welcome back to gbn. tonight. i'm christopher hope.cellor, rachel reeves , has chancellor, rachel reeves, has quietly binned the previous tory government's plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs, according to treasury documents unearthed by the telegraph this week . labour the telegraph this week. labour has reversed the freeze on whitehall recruitment and no longer intends to reduce the civil service headcount to pre—covid levels. this is despite the overall size of whitehall, swelling from 480,000in 2020 to 280,000in 2023, up by 100,000 since the brexit vote in 2016. it comes as ms reeves has been telling departments to find £3 billion in efficiency savings. is this the right call? joining me now is my panel, gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, an associate commentator at the telegraph moutaz ahmed, is it moutaz ? is it moutaz? >> is it? >> is it? >> it's not. it's unwinding all of those efforts to cut the size of those efforts to cut the size of the literally the size of the state by people like jacob rees—mogg, remem

welcome back to gbn. tonight. i'm christopher hope.ncellor, rachel reeves , has chancellor, rachel reeves, has quietly binned the previous tory government's plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs, according to treasury documents unearthed by the telegraph this week . labour the telegraph this week. labour has reversed the freeze on whitehall recruitment and no longer intends to reduce the civil service headcount to pre—covid levels. this is despite the overall size of whitehall, swelling from 480,000in 2020 to 280,000in 2023, up by 100,000 since the brexit vote in 2016. it comes as ms reeves has been telling departments to find £3 billion in efficiency savings. is this the right call? joining me now is my panel, gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, an associate commentator at the telegraph moutaz ahmed, is it moutaz ? is it moutaz? >> is it? >> is it? >> it's not. it's unwinding all of those efforts to cut the size of those efforts to cut the size of the literally the size of the state by people like jacob rees—mogg, reme

and this is gbn. tonight is hope and this is gbn. tonight is the relationship between unions and labour mps. a healthy one.7 it and labour mps. a healthy one? it emerged today that since the election. yes since the election was called in may, 213 labour mps received £18 million in donations from union leaders. this comes after the government has been offering inflation busting pay rises to millions of pubuc busting pay rises to millions of public sector workers, many of whom are members of unions, and it emerged today that the labour government is looking at a new law to ensure that trade unions will be free to strike, even if most of their members do not vote for one and a small, peaceful anti—immigration protest prompted officers from five different police forces, including the met, to swarm to bournemouth town centre. is this adequate resourcing or a knee jerk reaction? after the riots which followed the killings in southport? and as part of labour's plan to overhaul workers rights, employees contacted outside of office hours may

let me know your thoughts by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay welcome back to gbn tonight with me , to gbn, christopher hope. now, donald trump once claimed that he was a confident that he was the queen's favourite guest ever. well, today, revelations about the presidential hopeful have painted him in quite a different picture. a new biography written by critic craig brown, entitled a voyage around the queen, has hit the headlines by claiming the queen once found trump very rude. brown writes a few weeks after president trump's visit for instance, she confided in one lunch guest that she found him very rude. she particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder. yeah, that is annoying, isn't it? as though in search of others. more interesting . she others. more interesting. she also believed, according to craig brown, that president trump must have some sort of arrangement with his wife melania, or else why would she have remained married to him? well, joining me now to discuss these damning revelations is former royal butler grant, harold grant. great to have you on

dionne, thank you so much forjoining me on gbn tonight . firstly, if it's on gbn tonight.to talk about this, how did you feel when you opened that letter ? opened that letter? >> i think i went through every single emotion going emotions. i didn't even have shocked , angry, didn't even have shocked, angry, just disbelief. really >> we're showing the letter on screen now, dionne, and it's from a victim liaison officer. and they say that that they are blaming issues with the prison population. the lord chancellor, that's shobana mahmood, has announced plans to introduce a change of law to allow some prisoners serving a determinate sentence to sentence to be released on licence early. that means having served 40%, not 50% of their term. so the probation service is saying this is down to labour. the labour government making a choice here. do you understand why they're making this choice ? this choice? >> it's just not really. it's absolutely crazy. they've got spaces for writers. not that i agree with the writers, but they've got places for them . why they've got places for th

welcome to gbn. tonight i'm martin daubney.ow it's the sleaze scandal that simply will not go away. and now keir starmer's biggest personal donor is under fire for having unrestricted access to the corridors of number 10 after it emerged that lord alli was given a downing street pass despite having no official role in government. now it's the latest in a series of controversial appointments across government , appointments across government, with several labour insiders given plum jobs in the civil service despite whitehall's supposed commitment to impartiality. now labour were supposed to end the sleaze and cronyism, yet now it seems a few quid to the right people gets you through the door. is this rank hypocrisy, or just the way that whitehall works? well, to get our teeth stuck into this? joining me now in the studio is the former political editor of the sun, the legend trevor kavanagh, and the former labour adviser matthew torbett. gentlemen, welcome to the show. why don't we start with you, matthew? as a former labour advi

welcome back to gbn tonight with me, christopher. hope you've beenin me, christopher. your well lot, in touch with your views. i asked you to let me know what you do to stop your boss bothering you out of hours, fred says, i've had phone calls from my boss while laying in a&e. richard says even some of us at the bottom in quotes prefer to take responsibility too, and be kept in the loop. not often i agree with nigel, but he has it spot on tonight. one of your unnamed says story, same as usual. those who are more flexible will climb the ladder. those who don't won't. and the fourth viewer says a person unprepared to deal with an office work out of hours would most likely not be the sort of person to find themselves in that position in the first place. right? moving on. after weeks of uncertainty of who is going to take on donald trump today, the democrats will unveil their candidate to beat the former republican president, donald trump, kamala harris, at the democratic national convention in chicago will be unveiled later tonight. it's running from today until thursday.

i'm martin daubney and this is gbn. tonight on today's show , gbn.ht on today's show, one of london's busiest tourist hotspots was struck with terror today after two people, including an 11 year old girl, were stabbed in broad daylight in leicester square. we'll be getting the latest on that story in just a moment. and a former m16 in just a moment. and a former mi6 officer warns that nigel farage may be on a watch list and scrutinised following rioting across the uk. if this is true, security services could be in the breach of the wilson doctrine. plus, riots have erupted in a small norfolk village over the union flag, and some say it signifies nationalism and is a symbol against immigration. of course they do. well, we'll be speaking to a former mp who called for the former government to create a minister for the protection of flags . flags. so we've got an action packed show, and it's your show as much as mine. so please do get in touch with your thoughts on tonight's topics by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. get them in and i'll read out the best be

so until then, it is gbn tonight with christopher hope this evening. you through the next hour. i've been emily carver. this is dewbs& co >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. very good evening to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office . plenty of the met office. plenty of showers as we go through tomorrow, and some blustery gusty winds too. but before then there's a lot of cloud. there's a lot of rain because of a frontal system that's already made its way in from the west. and as we go through the next 12 hours or so, it's going to continue to push east and southeastwards, bringing quite a wet story across many parts of england and wales for a time. with that rain feeding into the southeast as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning behind it, there will be some clear skies around, but also some showery bursts, especially across parts of scotland. temperatures not dropping a huge amount. in fact, in the southeast it is going to be another warm night, some p

i'm martin daubney and this is gbn. tonight on today's show , gbn.how, one of london's busiest tourist hotspots was struck with terror today after two people, including an 11 year old girl, were stabbed in broad daylight in leicester square. we'll be getting the latest on that story in just a moment. and a former mi6 officer warns that nigel farage may be on a watch list and scrutinised following rioting across the uk. if this is true, security services could be in the breach of the wilson doctrine. plus, riots have erupted in a small norfolk village over the union flag, and some say it signifies nationalism and is a symbol against immigration. of course they do. well, we'll be speaking to a former mp who called for the former government to create a minister for the protection of flags . flags. so we've got an action packed show, and it's your show as much as mine. so please do get in touch with your thoughts on tonight's topics by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. get them in and i'll read out the best before the end of the show. but before the end of th

do not go anywhere because at 7:00, you've got gbn tonight. but that's all from me.e you tomorrow night . tomorrow night. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hi there, time for the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. an unsettled 36 to 48 hour period to come for many parts of the uk. a series of low pressure systems queuing up to arrive from the atlantic, one heading towards iceland , another heading towards iceland, another one containing the remnants of ex—hurricane ernesto. that means, although it's a fairly typical area of low pressure that we see in the north atlantic at this time of year, it does contain air of tropical origins and a lot of moisture . origins and a lot of moisture. all that moisture will be dumped over western scotland , northwest over western scotland, northwest england, parts of wales and northern ireland overnight and the winds will pick up as well, with gales 50 to 60 mile per houn with gales 50 to 60 mile per hour. wind gusts around the irish sea coast first thing thursday, as well a

. >> i'm martin daubney and this is gbn tonight. tonight's top story.nment has been hit with not one, but two scandals in one month. fresh accusations have emerged as a labour donor who paid for the prime minister's suit was handed a number 10 pass for reasons downing street is refusing to explain. and seven years after the tragedy of the grenfell tower , a building in grenfell tower, a building in dagenham was set ablaze after its unsafe cladding also caught fire. it's been reported that only a

. >> i'm martin daubney and this is gbn tonight. tonight's top story.nment has been hit with not one, but two scandals in one month. fresh accusations have emerged as a labour donor who paid for the prime minister's suit was handed a number 10 pass for reasons downing street is refusing to explain. and seven years after the tragedy of the grenfell tower , a building in grenfell tower, a building in dagenham was set ablaze after its unsafe cladding also caught fire. it's been reported that only a quarter of buildings with life threatening cladding problems have been remediated. >> i'll be speaking to the former labour mp of kensington, who was in position during the grenfell disaster, to ask her has anything changed or any lessons been learned? next up, notting hill carnival's family day saw three stabbings, including of a mother with her child who is now said to be in a critical a life threatening condition this weekend. the metropolitan police admitted that the carnival was seen as an opportunity to commit crime. is it time to ditch the carnival ? it t

i've been presenting gbn tonight. next up, state of the nation.burkill . burkill. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> good evening. here's your latest met office weather forecast for gb news storm lilian is knocking on the door andifs lilian is knocking on the door and it's going to bring some unseasonably wet and windy weather to many parts, but particularly in the north as we go through the rest of today overnight into tomorrow, there is a system that's coming in from the west and it's this that is storm lilian already bringing some very wet weather across northern ireland this evening, and that heavy rain and the strong winds will feed into parts of scotland, england and wales as we go overnight. the highest rainfall totals likely to be across parts of southwest scotland. also some eastern coastal parts where a bit of flooding and some disruption. quite likely the wind, the rain. the cloud will keep temperatures up so a relatively warm but very wet and windy start to the day for many of us on frid

brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on >> good evening, i'm christopher hope and this is gbncooper has claimed she will lock up and deport more migrants. labour planned to deport a record number of migrants and create extra spaces in immigration removal centres , which it once removal centres, which it once dubbed as immoral. but will this be enough to stop the boats? and were they right to act the tory government's rwanda plan . in government's rwanda plan. in last night's show, we revealed how ministers plan to release 2000 criminals, including those convicted on violent crimes like manslaughter, before they've even served half of their term in prison early next month. well, tonight i'll be speaking to a mother who was contacted by the ministry of justice, and we've got the letter to tell her that her son's killer will walk free in a matter of weeks . plus, free in a matter of weeks. plus, the mass murdering nurse lucy letby could be innocent. according to former culture secretary nadine dorries . i'll secretary nadine dorries. i'll be speaking to her shortly . be speaking

i'm christopher hope and this is gbn. tonight is the relationship between unions and labour mps. since the election. yes since the election was called in may, 213 labour mps received £1.8 million in donations from union leaders. this comes after the government has been offering inflation busting pay rises to millions of pubuc busting pay rises to millions of public sector workers, many of whom are members of unions, and it emerged today that the labour government is looking at a new law to ensure that trade unions will be free to strike, even if most of their members do not vote for one and a small, peaceful anti—immigration protest prompted officers from five different police forces, including the met, to swarm to bournemouth town centre. is this adequate resourcing or a knee jerk reaction? after the riots which followed the killings in southport? and as part of labour's plan to overhaul workers rights, employees contacted outside of office hours may be entitled to compensation. but what will the right to switch off mean for businesses? or is this a sop to gen z workers who don'

now, if you haven't had enough of me on this bank holiday monday, i'm back on gbn tonight, 7:00 tillred that a lot today. there were 90 arrests last night. there were a bunch of stabbings . one was a life of stabbings. one was a life threatening incident. is it time to lose the notting hill carnival? or at least to move it into a safer venue? that's all coming up. i'll be back 7 to 8, but now it's time for your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello there! welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. it's a bit of a northwest southeast split over the next 24 hours. wet and windy weather moving in from the atlantic but temperatures rising in the sunshine towards the southeast. high pressure here keeping it largely settled, but low pressure moving in from the atlantic will bring some wet and windy weather across northern and western areas for the next few days. across the uk for monday evening. plenty of dry weather across england and wales, however, turning wetter and windier across northern ireland into scotland as this nex