everyone thought james cleverly— three. everyone thought james cleverly would come top. ly would come top. he is not here, not one of the candidates who knows? no one knows — candidates who knows? no one knows what will happen but somewhere right now, kemi badenoch and robert jenrick are finding _ badenoch and robert jenrick are finding out privately who has won — finding out privately who has won the _ finding out privately who has won the conservative leadership election— won the conservative leadership election and then they will come _ election and then they will come down here, put on their test— come down here, put on their best poker face and act surprised.— best poker face and act surrised. ~ , , surprised. we will be bringing ou a surprised. we will be bringing you a special— surprised. we will be bringing you a special programme - surprised. we will be bringing you a special programme on | surprised. we will be bringing i you a special programme on bbc news and on bbc two on the tory leadership race result and that result coming out after 11 o'clock. i will be b

and james cleverly , boats.erly, stupidly said the numbers were coming down after a period of very bad weather. we've seen the numbers today, sure, since starmer came to power, 6000 more have gone into hotels. that's his problem. but going back to your period , the bill for your period, the bill for illegal migrants in the last year rose by 36%. and yesterday we had kemi badenoch, you know, robotically reading off an autocue, saying, we're going to get this sorted. why should anyone believe you guys ever ' 7 m. again? >> well, if we want to talk about my record, nigel, and you know that i'm very fond of you as well. and so these are not necessarily the easiest conversations for us to have . conversations for us to have. but the fact is, i took through the house of commons and through parliament, the nationality and borders act and the changes that were introduced through that legislation did a number of things, but one of them was to make it a much more robust consideration of asylum claims. and again, the figur

. >> james cleverly . >> james cleverly. before. >> james cleverly. before. >> before the election.e claimed that he would not put up national insurance contributions . he put insurance contributions. he put it up before the election. he claimed he would scrap tuition fees. he put it up before the election. he said he would not tax family farms. he's taxing family farms. will he address his party's growing reputation for dishonesty by making good on his commitment to close the wethersfield asylum accommodation centre? in my constituency ? constituency? >> mr speaker, we are keeping the promises we made in our manifesto . his his problem is he manifesto. his his problem is he can't add up. if he could add up, he might be down here rather than up there. and we'll take up the issue of his constituency. douglas mcallister . douglas mcallister. >> hear, hear. >> hear, hear. >> thank you, mr speaker. monday of this week marked the seven year anniversary of my constituent, jagtar singh jewel's arbitrary detention in india. can the prime minister assure me that he and his government will do

well, first you account for all the people who don't want to serve rishi sunak, jeremy hunt, james cleverlyat the weekend going to the back benches. steve barclay has been the shadow environment secretary in the cabinets for the last three prime ministers. he's just announced he wants to be a backbencher. i'm told there's a good dozen or so more in that mind. ok, so that takes you down to about 100. there's a few select committee chairs, that takes you to the high 905, and so on and so on. there's a good 15 or so. as one tory said to me, no leader of the conservative party would want them on the front bench. so you end up with a very small number of people who kemi badenoch needs to forge an opposition from. and she said there in that clip, we heard that that is the first task of the conservative party to be a functional opposition. but when they have so few mps as a consequence of their defeat at the last general election, ijust think the mechanics of opposing this government now that people will have higher expectations than they have done in this interim phase of them actually being a co

. - but what did strike me this . week was when james cleverly stood up from the back benches, who clearlya job - in the shadow cabinet because he said he didn't want one. - the guy that didn't even make it to the final two| in the conservative leadership contest — just listen to the reaction from the commons. - you know, i think the danger. for kemi badenoch at this point and it's very early, it's very early - in her leadership, but that what she hasl potentially got is a guy on the backbenches who will be seen by some as a sort - of prince across - the water if things. the water if things, if she cannot keep a united l party, a parliamentary party behind her and kind of force that relevance which she, i which she needs to do. and so interesting - that he did have prime it's just the presence. it was the, it was the very visible presence of him i in prime minister's questions that struck me this week. - there's the same point from a different political perspective as well, which is when you look at the makeup of the shadow cabinet, firstly, it leans heavily in the direction of those who b

i didn't realise that james cleverly had put so much work into lining up this deal.ise this was a shoe that was about to drop. so we had the islands, the island to mauritius get a 99 year lease on the military base diogo jota diego garcia, which is my fake name online and it's a, it's a 99 years means that this government is never going to have to deal with any of the impact when we get close to losing this as a military place. i thought what they should do is ask the people actually involved. people from the chagos islands. turns out they've all been moved to crawley as if they haven't suffered enough . and i haven't suffered enough. and i say that as someone who used to do drivetime on 102.7 mercury fm, i know crawley, but deep down i don't know whether whether the outcome is good or not. what i do know is it should have been run through parliament. we have a parliamentary democracy. you want to make something, you run it past the people who represent us and get to vote for it. they wouldn't have done a three line whip. we could have actually had a vote on this. >>

just peddung on alastair campbell's lap, just peddling out stuff, pontificating about how great james cleverlyuld have been. >> i've never met rory stewart, and i'm no apologist for him, but i think for you to say that make that sweeping statement that he that he wouldn't know an ordinary person if he tripped over one and wouldn't want to trip over one is pure speculation. >> i'll back it up. i agree with patrick. >> you agree? have you met rory stewart? no, and i don't want to. >> i would have come to his pub. i don't want to meet patrick. these. these people. as i said earlier, these people, these people start saying these people you are. hold on. one second. >> demonising them. you are patronising them. and you are, you are. you are setting nina. you're setting up divisive . you're setting up divisive. >> nina. >> nina. >> one second, nina one second. nina . nina. >> nina saying that. >> nina saying that. >> no, i won't stop saying this because just a few weeks ago, you labelled me and patrick as lunatics for saying that we supported trump, of course. >> and i still think you are. absolutel

you know, james cleverly banned most postgraduate dependents and social care dependents. know, tweeted about with the salary thresholds . but at the salary thresholds. but at the end of the day, neither the tory or labour parties believe in a cap on visas. in fact, the tory party got rid of theresa may's cap on non—european migrants. and ultimately, without a cap, there's no control. and that's there's no control. and that's the only realistic way of bringing numbers down. >> well, i think that's very interesting because we do have with us in the studio. tom pursglove, former conservative member of parliament and minister in the immigration department. i'm also joined by susie stride , former labour susie stride, former labour party adviser and activist . so party adviser and activist. so tom pursglove , i mean, these tom pursglove, i mean, these figures are from the last year of your government. they're awful. >> well, i thought the numbers were too high, and that's why we got on and did something about it. and james cleverly is home secretary and me as the illegal as th

we have heard from james cleverly who was already said i'm not going to serve in the shadow cabinet ofill seems to be bubbling over, henry? it seems to be bubbling over, hen ? , ., ., , ., seems to be bubbling over, hen ? ,., ., ., henry? it is going to be a real challenge _ henry? it is going to be a real challenge for— henry? it is going to be a real challenge for the _ henry? it is going to be a real challenge for the next - challenge for the next conservative leader, just because there is only 121 conservative mps and there is about — conservative mps and there is about that many shadow positions to fill so actually if positions to fill so actually it you _ positions to fill so actually if you have senior people like jeremy— if you have senior people like jeremy hunt not serving in the shadow— jeremy hunt not serving in the shadow cabinet, you will end up with some — shadow cabinet, you will end up with some tory mps with two or three _ with some tory mps with two or three shadow portfolios just to keep— three shadow portfolios just to keep up— three shadow portfolios just to keep

certainly, after the former foreign secretary james cleverly was knocked out in the final round of votingve mps, who had the job of narrowing down the field of candidates to two. it's been a marathon contest and the shrunken ranks of conservative mps will hope tory members pick a leader who can effectively take the opposition to labour in parliament and begin to rebuild their battered party. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. our political correspondent helen cattjoins us now. morning, helen. iwas morning, helen. i was using morning, helen. iwas using my fingers, july, august, september, october stop for months. it has been a long contest. it october stop for months. it has been a long contest-— a long contest. it started on the 24th ofjuly. _ a long contest. it started on the 24th of july, that's _ a long contest. it started on the 24th ofjuly, that's when - 24th ofjuly, that's when nominations opened, and initially there was quite a wide field with five candidates through their hat into the ring if you could remember, tom tugendhat, robertjenrick, priti patel, mel stride, james cleverly

the conservative party being announced tomorrow morning, the financial times is reporting that james cleverly't sit on the front bench for the new leader. mr cleverly was one of the six candidates initially in the six candidates initially in the contest. he has now reportedly said he will return to the backbenches when robert jenrick or kemi badenoch take up the role . the new tory leader is the role. the new tory leader is set to be announced at around 11 am. tomorrow morning, and you a.m. tomorrow morning, and you can watch all of that unfold here on gb news. can watch all of that unfold here on gb news . those can watch all of that unfold here on gb news. those are can watch all of that unfold here on gb news . those are the here on gb news. those are the latest gb news headlines. let's go back to patrick for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . alerts. >> welcome along! if farmers were as heartless as junior doctors, they'd go on strike and use their leverage to starve starmer int

admittedly, in negotiations first opened by james cleverly, which opened the door to china's spies and military filling the vacuum on the indian ocean islands. now, though, get this. us president elect donald trump looks set to throw a big fat spanner in the works by torpedoing lammy and starmer's deal that was eventually approved by joe biden. trump is reportedly taking legal advice from the pentagon on how to kill the deal off with a one. nigel farage being named as the man who's been piling on the pressure behind the scenes. and a source from trump's transition team said today trump has expressed a stance in principle to object to the deal if elected on the advice of the department of defence based on their global security posture. nigel was today asked about the rumours and he simply said it's happening. so what's clear now? if it wasn't before , is that if it wasn't before, is that nigel farage has the ear of the next us president, a man he has remained loyal to even when it was unfashionable to do so back in 2016. however, the prime minister asked sir keir starmer doesn't seem to

conservative party being announced on saturday morning, the financial times is reporting that james cleverlywon't sit on the front bench for the new leader. mr cleverly was one of six candidates initially in the contest . one of six candidates initially in the contest. he has now reportedly said he will return to the backbenches when robert jenrick or kemi badenoch take up the role. the new tory leader is set to be announced at around 11 am. on saturday morning. you can watch all of that unfold here on gb news. can watch all of that unfold here on gb news . those can watch all of that unfold here on gb news. those are your latest gb news headlines. now it's latest gb news headlines. now wsfime latest gb news headlines. now it's time for headliners for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at saturday's top stories with three comedians. i'm stephen allen and with me tonight we've got leo kearse and nick dixon. first things f

jeremy hunt, the former chancellor and shadow chancellor , chancellor and shadow chancellor, james cleverlyme secretary and rishi sunak. that's almost a mount rushmore of senior players on the top jobs. i think in the last tory government they are all clearing off to the backbenches, leaving the field open to new names. so we have now. laura trott confirmed as the secretary of state for education, neil o'brien , education, neil o'brien, crucially, a supporter of robert jenrick . of course, he lost out jenrick. of course, he lost out in the leadership at the weekend to 1510 00:11:08,904

james cleverly won't be part of the new shadow shadow team. jeremy hunts off.hi sunak, i'm sure is in yorkshire, not the frontbench, with oliver dowden probably. certainly not. you have to create a new team, don't you? around the new leader. >> well, look, the process of any party, any human talent organisation is obviously renewing its talent over time . renewing its talent over time. but but all of the people you've mentioned have said that they're going to make a contribution from the backbenches. all of them are as motivated as anyone could ever be to unite the right to get us back into government, obviously learn the mistakes as well that were made in the past. so i have no, i actually have no concerns on that score. this labour government is such a horror show. that budget absolutely showed where their values are. and there is a very clear difference between what the direction they're leading the direction they're leading the country and the direction all of the conservative members of parliament and the wider party want to go in a quick one. >> what job

so we'll be seeing james cleverly when he was home secretary. the measures he put in place a year ago that should transfer to figures next year. but what did you do when you were home secretary. >> well listen i went into the home office in the autumn of 2022, and i went in focused and determined and horrified by the scale of the problem. at that stage, we had just had the figures from the ons in the july of 2022, at which point the numbers had topped 1 million for the first time. we had issued 1.1 million work and study visas , 1.1 million work and study visas, and i thought that was horrific. i went in in the autumn of 2022 determined to turn the tide, and i set out a whole package of measures like raising the salary threshold, restricting the number of dependents, restricting the graduate route, which is a massive incentive rest

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certainly after the former foreign secretary, james cleverly, was knocked out in the final round of votingwing down the field of candidates to two. it's been a marathon contest, and the shrunken ranks of conservative mps will hope tory members pick a leader who can effectively take the opposition to labour in parliament and begin to rebuild their battered party. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. let's speak to our chief political correspondent henry zeffman. we will be tracking that story. henry will be finding out in just a short while from now. take as to how the contest has shaped up to now. it take as to how the contest has shaped up to now.— take as to how the contest has shaped up to now. it has been a very long _ shaped up to now. it has been a very long contest, _ shaped up to now. it has been a very long contest, i _ shaped up to now. it has been a very long contest, i have - shaped up to now. it has been a very long contest, i have to - very long contest, i have to say. almost four months since the general election and rishi sunak resigned as conservative party leader and of cou