kemi badenoch. she's leader of an increasingly irrelevant party called the tories. oh, sorry. e're not allowed to bash kemi on here because she doesn't like it. sorry, kemi. sorry. we all love kemi and she's written this piece and you know she's saying we want to honour brexit. she points out that keir starmer tried to block it 48 times. fair enough. you know he's not keen on it and she says he's going to get us back into the eu. red tape, fishing rights and freedom of movement suddenly will be the freedom of movement will be back. and she says look at the chagos islands. this is the guy we're going to have negotiating for. he likes to give away stuff. and i think that's a fairly compelling argument. the issue against kemi, of course, issue against kemi, of course, is always that she was there the whole time. the tories weren't taking advantage of brexit, except to bring in the boris wave of waves and waves of useless immigration. some would say i wouldn't say something like that, but right wingers say things like that. and also today on twitter, she was getting a little bit of

kemi badenoch tory party has announced a tangible policy. jobless and low paid migrants will be barred from indefinitely settling in the uk. but is this all too little, too late? we'll be debating what it means for the tories and reform. i'll also be joined tonight by britain's strictest headteacher, katharine birbalsingh, following the publication of a very hard hitting open letter to labour education secretary bridget phillipson. we'll be hearing her views about what is going wrong in our education system. and as donald trump is busy tearing up the international liberal consensus, i'll be speaking to world leading geopolitics expert ed husain about trump's controversial plans for the middle east. plus, as the bank of england cuts interest rates, its new report spells out an alarming forecast for the year ahead as the government faces a growing crisis of confidence. that's state of the nation tonight with me, matt goodwin starts right now. now i'll also be joined tonight by my top panel founder of novara media, aaron bastani and political c

electoral test of this wretched government of kemi badenoch tory leadership, which, let's be honest, isn't going particularly well. and of reform, which is the partyas momentum. yeah. and people are going to be denied that chance. i think it's an outrage and i'm amazed there's not a bigger hue and cry because we should really be jumping. well, we are jumping up and down on this station. i don't say you hear them jumping up and down much on others because some people say, oh, local government is boring. actually it isn't. >> it's so important. it is the issues that affect all of us every day. you know, your local one way system is disrupted. can you park near your local supermarket you park near your

party into a full blown meltdown? reform uk, with just five mps, held a massive rally today in kemi badenoch own constituency, north west essex. and they're not just talking about overthrowing the toriesthey're coming for badenoch seat. that's right. reform is targeting the heart on the head even of the tory party, andifs the head even of the tory party, and it's no surprise they're surging in the po