of him after reports emerged of him sending offensive and abusive messages. and could this be a nigel farage is time to pounce. well, now, sources close to the reform leader claim that he is prepared to work with boris johnson to defeat labour. but is this a backfire waiting to happen? and donald trump, meanwhile, has come to the defence of prince harry, ruling out deporting the duke of sussex after he reportedly lied on his american visa application. the president, however, did have some fairly harsh words for meghan. i'm dawn neesom and this is the weekend. so thank you so much for joining me on this lovely sunday afternoon. i hope you're having afternoon. i hope you're having a really chill time out there and looking forward to

valentine's day, because it's coming up, isn't it? it's also my husband's birthday as well, so i'd better remember because this show is nothing without you and your views. so everything we're talking about today, from trump to nigel farage to love, let me know your views on it or anything you want to chat about sunday afternoon. who cares? frankly. so it's very easy to get involved at gbnews.com/yoursay and join in our conversation now as it is the week of love, you come and you're going to get a card. come on, stay with me on this one. we have a great panel for you. we have a great panel for you. we have gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. ta da. and his very, very lovely, very long suffering wife, political commentator claire pearsall. thank you so much. couldn't have a better couple for today. now, before we get stuck into today's stories though, let's get the news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> done. thank you. good afternoon. it'sjust >> done. thank you. good

afternoon. it's just gone. 1:00. these are your headlines. the prime minister has sacked one of his health ministers over offensive comments he's reported to have made in a whatsapp group. andrew gwynne has also been suspended as a member of the labour party, and has since apologised for what he calls misjudged comments. it follows an expose by the mail on sunday claiming mr gwynne reportedly made anti—semitic comments and joked about a pensioner constituent, saying he hope she died before the next election. it's also alleged that he attacked members of his own party, including making racist slights towards labour mp diane abbott and sexist comments towards deputy prime minister angela rayner. meanwhile, housing minister matthew pennycook praised sir keir starmer for acting decisively. >> comments made by andrew gwynne are completely unacceptable that this is going to be a government that upholds the highest standards of conduct in public life, where a government in service of working people. so we've taken decisive action to dismiss andrew gwynne as a minister. as is the case,

there's a live investigation going on in terms of the labour party. he's been andrew gwynne has been administratively suspended. he's lost the labour whip. i don't know what was said in those whatsapp groups. it wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment. >> but shadow chancellor alex burghart said andrew gwynn's comments just show sir keir starmer hasn't got a hold of antisemitism within the labour party. >> the worst thing that i've seen mr gwynne say on that group was that one gentleman was too jewish. now keir starmer claims that he's gotten on top of this problem in the labour party, but he clearly hasn't. we need to know who else was on that group. did they call andrew gwynne out when he said that? if not, what sanctions are going to be taken against them? you know this. we need all of this out in the open as quickly as possible, because otherwise it's the same old laboun otherwise it's the same old labour, same old antisemitism within the left in in this country. and, you know, it shows

that labour hasn't changed at all. >> in other news, the parents of two girls killed in the southport knife attack say they're looking for light in the darkness. speaking to the sunday times, seven year old elsie dot stancombe and six year old b.b. king's families remembered their daughters as confident, happy and intelligent. they opened up about their children's funerals and the support from their communities. in the months since that horrendous attack. alice da silva aguiar also lost her life on that day. prince harry and meghan cheered and clapped as the united kingdom's team walked onto the stage for the opening ceremony of the invictus games. the couple arrived in canada yesterday for the seventh edition of the games that were established by prince harry back in 2014. their appearance comes just hours after donald trump confirmed he won't move to deport the duke of sussex.

speaking in an interview, the us president said i'll leave him alone. he's got enough problems with his wife. meanwhile, it's been reported donald trump has confirmed that he's talked with vladimir putin on the phone to discuss ending the war in ukraine. according to the telegraph newspaper, the us president said that he believes the russian leader does care about the number of people being killed. mr trump told the new york post putin wants to see people stop dying. in the interview, which the newspaper said took place on board air force one on friday. mr trump said that he better not say. when asked how many times the two leaders have spoken, but he did confirm they maintain a good relationship. warnings are continuing today over the potentially deadly cold snap hitting the uk. the met office says temperatures could plunge to minus seven degrees in parts of the country, with areas set to be hit by snow and ice. the uk health security agency issued

yellow cold health alerts for the east, north west, yorkshire and the humber and the south east, which are in place until tuesday. it means that vulnerable people, including the elderly or people with serious health conditions, may be at increased risk due to plunging temperatures. and friends star david schwimmer has called on ex—owner elon musk to remove kanye west from the platform. it comes after west appeared to write a barrage of posts on his social media account, making offensive comments, including about jewish people, and appeared to mock domestic violence. the actor mr schwimmer took to instagram to urge mr musk to remove west from x because of his hate filled, ignorant bile. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to dawn. >> oh dear. thank you very much,

sophia, and thank you for all your comments flooding into the newsroom already. and this is a very dark blue, by the way. it's not black. i'm not in mourning for prince harry not returning. and nigel nelson is none of the words you've called him already. he's a very nice man, honestly. okay, now let's get stuck into today's story, shall we? a new report has rocked the right wing of british politics, with nigel farage reportedly looking to make an alliance with boris johnson. the mail on sunday says that farage is inner circle are considering a potential deal with a non—aggression pact. good luck with that one. across battleground constituencies, this is the most likely option. the most recent mrp poll had the conservatives on 178 seats. reform on 175 and labour on 174. so if an election was called, that would be the result. meaning that if you put the two right wing parties together, that would be a mega party on

the right, wouldn't it? definitely defeating labour, which surely is the point. let's find out, shall we? joining me now is mark howe, the chairman of sutton coldfield reform uk. mark, thank you very much for joining me today. very intriguing story here. now we did try to talk to one of the very high up people in reform this morning, and i can't repeat what they actually said live on air. so what's your comments on this one? >> well, i'm not surprised they couldn't repeat it on air. i think the thing is, dawn, first of all, it's the daily mail report. they're not really friends of reform uk. and we saw back in, you know, 2019 when we did a deal with, well, when we sort of stood candidates down for boris johnson to defeat laboun for boris johnson to defeat labour. and then johnson obviously squandered an 80 seat majority with mass immigration. et cetera. et cetera. so, you know, my own personal view would be that this would be a mistake.

the vast majority of the conservative mps would probably be better forming an alliance with the lib dems rather than us, because that's typically where they tend to stand, in my view. >> ooh, so you think they're more the current conservative party are more aligned to the lib dems than to reform? >> well, yeah. i mean, i mean, don't get me wrong, there are some conservative mps that we'd happily take and would happily, you know, if 1504 00:09:27,016