thoughts in your mind, and how do you think they actually went on to deal with it.7 also, new year and new train strikes. er, what do you think to this? do you support the unions? do you think the labour party can actually stop these strikes in their tracks or not? and nearly £1 billion of extra funding to tackle homelessness. will this amount of money solve that problem? is it all about money? where should that money be spent? you tell me. great panel

for you tonight, matt goodwin, the pollster and academic and bill rammell, the former labour minister. and there's lots we need to discuss. i also want to ask you, do you think politicians are too? kind of like local looking down focus? do they lack the bigger picture? many people saying now that we need more winston churchill types in our politics, do you agree with that or not? before we get stuck into all of that, let's cross live for the 6:00 news headlines. >> michelle, thank you and good evening. it'sjust >> michelle, thank you and good evening. it's just gone. 6:00. these are your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. pleas of not guilty have been entered on behalf of axel rudakubana after he failed to reply when arraigned at liverpool crown court on three counts of murder and ten counts of attempted murder following the deaths of three young girls in a knife attack at a taylor swift themed dance class in southport, roger cabana appeared via video link

in court as pleas of not guilty were entered to all 16 counts on the indictment. the leader of the indictment. the leader of the opposition, kemi badenoch, has accused the prime minister of playing politics with the waspi women. the prime minister is now facing pressure to give mps a vote on his government's decision to rule out compensation for women affected by the changes to the state pension age. here's what sir keir starmer had to say at prime minister's questions earlier on. >> serious issue. it's a complex issue. the research, as he knows, shows that 90% of those impacted knew about the changes that were taking place. and i'm afraid to say, the taxpayers simply can't afford the tens of billions of pounds in compensation when the evidence does show that 90% of those impacted did know about it, that's because of the state of our economy. >> elsewhere today, uk inflation has risen to its highest level since march, according to official figures. the office for

national statistics said inflation rose to 2.6% in november, up from 2.3% the previous month. that is the highest rate since march and the second rise within two months. the figures come ahead of the bank of england's latest decision on interest rates tomorrow. the ons chief economist said the drive was risen by an increase in petrol prices. our reporter, will holly, spoke to people in melton mowbray about the figures. >> bill, just before christmas has come to £240. this time last year our energy bill was, i think my partner said it was £150. so that's that's an increase of around £90 straight away. >> well, i think food prices more than anything else and of course fuel has just gone up this last week hasn't it. just what we didn't need coming up to christmas. >> really difficult. you can't actually get your children the things they've asked for, and you have to kind of make up in other ways. but i suppose christmas is more about spending time with the family. so i try and instil that in my children.

>> those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm katie bowen. let's go back to michelle 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. >> thank you very much for that, katie menos michelle dewberry and i'm keeping you all company until 7:00 tonight here on dewbs& co alongside me, my panel dewbs& co alongside me, my panel, two of my favourites. we're in a bit of a giddy mood in here tonight, everybody. i think it's because we know now we're on the last, kind of the last kind of run to christmas. we feel a bit hyper. i think we do here alongside me, matt goodwin, the pollster and academic and bill rammell, the former labour minister. good evening, gentlemen. good evening to you. you're very welcome tonight, as are each and every single one of you at home. what's on your mind tonight? everybody get in touch. all the usual ways. email me gb views

@gbnews. com tweet or text me @gbnews. com tweet or text me @gbnews or go to the website gbnews.com/yoursay and talk to each other and to me. lots we need to discuss before i do get into the menu for tonight. i will be kicking off in a minute about that police report when it comes to southport, but waspi has been a big backlash to that decision. last night we covered it at length on the programme. do you support the labour party in that decision not to pay the compensation for practical reasons? >> yeah, it's about money. the cost of the payments is £10.3 billion. that's a huge sum of pubuc billion. that's a huge sum of public money. and when you look at the research, 90% of the affected women were aware of the change. so you'd be compensating by several thousand pounds women who who've got no claim, who were aware of the change. and i just don't think you can justify £10.3 billion with all the other pressures for public spending. >> i've got to say it has

created quite a divide among many people. even last night so many people. even last night so many of you was getting in touch. he was absolutely livid. have you calmed down? do you still feel as passionate as you did about it last night? get in touch and let me know. but for now, new report out today is showing that police officers were unprepared, apparently for the scale of what followed the southport stabbings. of those three little girls, the report was conducted also found that there were gaps in intelligence unked there were gaps in intelligence linked to social media and the dark web. just to put some context on this, 300 police officers were injured in the aftermath of the southport stabbings. matt goodwin, what do you say to some of the suggestions about unpreparedness and so on? >> well, i think the good news story in britain, and it's strange to start with this point, perhaps, but the good news story and i've no doubt that bill will disagree with me on this, is that actually, unlike many other european countries, we don't really have a big and well organised far right scene. and i think that's

one of the success stories of britain, actually. at the same time, i'm instinctively sceptical about this report because if you read the write up in in newspapers like the guardian, what they do there is there's a lot of slippage. so first, there's a story about being insufficiently prepared to tackle the far right. then suddenly we're in a discussion about nigel farage, nigel farage and reform as if that's somehow connected to the far right. and there's not much discussion at all about the parallel issues here around southport like mass immigration, broken borders, the fact that many people in this country feel unsafe, the fact that we're spending £5.4 billion every year on our broken asylum system, on hotels and accommodation for illegal migrants. so i'm sceptical of the framing on this actually. >> well, are you sceptical or not? >> good god, good god. matt and i are close to agreement. >> blimey, blimey, that's a wrap. there you go, i. >> christmas is here. i'm not

sure about the report. you know, i don't think the evidence is there. actually, the police and there. actually, the police and the security services have for years identified the far right as a security threat. the argument that there was a lack of preparedness. i'm not convinced. should the police have been more effectively monitoring social media? they do do that. maybe they should have doneit do that. maybe they should have done it sharper. i mean, one of the recommendations that i do agree with is that there's a need for a national coordinator to redeploy anti—riot police across the country, and that probably makes sense. but one of their recommendations worries me, and that's that the police should intervene on misinformation. i think that would be seen as the police intervening in the political debate, and it would undermine their neutrality. >> but, i mean, this is the age old debate at the moment, isn't it, about the police are always intervening, many people would say, intervening a bit too much when it comes to social media and some of the things and

thoughts that people are putting on there. would you like to see more police intervention on social media? >> no, no. so the report recommends, for example, that the propagators of false information during the riots, like nigel farage, the police should have 1517 00:09:14,416 --> 00:09:15,