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panel are the former conservative mp ranil jayawardena and the former labour special adviser, paul richards richards. this time, ranil, i'm going to start with you. this story should have been put to bed by now. it just goes on and on and on. yesterday in brussels, sir keir starmer meant to be resetting the relationship with brussels, even friendly journalists were asking him only one thing about this ongoing rumble his solution to pay back six grand. what about rumble his solution to pay back six multi—millionaire lord alli, the multi—millionaire lord alli, lent labour peer baroness uddin a whopping 62 grand to help repay wrongfully claimed expenses. now this comes after lord alli himself was placed under investigation by the lords standards watchdog for allegedly failing to register interests, and this was supposed to be the party of change. but does this just prove that actually they're all the same storm already losing the grip of his government? well, joining me now is my panel are the former conservative mp ranil jayawardena and the former labour special adviser, paul richards. this t

ranil jayawardena and of course the former labour special advisor , former labour special advisor, paul richardsave to start with you again because this is another story where the kind of trouble is from the labour party. dawn butler she was very controversial for a long time. i think keir starmer did a good job of gagging her these past couple of years. every time she was on the jeremy vine show, she seemed to put her foot in her mouth. she became an accident waiting to happen. now dawn butler is back. >> well, i don't think she made these videos, did she? this is not her handiwork. and she's obviously she's. hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. you'd be all over it. she then, you know, puts it up on social media without checking. this is, you know, basic politics 101. do your due diligence and make sure there isn't this sort of hostage to fortune. when you rightly pointed out that some of these characters are absolutely beyond the pale, she took it down and said, i'm sorry. and that's that's the end of that. you know, she's she's admitted that she did a foolish thing and she's not stan

well, joining us now is a former labour adviser, paul richards. paul labour adviser, paul richards. ly getting a bit of a kicking? >> i'm afraid my sound has just gone off. >> oh, i think the sound we're having issues with the sound. paul having issues with the sound. paul. we'll come back to you, which is a shame. it is quite funny, this narrative emerging that you know, all of these evil right wing journalists. >> oh, boo . who do you know what >> oh, boo. who do you know what you play those games. you. you topple governments because of cake in downing street. and whatever else and wallpaper in downing street. you set the standards. that's the rules. you set, you set. you were responsible for that. so people would argue if you want to play the game by such strict and tough rules, then i guess, to be quite frank, suck it up. this is it. you're in government now, andifs it. you're in government now, and it's a lot easier to cheer from the sidelines and points and wail from the sidelines as it is actually running the country and away from the freebie gate and things like that, which s

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well, i'm joined now by former labour special adviser paul richards. had to say. i did correct my little slight error there, but the sentiment is still the same. where do you stand with all that? with all of that? >> well, i was thinking, come on now , get off. get off the fence. now, get off. get off the fence. why don't you tell us what you really think ? you know, i mean, really think? you know, i mean, that was quite the broadside. but if we if we unpack it a little bit, the carbon capture announcement is over 25 years, and it will create some really good quality jobs for people in merseyside. and teesside. give some young people apprenticeships and move us towards a greener economy. i don't mourn the loss of the last coal mine. i don't think we should be digging up coal anymore. it is a redundant technology and you can't complain about ending the coal mines. and then also complain about solar and onshore wind because we are going to have to move to those renewables. >> well, i'm complaining about it because and also safeguard the planet. well, i'm

goldwater, richard nixon, gerald ford, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, paul pete's same. scott walker. this is a go-to thing that seems to mean nothing except throw fear into the hearts of voters. >> a few things. i love "has been called." a lot of work. basic idea, look, liberals call republicans faschists all the time. fair is fair. not exactly wrong. i mean, it's true. i remember george w. bush call add fascist. and soul searching not just by people who use the term fascist also by the people called fascist but that aside, right? when you look at that grade up there, pretty important distinctions. for instance, a few important ways in which trump is different from all republicans before him. first and foremost unlike anybody else on that fox graphic, and maybe people forgotten this, donald trump incite add violent insurrection aguess the united nations to overturn and free and fair election and stay in power against the will of the people according to their votes. no one else has ever done that out on the campaign trail falsely claim ss the election w a ho

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grade, there was a preacher at the church her family attended, reverend bob richards who was an olympic athlete, a gold medalist paul volcker and he finished again at another olympics and he sort of animated her dreams more. she was convinced when she would go to these sermons that he was talking directly to her and he talked a lot about the reach of sports and the potential for sports to change the world, that it was a platform people could use. by this point her father had told her of all the sports that existed tennis was something that a girl could do long-term and so she would listen to bob richards talk about his experiences in the olympic arena. he used to work out in the yard next to the church and she would see what it took, the devotion and intensity. he preached the gospel of self-reliance adjusting to things as you go in life, there are things that she still talks about. the other thing that was interesting about the church was the theological roots of the church where the mennonites. this sort of conscription, you have to go to church 5 times a week or this or that, she said that keith oh's was that you

republicans you showed, steve, mitt romney, paul ryan, gerald ford, like, barry goldwater and ronald reagan and donald trump are -- were threats to the system. richardand george w. bush and mitt romney were more establishment republican guys it. doesn't matter where are coming from. you are going to be called a fascist. >> steve: just what they're doing right now. we heard for the last year donald trump is a threat to democracy. and today she is going to say in texas donald trump is a threat to abortion rights. and it's going to be next week there is going to be another he is a threat to fill in the blank. that's just what it is variety now. >> the reality is voters hear all of that but they say wait, kamala harris and joe biden have been a threat to my safety and my security. kamala harris and joe biden have been a threat to my ability to make money. my ability to feed my family. the basics that i care about. they are a threat to women in girls sports being able to do it. there is a thousand different ways where common sense collides with this rhetoric of a threat to. so none of it lands. >> steve: we played a soundbite, hillary clinton talking a l

paul tillotson john f. kennedy as senator and president. although she jfk's father and the younger the candidates. some of her anti-kennedy remarks were unfortunately it appropriated to televisionn commercials for which richard nixon had little respect. eleanor roosevelt spoke with authority yet she had a kind grandmotherly appearance. television commentators and guests often behaved different surely to her personage resisting the trivialization or of women at the time. although she had consistent chapters very few confronted them directly on tv so the medium provided an effective platform for her liberal voice during her eisenhower years. because of her status of a larger-than-life figure who is loved and by the public filmmakers largely avoided documentary and biographical film coverage until after her death. in 1960 durocher a notable exception of dramatization of franklin struggling comeback from polio with the loving support of his wife. he commented the production was about as much like the roosevelt family as people from mars. although she cooperatives so the children profited from the successfulul broadway play. what did eleanor think about her own on-screen appearances? in reference to pastor hall s

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annunziata rees—mogg, former tory mp and now farmer neil parish and former labour special adviser paul richards i'll ask you to start with this one, is this a betrayal of voters, given that keir starmer said he would smash the criminal gangs? >> well, the story is based on the awarding of these contracts and in government contracting terms, you have to have a sort of an end point. terms, you have to have a sort of an end point . and so of an end point. and so i understand they've just given a date in the future. that doesn't mean that all efforts to stop illegal migration have come to a juddering halt, nor that there's been a betrayal of the pledges made in the election to smash the gangs. both of those things are ploughing on ahead, but obviously we're not seeing it in the numbers, are we? well, it is early days and it's a very big, widespread problem that we know we have to tackle. but i think this, this story is based on a sort of bit of bureaucracy within government. it's not a statement of government intent. it's just to do with some contracts. >> neil, every eu nation has been busy trying

joining me now is paul richards, a former labour special adviser and columnist. , thank you very much for joining and columnist. paul, thank you very much forjoining us and columnist. paul, thank you very much for joining us today. really appreciate your time on a saturday afternoon, paul, the front pages of all the papers today, the budget from hell. i mean, why are they doing it at halloween? i don't know, it's an absolute shoo for in headline writers, isn't it? were they telling the truth? were they telling the truth? were they telling the truth or being completely honest in their manifesto? we're not going to touch taxes for the working people . people. >> i don't well, i think the, the headlines obviously are pure speculation. i mean, none of us know what's going to be in the budget on 30th october. what we do know, though, is that when ministers came in, they discovered that the previous government had been lying and dissembling and covering up the truth . and there's a huge black truth. and there's a huge black hole in the public finances that has to be fil

let's talk to paul richards, who is a former labour special adviser and columnist. you've been around the block. you and i have been around the block a long time. this this should have been dealt with by number 10 days ago. they should have just lance the boil , but have just lance the boil, but instead we sort of were dragging it out day by day . why didn't it out day by day. why didn't they just say at the beginning, yeah, you have free tickets. he's given the money back. by the way, he did meet taylor swift. he had nothing to do with the blue light police escort. or he did or he didn't. >> just the very first point, andrew, is this can you imagine if taylor swift came to the uk and was assassinated on british soil, and it was subsequently discovered that she hadn't had a blues and twos police escort would have been in the middle of an absolute massive global diplomatic storm right now. no, i don't think so. >> i don't know, i do not begrudge her. >> i do not begrudge her having a police escort while [000:08:31;00] [000:08:31;00]

well, let's speak to paul richards, former labour special adviser and columnist. morning, paul.nk you so much forjoining us again. always nice to see you. do you think the labour party could be guilty of breaching american election law ? american election law? >> absolutely. 100% not. i think this says far more about the deranged and desperate state of the trump campaign. with two weeks to go, they know they're losing than it does anything to do with people going over volunteering and helping. and this this offer of accommodation. i mean, people go pay accommodation. i mean, people go pay their own way. they take their own leave from work if they're working and they go over there and do it off their own bat, just like nigel farage when he went over there to campaign. and when liz truss does as well, they do it as volunteers, whether it's on the democrat or the republican side. >> well, nigel was on gb news this morning on breakfast and we will we will find a clip of this morning on breakfast and we will we wi

former senior labour adviser paul richards, ex—conservative mp sir michael fabncant ex—conservative mpael fabricant and communications adviser , journalist and adviser, journalist and broadcaster linda jubilee . great broadcaster linda jubilee. great to see all three of you. linda, can i start with you? when did socialism win the argument? >> well, i don't know that it has won the argument. >> it will on wednesday, won't it? >> well, actually, we don't know. but we suspect it will be a truly disastrous situation for lots of people in the private sector . we've heard it described sector. we've heard it described today as a public sector budget by by a public sector government. now that really fills me with terror , because fills me with terror, because it's the high net worth individuals that are said to be leaving. and i was looking at some figures today from the henley consultancy, which advises people on residency and citizenship, those people who have the ability to move their money and move themselves. there are said to be 9500 leaving britain now , but what i really 1501 00:09:27,

annunziata rees—mogg, ex tory mp and now farmer neil parish and former labour special advisor paul richardsd a developing story this evening. a third attempt on donald trump's life has been thwarted. police stopped a suspect who tried to get into a rally that the former us president was speaking at. he is about to speak at a rally in arizona, breaking his silence for the first time. we'll bring you all the latest on that . and you all the latest on that. and another worrying day for american democracy . american democracy. >> good evening. it's just gone 10:00. i'm katie bowen, and these are your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. as you've been hearing breaking news this evening, a third assassination attempt on donald trump has been thwarted. yesterday, the republican presidential candidate held a rally at coachella in california. and local police say that they caught a suspect who was illegally in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high capacity magazine about a mile from the venue with a fake pass. mile from the venue with a fake pass . riverside county sheriff pass. ri

and for ringside reaction, my top pundits tonight, former senior labour adviser paul richards, ex—conservativep sir michael fabricant and journalist and communications advisor linda jubilee. two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. sir gareth southgate, do me a favour, i'll be tackling that in an hour's time and this show has a golden rule we don't do boring. not on my watch. i just won't have it. a big two hours. get the kettle on first the news headlines. and a good friend of mine , sophie a good friend of mine, sophie reapen >> thank you. mark. it's just after 9:00. and these are your latest gb news headlines. the labour party has said their mp , labour party has said their mp, mike amesbury, has had the whip suspended following an investigation into an incident that took place in cheshire earlier this weekend. just a warning there are scenes of a physical nature to follow in this new cctv obtained by the mail online. it appears to show the labour mp for runcorn and helsby punching a constituent to the ground in the early hours of saturday morning. in a statement released