after the southport killer accessed extremist material before his deadly attack last yeah before his deadly attack last year. axel rudakubana, who murdered three young girls and tried to kill ten others, downloaded an al—qaeda training manual and watched graphic footage online just before his stabbing spree. yvette cooper says it's unacceptable that such hateful content remains easily available, and is urging tech companies to take immediate action. the government has also announced a public inquiry into missed chances to stop rudakubana, who was already known to police and anti—extremism authorities. well, the government is also cracking down on online knife sales after it was revealed that the 18 year old axel rudakubana brought the weapon he used to kill those three girls from amazon online when he was just 17. under tough new rules, buyers will need to show photo id at the point of purchase and again when the knife is delivered. delivery drivers will only be allowed to hand knives to the person who ordered them in. plans set to feature in the crime and policing bill this

spring. the home secretary has again called it a total disgrace that dangerous weapons are still so easy for children to get hold of. a 53 year old man has been charged with murder in devon. murder of a nurse, that is, who was found fatally injured in a street in plymouth. paul butler is accused of killing 48 year old claire chick, who was discovered last wednesday and sadly died in hospital later. her family say she was a beautiful and a lively soul. mr butler is due to appear before plymouth magistrates court on monday. and storm hermine is battering the uk, leaving over 4500 homes so far in devon and cornwall without power and bringing 83 mile an hour winds to berry head. flooding has cut rail lines to between par and newquay, while a ryanair flight bound for newquay was forced to divert to gatwick. the met office has warned of danger to life, as yellow weather warnings for wind and rain stretch into tomorrow morning. and it, of course, comes on the heels of

storm eoin, which left two people dead and plunged millions of homes into darkness. now the south of england is bracing for yet more chaos, with the relentless rain adding to already saturated ground. that's the news on gb news. i'll be back with you in an hour's time now, though, it's over to camilla. >> 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 and welcome to the camilla tominey show on gb news. i'll be speaking to lots of great guests on today's show, including the leader of the conservative party, kemi badenoch. i'm going to be asking her about the southport killing. i'm going to be asking her why she thinks the government's new education reforms are an act of vandalism, and indeed, what she makes of trump's inauguration

this week. also joining me today is the exchequer secretary to the treasury, james murray. he's going to be in the studio when we've got yet more statistics which suggest that the economy is flailing. what is his response? also, what does he make of claims that calling the chancellor rachel from accounts is sexist? i'll also be speaking to zia yousef. he's the chairman of reform uk. he's been hugely critical of the prime minister's handung critical of the prime minister's handling of the southport killings. we'll get his answers to some of the questions on that subject, which i know is one that's close to all of your hearts. and ahead of holocaust memorial day tomorrow, i'm going to be speaking to wendy holden, the author of a new book about a really remarkable story of survival over adversity in auschwitz. so, as ever, we've got 90 minutes of very punchy politics ahead. do not even think of going anywhere.

welcome back to the camilla tominey show. only on gb news. exchequer secretary to the treasury james murray joins me in the studio now. lovely to see you in the flesh because we normally talk down the line. let's get started. we're going to talk about southport in just a minute. but let's just start with what you're announcing today. and this is about more houses near commuter train stations. so you're talking again about, you know, cutting red tape building properties. we know that the chancellor is going to make an announcement on wednesday when we think she's going to lean into heathrow expansion. can you give us a time frame on any of this stuff? because in all my time as a journalist, i hear a lot about cutting of red tape and infrastructure projects. but when will houses be built? if you do expand heathrow? when's the deadline? give us a bit of timing on all this. >> sure. so part of what the chancellor is setting out today is around our desire to unshackle planning to unclog the system, to make sure planning decisions get taken quicker and

homes get built. because one of the things in our plan for change, one of the things we were elected on, is about getting homes built. it's about driving economic growth. and i think, you know, like you said, you will have heard numerous governments in recent years talk about planning change, but then it doesn't get delivered. and actually, if you look at what the chancellor has done soon after taking office, she scrapped the ban on onshore wind turbines, you know, and again and again, we're coming back to make planning quicker and easier and more progressive. >> so how long does it take now, for instance, an average planning application and how much do you want to speed it up by? >> yeah. so if you look at what we're proposing, the bill, which is going to come in this spring and then go through parliament as quickly as possible, will introduce what we're calling brownfield passports. and what that means is that if you're proposing a development on brownfield land, including some of the land near railway stations, and there's a presumption in favour of development there, there's an assumption that the answer will be yes if it meets key criteria. >> but can you give us a timing like how quickly do you want the process to go from found a

brownfield, there's a house built. >> yeah. well we want we want every stage of the process to speed up. at the moment, if you look at major planning applications. >> you're not giving me a time like how quickly do you want it to happen? because it's all very well talking about red tape. we're going to do this. we're going to do that by when. >> yeah. well, i can give you the timescale of 13 weeks. how long it takes is the statutory length of time at which it's supposed to be allowed to determine major planning applications. and recently, only about 20% of applications have been decided within that time frame. and we want to significantly increase that. >> if we look at some of the latest economic data, it doesn't make for great reading for the treasury or indeed the government. lower manufacturing production. you've got new work falling at the fastest pace since october 2023. prices have increased at the fastest level for 18 months in january. employment. employment has fallen for four months. this is all since the budget, so it can't really be blamed on 14 years of tory rule. it's not a great indictment, is it, of the way that labour is running the economy? >> well, what the headlines like

that underscore for me is how important it is that we go further and faster to boost economic growth. and that is why we are relentless about this. and we will be doing everything we possibly can to get growth through increase. >> growth isn't increasing. that's the problem. >> well, if you look at what the imf and the oecd have said recently, they've set out that we will be growing at a fast rate over the coming years. and if you look at what pwc said, for instance, we're the second best investment location in the world only after the us. so there is cause for optimism. >> but no, but the actual figures aren't looking particularly positive. in fact, some economics experts think that we might actually go into recession. so if we go into recession, what does that say about rachel reeves growth pledge? >> well, all of the headlines say to me, we need to go further and faster to boost growth. and that's why what the chancellor is setting out. >> today will happen if we go into recession. james murray. >> well, we don't want that to happen. we want the could it happen. we want the could it happen economic growth to be boosted and. >> could it happen though? >> could it happen though? >> well, what we want to do as a

government is make sure economic growth is as strong as possible. and 1518 00:08:03,704 --> 00:08:03