however, esther mcvey , the common sense esther mcvey, the common sense minister and former gb news presenter so—called woke whitehall jobs. so could this finally put the matter to rest ? i'm joined the matter to rest? i'm joined now by, as you heard before, my panel barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes and the author and broadcaster amy nicole turner. gerry to you first, given you want to get involved so quickly in our programme , so quickly in our programme, what's wrong with rainbow lanyards? >> what rainbow is rainbow lanyards? absolutely nothing. what is wrong when you pay someone £150,000 to deal with completely daft things , the completely daft things, the number of people, the quotas you've got, let's have people there with their jobs for experience. but quotas, quality quotas, work with the labour party, all the all women shortlist has produced some of the people . yes, but look at the the people. yes, but look at the people. you've got women. the quality. it's an insult to women. it's an insult to black people. it's an insult to every ethnic minority. they've got to be shown tha

>> esther mcvey , minister for >> esther mcvey, minister for common sense. my backside.fight culture wars to hide their awful record over the last 14 years. and i cannot believe that a government minister is going to try to legislate the colour of the lanyards you wear around your neck. where have we gotten to with this? >> well, look, i admit, suzanne, it's not a massive issue. but again, i say, why do we need people to parade their sexuality around the workplace? >> i kind of agree. you know, you think if the government is focusing on this and what the heck, when all the rest of the stuff that's going on that they could be focusing on? i do agree, but yeah, if i see someone wearing a rainbow lanyard in the public sphere. so presumably there are public service public servant who is doing a public service, why do they need to throw their politics in my face? i don't want to know, frankly. and basically, if you wear a rainbow lanyard, you are expressing a particular set of political beliefs and there is no place for that in the civil service particularly, that should be o

i want to talk to you about esther mcvey, the minister for common sense.g common sense or is she speaking common sense or is she drink ing the gb news kool—aid? that's what one of my panel thinks. also, you didn't think i was going to mention that. also, unruly anti—social kids. what do we do about them ? hi there. i'm michelle dewberry and with you till 7:00, alongside the labour candidate for central suffolk and north ipswich, kevin craig, and the conservative peer in the house of lords, sean bailey. when it comes to pay , by the way, one of comes to pay, by the way, one of the really interesting aspects is pay transparency . how is pay transparency. how transparent would you be willing to be, to try and find out whether or not you earn the same as other people in your organisation, if indeed that was important to you, because historically, many of us were quite kind of private about what we earn, aren't we, michael says michelle, equal pay arguments being framed as man versus woman. but it isn't. it's simply about people wanting the same pay about peopl

esther mcvey. her war on woke . the mcvey. her war on woke.he common sense minister will be discussing the need to put common sense at the heart of everything the government does. this morning david cameron, the foreign secretary, versus the bbc. >> he says the broadcaster should be describing hamas as terrorists. and he's quite right rather than what they say. a proscribed terrorist organisation, and then feeding sicknote breton a new study shows that obese people are twice as likely to take time off work, stifling economic growth. >> and we are going to talk a little bit about eurovision . oh, little bit about eurovision. oh, we were both mortified by that hideous british entry. >> well, he couldn't sing. let's let's be honest. his voice . let's be honest. his voice. there were two songs either side of him which were amazing. and then you heard his voice. it was like it was shameful. the performance. well >> and why was it in a public lavatory? >> i don't get it. i just didn't get it. it's disgusting. yeah, i didn't get it. >> i voted for is

esther mcvey.channel and knowing that people will not be able to get over here in the first place and saying that will be a trigger and we all know from all legal advice, actually , that isn't possible. >> so i know people like, you know, richard tice says this is what you can do. you can't. every legal opinion says you can't do that because you go straight from french waters to british waters. so you can't do that. and what we're saying is you need a third safe country, which is rwanda, because people who come over here illegally, who come over here illegally, who have destroyed their passports and identification, you can't send them back to a country because they've destroyed it. so you have to have a safe third country. and that's the rwanda policy. and labour don't have an answer for that, because what they're saying is they'll come into this country, they will have destroyed their , their, destroyed their, their, passports. so actually labour would keep them in the uk because they couldn't sen

writing in the sunday telegraph, cabinet minister esther mcvey claims pubuc minister esther mcvey claims public money is being wasted. she's described as woke hobby horses under the new plans, there would be no more devoted, inclusive jobs in whitehall, outside hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related projects. ms mcvey said the amount of staff time taken up the amount of staff time taken ”p by the amount of staff time taken up by diversity programmes was, quote, a major concern united by music. that is the eurovision slogan . but the build up to slogan. but the build up to tonight's final has been anything but that . amid anything but that. amid allegations inside the arena and protests outside the netherlands entry, justis klein's been disqualified, the dutch broadcaster says it was over a threatening movement. he made towards someone who was filming him. someone from the production team, reportedly against his wishes . team, reportedly against his wishes. ireland's team, reportedly against his wishes . ireland's entrant team, reportedly against his wishes. ireland's en

, wearing them, so esther mcvey, who was appointed to rishi sunak's cabinet as a minister withoutio , said recently without portfolio, said recently that staff will be disciplined for having any messaging on their lanyards because you're meant to be impartial. and, you know, that's a form of political activism in a visible way . but activism in a visible way. but grant shapps recently because, well, not because but because the actual guidance says there's no there's no mention of the lanyards, grant shapps has essentially said, i don't care what people, you know, express on their lanyards. he just cares that they're doing the jobs that they're meant to do, which is kind of my view. i think. >> but i mean, the rainbow, the pride flag is a political symbol. you know, if people were walking around the and some people are very offended by it, particularly a lot of gay people who feel that the, you know, the rainbow movement has been co—opted by the tk+ part of the alphabet . and, and, you know, if alphabet. and, and, you know, if people were walking around the hospital with a, you kno

esther mcvey is having a p0p susan. esther mcvey is having a pop at diversity jobs. ke a speech in westminster tomorrow and i mean, esther was mocked, wasn't she, when she got the cupboard. new cabinet position. as the minister for common sense. i have to say, having read this piece and the piece that she's written in the telegraph, i'm finding it hard to find anything that she's saying. not not common sense. it is actually a very common sense sort of point of view. so she's not talking about scrapping diversity, just to be clear, she's talking about scrapping the jobs that are solely dedicated to finding which kind of person needs to be in which kind of job because of the things that they've got as their as their traits, rather than their talents or their experience, she's also planning to summon, they've they've had a review which has identified £27 million worth of spending across whitehall on this sort of thing, and she has summoned the heads of departments and quangos , of departments and quangos, which have spent the most on equality and diversity schemes, for a

esther mcvey. she just wants to get into the newspaper. she wants to just.the newspapers before the election so people will remember her a few years in. >> no . or it might be that they >> no. or it might be that they feel a little bit guilty and they're like, oh yeah, we messed up and we'll we'll not leave you in such a bad state because because they forgot the people that they were looking, they were trying to help. >> they were trying to help the mains, whatever it is they were trying to help their own people. and they took the team world side. and now they're being kicked out on their butt. this, this guy, rishi sunak, he's not one of i'm going to get a team world lanyard and wear it every show. well you could get a team world. you go to my website at lewis schaffer at none at dot net, nunhead at twitter at lewis schaffer. you can go there . schaffer. you can go there. >> i'm fine. thanks. >> i'm fine. thanks. >> i'm fine. thanks. >> i would give you one, but i'd have to give josh one. and i'm not giving josh. >> i'm trying to get that mug. >> i'm trying

esther mcvey was rishi sunak wrong to call this election . election. >> well, again, you're trying tot is the result. we're not there yet. you know, the election is on the 4th of july, not today. so you know, you can read out your list of grandees, big names , the beasts that will fall. let's wait to see what actually happens.isnt let's wait to see what actually happens. isn't a lot of electioneering to take place. and like i said , there's 20% of and like i said, there's 20% of the electorate, a fifth of the voters. yet to make up their minds. so they're going to listen very carefully to the arguments on both sides. it will come down as so often about who are going to be the best custodians of our economy . this custodians of our economy. this is what clinton said. it's the economy, stupid. who's going to take britain forward, particularly in these ever turbulent times ? that's the turbulent times? that's the question that people answer on the 4th of july, not today. >> okay, well , hey, something >> okay, well, hey, something that no doubt you will feel a bit more comfortable talkin

but still to come this morning, common sense minister, as she's been tagged, esther mcvey is bringingse. apparently ray. but rainbow lanyards in the workplace. she'd like to see them banned. find out why this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> in 27, britain's newsroom with gb news. with andrew pearson. we've got the panel with us. nigel nelson and lord colville agency. gentlemen, you've just heard the reaction, the verdict against calocane stays the same . it's not being stays the same. it's not being changed to murder. so he could potentially get a whole life sentence. what do you think, i think that judges have to be left to do their job. and if they say that there was no error in sentencing in the first place, i think we take that in. and it was the attorney general who wanted this case to go, as did the families of us. yes, as as the families. >> we're expecting them to react shortly to to the the verdict. yeah. so you're content that it's the right. >> yes. >> yes. >> i mean, all the judges were doing was saying that the original sentence was correct. >> yeah. covid i think th

writing in the sunday telegraph, cabinet minister esther mcvey claims pubuc minister esther mcvey claimsr the new plans, there would be no more devoted, inclusive jobs in whitehall, outside hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related projects. ms mcvey said the amount of staff time taken up the amount of staff time taken ”p by the amount of staff time taken up by diversity programmes was, quote, a major concern united by music. that is the eurovision slogan . but the build up to slogan. but the build up to tonight's final has been anything but that . amid anything but that. amid allegations inside the arena and protests outside the netherlands entry, justis klein's been disqualified, the dutch broadcaster says it was over a threatening movement. he made towards someone who was filming him. someone from the production team, reportedly against his wishes . team, reportedly against his wishes. ireland's team, reportedly against his wishes . ireland's entrant team, reportedly against his wishes. ireland's entrant bambie thug has accused the israeli broadcaster khan of repeatedly

. >> esther mcvey spoke about it which will for diversity roles will give ministers more oversight iny is spent and on roles. i think that's something that should be rolled out beyond just diversity roles and into the actual running of the departments as well. >> i have to say, i think , i >> i have to say, i think, i think calum mcgoldrick, it's a very, very depressing picture. thank you. and you know, the worst part of all this folks at home and that is that. so many people who work are now getting up earlier in the morning, getting home later at night, working more days of the week than their parents and grandparents ever had to the working population, particularly those who were self—employed or running small businesses or even working for big corporations, are absolutely working their socks off. they're paying the highest tax burden the country has seen since 1948. they've been treated by hmrc, in many cases as if they're all potential criminals . there's no potential criminals. there's no one for them to talk to. it might take 800 years to get through on the phone , and yet thro

i mean, i'll tell you the remarkable thing here is it looks like esther mcvey isn't going to be ableu know, the government can't even control what the civil service does lanyard level, let alone anything else. >> but we are we are, we are pressed for time. >> so i'm just going to whiz it on actually. so greatest britain union jack time. let's do it right okay, so, let's start mark, with your greatest britain honorary richard scolyer, the 57 year old australian doctor. >> he has given himself some experimental therapy based on his own research , which appears his own research, which appears early doors to have actually cured his brain tumour. great. let's get rid of the precautionary principle . precautionary principle. >> good on him. good start. adam. >> mine is a 98 year old veteran, henry rice, who is teaching kids about d—day. many kids don't, are not taught about it and don't know about it. so, you know, he's educating children . children. >> one was d—day. >> one was d—day. >> come on, 1944. >> come on, 1944. >> what was the date? >> what was the date? >> i don't know, 6th of j

and it's going to be esther mcvey , i it's going to be esther mcvey, i understand, formerly of this parishrrow . now, the speech tomorrow. now, the minister for common sense. there you are. and she'll be giving a speech tomorrow setting this out, because it's absolutely right . you know, every penny right. you know, every penny counts. every penny. it's not government's money, it's taxpayers money. and we don't need people to be telling employers, particularly within whitehall, in particular the civil service, where there are some pretty brainy people around who they should be employing and how they should be going about it. >> i want to put a question from one of our viewers to matthew because he's ed davey says stopping woke nonsense is not a waste of money. these diversity offers are having to justify their unnecessary salaries by introducing stupidity into their employers, businesses . they employers, businesses. they throw common sense out of the window to justify their own existence , their office and existence, their office and salary. tell us, how much does the nhs waste on diversi

question of rainbow lanyards has seemingly split the cabinet in two after my former gb news colleague esther mcveyse measures to scrap civil service, wokery state of the nafion service, wokery state of the nation starts now. i'll also be joined by a pugnacious panel this evening. the former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, and the pr consultant and former labour aide stella santykiu. as always , aide stella santykiu. as always, as you know, i want to hear from you. it's a crucial part of the programme. email me mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's what you've all been waiting for. the news bulletin with tatiana sanchez . with tatiana sanchez. >> jacob. thank you. the top stories from the gb news room. a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. vehicles were rammed at tollbooths on a motorway at anchorvale in the northwest of the country . anchorvale in the northwest of the country. images on social media showed at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was in flames ,

question of rainbow lanyards has seemingly split the cabinet in two after my former gb news colleague esther mcveyse measures

common sense minister esther mcvey is set to scrap diversity and inclusion.that she has termed woke hobby horses. but why is she taking waited so long to do this and the labour party has urged the government to

common sense minister esther mcvey is set to scrap diversity and inclusion.that she has termed woke hobby horses. but why is she taking waited so long to do this and the labour party has urged the government to halt arms sales to israel following concerns of its military offensive in rafah. but should israel be allowed to finish the job properly of destroying hamas? plus, i'll be speaking to the editor of the unherd website of the government crackdown and promise to stop funding an organisation blocking the website's advertisement . state website's advertisement. state of the nation starts . of the nation starts. here. i'll also be joined by a theatrical panel this evening. barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes, and the author and broadcaster amy nicole turner. as always , i want to hear from as always, i want to hear from you as a crucial part of our programme. email me mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now wsfime mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's time for the news bulletin with tamsin roberts. >> christopher, thanks very much. and

question of rainbow lanyards has seemingly split the cabinet in two after my former gb news colleague esther mcveyduced her latest common sense measures to scrap civil service, wokery state of the nafion service, wokery state of the nation starts now. i'll also be joined by a pugnacious panel this evening. the former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, and the pr consultant and former labour aide stella santykiu. as always , aide stella santykiu. as always, as you know, i want to hear from you. it's a crucial part of the programme. email me mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's what you've all been waiting for. the news bulletin with tatiana sanchez . with tatiana sanchez. >> jacob. thank you. the top stories from the gb news room. a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. vehicles were rammed at tollbooths on a motorway at anchorvale in the northwest of the country . anchorvale in the northwest of the country. images on social media showed at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an s

esther mcvey says she's getting rid because she's worried about the civil service.e've all been quite worried about the civil service, haven't we, because it has been ideologically captured. there's been a lot of edi, equity, diversity, inclusion going on, which of course means the opposite of what it sounds like, because equity is the opposite of equality. diversity basically means, everyone thinks the same way, and inclusion means excluding anyone who doesn't think that way. so it really is a kind of very narrow minded, point of view. so she's right, isn't she? that i mean, weren't there there was an article in there there was an article in the telegraph. sorry, just quickly that an article in the telegraph a while ago of a civil service whistleblower who was saying that effectively, whenever the home office told them to do something, when it was to do with migration, if the staff didn't approve, they just wouldn't do it. now, the civil service has to be impartial for it to work. it's the machinery of government. and so she's right, isn't she? >> well, yes, i thin

writing in the sunday telegraph, cabinet minister esther mcvey claims pubuc minister esther mcvey claims hobby horses under the new plans, there would be no more devoted, inclusive jobs in whitehall, outside hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related projects. ms mcvey said the amount of staff time taken up the amount of staff time taken ”p by the amount of staff time taken up by diversity programmes was, quote, a major concern united by music. that is the eurovision slogan . but the build up to slogan. but the build up to tonight's final has been anything but that . amid anything but that. amid allegations inside the arena and protests outside the netherlands entry, justis klein's been disqualified, the dutch broadcaster says it was over a threatening movement. he made towards someone who was filming him. someone from the production team, reportedly against his wishes . team, reportedly against his wishes. ireland's team, reportedly against his wishes . ireland's entrant team, reportedly against his wishes. ireland's entrant bambie thug has accused the israeli broadcaster

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from cabinet minister esther mcvey and shadow attorney general emily thornberry. >> so we've got a coupleer of questions today , put yourself in keir's today, put yourself in keir's shoes. what should he go on? what do you think he should go on today? >> there are so many questions that you could ask and particularly just before an election, but i think i've been going up and down the country and i've been talking to lots of people. >> and i think that the issue that comes up a lot, which is the one that angela raised last week, which is about housing, which is about how can people get themselves somewhere to live, whether it's buying somewhere to live or or getting social housing, you know, particularly the younger generation are completely being left behind. and my generation is fine . but that generation, is fine. but that generation, the generation behind us is not well. >> esther mcvey, you're a former housing minister now, of course, common sense minister sitting in the cabinet. how do you respond to that? >> well, i love the way labour now talks about how much housing it will be do

also, rainbow lanyards be gone, says esther mcvey, the minister for common sense, as she bans them fromles. is this basic common sense or not? and what on earth do we do about anti—serb martial kids? their blights the lives of many,

actually, that given how little time these guys have got left before the general election, we had esther mcveyces , an entire government offices, an entire day of the chancellor of the exchequer talking about labour's costings. why don't they pull their finger out and do their job instead of, you know, carping the opposition ? it feels carping the opposition? it feels to me like we're taking the job of being ready for government very seriously. they're preparing for opposition. >> where's your guilty of your guilty of throwing mud? just as much as the conservatives are? i mean, last time we spoke it was about that tweet. it was about that tweet to susan hall's supporters, wasn't it was saying that a vote for susan hall at the labour mayoral elections was a vote for, you know, racist and islamophobes and all of this that was potentially tarnishing millions of voters in london who are just fed up of sadiq khan's record on some things . record on some things. >> no. >> no. >> absolutely not. politics. isn't it really big enough ? isn't it really big enough? >> no. sadiq is big enough and ugly eno

esther mcvey, chris heaton—harris both raising their objections in yesterday's cabinet meeting. that sunak's decision to go to the polls on july the 4th was kept to just a tight circle of his closest advisers. and it was sunak who apparently insisted on making his speech outside in the pounng his speech outside in the pouring rain. well that chaos did give keir starmer something to talk about at his election launch earlier today. >> this election is about a choice two different countries, two different futures decline and chaos continuing under the tories or rebuilding our country under labour. the power of the vote is with you. if you want change, you have to vote for it. and if you vote labour, it's a vote to stop the chaos. it's a vote to stop the chaos. it's a vote to stop the chaos. it's a vote to turn the page and it's a vote to turn the page and it's a vote to turn the page and it's a vote to rebuild our country together . together. >> well, i'm joined now by the man in charge of the tory campaign . it's the conservative campaign. it's the conservative party chairman, ric

esther mcvey, the minister for common sense, has said that she'll crack down on diversity initiativesof rainbow lanyards. mcvey says civil servants should be leaving their political views at the building entrance and that we've had we've too often seen them distracted by fashionable hobby horses, especially when it comes to issues like equality and diversity. lewis, what do you think about rainbow lanyards? >> i think you could basically give the same message without a rainbow lanyards. it's basically saying you've entered team world and you're if you if you're against it, you're screwed. >> so that's what a rainbow lanyard says to you. it doesn't say diversity and inclusion. it says a very specific political message. >> it says if you're a white, straight man, you got no chance. basically the world, well, you could be an ally , couldn't you? could be an ally, couldn't you? you could be. and they're telling you, you better be an ally of the. otherwise you're not going to get anything. you know, it's like my bus driver, i have to say, i have a bus, but my bus, my bus driver, he came to

they had emily thornberry, the shadow attorney general, and, esther mcvey. yeah.it was great. >> it was great. >> tv and radio. right. >> tv and radio. right. >> tatiana's waiting for us. here she is with you. news . here she is with you. news. >> bev. thank you. the latest stories from the gb newsroom. social media companies are being warned they could be banned for those under 18. if they don't keep children safe. the media regulator ofcom says platforms must take action to stop their algorithms recommending harmful content to children. it's draft children's safety codes of practice sets out how to expect some of the world's biggest onune some of the world's biggest online platforms to protect children online, and penalties for companies who fail to comply . two thirds of nhs trusts are missing their target to treat patients within 18 weeks of referral, according to analysis by labour. the party says that 114 trusts out of 167 have failed to meet the target in any month since december 2019. most trusts also failed to meet targets, ensuring that most patients wai

rainbow lanyard to indicate support for lgbtq issues, esther mcvey, a former colleague on gb news, nowffice minister, made clear that these will be banned in future. they want no more political statements from civil servants and will have guidance later on from the cabinet office. it's a big issue, i think, for people who work in the westminster village , maybe the westminster village, maybe less so outside of parliament. >> it's a curious policy there because the government itself issues lanyards that support government policy. it issued count down to brexit lanyards for civil servants in the days leading up to our exit from the european union, which some chose to wear. many, many chose not to. but of course, it's government policy to fly lgbt flags in our embassies , in flags in our embassies, in countries that have, pretty restrictive attitudes towards, lgbt rights , on days of pride. lgbt rights, on days of pride. that's that was what boris johnson institute introduced to our embassies when he was foreign secretary does is the government saying that that's not government policy ? n

esther mcvey, formerly of this parish, also said that rishi sunak should hold off until the autumn andlenty more conservative mps who are feeling really, really angry about this, not least because in some cases they book their summer holidays. >> well, olivia, thank you so much for all of that. from a rather sunnier downing street than we were seeing yesterday , than we were seeing yesterday, many of us will be thinking, why on earth did rishi sunak not wait just 24 hours and announce it all in the sunshine? as we can see today? let's go to katherine forster now outside labour hq. what keir starmer and his top team up to today. >> yes. good afternoon tom and emily. well sir keir starmer down in kent today at a football club surrounded by people holding placards with one word change. that's quite a powerful message, isn't it? after 14 years of conservative government. but the fundamental message coming from labour today , as yesterday, in that very warm, dry speech that sir keir starmer made, three things really stop the chaos. number one, change number two. and then they say they will

we're going to delve straight in to our gb news favourite, esther mcvey, our common sense minister.on civil service diversity initiatives. this all started with a column she wrote on sunday. and there's a piece in the guardian online on it as well. what are they saying, andy? >> yeah that's right. so estimate they gave a speech yesterday where she was talking about, cracking down on what she describes as inappropriate back door political politicisation of the civil service, she says that in particular, there is a culture of, civil servants , culture of, civil servants, across all government departments, being too interested in putting forward their political views. and she particularly mentioned this got a lot of pick up on social media, people wearing lanyards that express political views or views about certain issues . i views about certain issues. i mean, i just think this is a classic example of a government that's run out of ideas . if that's run out of ideas. if you're really prioritising saying people shouldn't be wearing lanyards anymore . wearing lanyards anymore. >> i mean