slammed >> so kemi badenoch has slammed the grooming gangs and renewed calls for a national inquiry. >> where do these abusers come from.7 very, very poor sort of peasant background, very, very rural. >> in an exclusive conversation with charlie peters, the opposition leader points a finger squarely at identity politics, allowing people to get away with things because there's political correctness or whatever. >> sort of identity politics means that you can't call out behaviour. >> kemi badenoch also offers an olive branch to politicians from all parties, as she says that westminster must come together to confront this national scourge and turmoil at the treasury. >> rachel reeves future is in doubt as the uk is plunged into further economic crisis. is it time to get the lettuce out.7 >> and fresh corruption claims over the prime minister's close friend, tulip siddiq, as she

resists calls to resign as the treasury minister responsible for fraud. prime minister, payment integrity. >> i'm absolutely determined to restore honesty and integrity to government. >> and there's been another surge of support for reform. now they are just one point behind they are just one point behind the labour party as they push the labour party as they push the tories into third place and a pioneering medical breakthrough. >> medical cannabis. but a lack of pharmaceutical interest is leading people to seek out the drug illegally. we're speaking to one mum who's campaigned to change all of that, and a spy in the palace. >> newly unsealed mi5 files reveals fresh details about the kgb spy that was working in buckingham palace, and why the queen wasn't told. >> and is it time to get tough on junk food or overreach.7 the advertising standards authority looks set to ban unhealthy food and drink ads from online and on air programmes. come.

>> we're going to be digging into those and lots more stories this morning. get in touch with us gbnews.com/yoursay. first, here's the news with sophia. >> andrew and bev. thank you. good morning. these are your headunes good morning. these are your headlines from the gb newsroom. donald trump engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat, according to a report by special counsel jack smith. >> prosecutor mr smith claims the president elect inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence in the january 6th riots and knowingly spread a false narrative about fraud in the 2020 election. he goes on to say mr trump would have been convicted of his crimes, but for his victory in last year's us presidential election.

meanwhile, trump responded to the report saying smith is deranged and his findings are fake. a gaza ceasefire and hostage deal is on the brink, according to us president joe biden. the outgoing us leader made the claim during his final foreign policy address before he leaves office next week. he said it would include a hostage release deal and a surge of aid to palestinians. a round of gaza ceasefire talks are set to resume in doha today to finalise the remaining details of the deal back in the uk. now chancellor rachel reeves is facing mounting pressure over her future in the treasury as britain's economic outlook worsens. the government faces surging borrowing costs and fresh inflation fears, raising concern among some labour mps about the chancellor's capability. despite calls for her sacking, sir keir starmer has insisted that mr reeves will stay in post until the next

election. >> confident in our mission for growth and i'm confident, completely confident in my team. >> in other news, conservative leader kemi badenoch has described meeting survivors of grooming gangs in oldham and rotherham as quite shocking. speaking to gb news, she said she believed a new national inquiry should look at what she called a systematic pattern of behaviour among certain communities in the country. it comes after the labour mp for rotherham, sarah champion, joined growing calls for a full investigation, saying nothing less will restore faith in our safeguarding systems and some breaking news. two women have been charged with criminal damage afterjust been charged with criminal damage after just stop been charged with criminal damage afterjust stop oil damage after just stop oil protesters spray painted charles darwin's grave in westminster abbey. the climate activists marked the slogan 1.5 is dead in chalk paint on the 19th century biologist's grave. at about 9:30 am. yesterday. the met police a.m. yesterday. the met police

said 66 year old alison lee and 77 year old diane bligh will appear at westminster magistrates court on the 11th and 12th of february. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in half 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. >> good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom live across the uk with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, the opposition leader, kemi badenoch, has pledged to break the culture of silence over the grooming gang or rape gang crisis as she met victims in rotherham and oldham. >> she was speaking to charlie peters in an exclusive interview in kemi badenoch renewed calls for a full national inquiry and slammed the perpetrators. for a full national inquiry and slammed the perpetrators. >> where do these abusers come >> where do these abusers come from.7 there's a lot of from? there's a lot of misinformation, there's a lot of misinformation, there's a lot of

generalisation. many innocent generalisation. many innocent people end up being grouped in people end up being grouped in with them. but if you look at with them. but if you look at it, there is a systematic it, there is a systematic pattern of behaviour, not even pattern of behaviour, not even just from one country, but from just from one country, but from subcommunities within those subcommunities within those countries. people with a countries. people with a particular background, particular background, particular background, particular class background, particular background, particular class background, work background. what background work background. what background is that? you know, people very, is that? you know, people very, very poor sort of peasant very poor sort of peasant background, very, very rural, background, very, very rural, almost cut off from even the almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they, home origin countries that they, that they might have been in. for full national inquiry and that they might have been in. i'm not afraid to look into i'm not afraid to look into this. i don't care what people this. i don't care what people call me, whether they say i'm call me, whether they say i'm jumping on a far right bandwagon jumping on a far right bandwagon or i'm just doing it for or i'm just doing it for politics. this is something that politics. this is something that i've been talking about for a i've been talking about for a while. i said it in my big while. i said it in my big leadership speech. this was something i wanted to look at. leadership speech. this was something i wanted to look at. and as we saw last year with the and as we saw last year with the post office inquiry, sometimes post office inquiry, sometimes when politicians are talking when politicians are talking about things, it isn't until the about things, it isn't until the pubuc about things, it isn't until the public take a specific interest pubuc about things, it isn't until the public take a that we can really get going. we do not have we have free speech in this country. we do not have anyone using religion as a cover

about things, it isn't until the public take many of these heritage of many of these perpetrators, they're not necessarily from karachi or islamabad. they're from the northern regions, the rural regions of pakistan, which is leading to so much of the clannishness that protects so many abusers. it's actually it's a throwaway word in a sense, but actually it reflects quite a consistent issue, a sociobiological problem we have in britain. but she didn't say that she could have gone further into it. and i felt as though there was a nervousness about saying pakistani, which is why i pressed as you heard what sort of background and the word she came back with was peasant. >> well, i think i think it's a strategy here and it's deliberate because if we can have a listen to what robert jenrick said now, he ran for the tory leadership and was the runner up. he had this to say about these people. >> we have seen millions of people enter the uk in recent years, and some of them have backward, frankly, medieval attitudes to women. >> so we've got medieval and peasants. i think it's that

they've chosen the language carefully. i think they know what they're doing. i think they think this will resonate. >> i am deeply uncomfortable with that language. >> i think it's true based on what i've seen over the years covering this. i think it is medieval behaviour, and i think the clannishness and the protection of abusers does represent that sort of approach. but to use the term peasant, it is patronising, as you say. it doesinvoke is patronising, as you say. it does invoke in many ways a sort of speaking down towards a whole class of people, regardless of the criminality they may be 1516 00:09:32,08