and michael portillo .he former labour mp, who was standing for the workers party of britain, won 12,335 votes, a majority of 5697. he got as many votes, or rather more than the conservative liberal democrat and former labour candidates together, and joining us now is political commentator andy williams. welcome back into the studio. hi forgive me. i'm getting slightly frustrated because a lot of people have come through the studio this morning and the line more or less is nothing to see here. you know, move on. nothing to see here. and i think, you know, the people of rochdale for a start, might be quite frustrated by that. have delivered that. they have delivered a momentous result and surely they are saying something and surely it has some consequences. so for everyone to say, oh no , you everyone to say, oh no, you know, don't worry, we just go back to business as usual. once. george galloway has made his maiden speech, i think it's possibly bit disrespectful to possibly a bit disrespectful to a the ele

i mean, as michael portillo, michael said michael portillo, i mean, of his clients, his mean, a lot ofare older people. >> yeah, it's a two fingered salute. >> he doesn't understand what he's a businessman. >> doesn't really understand >> he doesn't really understand about democracy or care about sovereignty issues sovereignty or any of the issues really , in brexit. i mean, really, in brexit. i mean, i understand where he's coming from from a very narrow perspective. but actually, as michael said, it's not michael portillo said, it's not just about his his company brexit. it's a much wider question about sovereignty , question about sovereignty, about legal settlement economically. >> you voted to leave , lots of >> you voted to leave, lots of debate over whether brexit has been economically calamitous, whether covid's been more calamitous. i mean , what's your calamitous. i mean, what's your take on it? >> so look, the thing i don't understand is the fact that germany and france are essentially recession . essentially in recession. >> their economies are doing they're not doing bette

and michael portillo, and it's tomson and michael portillo, and wsfime tomson and michael portillo, andlk about f1? >> yes, but i wanted to do it outside of christian horner. >> we discussed him last hour. we'll do it. we'll do it again. it's a big, big day for the start of the season and it's in bahrain. we know all the scandal that's going on around it, but let's not ignore the sport on the i think it's a big the track. i think it's a big time the sport itself. it's time for the sport itself. it's become quite processional pip in the few years. max the last few years. max verstappen firmly verstappen has firmly established the lead, established himself as the lead, the name sport the stellar name in the sport he's hamilton, he's usurped lewis hamilton, no question lewis question about that. lewis hamilton doesn't start with ferrari next season, ferrari until next season, so let's can do this let's see what he can do this yeah let's see what he can do this year. his last couple of seasons especially have been beset by problems his car at problems with his car at mercedes, i think ultim

with michael portillo. as sunday with michael portillo. as we hurtle towards the spring equinox and look forward towards longer days, let us illumine at your noontide with flashes of arts, culture, politics and world affairs. rishi sunak and the conservative party can perceive no light at the end of the tunnel , yet are headed for the tunnel, yet are headed for a train wreck. the newspapers report that the prime minister's authority is ebbing away, it authority is ebbing away, and it is suggested that penny mordaunt should replace him, having lost the former deputy party chairman to the reform party ever to the reform party with ever more senior members of parliament standing down at the election. as some polls put the tories almost 30 behind tories almost 30 points behind laboun tories almost 30 points behind labour, could any event short of an asteroid reverse the government's fortunes, with two tax cuts in the last six months, falling inflation and energy pnces falling inflation and energy prices reduced crossings of the engush prices r

but michael portillo up next but michael portillo is up next and a great show and he's got a great showshow. >> it's absolutely vital that people are given the opportunity to take part in the debate . to to take part in the debate. to say the things that matter to them, to be challenged. a country is only really a shared dream. as long as enough people have a shared idea of what it is, then that country exists. what gb news does is give voices somewhere they can be heard. >> the neal of a show sundays from 6 pm. on. gb news. >> good morning and welcome to sunday with michael portillo. as we hurtle towards the spring equinox and look forward towards longer days, let us illumine at your noontide with flashes of arts, culture, politics and world affairs. rishi sunak and the conservative party can perceive no light at the end of the tunnel , yet are headed for the tunnel, yet are headed for a train wreck. the newspapers report that the prime minister's authority is ebbing away, it authority is ebbing away, and it is suggested that penny mordaunt should replace him, having lost the former de

. >> michael portillo on the shows coming up , of >> michael portillo on the shows coming up, of courseou you both and happy easter to you both easter to you and both and happy easter to you and i don't know why alex thought when fine he'd when he mentioned fine wine he'd had he had to mention you, alex, but he did. michael so do you enjoy chocolate? >> i do, but it's wonderful to hear this. isn't it about terroir affecting chocolate ? terroir affecting chocolate? tell us. tell us more about that. tell us about the importance of origin. >> okay, so, most of the chocolate in the world is probably made in africa. it doesn't originate in africa. it originates in latin america, what we're looking to do is we're looking for some of the rare genetics. so once you start getting into chocolate, you'll hear terms like trinitario, which a sort of fine flavour which is a sort of fine flavour hybrid. and but what we're really looking for is things like criollo. so i've brought a couple of criollos today couple of criollos with me today , and these are grafted products as just means that as well, wh

michael portillo joins me now. michael, what's on your show at 11?lla, i'm going to be asking whether media companies have a responsibility to control misinformation, the sort of misinformation, the sort of misinformation that is being put out about the princess of wales, in hong kong, there's a tremendous crackdown on liberty and free speech. i'm going to be talking to one of the democracy campaigners who now lives in britain , and talking about the britain, and talking about the way in which the chinese seek to control people , even living way in which the chinese seek to con'unitedyple , even living way in which the chinese seek to con'united kingdom.i living way in which the chinese seek to con'united kingdom. we'll] way in which the chinese seek to con'united kingdom. we'll be the united kingdom. we'll be looking back 80 years to the great escape and asking , what great escape and asking, what was the truth about that extraordinary event when hundreds of allied prisoners escaped from stalag luft number three and stefan kiritsis, who always does

former defence secretary and of course, fellow gb news course, my fellow gb news presenter, michael portillock run through what got through of what you've got coming today 11. good coming up today at 11. good morning camilla. >> to be looking at >> we're going to be looking at elections in iran. we're going to be to american to be talking to american repubuc to be talking to american republic about why they're blocking funding to ukraine. we're going to be celebrating ray's incredible evening . she ray's incredible evening. she won six awards at the brits last night . and we're going to be night. and we're going to be celebrating also 100 years of surrealism . um, so look out for surrealism. um, so look out for melting clocks and disembodied eyeballs. >> surreal ism. it's always a good thing to be talking about on gb news. and indeed, can i congratulate you on that fantastic jacket and tie combo, michael, looking hot to trot as ever now in just a minute, i'm going to be speaking to donald trump's spokesman, trump's former chief spokesman, jason here's jason miller. but first, here's a update

a sunday with michael portillo.o social cohesion has found that three quarters of people in britain don't feel that they can speak their minds freely because of the threat of harassment . she of the threat of harassment. she singled the incident in singled out the incident in batley yorkshire, where singled out the incident in b school yorkshire, where singled out the incident in b school teacherorkshire, where singled out the incident in b school teacher hashire, where singled out the incident in b school teacher has gone vhere singled out the incident in b school teacher has gone into; a school teacher has gone into hiding showing picture hiding after showing a picture of muhammad to his of the prophet muhammad to his class. do avoid such class. how do we avoid such incidents happening in the future? i'll discuss that with the founder faith matters and the founder of faith matters and tell mama fiyaz mughal . northern tell mama fiyaz mughal. northern ireland experienced a rare burst of optimism in recent weeks as

. >> good morning, and welcome to sunday with michael portillo. let us escape the gloomy weather. with a gambol through the golden gates that give on to culture, politics and world affairs . the nation was waiting affairs. the nation was waiting to hear whether jeremy affairs. the nation was waiting to hear whetherjeremy hunt would cut our tax burden in his budget on wednesday, only towards the end of his hour long statement did he reveal that national insurance would be reduced by two percentage points for the second time in six months. the reduction was parcelled in a pledge to eliminate national insurance altogether after a promise labelled as for the birds by the head of the institute for fiscal studies. even so, rishi sunak has reiterated that ambition in a subsequent interview . income a subsequent interview. income tax thresholds remain frozen, dragging ever more people into the tax and into its higher tax brackets. is there anyone to vote for.7 if you believe in lower taxes or an enterprise economy, i will ask my excellent political panel. while pensioners may fume, are be

michael portillo. let us march into spring to melodies of art, culture, politics and world affairs. it is rare for a by—election result to trigger a prime ministerial speech outside 10 downing street, apparently the government was so concerned about the febrile campaign which led to george galloway becoming the mp for rochdale that rishi sunak strode to the podium to denounce the poison that he says puts our democracy under threat . puts our democracy under threat. but his words be followed by any effective actions. why did so many voters respond to george galloway evidently agreeing with him that the election was for gaza .7 to answer that, i have an gaza? to answer that, i have an excellent political panel. elections are happening in many places in iran . the places in iran. the parliamentary polls are taking place, which may be used by the ruling ayatollah ali khamenei to entrench a new generation of islamist hardliners. entrench a new generation of islamist hardliners . we've got islamist hardliners. we've got kasra aarabi, an expert on the regime, who warns that the elections w

i >> -- >> good morning, and welcome to sunday with michael portillo. this is palm sunday. and for western christians, the start of holy week, the most solemn of the year, an eye catching poll by yougov this week suggested that the reform party might have overtaken the tories amongst male voters. how do the conservatives respond to that challenge? are elections one on the centre ground? by appealing to the broadest number of people , or is the electorate crying out for mainstream party that out for a mainstream party that will take more effective positions on immigration law positions on immigration and law and order? to answer that question, i have an excellent political panel. the world is a disorderly place at the moment, with wars and terrorism, without fanfare and with little criticism, china increasingly crushes dissent in hong kong. once a city of free speech, its government has imposed so—called national security laws to suppress all opposition, whilst the chinese communist party continues to harass dissidents overseas as my guest, the hong kong pro—democracy campai

we also had the former secretary, former defence secretary, michael camilla michael portillo, on camillainey also saying was tominey show also saying he was concerned so why are concerned about this. so why are so many people worried about it from his own party? from within his own party? >> well, essentially there's a lot of concern because michael gove is talking about redefining extremism so that instead of focusing on action, it focuses on political ideology and specifically political ideology that, as he puts it, undermines britain's liberal democracy. now, there are plenty of people both on the left and the right in the house of commons who worry that that definition is just too loose. what exactly is britain's liberal democracy? what are sort of british values ? what are sort of british values? that terme is quite nebulous. there are gender critical feminists, for example, who worry that their belief that that sex is innate, that sex should be protected , that should be protected, that women's spaces should be protected, etc, might be extreme to some, and might be said to undermin

i was listening to michael he michael portillo earlier and he had dial, you know, the had an old dialdial on your phone, had good phone, it had a really good chunky. it's kind of kind of like a nice chunky and like a nice chunky sound. and i quite those mechanical sounds. >> the old haptic nature of it, isn't it? >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> nostalgia sound. >> nostalgia sound. >> old >> well, i'm not old enough to remember those. you very. remember those. thank you very. >> remember dial up, but i >> i remember dial up, but i feel nostalgic. >> but not not not sort of the phone. yeah. don't you remember the phone? >> phones? i was. we used >> phones? when i was. we used to have a phone lock. >> do know, i think we had >> do you know, i think we had buttons. really >> had phone lock on our. >> we had a phone lock on our. so you couldn't actually dial it. yeah, the kids it. oh i see, yeah, the kids couldn't get it. >> like a child. >> yes. like a child. >> yes. like a child. >> yeah, but i worked out how to hack it. oh tell you afterwards. >> sound of a crackling fire. >> sound of

. >> and if you tune in at 11 am, you'll see me with michael portillo talking about the week's politicsoing to see him. well, i'm going to see him free, so i'm really looking forward to it. what you up forward to it. what are you up to? making fudge. to? oh, i'm making fudge. >> fudge. >> i'm making more fudge. >> i'm making more fudge. >> yeah. but i've got a load >> oh yeah. but i've got a load of dried fruit, so i'm making lots fudge, like lots of incredible fudge, like banana and cranberry and strawberries. . strawberries. it's wondrous. >> charlie. >> charlie. >> oh, i'll be saver. >> oh, i'll be a leg saver. skipped somewhere . with any luck skipped somewhere. with any luck ? no, neither. neither did i at you . are we having. are we you. are we having. are we having a gay old time? >> i'll be eating a whole easter egg as well in one go into science . science. >> yeah, precisely. yeah. >> yeah, precisely. yeah. >> do you ever think about it before you do it? as in, do you worry about. >> fatty liver ? yeah. >> about my fatty liver? yeah. >> about my fatty liver? yeah. >> i really d

into the sunday morning papers with my fellow gb news presenter and former defence secretary michael portillou for coming in. >> you have children. >> you have three children. happy sunday. happy mothering sunday. thank you so much. >> e much, now >> thank you very much, now let's started . let's get kick started. extremism