>> good evening. welcome to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. the show that speaks up for you the forgotten majority on tonight's show. a palestinian family has been granted residency through a scheme meant for ukrainians after a judge has overruled the government. meanwhile, britain continues to send billions in foreign aid while cutting services at home. is it time britain took a leaf out of america's new book? is rachel reeves career on the line? the obr has slashed growth forecasts, wiping out her £99 forecasts, wiping out her £9.9 billion of fiscal headroom. gdp

is shrinking, borrowing costs are up and labour's £40 billion tax raid is backfiring, with her ironclad fiscal rules at risk, will she raise taxes, slash spending or be forced to resign? now, as nigel farage's reform uk surges once again in the polls, keir starmer and the labour government are scrambling to win back voters by apparently mimicking reform's hardline stance on immigration. i'll be asking my top panel is it too late? and gen z is drinking less than any generation before them. i than any generation before them. 1 in 5 don't drink at all. believe that. and binge drinking is on the decline. despite them pushing for a new approach to our drug policy. what on earth is going on that state of the nafion is going on that state of the nation with me? matt goodwin starts right now. now i'll also be joined tonight

by my top panel columnist and former mep, patrick o'flynn and co—founder of novara media, aaron bastani. as ever, let me know your views. gbnews.com/yoursay and hit me up on x at goodwin mj. but now it's time for the news bulletin with tatiana sanchez. >> matt, thank you very much and good evening. the top stories. us president donald trump has spoken with russian president vladimir putin today about ending the war in ukraine. trump saying that call went very well. mr trump said in a post on his social media platform. we've also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately. putin last spoke to a sitting us president in february 2022, when he had a call with joe biden shortly before ordering thousands of troops into ukraine. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy has also spoken to the us president. they reportedly discussed opportunities to achieve peace , opportunities to achieve peace, and also the preparation of a

document governing security and economic cooperation between. >> to the president, to his message that he will support ukraine and he really wants to stop this war. and i know that he is a strong man and i'm sure that he will push putin. >> in other news, a review into the handling of the man who murdered sir david amess under the counter—terror programme prevent has found his assessments were problematic. ali harbi ali, who was given a whole life sentence in 2022, had been referred to prevent seven years before he killed the veteran mp in october 2021, but his case was closed in 2016. the review found the handling of his prevent case was suboptimal and that it was closed too quickly. the government promised to pubush the government promised to publish the prevent learning review after the report into southport killer axel rudakubana handung southport killer axel rudakubana handling by the programme was published last week, and sir keir starmer and the leader of the opposition clashed over

immigration at prime minister's questions earlier today. conservative leader kemi badenoch repeatedly asked the prime minister why a gazan family of six was allowed to come to the uk under a scheme intended for ukrainians, and if that loophole would be closed. >> there are millions of people all around the world in terrible situations. we cannot help them all and we certainly cannot bnng all and we certainly cannot bring them all here. will he commit to bringing forward that new legislation or amending his borders bill? >> the prime minister? well. >> the prime minister? well. >> mr speaker, i have already said the home secretary has already got her team working on closing this loophole. we do not need to wait for that. we are getting on with that because we are taking control. they lost control of immigration. we had nearly a million people coming to this country. they had an open borders experiment on a monday of this week. they voted against increased powers to deal with those that are running the vile trade of people smuggling.

same old tories, open borders, empty promises. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, it's over to matt goodwin. >> 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, everybody to state of the nation tonight with me matt goodwin. now here's my question tonight. hasn't britain done enough? a palestinian family has been allowed to settle here after a judge overruled the home office. they apply overruled the home office. they apply through a scheme meant for ukrainians. and despite the government rejecting their case, the court ruled in their favour on get this human rights grounds. a judge ruled that rejecting their application would breach human rights law

even though they weren't eligible under the scheme's actual rules. the home office has warned that this could set a dangerous precedent, potentially opening the floodgates for more cases like this. now, this is not an isolated incident. immigration tribunals have made other controversial rulings, including blocking the deportation of an albanian criminal because his son refused to eat foreign chicken nuggets. i'm not joking. it's worth noting that the judge who granted this particular request, hugo norton—taylor well, his father is a former guardian journalist who has written extensively on security and defence. richard norton—taylor is known for his online campaigning against israel, particularly in relation to the israel—hamas conflict. now there's an argument that parliament should be making these decisions, not the courts. after all, we live in a democracy, do we not? not some kind of unelected technocracy. the blunt reality is that we've allowed unlimited foreign aid spending, while also allowing judges to override immigration policy and the wishes of the

british people. polling shows that two thirds of people out there in the country want to see things like foreign aid reduced, they want to see things like immigration reduced. yet the government refuses to take action. now the us is starting to rethink its approach. so why isn't britain? i think britain has done its share. the uk has already taken in in recent years, hundreds of thousands of refugees from syria, hong kong, ukraine, ukraine schemes. schemes alone have brought in over 200,000 people. one of the most generous responses in all of europe. britain has always provided sanctuary and we should be proud of that. but at what point is enough? enough? while britain has a proud history of providing refuge, including to those hongkongers and ukrainians, mass immigration today is completely out of control. it's stretching our resources. it's eroding our social cohesion. it's reducing social cohesion. it's reducing social trust. who are these people coming in, coming into our country? many of those who are now seeking entry from

places like gaza will let me be controversial for a second, hold views that are deeply problematic in a western democracy. polling, for example, is showing that significant numbers of people in gaza openly support hamas and its extremist islamist ideology. the uk must ask, are we importing people who share our values? or are we importing people who fundamentally reject them? people like donna abu karma, a law student from gaza studying in the uk, expressed pride and joy in the uk, expressed pride and joy over the october 7th attacks at a pro—palestine protest, leading to her visa being revoked by the home office. people like jaber al hayat, who claimed asylum in the uk, citing danger from hamas due to her family's criticism of the group, was later photographed with two friends on a pro—palestine march wearing images of paragliders. after the attacks on october 7th. despite this, one judge decided not to punish her, raising concerns about the effectiveness of the immigration system in preventing individuals who glorify hamas from entering

the uk. what worries me are studies like the one by the arab world for research and development, which found that actually most palestinians support the october 7th attacks. they have a positive view of hamas, and they believe that the west supports israel due to, i quote, the israeli lobby, a mindset linked to recent arrests in greater manchester over a plot to attack jews, the police and the british army. now, it's not just about values, it's also about economics too. if you look at, for example, studies from denmark, they looked at 321 palestinian refugees, and they found that nearly two thirds acquired criminal records when they settled in denmark. and many of them became dependent on the welfare state. is this really what britain needs right now? as ever, let me know your views. gbnews.com/yoursay and hit me up on x at goodwin mj. but i'm delighted to be joined tonight in the studio by chairman of migration watch, alp mehmet, and my 1506 00:09:54,63