well well done ben habib. he speaks sense and i would vote for him. s to be a vote for reform uk seems to be a vote for labour. now, a lot of people have been saying that overnight, particularly in the kingswood by—election, if you add the reform votes to the tory votes, the tories would have beaten the labour party and won that by—election. but is that even realistic anymore? um, are these tory votes or are they simply votes and every vote must be fought for and won. and as ben habib said, the tories need to that of to stop that sense of entitlement. louis says this i've been a conservative supporter for many, many years, but because of how the tories are being at leading this country , we're now reform country, we're now reform members and i'm happy to be so. and finally, paul adds , this and finally, paul adds, this reform need to get their message over better. what are their policies that will make any difference at all to us? they all feel the same . so there we all feel the same. so there we go.thank all feel the same. so there we go. thank you f

ben habib reform kingswood10.4. ben habib reform uk in wellingborough 313.class, in terms of income also an old thatcherite type seat , an old thatcherite type seat, you know, not not your middle classes in kingswood, a very different kind of seat. um perhaps actually quite typical of middle england in many, many ways. the remarkable thing about the result is how reflective it is of national opinion polling. yeah, you know, 46, 25, 31 with the three parties, uh, remarkable . so big win for remarkable. so big win for laboun remarkable. so big win for labour. of course we're going to talk about. i mean, tonight was the night reform came of age. it became a real political party, not a theoretical political party. and both those results show that, um , and, you know, show that, um, and, you know, we'll have to see where it goes from here. but the other standout to me is the liberal democrats have lost deposits in both of these seats. now so you would have thought with the conservatives under attack from labourin conservatives under attack from labour in the old

candidate, ben habib, tend to do really well. next ten minutes. patrick >> well, thank you very much. great stuff both of you. you've got a busy night ahead. so i'll leave you it we'll leave you to it and we'll see you little later on you again a little bit later on at news. good luck to you at gb news. good luck to you both. that's the mood in the polling but how are polling stations. but how are the standing the candidates feeling standing for in wellingborough the candidates feeling standing for habib in wellingborough the candidates feeling standing for habib in welliveryyrough is ben habib and i'm very pleased to say joins me now. pleased to say he joins me now. ben lucky . ben feeling lucky. >> it's not a matter of >> well it's not a matter of luck is it? >> it's a matter of getting the votes on the night and, um, we're about to find out. >> patrick. >> patrick. >> all right, so come on, what's the you think the mood? how do you think you've if if you're the mood? how do you think you've honest, if you're the mood? how do y

applause ben habib, reform uk, 3919 votes.pplause helen harrison, the conservative party candidate, 7408 votes. applause ankit love jknpp jay mala postmortem, 18 votes. applause gen kitchen, labour party, 13,844 votes. cheering alex merola, britain first, 477 votes. will norris, green party, 1020 votes. applause andre pyne—bailey, independent, 172 votes. marion turner—hawes 1115 votes. cheering kevin watts, independent, 533 votes. the number of ballot papers rejected was as follows. for want of an official mark, none. voting for more candidates than the voter was entitled to, 14. writing or mark by which the voter could not be identified, none. being unmarked or wholly void, 61. rejected in part, none. the total number of ballot papers that was rejected was 75. vacant seats, one. electorate, 79,376. ballot papers issues, 30,231. turnout, 38.1%. and i do hereby declare that gen kitchen of the labour party is duly elected. studio: so labour have won the wellingborough by—election, and we will now hear the winning candidate, gen

the 11 include the conservatives, labour, lib dems, reform uk are also standing there, ben habib, onerm uk, they've been campaigning hard in the constituency and have sent a lot of people up to the constituency. there you can see the labour candidate, jan kitchen, the tory candidate, helen harrison — she's actually the partner of peter bone who is the former conservative mp for willingboro, and she had a majority of 18,540. you can also see nick the flying brick with that giant hat, he's a candidate for the official monster raving loony party at if you followed british elections, you'll know that party for many decades has stood candidates in a number of constituencies and they decided to stand nick the flying brick in this one in willingboro. there are also a number of independent candidates also standing in the willingboro by—election. we are expecting something very shortly, there was a short limited recall of two trays of ballots in willingboro but that has now been completed and we will expect the results shortly. it is 4am, you are watching bbc news, i'm nicky schiller bring you

wellingborough candidate ben habib hailed the results as remarkable, but conservative party chairmann said the party's failure to win more seats was disappointing and labour's new kingswood mp, who was quick to blame what he called rishi's recession for helping deal a double blow to the tories. damian egan said that 14 years of conservative government have sucked the hope out of the country. his comments come as official figures show the uk slipped into recession at the uk slipped into recession at the end last year, with the the end of last year, with the economy shrinking 0.3% in december . economy shrinking 0.3% in december. and for the economy shrinking 0.3% in december . and for the latest december. and for the latest stories , sign up to gb news stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites now . now it's back to carmelites now. now it's back to pip and ben . pip and ben. >> good morning . this is >> good morning. this is britain's newsroom. we've got plenty to talk about here today on gb news with ben and pip, and it is

let's have a listen, uh, to ben habib.cting after the vote. listen what i would have liked is to win. >> by the way, i'm not tired at all. tip top, top of the all. i'm tip top, top of the pops. said, we've done pops. as i said, we've done really know, look at really well, you know, look at reform. reform is an insurgency. it's a new business, isn't it? we started three years ago. three months ago, we did in three months ago, we did 5% in tamworth, slightly less than that in mid bedfordshire. today we've done 10% kingswood we've done 10% in kingswood where people saying were where people were saying we were going our deposit. we've going to lose our deposit. we've done 13% here, which more done 13% here, which is more than our national polling. this is in growth is a staging post in the growth of reform uk's recognition in the growth of peoples understanding of what we for stand and i mean, you've got to admire his energy. >> i dread to think what time of the day that was, or early hours or early morning. but yeah, he was f

well, ben habib, i'm going to start you , ben going to start with you, ben habib., i don't think it was a win for labour for a massive win for labour for labour's vote in terms of number of votes cast for labour. >> didn't really go from the >> didn't really go up from the general election . admittedly, general election. admittedly, the was lower , so the turnout was lower, so proportionally they got a higher vote, obviously. but the real story from the two stories from the by elections . the by elections. >> the first is that the conservative vote absolutely collapsed it, a complete reversal of the 2019 support that the country gave boris johnson a recognition in the country that the conservative government has completely failed , and an endorsement of basically the values that promised . basically the values that promised. boris promised to deliver but didn't. >> um, for reform uk. >> um, for reform uk. >> you know where small c conservative, lower taxation, lower regulation . lower regulation. >> oh, we've lost you, ben . >> oh, we've lost you, ben. you've gone

adding a splash of doom to the conservative gloom, this man with a smile, ben habib, is reform uk's deputyhave heard it, that a vote for reform uk makes it easierfor keir starmer to get to downing street? i mean, i'm almost offended by that suggestion because it implies that this is a two—party system where there should know that this is a two—party system where there should be no other entrant. and if your phone rings and it's rishi sunak on the phone saying, "can we do a deal?" you would say what? i'd say, rishi, "you're not a conservative mate." no deal�*s reformers managed these results without their honorary president. one nigel farage, whose knack for teasing and trouble causing remains in fine fettle. i think if you asked tory party- members right now they'd vote for me to be leader and not rishi sunak i of that i have no doubt at all, i and that's backed up by polling. but look, let's focus - on this general election. i'm backing reform. we'll have to see what active role i play. - two results today, perhaps not surprising but still extraordinary. labour, a party crushed just five

adding a splash of doom to the conservative gloom, this man with a smile — ben habib is reform uk's deputyt easierfor keir starmer to get to downing street? i mean, i'm almost offended by that suggestion because it implies that this is a two—party system where there should be no other entrant. and if your phone rings and it's rishi sunak on the phone saying, "can we do a deal?" you would say what? i'd say, rishi, "you're not a conservative, mate. no deals." reform has managed these results without their honorary president, one nigel farage, whose knack for teasing and trouble causing remains in fine fettle. i think if you asked tory. party members right now, they'd vote for me to be leader and not rishi sunak. _ i of that i have no doubt at all, | and that's backed up by polling. but, look, let's focus. on this general election. i'm backing reform. we'll have to see what active role i play. - two results today, perhaps not surprising, but still extraordinary. labour, a party crushed just five years ago, who now look as close to government as they have been in nearly a decade and a half. an

adding a splash of doom to the conservative gloom, this man with a smile, ben habib, is reform uk's deputye? and you'll have heard it, that a vote for reform uk makes it easier for keir starmer to get to downing street? i mean, i'm almost offended by that suggestion because it implies that this is a two—party system where there should know that this is a two—party system where there should be no other entrant. and if your phone rings and it's rishi sunak on the phone saying, "can we do a deal?" you would say what? i'd say, rishi, "you're not a conservative mate." no deal�*s reformers managed these results "no deal�*s." reformers managed these results without their honorary president. 0ne nigel farage, whose knack for teasing and trouble causing remains in fine fettle. i think if you asked tory party- members right now they'd vote for me to be leader and not rishi sunak i of that i have no doubt at all, i and that's backed up by polling. but look, let's focus - on this general election. i'm backing reform. we'll have to see what active role i play. - two results today, perhaps not surprisin

ben habib senses revolution in the air and wants to challenge what he sees as the status quo.aign machine has been in full force to pull this off and it really worked. in a general election campaign, their resources would be spread far thinner. but if this run of byelection results is anything to go by, that may not make a huge difference. so is the general election a done deal? well, look, we're not complacent about anything. her you know, whether the threat is the tories, reform or anyone else, we are ready to take take them on. you're not scared of nigel farage? i'm not scared of nigel farage. and it's notjust in wellingborough, where voters seem to be walking away from the conservatives. there have been 11 byelections since rishi sunak took over as pm. the tories succeeded injust one, uxbridge, although there was a swing to labour of seven percentage points. the lib dems picked up a seat from the conservatives somerton with a swing of 29. labour held three constituencies. they won one from the snp in rutherglen and won five from the conservatives, all with big swings. vote

is a somewhat more pro leave consistency, and they have put up consistency, and they have put up ben habibuth is that in by—elections in this parliament, we are looking at now a record average drop is as compared with the last by—election. it is a higher than the drop in the 1997 to 2001 parliament, and that the equivalent figure in 1997 to 2001 was followed by a record low turnout in the general election. i think it is a message to all the parties here, they have got a lot of work to do is yet to enthuse the voters irrespective of their own sympathies. bir the voters irrespective of their own sympathies. sirjohn, for the moment, _ their own sympathies. sirjohn, for the moment, thank - their own sympathies. sirjohn, for the moment, thank you - their own sympathies. sirjohn, | for the moment, thank you very much. let's take you live to those pictures in kettering, where we are expecting the result from the wellingborough by—election soon, although they have looked like they may well be counting a few votes again, so maybe there is a weekend. we don't know at the moment, but we will keep an

forthe labour have seen the numbers by now —— ben habib. about these two labour wins is i about these two labour wins is actually, labour didn't take any votes of the conservative party. the labour vote in these by—elections were similar to what they achieved in 2019 in the general election. what is really happened is the conservative vote, the small see conservative vote, the small see conservative vote, the small see conservative vote that voted for borisjohnson has either stayed at home or come out for reform uk and kingswood is a particularly telling by election because it was a seat in which we didn't expect to do well. it was quite a liberal democrat kind of area. we were expecting robert lowe, who stood, not to do as well as he did but to get 10% from a standing start in kingswood really tells you the conservative vote in this country is extremely disillusioned with the conservative party —— rupert lowe and in wellingborough of course i did slightly better than rupert and i got 13% of the vote. the entire swing of the conservative vo

so it's ben habib for reform uk. harrison for the conservatives um will morris , will morris for um will morris, will morris for the green party and kevin watts for the independent. i think i left out labour. what's the name there ? is it jen. there? is it jen. >> kitchen. kitchen yeah . >> kitchen. kitchen yeah. >> kitchen. kitchen yeah. >> sorry about that. that's all right . list. right. list. >> the monitor is very far away. >> the monitor is very far away. >> it's very honestly squinting . >> it's very honestly squinting. >> it's very honestly squinting. >> yeah. do you need glasses? no i've been lasered. >> oh have you been lasered? >> oh have you been lasered? >> i've just been. yeah i was telling you the other week i was squinting a lot. oh yes. i have ordered new glasses. oh. >> very exciting. >> very exciting. >> i'm excited. >> i'm very excited. >> i'm very excited. >> just much that cost you? >> just much has that cost you? >> just much has that cost you? >> nearly £500. yeah for two pairs though. but it'

and we're also looking forward to ben habib for reform.r shadow minister toby perkins and plenty of others. strap in for a roller coaster night. this is gb news britain's election . britain's election. channel will defeat for the conservatives accelerate the end for prime minister rishi sunak

wellingborough candidate ben habib hailed the results remarkable , while results as remarkable, whileder tice says party leader richard tice says it's proof that time is up for the tories and labour's new kingswood mp has been quick to blame what he called rishi's recession for helping to deal a double blow to the tories . jamie double blow to the tories. jamie and egan said that 14 years of conservative government have sucked the hope out of the country. his comments came as official figures show the uk supped official figures show the uk slipped recession at the slipped into recession at the end of last year, with the economy shrinking to 0.3% in december . economy shrinking to 0.3% in december. around economy shrinking to 0.3% in december . around 700,000 december. around 700,000 households will start receiving a cost of living payment today, more than 7 million eligible uk households have already received £299 payments, the third in a series totalling up to £900. the money will be paid directly and those eligible do not need to do anything to receive it . a spike anything to recei

a few weeks before, and the brilliant ben habib brexit ben in wellingborough 13.nds me of the late , great bruce forsyth the late, great bruce forsyth when he said didn't he do well . when he said didn't he do well. didn't he do well? didn't they do well? they really did fantastically and this , ladies fantastically and this, ladies and gentlemen, this is just the beginning. you've just heard from simon danczuk. i was in rochdale yesterday . today, the rochdale yesterday. today, the recognition of simon is fantastic. he's doing a brilliant job. i'm going to be talking later about what's going on to our democracy . simon on to our democracy. simon touched on it. i mean, this is serious stuff . when the second serious stuff. when the second favourite in the by—election is not allowed into a general hustings . just think what that hustings. just think what that says. i'll come back to that. but simon is doing a fantastic job now. on the 3rd of january we had a press conference in london and i said to everybody, i said, you cannot grow an economy with the burdens that

the next leader of, uh, reform ties , will leader of, uh, reform ties, will be a president, and ben habibomething else . uh, and will be something else. uh, and he will stand. i'm talking about nigel will stand for parliament. then that's when the tories should get a little bit worried . should get a little bit worried. not about reform, but about nigel farage. >> i see so your speculation is that farage finds a winnable seat. he enters parliament in the aftermath of a tory collapse at the next election, at which point he's in the commons and sitting pretty to lead the party. >> yes. then he makes an application to join the conservative party and the conservative party and the conservative party and the conservative party will say, why not? why not? he'll be a boris johnson with brains. >> there you go. well listen, you've said that a labour government would be terrible. of course, labour and their supporters argue that the supporters would argue that the tories have made a mess the tories have made a mess of the country for the last 14 years. and it's time for a change. the polls reflect

the flying brick delves raving loony party ben habib, reform uk helen harrison, conservative party jenorris, green party , andrew pine morris, green party, andrew pine bailey, independent anna sadiq khan, liberal democrat marion turner hawes, independent kevin watts, independent. okay. do stay with us on britain's newsroom. still to come sir keir starmer under huge pressure as he vows to take decisive action on anti—semitism within his party. but is he doing it fast enough ? this is britain's enough? this is britain's newsroom on radio. and it's 1022 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and pip tomson >> we are joined this morning. good morning to you both by former labour mp stephen pound and broadcaster mike parry. and there is plenty to get through. shapps, where are we going to start, mike? >> i think we should ask stephen pound first to defend the indefensible or have go. indefensible or have a go. stephen, i hopeless response no , stephen, i hopeless response no, i mean i would say it could have been done a bit quicker. >> what what he'd done should be done quick

but talking of language in deputy, ben in clumsy, your deputy, ben habib , clearly isn't keen on habiben on this man , lee anderson joining this man, lee anderson joining the tory party, quoting newspaper. >> you mean you mean joining reform, rejoining reform? >> i'd be >> sorry. forgive me. i'd be circumspect about who circumspect about anyone who can't themselves can't express themselves accurately, and in accurately, clearly, and in matters great sensitivity. matters of great sensitivity. lee got a grasp , lee clearly hasn't got a grasp, in my view, of the language required to identify address in my view, of the language reqlproblem.|entify address the problem. >> look and so by >> yeah, look and so by everybody, he doesn't want i mean that's actually that's actually not the point. the point is by everybody's reckoning, lee speaks from reckoning, ben lee speaks from the millions the heart. and actually millions of british citizens appreciate that. he just tells it as he sees it. and occasionally you're live on tv. you slightly get the words in the wrong order. what's much hurty much

the brick delves monster the flying brick delves monster raving loony party ben habib, reform uk helen and kit love, jay malla post—mortem , independent malla post—mortem, independent alex merola , britain first, will alex merola, britain first, will morris , green party, andre pine, morris, green party, andre pine, bailey, independent and savage gun, liberal democrat marion turner hawes, independent kevin watts, independent. >> ooh! still to come . we're >> ooh! still to come. we're going to be crossing over to manchester next where there are plenty of sweet treats on offer because pancake day and because it's pancake day and pip's got a really great pancake day joke. >> do you want to tell it >> oh, do you want me to tell it again? go on now. >> how can we make you wait for it? >> don't put people out or get people. people? >> do you make spence? >> how do you make spence? >> how do you make spence? >> you make a pancake ? >> how do you make a pancake? smile? don't know, butter him smile? i don't know, butter him up. boom boom . okay, and on that up. boom boom. okay, and on that note

joining us now to discuss the this further , to discuss the this further, deputy leader of reform ben habibt do you make of this whole hoo ha ? this whole hoo ha? >> well, i think it's a shame that the hoo ha has developed the way it's developed, because what's happened here, eamonn, is that we've got distracted from the real debate, the real issue, which lee mentioned in his interview with patrick last night and that is that sadiq khan and the met have lost control of the streets of london, and instead of discussing the root causes of why we've got demonstrations on london, what the underlying issues are, why we've lost control of the streets of london, we're now caught in the weeds of a debate over what islamophobia is. indeed, i would like to if we're going to have a debate on semantics, i'd like to widen that to include the word islamist. um, and, and we've got caughtin islamist. um, and, and we've got caught in this kind of identity politics, is absolutely politics, which is absolutely delightful for sadiq because he can wrap himself in the cloak of a minority being , uh, you know, a m

they are anna savage, gun liberal democrat ben habib, reform uk helen harrison, conservative will morristy kevin watts, independent andrew pyne bailey, indian pendant, marion turner hawes , independent, and turner hawes, independent, and nick the flying brick monster, raving loony loony party there you have it now. >> the defence secretary, grant shapps, says the military needs a proper shake up to refocus its core mission of being a lethal fighting force. >> that's after emerged that >> that's after it emerged that the british to relax the british army wants to relax security checks for recruits from overseas to boost diversity and inclusion . in a document and inclusion. in a document titled the british army's race action plan in. >> well, still with us in studio is the public affairs consultant piers pottinger pearce. two things i want to ask you about the defence. look this is madness that relax the rules madness that you relax the rules to get more people of ethnicity or gay people in. rules is rules , aren't they? you want to. you want. they've got to be of a level and a certain ca

liberal democrat ben habib, reform uk helen harrison, conservative.tcher , labour, alex jen kitcher, labour, alex merola, britain first, will morris green party andre pyne , morris green party andre pyne, bailey, independent. marion turner hawes, independent and also kevin watts as an independent. and you can find out who wins the key by elections in wellingborough and kingswood in a special gb news programme. vote 2024. the people decide and that will be presented by our very own tom harwood from midnight tomorrow night. right here on gb news and nigel farage will be one of the special guests on that show. all the results from those two crucial by elections live as they come in now. there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00. our economics and business editor, liam halligan, will tell us what today's inflation news means for the poundin inflation news means for the pound in your pockets . but pound in your pockets. but first, it's time for legal news headunes first, it's time for legal news headlines with tatiana sanchez . martin. >> thank

was really in both by elections was really how well reform did that certainly in wellingborough, ben habib that's about the same amount that ukip was polling back in 2015. although you have to bear in mind that ukip only got one mp out of that general election , despite, uh uh general election, despite, uh uh , doing very well with the popular vote, 4 million votes in 2015 for uk and actually nigel farage even today he says that he still feels very bitter about that. >> but do you know what, nigel? i think with reform they haven't said this publicly, but i don't think of course they'd want think they of course they'd want to seats, they know in to win seats, but they know in this they're not going to this system they're not going to win seats. but think really win seats. but i think really their toppling the tories their aim is toppling the tories and completely annihilating their aim is toppling the tories and yeahnpletely annihilating them. yeah >> so they could well do that. and it's optimist. and i think it's a bit optimist. nick. has been that nick. the reform has been that had they n

. >> but he's from the monster raving loony party, right ben habib, friend of show habib, friend of thisconservative party jen kitchin, labour party . ankit love um jen labour party. ankit love um jen jay mala post—mortem independent and alex merola , britain first, and alex merola, britain first, will morris , the green party, will morris, the green party, andre pyne bailey, independent, anna savage, gun, liberal democrats marion turner hawes , democrats marion turner hawes, independent kevin watts, independent kevin watts, independent okay, why does no one just have a plain name nowadays? bannau smith or whatever? why is everybody got double barrelled names ? double barrelled names? >> do you know? i don't actually know double barrelled name. >> it's a thing. >> it's a thing. >> maybe it's people not wanting to up their names and they to give up their names and they get married. >> yes. yeah. it could well be, could well be. so what will you give up your name when you're married? i don't know yet. >> i think that's the point of contention. i don't what contention. i don't know what tha

their candidate was ben habib and the party was up to 10.4% from zero last time in 2019.revious incarnation, the brexit party, didn't contest wellingborough and didn't contest kingswood. they, nigel farage, the leader, then stood down there as candidate. so to go from ten point to get 10.2, 13, forgive me. here 10.4% in kingswood is extraordinary. and you go into geoff shortly. but in kingswood i think he's even more surprising because is that by—election was called just five weeks ago, whereas the wellingborough one has been signalled many months. and signalled for many months. and if you're a challenging party like reform uk , the big thing like reform uk, the big thing you've issue you've got is you don't know where voters live. the established parties know where people live. not many people . people move house as people. people move house as much as as that so they can find them. knock on the door, say please for us again in please vote for us again in reform uk don't have that. they have try and rely social have to try and rely on social media and ground media and ac