one example from last week was rory stewart, the former u politician who is now a professor at yale, he recently picked a fight with jd vance, complaining that his wife's nongovernment organization had a contract with usaid and they were going to stiff the ngo, stewart's wife, for $1 million left on the contract and he was upset about this. he was asked -- what does the organization do? turns out one of their initiatives is to teach afghan citizens about the modern art of a man who called a urinal a great work of art. i thought i'm all for interesting art but it seems to me that there would be better uses for that money. host: $1 million for the lesson? just one lesson? 8 -- guest: they cut that contract, though i don't know the precise costs of the one lecture on the urinal. host: stephen, indiana, democratic line. caller: good morning. i have one simple comment to straighten the stuff up. trump won the presidency both times because of his opponents. a woman for president. i'm 63. my grandson might see that. a woman for president is not going to happen. it's not how great trump is.

did you know that they were funding rory stewart's wife? it's incredible. our friends. but you are actually -- american taxpayers were funding this anti-west ideology. and the problem is when the people in britain voted for something different, when they tried to change the government, when they tried to change the system in 2016, in 2019, and in 2024, they found the same people were still in power. the bureaucracy had not changed. and it is no surprise that young people are losing their faith in democracy, because they don't believe it can change things. and amazingly, during all of this, many so-called conservatives were busy hugging greta thin berg. they were putting up taxes. i'm not joking about that. they were increasing immigration. they were pursuing transgender ideology. and it is no wonder that the conservative party had its worst defeat since 1834. patriotic brits have had enough. they have had enough. we look across the atlantic with envy. we see president trump in the executive -- in the oval office, signing off executive orders. and we want so

and as donald trump's department for government efficiency, or doge, cuts funding from rory stewart's wife, we're going to be talking about what that means for british politics. and nigel farage has warned this week at an important conference that british people should be having more children to save what he calls judeo—christian culture amidst our birthrate crisis. but can the nation turn our collapsing birthrate around? at state of the nation tonight with me, matt goodwin starts right now. now i'm going to be joined tonight by my stellar top panel columnist and former mep , columnist and former mep, patrick o'flynn, and the founder of novara media, aaron bastani. as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay. and of course hit me up on exact goodwin. right now it's time for the news bulletin with sam francis. >> matt, thank you and good evening to you. it's just after 8:00. well, the top story tonight. opposition figures have criticised donald trump after he called ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy a dictator in a post on truth social. kemi badenoch rejected the claim,

rory stewart stopped. >> doesn't matter. you have a contract. so you know, turquoise mountain, which my wife shoshanna runs, has a contract. had another million dollars to go. money just stops. >> massive posho and alastair campbell's lapdog, rory stewart, is moaning that trump and musk have withdrawn $1 million of funding for his wife's charity. that helps afghans to weave and make artisan cupboards. >> i am incredibly confident that kamala harris is going to win this and win this by a large margin, and i would bet £100,000. >> oh, lord. >> oh, lord. >> i'm very, very confident kamala harris will win. >> oh, i bet he wishes he bet a hundred grand on trump now, doesn't he? pathetic. and it's a bad day for the left wingers all round. >> actually wrong. and you're leftist. >> so you seem you seem like you're interested in having a you're interested in having a you seem like. oh, you know what, richard? bye bye. bye bye. >> oh, on my panel tonight is guido fawkes. is ellie wheatley, tory peer, lord bailey and ex—labour minister bill rammell. and do