r ,as , as yet another tonight's show, as yet another case emerges of a migrant avoiding deportation because of the european convention on human rights. tonight, we're going to be debating whether it is time to leave this foreign and unaccountable convention. now, radical left wing mp zarah sultana has accused the reform party get this of being comparable to the national front and the british national party. following a sinister twitter post of. nigel farage will be debating that tonight. i'm also going to be joined by the daily wire host michael knowles, following his merciless takedown of rory stewart. hilarious. we're going to be looking at that and speaking to michael directly tonight. and as donald trump's department for government efficiency, or doge, cuts funding from rory stewart's wife, we're going to be talking about what that means for british politics. and nigel farage has warned this week at an important conference that british people should be having

more children to save what he calls judeo—christian culture amidst our birthrate crisis. but can the nation turn our collapsing birthrate around? at state of the nation tonight with me, matt goodwin starts right now. now i'm going to be joined tonight by my stellar top panel columnist and former mep , columnist and former mep, patrick o'flynn, and the founder of novara media, aaron bastani. as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay. and of course hit me up on exact goodwin. right now it's time for the news bulletin with sam francis. >> matt, thank you and good evening to you. it's just after 8:00. well, the top story tonight. opposition figures have criticised donald trump after he called ukrainian president

volodymyr zelenskyy a dictator in a post on truth social. kemi badenoch rejected the claim, saying zelenskyy is ukraine's democratically elected leader, while urging sir keir starmer to increase defence spending. meanwhile, leader of the lib dems ed davey, has also condemned trump's comments, calling for others to also do the same. downing street, though, hasn't commented so far as the prime minister's preparing to meet trump in washington next week. uk inflation has jumped to 3%. that is the fastest rise in ten months, driven by soaring food prices, airfares and private school fees, with energy, water and council tax bills also set to rise in april. households are bracing for more pressure on budgets. meanwhile, businesses say higher wages and national insurance hikes could push pnces insurance hikes could push prices up even further. the government's warning the road to low inflation will be bumpy, while political parties trade blame over tax and spending policies. retailers selling

knives online will face stricter laws, as a review has found it's easier for children to buy blades than it is paracetamol. new rules mean tougher prison sentences for selling knives to under 18, and a legal duty for retailers to report bulk or suspicious purchases. the crackdown follows tragedies unked crackdown follows tragedies linked to unlicensed knife sales, as the government is vowing to protect young people from crime. in scotland, a 74 year old woman has become the first person there to be arrested under new abortion buffer zone laws. police were called to the queen elizabeth university hospital in glasgow after reports of an anti—abortion protest. the woman was arrested for breaching the exclusion zone, which prevents protesters from gathering within 200m of abortion clinics. the safe access zones act, passed last year, aims to protect women from harassment when accessing healthcare services. england's life expectancy is plunging down the european rankings and obesity is a key culprit, a

major study in the lancet has revealed. people in the uk now live around nine months less than they did in 2011, as decades of progress is grinding to a halt. poor diets and a lack of exercise are taking their toll, with the sharpest drop recorded between 2019 and 2021. it means that out of 20 european countries recorded, england's decline is the worst , and the decline is the worst, and the bbc is facing calls to pull a documentary from iplayer over claims it features the son of a hamas leader. a letter to the director general, tim davie, signed by actress tracy—ann oberman and producer neil blair, among others, is demanding an investigation into the programme called gaza how to survive a war zone. they question whether the bbc knew that its narrator, abdullah, is allegedly the son of hamas's deputy minister. the signatories of that letter say the programme should be removed until a full review is carried out. the bbc, though, have been

contacted for comment and not replied so far. that's the news on gb news. a full round up of all the top stories at 9:00. now though, it's over to westminster and matt. >> for the very latest gb news direct your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/advent. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation tonight with me, matt goodwin. now another day goes by and another case emerges of a failed deportation. this time a failed deportation. this time a failed iraqi asylum seeker has been allowed to stay in the uk because, get this, his mother, who still lives in iraq, refused to hand over his id documentation to the court, bolstering his supposed claim that his life would be under threat if he returned to his home country. as a result, the upper tribunal judge ruled that

returning the man to iraq would be a breach of, as usual, article three of the european convention on human rights, and i quote, no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment in all circumstances. everybody, apparently, except the british people. but this comes after countless other cases of avoided deportations that have made a mockery of our judicial legal system. whether it's the albanian criminal whose son didn't like foreign chicken nuggets, remember that one? or the nigerian woman who was allowed to stay after joining allowed to stay afterjoining a terrorist group. it's clear that our asylum system is broken. all roads are leading back to one place. the european court of human rights. now, the ruling elite loves to remind us that it was an invention of winston churchill's. you always hear that one, don't you? but anyone with any sense of history knows that churchill himself would be horrified by what we see around us today, in this once great country of ours. the original convention was a noble document, but the court's interpretation follows the living instrument

doctrine. in other words, it's free to invent new rights that it believes is in the spirit of the original convention. take, for example, article eight the right to family life. well, that article was originally written to protect against totalitarian surveillance states, but the court now interprets it to apply to everything from noise abatement to eviction for non—payment of rent, to, crucially, deportations. we've seen the legal system expand massively and become increasingly political. it's precisely because of article eight that it's impossible to deport so many illegal migrants and foreign national offenders who are here in the uk. but the human rights act, passed under tony blair, forces all court judgements to adhere to this increasingly deranged, foreign and unaccountable court. so listen, the only way, i think to restore common sense to our immigration system, also to our legal system to deport the more than 1 million illegal migrants who are here in the uk to stop those small boat crossings in the channel is. and i've said it again, i'll keep saying it until

somebody out there does. it is by leaving the european convention on human rights and repealing the human rights act. our leaders know this. the legal system know this. but of course, they're choosing not to do what needs to be done to keep the british people safe and secure. now, as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay or tweet me at goodwin j. now i'm joined down the line before turning to my panel by krish kandiah, founder of the sanctuary foundation, a refugee charity. krish, every day i appreciate we obviously have different views on this, but every day people watching this show and more, more, more generally, british taxpayers are reading up or reading one of these stories after another. some ridiculous case, some ridiculous reason as to why somebody is being allowed to stay in the uk. enough is enough, surely? >> well, sometimes those cases are framed in deliberately provocative ways. so, for example, the case you just mentioned of the iraqi young man, it sounded like it was

because he couldn't find his id or his mother wouldn't hand his id over. actually, the court case said his mother was terrified of him facing torture. that was the main reason. that's why she didn't hand over the id. well, there was a story this week about a jamaican drug dealer and they said, oh, he couldn't be repatriated because he'll only smoke marijuana and he'll only smoke marijuana and he won't do class a drugs. an