tv Patrick Christys Tonight GB News January 31, 2025 9:00pm-11:01pm GMT
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>> it's 9:00 pm and this is >> it's 9:00pm and this is patrick christys tonight with me, alex armstrong. yes, i'm looking after the show. while patrick has a well—deserved night off. but as you know, i'll be taking no prisoners tonight. no party, no policy or opinion is out of my firing line. but tonight on the show. well. >> folks, i'm back. >> folks, i'm back. >> reform uk have had quite the week, haven't they? are they here to change british politics for the good, or are they here today? gone tomorrow? our political correspondent brings
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us the latest from the ground at reform's rally in kemi badenoch constituency. >> something extraordinary is happening. >> those are the words of nigel farage here in kemi badenoch seat. he says people laughed at him with brexit. they weren't laughing when it actually happened. he thinks something similar is happening now, saying that the reform could win the next general election. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> stay tuned for more on that. but also tonight. >> many ways, our hopes and our trust are now bound up with what bofis trust are now bound up with what boris johnson does. >> are the tories paying the price for butchering brexit? also. >> young gay children being told that they are trans and being put on a medical pathway for irreversible decisions? >> yeah, we're joined by brave detransitioners keira bell as she takes on the government. she's taking them to court over
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failing to block sex hormones, as wes streeting is accused of exploiting children anyway. next work shy britain. my guest, david osland says that we are no longer working as hard as anyone else. but can we be working harder than the french? i'll be asking that more and more. >> and let. >> and let. >> me be clear the uk will not forget sudan. >> yeah, seniors are freezing and farmers are being fleeced. the economy is spiralling. so where is all your taxpayer money going? stick with me because i've got some stuff that's going to make your blood boil tonight also. >> air traffic controllers. they have to be at the highest level of genius. on the back of that deadly helicopter crash, donald trump has pointed the finger at diversity initiatives, and aspiring air traffic controllers also claimed that he lost his job because of diversity targets. so i'm asking a democrat, is dea deadly and.
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>> martyn blake? the boy was born in roe v wade. >> yeah. what would you do if you saw that on your commute home? crazy stuff. i'm joined by my fantastic panel tonight, jj anas sarwar obe, stephen wolfe and suzanne evans to go through all of tomorrow's front pages and give their expert opinions on tonight's topics. get ready britain. here we go. five years on, is it brexit britain or brexit? betrayal next. >> alex thank you very much. the top stories reform uk leader nigel farage told a party conference this evening that constitutionally brexit has been a success but took aim at the tory party for the scale of illegal immigration into the uk. mr farage said voters were
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betrayed by a conservative government elected on the back of brexit. former prime minister bofis of brexit. former prime minister boris johnson earlier told gb news 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. mr farage also said this evening getting back our sovereignty was, of course, the right thing to do, but we need a government who will keep their promises to the british people and which truly believes in brexit. and earlier today, conservative leader kemi badenoch said she's remaining positive. >> five years ago we had what was the greatest vote of confidence in our country and as brexit secretary, i removed lots of eu regulations. i ended the supremacy of the european court of justice, but there is 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
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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. >> liberal democrat leader sir ed davey criticised the conservative brexit deal as an utter disaster for our country. >> it's going to lead the debate in britain to have a closer relationship with our european colleagues. it's great for our trade, our economy, it's good for our defence and our security and a customs union, which i've called for the liberal democrats are championing would be great for growth, far better than anything the government has announced to date. we need to get rid of those trade barriers that the conservatives put up that the conservatives put up that have so hit our small and medium sized businesses, our exporters. that's the way to grow our economy by having that closer relationship with europe. and the white house, says the recovery operation for the air collision in washington, dc, has now resumed in the potomac river, in which a passenger plane collided with a us army helicopter yesterday, killing 67
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people. 41 bodies have now been found and in an update from the washington, dc, fire and emergency medical services chief this evening, 28 of those victims have been identified. audio has emerged showing communication between the military helicopter and air traffic control before the deadly crash. in the clip, the helicopter has told of the proximity of the plane twice and acknowledges it, but it's not clear if the helicopter is responding to the wrong aircraft. posting on his truth social platform, us president donald trump said the blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now. it's back to alex. >> 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 patrick
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christys tonight with me, alex armstrong reform. ukip leader nigel farage has been addressing his party members in essex tonight on the fifth anniversary of brexit. there for us, of course, is our political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, what have you got with us? >> yes. good evening. from near saffron walden, nigel farage having a huge amount of fun here. it's kemi badenoch constituency. but they got into a row, didn't they, at christmas over the party membership numbers for reform, which she said were fake. not only were they not fake, reform have now got 190,000 members as against the conservatives, about 130,000. so nigel farage here, hundreds of reform members and they are on a roll. he's saying everybody laughed about me saying that brexit couldn't be done. they're not laughing now.
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also saying that the same appues also saying that the same applies about reform. sure, they've only got five mps at the moment, but it sounds if you believe what they say, like the sky is the limit. now i'm just going to grab one of them. he's being mobbed, but he knows he's going to talk to us. i'm just going to talk to us. i'm just going to talk to us. i'm just going to grab him. so this is rupert lowe. he is the reform mp. as you can see. lots of requests for selfies. he is the reform mp for great yarmouth. let's just have a quick word with him. excuse me guys, we're live on gb news. and thank you very much for talking to us tonight. rupert and nigel farage says that reform is about family, community and country. how would you sum reform up? >> well. >> well. >> look, reform is the last chance britain's got of getting some sensible government and the tories and labour, as i call them, the uniparty, the reds and
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them, the uniparty, the reds and the blues. they've let us all down very badly. so it doesn't matter whether it's started really, after maggie thatcher, john major, i discount as a sort of an irrelevance, really. he should never have won his election. but tony blair did a lot of damage to britain with derry , irvine, campbell, derry, irvine, campbell, mandelson and brown. so they they embedded all sorts of horrific laws like the human rights act and, you know, the equalities act, they started immigration. they weren't responsible for all of it. they started the legal apparatus for it. and then the tories. well, next the coalition. david cameron's got a lot of blood on his hands. and ultimately the electorate who government should be representing the taxpayers, the people who fund the country, the people who fund the country, the people who work hard, who pay the people who work hard, who pay their taxes. very often the businesses collect all the taxes for the government, so they are not doing their job. and that's why reform is doing so well,
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