andy, thank you for joining middlesbrough, andy preston. thank you forjoining us andy, thank you for joining us live on gb news. i suppose the first question is should he expect or should? should andrew gwynne have expected a level of privacy here, or is everything you write as a member of parliament, a politician in the pubuc parliament, a politician in the public domain, and he's sort of got what was coming to him. >> morning, adam. morning, everyone. hi. categorically, andrew gwynne should not have expected a scintilla, a hint of privacy when you put something on whatsapp to a group, even if it's private with one friend, you have to assume that that might be disseminated in some way, often without ill intent. but once it gets 2 or 3 people beyond your initial correspondence, it can go anywhere. i mean, these things he said, were genuinely horrible, weren't they? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think in his if i was trying to defend him, i think i would say that it was years ago. literally some of them, i think, go back to 2019 and i would say that

should we talk to political commentator andy preston? ndy, your reaction to that clip we just played where he decides to single out a particular story? in the united kingdom, it's pretty clear that jd vance and donald trump as well, and elon musk are very concerned about what's happening in this country. >> hi. morning, everyone. well, like, wow, i mean, where did this come from? i mean, listen, perception was a word that i think you used earlier. and it is all about perception, isn't it? i mean, aside from the fact we really should be taught, they should be talking about the ukraine, about defence, about the annexation of countries by russia, to go into the idea of free speech and decaying values. it has some merit. but is there really such a big issue in this, in this country? and when we look and take lectures from the us with their astonishing problems of gun crime, the murder rate is far worse problems of gun crime, the murderanye is far worse problems of gun crime, the murderany borders/orse problems of gun crime, the murderany bord

let's talk to political commentator andy preston. morning to you, andy.ook, i mean, the big thing i mean, from the uk perspective on all of this is defence spending. labour said it was always, always said it was going to put it up to 2.5%. we just didn't know. when we do at least think we might get a time line there. >> morning, steve and morning, ann. hi everyone. yes, absolutely. we're going to have to increase our defence spending and i think very, very rapidly. what's really interesting, though, is that the whole of europe is going to have to do this. you know, something that the uk spends about 2.3% of our gdp across europe. it's about 1.3%. donald trump has his fans and his his haters. and i'm taking a neutral stance on trump. but something he's completely, completely right aboutis completely, completely right about is the uk. the usa has been taken for a ride. europe has freeloaded off the back of the usa since the second world war. they spend 5% of their gdp helping to keep us safe from from threats. and this is a big political win for trump. the