>> welcome to lee anderson's real world. tonight on the show, we've got writer and broadcaster emma woolf, the former labour mp lloyd russell—moyle gott, broadcaster esther stanhope and hollywood stuntman nicholas dane. but first, let's go to the

news. >> good evening. the top stories from the gb newsroom. former prime minister boris johnson has exclusively told gb news now is the time to double down on brexit and take advantage of our freedoms. from al to gene editing and financial services. he goes on to say we need a government that really believes in brexit, and we need the british ruling class finally to match the bravery and imagination of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave. for supporters, the uk became a sovereign nation in charge of its own destiny. opponents believe it's isolated the country and damaged the economy. a tireless campaigner for brexit was reform ukip leader nigel farage. here he is celebrating five years ago today. mr farage is holding a reform party conference in kemi badenoch constituency. he told martin daubney although it was the right thing to do, we haven't grasped the opportunities that could have come with it. >> there are so many things that

we stayed aligned to, including most of their rule book. now, clearly what keir starmer wants to do is in terms of, of defence and perhaps even foreign policy, tie us closer to the european union. from the sounds of it, he wants us to start mirroring the single market rulebook. i mean, none of that is good. but is keir starmer going to take us back into the european union? no, he is not. so i just see this now as being unfinished business. you're quite right. starmer was an uber remainer, a rejoiner wanted to have a second referendum. the tories, from what i can see now, never really believed in it. so reform are the only people who can finish the only people who can finish the job. >> despite the economic disadvantages. conservative leader kemi badenoch is remaining positive. >> five years ago we had what was the greatest vote of confidence in our country . and confidence in our country. and as brexit secretary i lots of eu regulations, i ended the supremacy of the european court of justice, but there's still a

lot more to do, like a trade deal with the us. that's a brexit opportunity that we need to take. we started those negotiations when president trump was last in power. he is back again. the biden administration didn't want it, i think. keir starmer needs to look at that. look at where the opportunities are. that's where the growth is going to be. >> in other news, three judges who oversaw court proceedings involving sara sharif in the years before she was murdered have been named for the first time judge alison rayside, judge peter nathan and judge sally williams were all involved in family court hearings related to the ten year old. between 2013 and 2019. the last of three sets of proceedings saw sarah placed in the home of her father, irfan shanf in the home of her father, irfan sharif, and her stepmother, benazir bhutto, who were jailed for life in december for her murder in 2023. tests are being carried out on the black boxes recovered from a passenger plane, which collided with a us army helicopter yesterday, killing 67 people. officials in washington say they're going to

attempt to salvage the wreckage of both aircrafts today. 40 bodies have now been found in 27 people unaccounted for. an investigation by the new york times claims the helicopter flew outside an approved flight path, and there were staffing irregularities in air traffic control at reagan national airport, with one controller reportedly juggling two jobs. planes and helicopters at the same time. posting on his truth social platform, us president donald trump said the blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot. and if you're thinking about stocking up your wine cellar, then get on with it, because prices are rising from tomorrow. alcohol tax itself will rise in line with the retail price index at 3.6%. but a new tax on wines and spirits based on strength comes in at the same time. now this means the same time. now this means the duty on a bottle of gin will rise by £0.32 and wine is to increase by £0.54. and those are

the latest gb news headlines for now. more news from me in an houn >> 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 to lee anderson's real world. i'm lee anderson. the reform uk member of parliament for ashfield. and joining me on the show tonight, we've got journalist and author emma woolf. thank you for coming back on. and we've got a new guest on, on the on the show tonight is our left in the corner. it's lloyd russell—moyle and he is a famous former labour mp remembered for this little shenanigans in parliament just a few years ago. have a look at this. >> i think, david, debate to be resumed. what they said. put it

back. no no no no no. order. >> thanks, lloyd, for coming on the show. all right. we saw this week if you could stay awake long enough. we had the speech this week from rachel reeves about growth, about the economy, about growth, about the economy, about how we're going to turn things around and invest in this country. emma, did you stay awake through the speech? >> i stayed awake, but honestly, lee, if this is rachel reeves plan to kick start the economy, if this is her big growth plan, i think we should all just be in total despair. none of this is going to happen. i don't actually think it will ever happen. it's been talked about for what, 20, 25 years? this third runway at heathrow. it would involve all sorts. there'll be climate protests, there'll be legal challenges. there'll be. i think you have to dig a tunnel over the m25 or a bndge dig a tunnel over the m25 or a bridge over the m25. there will be all sorts of engineering chaos. any big infrastructure project in this country is beset by all that. >> i suspect, lloyd, that ed

miliband was spitting his bacon sandwich out at at this announcement this week. >> well, the announcements, i think, had much more than just the airport in them. but on the airport announcement, if we are to properly move to sustainable aviation, which of course is not helped by the closure of grangemouth that the tories allowed to happen. but when we get that back up and running we have proper sustainable aviation fuel. actually, aviation will not be such an awful thing for the climate and what we need to do is prepare for that moment. and so preparing for that moment doesn't just provide economic growth for when the airport is built, but you start building the companies. the companies will start locating in britain that are going to invest in sustainable aviation, that are going to invest. and so it is a 25 year build up. and that's why you will start to see growth earlier rather than later. >> but of course we've seen these sorts of projects before haven't we with hs2. classic example. >> well we haven't finished hs2. we haven't sorted that out. i'm really glad that you raised ed

miliband on net zero green energy energy secretary. wherever he's gone, suspiciously silent this week, he's gone awol because he doesn't because he's a vocal critic. last seen. >> last seen playing a ukulele in a field. >> the answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind. >> i mean, what an embarrassment that was. but but. yeah. carry on. >> emma wright, the. >> emma wright, the. >> standing today to the court case that will evaluate whether there should be more coal and thatis there should be more coal and that is out that has come out today. >> within minutes of the announcement london and heathrow is in london. london's own mayor, labour's mayor sadiq khan, was saying that he would fight that all the way. our own prime minister, keir starmer, there's always a tweet, keir starmer talking about opposing the third runway at heathrow. this is absolutely pathetic. and lots of what lloyd says about about needing a third runway. fine. fair enough. in 25 years, that's quite a long time. but the fact is we need growth. now. if this is her growth plan or the other growth plan was we're

going to build a train line between oxford and cambridge that will rival silicon valley. and everybody held their sides laughing. this was. >> perfectly let. >> perfectly let. >> lloyd comeback. >> lloyd comeback. >> that is that is on the silicon valley thing. i think thatis silicon valley thing. i think that is untrue. i mean, i was with nigel the other after the nigel farage, after the announcement, and he admitted that the silicon valley between oxford and cambridge is actually a good idea. it is a good idea because we are the world leader or the european leader, at least in thinking and developing or the european leader,