meanwhile, i will be moment. meanwhile, i will be joined tonight by melanie phillips following the shady government review of its counter—extremism strategy. we'll be looking at the secret propaganda unit behind what's been going on in the news this week, which has targeted mainstream conservative voices. labour wants you to believe that it holds the key to growth and deregulation. but can the party of bureaucracy ever be trusted to roll it back? plus, as the government is set to pour hundreds of millions of pounds of your money into the world health organisation, i'll be joined by one man tonight who has revealed the true scale of government funding to globalist institutions. that's state of the nation. tonight with me, matt goodwin starts right now.

now i'll also be joined tonight by my top panel columnist and former mep patrick o'flynn and former mep patrick o'flynn and former labour party adviser scarlett mccgwire. as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay and don't forget to hit me up on x at goodwin mj. now it's time for the news bulletin with tatiana sanchez. >> matt, thank you very much. the top stories. the chancellor has backed the expansion of heathrow airport. in a speech outlining her plans to boost economic growth. rachel reeves claims a new runway will connect the uk to the world and open up new opportunities, including creating 100,000 jobs. she also announced plans to create a european silicon valley valley by developing a so—called growth corridor between oxford and cambridge. but the chancellor acknowledged the plans to grow the economy will not come without a fight. sir keir

starmer was challenged over the government's plans for growth at prime minister's questions. tory leader kemi badenoch mainly focused on the employment rights bill, repeatedly asking if it would be dropped because it fails his tests for delivering growth. she also accused the keir of misleading the house. >> it is business that creates growth. our economy is built by entrepreneurs, risk takers and the hard graft of working people. they know that you can't tax your way to growth, you can't borrow your way to growth, you can't legislate your way to growth. other countries are serious about freeing business from red tape. president trump is doing it in america. argentina is taking a chainsaw to regulations. even the eu is not going as far as this left wing government. this bill will put us at the bottom of the pack, added to the jobs tax, the family business tax. it's no wonder wealth creators are fleeing britain in droves. >> the prime minister, in a reference to liz truss, warned miss badenoch that she'd become

the next lettuce, claiming the conservatives left the economy in a mess. >> armed forces commissioner. mr speaken >> armed forces commissioner. mr speaker, i understand she likes straight talking. she's talking absolute nonsense. she knows that anybody who understands anything about the bill or any employment law will know you can't start in the morning and go to the tribunal in the afternoon. now, mr speaker, we know she's not a lawyer. she's clearly not a leader. if she keeps on like this, she is going to be the next lettuce. >> and donald trump has signed the lake and riley act, the first legislation to get his signature since his return to the white house. the bill is named after a georgia nursing student who was murdered last year by a venezuelan man. it requires the detention of unauthorised immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes. >> the law i'm signing today, the department of homeland security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting,

assaulting a police officer, murder or any crime that results in death or serious injury. in addition, for the first time even addition, for the first time ever, this act gives state governments the ability to sue the federal government for immediate injunctive relief. if any future administration ever again refuses to enforce the immigration laws of the united states. >> now it's back to the state of the nation with matt goodwin. >> 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. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, if you think that you've already been watching britain's population explosion, then you haven't seen anything yet. new data from the office for

national statistics, which was released yesterday, reveals that the uk's population get this is set to reach 72.5 million people by the year 2032. not far away at all, entirely fuelled by a 4.9 million increase in net migration. now the only driver of our population growth, that's an increase equivalent to more than four cities the size of birmingham by the year 2047, just 22 years from now, which really, again, isn't that long. not far away at all. our population will explode by 9 million people, equivalent to another london. the proportion of our population is now growing exponentially by the time a five year old today turns just 31 years of age, 1 in 3 people on these islands will have been born somewhere else. let me say that again. by the year 2051, it's estimated 1 in 3 of every people on these islands will have been born somewhere else. and the thing about this radical shift in our makeup of the country is that while

politicians claim that they want to get immigration down, two thirds of members of parliament actually believe, according to new polling this week, that we should continue mass immigration to grow the economy. this transformation of our country, with its 1000 year plus history, was all done without a single person in the country actually voting for it, who voted for mass, uncontrolled immigration. it's a question i ask this all the time. i've yet to meet anybody who voted for this, but the simple truth is that politicians don't want to admit is that actually this policy can be changed. we can stop this if we want to, but very few people in westminster really want to get their arms around this issue. for too long, politicians have pretended that the status quo is simply inevitable, but it isn't. we've seen time and time again that when there is a political will from our leaders, then there is a way. look no further than the way that our authorities behaved during the covid pandemic or during the aftermath of the southport atrocities. the real reason that

immigration is not coming down in any serious way, let's be honest, it's because our leaders don't want to bring it down, nor does big business. it helps big business. it keeps the cost of labour low, it keeps their profits high. and they don't really care that you don't want mass immigration. so on and on we go with this extreme policy experiment that's making us poorer, not richer, and which, as recent research has shown, is also driving crime and undermining our social fabric. as ever. let me know your views tonight at gbnews.com/yoursay or hit me up on x at goodwin mj. but i'm joined tonight by top pollster and ceo and founder of electoral calculus, martin baxter. martin, the mood music on immigration out there in the country is changing, is it not? i'm looking at polls. i'm seeing people becoming more sceptical. i'm seeing them becoming a little bit more negative about this experiment, because that's what it is. it's an experiment. nobody really knows how this level of demographic change is going to go. and they seem to be, i think, becoming a little

bit more opposed to mass immigration. is that right? >> yes. that's right. we have this interesting. >> poll from ipsos that came out recently which asked people assume that there was a trade off between reducing immigration and hurting the economy, which some economists might disagree with. but let's let's take that as their statement. and they asked people whether it was better to reduce immigration, even if the economy ought to do the reverse. and amongst the general public figures were 62% were in favour of restricting immigration, with only 24% the other way. but then ipsos. >> so a majority of people out there in the country want to reduce it, and a majority of people in parliament basically want to keep the. >> that was the other interesting thing that ipsos did. they also surveyed mps as well. right. and that the mps were the other way. around 49% of mps were for keeping immigration high and only 31% against. so it was a little bit of a difference in opinion between mps and the public, a bit like we had with brexit back in 2016 when most mps were against it, but the public were in favour. >> so essentially we've got this

sort of elite minority that's more socially liberal, that's more socially liberal, that's more pro—immigration, which is not representing the more pro—immigration, which is not