasefire is long overdue, calling for a political solution to end the crisis permanently. meanwhile, aid organisations are calling for the truce to extend to gaza, where fighting continues. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to martin 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 . gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you sophia. now loads to get our teeth into. so let's get started tonight and let's begin here. the conservative leader, kemi badenoch, says that labour have no serious plan for

ending illegal migration. well, neither did the tories, right. but this comes as she gave a speech earlier on today on immigration, admitting that the party made mistakes on this pressing matter. >> people know that if they can make it to the uk, they will be able to stay. we must end that. the result of labour's policies will be consistently high. illegal immigration throughout this parliament, and insufficient action on legal migration. but we are not in government now. we are the opposition and our role now is to hold the government to account . account. >> well, tough talking today. an awakening almost. let's remind ourselves what miss badenoch said in 2018 when she asked for immigration caps to be removed as a first generation immigrant. >> can i welcome the home secretary's statement, which i feel this immigration white paperis feel this immigration white paper is a move from the 20th century to a much better future immigration system. in particular, i would like to

thank the home secretary for removing the annual limits on work visas and also on international students, both of which i lobbied for on behalf of the wellcome sanger institute and anglia ruskin university, which served my constituency. could he elaborate on how removing the work visa cap in particular, will give business certainty? >> and there we go. more positions than the kama sutra. there's always a video. there's always evidence to dig out and discuss this. i'm joined now in the studio by my magnificent panel as the former chancellor of the exchequer and conservative mp kwasi kwarteng, and the former labour mp lloyd russell—moyle. gentlemen, welcome to the studio. let's just go through a few of the points. i watched this speech earlier on. i was astonished. but look, let's go through what the solutions are. number one, a review of the echr and the human rights act. a review, not not an actual action to leave two strict numerical caps on immigration. chris hope asked for a number. there wasn't a figure . there was a framework.

figure. there was a framework. three fully transparent costs on benefits and housing. what is costing the country for zero tolerance for foreign criminals with a view to deporting them. if necessary, and 0.5 to review the data on accessing to benefits. kwasi kwarteng this. all of this could have been done in the past 14 years. isn't it a bit rich to suddenly talk tough now you're facing down the barrel of just being in the wilderness for years. but what are you meant to do as an opposition? you've made made mistakes in government, but the fact that you made mistakes in government doesn't mean you just say you stay silent when the government are messing things up. you know, as she said , up. you know, as she said, you've got to hold the government to account and it doesn't make sense to say, well, we made mistakes and we're not going to say anything. >> and what she's saying is quite interesting. i think with the echr, i think she has gone a bit soft. i think robert jenrick had a very clear line and he was going to leave it. i think she sort of tacked in a way , sort of tacked in a way, slightly to the left of robert in the campaign, and i think a

lot of the campaign to remove immigration caps in 2018. what's changed? well, a lot's changed because we've we've had record immigration since 2018. and actually what she said, the tories visas, if you look at what she said it was about visas for students and that was something which was very specific to her constituency. she mentioned her constituency. oh, come on, she said. she said work visas and visas for students and visas for students. and that was that's important. >> and nationwide, she's not suggesting that we should . there suggesting that we should. there are basically only tourist visas , are basically only tourist visas, work visas and student visas, basically. i mean, they're the broad categories. no one really talks about wanting to limit tourist visas because they bring lots of dollars into the market. that's fair. so the only thing that anyone's talking about now is putting caps on work visas. we had caps on work visas. many of us, including myself at the time, said a points based system which is what we moved to that had no caps, would increase immigration because that's what happened when australia introduced a points based system, because what you effectively do is you tell everyone, here's the target. you need to meet, here's the

need to meet