and yes, 70% agree with david blunkett . labour will with david blunkett. election with more than one seat now reacting to the big stories of the day, tonight's top pundits, journalist and former brexit party mep annunziata rees—mogg, former conservative mp farmer and broadcaster neil pansh mp farmer and broadcaster neil parish and ex—labour mp, the freshly married and blissfully happy simon danczuk. now to american bully dogs were shot dead near wrexham after they killed 22 pregnant sheep and injured dozens of others. the dogs also became aggressive towards the farmer who was trying to save his livestock . trying to save his livestock. and get this, although the dog owner admitted to the offence of being responsible for a dangerously of control dog, dangerously out of control dog, they were served just a £900 fine. should owners of dangerous dogs be jailed instead? annunciator in some cases, i think yes . think yes. >> and when you look at the financial cost to the farmer, the loss of life of the sheep, there is no way in which this punishment meets the se

and yes, 70% agree with david blunkett . labour will with david blunkett.xt election with more than one seat now reacting to the big stories of the day, tonight's top pundits, journalist and former brexit party mep annunziata rees—mogg, former conservative mp farmer and broadcaster neil pansh mp farmer and broadcaster neil parish and ex—labour mp, the freshly married and blissfully happy simon danczuk. now to american bully dogs were shot dead near wrexham after they killed 22 pregnant sheep and injured dozens of others. the dogs also became aggressive towards the farmer who was trying to save his livestock . trying to save his livestock. and get this, although the dog owner admitted to the offence of being responsible for a dangerously of control dog, dangerously out of control dog, they were served just a £900 fine. should owners of dangerous dogs be jailed instead? annunciator in some cases, i think yes . think yes. >> and when you look at the financial cost to the farmer, the loss of life of the sheep, there is no way in which this punishment meets the

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so i think is slightly the think blunkett is slightly the doom and gloom thing. probably may be managing expectations. i think that that might not be a bad thing. from starmer's point of view. >> a bit later in the show i'm going to be speaking to chris mullins, who is the author of a very british coup, and he's now done another diaries, a long standing labour probably standing labour mp, probably much left of much more to the left of blunkett, going ask blunkett, but i'm going to ask him that him whether he thinks that starmer going to be the starmer is ever going to be the next blair, and i think he's probably going to conclude no, no. speak about no. let's speak about a completely different just completely different story just as moment. we've as a light final moment. we've had lined it happy as harry prince harry appears in the sun on sunday and other newspapers. a but not a beyonce concert, but not looking particularly overwhelmed by the soulstress singing no . by the soulstress singing no. >> and, you know, sometimes people get caught at a bad angle momenta

so so yes, i think, i think labour people ought to listen to david blunkett.und a while . i mean you know around a while. i mean you know he david blunkett and i both vividly remember the 92 general election in which everybody thought labour was going to win. i mean, obviously the situation was very different. labour only had a five point lead or something going into the into the election, but for some reason everybody had convinced themselves that labour was, was going to win kinnock was going to win neil kinnock was going to win neil kinnock was going prime minister. and going to be prime minister. and then didn't happen. >> well, thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date i do enjoy date on that story. i do enjoy talking chief talking to you, john. chief political the political commentator at the independent couldn't so independent. couldn't so benjamin , we'll come back to my benjamin, we'll come back to my panel benjamin, we'll come back to my panel. butterworth and panel. benjamin butterworth and peter of course, are peter whittle, of course,

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. >> david blunkett, who i think you'll agree, knows quite a lot about schools, but also about labouran interview sunday interview to the sunday telegraph he telegraph today where he basically that labour would basically says that labour would need a miracle the next need a miracle to win the next general election . has he general election. has he got that wrong ? that wrong? >> i agree it's a tall order, not least coming off the back of such a big defeat in 2019. but i'm confident that under keir starmer we're looking outwards to the country. we're setting out that labour out the change that a labour government would deliver. we're not about that. not complacent about that. there's a time to go there's still a long time to go until whenever it until the election, whenever it comes, i tell you that comes, but i tell you that general election cannot come soon enough. people are crying general election cannot come somforiough. people are crying general election cannot come s001for change ’eople are crying general election cannot come s001for change and.e are crying general election cann

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. >> blunkett did an >> david blunkett did an enormous piece in the telegraph yesterday saying he felt yeah, this is the thing. think there's a level thing. i think there's a level of because actually if of arrogance because actually if labour will be because labour wins, it will be because the have been the conservatives have been so poon the conservatives have been so poor, because there's this poor, not because there's this surge dynamism for labour surge in dynamism for a labour government and i don't know about viewers at home looking forward 2024, but forward to 2024, but i'm incredibly depressed the incredibly depressed about the idea an election because idea of an election because i just i am not excited by anyone. i mean, i rarely am, but particularly this time around, it just feels miles away from 2019 or any other previous election . election. >> yeah, it's as someone on the left, i'm quite glad it's miles away from 2019. >> i was not a big boris fan, but yeah, i mean i do get there is not yet a brexit chasm about about labour and they've got to turn that around. >> well, ma

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david blunkett did this. >> no, no, no , no, no, no, no, >> no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nonswer that. so which of that was was which bit of that was was fantasy and lies ? come on. fantasy and lies? come on. >> the idea that there is any prospect whatsoever of an agreement between us and the eu that would result in us taking between 100 and 182,000. >> so we're 13. so we are 13% of europe's population , right? so europe's population, right? so 13. so if you work that out across what our quota will have to be, it would have to be an agreement. >> no, that's not how it works. that simply is not how it works, because the vast majority of the people who are coming across into the eu do not have any connection with the uk. unlike like, for example, the afghans who are the national party, who are the most predominant crossing the channel at the moment. most of the largest single component of those who are crossing the channel now are people from afghanistan , and people from afghanistan, and there are people who have a connection because they work with british forces, because wit

and in today's sunday telegraph , david today's sunday telegraph, david blunkett says that labour willracle to get an overall majority. former labour mp chris mullin told gb news he doesn't think that the tories will be a majority either . and think that the tories will be a majority either. and in a poll in the sun, rishi sunak beat sir keir starmer to be more trusted on the economy. but emails to gb views shows a huge support for reform . meanwhile, school reform. meanwhile, school buildings are collapsing, rail workers are on strike. the government have banned things like machetes, which i thought they were banned anyway, and rising crime . the cost of living rising crime. the cost of living crisis continues to drain bank balances. we had i mean, let's look at the liberal democrat for example. the last thing we remember them for was going back rowing back on the whole student loan issue and other parties reform, for example , are reform, for example, are untested. who do you trust? untested. so who do you trust? those are your options . so for those are your options. so for the grea

. >> i'm just having a list of me, two of home secretaries, i mean, david blunkett was home. >> that's a long time ago. jack straw, we're going home. >> secretary oh, who are they? jack straw. yeah it was. >> that was even longer ago. >> that was even longer ago. >> oh, lord. we're going back hundreds of years here on the delightful. >> oh yeah. who was before theresa oh, gee, it's not theresa may oh, gee, it's not even that long ago. i know. >> isn't it funny how we forget? and they actually. they play such an important role. >> hugely, but in a hugely difficult. >> but it's almost too big a so here i was. >> amber rudd grant shapps. i totally forgot. amber rudd was home secretary. it wasn't for very long. >> so suella so the last home secretary was grant shapps oh , secretary was grant shapps oh, oh yeah, you have to. that was only for six days. >> yeah. you're to be forgiven because obviously the conservative party has been playing chairs , but playing musical chairs, but however many years. so sajid javid was 2018, 2019. >> allen and then it was the last male before that