priti patel, who's now the shadow foreign secretary but of course was the home secretary as the uk lefthat migration has gone up an awful lot. is at risk of losing or indeed already has lost to reform on their right. is basically the question of whether the conservative party theresa may had voted remain was that the reason the uk had voted to leave and immigration needed to come down. interesting in and of itself. i didn't know that. i think i mean, i don't know about you, laura. it almost never comes up when. you don't want to talk about it. i think immigration does come up. but yeah, brexit doesn't. but partly you have to you can't forget that i cannot begin to tell you the level of drama right. and i don't mean drama like, oh, it was fun and it was amazing. like people, you'd see them crying, shouting at each other, screaming at each other, and years or... political party, plotting against each other, they just don't want to talk about it. people just don't want to talk about it. borisjohnson�*s huge victory in 2019 because lots that's where get it done came from. which is why it's

priti patel, the shadow foreign secretary, was also asked about that. this is what she said.oria, if i may say so, those statements- are deeply premature. we've heard a range i of views in recent days, right from the nato conference that took place in brussels - a few days ago and also over recent days here. i we all have to have very, very cold heads right - now, primarily cold - and calm heads, primarily because this conflict is still raging. - this war is still hot. there is still conflict taking place at sea and on land. l ukraine has had such terrible losses. - russia has as well. we're all heavily, heavily invested in this conflict. i and i think right now we need a degree of calmness - as these new initiatives take place, and also. as this new range of talks take place, whether it's. the discussions that take place in paris tomorrow. and there'll be many, - many, many other debates, discussions and dialogues that| will be forthcoming in the days and weeks ahead. and all this very much focusing minds on uk defence spending. do you see that changing? absolutely. well, th

i need to add to my disclosure that i was formerly a former colleague of priti patel being considered to continue to continue to call her friend. so we do have a housing crisis and we could barely find one of the people who came to us housing with the funding with $1.2 million a year like if any one family loses housing the city's responsible party the amount that that causes that the cost of the city is above the $1.2 million. >> so to say that this is not a cost saving this this is the only program that enforces the housing code. we only heard people come today and talk about enforcement of the housing code that is ours. that is that is who we are that is not maybe the most we talk about. we usually talk about permits. >> we talk about new construction. but the housing code belongs to this department and the responsibilities and the vision behind it and the mission behind it do too. >> i can't agree more and i associate myself with commissioner chavez's comments about the the importance especially now of having people who speak in language who can teach you your rights. you don't kn

shadow foreign secretary dame priti patel told gb news the deal is a huge national security risk. >>st four months, we cannot forget the fact that starmer's government had been trying to railroad this deal through while joe biden was in the white house and before president trump was inaugurated, because they knew that the americans would run the slide rule over this terrible deal and questioned the whole issue of national security. we know that the mauritians have closer relations and links with china. there's no guarantee that the chinese will not actually put listening stations and put actually their national security apparatus on the archipelago and the surrounding islands, and this is a major threat to us all. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. more from me in half an hour. >> 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. >> good morning britain's newsroom bev and andrew hope you've got your hands free to hold your head in the next couple of minutes while we talk about what man

. >> shadow foreign secretary priti patel told gb news.mp's comments are clearly not right, but she did say europe must step up. >> what i don't think we should be surprised about, though, are president trump's overall remarks about the rest of europe, including nato allies, when it comes to defence and security? this war and conflict is the most brutal conflict on our continent since the second world war, and that's why it's vital, it's urgent, and it's essential that britain leads the way it steps up on defence spending, and at the same time, it does what we did throughout the ukraine conflict. we persuade our european allies and also our nato allies to raise the bar when it comes to defence, security and military support. >> meanwhile, culture secretary lisa nandy said we must stick together in the face of russian aggression. >> minister has been clear that all of our european allies and the uk have to increase defence spending, but we need to stick together with our nato allies. the one thing we cannot afford to allow to happen is for

. >> and shadow foreign secretary priti patel said trump's comments are clearly not right. but she did say europe must step up. >> what i don't think we should be surprised about, though, are president trump's overall remarks about the rest of europe, including nato allies, when it comes to defence and security? this war and conflict is the most brutal conflict on our continent since the second world war. and that's why it's vital. it's urgent, and it's essential that britain leads the way. it steps up on defence spending, and at the same time, it does what we did throughout the ukraine conflict. we persuade our european allies and also our nato allies to raise the bar when it comes to defence, security and military support. >> now hamas has handed over the bodies of four hostages today, including the two youngest people held by the terror group since being taken alive in october 7 attack. it includes a mother and two children from the bibas family, whose youngest child was just nine months old. hamas says the fourth body is that of 84 year old oded . that of 84 year old od