>> it's 9 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight. >> i often used to propose the abolition of the monarchy. >> does starmer hate britain? £800 million a year to mauritius. plus reparations to give away our chagos islands. is it just a coincidence that his mate is the lawyer for mauritius? i think not also 2014, when michael gove introduced the national curriculum, he erased any blackness from from the curriculum. >> the curriculum was essentially whitewashed and its problematic black culture, black history, black achievement. it doesn't feature on the curriculum or in education hardly at all. the truth is not

taught on britain's colonial past. >> is labour going to brainwash your kids? they're forcing your children into state schools and now they're decolonising the curriculum. >> plus , they've come here in >> plus, they've come here in solidarity to show how frustrated they are with this stupid inheritance tax and a lot of other things as well that are damaging british agriculture. >> now farmers are threatening a supermarket blockade. would you support them? >> and after £22 billion black hole, the government has inherited a £22 billion black hole in the public finances. we have inherited a projected overspend of £22 billion. >> oh, the true cost of ed miliband's eco lunacy has been revealed. it's £37 billion. so much for that black hole. i've got loads more on tonight,

including this. record numbers crossed the english channel this christmas period. i'm going to tell you how many migrant hotels have come over in the last few days. also tonight. >> tony blair i think is a totally honourable man, but is he? >> alastair campbell could be in huge trouble as his son's multi—million pound betting syndicate goes pop. alastair is up to his eyeballs in it. what's going on? and does anyone else think that shoplifting is totally out of control? on my panel tonight it's political consultant suzanne evans, journalist benjamin butterworth and the founder of global britain, ammon bogle. oh, and can you guess what's so controversial about this?

>> let's get a touch on that, jack. try a little foot. >> get ready. britain, here we go. labour has sold your children's education to race baiting lunatics. next. >> thank you and good evening. the top stories this hour. three afghan nationals who were convicted in belgium over their involvement in a major people smuggling ring, have been arrested whilst on the run in the uk. prosecutors in belgium say they were part of a gang involved in organising the transport of migrants from afghanistan through iran and the balkans into western europe. authorities say they were also part of a group who committed

serious sexual offences, including rape, against male migrant minors. the gang members now face being returned to belgium to serve their sentences . belgium to serve their sentences. in belgium, a fourth body has been recovered from the english channel near calais, after three migrants died when they fell from a small boat yesterday. french media reports say the body of the fourth man was found near the beach at sangatte this morning, a few hundred metres away from yesterday's incident. the other three migrants died when they fell into the water as their small boat was setting off for britain early in the morning. dozens of others were rescued after they fell from overcrowded vessels. so far this yean overcrowded vessels. so far this year, 77 migrants have died trying to cross the channel. in other news, the national day of mourning and state funeral is due to be held on the 9th of january for former us president jemmy carter, who died at the age of 100. king charles paid tribute earlier today, saying he was a committed public servant and devoted his life to promoting peace and human

rights. joe biden praised him as a man of principle, faith and humility, whilst donald trump said americans owe him a debt of gratitude. the uk flags above westminster and number 10 have been flying at half mast in respect. elsewhere, five people have been charged in connection with the death of one direction star liam payne at a hotel in argentina, according to local media. the 31 year old star died in october after falling from the third floor balcony of a hotel in buenos aires. the hotel manager and a hotel employee, as well as roger norreis, who was reportedly a friend of liam, have been charged with manslaughter. argentina's national criminal and correctional prosecutor's office is quoted as saying. bryan pearce and ezequiel pereira, who both reportedly worked at the hotel, have been charged with supplying drugs and edinburgh's hogmanay celebrations are cancelled due to high winds and extreme weather, organisers announced hours ahead of

celebrations kicking off today. weather warnings are also in place for snow, wind and rain across much of the uk on new year's day. yellow warnings are in place for northern ireland, northern england and parts of scotland from tomorrow before extending across most of the uk on wednesday. a series of warnings are also in force and will stay and remain in force until 6 am. on january the 2nd, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more news in an hour 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. >> labour wants to force more children into state education so they can indoctrinate them with diversity and race baiting, britain hating, woke ideology.

that's the allegation labour's education secretary, bridget phillipson, whose career outside politics is essentially just working for the charity her mum set up, is about to destroy a generation of children because of her ridiculous politics of envy. on wednesday, we will become the only country in europe to tax education. about 90,000 or so children could be hoiked out of their schools and thrown into the state sector, which can't cope. in fact, the whole of surrey doesn't have any more school places. in 2019, the uk had the highest class sizes in europe. disabled children are not exempt, so children with special needs will be the biggest losers. the treasury has given up being apolitical, they are celebrating the political decision to hike tax. this is despite teachers unions, tax experts and school leaders saying this is a terrible idea. and now bridget phillipson is claiming that middle class

parents support her policy. no they don't. that's gaslighting. but i think there's something really sinister going on here. labour are forcing tens of thousands more children into the state sector. they are forcing them to learn the state curriculum, and they're about to wokeist dai that state curriculum. bridget phillipson is going to decolonise the curriculum to make sure it reflects the diversity of british society. you can see it now, can't you? monday's lessons brought to you by black lives matter tuesday. the muslim council of britain comes in wednesday. india willoughby's class about girls welcoming blokes into their toilets. thursday. that's palestine day, i'm afraid. on fridays, greta thunberg and chris packham have teamed up for a course in how you can wear bright orange and glue yourself to the m4 during rush hour. it's clear that labour have been listening to this guy. >> let's do it for palestine, ramallah, west bank, gaza. it's

about time we globalise the intifada. >> that is daniel kebede, who is the head of the national education union, calling for a global intifada. and he's also called for this 2014, when michael gove introduced the national curriculum, he erased any blackness from from the curriculum. >> the curriculum was essentially whitewashed. and this problematic black culture, black history, black achievement, it doesn't feature on the curriculum or in education hardly at all. the truth is not taught on britain's colonial past. >> it's problematic that man is the only person with less legitimacy than bridget phillipson when it comes to our education system. he was elected to his position by securing, i think, about 69% of the vote on a 9% turnout to be the head of the eu. it's ridiculous, isn't it? and now he's dictating the national curriculum to a woman

who used to work for her mum's charity, who is now the education secretary. i mean, i think that's clearly a plan here from the hard left. force as many kids as possible into the state sector and then pump them full of woke, race obsessed, anti—british, blm inspired, diversity infused rubbish to indoctrinate the next generation. let's get our thoughts on my panel. we've got political consultant suzanne evans. we have the founding chairman of global britain uk, amin bogle, and the journalist benjamin butterworth. suzanne, are you concerned here about the funnelling of tens of thousands of children into a state school system that is about to be completely wikified and captured by critical race theory? >> yeah, i think you're spot on, patrick. i think it's exactly as you said. this is a deliberate strategy to have that kind of marxist idea of a long march through the institutions to completely capture the institutions and then indoctrinate everybody who comes through them. i can't see any other logical explanation for it. you know, around the rest of

the world, the idea of diversity, equality, inclusion is being questioned now. and just as that's happening, labour goes nuclear on it. and that word diversity, the diversity, it's not diverse. the word they want. it's divisive because that's what this is. indoctrinating children is wrong. a focus on one set of cultures above indigenous british culture is wrong and divisive. this is also, of course, a form of gerrymandering, of trying to vote rig about trying to get people to vote labour. they're reducing the voting age to 16. i think, in the wrong assumption that younger people are more likely to vote labour. i'm not convinced that's actually the case, but that's what they think. and they also think now, if they can indoctrinate kids in schools to think that anything on the right of politics is completely wrong, they're more likely to vote labour in the future. they want to be in government forever. they want to be a dictatorship. >> okay, varne gb views in a second. you're rolling your eyes there. but i'm keen to get your take on this, you know, do we need to have things like more black people taught in our

curriculum? i mean, is our is our curriculum not not already. i mean, my concern would be that it would be taught through the lens of britain hating. >> well, that's exactly what this is. this is division, division, division caused by, you know, a bunch of mediocrities that are occupying the british cabinet right now. and bridget phillipson, as education secretary is a third rate education sector that we've had for a very long time. but look, this is more about cancelling free speech. it's about punishing parents with the vat coming in. it's about an ideological indoctrination of our kids attacking aspiration. but more than that, you want to decolonise so—called, you know, so—called decolonise the curriculum. but let's talk about the actual british history. it's not about black history. it's not about black history. it's not about black history. it's not about indian history. it's about british history. let's talk about the first indian origin mp back in 1885, that this great nation elected into a parliament 100 years before the labour party elected. keith vaz. let's talk about that great mathematician from india that was elected to the royal society

of mathematicians in 1917, ramadan. nobody talks about them. good. okay. >> well, should talk about them. >> well, should talk about them. >> yeah, but that's not decolonisation. >> so, keith vaz, to be fair, although i'd happily talk about that guy all night, you know, for the sake of the lawyers, won't. >> talk, but. yeah, so. but on a on a serious note, benjamin. >> i mean, why is this other than a shameless attempt to indoctrinate kids? >> i mean, i think you need to go back to school yourself, because that was a load of codswallop, right? you would not pass the exam on accuracy. bridget phillipson, the education secretary, has not said she wants to decolonise. that was suggestions made to her. >> she wants to diversify it. >> she wants to diversify it. >> exactly. which is rather different. that's about reflecting britain's history. things like the slave trade, things like the windrush generation. >> so will she will she be teaching? will she be teaching about william wilberforce? will she be teaching about the west africa squad? she won't be. we know that. come on, let's be honest here. she'll be. yes we will. >> well, you don't think we do. and also, she said with irrefutably that william shakespeare will be going nowhere. it's an essential part of english literature. and you talk about it just to point out,

let's get some more facts that you forgot. the national education union has no affiliation to the labour party. it's an independent union. and so it is it is wrong to say that they are dictating policy. and let's talk about bridget phillipson's background, because patronising private school boys like you looking down your nose at a working class woman who's made it to the top here is somebody that was born to a single mum in a council house on free school meals in in gateshead. right. she never met her dad. now living, she never met her politics. >> hang on. a fantasy. >> hang on. a fantasy. >> no patronising nonsense. >> no patronising nonsense. >> just just out there on the nation, isn't she? i'll tell you what. pulling the ladder away. >> where are all the teachers? where are all the teachers? in the labour party? >> let me finish. >> let me finish. >> how does she sleep at night? knowing that disabled children will now be plonked into the state schools? >> how do you sleep? >> how do you sleep? >> these are cultural vandals. >> these are cultural vandals. >> well, so many people can't even pay their taxes. bridget phillipson bridget phillipson made it from being the kid of a single mum in a council estate in gateshead. >> okay, let's boil it down. let's boil this down. >> let's boil this down. after she went to oxford, instead of taking a highly paid job that

she could have easily got where she could have easily got where she earned a second. instead of doing that, she was she went and ran a second class. >> honours. >> honours. >> top economists. just pointless if you speak over me. a man. she went and ran a women's refuge for three years, which her mum set up. yes, exactly. >> so she got a job with her mum. >> mum had her mum gave her a job. my mum had almost no money and used her life to do a charity, which she worked in a women's refuge. now you know what? what's that got to do with education? you're only too happy to talk about women's refuges, but when it's a labour mp that gave their life to it, you don't want to talk about it. but they didn't. >> she didn't give her life. she was born in 1983. >> all right. okay, fine. >> all right. okay, fine. >> this is absolute nonsense. look, we are competing with the chinese, with the indians, with the americans. they haven't got the americans. they haven't got the likes of the mediocrities of bridget phillipson running their education system. they're churning out. is that a problem? >> is that a problem? is that a problem? so let's let's not get let's not get too personal. i'm not trying to say, oh, you know, she's you know, she's a hero getting it right. okay. right. okay. i'm not going to say she's

a hero, but the fact is she mediocre? is she subpar? is this a she's not up to the job. >> look, the policy she's bringing into play show categorically that she's not up to the job. if she knew what she was doing and she really cared about education, she would not be doing this. she'd be focusing on doing what labour promised to do before the election, which was to take workload off teachers so they can focus on teaching. having a whole new curriculum rolled out is not going to do that. it's going to make life more difficult for teachers to start with. and this curriculum is not. it's going to be so focused on what's good about diversity. and that's what annoys me, because diversity has come at a cost as well. it's not all chicken tikka masala and beautiful, colourful religious festivals. it's female genital mutilation, it's honour killings. armed police at christmas market, it's armed police at christmas markets. cousin talks about that. no they're not. and any kid that does get talk about that is probably going to find themselves being suspended or possibly even expelled. this is as divisive as policy as it comes, as is her vat on public schools. well, hang on, patrick said. she might have had a very tough background with us, and i'm a single mum myself and i know how damn tough it is and

i've struggled as well. but my goodness, i don't want to pull that ladder up from other kids. >> well, i would have a single question for bridget phillipson. wouldn't have gone to what does she have to sink state school? >> and, you know, somebody like bridget phillipson might think that's the right thing, but damn no, i was her mother was going to fight for her and i did. and every other parent should have that right as well. >> well, i echo a lot of what susanna has to say, but my simple question to bridget phillipson as education secretary would be, what does she have to say on that poor teacher still in hiding from the batley grammar school? yeah, that's what that's what it is. does she stand for him? >> a perfectly valid question, but you put that to the previous 3 or 4 education secretaries. >> since she's in charge now, she's in charge now that there was a poll last week, 55% of people support vat on private schools. >> less than a fifth are schools. >> less th