i just make bear with me while i just make sure that you can definitely heah sure that you can definitely hear. me with a badly misjudged whatsapp messages, reportedly insulting constituents and colleagues, including allegedly hoping a 72 year old woman would soon be dead. the labour mp for gorton and denton has apologised, saying that he will continue to support the party. labour says it's investigating and will take swift action if rules were breached. in other news, the parents of two girls killed in the southport knife attack say they're trying to find light in the dark. speaking publicly for the first time since the tragedy, they've described their daughters bebe and elsie, as confident, happy and elsie, as confident, happy and affectionate, and said the killer's sentencing should not have been televised. axel rudakubana was handed a life sentence with a 52 year minimum term, one of the highest ever recorded. the family say they want the girls to be remembered for their personalities, not the

details of the crime. they've also welcomed a public inquiry into the attack and apologies for the slight audio issues. earlier, protesters clashed with police in london, less than an hour after senior conservatives addressed a rally against a proposed chinese mega embassy. more than a thousand people gathered, waving placards and chanting free hong kong! former security minister tom tugendhat warned the embassy would be a grave mistake, and accused the chinese communist party of bringing fear to britain. two people were arrested and tensions escalated after one woman collapsed in the rain covered road, sparking confrontations between protesters and police. tower hamlets council has rejected the plans for the embassy, but the government will now have the final say. the parents of a 15 year old schoolboy stabbed to death in sheffield, have been leading a march today in his memory. caroline and mark willgoose walked with hundreds through the city holding banners calling for an end to knife crime. earlier, a mass was also held in sheffield to remember

harvey and the vicar of saint joseph's catholic church spoke to our gb news reporter, anna riley. >> it was a very moving service. sometimes simplicity is the best and it came across very well and people held the family very much in their prayers. one quote i will give from the service is this that we cannot suffer as harvey's family are suffering, but we can suffer with them, walk with them. >> well, the day of remembrance culminated with fans at sheffield united's match clapping harvey in tribute. we've also heard a boy, also aged 15, has been charged with his murder, with a trial date set for the 30th of june. and finally, a cold snap is sweeping in with temperatures set to drop as low as minus seven degrees over the coming days. britain is also bracing for showery rain, with a yellow weather warning in place across much of the country and snow expected in northern areas. the met office says

demand for health care is likely to rise too. but thankfully a return of the dreaded beast from the east is unlikely. those are the east is unlikely. those are the latest headlines for now. plenty more still to come here on gb news with headliners. >> 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. >> thank you sam and hello, i'm leo kirsten. tonight i'm joined by comedian steve allen and nick dixon to take you through sunday's top stories. and let's have a look at some of these front pages. the mail on sunday leads with minister sacked for i hope you die jibe about pensioners. the sunday express has tories call for reform pact to save uk and the sunday telegraph has minister sacked for saying pensioners should die.7 that's that same story again. but let's look at the

mail steve, with that, that story about the labour health minister who made some jokes. i didn't know labour ministers could do that. >> the. >> the. >> well they can't because he's gone. >> for exactly. >> for exactly. >> that. >> that. >> minister sacked. >> minister sacked. >> for. >> for. >> hope you die. >> hope you die. >> jibe about pensioners. >> jibe about pensioners. >> which is unfair because that is their. >> policy about. >> policy about. >> winter fuel allowance. >> winter fuel allowance. >> so i'm not sure why he loses. >> so i'm not sure why he loses. >> his gig for this. >> his gig for this. >> minister for public health wishing. >> someone's dead. >> someone's dead. >> there's an irony there, isn't there? so this is this. andrew gwynne guy. >> who's gone. >> who's gone. >> to be fair. >> to be fair. >> pretty quick. this wasn't one of those like, we'll. >> think about it. >> think about it. >> over. >> over. >> the weekend. >> the weekend. >> it's like, no, i'm sorry, you can't whatsapp. >> i hope. >> i hope. >> you die. there were some other things, apparently some anti—semitism. >> he also. >> he also. >> in a message group, said some nasty things. about diane abbott. so i'm sure you think he's. >> not all bad, however. >> not all bad, however. >> well, i've got the jokes right here, steve, and i've got to say, this is the tamest stuff. i mean, he would be thrown out of any normal whatsapp group for not being like for being too straight laced. this is this is really weird. i mean, you got to understand whatsapp groups aren't you're not declaiming on aren't you're not declaiming on a public platform. this is this is where we have our private

jokes and our in—jokes between friends. >> some of them. >> some of them. >> are so toxic. i mean, one where i've had to leave it and rejoin with my burner number. >> because it's just not safe. >> because it's just not safe. >> to be linked to. >> to be linked to. >> that. because you get as soon as a tragedy happens. and we would. >> all be sitting here going, no, it's too soon. yeah. whatsapp is the place where the jokes straight. >> away come. >> away come. >> and. >> and. >> no one. >> no one. >> can ever look at that. >> can ever look at that. >> it's some people are so. sensitive their face would melt. >> like raiders. >> like raiders. >> of the lost ark. >> of the lost ark. >> yeah. i mean, nick, this is so different from from the approach in america where where approach in america where where a member of doge who'd just been hired was revealed to have said something naughty on the internet or whatever. >> is that big. >> is that big. >> something big, big spheres. yeah, yeah. that guy and jd vance and donald trump said no, hire him back. so i mean, i don't think starmer is going to don't think starmer is going to do the same because apparently we're not allowed to have humour. well, yes. >> i mean, in a way these. >> sort of labour types. >> sort of labour types. >> have form in. >> have form in. >> not. >> not. >> caring about old people, you could say, because in brexit there was very much this rhetoric, oh, all the leaves are going to die off soon anyway. so they do have form in this kind of thing. but as you say, if we can't make jokes in whatsapp

groups, where can we? it's the last bastion of freedom that we have. you've written seven things worse than this in the last hour. and, you know, hope you die on paper. sounds bad, but i'm going to i'm in a terrible position of having to defend a labour person because like whatsapp, like you say, and like whatsapp, like you say, and like you were saying on twitter, the leaking it, the person who leaks it, that's the real evil. >> absolute scum. >> absolute scum. >> that's, that's going against the honour code. yeah. and the only thing that bothered me. well, i mean, apart from obviously all the terrible rhetoric was, was the name of the group trigger me timbers is just so cringe. it's so cringe. it's like we're edgy guys. trigger me timbers. unless you're unless you're actual lumberjacks. that is a terrible name. i don't even get it. it doesn't even sound like. shiver me timbers. what's the idea? no. are they pirates? i don't understand it. timbers? is it a pirates reference? i don't understand why it's a reference to. maybe i'm missing the reference. maybe it's genius. but to me, it just is. as lame as the message is. if you're going to go into whatsapp, at least go hard or go home. do you know what i mean? >> i guess the only the only sort of justification for being hard on this person is the fact that labour, if you know, a tory minister or somebody else, a

reform minister, was caught to have made a joke in private, they would also be like, oh my god, he made a joke in private. this is the worst thing that's ever happened. he must be fired. yeah. >> so there's consistency suppose. >> yeah, yeah. i don't like consistency. anyway, moving on to the sunday express. nick, what have they got? >> they've got tories call for reform pact to save uk. and of course many people have been talking about this. should the tories merge with reform. and this is the tory party in itself ironically. so it's another split. so lord mckinley is very much saying they should do this. peter bedford we already know jacob rees—mogg has said it suella braverman seems to have hinted it and some people are against kemi badenoch said she can't work with farage. rupert lowe seems fairly unenthusiastic based on reform doing a sort of a pact in the past or a deal. so it's but it's a big question. i mean, i think 1559 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:47,