with us now, former conservative special adviser lauren mckevitt. you think you've heard everything there is to hear in these cases? and then we look at the background here and society or the institutions just don't be able seem to be able to cope with a man like this who's bipolar and schizophrenic. >> what i find interesting about this story is this is the same story that we were talking about three weeks ago, with relation to axel rudakubana, the, the, the killer from last year. the system that exists in this country to deal with mental health and the potential for violence for people within the mental health system and the system for dealing with police and crime and justice, are not talking to each other well enough.the talking to each other well enough. the mental health system is basically waiting until the point at which there has been a crime to put people on indefinite hold, because it is not for the police to start holding mental health victims basically in advance of a crime. that's a system that no one really wants to get into. over the

joining me now is former conservative special adviser lauren mckevitt. , good to see you this afternoon. thank you very much for joining me. what did you forjoining me. what did you make of what keir starmer had to say this morning? >> i think keir starmer and labourin >> i think keir starmer and labour in general views on reform are fascinating, not just because of where he was in scotland, but actually because of where both elections are happening next year, in 2026, in wales and in scotland. reform are beginning to be a very real force within wales, and it very much looks like it's possible that they will top the polls in wales, even beating labour, who have historically treated wales as a one party state. over the course of the last 25 years of devolution . and reform reform devolution. and reform reform are putting real, real pressure on labour, who are already feeling pressure because the reason that people were voting for them last year is because of the abject failure of the conservative party in government to get a grip on immigration. that was a

and we'll have all of the day's top stories with former conservative adviser lauren mckevitt and political commentator nichi hodgson there they are. >> welcome to saturday morning live only on gb news. >> we say it every week, don't we.7 we >> we say it every week, don't we? we say it every week. it's an action packed show, but this week it really does feel, oh, we better get a move on because. there's lots. >> there's loads to get in, particularly the second hour. i won't spoil it, but we've got some real treat for you now. >> it is a big question isn't it? did you make it through january? >> well, yes, i made. >> well, yes, i made. >> it through. we survived. >> it through. we survived. >> we survived it. but. well, the thing is, i didn't really have any new year's resolutions in the same way that you did. i mean, we just talked to stephen and anne about that, didn't we? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so you're powering through? >> so you're powering through? >> i'm powering through. but obviously january is the one dry. january. january. did you make it through? are you still on with your new yea

joining us in the studio now, political commentator laura mckevitt on this one. lauren were saying earlier before the program and we're excited by this. we should be excited by this. we should be excited by this. this is the chance to do something really wonderful or mess it up. >> i think there is absolutely nobody of any kind of political persuasion in this country who doesn't believe that we need more houses. we do. we need to build more homes. we need to do so in a way that protects the environment to the degree in which it's possible to protect the environment. when you when you plonk something new on it, we need to do so in a way that puts homes in place, actually want to live. and we need to do so in a way that, you know, isn't completely upending communities that have existed for hundreds of years. and i think new towns are a really good idea. it concerns me a little bit that as soon as labour came in, they removed what the conservatives had put in place, which was a requirement for beauty as part of the standards. >> why would they have done that? >> it's possi