away with massacring so get away with massacring so barbarically so much innocent human life without anybody stopping him.7 to human life without anybody stopping him? to be honest with you, right now, i know exactly how he got away with it. >> interesting. both men will join me next for a live interview, and i'll ask them to explain their background, including this kind of rhetoric. >> what can you tell us to go? we're not going nowhere. we are here to stay. like i said, we're not here to take part. we're here to take over. >> and elsewhere. reform uk make a big public announcement on rumours. they'll merge with the tories. >> read your sunday newspapers. you'll see there's much talk of me doing deals with the conservative party. >> joining me this evening is gb news contributor will kingston, political commentator chloe dobbs and the former labour minister bill rammell.

and we also have the latest from our chloe dobbs travels in the middle east as she filmed a documentary on a migrant's journey to britain. >> you cannot see the injury. >> you cannot see the injury. >> you cannot see the injury. >> you have to be able to come out of the situation you've just seen and look at the bigger picture. >> big show coming up, including the first of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. but first, let's get your news headunes first, let's get your news headlines with sam francis. >> ben, thank you, and good evening to you from the newsroom. just coming up to 9:02, the top story reform uk say they are now the fastest growing political party in the country, with more than 200,000 members at a regional conference in wiltshire earlier, nigel farage said their next target is overtaking labour's membership of 309,000. he called the party's growth extraordinary, with a live membership ticker on screen tracking their rise

dunng screen tracking their rise during that conference. well, in his headline speech, farage told the crowd that reforms ambition is now to be britain's biggest political party. >> if you want to help us and do your bit in whatever way you can in our historic mission and a mission that i just feel we can't afford to fail at, there's so much at stake. otherwise. what do we leave to those that come behind us, other than a completely broken and betrayed country? i'm not going to put up with that. and i want you to help me in making sure we prevent that. are you going to help me in preventing that? >> 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 called misjudged comments. it follows reports in the mail on sunday claiming he reportedly made anti—semitic comments and joked about a pensioner, saying he hoped she died before the next

election. it's also alleged that he attacked members of his own party, including diane abbott and angela rayner. well, earlier, the shadow chancellor, alex burghart, told us that he thinks andrew gwin's comments 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 antisemitism within the left in in this country. and, you know, it shows that labour hasn't changed at all. >> a man has been arrested after

three people were injured in a suspected knife attack in the north of dublin. two men are in hospital with serious but non—life threatening injuries, while the third has less severe wounds. justice minister jim o'callaghan has called it a random attack, while local sinn fein leader mary lou mcdonald has expressed her shock and sent thoughts to the victims and their families. a large police presence has been in place in the area today, and officers continue to investigate the circumstances, though there is no ongoing risk to the public, they say, but are appealing for witnesses to come forward. the boss of marks and spencer has accused the government of treating the retail sector like a piggy treating the retail sector like a piggy bank as businesses face rising taxes. stuart machin says changes to national insurance and a new packaging levy will cost retailers billions, with no benefits to recycling. he's urging ministers to rethink the tax hikes, warning of job losses and slower wage growth. the government, though, defends those tax rises, saying they're necessary and that many smaller firms won't see any change or

cuts to their bills. and warnings have continued today over the potentially deadly cold snap hitting the uk. the met office says temperatures plunged to minus seven degrees in some parts, with areas also set to be hit by snow and ice. the uk health security agency issued cold yellow health alerts for nonh cold yellow health alerts for north east, north west yorkshire and the humber and south east, which is in place through till tuesday. it means that vulnerable people, including the elderly or people with serious health conditions, could be at increased risk due to those plunging temperatures. that's the news on gb news, a full round up at 10:00. now, though, let's get straight back to ben liri. >> 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. >> thanks, sam, and good evening to you at home. do you remember

the lawyer from the manchester airport police assault? >> a ct scan has revealed there is a cyst on his brain. >> there he is. well, he's back today because after narrowly failing last year to become an mp and before that, the mayor of birmingham, akhmed yakoob, is now creating a new islamic political party. >> we are going to put up candidates in every ward in birmingham. we have mentioned it before, now is the time to take action. we are going to launch independent candidate alliance and all other candidates will be under that umbrella. for far too long, the labour. >> party and its councillors and members of parliament have reaped the rewards on the back of our communities and, rather than represent them, have misrepresented them no more. >> it's because the councillors and the members of parliament are subservient to their leadership, rather than the people who have put them in power. we are no longer going to tolerate this. remember that.

>> okay, well, i don't need to remind you of the dangers of sectarian politics in the uk, but unfortunately, it does seem that until we have a drastic change, of course, that appears to be the direction we're heading. but i do want to shed light on these two characters who are setting up the pro islam independent candidate alliance. let's start with ahmed yaqoob, the former lawyer of the manchester airport defendants, who claimed his clients in that situation were victims victims of an attempted assassination at the hands of police. this is yaqoob boasting how he worked to get another of his clients a soft sentence after dealing class a drugs. >> supplier receives only eight months in custody and will be out of prison soon. those are the type of headlines that you expect to see in birmingham mail. after my client today received only eight months for supplying class a drugs, but they don't know the backstory that my client was actually being forced to sell drugs because of a death that he had

got himself into. >> last year. yaqoob apologised for joking about domestic violence on a podcast, where he said 70% of hell will be women. when another podcast guest said he would give a female a backhander, yaqoob replied brother, are you saying that if she comes up in your personal space, you'll defend yourself? and that's of course, a reference to defence arguments employed by lawyers, which prompted laughter from all other guests on the podcast. and on that same podcast episode, yaqoob has said, laughing along when the man he created this new party with shakeel afsar, who i'll get on to in a second, said this. >> okay, you know, the other argument is arbel. okay, so if you don't like it here, go to your own country. >> but why would we? why would we do that when our forefathers were. >> instrumental in rebuilding this country after world war ii? it was our grandfathers who worked in the factories 20 20 hours. it was our grandfathers who came here and run the infrastructure. it was our grandfathers who brought you the lovely curry, which is your national dish. so how can you

tell us to national dish. so how can you tel