>> good evening everybody. welcome to me. welcome to state of the nation on gb news with me matt goodwin. now it's a show that speaks up for you the forgotten majority. what are we talking about tonight the prime minister is on his way to the united states for his meeting with president donald trump. tonight, i'm going to be asking, when will prime minister keir starmer stand up for the uk's interests? the new report has warned against the legal definition of islamophobia, as it could stifle legitimate debate about the rape gangs. we'll be talking about that. the international judge, who ruled international judge, who ruled in favour of giving the chagos islands to mauritius, has called on the uk to pay £18 trillion in slavery reparations. plus, i'll be reflecting on the presence of antifa at a reform party

conference the other day i was there, i saw it firsthand. it was truly shocking. but what doesit was truly shocking. but what does it mean for politics moving forward? welcome to state of the nation. tonight with me, matt goodwin. it starts right now. now i'll also be joined tonight by my top panel columnist and former mep, patrick o'flynn and founder of novara media, aaron bastani. as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay and hit me up on at goodwin mj. now it�*s time for the news now it's time for the news bulletin with sophia wenzler. >> matt. thank you. good evening. it's just gone. 8:00 these are your headlines. donald trump has confirmed president zelenskyy will visit him on ffiday zelenskyy will visit him on friday to sign a very big agreement. the us president held his first cabinet meeting at the white house since his

inauguration last month, joined by his billionaire adviser elon musk. attention quickly turned to the minerals deal with ukraine. >> president zelenskyy is going to be coming on friday. that's now confirmed, and we�*re going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement. and i want to thank howard and scott for the job you guys did in putting it together. really did an amazing job. and that will be on rare earth and other things. i think that. >> he went on to say the united states would not be making security guarantees for ukraine in its deal to end the war with russia, but that europe would. meanwhile, downing street has confirmed that zelenskyy will meet with sir keir starmer and other european leaders in london on sunday. it is thought that mr zelenskyy is planning to make the trip to discuss defence. elsewhere, sir keir starmer has refused to say if the deal to give away the chagos islands to mauritius would be funded by the

increase in defence spending. the prime minister told the commons that the increase to 2.5% of gdp is for our capability on defence and security in europe, and described the deal being negotiated with mauritius as extremely important for our security. tory mp kieran mullan asked sir keir during prime ministers questions to give an unequivocal answer on where the money would come from, but the prime minister declined to say whether the money for the deal would come out of the increase in defence spending. meanwhile, reform uk leader nigel farage has been in the commons voting on the chagos islands deal motion and has sparked outrage by suggesting we sell it to america. >> would rather see america have the sovereignty of the chagos islands that are corrupt, that are corrupt. mauritius, why don't we if we're if we're going to give this up, let�*s sell, to give this up, let's sell, let's sell. let's get a few billion quid for the mauritius islands, for the chagos islands.

mauritius has no legal basis, no legal claim. and you know what investment would come that chagossians could go back and get well—paid jobs. i want us to keep sovereignty. but if you're keep sovereignty. but if you�*re prepared to give away this country's interests, sell it to america. don't give it away to america. don�*t give it away to corrupt mauritius. >> gb news can exclusively reveal more than 2000 small boat migrants have crossed the channel illegally since the start of the year. the latest group of 138 arrived last night, brought into dover by border force after being picked up in uk waters earlier. another boat was intercepted after some on board refused french rescue and continued towards britain. the government is pushing new laws to criminalise those who reject rescue, as labour vows to smash the gangs. and the vatican has said pope francis's condition has improved slightly and his mild kidney problems have been

resolved. the vatican also said the pope's ct scan has shown a normal evolution of the pulmonary inflammation. those are the latest you�*ll be news are the latest you'll be news headlines. now it's back to 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 tonight to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now the prime minister, sir keir starmer, is on his way to the united states of america for his meeting tomorrow with president donald trump. and a new opinion poll released this afternoon shows that a majority of the british public think that the prime minister will be bad at negotiating with donald trump. but the outcome of this meeting may well define the special relationship between the us and the uk for the next four

years. which is why tonight i want to ask, when will prime minister keir starmer start standing up for the national interest? after all, it was vice president jd vance who said interest? after all, it was vice presidentjd vance who said this president jd vance who said this at cpac, a big conservative conference in america last week. >> i�*m not even blaming the >> i'm not even blaming the europeans. i'm actually saying you follow the lead ofjoe biden into censorship and mass migration. follow the lead of donald j. trump, and that's free speech, borders and sovereignty. >> free speech, borders, sovereignty. but how is keir starmer doing with pursuing our own national interests? first, there's the disastrous chagos deal that could see the government not only give away sovereign territory of strategic significance, but also give mauritius as much as £18 billion for the pleasure. how many winter fuel payments, i wonder, would that cover? we also see the government's secret new bill the government�*s secret new bill thatis the government�*s secret new bill that is going to allow the uk government to align uk

regulations with the eu as a matter of default, a complete affront to the vote for brexit. the labour cabinet, of course, is also filled with britain hating masochists like david lammy, who apologised for who we are, who think that we should be ashamed of our history and should pay reparations for what happened hundreds and hundreds of years ago. with labour's decriminalisation of illegal migration, which of course now we must call irregular migration, we also see a refusal to control our own borders. labour has refused to put a cap on legal immigration, illustrating a lack of will to control this enormous issue as well. some of you may remember the time that the prime minister, keir starmer, then leader of the leader of the opposition, said this. >> you have to choose now between davos or westminster. >> davos. >> davos. >> why? >> why? >> because westminster is too constrained. >> i�*d really like to know if >> i'd really like to know if keir starmer still believes that. and i wonder what donald

trump would make of it too. does he think that the true source of power in this country are the elites in davos, or does he think the true source of power in this country? are you the taxpaying, hard working people? the sooner the prime minister realises that jd vance was right, that the biggest threat to the uk is not china or russia, but is actually coming from within our own societies. the propensity to curtail freedom in the name of liberal orthodoxy, and that we must pursue the national interests as soon as the special relationship can be reinvigorated, reinvigorated, and we can see the return of the uk's relevance on the world stage. as ever, let me know your views via gbnews.com/yoursay or tweet me at goodwin. but i'm joined now by the director of the margaret thatcher centre for freedom at the heritage foundation. live from washington dc, nigel gardner. nigel, an enormous moment for keir starmer. the first time he�*s sitting down with donald trump since the election victory. some, of course, will be wondering why it's taken so long for a labour

prime minister to meet with donald trump. could you give us a sense as to how team trump are going to be approaching and thinking about this important negotiation with keir starmer? >> well, thanks, matt, for having me on the show from from washington, as you point out, of course, hugely important meeting for, for keir starmer. i have to say that the image of, of the uk right now under starmer's disastrous socialist labour government, is really hitting an all time low. i mean, certainly in terms all time low. i mean, certainly in t