charity song to support h-2-k that raised 10,000 pounds and what's likely is he is the leader of lib-dems and his single is number one proving again the lib-dems can't win and something i hope we both can agree on. >> i'm not going to adjudicate between the singles for a number of the top of the charts but will end, mr. speaker, this last question i think by just repeating a happy christmas and peaceful new year to everyone across the house. >> hear, hear. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] fore

charity song to support h-2-k that raised 10,000 pounds and what's likely is he is the leader of lib-dems and his single is number one proving again the lib-dems can't win and something i hope we both can agree on. >> i'm not going to adjudicate between the singles for a number of the top of the charts but will end, mr. speaker, this last question i think by just repeating a happy christmas and peaceful new year to everyone across the house. >> hear, ♪ announcer: this week watch washington journal special holiday author series featuring segments with the new writer. monday morning, author and newsweek opinion editor discusses her book "second class." watch live and join the discussion on "washington journal" monday morning on c-span, on c-span now, or online at c-span.org. announcer: be up-to-date with the latest him publishing with about books with current nonfiction releases plus bestseller list, as well as industry news and trends through insider interviews. find out about books on c-span now or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ announcer: for over 45 years c-span has been your window

charity song to support h-2-k that raised 10,000 pounds and what's likely is he is the leader of lib-dems and his single is number one proving again the lib-dems can't win and something i hope we both can agree on. >> i'm not going to adjudicate between the singles for a number of the top of the charts but will end, mr. speaker, this last question i think by just repeating a happy christmas and peaceful new year to everyone across the house. >> hear, hear. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] >> the u.s. house remains in recess as republican leaders are negotiating a way forward on government funding. current moneys run out friday at midnight eastern and the latest from capitol is optimistic. the appropriations committee chair tom cole reported a deal has been reached. house democrats are meeting at this hour to respond to the proposed republican plan. if members have remarks after that meeting, we'll do our best to get that to you. melanie zanona from punch bowl news includes three months of temporary funding and two year suspension of the debt ceiling and the same di

stripe so it is perhaps a little more difficult for the conservatives to go on, we may well see the lib dems, . ~' the waspi women for a very long time. ,, ., ,, ., time. still talking about the economy — time. still talking about the economy more _ time. still talking about the economy more widely - time. still talking about the economy more widely and l time. still talking about the i economy more widely and how much pressure the government is coming under we are hearing business leader of the business leader, small businesses, large businesses, really expressing worries about what 2025 has in store after what came in the budget earlier this year? yeah, and that is _ budget earlier this year? yeah, and that is a — budget earlier this year? yeah, and that is a concern _ budget earlier this year? yeah, and that is a concern for- and that is a concern for labour. it puts economic growth at the very heart of what it said it was going to do in government saying it was its top priority, to boost economic growth. rachel reeves came in promising stability, that things ineffectual going to get bett

the lib dems were delighted with their results, but from the conservatives...y and goodnight. - and from labour... we did it! cheering. the aftermath of georgia's election wasn't peaceful. the party georgian dream has governed there for the last 12 years, moving the country away from the european union and closer to russia. despite being accused of fraud by the opposition, the ruling party claimed victory in the autumn election. that's when the government said it was suspending talks onjoining the eu and people headed out onto the streets. over there, the riot police started moving in. they're slowly marching towards the protesters. riot police are in several areas, so they're closing in from this side. they're also on the side streets of the parliament, where some protesters continue to wave georgian flags. and now they've started, people are, people are running away and we have to run to too. come! policeman shouting. 0k. go, go, go! he says, "go, go, go!" the last 12 months have seen extraordinary developments in the middle east. for many syrians, the fall o

but then in 2010, the conservative—lib dem coalition government decided to speed up those changes.2018 women had to wait until 65 for get their state pension. today sir keir starmer said he understood the concerns, but insisted that the majority of women did know about the changes. here's our political editor, chris mason. when i turned on the radio this morning there was anger pouring out of the speakers. it is morning there was anger pouring out of the weaken-— of the speakers. it is deeply insensitive _ of the speakers. it is deeply insensitive and _ of the speakers. it is deeply insensitive and patronising. | of the speakers. it is deeply| insensitive and patronising. i of the speakers. it is deeply - insensitive and patronising. i do take responsibility but someone else moved _ take responsibility but someone else moved the _ take responsibility but someone else moved the goalposts.— moved the goalposts. absolutely dis ustinu . moved the goalposts. absolutely disgusting. three _ moved the goalposts. absolutely disgusting. three years - moved the goalposts. absolutely disgustin

antisocial behaviour, but we have fewer police today than in 2010 due to tory cuts in coalition with the lib demsthe prime minister fixes the postcode lottery of law and order, will he consider the request from southwark police, southwark council and myself for our community to be a pilot test area for the new respect orders, to address this serious problem? prime minister starmer: i am grateful for him for raising this, because public confidence in the police has been badly eroded under the last government. we will drive that up with a major programme of reform. that includes recruiting 13,000 more police into neighbourhood policing and the tough new respect orders, coupled with the power to arrest for breach of the order. >> rupert lowe. >> i sincerely hope that all of us in this house agree that good government is transparent government. in response to my written question on publishing the number of foreign nationals receiving universal credit, i was informed by the work and pensions minister that the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics was being examined. will the prime min

meanwhile, lib dem leader sir ed davey has paid tribute to young carers, sharing his own experience ofooking after his sick mother as a child. there's been more christmas eve frustration today for morrisons customers, with deliveries either late or even cancelled, and that comes more than 24 hours after a system glitch first disrupted orders yesterday. the chaos on the 23rd of december, the busiest grocery shopping day of the year, left shoppers waiting for deliveries worth hundreds of pounds. morrisons has apologised but hasn't revealed the cause of the problem, despite repeated requests . and nasa's parker requests. and nasa's parker solar probe is set to make history today on christmas eve, with the closest ever approach to the sun. the spacecraft will skim just 3.6 million miles from the star's surface, enduring temperatures of nearly 1000 degrees and speeds of 430,000 miles an hour. scientists say the mission will uncover secrets about the solar activity of the sun, helped to protect satellites, power grids and even astronauts. the spacecraft will then reconnect with earth on the

they won't actually affect the lib dems because the lib dem voters are a different sort of people whoy it's not a lib dem point i'm making. the point i want to make is this, you know, in our system, we've got a first past the post system and he got 650 individual contests going for on each individual constituency. you need to have a broad support across the across the pitch in your membership. and, you know, being ahead in the opinion poll is great, but it's not the be all and end all. go back to the 1980s. the sdp, remember them . at one point they remember them. at one point they were on 52% in the opinion polls. they ended up with fewer than 20 mps. so it's about what you can mobilise, the kind of award you call it and the ground war at the same time. and reform is doing the right thing in the sense that they are producing branches locally. 105,000 members, apparently, and they got to go from the ground rules up.andi got to go from the ground rules up. and i think farage actually realises that and he's doing that. but, you know, under a first past the post system, there's a huge ef

lib dems 58 ed davey sort of theme park strategy not paying sort of theme park strategy not paying offpoll, and snp at 37. so this is just a poll, of course, but reform do very well in this theoretical poll. >> yes. it is interesting to see that also that they're focusing on that part of the seats that are taken away from labour. of course, the conversation at the moment, certainly today is tories reform, but they do also have an impact on on labour as well, don't you think? >> i mean, it's so far out that who knows what the playing field would be like when we get to another election. but surely it's a case of let labour implode and then take on the tories. if you were reform and i'm not, and stop talking about reform. >> it's great you love me, i love kemi, i heart kemi is what i've got tattooed. >> but that would be the strategy wouldn't it? because laboun strategy wouldn't it? because labour, the way things are going, they're tanking themselves in the polls. so you want to attack the tories right now? that's how you win. >> i mean, but this is the thing about polls, isn't it? the el

. >> and there was another by—election council seat in barnsley yesterday where the lib dems retainedease in vote share for reform and a collapse in vote for both conservative and labour there. >> so. oh dear. >> so. oh dear. >> yeah, there's the reform definitely seems to have all the momentum with them. like you say at the moment. when are the local elections? >> is it may next year? >> is it may next year? >> may next year? i'm not sure what proportion of seats are up for grabs. it's normally a third each year, isn't it? but it will be very interesting. and i think what's so challenging to kind of the traditional way of doing politics is that certainly the conservative party, it's all about how many leaflets can you deren about how many leaflets can you deliver, how many doors can you knock on? and yet reform got 4 million votes in july with delivering hardly any leaflets. it wasn't about local campaigning at all, was it about tiktok views and youtube views. they really have taken a stranglehold, but i think it was much more about a general disappointment, frustration, anger with t

the lib dem leader sir ed davey has teamed up with a young carers�* choir to create a charity single8 in the bleak midwinter as a soloist and the reason why it is poignant is it was before i started some quite intense caring for my mum who was terminally ill with bone cancer. and we visited the younger carers choir and we were really impressed with their work and we joined the dots and said really impressed with their work and wejoined the dots and said can really impressed with their work and we joined the dots and said can we do something with them in the original idea was we do a recording of me singing age 13 and then they would sing again but we discovered they'd written their own song love is enough, and it's much better. so let's break it down, we have a recording of you when you are 13. let's have a listen. that's not bad. what are you singing? it is quite angelic. t what are you singing? it is quite anielic. ., , what are you singing? it is quite anielic. tt t tt what are you singing? it is quite anielic. :t t :, , what are you singing? it is quite antelic. ., , ., , , angel

starmer and ed davey did in the run up to the last election, which was effectively labour and the lib dems had an undeclared informal pact harnessing the anti—government sentiment and organically in each constituency, voters worked out who was best placed to remove the tory, and both labour and the tory, and both labour and the lib dems did amazingly well in terms of seats. and if i was advising kemi badenoch, i would say that's what you've got to look at. you are not going to crush reform. you know, the tories aren't trusted enough to get reform down to 4 or 5% in my view, so work with them a bit better. well, certainly don't turn it into a personality clash or a feud if you can't reach some kind of workable accommodation with farage. and it doesn't have to be a pact with a handshake, then more and more tory mps will start to wonder whether you are the person to lead them into the next election. >> it goes back to the fact that the tories revealed how many members they had at that leadership election. result around 131,000 or so, and that became a target. absolutely. for reform to get to

there were people there from the lib dems, from there from the lib dems, from the greens, from the toriesreform, all political persuasions, all united over the fact that they want to save our countryside. let me just tell you what a few people at home have been saying. would that guy that i spoke to there who had the tears in his eyes. gerald has said on twitter it's just another person who feels demoralised and helpless. there are a lot of us out here. we don't seem to have a say in the future that they have in store for us. al says real emotion from that guy. great coverage by gb news and you beth. thank you. every day british people have had enough, says debs. we work hard, we look after our families. our whole existence is on the line now. enough is enough. and there were so many people supporting gb news out there yesterday. i was genuinely blown away by the love for this channel and for this show. actually, a lot of people saying, where's your co—presenter? i said, well, he wouldn't be out in the cold. he's in the warmth of the studio. >> interestingly, we could see the feeds of oth

the song, recorded with a full orchestra and 20 singers, was inspired by the lib dem leader's own experiences a teenage carer. now it is not only winning hearts, but it's also raising funds for the career carer trust and bath philharmonia. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. do go and check out that wonderful single from sir ed davey on itunes now though, it's over to free speech nation for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to gbnews.com/alerts . code, or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> free speech in universities descends into chaos again. labour mps call for the reintroduction of blasphemy laws and nigel farage calls for stricter abortion laws. this is free speech. nation . welcome to free speech. nation. welcome to free speech nation with me , josh free speech nation with me, josh howie. this is the show where we take a look at culture, current affairs and politics. and coming up on tonight's show, we have. elon musk reckons cancel culture has been cancelled, but oxford university may be keeping the social can

meanwhile, lib dem leader sir ed davey has paid tribute to young carers sharing his own experience ofooking after his sick mother as a child. there's been more christmas eve frustration today for morrisons customers, with deliveries either late or even cancelled, and that comes more than 24 hours after a system glitch first disrupted orders yesterday. the chaos on the 23rd of december, the busiest grocery shopping day of the year, left shoppers waiting for deliveries worth hundreds of pounds. morrisons has apologised but hasn't revealed the cause of the problem, despite repeated requests . and nasa's parker requests. and nasa's parker solar probe is set to make history today on christmas eve, with the closest ever approach to the sun. the spacecraft will skim just 3.6 million miles from the star's surface, enduring temperatures of nearly 1000 degrees and speeds of 430,000 miles an hour. scientists say the mission will uncover secrets about the solar activity of the sun, helped to protect satellites, power grids and even astronauts. the spacecraft will then reconnect with earth on the

parts of the country like the royal borough of windsor and maidenhead, where the local council, a lib dem by the way, is seeking to increase council tax by 25%. 25%. well, it's no wonder, is it, because the british taxpayer is on the hook four times here you pay hundreds of millions of pounds to refugees. you seemingly pay for some legal migrants who can't speak english to get benefits, and then you pay for foreign criminals to live at his majesty's pleasure. then you probably pay for their benefits when they come out. the social contract is completely broken. let's get your thoughts on my panel let's get your thoughts on my panel. we've got the director of popular conservatives, mark littlewood. we've also got the landlord and activist adam brooks and the journalist and broadcaster nina myskow. mark, i'll start with you. i mean, the social contract here appears to be gone. 1508

. >> the night was filled with winners from the labour party and the lib dems, and losers, mainly fromthe tory party. with so many household names losing their seats, including former prime minister liz truss, leader of the house of commons penny mordaunt, defence secretary grant shapps and former business secretary sir jacob rees—mogg. labour lost two prominent frontbenchers such as shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth and shadow culture secretary thangam debbonaire. wes streeting, who later became health secretary, held onto his seat by a very close margin , but seat by a very close margin, but not as close as the conservative party chairman, richard holden, who had two recounts and only won his seat by 20 votes. the clear winners of the night were the labour party, but we can't forget the historic 72 seats won by the liberal democrats, the best result in the party's history. >> they will be your local champions and i want to thank people for trusting us again. we will not let you down. >> and of course, reform uk, led by nigel farage, securing five mps. and finally farage beca

. >> your parliamentary party former colleagues are soggy, left leaning lib dems who are a bit confusednot trying to defend the last couple of years of the conservative government. even kemi badenoch new leader of the conservative party has said that we talked right and acted left. but kemi actually is a conservative. she's not a drippy person at all. i mean, i think if you dared call her drippy, you'd get a pretty robust answer. shouldn't we be thinking about how we can make things work and that actually reform is important because it makes sure the conservative party remains conservative. >> well, that's right, because a conservative principle is the belief in competition. and competition is a great thing, because what we're seeing as we go because what we're seeing as we 9° up because what we're seeing as we go up in the polls and as great business people like nick candy defect from the tory party, andrea jenkins, dame andrea, she's defected. another former tory mp, aidan burley, defected today. >> people are saying actually aidan burley, wasn't he the one who dressed up in unfortuna

wearing a t shirt and being a lib dem could rake in the cash.ho is stopping starmer from getting his first number one hit and why.7 >> you had better clean your balls. >> i'm josh howie and leo kearse and paul cox are on the panel together. we're going to take you through tomorrow's top stories. this is headliners. but before wednesday's news let's go to tonight's headlines with sophia wenzler. >> josh thank you. good evening. it's just gone 11:00 i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines. sara sharif's father and stepmother have been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of their ten year old daughter following years of horrific abuse, irfan sharif was handed a minimum of 40 years in prison, while bineesh batus received 33 years. her uncle, faisal malik was jailed for 16 years for failing to prevent her death. sara was hooded, burned and beaten during a campaign of torture that lasted two years before her body was found at a family home in surrey in 2023, nigel farage is back in the uk after meeting with elon musk at donald trump's mar

. >> okay, i know, i know the leader, the leader of the lib dems who are polling in fifth at the moment in wales was the mp for brecon and radnorshire who lost her seat in 2019. but i can't remember her name. okay, i know that adam price is no longer the leader of plaid cymru, but i don't know who's replaced him. and of course vaughan gething lost his place as as first minister and has now been replaced by that baroness. that baroness? yeah . andrew rt. that baroness? yeah. andrew rt. davies was the leader of the welsh tories as well. but he's he's out as well. >> we'll bring you some more. more on that if you're interested. andrew rc davies stepping down after he won a vote of no confidence but trailing in fourth place. not great behind reform plaid cymru and labour. but let's get the headunes and labour. but let's get the headlines with sam francis. do get in touch. gbnews.com/yoursay . get in touch. gbnews.com/yoursay. >> emily. tom, thank you very much. good morning to you. it's just good afternoon. in fact, it's just coming up to 12:05. the top story this lunchtime. victims of stal

the lib dems have been absolutely perfect at this, for goodness only knows how long since the disestablishment of the sdp. but you look at what reform are targeting, especially areas in the north east of england where, you know, my mother and nana will be watching right now in stanley, where you were patrick, not only watching, but i think we're going to see them later. >> i think they're going to zoom in. >> they are going to zoom in. yeah. they're zooming. so areas like that will be ones to watch, to see just how far reform can take it. because according to that mrp poll, they were saying that mrp poll, they were saying that in the north east it's ripe for the picking. >> and if we think, emily, about kind of, you know, the lowlights from 2024, because i think none of us around this table wanted keir starmer to get in and fail, right. there might be some people who are very, very party political who wanted him to fail, but i think all of us around here, correct me if i'm wrong, patriots wanted him to come in and do a good job. we just want the country to be sort of dragged up into a place wh

. >> the lib dem leader, ed davey, has already criticised the speech, accusing the government of movinggoalposts and creating milestones on the road to nowhere. others have questioned why starmer's ambition for the uk to be the fastest growing economy in the g7 has been quietly dropped, but there were plenty of good intentions to be welcomed in the pm's speech. ben lots to be welcomed. there surely some common sense themes that everybody can get around. >> well, i mean, when you declare you're going to build homes, when you declare you're going to mend the nhs, you're going to mend the nhs, you're going to mend the nhs, you're going to get extra police on the on the beat, come down hard on crime. no one can disagree with you. it's whether or not any of those things actually result in genuine action. you know, and we had sunak's famous five pledges. do you remember. and i think eventually i do remember ben inflation eventually came down. but i'll believe it when i see it. the budget that, you know, i have to go back to the budget, the budget that rachel reeves revealed included £36 billi