robert jenrick , battling it out robert jenrick, kemi badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat. but tonight one will be eliminated. then on wednesday, the final two will be selected, leaving conservative members to make the ultimate choice. cleverly has been seen as the front runner and gained momentum following his strong performance at the party's conference. but team jenrick is also confident, believing their hard stance on the european convention of human rights will win them a place in that final. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you for now. i'll be back with you for a full round up at 10:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com . code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> very good morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news bev turner and andrew pierce. >> so the prime minister is being urged to come clean with his relationship with old lord moneybags himself, lord alli, because there's a new book that's come out written by people who are very well plugged into the labour party, tim ross and rachel wearmouth. it's called landslide and this was written before the furore over lord alli and the scale of his largesse to the labour party, where it says we've often said what did he want for the money? yeah. why? why is he paid for £32,000 worth of suits for keir starmer and his glasses, £5,000 for keir starmer's wife's clothes? i think keir starmer had about £77,000 from alli altogether. he's given hundreds of thousands of pounds, so he's already got his period. so it wasn't for that. but this book says that he took part in meetings before the election with shadow ministers going into senior civil servants to prepare for government. what why is the labour donors going doing that ? labour donors going doing that? and also, he's been involved in the preparation of the grid for the preparation of the grid for the first 100 days in government. so we do this in the first week. the second week, well , if he's first week. the second week, well, if he's responsible for that, i'm amazed he's a multi—millionaire because the grid has been useless. they've had a disastrous first hundred days. so this book i haven't seen any extracts of this book, but this book was written before all of this scandal. >> so it's effectively a prequel to what we're seeing unravel at the moment. and it would suggest that not only was lord alli given that pass to downing street, but he was there at the table through all of these decision making in the run up to the election, in the run up to the election, in the run up to the election. >> and of course, we weren't aware of it in the run up to election that shadow ministers were taking quite so much money because the money doesn't get declared immediately and lord alli is not responding to any requests for interview. but we've pressed and pressed number 10. why did lord alli give all this money? what did he get in return? well, we're beginning to find out. >> well, let's speak to former labour spokesman james matthewson . good morning. james. matthewson. good morning. james. what might lord alli have wanted in terms of buying effectively the presence at the top table, with decisions being made before the election . the election. >> morning. i have no idea what rich people want when they engage with politics like this. because often to me, if it comes to, you know, a point of just them trying to make more money or them trying to have more influence or all the rest of it, it doesn't seem to be worth their while. a lot of the time, because what ends up happening is they end up embroiled in situations like this and scandals where ultimately, no matter how much money lord alli has helped. keir starmer with whether it be resources, whether it be support, whether it be clothes, whether it be, you know, anything, you know, the house that he gave him to, to kind of campaign basis campaigning, not none of it seems to be worthwhile in the long run because this is where we've ended up. so i never understand the motivation of these people behind it. however, at the same time , from the at the same time, from the labour party's point of view, it is concerning, labour party's point of view, it is concerning , obviously, but is concerning, obviously, but this new book, obviously, and the revelations in it, whether they they are true or not or whether the allegations are correct and there are questions to be asked, and i think politicians as a whole owe it to us to be transparent about the role that their their donors and that the people who are around them, who have money and who support them financially, play because we don't want to end up like america . like america. >> you've been around the labour party for a long time. i've been writing about politics for 30, 40 years. james. i've never heard of a donor accompanying shadow ministers going into whitehall to talk to very senior civil servants about preparation for government. i've never heard of it . i'm for government. i've never heard of it. i'm amazed that civil servants didn't say, oh, what's he doing here? and even more astonished that the preparations for the first 100 days of a new government were being made in lord alli £18 million penthouse, with keir starmer and shadow ministers. he wouldn't have been in any of those meetings. i'd suggest, james, if he hadn't given so much money to the labour party . labour party. >> i fear, andrew, that you might be correct on that. i have absolutely no idea what role lord alli has to play. and look, don't get me wrong, i'm sure the quy's don't get me wrong, i'm sure the guy's very clever. i have no idea what his experience is with regard to this, but the grid that first 100 days of government. the grid is god when it comes to politics. as we know, the grid sets out everything that you're going to do, your messaging, your strategy. and if i'm being honest, it is the grid that has been lacking for the labour party in government. in this first 100 days. and that's why we've seen the departure of sue gray, somebody who ultimately was responsible for the grid. so, you know, we hope to see better control of that as we move forward and better clear messaging from the labour party in government on what they're doing and why they're doing it. but why has this happened? you're absolutely right. it's bizarre. and if it is true and if the allegations are correct that he's been involved in this process, then there needs to be clear answers as to why and what is relevance was in doing so , is relevance was in doing so, people would normally see the grid. >> is it a fairly exclusive bunch? >> yeah. so i think normally the way that it works and bear in mind people like myself have only got experience of this in opposition. but the way that the grid would work is it tends to go out across the cabinet or the shadow cabinet in opposition. people can see that grid. now the grid is something that becomes something that people fight over right? becomes something that people fight over right ? because fight over right? because everybody wants the leader or they want the prime minister to be at their event. they want them to be at their opening of something. they want them to be in their constituency. so people end up fighting over the grid. so whoever has control over that essentially has control over keir starmer's diary and where he is and what he's doing. but more than that, it's about the agendain more than that, it's about the agenda in government, right? in opposition. the thing we were fighting for so long is to try and control that media agenda and control that media agenda and what's what's talked about week to week in government. you actually have the chance to do that because with the announcements that you make, you can influence what we're talking about. what you and i are talking about right now on the news, you know, we can have those discussions now for the past, you know, kind of how many days labour have been in power. now you can see that that has just been a complete runaway train for them. they haven't had control over that. so whoever now morgan mcsweeney seems to be will be in charge of the grid going forward, needs to have a tight grasp on what is talked about and why it's talked about. crucially , great. crucially, great. >> great has been blown up, james, because of the revelations about the extent of the involvement of lord alli. and are you uncomfortable that a labour donor who i'd say again, icannot labour donor who i'd say again, i cannot think of any other reason he'd be there if it wasn't for the fact he'd been so generous personally to the labour leader, personally, to the labour leader . are you the labour leader. are you uncomfortable that he was at these meetings and that he did? he helped determine the grid for the first 100 days of the first labour government, for 14 years? >> yeah. if he was and it turns out that he was, then yes, i am absolutely . and i think anybody absolutely. and i think anybody would be already at labour party conference and you might have heard this yourself. you know, people were uncomfortable talking or asking about who, you know, people were saying, who is lord alli ? who is this guy? and lord alli? who is this guy? and because, you know, we've got people who've been grafting for the past 14 years to get a labour government delivered, people who've been door knocking two times a week, you know, for the past 14 years to try and deliver a labour government now , deliver a labour government now, if somebody like lord alli has then just paid a load of money and he's had better access to the labour party than any of those individuals, people who've worked their way up through the party, then that will be a real crying shame. and the party needs to ask itself seriously what the leadership's doing. but we need to see what the what the reality is with this situation, because a lot of this is speculation so far. but, you know, hopefully who is who is lord alli? >> do you know him? >> do you know him? >> i have absolutely no idea other than the past few weeks, obviously. and everything that i've read and the kind of research that i've done into him as a commentator, i had never heard the name mentioned before in labour circles at all. >> he was the tony blair gave him a peerage in 1998, first openly gay muslim politician shocked some colleagues in the house of lords with his diamond stud earring. well, good luck to him on all of that, but he was very close in the blair years in the wilderness, in miliband, corbyn years back with a vengeance and he clearly is one of lord alli keir starmer's greatest confidants. because where did keir starmer spend general election night watching the biggest labour win since 1997? oh, of course he was in lord alli £18 million covent garden apartment. he, the prime minister, has got too close to this bloke . this bloke. >> i mean questionable, i don't know and i don't know the reality, but you're absolutely right. if, as the speculation seems to be and as the allegations in this book seem to be, then i would argue yes. and we saw this with boris johnson, with the likes of evgeny lebedev and you know, i mean, whilst this isn't quite the same thing from a foreign office perspective and the concern with connections to russia, it is that that influence, you know, how can people who influence politicians and influence our government at the end of the day, that's the concern, isn't it? and i think there needs to be open transparency with this. i would i would honestly, i would plea plea to any anybody in the labour party right now that the way forward from this is not trying to spin it, trying to move away from it, but trying to move away from it, but trying to be open and transparent because they've got a chance to turn things around in the next. i would say, 50, 60 days from everything from the clothing scandal, from everything, to be able to put their hands up and say, look , this is what's say, look, this is what's happened so far. this is why it's happened. we're cutting our teeth. we're a new government. we're getting to grips with things. let's turn it around and change things from now on. but if they don't do that and they double down and they try and save the face of somebody like lord alli, then it could be detrimental to the labor party in the long run. >> just very briefly, james, i'm pressed for time. did you really suspect after 93 days of a labour government, there'd be a poll showing that people think this new labour government is more sleazy than the tories ? more sleazy than the tories? after 14 years in power. >> sleaze isn't something that i thought would come with their with keir starmer especially, you know, being in the cps and, and all of his kind of credibility. i do think, however, that this is because of the, the failure to grip the pr side of things and the communications operation, which, by the way , is not not anything by the way, is not not anything anybody in the labour party expected. because when we were told about keir starmer, when we were told about this leadership and everybody who was in and around it, their, their primary function and the thing people have praised them for for, the whole election campaign has been their communications operation, their communications operation, the second that they've been in government that seems to have collapsed. so, you know, they really do need to get a grip of this. and hopefully in the long run, they'll be able to sort that out. fingers crossed. >> okay. thank you . james james >> okay. thank you. james james matthewson there. right up. next guess which european body allows an albanian criminal back into britain because of his rights to a family life? you're with britain's newsroom gb news. welcome back to newsroom on gb news. with me , bev turner and news. with me, bev turner and andrew pierce until midday. >> now this is going to infuriate you. i suspect an albanian criminal who came back into britain illegally after being deported. he'd served six months in a two and a half year sentence for burglary, has won the right to stay in britain under the european convention on human rights. >> i'd it. binoche was freed six months into a two and a half year jail sentence for burglary and deported as part of a prisoner transfer agreement with albania. came back. sorry . no, i albania. came back. sorry. no, i was going to say. have you have you today? but he came back to britain to be with his lithuanian girlfriend, and now he's staying here as he has a right to a family life. is it madness? it flipping is. >> let's speak to the barrister and writer stephen barrett . and writer stephen barrett. stephen. so this gentleman broke the law . he. he was a burglar, the law. he. he was a burglar, which is a very, very difficult offence if you're a victim of burglary, sentenced to two and a half years in this country, served six months. he's deported. he comes back into britain illegally breaching in breaching the deportation order. makes his lithuanian girlfriend pregnant because there's a baby. he's allowed to stay here because of his human rights. he's cocking a snook at the entire law. that is why people are so furious with the european court of human rights. don't worry about the victims of crime. let's worry about this criminal who broke the law in the first place, banged up in prison, deported, comes back illegally pregnant, impregnates his girlfriend. you can stay because of your human rights. >> well, don't blame him. blame the european court of human rights because you know , rights because you know, ultimately, what you end up with is a situation where. and i don't really like to see this as law. so one of the publications talked about this and they called it a legal loophole. i don't think it is a legal loophole. effectively, these these rights are so nebulous. they're so, so vague that nobody really knows what they are at all or what they mean or what stems from them . so this office stems from them. so this office block in strasbourg that calls itself the european court of human rights, it gets to make a effectively a political decision that in these circumstances , that in these circumstances, criminals who nonetheless break the law but manage to have a baby can stay in your country. and that that that is fundamentally overriding what the democratic government has chosen to do. you know, we elect governments, they enact laws. and those those laws are the laws that ordinarily would be followed. but instead we have this additional layer, this floating, floating office block that can just override us for some jazz band type reason. and that's what people will be frustrated by, because the british public are very law abiding. we are very rural. we're a rules based order. that's what we do. and the rules were clear that he should have been deported. he shouldn't have been deported. he shouldn't have been allowed back in. and then when he was found out he should go again. and to simply override that with the stroke of a pen because of something, something right to something. i mean, it's just it i don't like it as law. it frustrates me as a lawyer because it doesn't feel like proper law. it doesn't feel like clear rules that are applied in advance that we all knew. i mean, it just feels like some external political force that's able to override our democratic government because, well, why? i have no idea . have no idea. >> steve, if we came out of the echr, if we stepped away from that, what would we lose? as free citizens of this country ? free citizens of this country? >> you would lose the right to appeal to an office block in strasbourg to do random things , strasbourg to do random things, which is a right that i think 99% of us don't realistically have, because most of us can't afford it . most of us aren't afford it. most of us aren't going to do it. most of us don't get the sympathy of a bunch of human rights lawyers. so most of us realistically can't access the strasbourg court . it's only the strasbourg court. it's only a select tiny minority who get singled out to do this. other than that, you lose nothing. there are some minor treaty complications because i'll tell you, i'll tell you this now, and i want to be very clear about this. there are a bunch of people in our country who desperately want us to stay in the in the european court of human rights, and they are trying, by hook or by crook, to make it as hard as possible to leave now because of our constitution, they can't actually win. so don't worry about it. they're not actually going to win. but what they've doneis going to win. but what they've done is they've taken the good friday agreement and they've incorporated it into our law decades after this agreement was agreed , decades later, and for agreed, decades later, and for no obvious or apparent reason, they've tied it. they've woven it into our law. so we'll have if you want to leave, you've got to unpick that . to unpick that. >> okay. all right. we've got we've run out of time. stephen, i'm so sorry. we've got to the end of that first half hour. here's the weather, which is still . still. >> despite the morning rain , >> despite the morning rain, it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello. good morning and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's an unsettled day ahead with showers and some longer spells of rain, but if you manage to avoid the showers in the south—east, it will feel warm where you catch the sunshine. so plenty of showers bubbung sunshine. so plenty of showers bubbling up across parts of england and wales. these could be heavy at times, with the risk of thunder to some longer spells of thunder to some longer spells of rain across northern parts of england. across the scottish borders too. this once again could also be heavy and some fairly strong winds amongst the showers too, and some stronger winds moving into parts of northern scotland too. and that's just going to take a bit of a kick off the temperatures too. but as i say, where you catch the sunshine across the south—east, if you manage to avoid the showers, it will be feeling warm and pleasant for the time of year. still into the evening we'll continue to see those outbreaks of rain. still a chance they could be heavy. perhaps even some sleet and snow fall across the scottish highlands. and still those blustery winds as well, moving in across parts of scotland. too cloudy once again with outbreaks of rain in northern ireland and elsewhere still plenty of showers continuing into the evening . still once again could evening. still once again could be heavy. still may even hear the odd rumble of thunder. those showers are going to stick around into the evening, perhaps progressing into longer spells of rain across the southeast. so quite a damp start possible here. and still with those outbreaks of rain across parts of scotland too. still could be heavy. perhaps still continuing to see that sleet and snow across the highlands. so generally a cold night, particularly in the north, and especially in that brisk wind too. but across the south, generally a mild night on offer for towns and cities heading into the middle part of the week. still a fairly unsettled day. still, with those longer spells of rain in parts of the northeast, a fair amount of the northeast, a fair amount of cloud across england and wales, and still continuing to see those showers bubble up into the afternoon. once again, a risk of some heavy thundery downpours too, and plenty of strong winds across the country too, which is going to make it feel a little bit chillier. that's it from me. bye for now . that's it from me. bye for now. >> we can expect clear well, it's 10:00 on tuesday, the 8th of october, live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so how influential is lord alli within the upper reaches of the government? the prime minister is now being urged to come clean about his relationship with lord moneybags. christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor, has the latest lord alli accused of taking a major role in the first 100 days of this government. >> but is it right? and why was he donating all that money? >> and are we too soft on foreign criminals and albanian criminal who sneaked back into britain after being deported has won the right to stay here. and it was through the echr because he was then having a baby with a woman who lived here. is it time to leave the echr ? to leave the echr? >> ageism in the workplace? well, we knew about that, didn't we? more than 1 in 5 job candidates over the age of 50 don't say how old they are on their cv to avoid being stereotyped, or because they think they won't even get an interview . interview. >> and there's a millionaire exodus. >> and there's a millionaire exodus . high taxes and changes exodus. high taxes and changes to non—dom rules are driving away wealthy brits. how damaging do you think this is going to be to the uk ? i'd always to the uk? i'd always employ someone over 50 experience rather employ someone over 50. you're not dealing with kids. i'm sorry. that's awful. it sounds so sexist. >> they've got experience, but the magic age is. once you've reached 57, that's it . according reached 57, that's it. according to this new survey. yeah, well, you're over the hill. >> i you know, i'd love that. >> i you know, i'd love that. >> she's going to be over the hill in a few weeks time. >> no, i'm not i'm not 57. it's my birthday next week though. is it next week? week after. but, you know, i just think if you want to employ someone, i would always look at you. what a shame. we're having to hide ages on cvs. why? i feel the need to do that. let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay right. saint francis is here with the news . francis is here with the news. >> very good morning to you. it's just gone 10:00. the top story from the newsroom this morning. well, water companies in england and in wales have been ordered today to return more than £157 million to customers for failing to meet crucial targets on pollution. ofwat demanded the money that comes off the bills for households and businesses needs to be removed in 2025 and 2026. it follows a previous order to repay £114 million last year, with water bills set to rise by an average of 21% over the next five years off. what's chief executive says that financial penalties alone, though, won't solve the industry's deep rooted issues. meanwhile , some issues. meanwhile, some companies have made progress on leaks, though none have achieved a top rating . israel has ramped a top rating. israel has ramped up its military offensive in lebanon with fresh airstrikes on hezbollah strongholds in beirut and across southern lebanon. we take you live now to pictures of the scene above the skyline in beirut. clouds of smoke continuing to linger in the air there this morning following those recent strikes which come just less than 24 hours after israel marked the anniversary of the hamas attacks, they have also now triggered mass evacuations in beirut, as the idf say they are preparing for a major operation. there . major operation. there. meanwhile, some 400,000 people have already fled lebanon seeking refuge in syria as fears of a wider conflict continue to grow across the region . and just grow across the region. and just a quick breaking line that we're receiving from the reuters news agency, this morning, the hezbollah deputy chief says that all positions within the terror group are filled, so they are no longer looking for any further people to join their top tier command. and they are also saying, and i quote here, that the command centre for israel and hezbollah rather are in position to respond. they've also said that they will continue to pursue israel in a war that they say is a war of who cries first and they say, quote, they will not cry first. so those latest lines just coming to us from the reuters news agency, meanwhile, in the us, donald trump marked that one year anniversary of the hamas attack on israel, calling it yesterday a nightmare. speaking to a packed ballroom at his miami golf course, the former president addressed a group of supporters blaming the rise of anti—semitism in the united states on the democratic party. >> a lot of that has to do with the leadership of this country . the leadership of this country. this attack . the october 7th this attack. the october 7th attack would never have happened if i was president. i can tell . if i was president. i can tell. >> well, with just 29 days until the us election, kamala harris has been facing questions on critical issues, including the middle east. in a one on one interview with cbs news amid growing criticism over her limited media appearances, the vice president addressed topics like ukraine, gun ownership and immigration. in one tense moment, she refused to call israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu a strong ally after recent disagreements between the white house and jerusalem. >> but it seems that prime minister netanyahu is not listening. >> we are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the united states to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end here. >> conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has claimed that illegal immigration affects other european countries far more, he says, than the uk. that's despite figures indicating that 1 in 100 people indicating that 1 in 100 people in britain are illegal migrants. in an exclusive clip from a private meeting in august, tugendhat said that britain is by a long way not the most affected by illegal immigration. his comments come as conservative candidates in the leadership race continue to clash over the topic of immigration, and that race to lead the conservative party is in its final stages, with just days left to decide, the next opposition leader, four candidates are battling it out robertoch, robert jenrick, kemi badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat. but by tonight one will be eliminated. then, on wednesday, the final two will be selected, leaving conservative members to make the ultimate choice. cleverly has been seen as the front runner and gained momentum following a strong performance at the party conference. but team jenrick is confident, believing their hard stance on the european convention of human rights will win them a place in the final. well, this morning we were joined by the shadow minister for education, damian hinds, and he told us there's a field of four standout candidates to choose from. >> we've not made a declaration. i think we've got four really strong candidates. obviously we've got we've got around today , we've got we've got around today, another round tomorrow and then there will be the and then there'll be the members round. i took a decision at the start of the contest not to make a declaration until we got to that final, until we got
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