the labour party, she heard from steve reed, the labour party environment secretary, said some of theiratic party as individuals but that's not the same as the labour party operating for the democrat party. there is also is a precedent for volunteers, in fact conservatives volunteer for the republicans and conservatives who have volunteered in the past for the democrats because of the way the us political spectrum is perhaps all shifted a bit to the right from the uk. 0f the right from the uk. of course there is nigel farage, the leader of the reform party, now a reform mp who has been a big campaignerfor donald big campaigner for donald trump, big campaignerfor donald trump, primarily before he became an mp but he was out there at the republican national convention in the summer relatively recently after he got elected as an mp. if you ask labour people they would say this has just been happening for years. but what hasn't happened before and what hasn't happened before and what hasn't been happening for years is a diplomatic spat like this and that's why it is more serious. and that's

a statement from the trump—vance campaign says "the far—left labour party has inspired kamala s dangerouslyeral policies and rhetoric. labour officials say activists who've been campaigning for kamala harris are doing so in a personal capacity and are not organised orfunded by the party. for context, a foreign national can participate in campaign activities as long as they are not being paid for it. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. donald j trump! us election interference by the labour party — the claim being made by donald trump's campaign that britain's ruling party and kamala harris�* campaign have broken the law. in a six—page letter to the us election watchdog — the federal election commission — a lawyer for the trump campaign cites media reports about contact between labour and the harris campaign, and requests an immediate investigation into blatant foreign interference with apparent illegal foreign national contributions made by the labour party. the row revolves around efforts by labour to send volunteers to the states to help kamala harris. the letter cites thi

blatant foreign interference with apparent illegal foreign national contributions made by the labour partyefforts by labour to send volunteers to the states to help kamala harris. the letter cites this now deleted post on the networking site linkedin, apparently from a senior labour official saying ten spots were available to travel to the us and the party would "sort" housing for volunteers. the trump campaign says that suggests labour is financially supporting volunteers. it is not illegal for foreign nationals to campaign in us elections, but they cannot be paid for it. in a statement, the trump campaign said kamala harris and her running mate tim walz were seeking foreign influence to boost what it called their radical message. donald trump's former ambassador to germany, richard grenell, who is tipped to be part of the former president's new administration, if he wins the election, told newsnight it was a slippery slope for labour. i think it is a really dangerous precedent to have the ruling party of an ally somehow playing politics, getting involved in the actual campaigning with su

should drop her. >> no, it's not a labour party issue., a labour mp. >> she's a labour mp. i mean, you know, there have been far less serious things that have gone out that have been seen. the labour party demanding, they're demanding the resignation of any conservative who's done anything like this. you have to concede, paul. this feels like she's got out of jail . feels like she's got out of jail. >> disagree. she's going to come under a lot of scrutiny for this. and she has got to now look at her own internal processes as what how this happenedin processes as what how this happened in the first place. it's obviously unacceptable. and you know , she didn't make the you know, she didn't make the video did she. but she obviously repeated something without checking out under her name. >> she's a member of parliament. if nigel farage has done anything even remotely in the same ballpark, you know, she'd be leading the pitchforks. >> she's not she's not standing by it. and saying, yes, these are great heroes. she said. these are terrible peop

the labour party told us those with _ the labour party told us those with the — the labour party toldthe broadest shoulders are going to have to help undo the crazy— going to have to help undo the crazy damage of 14 years of conservative rule and the labour _ conservative rule and the labour party needs to relax and have _ labour party needs to relax and have talks — labour party needs to relax and have talks about this and not overcomplicate it. do have talks about this and not overcomplicate it.— have talks about this and not overcomplicate it. do you think that the labour _ overcomplicate it. do you think that the labour party, - overcomplicate it. do you think that the labour party, the - that the labour party, the government is still actually working on the precise definition of a working person ahead of wednesday, is that still a work in progress because keir starmer was talking about writing checks, i don't think many people actually write checks any more? they don't. let's be clear. no political— they don't. let's be clear. no political party in the recent past — political par

got a statement from the labour party, says that mike - labour party, says that mike amesbury has beenlso lose the labour whip means he will also lose the labourwhip in means he will also lose the labour whip in the house of commons, the full statement reads, mike amesbury has been assisting cheshire police with their inquiries following an incident on friday night. as these inquiries are ongoing, these inquiries are ongoing, the labour party has administratively suspended mike amesbury�*s membership of the labour party pending an investigation. this follows new video that emerged today seemingly from security camera footage that appeared to show mike amesbury punching a man in the street. two men exchanged words and the labour mp hits the man in the jaw and knocked into the ground. mike amesbury appears to continue to punch him a further five times while he is on the floor before members of the public intervene. that follows separate video footage that emerged yesterday of the altercation, that showed mike amesbury shouting at a man who was already on the ground and it was not clear a

they are complaining both against the british labour party and the kamala harris campaign. ng and accepting illegalforeign national contributions. they focus in on and a shot in the letter of a now deleted it seems linkedin post by a labour party official, who talks about 100 current and former staff members, heading to the united states to help with the kamala harris campaign. it says there are ten spots still available, in other words, inviting people to come forward, labour party activists, if they want to fill those particular spots. the key line seems to be that the housing needs of those individuals will be covered. there is no explanation of exactly how that would happen but that is what the trump campaign has focused in on, suggesting that the labour party is in some way finding this effort. is this different from prominent uk politicians like liz truss and nigel farage showing up at the republican national convention earlier this year? essentially, it is not any different and there's nothing unusual about political activists in different countries, travelling to ano

the labour party is not appropriate . labour party is not appropriate.r starmer is anti—british. this is his preparedness, his completely typical of you. >> it is completely outrageous. every time you say it. someone who disagrees with you, ben, does not make them anti—british. it just means that they disagree with you. it's completely. you have no monopoly over what it means to be british or pro—british. i find it profoundly offensive that you seek to define patriotism in your own image alone. that is actually, ironically enough, anti—british in itself. anti —british in itself. >> anti—british in itself. >> well, let me just tell you, our prime minister wishes this country to be governed from brussels. >> he's prepared to take. >> he's prepared to take. >> he's prepared to take. >> he's not even trying to get us back into the single market, for goodness sake. >> he was caught off camera when he thought he was off camera in montreal in september 2023, saying, if i'm elected prime minister, i will align us completely with the european union. >> do you thi

that was meant to make us think positively about the labour party . i do about the labour party. it was in foreign policy disaster. >> in fairness, in fairness, i don't think they think chagos was actually there for as a positive for labour. it was something that had to be done. the question obviously, is whether they should have done it this week when parliament had returned, given that they had a bit of a rollicking from the speaker today, trevor, all eyes of course, are on october the 30th. >> that's really the main event. and we're expecting to brace for a lot of pain , particularly a lot of pain, particularly pensioners, motorists, anybody , pensioners, motorists, anybody, perhaps the gas boiler, who knows where this will end . knows where this will end. pensioners, savers, isas , a lot pensioners, savers, isas, a lot of people getting very, very concerned. with that in mind. is there any way that the labour party can spin anything positive out of any of this? can they pull a rabbit out of the hat and make people like them again? >> well, i think that actually rachel reeves

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yes, flying at labour party conference, so the they were equally as involved in the campaign as the the jewish chronicle, absolutely. well, our next report surveys the jewish chronicles downward spiral into the gutter under its previous and current editors. the jewish chronicle is known for acting as mouth piece for the israel lobby. while it has supported the zinis regime for many years, it began to acquire its current infamy around 2008, that was when stephen polard, previously a columnist with the daily express tabloid, became the jewish chronicles editor. paul's pro israel and anti-muslim biases were clear from the beginning. only two years before becoming the jewish chronicles editor, polard had written the made of veil manifesto where he spoke about the need to preserve western civilization from so-called islamist. as editor of the jewish chronicle, he published racist screeds against muslims. the anti-palestinian islamophobic journalist douglas murray, has been repeatedly featured in the paper. so to has melanie phillips, a pro israel writer who has stoked islamophobia throughout

it's very helpful to the labour party helps the labour party win on 33% of the vote. >> i mean, yes,and no. of course. you know, i it is no secret that i'm undercover here at the conservative conference wearing my tory blue. but i think it is an important thing for democracy to have a functioning opposition, which we don't have at the moment, obviously, because rishi sunak is kind of operating a bit of a ghost ship, but i think i would rather see a strong opposition in the conservative party to give the people of britain a genuine chance of democracy and of seeing what the right have to offer. obviously, i want that. >> should we learn from what happenedin >> should we learn from what happened in the 1980s to labour, because actually labour turned into the sdp effectively with tony blair. but as long as the sdp was around, they could not win elections. and so the tories get massive majorities in 83 and 87 each time on a slightly lower share of the vote than they'd got in 79. >> i think that's something worth noting . but, you know, if worth noting. but, you know, if you look at labou

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and the labour party have handed it away. chris, is this the direction of travel of the labor party? are they dnven of the labor party? are they driven by things like post—colonial guilt, you know, anti—racism, giving away parts of our territory to try and make out they're the good guys and actual fact they made a key strategic blunder . strategic blunder. >> it's a bit more complicated than that because this has been an issue going back about a decade or so now, over time, we've lost the support of the international community for our claim on the british, indian indian ocean territories as they're formally called, the chagos islands. we have a base on there called diego garcia, which in which we refuel and look after our nuclear submarine fleet. bombing raids were launched from the from the diego garcia base, us bombing raids to bomb afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. but we have we have lost a unanimous vote in the house in the in the united nafions the house in the in the united nations about our claim to those isl

throughout this long journey, the dominating row has been donald trump and the labour party.senior figures in the labour party have spent ages courting the inner circle of donald trump. so the prime minister and the foreign secretary, david lammy, had dinner with mr trump at trump tower in new york around about a month ago. david lammy has also got to knoij vance, who is the vice presidential pick for donald trump. and the prime minister, was granted a call very soon after mr trump survived that assassination attempt back in the summer. so there's been a real attempt to build bridges, and that diplomatically makes sense, doesn't it, with any potential imminent us president. but particularly one that keir starmer, until recently, had not met, and someone who is as unpredictable and outspoken as mr trump. now the context here matters. there's an election campaign going on, but precedent matters, too. and mr trump often has a long memory when he feels there's been a slight against him. and remember this, injust two weeks' time, keir starmer could be ringing president elect trump

one of the government's mps has quit the labour party in disgust.dministration continues to speak of its commitment to economic growth. but has that been helped by making public sector pay awards without agreements to improve productivity, by increasing the power of trade unions and by giving employees rights from the first day? what do we think, matthew? do we think that labour is achieving its agenda of trying to grow the economy from which everything else will follow? >> well, the problem with trying to grow the economy is it doesn't happen instantly. i mean, what i've been struck by. and so i think they've laid some of the fundamentals, the planning reform, you know , et planning reform, you know, et cetera. those sort of big long term decisions , they've made the term decisions, they've made the right decision, the right music. and in some cases already started to do the right things. for example, angela rayner called in a big film studio project that she's probably going to approve that was previously going to kind of stuck big cultural indust

detailed account of the israel lobbyst campaign to destroy jeremy corbing's leadership of the labour party. welcome to the show. david, what's your thoughts on latife's report where she mentioned that the story about the false yahyar sinwar escape plan al with a broad disinformation campaign by many metan yahoo, well look this is a guy who used a false name uh false cv uh and did quite a number of different reports in the jc as the jewish chronicles now called uh over number of months including one uh which we must now assume is is entirely false - a large report saying that muhammad daif who of course is the head of the casan brigades the military wing of of hamas that he had been assassinated by the israel had tons of detail in there from informance and all sorts of things, looks like that was fabrication, but look, what's going on here is that he is, he was used as a channel by by netanyahu to put out messages into the jewish chronicle, big spreads in the jewish chronicle which could then reverberate back to the uh the settler colony and be used in the the factional war which is being f

the labour party in the uk have said these are all individuals on personal time who have taken leave in their personal computer capacity during their own campaign. it is been less than a month since keir starmer, the british prime minister met with donald trump, they had a two hour dinner in new york and donald trump at the time praised keir starmer as very nice and said he had run a very successful campaign and was very popular. so i suppose this will frustrate those who have been working hard in the labour party to build relations with the donald trump campaign. the former head of the fashion giant abercrombie & fitch and his british partner have been arrested on sex trafficking charges — along with a third man in the united states. the fbi opened an investigation last year after the bbc revealed claims that mikejeffries and his partner matthew smith sexually exploited and abused men at events they hosted in their new york residences and hotels around the world. lawyers for both men have previously denied any wrongdoing. rianna croxford reports. mikejeffries, the mogul behind a glo

throughout this long journey, the dominating row has been donald trump and the labour party. context here matters because senior figures in the labour party have spent ages courting the inner circle of donald trump. so the prime minister and the foreign secretary, david lammy, had dinner with mr trump at trump tower in new york around about a month ago. david lammy has also got to know jd vance, who is the vice presidential pick for donald trump. and the prime minister, was granted a call very soon after mr trump survived that assassination attempt back in the summer. so there's been a real attempt to build bridges, and that diplomatically makes sense, doesn't it, with any potential imminent us president. but particularly one that keir starmer, until recently, had not met, and someone who is as unpredictable and outspoken as mr trump. now the context here matters. there's an election campaign going on, but precedent matters, too. and mr trump often has a long memory when he feels there's been a slight against him. and remember this, in just two weeks' time, keir starmer could

the labour party says it is after they have taken leave, they are paying for their own flights and carderstand that means democratic volunteers in these states would help out by putting up some of the campaign volunteers but it started a bit of a row about whether the labour party was basically paying people to come over here and campaign. there is no evidence that they are but the trump campaign are obviously wanting to use this for their own ends and if it tells you anything, it tells you that if president trump wins this election, his relationship with keir starmer might be a little tricky.— might be a little tricky. sarah smith, thank— might be a little tricky. sarah smith, thank you _ might be a little tricky. sarah smith, thank you for the - might be a little tricky. sarah i smith, thank you for the latest. well, with two weeks to go, the race for the white house is gathering pace, with donald trump and kamala harris putting the economy at the heart of their campaigns, and donald trump is roping in the pulling power and cheque book of elon musk. our economics editor, faisal islam

he helped win this huge landslide with a tiny number of people comparatively supporting the labour partybarely 1 in 3 voters voted labour. only 1 in 2 of all adults who could vote voted labour, and to construct a majority of 170. in the house of commons is some achievement, given that, given the low, low, low turnout. but yeah, i mean, he didn't step in. i mean, if i was planning a grid and thank goodness no one ever asked me to do that kind of thing, i would have probably removed that benefit. if that's the policy from 10 million pensioners at the same time as giving them a big pay rise. with that rise in the state pension in september. instead they announced it, as you say, on the same day as a pay you say, on the same day as a pay rise for train drivers and other public sector workers, which looks, frankly tin eared to how the response might be. but and it looks also i think this government's been tied in knots by the requirement to listen to the obr, get them to vet this budget from rachel reeves on october 30th. other new governments have had a budget in half the time, and once that

i'm joined by my panel, brilliant as they are former labour party mp stephen pound and the former deputyn habib . stephen, as a labour man, habib. stephen, as a labour man, how do you think this is? is this is this a sign of a government in freefall as the tories are arguing? >> i don't think it is. i think he has acted decisively. but i think above all, it's actually a great tragedy. i've never met anyone who has worked with sue gray, who doesn't agree that she's a supremely talented and very, very brilliant organiser and a manager. she's also got a fascinating back history. i mean, she's extraordinarily interesting woman. you know, she's certainly not your faceless civil servant. but look, i think what we all accept is that dominic cummings is, you know, katherine forster was very good, very clever to actually make that analogy that read across dominic cummings became the story . and i think when the story. and i think when somebody who's supposed to be in the background pulling the strings, like, i mean, who can remember the name of the chief of staff before sue gray, i mean, you and

the labour party might most fear? he's a serious person. >> he's a serious person. >> he's a military veteran. so i'd always want to show respect to someone that served in our armed forces. he speaks with great moderation, which is often a characteristic of someone who's been in the military. they show restraint in the way they choose their words. the issue for cleverly, who held high office as foreign secretary and home secretary, would be exactly that faced by ed miliband and ed balls in 2010. whatever the merits of the individual, it's very hard to go from being a senior government minister to running the opposition and then bouncing back into government with 4 or 5 years, it could be the next tory prime minister is someone we've never heard of. >> wow. peter edwards superb stuff as ever. let's cross straight back now to the tory party conference. we've got a special guest as gb news presenter. tom harwood is joined by former tory mp jacob rees—mogg. tom. it was sirjacob rees—mogg. tom. it was sir jacob last night

yesterday, the labour party wooing the world's richest people.h, of course, elon musk didn't bother to show up. he fell out with sir keir starmer on twitter. is it really sending out the message that britain is a place that's welcoming to the richest, when all you're planning to do is tax the pips out of them? >> well, you're quite right to say you were polite enough, not to mention my actual age, but certainly i was around in the 19705. i certainly i was around in the 1970s. i wasn't a member of parliament then, but i was a political activist. but the circumstances now are entirely different to the circumstances. theni different to the circumstances. then i hope that the level of taxation , particularly on taxation, particularly on capital gains tax , is capital gains tax, is a moderate. if there is an increase there, it's a moderate one because we don't want to drive away investment . and i drive away investment. and i hope that taxation levels aren't sufficient to drive away the talent that was driven away. i can freely concede that in the 197

how did that go down with the labour party? , i've just had a text from a labour mp who said, grab your passport, we're all going to have to leave the country if either of these two end up. >> prime minister. so i think that, safe to say, the labour party are probably pleased at this. i think cleverly probably was the biggest threat in the sense of trying to win over so—called sensibles. i think also we probably know the viewers a bit of an apology. you promised them expert analysis at the top of the show. we've totally called it all wrong. >> well, the bookies got it wrong, everybody got it wrong, everybody in westminster is surprised. thank you gentlemen. now don't go anywhere. we'll have more reaction to the shock. news with james cleverly has been dramatically eliminated from the tory leadership race. i'm martin daubney on news, britain's news welcome back. it's 10 to 4. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. joining me in the studio. i'm still with the former labour adviser matthew talbot, and the former head of comms for refor

i've been talking to lots of people across the labour party, and there's a basically a sort of inner an outer gang, and i think that's part of what's going on here. and one labour source actually asked me yesterday saying, oh, well, you know, wejust have to get on with moving her on. and also obviously she's somebody who'll be for the chop. i'm not saying that's someone who's speaking with authority, but itjust plays into that sense that there's — not a them and us, but even 100 days in, there's certainly the sort of special ones in the middle and then everybody else on the outside. and one thing to add to that, i completely agree, is that those cabinet ministers in the outer ring were generally empowered by sue gray when she came in as chief of staff, she in opposition. a year or so ago she kept saying, hang on, why are there no elected politicians in this meeting? and she would get members of the then shadow cabinet in people like louise haigh, who weren't necessarily in the sort of strategic core of starmer's operation and empowerthem. and actually, i think as it happens, louise ha

to be — would expect the labour party to be on— would expect the labour party to be on their sideuld resign _ think mike amesbury should resin. ., , ., resign. let me deal with both of these issues. _ resign. let me deal with both of these issues. on _ resign. let me deal with both of these issues. on the - of these issues. on the two—point bus fare, the first thing to say is the tories only thundered back to the end of 2024. therefore, that is the end of the funding in relation to the two—point captive air. i do know how much this matters, particularly in rural communities where there is heavy reliance on buses. that is why i am able to say to you this morning that in the budget we will announce at £3 cap on bus fares to the end of 2025 because i know how important it is. that will be in the budget on wednesday. on mike amesbury, look, i have seen the video footage, it is shocking. we moved very swiftly to suspend him as a member and as a member of parliament. there is not a police investigation and in the circumstances you will appreciate there is not much more i can say. thank

a detailed account of the israel lobbies campaign to destroy jeremy corbin's leadership of the labour party. welcome to the show. david, what's your thoughts on latifa's report where she mentioned that the story about the false yahya sinwar escape plan aligned with a broad disinformation campaign by miniman netanyahu? well, look, this is a guy who used a false name uh, false cv. uh and did quite a number of different reports in the jc as the jewish chronicles now called uh over number of months including one uh which we must now assume is is entirely false - a large report saying that muhammad deif, who of course is the head of the kassam brigades, the military wing of of hamas, that he had been assassinated by the israel, tons of detail in the air from informance and all sorts of things, looks like that was fabrication, but look, what's going on here is that he is, he was used as a channel by by netanyahu to put out messages into the jewish chronicle, big spreads in the jewish chronicle which could then reverberate back to the the settler colony and be used in the the factional war. which

a detailed account of the israel lobbies campaign to destroy jeremy corbin's leadership of the labour partyon latifa's report where she mentioned that the story about the false yahyar sinwar escape plan aligned with a broad disinformation. over number of months including one which we must now assume is is entirely false, a large report saying that muhammad, of course is the head of the casan brigades, the military ring of of hamas, that he had been assassinated by th tons of... and there from informance and all sorts of things, looks like that was fabrication, but look, what's going on here is that he is, he was used as a channel by by netanyahu to put out messages into the jewish chronicle, big spreads in the jewish chronicle which could then reverberate back to the uh the settler colony and be used in the the factional war which is being fought there, and in that battle he is of course fighting with almost the entire weight of the uh the military and intelligence establishment of israel buse there's a massive division. that's why this has come out, yes indeed. well, hey sir, i mean, how d

and i think it's something that i don't think the labour party will go anywhere neanl labour party willand for. i think it's something that if the conservatives make the right choice with their with their leadership election, we might see more stringent pushes towards collecting this kind of data. but, you know, you have to ask, what are our statistics bodies actually doing? you know, the ons receives hundreds of thousands, millions of pounds a yeah thousands, millions of pounds a year. why isn't it collecting this information that is actually useful and can actually make us safer? >> well, in the meantime, rob is looking blokes like me. you to make make sure we keep pushing the envelope. thank you very much, rob. thanks forjoining us in the studio now. got some breaking news because in the last few minutes, police sources in northern ireland have told gb news that two children who were trapped on board the bus that crashed in northern ireland have sustained serious injuries. let's get more on this now from gb news. northern ireland reporter dougie beattie dougie a breaking news story.

so i'm sure the labour party.reform's electoral strategy is to try and win votes from the labour party. so you don't necessarily think it's for the birds because it's actually your strategy? >> no no no no no. our strategy is to recognise that the centre right of politics now in the western world actually is more working class than middle class, and that's the fundamental change. and people who've gone to reform or gone to the lib dems from your party, very tough to get them both back. >> well, time will tell. >> well, time will tell. >> well, time will tell. >> well, it is lloyd who's the one that labour would fear. do you think of those four or none of them? >> well, it's very difficult. i have a feeling that it might be electing the next leader of the opposition, but not necessarily the next prime minister. and we saw this, there was a i understand that there was a joke going around a conservative party conference where people were asking who were different cabinet members in last time the conservatives were in

i think it is of concern to the labour party.kly of concern to everybody, the, you know, the impact it has not just on children actually, but on all of us as we as we live in an increasingly online world. i don't think we've got the situation here, which you have in the states where the democratic party and except mr musk , you know, are close to a musk, you know, are close to a lot of other tech interests. you know, that kind of californian vibe. obviously, kamala harris was a californian senator. so i think we don't have i don't i don't think we need to worry that anybody is in is in hock to the tech interests, except that tiktok is clearly a geopolitical risk as well as, you know, making our children. >> i don't think we'll be putting it back on government phones because james is there. >> i mean, i don't know, but it's surely it makes it less likely that the government will regulate against tiktok. no, i think i mean, i think that he won't be involved in, in those discussions. i mean, his job is on strategic comms. it's not a

was what does that tell you about the labour party? party, if she's gone, the mess that they're in at the moment. okay. do you think they're distracting us from what's going on in terms of migration ? on in terms of migration? >> here's how i will answer that in a sentence. you know, the rosie duffield, she she left the labour party. and here's my answer. and it is an indirect answer. and it is an indirect answer . if answer. and it is an indirect answer. if she was to do the honest and honourable thing and call a by—election, labour would lose it. right. and that's the answer to your question. well, the chaos the party is in last week's question. the party is in chaos. >> jonathan, final word to you . >> jonathan, final word to you. parties in chaos. you're you're obviously slightly more left leaning. you probably voted for the labour party. you don't . the labour party. you don't. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> the labour party had no sense of buyer's remorse. as you're watching this unfold with all your pri

of the labour party pending an investigation." emerged today, seemingly from security camera footage, that appeared to show mike amesbury punching a man in the street. two men exchanged words and then the labour mp hits the man in the jaw and knocks him to the ground. mr amesbury then appears to continue to punch him a further five times while he's on the floor, before members of the public intervene. and that follows, as you mentioned, separate video footage that emerged yesterday of the altercation and that showed mr amesbury shouting at a man who was already on the ground. and it wasn't clear at that point what had led up to the incident. cheshire police are making enquiries. they say they were called to reports of an assault just before 3am on saturday morning. and mike amesbury, we've been trying to get hold of him today. he hasn't responded to our request for comment today, but yesterday he said he had felt threatened before the incident. he said that he reported it to the police himself on saturday and would cooperate with

this is people wouldn't be knowing they're going to a labour party event. >> do you think that if peopleng that we've seen? yeah. >> absolutely not. i think this is a slap in the face of the labour voters who still have this idea that labour is the party for the working class. well, they've been, what, like a few months in government and time and time again they're showing that's not the case. the sleaze scandals, corruption scandals , all after 14 years of scandals, all after 14 years of claiming the tories are the party for corruption. now, i'm not saying the tories are better, but the labour party surely aren't any better than them. >> but that's the wider problem. actually, matthew and i can sit here and disagree and there's some nuance in it. yes, people throw events and ask for sponsorship. i think this is probably building in a dubious way and should have been built solely as a labour party event, but the real problem here is it's a plague on everyone's house. that's the real problem. >> i think there is a clumsy wording in this. it came from a regional, regional person and i thin

it is an embarrassment for the labour party, which seems to be for sale to promoters, and it's worth mbering who received these taylor swift tickets. senior labour figures even london's mayor, sadiq khan. did he have a conflict of interest? why has the mayor of london involving himself in the security arrangements of a pop star, especially when the police in london have so many other, more pressing authorities? the threat of knife crime continues. another 15 year old was stabbed in sloane square on monday. the police don't bother turning up to burglaries and a swathe of mobile phone muggings all require urgent attention , much require urgent attention, much more so than looking after the travel arrangements of a visiting american. however successful a pop star. moreover , successful a pop star. moreover, this incident reveals a disturbing trend within our political culture where people in power leverage their influence to secure special treatment for themselves and their associates. this sordid affair, this freebie gate illustrates how lavish hospitality does influence political behav

by the way, the labour party has no monopoly on this.when normally when you think to yourself, surely there's got to be a more complex explanation. there isn't. >> but then everyone has come out. keir starmer's top team have come out and all kind of they've batted for him. they've defended this, no, no nothing to see here and so on and so forth. so i'm quite surprised that some prominent people in that team haven't come out and been a little bit more , actually, yeah. little bit more, actually, yeah. it's not great. it's not great. i'm astonished by the amount of defending that's been going on. >> well, there's a bunker mentality, isn't there? i mean, that's what it seems to indicate for me, is that they're completely detached from wider pubuc completely detached from wider public sentiment, and also this is a really important point. i mean, alex is right that the lack of professionalism and the response really is jaw dropping for so long. you could disagree with starmer, you could disagree with starmer, you could disagree with the polic

and that is what the labour party and the labour party don't seem to be learning at the moment.the rules, it's about how it looks and i can be. i didn't expect labour, you know, i can be perfectly blunt with you. i expected them to be a lot better than this. i can't understand why they've got themselves into so much trouble so quickly. >> well, let's have a look at jonathan reynolds's track record so far. pablo, you know this man stands accused, which no doubt he denies. but he stands accused of taking a free ticket to glastonbury from youtube shortly before labour were about to increase the taxation on online companies. the day after glastonbury that proposed tax appears to have been dropped. and now here he is with his face plastered all over. you know, labour literature. come on, give us your money. give us your money. you can pay money to come and meet and have breakfast with this guy. i believe. and this is according to other reports, that labour said that if you paid a certain amount of money, they would vet who your business was. but then according to the sun, if you paid

earlier this evening, we could from the labour party that confirmed it had suspended mike amesbury frommeans, for the time being at least, he will no longer sit as a labour mp in the house of commons. in a statement with more detailfrom the commons. in a statement with more detail from the labour party, a spokesperson for the party said that mike amesbury has been assisting cheshire police with their inquiries following an incident on friday night, as these inquiries are now ongoing, the labour party has administered glibly suspended his membership of the party. that statement follows new cctv footage of the instant that appears to show a mike amesbury punching a man in the street. two men exchanged words and then the labour mp appears to hit the man and not came to the ground, and continues to punch him a further five times before the public steps in to intervene. has mr amesbury said anything about this? mike amesbury has not responded today. but on saturday, he wrote... he goes on to say... he will cooperate with any inquiries made by cheshire police. thank ou for made by cheshire po