charlie rowley. you charlie rowley. what do you think? freeze berries think?myself in and announced i have to notice that. >> yes. >> yes. >> i couldn't resist the temptation for chocolate. and >> i couldn't resist the tenl'mtion for chocolate. and >> i couldn't resist the tenl'mtion foachocolate. and >> i couldn't resist the tenl'mtion foa chocoholic..nd >> i couldn't resist the tenl'mtion foa chocoholic. id >> i couldn't resist the tenl'mtion foa chocoholic. i do no, i'm quite a chocoholic. i do like chocolate. it would be. like a chocolate. it would be. who like a chocolate? who doesn't like a chocolate? well, coming down well, quite. i'll be coming down to after this. to your store after this. >> that's nice. william, just tell us over easter much tell us over easter how much does business surge? >> oh, is this like your. >> oh, is this like your. >> yeah. yeah. christmas and easter huge for us. would easter are huge for us. i would say that there are 4 or 5 fold on a normal kind of period in the month, like. it the month, if you like. it really of shoots

, former and charlie rowley, former special adviser to theresa may and gove, and charles, andles, to start with you and the word michael gove. there is in our script for this programme. is he behind is he trying to behind all this? is he trying to push kemi banknock even push kemi banknock or or even penny number 10? penny mordaunt into number 10? i i don't think so. >> of course, i don't think there's , much in the stories there's, much in the stories over the weekend because as jacob was saying , if you chop jacob was saying, if you chop and change your leader again, the , forget about the the country, forget about the westminster bubble and forget about everybody follows about everybody who follows politics day basis. politics on a day to day basis. i think country would just i think the country would just be arms at the prospect be up in arms at the prospect that conservative that the conservative party has ditched to ditched yet another leader to install somebody else, but, you know, sticking with rishi sunak, sticking with a guy who seems to be doing a fantastic job in d

um, denis macshane and charlie rowley, thank you very much indeed .? >> we are. >> we are. >> we are going to change subject. but oddly, not. onto the subject of your choice. we're go on to getting we're going to go on to getting on of rishi sunak on to the cost of rishi sunak troubled rwanda asylum scheme. it appears that it could soar to half billion pounds and that half a billion pounds and that is for sending a few hundred refugees to rwanda. >> the home office has so far refused to say how much more money on top of the 290 million already confirmed . already confirmed. >> but a national audit office report has revealed millions more in spending, including 11,000 for each migrants plane ticket . ticket. >> joining us now is gb news political correspondent olivia utley . olivia, this is going to utley. olivia, this is going to be absolutely shocking to people. all this money, we know planes are off the ground and we don't even know that any will get off the ground. and if they do £11,000 per inaya people really . really. >> i think you're absolutel

charlie rowley and broadcaster susanna rowley and broadcaster s susanna . esther. hello.llo. good morning. we were talking just outside. yes about george galloway's oratory and just how powerful it is now , whether or not you agree is now, whether or not you agree with the man's politic, it's his delivery and persuasiveness is pretty extraordinary, is it not? >> he's got those piercing blue eyes. you remember his exact speech about tony blair, tony blair, tony blair. and then i heard on the yesterday on the radio keir starmer kiest , you radio keir starmer kiest, you know, so it's almost like he's using the same phraseology, if you like . all he's done is swap you like. all he's done is swap the name around . look, he was the name around. look, he was the name around. look, he was the respect party head when i because i'm from tower hamlets, that's where i live. and he had a massive following in tower hamlets when he decided to to be launch respect party. and he launch the respect party. and he had a big song and a dance, and he he's a big character. he has got a big ego.

yeah, but also charlie rowley licking his lips, going, oh, i'm doing the british. >> much of a reputationthan. yes. >> jonathan. yes. >> darren. yes. >> darren. yes. >> he's just walking around and he just smells bad and he. >> oh they're just. >> oh they're just. >> that's horrible . >> that's horrible. >> that's horrible. >> well, do you think he's trying to be like, quirky and sort of countercultural ? sort of countercultural? >> but there is this thing right where they don't wash where people say they don't wash their legs because your legs just wash themselves because the soap drops off your body. i mean, what do you say about that? taylor swift, i believe, does that what what she said. so yes, i think i read yes, i think i think i read something swift something about taylor swift doing that. she doesn't she doesn't because doesn't wash her legs because she smelly swift. >> oh, you smelly little swift. >> yeah. that explains we might have order against have a restraining order against you, doesn't it? yeah. they don't call us monkey swift . don't call us monkey swift. >> yes, we migh

charlie rowley . to michael gove. charlie rowley. good to see you both this morning.urity in prisons? >> yes. this is a prison expose undertaken by the times and undercover journalist at the times. there's a double page spread . and, going into all the spread. and, going into all the detail on page four and five, and it is effectively demonstrating how there is a total lack of grip in terms of security in our prisons. this is a h.m.p bedford , a category a h.m.p bedford, a category b prison, which homes and houses prisoners such as sex offenders and, violent offenders and effectively a undercover journalist, was able to apply for a role and three weeks later was given a job there through an agency, he passed through security he multiple times without having any kinds of checks at all. so he could have brought anything into the prison, could have handed any kind of weaponry to a prisoners, could aided escapes , could could have aided escapes, could have helped in any which way possible, even possible, could have even attacked the prisoners they attacked the prisoners i

charlie rowley. the gove. charlie rowley.good morning to you both. before we both. good morning. before we actually dive into the papers, one of the key stories is about that's doing the rounds today is about defence budget. and about the defence budget. and the defence secretary wants to see that increased to 3. so it's a significant boost up. it has been trailing behind for a long time. so before we talk about that, this is what he had to say to gb news yesterday. >> well look i think it's undeniably a more dangerous world. we've got in world. we've got a war in europe. we've got a conflict in the middle east. you've seen the u.k. involved in the middle east with with the houthis. so i think important that we up think it's important that we up our spending. we are committed to 2.5. i note that labour say they're committed to the 2% figure that's already a £7 billion cut from where we're up to now , so they are not the to now, so they are not the answer. and as you say , i've answer. and as you say, i've rightly, i think, ca

thank you to charlie rowley alice temby and jody luck . now alice temby and jody luck.u heard from posed a question that faces the labour party with a panel of thinkers on the political left. in minutes i'll be joined in a few minutes i'll be joined by the hong kong democracy campaigner to discuss campaigner fin law to discuss the latest repressive laws that are all dissent in are squeezing out all dissent in the form of british colony. stay with us, please. welcome back in hong kong , a new welcome back in hong kong, a new law has come into force. cloaked in the bureaucratic title of article 23. the repressive legislation includes very vaguely worded propositions on actions such as secession and subversion. the foreign office has warned travellers to hong kong of the dangers that the law presents. someone who knows about those dangers all too well is pro—democracy campaigner finn law , who joins me now. finn, law, who joins me now. finn, welcome to gb news. tell me, what does the new law mean? >> i would say that the 2020 hong kong national security, as well as the nat

charlie rowley . you didn't get a bite of rowley. you didn't get a bite of the cherry there.that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me, though. your last performance on stage was as the cowardly , a production of cowardly lion, a production of wizard the oz. >> it wasn't quite the west end. >> it wasn't quite the west end. >> it wasn't quite the west end. >> it was. it was an off west end production. >> plymouth, plymouth ? >> it was in plymouth, plymouth? >> it was in plymouth, plymouth? >> plymouth, yes, but very off—west potters bar off—west end. it was potters bar as it happened. so the good people of potters bar, they might from , from, might recognise me from, from, from might recognise me from, from, frordo you think jokes >> do you, do you think jokes that you could have told even when you were at school ? when you were at school? >> perhaps you couldn't tell them days? do you them these days? and do you think that is. i do think that that is. i do disagree with bruce. i do think that actually there is a climate in are terrified to in which people are terrified to

we're joined by former special adviser to michael gove, charlie rowley and political commentator emma just get your reaction to james heappey standing down, unhappy about the level of defence spending, maybe unhappy about other things as well. they just keep on coming. we have brandon lewis, former northern ireland secretary, announcing he wouldn't stand yesterday. >> i'm sorry to hear >> yeah, and i'm sorry to hear that because i think james has been brilliant member of been a brilliant member of parliament. a parliament. he's been a brilliant forces minister, brilliant armed forces minister, as brandon it as has brandon lewis. and it comes at a time where i think grant shapps was encouraging an increase in defence spending to at 3% gdp. that was at least 3% gdp. that was something happened earlier something that happened earlier on so it's on in the week. so it's certainly conversation amongst certainly a conversation amongst those are interested in those that are interested in defence that are defence spending, those that are in and something that in the mod and something that the

very pleased to be joined now by paul richards, former labour special adviser rowley adviser and charlie rowley to michael gove and to theresa may thank you very much both for coming in. it's obviously in the labour party interest to say why didn't you go straight to an election? but looking at as a political but looking at it as a political specialist, do you think this is devised as an election budget or is more a steady as she goes budget, budget? well, the logic for a may election is that things can only get worse, you know? >> so actually the idea of staunching the bleeding going early, maybe saving a few seats that might otherwise not be saved , you know, not not having saved, you know, not not having a summer of the boats arriving on the south coast of england and all the rest of it would be to go for may, there might be enoughin to go for may, there might be enough in the budget just to suggest that . still, i think, suggest that. still, i think, and you are, of course, right. labouris and you are, of course, right. labour is ramping up the rhetoric may election to rhetoric on a may ele

charlie rowley. good morning to you, charlie . and look obviously you, charlie. look obviously this is to be painful and this is going to be painful and bruising for the prime minister. i think there are reports around this morning of possibly as many as other tory mps as ten other tory mps contemplating , joining reform. contemplating, joining reform. could change that ? could boris change that? >> well, i think it's great if bofis >> well, i think it's great if boris does come back, if he joins the campaign , then in any joins the campaign, then in any way that he feels he's able to do so because, as lee was rightly saying, it was boris johnson that won that thumping majority in 2019 that united the party, united the country after a very divisive period during brexit, and particularly in those key areas, those red wall seats in the area that lee currently represents. so i think it would be great to see boris johnson back. it would be great, obviously, to see david cameron out on the campaign trail. former prime minister, obviously now foreign secretary. i'm sure

joining us now is former political adviser charlie rowley. lie, you advise theresa may. you used to advise theresa may. what what's your response then to the fact that she's going to stand down? >> i think it's a classic, >> well, i think it's a classic, theresa. know , she theresa. you know, she recognises that she's only been able home able to become the home secretary and prime minister because in because of her constituents in maidenhead. she's maidenhead. that's why she's there. she's always put her constituents first. and so giving it to the main head advertiser, i think is just a nice i quite like that. >> as a former, a local newspaper reporter. hats off to you theresa. >> and she was, >> yeah, exactly. and she was, you , she is mrs. you know, she is mrs. maidenhead. local. maidenhead. she is very local. even when she was prime minister. and sometimes you'd be scratching head scratching your own head thinking, my god, okay, thinking, my god, why? okay, well, spending well, why are we spending another we've another weekend here when we'

, i'm coming to rowley charlie, i'm coming to you first.pot on. i thought the tone was right. i mean, it could have come a bit earlier. actually. not a moment too soon in my view. um on a friday view. um 20 to 6 on a friday night have been sort night might have been a bit sort of late in the day, but, um, but but but given everything that happened, were happened, just as you were talking nigel about talking there with nigel about the took place, the interview that took place, the interview that took place, the the media, the intimidation of the media, which is something is which is something that is alarming, everybody alarming, i think for everybody where hold politicians where the media hold politicians to shouldn't be to account, that shouldn't be happening in public happening in our public life. that shouldn't in that shouldn't be happening in our politics. but i think given the build up of events through an home an article by former home secretary braverman , we secretary suella braverman, we are talking about extremism in the , then b

gove, charlie studio by the former special adviser and also gove, charlie studio by the former special adviser and also politicatharlie rowleyine. let's start with you, charlie. they roll on. rishi sunak gave an address outside downing street, an emergency address imploring the police to take firmer action and they would back them up. but sir mark rowley has said no, he's not interested in doing that. we're doing it our way and round and round we go. we have this impasse where people are now starting to feel that the protesters are being treated with kid gloves and they're becoming . and jewish becoming emboldened. and jewish people certainly are feeling pretty streets of london. >> and we'll just have to wait and see what happens later on today the police today to see whether the police do action those who do take action against those who are things like jihad do take action against those who are there :hings like jihad do take action against those who are there protests;e jihad do take action against those who are there protests that ad do take action against those who are there protests that are, or were there protests th

charlie rowley is a former tory adviser, so he should know what to do with himself on a sinking shipncer will keep us laughing all the way into harbour. as for benjamin butterworth, let's hope it's a case of man overboard before tonight. >> yeah, of course we want your views as well. >> please get in touch by emailing gbviews@gbnews.com. much more important than ours. and roll up, roll up. get your questions in for ask the five. you can put one of us on the spot about any topic you like, but before we get into that, it's your saturday night news with polly middlehurst. >> thanks very much indeed and good evening to you. well, the top story from the gb newsroom tonight is that the nationalities of migrants who commit crimes could be posted in a new league table, with ministers saying it'll give the government more power to tighten immigration laws. government more power to tighten immigration laws . a group of immigration laws. a group of tory mps wants to see statistics on every offender convicted in england and wales, published every year , and they say the every year, and they say

who can forget charlie rowley in rochdale as well? anti—semitic conspiracy theories there .e new labour theories there. the new labour mp for kingswood, damien egan, is so obsessed with identity politics he changes his accent depending on where he is . depending on where he is. >> if we're celebrating lewisham small businesses, our borough is lucky that we've got one of the highest number of small independent businesses in the whole london. to our whole of london. i went to our lady lourdes and went to lady of lourdes and went to hanham high i was young. we hanham high when i was young. we were homeless and lived in were made homeless and lived in temporary accommodation. were made homeless and lived in tenif)rary accommodation. were made homeless and lived in tenif keir accommodation. were made homeless and lived in tenif keir starmerodation. were made homeless and lived in tenif keir starmer is ation. were made homeless and lived in tenif keir starmer is struggling >> if keir starmer is struggling to control his party now, how's he going to manage it when he's got 400 or s

. >> okay, ivor, i mean , charlie >> okay, ivor, i mean, charlie rowley wasn't particularly well vetted we're in a situation now where, lo and behold, mcdonald let behold, andy mcdonald will let him don't think him back in. i don't think that's anything to do as it that's got anything to do as it ivor, the pressure from the ivor, with the pressure from the left the galloway left and the george galloway issue, andy mcdonald was, i think , elected some time ago. think, elected some time ago. >> but what i would say and i can reassure gary here, i do a lot of interviewing of candidates , particularly for candidates, particularly for parliamentary seats, and i and i have to tell you, we are vigorous in the due diligence that we do with. >> did you interview tahir ali? we've been looking in in absolute about what we want people to be able to do. >> so i am really confident that for those who might win in in a general election, that they will be good and solid candidates, as we've seen in previous times when labour has been successful, what do you make of that , gary? what do you make of that

charlie rowley is a former tory adviser, so he should know what to do with himself on a sinking ship for benjamin butterworth, let's hope it's a case of man overboard

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