shady disinformation unit. about the government's shady disinformation unit . the dots disinformation unit. the dots are coming together to form a faintly comic picture. on the other hand , this is a genuinely other hand, this is a genuinely sinister picture. perhaps two of the most menacing dictators to walk the earth are now doing so. handin walk the earth are now doing so. hand in hand. north korea's kim jong un and russia's vladimir putin met today to indulge in their control lived sense of grievance against the west. mr kim arrived in russia via armoured train in just last week. treasury minister urged the public not to burden or burden the poor old hmrc with simple telephone calls as it emerged that 10 million go unanswered every year. but new revelations may explain all of that. thousands of hmrc staff are still working from home amidst record delays . indeed, amidst record delays. indeed, many of them aren't even showing up to the office one day per week. all of this comes as a civil service union officer admits officials are resentful. the poor darlings about returning to the office. plus, we're all well overdue for the commercial success, that is sit down with sitwell the last we saw of him was when he was teaching me the remarkable, complicated task of cooking kippers. but today, we're told a vegans hijacking restaurant reviewers as well as tony blair calling for another tax to tackle obesity . tackle obesity. also be joined by a scrupulous panel this evening, pr tycoon and former labour councillor kevin craig returns from his sabbatical and he's joined by the writer and commentator benedict spence. as always , as benedict spence. as always, as you know, i want to hear from you, the most important part of the programme. email me, mail me at gb dot com. but now it's at gb news dot com. but now it's time for the news of the day with polly middlehurst . jacob with polly middlehurst. jacob thank you and good evening. >> well , gb thank you and good evening. >> well, gb news understands within the last half hour, three members of sara sharif's family wanted in connection with her death have now landed back in the uk at gatwick airport, where they're expected to be immediately apprehended by police for questioning. it's believed sara sharif's father, irfan sharif, his partner, ben batool, and his brother faisal malik, were on a flight that landed at gatwick half an hour ago.the landed at gatwick half an hour ago. the ten year old little girl was found dead at her home in woking in surrey after officers were called from pakistan by mr sharif on the 10th of august. surrey police say they'll be issuing a statement very shortly. we'll bnng statement very shortly. we'll bring that to you here on gb news as soon as we get it. in the meantime, the value retail chain, the range has struck a deal to buy their collapsed rival , wilko. the company has rival, wilko. the company has agreed to pay around £5 million for the brands name and its website site. the sale could mean wilko and its name does not quite disappear from the high streets just yet. for good. with their products in the range stores, 122 of the collapsed high street chain shops have already been sold on to poundland's owner pepco, and some have gone to b&m as well. still, though, more than 10,000 wilko jobs hang in the balance . wilko jobs hang in the balance. the chancellor says the government is sticking to its plan to halve inflation as the uk economy shrunk by 0.5% in july. jeremy hunt says he remains confident about the future, saying the country quickly recovered from the pandemic and is growing faster than comparable countries like germany or italy . but labour germany or italy. but labour says the economy's contraction is a failing of the government and tobias ellwood resigned this evening as chair of the house of commons defence committee over the so—called taliban tourist video. in a clip posted online, he praised the taliban government in afghanistan . gb government in afghanistan. gb news understands mr ellwood made the decision after an informal meeting where he was asked to defend his comments online. later tonight. he said that he'd got it wrong and the video reflects poorly on the defence select committee . sir keir select committee. sir keir starmer has accused the prime minister of failing the country dunng minister of failing the country during a heated prime minister's question time today. he attacked rishi sunaks record on the criminal justice system, immigration and security as well as education. it follows the escape of the terror suspect daniel khalife and the china spy scandal in westminster. sir keir says the prime minister can't be trusted to protect the country . trusted to protect the country. but rishi sunak hit back , saying but rishi sunak hit back, saying the opposition leader was a politician without conviction . politician without conviction. an us gb news across the uk on your tv , in your car, on digital your tv, in your car, on digital radio and now on your smart speaker by saying play gb news this is britain's news. channel yesterday we discussed lord mcdonald, the former chief mandarin at the foreign office, who confessed that the civil service was in tears over brexit and that he told his team he was and that he told his team he was a remainer. >> he broke the civil service code because he thought it would be good for foreign office morale. last night, just after coming off air, i learned that a former trade official has said that a selfie with me was held as evidence that he was a right wing extremist by counter terrorist police. earlier this yean terrorist police. earlier this year, it was revealed my name was included on a list of right wing extremist red flags. whereas i must confess, i'd prefer a blue flag, but never mind by the prevent counter extremism programme are now complete, the picture. how could we fact that nigel we forget the fact that nigel farage de—banking natwest farage was de—banking by natwest along brexit party along with other brexit party meps ? along with other brexit party meps .7 this is painting a picture meps.7 this is painting a picture of an amateurish inspector clouseau style approach by the united kingdom's officials. if you're a conservative in public life, you can expect rather dopey officials who are probably too idle to come into the office or to do serious work to have suspicions about you. if they suspect me, if they really do, then they probably suspect the 52% of us who voted to leave . 52% of us who voted to leave. plus, of course, the current and former home secretaries who they obviously report to and it's not a conspiracy theory any longer that officialdom is dominated by a modern liberal version of the keystone cops. let's take the example of the blubbers boobie old lord mcdonald. he merely exposed what we already knew to be true. the civil service dragged their heels to thwart or thwart brexit because remainer ism is rampant across whitehall, they were too busy wiping away their tears to get on with administering the government. then look at sue gray, once hailed as infallible and impartial former permanent secretary who investigated the partygate scandal and now is of course working for the leader of the opposition and had secret conversations with him before swapping sides. look at our counter terrorism and extremism. infrastruc picture as the shawcross review earlier this year revealed, the prevent programme was overrun by comical political correctness , allowing political correctness, allowing itself to become distract by phantoms at the expense of pursuing genuine threats. phantoms at the expense of pursuing genuine threats . the pursuing genuine threats. the fact that legitimate conservative commentator was such as douglas murray and melanie phillips or even i would consider red flags for counter extremism , tells you how extremism, tells you how laughable the established moment has become. and now it's alleged this went as far and it is only alleged. so we'll have to see whether this all comes out of the aether. well, as far as a selfie, with me being used of evidence of somebody being a right wing extremist and nigel farage de—banking case demonstrates this mindset demonstrates that this mindset has beyond the public has extended beyond the public sector into private . the sector and into the private. the natwest is 38% state owned, but it's still majority private and just top all this off, a number of cross—party mps wrote the of cross—party mps wrote to the culture secretary criticising the shadymation unit of the government, and this unit of the government, and this unit was used throughout the pandemic to monitor what it called disinformation or views it disagreed with. but the unit, whilst posing as an arbiter of truth, quickly into the truth, quickly fell into the trap of targeting entirely legitimate dissent. it ended up collecting posts from people for the crime of criticising lockdown. so so the picture is clear . there lockdown. so so the picture is clear. there is a like minded group though they're pretty fuzzy minded group of people. they don't like brexit, they don't like borders, they don't like conservatism. they apparently love diversity, equity, inclusion and only, of course, suits them course, when it suits them because it doesn't include anyone right wing views, anyone with right wing views, but they're very but they're just very thick. they're rather stupid, and their policy gets exposed. they seek to be sinister but become absurd . but of course, i want to h