but before all that, i'm joined by aubrey allegretti, chief political correspondent at the times, to through the sunday papers. aubrey, lovely to see you. let's talk about the assisted dying bill. could the bill be killed? that's what the sun is suggesting. just explain what happens next with this legislation, which i personally think was rushed through on friday. five hours of debate. i know there will be more debate , know there will be more debate, but when you compare it to, say, for instance, the debates around banning hunting, which i think racked up about 6 to 700 hours, hundreds of hours. exactly. i mean, what was the urgency? i don't quite understand how quick we must do this now. >> so, i mean, i sat through hours and hours of the debate, watching from the press gallery as mps stood up one by one to either speak for or against the bill. and actually, there were a lot of mps who said that they would vote for it, but reserved the right to vote against it further down the line. and what they really were trying to do was continue the debate. that's the way they put it. now. the

here in the studio is chief political correspondent at the times , correspondent at the times, aubrey allegrettimy panel of the former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, of course, and former labour political adviser susie stride. welcome both, aubrey, to you. first, you were in the room with me. what was the point of today? >> well, really, i think keir starmer has struggled since he got into to office give definition to some of his grand plans. he's talked about, you know, a generational sort of change that he wants to institute. but really, he knows that in five years the electorate are going to come calling and they're not going to ask, you know, is britain a clean energy superpower yet? they're going to ask, have you reduced my bills and other things like that? so he's trying to put sort of meat on the bones of his plans, give them specific metrics that they can measure him against. and i'm told this is all inspired by the sort of new zealand model where they have a website of about 8 or 9 sort of pledges, and you can track, you can go on and look at how the graph moves, sort of day by da

pollster and director at jl partners, scarlett mccgwire chief political correspondent at the times, aubrey allegrettirnalist and broadcaster candice holdsworth. very good to see you all back on gb news. candace, are you cheering on the government? >> i am, i am. i mean, i don't share the same politics as angela rayner. i think we're quite different, but i think what she's doing is good and i think it's long overdue now. i mean, people are sort of pointing towards nimbys and she's sort of overriding their concerns. probably the problems go a lot deeper than that and they're more complex. you know, there's a lot of people in the house building industry have said, listen, we're not necessarily able to ramp up demand in the ways that you're doing, but i think that it's so good that they're changing the conversation on this and they're saying, listen, we're going to set ambitious targets. maybe they won't be able to meet them. there's practical concerns, but i'm glad that they're doing it. >> that's your pollster. is there polling evidence on what people think on this issue? >> oh, there's plenty of that,

this by gb news political editor chris hope and chief political correspondent at the times, aubrey allegrettin, welcome to the show. chris, let's start with you, and let's start with sir keir starmer, who is on his 15th foreign jaunt today to 13 countries since becoming prime minister in july 5th. this time norway and estonia on a green energy deal and tech sharing trip. meanwhile, back home popularity the lowest of any modern prime minister. —37% that has plummeted since being elected at the same period five months in in 1997, blair plus 57. sirjohn major in 1994, plus 33. even less popular than gordon brown or rishi sunak. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> can he turn it around? >> can he turn it around? >> five months in your 1506 00:10

parliamentary sketchwriter of the telegraph, madeline grant chief political correspondent at the times, aubrey allegrettid former labour mp lloyd russell—moyle. welcome to gb news at christmas time. lloyd, what do you make of the united kingdom general election? which was most significant? the labour victory, the conservative loss or the emergence of reform? >> well, i think the three things are interlinked. the conservative loss was really a loss of the conservative brand. the conservative brand has gone soun the conservative brand has gone sour, and i had always thought that the reform strategy was a kind of canada strategy, that they would want to make a significant inroads, then effectively adopt the conservative brand, which is what happened, of course, in the 90s in canada. the reform party, quite literally called there in canada, took over the conservative party. but now i think that actually we see out of the elections, the conservative party's brand is so bad that people are in droves. it seems like every day moving over from the conservatives to reform, and you get to the stage . reform, and yo