that's of course, nigel and daniel. nigel, let's start with you again. just repeat two weeks of the day since we saw that tragic triple killing in southport. knife crime just doesn't seem to go away. how on earth can we ever, ever stamp this out? it's fine and well for people like winston to like to say, oh, we need to talk to young people. we need to get inside their mindset. surely the only answer is build more jails. stamp down if sir keir starmer if a yvette cooper can bang people up for rioting, you know, within days of it happening, why can't we do the same with knife crime? >> well, yvette cooper is planning to do just that. so her idea at the moment is 13,000 more neighbourhood police and pcsos to patrol neighbourhoods. when it comes to people carrying knives, tougher , swifter knives, tougher, swifter sentences. everybody involved in knife crime will go to a youth offender team afterwards to try and stop them doing it again. getting rid of zombie knives online. so. and prosecution for people who sell them online. so the bosses of big companies c

nigel farage.the position is in contrast to sunak, who twice told gb news last year that farage could join the party, saying it was a broad church . in saying it was a broad church. in other news, violent attacks against women on british railways have more than doubled since 2021. new data shows. the number of crimes against women and girls rose by 50%, and the number of sexual offences jumped up number of sexual offences jumped ”p by number of sexual offences jumped up by 10%. unacceptable behaviour such as touching upskirting or indecent exposures being experienced by women more than ever, with 51% of female victims stating that other rail passengers intervened to try to help. safeguarding ministerjess phillips says the violence against women and girls says it's a national emergency. >> the government have made it incredibly clear that tackling the scourge of violence against women and girls is part of its core mission. >> we consider it to be a national emergency, and that that won't just change

so nigel is probably right.overnment will see the sums don't add up and it will say, we're going to have a big drive to cut back the civil service, and they won't do anything. the chance to do it was in 2022 and we bungled it. i'm afraid. >> nigel nelson yeah, the chance is to do it now. i mean, if rachel reeves is going to be cutting the departmental budgets and demanding these efficiency savings that she says she is, thatis savings that she says she is, that is going to mean people will be losing their jobs, the question is, i think jacob's point was actually very good there. if it's done through natural wastage, if you are deaung natural wastage, if you are dealing with jobs that no longer need to be done, that's the way to go ahead. but but what this doesn't mean is that the civil service will suddenly balloon into even greater size. it means it's being done differently and done properly , along alongside done properly, along alongside the public service. >> so important . jacob. >> so important. jacob. actu

nigel, tory peer paul goodman.ouses longer than me in politics and i've heard this side, this idea going back some years. it makes it a bit of sense. >> yeah. it's been i mean, it has been going on for some time that jeremy hunt was looking at it prior to that, rishi sunak looked at the george osborne, i'm sure did it. yeah. i'm not sure about george osborne, but certainly rishi did after covid and the idea was to get the money into the long term asset fund, which would build things like hs2 and the third runway at heathrow, neither of which, of course, seemed to be happening, the idea of this is the way the canadians do it is that they, they invest rather in stocks and shares. they invest in private companies . so one of the, companies. so one of the, teaching pension funds in canada owns 25% of the british energy giant sse, another one is a big investor in thames water. >> so they go private companies are they. >> yeah. so some some companies do. well thames water clearly is not doing well . the key to not doing

okay, nigel. >> interesting point.t of people would think maybe more prison cells are needed across the board. let's have a look at live pictures now of columbia, where prince harry and meghan markle are, of course, on what is definitely not a royal toun what is definitely not a royal tour. no, they are private citizens and they've been ianedin citizens and they've been invited in a private capacity . invited in a private capacity. it's nothing at all to do with the nature of their families or indeed, who harry's dad is. well, more on that. perhaps a little bit later. this is state of the nation after the break, we're going to be talking about this not at all. royal tour. stay tuned good evening. this is state of the nation at 8:17. now, prince harry and his wife meghan have arrived in columbia. they've been greeted by columbia's vice president and her husband, she said, or at least meghan markle said, or at least meghan markle said the netflix series about, oh, i beg your pardon? the wife of the colombian president sa

nigel welcome. thank you for joining nigel nelson. nigel welcome.nk you forjoining me, as thank you for joining me, as usual, on a on a thursday. normally i see you in person, but today we're we're remote. this is labour. trying to get back into the eu by stealth. isn't it? >> no, not even nearly. first of all, the youth mobility scheme doesn't look as if it's going to happen , that the usual sort of happen, that the usual sort of weasely ambiguous whitehall words. there are no plans. in fact, the government had gone further than that and said they're not even considering it, which is a bit more concrete. theidea which is a bit more concrete. the idea at the moment is to get obviously closer ties with europe, but what it comes down to young people, it's things like making school trips easier, student exchanges, cultural visits, that kind of thing. however, i think that that they should have a youth mobility scheme. we've got it through. we've got it with several other countries . it works very well. countries. it works very well. there's no reason n

so nigel is probably right.government will see the sums don't add up and it will say, we're going to have a big drive to cut back the civil service, and they won't do anything. the chance to do it was in 2022 and we bungled it. i'm afraid. >> nigel nelson yeah, the chance is to do it now. i mean, if rachel reeves is going to be cutting the departmental budgets and demanding these efficiency savings that she says she is, thatis savings that she says she is, that is going to mean people will be losing their jobs, the question is, i think jacob's point was actually very good there. if it's done through natural wastage, if you are deaung natural wastage, if you are dealing with jobs that no longer need to be done, that's the way to go ahead. but but what this doesn't mean is that the civil service will suddenly balloon into even greater size. it means it's being done differently and done properly , along alongside done properly, along alongside the public service. >> so important . jacob. >> so important. jacob. act

nigel, tory peer paul goodman.ouses longer than me in politics and i've heard this side, this idea going back some years. it makes it a bit of sense. >> yeah. it's been i mean, it has been going on for some time that jeremy hunt was looking at it prior to that, rishi sunak looked at the george osborne, i'm sure did it. yeah. i'm not sure about george osborne, but certainly rishi did after covid and the idea was to get the money into the long term asset fund, which would build things like hs2 and the third runway at heathrow, neither of which, of course, seemed to be happening, the idea of this is the way the canadians do it is that they, they invest rather in stocks and shares. they invest in private companies . so one of the, companies. so one of the, teaching pension funds in canada owns 25% of the british energy giant sse, another one is a big investor in thames water. >> so they go private companies are they. >> yeah. so some some companies do. well thames water clearly is not doing well . the key to not doing

you're with nigel farage. over to you . with nigel farage. over to you.'s written in the wind. >> yeah. good afternoon. martin, i'm here with the leader of reform uk and clacton mp, nigel farage. he's here at the clacton airshow. nigel events like this give you the opportunity to speak to the local people. what are they saying to you about these immigration figures? >> well , i these immigration figures? >> well, i mean, they're just negligible declines from all time record numbers, i one of the biggest things is housebuilding. everywhere you go within this constituency, there's 50 new houses here, 100 new houses there. we're told from a labour government. those targets from central government will double. so the impact on an area like this have just the new houses, which by the way, no more gp surgeries, no new roads is really, really big. so people are unhappy and they feel that in the brexit referendum and in voting for boris, they voted for all of this to be brought under control and they frankly have been ignored. and that's why they voted for me her

nigel. thank you. good >> nigel. thank you. good evening from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 7:00. your top story this hour. the prime minister has vowed to do more to reduce smoking after confirming his government could ban it in some outside spaces, according to what the sun newspaper says, our secret whitehall papers ministers are considering my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. >> that's a preventable death . >> that's a preventable death. it's a huge burden on the nhs and of course it's a burden on the taxpayer. so yes, we are going to take decisions in this space. more details will be revealed, but this is a preventable series of deaths and we've got to take the action to reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer . taxpayer. >> meanwhile, the prime minister has said he discussed resetting relations during a meetin

nigel farage. _ violence. now the leader of reform uk, nigel farage, also _ violence.so joining - violence. now the leader of reform uk, nigel farage, also joining in i uk, nigel farage, alsojoining in the call for parliament to be recalled. he says that the country needs to have a more honest debate about immigration, integration and policing too, as he put it, give people the confidence that there are political solutions that are relevant to them?- political solutions that are relevant to them? ., ., , relevant to them? nigel farage is t in: to relevant to them? nigel farage is trying to justify — relevant to them? nigel farage is trying to justify the _ relevant to them? nigel farage is trying to justify the violence - relevant to them? nigel farage is trying to justify the violence that l trying to justify the violence that we have seen, and that is very, very wrong. and there is an adamant, of course, that his type of rhetoric incites this sort of violence. so, i mean, i can't comment on what nigel farage says, because i believe that his rhetoric, and his language

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i'm christopher hope , standing in for nigel hope, standing in for nigel farage.that the gp's family doctors have voted to take collective action for the first time in 60 years. now it's not strike action, it's more like work to rule. they'll take a number of steps to limit what they normally do during working hours. joining me now is doctor lawrence buckman, a former chairman of the bma's gp committee. doctor buckman, thank you for joining committee. doctor buckman, thank you forjoining us committee. doctor buckman, thank you for joining us tonight on farage. why on earth are gp striking or not or slowing down their work ? their work? >> they're stopping doing things they're not paid for and they are reducing work to safe limits . are reducing work to safe limits. that's two separate things. one is the sort of headline . they're is the sort of headline. they're going down to 25 patients a day, which is recognised as the european safe limit from harmony, from how many? >> 40 or so, something like that . >> 40 or so, something like that. >> 40 or so, something like

nigel won't wear a tie. mutaz is dressed for a nightclub. >> yeah, absolutely . more people >> yeah, absolutely. more people work from home. i mean, a quarter of workers in the uk now they work. they work hybrid. so they work. they work hybrid. so they work. they work hybrid. so they work in the office. so they have a presence and they still have a presence and they still have that team morale. but then you have, you know, there's a large proportion of people that do work from home. but in a way working from home can have its dangers as well, because you can be in an environment where you don't feel you're at work, you know, you could be working from the kitchen table, for example, so you're not necessarily aware that you're working and suddenly you've worked. you've clocked up 14 hours before you realise it. and then you're suffering from burnout, which is then leading to mental health problems. >> well , joanna robinson, thank >> well, joanna robinson, thank you for joining >> well, joanna robinson, thank you forjoining us. you're the you

nigel farage look.y the conservative party >> that was mel stride there on my podcast. our political podcast. chopper's political podcast, making clear no deals with nigel farage. and we do intend to speak to all of the five other candidates as best we can before the end of the month. >> is this a mistake though, christopher? >> i mean, okay, a lot, a lot of things have changed. he started a new party, for one thing, but last tory party conference, i think you'll remember as well as i do just how much mobbed. he was. mobbed. he was mobbed. there was so much support for him from the membership. the membership clearly thought that nigel farage was on their side . nigel farage was on their side. so is this a mistake that this alienates some of the members ? alienates some of the members? >> good question. emily. i'm not standing for the tory leadership. i would say that it could be a mistake. i think if i was standing for the leadership, i would hold a doorway open to farage east people concerned about lab

nigel. no, outfits. please. nigel.n't think i can go, but please do keep your messages coming in. gb news com forward slash your say now. it's the bank holiday weekend and thousands will be flocking to the seaside to enjoy the three day break. but from next month, motorhomes in north yorkshire are banned from parking overnight in certain beauty spots along the coast . beauty spots along the coast. anna riley has the story for you from scarborough. >> it's britain's oldest seaside resort and a town visited by tourists from near and far, but from september, north yorkshire council are banning motorhome owners from parking overnight in spots here and in whitby and cayton. >> one individual motorhome or camper van isn't a problem, but when you get tens , if not when you get tens, if not hundreds of these gathering in a particular location that does create problems. they generate significant amounts of waste. as you can imagine, noise disturbance issues as well. and obviously there is safety implications for the camper van.

i'm christopher hope , standing in for nigel hope, standing in for nigel farage.hat the gp's family doctors have voted to take collective action for the first time in 60 years. now it's not strike action, it's more like work to rule. they'll take a number of steps to limit what they normally do during working hours. joining me now is doctor lawrence buckman, a former chairman of the bma's gp committee. doctor buckman, thank you for joining committee. doctor buckman, thank you forjoining us committee. doctor buckman, thank you for joining us tonight on farage. why on earth are gp striking or not or slowing down their work ? their work? >> they're stopping doing things they're not paid for and they are reducing work to safe limits . are reducing work to safe limits. that's two separate things. one is the sort of headline . they're is the sort of headline. they're going down to 25 patients a day, which is recognised as the european safe limit from harmony, from how many? >> 40 or so, something like that . >> 40 or so, something like that. >> 40 or so, something like

nigel— process of rebuilding the move. nigel did — process of rebuilding the move.r two or three months and it was very intense work, until eventually she was able to return to the arena _ eventually she was able to return to the arena and very shortly after that she — the arena and very shortly after that she became english national champion, british national champion, which _ champion, british national champion, which was _ champion, british national champion, which was testimony to her courage. she is— which was testimony to her courage. she is also— which was testimony to her courage. she is also the limbic champion, martin, which is amazing. how similar is what she was going through to what simon biles described as the twisties? similar, obviously a — described as the twisties? similar, obviously a different _ described as the twisties? similar, obviously a different discipline, - obviously a different discipline, but the — obviously a different discipline, but the same spatial awareness issue which _ but the same spatial awareness issue which then— but the sam

.# nigel farage: # guess who's back! # guess who's back.# ..the leader of reform uk, nigel farage.lmed the small boats. you know, i literally got right up within yards of these boats and i filmed them. i said, "this will lead to an invasion." murmurs of agreement. well, i mean, you would have thought, you know, i'd advocated killing the firstborn, you know. laughter. 0n the day of the southport attack, police said they were treating it as a non—terror incident. they also said counter—terrorism police had offered their support. nigel farage took to social media to ask whether they were covering something up. the police say it's a non—terror incident. i just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us. i don't know the answer to that, but i think it is a fair and legitimate question. siren wails. it wasn't a cover—up. there were legal reasons for not identifying the suspect or providing more details at the time. that comment compounded the situation, so it gave succour to the people who were coming out to say, "see, i told you so, "so let's now go and attack people," and it di

>> well, it's lovely to be with you, nigel.ng on in northern ireland over this past week or more. i think it was right to call the assembly, on reflection today, to have a debate, many times we're called back to debate issues, but i think it was right to call it today. first of all, of course, to reject the violence and the thuggery and the looting that took place in many areas of our city, our great capital city, over this past few days , and over this past few days, and some of the mlas were also gracious enough to understand that there's something else going on that in some of the areas of belfast, there are real concerns that need to be addressed, and i think that those concerns haven't really got an airing. they need to get an airing and they need to be listened to. of course, you have to protect the ethnic minority communities. of course you have to protect their businesses. you have to make them feel that they're welcome. you have to say to the health care workers that they're doing a great job in many of our hospitals ,

nigel farage. look.ts to destroy the conservative party, so he joined his fellow tory leadership hopefuls in slamming mr farage for his commentary before the southport riots. i think his remarks, let me put it like this, were deeply unhelpful to those officers that were then having to go out and deal with the consequence of the rioting. >> this is not leadership, it is deeply irresponsible and dangerous, and he needs to decide . decide. >> is he a politician, a serious politician, or is he a social media content creator? >> lee anderson joins me now. reform uk mp lee. thank you very much. look, it's nigel being banned from joining the conservative party. a little bit like me being banned from papua new guinea. i didn't want to go anyway. >> well, i'll put it this way, patrick. i don't suppose that nigel's actually losing any sleep over this. and i look at some of my ex—colleagues which are classed as friends as well . are classed as friends as well. a little bit disappointed with them. patrick, look at t

. >> nigel farage, of course, is now banned from the conservative party.o what does he think of that? boring, boring boring . that? boring, boring boring. >> and the premier league kicks off tonight. multi—millionaire footballers will signal their support for an organisation that wants to defund the police and bnng wants to defund the police and bring down capitalism by getting on their knees and north korea is open to holidaymakers. their tourist board i suspect, has been busy rewriting marketing material in recent weeks in a frantic effort to distance itself from the uk . itself from the uk. getting stuck into all those topics tonight are my friday a—team author and journalist emma woolf former bbc radio and tv presenter alex dyke and political commentator giuditta de silva. i'll assess labour's first six weeks in power next. but before that, your news headunes but before that, your news headlines with tatiana sanchez . headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> ben, thank you very much and good evening . the top stories good evening. the top stories this hour.

nigel farage, for example.nd centre as to who people are for all of what do you think to some of that? the hi there. i'm michelle dewberry and i'm keeping you company until 7:00 tonight. thank you for joining us. alongside me, forjoining us. alongside me, i've got the co—founder of novara media, aaron bastani, and the conservative commentator alex dean. now just before we went to the break there, we was just touching upon that issue in manchester airport. i will just play manchester airport. i will just play you a brief clip in case you missed that press conference yesterday. listen, matt and his mother, shamim were shocked at the unnecessary aggression and violence alleged violence shown from the start. >> there was no immediate attempt to speak to father, to ask him to step aside, to caution him, or to simply say, can we speak to you for second, >> obviously i've got to remind everyone that these fellows are out on bail at the moment. >> yeah, you're a barrister, though his clients are entitled to the presump

yeah, nigel farage, the reckless rhetoric, apparently, of nigel farage stoked the riots. chris hope , political editor, chris hope, said would you allow nigel back to the party? a simple one word answer said it all. no. do you believe the tory party has a future? chris told us an astonishing three out of five voters don't even care who the next leader voters don't even care who the n> martin, thank you very much . >> martin, thank you very much. and good afternoon to you. just coming up to 4:03. the top story today, the health secretary has acknowledged that there were fundamental failures in the mental health care that valdo calocane received before he killed three people in nottingham, a care quality commission review has found. he wasn't taking his medication and that the nhs missed opportunities to mitigate the risk he posed to others. ian coates, barnaby webber and grace o'malley—kumar w

. >> nigel. thank you . good >> nigel. thank you. good evening from the gb newsroom.t's just gone 7:00. your headlines. police are aware of at least 100 protests and 30 counter—demonstrations planned for this evening, with hundreds gathered in hackney and walthamstow in london. already, a list of immigration law firms has been shared in an online chat group with a possible target for gatherings which the director of public prosecutions has warned could be considered a terrorism offence. it comes as one case of alleged terrorism is already actively under consideration. police are urging people to ignore the list of locations, telling rioters officers will be waiting. it comes as at least 12 individuals have been convicted for their part in the ongoing disorder. speaking a short time ago, deputy prime minister angela rayner said there's no excuse for thuggery. >> i know that the public will be feeling anxious about the reports of potential more, unrest tonight, but the police will be there to respond to any violent and criminality that we see on our streets. there's no

and new figures reveal that nigel farage has the highest earnings outside of parliament of any mp.ello, i'm lauren taylor. lebanon says at least ten people were killed in an israeli strike on a residential building in the southern city of nabatieh. the lebanese state news agency says two children were among those killed. israel said it was targeting a hezbollah weapons depot. lebanese media say hezbollah have fired more than a0 rockets into northern israel in retaliation. israel says it was more than 50. also on saturday, hospital officials say an israeli strike in central gaza killed at least 15 people. they say a house and warehouse sheltering displaced people were hit. as the fighting continues, ceasefire and hostage release talks continue. wyre davies reports from jerusalem. images and reports from across the region show there are still huge obstacles to peace, despite the positive messages coming from talks in qatar. in gaza, an overnight israeli air strike reportedly killed 15 people in the central area of the palestinian territory. although israel said it had eliminated a nu

of course they do. >> alex, what's your thoughts on nigel farage?i am a hampshire man. >> i am a hampshire man. >> what's the. are they fans of mr farage down there? >> yes there are. i think that he's a big personality like trump, and they make interesting politicians and fair weather voters often gravitate towards an interesting personality. and someone who says it the way it is, even if it's not the way it is, even if it's not the way it is, and it's the way they see it. i think he's upset the tories so much. they just want to say this because they know he doesn't give a damn anyway. >> yeah, i don't think he cares about the conservative party any more. in fact, he said after the election, my focus now is on laboun election, my focus now is on labour. labour have, you know, keep your eyes out because we're coming. we're coming for those red wall seats. we're coming for the seats that we narrowly failed to win to labour. so i think it's actually labour he cares about, not the we don't give new parties enough time to grow in british politics. well

>> well, it's lovely to be with you, nigel.ng on in northern ireland over this past week or more. i think it was right to call the assembly, on reflection today, to have a debate, many times we're called back to debate issues, but i think it was right to call it today. first of all, of course, to reject the violence and the thuggery and the looting that took place in many areas of our city, our great capital city, over this past few days , and over this past few days, and some of the mlas were also gracious enough to understand that there's something else going on that in some of the areas of belfast, there are real concerns that need to be addressed, and i think that those concerns haven't really got an airing. they need to get an airing and they need to be listened to. of course, you have to protect the ethnic minority communities. of course you have to protect their businesses. you have to make them feel that they're welcome. you have to say to the health care workers that they're doing a great job in many of our hospitals ,

nigel.es just something that, it does depend on the business. obviously not every business could do it, but it's been such a success where it's been tried. japan has trialled this and microsoft and production went up 40%, there was a trial in britain last year where 61 firms took part. 9 in 10 have now continued it because it was so successful that sickness absence went down by 65%. it really was a huge success for the firms. henry ford tried this a hundred years ago on its production lines. what he did was he cut the days down from 6 to 5. and again, production went up. so depending on what the business is , a four day week is a really is, a four day week is a really good way of actually doing things . like good way of actually doing things. like all the work good way of actually doing things . like all the work gets done. >> i'll tell you what i'm uncomfortable with. and it's and it's not the idea of just working four days, because if you can do that and the business is fine and everything

nigel farage. he's had a lot to say on that.ll play a clip from him and we'll see in hello there. michelle dewberry with you till 7:00 tonight alongside me, matt goodwin and bill rammell, one of my viewers on twitter. he actually says , on twitter. he actually says, yes, michelle, we are shouting at the tv, but we're shouting at you. michelle, a criminal is a criminal. no matter what the age. being 12 is no excuse. that is me told. look nigel farage, he was speaking out last night. take a listen to what he had to say. >> well, you're engaged in something like that. you can neven something like that. you can never, ever guarantee that what you say is 100% true. you may think it's true at the time. you may ask a question whether it's true now. starmer, by cracking down on that, poses, i think, the biggest threat to free speech we've seen in our history, an elon musk elon musk has caught wind of this. you see, i think the reason that musk, the reason musk has been going for starmer over the last week, is he knows what the reaction

or you can have a nigel farage view of britain, where you feast _ nigel farage view of britain, whereproblem is, the deep—seated, structural problems and samuel— deep—seated, structural problems and samuel is_ deep—seated, structural problems and samuel is right, there are lots of reasons— samuel is right, there are lots of reasons why people have different views, _ reasons why people have different views, there are reasons for people being _ views, there are reasons for people being upset. and you feed of those divisions_ being upset. and you feed of those divisions and you pick people against — divisions and you pick people against each other. we are at a time when _ against each other. we are at a time when people do have to pick what kind of— when people do have to pick what kind of vision britain warned. i do think— kind of vision britain warned. i do think the — kind of vision britain warned. i do think the silent majority would rather— think the silent majority would rather have patrick's version of britain — rather have patrick's version of britain rather than a nigel farage's

that was nigel gould-davies — that no one expected.. that was nigel gould-davies from the _ that no one expected. that was nigel gould-davies from the internationall gould—davies from the international institute from strategic studies talking to me earlier. as day turns into night across the world, millions will get the chance to watch "blue supermoon". supermoons occur when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to the earth. this was the sky in the south korean capital, seoul, a little earlier today. drjacco van lown is director of the keele observatory at keele university. he told me about the phenomena — which despite the name isn't always blue so we have both a supermoon and a blue moon. and these are two different things. i should explain. a supermoon is when we have the full moon, when the moon is closer to us in its orbit. the blue moon is also related to the orbit of the earth around the sun. so typically in a year you can get 12 full moons, but sometimes you can get 13. so with four seasons, each of three mon

can i quickly what about the fella that chucked that stuff at nigel farage?t a suspended sentence. he got a suspended sentence. he got a suspended sentence for throwing, for throwing a cup of cement at one of our political leaders during a during a general election campaign. >> and i will tell you, someone who works with nigel every single day, there is no braver politician in this country. and anyone less brave, i can tell you would have withdrawn themselves a long time ago from themselves a long time ago from the political landscape in this country. it is. it's actually quite terrifying how the judicial system, this actually isn't policing. this is actually the judicial system, which in some ways is even more of a concern because it's obviously independent. the judicial system has essentially said that our political leaders are no longer off limits. and that, i think, is a terrifying thing given the violence that has been inflicted on political leaders in this country in recent times. >> it's always been like that. i mean, the person, the person who threw a

nigel farare is discussion all these matters. nigel farage is the _ discussion all these matters. all these matters. nigel farage is the leader of _ discussion all these matters. nigel farage is the leader of reform, he did very well in the election and he has been accused of spreading conspiracy theories about the southport tragedy and has response to it. is it enough to see you will not comment on what he has said given that some people including a former police chief have linked his comments to the violence that broke out. i comments to the violence that broke out. ., ., ., out. i will not have a running commentary _ out. i will not have a running commentary on _ out. i will not have a running commentary on the - out. i will not have a running commentary on the motivesl out. i will not have a running i commentary on the motives of out. i will not have a running - commentary on the motives of other people, what i am saying is my focus is on the families and victims at the heart of this and that should be the heart of this and that should be the focus for everybody. anybody who s

nigel farage took to social media to ask whether they were covering something up. wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us. i don't know the answer to that, but i think it is a fair and legitimate question. siren wails it wasn't a cover—up. there were legal reasons for not identifying the suspect or providing more details at the time. that comment compounded the situation, so it gave succour to the people who were coming out to say, "see, i told you so, so let's now go and attack people," and it directly undermined the police by calling the police liars, effectively. we asked nigel farage why he raised a possible cover—up when he should have known that the police were limited in what they could say about the suspect. he told us online speculation was going crazy after the murders, and that some quick answers would have made the southport riot far less significant. nigel farage came under some criticism for questioning whether the authorities were telling the truth about the attack in southport. was that not a mistake? you'd have to ask him that but i thin

party, nigel farage.uch for being here this morning. >> thank you. maria: i want to get your take on this violent disorder sweeping across several british cities over the weekend and this new order to prosecute anybody who is posting about it. can you walk us through what's going if on? -- going on? >> yeah. two things. firstly, the violent disorder. we've got terrible division in our cities. we've got parts of our inner city now that have become completely muslim-dominated, and that has led to a lot of british people saying what the hell's going on, our country is changing fundamentally. we've had successive general elections in which the conservatives following labour promised to reduce immigration numbers, yet we saw them double and then quadruple to record numbers. and we have a border crisis like you of these boats coming across the english channel. so underneath all of this, underneath all of this, yes, you've got muslim extremists, you've got some far-right violent people that look for an excuse, b

but but yeah, i mean, nigel farage is offering something completely different.l common sense policies, you know, and the tories have never done well in wales, never done well in wales at all. so this is a credible alternative to , to credible alternative to, to having to blindly vote for, for a party that no longer represents the true interests of the people of wales. >> okay, david, there are three of you now. the reform welsh three. what's the plan? what do you want to do next? what's your ambition? >> well, hopefully we'll we'll continue the momentum that we've already. we've already started, we've had so much support for what we've done. it's overwhelming support . and we've overwhelming support. and we've had messages from other councillors in other councils that have said , look, we've seen that have said, look, we've seen what you've done. it's really exciting. we're thinking about doing it ourselves, you know, but we somebody has to make the move first. we've done it and hopefully now others will follow. >> okay. well thanks for joining us. very best of

okay i'm going to bring nigel nelson in here. >> nigel, it is true, is it not, that kamala harris wasmember of the senate, and we've had a strange kind of about face from a lot of democrats who were very, very critical of her. i mean, she had to drop out of her primary because she was so hugely unpopular, and they're now trying to elevate her as some sort of new martin luther king figure. and they're sort of pretending that she's suddenly the most popular, the most accomplished political figure of all time. it doesn't really stack up, does it? >> well, i mean, they've got to do that. i mean, we didn't think a few weeks ago that she was going to be the candidate. so we were looking at joe biden. so i can understand the democrats needing to actually pump her up . needing to actually pump her up. trouble in the uk, as we know so little about her. she was very low profile as the veep, i mean, certainly on the foreign stage. and so we need to learn more. my preference would be, given that we've got a choice of the two of them, is kamala harris for president? because i don't want to see don

you've asked about nigel. nigel's a long standing friend of mine.and, you know, i could debate with him , discuss issues debate with him, discuss issues with him, and i'm happy to do that. let's not forget the conservative party has lost the general election. and with that, reform are a party that stood against conservative candidates at the general election. you know, they were part of us losing the election. we lost amazing, decent public servants at this general election, which is a shame. so, you know , we is a shame. so, you know, we i believe that, you know , reform believe that, you know, reform is a party that, you know, we will challenge, oppose. there might be times in parliamentary party debate, i don't know, in parliament where they seek to side with us. who knows? right that's for parliament in the future. and you've asked me about nigel's language. it's no different to what i said about jess phillips right now. we were all democratically elected politicians. we should know the full facts and we need to be careful about the language tha

good evening, nigel, thanks for joining me. gardiner. good evening, nigel, thanks forjoining me.joining me. or good morning, where you are. what do you make of the prime minister's decision to remove this portrait ? decision to remove this portrait? >> yeah. good evening ben. thanks for having me on the show today. what a disgraceful decision by keir starmer. it demonstrates what a petty minded individual he is. demonstrates what a petty minded individual he is . after all, individual he is. after all, this was a portrait commissioned, in fact, by gordon brown when he was prime minister, who welcomed lady to thatcher downing street. and now you have keir starmer, a really a far left socialist, a political pygmy in every respect compared to margaret thatcher, who was a towering figure, starmer banishing thatcher's portrait from downing street. what an absolute disgrace. and it demonstrates just how how low this labour government is stooping. and i do think, actually, that keir starmer is the most disastrous british prime minister of the modern era in every, in every respect, yet a

but at least, you know, i would say it's a nigel.t least he was charged. >> what do you think, peter? >> what do you think, peter? >> well, i think eric makes a very good point about the police. who are largely absent. iused police. who are largely absent. i used to be slightly embarrassed about saying this, but i now say it with absolute conviction. the only thing we can do about the police is to is to begin now, to recruit a proper police force of perhaps 100,000 people who are prepared to do what the police used to do thatis to do what the police used to do that is to patrol on foot, preventing crime on their own rather than walking about in pairs, discussing overtime. and once you have achieved that police force and trained it, then we disband the existing one because it's a total failure. it doesn't really exist, it doesn't doesn't really exist, it doesn't do anything for me. it's a state police, rather than a police force serving the public and i would cheerfully get rid of it. but you can't just get rid of it. it has to be rep

i'm with you on that, nigel.here is a lot of people who have strong feelings against the way that our society is being moulded by people who don't speak our language, don't share our values. yeah, i'm with you on that. that's a debate that needs to be had. >> but this only works, ivan. if people get what they vote for. and some would argue that repeated promises have been made to lower the overall numbers coming to britain, and the opposite has happened . opposite has happened. >> absolutely. and the conservatives are the worst. and it's increased the most under their watch . so, absolutely. their watch. so, absolutely. it's very difficult to get migration down when there's a commercial need for it, we don't have the people to fill the jobs, so we need to recruit our local people. we need to have proper training so that in the long term, we can put british people for british jobs and not foreigners. >> ivan samson, as ever. thank you for joining >> ivan samson, as ever. thank you forjoining us and giving us your