alex, dana, the political is alongside me as is paul embry, writer , firefighter paul embry, writer,e've just been and broadcaster. we've just been frantically doing some in the break. let me just bring this up for you, because alex is just like this to me. chance, by the way, was sitting for you christmas. yeah this is about to be a television fail. and when i spun around on my chair and almost fell off my drink, she's gone. almost fell off my drink, she's gone . get this. messing up on gone. get this. messing up on the screen and tell us what's going on. this is labour. i feel if you're listening, not watch thing. this is a tweet from labour's twitter. i mean, at this rate , yes. the actual this rate, yes. the actual formal account and they've said here is what the tories are costing you even on their own terms, as opposed to on their terms. they say it cost you these things under the conservative party and anyone you teach children, you you teach your children, you look column and got a six, look at a column and got a six, a and an eight on it. a four and an eight on it. right. th

paul, thank union, paul embry. paul, thank you so much forjoining me.tart from a different point of view on strikes , but i point of view on strikes, but i wonder if you could give the for case strikes. why do you think they're justified. and why do you think they're not holding british to ransom ? well british public to ransom? well i think they're justified. jacob since simply because. so people are being asked again to accept are being asked again to accept a real terms cut and are being asked again, to pay for any crisis that they didn't create . crisis that they didn't create. had 14 years of this. we had the global financial crisis in 2008. since when? we've pretty paltry increases. we're now going through the cost of living crisis. people are increasingly it difficult to make meet, finding it difficult to pay their mortgages to pay their energy bills, put food on the table. and constant promise from the government . tomorrow simply the government. tomorrow simply isn't good enough. people want a real terms increase now rather than another real te

of course, alongside him, paul embry we'll get into all paul embry so we'll get into all of that and more. but before we do, let's ourselves do, sir, let's bring ourselves up with the headlines up to speed with the headlines from tatiana sanchez . michelle, from tatiana sanchez. michelle, thank you and good evening . this thank you and good evening. this is the latest from the gb newsroom, the first state visit of king charles to france has been postponed because of protests across the country . protests across the country. tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating against the government's plan to raise the pension age from 62 to 64. the king was due to arrive on sunday as part of a weeklong trip to europe. the french president, emmanuel macron, has suggested the new date for that visit will be in the early summer. the windsor framework has now been formally adopted by both the eu and the uk. the foreign secretary and european commission chair to meeting earlier to sign off the post—brexit trade agreement . post—brexit trade agreement. that's after mp has voted in favour of

writer, author, fireman paul embry. tonight most you guys are talking about the fact that gary lineker has been asked to step back from hosting match of the day . tonight, alan shearer the day. tonight, alan shearer has come out in solidarity. he's not going to present ian wright come in solidarity . he's not come out in solidarity. he's not going to present. i don't think that means many of them that means there's many of them left. quite frankly, it has divided opinion and i'm divided your opinion and i'm interested . are you someone that interested. are you someone that is anti cancel culture? and if you are, do you actually apply that principle irrespective of who the person and what the opinion is? or are you somebody who is very much against cancel culture but if it's someone they don't really like, then defers. you want to kick him out and get rid of him? i been running a twitter poll. i've been asking you, do you think gary lineker should sacked? he hasn't been should be sacked? he hasn't been sacked. step sacke

company right through until 7:00 this evening alongside me, i've got the writer and broadcaster paul embry, which conservatives? william hall. good evening, gentlemen . hall. good evening, gentlemen. welcome all of you guys welcome back to all of you guys .bfian welcome back to all of you guys . brian says as an ex governor of champagne , please, can i of champagne, please, can i remind you that this whole thing about prisoners working is nothing new? prisons like latymer house and others where resettlement prisons. but most have been stopped now. interesting insight there, brian , by the way, do get back in touch with me. what do you think? so the notion that prisons i personally think they're too soft these days, they're too soft these days, they focus too much on the enjoyment and comfort of prisoners as opposed to the punishment think punishment which is what i think should the primary reason should be the primary reason that there. do that you're in there. what do you too? one of my you think, too? that's one of my fears that just being in such name. please can you thank at the chap th

the political consulting and paul embry, fireman , writer and broadcaster. fireman, writer and broadcasterivided opinion on the ukraine situation as to whether or not we should send fighter jets over the 5050. i'd say you all are still you're all writing in to tell me that it is turning blair that you would like to see an arrest warrant issued for war crimes as opposed to. well, not as opposed to putin. i don't think you're saying. as opposed to boots. and i think you're saying in addition, you would like to see one of those warrants out for tony and it would keep tony blair and it would keep results in. let me talk results coming in. let me talk to now about to you, though, now about prisoners. the name prisoners. do you know the name levi does that mean levi bellfield? does that mean anything you? he's a serial anything to you? he's a serial killer, of course, that killed, among milly now among others, milly dowler. now he's in prison, multiple life sentences , quite frankly, and he sentences, quite frankly, and he wants to get married. i mean , wants to get married. i mean, the fact tha