reputation in music opened doors in politics, where he's worked with various leading conservative members of parliament a role in a number of major campaigns. to tell us more about the harmonious relationship between music and politics, i'm delighted to be joined by ed barker. this is quite puzzling, actually. how does a how did a reputation in music get you into politics? >> it's a good question. it's probably a question i'm still wrestling with at the age of 40. how is it, how has it happened? but somehow i've managed to do both. and i still enjoy doing them both at a, you know, as a as a high level, i think it's i think it's a simple thing of when you're in politics, you're known as the saxophone guy. and when you're in the saxophone music industry world, you're known as the weird conservative political guy. and so it's just something people can remember you by, regardless of how good you by, regardless of how good you are at either of those two things. i think it's just a device that people can kind of just latch on to, to remember you. >> it's the word weird, because i imagine that most people in

bet you'd never even heard of the 1922 committee, which of course is the committee of conservative members of parliamentt the party is about to elect its sixth leader, they're back, of course, in the news today and its chairman , bob blackman, read its chairman, bob blackman, read out the scores on the doors in the middle of this afternoon as to who was to be eliminated from the conservative leadership race and declare the result of the third ballot the highest foot storm surges. the highest ever for the region. and of course , widespread over hurricane helene claimed over 200 lives in the southern eastern parts of the united states . well, those are your states. well, those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm lewis mckenzie. more from me in an hour's time. but now it's back to nigel 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. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> good evening. and said a few years ago, i bet you'd never even heard of the 1922 committee, which of course is the comm

seven years ago, i stood on this stage so proud to hear a conservative member of parliament.ty. but our party was still in government, and that was all that mattered. but i am no longer a bright—eyed, bushy tailed backbencher. i am a veteran of four government departments and a former cabinet minister. i have seen the system from inside. ladies and gentlemen, the system is broken. applause it is not enough just to be applause it is not enoughjust to be in government. because you can be in government. because you can be in government and not have power. without a plan to fix the system, you end upjust announcing policies, doing media and waiting for something to happen. and then you run into trouble, as this labour government are quickly finding out. applause for us, it led to a reckoning. a historic defeat worse than 1997. a defeat that could extinguish the conservative party. we have to get this right. we have to renew, and then we can regain the trust of the british people. otherwise, the left will get more time to ruin our country. and they have started quickly, haven't th

so jake berry is a former member of parliament and former chairman of the conservative party and lloydormer labour member of parliament. jake what did you make of today? >> well , it's been make of today? >> well, it's been a very interesting conference. i'm not sure how important it was because actually the only people who are going to have a vote on whittling these four tory titans to down two are the mps and frankly, titans. well frankly, nigel, i didn't see many colleagues at conference. i was there, i went for a day and a half, a couple of days. yeah. there were there weren't that many there. look at the conference. tom tugendhat, undoubtedly, in my view, someone i'm supporting had the best conference. there was a buzz about him . the members event he about him. the members event he did was was packed. look, i don't think he was the best performer today, but i don't think that particularly matters. james cleverly is great, to be honest, i would say. is this tom? >> tom looked nervous. i thought, well, of course he's nervous. >> he's, you know, it's the official opposition. they're

british prime minister, he also served as foreign secretary and mayor of london and a conservative member of parliamentthe new book unleashed. watch... >>> you have spoken a lot about the battle between democracies and autocracies that are going on in the world, primarily russia, iran and iraq -- china against the great countries of the united states and united kingdom and europe. when you look at this moment, does it make sense at this moment for the united states and the u.k. to bond with israel and help them to take out these nuclear sites? >> a look, is think the u.k., u.s. and israel are allies and friends and will -- are democracies per good that is the difference between us and hamas, hezbollah and of the regime in tehran. whatever people say about israel , the tragedy that unfolded in gaza or lebanon, the heart bleeds for the people there but in the end, israel is trying to deal with people who want to wipe them off the map, wipe the jewish state and jewish people off the map. and that is very hard to deal with. and think the lesson of the last few years is that democracies over the world and i

of course, members of parliament walking into that, that committee room that's up above you sort of voting one by one, one, one member of parliament did not vote last time. one conservativent did not vote. there's a lot of speculation over who could that have been. could it be that rishi sunak actually voted? could it be the chairman voted? could it be the chairman voted? could it be the chairman voted? could it be that the chairman of the 22 committee voted? i mean, lots and lots of speculation about all sorts of skulduggery, but i'm looking at the numbers here. catherine. 30 3139. yes. james cleverly ahead, but only by eight, i mean, he couldn't really spare many. it couldn't really spare many. it could be the case that he doesn't actually make it through. i mean, this is a three horse race. >> anything is possible at this point . and he was saying point. and he was saying yesterday, you know, people have a surge and then they drop back. that happened to him in the previous round . and so no, he's previous round. and so no, he's taking nothing for granted, which is why he's saying to colleagues, if you want me to, if you think i should lead , vote if you think i should

2019 until september 2022 and also served as foreign secretary, mayor of london at a conservative member of parliamentunleashed and he joins me now. good to see again inspected to see him martha thank you. >> martha: let me read one more quote from this interesting piece. it said this. a second trump turn would administer the bitter minister -- medicine of new forwarding as a block. the trump presidency would be so hostile to europe thinking goes the block would have no choice but to bolster defense spending beef up the tech sector and clarify its china policy. a couple twists and turns in that quote what do thing about it? >> i think it's certainly the case that the europeans need to spend more on their own defense and that is the policy of the u.k. government and united states government, i remember seeing a wonderful nato summit i went to where donald trump made the point himself. in a completely exempt rise speech but he was right. europe does need to spend more. europe doesn't need to be more responsible. undermined government we increased our defense spending up to three% of gdp, massively incre

bet you'd never even heard of the 1922 committee, which of course is the committee of conservative members of parliamentt the party is about to elect its sixth leader, they're back, of course, in the news today and its chairman , bob blackman, read its chairman, bob blackman, read out the scores on the doors in the middle of this afternoon as to who was to be eliminated from the conservative leadership race and declare the result of the third ballot in the leadership contest. >> 120 votes were cast, and the votes for each candidate were as follows. kemi badenoch, 30. james cleverly 39. robert jenrick, 31. and tom tugendhat , jenrick, 31. and tom tugendhat, 20. so as a result of that ballot, tom tugendhat is eliminated from the contest . eliminated from the contest. >> so, as predicted, tom tugendhat is out. and as i said to you last week when i sat and watched very, very carefully the speeches that they all gave at the conservative party conference, it was clear to me that cleverly was the one that impressed. i'm not talking policy. i'm talking about looking like somebody who actually was in command and

and actually, when we're looking at this from the wider perspective, we've seen conservative member of parliaments. so we know this kind of interference does happen and it does matter. it does affect the result. >> briefly, alex, i think this is a disastrous move. the tories might do it with the republicans. either way, this close to polling day, it's wrong. >> i think it's absolutely crazy what they're going to be doing knocking on doors. what difference are they going to make. indeed. >> but it's you know, it's intel sharing. it's useful political experience for these staffers. they learn about how electioneering happens. and it's definitely not is it election interference. >> is it election interference. it's not interference. >> if they've been sent, they went off their own volition. it's fine. >> no. yeah . they're not being >> no. yeah. they're not being paid. it's not it's not election interference. >> it is. let me tell you that somebody that would never interfere with democracy is patrick christys. and he's up next. >> okay. thank you very much , mark. >> thanks. >> thanks. >> so loads o

i'm the designated survivor of nottinghamshire and derbyshire, the only conservative member of parliamentbent upon my generation of conservative members of parliament to step up, and i remember the first party conference i ever went to , which conference i ever went to, which was in 2005 when we had those memorable speeches by david cameron and david davis, and i was sat right at the back of the of the audience as a very young conservative. and of course, i was impressed by david cameron's no notes performance. et cetera. et cetera . but the other emotion et cetera. but the other emotion i had was why have we wasted eight years waiting to get to this point? why have we wasted eight years to choose to change? to choose someone who could be our next prime minister, who will transform our party and get us back into contention? and so my very firm conviction is that someone's got to step up and lead this party, lead it back into government, and that's what i want to do. >> and you've got young, young family . you've got a young family. you've got a young family. you've got a young family . ar

seven years ago, i stood on this stage so proud to be a conservative member of parliament. we had just lost our majority, but our party was still in government and that was all that mattered . but i am no all that mattered. but i am no longer a bright eyed, bushy tailed backbencher. i am a veteran of four government departments and a former cabinet minister. i have seen the system from the inside. ladies and gentlemen, the system is broken . gentlemen, the system is broken. it is not enough just to be in government because you can be in government because you can be in government and not have power without a plan to fix the system. you end up just announcing policies, doing media and waiting for something to happen, and then you run into trouble. as this labour government are quickly finding out . for us, government are quickly finding out. for us, it led to a reckoning, a historic defeat worse than 1997. a defeat that could extinguish the conservative party. we have to get this right. we have to renew and then we can regain the trust of the british people. otherwise, the l

four becomes three tom tugendhat bows out of the conservative leadership race after failing to secure sufficient backing from members of parliamentahead of robert jenrick in this afternoon's third round and leaving kemi in third place at the moment. but very close between second and third. so time edges nearer for two riders to have their fate decided by the loyal members . what are the the loyal members. what are the final three need to do to reign victorious ? first with the mps victorious? first with the mps tomorrow, then with the tory faithful and then with the country at large? and who should be most optimistic and who would be most optimistic and who would be best? well, we can get the views of my most cantankerous panel views of my most cantankerous panel. the former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, and the journalist and author michael crick. michael, let me come to you first because you're a very long standing political observer. you've seen lots of long standing political parties select leaders. what do you think the tories should be doing at this stage as a as an observer rather than as a man of the left? >> well,

new hospital at watford general was one of the many brilliant things that the previous conservative government and my good friend, the former member of parliamentfor watford, dean russell, did and would have been life changing as well as life saving. so for so many of my constituents, why is the prime minister cancelling this funding commitment and spending billions of pounds giving pay rises to train drivers instead .7 prime train drivers instead? prime minister , because the promise of minister, because the promise of 40 new hospitals did not involve 40, did not involve hospitals, they weren't new and they weren't funded. >> sarah homes. >> sarah homes. >> the biggest issues in my west bromwich constituency is poor access to gp services. our gp satisfaction rate is 15% below the national average . so can the national average. so can i thank the government for their focus on improving this situation and ask the prime minister what the government is doing to make sure that everyone in west bromwich can actually see their gp. >> yeah, well, i thank her for her question. the most visible sign of failure of the last government was the nhs, and we

members have started voting online today, but here's perhaps a difficult question. does anyone care? the conservative party has 121 mps, barely above the level of the liberal democrats in parliamentarty won the biggest majority it has ever won in its history. i mean, you're going to be out of office for a decade . be out of office for a decade. >> i'll tell you who does care. >> i'll tell you who does care. >> tom and i obviously try and do my best to look after the business community, which which pays for everything in this country. private sector produces all the taxes for in terms of the all the public services. so hugely important. and we're seeing business confidence

conservative voice in parliament. >> who's going to win? come on. who's going to win? >> oh, whoever the members vote for, i mean , you are one of very best political journalists anywhere in the country, and you are able to give your, your, youn are able to give your, your, your, your viewers the best lowdown on this. >> i hope you have fun at the gb news party and flattery will get you everywhere. so thank you. thank you for having me . take thank you for having me. take care. it's back to you. how are you doing? >> there you go. what a scoop, patrick. there you go. former education secretary gavin williamson pretty much sitting on the fence in terms of who leads the party. next. more excitement conference. okay, folks , it's, 1034. let's okay, folks, it's, 1034. let's have a look at tomorrow's newspaper front pages . and we newspaper front pages. and we start with the metro. strictly abuse report revealed at last. vindicated actress amanda abbington has told of her relief after a nine month investigation by the bbc agreed that she was bullied by strictly dance professional giovanni pernice . professional giovanni pernice. sure

conservative party is opposed by the reform party. there were bitter fights on the ground at the last election. there were many members of parliament, whose margin of loss was smaller than that of the reform vote share , including the reform vote share, including me, including yourself, including me. do you think if there was not a reform candidate in your constituency in somerset, that you would still be an mp today? >> i don't know, but i think the important thing is to understand that the tory party doesn't have a right to those votes, that we fail to inspire those people , fail to inspire those people, those 4 million people who previously voted conservative to vote for us in 2024, it's our fault , not reforms. when you go fault, not reforms. when you go around this conference and you speak to members of the party, which i've done an enormous amount of in the last 48 hours, you find their views and reform views are very similar. the party membership and reform members broadly have the same world view. now, there may be some within the party who are to the left of that, but actually not many in the broad membership. >> one of th

. >> conservative members of parliament and former members of parliament are all desperately worried labour's cruel decision to scrap winter fuel payments for millions of vulnerable pensioners, and so we are issuing a petition that has had hundreds of thousands of signatures that we are going to present to the prime minister in the hope that he will listen to us and to our constituents and to the millions of people who are very, very worried by this cruel decision to make up for labour's cockeyed accounting . labour's cockeyed accounting. >> former conservative mp aaron bell says he's disappointed that a watchdog has ruled that he breached parliament's rules on sexual misconduct, but said he won't be appealing the decision . won't be appealing the decision. the former government whip was found to have inappropriately touched a woman without her consent in one of parliament's bars last year. in a statement in the last few minutes, he has apologised for any upset caused to the woman involved, adding that he didn't intend to cause any distress. bell stood down at the last election but w

farage @gbnews dot com i'm joined in the studio by andrew rosindell, conservative member of parliamentomford. lloyd russell—moyle, former labour member of parliament liam halligan economist and journalist. liam, let's begin. and the whole debate through the houris and the whole debate through the hour is about whether this is a budget for growth. but let's just begin on the national finances. i just feel that neither party are levelling with the public about just how big the public about just how big the national debt is getting. >> well, the national debt. nigel, is the thick end of 100% of gdp. what does that mean? it means that the debt that we have to pay back as a government, albeit through time, is equivalent to the size of the entire economy in a single year. in context, back in 2009, before the financial crisis, the national debt was about 30% of gdp, and before covid, it was about 80% of gdp. it's now 100% of gdp. there's lots to talk about. of gdp. there's lots to talk about . the sort of big picture about. the sort of big picture of this budget is that rachel reeves just inc

members have started voting online today, but here's perhaps a difficult question. does anyone care.7 the conservative party has 121 mps, barely above the level of the liberal democrats in parliament. the labour party won the biggest majority it has ever won in its history. i mean, you're going to be out of office for a decade . be out of office for a decade. >> i'll tell you who does care. >> i'll tell you who does care. >> tom and i obviously try and do my best to look after the business community, which which pays for everything in this country. private sector produces all the taxes for in terms of the all the public services. so hugely important. and we're seeing business confidence declining rapidly. and that's just you look at all the statistics on this. you're seeing wage growth starting to slow down. you are seeing some real pressures on the economy because of the way labour are handung because of the way labour are handling this. you know, floating potential tax rises on business months before you make a decision on those introducing employment rights bill on monday, which i'll be speaking in, will absolutely turn. it's more like a trade union charter than an employment r