election. the scale in the next election. why.7 we could the scale in the next election. why? we could be seeing a new definition of islamophobia , and definition of islamophobia, and why female gangsters are keeping their enormous lips sealed. i'm simon evans tonight. i've got comedians leo kearse and louis schaefer taking you through monday's top stories. this is headliners. but before tomorrow's news, let's go to tonight's headlines one last time with tatiana sanchez. >> thank you very much. the top stories this hour reform ukip leader nigel farage has responded after elon musk said he doesn't have what it takes to lead the party. farage said well, this is a surprise. elon is a remarkable individual but i'm afraid on this i disagree.

my i'm afraid on this i disagree. my view remains that tommy robinson is not right for reform and i never sell out my principles. well, that's all. after musk posted on x saying the reform uk party needs a new leader, this apparent turn comes just a few weeks after nigel farage travelled to florida to meet with musk about possible funding for his party. it also comes less than 24 hours after farage said there was no question on musk's supporting him personally. gb news can exclusively reveal the prime minister ignored a rotherham whistleblower jayne senior. s bullying complaint after she exposed child abuse and corruption while he was leader of the opposition in 2020. gb news national reporter charlie peters reports. >> we've seen correspondence sent by sir keir starmer's office that simply says unfortunately, we won't be able to facilitate a meeting. oh, but here is an online form for processing complaints. but fundamentally, i think what we've seen as a political reaction to this story, with

both kemi badenoch from the conservatives and rupert lowe from reform and plenty of other commentators as well, they're all saying that, well, jayne senior did have that national hero status. she was being bullied. why didn't you take the time to meet with her, especially considering the reputation and fear that people had around the labour party and the csc scandal and all the cover ups? >> now, heavy snow has caused travel disruption in the uk as weather warnings remain in place. and despite the leeds bradford airport runway reopening earlier this afternoon, no plane is yet to land there. the met office had issued two amber weather warnings for england and wales, forecasting 3 to 7cm of snow in some areas. a number of flood warnings are also in place across south england. there are also more than 200 flood alerts which deem flooding possible in several areas of england and in wales. the uk health security agency has issued cold weather health alerts, which remain in place for all of england , and

place for all of england, and former rupaul's drag race uk winnerjames lee former rupaul's drag race uk winner james lee williams, former rupaul's drag race uk winnerjames lee williams, known winner james lee williams, known as the vivienne, has died at the age of 32. rupaul's drag race has paid tribute to the vivienne, saying they were deeply saddened to learn of the death. the vivienne had risen to prominence in 2015 after becoming the uk drag ambassador for the american series of the drag race. the vivienne later competed in the first uk series of the show. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. now it's time for headliners 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. >> hello and welcome to headlines, your first look at tomorrow's top stories with three three top comedians. before we dive in, let's take a

quick look at what leo and lewis will have to work with on mondays front pages. the telegraph lead with our big story. musk turns on farage, the independent starmer to set out plan to end waiting list backlogs. the express ruthless small boat gang set for big springtime push. the daily mail end the menace of the e—scooters. ministers had told the i. labour to ditch 2035 ban on new gas boilers despite heat pump drive. far too many words on their front pages. the weather sickies are on the star that snowflakes and those are the front pages. so leo will kick off with the telegraph and their big story is the one we've been discussing, of course all day on gb news. >> yeah, this is musk turns on farage. >> this isn't this isn't farage now in a state of sexual arousal, although it does because the word musk as well. yeah, it's all there isn't it?

this is farage really likes that smell. yeah, this is even farage. >> sounds like a 70s perfume as well. >> so this is elon musk, the american billionaire who people might have heard of, who two weeks ago was was photographed next to farage singing his praises, potentially giving him $100 million, which is £81 million, a lot of money for the for campaigning. and now he's he's said farage isn't up to the job of running, being being head of the party. he suggested rupert lowe instead. and rupert lowe is an absolutely fantastic candidate. his twitter output is absolutely outstanding. and he really, you know, he speaks to the sort of heart and soul of the sort of heart and soul of the party and says a lot of things that that perhaps farage wouldn't feel comfortable saying because he's in a much more exposed position. but i think all the people saying musk is dangerous and an idiot and an idiot, they've suddenly changed. and they're saying musk is visionary. >> today, musk is seen through

farage. i suppose it's all hinges on tommy robinson, it seems, doesn't it? and there does seem to be a degree of confusion in the american camp as to exactly why tommy robinson is in jail. they are really quite happy to see him as a political prisoner, essentially. >> i think looking at the situation from outside, you've got these grooming gangs and operating on a huge scale. and as jk rowling said, you know, don't call them grooming gangs. they're child rape gangs, you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands , potentially, of white thousands, potentially, of white and sikh british girls raped by these, these despicable gangs. and the establishment pretty much just swept it under the carpet. so that created i mean, this is what farage should have said. he should have said the establishment is sweeping it under the carpet, created tommy robinson, you know, made somebody like tommy robinson almost necessary to go out and expose. not that i think he's done a, you know, done it perfectly or done it the way, you know, a guardian journalist would do. but yeah, now it's looking like musk might be giving that money to tommy robinson instead. yeah. i mean, it's very interesting.

>> i know a little bit about the story of the history of tommy robinson when he started, because he was from luton, same as me. and when they started out, the edl were mainly sort of supporting our forces who were who's returning caskets and so on, were being abused and spat on, were being abused and spat on by it started out with that, the grooming gang thing sort of gradually rose over the course of his. but now a lot of that is falling away, isn't it? and it's being seen as this is the great. do you know what i mean? the grooming gang, rape gang, whatever you want to call it. thatis whatever you want to call it. that is the great cause. yeah. and the idea of political islamism and so on generally is kind of being sidelined slightly. and i think in a way, that's what farage is not so comfortable with, historically speaking, the a battle against islam as a whole. i mean, obviously, you know, reform have a i think the chairman is, is muslim. >> yeah. and i think things have just progressed far too quickly for farage really. he wasn't expecting this. this i mean, the overton window is really, you know, jumped. >> i agree with leo because it's

a mess basically. and it's a mess because there hasn't been openness in this country. mess because there hasn't been openness in this country . and openness in this country. and even tommy robinson hasn't been completely open because they're focusing. i'm going to say this as nice as i can. they're focusing on what's going on in rotherham with what they did to these women and girls up there, and that's absolutely horrible. but the bigger picture is even if you eliminate that, even if you eliminate all the i don't know if i can say it, even the whatever it is that is that there's a danger in the country. and i think tommy robinson has said a bit about the danger, but donald. but but farage hasn't said the danger. he went on and said, we got to, we got to we got to be politically okay with muslims when the truth is maybe we do, but maybe we don't. >> well, a lot of people certainly feel that they want to see a stronger line on that front. yeah. and then, of course, there's the fact that tommy robinson himself is in jail, rightly or wrongly, for contempt of court, which was over the broadcast, deliberate broadcast of his documentary, which was called silenced. and

that was that was him attempting to dispute the findings of the court over the syrian refugee who was accused of, you know, the accusations went back and forth exactly who was it was quite a trivial incident, essentially, wasn't it, in the beginning of the whole thing. >> i mean, this is the thing, although i mean, armando iannucci and all these, you know, establishment figures have been sharing the list of tommy's crimes. and you look at it, it's like mortgage fraud. oh my god, what a monster. oh, that's so much worse than the grooming gangs. it's worrying you mental. why are you why are you focusing so much on tommy robinson and not focusing on the grooming gangs? >> douglas murray, in his book strange death of europe, had to his credit a fair few pages because plenty of people have said douglas murray says many of the same things as tommy robinson. but in an etonian, you know, tone of voice. yeah, with a greater vocabulary and is, you know, elevated virtually to the peerage. but he, he, he dedicated a few pages to unpicking these various crimes and said he has essentially been smeared with them. the mortgage fraud thing was nothing like as

bad as peter mandelson's mortgage fraud, for instance. you know, it was basically he basically sort of, you know, smudged a few lines on his sister's mortgage application to make it look like she was a safer bet. well, most of us in the late 90s got mortgages and self accreditation mortgages. the banks basically asking you whether you thought you were good for it or yes, lawfare. we should have a look at the guardian, lewis, the guardian, the guardian, which is tomorrow is i think it's £2. >> it's £3 on a monday. that's how much the guardian is. they think they're a real newspaper. ukrainian troops in. i mean, what kind of news is this? ukrainian troops in new push into kurtz, which is that it's like. it's like the ukraine war still going on, i think i think there's a really hot phase at there's a really hot phase at the moment because, you know, they're heading into peace negotiations with trump coming into power. >> so they're both putting so much into putting all their resources into grabbing as much land as possible. so kursk being part of russia. so ukraine's grab part of russia as a bargaining chip to say to russia, you know, you've got to

give us something to get this back. >> interesting. you do you think that trump will will demand that peace is sorted out fairly early? i mean, he has given that indication. >> i think he'll find it's a bit trickier than he than his campaigning. >> it was it is a bit trickier because it's gone on for so long, and he can't put all the whatever the toys back in the, in the toy box. but i think what i think you're right about that. i think you're right about that. i think you're right about that. i think that they, that ukraine, if what they're saying is let's make it as difficult as possible, we'll get more from the russians when they give up, maybe they'll give up more. >> i suppose the main major leverage that trump has is that they stop giving them weapons, right? how long can ukraine carry on fighting if trump dries up that supply? >> you know what you don't know? because maybe the germans and the french and maybe. and then maybe, maybe it'll be it'll be even worse because it'll be like the war will fall out of america's hands. >> well, it might it might be good for europe to actually be forced to confront putin and forced to confront putin and forced to confront the threat on its borders and do something about it, instead of focusing on net zero and how to turn kids

into transgender drag queens. >> can we just acknowledge, by the way, red letter day? that's a funnier headline for the but the exact same picture on both front pages of the guardian and the telegraph of a small boy in an oldham cap on his toboggan. oh yeah. why is there only one small boy tobogganing for the for the cameras? isn't that slightly sinister? well, do you have this kind of thing is a threat to our democracy? do we have time to do the i paper, louis? yeah. >> you do. >> you do. >> is that the ipp story? next we've got another one. they've got the daily mail. >> they've got the daily mail says end menace of the e—scooters. ministers are told. so this mail investigation has found collisions on e—scooters have trebled in just three years with 29 deaths. so campaigners are calling 929. yeah i was surprised. so these are these are the little electric scooters. well some of them are quite hefty that people ride around in london. people ride them on pavements and all the rest of it. remember the mini, the mini trikes that people had about 20 years ago? this is this is like the new version, but because they're on pavements, they're hitting people. and i

mean, it would be great to see an analysis of the sort of people who are actually riding them and getting them into into trouble. we can maybe target those people instead of actually just banning the vehicle. >> i agree, i mean, the british way, the british way is to ban it, to get them on a list and to like if somebody says something in favour of e—scooters, they put them in prison. >> i have to say there's all the companies like lime bikes and so on, and they have the electric bikes and the scooters that you can just rent and park them when you get there. that's a fairly good scheme, but i suppose that's not available in every city. i think people should probably broadly be allowed to own one if they want, but that is a kind of better way of doing it. >> it is, but it.— >> it is, but it's so it. >> it is, but it's so expensive really. it costs the same amount of money to rent a scooter or a bicycle from here to me to get home in, in nunhead, peckham, then it would for you to take an uber to buy a flat in paddington. yes, it's so expensive. >> i haven't found that. i've got to say, i found it very affordable. i don't want to be like just the host of the show because he goes faster. because i don't go to nunhead. let's

have a quick look at the i now, lewis, this is the i labour to ditch 19 2035 ban on new gas boilers despite heat pump drives. >> they want on one hand they want to pump. they want to they want to pump. they want to they want to pump. they want to they want to push the heat pumps, which is like does anyone know what a heat pump is? >> i do what does it look like? >> i do what does it look like? >> it's basically what happens when you when you move an engine. it creates a difference between the heat going out and you making this up. i am making it up. >> i create an engine. >> i create an engine. >> right. >> right. >> here's my here's my main question. does it go in the same space and occupy roughly the same amount of volume as boiler? >> no, it's much bigger and it makes noise and it works like a reverse fridge. and it's not not as efficient if it is a reverse engine. >> okay. yeah. >> okay. yeah. >> fair enough. and did i say that a difference. >> well yeah. it's the it's the pressure of the coolant or whatever expands and then it transfers the heat or whatever. >> it's like having a refrigerator outside. >> so it's been on the back of a refrigerator basically. yeah. but you can't actually do that. you can't just have a fridge out in your garden with a with the back into coming into.

>> you wouldn't get hot enough. no, it wouldn't be neither the heat pump apparently. >> so. yeah. well, you'd have to find a way to get the heat that's going out the refrigerator in the back into your house. >> so they're going to ban they're going to drop that ban they're going to drop that ban the 2035 target by the look of it. and that will obviously soften up the hope. was it 2030 that they're going to stop selling petrol vehicles. that was the thing. >> i mean it's a mad it's a mad scheme. they've put really punitive taxes on cars. if you want to sell a petrol or diesel car there's taxes, fines essentially of up to £15,000 per car, which is just insane. that's the value of a car these days. absolutely. >> i've got a car, i've got a diesel car, which i have basically resigned myself to running into the ground. i will never be able to sell it, you know, and consequently, i'm now starting to think you can't drive into london. >> you can't drive